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HOTELS.

THE

HONGKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL

Telegraphio Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG."

AND

SHANGHAI

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HOTELS,

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel Des Wagons Lits, Peking.

KOWLOON HOTEL.

THE PREMIER HOTEL KOWLOOV,

First Clam Bard Room & Baloon Bar.i

Electric Gift and Telephone to each Floor.

Tei. K.600 and K.609, Cable address :-.-KOWLOON HOTEL, Hongkong, Under the Parasnat Supervision and Management of

FRANK L. COOKE, Proprietor.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

MOENTRAL LOCATION

ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING,

TILEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR,

HOTEL LAUNCH MEĒTS 'ALL STEÁMERS

Tel. Central 373.

Tolegraphlo Address -"VICTORIA"

THE EUROPE HOTEL.

SINGAPORE.

FOR

COMFORT-FOOD-MUSIC-DANCING

Terms: A la carte or Inclusive.

The after-dinner dances are held every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, Telephones in every room,

The Europe Orchestra plays nightly during Dinner, and for Tiffin on Saturdays.

GRILL

Telegrams "Europe Singapore". Telephone 2740,

ROOM

ARTHUR K. ODELL, Managing Director.

TO WORK IN COMFORT DURING THE "DAY, AND REIT IN COMFORT DURINGTHE NIGHT,

USE

SKETOCIDE

and quickly rid the Officeand Home, of all

MOSQUITOES. FLIES. SANDFLIES, Etc., Etc. SKETOCIDE kills all insects.

SKETOCIDE is pleasant in use

SKETOCIDE is nonstaining

THE

SKETOCIDE is nonpoisonous..

PHARMACY,

Asiatic Building, 26 Queen's Road Central. Tel, 343

POST OFFICE NOTICE.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1925.

Entertainments.

To-day till Saturday

AT

2.-30, 5. 15, 7. 15, & 9. 15

FIRST NATIONAL

PRESENTS.

RICHARD

BARTHELMESS

The public are advised that correspondence intended for Canton will, if superscribed "By Train", be transmitted in the mail closed at 8.15 am. daily and forwarded by the 0.15 train from Kowloon.

Radio Traffic with Canton is suspended until further notice. Interport radio "telegrams are subject to delay of 2 hours, Messages in code must have name of code used included in text

The Radio office has reverted to its normal working hours, viz: G.P.O. Counter-8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Radio Office.-5 p.m. to 8 a.m.

3ed flour, G.P.O. Building. p.m. to .8 .m.

From

Australia and Manila

INWARD MAILS.

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TREBITSCH LINCOLN ALCOHOL FROM BEETLES.

AGAIN.

FAMOUS SPY IN CHINA.

Berlin, Sept. 9.

Remarkable Biological Discovery.

Professor Maxwell Lofroy, Ec-

Rothampstoad.

Among the beneficiaries of the amnesty granted on the occasion onomic Biologist at the Imperial of the Hindenburg election Is College of Science, gave a repre- Trebitsch Lincoln, the ex-Liberal sentative of the London Morning Member of Parliament who acted Post recently instances of the as chief of Kapps Press Depart-value of the work carried out at ment. Lincoln is reported as now

The Imperial College, he said, being political adviser to Wa Pei- fu and organiser of much anti-was attempting to realise one of the dreams of the biologist. Thoy British propaganda in China-had discovered that the death Reuter.

watch bootle, which is the bane Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch of historic churches and historic Lincoln is a Hungarian by birth homes, contains in its body an who went to England at an early organism related to yeast which age where he became naturalised. is able to change the cellulose of A man of considerable attain-wood fibre into what chemists des. mente, he later became for a po-cribe as a sugar, from which it riod Member of Parliament for may be possible economically to Darlington. Early in the war he produce power alcohol. It re went to America, where he engag-mained to be seen whether this ed in espoinage on, bohalf of Ger-discovery might not form the many on a large scale. He was basis of a very valuable commer exposed and denounced, in 1915 cial process. It was an economic and later went to Germany.]

SIBERIAN MAIL.

Tampered With.

Apropos the many references to the suspected interference with mail transported ovor Siberia is

biologist who isolated a bacterium. that could ferment rice, maize, or chestnuts into acetone, and thus mado, this country independent of wood as an otherwise essential source of acetone.

After citing examples of the smallness of the fees paid to biol- ogists in comparison with the great saving of money to which their discoveries lead, Professor Lofroy continued:-

"I have no hesitation in 'saying that the economic biologist can a letter published in the Peking savo immense sums to the coun-. and Tientsin Times, in which the try. The tragedy is that the men writer declares that a letter he are available, but their services received had been opened in trans-are not made use of; the labore: it and the contents of another tories are available, but the funds letter inserted-emphasizing the are not existent for carrying out suspicions ontertained in Shang- the necessary researchos; tho hai

public are anxious to be provided His letter states: "I am in re-with the necessary information, ceipt of a letter, by this week's but will not pay the biologist or Siberian mail which has been the institution for which he works opened in the post, during transit, the fees that are readily given to my correspondence has been the doctor who tends them, the takon out, and correspondence, clergyman who marries thom, or with snap shots, intended for the barrister who guides them. someone else inserted, the only through the mazes of the Law olue as to who it was intended for Courts. But all the same, the is that the lottor is written by a work continues and will con little girl in the name of Sophie, tinuo."

and a little boy named Montio,

from Manor Mill Lodge, Dun

drum Co., Dublin, Ireland. Por The rescue of two bathers by haps with the little information Lieat Commander Kenworthy

The new P. & O. passenger ship given and the aid of your paper has brought out that he is one of Ranchi run a successful trial arip you can put me in communica- the strongest men in the House on July 29. The Ranchi, ation, with the gentleman the of Commons, but he is not with handsomely modelled passenger letter and snaps are intended for." and mail steamer, is the two sis- tar ships built by R. and W. Haw- thorn' Leslie and Co., at its Heb burn shipbuilding yard, and sho will take her place in the com-

pany's service between London and Bombay..

The Soviet government, dia. antisfied with some of its foreign embassies and legations is plan ning a sort of travelling phoka which will travel over the world and check up on the diplomats,

out rivale at Westminster, Colo- nol Cuthbert James, over 6ft, is an er-Army boring champion; Mr. Penny, another six-footer, Hundreds of English dancing whose Far Eastern knowledge:is girls in Paris and all foreign often useful to the House, plays. music-hall performers appearing golf, tennis, and cricket in the there will be affected by the decl-Parliamentary fixtures, and Com ston taken by the Paris Municipal mander Oliver. Losker-Lampson Council recently to impose a tax attained some success at thro on the salary of all foreign artists, ing the hammer

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