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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

FRIDAY

DECEMBER 10, 1926.

BLINDED HEROES OF THE

HOTELS.

THE

HONGKONG

HONG KONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL Tolographic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.".

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL PALACE HOTEL;

MAJESTIC HOTEL:

Tolographic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL" HOTELS.

LIMITED.

association with the Grand Hotel

Dos Wagons Lits, Peking.

"KING EDWARD HOTEL.

CENTRAL LOCATION.

ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING, TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR.

HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS

Telophoné Central 373

Telegraphio Addros "VIOTONIA **

KOWLOON HOTEL

Premier Hotel in Kowloon

RATES:- Daily...... $5.00 Upwards

Blinded during the war, a number of sightless ex-Guardsmen were present at the unvelling of

the Guards War Memorial in London.

HANKOW UNREST.

(Continued From Page, 1.)

"SUNNING" FIRE.

WHEN IN DEBT.

LEE WHITE AND CLAY SMITH BANKRUPTCY.

bound to react harmfully on the by a pirate armed with a revolver. 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:

"Glemaly" Hongkong.

GLENEALY HOTEL

8.4, Glenealy

Wm. Harold Perry,

Manager.

Telephone C. 980.

(Near Dairy Farm). A first cines Residential and Tourist Hotel, Splendidly situated with- to easy walking distance of all business centres. Large airy rooms. Hot and Cold water. Excellent Calsine-under the personal supervision of the Proprietress. Monthly and family rates at moderate terma.

For further particulars apply to:

Tel. Kowloon No. 3

MRS. FREDERICKS, Proprietress,

PALACE HOTEL.

+

Tel Address "PALACE." Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. Entirely under English Management. Electric Light and Fans through- ont Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. " Termin moderate. Special terms to families on application to!

Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietress.

EUROPE

After-dinner dancing every

Tuesday, Thursday

and Saturday. -

Cables:-

"EUROPE "I

Singapore.

HOTEL

SINGAPORE.

Grill

THE EUROPE HOTEL, LTD.

Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Director.

PRODUCING CARUSOS

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gratification. Such a spirit is when he was chased down again

country, and

- Anna Lee Smith (professionally many Chinese are Half-an-hour later, his shift-was " much alarmed 'and want these taken over by the Chief Engineer, known as Lee White) and her evil forces curbed. But agitators and on going on to the saloon deck artists, applied to the Registrar' in husband, Clay Smith, vaueville and pickets rely upon the found armed men all around, military as

their support, and but got through unmolested to his Bankruptcy at Sydney (Mr. N. C. when the present officials are own cabin by the expedient of Lockhart) recently for certificates appealed to, they usually de- stretching out his

in of discharge. fend the actions of the disturbers response to n shout uttered in as being "patriotic."

English by a pirate: Is that all?"

BOLSHEVIST AND ANTI-CHRISTIAN.

arms,

THE PIRATE LEADER

Many of the Southern soldiers are mère lads, looking not more Witness saw the pirate leader. than 15 or 16, and apart from a This man was tall; he was dressed few officers, we were not impress-in a light grey lounge suit, minus ed with any appearance of smart-collar or tic, wore Harold Lloyd ness or intelligence. They seem glasses, and had a hawk-nose, and to be simply tools in the hands of heavy jowl.

The report of the Official A- signee (Mr. C. F. W. Loyd) dis- closed that one of the chief rea- sons of the bankruptcy of the ap-" plicants' was their tour of the which realised between East, £10,000 and £12,000. They toured under contract with Wilfred Cot- ton, theatrical entrepreneur, and the tour was not a financial sue- cess. During that tour their joint salaries were £60 per week.

