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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8,

1927.

FIRE ENGINE'S PLUNGE..

HOTELS.

THE HONGKONG

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

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL;

MAJESTIC HOTEL,

Telegraphia Address: CENTRAL, SHANGHAI." HOTELS. LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel

Des Wagons Lits, Poking.

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KING EDWARD HOTEL.

CENTRAL LOCATION

ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING, TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR.

HOTEL LAUNCH MEETA ALL STEAMERS

Telephone Central 373

Tulegraphis Address

VICTORIA **

KOWLOON HOTEL

Entertainments.

ANOTHER LAUGH PROGRAMME!

FOR TWO

DAY'S ONLY

QUEEN'S

FOR TWO

DAY'S ONLY

METRO GOLDWYN'S NEW STAR

SALLY O'NEIL

WILLIAM

HAINES

Supported by

CHARLES

MURRAY

in.

FORD STERLING

A Rollicking Comedy of the Railroad

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MIKE'

99

PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON

Modern Toilet Bystem.

Elevator and Telephones to ouch floor. Smoking Room and Saloon Bar. First Class Billiard Tablo

Recently renovated throughout.

Dinner Dance Every Thursday. Manager's Personal Attention

Tols. K. 608-609. Cables KOWLOTEL. HONGKONG

Tel. Howloon No. 8

WMHAROLD PERRY Manager

While on the way to a fire recently, the Stockport motor fire engine skidded and crashed through the parapet of Wellington Bridge, which spans the River Mersey, falling into the square below as shown. Several of the brigade jumped clear, but Supt. Bockwith was carried over with the engine and killed..

ILL AFTER MEAL.

FIVE CHINESE POISONED.

After eating a meal, five fokis of a shop in Graham Street, became ill this morning and were removed to the Government Civil Hospital, where they are lying in a critical condition.

MRS. CHRISTIE'S CASE.

CASE OF DUAL PERSONALITY.

The case of Mrs. Agatha Chris- tie, the novelist, who vanished from her home in Sunningdale, Borkshire, in Nowmber and was found after several days' scarch at Harrogate; is described as one of dual personality.

LORD YPRES' WISH.

BUST TO BE PLACED IN

FRENCH CHURCH.

Shall we forget the heroic man- ner in which the "old contemp- tibles" went to their death or the Commander who led them in those critical years of the war?

Native shops which had remain-

Field Marshal the Earl of Ypres ed closed after the third day of "The doctors agrée said here is better known to the sold- PALACE HOTEL.

the New Year Festival were again brother-in-law that it is a com-jiers as Sir John French-will al- Tel. Address "PALACE." opened to business to-day and the plete case of dual personality with ways be associated with the town the Memorial. Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station event was marked by the usual every symptom as set out in the of Ypres, and in Entirely under English Management. Electric Light and Fans through feasting this morning. The meal text-books--a case so rare that it Church there it is proposed to our Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms, caten at the shop in question was is difficult for laymen to under-place a bust of him. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietroso. of the usually elaborate kind, and stand.

No more suitable place for the Terma moderato. Special terms to familles on application to

after partaking of # dish of "For her sake we have been ad. 'memorial could be found. It was Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY. Proprietress,,

chicken, it is stated that the fokisvised to lead a very quiet; normat the Field Marshal's wish that any WA | felt effects which were symptoma-life as though nothing was wrong, memorial erected to him as Com-

tie of poisoning and collapsed. with no

signs of excitement or, mander-in-Chief of the British On being called in, the police

Forces in the field, should be set had five persons removed in the

"We cannot say whether Mrs up at Ypres, the ancient town ambulance to the Government Christie will be going away. The from which he took his highest Civil Hospital.

doctor's instructions are that if title, and with which he associated' she does move she, must not go himself so closely during his later very far. When she is fit she will years. probably go to see someone who has a very special knowledge of such cases.

EUROPE

After-dinner dancing every

Tuesday, Thursday. and Saturday.

Cables :-

** EUROPE"

Singapore.

HOTEL

SINGAPORE.

Grill

THE EUROPE HOTEL. LTD.

Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Director.

PERFECT VOICE.

TELEPHONE GIRLS TEST.

ges.

1,794,400 WAR PENSIONS.

4,500 WIDOWS A YEAR RE-MARRY.

worry.

The bust, the work of Mr. John Davidson, will be in Burgundy stone, and until the Church at Ypres is completed it will be kept at Aldershot...

Field Marshal Viscount Alienby and General Sir Philip W. Chet- wode, Commanding-in-Chief Al- dershot Command, in supporting the appeal for subscription to the Memorial Fund, state that among those who have sent donations ré Marshal Joffre, Marshal Foch, whether she remembered the fact General Gourand, and General- herself or had had it impressed Weygand.

