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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

COAL STOPPAGE.

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WATCH MANUFACTURERS DIAMOND MERCHANTS

& JEWELLERS.

Silver & Electro-Plated

Wares.

Baccarat Cut Glasses Fancy Goods, etc.

Houses in Tientsin, Paris Shanghai, Hankow and

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Mrs. J. CRAWFORD,

Massage Hall

No. 14, Zotand Street

C

THE

PIRATES

OF

PENZANCE

VOCAL GEMS Record No. 297

+

AT

MORE HELP FROM RUSSIAN WORKERS.

SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1926.

STREET ACCIDENT.

RICKSHA PULLER SENT TO HOSPITAL.

AIR RACE.

EXCITING ROUND BRITISH EVENT.

Rugby, July 9. The air race for the King's Cup

Entertainments.

QUEEN'S

which is conducted under handleap TO-DAY ONLY at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9,15

Moscow, July 9. The official Tass Agency declares morning an accident occurred at Just after ten o'clock this that the report that the Soviet the junction of Podder Street bogan this morning and will finish. Government has prohibited collec and Des Voeux Road which relate to-morrow afternoon. tion in Russia for British miners aulted in a ricksha puller being js without foundation and states sent to hospital and a European qualification, only fourteen aero- Owing to an eleventh-hour dis- that Russian Trade Unionists have being thrown from the ricksha planes are participating in the race resolved to make rogular reduc and narrowly escaping injury. tions from their wages rangingThe ricksha, in which from one quarter to one half per European was riding, had to pull

the conditions cent. during the entire period of up-sharply, when going from Fed-ner. is scratch man, piloting a 400 Captain Barnard, last year's win- the British coal atoppage. Reuter der Street into Des Voeux Road horse power machine, which on each

NO IMMEDIATE MOVE..

owing to a framear passing in day concedes nearly five hours front of it. A motor car, which start to three low-powered 'Moth Rugby, July 9,

was proceeding behind the ricksha, machines. Although arrangements are failed to pull up quickly enough shortly after ten o'clock from Hen- The latter took off complete for taking back to work and ran into the back of the don and, owing to the preval the minors who present themselves vehicle; overturning it, and pinence of fog over eastera England, In response to the colliery owners?ning the puller underneath. The they flow over the western circuit new wages offers, it is not ex-European fare was thrown pected that the full effect of the but escaped injury""

out first, Cheltenham boing the turning passage of the Eight Hours Bill,The coolie, who was not travelled neck and neck

point. Two of the Moth machines

of this 200 mile course travelling at the com- paratively low speed of 88 miles per hour and only two seconds separated them on the completion of the first lap. In contrast with the 134 minutes required by them, Lieutenant Schofields, in a 450 h.p. Vickers Vixen, with 102 minutes( start completed the lap in 76 minutes. All except the two shorter handicap

entrants, had finish-

very

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will be apparent immediately.

new move

In Parliamentary circles the view is taken that any towards negotiations in the dis pute is unlikely during the next few days, and that a week or a fortnight may elapse before any important development is re- corded.

The safety men have. continued in the mine throughout the dis- pute and it is reported that the pits have in consequence been kept n good order in readiness for the

men to restart,

pital.

FALSE RUMOUR.

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over

of munitions of war for the Canton Government. The exact quantity is not known, but it would appeared the first circuit and were that the consignment is a big one, well advanced on the anstern one or account of the many lighters of 166 miles, with Cambridge as its employed and the length of time turning point, when Barnard, fly- it took to discharge. the cargo. ing at a speed of about 200 miles The National Union of Railway Many gunboats were placed on per hour started in pursuit. He men's delegate conference at Wey-guards against untoward contin- flew over the course in seventy mouth to-day decided to endorse gences, as it is well-known that minutes.. the Executive's decision to take nd this part of the delta is infested action on the miners' request" to with pirates. It is stated that impose an embargo en imported the greater portion of this consign coal-British Wireless.

ment consists of heavy and field artillery, and machine guns.

LOCAL RADIO.

(Continued from Page 1)..

that a wireless telegraph station has been established, or is, balng maintained, or, used, or is in the possession of any person, without

WANG CHING-WEI'S FUTURE.

It is said that General Chang Kai-shek is now ready to invite Mr. Wang Ching-wel, the former Chair- than, back to Canton. It will be recalled that Mr. Wang was forced to "save his face" by leaving Cantor some three months ago because of the alleged usurpation

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on

As Hendon is the starting and finishing "point of both circuits; which must be covered twice ench day, the spectators at the aero- drome there were able to follow the progress of the airman with more interest than has been possible in the past with a single around Bri- tain course.--British Wireless.

BANK RETURNS.

FIGURES FOR JUNE.

