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THE
HONGKONG
HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE DAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL; Telographie Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL: MAJESTIC HOTEL
Telegraphic "Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL”
HOTELS
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel Des Wagons Litz, Peking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL
Water, also Telephone.
TEA DANCES:
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, -. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1928.
GREEK PREMIER'S MISSION.
IN LONDON TO EXPLAIN PACT WITH ITALY.
BALKANS STABILITY.
London, Oct. 1.
M. Venizelos, the Greek Premier, after signing the pact of friend- ship between Greece and Italy, at 1 Rome, paid a visit to Paris where he conferred at some length with French statesmen, and is now u London.
PUBLIC MONEY REQUIRED.
VOTES TOTAL MORE THAN $140,000.
GOVERNMENT TAKES OVER WAR MEMORIAL SITE
B.A.T. FEES REFUND.
He has already met Mr. Stanley Sovan votes totalling $147,746 Baldwin, Lord Cushendun, the are to come before the Finance the Legislativa neting Foreign Secretary, and Sir Committee Ronald Lindsay, and has engaged Council at its meeting on Thurs-
day. in lengthy conversations.
of
In an interview with Router, M. One of these items shows that Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Fed Room newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Venizelos sald he came to London the whole of the Stubbs Road site merely to explain what he had which had been laid out for a War done in Rome in order to avoid the Memorial Hospital now reverts to possibility of misunderstandinge. the Government, which will pay
M. Venizelos said that his policy the cost of the road thorete. aimed at the conclusion of similar.The votes for which money is pacts with all Grecco's neighbour, asked are as follows: ing States, but these should not be interpreted as alliances.
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 5 to 7 p.m. Hotel launch meets all steamers,
1825 for thirty Tidin Tickets can be had at the Office of the above Hotel). Dinner Dances Tuesday and Saturday 8 to 12 a.m.
J. H. WITCHELL.
Tel. Add:-"Victoria." Telephono C. 878
HOTELS OF
Manager.
DISTINCTION
..
Chinn Company Fees.
A sum of $54,325, for refund of China Companies fees.
He declared he was working bowards Balkan understanding, and mentioned that Turkey was about to sign a pact of friendship
It is explained that Ordinance with Bulgaria, but it was essential, No. 12 of 1928 reduces the annual he added, for Balkan understand China Companies fees to 1 por Ing that there should be real cent, per $100 of paid-up capital friendship between Bulgaria and in the case of a private China Yugo-Slavia.
Company if the Governor-in- The Italo-Grecian Pact provides Council is of opinion that sub- that each party pledges ita stantially all the shares in it are neutrality in the event of an un-held by a parent Company incor provoked attack on the other by a porated in some part of the
British Empire.
METROPOLE-SAVOY-BOA VISTA third party, promises political and
PALACE
HOTEL
Tol. Address: "Palaca." Tol. Kowloon No. 3,
UNDER ENTIRELY EUROPRÅN MANAGEMENT.
A first-class Residential and Tourist Hotel with all the conveniences
of a Home.
Bar and three Billiard Tablos; two in Now Billiard Saloon. Moderate Terma: families specially catered for.
For terms apply to:-
Hotel newly renovated.
Mrs. J. H, Oxberry,
Proprietress.
KOWLOON HOTEL
KOWLOON
SPECIAL SUMMER RATES.
Daily from $ 6.00-
Monthly from $125.00 .
Under the Personal Supervision and Attention of
Phone Nos.
K. 608 & K. 600.
Mr. & Mrs. H. J. WHITE.
Cables KowLOTEL”, Hongkong.
EUROPE
After-dinner dancing every!
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday,
Cables:-
"EUROPE
Singapore
HOTEL
THE EUROPE
SINGAPORE
எக்ரமரம்
Grill
HOTEL LTD.
Arthur E. Odall, Managing-Director.
Courtesy, Comfort, Service and Luxuries of Modern Hotel Construction
THE HOTEL RIVIERA,
MACAU,
Cable Address : ---" RIVIERA, MACAU."
NORTHERN WOUNDED, station and have been distribute!
diplomatic support in the event of the other being the object of attack, and if mutual interests are threatened, the parties agree to act in concert as regards the measures to be taken for their common defence.--Reuter.
TRAFFIC OFFENDERS IN COURT.
PUBLIC DRIVERS SUMMONED
FOR SPEEDING,,
A number of public car drivers were summoned for speeding in various parts of the Colony when
week's traffic cases were dealt with this morning by Major C. Wllloon.
There were several cases from Whitfield, a controlled area, two persons being fined $15 while a third was fined $20, The Polico stated in respect of one culprit that he went as fast as thirty-two miles per hour.
It has been decided to make this
reduction in respect of the year 1927, and this involves a refund
of
ROCKEFELLER GIFT TO CAMBRIDGE.
OFFER OF THREE QUARTERS OF A MILLION.
