THE
HONGKONG
HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL.
Telegraphle, Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.."
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; "PALACE HOTEL;
MAJESTIC HOTEL,
Telographic. Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAI."
HOTELS
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel
"Des Wagons Lits, Peking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Cotony, all Bed Rooms newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone.
TEA DANCES:
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 5 to 7 p.m.
Hotel launch meets all steamers,
($25 for thirty Tiffin Ticketa can be lind at the Office of the
abovu Hole!).
Tel. Add: "Victoria.".
Telephone C, 879
HOTELS OF
J. H. WITCHELL
Manager."
DISTINCTION
THE HONGKONG `` TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY, JULY
13,
1928.
WOMAN FLIES THE ATLANTIC."
ANOTHER “SORREL and SON"!
BELLE BENNET
VICTOR MCLAGLEN
NEIL HAMILTON TED MCNAMARA
..AN
APPEALING STORY BASED ON THE WORDS OF THE FAMOUS BALLAD!
A Tale of Smiling
Irish Eyes and
of Aching Irish
Hearts!
A John Ford Production.
METROPOLE-SAVOY-BOA VISTA
Tel, Kowloon No. 8
PALACE
HOTEL:
Tel. Address "PALACE." Three minutes fram Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. Entirely under English Management. Electric Light and Fans throughout, Billiard-Rooms. Every Room with Private Bath, Lounge, liar and Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress, Terms inderate. Special terms to families on application to:
Mrs. J, H. OXBERRY, Proprietress.
KOWLOON
HOTEL
KOWLOON.
SPECIAL SUMMER RATES.
Daily from $5.00 Monthly from $125.00
Under the Persona! Supervision and Attention of
Phone Nos.
K. 008 & K. 609.
MR. & MRS. H. J. WHITE.
Cables KowLOTEL "
Hongkong.
EUROPE
After-dinner dancing every
Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
Cables:-
"EUROPE
Miss Amelia Earhart, the Atlantic flying kirl and her companions, Wilmer Stultz, and Gordon, have triumphed. The Atlantic seaplane Friendship; from Newfoundland came down in Burry Estuary off Burry Port, four miles West of Llanelly, South Wales.
the "Friendship" in the harbour at Bury Port.
SHANGHAI'S BRIEF
TORNADO.
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and, up to midnight last night, no reports of damage or loss of lives had been reported.
German Beat Drugs Anchors,
It was difficult last night to as- certain precisely what happened of the river during the "Ifteen minates cyclone" but it was stated. that an oceah going steamer thought to be, dying the German flag was blown of her course and, dragging her anchors touched the bank but immediately sheered off und proceeded on her way,,
Another smaller steamer was said to have been blown on the bank but got off without apparent
Photo shows
This shows Miss Earhart on arrival at Southampton. Mr.
Wilmur Stullz is seen on her right.
damage. The whole thing hp A GEOGRAPHICAL FOR GOVERNORS ON
el so suddenly and those in thei vicinity were taken so much by aurprise that what ever happened had been righted,before they
CONGRESS.
AT CAMBRIDGE.
were able properly to realize the WORLD MAP-MAKERS TO MEET situation. Trees were uprooted on the Pootung side and the roofs of some smaller dwellings and fac- tories were blown off.
Taken by Surprise.
One unusual phase of the occur-
RETIRED LIST.
BILL TO INCREASE LIMIT OF PENSIONS.
2.
DELEGATES HONOURED PRESENT INADEQUACY.
Londen, July 12. London, July 12,
The House of Lords to-day dis- rence was that the native boatmen Lending geographers from forty- were taken entirely by surprise seven countries are attending the cussed at some lengil the question and their craft blown hither, and Congress next week at Cambridge, of the inadequacy of pensions thither before they were able to held under auspices of the Tater: granted to Colonial Governors.
Lord Elibank and Lord Olivier Cope with the cyclane. Usually, as national Geographical Union.
addressed the House, strongly urg.
is well known, the seasoned native Singapore.
HOTEL
SINGAPORE.
Grill
THE EUROPE HOTEL LTD.
Arthur E. Odoll, Managing Director.
