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HOTELS.

THE

HONGKONG

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

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE, HOTEL;

MAJESTIC HOTEL.

Telographio Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL" HOTELS.

LIMITED.

In association, with the 'Grand Hotel

Dos Wagons Lits, Peking.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

LOCAL CHINESE

SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 12, 1927,

WEDDING.

CENTRAL LOCATION

ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING,

TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOK.

HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS

Telephone Central 373

Telegraphic Adileses Vroom **

KOWLOON HOTEL

PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON

Modern Toilet Systou."

Elovator und Tolophones to each floor.

Smoking Room and Saloon Bar. First Class Billiard. Table

Rocontly renovated throughout.

Dinner Dance Every Thursday

Manager's Personal Attention-

Tels. K. 608---600.

NAVAL LIMITATION.

A CHORUS OF COMMENDA. TION.

WMHAROLD PERRY Manager

Cables KOWLOTEL. HONGKONO

PALACE HOTEL.

Tel. Address "PALACE." Tal. Kowloon No. 8.

Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Rallway 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: Tarms moderate. Special 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.

ASAHI BEER

BREWED BY

DAI NIPPON BREWERY

Co., Ltd.

TOKYO JAPAN

Specially Brewed for Export.

Sole Agents:-

Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, Ltd.

HONGKONG,

Cafe Restaurant Parisien

Dinner Dansants Nightly from 8 p.m.

Pedder Building.

Printed and Published for the Proprieter by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyrdham, Street, in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.

Group taken at the wedding of Dr. Phoon Seck-wah und took place at. St. John's Cathedral on Wednesday.

FRIENDSHIP BRUSHED

ASIDE.

(Continued From Page 1.)

London, Feb. 11.

on December 18th their readiness President Coolidge's disarma- ment proposals have been favour-to negotiate on treaty revision as ably received in authoritative soon as the Chinese had constitut- circles in London, but detailed ed à Government with authority comment is not available till experts have studied the Memoran-to negotiate, and how the British Government have meanwhile dum.

formulated and laid before the Chinese authorities in the North

A message from New York says the press. greets with peans of praise the proposals, which come as a complete surprise. The faint and South unilateral measures for murmurs of scepticism are drown- Treaty modification to meet

Miss Chan Suon-lan, which (Photo: Mec Cheung).

A. P. C. BURGLARY.

MAN CHARGED ON FOUR COUNTS.

Importance is attached by the police to the arrest of a Chinese who appeared before Mr., R. E. Lindsell, at the Central Police Court this morning, on charges

the A.P.C. building, and the re- arising from a burglarious visit to

sultant theft of a number of articles belonging to at least three European residents.

Full details are withheld while the officers of the Criminal Investiga-

ed in a chorus of commendation-aspirations of the Chinese people. Ition Office, investigate more fully

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The Memorandum. saya: "These a number of interesting clues which have been secured in the measures imply an immediate and.

case, but what has been revealed radical modification of the old by the enumeration of a number London, Feb. 11. President Coolidge's Memoran-Treaty position so far as His of charges, on which the police dum to Britain, France, Italy and Majesty's Government are concern-tre proceeding against the pri Japan suggesting that their dele-ed and are an earnest of further soner for the time being, has dis-

closed very interesting story. gates at a meeting of the Prepara-modifications as soon as conditions

A few days ago, it will be recali. tory Commission for the Disarma-permit. But before this can be jed, police officers were called into ment Conference at Geneva should

successfully attempted. it is essen-Asiatic Building where the office be empowered to negotiate an agreement further limiting naval tial that official stimulation of of Mr. W. A.. Butterfield, on the seventh floor, was entered, over- armament and covering classes of anti-British propaganda' vessels not included in the cease.

The comparative peace of night, and Mr. Butterfield's re. volver, ten rounds of ammunition, Washington Agicement has been the greater part of Southern and two blank cheques welcomed in principle in London. China during the last two or three stolen.

Whatever may come of the pre-months has proved that when or-1

As anticipated, the following posal it is felt that the mere fact ganised agitation and intimidation day a cheque filled out for an. that the United States has once are abacnt, friendly relations be- amount of $600, and forged with more expressed adherence to it in tween the Chinese and the British the name of Mr. Butterfield, such an emphatic manner, is people remain as excellent as they

was presented at the Hongkong bound to promote the cause of have been in the past."

and Shanghai, Bank, and the Chin- disarmament of which Britain has

ese who presented the slip was im- always been a protagonist. The

mediately detained and handed details must obviously be examin-

The statement concludes:-"The over to the police. This man is ed by experts before any official

policy of His Majesty's Govern- now the accused and he is charged, opinion is expressed, but it is re-ment is, therefore, a development in addition to the theft of Mr. cognised that President Coolidge's and not a departure from the Butterfield's revolver and ammuni proposals are made at an opporWashington Conference policy. Lion, and the two blank cheques, tune moment, for a meeting of then accordance with Article VII of with being in possession of a cor- Preparatory Committee has been

the Washington China Treaty,tificate of character on which the fixed for March 21st. The reports they have communicated fully and name of Mr. Butterfield had also of various sub-committees on the technical aspects of disarmament frankly to the Governments of the heen forged.

