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Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL"
HOTELS
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In association with the Grand Hotel Dea Wagons Lita, Peking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms Bewly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone.
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TEA DANCES:
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 5 to Hotel launch meets all stoamers.
p.m.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
BUSINESS REVIEW OF U.S.A.
FEW INDUSTRIAL SLUMPS EXPLAINED.
NO CAUSE FOR WORRY.
Washington, Sept. 13.
Mr. Andrew Mellon, of the Trea- sury, has submitted his report to President Coolidge regarding the business conditions existing in the United States.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1928.
AIR MANOEUVRES BRITISH PRINCES IN
OVER PARIS,
BRITISH OFFICIALS TAKING INTEREST.
COMMERCIAL FLYING.
Pairs, Sept. 13. Sir Samuel Hoare, the British Secretary of State for Air, Air- Marshal Sir High Trenchard, and He is of opinion that business is Air Vice-Marshini F. R. Scarlett, in a satisfactory condition and on arrived from London by air to-day a sound basis. Theso satisfactory | to conditions provali throughout the country generally, though there are some "spots" in the general indus. trial, situation suffering from na- tural causes.
Economies effected in the use of coal and the superabundance of mines are largely responsible for the slump in the coal industry, but Mr. Mellan thinks that the bottom
(825 for thirty Timo Tlekets can be had at the Office of the has been reached and forecasts that
above Hotel)..
Tel. Add:-"Victoria.".
Telephone C. 878
HOTELS OF
J. HL WITCHELL,
Manager.
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A first-class Residential and Tourist Betel with all the conveniences
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Bar and three Billiard Tables; two in New Billiard Saloon. Moderate. Terme: families specially catered for,
For terms apply to:-
Hotel nowly renovated.
Mrs. J. H. Oxberry,
Proprietress,
KOWLOON HOTEL
KOWLOON.
SPECIAL SUMMER RATES.
Daily from $5.00. Monthly from $125.00 Under the Porsoual Supervision and Attention of Mr. & MRS. H. J. WHITE. Cables "KowLOTEL” Hongkong.
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Courtesy, Comfort, Service and Luxuries of Modern Hotel Construction
THE HOTEL RIVIERA,
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Cable Address:-"RIVIERA, MAÇAU,"
SHOULD A POLICEMAN
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air
witness the French manoeuvres beginning in the south of Paris to-morrow.
The plans are based on precisely the same lines as those over Lon- dan in August, about 950 bom- bers and fighters being engaged in attacking and dofonding Paris:
It is notable that the French conditions will from now on im-Budget provides for an increase of Over-stimulation during the war nearly £1,000,000 in the Air Force has caused reaction in the textile estimates, industries, which are also feeling the effect of the manufacture of ar- tificial fabrica.
prove.
There is nothing, the report atates, unfavourable in the pro- spects of the farmers and 1928 should be a good' one.
'Mr. Mellon's, general conclusion is that there is no cause for worry. -Reuter's American Service.
RÜHR EVACUATION
'. DISCUSSIONS.
(Continued from Page 1)
di, emphasised the sacrifices of the
Indian Government and the men- sure adopted in India for the con- ! trol of opium. He expressed the hope that the Convention of 1925 will prove more successful than that of 1912-Reuler, and British Wirclesa.
League Expenses,
Dutch Service to East.
Basra, Sept. 13.. Aeroplanes forming the first Dutch air mail service to Batavia are dut to arrive at Bardad on Sep tember 16, to embark the Irak mails for Persia, India and Malaya and, beyond.
The Times of Mesopotamia la- ments that the Imperial Airways service has been forestalled, in spite of endless talk of "expensive. subsidies" bat congratulates the Dutch Government on their superior enterprise.--Reuter.
NOT THE PROPER DEFENDANT.
MAN WHO IMPERSONATED
ANOTHER.
