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Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms howly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also,Telephone.
·Hotel launch moots all steamers.
($25 for thirty Tiffin Tickets can be had at the Office of the above Hotel.
Tal. Add. Victoria.
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DISTINCTION
The Kowloon Hotel.
Kowloon.
The Premier Hotel in Kowloon with all modern conveni- High Class Cusine and Table Appointments. Wonderful ences. view of the Harbour and Peak, and five minutes from the Ferry, Wharves and Railway Station. Representative meets all
steamers.
Dally Rates from
Monthly Rates from
$ 8.00. $130.00.
Under the Personal Supervision and attention of
MR. & MRS. H. J. WHITE. Tol, No. K.608 & K.009. Cabice. "Kowlotel." Kowloon.
PALACE HOTEL.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY
1928.
WINTER SPORT -
NEAR LONDON.
For the first time for many years winter aport was possible recently in the London area.
Photo shows a toboggan run on the slopes of a Kent hillside.
'I
THE KUOMINTANG THE COURTSHIP OF AN
CONFERENCE,
PRELIMINARY MEETING HELD
AT NANKING.
EX-MAHARAJA.
AT CHATEAU IN SUBURBS
OF PARIS..
The Indore correspondent of the Bombay Chronicle gives the follow- ing account of the love affairs, of the ex-Maharaja of Indore!
CLEARING THE ISSUES,
Shanghai, Feb. 1.
The ex-Maharaja was intro- The joint meeting of the Central duced to Miss Miller in Lucerne Executive Committee and the and not at San Francisco, by one Supervisory Committee of the Kuo-of his staff, M. Beceler, a mintang was held at 3 p.m. yester-foreigner, whom the ex-Maharaja day at the Central Kuomintang had met at: Mussorie (India). Headquarters at Nanking. There were present thirteen C.EC. mem-) bera and six from the Supervisory met, Miss Miller often. Committee. The meeting was In order to enjoy more privacy presided over by Marshal Chiang while courting Mias Miller, the ex- Kai-shek,
Maharaja went to Paris, leaving tho junior Maharance alone at Lucerne.
BENZINE STORE BLAZE,
CHINESE KILLED IN SINGAPORE OUTBREAK.
GOOD BRIGADE WORK.
The bursting of an electric light bulb in a motor cycle accessories and benzine store in Rochore Road, Singapore, last Saturday night re- sulted in a benzine explosion that killed one man and injured, two
others. At Lucerne, the ex-Maharajn
The ex-Maharaja, It is reported, purchased a chateau in the suburbs of Paris and carried on
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Costly Sarees Purchased.
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The promptitude with which a policeman on beat duty informed. the Central Fire Station enabled the Brigade to get to the scone bo fore the whole promises were in- volved. However, it was a near In his opening speech, Marshal
thing, for the back portion of the Chiang reported that both the
premises, where the explosion took country and the Kuomintang are
place, was an impenetrable mase of falling into a most critical state,
flame, and it was only by speedy and the difficultica could only be his courting there.
and efficient action that the fire- settled by convening the 4th Gen-
men were able to check the flow eral Conference. He adde
of. flaming petrol-which had nl- "The cause of postpopment of the
ready reached the front portion of, Conference is the impeachment I am told (says the correspon-the shop and attacked a
row of case against the C.E.C. members dent) that Mr. Rashid's daughter how cases-before it reached which has long been insisted upon used to dress. Miss Miller up in other stores of benzine opposite by the Supervisory Committee. aareen like a Hindu girl. Costly the show cases in the same room. The purpose for holding this joint sarees were purchased for Miss
Miller.
Child's Fortunate Escape. meeting is to settle this affair in order to faciliate the opening of Some months were thus spent in The staircase to the first floor led Tel Howloon No. 8
Tol Address "PALACE.”
courting at Paris, the Maharanec, from that portion of the house Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Forry and Railway Station, the conference."
in
the.. meantime, remaining where the are broke out, and just Satirely, under English Management. Electric Light and Pans throughout.
