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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1930.
FUNERAL OF NAVAL DISASTER VICTIMS.
THE
HONGKONG
[PENINSULA HOTEL:
HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTELI
PEAK HOTEL
AND
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HOTELS
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Des Wagons Lits, Poking,
Hotel SAVOY
The Newest and Finest
Hostelry in THE Colony
Convenient ... Cosmopolitan
KOWLOON HOTEL
KOWLOON.
Under the Personal Supervision and Attention of
Phone Nos,
K 608 & K. 609.
Mr. & Mrs. H. J. WHITE.
Cables "KowLOTEL
Hongkong.
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Tel Kowloou Ng. J.
Tel. Address "Palace."
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Mrs. J. H. Oxberry,
Propri.treas.
EUROPE HOTEL "Renowned by Recommendation".
DANCING:
MUSIC:
GRILL:
After Dinner every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
On the VERANDAH every Saturday from 12 noon to 1.30 p.m. and every Tuesday, Thurs- day and Saturday from 7:30 to 8.30 p.m.
Telephone, 5341 (8 lines) Cables "EUROPE" Singapore.
THE EUROPE HOTELLtd. Arthur E. Odell Managing Director.
RUNNYMEDE HOTEL-PENANG
"MALAYA'S NICEST HOTEL"....... With beautiful private lawns to the Sen
MODERN THROUGHOUT
Dinner-dance twice weekly
RUNNYMEDE HOTEL LTD. George Goldsack.
CABLES." RUNNYMEDE."
Manager.
To-day & To-morrow. at 2.30, 5.30, 7.20 & 9,20,
MILTON SILLS
NATALIE KINGSTON
in
"FRAMED "
Hate as black and a man as hard as a diamond in the rough! But a beautiful woman and a tropical moon modelled him into a gem among men !
AT
THE
MAJESTIC
NATHAN ROAD
KOWLOON.
BUSES
Photographs taken at the funeral of the victims of the Sepoy disaster. Top, sailors carrying floral tributes; centre, the impressive scene at the graveside; bottom, the remains being conveyed on gun-carriages to the cemetery. (Photos: Mee Cheung):
SILVER SLUMP
PROBLEM.
STABILITY WOULD BENEFIT WORLD'S TRADERS.
AMERICAN VIEWS.
Guneral
Washington, Apr. 6.
ob- opinion among
"SEPOY" DISASTER
FUND,
NAVY LEAGUE APPEALS TO THE COMMUNITY.
VERY WORTHY CAUSE.
CIRCLE CYCLING
DANGEROUS.
WORSE THAN WHEN NOT USING HANDS.
in
THE
William HAINES
MAGISTRATE'S VIEW.
Mr. Whyte Smith, at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning expressed
The Hongkong Branch of the servers here is that a tariff on Navy League has decided to open silver would offer but little help a special fund for the relief of the the opinion that riding a bicycle in | to the world situation, with pos dependents of the victims of the circles was a greater danger to the
sible harm.
A Department of Commerce recent explosion on H.M.S. Sepoy public than riding a machine with- survey declared that stabilization) and is making a special appeal to of silver would provide a boom for the public to support it.
nut hands on the handle bars, and traders of the world,
Silver
he differentiated between the two
nevertheless would probably con The branch has opened the tinue to play its historic role as a fund with a contribution of £25 offences by imposing fines of $10 luctuating medium.
from its own funds. Mr. A. Lan Chinese who committed breaches One authority pointed out to the United Press that it was generally Shields, the new President of the of the former regulation and $5 overlooked that silver was purely League in Hongkong, Rear-Ad- on those who were guilty of not a commodity, like copper or cornmiral R.A.S. Hill, C.B.E, the Vice using their hands on the Production of silver was found to
bars.
have been steadily on the increase President, and members of the since 1921, with a consequent ten- Committee express the hope that dency toward overproduction just
as would be the case with any numNECZN other commodity în like "circum- stances.
It is believed here that there is only a remote possibility of China's adoption of a gold stan- dard, despite recommendations to that end by the Kemmerer -Com-
Help the Navy League's Sepoy Fund. He gives twice who gives quickly?
handle
His Worship gave it as his view
that when riding without hands, the rider had a certain amount of con- trol of the machine and was not such a danger to other traffic as when circling. He said a cyclist
course
mission and other authorities, contributions from the Colony's could maintain a straight since China neither controls nor residents will be forthcoming and even if he did not use his hands. possesses suficient stocks of gold point out that the object. in view He himself had ridden a push bicy to bring this about,
will be helped considerably if con le without using his hands and
Dispatches received from Colàtributions can be sent in as quick had had control of the machine.
...".
Sub-Inspector Chester Woods re-
rado and other Western States ly as possible. show that a trade newspaper came. These should be sent to Mr. W A. Dowley, the treasurer, at Room paign has been started, urging 22, fourth floor, Alexandra Build plied that he had had a similar ex- young men to become. prospectorsings. They will be acknowledged pertence, but he had also fallen off
The campaign declares that from time to time in the Press. American youth should emulate)
because of a stone on the roadway.
By opening the fund the Navy If a machine ran over an obstacle,
the young men of the days of 49 League gives residents a means of and buying burros, picks, bacon and flour to go forth on the hunt expressing In a practical form the bicycle would probably dash into for gold. Such a course would sympathy for the bereaved rela- some pedestrian before the rider solve the unemployment problem tives of the victims of the explo- could control the machine. in the United States and increase ion and also an opportunity of
that it was
more serious to ride in circles.
the world supply of gold, because illustrating Hongkong's apprecia- His Worship held Printed and Published for the Proprietor's by FREDERICK PERCY gold was plentiful in the moun- tion of the debt which it owes to FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoristains,
the Navy. Heurkong,
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