Geneva, Sept. 13. The rapid increase in the League expenditure is a matter of con- cern to the Committee dealing When the name of Wong Lok with the draft of the budget for wa was called this morning at the 1929, in which credits are de- Central Magistracy, before Mr. R. manded representing an inereuse E. Landreli, Chinese promptly of nine per cent as compared stepped forward and informed his with last year.
It has pasa- ed a resolution in favour of a As it happened, Wong was reasonable limitation by the re-arrested for soliciting for passon- duction of the number of con-gers at West Point Inat night for The ferences and recommending that his employer's motor car. the estimates of the economic or Chinese detective who made the ganisation, the transit organisa- jarrest recollected that Wong was a tion, the opium and humanitarian much younger man than the person activities and of the codification who answered the charge, and ho of international law be acrutinised accordingly informed the Bench with a view to the curtailment of that the person who was answering for Wong was not the person expenditure. Reuter.
arrested.
INDIAN WATCHMEN FINED.
FAILED TO NOTIFY EMPLOYMENT.
Yaumati.
EGYPT.
GIVEN GREAT OVATION BY CAIRO CROWDS.
TRIP UP THE NILE.
: London, Sept. 14. II. . H. the Prince of Wales and his brother, the Duke of Gloucester, exandrin. Their Royal Highnesses arrived at Calro to-day from Al- had travelled in a special train pro- vided by the Egyptian Government.
In accordance with the desire of the Prince of Wales for Informality, there was no Guard of Honour or ceremony of welcome.
The Governor of Cairo officially received the Princes, and high British officers,
who wore in mufti, and the Bri tish Consul were also present. The Princes, who were attired" as or- flannel rinary tourists, in grey sults with topees, immediately left the station
The Prince of Wales motored to the camp of the 12th Lancers at Holeh, while the Duke of Glou cester motored to King Fund's yacht, on which the Princes will make a journey up the Nile.
Their Royal Highnesses received a great ovation from large crowds. After riding round the 12th Lancers' camp and inspecting the Officers Mess, the Prince of Wa joined his brother on King. Fund's yacht. The yacht has been magn!- i ficently furnished for the occasion. -British Wircicas.
LAUNCH SINKS AT WHARF
CREW ASLEEP WHEN TIDE EBBED.
It was reported this morning that the steam launch Hee Lee was sunk at the Sai Kong Wharf last night, owing to the neglect of the crew to allow for the falling tide. Happily, there were no casualties.
The master states that he arriv ed at about 9 p.m. and, after Bec ing the launch secured, proceeded to his home, leaving the boat in charge of the crew. It was then high water.
During the night, the crew all went to sleep, and, on the falling to Worship that he was Wurg Lok-wa.tide, the launch canted over
starboard being held by, the shore lines, until her gunwales were sub- merged and water entered. The crew were able to make their es- cape, but it was impossible to cast off the lines and when these snap- ped the Hee Lee sunk shortly 'nfter 11 p.m..
The greater part of the launch is exposed at low water and it is understood that salvage operations will be carried out this afternoon, When asked what was his age, the raising presenting no great dif. the man in Court said it was ficulty, after which she will be thirty-three. The age of the per-slipped at Cheungahawan for ex- son arrested was given in the amination and repair.
charge sheet war twenty-six. De- spite the fact that this discrepancy was pointed out to the impersona
tor, he insisted that he was Wong Lok-wa
ROBBERS ATTACK
DENTIST.
STEAL GOODS AND PAY! RICKSHA COOLIE.
Chen Kwok-wing, described in as a dentist,
His Worship then pointed out Under the new Watchmen's Re-
man that the constable gistration Ordinance, two Indians, to the Gulab Shah and Gulama Singh, making the arrest had stated that were charged, before Major C. Wilthe real defendant was a different Ison at the Central Police Court person. Even this did not frigh- this morning, with failing to notify ten the impersonator, so that as a the police reports the police authorities when they last resort, Mr. Lindsell directed was attacked by three highway took employment as private watch-that the man's finger prints he robbers at Prince Edward Road men at the M.B.K. coal-yard at taken and compared with the at 1.45 this morning. The robbers finger-sprints of the person arrest- The defendants plended guilty. it was found that the two sets of
ed last night. This was done and deprived him of money and other
articles valued at $35.70.
