1926-12-24 — Page 18

HOTELS.

THE

HONGKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL Telegraphio Address: KREMLIN, HONGKONG."

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL;" PALACE HOTEL:

MAJESTIC HOTEL.

Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL," SHANGHAL" HOTELS.

LIMITED.

Ip association with the Grand Hotel

Dos Wagons Lits, Peking.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

CENTRAL LOCATION

ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING, TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR.

HOTEL LAUNCH MHETS ALL STEAMERS

Teloptero Central 373 ·

Telegraphic Address

"VICTORIA "

WLOON HOTEL

p.m. Christmas Eve DINNER

TO

1. p.m.

and

New Year's Eve DANCE

$2.50 per Cover.

Book Tables at Once."

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

FRIDAY

DECEMBER 24, 1926.

THE EVENING OF THEIR DAYS.

Above are seen a group of aged poor men and women who are now being cared for by the Little Sisters of the Poor in their new Home at Ngau Sha Wan.

U. S. AND MEXICO.

NICARAGUAN REVOLT TO BE LOOKED INTO.

Washington, Dec. 23.

CHEKIANG CRISIS.

(Continued From Page 1).

Shanghai-Hangchow railway, aut is agreeable to Cheklang adopting

The Senato adopted the resolu-an autonomous form of govern tion of Mr. Moses, directing the ment, provided the Cheklangese do Foreign Relations Committee to not allow the Cantonese to attack enquire into American relations him. with General Diaz, President of Nicaragua, and asking for all diplomatic correspondence on the subject in recent months.

Specific information is designed (Near Dairy Farm). A Brst class Residential and Tourist Botel. Splendidly situated within regard to the part played by

Mexico, in support of the opposi In a walking distance of all, business centros. Large airy rooms. Hot

tion movement in Nicaragua head- and Cold, water. Excellent Cuisine ander the personal supervision of the Proprietress Monthly and family rates at moderate terms.

For further particulars apply to:

Tel. Address:

"Glenealy" Hongkong..

Tol Kowloon No. 8

GLENCALY HOTEL

3 & 4, Glenealy

Telephone C. 980.

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- out Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge. Bar and Billiard-Rooms. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Terms: moderate. Speelal terms 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 HOTEL, LTD.

Arthur E. Odell, Managing Director.

THE MYSTIC MAZE

By WALTER B. GIBSON

There is picture hidden in this mystic maze.

The only way to discover it is to find your way through the maze Thero are two possible entrances. One of thom is the right one. If you enter will bo ablo to trace an intri-

it, you'

cate course

that

will

Into the layrinth, arid

the

take

you

well

out

ugain.

There is only one course through maze that .can bo manda without retracing, or without running er

through barriers. Find that

"course" and you have completed it it will forni the outline of a picture. Fill in the qutline with pencil and you will invo The completed silhouette. It will show you, the tired business man at home,

Last Saturday's Picture;

Ball Boat

SUN'S PLAN FOR CITY.

Normal communications now exist between Shanghai and Hang chow. Private messages from the Checkiang "capital state that al- though peace and quiet existe there, the city is full of rumours, ed by Dr. Sacasa; chief of the so- and the elements of a real Chin called Liberal Government estab lished by revolutionaries at Puerto esc puzzle are present in the ex- Cabezas-Reuter's American Serlating situation.

vice.

AN UNTIDY MOTOR DRIVER.

FORCED TO PICK UP SCRAPS.

فریم

According to one informant, the despatch of Marshal Sun's troope to Hangchow in addition to being jan offensive measure against the Cantonese, who, occupying "Hang- chow would threaten Shanghai, was chiefly, concerned in seeing that the Cantonese did not take Hangchut. Now the Cantonese. have left the city, Sun's troops are content to remain outside, leaving control of Hangohow to General Chen Yi's 1st division.

Asbury Park, NJ-Dressed in white flannels and white sport shoes, J. Russell Draper of East Orange was forced by Police Chief A large party of Chen's troops Harry Beatty of Interlaken, an ex-are reported to have been sent clusive suburb of Asbury Park, to over the Chien Tang river into go over a mile of muddy road re

the Shaohsing district cently and remove every scrap of litter on it. Draper had thrown some newspapers from his car as he passed through the village and the action aroused the chief's angor,

This move

is puzzling foreign observers in Hangchow, but it it believed that this means neutrality and General Chen Yi prefers to move his troops out of the probable battle- field and let Sum and the Canton- The chief followed Draper in his ese fight it out around Hangchow. own car, overtaking him about a Independence, according to this in- mile from the village. Accord-formant, apparently means going ing to Beatty, Draper's car was over to the South... going 45 miles an hour. At inter "Although we have had the idea vals pieces of paper and popcorn that Cheklang people are really in boxes were thrown from the car. | sympathy with the Southerners, it After he had been stopped, Draper seems now that the business men told Beatty that he was just hav-are not looking forward with any ing some fun. Two women and man in the car with him also seem ed inclined to joke about the mat- ter.

