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W

WESTINGHOUSE

ELECTRIC

Actuelle

RECORD

FOR ALL NEEDLE

MACHINES

$160 cach

Talbe-Orient Holyoak, Massey & Co., Ltd.

Distributors.

12, Queen's Road, Central

Queen's Bida.

Tel, C.673.

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, SHANGHAL"*

HOTELS,

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel Dos Wagons Lits, Poking.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

CENTRAL LOCATION

ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING, TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR.

HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS

Telephone Central 373

Talographic Addres

KOWLOON HOTEL.

VICTORIA "

THE PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON,

This First Class Residential and Tourist Hotel provides the acme

of comfort and service for its Guests.

Stx Stories of up to date elegantly furnished airy rooms with latest

saaltary appliances.

Excellent cuisine under supervision of experienced Chef.

First Class Billard Room and Saloon Bar.. Electric Lift and Telephones to each floor. Rates for Families greatly reduced.

BATES:-Single-Monthly from $120, Weekly from $30 and Daily

from $5.

Double Monthly from $230, Weekly from $55 and Dally

from $9.

Under new and progressive management,

Tela: K.608 and K.609.

Tel. Address:

*Glenealy Hongkong,

Telegraphic Address:- "KOWLOTEL" Hongkong.

GLENEALY BOTEL,

84, Glenealy

Telephone C, 980.

(Near Dairy Farm).

A first class Residential and Tourist Hotel. Splendidly situated with- In chey walking distance of all business centres. Large airy rooms. Hot and Cold water. Excellent Culaine under the personal supervision of the Proprietress. Monthly and family rates at moderate terms.

For further particulars apply to:

EUROPE

After-dinner dancing every

Tuesday, Thursday

and Saturday.

MRS. FREDERICKS,

Proprietress.

Cables:-

** EUROPE.

Singapore.

HOTEL

SINGAPORE.

Grill

THE EUROPE HOTEL, LTD. Arthur E. Odell, Managing Director.

FLETCHERS QUINCIN

THE RAPID CURE for "COLD IN THE HEAD" INFLUENZA CATARRH

Sudden chainges of weather render one reliable to Chills but a timely does of QUINCIN will offectively arrest the threatening cold

Koop a bottle at hand and safeguard yourself against the attacker of colds. Influenza and other Winter Ills.

Asiatic Building

THE PHARMACY FLETCHER & CO., LTD.

Queen's Road, Central, TELEPHONE CENTRAL 345,

Printed and Published for tho Proprietor by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria, Hongkong,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1926.

GENERAL

CHANG KAI-SHEK AT HANGCHOW.

He was

The above picture shows General Chang Kai-shek arriving at Hangchow.. grested on arrival by various. Bodies and took the salute from a special platform,

U. S. SOCIALISTS DEATH.

CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY.

A. Reuter's telegram from Chicago announces the death of the Socialist leader, Mr. Eugene Debs, who was five times Prest dential candidate, the last time being when serving 10 years im- prisonment on 21 charge of "advising disloyalty."

The decensed was born in Terre' Haute on Nov. 5, 1855, the,, son of

SHIPPING PLANS.

(Continued From Page 1.)

Cleveland returned an Indictment against him on June 22. He was tried Sept. 9 at Cleveland before Judge D. C. Westhaven and con-. victed on March 10, 1919, the Supreme Court of the United

In the Indies, Mr. Scott further. States upheld the conviction and pointed out, is a population of 47, sentence, and on April 12 left his 600,000 which takes home at Terre Haute, journeying United States 260,000 tons of from the alone to Cleveland, where he was American goode and in turn sells placed under arrest. Just at dusk the United States 600,000 tons of on the evening of the 13th he their products every year. Despite quietly slipped through the prison the fact that San Francisco is gate and entered a barred cell and located from 3,000 to 4,000 mllcs became prisoner "No. 2263."

nearer this area than New York the Golden Gate has handled only. 14 per cent. of this business aa against New York's 75 per cent.

RELEASED. FROM GAOL.

He remained at Moundsville Daniel" and Margaret Betterich two months. On June 18 he was Debs. He received a common transferred to the Federal Prison, school education and then went at Atlanta and became "No. 9653." to work.

His education, was He served two years, eight months largely obtained through Indepen- and ten days, being released on dent study. He was still as keen orders of the late President Hard- a student in his declining years ing on Dec 28, 1922. as in his youth..