The returns of the average amount of bank notes in circulation and af ing the month ended 30th June, 1920, specie in reserve in Hongkong, dur- as certifled by the Managers of the

Banks. Average. Speele

Amount. in Reserye.

a valid licence under this Ordin- of his power by General Chang ance, he may grant a search war-who was said to have taken setion rant to any police officer to enter.cf State. itaportance without refer- the place or ship (not being or ring first to Mr. Wang in his capa haying the status of a ship of war) city as the head of the Kuomintang, where it is believed that the wire- If Mr. Wang returns, however, it respective Banks are:- less telegraphy station has been will simply be à figure-head, as in established or is being maintained, time of war, the Commander-in-Chartered Bank or used, or is in the possession of Chief will be the supreme power. some person, and, to search such Following the resignations of place or ship, and to seize any up-Mr. Chang Ching-klang as Chair-" paratus which appears to him to man, and Mr. Yeh Cho Chang, as have been established or maintain-Chief Secretary of the Central ed, or used, or to be in the posses- Executive Committee of the sion of any person, in contraven Kuomintang, other leaders of tion of this Ordinance,

the Kuomintang have also dropped out. Mr. Shao Li-tze, the Chief of the Young People's Division, and other minor leaders left Canton a few days ago. -

THE PENALTIES. Every person who contravenes any provision of this Ordinance or of any regulation made thereunder, and every person who fails to com- ply with any condition. of any licence issued under this Ordin- ance, shall upon summary convic

WAR DEBTS.

tion be liable to a fine not exceed PLEAS FOR CANCELLATION. ing one thousand dollars or to im- prisonment for any term not ex- ceeding twelve months.

New York, July 9. In a leading article on the

$

.13,936,203 5,300,000*

of India, Aus- tralia and

Hongkong and

China

Shanghai Banking Cor- poration... 41,069,833 38,000,000† Mercantile Bank of India, Ltd...

1,520,577 550,000§

Total $56,526,613 43,850,000

In addition Sterling Securities deposited with the Crown Agents valued at £1,287,100,

+In addition Securities deposited with the Crown Agents and Straits Government valued at £3,108,097.

§ In addition Securities deposited with the Crown Agents valued at. £350,000.

It shall be lawful for a magis. march of disabled and other ex- Mrs. Hunt, who lives at the trate to order to be forfeited to servicemen planned to take place Military Detention. Barracks, has the Crown any apparatus with in Paris on Sunday as a protest reported to the police the theft respect to which any offence against the ratification of the from her quarters of jewellery against this Ordinance has been French debt settlement with the and clothing to the value of $160. committed, whether any personno intelligent person in this coun- United States, the World says that shall have been charged with, or try believes that the debt settle- shall have been convicted of, such ment can last for 62 years. There in type writers started by the London, 17th June. The boom

are devices for postponing the King on the 18th of February has ultimate settlement for which the exceeded the most optimistic ex- public is not yet ready..

pectations. The Imperial Com-

offence,or not,

BIG SHIPPING SALE,

U. S. SHIPPING BOARD DISPOSALS.

The New York Times opines that puny of Leicester bas doubled its even the most complacent Ameri-plat. The latcat order. Is for can cannot without an inward a thousand machines from the twinge, consider the pitecus march Swedish Government. Many Aus- of 15,000 war cripples who un-tralasian, Indian and Africa or- doubtedly spook the unuttered ders have also been received. feelings of the majority of the Other companies report a similar French people. The paper warne increase in the number of orders.

to the significance of feeling, Americans not to blind themselves

London, 13th June.--A"Rome

New York, July 9. The Shipping Board is endeavour- ing to sell Government passen ger boats and cargo boats includ- ing the Leviathan, the George brond, which is not dissipated by message says that using a special Washington, President Harding

every legitimate means, bids and President Roosevelt.

fair to cloud the international, is taken either in the form of earth found near Naples, which The bids must be satisfactory and must Reuter's American Service.

horizon for 1 long time.- pills or applied externally a man be made by American citizens or Companies.

named Don Luigi, priest is report- Under the existing Jaw the ships must continue to fly

ed to have successfully cured, more than a hundred cases rang

the American flag and cannot bo handed over to foreign registry..

London, June 8.-Presentation ing from tuberculosis to paralysis;" to the King, and Queen which was and from toothache to broken It is rumoured in shipping dar took place in the London by hiling Italians seeking treat- not scheduled on the court calen- riba. His house Is surrounded circles that the International Mercantile Marine Company will

suburb of Uxbridge, where "the ment. probably bid for the four ships mocked two girls off their bicy King's Ruthomobile skidded and named and some others.—Beuter. OTHER BIDDERS.

Later.

"Kiss Me

Again"

· BY HANS KRAZIY

anErnst Lubitsch

"He sought to teach an erring wife a needed lesson-~ and was caught in a dangerous

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CLARA BOW JOHN ROCHE VILLARD LOUIS

ERNST LUBITSCH

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COMIN' THRO THE RIE,

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Marshall Neilan's Thrilling Crook Drama

FOOLS FIRST

with

RICHARD DIX,

CLAIRE WINDSOR CLAUDE GILLINGWATER, GEORGE SIEGMAN

CITY HALL

JULY 13th, 19th, and 21st.

Brick Morse's

CALIFORNIA COLLEGIANS

London, 19th June-Aftor 27 The World's Greatest College Entertainers

cles, One girl full into a patch yeare in writing a book on evolu- of wet tar and the other into a tion Mr. Philip Clerier shot him ditch, but neither was injured and self in order to win publicity. It la further rumoured

both were greatly embarrassed to He was taken to hospital with five bidders for the vessel owned by with the King, Queen and Prince gerous, however. A letter from that find themselves shaking hands head wounds which are not dan- the United States Shipping Board Henry. As he saw one girl looking the publisher said that the book who last week loased from New the King exclaimed: "Never mind deals with the world's origin and include the Harrimea interests, ruefully at her wrecked bicycle, was of considerable value. It York two of the largest north about the cycle. What matters is the destiny of the human race river plers for ten years. Reuter. I that you are not hurt.”

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