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HOTELS.

THE HONGKONG

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

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL}; MAJESTIC HOTEL.

Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGĦAL"

HOTELS.

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel Des Wagons Lite, Poking.

KING EDWARD HOTEL Meals can by had as follows-

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Breakfast 7.30 a.m.-10 a.m. $1.00 per Cover Tiffin 1.00 p.m. 2 p.m. $1.00 Dinner 7.30 p.m. 9 p.m. $1.25 Nothing to equal it at the price in the Colony. CENTRAL LOCATION

Electric Lifts and Lighting. Telephones on each floor.

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Hotol Launch meets ali Steamers.

TELEPHONE: C. 973."

TEL ADD VICTORIA. J. H. WITCHELL,

Manager.

KOWLOON HOTEL

PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON

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Recently renovated" throughout.

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Dinner Dance Every Thursday

Manager's Personal Attention

Tols. K. 608-509.

Cables KOWLOTEL, HONGKONG

Tel Kowloon No. 3

WMHAROLD PERRY

Manager

PALACE HOTEL.

THE "HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

RED TYRANNY.

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compelled to sign promises. It was' demanded of him not only

WEDNESDAY,

A NEW HANKOW SITUATION.

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FEBRUARY

16,

1927.

NOT DEAF.

DEFENDANT WHO GAVE HIMSELF AWAY.

An amusing sequel has developed that he rescind the 10 per cont. merall in charge of the U. S. Army from the case which was heard be- retrenchment ordered by the Mis-You can zone"off" a football field, fore Mr., R. E. Lindsell yesterday slon Board on account of slack and fine players for entering for and remanded to enable the Court funds, "but it was demanded of him blöden aquares but you cannot to consider the position created by that he write his Board in America zone off Chinese territory in the statement that the defondant for plenty of funds to run the Chinese civil war. The Nation was stone deaf and illiterate, and therefore unable to understand the hospital and Nurses' School as the striking children demand. And hallst Government is at war, not in charge or the sentence imposed. was not to report to the Board any a football game." of the unpleasant Incidents in connection with this compulsion.

Embarrassing Hospital.

It was demanded of him that he must not refuse to receive new patients into the hospital oven though nurses were on strike, and beggars and loafers wore being gathered up purposely to embar- rabs the hospital.

He was censured for not keep- ing the Out-Patient Department open, and he was laughed to scora by the jeering students and soldiers when he showed that it WAG a physical. Impossibility to give attention to student demands, official communications, and sum- mone to the Magistrate's yamen, and at the same time to attend to

Out-Patient clinics.

The sinister attitude of the au- thorities can be seen in the faes that the representative from the Political "Bureau approached the doctor's interpreter after the long- · drawn-out interview and in a threatening manner, accused him of being sympathetië with the for- eigner.

Manoeuvre To Annoy Mission." -- -{

EXTRAVAGANT DEMANDS.

own

It transpires that during the period of a twenty-four hours' re- mand and detention in the Gaol Hospital, the defendant was kept ünder' scoret observation, and the result of this was communicated to the Magistrate this morning when the defendant again appeared in

1,500 Per Cent. Increase:

Changtch, a city in Ilunan now

Cantons*: assimilated into particular economic and political thought takes all prizes for ex-Court.

His Worship:-Can you hear travagant demands on the part of its labourers revelling in their new better this morning?

power.

Defendant, who still preserved Reports from this city state that that blank look which had hitherto all employees of foreign firms and completely deceived a good many houscholds have drawn up and pre-en-lookers, repented what he had aented joint demands to their em-said many times before-that he ployers asking for practically evory. could not understand.

His Worship Still pretending? thing there is to ask for,

Increases of pay ranking as high Do you know you were kept under as 1,500 per cent, about half the fobservation in the Gaol Hospital year holiday each year, wages in yesterday? As soon as you thought advance are asked for, and one you were alone, you talked with bright suggestion provides that a your next-door neighbour? year's pay be reckoned on a basis of 15 months' pay.

"DANCE MADNESS.”

BRIGHT PICTURE AT THE QUEEN'S.

