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J. ULLMANN & Co.

Alexandra Building Chater Road, Hongkong.

WATCH MANUFACTURERS

DIAMOND MERCHANTS

& JEWELLERS.

Columbia process RECORDS

New

WEMBLEY

MILITARY

TATTOO

Silver & Electro-Plated Played by the Band of

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. Zetland Straet

MRS. SEKAI

MASSAGE

Tel. No. 0.4433, 2nd. Eoor

2 Duddell stront, Hongko

H.M. GRENADIER

GUARDS,

Pipers of the

1st Batt.

SCOTS GUARDS,

and the

STADIUM CHOIR.

Record Nos. 9073-4.

AT

ANDERSON'S

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, SHANGHAI”

HOTELS.

LIMITED

In association with the Grand Hotel 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 Personal Supervision and Management of FRANK L. COOKE

Proprietor.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

CENTRAL LOCATION

ELECTRIC LIFTS AND. LIGHTING, TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR.

HOTEL" ĻAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS

Telographic Address " VICTORIA "

Tol, Central 373,

THE EUROPE HOTEL.

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Terms: A la carte or Inclusive.

Telophone in overy room. After-dinner dancing overy Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

GRILL ROOM

4

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Telephone 2750.

ARTHUR E. ODELL, Managing Director.

Tel. Address: GLENEALY HOTEL. Telophono "Glenealy," Hongkong. & 4, Glenealy.

C. 380, A first class. Besidential and Tourist Hotel. Splendidly situated with- In easy walking distance to all business centres. Largo alry rooms. Hot and Gold water. Excellent Cuisine under the personai supervision of the Proprietress. Monthly and family rates at moderate. terms,

"For further particulars apply tou

MRS. FREDERICKS, Proprietress.

Frinted and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1926.

MONDAY'S CATHOLIC RECEPTION._____

Entertainments.

AUBEN

·EUPER

Cinem

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Scenes in connection with the public reception given at the City Hall in honour of the new Catholic Bishop of Hongkong,

Top-His Excellency the Governor being welcomed on arrival.

Centre Mr. C. A. da Roza escorting Archbishop Constantini, the Papal Delegate, into the Hall.

Bottom.-H. E the Governor conversing with the Bishops in the City Hall.

(Photos by Ming Yuen Stadio).

MACAO MATTERS.

(Continued from Page 1).

نوبی

THE HUNAN WAR.

DEATH'S TIME-TABLE.

(Continued from Page 1).

are Macao-born Portuguese. The Divisions were conveyed in large Chief Clerk of the Harbour Office junks, towed by tugs, to the train- !

SUICIDE'S HOUR-BY-HOUR

RECORD.

TO-DAY ONLY

LOUIS B. MEYER

presents

CLAIRE WINDSOR, FRANK KEENAN

and.

LLOYD HUGHES

in

"THE DIXIE HANDICAP"

いず

Loves and adventures of the turf, where hearts and reputations are at stake

A METRO-GOLDWYN PICTURE

THE STAR

TO-DAY ONLY

COLUMBIA PICTURES

presents

JANE NOVAK

and

GASTON GLASS

"THE DANGER SIGNAL"

A GREAT RAILWAY DRAMA WITH SOMETHING NEW IN THRILLS AND A GRIPPING LOVE STORY.

THE WORLD

TO-DAY at 5.15 & 9.15

GRACE DAVIDSON

in

"THE SPLENDID LIE"

IN AND OUT.

port to Freshwater, when be over, took a strangely clad man hurry- ing along the road. Having heard that a convict had escaped, he