In 1885, June 9, he was married to Miss Katherine "Metzel. At that time he was grand secretary and treasurer of the Brotherhood

of Locomotive Firemen, which position he held from 1880 to 1893. Prior to that time; from

1871 to 1874, he was a locomotive! fireman on the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad, which job he left to accept a position with the Hulman and Co, whole grocery house at Terre Haute, from 1875

justice.

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SWAYNE & HOYT SERVICES.

sooner.

Entertainments.

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TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

AT ALL PERFORMANCES

The Great Sea Spectacle

ZEEBRUGGE

The Epic of the British Navy.

This picture was filmed under the Direction of the Admiralty and preserves for all time an authentic record of one of the most brilliant exploits of British Naval History Many of those who actually took part in the engagement are to the seen in the film,”

STAR

CONTINUOUS 5.15-8.45

and 9.20 p.m.

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

JACKIE COOGAN

"OLIVER TWIST

WORLD

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW AT 5.15 & 9.15 ONLY

ALICE TERRY

TURN to the RIGHT

A more direct service to the Phillippines, is "planned by Messrs. Swayne and Hoyt, operators of the American Australia Orient Line, recently formed from the Americun Shortly before his release Debs Far East Line and the Pacific was permitted to go unattended to Australia Line. Mr. L. Everett, Washington to lay his case before president and general manager of then Attorney General Daugherty. L. Everett, Inc., agents of Swayne He refused to plead for release, and Hoyt in the Orient, stated in simply claiming it as a matter of Manila last week that the company plans to omit many of the.. North After resting at his home in China parts en route to the Phil- Torre Haute for several months, lippines, enabling the ships to Debs returned to the lecture platreach Manila, a number of days form and made several short the very best of attention and two services of the oriental lines, tours. While Débs had received

The company will maintain the treatment at the Atlanta prison, one of a trans-Pacific service by to which he voluntarily attested, way of Japan and China, through the connement and the burden of the Phillippines to Singapore and years complicated an existing return, and the other the Cali- heart trouble and Debs was comfornia, Australia, New Zealand, pelled to return to his home at Phillippine, United States service.. Terre Haute.

It plans to build up its business on this latter route between New. Zealand and the Phillippines, ex- No man whose name decorated tending it to Hongkong to make it the history, of the United States more attractive to shippers of during the last years of the nine-Australia and New Zealand. teenth century and the opening of Ships of this service have not been the twentieth century was more calling at China, porta idolized by his followers than Ships of the trans-Pacific Bor- Eugene Victor Debs. No man's vice probably will omit Hongkong policies were more bitterly hated, on their return from Singapore share jotations issued to-day sometimes, feared, by the len route to the United States defenders of the existing system through the Philippines, leaving than Debs.

that port to the vessels coming But thero was "little personal from Australia. feeling against Deba in the minds. Swayne and Hoyt plan to buy of a vast majority of his country-the California Australia, Philip- mon. Many deplored his policies pine part of the line from, the as destructive of social order; Shipping Board as soon as it is denounced his defiance of existing established satisfactorily, accord- conditions as revolutionary and ing to Mr. Everett. Whether or regarded his as a menace to the not it will purchase the trans- republic. But few failed to Pacific service. "is problematical admire the personal character of a because of the intense competition" man they admitted to be honest now existent on its route. and whose devotion to his ideals

STRONG CHARACTER.

to 1879. The following four years as he saw them twice put him he served as city clerk at Terre under sentence of gaol or peniten- Haute. In 1885, the same year he tiary.

ture.

CONSPIRACY CHARGE,

ESCAPED CONVICTS.

DRAMATIC ESCAPE FROM

ANDAMAN ISLANDS. A

was married, he was elected a Debs loomed large in the member of the Indiana Logisla, politics of the nation for a mifiority representative. He was repeatedly the Presidential can- didate of the Socialist Party. He

News from Toungoo district re- From 1898 to 1897, Mr. Debs knew and his friends and enemies was president of the American knew that his candidacy was ports the re-arrest of three escaped Ballway Union. While president always hopeless from the stand Burman convicta from the penal of the railway union he won a big point of possible election." But settlement in the Andaman Islands. strike on the Great Northern Rail- he made each election a gallant The men were sentenced to way. While directing the still struggle and won the love of his transportation for life about three larger strikes on, several Western adherents and at least the respect years ago. railroads in 1894 he was charged of his enemies. with conspiracy, but was acquit- tod. Then he was charged with violation of an injunction and was sent to gaol for six months for contempt of court,

LEADER OF GREAT STRIKE

On inquiry it was ascertained that they were escaped convicts.