According to the victim, he and were each ned $25.
engaged a public ricksha outside Sub-Inspector Shannon, who Prints did not agree.
Wong-Lok-wa's bail of $15 was the Mongkok Fire Station shortly prosecuted, said that as was the case with every watchman, the de-estreated, while the Magistrate after 1 a.m. to go to Kowloon Tong. While he was proceeding along fendants were warned in the mat directed that the impersonator bo
dealt with later.
Prince Edward 'Road, cast of No. ter of notification of ayery change
7 railway bridge, he overtook threa of employment when they had their
pedestrains, who turned round licences Instied to them, but they The present
and stopped his rickaha. chose to ignore it. was the first case of the kind since the now Ordinance came into force on May 1st. The police had endeavoured in every way to en-
SPLENDID NON-STOP
FLIGHT.
UNDER 24 HOURS..
force the provisions of the Ordin-GOEBEL FLIES 3,000 MILES IN ance without a prosecution and only took this measure when, in the present case, the defendants deliberately ignored the, require- ments.
YAUMATI DOUBLE
MURDER.
TRIAL TO OPEN NEXT FRIDAY.
Los Angeles; Sept. 18, Mr. Art Goebel, the well-known long distance flier, who won the Trans-Pacific. flight to Honolulu last year for the prize offered by Mr. Dole, to-day won the non- stop air-race from Now York to Los Angeles.
Two of the men held him down, whilst a third went through his pockets: They took from him 70 copta in cash, a gold wrist watch and a sun hat.
Before decamping, the robbers paid the ricksha coolie his fare....
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BANVARD COMEDY COMPANY.
FINE REPERTOIRE FOR EASTERN TOUR.
Goobel's machine landed at,
Theatre-goers in Hongkong will Mines Field today 28 hours 50 ba giad to learn that the Banvard, minutes after his plane tool off Comedy Company, which la at pre- Captain Bradshaw, he asserted,
from Roosevelt Field, and ho thus sent in Indin and will be later was brusque and insolent, and said
After several formal remands,
coming here, has a fine repertoire to him: "I am an officer in the date has been fixed by Mr. W. Bains the first prize of £2,500...
The distanco is approximately of plays which should prove a CAPTAIN WHO OBJECTED TO Regular Army and I won't be Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy
CONTABLE'S WAY. spoken to like that by a policeman for the heating of the trial of the 8,000 miles and Goebel must have great attraction during the Com man arrested in connexion with the averaged over 125 miles per hour, pany's tour of the Far East. The plays include "Thark," "Rookery." "A Cuckoo in the Nest," "Tho When Captain Montague who is a member of a disciplined double murder commilled outside Reuler's American Servico.
He threatened to report No. 111, Woosung Street recently, Bradshaw, Royal Tank Corps, was forze."
Best People," "The Ringer," "The At the previous hearing, it will
Terror," "The Joker, Two White finod at Weymouth for minor him to Major Yates, the Chlef
Arma," "Other Men's Wives," "Ne. motoring offences,
be recalled, the police withdrew the defending Constable.
The Bench told defondant cneo against a second man, who
It was later announced that 17," "Compromising Daphne" and solicitor asked the constable if he said "sir" to the captain.
he should have produced his was originally also charged.
Inspector Fallon this morning Goebel had made a forced descent "Skin Deep." The Company is "Is it necessary for me to 'aircense when the constable suked every defendant?" replied the for it intend of taking it to the intimated that Mr. J. M. Itemedios in the course of the flight, landing said to be the best ever sent to the
police station.
had been. Instructed to watch the at Prescott, Arizona. He is, there- east by the Banvard management. officer.
proceedings on behalf of the de-fore, automatically disqualified, The Banvard Musical Comedy though he was first home well Company is also coming out Inter, his competitors and its repertoire will include COAsed's relatives."
The case was fixed for next Fri- ahead of
Router's American Service,
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