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THE
HONGKONG
HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL" Telegraphic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL;
MAJESTIC HOTEL.
Telegraphic Address:-
"CENTRAL, SHANGHAI."
HOTELS!
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel
Dos Wagons Lits, Poking.
KING EDWARD HÖTEL.
Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony,all Bed Rooms, nowly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone..
All Trams pass in front of Hotel.
Most Moderate Rates in the Colony.
Hotel launch meets all steamers.
Dining Room and Lounge now open to the Public.
($25 for thirty Tiffin Tickets can be had at the Office
of the above Hotel).
TEA DANCES
MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS
Tel. Add. Victoria.
6 to 7 p.m.
Telephone C.373. J. H. WITCHELL,
Manager.
HOTEL SAVOY
Famous for its Comfort, Convezi.
ends. Appointments and Cuisine.
You'll be proud tostay at the Naroy.
HOTEL METROPOLE. HOTEL BOA VISTA.
22, Ice House Street.
Macad.
UNDER THE SAME MANAGEMENT.
KOWLOON HOTEL
KOWLOON
A FIRST CLASS HOTEL WITH ALL MODERN CONVENIENCES.
High Class Cuisine and Table Appointments. Wonderful view of the Harbour and Peak, and five minutes from the Ferry, Wharves and Station. Drawing Room, Saloon Bar and Billiard Room,
Very moderate rates
on application to-
H. J. WHITE,
Manager.
Tel. Nos. K608 & K609. Cables, 'KOWLOTEL,'
Hongkong,
Tel. Kowloon No. 8
PALACE HOTEL.
Tel. Addrois "PALACE." Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. Entirely, under English Management. Electric Light and Fans throughout. Every Room with Private Bath Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Terus moderate. Special terms to families on application" to:
Mrs. J. H. OXRERRY, Propriétress.
EUROPE
After-dinner dancing every
Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
HUNAN'S FEARS OF COMMUNISM.
DREAD OF THE TERROR STILU Í
EVIDENT.
BRIGHTER AT PRESENT.
Siangtan, Hu, Sept. 21. After an absence of five months the writer came back to find that the foreign property had come through the difficult period of the Communist regime with compara- tively small losa. The wounded soldiers, numbering 400 or 500. occupied the Presbyterian boys school and one of the foreign residences. These two pieces of property were quite badly Icoted of their furniture and equipment, while the scientific apparatus was almost wholly destroyed, though the microscopea were taken away by, friends and are still intact. The soldiers took a lot of furni- ture with them when they left the school, and it is hoped that some of this can be recovered when they leave the city.
The political situation at this date is very quiet, but there is an undercurrent of insecurity, for fear the communists will be able to come back and begin again their terrorism. Business is very bad, and but for the splendid rice crop and the cheap prices prevail- ing. there would be much suffer ing.
FRIDAY,
BRITISH STEAMER
BOARDED.
(Continued from Page 1.) arrived in Ningpo Saturday where they were disembarked.
There does not appear to be any special need for these troops in Ningpo, as conditions, are s'fay- ourable and quiet as to allow the return of all former residents. Some of the men seemed to be sure that their ultimate destination would be Hangchow.
For the time being, the two bonts which the China Merchants 5.5. Co. have been regularly run ning to Wenchow, are held up in Shanghai by a strike of godown coolies
Conditions in Wenchow continue to be peaceful. One of the leading scholars in the city declared the other day that the local people had "ost face" by driving out the foreign residents; and that they desired them to return.-N. C. D. News Correspondent.
OUTLOOK AT HANGCHOW.
Better Trade Expected.
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OCTOBER 14, 1927.
BİG BURDEN OF “OÙT”. RELIEF.
EXTRAVAGANCE BY THE
GUARDIANS.
HOUSING HELPED.
The annual report of the Bri- tish Minister of Health, recently published, is made the vehicle for a comprehensive revision of the Department's work since its in- ception in 1919.
