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AND
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HOTELS.
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In association with the Grand Hotel- Dea Wagona Lits, Peking,
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooma `newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Mater, also Telephone.
Hotel.).
Tea Dances:
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 5 to 7 pm. Hotel launch meets all steamers.
6828 for thirty Tidin Tickets can be bad at the Office of the above
Telephone C. 878 J. H. WITCHELL,
Manager.
Tel. Add Victoris."
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
U. S. REPUBLICAN PROGRAMME.
(Continued from Pags 1.)
should draft for defence not only citizens but every resource which may contribute to success:
TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1929...
RECENT JUNK DISASTER.
NANKING POLICY CRITICISED.
(Continued from Page 'I.) NOT CAUSED BY THE SS.
".. SUI TAL
will surrender Manchuria to the With reference to the "roport Nationalist Govefament without published in those columns on much more ado, and it is sug Thursday last, of the foundering gested that the civil governor of of an oil-laden junk off Praya Mukden has declared this willing- West, with the result that the near to negotiate with the Nation- lives of two children were lost, further investigations have now been made, it is understood.
alists,
Will Not Meddlo. Regarding home rule, the plat- form said that the party never has and never will support efforts con
It is further stated that Yên tinually made to have the federal
Hsi-shan has aent two delegates government move into the field of state activities. This, the effort to The original report made by the to Mukden to interview tieneral
federal have the
government junk master was the basis of the Chang Heueh-linng and General Yang Yu-ting, chiof-of-staff of the extend its field, was deplored as news item given and in this it was Fengtien Armies, with the object weakening the Bonae of initiative stated that the capsizing was due and creating a feeling of depen- to the wash of the s.a. Shut Talof coming to terms with the Feng- names has tien leaders and to persuade them denco unhealthy and unfortunate Some confusion of for the whole body politic. arisen, but it is now established to submit to the Nationalist Gov
"There is a real need in the through polleo enquiries that it is ment country to-day for restoring the possible, under the circumstances, individual local sense of respon-that the s.s. Sui Tai, of the Hong- sibility and for the people to kong Canton and Macao Steam- realize that they are expected to boat Company, could have been municipal and state governments "The speed of vessels leaving solve problems themselves through the vessel referred to. and to combat the tendency, all too common, to turn to the federal government as the easiest and
least burdensome method of lightening their responsibilities," the platform said.
Yen Hai-shan Tired.
Peking, June 18. Marahal Yen Hal-ahan bas tele- graphed to Nanking asking for three days' leave as he is tired harbour, the course steered and the mentally and physically, Feng distance eff, approximately 600 Yu-hsiang has wired Yen Hsi-ahan yards, exonerates the s.s. Sul Tal. stating that ho is waiting at Tao- A suggestion has been made thatkow, north Honan, for Chiang Kai-shek whereupon they will both the junk was overladen and, being
Fonglion Tupan.
top heavy, healed over for some come to Peking-Reuter.. reason not yet explained, thus Philippine Question Ignored. Despite efforts by the Philippine causing the disaster. delegation and by the Filipino In any event, no blame attaches proponents of independence to tn, the master of the 8.8. Sui Tal obtain the insertion in the Re- (Captain Matthews) whose careful publican "platform of planks bear-navigation and freedom from ing upon the future of the Phillp-accident is noteworthy in the river pines, the platform committee steamship service. Tailed to take action dealing with the Islands.
Chairman Smoot sald the com- mittee believed that reference to the status of the Philippines was. untimely, and that therefore, it had declined to make a campaign issue of the Islands.
YANGTSZE STEAMER
OUTRAGES.
TWO MORE BRITISH SHIPS FIRED ON.
The decision of the resolutions commitice to ignore all references
Hankow, June 18. to the Philippine question follow- ed the failure of the committee to
The Butterfield and Swire 8.3. reach any compromise between the Kintang has again had to run the proposals advanced by the Philip-gauntlet of fire from the shore, pine delegates to the convention her mastor reporting to-day that and those proposed by the Philip-bandits in the vicinity of Wushan pine independence workers.
The Agricultural Issue.
opened are on the ship without effect.
Mukden, June 18, Chang Hsuch-liang has been appointed Tupan of Fengtion in succession to his father, Chang Tso-lin.-Reuter
Northerners Disarmed.
Paking, June 18. According to a message from Chinwangtao the Japanese troops at Shanhaikuan have disarmed a number of Northerners passing through for Mukden.-Reuter.
BIG NEW CIVIL HOSPITAL.
(Continued from Page 1.)
This dispensary, we understand, will be for the use of the whole Colony and not merely for hospital The armed guard replied to the patients. It will probably take the fire,, but the result of the ex-place of the dispensary at present
situated in Beaconsfield Arcade. change is unknown.
In the face of a ringing chal- lenge from the farm bloc, the Convention rejected the minority
This is the third time the as. report on the agricultural plank and adopted a party platform Kintang has been fired on in the which pledged every possible aid course of a few days. The first to agriculture but which contain-occasion was reported last week ed no reference to the equaliza- while the steamer was making her tion fee to which the administra- way to Ichang. Yesterday while tion objected.
steaming past Anping further shooting occurred.
The platform, as finally adopted, pledges the party to give every assistance in the rearganization
The offences at Anping con- tinue unchecked. Another Naval of the farmers marketing ma- wireless message to-day discloses chinery.
4 federal
that the, s.s. Shukwang has been
answered.
