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THE HONG KONG $ DIRECTORY
1928 Issue
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CABLE AND WIRELESS. WALL ST. ENVIOUS.
Eastern Telegraph And Marconi Fusion.
PROVISIONAL ARRANGEMENT.
New Holding-Company Subject To
*Official Agreement.
London, Yesterday.
An Irish-American Speculator.
STAGES BIG RISE.
Coup In Radio Stock Brings la Fortune.
MR. H. HOOVER.
Sensation in House of Representatives.
SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS.
Commerce Secretary's Resignation Demanded.
New York, Yesterday.
Washington, Yesterday. Mr. Brand (Republican) Ohio, The Eastern and Associated! The whole of Wall Street is en- Telegraph Companies and Mar-viously admiring the American caused a sensation at a crowded coni's wireless telegraph com- Irishman, Michael Meehan who, meeting of the House of Repre- pany announce that a provisional almost single-handed, staged the sentatives by demanding the re- arrangement has been reached re-sensational rise in Radio Corpore-signation of Mr. Hoover, the Secretary of Commerce, on the garding the fusion of the twotion stock. companies interests through the Twenty years ago he was sell-ground that his office, is honey- medium of a proposed holding ing tickets at a Broadway theatre combed with politics and that Mr. company subject to a satisfactory ageney. Yesterday's coup is be. Hoover had been largely financ agreement with the British Gov-lieved to have yielded him one to ing his presidential campaign from the Federal Treasury. He ernment, the Dominions and the three million sterling. Government of India, and also to Rivals say that "his daring and instanced Mr. Hoover's recent ap- acceptance by the companies' success has probably never been stockhollers and shareholders. equalled." Renter's American
It is added that no announce- | Service. ment of the terms of the arrange- ment can be made in the meantime as the consumption is dependent upon the above-mentioned con- ditions.--Reuter.
FIVE MORE DEAD.
COLOMBO-GALLE EXPRESS
COLLISION.
DEATH ROLL NOW 26.
Colombo, Yesterday.
NO NEWS YET.
HINCHCLIFFE AND HON. ELSIE MACKAY.
TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT.
London, Yesterday,
No further news has been receiv- jed here of Captain Hinchcliffe and
paintment of the Assistant Secre- tary of Commerce who he (Mr. Brand) asserted, was now running Mr. Hoover's campaign in Ohio,- Reuter's American Service.
BERT HINKLER.
RECEIVES A CHEQUE FOR £2,000.
THE WORLD'S SWEETHEART in a brand new riotous comedy of youth and love!-
MARY
PICKFORD
IN
MY
BEST GIRL
With."
CHARLES ROGERS.
A
UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE.
A story enlivened with a thousand hearty laughs and through it
all the vibrant joy of the delightful comedienne.
CANBERRA'S WELCOME.
AT THE
Canberra, Yesterday: Bert, Hinkler has landed
here.
the Hon. Elsie Mackay who left Cranwell is Lincolnshire yesterday He received a tumultuous reception morning in an aeroplane In an at- and was presented with a cheque
The death roll in the Galle-tempt to fly the Atlantic. They for £2,000 by Mr. Bruce on behalf Colombo express collision
twenty-six-Reuter,
An earlier cable read:
Twenty-one persons were
is now should have been reported from of the Australian
killed
in a head-on collision, near Kalu-
Newfoundland by noon to-day- Reuter. British Wireless Service.
Sinclair Turns Up.
London, Yesterday.
tara, 28-miles south of Colombo, Gordon Sinclair has emerged between a passenger-train and the from obscurity and visited Mrs. Galle-Colombo express. The en-Hinchcliffe, gine and three carriages of the express were badly damaged and the engine and two carriages of the passenger-train were smashed.
Government-
MOTOR CYCLE COLLISION.
About 6.10 p.m. yesterday, a rather serious motor accident oc- Interviewed by Reuter, Sinclair curred in Nathan-road just past; stated that only a couple of hours Granville-road, when motor cycle before the endeavour was started, No. 960, ridden by Mr. B. Wong, Miss Mackay decided to accompany collided with motor cycle No. 990, Hinchcliffe. "Now we are waiting ridden by two Portuguese sailors. was carrying a anxiously but are still full of hope Mr. B. Wong U. S. A. POPULATION. as Hinchliffe has frequently refer pillion rider, Mr. Francis Zim- mern, who was injured on the legs.
GAIN OF 14 PER CENT. ESTIMATED.
Washington, Yesterday. Although the next Federal census does not occur before' 1930 the Census Bureau estim- ates the population of the United States on July 1 will be 120,013,- 000, an increase of 14 per cent. over the census of 1920 Florida shows the largest gain.-Reuter's American Service.
