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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1929.
NANKING ON THEIR|SPLENDID GIFT TO PARIS FEARS MAY
THE
HONGKONG
PENINSULA HOTEL;
HONGKONG 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, Poklag...
HOTEL METROPOLE
Contral, Convonfonce, Cam-
fort, Good Moals & Medorate ratos.
HOTEL BOA VISTA, MACAO. Ideal Place for work onde,
HOTEL METROPO
KOWLOON HOTEL
KOWLOON.
Under the Personal Supervision and Attention of
Phone Nos.
K. 608 & K. 609;
Mr. & Mrs. H. J. WHITE.
Cables KowLOTEL
Hongkong.
PALACE HOTEL.
Tel. Kowloon No. 3,
Tel Address :"
PALACE,
UNDER ENTIRELY EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT,
A Bent class Residential and Tourist Hotel with all' the conveniences
of Homo.
Bar and three Billiard Tablow; twn in New Billiard Saloon. Moderate Torm familica specially exteral for.
Hotel newly renovated.
MRS, JH, OXBERRY,
Proprietress.
EUROPE
After dinner dancing every Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
Cables :-
"EUROPE"
Singapore.
HOTEL
SINGAPORE
Grill
THE EUROPE HOTEL LTD.
Arthur E. Odoll, Managing-Director.
RUNNYMEDE HOTEL LTD-PENANG
(Incorporated in the Straits Settlements,) LARGEST BALLROOM IN THE STRAITS.
Overlooking the Sea.
Hot and Gold Running Water.
Highest Quality Catering.
Modora Sanitary System Zuropean Chet.
PRODUCTS DIRECT FROM LONDON ‘MARKET. CABLES.-"RUNNYMEDE." WILLIAM HAROLD PERRY-Manager
GAY KEE,
Sanitary Merchant & Engineer', `
DAVID HOUSE, Hongkong,
P. T. FARRELL
Consulting Engineer & Manufacturers' Representative.
Agencies for:
Bolinder's Crude Oil Engines Marine, Stationary and Lighting.
"WYANDOTTE" Boiler Cleaner and Cleanser.
King's Bulldog. Top Floor.
Telephone Céntral 4422, Talegraphic åðdræer
**FABBEKING"
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DIGNITY:
KUOMINCHUN CONDEMNED FOR SHANTUNG ACTION,
HOSPITAL FUND.
· DAY TROUBLE.
LORD REVELSTOKE LEAVES £100,000.
DRASTIC PRECAUTIONS BY HOME' SECRETARY.
TENSION UNRELAXED. THANKS TO “AUDAX" AGITATORS DETAINED.
Nanking, Apr, 30.
London, Apr. 30. ̧
to
Paris, Apr. 30. Like Germany, France is appre- hensive of trouble to-morrow when Labour organisations plan to hold the usual May Day celebrations.
Drastic precautions against un-! toward incidents have been taken by the Minister of the Interior, as the result of which, 'It has been .considered necessary to arrest a large number of suspicious foreigners.
A statement regarding the week.
It is learned that Lord Revel- end developments over the occupa stoke, who died suddenly in Paris tlan of Shantung, suggesting as the result of a heart attack when strong feeling against Feng Yu-attending the Reparations Confer- hsiang, is reported to have been crice as the principal British dele made by General Ho Ying-ching, gate, has bequeathed £100,000 to the Chief of Staff to the Nation- King Edward's Hospital Fund, the alist Army.
income from which is to be dis- According to Chinese reports,tributed annually. General Ho Ying-ching declared that as General Sun Liang-sing The following letter has been ad- was officially appointed as Civil dressed by Lord Stamfordham, the
Raids were carried out in differ- Privato Secretary Governor of Shantung by the King's
ont parts of the city last night, Central Government, It was
"Audax,"
the donor of the Gift and twenty-five of the suspects Kross breach of discipline to re- of
hundred *` thousand have been expelled from the coun- tire with his troops without the guinean
Thank-Offering try, including M. Bespaloff, the the King's consent of the Nanking authori Fund for
re President of the Lyons Union for ties.
covery: "Dear Audax. The pro- the Repatriation of Russians. poal to express your gratitude for Bespaloft is a well-known mem- the King's recovery in the nobleber of the Third Internationale and generous manner indicated in and it is believed that he was sent your letter is welcomed with feel to Paris for the express purpose' inga of deep appreciation by His of directing foreign Communist Majesty.
ngitation, and to foster denions- trations to-morrow..
His truculent attitude, and the manner of his expression of dla satisfaction at the Central Government's decisions regarding the disposition of troops, is to be strongly condenied.
