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J. ULLMANN & CO. THE NEW

Alexandra Building · Chater Road, Hongkong.

WATCH MANUFACTURERS DIAMOND MERCHANTS & JEWELLERS.

Silver & Electro-Plated

Wares.

Baccarat Cut Glasses.

Fancy Goods, etc.

Houses in Tientsin, Paris Shanghai, Hankow and Peking.

Factory in La Chaux-de- Fonds Switzerland.

Mrs. J. CRAWFORD,

Massage Hall

No. 14. Zotland Stuar

MRS. SEKAI

MASSAGE

Tel. No. C.4433, 2nd, 2oor 2, Duddell Street. Hongkong.

Actuelle

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY JUNE 4, 1926.

BRITISH PLANES FALL IN FLAMES.

RECORD Dark Patent

FOR ALL NEEDLE'

MACHINES

$1.50 each.

Pathé Orient

12, Queen's Road, Central.

BULMER'S HEREFORD

CIDER

(as supplied to H.M. The King)

A delicious drink and strongly recommended" for Rheumatism.

| Sole Agents -

GILMAN & Co., Ltd.

Hongkong Bank Bldg. I

Tel. C.290.

THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY.

THERAPION NO. 1 THERAPION NĚ. 2 THERAPION NⱭ3

No. 2 for Bladder Cafarri. No. 2 for Blood & Bkin Diseases. No, # for Chronic WaaknasBOL. BOLDOYLEADING CHASIN

DE LECLERC Med.CalET FARENUMMARY

BEK TRADE MEERED WORD "THERATION 19 ON BEIT. GOVT. STAMP AFFIXED TO GENUINE PACKETS-

HOTELS.

THE

HONGKONG

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

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; KALEE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL. Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHÄI

HOTELS.

LIMITED

In association with the Grand Ifotel Des Wagons Lite, 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 Personal Supervision and Management of

FRANK L. COOKE

Proprietor.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

CENTRAL LOCATION

ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING, TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR

HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS

Telegraphie Address *Vicronia"

Tol, Central 373,

THE EUROPE HOTEL.

SINGAPORE,

Terms: A la carte or Inclusive.

Telophone in every room. After-dinnor dancing evory Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

GRILL ROOM

Telegrams "Europe Singapore"

Telephone 2750..

ARTHUR E ODELL, Managing Director,

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Picture shows the wreckage of the two Royal Air Force aeroplanes which crashed into each other at Henlow. Aerodrome, Bedfordshire, and fell in lumes, locked together. In this disaster two officers and three men were killëd,

SMUGGLED GOODS.

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left unguarded except for the few men of the Customs preventive service.

RUBBER PRICES.

LATEST QUOTATIONS.

Messrs. Carról Bros, are in receipt of telegraphic advices from their Singapore friends udvising that rubber is now 65 cents per lb giving the following dividends:

10% Interim. ... 10% Interim. 20% Final. includes the!

It was a wily trick of the smug glers to send a truck, lightly load-and ed with 'contraband goods, across a border, road into the hands of

Mentakabs preventive ollicers of the Customs

Pajam Department who operated aparti

Allenbys... from the Mounted, Police)."

The wire also These men would make the following quotations! seizure and escort the truck off in Allenbys eustody. The road then being Alor Gajabs eldar, a heavily burdened feet of Amalgamated Malays trucks would rumble leisurely into Canada at substantial profit for all concerned,

Ayer Panne

Ayer Moleks

Balgownies

Bassetts... Brogas

Bukit Jelotonga

Katils

TWO PIVOTAL POINTS.

Buki Montreal, the largest city in

Changkat Serdangs Canada, is 350 miles from New Changh York. These cities are the two Connemaras

Glencalies Glencan pivotal points in the smuggling Indragiris trado." The State of Vermont and Jerams Jimubs the Province of Quebec lie side Kedahs by aide for about 60 miles. Across Kempas the stretch of boundary, marked Suule Sidims at intervals by small cement "obe-Lunas

Makaka Pindas lisks, are some thirty roads. Many Malakoffa for these are unguarded except for Mandai Tekonigs

Mayfields

S 3.70 x.c.

2.05

THE VOLUNTEERS.

LATEST CORES. ORDERS:

Hongkong Volunteer Defence Orders, issued by Major, R. Mel- ville Smith, O.B.E., state:

--

ARMOURED CAR COMPANY,

Parade at Volunteer Headquar ters at 5.80 p.m. on Monday, 7th June, 1926,

Vickers Gun "Instruction under C. S. M. J. E. Hancock. Drivers as detailed by Sergeant D. G. Bruce, CASUALS.

"Musketry Party I will be fired at Stonecutters Range on Sunday, 6th June, 1926 by all members of the Corps who have not fred Range Officer: Lieut. R. L. Mon- erief Launch will leave Murray Pier at 9 a.m. and call at Kowloon' Pier at 9.10 a.m. sharp.

Dress Uniform optional, but rifles bayonets, belts and pouches must be taken.

5.00

(2.85

14.25

5.10

1.50

1.90

1.26

1.35

1.35

2.90

*2.95

11.50

2.00

2.70

4.80

10.30

4.20

9,45

3.10

$5.00

0.00

a farmer who may serve as a part- Mentakabs time Customs officer, paid few hundred dollars a year for keep New Seremias

16.50

0.05

$.50

J'ajums

15.26

1.40

4.00

3.25

4.30

31.76

1.40

16.40

2.05

6.00

"An' Instructional Class in Lewis Gun will be held under Sergeant R. B. Bell every Thursday.