Daughter's Visit. "Mrs. Christie's little girl came up at Christmas, but at first Mrs, After Christie did not know her. At the end of last March, awards she told us she did not know cording to the annual report of the Minister of Pensions, the whether she remembered the child number of persons in receipt of "She had heard.us way it was pensions or allowances amounted her daughter and was not sur to 1,794,400. This included 25.000 officers, 1,114 nurses, 509,500 men, 154,000 war widows and 563,000 children.

or not.

BIG BROTHERS.

on her mind by our conversation. The total is declining from such she knows about herself now, but "There are many things which causes as death-about 26,000 she still does not know whether year, the re-marriage of widows-they have returned to her memory about 4.500 a year, and the attain-or whether she is learning them HELP FOR CLEVER YOUTHS. ment of the maximum pensionable from what she hears said. age by children, who are disap-

of about 51,000 a year.

east appealing looks at her jud-earing from the list at the rate

"Come along!" they coaxed her. "Say, something it doesn't matter what it is."

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A novel contest was held among The girl knitted her brows in girl operator in the London Trunk perplexity, and. finally declared: Telephone Exchange the other can't think of a thing to say!

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next month at a charge of £15 Adence restored, she went througe for 2 conversation of minutes and £5 for each additional ing. minute,

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The repeating of numbers was Each of a number of chosen a very important part of the tests, giris, during the test of her "arti-

Leeds-New York Talk. calation efficiency," had the volume and quality of her voice measured

13,978 were admitted, and fresh New claims to the number of

claims were still being received at the rate of 850 a week.

day she suddenly said, Look. "While writing a letter the othe She had signed it with a name not her own.

Lost Memory Twice.

Under the

togother with BOBBY VERNON in "A PERFECT 36". and the latest Gaumont graphic.

-BUSTER KEATON

IN

GO WEST

MOONLIGHT

AND

NOSES

TO-DAY

ONLY

WORLD

RICHARD

DIX

in

5.15.

9.15.

MANHATTAN

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A tale of High Life and Low in Little Old New York.-Action-Comedy-Thrills.

TO-DAY and TO-MORROW

STAR

THE SUGAR KING.

NINTH PRISON SENTENCE.

دار

5.15 to 8.45 p.m.

and at 9.20

Floating Loans.

Afterwards he lived in Brua- sels, posing as a rich American who had come to Europe to float Another chapter in the amazing leans. He was convicted of for-` name of the "Big life story of Ernest Dunbar Cairn, gery, and on the completion of men in Halifax are taking the part time the title of the "Sugar King," was extradited for an offence at Brother," a number of business whose audacity gained him for a his sentence of three months be played in medieval times by the was completed at Surrey Quarter Rotterdam. Here he was deemed lords of the manor, who acted as Sessions, at Kingston recently, insane and confined in an asylum. patrons to brilliant youths, an

when he was convicted for the In March 1923 Cairns was sent are helping to send a number of ninth time and was sentenced tolio this country and was detained.

men "It is curious that, at Harrogate, young During the year 10,058 artificial while in her second personality, classes

from the artisan nine months' hard labour for ob-at Chartham Asylum, Kent, na a legs and 1,169 artificial arms were she lost her memory shadenly for

the universities.

taining £8 from woman by pauper lunatic. Since his release week to discover these with the

The achenie was originated by |issued, mostly renewals. At the;

false pretences. Cairn's real he, has been sentenced to. BİK most perfect "telephone voices." "Very well-haven try a fer end of the year the number of pen-she found herself ignorant of who of the House of Commons. Realis- Edwards, in which he was charg- Devon, and five months

a second time. While out one day Mr. J. H. Whitley, M.P., Speaker name is believed to be Ernest months' hard labour at Barnstaple, winners" will be employed peating the little poem about sioners for whose artificial limbs she was or where she was staying.ing some years ago that many ed. At one time on the French labour at

hard on the new public London-New Mary and her little lamb se the Ministry is responsible was Somehow she found her way bad brilliant men who

the Central Criminal won scholar- York wireless, telephone service was laughingly arged.

37,089--1,781 officers and 35,308 which is to be inaugurated early. She laughed, too, and, her con-other ranks.

to the hotel.

ships at the universities could not racecourses his lavish display of Court for obtaining credit without "She has told us that she read afford to pay the college fees, or wealth gained him the friendship disclosing the fact that he was a Artificial eyes (1,881) were fit

of prospective victims.

bankrupt. In April 1915 he obtained £20: Asked if he had anything to say three the nursery rhyme without falter-ted "to 3,311 pensioners. First is the papers daily, read even of her to mix on an equality with the

aues of 148 hand-propelled tricy-concern it with herself.

own disappearance, but could not other, undergraduates, he founded

Was passed, eles and 170 invalid chairs were

the Fellowship of the Big ant by false pretences at Cardiff, and before sentence

was sent to prison for six months. Cairns réplied, "No thanks," but "She says she thought Archie, Little Brothers.