They are said, to have either stolen or made a dug-out (canos) and set out for the Tennaserim Debs first came into prominence coast, which they reached safely.

The men then made their way on in the railroad wars of the latter end of the last century. As foot to the Pegu district, where Ho filled a large part of the leader of the great railroad strike they lived in a hut near Bitkin horizon of the Socialist Party, as in 1891, which then President village. writer and lecturer, for over. Cleveland put down with the fron twenty years after his release hand of Federal troops, he figured from his frat gaol sentence. prominently in the newspapers, " During this period he was almost The tall, spare frame, with the standing candidate of his sunken eyes still gleaming bright party for President.

ly in spite of the mlat of years Debs. was sentenced on Sept. 14, the pallor following years in pri 1918, to ton years in the Mounds-son; the bent head and feeble For possessing oplum and uten. villo, W. Va., penitentiary for body belled the still vigorous sils for the purpose of smoking it alleged violation of the espionage intellect, as he was seen on the on premises at Limehouse, Ab act, through a speech before, the platform." following his release Chow was at Thames Police Court Ohio State Socialist convention at from Atlanta But Debs was a fined 30s, while Chong Mok, Pow Canton on June 16 of the same fighting man to the finish! His Sang, Chong On and Wong You, year." A Federal Grand Jury at bitterest enemies always admitted all, similarly charged, wore re-

that

manded.

The police recaptured all three men, but had to shoot one of them," though not fatally, to prevent his escape.

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SHARE PRICES.

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS

The following is the list of local

Banks.

Hongkong, $1,185/90 sa. Chartered, £21

b. Mercantile A. & B., 4291 X.Div.! Mercantile O.,, £13 n.

P. and O., £97 b. Dast Asia, $84.

Marine Ing,

Canton Ins., $630 b. China Underwriters, $1.45 b. North China, Tls, 145 n. Union Ins., 2951 sa. Yanzteze Ins., $36 b

Fire Ins.

China Fires, $200 Hongkong Fire, $610

Shipping Douglases, 630 Steamboats, 829 - Tugs, $25.

Indo-Chinas, (Prof.) $30 b Shell Trans., 90/-... Star Ferries, 8671 Waterboats, $15

Refineries.

China Sugaro, $24 Malabons, $36.

Mining

Bonguets, $150 b Kailans, 40/- 1.

b.

Langkats Tle..28 b S'hai Exploration, Tis. 4.80 b. Shanghai Loans, Tla. 9.00 Raubs, $41 Tronohs, 80/- b. Ural Caspioon, 8/. D.'

Docks, etc.

Kowloon Wharves, $1251 Whampoa Dooks, 659 Hongkews, Tls. 1775 6 New Engineerings, Tls, 6.50 b. Shanghai Dooks Tis: 123 ›n.

Lands, Hotels, etc.

H. and S. Hotels, $10.50 sa. H.K. Lands $65 31. Realtya, 56 sa Territoriale, $4 n." Humphreys, $16.25 - Princes Bidge, $89 Rural Lands, $iin.

Cottons..

Ewos Cottons, Tis. 9.80 b Orientale, Tls. 3,25 b. S'hai Cottone, Tla, 55

Buses, Trams.

China Buses, $10 Tramways, $240 Peak Trams, (old) $154. n. S'poro Tractions 15/9 Taxis, $28.

Miscellaneous.

Amusements, $19 b. Canton Ioos, $5) b. Comenta (Comb.) $134 Chins Lights, $21 China Prov., $6.10. Constructions, $1sa. Dairy Farms, $19 n. Der A. Wing, $6. H'kong Electrics, $66 Macao Electries, 835 n." Ropes (Comb.) 26 s Lane Crawfords, 18 Mackintosh, $191 n. Sintores, $11 n. United Asbestos, $20 Watsons $14.50 1. Powells, $61

TO-DAY

Dollar on demand 1/10 7/16 Lighting-up

5.53 p.m

More than 160 acres of woodland in the Forest of Fontainebleau were destroyed by are which started in the Canton of Touche- aux Mulets, on the borders of Ackeros. Fifty acres were des- troyed in the woods of Muisse and Milly, near Rambouillet.