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HOTELS.

THE

HONGKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL Tolographia Addronn: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG."

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALAUE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL.

Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAI.”.

HOTELS.

LIMITED.

In assoolation with the Grand Hotel Dos Wagons Lite, Poking.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

CENTRAL LOCATION

·ELECTRIC LIFTS' AND, LIGHTING, TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR,

HOTEL LAUNOH MEETS ALL STEAMERS

Telegraphio AddroViron

Telephons Central 373

KOWLOON HOTEL.

SPECIAL ATTRACTION CHINESE-NEW-YEAR'S EVE DINNER DANCE $2.50 Per Cover.

AMERICAN SYNCOPATED ORCHESTRA

Serpentines, Balloons, Etc.

Tel. Kowloon No. 8

WM HAROLD PERRY Manager.

PALACE HOTEL.

Tel. Address "PALACE." Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Rallway Station Entirely under English Management. Electric "Light and, Fans through.. aut. Every Room with Private Bath Lounge, Bar and Billard-Rooma, Unrivalled Cofeine under the personal supervision of the proprietress Terms moderate. Special terms to familles 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 Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, Ltd.

Meals a Speciality"

HONGKONG.

CAFE RESTAURANT PARISIEN

Podder Building.

Music

and

Dancing

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SHANGHAI "DEFENCÉ

FORCE.

(Continued from Page 1).

TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1927.

“KOCHÓW" PASSENGERS.

TWENTY-ONE BEFORE THE

MAGISTRATE.

BANK REPORT.

BANK OF EAST ASIA, "LTD.

The Directors of The Bank of on which the authorities dependin

East Asiq, Ltd, Announce that, connection with the

defence The twenty-one Chinese passen. subject to nudit, the profit for the arrangements, there is no truth gers taken by the police, inst week year ending 1st December, 1926, whatever, in the newspaper reports off the steamer Kachow for exam after writing off all charges and that Marshal Sun Chun-fang hasination subsequent to the dis-making provisions for deprecia- received a serious reverse in Checovery of eleven fully-loaded retion, bad and doubtful debts, and klang. The authorities consider volvers in a crate of eggs, appear including the balance of $163,- the foports sheer propaganda.-et before Mr. B. E. Lindsall, at the 365.28. brought forward from 1925, Central Magistracy" to-day, the amounts to $622,080.05 which the charge being of possession of arms Directora propose to deal with at meeting without, a pormit from the Captain the forthcoming annual Superintendent of Police.

The charge, with an application for a provisional reniand, was brought by Chief Detective, Int

Reuter.

CAN EXTREMISTS BE CONTROLLED?

MINOR EPISODES CAUSES DOUBTS.

'London, Jan: 24.

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No fresh developments are re-spector T. Murphy, who stated that ported from China to-day.

tho return of the ship's compradore It is not yet known in London was awaited, as this witness would whether the decision of the com-give evidence.connecting the de- mercial community in the British fendants with the incident of pas- Condesalon at Hankow, taken after sage-booking. It was not usual consultation with Mr. O'Malley, to for men of their type to purchase. resume business to-day, was first-class tickets, which they did actually put into operation." by two's and three's, and it was Minor episodes at Hankow and this odd Circumstance which elacwhere sustain doubts in some aroused suspiclone in the first quarters as to the ability of the place. For the rest, it would be Chinese authorities to control the rather dificult to connect the extremists.

whole number of the defendants with the present charge, the testimony of the compradore being that which was most relied on."

A formal remand was given.

Meanwhile, the British author ties are continuing preparations to safeguard the lives and interests of nationals' in China, of whom there are about 7,000 in Shanghai. These preparations will be ade- quate, but purely defensive. They are not directed against any party in China, nor are they provacative, Their extent is governed by the defensive requirements-British

Wireless.

S

when 1,000 marines were busy: packing up their kits and bidding farewell to friends and relatives preparatory to sailing for China the Minnesota, today aboard which will eat at Hongkong en route to Shanghai-Retter. I

NATIONALIST REPORTS...

..INDIA SENDS TROOPS. MR. T. V. SOONG STOP'S TROUBLE.

Delhi, Jan. 24. §. A Nationalist News Agency téle-

In the course of his inaugurak gram dated Hankow, 22nd inst., address to the Assembly, the Vice- states:-British banks and bugiroy announced that India

being ness houses here will open Monday, wherein forces were available fur the nearest part of the Empire the 24th, it was announced 'to-day immediate despatch to China, the by the British" Chamber of Cum- Government of India had agreed to nieree.

contribute a contingent including with the Imperial Government, Indian troops, thus co-operating

who had reluctantly been forced to order A reinforcement, as a purely defensive measure-Ren! ter

been the principal point emphasised The necessity for this action has by the Nationalist Minister for Foreign Affairs in his conversa- tions up to the present time with British Legation at Peking.