He afterwards served terms of 12 immediately observed: "Under made.

her husband, looked rather a nice Each Big Brother promises a The total expended by the Minis-man from his portraits.

labour and 18 Anne VII, Chapter 12, the indiet- certain amount every year, which, months hard try during the year was £66,916,-

"She thought her relatives and combined with the scholarship, months hard labour for false pre-ment is illegal, and also your plea and recorded by the special voice dent Engineer of Post Office Tele was in respect of administrative although she could not rememb Committee, and as

Mr. E. B. Johnson, Superint in 268, and of this only £2,306,247 friends must know where she was, the grant of the Local Education tences at Bristol, where he gave of Not Guilty. Do as you please.

the name of Frederick Henry Nemo me impune lacessit" (No one,

be employed in the regulation of minutes telephonic conversation Tho total expenditure for all sering nothing of them, became wor- Little Brother to enjoy all the be. ha was fined £10 and sent to prison A Law for Ambassadors. frequency galvanometer which wiphones in Yorkshire," had a four-expenses-about 84d. in the who they wore, and at last, bear-parents can afford, will enable 'one Simpson, while at Bournemouth provokes me with impunity). ordinary subscribers' voices when from Leeds yesterday day with Mr. vices from the establishment of ried and advertised, asking them nesta of a 'Varsity education.

for three months for falsely regis- Anne VII, Chapter 12, referred they speak to persons in New York. E. D. Johnson, ar oficial of the the Ministry was £665,000,000, a to communicate with her. When

The Little Brother must be in-tering a business in the name of to by Cairns, is an Act to preserve "Just tell us, in your normal American Telegraph and Tele- sum larger than that of any other we were leaving Ilarrogate wit vited to the house of the Big Bro

Collingwood.

the privileges of ambassadora, and tones and quite naturally, how phone Company, in New York. country engaged in the Great War. her and people said to her "Good-ther, if possible, once every vaca-millionaire, and he married a rich Matueof, the Ambassador Extra-

On his release he posed as niwas

Andrew passed because you enjoyed your Christmas holi-

During the year the staff of the bye, Mrs. Christic,' she looked sur-tion. "A. cable line was used to Rugby ́vrūs,” ́suggested the wireless ex-

woman, but she soon discovered ordinary of his Czarish Majesty, So successful has the schema perts, who acted as judges, and and then the wireless telephone Ministry was reduced by 4,272 to prised and asked 'Am I Birs, Chris-

was taken by violenco out of his proved that several other towns in his true character and left him. one after another the girls gave across the Atlantic to Houlton and

"She must have gone to the the district intend to found Big from a house which he rented in talned in custody..

He launched his sagar campaign couch in a public street and de. a little "talk" on the delights of the words relayed by cable to Now

In the some- dancing, the zivirig and receiving York. The

Inverness. He announced that he what quaint Japguage of the had obtained large concessions Statue, "To prevent the like in- abroad and that he could supply solences for the future sugar at 2d..a pound cheaper than it was declared that all proceed the Government could. He startings against ambassadors or tholt ed the Mutual Importers' Assoelu- domestic, servants shall be vold. tion, and subscriptions poured in. All persons, and this included the The scheme was a fraud, but be-solicitors, who had, the temerity to fore the trickery was discovered take action against an ambassador. The dead body of Mr. Wilfred IL. he left Scotland to avold arrest were to be deemed "violators of Scunthorpe, 44 chief officer of the for obtaining large sums by false the laws of nations and disturbers

local of the publick reposo steamer Marguerite, whose home pretences. Ife duped ent was at Caerleon-road, Newport, bank to give

of and were made subject to dire was found, in the dock at Barrow. |15,300.

penalties. -

ties generally.

German f 19gO JA

answers

from New

of presents, and Yuletide festivi. York were received in England by

wireless and transformed. The Bashful Girl.

"Conversation was as quick as on the ordinary telephone" said There was one girl, however Mr. Johnson. "We chatted on a who could not find words with variety of matters and I wished which to describe her experience. him, on behalf of Yorkshire people, She blushed, 'stammered a little-best wishes for a happy New Year

Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at I and 3, Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.

11,969.

trophies, Miss Marioric Cottle was

Winner of many motor-cycling

married recently to Captain J. Wat son Bourne, the racing motor- cyclist."

tie?'

much as the

Hydro in a perfectly normal map-Brother clubs of their own. ner in this second personality,

though she cannot tell us, and n

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one knows, how she got there. Suicide during temporary insani "We do not have nurses at-ty was the verdict at a Yarmouth tending her or anying of that kind inquest on Mr. H. J. Pónt, 55, because it would simply suggest Norwich town councillor, who was A photograph of his wife carried to her that she was very ill."

{found drowned at Gorleston him throughout the war was,

by his last wish, afixed to the Losses on Hull Coroporation coin at the funeral at Addlestone, tramways and omnibusca during Surrey, of Mr. Reginald Hawker, the past six months exceeded who died after a motoring accident. $18,000.

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