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HOTELS
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, SHANGHAL"
HOTELS.
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel Des Wagons Lits, Peking,
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms, newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone.
All Trams pass in front of Hotal.
Host Moderate Rates in the Colony.
Hotel launch meeta all, steamers.
Dining Room and Lounge now open to the Public.
(825 for thirty Tifin Tickets can be had at the Offic of the above Hotel).
TEA DANCES,
MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS
Tel. Add. Victoria.
5 to 7 p.m.
Telephone 0.373.
Manager.
J. H. WITCHELL,
HOTEL SAVOY
Famonn for its Comfort, Conveni
ancs, Appointments and Cuisine.
You'll be proud to stay at the Savoy, -
HOTEL METROPOLE. HOTEL BOA VISTA.
22, Ice House Street.
1
Macao.
UNDER THE SAME MANAGEMENT..
KOWLOON HOTEL
KOWLOON
A FIRST CLASS HOTEL WITH ALL MODERN. CONVENIENCES.
High Class Culsine 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,
Tel. Nos. K608 & K509. Cables, 'KOWLOTEL,'
Hongkong.
Tal Kowloon No. 8
PALACE HOTEL
Manager.
Tel. Address “PALACE.”
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
NEW TAXATION.
(Continued from Pago.7.)
to draw attention to the fact that the total sun provided for it in 1928 is Just under three millions, which is nine per cont, of the esti- mated revenue of the Colony. This three millions does not moreover Include an aggregate sum of a mil- lion dollars provided for expendi- ture in 1928 under Public Works special services on Police works and buildings which are estimated
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1927.
DANGEROUS DRIVING
CHARGE.
EUROPEAN MOTOR-CYCLIST
FINED.
Mr. D. S. Hill, of the Hongkong Electric Company, was summoned before Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy this morning with driving his motor-cycle in a dangerous manner at Whitfield Road, on the 27th September.
he charge having been explain to cost two and a half million dol-ed to him, defendant stated "that
lars.
It was quite correct,'
OUR DAILY TALK ON HEALTH.
EFFECTS OF OVER-EXERTION IN SWIMMING,
ENLARGEMENT OF HEART.
As mankind turns more and more to outdoor sports, he finds that there is an increasingly greater call for work upon the heart.
heart is but one of the organs of the human body and that any the body is likely to affect the heart change which affects the rest of at the same time. When unusual demands are plated upon the heart, it will, like other organs, enlarge to accommodate those demands An investigation of the hearts of champion skiers or mountain hikers revealed enlargements, although in some instances little above the hearts of non-athletos. A severe sudden effort thrown suddenly upon the heart unused to work may result in sudden acute enlarge- ment, at great danger to life.
It must be remembered that the
The most urgent need of the de- A Traffic Sergeant stated that partment is increased barrack ac- Mr. Hill was driving at a speed of commodation, and the present pro- between 20 and 25 miles an hour. gramme is in no sense Enal or com- A fine of $10 was imposed. plete
Merely "Dodged." The departmental expenditure Sergeant Colllason, in charging a provides for an increase of $145,-livery car driver with disobeying 000 on the 1927 figure; under per-police signals and with careless sonal emoluments provision is driving, stated that he intercepted made for two additional superin- the car at three different places, tendents, three additional pro- but the signal he gave to the de- bationers and five additional Asia-fendant to stop was unheeded each Die inspectors, these last being time, the driver merely dodging balanced by a similar reduction in him to proceed on his way. the number of sub-inspectors... Defendant said he mistook Ser- Mr. Wolf said further that overgeant. Collinson for a drunken a million and a half was provided man, who would get into the for entirely new works in Singa- centre of the roadway and had to pore, of which the most important avoid to prevent un accident were a new trade school, an out- patients building and dispensary at Sepoy Lines, Police. barracks
Ignorance Pleaded. and a traffic office at Maxwell
Charged with disobeying traffle Road, quarters for inspectors and directions in, that he persisted in married constables at Orchard turning Road Police Station, preliminary opposite the Hongkong Star Ferry round the standard work in connection with the New Wharf, a public-car driver said he Johnson's 'ier, a new P.W.D.was not aware that a new regula Workshop, and a number of quar- tion had come into force forbidding tdrs for senior officers.
