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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, SHANGHAL"
HOTELS.
LIMITED.
in association with the Grand Hotel
Das Wagons Lita, Paking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms Bewly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone,
Ten Dances:
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 5 to 7 pm. Hotel launch meets all stoamera.
THE HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, MAY 26, (1928.
GIRL GUIDES ON WAY TO CATHEDRAL.
Above dome of the Girl Guides are seen on their way to the Empire Day service at
St. John's Cathedral on Thursday. (Photo: Ming Yuen).
SWATOW RAILWAY
SMASH.
PEKING PROTEST TO JAPAN.
INDIA'S WORKING
CLASS.
4425 for thirty Tiffin Tickots can be had at the Office of the above
¿
Hotel.)
Tal. Add:-"Victoria,"
Telephone C. 378. J. HL WITCHELL,
Manager.
SECOND TO OCCUR WITHIN A WEEK.
(Continued from Page. 1.)
Leniency Asked.
LABOUR ENQUIRERS URGE "MIGHTY STEP,"
DISTINCTION
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LES MISERABLES
BOAWITA
METROPOLE-SAVOY-BOA VISTA
KOWLOON HOTEL
KOWLOON.
SPECIAL SUMMER RATES.
Daily from $ 5.00 Monthly from $125,00
Under the Personal Supervision and Attention of
Phone Nos.
K. 608 & K. 609.
MR. & MRS. II. J. WHITE. Cables KowLOTEL “ Hongkong,
PALACE HOTEL.
Tel Kowloon No. 8
Tel. Address "PALACE." Thres mlautes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Rallway Station. Matirely, ander English Management Electric Light and Fan throughout. very Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms. Darivalled Calsins under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Terme moderate. Spacial terms to 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
Arthur E. Odoll. Managing - Director.
LTD.
THE HOTEL RIVIERA
MACAO
Cable Address:-"Riviera, MACAO"
EMBODYING THE
LUXURIES OF MODERN HOTEL CONSTRUCTION
THE FINAL EXPRESSION OF COMFORT AND SERVICE
PASSENGERS INJURED.
Swatow, May 24.
Shanghai, May 25.
Admiral Yang Shu-chang has TRENCHANT CRITICS.
arrived in Nanking to persunde
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the Nanking leaders to abow leniency towards General Chen
beescorted to Shanghai.
London, May 25.
The urgency of taking a "mighty
The railway smash reported week ago has been followed by Chien and to effect his early re- another accident, not so fatal ileuse. As a result of conversa-step" to link up the British and its consequences, but sufficient to tions it has been decided to re-the Indian Trade Union move show, that the administration of quext General Li Chung-yen to the lines is distinctly unsatisfac-release Chen Chien, who will tory
When the evening train from Chrochowfu yesterday approached points the Swatow station, the were not adjusted and the train rab on to the goods siding, collid- ing with three wagons standing thdro,
Fortunately, the speed of the train was reduced for entering the atation, and the coaches did not, leave the line. Passengers were thrown about, and over ten of them were injured, but there Was no serious casualty. The contents of the goods waftons were sentiere/l over the line.
For some time has been known that the Administration has had great trouble with the railway Labour Unions, and this suggests that discipline on the line is break ing down. Our Own Correspon dent,
PROHIBITED AREAS.
WHERE HAWKERS MAY NOT CRY WARES.
Foreign Portfolio,
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Shanghai, May 25. The Nanking Government lias requested General Hwang Fu to reconsider his resignation Minister of Foreign Affairs but it is understood Hwang Fu replied definitely, that he had no intention of continuing, the portfolio.
FEELING IN SWATOW,
Schools Forbidden to Agitate. ·
Swatow, May 24.
ments, is stressed in a report which has been submitted to the Trade Union Congress by Messrs. Purcell and Hallaworth, who have recently returned from a tour of India.
The visit was carried out on behalf of the Labour Party and the Trades Union Congress.
The Labour tourists paint a very melancholy picture of the "diagustingly bad' housing condi- i |tions" in India, and state that the vast majority of the workera do not receive more than a shilling a day.
The Government has been deal- ing in wise fashion with this
The Indian workers are report- month of celebration, The memored to be "half-starved, badly rial days at the beginning of clothed, and horribly housed." the month were merged together. into one general holiday, which was, moreover, quietly kept.
There has been speculation as
The British representatives esti- mate that the total strength of the Indian Trade Unions is about
They described the ten planta-
plantation"
where "a human
to what would be done about the 200,000 compared with 25,000,000 May 31st memorial of the Shang-persons who are capable of organi- hal incident. A committee has antion.. been deliberating, and it is now announced that, the memorial on that day will be combined with tions at Assam as "virtually a slave a protest against the Japanese The Gazette notifies that the action at Tsinanfu. Even in that trinity" of husband, wife and child second Schedule to the régulations case no procession is announced, cannot bring in more than 1/3d. relating to hawkers' licences but the celebration will be com- per day.
