HOTELS
THE
HONGKONG
HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL Tolographie Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL;
MAJESTIC HOTEL-----
Telographic Address::~"CENTRAL, SHANGHAL"
HOTELS.
LIMITED,
In scoociation with the Grand Hotel Des Wagons Lits, Peking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms nowly renovated and installed with Box Spring Buds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone,
Hotel launch meets ali steamers.
($25 for thirty Tiffin Tickets can be had at the Office
of the above Hotel.)
Tol. Add. Victoria.
HOTELS OF
MOTEL METROPS
Telephono C. 373. J.H. WITCHELL,
Manager.
DISTINCTION
The Kowloon Hotel.
Kowloon.
The Promier 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, Representative meets all Wharves and Railway Station.
steamers.
Daily Rates front
Monthly Rates from
:
$ 6.00, $150.00.
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 Addresa "PALAGE.” Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. Entirely, under Hinglish Management. Electric Light and Fans throughout. and Billiard-Rooms. Srary
Private Room with
Bath. Lounge, Bar Darivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietræos. Ferma moderate. Special terms to families on application to:
Mrs. J. H OXBERRY, Proprietresa.
EUROPE
After-dinner dancing every
Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
Cables :-
EUROPE
Singapore.
HOTEL
SINGAPORE.
Grill
THE EUROPE!HOTEL. LTD.
Arthur E. Ošali, Managing-Director.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
ENCOURAGING SIGNS IN BRITAIN.
SERIOUS DESIRE FOR MUTUAL CONFIDENCE.
London, Feb. 3.
Sir Austin Harris, presiding at the annual meeting of Lloyds' Bank, endorsed the opinions which have been expressed by the chair- men of other big London banks regarding the encouraging trade prospects.
He added: "Two features of n very gratifying nature' stand out as beacons of encouragement and hope." One, he said, Is the mark- ed decrease in the number of un- employed and the other is the com- parative freedom during the past twelve months from serious labour. disputes and strikes.
He thought it was becoming recognised that a' greater' feeling of mutual confidence was growing between employers and employed to the great advantage and benest of both.
The very encouraging spirit of conciliation and goodwill on the part of some of the prominent leaders of trade unions had been evidenced by their appeches, and he believed they would discern a serious desire on the part of res-i ponsible men to do everything pos- sible to avoid the disastrous re- course to a strike.-British Wire- less,
ALLEGED GANG OF KIDNAPPERS.
TWO WOMEN CHARGED THIS
MORNING.
Chinese Two charged before Major C. Willson, this morning, with harbouring three children under the age of twenty-one, without the consent of their parents..
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY
YESTERDAY'S CENOTAPH CEREMONY.
Colonel Hayley Bail, President of the Easma Club, and. Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton, President of the local branch of the British Legion; conveying, wreaths in memory of the late Earl Haig to the Hongkong Genotaph yesterday. (Photo: Welcome Studio).
POIETÉS
MAINOMENOS.
[Being a recently-discovered fragment of a Greek Tragedy, of which the argument would appear to be that the author had been removed from the free list of the organ of his Dome.]
DRAMATIS PERSONAL
list.
Office Coolie,
2nd. Ofice Coolie.
3rd. Omec Coolie.
'1nti
Reporter.
2nd. Reporter.
Hemi-chorus A of Readers. Hemi-chorus B of Editorial Staff.
A Blasted Newspaper Office.
'Tis even so?' Something within me speaks of brooding woc. 'Tis such a night as those when mighty kinga Have passed!
SCENE:
Ist. 0.0.
The wind blows chill to-night. ·
Women were
2nd. O.C.
Ist. 0.C.
2nd. O.C.
3rd. O.C.
Hemi-chorus A (Readers)
Sergeant Fitches, who proaccut- ed, asked for a remand in police custody, explaining to the Magis- trate that the women were con- nected with a gang of kidnappers who murdered the children's par- ents in the country.
In answer to a question by the Magistrate, Sergeant Fitches stated that the children's ages were 14, 13 and 7 years.
A. remand in police custody, for three days, was granted.
LABOUR GOVERNMENT
ADVENT.
NORWEGIAN DEFENCE FORCES REDUCED.
Oslo, Feb. 3. The new Labour Government
A has signalised its advent by sub-
mitting to the Storting, the Norwe gian Parliament, Bills enneelling nilltary training in 1923, restrict- ing naval training, reducing the Army Estimates by 4,500,000 kroner, and the Navy Estimates by over 750,000 kroner.
It has also withdrawn the Bill put through by the previous Government providing for the construction of a new destroyer- Reuter.
The Gazette notifies the rescis- sion of the order declaring Soura- baya an infected place..
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?