Beatty forced Draper to get out in the rain and start back over the road. What papers shall I pick up?" he asked the chief, "All of them aren't mine, you know.",

satisfaction to their coming," one report states. "The students have been outspoken for them but now that they are near, the students, acem uneasy and many of the students have withdrawn from the schools and have gone home."

"Pick em all up," ordered the LITHUANIA'S REVOLT. chief, "Then we'll be sure to get the ones that you threw out."

Crossing from one side of the road to the other, Draper began his tanky pressing the papers to his white silk shirt.

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THWARTS BOLSHEVIK PLANS.

Riga, Dec. 23: The Lithuanian press reports He made three trips back to his that the police possess documents car with armsful of papers before proving indubitably that Bolshe he got back to Interlarken. At vist emissaries from Moscow had one point, he dropped his papers prepared a Bolshevist "Putsch and told the chief that he'd rather for Christmas with the object of take 50 days in goal than continue. linking up Lithuania" with Soviet. The chief was willing, but Draper Russia, and also that similar re-considered and went on.

putsches had been prepared for other Baltic States.

The police claim that when they Buenos Aires. Habitues of the found lists of people to be shot searched the arrested persons they

Liniers cattlo market were aston immediately after the patch. ished beyond measure one morn- The military coup which has ing to find one of the pens, usually resulted in a Right Wing Govern reserved for high class Short ment, has thwarted these plans- horn steers occupied by a bunch | Reuter

of twelve buffalos, Few of the

(Photo: Mee Cheung).

SHARE PRICES.

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

The following is the list of local share cotations issued to-day:-

Banks.

Hongkong, $1130 8. Chartered Bank; £21 Mercantile A. & B., 1307 n. Mercantile 0, 413 P. and O., £97 b." East Asia, $84. n..

Marine

Ins.

Canton Ins., $640. b.

China Underwriters, $1.45 sa North China, Tls. 145 .n. Union Ins., 290 Yangtze Ins., $45 s.

Fire Ins.

China Fires, $200 Hongkong Firs, 615

Shipping:

Douglases, $281 Steamboats, 826 Tugs, $11 b Indo-Chinás, (Prof.) $32 b. Shell Trans., 90 n. Star Ferries, 660° Waterboats, $15

Reflueries.

China Sugars, $25 Malabons, $36

Mining

b.

Benguets, $1.40 x Diy Kailane, 38/n. Langkats, Tla. 243 B'hai Exploration, Tis 4.50. Shanghai Loans, Tla. 8.00 Raubs, $41

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Tronohs, 21-b Ural Caapians, 8-n.

Docks, etc.

Kowloon Wharvos, $115 n. Whampoa Dooks, $45. Hongkewa Tla. 170 n. New Engineerings, Tls. 57 n. Shanghai Docks Tis. 117 s. Lands, Hotels, etc..

H. and S Hotels, $9.25 H.K. Lands, $57 Realtys, $6.15 b. Territoriale, 63, 8.

Humphreys, $141 Princes: Bldgs, $89. Rural Lands, $14 n

Cottons.

Ewos Cottons; Tls. 81. Orientals, Tls. 21. B... S'hai Cottons, Tis, 54 Buses, Trams China Busos," $91b. Tramwaye, $214 b Peak Trams, old) $15} S'pore Tractions 15/ Taxis, & B.

Miscellaneous, Amusements, 816. Canton Icon, $5

China Lights, $161 X. Div.

Coments (Comb.) $10 &

China Prov, $5,25 Constructions, 81.90 Dairy Farms, $18.

Der A. Wing, 56 n H'kong Electrics, $57 Macao Electrica, $35 n Ropes Old) $10, B. Lane Crawfords, $8. Mackintosh, $19 n.

Sinearos, $91

United Asbestos, 20 Watsons $13. Powells $60 m

spectators had ever seen such an animal before and their close

in-1 spection of these specimens soon Regina, Shak, Nov. 16-Erec- convinced them that the buffalo'stion of thirty-five country grain elevators at a cost of more than reputation for ferocity is not un

$1,000,000 will be undertaken im- justined. These buffnos came

મ from the province, of Entre Rios mediátoly by the Saskatchewan and are descended from a pair im Wheat Pool, the cooperative ported from the United States in marketing association of farmers. 1899 by the then governor of the According to an announcement by province, Don Ramon Febrò. They the organization issued here. TO-DAY were bought by the Armour Pack This will bring the number of ing Company at a figure averag clovators under control of the ing $44 apiece.

farmers to 610.

Jollaron demand Lighting-up:

1/11 3/16 5:44pm.

Entertainments.

One Contiunous Roar of Laughter Greeted

SYD CHAPLIN

THE MAN ON THE BOX

Yesterday at

The QUEEN'S

Many declaring that it was

FUNNIER THAN CHARLEY'S AUNT

Your Holiday will n Complete if you Miss it!

not be

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS

THE THIEF OF

BAGDAD

2:30, 5 pm. 7.15 & 9.20

There are

WORLD

2 BIG ATTRACTIONS

TO-NIGHT AT

THE STAR

DICK

NORTON'S

and his.

GLOBE-TROTTERS

New Songs, Scenes and Dances

AND

ALICE TERRY

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