THE HOTEL RIVIERA
MACAO
Cable Address:-" RIVIERA, MACÃO”
EMBODYING THE
LUXURIES OF MODERN HOTEL CONSTRUCTION
THE FINAL EXPRESSION OE COMFORT AND SERVICE
Printed and Published for the Proprictors by ALFRED MORLEY, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong,
Many delegates are being, re-ing the need for increases, and waterside folk seem to be imbuedceived by the King at Buckingham stressing the inadequacy of the with uncanny foresight in the case Palace this week, and among other present scale.
con-
of approaching bad weather and events of the visit are a reception Lord Lovat, in reply, said that their raft invariably are safely by the Royal Geographical Society, the Government had long been berthed when a storm breaks but another by the Lord Mayor at the impressed by the necessity for re- such was not the ease yesterday. Guildhall, which the Prince of vision, and pointed out that a Apart, however, from duckings Wales will attend, and a banquet committee appointed to investigate and much scurrying and shouting at Cambridge over which the the position, presided over by Lord the Chinese seafarers managed to Foreign Secretary will preside. Buxion, had already made recom- handle their craft without loss of We or damage and while
A particularly interesting fea-mendations, which would sooner templating further farties to com-ture of the Congress will be the or later he embodied in a Bill to bat the high wind. the latter examination of sections of a new be presented to Parliament.
The B would he introduced na reased as quickly as it arose.world map, upon which experts
have been engaged for many years. Boon N. C. Daily News.
1028. Wireless has played an impor- tant part in its completion. Fifty the raising of the limit of pension
we observatories scattered over
£2,000 of £1,300 annually to the face of the globe and repre- senting thirty nations have taken annually. The Bill would be re- part in the task of verifying the rospective only in the case
Governors at present serving.- world's longitudes and in re-deter- Reuter. mining the configurations of seas and continents.
COLLAPSE OF THEATRE
ROOF.
WORKMEN KILLED IN ITALIAN DISASTER.
Rome, July 12,
Principal stations for several weeks were exchanging radio tele-
A message from Cuneo, in the graphic signals at the rate Principality of Piedmont, states thirty each day.
of
as possible, though not in
One of the recommendations was
OPIUM POSSESSION.
AVAIL.
that the bodies, of three workmen Another factor in checking the THE USUAL, EXCUSE OF NO have so far been recovered follow-world map has been the applica- ing the collapse of the vaulted roof of a theatre under construction.
There are others beneath the ruins, and several have already been admitted to hospital, where have been visited by the Queen.
One sufferer dled while she was at his bedside.-Reuter.
they
DUKE OF GLOUCESTER SETS NEW FASHION.
of
tion of air-photography to Org
Charged with the possession of dnance Survey purposes.
30 taels of illicit oplum, a Chinese, Representatives of survey de who aid he arrived here on the partments of the British Colonies ss. Chun On, was fined $6,000, or areix months' hard labour, by Mr. R. and Mandated Territories already in London and have been E. Ländsell this morning. Dofen- conferring ou methods of map dant gave the usual story of his naking as well na administrative having been hired by acolher man matters, and several of them are to bring the narcotics into tho
to Cambridge for next week's Colony."
congress-British Wireless."
FABLESUBURAN BARABARABRE
RIDES UNDER JOCKEY CLUB TYPHOON LATEST.
RULES AT SALISBURY,
Landon, July 12. The Duke of Gloucester, the King's third son, made the first op- pearance of any member of the Royal Family in n. rsec under Jockey Club rules, at Sallabury to- day, when he rode in the Selling Plate at the Bibury Club meeting. There were nine runners and the Duke riding a good race finished third. Ilis horse started at 20/1 ugainst.-British Wireless.
At two o'clock this after- noon, the typhoon was, ap- proaching the Pratas, and the Director of the Royal Observa- fory staten that if it keeps on the present track, it will pass dangerously near to Hongkong sometime in the forenoon,
There is no indication that .. it will alter its track.
A fine of $75, or three months, was inflicted in another case where a man was convicted for the pos- session
Wuchow of 10 taels of
A copy of "Vanity Fair" presen- ted by Thackeray to his doctor was sold at Hodgson's, Chancery-June;' for £680,
Sir Eric Hambro, at the annual meeting of the Royal National Pension Fund for Nurses, said no-i Luary's reports slated nurses had maintained the reputation of he ing subject to phenomenally light mortality.
MOTHER MACHREE
AT THE
QUEEN'S
TO-DAY AND
TO-MORROW
· Ususi Timan and Pricis,'
A GREAT STAR IN A THRILLING
DRAMA OF LIFE "BEHIND THE SCENES"!—
DONASITVE
Norma Shearer
AMONTA
BELL
UPSTAGE
*Better than “His Secretary"!
AT THE PRODUCTION
WORLD
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW Orchestra 3.15 0.20 p.m. Interpretar 2.50 @ 7,15 p.m.
THE ROMANCE OF A “GOLD-DIGGER”
•
A GORGEOUSLY. foward
film of hearts and diamonds,
of love versus luxury's lure!
PAULINE STARKE OWEN MOORE LIONEL BARRYMORE
ia
WOMEN LOVE DIAMONDS
Metro Goldwyn Mayer fict
AT THE
STAR
TO-DAY- AND TO-MORROW Continuous 2.30 to 11.15.