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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1926.

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Photo shows the Kwangting General Labour Association welcoming the "Fraternity Party" of Hongkong merchants recently in Canion. (By courtesy of the Wah Kin Yat Pol

Officials of the four Canton Chambers of Commerce are here seen welcoming. the "Fraternity Party" from Hongkong. By courtesy of the With Kin Yat Pok

SHANGHAI LETTER.

Batch of Suicides-Crime Wave Bird Market Barnt.

(Our Own Correspondent.)

Shanghai. Jan, 11. In the train of the festal-Christ-

sent the chit for the ear to the POLAR EXPEDITION. lifeless man. This took place on

January 7.

D. A. Pelphrey, a young Ameri-'TO NORTH POLE BY AIRSHIP, en of the staff of Liggett and Myers Tobacco to.. was another of those who was impelled to give up the struggle with li While

Oslo, Jan. 18. Daring, a conference of the past few days a contract has been agreed upon under which Italian, Colonel Nobile, commands the

the airship Norge for the polar ex-

his wife was taking in and he was alone in their room at the Hotel Plaza, he fired a bullet through his brain. flis wife, re- unparalleled in the history of re-dead an cent, yours in Shanghal of an Young Pelphrey, who had lived the bathroom floor in Tientsin until his recent trans-rad, Vardoe and Kings Bay. If

mas season is a depressing record.turning to the room, found him elision. A rotite will be taken from

unusual number of suicides con-

Marseilles, Paris, Pulham, Lenin. tome to Spitzbergen embracing

mitted by individels more or less) for 10 Shanghai, had been Leningrad is unavailable the Norge

well-known. Unfortunate affairs

tion.

attack of malaria.

will go from Pulham to Vardce vin Oslo, Sweden. There will be six- teen or soventeen aboard, and they; incide; besides Amundsen and Ellsworth, Lieutenants Riser Lar

of the heart, ill health, financial several day's suffering with an reverses have supplied causes in

In addition to these who most of the cases of self-destrue-deaths received some degree of Most of the tragedies have been public notice in Shanghai nows.

en and Omdal of last year's ex- staged in rooms of Shanghai's Papers another suicide was that

[of a young Polish girl who pui-pedition; also Captain Misting, of leading hotels and one victim was

Amundsen's ship Maud; Frel

a member of the Astor Houseoned herself after a lover's quar-

staff. First of the unhappy list was. Mrs. Alice Howen, whose passing on December 13 ushered In the gloomy era. Mrs. Besten was a California gir! employed as a member of the staff of the American Consulate She wa immensely popular with a host of

Plenty of Crime,

ind scientific experis, There will be yn Italian crew-Router,

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As a kind of accompaniment

Previous messages have slated through this period of tragedy, that Colonel Nobile, "is the the usual mid-winter erine Waveed the airship, in which Captain Shanghat has been experiencing sineer who invented and construct- which this year seems more seri. Amundsen' and Col. Nobile and a

In crew of fifteen than in other seasons.

mechanics will general Chinese have been vie- undertake a Polar Right in the friends who made her a favouritems and the common form of Spring. The scientific goal of by reason of her sprightly offence has been the rald by arri the expedition is to establish thei and unfalling optimism. Why seed robbers won dwelling houses, presence of land or sea and the killed herself never was definitely disclosed. She ended her life in to the time of writing an aver actual nature of the Polar région. Lage of threw armed robberies a The proposed course of flight will her room at the Astor House by taking an overige of veronal and day have been taking place within be from Spitzbergen to Cape Bar- her lifeless body was not found the boundaries of the two foreign row, North Alaska, a distance of until the day after she took the lerals and this record is 2.200 miles. 700 miles of which

augmented bay poison. "I'm just tired

considerable separate Spitzbergen from

of

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in the adjacent Chinese territory, journey will take sixty-five hours. tic note that she left addressed j

Big Fire. to the general public.

The expedition will be called the One recent disaster of propor-Amundsen-Ellsworth 1926 Trans- Another of the victims was Wallace Powell, a Briton, who witions was a conflagration in the Polar flight. Its record will be employed by S. d. David and Com-o-called Chinese city which lies written by the two leaders in co- pany. He killed himself in his immediately south of the French operation. The expedition will be room at the Burlington flotel in | concession. While this wiped out. mainged by the Norwegiin Acro his wife's presence on Christmas everal blocks of rose-huddler, Club and sail under the Norwegian Eve. Mr. Powell-arose from the structures that filled the narrow" | colours.] table having had the meat served by ways of the district; the thing in the room and with the simple about the fire of more than ordin remark, "I'm all fed up." took a ary interest was the destruction pistol and shot' himself,

of the cation given over a pos ket of pets of every description, particularly song hirds. It has been said this was one of the lar- gest birt markets in the world. Many of the birds and other animals perished in the blaze and

Berlin, Jan. 18. Regarded in the light of the Ger- "Roman" as the ancient Willow Tea House, to he was familiarly known to Astor which every tourist who visits man domarche, much interest at- House patrons was a Spaniard of the section is guided, narrowly taches to the periodical report of 28. He had danced with "Ginger" escaped destruction.

the Inter-Allied Military Control through the evening at the Falais

Commission, which has just beon de Dance,, connected with the

forwarded to Paris, recording salis- Carlton. Leaving the place, he

In a written answor the British factory progress in carrying out quarrelled with the girl and as the number of letters po-hirested armament and also fair progress Postmuster-Genert states that the Allied demands concerning dis- the automobile was speeding

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An affair with a dancing girl, well-known to Shanghal's cabaret world as "Ginger, led to the world ns "Ginger." led to the sul cide of Roman Donrongaro, who was the popular Manager of the Astor House ball room.

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