Mr. Lloyd concluded his report

a few clever and apparently un- A bustie denoting a sudden scrúpulous leaders of Bolshevist change, occurred towards nine tendencies. I was assured, that o'clock, when Mr. Lapsley entered the recently reported interview the Captain's room to say that they saying: "In my opinion a con- with General Chang Kai-shek was pirates were rather annoyed that tributing factor to the bankruptcy true, and the aims there set forth someone had locked the two grills was extravagance in living. A portion of their weekly drawings are what have to be faced if this of the saloon deck, They were "Red" element gains the upper very much concerned, and as wit the bankrupts should have used to It is too much to ask us ness later broke the locks with liquidate their debts, if only in part. Through not doing so I to believe that the movement is a crowbar which he fetched

charge each bankrupt" with repre- not anti-Christian. Reports as to from the engine-room, the opera-hensible conduct.". breaking up of mission 'pre- tion was watched with con- mises and maltreatment of Chris-siderable interest and anxiety by tians are too strong evidence two large groups of pirates.

hand.

Liabilities And Assets.

bankrupts abilities and to the contrary. The troubles After further evidence of Mr. fomented in Christian schools and Duncan's movements up to the assests in the amended statement on April 7 last hospitals, and the almost inipos-fateful, midnight hour, when the of affairs filed sible demands made, indicate that plan of the Second Officer for the were:-Secured liabilities, £300;" Christian philanthropy will meet recapture of the bridge commenced unsecured liabilities, £8,406; se- with much opposition from the to reveal itself, the hearing was cured assets, £500; unencumbered "Reds," at least if foreigners have adjourned for the tiffin inter-assets, £81; amount realised, £50; anything at all to do with it. The val.. Rules prepared by those now rul ing at Hankow for Educational es- tablishments are designed to crush Christian effort: large sums of money' have to be deposited and undertakings given, that no Christian teaching be given, while at the same time Communism is to be definitely taught, and only ten- chers who are. "Reds" are to be

1

TASTING" 630 BRANDS

OF BEER.

'LONG DAY'S WORK FOR

EXPERTS.

so that all should be in readiness for the..ale tasters."

debts proved, £4,963. Dividend to unsecured creditors, nil. A bal- ance of £19 11s 9d stood to the cre dit of the joint estate at that datë,, and at balance of £25 79 8d to the credit of the separate estate of Henry Clay Smith.

The applicants in an affidavit denied that they had been guilty of extravagance during their tour of the East, and stated that it was necessary for them to spend money for the purpose of entertaining and keeping themselves as enter- tainers before the public.

#

There was a solemn profession employed; and the whole is to be at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, entirely under the control of the round 630 barrels of beer. Wise "Red" government. The aim men, possessing the keenest palet 'evidently is to dispense with all tes for ale, tasted liquor from foreign assistance unless it be en- every one of those barrels' on be- tirely subservient to this parti half of the Brewers' Exhibition. Mr. Hutton' rubmitted that the cular political party. As regards But did not drink a drop.

applicants had not been guilty of labour, wages, hours, conditions A Daily Chronicle représentative any reprehensible conduct with re- exercises for the throat, based pn of service, as well as the engaging found

the casks.. ranged gard to extravagance and that scientific lines, found wide sup-and dismissal of workers, all have round the Gilbey Hall ready their expenditure in entertaining FRENCH DOCTORS PLEA FOR port. It was also decided whether to be in the hands of the Unions, for the ritual. Thebungs, had been reasonable and .neces-

VOCAL DIAGNOSIS. the pupil had a bass, tenor, or The employers seem to receive no spigots and taps were being tested. sary.

baritone "throat. Many singers consideration. A curious meeting was held re-imagined themselves to be basses, cently in Paris to see what could when a medical examination would be done towards the production of show that they ought to be tenors. future Carusoa. The French The example. of De Reske was Society of Throat, Nose, and Eur quoted. He began as a baritone, Specialists, having come to the until a doctor, by discovering he conclusion that the present dearth had the larynx of a tenor, gave the of good singers was probably due to world one of its most exquisitu, the way in which they were taught, singers. "decided that it was time the doc- tors came to the help of the pro- fessors of music. Most of these assembled at the School of Medi- cine agreed that the subject was not taught scientifically, but one professor said it would be impos- siblo to establish a true scientific method,aince there were as yet ho instruments suficiently delicate to. permit of a slow-motion film being taken of a first-rato.singer's larynx in action,

wer.

Varlous improvements however, suggested. The scheme of Dr. Moreaux, the famous Nancy specialist, for starting all vocal

'training with a species of Swedish.

