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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 assoolation with the Grand Hotel

Doe Wagons Lita, Poking..

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

CENTRAL LOCATION ».

ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING,

TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR.

HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS

Telephone Central 373

Telographic Address VioronIA

KOWLOON HOTEL

Premier Hotel in

RATES:- Daily

Kowloon

$5.00 Upwards Monthly $120.00 do

MODERN TOILET SYSTEM Elevator and Telephones to each floor. SALOON BAR & BUFFET.

Manager's personal attention. Tols: K. 608 & K. 609.

Tel. Address "KOWLOTEL" Hongkong

Tel. Address;

"Glenbaly" "Hongkong,

GLENEALY HOTEL.

3 & 4, Glenealy

Wm. Harold Porry,

Manager.

Telephone C. 980,

(Near Dairy Farm).. Splendidly situated with-

A first class Residential and Tourist Hotel. in say walking distance of all business centres. Large airy rooms. Hot and Cold water. Excellent Cuisine under the personal supervision of the Propriatress. Monthly and family rates at moderate terms,

For further particulars apply to:

Tol, Kowloon No. 3

MBS. FREDERICKS,

PALACE HOTEL.

Proprietress,

Tol. Address "PALACE." Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Forry and Railway Station. Entirely under English" Management. Electric Light and Fans through ant. Every Room with Private Bath Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Terms moderate. Special torms to families on application to:

Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY. Proprietress.

EUROPE

After-dinner dancing every

Tuesday, Thursday

and Saturday.

Cables:

EUROPE

Singapore.

HOTEL

SINGAPORE,

Grill

THE EUROPE HOTËL. LTD.

فورا ہیں

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Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Director.

MODERN METHODS

Our business is conducted on strict business methods. and we take every possible step to ensure that your orders are reliably fulfilled.

We employ English speaking assistants who will pay the utmost attention to your instructions, whether telephoned, given personally, or written.

Lowest Prices, for Best Goods.

KWONG LEE STORE ADDRESS No. 5 Queen Victoria Street.

: (Eastern side of Central Market) TEL. C. 708..

TEL. C. 798.

Take her to the Pictures

Printed 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, NOVEMBER 13, 1926.

SPEY

CUP

BOWLS FINAL.

Playing in the final of the Spey Cup, Craigengower beat the Civil Service last Sunday by 15 points. The teams are shown above. They are:-Cralgen- gower, C. M. Alves, R. Basa, U. M. Omar and B. W. Bradbury; Civil. Service," A. H. Dawick, A. Booker, J. Gregory and J. W. Deakin (Photo: Mec. Cheung).

"UNCLE JOE" CANNON PASSES AWAY.

:

GRAND OLD MAN OF US. POLITICS.

ANOTHER DARING PIRACY.

(Continued From Page 1)

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KOWLOON PLAY- GROUND.

NEW REGULATIONS ISSUED.

through the head and body, hi The Governor-in-Council has retains being thrown overboard. made the following regulations in The pirates then apparently rush-regard to the Children's Play- ed the bridge, and, taking the off-ground at Kowloon:

A FIGHTING CAREER.

cers by surprise, forced them to In these regulations, unless a New York, Nov. 12,

Keep the ship going, at the point of contrary intention appeara, "play- A message from Danville, the revolver. The course was set ground" includes all bufidings, the death of to Bias Bay, where they arrived at fences and other erections belong. Illinois, announces

Whening to or used with the play- the veteran politician, Mr. Joseph about 1.30 p.m. yesterday.

the ship was close in-shore, shots ground. Gurney Cannon. Reuter's Ameri- were fired and whistles blown, No unauthorised person shall 'can Service.

whereupon a number of small boats post or exhibit any notice in the and sampans put off from the playground.

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"Uncle Joe" Cannon has passed on at the great age of 90 years. Joseph Gurney Cannon was easily the greatest American politician The pirates then proceeded to the playground as to which a sub-

the passengers rob

of such sisting notice is or may be ex. money or variables as had not hibited to the effect that the same. previously been taken. There were is closed by order of such Super over two hundred native, passengers intendent. AV on board, and they were dispossess- ed of money, jewellowland cloth ing.

shore, for the ship. Each boat. No person, unless authorised by contained about thirteen oe-Botanical and Forestry Depart- cupants.

ment, shall enter any portion of

of his day and his generation And that day and his generation covered sixty-two years of political activity.

He was known as the "Czer" and "Iron Duke" of American poli- tics; and was a Republican, first, last and all the time.

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MR. BEALE'S LOSSES.

No person carrying a load shall unter the

unless playground specially authorised.

No person shall enter or be in the playground unless properly clothed.

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Mr. Beale said he was molested Cannon's Republicanism Was

most by the more villainous, mem- No person shall take into or have born with the Republican Party bers of the gang, one after another with him in the playground any He was one of the first members of coming in and looting his belong-dog which is not on leash. the party of Lincoln." He was inga again and again. The leaders All persons using the play elected to his first public office in made some effort to stop this, but ground shall conduct themselves 1860, as prosecuting attorney in failed. One of the younger mem-in a quiet, décent and orderly Danville, Illinois. Lincoln ran for hers of the gang actually cut one manner. President at the head of the same of the pockets out of a pair of Mr. No person shall put his feet on ticket.