General Ho stated that a.tele- gram had been despatched to Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, instruct- ing him to advise his subordinates retiring from Shantung to return and to respect the dignity of the Nanking authorities.
Ridiculous Position.
.one
t
The one hundred thousand guineas will indeed find a splen- did nucleus to the appent made by King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, and the King knows by experience that the whole amount of this thank-offering will be wisely and effectively administer
Mr. Wu Han-min is stated to have commented, on the situation in similar terms, characterlainged by the Council. the exeuse of illness advanced by
For almost thirty years, His Ma- General Sun Llang-singajesty has taken the deepest inter- | absurd pretext,
est in the Fund, of which he was President for some nine years, and He condemned General Sun ds he, emphasises what the hospitals endeavouring to put the National of London owe to its admirable Government into a ridiculous posi-work and administration. tion, while there might be a grave
Moreover, owing to his recovery possibility of international con- from a long and serious illness the plications if there were
King recognises his debt of grati-
insun-
M. Davilleux, the 'Secretary of the Extremist Trade Unionist Confederations, whom his party had instructed to remain in hiding until to-morrow, was also arrested. ----Reuter,
Border Countries Follow.
Riga, Apr. 30. The Latvian authorities have forbidden May Day demonstra- tions. The police to-day raided Communist headquarters and seized correspondence from the Third Internationale, threatening. to discontinue financing the Lat- vian "Comrades" unless they de monstrated on May Day.
cient troops in Shantung to guar-tade to the doctors, surgeons, and the Lithuanian Government has is-
antee perce and order.
It is reported in Chinese circles that the Nanking Government may shortly demand an inquiry Into the reasons for General Sun Liang-sing's sudden relirement from Shantung.
In view of the delicacy of the situation, the newspapers were the prohibited from publishing facts of the Shantung trouble, though a number of veiled hints. have been given.
A Chengehow message says that Feng Yu-hsiang fully endorsed,tlie action of his subordinate, Sun Liang-sing, and there seems little doubt that the retirement was ear- ried out under instructions from Marshal Feng.
Marshal Chiang Kai-shek' is ex- pected in Nanking to-morrow.
FRENCH AVIATION
PROSPECTS.
AIR SERVICES TO AND IN FAR EAST?
Paris, Apr. 30.
It is learned from Kovno, that
ed down all Socialist organisa- sued a similar order, and has clos tions-Reuter,
urses, and that it is in the great hospital that both medical science has developed and the nursing
Three hundred and fourteen profession has been trained to its present standard of excellence-persons suspected of "militant communism" have now been ar Reuter and British Wireless.
rested in Paris. Troops from
DOUGLAS
FAIRBANKS
The
D'ARTAGNAN
IRON MASK
ALLAN DIVAN
THE SCREEN'S SPREDIEST STAR
AS FICTION'S
MOST FASCINAT- ING FIGURE!
UNITED
ARTISTS PICTURE
The Three Musketeers** "dety; "danger once again in a spirited tale of great
heroism!
SPARKLING WITH THE CHARM- neveral provincia! garrisons have AND GLAMOUR OF OLDEN FRANCEI
arrived and the police have been TUESDAY'S SOLAR reinforced.--Reuter.
ECLIPSE,
SHOULD BE QUITE VISIBLE
IN HONGKONG.
HOW TO OBSERVE IT:
SHOCK FOR LOCAL MOTORISTS.
(Continued from Pago:L). :. 1928. A local dificulty might be smuggling. But as the article la The following Information In bulky this difficulty, which means regard to the solar eclipse which smuggling from Canton, would takes place on Tuesday next is not be real unless the tax were courteously forwarded by Mr. C. made much higher, any 40 cents, a W. Jeffries, acting Director of the gallon. The duty on importation o China is considerably more than Royal Observatory:
that proposed for Hongkong.
An eclipse of the sun occurs on May 9th. visible in its total phase on a line extending from a point in the Indian Ocean 600 miles to the South-West of Madagascar
Solid Tyres Expensive,
There are only about three large firms who import petrol into Hongkong. It should be easy to At a dinner given in honour of across Northern Sumatra, Malaya,license. Such firms for wholesale! Bailly and Reginensi, the Air Min-India-China and the Philippines, dealing and duty collected from ister declared that their recent It will be visible as a
partial
these firms on returns periodically light gave very useful indieations eclipse over East Africa, India, given to the revenue authorities, for the establishment of a regular the greater part of China, Japan, such returns being checked by the air service between France and the East Indies and Australia,
difference between Exports and Indo-China.
In Hongkong the standard timen Imports and amount lu storage.
follows:
|
Beginning.