Paris-Impressions of appro- and many of the assistants were ing ground of the College to take aching death written in his own born in Maeso. In the Chinese part in the review. General blood have been left by a man Secretary's Department, all the Chang Kai-shek made a long open-named Augueste Brunet, aged 40, gentlemen occupying responsible ing speech,; giving the history of who had an incurable disease, posts, were also born in Macao, the reorganisation of the College and who committed suicide re- In the Treasury, the Public Works and laid special emphasis on the cently at his home in Paris. Department, the Harbour Work's reason for undertaking the Nor He filled his stove with an- Department, and in the Tax De-thera campaign. Many speeches thracite, and so arranged it that CONVICT'S TEARS ON RETURN stopped at the village inn and, as partment, many assistants and were made by the prominent of the fumes escaped slowly." Then, clerks were also born in Macao. cials,, who, one and all, congratu-lying on his bed, he wrote as fol- Finally, I would state that the lated General Chang Kai-shek on lows:- Secretary of the Municipal Coun-his signal achievement in doing cil, and many of the assistants and away with the effets Army and the clerks, as well as, the Municipal out-of-date system of the Military! Treasurer, are also Macaenses, School,

not to speak of the Mayor, some!

of the Aldorinen, a few members

of the Legislative and other Coun

clls and the Assistant Superin- Dresden. May 1-The Govèrn-

10.80 p.m.-1. begin to feel a headache.

11 pm-I am now breathing the carbonic acid gas, but have still all my faculties.

11.20 p.m. The death Is long in coming.

all.

TO PRISON.

the man passed, called the atten tion of two cattle dealers, William'

A convict named John Fletcher, Butchell and James Willett, to Manchester man, who escaped him. They agreed that he looked from Parkhurst Prison, Isle of like an escaped convict, and con- Wight, was recaptured after sonted to accompany Captain about three hours freedom and Drudge in the car to challenge burst into tears on re-entering the bim. prison gates.

Overtaking the man just outside.

the prison walls, just after eleven said: "As there are three to one

I am getting weaker. An en-in the morning. He had been en-I admit it." Advised to enter the joyable feeling of rest pervades gaged on painting inside the ofl-car, he quietly subraltted, saying:

cers houses, and when the work "The game's up." 12.16 p.m.--Death ought to being party was assembled to be sweat, and my poor, wretched marched back for the midday mont, body awaits it without fear. I Fletcher was missing. hear someone singing. I also feel gay.

Wanted to See His Wife,

At this point, to hasten the end. Fletcher, who was serving three the village, Captain Drudgo asked. tendent of Police who claim ment of Saxony has asked for a Brunet cut his wrist with a knife. years for receiving, slipped away if he was Fletcher. The man Macao as their birthplace. From loan of 2,225,000 marks for the The rest of the message is written from the officer's quarters, outalde hesitated for a moment, and then the above it is evident how unjust famous porcelain factory at Meis-in this blood, and bereft of truth are his above sen, which dates from the disco- cited assertions, which unfortu- very of China crockery. China nately may cause much harm. was discovered by an alchomisti Thanking you, Mr. Editor, for employed by a Saxon monarch, the publication of this letter, and who found the formula while seck- enclosing my card.-Yours, etc.

ing gold, and porcelain became a | gold mine, for this monarch and his successors, Meissen and the other Dresden houses becoming! world famous. The firm asks for the loan to tide it over the present slow period. It states that the market for expensive porcelain has diminished and that It machinery is not suited for mass production.

MACAENSE. Macao, June 18th, 1926.

TO-DAY

"Dollar on demand 2a. 3.1/15

7.09.p.m. Lighting-up

Prison officers on motorcycles

1 am-I have opened wider and in cars immediately set out to the wounds" in my wrist. The hunt for him. clocks are striking. My little Martha, forgive mo.........

On the Main Road.

On the way back to prison he told his captors that his wife was to blame. He had written to her. three times, and she had not re plied. "I was a fool to leave the fields,” he added. “I had not been

the road long."

on

Captain Herbert Drudge, Con-

Flotchor was wearing canvas.

Here the message breaks off. Previously Brunet had. written a request that his body be given to servative agent for the Isle of trousers, his prison jacket and a

Wight, was motoring from New-grey cloth eap. the Academy of Medicine..

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