THE
HONGKONG
HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL Telegraphic Address: ""KREMLIN, HONGKONG.
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL;
MAJESTIC HOTEL'
Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL BILANGĦAL”
HOTELS
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel Des Wagons Lita, Peking,
KING EDWARD HOTEL
Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms newly renovated and installed with Box Sprier Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone,
TEA DANCES:
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from:5 to 7 p.m. Hotel launch meets all steamers.
($25 for thirty Tifin Tickets can be hid at the Omes of above Hotel). Dinner Dances Tuesday and Saturday 8 to 12 a.m.
Tel. Add: Victoria."
J. 1 WITCHELL, Telephone C. 878
HOTELS OF
THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY, OCTOBER -1928.
MOMBASSA EN FETE U. S. PRESIDENTIAL AUSTRALIA CRISIS
FOR PRINCES.
BRITISH ROYALTY WITNESS NATIVE DANCES.
COLOURFUL SCENES.
London, Sept. 80. During the stay of the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Gloucester in Mombasan, the town is en fele, and inhabitants of many races and complexion are participating in a great variety of celebrations.
The streets are gaily decorated at night-time and between the streams of motors and rickshas is a curious spectacle of closely velled purdah women riding pil- lien on motor-cycles.
CAMPAIGN.
OFFICIAL CORRUPTION AN ISSUE.
GOVERNOR SMITH HITS OUT ON OIL SCANDAL.
RELIGIOUS QUESTION.
Denver, Sept. 23:;
· Governor Al Smith, Democratic presidential candidate défended publle ownership of waterpower and electricity sites, 'In his spoech here to-night.sym
OVERCOME.
GENERAL UPHEAVAL NOW UNLIKELY.
GOVERNMENT ACTION.
Adelaide, Sept. 80, The shipping strike position is much more hopeful to-day prin- cipally due to the wave of indigna- violence by the strikers. tlon everywhere at the resort to
The Government has now order- ed all possessors of fire-arms to register themselves immediately under seven penalty for non-com-
plianco. 125
Hotels it Port Adelaide and the surrounding districts have been ordered to close on Monday.
While the Europeans were.celo He said that developments should brating the royal visit at Govern-accrue to the people and that the ment House, the natives held a United States should not permit At Melbourne, horror at Friday great "Ngome" In the native quar the resources to fall into private night's bomb outrages has been reflected in a flood' of volunteers, Governor Smith declared that the over 2,000 having been registered. companied the native dances. theter, where weird native music ac-handa.
To-day the Princes visited the Republican waterpower programme Sufficient numbers have come for- native Manager.
where tribal was unsatisfactory and assorted ward to cope with the expected quarter, dances were staged for their en. that Hoover's acceptance speech rush of shipping over the week- tertainment, the native women and his talk in Los Angeles did not end. dancers wearing coloured waist- contain a single word as to water- couts and long white trousers power development. He assalled the Coolidge vote of the Muscles Other dancers wore weirdly paint-Shoals development bill without an ed as ghosts.
explanation. When the Princes left, the na The Domeratic candidate de tives crowded round with wild en-clared that the Republican attitude A mesango from Brisbane, how- thusiasm and sang many songs, in-toward development indicated they ever, states that the carters and cluding several war-time soldiers' wore swayed by widespread private drivers have decided not to sup songs in broken English-British ownership propaganda disseminatport the waterside workers, and Wireless.
DISTINCTION
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PALACE
Tol. Kowloon No. 3,
HOTEL
Tel Address: "Palace."
UNDER ENTIRELY EUROPEAN HANAGEMENT.
A first-class Residential and Tourist Hotel with all the conveniences.
of & Home.
Bar and three Billiard Tables; two in New Billiard Balcon. Moderate Terms: familica specially catered for.
For terms apply to
Hotel newly renovated.
Mrs. J. I. Oxberry,
KOWLOON HOTEL
KOWLOON.
"ANKING" PIRACY TRAGEDY.
(Continued from Paga-1.)
The maritime unions at a "con" ference. had made arrangement to take control if the general strike, which appeared to be inevitable, broke out.
FLORENCE
VIDOR
ADOLPH ZURBR
JESSE LASKY
Love
Afraid to
with
ed through a joint commitee of this decision is regarded as the Clive Brook
national electric associations,
The Oli Scandal.
turning-point in the threatened general upheaval.--Renter.
