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THE
HONGKONG
HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HÓTEL. Telographic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL;
MAJESTIC HOTEL.
Telographle Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL"
HOTELS
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel,
Dos Wagons Lite, Peking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Wator, also Telephone.
TEA DANCES:
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 5 to 7 p.m.
Hotel launch mests all ateamers,
($25 for thirty Tiffin Tickets can be had at the Office of the
above Hotel).
Tel. Add: "Victorin."
Telephono C. 378
HOTELS OF
J. II. WITCHELL,
Manager.
DISTINCTION
METROPOLE-SAVOY-BOA VISTA
PALACE
Tol, Kowloon No. 3,
HOTEL.
Tel. Address: "Palace."
UNDER ENTIRELY EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT.
A first-class Residential and Tourist Hotel with all the conveniences
of a Home,
Bar and three Billiard Tabies; two in New Billlard Saloon. Moderate Terms: families specially catered for.
For terms apply to:-
Hotel newly renovated.
KOWLOON
Mrs. J. II. Oxberry,
Proprietress.
HOTEL
KOWLOON.
SPECIAL SUMMER RATES.
Dally from $ 5.00
Monthly from $125.00
Under the Personal Supervision and Attention of
MR. & MRS. H. J. WHITE.
Phone Nos.
K. 008 & K. 609.
Cables "KoWLOTEL
"
Hongkong.
EUROPE
After-dinner dancing every
Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
Cables:-
** EUROPE
Singapore.
HOTEL
SINGAPORE.
Grill
THE EUROPE HOTEL LTD.
Arthur E. Odell, Managing Director,
Courtesy, Comfort, Service and Luxuries of Modern Hotel
Construction
THE HOTEL RIVIERA,
MACAU
Cable Address:-"RIVIERA, MACAU."
EARL HAIG'S ESTATE.
£183,581 GROSS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1928.
MISSING TRANSATLANTIC AIRMEN.
MT. EVANS
ICELAND
ROCKFORD
Although they are three days overdue on the second lap of their flight across tho At- lantic no definite news has been received of Mr. Bert H. J. Hassell (upper left) and Mr. Parker C. Cramer (right) who left in the monoplane "Rockford" for Sweden Inst week. It la feared that they have met with disuster though there is a possibility the plane has modo a forced landing in the desolate regions of Labrador, or south of Mount Evans, Greenland, their destination,
THE PRINCE OF WALES RIFT IN BOYCOTT
PRIVATE DINNER PARTIES
AT YORK HOUSE,
The Prince of Wales has revived a fashion in entertainments set by his grandfather, King Edward VII.{
At York House his Royal High- ness has recently given a series of private dinner parties to friends and to prominent people whom he bras, desired to entertain. This was
a favourite method of hospitality with King Edward when Prince of Wales, and the Prince decided this acason to revive the custom,
CAMPAIGN.
SWATOW HAS RIVAL COMMITTEES.
A P
REFUSAL TO JOIN NEW ORGANISATION.
LABOUR ACTIVITY.
Swatow, Aug. 13.
GREEK ELECTION RESULT.
BIG TRIUMPH FOR M. VENIZELOS.
Athens, Aug. 21.
The complete election returns are as follows: Vonizelists 228, Royalists 15, Kafan- darists three, Pangalists one, and Com- Independents three munists nfl. It is estimated that: the Venizelos party will have a majority of 220 In the Chamber, numbering. 250.
M. Venizelos In a statement to foreign pressmen declared that the slections were held under condi- A split has occurred in the tions of complete freedom to the The dinner parties have been a great success, and those who have anti-Japanese boycott camp, which opposition, press which was allow- had the honour of being invited In-la as interesting for the Night' ited to eny what it liked for forty clude the Prime Minister and Mrs. throws on the uneasy politics of days beforehand, and to conduct a most furious campaign against Baldwin, the Earl of Athlone and
Princess Allee Countess of Athlone, the Kuomintang as for its likely authority, Lady Irwin (wife of the Viceroy effect on the boycott.
of India), Colonel and Mrs. House,
The boycott has hitherto been in Sir Samuel Hoare, General Sir Granville Ryrie (High Commis- the hands of a committee of the sioner for Australia) and Lady Chamber of Commerce, the ap- Ryrie, and Colonel Lévita (Chair man of the London County Council)pointment of which was a clever and Mrs. Levita.
movenm the part of the merchants,
<!
FRENCH BUDGET
READY,
without affecting popular confidence in himself.-- Reuter.
SINGAPORE BATHING.
PERILS.
for it is they who stand to lose SHARK & CROCODILES SEEN when the affair is controlled by a
OFF THE COAT. general committee whose main! Interest becomes rather the
Several incidente have occurred; exaction of fines and the imposi-Intely which show the risks which MORE MONEY FOR FIGHTING tion of penalties than merely the bathers take in dispensing with
stopping of Japanese trade..
SERVICES.
Paris, Aug. 21.
"Old" Stock.