If there are any Hongkong wives When the Mission took the mut-who desire to give their husbands ter up with the Magistrate and re- quired his statement in writing, he conveniently denied the doctor's report, but nevertheless required that what the doctor had been compelled to sign be carried out in good faith.

Defendant, who was charged with being in possession of five taels of opium of Chinese origin, was fined $500, or three months' hard labour.

GODOWN COMPANY. /

was

Tal Address “PALACE.” Three minutes from Kowloon Whart, Ferry and Railway Station. Entirely under Earlish Management. Electric Light and Fans through- out. Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billard-Booms, Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress.advantage that the Political Bureau Russian dancer who had fascinat- retiring bonus to former Accoun- Tarms moderata. Spacial terms to families on application to:

Mrs. J. H. GYBERRY. Proprietress. can step in and confiscate the pro-ed him. We will not disclose the tant, is $481,543.12. The amount

perty.

tale, as it should be seen to be best brought forward from last year appreciated, but we can say that is 5331,190.56 making a total of

THE ANNUAL REPORT.

The report of the Hongkong and a lesson on the dangers of becom- Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., ing entangled with other men's Ltd, for the year ended 31st wives, they will do well to take December, 1926, states;

The profit of working their consorts along to the Queen's Theatre to-day, where "Dance $754,888.14 as compared with Mudaces," a Metro-Goldwyn at- $982,814:11 in 1925.

The balance for the year, after traction, is the main picture. It all is evidently a manœuvre This is the story of how a wife deducting Directors' and Auditors": to annoy the Mission into closing cures her young husband of fees, allowing for depreciation, the hospital under such a dis- philandering, with the aid of a paying for ordinary repairs and a

EUROPE

After-dinner dancing every

Tuesday, Thursday

and Saturday.

Cables :-

*** EUROPE"

Singapore.

HOTEL

SINGAPORE.

Grill

THE EUROPE HOTEL. “LÍD.

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Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Director.

Already authority has passed out

of the hands of the hospital staff. the film is one of the brightest and $812,733.68 available for appro Nurses and helpers pay little heed funniest, seen here for some con- priation.

The Directors recommend the to superintendent's orders. Daily, siderable time. It is splendidly instruments and supplies that are produced, whilst Conrad Nagel following: To pay a dividend of kept under lock and key disappear. and Claire Windsor, who have the 86 per share, $480,000; to carry The training school nurses have two chief roles, are really excel-forward $332,733.69. already had the audacity to take lent. down the official schedule and have substituted their own with the seal of the Students Union.

WU'S IDLENESS.

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south of Huihsten and also remov- ed their Headquarters to Hsin- balang. in order, to avoid a clash with the Fongtjen forces.

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The Directors record with much Other features of the program-regret, the death of Hon. Sir C. P. me are a Gaumont news reel and Chater, Kt. C.M.G. Messrs. A. S. D a Christie comedy, entitled "Done Cousland and Allan Cameron In Oil."

retire according to the Articles of Association and being eligible offer themselves for re-election.

Auditors. Messrs. Percy Smith, Seth and Fleming, Incorporated Accountants, and Linstead and Accountants, Davis, Chartered have audited the accounts now presented and offer themselves for re-election.

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NAVAL OFFICERS' RETIREMENT.

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CONGESTION IN LIST OF LIEUT COMMANDERS.

offered practically the same condi- tions of retirement as Commandera of about their own age. For, under the present Regulations, a Commander does not become en- titled to a pension of £450 until he has completed 23 years' full time

A very successful route march was held by the Hongkong Volun-

Mr. John Jones, of Criceleth, teer Defence Corps last evening. Britain's oldest retired station- Marshal Wu's Reply. about 200 members of the Corps, master, celebrated his one hun- Marshal Wu Pei-fu, replying to drawn from all sections, being on dredth birthday last month. a notification sent to him by Mar-

led by a visitor who called to offer shal Chang Tso-lin in connectionment kindly attended and, with tributed his long life. Mr. Jones The band of the Suffolk Regi-congratulations to what he at- with the despatch of Fengtien

