1927-01-18 — Page 12

12

HOTELS.

THE HONGKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL Tolographio Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG." AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL

Telegraphio Address:

(

'CENTRAL, SHANGĦAL"

HOTELS.

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hoto! Dos Wagons Lits, Poking.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

CENTRAL LOCATION

ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING, TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR.

HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS

Telephone Oeatral 373

Telegraphio. Address VICTORIA "

KOWLOON HOTEL

PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON.

Modern Toilet System.

Elovator and Telophones to each floor. Smoking Room and Saloon Bar. First Class Billiard Table Recently renovated throughout.

Dinner Dance Every Thursday

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1927.

BIG ANTI-BRITISH PARADES.

(Continued from Page 1). me through the left thigh, about Govon, inches above the knoo.

The Chinese got off with the rife, but I managed to hald mine until others came to my assistance. I still clung to it as I was taken to the Catholic Hospital... Hera I was oporated upon. To make the rifle useless I removed the bolt."

Str. Charnock then went on to say that they had to evacuate the hospital on Wednesday night, both he had Flaxington being stretcher cases. At about 9.30 p.m. the Chin- ese military, forming a guard, escorted them, according to Char nock, to the water front, whence they were conveyed to men-of-war.

As In the case of other refugees arriving during the past few days, the Intest batch wero obliged to board the steamers in haste, bringing but fow of their belongings and in some instances nothing save the clothes they wore..

The Butterfold und Swire steamer Shong King, while in Hankow, was ordered by the British Admiralty to proceed at full speed to Klukiang to pick up refugees there, many of whom were being cared for on gunboats and other armed craft lying in the stroam. The Sheng King sailed from Kiukiang January 7.

When the Sheng King left Han kow the steamer Tung Ting was It was later ascertained that about lying in the river, preparing, it was 20 civilian patients were also or-reported, to take on foreign dered out. He thought that some patients in the hospital there and of them had arrived here aiready. to transport them to safety at

Both patients are now in Gon-Shanghai. eral Hospital.

COMPRADORE'S ARRÉST.

BANDITS' RAID ON LIGHTHOUSE.

KEEPER TORTURED AND ROBBED.

INCIDENT NEAR SHANGHAI.

As the result of a bandit outrage in the Jonely light station on Elgar Island, a point about 98 miles from Shanghai on the way to Hongkong, the head Chinese lightkeeper lies seriously wounded in St. Luke's Hospital, Shanghai, and all his possessions, including the money savings of two years are in the hands of the robbers.

Naws of the happening was first supplied to revenue cutters, whose duty it is to victual and otherwise attend to light atations, when the Two refugees on the Sheng Kingatr. Awa Maru, saw a distress were Mr. and Mra, IL-C.Reed of signal-flying from the lighthouse Poking, where Mr. Read in connect-on the lelang. Wireless communi- ed with the Standard Oil Company. cation was immediately established They arrived in Hankow at 2 p.m. by the steamer with Shanghai and on the day the Sheng King sailed revenue cutters despatched to the for Klukiang. Shortly after thoir spot. There it was found that a arrival they were instructed to go band of looters had entered the aboard the steamer and go to lighthouse where five keepers wora Shanghal.

stationed. When the number one keeper refused to comply with their demands for his money they set to work to intimidate him by a series of stabs on different parts of his body.

REFUGBE'S DEATH.

where his money was hidden the Through refusing to tell them keeper was soon severely wounded In 14 places after which, accord-

HELD FOR FOUR HOURS. An incident which showed that the pickets are still very hostile to foreigners and their "running dogs," occurred outside the A.P.C. building on the British Bund at Hankow last Wednesday week, when, Mr. T. C. Tong, Compradore of the Chartered Bank of India,