The new Police Station at Tan-in the locality.
cars to be manoeuvred in this way jong Pagar was estimated to cost A Shantung. constable duty at
-When competitive athletics are $220,000, but the scheme had been this point, said that he gave the concerned, however, different ob- entirely revised and the cost was necessary direction to the defen-servations are made. The hearts wow put at $200,000. The cost ofant, but it was unheeded, the found to be slightly larger than the new Carnarvon Street Police defendant continuing to turn those of normal persons. of competitive swimmers Station in Penang was found to be round the standard and to drive danger to the heart is not so great $436.000 instead of $298.000 as off. originally estimated.
The Governor's Hint.
A fine of $6 was imposed on each charge.
A fine of $5 was imposed.
A Race Day.
M
Drs. Felix Deutsch and Emil Kauf of the heart clinic in Vienna have made a special study of changes in the heart associated with exercise. The hearts of per- sons of similar body build indulg- ing in ordinary amounts of exer- cise, are not enlarged over those of persons who do not but are better in their functional exercise,
capacity.
In the words of the German in-
vestigators, exercise for pleasure does not cause enlargement of the heart, but on the contrary duces a strengthening of the whole organism.
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in the young as in the adult who first undertakes severe exercise. In the course of his speech, the
Incidentally, some observations On a Governor, Sir Hugh Clifford, said:charged with disobeying police ming are of importance to those lorry driver, who was made on various types, of swim- In preparing the present estimates of expenditure, in spite race day and that he did
directions, pleading that it was a concerned with this subject. Ap
not parently it did not matter wheth- of the fact that, even as matters notice the constable who gave him er the observations were made on stand, we are budgetting for a his, direction, Major Willson re-persons doing the crawl, the breast very considerable deficit, we have joined that that was the more rea-stroke, or swimming on the back been compelled to set aside many son why the defendant should keep The dive for distance does not public works which, in ordinary his eyes open and be careful. His bring about severe changes in the circumstances, would be regarded Worship imposed a fine of $10. heart and long distance swimmora as well nigh essential;"and even in the short period that I have so Nos. 438, 199 and 391, were each larger than those of sprint swim-
The drivers of three motor-cars, were not found to have far spent in the Colony, the confined $6 for obstruction, through mers. elusion has forcibly impressed parking their cars at the entrance greater enlargement of the heart Water polo, however, leads to a itself upon my mind that we are to the football field at Wongnei-than does any other from of swim to-day confronted by a plain alterchong Road..
native,
We must either allow the Colony
of the Straits Settlements gradual-
Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station, ly to fall behind the standards Entirely, under English Management. Electric Light and Fans throughout. that are in these times being set Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms, by other Crown Colonies of the Carivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietreau. Tarma moderate. Special terms, to families on application to:
first rank, and this in a variety of different directions, or its inhabi- Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietress. tants must reconcile themselves to
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the sacrifices which a material increase of revenue by means of additional taxation inevitably im
nases.
GAMBLING RAID.
TWENTY-SIX ARRESTED. A raid made by the police last night on the first floor of 11, Gough Street, resulted in the ar- rest of no fewer than twenty-six persons who were engaged in a game of pai kan, at the time of raid.
It has also to be noted that our existing sources of revenue are ast capable of expansion, and thated their bail of $5 rather than Of this number, fourteen jump- they, moreover, have recently pro face the Magistrate this morning. duced smaller aums than the framers of our Estimates had anti-fore Major C. Willson and were
The remainder were brought be cipaled. Additional revenue, each fined $3, except the principal therefore, will have to be sought, tenant of the house,who was fined not in the directions with which 325. A man who claimed to be long custom has familiarised the the servant of the principal tenant people of the Straits Settlements, was treated in a similar way.'. but by devising means whereby resources hitherto untapped may be made available.
hearts
Iming. This is one of the most severe sports, demanding special exercise and inducing greater ex- citement in the swimmer. The en- largements of the hearts in women swimmers were proportionately not so great as in man. This, the German investigators believe, ia due to the fact that men spend much more strength and energy in their sports than women do.
Wang Ching-wei is reported to have arrived in Shanghai from. Nanking on Friday last.
SOUTH RESUMES
OFFENSIVE.
