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HONGKONG
HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL. Telegraphle Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG,
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL;
MAJESTIC HOTEL
Telegraphic Address:
"CENTRAL, SHANGHAL"
HOTELS
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel Dog Wagons Lite, Poking. KING EDWARD HOTEL.
Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Booms newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Bods, Hot and Cold Water, also Telophone.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THREE YEARS FOR ROBBERY.
FOUR CHINESE SENTENCED AT THE SESSIONS.
GUILT ADMITTED. '
At the Criminal Sessions this morning, before the Chief Justice. (Sir Henry Gollan); Li Ching- kwong, Chan Chuen, Cheng Wau and Tam Ping-yuen pleniled "Guilty" to a robbery on June 30 and to stealing various articles, including $105. In money.
In sentencing the prisoners to three years' hard labour ench, his Lordship said: I have said very often in this Court that I regard these gang robberies
DS vory
serious indeed. In cases where any volonce Is used. I have always ordered the prisoners to be log-li
(826 for thirty, Tin Tiekots can be had at the Office of the ged, but in this case I don't pro-
bove Hotel)."
Tel. Add:-"Victoria."
Telephone C. 873
&
HOTELS OF
"
J. IL WITCHELL,
Manager.
DISTINCTION
pose to do so as they don't appear. to have used any violence. They. seem to have used much inspiration in planning this robbery and they carried it out very successfully. They seem to have given the police every assistance and I am going to take that fact into consideration as well as the fact that they have pleaded "Guilty."
Other Charges. In connexion with
the abere robbery Li Sum was charged with receiving stolen goods on June 30, including a watch, three jade magnifying glass, a pocket knife, and a singlet. There was a second count of being in unlawful possession of two revol vers and eight rounds of ammuni- tion.
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of a lume.
Bar and three Billiard Tables; two in New Billiard Saloon. Moderate Terms: families.specially catered for.
For terms apply to--
Hotel newly renovated,
Mr. J. II. Oxberry,
Proprietress.
KOWLOON HOTEL
KOWLOON.
SPECIAL SUMMER RATES.
Daily from $ 5.00 Monthly from $125.00
Under the Personal Supervision and Attention of
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BANGKOK COMMUNISTS Five Chinese have been arrested
in connexion with the affair!
The Polico have now arrested
POLICE.
Later,
The prisoner pleaded "Guilty"
MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1928.
FAMOUS 'STATESMAN DEAD.
Viscount Haldane of Cloan, whose death at the age of
72 in reported.
FAMOUS LIBERAL
STATESMAN.
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Labour, Ideas.
He took a incre leisurely interest
to both counts and was sentenced in the affairs of the day until
to three years' hard labour,
1924, when he entered Mr. Ram-
NEW PHILIPPINES CABINET.
FIRST COMPLETE BODY FOR SIX YEARS.
Manila, Aug. 15." Governor-General Stimson has
The first prisoner in the robbery Bay MacDonald's Ministry as, Lord "ppointed the following Cabinet
His recent for three years: case, Li Ching-kwang, altas Chan High Chancellor. Ham, pleaded "Guilty" to a charge specches in the House of Lords
Lence.
SHANGHAI STREET
BATTLE.
To a minar, extent Viscount
Honorio Ventura, Secretary of
Eugene A. Gilmore,
Secretary
Miguel Unson, Secretary of Fin-
of returning from banishment. suggested a tendency towards the the Interior.. The prisoner was banished for 10 Labour viewpoint. years, the order being dated No- vember 22, 1923, following a con-Haldane dabbled in the literary of Public Instruction. viction of 12 months' hard labour field, and he is most noted for his
transintion, with J. Kemp, of ance. for stealing.
Schopenhauer's Die Welt Als Wille
Jose Abad Santos, Secretary of His Lordship passed sentence of and Vorstellung (The World as
Justice. three years' imprisonment with Will and Idea). He also wrote
Filomon Perez, Secretary of hard labour, the sentence to run Essays in Philosophical Criticism concurrently with the robbery sen-(with Prof, Seth), the Life of Commerce and Communications.
and! Adam
Education Smith,
Refael Alunan, Secretary of Empire, 1902, the Pathway to Agriculture and Natural. Re- Reality 1903, The Relan of Resources.