Poor law relief as a whole, since 1914, has risen 350 per cent. while outdoor relief has increased by over 1,000 per cent.
the
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Details are given in connexion with house production. Nearly £54,000,000 has been spent by the Exchequer since the War in sub- sidies for houses. In years before the War the average annual increase in the number of houses was 61,000. In 1927 the numbers of houses built were; with State assistance, 153,779 without State assistance, 53,850- a total of 217,629. Since the War the grand total completed was 866,142.
An extensive section of the re- port deals with the administration Hangchow, Oct. 2. of Poor Law. The enormous in- In some respects, it would seem creases in, payments are attribu- that brighter gleams are breaking ted to the results of post-war con- through the dark clouds whichditions, Industrial depression, and have for so long hung over the still more to industrial disputes, densely populated area of Hang- and "a new and general tendency
of the chow. For the time being, tea on the part
guardians No Anti-Foreign Feeling.
shop talk has been diverted from themselves to grunt, even to able- persons, unconditional There seems
to be no anti-the ordinary harangue of strikes, bodied foreign or anti-Christian agitation. Processions and public meetings. allowances of out-door relief in of General amounts which often approximate going on at present, and the walls To-day, the subject
to, and.. my even exceed, the of the city and public places are Chou Feng-chi's resignation, and quite free from the numerons withdrawal te Shanghai, is being normal earnings of the applicant Since posters that were so common a few widely discussed. Speculation is when he is in full work." months ago.
It is reported that running wild as to the re-adjust-1914 Poor Law relief, as a whole, after the communists' undoing meals to be made when General has risen by 350 per cent, but some time ago, at Changsha the Ho Ying-ching makes his appear-outdoor relief has increased by Communists posters were all wash-ance. He is, expected to arrive over 1,000 per cent.
ed off the walls and burned.to-day. There were a few of a very dif- ferent character, to be seen.
Safeguarding Food.
The enormous work of the Ministry in connexion with the maintenance of a pure food supply is emphasised. In 1926, 120,617 samples were analysed, of which 62,507 were of milk. The average adulteration of all samples was 5.8 per cent, and in the case of milk alone, 7.4 per cent. The figures for 1919 were respectively 8.2 per cent, and 11.1 per cent.
Among the different kinds of adulteration found by the analysis. were sand in flour, splinters of pine-wood in sweets, and iron Alings in tea. "A case is report-
With the prospects of a leng- thened period of peace and better The Presbyterian Hospital has guarantees of safety, shopkeepers heen able to keep running through- are looking forward to a revival in out this difficult time. The only trade. At last, it is dawning on loss suffered was during the times the people that prosperity cannot of greatest communist activities, thrive in regions eternally rent by when boys were sent in broad day-demoralizing strife, and the pivot light to steal coal from the coal of infamous propaganda must be house of the hospital. A hole displaced. having been made in the wall from the street side, and the The revolution has brought in management being unable to stop many changes. Speaking with an them, 30 or 40 pieuls of coal was old-time Chinese scholar, who has pilfered by these young agents of held many high positions of office the Workers Guild.
in the province, he volunteered the Many of the rich and better remark,-"Yes, to-day, we are see-ed of the use in chocolate rock of classes are still in hiding, thoughing a revolution in the standards commercial burnt sienna, contain- there seems to be no danger at of moral life and behaviour, and ing an excessive quantity of ar present, except the danger that all fundamental laws and principles senic." Powdered tale continue seem to be fearing of another up-are being betrayed," One thing is to be introduced into rice. There rising of these guilds or unions.
very apparent, the very pleasing were samples of so-called egy- politeness and etiquette, for which custard powders which contained the Chinese have been so renown-no egg. ed. is now losing its old time burnish.
A Scarcity of Silver.