Any such measures cannot fail PHILIPPINES TOBACCO. the main Shansi armies. Several
(Continued from Page 1.) Apart from the main armies, two divisions had been detailed to ad vance along mountain roads to cut communications. This plan had failed largely owing to the rapid- ity of the Mukden victory against
of these raids had already been to be highly unpopular; and the cholee of the alternatives which I
suppressed, notably at Mentoukow, have just set before hon. members
where one regiment of Shaneí troops were disarmed. A stronger will, after all, mainly lie with my
Shansi force took Chochow, but unofficial colleagues upon this Council I suggest, however, that
Mukden troops surrounded and the somewhat unpalatable facts, to organized in connexion with the Shansi force, assisted by bandits, captured the city. Another small which I have thought it necessary tobacco industry is proposing to have seized Miyun, to the north- direct the attention of hon. grant a subsidy of a million pesos east of Peking, but two regiments members on this occasion, should
To
MILLION PESOS SUBSIDY ;
PROPOSED.
Manila, Oct. 6. The Parliamentary Committee
NEW US. ADMIRAL.
be realised by the general public, to improve tobacco culture, and to are proceeding from Peking to and that the latter should be United States and other countries
organize propaganda work in the suppress them." taught to familiarise themselves with a view to developing the in- with the further fact that a choice between the alternatives above described cannot be indefinitely postponed.
Some Lay Comment.
dustry-Indo-pacifi
Change in Yangtze Command.
Washington, Oct. 8. creased as the acreage in India Admiral Yates Sterling, Jr., at and Persia decreased and the present chief of staff to the com- The Straits Times comments: supplies were in no way diminish-mander of the United States fleet, The Budget speech of His ing. There would be always a has been appointed to command Excellency the Governor has good profit for the smuggler, who the Yangtaze River Patrol suc ralued a good deal of speculation even now was counteracting the ceeding Admiral Hough in the city, especially among those work of the League, who, being finance, have had occasion more Speaking on the subject of fresh closely to study the gradual trend taxation, he said that in all cases
of affairs.
conversant with
む
A Vielous Circle.
in the cost of living which is high
It is understood that Admiral Hough will be assigned to the Gen- eral Board.
BRITISH IN HANKOW,
Draw Up Strong Protest.
Hankow, Oct. 18. A mass meeting of practically
taxation seems to work in à vici- It seems that the greatest con- troversy will arise as a result of and the result is a general increase ous circle. The taxes passed on the Opium Replacement fund. In an interview with a representative of the Straits Times a prominent enough in Singapore now. The as- citizen expressed the opinion that distant on a first agreement had a the entire British community and he was unable to see how the now, and he would be the principal day unanimously passed four re-
small enough margin to work upon including several Indians yester Government could impose fresh sufferer as those with a higher solutions, which are being sent to taxation with a surplus of $10,000,- 000 lying in the replacement fund. wage would be able better to with the British Foreign Office.
At the commencement of the In spite of the view expressed
It may be recalled that Viscount meeting the chairman pointed out by His Excellency that the trade. in oplum might be very much. Ishii, Japan's representative to the for the purpose of considering the that the meeting was being held affected by the decisions of the Straits Times expressed the opin-Agreement and not to criticize the League when interviewed by the operation of the Chen-O'Malley League of Nations he thought that no appreciable alteration could in that it would be years before policy of His Majesty's Govern- of a century. take place within the next quarter the League, although it had done ment.
much good work, could accomplish The meeting was the biggest one In China the acreage laid out much in the way of wiping out the lever held by British residents at for the production of opium, in-use of opium.
Hankow-Reuter.
stand. the increases.
A SPECIAL COM- EDY showing the
sunny side of the war.`A brand new.
type of picture. Laughter behind the lines.
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20
An epoch-making film in full natural colours-
THE
BLACK
PIRATE
WITH
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DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS
AT THE
WORLD
TUESDAY
TO SATURDAY
Orchestra at 5.15 & 9.20. Chinese Interpreter at 2.30 8 7.15.
The story of a girl who fled from her con- ventional home because she and her suitors wanted something gayer than their elders had found. The tale of a trial honeymoon and its unexpected results-
WINE of YOUTH
WITH *..
ELEANOR BOARDMAN
AT THE
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and Eight Leading Men
WILLIAM HAINES
BEN LYON
WILLIAM COLLIER Jr. ROBERT AGNEW
JAMES MORRISON - CREIGHTON HALE
JOHNNIE WALKER NILES WELCH
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW Continuous from 2.80 to 8.30.