In addition. French airmen will of the various phases are រា this year make trial lights from Itangoon to Indo-Chins, and the air service may later be extended further East. The project is be ing submitted to the Chamber- Havas...
SANITARY BOARD VACANCY.
MR. M. K. LO THE ONLY CANDIDATE.
Centre of Eclipse
End
**
As it is not advisable to put too great a tax on petrol, the Com- 2.5pm.mittee sinte, it becomes necessary to increase the tax on motor vehicles by other means and it is recommended that the system in force in Great Britain be adopted.
3.21 4.3.1
During the greatest phase, 64 of the sun's surface will be eclips
ed by the moon's disc. The first That is, in addition to the Petrol and last contacts occur at angles Tax there should be a horse power of 221 and 147 respectively from tax on private vehicles, a seating the north point of the sun,
on Hackney vehicles and
tax
1
The phenomenon may be obser- weight tax on commercial vehicles ved in any telescope with a suit-ie lorries. It is further proposed able coloured screen. A telescope to treble the last mentioned tax with a positive eye piece (le, an in the case of solid tyred lorries Contrary to exceptations, the inverting or astronomical teles-owing to the great damage done to only candidate for the seAL on cope) can be arranged as a photo-roads by such vehicles.
The Committee were of the the Sanitary Board vacated by graphle lens to project an image opinion that solid tyred vehicles Dr. S. C. Ho le Mr. M. K.. Lo, of the sun on a suitably placed could not be prohibited, and in whose nomination has been pro white screen. posed by the Hon. Sir Henry Pollock and seconded by the Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton,
Scen at one o'clock this after- noon, when the time-limit for the sonding in of nominations closed, the Registrar, Mr. C. A, D. Melbourne, said that as there. was only one nomination, the process of holding an election would not be called for.
"CHEAP YELLOW
LABOUR."
RUSSIANS OBJECT TO
· CHINESE WORKERS.
BRADFORD CITY ON TOP AT LAST:
LEAGUE-WINNING VICTORY
AT ROCHDALE? ·
London, Apr. 30. Bradford City go to the head of the Third Division (North) as the result of a brilliant victory at Rochdale to-day. The champion-- ship was probably at stake in this game, and; Bradford City played splendidly, winning by three goals to one.
order to discourage their use have suggested increased concr fees for such vehicles.
70,015.08
Comparable Figures," | Justification for the heavy Increases involved in many cases is provided by an annexure, show- ing that the amount spent in 1928, on maintenance of roads open to Motor Trafie was as follows:- Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in City...... Maintenance of Ronds and Bridges outaldo City.. Maintenance of Roads and
Bridges in Kowloon Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in New Kow- Joon Maintenance of Roads and
Bridges in New Terri Lorles
Total
19,008,09 05,074.12
AT THE
QUEEN'S
AT THE
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.16 & 9.20. Increased Prices.
LON
CHANEY
As mid haunted
essila that awal- lown up a young
girl la mout amazing plot- A fantasy af apaatran, wilrå --abadows, and the strange da- alzens of the world beyond!
LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT
With MARCELINE DAY
& CONRAD NAGEL Produced by TOD BROWNING
WORLD TO-DAY AND
Orchestra 5.15 & 9.20.
TO-MORROW
Interpreter 2.50 8.7.10.
LET WOMEN ALONE
comedy drima.
A comedy dime
uations from the Brilliant "Saturday
Evening Post story.....
18,429.21 ON THE SHELF'
63,921.89
9817,780.08
The amount collected in Motor Licence feos; in 1928, was as follows:
Riga, Apr. 30.
The leaders in the Division are Russian Trade Union represen-now shown in the league table as taliven have protested to Moscow follows: against the employment of "cheap Bradford C. 41 23 9 0 125 42 61 yellow labour" as being Inconeld- Stockport 41.27 0 8 108 50 60 tent with the principles of a pro-Wrexham 41 21 10 10 00 60 62 letarian dictatorship.
The protest is a sequel to the. On Saturday, when the last Motor Car Licences importation of Chinese labour for matches of the season are to be Motor Drivers' Licences the cotton fields in Ferghana and played, Bradford City are at home Uzbek from Chinese Turkestan to South Shields, wille Stockport Reuter,
are at home to Barrow-Reuter.
.Total
$ 31.704,00
25,400.75
$117,134.75
"With
PAT O'MALLEY, ETHEL WALES, WALLACE BEERY, WANDA HAWLEY.
AT THE
STAR TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW
At 5.30 only
9.15 THE ITALIAN GRAND OPERA CO.-9.15,