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The Kowloon Hotel Kowloon.
The Premier Hotel in Kowloon with all modern convenience. 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 Rales from
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$ 6.00.
$180.00.
Under the Personal Supervision and attention of
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Cables. "Kowlotel." Kowloon.
Tel. No. K.608 & K.609,
PALACE HOTEL.
Tel. Address "PALACE."
Tel. Howloon No. 8
MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1928.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
H. E. THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICIAL VISIT TO CANTON.
COMEDY AND ROMANCEI—
[ORMA SHEARER sweeps all before
NORMA
her in this rollicking tale of love and laughter. She started out to win the gayest bachelor in all Paris.
You'll
thoroughly enjoy her adventures before - and after she gets him.
NORMA
SHEARER
H. E. the Governor of Hougkong is here zeon with Marshal L Chat-aum inspecting the troops Just after making his official landing in Canton on Friday. Preceding them are Captain
A. J. L. Whyte (His Excellency's A.D:C.) and Marshal Li's A.D.C.
GOVERNOR AND CIVIL AVIATION.
develop your airways with a heart and without injury. to vested in- teresta.
FIENDS AT WORK IN LEIYANG.
(Continued from Page 1.)
We hope very much in Hong- kong to see the development of (Continued from Page 1.)
commercial aviation in China, particularly in Kwangtung ane; Shinkwan Railway should be ex- Kwangsi. If we had civil aviation their party. On receiving the tended to meet the railway which between Hongkong and Canton, ely that he did not understand ready runs from Hankow to merchants here could travel be politics, but knew only how to Chuchow in ilunan province, tween the two places in an hour, plant vegetables they throw him Now, If that is to be done, the spend the whole day on their busi- into a manure pit and kept himi gap of about five miles which atness, and return home in the even there until he died. prevent exists between the Rowling. There are already agro- All who could have. fled, but Tann-Canton Railway and the rail-dromes in Canton and in Hong-many poor persons, including way from Canton, to Shiukwan kong, and I hope that soon an many hundreds of women could, should be filled without delay, be-Anglo-Chinese company may be not flee fast enough and every cause in order to construct the formed for the purpose of com-imaginable horror has been inflict- railway northward from Shiukwan mercial aviation in the Lianged upon their bodies. large quantities of plant and wing provinces, materials will have to be brought Another thing that would be a from overseas and sent up to rail-great advantage is the develop head.
ment of wireless telegraphy. There If the plant and materials can are now inventions which enable FLI you to send photographic tele- be it ashore from steamers
From the point of view of Howdon and carried straight on grams. without further handling from transmitting Chinese Ideograms that point to Shukwan, obviously this would be a great advantare, there will be economy and speed and I hope to see
it developed.
in construction. There is, more Photo-telegraphy already over, the obvious and immediate between Peking and Mukden. advantage that you will connect
a hundred miles of railway already
completed between Cantonand
Excessive Taxation.
existy
I now pres lastly to the sub-
Kowloon with the existing iniljeet of laxation, and I wish to re-
this
Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietress.
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After-dinner dancing every
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
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No Rivalry.
A few days ago Pei Chung-hai captured Leiyang from the Com- munists, and drove them over the Kwangtung border.
PRISONER'S NAIVE REPLY.
SENT TO PRISON FOR SHOE THEFT.
A. B. Marlow, of H.M.S. Sirdar,
INSURANCE COMPANY
DIVIDEND.
RECOMMENDATIONS TO
ANNUAL MEETING. /
way to Shiukwan, and you will mind you in this connexion that charged a Chinese ship's painter thos have a long haul instead of taxation is, of course, in all cases before Major C. Willson this morn the present short haals. This ultimately paid by the consumer ing with the theft of a pair of could not fail to bring additional Therefore, there is a point, at
which excessive taxation defeata shoes. revenue in freight and passenger its own ends. Beyond that point Another bluejacket from the Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station,naffle to bath lines. Entirely, under English Management. Electric Light and Fan throughout, Il bat often been said-very lit produces po revenue to the Gov-same ship, Leading Seaman J. W. Every Room with Private Dath. Lounge, Bar and Billard-Rooms, Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the propristress erroneously-that the result of ernment and merely destroys G. Robinson, ptated that his atten- short connecting link trade. In this matter foreign lion was drawn to the fact that Terms moderate. Special terms to families on application to:
divert trade merchants are perfectly willing to defendant had taken a pair of come to the help of the Chinese shoes off the rack and had put; Hongkong: assure you that is thorities and may fair taxation them on, over his own shoes.