NEW LIBRARY SCHEME.
London, Oct. 1 The outgoing Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University has announc- ed that the Rockefeller Foundation Fund has made a gift to the Univer sity of £275,000 to provide for the development of Physical and Biological Studies and the provision of a new Library.
The gift is made conditionally, on the University accuring the bal ance of £220,000,000
which alone will cost £600,000, will The building of the Library, be commenced without delay, as the University has already ear-marked £250,000 for this purpose.
The Rockefeller Fund has also car-marked a sum of £250,000 for the Library--Renter,
A British Wireless moange, re- porting the gift, states that the new developments in the Physical and Biological Studies of the University have been for some time regarded an urgent by the heads of those has been designed by Sir Gilbert Departments. The now Library Scott.
Chanceller, the Rev. G. A. Weckes, In announcing the gift, the Vice- desiribed it as "a splended offer of
assistance."
NO⋅ TYPHOON⋅ DANGER,
To-day's Observatory report $54,324,23 in respect of states that the typhoon is about 300 miles south-south-east of Hong- LINUKAZUm kong, moving west. Strong to fresh monsoon may be expected along the south-east coast of China and over the Northern por- tion of the North China Sea. The anticyclone is now coutral to the north of Tokyo. The forecast till
MANCHURIA TO HOIST NATIONALİST FLAG.
Allegianer Declaration Next Week?
CHINA'S NATIONAL DAY.
Shanghal, Oct. 1.
It is probable that Man- 'churia will officially declare her allegiance to the Nanking Nationalist Government October 10th the National Day.
011 China
General Chang Hsueh-lang la reported to have cabled the Nanking leaders to that effect.
Queen's Road East, between Arms senal Street and Garden Road, ap-
pears to be another spot where fees paid by the British American drivers get the impulse to "step on Tobacco Company (China), Ltd., it." Two cases were mentioned in and associated companies last
Incidental Expenses. "
A sum of $185 for Incidental exponses for the Audit Depart- ment..
which it was stated that the de- year. fendants were doing 27 miles, while in, a third case, the defen- dant reached thirty miles per hour, Fines of $10 were imposed.
Other cases of speeding, in which fines, between $10 and $15 were imposed, occurred in Con- naught Road Central, Des Voeux Road Central and in Shaukiwan
Road,
For driving on the wrong side of the road, a Chinese motor eyellst who was stopped by a traffic policeman in Connaught Road Cen tral, was fined $5,
LONDON-MALAYAN
TIN TRUST.
GOOD RESPONSE TO CALL FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS.
WILLIAM HAINES "SPRING
FEVER
THE HERO of
"Brown of Harvard" 18 breezy golf chain- pion who finds he is no match for the hazards of lovel
A comedy of golf and giris I
YOU'LL LAUGH and thrill at William Haine's misadventures in love played against the background of real championship golf matchen!
with
noon to-morrow is:-NE winds, JOAN CRAWFORD & GEORGE K. ARTHUR
fresh; generally cloudy; some rain,
to War Memorial Nursing Home, Stubbs Road; portion of the cost! at present charged to an Advance Account. The vote requested is to enable the amount named to be transferred from the Trustees of War Memorial Advarico Account (to which it is charged at present) to Government funds,
Details of the cost of the road are as follows:-Amount provided In 1925 Estimates, $80,000; amount provided by Supplementary Vote, $15,000; actual expenditure In 1925 under Contract on P.W.E. 28, Item T. No. 32/24 and atores, etc., $44,812.08; amounted provided in Estimates (P.W.E. 10 ""), $4,000; amount provided by Supplemen- tary vote, $6,000; actual expendi ture in 1926, under Contract on P.W.E. 10, Item J. No. 32/24 and stores, etc., $7,885.41.
The total amount provided for It is explained that the vote of the work was $55,000; and the $400 for the present financial year total net expenditure $62,647.49. has been found to bo insufficient, All expenditure has been met owing to increase in the Audit from Government funds to date, Staff. Considerable expenditure bot under an agreement with the has been incurred in the purchase Trustees whereby they were to pay of files for audit documents.
Firo Float Votes,
two-thirds of the total cost of the road the amount expended in 1920, viz. $7,885.41 was debited, pending a final settlement, to Trustees of A sum of $7,000 under Fire War Memorial Advance Account Brigade for repairs do fluating en-
Under the new War Memorial gines. The provision made in Scheme the whole Stubba Road! Estimates was $6,000 and the Site is to revert to the Govern- estimated expenditure to Decemment and the cost of the road will ber 31st is $12,998.
Homuntin. Cemetery.
be met wholly from. Government The excess over the vote is due funds. to two main causes:-(1) repairs necessitated by the breakdown in the pumps on No. 1 Float (2) an increase over the amount antici- The subscription list for the Lon-pated in the cost of the annual stream don-Malayan Tin Trust has closed overhauls, due partly to the defce-aroa, Homuntin. almost Immediately after being tive condition of the boiler in No. opened.
