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THE
HONGKONG
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL, Telegraphie Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL
Telographic Address:
"CENTRAL SHANGHAL”
HOTELS
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel Des Wagons Lita, Feking.
KING EDWARD. HOTEL
Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms awly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Fator, also Telephone:
TEA DANCES:
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 6 to 7 p.m. Hotel launch meets all steamers.
ESCAPES CHARGE OF MURDER.
NO EVIDENCE OF CAUSE OF DEATH.
MONDAY, JULY 30, 1928.
U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.
THE SMITH NOMINATION
CEREMONY.
HONGKONG LAUNCH
MISSING,
DISAPPEARS WITH TWO JUNKS.
FEARS OF PIRACY.
Albany, July 24. Governor Alfred Smith will be THE PERLAK AFFRAY. officially notified of his nomination as the Democratic presidential can- Owing to serious difficulties oc- didate on the evening of August 22.
The mysterious disappearance of casioned by lack of evidence of the The ceremony will be held on thea Hongkong launch, which loft cause of death the charge of mur- east steps of the State capital. It Hongkong last week for a short der against the assistant cook of the will be broadcast nationwide by trip and has failed to return, is A.P.C. 8.a. Perink was withdrawn New York radio stations. It will causing uneasiness to the owners. before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the start at seven o'clock, Eastern day- the Central Magistracy this morn-light time, and is expected to last ing and defendant was discharged, for half an hour,
The case for the Crown Governor Smith said to-day that was That defendant attack he had not started yet to draft his Cook with # knife, speech of acceptance, but, that he causing injuries of such a serious will touch upon all of the campaign nature that he had to be taken issues. Among these lasuce ashore at Manila. The cook died a prohibition and farm relief. fois days later and defendant was handed over to the Hongkong police by the Manila authorities.
tho
This morning Mr. Somerset. Fit- zroy, in asking for charge to
($25 for thirty Timin Tleketa can be had at the Office of the be withdrawn, said that erinus di
above Hotel).
Tel. Add:-"Victoria."
Telephone C. 878
HOTELS OF
J. H. WITCHELL
Manager.
DISTINCTION
METROPOLE-SAVOY-BOA VİSTA
PALACE HOTEL.
Tol. Address "PALACE." Tel. Kowloon No. 8
Three minatos from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. Entirely under English Management Electric Light and Fans throughout. Buy Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billard Rooms Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Terms moderate. Special terms to familles on application to:
Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietress.
· KOWLOON HOTEL
KOWLOON.
SPECIAL SUMMER RATES.
Datly from $5.00 Monthly from $125.00
Under the Personal Supervision and Attention of MR. & MRS. H'J. WHITE.. Cables KowLOTEL" Hongkong.
Phone Nos.
K 608 & K. 609.
EUROPE
After-dinner dancing every
Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
Cables
"EUROPE
Singapore.
HOTEL
SINGAPORE,
Grill
THE EUROPE HOTEL LTD.
Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Director.
THE HOTEL RIVIERA
MACAO
Cable Address:—“RIVIERA, MACAO"
EMBODYING THE LUXURIES OF MODERN HOTEL CONSTRUCTION
THE FINAL EXPRESSION
OF COMFORT AND· SERVICE
ficulties had been encountered. There appeared to be no evidence of an autopsy and it was difficult to see how such evidence could be obtained. No one on the ship had seen the cook from the time he was taken off the ship.
His Worship Accordingly dis- charged the defendant.
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U.S.A. AND TREATY REVISION.
(Continued from Page 1.)
Threat to Changsha. ·
A Changsha message states that about 10,000 men, consisting of Communists, bandits and revolting troops, have made a successful at- tack on Linklang and that they
STOLEN JACKET.
MAN WHO CLIMBED RAIN-PIPE.
are
According to one statement, the steam-launch Ping Po loft her on i the 24th instant under charter to the Kung On Company, of Bonham Strand, to tow two rico Junks to the Customs Station at Taishan.
have The trip should not occupied more than two days, but the at the end of that poriad launch had not turned up, ofther at Taishan or in Hongkong.
