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HOTELS
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HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL. Telegraphic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG,
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AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL
Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAI.”
HOTELS.
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel
Dos Wagons Lite, Peldag.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
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Most Medorn and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Room16 newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone,
Hotol launch meets all steamers.
(825 for thirty Tiffin Tickets can be had at the Office.
of the above Hotel,)
Tel. Add. Victoria.
HOTELS OF
HOTEL M
THE HONGKONG ~ TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1928.
THE BANYARD BEAUTY, CHORUS.
Telephone C. 373.
J. H. WITCHELL,
Manager.
DISTINCTION
Above are some members of the Beauty Chorus of the Banvard Musical Comedy Company, which opens a season hero on February, Gth."
PRINCE OF WALES' SPEECH.
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 Ferry. Wharves and Railway Station. Representative meets all steamers.
Daily Rates from
Monthly Rates from
$ 6:00. $130.00.
Under the Personal Supervision and attention of
MR. & MRS. H. J. WHITE. Tel. No. K.GOB & K,809. Cables, "Kowlotel," "Kowloon.
Tel Kowloon No: B
PALACE HOTEL.
Tel. Address "PALACE" Entirely, under English Management. Electric Light and Fans throughout. Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Hallway Station, and Billard-Booms. vary Room with Private Bath. Loutry, Bar
supervision of the proprietress Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal Karena moderate. Special terme te families on application to:
Mr. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietress.
EUROPE
After-dinner dancing every
Tuesday, Thursday. and Saturday.
Cables:-
"EUROPE",
Singapore,
HOTEL
SINGAPORE,
Grill
THE EUROPE HOTEL. LTD.
Arthur E. Odall. Managing-Dirántar.
ASAHI BEER
Special Brewed for Export
DAI NIPPON BREWERY CO., LTD.
TOKIO JAPAN:
Sole Agents.
MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LT#,
HONGKONG.
Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street, In the City of Tietoris Hongkong.
FUNDAMENTAL INTÈRESTS
'OF EMPLOYED. ·!
London, Jan. 29.
The Prince of Wales, who was the principal guest last night at the important annual banquet of the Birmingham Jewellers' Asso- elation, spoke optimistically of Britain's trade prospects.
GERMAN MILITARY
WIRELESS. 1/
OPERATORS “INDISCREET AND CARELESS;"
Borlin, Jan. 28.
PRISON AND BIRCH.
HEAVY SENTENCE ON BANISHEE.
On records being turned up it was found that the defendant was
A pickpocket was charged, be- Jore Major C..Wilson this morn- Borlin, Jan. 29. ink, with stealing money from a An investigation of the Reichs- Chinese, a stranger in the Colony. wehr wireless affair has reaulied A Chinese detective Baw the in the release of all the men ar-pickpocket and his victim ap- rested, with the exception of the proaching each other in Queen's ve originally arrested nt Giessen.toad West. They brushed each It is shown that the wireless other in passing and the pick- operators were Indiscreet and pocket, under cover of his hat, ex- After pointing out that last year careless in sending out military tracted something from the pocket and realised some of the hopes messages intended only for the of the other man. He would have with which it began after the long Army. They were apparently sent esgaped with his booty, for the Industrial struggles of 1926, he out in such a manner that foreign victim was totally oblivious of
stations could decipher the code, continued:"Employees and em-
what had taken place, but for the One result of the affair will pro- fact that the witness ran up and played have come to see that whatever differences there may be bably be a more fraquent changing seized him. between them in matters of detail, of the military telegraphic code,
Reuter their fundamental intersta in large production and thriving!
Mystery surrounds the arrest of a banishce from the Colony and trade are the same. Evidence of this can be found in last year'save soldiers of the Reichswehr that the term of his banishment anttalion stationed at Giessen for had not expired. He was there. trade returns. These show that allegedly sending out
fore further charged with return- wireless despite the black spota still to be messages to foreign countries, says ing from banishment. found on the business horizon, and
a Reuter, message from Berlin The defendant admitted being the handicap under which work
ibanished for ten years, but said when many markets had been tem- no charge of espionage was sustain-seventh year of the Chinese Re- was originally announced that the term commenced from, the was re-started at the end of 1926, 1dated Saturday, porarily lost, we have really wiped alle against them and they had public. It being now, the seven- out all our deficit and have start-boon rolonged. Later, however, it teenth year, he thought he was od on the road again.
was afhted they were not released, entitled to return. "Another encouraging sign," On the contrary, numerous other The police explained to his Wor- the Prince continued, "is that our soldiers belonging wireless] ahip that the defendant had a fur- imports of raw materials have stations throughout Germany were ther year of his banishment to been well maintained. The recent arrested by the military authorities complete and added that the terms meeting of representative em The greatest reticenco is being of banishment could not have been the affair. misunderstood as they were fully ployers at the General Council of unintained regarding the Trade Union Congress gives us the strongest reason to hope that a new era of prosperity is open- ing before us,"
The Prince added that another' happy sign was the tremendoita demand for space at the British Industries Fair, due to open in the near future.--British Wireless.
WORDY WARFARE IN SENATE.