M. Poincare has completed his By running the boycott
pagara along the Katong and Changi beaches,
A rumour is current that a young Chinese boy was billen by a them-crocodile while bathing in shallow
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plans for the 1929 Budget, which solves, the merchants could secure water at Siglap last week, and thatArie
will shortly be submitted to the that old stocks were sold off with the crocodile, was caught, but ex- Chamber.
out trouble, and that orders for haustive inquiries have so far not Apart from alight Income Tax Japanese goods made before the confirmed this report. relief, there will be neither an in-boycott were delivered and sold as
What is definite, however, is that crease nor a decrease in taxation. 'old' stock. At the same time, with a 7-foot shark was clearly seen by
The Army, Navy and Air Force a little enre, sumcient cases could
a number of people from the Estimates will be increased, and be taken up to give the appearance Pacific Trading Company's pier at there will be a deficit of about of anti-Japanese vigour. £48,000,000 if
The new committee appointed at Katong. Further, three crocodiles the original demands of the spending Depart a meeting called by the Commis-were seen a few days ago off the mouth of a stream which runs into sioners sent from Canton to rethe sea at Telok Mata Ikan, on the ments are granted.-Reuter.
construct the municipal branch of the Kuomintang has so far ignored Chang! coast. It was in this [locality that a Chinese was seized that already functioning. There
by a crocodile recently while have been underground negotiations, but, If so, they failed, gathering coral on a reef. and we now have two rival com- mittees in the field.
CHARGE OF BRIBING CONSTABLE.
Refusal to Join.
CHINESE SHOPKEEPEN APPEARS IN COURT.
At the first regular meeting Defended by Mr. F. X. d'Almada, of the new committee, it waa that the Chamber of a Chinese shopkeeper was charg-announced ed before Mr. W. Schofield, at Commerce had written declining to the Kowloon Magistracy this morn-appoint a representative, since ing, with offering a bribe of $5 to their own committee
Chinese constablo, '.
readyvin existence.
WEA ni. The new
MR. HOOVER RESIGNS HIS POST.
Chaplin
IN THE
CIRCUS
AT THE
WORLD TO-DAY TO
Orchestra 5.15 € 0.20
7
APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR ANNOUNCED
Washington, Aug. 21. According to a message from In applying for a date to be fixed committee, angrily replied that
re-Superior. (Wisconsin), President for the hearing, Mr. d'Almada ask-they were appointed by a
presentativo-meeting called on ad- Coolidge has accepted the_re«). ed for a reduction of the defendant's vice from Canton, and ordered the signation of Mr. Herbert Hoover bail of $500.
Sub-Inspector Dick raised no objection to the bail being reduced.
The defondant was remanded until Tuesday on $250 bail,
SOUTH AFRICAN MAGNATE.
ז'
AS
Chamber of Commerca to fall into from the Cabinet, In order to line by the next meeting.
| facilitate his election campaign. It a significant that the new Mr. Hoover'e, auccessor committee is largely composed of Secretary of Commarco is Mr. Labour representatives, and there William F. Whiting, who has been fore a new attempt ja being made to pit Labour against the merchants. President Coolidge for many years
a friend and political"supporter of']
Seamen's Union Again, and is head of the Whiting Paper Company, of Holyoake, Massa-
Groups of pickets are being ap chuetts-Reuter's American Ser pointed, who doubtless plan pro- vice.
itable eractions by seizures in the SIR OTTO BEIT ILL shops, fines, and no 80. The Sen
AT HOME.
men's Union, which has discovered" very profitable ways of extracting cott of the ship if it appeared with DIG Countess The executors
money, is among them,
any other crew, London, Aug. 21. Haig, Colonel Commandant B. D. Fisher, Cavalry Brigade, Tid- Sir Otto Belt, the South African
Thla Union was for a long time
Depends on⋅ Oficials. worth, and Major-General Hugo magnate, is lying ill at his house at making money out of various ship
Such an organiration might Douglas de Prec.
Welwyn in Hertfordshire, British ping lines, other than British or Wireless.
Japanese, Norwegian vessels es-vigorously ginger up the boycott if The inventory of Field-Marshal
In his will of March 11, 1920,
pecially suffered badly. As a rule, it had free play, Earl Haig's estate, which has been Eari Haig bequeathed £50 to Ser-
[Sir Otto Beit, who is 63 years seaman would complain of fil- The subsequent developmenta will lodged at. Berwick-on-Tweed, geant Thomas Serret, his sorvant, of age, is a Director of the British treatment on board, and the Cap-depend on which way the officials shows a grous amount of £183,581 but this was revoked by a codiell South Africa Company and of the tain would be summoned to pay. Incline; this, in turn, depends on 198, 4d.-personal £12,248 81, 3d, dated December 19, 1926.
Rhodosia Railways, Ltd. He is the On going to the Union headquarters, how long Marshal LI Chai-sum and real £171,333 10s. 1.
be confronted by wit- Mr. Chu Chao-hsin stay away from Under the term "inventory in founder of the Belt Memorial for he would
Medical Research.], The funeral expenses are re-Scottish legal phraseology, every-
nesses to the alleged offence who Canton, and on the activity of the turned at £6,604 198.
thing-stocks and shares, furn!-
had never been near his ship.less moderate elements in their ab As a rule, the ship was fortunate sence. Developments of the Fifth Death duty is payable at the ture, residences, &c.—is generally
included.
to get off with a fine of $2,000, and Plenary Session of the Central Ex- rate of 23 per cent,
In one case as much as $9,000 was ecutive Committee in Nanking will pala, the alternative boing the total doubtless have their reactions, too. withdrawal of the crew and a boy- -Our Own Correspondent;
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, ut 1 and 8. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong,
Mr. H. A. Garlette (80), who dled in West Middlesex Hospital, was for 66 years a chorister at London and Bristol..
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