WAS
There are fears that the launch, together with the junks it towing, has been pirated. The owner has reported the matter to the police, giving a description of the missing launch, which is valued at $10,000,
Early this morning, A Chinese was seen by a constable to climb. up a rain-pipe outside No. 559, Nathan Road, Kowloon, and to tako JAPAN TAKES UP FIRM
a jacket from the first floor veran- dah. On descending again he was Immediately seized by the con- stable and later brought before Mr. W. Schofield on a charge of larceny.
STAND.
(Continued from Page 1.)
Practical Results.
Turning to the practical effects
The defendant pleaded guilty, but denied that, he had been con- victed of larceny three years ago. of the abrogation of the treaty His Worship remanded the de- upon Japanese rights and intercala fendant until to-morrow morning in China, the Japanese Minister for the finger-print expert to prove anid; the previous conviction.
are now advancing on Changsha FATAL MOTOR HISHAP pinquity of the neighbour nations,
They are understood to be about 30 miles from the latter place.
According to reports from Nua- king. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has left there for Shanghai,
"Commercial transactions of the peoples of both countries are not only frequently made by land and sea owing to the geographical pro-
but a great number of Japanese, some 200,000 in total, are engaged, in various businesses in Chinn. Just imagine the dimcult position of these Japanese who may be de- An old boatman, 70 years of age, prived of extraterritorial rights died at the Government Civil Hospi-and other privileges by virtue of tal yesterday, shortly after admis- the treaty without any
AGED CHINESE BOATMAN KILLED,
measures.
proper
News from the North shows that Shantung troops remain on the Lan Rives under the command of General Chang. Their trench syssion, from injuries received through negotiations to revise or renew the tom has been strengthened in the being knocked down by a public car treaty by means of reciprocal last few weeks and the defences
on the western water-front. are now occupied. The Fenglien. forces in the vicinity of Chiniang- tno are believed to number about 21,000. No further trouble has arisen in the Tongshan mining district, where everything is quiet. Four Nationalist Army Corps have left Peking for Lutien Hsieh, which is about 60 miles erit of Peking, This concentration threatens Lutal and Lanchow.
The situation at Chefoe is quiet but obscure following the sudden The coup by Fang Yung-doang. elty is under the Northern Bag for the moment,
From Chinkiang It is reported that the Asiatic Petroleum Com- pany officials have expressed a wish to reoccupy their premises from the end of July..
Chefoo Insurrection.
"It appears that he was walking "We must of course succumb to along the road, when, at a point reasons, although we may suffer a near the Tathing Wharf, he was heavy loss, but we must fight out 362 and was fatally injured. In of the Nationalist Government knocked down by public-car No. the present unreasonable attitude: trying to avert the accident, the which is scheming to rid tho driver of the car ran inon taxi, No. Japanese of proper rights huly 65, which was considerably dam- provided in the treaty. aged as a result.
The driver of the car has been detained by the police.
REDS' CLUB DE LUXE.
POOR SEAMEN'S £32,000 BUILDING.
เ
"According to Article 26 of the treaty, provisions that should be revised are those of the custome tariff rates and commercial affairs, while the Japanese Government has shown a friendly attitude to- ward China for the revision of articles other than those mention- od in Art. 26, in view of the special relations between Japan and China,
Unfriendly Attitude.
"Since
Sydney, July 6. Sydney's recently established In-
the completion of the The Fenglien Delegation, Inter-ternational Seamen's Club, the unity of China by the Nationalists, viewed in Peking, stated that the avowedly Communistic organi avalled myself of every opport insurrection of Northern forces tion, has purchased pretentious under General Chang Chung-chang premises at a corner sits in the city in Chefoa is the result of indepen- in the vicinity of the town hall for dent action by Chang without the slightest knowledge or approval of the Fengtien Government.
It is reliably reported from Peking that the combined forces of General Chu Yu-pu and General Chang Chung-chang within the Great Wall is estimated to be 50,000 to 60,000 men, while that of General Sun Chuan-fang is about 10,000..