The following are the replies to to-day's questions:-
POSTMAN'S PENSION. himself admitted that for about a Cornwall: it tastes like the scent of a ger
1.A mineral sought by alchemists that would by contact, transmute the baser metala i wold. 2. Virgil, Sir
Maurier, Adam Smith, Harrie, George du Henryk seri, 5. Atmospheric pressure. Columbae frat voyage to America, which Ley financed. 5. Bix and sight-pence was the value of the smallest gold coin. “Jetta weal" (St John x, 25,3 7. Clark to the Admiralty. 2. William of Wykehmat. 2. Between the ground and Art four, 10. A mixture of alè und gin, a popular drink fa
month past he had been taking already married to Bertha, French Christian
anlum, 1 King #thebest of Kent, WA letters from the post and stealing prinses. 12. "Am You Take 31," "Cymbeline,"
"Julius Caer," "Much Ado abou "Nothing." The Winter's Tale." LORD WOLMER'S ANSWER TO by currency notes contained in "Othello,
PROTESTS.
them, and there are strong grounds |for suspecting that his theft extend-
ed over a much longer period.··· Mr. C. G. Ammon, M.P., as an
"I am having the fucts fully re- Official of the Union of Post Office ported to the Treasury, but I know Workers, has received a letter from of no precedent for the granting Viscount.Wolmer, Assistant Post of a gratuity or pension to an officer mester-General, regarding John who has been disralssed the Service Haminond, the Kilburn supervisor-in such circumstances, and I doubt postman who was bound over re-very much whether an exception cently for stealing a ten-shilling can be made or justified in this note from a letter and lost his post-case. tion and pansion.
"It seems clear that Mr. Ham- Protests were made that it was mond entered on a carefully an injustico that Hammond, who is calculated course of action, know 00, and had 39 years service, mg full well what he was doing and should be deprived of his gratuity whint the consequences of detection of £390 and pension of £2,158. a must be."
5
week: Hammond's wife died of Mr. Ammon stated last night: shack as the result of the procced-"My contention that gratuity and ings.
pension are in the nature of de Lord Wolmer, in his letter,ferred pay, and should not be with- atates: "The theft for which he held under any circumstances has was actually prosecuted was not by yet to be answered by the Treasury. any means an isolated offence. He That is an important principle.
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by ALFRED HORLEY, at 1 and S, Wyndham Street, in the City. of Victoria, Hongkong.
STOP PRESS
"BELGENLAND”, MELEE IN SHANGHAI
Shanghai, Feb. 4. The sojourn of the tourists from the s.s. Belgenland was ́'uneventful until this morning, when a fracas occurred in the Chinese city in which several tourists were concerned.
One of them apparently. mistook a private ricksha for a, public vehicle, and argued. A melco followed, and a large crowd, collecting 'the' affair threatened to assume still graver proportions.
The trouble was averted by timely police Intervention.
Or Earth has heard the beating wings Of the Death Angel passing overhead. Say, bo, that's sure a mouthful you have said
STASIMON A
Cometh a woe!
Cométh a tear!
Can it be 8O?
Truth do we hear?
That the biggest purveyor of Inners no more will cause
Hemi-chorus B (Editorial Staff)
Bulls to appear?
Gone is the free
Copy from now!
So it must be!
Need we say how
Firmly we take back the guerdon which estwhlle be-laurelled his brow?
ANTISTROPHE'
Full ChorSTA
'Tis said that opportunity Comes once to every man, And if by misfortune it he Neglects to grasp, he can No more expect
The prize to gain: His fortune's wrecked! .Eternal pain
Awaits him when he ponders on what will not remain. 1st. Reptr.
2nd. Reptr.
1st. O.C. 2nd. Reptr.
Tell me quite plainly what it is you mean,
Out-Reuter Reuter Tell th' unvarnished truth. My tongue shall wander by no devious patha Such as my pen must travel when I write
For publication in the Telegraph,
To cut it short, our poet's got the sack! He's got the sack? And what does it contain? Nothing whatever! That is just the point.
Hemi-chorus A.
Hemi-chorus B.
STASIMON B..
Tell us some more! What did he write?" That's why they're more, Naught he's indite
Save his peculiar humour and then what he wrote wasn't right!
Some, we would change, 'Some we'd discard.
This he thought strange, Even thought hard,
An that we discarded was priceless, and that which we altered
ANTISTROFIE D. Full Chorus
1st. 0.0.
2nd. Repts.
wo marred.
Strange how the Gods delude, the folk Whom they intend to emite.
Time was they pampered this poor bloke
And egged him on to write.
But when he sought to scale the road "Towarda Parnassian crags,
He paid the debt to Fate he owed!
He found it full of gnaga!
To scribe an Inner or a Bull
Demands an art correct...
It needs must be of humour full, And yet be circumspect. No vested interest must be Attacked therein, of course; And yet a spice of deviltry Must lend it point and force.
He falled therein. Ah, how he falled! He did not chuck his stuff.
The lamps that hope had it have paled,
He was not bright enough!
No copy (free) shall now afford
Him literary food,
'In future at his hearth and board
O' nights despair shall brood.
They speak of matters far too high for me,
I cannot even do cross-word puzzle!
Then hold thy peace; nor with ill-omened tongue Lollop across the path of might-have-been.
Hemi-chorus B.
What will he do' Wrapped in despair? Will he now sue. With promises fair
Olympian Editors, swearing henceforth be will take
Hemichorus A.
greater care?: +
This, if tia so
Lies neath Fate'a. vell. "At such a blow
Strong men might quail.
And, yet, peradventure, it might be each night he will-
purchase, the Mail.
CETERA - DESUNT.
Note: We publish this without censoring to show the depths to. which the artistic temperament can descend, when peeved. Ed. H.K.T.
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