Mr. Tsai Yuen-pu, on behalf of ignorant of what was going on, Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billard-Rooms the Supervisory Committee, said
na the firemen were getting it un-|| Darivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the propriutrosa,
Miss Miller induced her lance. der control one of the people in the Turma moderate. Special terms to familles on application to
Mr. J. H. OXBERBY, Proprietress the impeachment case and were birth. She preceded the
they are not strongly insisting on to visit California, the place of her shop raised an alarm that a child had been trapped inside. It did. willing to discuss the whole pro-Maharaja, and met him on his not seem possible that the child blem frankly.
could have lived through it, but a arrival at New York. They dash was made through the re- Finally, the meeting decided travelled extensively in America,mains of the fire and the alarm that five Canton C, E. C. members, visiting Salt Lake City, the city proved a faise one, for the ind had comprising Mrs, Liao Chung-kai, of the Mormons, and San Fran- managed to get over the back wall Messrs. Chan Shu-yen, Wang Fa-cisco, then came to Los Angéles. upstairs into the next house, where ken, Wang, Lok-ping and Pun The Maharance was not aware he was found unharmed. Wan-chju, who are considered not of the romance, and was expecting The building is the third one on to have been implicated in the re-the arrival of the ex-Maharajn, the right hand side of Rochoro cent Canton region of terror, her husband, at Lucerne, when she Read, looking in the direction of should be allowed to attend the received a cable from him asking the Canal, from the Victoria Street Preliminary Meeting, of the 4th her to retura to Indare.
junction. Conference at 2. p.m." to-morrow."
The man who was killed and one The ex-Maharaja's entourage of the injured men were abanding It is reported that these five mem-wers fully aware of this new love almost immediately under the elec ber have all promised to attend to-air. morrow's meeting-Nam Chung Pao.
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trie light when it burst. Thera In August, the ex-Maharaja sent was an immediate explosion for his two brothers-in-law to benzine, and the men were caught obtain their consent to the new before they were aware of what marriage and the proposal to con had happened, one of them suc- verting his new sweetheart into cumbing to his injuries in hospital the Dliangar euste, to which he that night. himself belongs.
Correspondence was also open- ILLEGAL SLAUGHTERING OF led with the Hindu Missionary
It is noteworthy that the fire for Society of India for the conversion which the Brigade was summoned of Miss Miller into the Hindu fold. was not the one that originated "Fines of $10 were imposed by
Immediately from the explosion. Conversion Arrangements,
That was put out completely, as Mr. W. Schofield, at the Kowloon
The correspondent adds that an the people on the premises thought; Magistracy this morning, on two butchers of Main Street, Kowloon officer of ludore had gone to and their further effort was. con- City, charged by Sanitary Ins-he: ex-Maharaja, to seek the way to hospital in an ambulance. Nasik, under instructions from tred in getting the injured men. pector Áslett, with slaughtering awine in a place other than the convert Miss Miller to Hinduism, extinguished fire developed un- assistance of a Hindu, pricat to In the meantime the ineffectually. Slaughter House.
and for this purpose he has been awares, and the place when the Both defendants pleaded guilty, paid Rs. 30,000 and promised the Fire Brigade arrived was a mass of Inspector Aslett sald that the post of secretary to the
ex-flame,
While the fire was being fought irst defendant slaughtered twp Maharaja, piga on January 23, while the Other household officers are it was noticed that flaming benzine second defendant had not utilised busy buying clothes and Jewellery was running along the floor, In- volving the show cases on that the slaughter house for killing for the American bride. piga since the strike of 1925. The ex-Maharaja's conduct in side, Along the wall on the oppo- Pork was found on the premises Paris accounts for the refusal of site side a large quantity of of both defendants on January 25, the authorities, to grant permission benzine was stored, and the con- to his son, the present Maharaja, sequences if this had been ignited Fortunately Prince Yeshwant Rao Holkar, and may be imagined. SOVIET PROPOSALS IN to visit ex-Maharaja in Paris.''
his sister, Princess Manoramabai, this did not occur, and a hose on the burning show cases effectually dealt with danger from that direc- S. AMERICA.
tion, After this the fire was 8003 got under control, and the building. saved, the loss not mounting to more than $500.
SERIES OF "ARCOS HOUSES” PLANNED.
Montevideo, Jan. 31.
Sevict commercial envoya here state that the Russian Government
AN OFFICIAL VISIT.
**..... MR. KELLOGG LEAVING
FOR OTTAWA,
Washington, Jan. 31.-
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intends to open a commercial: Mr. Frank B. Kellogg, the U. S..to-day's-questions: agency in Buenos Aires with Secretary of States, in leaving for branches in several other South Ottawa on Sunday on an official American cities..
* visit, returning the recent visit to Apparently it is intended to Washington of Lord Willingdon, establish places en similar lines the Governor-General of Canada Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK to Arcos House, which was raid- and Mr. Mackenzie King, the Cana PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street, in the City ofed in London last year-Router's dian Premier-Reuter's, American Fletoria, Hongkong.
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