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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

HOTELS.

THE

HONGKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL Talographio Address: "KREMLIN, "HONGKONG."

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; [KALEE HOTEL: MAJESTIC HOTEL. Telographic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAI."

HOTELS,

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hote! Des Wagons Lits, Peking.

KOWLOON HOTEL

THE PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON.

First Class Billiard Room and Saloon Bar.

Electric Lift and Telephone to each Floor, Tels. K.608 & K.609. Cable address: KOWLOTEL, Hongkong, Under the Fersonal Supervision and Management of FRANK L. COOKE Propeiator.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

COENTRAL LOCATION

ELECTRIO LIFTS AND LIGHTING, TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR, HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS

Tol Vedtral 373,

THE

Telegraphie Address “Fioronia"

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

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ROOM

HACKERBRAU

BEER

ESTABLISHED 1714.

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SOLE AGENTS THE CENTRAL TRADING CO.,

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Managing Director.

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COMPANY MEETING.

GRAND HOTEL DES WAGONS-

LITS LIMITED.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER :16, 1928.

1.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

THE AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS.

Melbourne, November 14.

A Period of Disappointment,

A record poll is hasured in to-day's election owing to compulsory The annual meeting of the voting. Mr. Bruce's Anal appeal to the electors, particularly the Grand Hotel Des Wagon-Lits "women, declares: "The paramount issue is maintenance of supremacy Limited was held in the registered of constitutional government." offices, 16 Des Saturday.

Voeux Road, on Though a bitter class feeling has been aroused in the campaign, it is generally very orderly. The main points of Mr. Bruce's platform The Chairman, Mr., F. M. Ray-, are a promise of national insurance legislation, insistence, on secret mond, presided and other directors ballots in trade unions before a strike is decided, a proposal to present were the Hon. Mr. P. H. subsidize road construction in order to facilitate the transport of Helyoak, Mr. R. F. Mattingly and farm produce and a proposal that Parliament vote £20,000,000 to Mr. M. J. Hawker.

build cottage homes for elty workers.

The Chairman, in moving the

The Labour Party has devoted energies to denouncing the adoption of the report and ac- Red menace as an election bogey and declaring that a constitutional counts sald: In accordance with Labour Party is more qualified to deal with extremists than are the precedent established last "Reactionaries."

NATIVE FRANCHISE RIGHTS.

year, we have shown the Profit & Both sides especially appeal to the hitherto unpolled non-party Loss Account and Balance Sheet electors, The Ministerialists are asking for a mandate to deal with as they

will appear should you the alleged dangerous elements in the community and the Labourites adopt the recommendations of the are warning electors not to be influenced by side lasues.--Reuter, Board with regard to the alloca- tlons of the profit for the year. The accounts are, I think, self-ex-) planatory, and while the balance of working account is less than that shown for the year to the June 30, 1924 (being for the year under review Tis. 65,653.81 28 against Tls. 80,389.02 in respect of the previous year), nevertheless I feel sure you will realise that the past financial period has been one, of great disappointment to all classes of trade in China. As re gards our own business it is only

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Smithfield, Orange Free State: Nov. 13. General Hertzog, in a speech, outlined the Government's native programme as firstly to provide the natives with additional land promised under the Act of 1013; secondly, the native must he trained in self-administration by the establishment of native council; thirdly, native franchise in Cape Province will be entirely taken away and replaced by rights given to all and the nativev Assembly in addition to the quota provided by the constitution. union will elect seven European represenatives to the Legislative

General Hertzog dwelt on the anomaly of the present system of withholding from the natives in the Northern provinces franchise rights which they possessed in the Cape. On the other hand granting natives the right to vote with Whites for a Member of our profits should Parliament would mean the ruin of European civilisation. He have been affected by the disturbed painted out that within fifty years the native, voters in the Cape state of affairs, for there is of

natural that

would outnumber the Whites.

course less inducement to travel,: General Hertzog suggested an Annual session Of

either for business or for pleasure,

advisory character, consisting of fifty

so long as conditions generally in native council of an

It is members, of whom the smaller section would be nominated by the China remain unsettled.

Government and the remainder by the natives. hoped, however, that much good? will result from the Conferences now being held and to be held, and that China will not only maintain. the high position she holds with foreign Powers but find the means of strengthening that position by establishing unity within her own borders,

He announced the intention of Introducing bills dealing with other aspects of the native question, and acknowledged that it could not be a solution on party lines.-Reuter.

means

Prospects.

FRENCH FINANCE LEVY.

Paris, November 14.

The Financial Committee of the Chamber has adopted articles eight to eleven of the Government's financial proposals dealing with a levy on unproductive personal estate. The Committee by 13 to 12 amended article eight in order to exempt from the levy modern" furniture, works of art and books, pict res and sculptures, etc., of living writers and artists.-Reuter.

Paris, November 15.

