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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, SHANGHAI "
HOTELS.
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel
Dea Wagons Lits, Peking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
CHRISTMAS EVE & NEW YEARS EVE
$2.50
Dinner
Dance
8.30 p.m. to 12 midnight.
per person
booking can now be made at the Hotel.
HOTEL SAVOY
Confurt, Convenefice wad Bialiktu.
HOTEL METROPOLE. HOTEL BOA VISTA.
22, Ica House Street.
Мисао.
UNDER THE SAME MANAGEMENT.
The Kowloon Hotel.
Kowloon.
The Premier Hotel in Kowloon- with all modern conveni- ences. High Class Cusine and Table Appointments. Wonderful view of the Harbour and Peak, and five minutes from the Forry, Wharves and Railway Station. Representative meets all
steamers.
Daily Rates from
$ 5.00. $125.00.
Monthly Rates from ..... Under the Personal Supervision and attention of
MR. & MRS. H. J. WHITE.
Tel. No. K.608 & K.609. Cables. "Kowlotel." Kowloon.
Tel 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-Rooms. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Tarms moderate. Special terms to families on application to:
Mr. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietress.
EUROPE
After-dinner dancing every
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Cables:-
** EUROPÉ"
Singapore.
HOTEL
SINGAPORE.
Grill
THE EUROPE HOTEL. LTD.
Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Directer.
GLENEALY PRIVATE HOTEL.
3 and 4. Glenealy, Hongkong.
(Near Dairy Farm).
Tel. Ad. lenealy" Hongkong.
Telephone C.980.
Splendidly aftuated within easy walking distance" to all businėtų centros: yet away frota thé nelso of trama.
Large alty tOVIE, Hot and cold water, Every room with, private bath. Excellent food under the personal supervtalon of the propsletress. English, Spanish and French Spoken.
Moderate Terms. Special family and monthly rates, Apply
Proprietres.
CANTON'S REIGN OF TERROR Photographs showing the terrible
havoc now on sale at
MEE
Studio, Ice House St.
CHEUNG
Branch 7, Beaconsfield Arcado,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1927.
GREYHOUNDS FOR SHANGHAI.
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The 8.8. Glenogle is passing through Hongkong to-day with a number of greyhounds on board for Shanghai. The above picture was taken on board the vessel at the London Docks
when the hounds were handed over to the care of those on board.
PROSPERITY OF THE SOUDAN.
GENERAL WELL-BEING OF THE NATIVES.
PENINSULA HOTEL THEFTS.
·COOLIE SENT TO PRISON.
A conviction was registered! against the Telephone Company's- BENEFITS OF DAM SCHEME. coolie who was charged on remand
Soudan.
before. Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, with larceny of a quantity of wire from the Peninsula Hotel.
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APPREHENSIONS AT SWATOW.
ATTEMPTS MADE ON THE
RAILWAY.
PREPARING FOR WAR.
(Our Own Correspondent)
London, Dec. 22. The annual report on the admin istration of the Soudan, which is
His Worship, addressing the.
Swatow, Dec. 20. published to-day, states that the
wires, The peasant Communists con- completion of the Sennar dam, defendant, said it was not proved which was oficially opened in that he actually cut the January last year, marked a new he had admitted himself that tinue seriously to interfere with
that era in the development of thee was carrying it without any the Swatow-Chaochowfu Railway. previous to orders or permission. He stated it appears
Kwan-Lahau the that it was the first time that he the attack at "Thanks to favourable condi-had done such a thing without her day, the station-master of that place had been captured; but, tions and goodwill and good work orders from his superior.
The inference, continued his after being compelled to hand on the men of all concerned, the fret rear's results from the eal-Worship, was that he was about over various tools. had by a ruse escaped. Subsequent to the Livation of cotton on a large scale to dispose of the wire for his attack, another station was raided, were highly antisfactory and the own purposes. He would there-!
