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HONGKONG

THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH,

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

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; KALEE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL{ delegraphie Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAI,”

HOTELS,

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

KOWLOON HOTEL

THE PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON,

First Class Billiard Room and Saloon Bar.

Electric Lift and Telephone to each Floor.

Kels. K.608 & K.609. Cable address: KOWLOTEL, Hongkong Under the orsonal Supervision and Managonent of FRANK L. COOKE Propastor.

KING

EDWARD HOTEL.

OENTRAL LOCATION

ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING,

TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR,

HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS Central $73.

Tolegraphlo Address "VICTONIA"

THE EUROPE

BINGAPORE.

FOR

HOTEL.

COMFORT-FOOD-MUSIC-DANCING

Terme 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,

od for Tiffin on Saturdays. GRILL ROOM

Teisarama "Europe Singapor■"

Telephone 2740.

ARTHUR E. ODELL

Managing Director.

POST OFFICE NOTICE.

Postage stamps should be affixed in the right-hand top corner of We address side of all postal articles.

The Radio Service bas reverted to normal hours of working. Morges may be handed in at any hour of the day or night during ceral Post Office hours at Radio Counter, Main Hall, at all other times anges should be takos through the corner entrance at Pedder Street wind sa Voeux Road to the Radio Ofce on the 3rd floor of the building. Kano deors will be closed after 10 p.m. but admittance may be obtained

ging the night-bell

Radto Traffle with Canton is suspended until further notice. Autorport Radio Telegrams are subject to delay.

fonnages in Code must have inme of Code used included in text. The parcel post service to Canton is resumed.

INWARD MAILS..

Per

From Harpe via Negupulam, (Letters and Paquere, London 3rd Dec., 1925; .. Pozope vin Suez (Letters & papers Ludan, 10th Dec., 1925, Parrels Australia and Manila

3rd Doc., 1925) Australia and Manila

We haiwei

مان بلا

Struts

rails

tungko Danila

JMevila

Japan

U.S. A Honolula, Japan and Shang-

au.s

SA, Canada, Japan and Shang- Jgun

LSA, Honolulu, Japan and Shang-

Thank Straits

Tukushima Maru

Mishima Maru 'Malwn' St Albans Kwelyang Adolf von Baeyer Huichow Hakone 'Maru Santhia

Ilyméttus

Pres, Lincoln Pres. Grant

Due.

R.S.P.C.A. FILM.

PICTURES ALLEGED TO

BE FAKED.

Emotional scenes marked the showing in the Central Hall, London, not long ago, of the R.S.P.CA. film-alleged by a Departmental Committee to hava been "faked"-of incidents in the export horse traffic, Women screamed and shoutody and some were led out in hysterics,

The film followed a public meet- ing organised by the society to protest against the report..

FRIDAL JANUARY 8, 1926.

LONDON SPREADS.

VILLAS OVER SAXON. -

MOAT.

£10,000 PEARLS.

IN DEAD LETTER OFFICE.

A £10,000 pearl necklace, for Aftor farming for more than which English and Canadian do. half a century at Olitterhouse tectives had searched in vain for Farm, Cricklewood, on land over three months, has been found where may still be traced the in the Dead Lottor Office of the" formation of a moat and earth. G.P.O. in London. W works that date back to pre-

An anonymous jotter, address- Noman times. Mr. Richard ed to a Cambridge undergrad, lad Koovil has been forced to yield to the jewels being recovered before the advance of expanding intact. London.

They are now in the possession; His farm land has passed to the of Post Office detectives, await- builder, and rows of villas and ing identification by the owner, Captain Goe, V.C M.P., who in bungalows will soon be springing the Hon. Mrs. J. E. Blyth, who is the House of Commone charged up around the site of the monted at present abroad. the society. with using false pro-blockhouse, which helped to de- paganda to obtain money from fond London and Westminster the public, was present, and said from Northern invadere hundreds he adhered to his charges, and of years ago. was quite ready to repeat them. He was not, however, allowed to Бродк

The film shows horses being taken from England to Belgium, and there led through the streets, and two of the horses being killed with a sharp knife.

necklace begins in Canada, where The mysterious history of the Mrs. Blyth had been visiting

friends.