Helena, Sept. 24. Governor Al Smith. attacked the The King's cutter Britainnía, Teapot Dome and Elk Hills lenses having completed her racing pro- granted to Sinclair and Doheny by gramme for the senson, has been the Republican administration, towed to her winter quarters on He declared that Herbert Hoover the River Modina at Cowes. must have known the situation,
bell, Third Oflcer, had both bern involved in dangerous clashes with the pirates. Mr. Bennett the cabinet.
since the matters were discussed by
Proprietress. wielded a club to good purposes, Governor Smith complimented it. Therefore official corrupilon
but retired before force of num-Senator Thomas J.. Walsh on his can be considered an issue. bera, and eventually was over- vigorous prosecution in the senate powered.
SPECIAL SUMMER RATES.
Daily from $ 5.00 Monthly from $125.00
Under the Personal Supervision and Attention, of
Phone Nos.
K. 608 & K. 609.
MR. & Mrs. H. J. WHITE.
Cables KowLOTEL"
EUROPE
After-dinner dancing every
Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
Hongkong.
Cables:-
"EUROPE
Singapore
HOTEL
SINGAPORE.
Grill
THE EUROPE HOTEL LTD.
Arthur E. Odoll, Managing Director,
Courtesy, Comfort, Service and Luxuries of Modern Hotel
Construction
The Iteligious Issue. inquiry into the lenses, which re-
Washington, Sept. 22. Mr. Campbell was struck over sulted in their cancellation through
procedure. the head by a revolver, or some court
The speaker The controversy created by Goy- other heavy weapon, while sitting claimed that the leases were a black ernor Al Smith's Oklahoma City in a deckchair on the starboard chapter in Republican history, yet declaration on religious intolerance Hoover. endorsed the continued to-day to swirl through side of the promenade deck near still"
of Pre-political discussions. the Chief Engineer. In spite of "courageous leadership" the blow, Mr. Campbell minde asidents Harding and Coolidge.
Mr. Herbert Hoover is silent on The conduct of the Veteran's the subject. He seems content to dash for it, but was stabbed in the back in an effort to climb the bureau and the allen properly stand on the statement in his ne
frauds were likewise criticised by ladder leading to the bridge. coming to later to find himself resulted in imprisonment of le He was left lying unconscious, Governor Smith. Each of these alongside the dead bodies of the publican employees, he pointed out. Governor Smith said that as the Chief Officer and the quarter-
Republican party was the respon- master.
dividuals because all knew about
conviction I stand for religious toleration, both in the act and spirit ceptance addreas: "By blood and
idents is the right of every man to ....The glory of our American
lates of his conscience."
The remainder of the ship's de-sible leader, we cannot blame In-worship God according to the dic- fenders quickly realised that further resistance was doomed to failure, and accepted the situation,
Day Out of Holhow. Thus did the pirates gang secure control of one of the three biggest vessels of the China Navigation Company's fleet. The events related took place round about 6.40 p.m. on Wednesday evening last week while the Anking was in the Gulf of Tongking, a day out of Hofhow, her next port of call.
(Continued on Next Column.)
in the cabins and 1,419 travelling steerage.
China,
Prohibition is another subject wherein Mr. Hoover does not intend to say any more during his com- paign.
"Whispering Campaign.”
con-
The majority, were returning
Now York, Sept. 21. Officiala of the emigrants, carrying their entire
Republi fortune to their homes in and the pirates made a colossal can national headquarters to- haul. The passengers were Indivi- day unanimously denied
and nexion with dually searched, one by one,
any "whispering then were paraded on the decks campaign" against Governor Alfred away from their baggage, while an- Smith. other pirate party spent ten hours f The Governor's accusation in his in a thorough ransack.
Oklahoma speech that the Republi can national committee is respon- sible for aiding and abetting a so- called "whispering campaign" is utterly falne," said Daniel Pomeroy, vice chairman of the Republican antional committee.
The bloodthiraly business was all over within ten minutes, but It is estimated that the haul was it will go down in shipping annals not less than $80,000 in cash and
Taken To Honghai Bay.
as one of the most dastardly out- jewellery. The shin's armament rages in the history of China Coast and many nautical Instruments shipping...
were also appropriated, and the Every precaution was taken by total loss is placed at over $100,000 the gang to secure against a sur-one of the biggest hauls ever prise, and during the next 54 made. hours, in which they directed tho Anking's course towards Honghai Buy, forcing Mr. Bennett to under- Mr. J. W. Benuett, the Second take the navigation with only brief Officer, with pirates standing at respites for meals, and none for his back with loaded revolvers, was forced to navigate the Anking sleep, the pirate guards were con- stantly on the alert, carrying their to Hong Hui Bay, north of the pistols in their bands.
notorious pirate stronghold 'at The promenade deck was chosen Blus Buy.