Beale's trousers within which any seat in the playground nor When ont reflects that Can-there was some money, and re-shall any person lite upon any seat non was a contemporary of Lin- volvera were being continually or in any building therein. coln, Grant Cleveland, Roosevelt, pointed at him, some of them in No person shall cut, mark, de- Wilson and Harding one has some the hands of inexperienced, men face or injure any of the play- Idea of the scope of his political and boys. The pirates atole Mr. ground property, activity.

Beale's clothes, shoes, hats, money, No male person over 13 years Cannon's history was the record a pocket book and numerous other of age shall-use any swing, spring- of the political life of the union articles, and he estimates his total boord or other appliance erected since before the Civil War. He loss to the valuq of about $400. in the playground for the use and was born May 7, 1886, at Gulliford

The pirates left the ship about amusement of children. Court House, N. C. of Irish-three o'clock yesterday afternoon, Quaker" stock. The family was after which the pirated vessel pro- very poor.. Four years later the ceeded to Hongkong. family moved to Indiana by wagonAs far as Mr. Beale could say, train. At 14, young Cannon had no-one was killed. with the excep- to go out and help the family. Hetion of the Annamite guard, and did it as a. store clerk. His school-there was no kidnapping. ing, was medger. He saved and

studied law. When 22 Cannon

moved to Danvillo, Illinois, where

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ELECTRICITY BILL.

PASSES THROUGH COMMONS.

London, Nov. 12, The House of Commons has

agreed to the third reading of the Electricity Bill.

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THE MYSTIC MAZE.

By WALTER B. GIBSON

A picture in outline is hidden in this mystic maze.

Last Baturday's Picture-The Camera,

When you have found it, you can blacken it in and make, à clear-cut silhouette.

Bombay millowners are consider- he lived continuously until his ing the question of putting the death, except during sessions in mills on short time, in view of the

The Attorney General in winding Washington.

unsatisfactory outlook in the tex A bright young lawyer, he wasiile industry. At present no geno- up the debate emphasised the in- elected prosecuting attorney and ral agreement has been reached, portance of the main principles of made a record by fighting "Cop- but individual mills may take the Bill; first, the standardisation perheads" during the war. In 'action in the near future.

of frequency; and second, inter connection from the viewpoint of 1862 he married Mary P. Reed of Canfield, Ohio. Two daughters Her air cusion, India-rubber efficiency and cheapness of supply. were born of the union. |

water Bottle and failway rug are A Labour amendment for rejec Joseph Cannon, was first elected bequeathed to nephews under the tion, on the ground that the men- to Congress in 1872. He served will of Miss Alice Matilda Smith sure perpetuated the existence of continuously there, with the ex- (80), of Fern-terrace, Southbor-private ownership was rejected by ception of two terms, for half a ough, Kent, who left £5,351. A 201 votes to 70.-Reuter.

relative stated that Miss Smith century.

Cannon was Speaker of the gave-the-air-cushion to a nephew, House of Representatives from sometime ago.

While attempting to save the pencil, start at one of the entrances 1903 until 1912. In those years he

life of a seaman, who had been, and try to find your way through the

maze and out again. Only om Great Britain, the United States, swept from the boat in which he trance is the right one, and there received and earned the title of

Under the France, New Zealand, Fiji, the was going ashore at Pineto, Coris only one pathway through the mate "Czar of the. House." old Reed Rules the Speaker was Solomon Islands, Papia, New sica, after his ship had anchored, that is not obstructed. When you The House and Cannon made it Guinen, the Straits Settlements, the commanding otheer of the have found the correct course it will stick until the famous revolution and the League of Nations will French Torpedo-boat 849 was form the outline of your picture. marked the fall of the old auto-be represented at the Pacific drowned. The second-in-com-Trace over it heavily and fill it in.

nen, weighed anchor, but the pro- to many national conventions will onon in Melbourne on Decem pellor, fouled on & rope, and the Cannon was, of course, delegate the Australian Government which mand, in hopes of recuing both torpedo-boat could not be manoeu vred, and went ashore.

cracy.

Health Conference organised by

ber 15.

He was "mentioned" for the Pre- sidency in nearly every convention for thirty years, but never came street at Cheriton, near Shorncliffe A large fox which appeared in a closer than in 1908.

Camp, was chased, and took refuge In 1923 Uncle Joe voluntarily in the saloon bar at the Victoria laid down the burden which had Hotel. It was there captured by | grown too heayy for him.

two officers of the 11th Hussars. By his death there passes away who took it away in a sack, in the in American political fighter of hope that it would be useful at the old plonser school-perhaps the forthcoming meet of the Shoppi- the last.].

cliffe Drag Hunt.

How to find the picture: Take a

Noticing that their employees Professor F. Wood Jonés, of were discontented and irritable, a Adelaide, has accepted a Rockfel- firm of photographic manufacturoter foundation research appoint- ers suspected that it might be due meat which necessitates his carly to the Influence of the red light departure for Honolulu, where he' Two British cruisers, the Daunt used. The red light was replaced will join the University of Hawall less and Danae, belonging to the by a green light, and the result to study racial problems in the Mediterranean squadron, passed was immediate. The temper of Hawaiian Islands. Professor through the Bosporus en route for the workpeople changed, and un-Jones was some years ago. Dern- Bulgarian and Rumanian ports in der the peaceful rays of the gree the Blue Sea, and reninined for light they have since been good fonstrator of Anatomy at London abhort period.

humbured and contented,

Hospital and at St. Thomas's.