On the eve of her return to

During his 53 years of farming “ab· Clitterhouse, Mr. Koovil bas

as London has spread her tont-replacing the necklace in its case seen many romarkable changes England on August 15 she was acles over the open land. Golden when the string broke. folds of corn have been replaced Only one pearl was detached, by a sea of red-roofed houses, and Mrs. Blyth wrapped this mental Committee state:

Of this incident, the Depart-lines intersect the once quiet necklace in a handkerchief, and, and railways, tubes and tram stone and the two pieces of the

pasture land where partridges placed them under the tray of a and other game used to be shot. grean leather jewel case.

Mombers, of the committee making inquiries in Belgium were informed that the butchers were paid to kill the horse for the purpose of the film, and that the film did not represent the method generally adopted in 1914 (the date of the film to slaughter a horse in Belgium.

When this part of the film was reached the emotion of the au dience, three-parts of whom were women, reached its height. There were screams and sobbing in all parts of the building.

Half a dozen women were on their foot, at once making speechos.

Then another woman aprang to her foot and shouted: "It must stop; it must stop now!" As she spoke an elderly woman in one of the galleries cried out hysteri- cally and was led from the hall sobbing.

Supporters of Captain'

Gee shouted: "Fake! Fake!" in reference to the pictures, and for a few moments the darkened hall was a scene of pandemonium.

At the meeting which preceded the film there was a heated scene between Mr. H. de Vere Stacpoole, the novelist, who was speaking, and Captain Gce, V. C., who sat immediately behind him.

DRAMATIC CHALLENGE. Turning dramatically, his back to the audience, and pointing at Captain Gev, the speaker said:-

You have charged the society with perpetrating an act of cruelty in order to fleece the public of its money.

but his words were drowned in Captain Gee stood up to reply,

an uproar.

A

Previously Lord Banbury, the chairman, had asked if Captain Goo werg present. The captain rose, whereupon, Lord Banbury usked if he would repeat in públic the statements he had made about the society in the House of Commons.

Captain Gee Fum quite ready to repeat them on this platform January 8.if you give me an opportunity.

Lord Banbury: I cannot allow It is Jarney You to make a speech. January 8 sufficient if you say you are will. Januarying to repeat them. January 9, Captain Gee: I

quite January ready to repeat on this platform January 11.

the full report from Hansard. January 12. January 1.

Lord Banbury said, the charge 14. against the society was that it January 14. January 14. had faked a film to get money January 15. January. 15. ....ยก. 15. January 15,

Katori Maru

Pres. Polk

January 18.

January 19..

Pres. Madison Aki Maru.

Pres. Cleveland Suwa Maru Atsuta Maru

OUTWARD MAILS.

For

Per

Fort Bayard

Jade

Manla

Cyclop

Karmisa

Anhalt

Macedonin

*. January 21.

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I started farming here in 1873," when I was. 20 years old," Mr. Keovil told a press representa- tive. "In those days this place was thought to be out in the country, and London ended at Kilburn. Now it is all around

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"In 1873 my land was sur rounded entirely by farms and estates. Now I can seg as many churches from here as I formerly could houses, and I have seen many a good field of corn reaped in the fielda where the Hampstead Garden City now is.

"Before the time of Domesday Book this farm was a moated grange or blockhouse defended by earthworks, and when I came here the meat, still full of water, encircled the farm steading. I had to have it filled in, but traces of it romain.

during the war, when part of the "Che greatest change came land was acquired for the Hand ley-Page aerodrome and I had machines dying over my head all day long.

"It was out on my old fields that the big bombing 'planes were standing by, waiting the signal to attack Berlin, when the Armistion came."

When she boarded the linor" Asconia the jewel case was placed in the strong room...