LEAVE.

ing a casual eye on back road Fungots

which crosses the border near his

Scoudais farm.

# Sungei Bagans One of these farmer-customs Tapahs men, in a newspaper interview, Tambulaks told how he had been instructed

Teluk Ansons United Mabiecas' by telephone one night to inspect Utan Simpans a.shipment expected to cross the border on his road. It was about two o'clock in the morning. Sev- cral great hooded trucks fumber- ed up with dimmed lights. The

DEFENCE CORPS.

officer signalled to them to stop. ITS PART IN YESTERDAY'S From the leading truck a

ал

swung out on the running bourd and opened fire with a revolver. The Customs, officer ducked behind

PARADE.

In connection with our report)

Arms will be drawn from Corps Headquarters on Friday, 4th June,, between 9 a.m. and noon, or 2 and 4 p.m., or 5 and 6 p.m. and on Saturday, 5th June, 1926, between

9 a.m. and I p.m.

SCOTTISHI.COMPANY.

The Miniature Range is available for the above Company on Thura- day, 10th June, 1926 at 5.30 p.ri.

ارید

The following are granted leave of absence from the Corps:-No. 1054 Pte... De Pass, B. A. M. I. Coy. from 24.4.20. to 23.4.27; "No. 878 Pte. Paterson, W. A. C. Coy. from 1.6.26. to 28.2.27.

:.

RESIGNATIONS.

a sand-pile while seven loads of yesterday of the King's Birthday The following are permitted to parade at Happy Valley, the fol-resign from the Corps: No. 714 conftabant. goods lurched away Into Canada, to separate shortly lowing are the details concerning Spr, Cole. A. L. (Engineer Com- and take different routes to Mon-the part played by the Hongkong pany) from 31.5.26; No. 473 Spr.

Volunteer Defence Corps:

treal sixty miles north. "They are a tough New York crowd said the border guardian, and they'll shoot on sight."

CANTON PUZZLE.

An

M

Capt. H. B. L. Dowbiggin was

personal attendance Excellency the Governor, as A.D.C. in the absence of Capt. Steele, who was indisposed. A troup of the Mounted Infantry Company, under Lieut. H. C. Mácnamara, acted as escort to His Excellency, whereas in the actual parade itself, the Corps was represented by 50 members of the Infantry Company, nature of new developments

toander Lieyt E, J. E. Mitchell and make a quick exit from the city Lleat, H. Owen Hughes. and come to Hongkong is Tam Chu-wei, who at one time occupied

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the post of Commissioner of the "The Governor of San Sebastian, Finance Department. With him Spain, is conducting a vigorous there are two or three other off-campaign against, kissing, which cials who are likewise taking up he considers Indecent. Kissing residence. in the Colony.

both in private and in public, is prost.ted, and the majesty of the Speaking of the arrest and de-law in Spain now has the task of tention of Wu Te-chan, an official blotting out this moral cancre.

OFFICIAL'S VIEWS.

in the inner circle of the Kuomin

Marshall, A. 6. (Engineer Com- pany) from 31.5.26: No. 940 Pte. Hunt, W. (A. C. Company) from 19.6.26.

G. E.,SWINTON, Captain Adjutant, H. V. D. Corps.

WAR DEBTS.

QUESTION OF CANCELLATION.

New York, June 3. The New York Times and the

New York World both note the growing trend of American public opinion toward the cancellation of the war debts.

Contrasting the unsympathetic reception given to the original can, cellation proposal the New York

tang, who came down here, on Tuesday, told a Teleginph repre- with at a time when an important Times says:-"Latterly the matter sentative that General Chang development in the military affairs has resumed the appearance that Kal-shek, in spite of his high puni of the Government hae necessitat- no sacrifice is asked of Americans tion, could not have had all this ed the calling away of so many but that a step be taken by them done purely on his own initiative, troops to defend the province from in their own enlightened self-

interest." without the sanction and close co the attack threatened by General

While steering a bout engaged not afterwards seen until his body in rowing practice on the Peihat was recovered yesterday. At n in the vicinity of the International naval enquiry the verdict of the Bridgo on May 12 Francis Allen Finch, a stoker on H. M. S. Fox-medical officer was "Presumed tong. glove fell overboard. One of the drowned." Deceased, who was 26 party dived in after him, but all years of age, hailed from Arundel, rescue attempts faffed and he was | England.

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The Secretaries of State for goes further than that, for the son India and for Dominion Affairs of a man who had Insured in his operation of associates of his own Wu Pei-fu across the Hunan The New York World anys it may have decided to introduce into.

be taken as a matter of course that Parliament an Indian, and Colonial favour with a British insurance As a high military official who This furnished the main reason there will be has bossessed great influence, at for the sudden arrest of Wu Te-dation of debts later on, for nothing evidently do not want English law did not recognise a child who a general liquit Divoces Jurisdiction Bill They money on the grounds that British any rate, over his own special divi- chon, said our informant, Besides is more certain that the world is Courts to be bound by overeens might be lawful in Australia put slon, not to mention his connec which all other indictments, in- not going on with the complications decisions, but it must complicate was illegitimate" in England.", In Jons with some of the Labour cluding that of "squeeze" that of these debts from now until its things tremendously if a man who fact, the more law and the more Guilds, General Wu Te-Chen have been brought against him, unborn grand-children are old is a lawful husband by Australia money we have the more our trou- would be a factor to be reckoned are, irrelevant and misleading. men-Reuter's American Service. is a bigamist in England.” And it, bles Inérenge.