3 Float.
London, Oct. 1.7
The Trust is a combine of sixteen
Provision for a new boller has been made in the 1929 Estimates,
Oil For Railway.
A sum of $25,000 for training course in new cemetery
The main nullah in connexion with the Central Cemeteries Arca; at Homuntin, is now completed and a few necessary contingent works are in hand. It was origin- ally anticipated that the nullah would be completed in 1927 but
Important Companies with a com- bined output approximating to 12 per cent. of the total world produc tion of tin. It has a capital of £2,000,000 in £ shares, of which A sum of 38,400 for locomotive pressing works in connexion with £1,250,000 is now issued.
oil for the Kowloon-Canton Rail-military requirements added to The Tin Selection Trust and way. rela
bad weather occasioned delay. Anglo-Oriental Mining Corporation, The provision made in Estimates Ltd., is sponsoring the combine was $6,000, and the excess is due Consequently the work on the nul- Reuter.
to requirements being under- lah was not started till late in the A British Wireless message estimated, especially as regards year and only some $14,000 was states that owing to heavy oversub-higher grades of lubricating of expended in 1927. instead of $40,- scription, the llats were closed at found to be necessary in con, 000, ten o'clock. In the prospectus it is nexion with the through haulage Intimated that Important negotiato Canton..
tions are in progress with other A sum of $7,836 for access road leading Eastern dredging groups, and it is intended to aim at unifica tion of policy and management over the widest possible area within the Eastern tin fields.
among the various hospitals in- cluding the Peking Union Medical Mr. A. P. Tarbuck, a time-keeper College, not however, before many of the Hongkong Electric Company, had died from exposure and lack who lives in premises owned, by the of attention to their wounds. has reported to the police that on Company at 23, Shaukiwan Road, Sunday night a sum of $130 was stolen from a locked drawer in his bedroom, apparently by someone who had a duplicate key,"
Following the receipt of the com-
Reuter.
CARED FOR BY VARIOUS HOSPITALS OF PEKING.
Peking, Oct. 1. Through the exertions of the polico and Chen Shih-chang of
Harvest prospects in Devon and the Hankow forces here the
Carnwall are distinctly encourag-
·wounded Chibli-Shantung soldiers, ing, the wheat, barley and oat plaint, yesterday, the police went to were removed from the Chienmon crops being above the average, the house Investigate. They
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong
questioned the cool-boy, and subse quently took him into custody on suspicion of having committed the theft.
STOP PRESS.
CHINESE POLICE TO PATROL
There is no vote provided for this work this year, and a re-vote of $25,000 unexpended in 1927 la requested.
Kowloon Development..
A vote of $50,000 under Public Works Extraordinary for General Works, Roads, korbing, channell- ing and other small works to keep pace with development...
Provision was made in the estl- nates for $50,000,, and this new vote in to meet the cost of maceda='|
AT THE
ALSO Special Fox Comedy
A DOG'S PAL"
QUEEN'S
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20
Advance Booklar For Brass Circle Daily From 1.m
FROM North China and the Philippines to
the Battle Fields of France two Soldiers fight over their loves!
THE EPIC MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION-
WILLIAME FOR presents The Worlds
What Price Glory
With
VICTOR McLAGLEN
Dolores Del Rio and Edmund Lowe COMEDY, - DRAMA, COURAGE, LOVE and PATHOS! Produced by RAOUL WALSH
TO-DAY TO SATURDY Special Times and Prices,
AT THE
WORLD
Orchestra 3.00 and 9.30.
: Interpreter 2,30 and 7.15.
A REAL DENNY WHIRLWINDI
THE
THE HILARIOUS adventures of a timid young bachelor who found himself forced to win the fastest motor race of the year!
ROLLICKING AFARCE
COMEDY
OF SPEED AND LOVEI
Reginald
WRITTEN
BY THE POPUAR
STAR
·HIMSELF!
DENNY FAST-EURIOUS
With
mizing road surface, kering, BARBARA WORTH and LEE MORAN
POST OFFICE. Shanghai, Oct. 2, (1.66 p.m.) The municipal police have permitted Chinese constabu-
chanhelling, etc., adjacent to new lary from the Publle Safety
lots and buildinga. Owing to Bureau to enter the Settlement.rapid and continuous development, for the purpose of patrolling the Post Office. The foreign Police are cooperating to pre-. vent violence and damage to mail baga-Our Own Corres- pondent.
the amount provided in the 1928 Estimates has proved Inadequate, and this supplementary vote la ra quested" to meet the cost of the ilems which should be carried out this year.
THE PRINCE Charming of comedy in a
AT THE US
mile a minute picture of romance, fun
and thrills!
STAR
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW Continuous 2.30 to ILI5.