Some days after her arrival in England she discovered that al though all her other jewels wore, intact, the necklace had gone.

Messrs. Summers and Hender" son, the assessors for the insur- ance company, offered a roward of £10,000, and a statement was received that some pearls had been found in the grounds of the Chatecu, Lake Louis, Alberta, where Mrs. Blyth had been staying. These proved to be not the necklace, and only paste.

Mr. Blyth went there, only to learn that a parcel had been lying there in that name, but that a communication had been received asking that it should be sent to the Dead Letter Office, and that had been done.

Entertainments.

SHOWING TO DÁY

BUSTER KEATON

in

Our Hospitality

at

The QUEEN'S

Mighty Lak' a Rose

A Page from the Book of Life

The STAR

MEGGIE ALBANESI

HONOUR

at

The WORLD

PASSENGERS.

.ARRIVED.

Mr. Joao Noronka,

LOCAL CRICKET.

Kowloon

LEAGUE TABLES.

Royal Navy University

In the parcel were the detached. Cook, Mreng Pak Hen, ME Indian" R. O.

Police

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Division

Rocently Mr. Ian Blyth, her on, who is at Cambridge, received that if he cared to call at the Mr. E. Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. Geu an anonymous letter, telling him San Francisco via ports, January

Per. s. 8, President Lincoln from

for a parcel in the name of Car. Hargis, Mr. and Mrs. Art Southampton Post Office and äsk Friedgen, Mr. John H. Green, Mr. ruthers he would receive a very Loches, Muncion, Mr. William H.K.C.C.

Mr. King E. Look, Mr. A. K. welcome surprise,

Milne,

Indian R. C.. Mrs. Louise Frobasco, Miss Ruth S. Ranney, Mr. Craigengower

Civil Service Chas, Reed, Mme, Sun Yat Sen, Mr. Mr. Walter S. Weeks, Mr. W. Ains East Surreys Mayling Boong, Mr. Gao, A. Walker, R. A.

worth, K.

Mrs.

Chinese R. C Ainsworth, Miss K. W. Ainsworth, Master G. Ainsworth, Mr. Kat B. Brizard, Mr. H. F. Brizard Kowloon ... Mr. and Mrs. John Brett, Mrs. Mary W. Brandt, Mr.

B. Cook, Mrs. Laura. Cummings, Mr. Kenneth B. Day, Mrs. H. K, C. Alice W. Day, Miss A. W. Day, Miss Navy A. B. Day, Mr. R. Dooley, Mrs. E. S. Civil Service William Finkbine, Mrs. Florence Fink R. E. Danley, Mr. Alfred Ehrman, Mr. University Line, Mrs. E. Heidelbach, Mr. Jas G. Lawrence, Mr. F. Lichaueo, Mr. Ed-

D. B. S. v C. B. S. ward Lloret, Mias Christina Lumapas,

With Mr. Hiram Merriman, Mr. B. E. Me-

a view to encouraging Fit, Mrs. Mabel S. McFic, Mrs Mary School cricket, the C. R. C. kindly Morgan, Mr. S. H. Nexen, Mr. and flent, their ground for a match be- Mrs. E. Philippe, Mr. A. H. Raymond, tween the D. B. S. and the C. B. S. Mrs. J. H. Rothwell, Mrs. M. H. Rothwell, Mr. II, II. Soovel, Mrs. M

last Wednesday, Walsh, Mrs. M. Walsh, Mr. Harry F. Soevel, Mr. C. Taylor, Mr. E Wilson, Mrs. Nettie Wilson, Mr. Lee H. Wine, Mrs. S. V. Wise, Mr. R. R. Wemach, Mrs. Gladys M.Wemach.

Per s. x. Fontainebleau from Europe vin ports, January 7-Mr. Sanchey, Miss M. Cinbburn, Mr. J. Bonga, Mrs.

pearl and the two parts of the necklace carefully wrapped in cotton wool. Nothing was missing. The handwriting on the parcel was the same as that in the letters.

