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HOTELS.

THE

HONGKONG

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

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL:

MAJESTIC HOTEL/

Tolographic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL”. HOTELS.

LIMITED..

In association with the Grand Hotel

Das Wagons Lite, Peking.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

Meals can be had as follows :-

Breakfast 7.30 a.m.-10 am. $1.00 per Cover Tiffin

Dinner

1.00 p.m. 2 p.m. $1.00 7.30 p.m. 9 p.m. $1.25

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Nothing to equal it at the price in the Colony.

CENTRAL LOCATION

Electric Lifts and Lighting.

Telophones on each floor.

Hotel Launch meets all Stormors.

TELEPHONE: 0.373,

TEL, ADD. VICTORIA.

J. H. WITCHELL,

Manager.

KOWLOON HOTEL

PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON

Modern Toilet System.

Elevator and Telephones to oach floor.

Smoking Room and Saloon Bar. First Class Billiard Table

Rocently renovated throughout.

Dinner Dance Wednesday

Manager's Personal Attention

Tais. 'K. 608-609.

Cablos KOWLOTEL HONG KONG

Tel, Kowloon No. 8

WMHAROLD PERRY Manager

PALACE HOTEL.

Tel, Addresa "PALACE," Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. Entirely under English Management. Electric Light and Fans through, out. Every Room with Private Bath. Loungo, Bar and Billard-Rooms. Unrivalled Cuising under the personal apporvision of the proprietress. Tarms moderate. Spacial terms to families on application to:

Mr. 3. H. OXBERRY. Proprietress.

EUROPE

After-dinner dancing every

Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Cables :-

**EUROPE"

Singapore.

HOTEL

SINGAPORE.

Grill

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Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Director.

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Established 1800.

CHINA BUILDING.

Tel. 0, 269.

"RICKSHAW"

Established 1998.

BRAND..

CEYLON TEA Cheapest and Best From all leading Compradores. PRICE $1.00 PER LE.

Be Guided by the Quality-Not the Price.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI,

TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1927.

ROYAL MARINES LEAVING FOR CHINA.

Above are seen some of the 1,000 Royal Marines going aboard the troopship Minnesota Portsmouth. They arrived at Shanghai yesterday. (Photo-engraving-by "8. C. M..Past.)

MORE CHINA QUES- ' TIONS.

(Continued from page 1.}"

Sir Austen Chamberlain replied in the affirmative and stated that the discussions at Peking had not yet advanced beyond the question of general principles.-Reuter.

A DESERVED SNUB. Sir Austen Chamberlain Scores.

London, Feb. 28.

GAOL SENSATION.

(Continued from page 1.)

out. He then approached Wardor Speed, who was sitting at a desk not far from the cell, and, coming

CANTON UNREST.

POLICE STATION SURROUNDED.

Yesterday morning A battle

up from behind, he stabbed Mr. took place in a fruit market at Speed thirteen times, killing him Canton between two rival parties on the spot. The prisoner then of fruit store workers. The fight took away the deceased man's re-

volver and bunch of keys, with the continued for an hour and several

A larg latter of which he opened the cells were severely injured.

of three other prisoners. In the force of armed police appeared on Loud Ministerial cheers reward-meantime, two Indian warders

ed the prompt riposte by Sir Aus-came along and tackled the first the scene later and stopped the

prisoner, but Both of these were fight, ten Chamberlain, replying to seriously injured and unable to The No. 5 Police Station in Sai supplementary question arising render any further aid: With the

from an answer to a question in

the House of Commons regarding three warders disposed of, the Wang Street, Canton, was blockad- The origin of the trouble was that the trial of strikers arrested in the four prisoners effected their es-ed by labour pickets on Sunday. cape over the Gaol wall by means Shanghai International Settlement.

the wine store workers recently of a rope. .Com. Kenworthy asked if in-

jdeclared a strike against their on- structions would be sent to the been the auther of numerous conWang Street refused to accept the ployers. The atores on the Sai

tributions journals and maga- zines.]

G.O.C. and Senior Naval Officer to prevent Chinese who were ar- rested in the territory of our Con- cession being handed over for AN EXPENSIVE CONSULATE. summary execution. Sir Austen Chamberlain pointed out that this was an International Concession

Severe' Home Criticism.

London, Feb. 28.

terms and continued doing busi ness with loyal employees. The police tried to stop the disturb- ance and had both parties brought back to the No. 5 Police Station.

against the presence in which of The report of the Comptroller The labour Union then sent a large tion, demanding the release of the British troops Com. Kenworthy Auditor on the Civil Services Ap-force of pickets to the police sta- and his party consistently protest-propriation Accounts, mentions the pickets and the punishment of the

ed.

erection of the Consulate at Teng- Com. Kenworthy asked whether yuch, in.Yunnan, which was origi- the G.O.C. had been instructed tonally estimated to cost £8,950, but carry out the traditions of the Bri- which had involved up till March tish Army and Sir Austen Cham-31st; 1926, an expenditure of berlain retorted: "No! It is not £12,000.