Turning to the Balance Sheet, have no doubt but that you approve the policy of writing down by "Depreciation" the! figures representing the values of The finance committee of the Chamber of Deputies has passed our assets. I am confident that the government text concerning the reimbursement of the three, the soundness of this policy can six and ten years, 1923, treasury bonds and for the payment of not be called into question, interest on the national defence bonds. It authorized а поч especially when it is borne in mind advance of one billion and half francs in bank notes, and agreed that it is extremely difficult to say upon the principle of taxation on assets abroad. It also vetoed what are the prospects of the im- the whole existing financial plan.-Havas. mediate future. Whilst it is un-

wise to be unduly optimistic, I do, feel, however, that we have no rea.

THE TURKISH PETROLEUM COMPANY.

London, November 14.

It

son at all to indulge in pessimistic The Anglo-Persian Oil Company deny the Morning Poaf's forecasts. Our Company is in a report and explain that negotiations for American participation very good financial position and, in the Turkish Petroleum Company are not yet concluded. occurrences of an extraordinary

appears the announcement last March of the Standard Oil Company's nature being of course excepted, participation in the company only referred to an agreement In I venture to express the belief that principle, the transfer of shares being subject to negotiation. we may view with equanimity the Reuter. outcome of our business for the ensuing year.

The Chairman of the General

[An earlier cable stated:-The Morning Post claims to have learned from informed éity circles that the American group of seven learned from informed circles that the American group of seven

oil companies in which the Standard Oil Company is conspicuous, has withdrawn from the Turkish Petroleum Company.]

Meeting held last year in Peking made reference to plans being then in course of, preparation for the reconstruction of the Hotel,! but until business improves your Directors have decided not to em-" bark upon the scheme that they then had under consideration. That of does not mean, however, that your hotel will not be kept in good state:

COLOGNE EVACUATION,

Paris November 14. The Conference of Ambassadors has decided that the evacuation the Cologne zone shall begin on December 1-Reuter.

Later.

The Ambassadors also decided that the general mitigation oc- **Bor that improvements from cupation of the Rhineland should take the shape of effecting a time will not be effected-but restriction on the occupying troops and consenting to the appoint- merely that it has been considered ment of a German Commissioner, transferring the trial of certain prudent in present circumstances offences to German tribunals from military courts.-Reuter. to postpone the reconstruction of]

the hotel on the lines originally

contemplated.

The Late Mr. Ede.

PARIS TAXI-DRIVER LIBELLED.

Paris, November 15,

It is with the deepest senać of After a prolonged trial wherein sensation followed 'sensation regret that I have to make re-the Royalist leader Leon Daudet was sentenced to a fine of francs ference to the death of one of the 1,500 and five months imprisonment for libelling a taxi-driver in Directors of this Company, the whoso cab his son Philippe committed suicide two years ago. Hon. Mr. C. Montague Ede, in Delest, the Manager of the newspaper Action Francaise, was whom has passed away a figure fined five hundred francs, and two months imprisonment for well-known and respected in the publishing the libel.-Router.

Far East for so many years.

I now beg formally to propose

SOVIET APPOINTMENT.

(

that the Report and Accounts as

Moscow, November 14. presented for the year to the 30th An order has been issued by Voroshilov, the new Soviet com- June, 1925, be adopted and passed, missary of war, appointing Sergius Kamenev, Chief of Staff, of the and that the profits be dealt with Red array to be Inspector General of the Red army. Tukhachevsky, as recommended by the Board in Commander-in-Chief of the Western military district, is appointed the printed Report of the Direc- chief of General Staff-Reuter,

tora.

This was seconded by the Hon.

Mr. P. H. Holyoak.

The motion was carried un-

animously.

KING TUT'S MUMMY,

Luxor, November 14.

King Tutankhamen's mummy surpasses expectations. A won- The confirmation of the appoint- derful collection of jewels, covering the body, were found under ment of Directors and the re-elec-a linen shroud. The head is not yet uncovered as the wrapping tion of Directors, Mr. R. G. has adhered to the coffa owing to a mixture of charcoal and oil, Shewan, Mr. E. M. Raymond, the used to protect the body against worms.-Reuter. Hon. Mr. Holyoaks and Mr. W. J.

Hawker was proposed by Mr. A. W. Smith and seconded by Mr. W. J.] Burling and carried.

•

THE M1 DISASTER.

London, November 14,

The Admiralty announces that it is impossible that there can The Chairman referred to the be any survivors from the M1. A memorial service has been lass from the Board of Dr. W. S. D. arranged to be held in Portsmouth Dockyard church of November 17.

| O'Hara.

It was proposed by Mr. P. I. Newman and seconded by Mr. T. R. Parsons that Mossra. Percy. Smith, Seth & Fleming be re-elect-

-Router.

POLISH CABINET MEMBER RESIGNS.

Warsaw, November 14.

ed auditors of the Company for M. Grabaki, a member of the Cabinet, has resigned following

the onguing year at a fee to be ar- difficulties with the Diet and also a difference of opinion with the ranged by the Board.. This was] Bank of Poland regarding the policy of maintaining the rate of carried unanimously.

| the Zloty.-Router.

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