Advises received hero to-day from Changsha say that disturbances there have ended. Four men

charge with looting in the A. P. C. Building there have been executed. Instructions from Mr. TV Soong, Minister of Finance, have been sent to

the authorities at Changsha, that no interference should be allowed with the opera- tions of the Standard Oll Company, It became known here to-day that Mr. T. V. Soong, Finance Minister of the Nationalist Government, personally prevented the possibility 'of an armed clash between the mobs of coolies bent on invading the British Concession and the Bri- tish marines" or "guard inside the Kiukiang Concession gates.

in

While en route to Hankow after attending the conference of leaders of the Nationalist Government in Nanchang, Mr. Soong arrived Kiukiang last Thursday. He pass- ed the point where a crowd was' massed at the boundary of the Bri- tish Concession, and seeing the danger in the situation, mounted the barricade and addressed the mass. He told them his name and position with the Nationalist. Gov- ernment and exhorted them to be enlm and disperse without further action. The crowd desiste: from their activities for the moment, and later in the afternon armel troops entered and. took over the profec-. tion of the area,

CANTON EXTREMISTS.

WANT POSTAL CONTROL.

A Chinese report from Canton states that, making use of the anti- British feeling in regard to Fan- kow incidents, extremists in Can- ten city are busying themselves in an attempt to influence the labour

as follows:

To pay a final dividend.

for, the year 1926 of 6% on 50,000 shares.

To pay a bonds to Directors, holders of founder shares, and the staff.

To carry forward to next year'a ac- count-

WAYS

-6-1920 BY KEA SISTVOČE, INCE, "

$300,000.00

23,897.21

-298,782.84

$622,680.05

Whether or not talking in your sleep is a bad habit de- pends on what you say.

FOUR RATTALIONS FROM INDIA.

London, Jan. 24.

A young Glasgow burglar, after The War Office has officially an-. nounced that the Government of breaking into a shop, wrote to the Shanghai two British and two In-gifts. This is a good pen. I just India is arranging. to despatch to owner: "Thank you for the small dinn battalions, with ancillary love exquisite cigars-Yours. The troppa. Reuter,

JAPANESE WARSHIPS.

Rat." He drew on the envelope a rat poeping through a hole and Tokyo, Jan. 24; watching two cats. The cats wäre The Navy Office announces that wearing police helmets and batons four destroyers, the Momo, Yanagi, were tied to their tails. Later he Hinoki and Kash! were despatched appeared in Glasgow Sheriff Court to Shanghat from Saacbo to-day to charged with the burglary, and join Japan's China squadron.was ordered 30 days' gaol.

Reuter.

THAT FRESH LOOK ̈

Can be renewed },

The majority of men hayo a suit or two which have been laid aside, because the original "FRESHNESS" has departed.

May we bring that back! "FRESHNESS "

THE INTERNATIONAL DYEING & DRY-CLEANING CO." 19, Wynduan St., Hongkong. --- 36, Nathan Road, Kowloon.

MODERNA HROOM FIXTURES

FLOOR & WALL TILES

and student classes to demand the C.E..WARREN & CO,,

handing over of the Portal -Ad- ministration, to Chinese control, --

Many resolutions are stated to have been passed at secret meetings held in connection with this move- ment, and the extremists hope to get the Government to support the

plan.

EARLIER MESSAGES.

The

**Malta, Jan; 24. first battalion of the Bedford-Hertford Regiments, and the second battalion of the Border Regiment, are leaving for China on Monday, aboard the Megantic, The combined strength is about, 1,400.

A number of officers of other branches of the service, including medical officers and nurses, aro ac- companying the draft-Reuter..

1,000 MARINES COMING.

London, Jan. 24. There was unwonted netivity at PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street, in the City of Portsmouth barracks on Sunday. Victoria, Hongkong."

Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK

***

LIMITED.

China Building, Tel. 0. 269,

Established 1839.

PLUMBING

The Doctor's recommendation

HEMOSTYL SYRUP

A Superb Tonic

Entertainments.

THRILLING-SESATIONAL

The Dramatic Super-Praduction Presented by CARL LAEMMLE

Midnight

Sun

with

La PLANTE

and

PAT O'MALLEY

RAYMOND KEANE-GEORGE SIEG- MANN AND A MIGHTY ENSEMBLE OF OVER 500 CAPABLE PLAYERS.

The Gorgeous Glittering Drama of a Grand Duke and a. Dancing Toy Action, suspenas and thrills-strung on the golden thread of a wonderful. love that triunished over baser.pass. ions and ovon Death itself.

TO-DAY

AND

TO-MORROW

QUEEN'S

WORLD

·TO DAY AND

TO-MORROW

FOR TWO DAYS ONLY,

at 2.30, 455, 7.10 and 9.20 p.m.

THE THIEF OF BAGDAD.

STAR

5.15 to 8.45 p.m.

THE STRANGERS'

BANQUET.

At 9.15 p.m.

FAREWELL PERFORMANCE

of

ITALIAN GRAND OPERA

io

TRAVIATA.

DON'T LEAVE YOUR CAR IN PEDDER STREET.

THERE is no longer any reason why you should leave your car out in the street all day.. Sunshine, and rain alike couse deterioration, while meddling fingers are liable to interfere with it..

Within a fow seconds of the centre of the City, a′′- new garage has opened where you may leave your car or cyclo with the assurance that it will be well looked aftor.

It is located in the old Fire Station Building whore there is ample accomodation.

Furthermore, an expert staff of mechanics is ready to effect any repairs quickly and officiently.

Daytime Storage' (during business hours)

All Cars... 815.00 per month or $1.00 a day Motor Cycles$ 7,50

THE CENTRAL MOTOR GARAGE Old Fire Station Building, Des Vœux Road, Telephones C. 2190 and 4021.