The opinion is expressed that has been amended by the dele-fined to a meeting of representa
and tives of the varjous official and there are present in India tremen- tion of condition 13 the substitution therefor of the semi-official organisations at which dous forces which sooner or later appropriate speeches will be made.
following:
Hawkers are not permitted to use or utter cries or make other noises for the purposes of buying or selling their wares or of at tracting attention to their trade in the following roads, stects and
areas:
have how
The
will be applied to a great expan sion of manufacturing activity when the working class of Great
feel a severe shock and a very Britain, Europe and America will grant change-Reuter,
I am told that the schools been forbidden to agitate about the Japanese affair. It is ever, being deeply felt. Chamber of Commerce has order- ed a boycott to be arranged, and has sent a delegate to confer with the Shanghai Chamber. One gets forces are closing in on Tientsin. the impresion that the incident-Router." at Tsinanfu could have been pass-
ed over comparatively easily, but that the development of a strong
Shantung Defence.
City of Victoria:-(n). In Bon- ham, Caine and Upper Albert Ronds and the areas to the south thereof; (b) within an area bound. ed, on the north by the Harbour, on the south by Bonham, Caine and
Shanghai, May 25, Upper Albert Roads, on the cast policy by Japan in Manchuria will
According to the Kuomin. News by a line commencing at the June- I have wide reverberations, at pre- tion of Upper Albert Road and sent incalculable. It will at least. Agency Chiang Kai-shek 'conferred Garden Road and running through make the pursult of a moderate at Hauchow yesterday with his Garden Road, Queen's Road East policy by the present Govern-subordinates regarding measures and Arsenal Street to the Harbourment at Canton and Nanking of defence in Shantung, and the and on the west by a line com- more difficult. Our Own Corres distribution of fresh reinforce-
at the front.—Reuter. mencing in Caine Road running pondent. through Old Bailey, Cochrane
Tsingtao, May 25. |Street, Lyndhurst Terrace, Wél- General Yasumitsu, chief of the lington Street, Wyndham Street Japanese Third Division, has re- and Pedder Street to Blake Piar quested the northern Chinese troops and including the whole of the stationed at Tsingtao to withdraw roads and streets mentioned above; seven miles from, Tsingtao. No (e) Kennedy Road, Macdonnell time limit has been fixed for theported their arrival in Shinkisch- Road and Bowen Road; (d)Wan- evacuation.-Reuter.. chal Road" from Burrows Street to the junction with. Tin Lok Lane, Tin Lok Lane, Morrison Gay' Road and Leighton Hill Road.
Northern Advance Explained.
Peking, May 25. In the Hill District:-The whole
There is practically no develop- of the Hill District.
ment in the war altuation. It is Kowloon: The area to the believed that the front on the south of and including Austin Kinhan railway is still near Wang Road.
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?
The following are the replies to to-day's questions:-
1. The Institution of the Tord's Supper,
¡tu.
Shanghai, May 25, The Kuomin news agency reports that the fourth group army, con- sisting of the 17th, 30th, 36th, 43rd and 44th Nationalist armies, com- manded by Pei Chung-hs have re-
wang-Reuter.
A Plea for Cheng Chien. Shanghai, May 26, (6.25 p.m.). The Kuomin News Agency re- porls that as a result of Admiral Yang Shu-wang's plea for clemency for Cheng Chien, Vice-Admiral Chen Shao-kwan has gone to Hankow with a request from Northern claims of an advance Nanking to Li Teung-jen to permiti to Sangyuan are believed to be Cheng Chlen to go to Nanking to accounted for by the fact that they lay his case before the central occasionally send armoured trains authorities.-Reuter. southward from Tsangchow. It is believed that both sides are mass- ing troops near Hokien and that the next fight may occur there.-
The Frince of Wales. 3. Avun: Nend: Mer¡ Reuter. ser; Bevern, 4. A species of African antelope, standing about 4 high at the shoulder. 4. Temiriaine the Great; Dr. Habitus The Jew of Malta: dward 11. G. It was the Arst Elizabethan hirtorical drama. 7. Medal in- tuled la 1000, and awarded to persona of sitherax and any race, for public services 1s the Indian Empire. 8. It arparalo. 8.
Europe from Asia Minar, and in connected
Advance on Chahar.
Shanghal, May 25.
Another Conference.
Shanghai, May 25, -- Yang Shu-wang, according to the Kuomin News-Agency, has left for Hsuchow to confer with
Chiang Kai-shek regarding the Yen Hal-han has issued a com-despatch of the Nationalist squa unique in which he announces dron to the north-Reuter.
with the Back Hos by the Bosphorus and with the capture of Tatung and Sul- the Area Ben by the Dardanelles. The Treaty of Bevres, 1920, placed it under the yuan. He adds that the Shansi control of a commission to the Allied Powers. forces are advancing eastwards to
9. Mr. Gaskell; T. X. Lawrence; John Kentar
Sir Walter Bett. 10. A river of the lower world: when the souls of the dead drank of its waters they forget the events of their previous existence. 11. In this form of poem
the opening words, line, or two luen occur reftain after the eighth and the last
endings. The rander
Chahar.--Router,
Feng Closing Ink.
Shanghai, May 25.
The Viva-tonal Columbia
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THE
FRONTERSMAN
With
CLAIRE WINDSOR
Love, warfare and intrigue ia an exciting story'
of pioneer daya in the wilds.
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A Comedy of How to Make Love
THE BOY FRIEND
With
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