other Washington Powers their In consequence of the finding of will be then before it and the reviews regarding the situation, both a fingerprint on an electric torch, presentatives of countries address- ed by President Coolidge will be concerns the defence of life at the accused is also charged with

Shanghai and the proposed steps being implicated in another assembled at Geneva-British

respect towards Treaty revision. It is for cent burglary, in Wireless,

them to determine to what extent which reports had been received and Mr. L. M. S. Lloyd they feel able to associate them from Selves with the policy of the Bri- Miss L. C. Gatty, both of the tish Government in both its ns. A.P.C. the former being robbed of pects In any case, the British a silver cigarette case and cigar ment Memorandum has been the Government have felt it right to silver cutter, and the litter of a CRIMINAL RESEARCH. developable Impression of his subject of long deliberations on make this communication to the cheque left in her desk, the part of interested services at the Quai D'Orsay. The official League of Nations so that its mem-Four counts were

was produced view is not yet known, pendingabers may have bofore them a fusi when the accused mecting of the Ministerial Council statement of His Majesty's Gov- by Detattive Sergeant V, Baker on February 12th, but it is semi-crnment's policy in China and may this morning. The officer, replying: officially stated that it may be unterstand how completely it is to the Bench, stated that the ac-in the identification services of presumed that the French Govern- accord with both the letter and cused, in the second burglary, let the criminal police is well known. Pears with the greatest clearness. ment will not object to the Ameri-spirit of the Covenant. His Ma- himself in through a window, and The system of ridges in the finger-The red coloration of the previous can proposal, but will insist that Jesty's Government Jeeply regret effected his escape by means of a tips varies with every individual; imperceptible finger-print is due to a peculiar chemical change the disurinament problem shell that there appears to be no way key which he stole from the car but, as it is constant throughotit effected in the wood-pulp by the

life, it forms an unrivalled means remain in the hands of the Lengue in which the assistance of the penter's office,

paraphenylene diamine League in settlement of the dim- In response to un application of dentification. *

For taking the finger-prints of sin excretion adhering to the It is added, on the other hand, culties in China can be sought at from Detective Baker, the accused

But if the opportunity was remanded in police custody criminals the police have hitherto paper. that there is no reason to think present.

This discovery of Professor. that the participation of the Soviet should arise of invoking the good until Monday morning, at ten made use of soot-blackened paper.

Naturally, the impressions could Kisel's is of international signi- in the proposed Conference cannot offices of the Langue, His Majesty's o'clock.

not be taken without the cognificance. Let it be assumed, for.. be made & condition of its assem-Government will gladly avail them-:

selves of it--British Wireless.

zanee of the criminal.

This dis-instance, that the wrapper of a bling.--Reuter.

Washington, Jan. 12.-Perfection advantage has recently been re- parcel containing valuables is of a new invention for the repro-moved by a discovery of Professor made of the right kind of paper. Leningrad-Russia's recond, duction of photography in natural | Kiset of Karlsruhe. In Professor that paper will betray anyone who Leningrad-Three of the former imperial yachts are to be sold at rematorium is under construction colours has been accomplished in Kisel's method all that la neces- happens to handle it the finger- remains registered and, auction, the proceeds to he applied here as the first in the Soviet state Germany, the Commerce Depart- sary for secretly obtaining the print to the purchase of merchant ves-is nearing completion in Moscow. ment announced today. The new finger-print of a person is a piece under given circumstances, leads sels to increase the Soviet commer-Burning the dead is a new custom system is known as the "Lago pro- of paper containing a slight quan- to the ultimate arrest of a thief. clal fleet. The finest of the yachts in Russia, but it is becoming quick cous." It is believed that by this tity of very fine wood powder (wood Professor Kisel's system, which to go under the hammer is the established in favour. Leonid method almost any colours of tex pulp) as distinct from cellulose. is bound to facilitato vastly the Standard, the favourite cruising Krassin, the Soviet envoy to Lon- lures may be shown In pictures. The party whose finger-print is re-identification of criminals, will be boat of Czar Nicholas II. The other don who died recently, was the The process has been patented inquired need only touch the paper of the greatest service in combat- Important governmental 40 countries, Incinding the United with his finger-tips and he will at ing the growing criminality of the two are the Zaraitzu and the first

once leave behind an invisible but day.-Dr. O, Dahms. Sprela.

PRENCH OPINION,

Paris, Feb. 11. President Coolidre's, Disarma-

of Nations.

official to be cremated,

States.

mentioned

STAR-

A VALUABLE AID.

ridge-system.

To render this imprint visible, a stamp-pad soaked with parapheny- lene diamine is pressed upon the The part played by finger-prints mine in colour, immediately ap- paper and the finger-print, car-

י.

and the