(Continued from Page 1.)
and expect to get them sometime in February."
San Francisco, Jan. 25. Commenting upon the assertiors today of Serators Oddie and Fletcher that the Dollar shipping interests are British controlled, Caplain Robert Dollar said, "To put it mildly, the statements of the senators are inaccurate, wholly incorrect and, we might believe, absurd. If the senators would refer to the records of the United States Shipping Board they will find all the material necessary, correct their remarks. Nothing else need be said."
Absolutely. Unfounded,
New York, Jan. 26.
to
OBITUARY.
The lato Vicente Blasco Ibance, the famous Spanish novelist, whose death, was reported yesterday:
MORE RAIDS.ON COMMUNISTS.
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Every vessel the Dollar Steam-Railway announced on Friday that ship Line operates calls under the all payments for fares and goods American flag, Stanley Dollar, vice will have to be made in silver, na president of the line, said here Central Bank notes cannot be del today in answer to assertions made cepted. in the senate by Senators Oddie and Fletcher.
Following the Government's an- nouncement that all, payments to the various, Taxation Departments "We sold the lust of our British should be made with at least ships a few days ago," Mr. Dollar eighty per cent in silver coln, said. "We are operating no ves most of the public utility organisa sels under the Japanese flag and tions, including the Tolephone never have.
Water and Electric Companies, all
explained to the defendant when
he was sent away. Sentence of eight months' hard labour and twenty strokes was passed on de- fendant for returning to the Co- lony and on the charge of larceny a further two months was added.
FASCIST REPROOF.
YUGOSLAVIA GIVEN SIX
MONTHS.
Rome, Jan. 20. "For the past four years Yugo- Slavia has displayed no falth and no goodwill, but on the contrary has taken every onnortunity f organising anti-Italian and Anti- Fascist demonstrations even in the speeches of its politiciana."
This strong indictment has been published in the official bulletin of the Fascist party, in a state- ment regarding the postponement! for six months of the renunciation of the Italo-Yugo-Slav treaty of friendship.
The statement says that all pre- parations of the Yugo-Slav army have been directed against Italy Yugo-Slavia has six months in which to give a new turn to her policy towards Italy, who can wait without fears for future events.- Reuter.
HONGKONG
· TRAMWAYS.
A FINAL DIVIDEND OF EIGHTY CENTS.
The Directors of the Hongkong "As for Oddie's statement that declared that only twenty per cent, Tramways, Ltd, recommend' a' we hope to secure 86 freight ships of payments to them will be ac-final, dividend of 80 cents per on the Pacific coast, he knows cepted in notes. nothing about it. The whole at- tack is untrue, unjust and ab- solutely unfounded."
M.V. "Romolo" (D. & Co.) sull-
aharo, payable, after the date of the forthcoming ordinary yearly The P. and O. Ha. Kashgar from general meeting of the Company, Hongkong, arrived in London on which will be announced in due 2811 January.ät_8_a_m_
M.V. "Esquilino" (D. & Co.)
'course...
This makes a total dividend of
ed from Masseun on the 28th Jan., salled from Singapore on the 27th $1.40 per share for the year, and,
and is. expected here on the 1st Jan, and is due here on the 2nd subject to audit, leaves (to be
March.
Feb.
carried forward in the accounts a sum of $252,849.04,
Directed by FRED NIBLO from the immortal novel by: GEN. LEW WALLACE
BEN- HUR
All the world loves a lover and all the world l enamored of this nightiest of all thrilling romances. COME! with Ben-Hur through the death-daring CHARIOT RACE-FIGHT! with him in the thrilling SEA BATTLE-EXULT! with him in a thousand and one glamorous, gorgeous, breath-taking scenes-COME and SEE the most stupendous picture ever screened Three years in the making-150,000 people in the cast. -At a cost of over $4,000,000-You can't afford to miss it!
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AT THE
QUEEN'S
TO-DAY to MONDAY
-Times & Prices-
At 2.30 ........
$1.50, $1.00, 60 Cts, & 40 Cts.
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At 6.00 & 9.15 || $2.00, $1,50, 80 Cís. & 60 Cts.
Service man la uniform 80 Cents to back alalls - and “40
· front stalls of all performances.
D.W.GRIFFITH
presents
'Coala'
"WAY DOWN EAST"
Based on Wim A. Drady's Famous Play by "Lottie Blair Parker and 30s.A.Grismer N
Here you have something more than a motion picture-it is a story of human hearts, un- folded in a simple, soul-reaching way, under the master guidance of Mr. Griffith—a pro- `duction that will go thundering down the ages
just because it is so human. AT THE
WORLD
"TO-DAY AND
TO-MORROW
Orchestra 5,15 & 9.20. Interpreter 2.30 & 7.15
FRANCIS MCDONALD
THE
in
DESERT'S TOLL
Romance rides again in this exciting tale of a man and a girl who seek gold in the desert places and £nd love. along the trail of adventure,
An Exciting Story of the Open.
AT THE
STAR
FINAL SHOWINGS
TO-DAY
Continuous from 2,30 to 11.1