Governor General Stimson im- lativity 1921, The Philosophy of Humanism 1922; and Human Ex-mediately informed the senate of perience: A. Study of Its Struc-his action and after a brief con- ference with Acting Senate Presi- Many Honours,
dent Sergio Osmena and Speaker The late peer was Rector of Manuel Roxas at Malacanan, the Edinburgh University from 1905 to senate mot in an executive session 1908, was made Knight of the to confirm the nominations made The the chief executive. Order of the Thistle in 1913, visit-by ad Canada and addressed a notable senate voted unanimously on the gathering of lawyers in that year, appointments, two of the Demo and delivered the Creighton lec-crata senators present at the ture in March, 1914, on "The Mean-executive session voicing, no pro- the two armed members of ing of Truth in History." He was test against the action of the Chinese gang of five rubbers were created O. M. in 1915, and was senate. trapped by the Municipal Police member of the Judicial Committee and were shot dead.
TWO ROBBERS KILLED BY POLICE.
Shanghai, Aug. 14.
A few minutes after they had robbed a house at 527 Alabaster Rond af cash and jewellery valued at nearly $600 yesterday morning,
Running up the road after raid the house at 8 am... yesterday,
ture, 1926.
of the Privy Council. His mother)
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That in brief, is the story of the
died after attaining the age of 100, formation of the Governor Gen- Viscount Haldane was a basheerai's cabinet which for the last the two men were followed by the lor. His two older brothers are six years since the cabinet crisis nephew of the tenant who informst Eving,
ed Chinese policemu on duty in
the vicinity of North Soochow
Road between Cheklang and U.S. SHIPPING BOARD Foklen Roads.
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LINES.
PLANS FOR SALE ISSUED.
in 1923 remained unfilled with the exception of that of the interior which was shortly after the re- signation of the department secre- taries, filled by Felipe Agon eflo and later by Honorio Ventura, formerly chief of the executive bureau, and present Incumbent in the department,
TOM NEENEY SPRINGS A SURPRISE.
MARRIAGE TO RETIRED- MERCHANT'S DAUGHTER.
The robbers perceived the nephew's intention and fired two hots at him, Immediately the Chinere "olicemen closed in on the robbers from both directions and
Washington, Aug. 14. shot them dend. A stiff, battle
The Shipping Board, to-day ap- would undoubtedly have ensued had not the pistol of the leading proved the farm of advertisemente robber jammed after he had red and contracts for the proposed zale of the United States and the After the robbers had collected American Merchant lines. their booty, the nephew slipped Under Bio specificatlong set forta out, followed the two armed men in the advertisements, there are and informed the Police.
ten plans under which contracts Caught in North Soochow Road, may be offered.
London, Aug. 4. the two armed men attempted to Prospective purchasers may bid!
'Tom Heeney has sprung a sur- fight but as they were trappel on the basis of either a five or al
prize on the boxing fraternity by they were soon killed. A Chinese ten year operation. sergeant shot one dead instantly,Twenty-five par cent. of the pur secretly marrying Miss Marion but the other man, wounded in chase price must be paid at the the legs, fell to the ground and time of the delivery of the ship continued firing until the sergeant and the balance in 15 equal annual got him.
payments,
The bids are to be opened on About $200 of the booty was found on the bodies of the slain November 5.
men.
BYRD'S
ANTARCTIC
EXPEDITION.
MAY COST A MILLION DOLLARS.
GUNMEN ROUNDED UP BYeight Chinese, including the gun-
New York, Aug. 15. man who shot a police lieutenant Commander Byrd's Antarctic ox- and a constable, and are search-pedition, which will start from
·Bangkok, Aug. 13, ng for others.
here next week, will be the most Some of the arrested men admit- stupendous expedition In the bis- This morning the police attempt ted that twenty gunmen were sent tory of exploration. The project ed to arrest a Chinese who was from Nanking to foster a boycott. may cost $1,000,000. charged with shooting a Chinese They claimed to have enlisted 100 doctor. The man opened fire, hit-local assistants. The men belong ting a lieutenant and a constable. to the "Blood and Iron" Society,
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3. Wyndham Street, In the City of Victorin Hongkong.
The largest Itom is $90,000 for the salaries for two years of 20 solontists who are accompanying the expedition. The two ships Cost $74,000, and two of the four aeroplanes cost $70,000, Two of the aeroplanes were donated.
Dunn, the daughter of a retirel merchant, The couple suddenly arrived at the house of a Justice of the Peace at Ladentown, New York and asked him to perform he ceremony.
A CHANNEL SWIMMER.
Our picture shows Mias Ivy Hawkes, the 19-year-old English girl, who swam the Channel yesterday, being the first to do so this year. The photograph was taken during, one of her previous ani unsuccessful attemple.
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