British necessary to instruct a

The Lords of the Treasury ex- officer to carry out British tradi-pressed "great regret that owing, tions."-Reuter.

party to the inherent difficulties of the situation and partly also

"VACILLATING" LABOUN.,

"Riding The Tiger."

London, Feb. 28.

COLOMBO STRIKE.

merchants.

ST. DAVID'S DAY.

WREATH ON CENOTAPH.

To-day being St. David's Day. to the inability of officers inmembers of the local branch of St. charge of the work to cope effec-David's Society assembled at the tively with the situation, and to af Cenotaph at eleven o'clock this lesser degree to the failure of de-morning, when Mr. D. J. Lewis, Referring to the "vacillating and partment officers in Shanghai to the President, placed a wreath on irresponsible course of the Labour | —— Party in the present grave and difficult Chinese situation," Sir Herbert Samuel, the new Chairman of the Organisation Committee of the Liberal Party in a speech at the Elghty Club, London, said, "we watch an uncomfortable leader being quietly taken where he does not want to go, for he realises the force of the Chinese proverb; the who rides a tiger can never dis mount. "Renter!

Full Resumption To-day.

Colombo, Feb. 28. The strikers are to resume to-morrow.

All parties have agreed to a Government suggestion for unconditional arbitration.- Router.

exerciae effective control, a very serious excess on the original esti- mate must be lacurred before building could be completed." The work since has proceedot most slowly, owing to local opposi- Mr. Haden Guest, M. P., has re-tion, acute Inbour troubles and

LABOUR M. P. SECEDES...

Disagees with Party's Polley.

London, Feb. 28.

the war memorial. Others pre- sent were Mr. J. Owen Hughes, Mr. L. E. Hopkins, Commander

R.N.A.. Williams,

Mr. David Davies, Mr. H. Owen Hughes, Mr. G. S. Hugh Jones, Mr. J. S. Thomas, and Mr. E..Wynne Jones.

The Society is holding a dinner to-night at the Hotel Savoy.

U. S. OIL SCANDAL.

"FRAUD AND CORRUPTION."

Washington, Feb. 28.

The Supreme Court has issued aigned from the Labour Party delay in the delivery of materials, & judgment declaring that the owing to his disagreement with the Moreover, the district is subject to lease whereby Mr. H. L. Doheny's Party's attitude on the question of sporadic raids by bandits. The interests were to develop the Elk China-Reuter.

latest report to the Treasury, dated Hills naval oil reserve and con-

[Dr. Leslie Haden Guest has been October, 1926, forecasts the total tracts whereby they were to build one of the most prominent members expenditure at about £16,500-storage facilities at Pearl Har- of the Labour Party for many Reuter.

bour were "tainted by fraud and

years, He practised as a Doctor (Tengyuch is in the south-west corruption." in London and Manchester, and corner of Yunnan, almost on the went out to the South African War border of the Northern Shan The Court cancelled the lease aga Civil Surgeon. He served States.]

and contracts; consequently, Mr. throughout the European War, see-

Doheny cannot recover the money

Ing serving as a Major in the In the Supreme Court this morn-in carrying out the agreements.~ RA.M.C. in France, Egypt and ing, Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C., ap- Reuter's American Service. Palestine. He earned the M. Cplied to Mr. J. R. Wood, acting decoration. Later he did much to Chief Justice, on behalf of Der A organise the St. George's Dispen-Wing, Company, Limited, 60, Des sary and School Clinic, and also Voeux Central, for confirmation of organised hospitals under the Red a special resolution, passed at an Cross in Paris and elsewhoro. He extraordinary general meeting, for contested Central Southwark, Lon their capital to be reduced from

AMERICAN MARINES. Gen. Butler in Command.

Washington, Feb. 28. Brigadier General Smedleyd

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don, in 1918, and North Southwark $500,000 to $160,000", The Com-Butler has been ordered to Chinabroadcasted through the news. Joe Daniels, known to

man

in 1922 au Labour Candidate, but

papers by the executive committée generations of Rugbolans as th was not successful until the election pany requested that this should be in command of the Marines,

effected by cancelling 4,000 shares General Butler is known as the of the society. These post-card Midnight Milkman," as he au of 1023 since when he has sat for of $10 each belonging to Mr. B. W. strictest disciplinarian, and was fans base their verdict on the fact plied milk to the school for man North Southwark. He was Parlia Bradbury, merchant, and Chan lent by the Navy Department that the inventor of post-cards years, has died at Rugby, ag montary Secretary to the Ministry Tong, compradore, both of Hong-three years ago to re-organise the was an Austrlan. Every increan 81 of Health in 1924 and was Secretary kong, in pursuance of an agres-easy-going police of Philadelphia.

to the Labour Delegation to Soviet Russia in 1920. He has held many posta in the Labour Party and has

ment.

He became the terror of "boot- His Lordship after noting that leggers."-Reuters American Ser- ho-one appeared to oppose, grant vice. ed the application."

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