The new hospital building itself will be of eight storeys, each separate floor being more or less self-contained and effectively laid out." The ground floor, front part, will contain offices and consulting rooms, sewing and linen rooms, kitchens, stores and a room for University students.
It proposes the enactment of attacked at Anping. She also car-doors will accommodate ward legislation creating board clothed with the power to ries an armed guard but it is third-class wards, ed corporations or associations to set up farmer owned and controll-ot known whether the fire was having 16 beds. stabilize the agricultural Industry by preventing and controlling sur- plus crops through orderly dis- tribution.
Twice Vetoed Bill.
But it very deliberately ignores mention of the controverted equalization fee or of the McNary- Haugen bills, which President Coolidge twice vetoed,
TWO EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGES.
a
The Various Floors. The rear part of the other sever three oach The front part of the first floor will consist of the X-ray Department and accommo- dation for Chinese medical officera The front part of the second floor, will have two first-class wards, tho third floor front will be for boya and girls, four and fifth floore front paris will contain first and The front second class wards. part of the sixth floor will bo occupied by first and second class maternity wards and the seventh floor by operating suites.
All the floors will also, contain waiting rooms, duty moms, bath- rooms and hospital kitchens.
CHINESE GRANTED BAIL of $2,000, Chan Kwong-wa, 30, a native of While the farm interests de- Swntow, who was arrested on manded that the party come out warrant, appeared before Major C. with a declaration in favour of the Willson, at the Central Police oralization fee, the administra-Court, this morning, on a charge
Lifts are also to be fitted. tion vigorously opposed this, of embezzlement in amounts of elaiming that to do so would be a $455.20 and $197.65. The monies These will be available to all floors belonged to the Swatow Drawn for the purpose of sending food or slap at President Coolidge for his Work Company, of, Pedder Street, other requirements to any part of veloes of the McNary-Haugen and the offences were said to have the hospital. Some of the second- measures.
been committed towards the end of class wards have two beds in coch the fight on
conven- The
last year.
and some four, while all frat-class Noor
the farin tion
over
The accused, who is otherwise wards will have one bed in each. plank led to the greatest de
Operating Theatres. monstration since the opening of known as "Knight W. Chan" and the conclave, Interrupting the suc- "K. William Chan," was formally cession of its own speakers as they remanded for a week on a police
militant notice that the application.
gave
.
farmers were aroused over the Mc-. Bail was granted in the amount Nary-Kaugen bill, the anti-Iioover of $2,000 to be made up in two coalition delegates, centreing equal bonds, half in cash and the around Lowden, carried away con- other in personal surety. vention decorum with a ten-minute demonstration in defiance of the chairman's gavel, while the farm group in the gallery acted as cheer leaders.
Order Restored.
SOME RAIN EXPECTED.
โส The top floor, which entirely surgical, will consist two suites of operating of
will theatres, four altogether, with subsidiary rooms which be used for treating patients both Immediately before and after Loperations..
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The new hospital will accom- modate 480 patients as against the present normal capacity of 200. This will naturally require The Royal Observatory reports an increase of staff to something Order was restored again only that pressure is highest to the like 160 nurses and sisters when Chairman Mosca told the de-East of Tokyo. Depressions are against 50 at the present time. monstrators that more speech mal central aver North Chinu and over
Modification of minor details. ing against the proposed adminis Tongking.
may be effected before the scheme tration plank was to come,
The forecast till noon to-morrow is actually put into effect, but the Afor a relay of speakers had de- fended the majority report, Earlis: East or variable winda, mo- main idea will remain unaltered. Smith, of Illinois, started the argu-derate; generally cloudy some As yet no information is avail- abel as to when the work is likely ments in favour of the equalization rain,
to be commenced. fee. He told the convention that if
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it expected the support of the Re- the Middle publican farmers in West, the time had come to aban don generalities.
Frank W. Murphy, of Min nesota, who worked in Washington for the McNary-Haugen
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?
The following are the replies to bill, to-day's questions:-
warned the delegates that "you can. 7. Peter Pan. 2. The Gutenberg Bible. &
William Williams, eighty-three, who was buried at Penarth re- contly, reckoned to have smoked over 300,000 cigars in his life, and claimed to be the biggest cigar Wildelete or his at 4. A movement de smoker in the kingdom. He was not fill the farmer anymore with signed to aid the emigraties of the right type known as the "Cigar King." platform pledges," while others, in-of Brish bey to Australia by putting the cluding Governor McMullen, of minds of purTAIN at ease about their buys. Each boy emigrant has saigned to him "biz brother in Australia, who meets him on at Nebraska, not only asked for a "real farm plank," but advocated rival and helps bing, le various ways, one of the best-known hotels on notoriosa alum aros in Buenos Aires. 8. The the banks of the Thames, is to be the selection of a mid-Western trial of Warren Hastings, 7. Augnat 16, 1819, candidate for President.
In the voting on the minority farm plank report, the Philippines and Hawali sided with the admin its two votes against the report. latration, each delegation casting
The Mitre, at Hampton Court,
in St. Peter's Flid (the site of the pre sold by auction at The Mart, E.C., Free Trade Hall), Manchester. 8. Brana on July 4, For seventy years it Hail, Cheshire. P. le la forty days after
ster Bundar. 10. That of Bir John has been in the hands of the Sadler d'Aberaun 1877, in Bloka d'Abces Church, family, the last surviving member Barrey, 11 Is the mountainous regions of by dredging, or in other ways." Atrials., 15., Okbaising soal from canal of which, Mr. Thos. Sadler, kied
a few weeks ago.
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