WEMBLEY'S HALF ACRE CARPET.

from the public. In order to get money it was necessary for a film to be shown, but that film had been shown on two occasions 1914, when it was shown to mem- only. The first was in February

bers of both Houses of Parliament and an official of the Board of Agriculture, and the second was PART GOING TO A LONDON in January 1921, when it was again shown privately to mom- bers of Parliament.

RESTAURANT.

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The great blue and gold Saxony Commander Konworthy, M.P. carpet which was a feature of one said they should not lose sight of of Wembley's restaurants, and their main purpose, which was to was reputed to be the largest prevent the traffic in worn-out carpet in Europe, was cut up for horses entirely (Cheer.) If horse-sale last month. It was more flesh was wanted on the Contin- than half an acre in area, mozsur- ent, it should be exported as deading 165 feet by 135, and weighing more than five tons. It cost £1,200.

meat.

A resolution expressing confid- ence in the society, and request- ing the Govoromont. to inquire immediately into the statemonts made by Captain Gee and by the Departmental Committee, was declared carried.

One portion, measuring 1,000 square yards, is going to a Lon don restaurant. The amount over is large enough to make 100 draw. fng-room carpets, measuring 13 ieet by 10 feat.

Raising

the Dust

Two

.January 12.

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Strait, Gaylor, Indin, Mauritius, E. & S. Africa, Adon, Egypt and Eur-

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Views.

*APPEN'T THEY JUST ADORABLE?~

insl C. S. Haigh, Mr. Harry Root, Mr. R. Mrs. J. Peterson, Mr. R. P. Thanson, Mr. Harkness Mr. Nearu, Mrs. Sam Tram Tam, Mr. Sam Hoe Chi, Mr. Bertin,

DEPARTED.

Per A., Arafura, for Australian ports, January 6.-Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Vallely, Mra. Thes Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. L. Amidani, Miss C. D.. Fergu- son, Mr, D. Smith, Mr. G. Alexander, Mr. D. Campbell, Mr. F. R. Parks, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Wallace.

knock and were defeated by the The C. B. S. were offered first Diocesan Boys by six wickets, A. Lee taking 8 of their wickets in the first innings. The fielding on both sides was good.

The C. B. S. compiled 66 (Ed- ing with 76 (Samy 21, Zimmern, wards 25), their opponents reply-

21). In their second effort the C. E. S. made 47 (Witchell 15), and the Diocesan knocked off the runs required with the loss of four wickets, Zimmern contributing 28. of the 34.

Over Thirty Versus Under Thirty. The following will represent the respective teams playing in the above match on the Hongkong Cricket Club ground to-morrow afternoon cómmencing at. 1.15

50-R, p.m: Over"

Hancock (Capt) It Comdr. Beatty, Lt.- Col. Cantrell, A. W. Hayward, J. D. Humphreys, Capt. E. W. Morris, E. J. R. Mitchell, R. E. H. Oliver,. T. E. Pearce, Rev. T. B. Powell, and Lt. Col. T. A. Robertson. Under 30-H, Owen Hughes (Capt.), A. C. I. Bowker, Eng. Lt. Bennett, Lt. Halsey." Fay Lt. Hussey, Lt. Nicholson, H. V. Parker, Lt. Sillitoe, Mid. Stephen- son, Lt. Wauchope, and F. N. Young.

A Malay rubbor tapper at. Tanjong Musang, near Jabi, which is about seven miles from Alor Star, ran amok recently behind the house of the Malay Judge, Syed Hassan. He stabbed with a wall the nephew of Syed Hassan.. He also stabbed a woman and her child. Thus he killed three in all, reports a Penang paper. Ho afterwards, swam down the river, but, on coming to land, was speared by the son of the man ho. had killed. Two other porBons were also injured; one was Mr. Abbas, of Mossrs. Pritchard's branch at Alor Star, who is in, hospital but not very seriously hurt. The amok died in hospital the same night.