and the spanners used for benglits predicted have been tulis fore be convicted and sentenced removing the sleepera were taken. realised. Labour had prosente: to three months' hard labour... '«
As the supply of sleepers is limit- no difficulty and the general well-
ed, and the gang continues to be being of the natives in the thickly- |
active, the railway is apprehen- populated Gezira area fa mani-
sive that permanent damage may The at any monent. be done. fested. Cultivation and produsel tion have been quickened by
water tank at which the engine science to the vast advantage of
was filled every trip has been the natives, but there has been no
burnt down, and water has to be upheaval of the social system. In
supplied by hand. acniatry where the people have had to rely for their sustenanc A Government measure for re- on capricious rainfall, a guaranteevising the tariff on oils has been of freedom from menace of famine issued and it provides for protec is the richest of blessings. Sometion to the extent of 39.98 francs 50,000 acres of irrigated land per metrie quintal of crude oil for were sown with grain and there French producers and. 18.30 franes the harvest made a doubly wel pes 100 kilogrammes of medium comu, addition to the food suppy rude cil for French refiners, in lean yours.”
Bentee
FRENCH TARIFF ON
OILS:
RROTECTION FOR FRENCH PRODUCERS...
Paris, Dec. 22.
SHANGHAI TRAMS.
DEPLETED SERVICE
CONTINUES.
Shanghai, Dec. 22. A depleted tramway service, with
The military have carried out reprisals against a village near Kwan-ishan, said to harbour Con- munists. The village was burnt. many killed, and over a hundred It is doubtful how fur captured. this will restrain the Communist bands, who are collected from groups of villages, and whose de- predations in various directions) are reported daily.
The destruction of the railway would Interfere with the extensive. military movements taking place] at present. General Chan Ming- shu's 11th Army is on the move from Fukien, part of it by Tai Pu to the East River, part down the This 1in River to Swntow.
is
The direct und indirect financial results of the cultivation season covered by the report were thoroughly satisfactory. There was small actual surplus on the year's working, but the indirect results were even more important.) and report pointed out that as- count must be taken of the addi tional revenue carned by the Goa strong escort accompanying section now coming in. ernment from the extra railway each car, is being maintained with- General Chan himself has arrive! traffic, export and import duties. out untoward incident, but the in Swatow, and yesterday a num- and traders tax on the Syndicate' negotiations for settlement of the her of his staff came by sea fron:
additional notre strike have made no progress. Poochow profits. The
Naval Wireless. vénué accrued in this way pro bably amounted to at least 150,000; Egyptian pounds. It is aduen that the Gozira project in 1926 was an important factor in saving, the Government, from what would have been' a very costly and difficult pro- 1. Britan aviator: First Land of the Awhile large numbers of refugees blem'in relieving, the famine which mitally: Secretary of 14tate for Scotland; are coming in to hos Lor help, ano Uniuni candidate for Statthen-Sea, yesterday some five hundred of otherwise would have occurre:1. 2. St Gillen, Cripplegate, 3. inte of Wight;
Ituckinghamshire: Sheffield; Venice; amehem presented petitions to the 4. The w11 or colleil must be signed by officials As regards the future, many the testing us the foot or end or by some Preparations are alrendy being changes are in sight. For the curdy at the tentor's direction, and such ront season the area under cotton nature must be made or acknowledged in iade to receive the wounded, once
the premence of two or more witgesos present the fighting starts, has been increased from 80,000 to at the same time who must then mitent
the signatur
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?
Troops have already been sert to join the few previously commis- sioned to attack the "Red" strong- hold in Haluk Fung. The two The following are the replies to bodies met at Chai-tsu. Mean to-day's questions:---
6. M. Painleve.
7. Cambridge: Oxford;
100,000 feddans. As regarda the who must not be Lane@ciaries. 8. "Carmen" to the will "ar' codicit, and more distant future, the. Govern-The Manteraingers" "Maritas Past" ment has concluded an agreement Manchester Summ, The Ladies of
His Excellency the Governor has with the syndicate to extend the Lyndon. 9. Dr. Lare, 10. Flyings horse
racing: Association football; shooting: polling awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Printed and Published for the Proprictor by FREDERICK concession area from 300,000 to Egypt: Trak: Norway: Spain: Rumania: Forces Long Service Medal to
105,000 feddans and ultimately to Dalguris. 12. Yes. to the extent of any PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street, in the City of increase the Government share tu esta acquired by film from or through his Lance: Sergeant. J. C. Fletcher,
Scottish Company H.K.V.D.C. Historia, Hongkong,"
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