the assistance of their fifes, pro-replied: "I always did my duty, troops to Honan, has requested Marshal Chang first to tell the vided excellent marching music and never worried." Congratula-

and to refrain from advancing the was taken, large crowds of sight- George, and Sir Felix Pole, general A route to West Point and back the King and Queen, Mr. Lloyd froops. beyond Changteh for the

seers assembling at various points. manager of the Great Western. present, stating that if Marshal Intereat was specially marked Railway. Sir Felix wrote: "We Order designed to relieve the con-ervice. He cannot do this until through China-town" along the count you as the oldest son of gestion at the top of the Lieuten- he is over 42, and then only if he' will try to a whole, route of Queen's Road and the Great Western. understanding between his troops Queen's Road West.

A wonderful ant-Commandera! List, which will

has had no half-pay." and the Fengtien-Shantung com-

experience must be yours, going doubtless be welcomed by the the Commanders' List is as bad as, The state of affairs at the top of The Commandant (Lieut. Col. back as it does to within a few small number of officers who are bined forces, so that an unfore-L. G. Bird) was in command, and months of the inception of Bri- affected by it. Briefly, Lieutenant not worse than, that in the seen conflict between the two the officers on parade included the tish railways. I sincerely hope Commanders who reached the age lower rank. There are just over forces resulting from misunder- Corps new Adjutant (Major R. A. that still more happy returns will of 40 or over by the end of last 400 Commanders on the list, and standing may be avoided.

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It is, however, observed in Chin- ese circles here that in as much as there prevails somewhat strong an- ti-Wu feeling among the members of the Liang Shih-yl faction of the Anfu Party, and of the Yeh Kung- cho action, and as some members of these factions. are planning to come to terms with the Southern forces in order to exclude Marshal Sun Chuan-fang, as-woll-as-Mar- shal Wu Pei-fu, Marshal Wa's efforts to dissuade Marshal Chang from advancing the troops to Ho- nan may be unsuccessful.

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Mr. Lloyd George has had Vita glass fitted In the windows of his. house at Chart. The virtue of this glass is that it allows the violet rays, which are excluded by j ordinary glass, to pass into a room, with the effect, of course, of increasing the energy of the oc- cupants. I understand, ядуя п Home writer, that there is no truth in the statement that Mr. Lloyd George Insists, as a condition of complete reconciliation, on the Shadow Cabinet room being şimi, larly fitted.

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be added to your hundred."

EARTHQUAKE-STRICKEN REGION.

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-mentioned" as having buffered damage and casualtion.

The Admiralty has published an

of

year are to be allowed to retire after the half-yearly promotiona at once on the maximum pension at the end of this month, nearly: of their rank, for that is how the 100 of them will have passed the Order will work out in the major-promotion zone. Numbers ity of cases.

these officers are found about the Few of these officers will have 380 of 42 or 43, and are those who had less than 18 years' full-time have won the higher rank at az service to their credit at the age early age by war, service and hard of 40, and the Order states that work. They have all been Com- they will be allowed to count time manders for eight years..or more, for pension as if they remained on and many of them will have to the active list and were continu-serve for some time longer before ously employed until the age of they can obtain ponsions that are forty-five. Most, therefore, will appreciably better than those now be able to make up the time for the being offered to the Lieut-Com- full penalon of their ranks-£450 a year. This could not otherwise have been earned until well over the age of 42.

manders.

It is an anomaly which, it is to be hoped, thoir Lordships will be able to remove by the introduction 70 Officers Affected.

of some such scheme for Comman- There are just over 900 officers der as is now being used for the on the Lieut-Commanders' List, of lower rank. As is well known, whom some 220 have passed the the majority of naval officers are promotion zone, and can hope for not rich men and have to find some- no further advancement. Of these thing to do on retirement to up- only some 70 come within the new plement their pensions. These offer. It is, therefore, unlikely senior: Commanders will have to that the now Order will do much retire eventually, and it would be to remove the block at the top of fairer to let those who wish go the list. Perhaps, however, It is soon, for it is far easier to find the forerunner of other proposals, employment in civil life when At any rule the oflcers affected are under, rather-than-overy-the-ago- to be congratulated upon being of 45,