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"CENTRAL, SHANGHAL"
HOTELS
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In association with the Grand Hotel
Der Wagons Lite, Peking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms wowly, renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telophona.
TEA DANCES:"
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 6 to 7 pm.
Hotel launch meets all steamers.
($25 for thirty Time Tickets can be had at the Office of the
bove Hotel).
Tel. Add:-"Victoria."
Telephone C. 878
J. H. WITCHELL,
Manager.
DISTINCTION
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1928.
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MEE CHEUNG
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Branch 7, Beaconsfield Arcade,
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoris Hongkong,
Above HE. the Officer Administering the Government presenting medallion to a member of the Victoria Nursing Division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade at Government House on Thursday evening: below, His Excellency Inspecting the Brigade, accompanied by the acling As-
sistant Commissioner, Mr. A. Morris. (Photos: Meo Cheung).
BRITISH OFFICER'S DEATH.
THE SUPPOSED MURDER OF LIEUT. KNOWLES.
COMMISSION RETURNS.
Peking, Sept. 16.
The commission recently ap pointed to make investigations in connexion with the mysterious;
PROBLEMS OF THE PACIFIC.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS IN THE FAR EAST?
NOTABLE SPEECH BY SIR FREDERICK WHYTE.
MORE YANGTSZE FIRING.
A.P.C. BOAT. THE LATEST TO SUFFER.
THE FIRE RETURNED.
steamer has Another British been fred on from the banks of tho Middle Yangtzo, this making the second ease within a week.
The latest incident concerns the
disappearance of Lieut. F. Knowles STORMY DAYS AHEAD... Chinkwang, owned by the
Asiatle Petroleum Company, the of the East Yorkshire Regiment,
vessed being fired on by bandits who disappeared while on, a hunt There was a record crowd at the when about Afteen miles above ing trip in the Western Hills last Union Club of China, Shanghai, Washan. It is significant that autumn at the beginning of the on Tuesday to attend the tun- when the B. and S. Kityang was war between Fengtien and Shansi, meeting of the Pan-Pacific Assccia-fired on earlier in the week it returned here yesterday evening. tiun to celebrate the 415th anniver-
re-
same spot. It is understood that while theary of the discovery of the Pacific occurred at almost exactly the A naval wireless report received commission did not find where the cepu by Vasco Nunez Balbon.
Mr. Quo Tai-chi, former Vice-this morning states that the Chink- body of Lieut. Knowles had been Minister of Foreign Affairs, presi-wang was hit, but makes no buried, they found a village out-ded, and, in a suitable speech, welfarence to any damage which may side which his death took place comed the speaker of the day, Sir have been caused.
The fire was returned by the, and heard
A circumstantial Frederick Whyte. Mr. Que dwelt account of the details of his end. the importance of the discovery armed guard carried. on
of the Pacific by Balboa and said steamer, with what result is not The commission has decided that that little did the Spanish explorer specified. Lleut, Knowles was killed by Feng dream of the future of the great tion soldiers and not Shansi expanse of water that lay before him in the capital of the British troops, as was believed at the time, his eyes. Little did he dream that Empire.
the
The Shanst authorities recently the Pacific would be the centre of
Balboa Day was an occasion of approached the British Legation world interest and perhaps the great significance to them all. with a proposal that they take centre of the atorm of the next When Balboa, the explorer, looked joint steps to solve the mystery of decade. The eyes of the world now down from a mountain top and Lleut. Knowles' disappearance, rested anxiously on the Pacific, on guzed for the first time on to the following which cach party which the future peace of the world Pacific, little did the realize the appointed two delegates to proceed depended. The Pan-Pacific AB80-future that lay before it. What to the Western Hills to make in-Jelation was doing a great deal by was most significant about the dis-. quiries and to search for traces bringing about international con covery of the Pacific lay in the fact tact and frequent conferences to that it came at a period of some of of the missing officer.-Reuter.
offset the future world war and to the greatest discovery of mankind. bring about batter international The period of the Renaissance. It understanding and closer interna was the period of Shakespeare and When tional relations.
the discovery of America. they thought of the year 1519, their minds were carried back to Sir Frederick Whyte said that he what had happened then, the ex- wanted to thank the authorities of periences of mankind in that the Pan-Pacific Association for period which made it almost the giving him the opportunity of greatest in the history of the world. meating many of his old friends in Interests of Occident and, Orient. years, Shanghai, and in particular the
None were likely to underestimate
YOUNG RUSSIAN STOWAWAY.
SENT TO GAOL THIS MORNING.
Tribute to Mr. Quo Tai-Chi
Alexander Ivan Ivanoff, Russian youth, soventeen of age, was charged before Major chairman of the meeting, Mr. Quo- C. Willson this morning with Tai-chi. In that connexion, Bir the importance of the Pacific. stowing away on the a.. Kaiping Frederick said that he would be Napoleon had said that the destiny from Chingwantao to Hongkong. Indiscreet enough to make some of the world rested with the Far Sub-Inspector Elston, prosecut-remarks regarding certain rumours East, and Theodore Roosevelt, in Ing, stated that there was nothing as to the future activities of the looking over the different eras, said chairman. He hoped that the that, while the Mediterannean end known against the defondant, rumours were true in one respect, Atlantic had an importance of
Mr. A. C. L. Bowker, who re-and that was that he was to their own, nevertheless the Pacific prosented tho Kallan Mining proceed abroad to an important was destined to be the greatest of Administration, the owners of capital. The result would be that them all. Though Roosevelt was the Kalping, eald the youth was his country would benefit. But he given to rhetoric, and a tendency found on board when the ship hoped that the statement made that to exaggeration, yet his statement was'n day out from Chingwantao. he was to proceed to Germany was contained a profound truth, and Sentence of one month's hard untrue, for, if so, the country to their chairman, Mr. Quo, had out- which he was to be assigned had no lined the germ of the truth. labour was passed,
unequal treaties with China There were so many issues ripen (laughter). Sir Frederick said he ing which looked for solution, that wanted Mr. Que to come to Eng-it was necessary that they should Dublin Corporation dwellings land, where his wide knowledge take time by the forelock and Lace number 4,697, yielding a rental of and ability would prove of much the issues,
There was balance of interests $124,232. In 1924 2,548 dwellings benefit to his country and where a warm welcome would be awaiting
(Continued on Page 10.) yielded £41,860.
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ERNEST B. SCHOEDSACK MERIAN C.
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