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WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1927.

GOING HOME?

If you are returning to Europe or America, WHY NOT GET THE BEST ACCOMMODATIONS while travelling, by ALLOWING US to protect your reservations?

THE AMERICAN EXPRESS CO, INC., are official agents for all steamship and railroad lines throughout the world and issue all tickets at turiff rates.

AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVELLERS' CHEQUES GOLD DOLLARS, STERLING OR FRANCS provide security against lans ve theft and are the must convenient method of carrying money, THESE CHEQUES HAVE STOOD THE TEST OF TRAVEL and

IRSE CHE ali banks cash them readily. After banking hours, as at other times, hotels, shops and restaurants accept them in payment.

For largo sums of money, it is convenient to carry AMERICAN EXPRESS LETTERS OF CREDIT. Their use nuong travellers the world over has been established by their unquestioned reliability and rendy recognition. An added feature is that drafts under our Letters are exchangeable for AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVELLERS' CHE- QUES at our branches at a charge of 1 per cent.

Complute information can be obtained on application to- THE AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., INC.,

Phone C. 4625,-

4-A. Des Voeux Road, Central, Hong Kong.

PHONE C. 416.

THE ASIA COMPANY

GENERAL STOREKEEPERS

SHIP & FAMILY COMPRADORES

9. POTTINGER ST.,

HONG KONG.

Only the Finest British and American Goods are Stocked by us. Price List on Application.

THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO., LTD.

ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER MAKERS, BRASS and IKON FOUNDENS. All work done in this establishment is guaranteed. We have over thirty years' experience. 'We own two Slipways and can Recommodate any craft of 200 feet long.

Town Office: 64, Connaught Road Central, Hongkong, Tel, Central No. 459.

· Shipyard: Sham-Sul-Po, Kowloon, Hongkong.

Tel. Kowloon No. 9,

Estimates furnished on application.

Hongkong, April 1, 1924.

CHI WAH. TAILORING,

Once known as Chison. Perfect fit guaranteed. 0, Wyndham Street.

TANG YUK, DENTIST

Successor to

the late SIEN TING. 14. D'Aguilar Street.

TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Fret.

HIGH

GRADE

VIRGINIA

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.

The Lord Mayor of London will inspect in Hyde Park 1,600 St. John Ambulance men (Prince of Wales' Corps) and 600 nurses.

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Twenty-nine appeals are in the list to be dealt with by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council when the Trinity sittings

commence,

The writ for the Brixton by election, caused by the elevation to the peerage of Sir Davison Dalziel was moved in the House of Commons.

Following complaints of dam- aged nets made by fishermen, two large anchors and a torpedo lying at the bottom of the Solent have been removed.

Depicting the life and death of Thomas à Becket, a pageant will be produced at Blythswood, the Essex home of Lord Blyth.

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..Mrs. Mary Milward, an inmate of the Westmorland Road, Wai- worth, S.E., Poor Law institu- tion, who has just celebrated her 101st birthday, held a reception in the 'institution and recited verses of a Spanish love story.

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Struck by an omnibus at Fostersbooth, about 10 miles from Northampton, Mrs. Maycock and her Stony Stratford, Buckingham shire, were killed, but her baby in a push chair escaped practically unhurt.

Line fishing is returning to When fire broke out in the popularity with Hull fishing ves-operating box at a Middlesbrough sel owners owing to its greater cinema, the operator.dropped the success compared with trawling safety curtain, and as the in catching large fish.

orchestra continued playing the audience, mostly children, were not aware for some time of the outbreak.

The Port of London was off cially closed for the annual holi- day in honour of the King's birthday and every dock under the Port of London Authority was deserted.

Nottingham City Council un- animously voted £10,000 for em- bellishing the library of the new university at Nottingham as a memorial to Sir Jesse Boot, who is a freeman of the city.

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A well 22ft. deep, half full of fresh spring water, was found underneath the kitchen of an old house in Hygeia Street, Liver pool, when the tenant took up a cracked flagstone, on which chil- dren used to play, to mend it.