McCOY BILL.
ELECTION CONTROL
REJECTED.
Managua, Yesterday. The House of Representatives, by a majority of 22, votes to 16, re- jected the McCoy Bill proposing to authorise United States superviafon presidential of the Nicaraguan election in October. Reuter's American Service.
NEW DIRECTORY.
DETAILED INFORMATION ON SHANGHAL.
"HONGS & HOMES" FOR 1928.
CLOUDY AGAIN.
Official Weather Forecast For
To-morrow.
The Japanese Ambassador and Baroness Matsui, Viscountess Elibank, Sir Laurence and Lady Guillemard, Sir Edwin and Lady Stockton, and Lady Gershom The local weather forecast till Stewart were among the guests of noon to-morrow ie:-north-east the Marchioness of Londonderry at winds, fresh; generally cloudy. a reception at Londonderry House, The mid-day weather report Park-lane, to meet the Prime Minis states:-The anti-cyclone is prob-ter on February 6. ably central over, West Man- churia. Fresh monsoon may be expected along the south-east coast of China and over the North China Sea.
red to the possibility of pushing on to Philadelphia if possible and if the petrol aboard lasts 45 to 50
hours."--Reuter.
Close Watch Kept.
that it can be token for granted that the pilot Gordon Sinclair is ac companying Hinchliffe. "As re- gards Miss Mackay, I do not know what to think."
Mrs. Sinclair has heard nothing from her husband-Reuter.
Pour Visibility.
New York, Yesterday. Although a sharp lookout is be- London, Yesterday. ing kept on ships at sea and wire- Captain Hinchcliffe, the well-less stations on the coast between known British airman who left the here and New Foundland nothing aerodrome at Croydon on a flight had been heard of Hinchliffe up to for an unknown destination yeater-10 this marning. Favourable wea- day, was seen off the Irish coast ther was reported last night off yesterday afternoon.
Nova Scotia, but the liner "Celtic," He is believed to be heading for 500 miles from New York, wireless- Newfoundland, 1,800 miles away, ed she was running into a norther- to be the first airman to cross the ly gale.
Boston Atlantic direct in an aeroplane,
His effort was kept a close secret. ports poor visibility and dense fog A report from Newfoundland on the. New England coast-Eeu-
A message from
A book of exceptional interest to states that weather is favourable. ter's American Service. the business communities of the A close watch is being kept for the Far East and of considerable value airman from land and by the fish- to the resident of Shanghai hasing fleets engaged in operacions
St. Johns, Newfoundland,
Yesterday.
Was At noon the weather
re.
fine
made its apearance in "Hongs 200 miles off the const.-British with north-westerly winds of in- Homes" (1928), the Shanghai sec- Wireless Service. tion of Rosenstock's business direc- tory of China. The book is indexed
and contains detailed information
Possible Clue.
London, Yesterday. The only news possibly beating
creasing force. There is nɔ news of Hinchliffe-Reuter.
Lord Inchcape's House.
London, Yesterday.
of Hongs, residents' names and ad-on Hinchliffe's whereabouts was At 8 o'clock this morning, there dresses, cable addresses, Chinese received from the Western Union had been no news received in Lon- Hong names, Classified trades and Cable Company operator at Hearts don of Hinchcliffe, who is flying to
the New York. professions, trade agencies and re- Content, Newfoundland, to presentations, street
The staff of Lord Inchcape's town directory, effect that the Company's repairer ladies' section, motoring section, says he saw a 'plane passing in a house waited all night long for news municipal information, plans of north-westerly direction between of Lord Inchcape's daughter, the Shanghai theatres and detailed in- Kellingrews and Holyrood at 6.83 Hon. Elsie Mackay, as she had not formation as to other recreations, Greenwich Mean Time in the returned, and nothing had been heard travel facilities, etc.
locality of 70 miles south of St. of her.
The Directory is prefaced with a Johną. short description of Shanghai's in- stitutions and report of various trade activities also by some use- ful maps.
No information is given as to out- ports as this is left to the Directory of China now entering its thirty- fourth year. It is purely a Shang- hal directory and it certainly ap pears to contain everything needed both in the home and in the office. Its price is $5.
Accompanied By Pilot. Hinchliffe's agent stated to-day (Continued at foot of preceding
Column.)
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR
The clearing rate of the dollar, on demand, to-day. was 2/0 3/16.
Thus the report that she was ac- companying Hinchcliffe as relief pilot--which she denied last week-~! is apparently true.-Router.
Nothing Heard. St. Johna, Newfoundland,
Yesterday.
At 6 o'clock this morning the weather was, fine and clear and favourable for flying, but the wire- less stations had heard nothing of Hinchcliffe during the night.- Reuter.
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