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THE HONGKONG.
PENINSULA HOTEL:
THONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL:
PEAK HOTEL
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE: PALACE HOTEL:
MAJESTIC HOTEL.
HOTELS
LIMITED.
in association with the Grand Hotel
Dos Wagons Lits, Poking. ·
HOTEL METROPOLE
Contral, Convolenou, Com-
fort, Good Meals & Moderate rales,
HOTEL BOA VISTA. MACAD. Ideal Place for werk outs.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1929.
THE PRINCE'S LANDING TO-DAY.
HOTEL METR
KOWLOON HOTEL
'KOWLOON.
Under the Personal Supervision and Attention of
Phone Nos.
K 608 & K. 609.
Mr. & Mrs. H. J. WHITE.
Cables KowLOTKL
Hongkong.
PALACE HOTEL.
The above picture shows H.R.It. The Duke of Gloucester, immediately after, his landing at Queen's Pier this morning, about to inspect the Guard of Honour,, in company with His Excellency the Governor. (Photo: Moo Cheung),
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Tel. Kawinan No. 3,
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PALACE,
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A frat cisas Beridontal and Tourist Hotel with all the conveniences
of Home:
Bar, and three Billiard Tablow; two in New Billiard Haloon. Moderate Terms: families specially catered for.
Hold newly renovated.
MRS. J. OXBERRY,
Propriotran
EUROPE
After dinner dancing every Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
Cables:-
"EUROPE"
Singapore.
HOTEL
SINGAPORE
Grill
THE EUROPE HOTEL LTD.
Arthur E. Odoll, Managing-Director.
H.R.H. The Duke of Gloucester Inspecting the Guard of Honour provided by the Somerset
Light Infantry, in front of Queen's Pier, this morning. (Photo: Mec Cheung).
SERIOUS FIRE IN CHINESE CHAMBER THE ENGLISH GOLF
TITLE. SWATOW.
STORMED.
SEVERAL SHOPS & GODOWNS 200 PICKETS RAID PREMISES TOLLY OUSTS. THE FORMER
COMPLETELY GUTTED.
IN SHANGHAI.
TEN PEOPLE INJURED. POLICE INTERVENE.
Swatow, Apr. 25.
BOY CHAMPION,
...
As the result of his withdrawal, no previous holder of the title t now competing at Gosforth Park.
A CLOSE STRUGGLE,
Shanghai, Apr.-25.
London, Apr. 24. Further trouble was caused by Mr. J. Stout, the holder of the A serious fire broke out at Wing On Street yesterday morn-pickets of the National Salvation English Native Golf Cramplonship, ing, when nine shops and godowns Association, formerly known as the hus been obliged to scratch from the were completely gutted and more Anti-Japanese Boycott Society, present competition owing to the
yesterday afternoon, when they injury he sustained yesterday. than ten people injured.
The shop
blaze made a raid on the closed premises where the originated was called Tsoi Hop of the Chinese General Chamber of and was a blacksmith establish- Commerce.
For an hour, 200 of these pickets The most interesting game lo- ment. On investigation it was found that two folis were melting stormed the premises, beat the day, in the third round, was that iron inside the shop when the armed guarda and clerks, and between Cyril Talley, the ex matshed caught fire. An alarm eventually destroyed a number of Amateur Open winner, and E.
documents.-Our Own was given and at the same time valuable
Fiddian, the former Bay Cham efforts were made by the fokis to Correspondent...
A Chinese message states that plon. Tolley won by two and check the flames but they soon
Fiddian commenced in confident spread to an adjoining godown the raid was of n most determined, but he had to play well. where large quantities of matches, character, but eventually the dis-style and at the end of the sixth bean oil and mutting were stored.
The blaze became very fierce
and within half an hour three houses and the godown were burn!
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Good work was done by the fire- men and with the asaletance of various insurance, companies, ten were soon in operation. hoses Policemen and soldiers under the command of Colonel Ho Lun-sul were sent out to maintain order.
The fire was suppressed at 12.20. The premises involved in the dis- aster were, Iling Tui Cheong xodown, the Yce Fung godown, the Ming Shun godown, the Ka Kwong grocery shop, the Tsol Hop, and a coolie 'mess.
Nine shops in an adjacent street' also suffered, and the total damage is estimated at half a lakh of dol-} larg.Nam Chung Pha.
VIOLENT QUAKES
+
PREDICTED.
COSMIC CRISIS TO BEGIN TO-DAY.
London, Apr. 24. Violent earthquakes are immi- nent in various parts of the world, especially in America and South Europe, according to Signor Ben-
f
AN INTERKANIRRITABULANC
FOR BRITISH ́ MINERS.
Further Donations to Hand
...To-day,
We have pleasure in ac- knowledging a donation of $2 seni by a reader as ""A Tiny Drop" to the Fund for the re- lief of distress amongst British minera and their familles, as well as a further $20 from the Ex-Active Ser- vice Men's Association, which had previously.. forwarded $519.50.
This brings. the total so far received by the Telegraph to $7,822 and 42 168. The Fund Is being closed on the 29th.. instant.
had secured a lead of two holes.. Tolley then played some brilliant strokes, winning three of the next teur holes, the other being i halved, and took the lead for the) first time at the tenth. He pulled the his drive very badly at eleventh and Fiddlan squared up. Tolley won the next two, but hia lead wir reduced to one hole at the fourteen where Fiddian play-i fed extremely well. The fifteenth and sixteenth were halved, the match ending on the next green, where Fiddian took three puta,. lowing hole and the match.
The Ryder Cup.
The foursomes in the Ryder: Cup Competition are to be played at Moor Town, Leeds, on Friday, and the teams will be as follows:
Britain
United States,
C. Whitcomb and A. Compston.
KINESISCHERRERAČUNATE A. Boomier and
orders were stopped when the police arrested nine of the raiders.
There were miner clashes with the police, resulting in Injuries to several of the pleketa.
Later in the evening the detain- ed picketa were released.
dandi, the well-known earthquake U.S. OIL RESTRICTIONS.
observer and propfiet.
Ife says that the "cosmic crisis
will begin-to-morrow."-Reuter,
TYPHOON WARNING. +
PLAN FOR A COMPACT BETWEEN STATES.
New York, Apr, 24. The Directors of the American
v Farrell and
Turncaa. v Loo Diegel and
Espinosa. Abe Mitchell and v Sarazon, and
Robson
Dudley.
Goo. Duncart:
E Whitcombe and v Golden and
T. Cotton
Walter Hagen.
Router:
HANKOW. CENTRAL
BANK.
NO CONNEXION WITH OLD
INSTITUTION. -
Hankow, Apr. 24. The. Haukow branch of the Cen-
The first typhoon warning of Petroleum Institute have agreed tral Bank of Chinn is being off- the year is to hand, a message unanimously to co-operate with cially opened to-morrow. from the Manila Observatory the Fedora) Oil Conservation It is emphasised that the Bank dated 6 p.m. yesterday stating Board in promulgating an inter- has no connexion whatsoever with that there is a cyclone or typhoon State compact to curtail oil pro- the former Central Bank in Han- to the east of Southern Visayas duction during the next three kow, which is at present being
Finance Reuter. or Northern Mindanao, moving years to the 1928 level. Reuter's liquidated by the Ministry of N.W, or N.N.W.
American Service.
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