A report was made to the Officer the very last thing that anyone in higher taxation than they pay to Hongkong would advocate, and day--but the other side of the pie of the Day, and later the Royal wish to explain my reasons for tre is that they must be relieved Naval Yand Police were sent for. of the unlawful and petty imposi
Defendant pleading "not guilty" maying so.
tions which in many cases are sidd if he had any, dishonest in- nat levied by the Government attentions, he would have selected a We in Hongking believe that the all, but which are extorted by better. pair than those in fortunes of Canton and Hongkong local pirates and brigands who respect of which he was charged. are most intimately connected, seize the goods in transit. I was His story was not believed, a and that what is good for Hong-told, for instance, by a gentleman sentence of fourteen days' 'hard kong trade will improve the trade who lives in Tong-ka-tsun which labour being inflicted. of Canton and vice versa. There is not very far from Macao, that is no rivalry between the two on a pair of shoes made in Tong! ports, but the one is complemen-ka-tsun and sent to Chaton duty tary to the other. Nature has had to be paid no less than thirty- provided Hongkong with a deep sea three times on the way. That was port, but a port for shallow draft at the beginning of that year. I steamers only at Whampoa, That have no doubt that the position port we are anxious to see develop has very greatly improved to-day, ed, and shall be very willing to but it is obviously necessary for assist in its development, as well merchant, when he sends his as in the conservancy of the goods to a certain place, to know We are officially informed that! river, which is of the utmost im-at what price he will be able to the General Managers and Con- portance to Canton and also to sell them when they reach their sulting Committee of the Hongkong | Hongkong. But you cannot, under destination. Too often this is Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., will re- modern conditions, develop a part not now the case,
commend at the forthcoming Meet- unless you also give it railway
Improved Trade,
ing of Shareholders to be held on facilities; and, therefore, if you Well, gentlemen, I am afraid I 28th instant, the payment out of wish to develop Whampós, you have wearied you with a long the profits for the year 1920 of a must connect it with a railway, speech and said more than it was dividend of $43.00 per share ab- and the obvious railway to connect in my mind to any when I stood sorbing $344,000.00; to pass £25,- it with is the Kowloon-Canton up; but I have spoken with the 1000 to credit of Sterling Reserve, Railway which actually passes utmost frankness because I think $100,000 to credit af Silver Re- Whampon. If you want to send it is desirable that our point of serve and £5,287-7-5 to credit of goods from Whampoa by rail to view in Hongkong should be Reinsurance Fund, carrying for Hankow, you can only do so by understood. We wish to help Can-ward 8702,866.11 in respect off huilding the five miles of loop-line ton. We realise that our for the year 1927. railway between Tal-sha-tau and tunes are bounds up with yours, Wongsha.
and everything we can do to help It is for these reasons that we will do. The prospects are we in Hongkong are anxious, both bright. Trade in Hongkong' is ste Whampoa developed and getting better, and I understand also to see this loop-line built from Mr. Wu that trade in Canton The matter has been s0 much Is also improving. We look for- misrepresented that, as I have this ward to a brighter future. Given opportunity of addressing a very wholehearted co-operation be- representative gathering of Canton tween Hongkong and Canton, I merchants, I wish to explain what think we shall have nothing to The semi-official Japanese newż our position is, so that in future fear, and that the trade of these agency, Toko, issues a telegram there may be no misunderstanding.two provinces Kwangtung and from Its Hongkong correspondent I leave the matter now to your Kwangsi will flourish more than saying it is rumoured that the Bri judgment.
4t has ever flourished in the past. Lish authorities in Hongkang may loan the Canton Government Aviation Services.
(Applause). There is a further point in con- It is the duty of a government £7,000,000 to complete the lukuang
Railway-Router. nexion with communications to foster trade and to protect mer- which I should like to touch upon; chants; the Hongkong Government
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Shanghai, Mar. 10.
DISCUSSIONS ON TANGIER
QUESTION,
and that is communication by air. will do everything it possibly can rOUR POWERS CONFER. Now, whereas in Europe there has to that end, and I know quite well long been a highly developed rail-that under Marshal Ll's adminis way system and there are now also tration the authorities of the very extensive motor roads,, in Liang Kwang provinces will do Chin the railway system is far the same. So I ask you to drink) less advanced and there are hardly with me to the prosperity of the
London, Mar. 11, The British Government have ac any motor roads, This fact is in Canton Chamber of Commerce, to
co-cepted the invitation of the French now an advantage to continued and increasing China, because you have not sunk operation between Hongkong and and Spanish Governments to send Iso much money either in railways Canton, and to the welfare of the experts to the Four-Power discus- or in motor roads as we have in merchants both of Canton and of sions on Tangier, in Paris on March
15th-British Wireless, Europe, and therefore you can Hongkong-(Applause).
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