BAD CASE OF FOREIGN LADY, Australia and China, was arrested

A Kluklang correspondent of the by the pickets because he held con. versation with one of the foreign of Mrs. Curtis on board the str. N. C. Daily News reports the death ers inside the building. Mr. Tong took his private rleksha down to Mei Chuan. Mrs. Curtis was an the Bund at about five o'clock and invalid in Kuling and was brought happened to see Mr. W. Neill, local down hastily to Kiukiang owing to agent of the Chartered Bank, in the threatened troubles. She was ing to his story in the hospital, side the A.F.C. He stopped and placed in the French Mission hos-the thieves were able to find what The other went near the building to talk pital. When the women and chil-they were after he was left in a with Mr. Neill for a few minutes dren were evacuated, her condition swooning condition. WM. HAROLD PERRY

on general conditions in the Bri- was 80 serious that her daughter four light tenders were able to Manager

tish Concession under the Nation-decided not to move her. The next scramble for safety as soon alist rule. Leaving the place, he morning a Cantonese officer visited robbers put in an appearance and found himself suddenly surround-the hospital and, seeing a stack of were found locked in the steel ed by a number of pickets who ac-baggage near the doorway, inquired compartment of the station. All the head keeper's savings, every cused him of conspiring with the

He was told it belonged to a available article of clothing or foreigners and placed him under ar- foreign lady who was very ill where removable property including rest. As it was raining hard and upon he stated that they would soon meterological instruments were getting dark, Mr. Tong offered the have all these cursed foreigners out taken off by the thieves, who bow- nickets two dollars to let him free of Kinkiang. The invalid heard ever did not tamper with This was refused and he was this remark and was rather upset.lights which remained burnlag taken as the "foreignera running That same afternoon occurred the throughout the time intervening dog" to the Pickets Headquarters riot on the foreshore and so it was before the arrival of the rescuers. at the Hankow Club.

decided to move her out to the Mei

Manager's Personal Attention

Tols. K. 608-609.

Cablos KOWLOTEL. HONGKONG

Tel. Kowloon No. 8

PALACE HOTEL.

Tel Address "PALACE." Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Raliway Station. Entirely under English Managemont. 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. Terma moderate. Special torma 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:

ASAHI BEER

BREWED BY

DAI NIPPON BREWERY Co., Ltd.

TOKYO JAPAN

Specially Brewed for Export.

Sole Agents i

Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, Ltd.

HONGKONG.

The Doctor's recommendation

HEMOSTYL SYRUP

A Superb

Tonic

whose it was.

Chuan. She was carried down in a stretcher and to get to the launch had to be taken out to B. & S.'a

A trial was immediately hold by the pickets authorities who found Mr. Tong guilty of the following:

(1) Supplying secret informa- hulk. The crowd of rioters saw tion to the foreigners to the effect her and, yelling, made a dush to that three big British warships wards her stretcher, swinging their and 600 British marines are coming to Honkow.

(2) Secretly bringing food to the foreigners inside the APC building,

(3) Using the English laugur age in his conversation with the foreigners,

(4) Attempting to bribe the pickets with two dollars.

All the above were declared by the picket leaders as counter-re- volutionary measures.

ولي

WHO'S WHO..

ON THE "PRESIDENT

GARFIELD.".

"

the

bamboo poles Fortunately some British sallors were near by, and they dashed down on to the fore

Anongst the passengers who ar- shore and placed themselves berived here by the President tween the stretcher and the would- Garfeld were Mr. A. T. Hassis, of be murderers. The body has been the Russian Consulate General, at transferred to the Shengking and Canton, and Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Refeil of Vancouver, who are on a round-the-world trip and are atop- ping over in Hongkong for two weeks."

will be sent down river.

JAPAN'S POSITION. GOVERNMENT NON-COMMITTAL

Passengers in transit included Tokyo, Jan. 13.-Although the Mr. George Howard, American After the trial at the Hankow Government remains non-committal Trade Commissioner to the Philip Club, Mr. Tong was taken to the regarding its attitude towards the pines, and Mrs. Howard; Mr. British Police Station, now, the Chinese situation, the Asahi claims Ellridge Greene, U. S. Diplomatic Office of the Kuomintang Repre- that it has learned that the Corps, en route, to Bangkok; Mr. sentative in charge of the British | Foreign Office views on the thres Robert Bacigalupi, a prominent Coneession affairs, Although re-major questions are; firstly, to relawyer of San Francisco; Mr. and quests were made by the various frain from any positive interven- Mrs. Pascel Simpson, of Penang, officials in Hankow for his release, tion between North and South and returning from San Francisco; Mr. the picket and Kuomintang heads also from any action which might Louis Hanitch, Attorney for the refused to let Mr. Tong free. It prevent reconciliation between the Northern Pacific Railway was not un an order was signed two factions; secondly, that the sur-Eastern States, and Mrs. Hanitch; by Mr. Chon Yu-jen, Minister for taxes be only enforced with the ap-Dr. H. B. Osborn, of Rangoon. Foreign Affairs, and personal proval of thetaril conference, returning after a round-the-world guarantee was made by Mr. T. C. which must include representatives trip: and Mr. Charles J. Huber Woo, Secretary of the Ministry, of the North and South; thirdly, and family, of New York. that Mr. Tong was finally releas-It sympathizes with, China's desire

ed.