Money is very scarce that is silver money and no one will take the bank notes at ali. The Standard Oil Co.'s manager has sold out his whole supply and the office is only now open for collect- ing of old bills.
was
The Community Guild closed early in April by a commit- tee of 14, who came to take it oyer to open a People's Club, but they had no money or leadership for such an enterprise and the building has been closed. A few soldiers have occupied it at dif ferent times for a short time. The Magistrate asked the Mission to reopen and said that he would be responsible that no one should occupy the building.
Two German ladies of the C.I.M. have been in the city all summer, and while they have had some difficult and bitter experiences they acemed to think that every- thing points to better and more peaceful times.
GREEK IMAGES IN ASIA.
INDIA'S AND CHINA'S BOR-
ROWED IDEAS.
London, Oct. 13. The claim that Indian and Chip- ese images of Buddha are evolved from forms of the Greek gods Apollo and Bacchus, was pro- pounded by the great German ethnologist, Von Lecoq, the diree- tor of the Indian section of thei Berlin Museum of Ethnology, af
a meeting of the School of Oriental Studies in London.
Von Lecoq, who headed three expeditions to the deserts of Cen- tral Asia claims that it is indubit- ably proved that India and China borrowed the images of all the
adapted to their own religions and needs. Reuter.
FLIGHT FAILS,
Miss Ruth Elder, who has been rescued in the Atlantic. after a forced descent during an attempted flight from New York to Paris.
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In one analysis tablets sold as á cure for obesity were found to consist merely of Epsom and Glauber salts. In another case, so-called "dried milk" was found to be composed of soya bean, cane sugar, milk sugar, and a vegetable oil.
Pollution of Rivers. River pollution forms an in- teresting section of the report, in view of the recent controversy over the possible polition of the River Wyc. 41
"The public interest in the un- satisfactory "condition of many rivers," it is stated, "which was referred to in last year's report. has been maintained. One cause of pollution which is giving rise to trouble at the present time is the discharge into rivers of water which has been used in the process of the manufacture of beet-sugar, and as the number of beet-sugar factories is being multiplied, there is danger that pollution from this case may in- crease."
The collection and disposal of éfuse by local authorities in Eng- land and Wales cost £10,000,00) for the last year for which in formation is available.
Decline in Vaccination. Tables are given showing the mortality from notifiable infec- tious disease. The outstanding features of the year were the greatly increased prevalence of mild small-pox, extensive cut- and breaka of poliomyelytis polloencephalitis, and a consider able decline in the death rate from scarlet fever. Comment is made on the decline in vaccina- tion, despite the severe, smallpox record for 1925. In 1926, accord- ing to the report, no vaccinated person under the age of 13 con tracted smallpox, and there" was also no Instance of a person attacked during the previous eight years.
Tuberculosis is the subject of a large section of the report. On stated December 31, 1926, it is Factory workers at Coventry will but naturalate claim to identify 186. 2. Pupt there were 261,040 cases of pul- be able to enjoy artificial sunlight of its 74 is round. In the fox and jackalmonary tuberculosis on the re bathing for a few coppers a week it te vertical; in wolf it is oblique. . Forts
fwo. 4. Australian, wild dog. 5. (4) Lori gisters. The number of new by joining a Sunlight League, Orford in 1776... (b) 1889, at Newcastle-on-
cases registered, were 59,520 and which is being started by a young Funders: rounded 1978 by Shirley. 1. 20,134 in 1926, compared with 68, workman. This league, the first of They may be destrored on magistrate 809 and 22,283 in 1915. Deaths its kind in Britain will be run on orden; owners of ravage dogs are ladie in sick club lines, small weekly sub Cross between English greyhound, Hallan Pulmonary 30,108, and non-pul- damages if their dage injure any one. a, from tuberculoals. In 1928 were: scriptions securing a winter's weyhound, and terrier de bunting dogs, monary 7,417, the correspondi iz treatment under medical supervi-sheep ders terriers, apaniels, mastiffe, lap figures for 1915 being 40,880- and
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