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Attracted by the sound of a shot a police-constable at Twickenham found Mr. Robert Leslie Donh, aged 37, a dentist, of Nicosia Rond, Wandsworth, S.W., lying dead with a revolver by his side in Stray Lane.

A small quantity of rubbish caught fire in Woolwich Arsenal, but the flames were quickly put out.

The Borstal youth John Lee, aged 18, who escaped, was cap- tured at Ferry Bridge, between Weymouth and Portland,

Successful sinking to the Barn- sley coal-bed was accomplished at the new Upton Colliery, North Elmsall, near Doncaster.

At the inquest on Lord Abinger it was stated the cause of death was cardiac failure, and a verdict

of "natural causes" was recorded.

Having previously authorised 18 flag days on various dates in the present year, Walsall Town: Council decided to prohibit any more.

Thieves' who broke into a post office in Camp Street, Lower Broughton, Manchester, took postal orders to the face value of over £800.

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Wolverhampton Town Council, after a heated debate, decided that it was not advisable to allow organised games in the parks on Sundays.

An open-air meeting which Mr. Baldwin addressed at Tregrehan, near St. Austell, was the first in Cornwall at which a Prime Min- ofister has spoken while in office.

Messrs. W. T. Healey's Tele- graph Works Co., Ltd., London, have secured a contract for supplying and laying over 200 armoured telegraph miles of cable for the Eastern Telegraph Company's offices at Port Said and Ismailia.

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Blast-furnace workmen Mr. A. M. Samuel, Parlia- Palmers', Parrow-on-Tyne have mentary Secretary to the Over-received notice that at the end of 14 days they will be employed seas Trade Department, who walked with the aid of a stick,nly from day to day, as the cur- was loudly cheered on taking his tailment or suspension of opera- seat in Parliament for the first tions may be necessary owing to

accumulated stocks of pig iron. time since he broke a leg on March 6.

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A gaat bite which caused a carbuncle on the neck of Mr. Charles Henry Bryson, a City solicitor, of Sandy Lodge Road, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire,

was stated, at the inquest, to have been indirectly responsible for his death.

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At Sotheby's, a copy of the first Edinburgh edition, 1787, of Burns's poems was sold for £18, and a collection of first edition

copies of Sir Walter Scott's works realised £510.

The King has approved of the 5th/6th Dragoons being in future designated the "5th Inniskilling Dragoon Guards" and taking pre- cedence next after the 4th/7th Dragoon Guards.

In connection with its work of London indicating houses in where distinguished persons have

has affixed a glazed ware tablet lived, the London County Council to No. 22, Queen Anne's-gate, to commemorate the fact that Lord Palmerston was born there.

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According to a survey of the United States national income' and wealth made by the National Industrial Conference the nation. al income of the country reached a new peak in 1926, at £15,729,- 800,000, as against slightly less the preceding year.

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When fire broke out in Park- hurst Forest, Isle of Wight, the convicts from Camp Hill Prison were drafted to the spot, and after a long fight with the flames, which were confined to the under- growth of the forest, succeeded with the aid of fire apparatus and sticks in extinguishing them.

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A Sydney city merchant, giv- ing evidence before the Austra- lian Tariff Commission at Sydney, said that the flooding of the Australian market with Ger- man and Continental iron pipe fittings was defeating the efforts.

of the Tariff Board and Parlia- ment tu save Australian manu- facturers from extinction.

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Opposition to a woman serving

on the committee of the training ship "Exmouth," stationed at Til- bury, was raised. at the annual meeting of the Metropolitan Asy- lums Board. "The boys don't like women on board," Mr. A. H. Spaul, a member said. "The pre- sence of women tends to make the boys effeminate.”

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There was a remarkable catch of fish at Aberdeen—a huge shoal of whiting being stranded by the ebbing tide. Thousands lay wriggling on the beach. Women and children filled pails and bas- kets with fine fish, and work- men from the granite yards and factories carried them away in their handkerchiefs and other re- ceptacles until soon not a fish remained on the beach.