He was held prisoner for to recover the foreign settlements over four hours.

MORE REFUGEES.

600 NOW IN SHANGHAI Scores of additional refugees arrived in Shanghal on the 11th inst. on two river steamers from Kiukiang, swelling to total arriving to approximately 600 persons.

EMPIRE PARLIAMEN TARIANS.

A VISIT TO MALTA.

Rugby, Jan. 17.

A delegation of the Empire

but will not countenance any legi- tímate means of attaining this ob- ject and on the contrary will strenu- ously resist any attempt to dis- regard Japon's treaty rights, or any action endangering her legitimate rights and interests in China..

Most of the vernacular papers in terpret the Government views simi larly.-Reuter,

CLAIMING A COAST- LINE:

SUIT AGAINST ROUMANIAN GOVERNMENT.

Budapest.-From Bucarest comes Parliamentary Association will the report of an intereating leave London to-morrow, for Malta case being tried by the Court of

CASH-BOX TEMPTATION.

MARKET THIEF SENT TO GAOL.

in

Unable to resist the temptation presented by the sight of a cash- box which was left unwatched for a brief moment while the butcher left the stall, a thief at Whitfield yesterday found himself caught in the act of stealing.

It was related at the Central Police Court to-day, when the man was charged, that the defendant could not open the box-it was locked, and he could not even lift it up as it was too heavy, “All he could do was to creep along the butcher's table, and reach out his hand for it, before he was detect

in response to an invitation of the Appeal at Kisenev (Bessarabia).ed by the butcher on his return,

The hoirs of Prince Demidov, at and scared away, t branch of the Association there.

present resident in Parls, clalin Travelling by train to Syracuse, from the Rumanian State the butcher "kicked up a considerable As Sergeant Langley put it, the the members will proceed thence coastline on the Black Sea between noise," and the defendant just to the island in the British war Budache and Sobolát, together with walked atraight Into the arms of ship, H.M.S. Bryony. The delegathe customs and dutica collected lukong. tion includes, Lord Peel, First on that part of the boast-valued Commissioner of Works, who is the at 450 million lei Chairman, Mr. Samuel, Parliamch At the first trial: the court de- tary Secretary for Overseas Trade,cided in favour of the plaintiffs, and five other Conservative Mom-but the Rumanian Government has: bera of Parliamentary, four appealed to the High Court at Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK Labourites and one Liberal Ripener, and the case is expected PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Streat, in the City of British Wireless.

to continue for some time. Victoria, Hongkong.

Sentence of three weeks hord labour was inflicted.";

TO-DAY

Dollaron demand 1/11 13/16 Lighting-up.

6,01 p.m

Entertainments.

A Most Appealing Love Story.

With the Great War as Background; in which the Most Touching Pothos alternates with Irresistible Comedy.

METRO-GOLDWYN presents

JOHN GILBERT

In

THE BIG PARADE

The Film selected by audiences everywhere. as the Masterpiece of 1926. Its 7 MONTHS run at the TIVOLI, in spite of intense Press opposition testisy to its greatness as a Picture, Owing to its extreme length only $ Shows a Day are possible v

At 2.80, 6 p.m. and 9.15 p.m.

:

SUPER-PRODUCTION PRICES.

QUEEN'S

WORLD

ANNA MAY WONG

THE SILK

in

SILK BOUQUET

The First Chinese Picture to.

be

made at Hollywood.

STAR

PAT O'MALLEY

THE WHITE DESERT:

Looking for Help?

THE OLD METHOD

THE NEW METHOD]

There is no need for you 'to wonder where to find a good plumber! All you have to do is:-

TELEPHONE C.269

C. E. WARREN & Co., Ltd.

ESTD. 1899. CHINA BUILDING.

ESTD. 1899,

DON'T NEGLECT THAT COLD!

Try a bottle of our special

COUGH LINCTUS

Gives immediate relief. Prepared only by

THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY

14, Queen's Road, Central.

Tel. C. 1788.