Down

Joy.

NOW OPEN

AT

WHITEAWAY'S

Printed and Published, for the Proprietor by FREDERICK PEROY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street, In the City of Victoria, Hongkong."

Entertainments.

ROLAND WEST'S

THE BAT

Additional

production

of

A Comedy Mystery Drama

Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood

From the stage play produced by Wagenbals and Kemper

Adapted and directed

Boland West

Atraction.

at 9.20 only

by.

ORCHESTRAL CONCERT

Friday, Saturday at

THE QUEEN'S

CONRAD NAGEL, MAE BUSCH

and PAULINE FREDERICK

MAE BUSCH AND PAULINE FREDERICK MARRIED FURTS

MARRIED FLIRTS

at 5.15 and 9.15

WORLD

STAR

THE DARK SWAN

THEATRE

ROYAL

To-night at 9.15 Sharp Also to-morrow, Monday, Friday and Saturday, next week, at 9.15, and on Wednesday at 4.30 The Hong Kong Philharmonie Society Presents

"THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE"

Registrar's Decision. Meanwbild another procession, The Registrar, in giving his do- London, Nov. 15-A. Brussels even more solemn, was taking cision, said that the Oficial As- message says the anniversary of place. One hundred and seven-signee, in his report, had not given the Battle of the Yaer was com teen dry ginger ales were being any specific instance of extrava- memorated by a march of ex-sor-sampled. Scotch whiskies Coloni-gance on the part of the defend- vice men past, the King before the wines and cider were also repre- ants who, during their tour of the Palace. The King sent a letter sented, but it la significant that East, received a joint salary of to Marshal Foch with reference to the "pussyfoot" drinks seem to be £60 per week. He did not agree the latter's remarks mentioned in a increasing at the Brewers' Exhibi- that because theatricals received message of November 11th. The tion almost every year,

large salaries they had a right to King declares that on October 13, In the main hall were vast vats, be extravagant, nor did be think 1914 an order was circulated vessels of wood and steel and cop that any person should be extrava- among the whole of the Beigían per, and machinery illustrating the gent when he had debts to meet. army declaring that whoever utter latest methods of brewing and However, in the present applica ed the word reteat would be re-bottling.

tions no objections had been lod garded as a traitor and before,

"ged to the cortificates of discharg -, | Marshal Foch's visit to the Belgian That's my text" said the Rev. which he granted to each appli- army it had been ordered to stand Wellesley Orr, Vicar of St. Paul's, cant. firm at all costs on the Yaer Hine Kington Hill, blowing a referee's and no order for retroat had been whistle in the pulpit at a novel Mr. W. Hution (Instructed by.

A Policeman's Life is Not a Happy One" service attended by the district's Messrs. Ernest Cohen and Linton) given during the whole of the ensu football teams, whose coloured jer appeared for the applicants.

London, Nov. 14.-A verdict of pert attributed death to his taking. ing battle, It is true that the seys decorated the ends of the

suicide while temporarily of un-cyanide of ammonia. His widow," critical circumstances of October pews. The vicar explained that

sound mind was returned at the in-who was at Marseilles at the time formerly he e had refereed Soccer Delhi, Nov. 8.--The Governor-quest on Edwin Roy Watson, des- of the tragedy, stated that, her 26 led the Belgian headquarters

games,

abandoned the General of South Africa telograph-eribed as a Doctor of Science and husband had recently consulted s staff to contemplate retiring, but practice: Marshall Foch knows that the aware.It is a good job, he de-appreciation, on behalf of the Cawnpore, who was found dead had entered a nursing home there, King steadfastly opposed even con-clared, "that God is a great referee South African Deputation in in his bed at an hotel in Konsing after which be came to London, and overlooks some rulos, such as India, for the great courtesy and ton. A tumbler and a small gloes from where he wrote to her that [cautioning a man only once." generous hospitality chown them. I tube were nearby. - A medical ax-ho was no better.

sideration of this plan. -

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Booking at Anderson's

So the players ed the Viceroy on November 5th an Indian Education Oficer from nerve specialist in Switzerland and