An Aylesbury widower who was bold enough to advertise for a housekeeper subsequently lost his nerve. The man was aston- ished early one day to find a queue of women outside his house, and another group of applicants waiting for him in his back gar- den. Considerably embarrassed, he asked them to call another 'day, When they turned up again the house was closed and he had fled the town!

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AND

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KING EDWARD HOTEL.

Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms, newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone. All Trams pass in front of Hotel. Most Moderate Rates in the Colony. Hotel Launch meets all steamers,

The Lounge and Dining Room is now open to the Public. THE KING EDWARD HOTEL BAND will play as under:

TIFFIN HOURS 1 to 2.

Tel. Add: "Victoria." Telephone No. C. 378,

DINNER HOURS 7.30 to 9.

J. H. WITCHELL, Manager.

EMPRESS HOTEL, LTD.

Newly opened on 12th April.

We are famous for our CHINESE DELICACIES and our liquors.

Private telephones and hot and cold baths with every room. Luxuriously furnished with the best Chinese Furni- ture. Every modern convenience.

159-161, Connaught Road Central. Phones: C. 5384, C.5385, C. 5386, C. 5387, C.5388. Cable address: "Emphotel."

TUNG SHAN HOTEL.

IS NOW OPEN.

EVERY MODERN CONVENIENCE. Private telephone, hot and cold water basin and European baths. Lavishly furnished. Chinese and European dishes can he served.

Facing the harbour. 37-39 Connaught Road West.

Tel. C.5505,

Tel, C.5506,

EMPRESS LODGE..

Tel Kowloon 236.

Tel. Add, “Empresloge." 2-12, Mody Road, Kowloon,

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Private Hotel, best location in Kowloon, convenient to ferry, nie of 2 or 3 rooms, also bed-sitting-rooms, daily. monthly rates. Excellent cuisine, special rates for familles. For information apply to

MRS. E. OWEN MURPHY,

Proprietress,

ST. GEORGE & CLERMONT HOTELS

HOND KONG & KOWLOON

ST. GEORGE HOTEL

,284, Kennedy Blend, liong Kong.

Eight malantan walk from illake far, Beautifully altusted averlooking Botanical Gardens, Hong Hong 'Harbour. Large, newly furnished rooms spacious Verandahs, Modern cunebalanced. First, Claws Cataloni and xétendance.

Telegrams-Nuican.

Phone C. 4797

CLERMONT HOTEL

0,19, 11, 12, Chatham. Boad, Hovicon.

Apiandid location in best part of Kowloon. Full siòw at Hong Kong and Harbong Banco, newly, furulikud, voll veniliated rugme nad vorandala, All modura Gunvaudenead, Catering of the best under Kuropean ezparvision.

Telegram-Nutosa-

Phone J. 810.

For terms and Information Culovo, Hotels apply:

Mrs. F. E. CAMERON

Proprie

Necessity Brought Us Into Existence IMPERIAL CAFE

60, Nathan Road, Kowloon.

We respectfully request the favour of your Patronage. -

English Meals prepared under Ideal condition.

50 CENTS

NO EXTRAS.

English Management.

QUALITY-CLEANLINESS--CIVILITY.

NO TIPS.

Open from 8 am. till midnight..

ADELPHI HOTEL.

SINGAPORE.

The ONLY HOTEL in Singapore fitted throughout with"

MODERN SANITATION TEA DANCES

EVERY TUESDAY

AFTER DINNER DANCES EVERY WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY & SATURDAY

ROOF GARDEN CINEMA

EVERY SUNDAY EVENING LADIES' LOUNGE

Cables: Adelphl

MASSAGE

Mr. SHIMIZU Mrs. HONDA.

No. 24, Wyndham Street. TOL C. 4945,

PALM COURT ADELPHI HOTEL, LTD., HARRY H. WILLIES,

Managing Director. -

MASSAGE NAKAMURA

No. 23, Stanley Street,

2nd floor.