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KING EDWARD HOTEL.
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All Trama pass in front of Hotel.
Most Moderato Rates in the Colony,
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Dining Room and Lounge now open to the Public.
($25 for thirty Tiffin Tickets can be had at the Office of the above Hotel).
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HOTEL METROPOLE. HOTEL BOA VISTA.
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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. Noя. K608 & K609. Cables, KOWLOTEL,'
Hongkong..
Tal Kowloon No. 8
PALACE HOTEL
Tel Address "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-Rooma. of the proprietress Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision Tarms moderate. Special terms to familles on application to:
Mrs. J. EL OXBERRY, Proprietress.
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Mr. Diamond, of the Hongkong' Hotel, reported to the police that sometime during the 10th and 18th someone stole from his residence No. 4, Duddell Street, money and jewellery to the value of $59.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19,
FIRES AND PANIC IN THEFT FROM CHURCH.
VILLAGE.
INHABITANTS FLEE WITH THEIR FURNITURE,
MYSTERY OF TWO WOMEN.
ARTICLES LATER PAWNED.
Two carpets and two brass candle stick holders were report ed stolen from St., Francis Church yesterday, and, as the results of enquiries made by the police, the articles wore later recovered from Two women have been arrested a pawn shop, the man who had in Cumont, near Bergerac, Der pledged the stolen property being A stone breaker was walking dogne, on auspicion of having arrested. along the gangway of H.M.S. sot fire to a dozen houses and Wivern, at tha Kowloon Docks, farm buildings, says
nicgsage. yesterday and fell, causing Injuries to his head and body. He was taken to Hospital for treatment.
When brought before Mr. R. E. a Paris Lindsell on a charge of larceny,
the man was sentenced to four series of fires began ten days ago,ed that the side door of the
The inhabitants, sinco this
weeks' hard labour. It was stat-
had been living in a state, of church had been left open, giving The lecture at the Institution terror. of Engineers and Shipbuilders on of 120 inhabitants situated on a
Cumont is a picturesque vilage, the man easy access to the church. "Gas: Ita Distribution
and Thal Uses," which was to have been One evening a fire broke out at given by Mr. A. Hevey last night, a farm and the building was de- was unavoidably postponed.
stroyed.
Villagers thought the disaster' The Munila Bulletin says the was due to an accident, but last China Underwriters, Ltd, an in-Wednesday two more houses were aurance company of Hongkong set on fire. seeks incorporation" with the Four farm buildings wore Bureau of Commerce and Industry. barnt to ashes the following The papers of the corporation were
distance filed with the Bureau by Warner, from one another.
night, all being some Barnes and Company, Ltd.
return.
SHANGHAI'S TALE OF
CRIME.
BATTLE WITH ROBBERS.
The eastern districts of Shanghai were the scene of several crimes of violence on Monday evening, in which one man was murdered and a The mayor called upon the robber shot. The police of Yang- in-tazepoo and Wayside responded at gendarmes, who opened an
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This morning's Harbour Office reports gave 18 arrivals and 23quiry and arrested a young farm once, but were unsuccessful in ap- departures, the exodus of the past labourer who had recently been prehending any one connected with few days reducing the number of dismissed by his employer.
A Chinese detective, employed by Mystery Deepens. vessels in harbour to 53, of which 15 were British. Tonnage was. The villagers then thought they the Shanghai Cotton Mills, at their comparatively low, while cargoes had nothing more to fear. But on No. 1 mill, was murdered in cold blood by unknown 4.5+ showed no increase, the average of Friday morning they awoke to aee
sailants about 6.30 inward registries being less than another house on fire..
pm. 500 tons, and there being only
This caused a real panic; some had concluded his day's work, eight through freights in the day's inhabitants, whose houses were and, according to official accounts, qulte safe so far, began to re- was on his way home, when two move their furniture to a neigh-men, both armed, stepped from the place where they were waiting his bouring village.
Farmers, rifles in hand, guard-arrival on Funing Road, and with- ed their farms during the night; out a word of warning, shot him others joined the gendarmes in a dead.". The officer had been known for his loyalty to the cause of HELD FOR HUGE RANSOM IN search for the criminals.
While all the villagers were labour, and had defied the efforts of SHANGHAI.
thus up and out and about, on the defunct General Labour Union more to intimidate him. The police.be- the following night three fires broke out in stables, and lieve that agitators, in the employ
of Reds, shot him. barns in three different farms.
A TEA MERCHANT KIDNAPPED.
Two Chinese were arrested in Frenchtown on November 11, in connexion with the kidnapping of
a rich Chinese, tea merchant" at Two women, who had been no- Shanghai, following information as ticed wandering near some of the to the whereabouts of the gangsters houses just before they were on divulged to members of the French fire, were arrested on Saturday. police force by informants.
They protested their innocence. As it happens, there have been no more fires at Cumont since the two women have been under lock and key.
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?
The following are the replies to
An armed battle occurred in the Wayside district between the police and a gang of six armed robbers, of whom four, according to the victims at 222 Chaoufoong Road, carried pistola. The robbers had taken $24 and were making off for Chapel, when the constables on duty in the vicinity, became aware of their presence. In the ensuing engagement the police fired six
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shots and the robbers two. police are convinced that, although all escaped, that one, was wonded, 638-478 because of blood stains on the pay-
Slipping through a Chinese al- leyway, without being noticed by the miscreants, French detectives and members of the police, gained entrance into the house, where the captive was being held in custody. by smashing a door, Armed with a warrant of arrest" issued by the French Mixed Court, the police raided the premises, as a result of to-day's questions:
1. Famou Greek philosopher, which three men were found in and, who wrote namerate worke an ring. secret chamber. Two of the trio,lon and-polities. 2. A degree of divorce
tbot becomes absolute unlew cause be Twenty minutes later four rob- being kidnappers on guard, were shown to the contrary. - At Sudbury, disarmed by the Police, and the surfold, in 1737. 4 An. Australian term bers obtained $1,400 from the house
for a newcomer gaining experience in that 75 Pingliang Road.
Three or third, the captive, was released. bash. 5. (1) Cerbon (2) Tamania: (3)
The French police are still inves-Tale of Man., 6. From "Fances, a bandle four minor robberies complete the the midille borne evening's toll of crime within the tigating the matter, and it is role with snake
before the ancient principal magistrate of Settlement. thought more light will be thrown Roma. A strap attached to the bit on this mystery.
ahome to keep his head down, 8. A do partment in a post office where lotters so The captive, whose
Correct, the addrenged may be called for. 3.
mathes police refuse to disclose, was kid-xact From Cocker, a celehenter
matfelan. 10. The rock at tha entrance napped some time in October as to the Strells of Gibraltar. 11 A walling he was en roule to Shanghai from room close to the stars of a theatre, from the original colour, green, En antidote to hia native city in Kiangai. He stare glare, 12 (4) Word for word; (b) was held up for a huge sum. Let it stand; (c) Heater slowly.
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