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and
This week Mr. Hoover, at a lun- choon in New Jersey given to him by Senator Edge, specifically stated,
"This must not be a campaign of personalities and I will not tolerate any personal attacks on any oppon- onts."
A Moral Issue.
Lorain, Sept. 23. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, United States attorney, replied to-night to the charges made by Governer Al Smith in Oklahoma City to the effect that the Repub-
as headquarters, and they gave There all the valuables free play to their sense of domina-money, added to the loot from the tion, smoking the ship's cigarettes, cargo holds were loaded into three and drinking the ship's beers and ship's lifeboats and taken ashore. soft drinks, and at one time in- Mr. E. C. O. Bird, the Third En-can party was bringing the ques- tion of religion Into the Presiden- dulging in an orgy of wanton de-gineer, was obliged to accompany tial campaign. struction In the officers' cabins them as hostage, while the boats Mr. Willebrandt charged, the and in other parts of the vessel. were rowed ashore by members of
Democratie nominee with "hiding the Anking's crew. 'Callous Action,
behind his own church, because he Mr, Bird and the members of thes afraid of the outcome and is crew were allowed to return to the afraid to face the record he has ship, the pirates actually granted made as champion of the liquor Mr. Bird and the boatswain a traffic." bounty of $10.
Some time during Thursday, the pirates throw the bodies of their victims overboard, a matter of extreme regret to their many
THE HOTEL RIVIERA. friends in the Colony.
MACAU.
Cabla Address:-"RIVIERA, MACAU,"
She denied opposing Smith be The Anking had been cruising cause he was a Catholic, and said: The pirate chief showed just one round, the bay to avold the pos-"Prohibition is a moral issuo touch of consideration. When the siblity of an attack by another which the churches have long piracy had been, completed in its pirate band; and after picking up espoused. It was he who injected initial stages to his satisfaction, the life-boats sailed to Hongkongthis moral Issue into the campaign. he ordered Captain: Plunkett-Colé
A British Wireless message re- Therefore his actions drew the to be carried to the saloon, and ceived this morning estimates the churches into the campaign:""
Mrs. Willebrandt reviewed the gave permission to Dr. Woo to at- ship's and passengers', losses, at Lieutenant Romer William is tend to the wounded skipper's, £20,000, or $200,000, but how this liquor situation and the history of sum is made up is not quite clear. the fight against booze, and cri- said to have been seriously injured, wounds. It is believed that the planes pilot- |
Captain Plunkett-Cole was made The compradore and his ass ticised Smith's Tammiany connex- ed by Loutenants Williams and as comfortable as possible in thetant lost little more than $5,000, ion, claiming that he had defied the TWO MACHINES CRASH IN Cornelius locked wings while fly- circumstances, though Dr. Wop After once being drawn, from hid- majority of Democrats in espous
THE AIR.
AMERICAN AVIATOR
KILLED.
It, WAE
ing in battle formation. Cornelius jumped but the para chute falled to open.
'San Diego, Sept. 26. Lieutenant William Cornelius, one of the Army's "Three Mus
A taxicab, laden with traveller's Kateers of the Air" was killed to samples, caught fire in Upper day as the result of his plane Belgrave-street, W., but the fire crashing into another in mid-air on brigade put out the flames with a
chemical extinguisher. Rockwell field.
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PEROY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong.
extract unable to
Passengers Searched,
ono ing, the compradore, Mr. Goh ing moderation of the Volstead of the bullets, and when the ship Tong-lay, successfully concealed law.
She congratulated tho. confer- arrived in Hongkong on Saturday, himself until the pirate gang had
enco of the Methodist ministers, at he was bearing up cheerfully. If departed. was taken to the Penk Hospital, The late Mr. H. Thompson, the which she talked, for accepting Chief Officer, who was amongst Governor, Smith's "challenge" on those died; was a nativo of the moral issue of prohibition." Three hours after the capture of Greenock. Ife joined the Company She told them they wore all stand- in 1902. Two of his brothora ing together in warring on candi the Anking, when Mr. Bennett un- formerly served with the Indo- dates who declared war on them. der direction' ha steered "a course
The churches are defending pro- for Swatow, the pirates devoted China Steam Navigation Company, their attention to the passengers, but the report that one of these lost hibition from the attack of Tam- There were over 1,400 on board, 18 his life in the Loongeang disaster many, Mrs. Willebrandt said.
In 1929 now proves to be Incorrect."
Jocelyn Lee Norman Trevor
a Paramount Picture
Based on "The Marriage of Kitty"
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HIS ECCENTRIC uncle had died
leaving him a fortune provided he gave up the Argentine adven- turess-with whom he was infatuated. and married someone else within 24 hours! See what happens
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