Demobilisation,
Shanghai, July 29. Marshal Yen Hel-shan Jina announced his intention to disband 80,000 troops of the Shanai Army, the Third Nationalist Army Corp. The demobilisation will be carried out in three stages all within the next 40 days.
£32,000.
By changing the name of the institution to the Marine Transport Workers' Club the organisers hope to include in its members all classes of maritime labour..
lunily for the interpretation of Japan's friendly attitude toward China for treaty revision, declar ing to enter at any time into negotiations for that purpose. Furthermore, I made it clear that the Japanese Government will not oppose China's restoration of tariff autonomy on condition that there Expensive alterations are already should be concluded a reciprocal in progress. The basement will be tariff pact between Japan and devoted to bathrooms, the ground China and that Japan will be floor to a cafeteria, the first floor rendy to consider the abrogation to club rooms, offices, a library, of the extraterritorial rights in and a lecture hall, and the second purauance of reports of the Ex- and third floors to residential ac-trality Commission in a friendly commodation with beds at 103. 4
spirit. At this juncture, we can- week.
not but express our sense of regret Special accommodation will be stating that the present attiude of the Nanking Government is not provided for women.
only illegal but unfriendly in con- alderation of the fact that the Japanese Government cannot find the slightest idea of friendship expressed in the Nanking note.
Source of Money,
.
As the majority of the club's present members are apparently im- The disbandment is in accord-poverished seamen the public are anco with the Nanking Govern wondering how the project is being ment's scheme for general dis-financed. armament.
Giving evidence recently before a A largo detachment of troops of Royal Commission in Sydney con- the 44th Nationalist Army, which cerning another matter, Mr. Bulley, was ordered to be disbanded by president of the powerful Austra General Ll Chung-yen, has arrived lan Workers' Union, declared that is null and void.
in Hunan,' It is understood that Russian money was entering before their dispersal," each of the Australia. officers received one month's pay, and the "Other Ranks" compensa- tion of $30.
A Chinese case of typhoid from the New Territories was notified over the week-end.
"However," further continued! Mr. Yoshizawa, "we cannot enter into negotiations for the conclu- sion of the now treaty under the misconception that the present, Sino-Japanese Commercial Treaty
The Japanese Government will nover spare itself in fighting the present struggle, while we cannot rest assured that, there will not occur any deplorable affairs in Movements of Leaders,
consequence of the Illegal practice of the abrogation of the treaty by Peking, July 21.
the Nanking Government in de-. After a week of, conflicting
fiance of international faith. I'am reports about the leaders' move Comdr. J. B. Newill, D.S.O., R.N., not, however, in a position to de ments, (and some alarmist rumours has returned to duty after his in-claro at present any practical of their cancelling the trip and the disposition and resumed his seat measures to be taken in that un- reasons therefor) Yon Hal-shan,In the Marine Court this morning. happy occasion, though I am pre-
LI Chat-sum and LI Chung-yen all left Peking last night for Nanking. ~Reuter,*
pared for the worst occasion."
Mr. Yoshizawa concluded saying
The charge against the Tal that the Japanese in China as well
A naval wireless message says Tung native distillery for not as in Japan should behave them- that Chiang Kai-shek has reach-keeping a correct account of mol-selves carefully to overcome the ed Chenglin on the Yangisze.
Mr. Boong Also Leaves, '
Tientsin, July 29.
T. V. Soong left for Nanking on board the Hain Ming last night
Printed and Published-for the Propzistors by ALVEM MORLEY,Reuter.
at 1 and 8, Wandkam Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong.
lases in fermentation was dis- confronting national crisis, and missed by Mr. R. E. Lindsell this that the Japanese Government can morning, after Mr. J. D. Lloyd never overlook the unreasonable DEOsccuting and Mr. M. K. Lo, for move of the Nanking Government the defence, had made their respec-established de facto, though not tive statements on the expert recognized as the de jure regime evidence,"
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