THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII,
FRIDAY, MARCH 4
1927...
SOVIET'S LAPSE.
SEARCH FOR PIRATES.
HOTELS.
THE
HONGKONG
HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL Telographic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL: PALACE HOTEL: MAJESTIC HOTEL,
Telegraphio Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAI"
HOTELS,
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel Des Wagons Lits, Poking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL
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Healy can be had as follows:-
$1.00 per Cover Breakfast 7.30 a.m.-10. a.m. Tiffin 1.00 p.m. 2. p.m. $1.00 Dinner 7.30 pm 9 p.m. $1.25 Nothing to equal it at the price in the Colony. CENTRAL LOCATION
Electric Lifts and Lighting, Tolephones on each floor.
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Hotel Launch meets all Steamers.
TELEPHONE: C. 373.
KOWLOON
TEL. ADD VICTORIA J. H. WITCHELL,
Manager.
HOTEL
PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON
Modern Tollet, System.
Elevator and Telephones to each floor.
Smoking Room and Saloon Bar. First Class Billiard Table
Recently renovated throughout,
Dinner Dance Wednesday
Manager's Personal Attention
Tels. K. 608-609,
Cables KOWLOTEL. HONGKONG
Tal. Kowloon No. 8
WMHAROLD PERRY Managor
PALACE HOTEL.
Tal. Address "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. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietresa. Terms moderate. Special torms to families on application to:
Mr. J. H. OXBERRY Proprietress.
EUROPE
After-dinner dancing every
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Cables :-
** EUROPE"
Singapore.
HOTEL
SINGAPORE.
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THE EUROPE HOTEL. LTD.
Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Director.
"DIPHENSO"
WOOD PRESERVATIVE AND WHITE ANT.
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COMB-OUT ON “ANHUI" AT
BINGAPORE.
HOTEL MEETING.
Peninsula Hotel.
(Continued from page 1)
There was a 'scene of great ne- $98.086.06 due to loss an exchange. tween them and their neighbours would be welcome to the British tivity at the Bust Wharf, Tan I am pleased to be able to inform
Pagar Singapore, Inst Government, for any improvement jong
weck, when the Butterfield and you that the major portion of the in their relations served the policy wire steamer Anhui, together with turn-over of the Kalee Hotel hap of the British Government which its contingent of over 1,700 deck since been absorbed by the busi was a policy of peace. Every-passengers, was thoroughly search-ness of our other Shanghai estab body knew that Soviet Russia ed for possible pirates prior to sail-ishments,
|ing for Chinavas
The items "Land" and "Build- did her best to prevent the This was the second time in the ings" in the balance sheet an outward at the Blut December, 1926, Treaty of Locarno from boing list few years that
bound coolie ship has been thor- naturally appear at figures signed and to persuade Gor-
oughly searched at Singapore, but lower than those shown at the many not to resume friendly relathe Anhul was not as exhaustively 31st December, 1925, due to the tions with her western or castorn combed out as was the Hong Wha adjustments necessary to have neighbours, and that they did their two years ago, owing to the fact been made in consequence of the that the police had to take action sale of the Kalea Hotel property utmost to persuade Germany not to hurriedly, and had no time to make In Shanghai and the building loss come into the League of Nations full arrangements.
sustained through the fre nt the but to remain outside with Soviet It appears that one of the officers Hongkong Hotel, Hongkong, Russia. "You cannot have, what on the Anhul was on board the Sun-· ever the provocation, a sudden ning when that ship was pirated, breach between this country "and and when it was recaptured by the The item "Payments on account Russia without a repercussion on ship's officers after a fight of construction in progress" in the the whole European situation. It which was one of the finest episodes balance sheet is in respect of the is for that reason that I urged upon in the history of the British mer- Peninsula Hotel at Kowloon, Hong- the Government patience and for- cantile marine. This officer kong. Work on that project was bearance under circumstances of thought he recognised among the suspended last month owing to the continued provocation, auch 015 passengers one of the men who was building having been taken over by we have never endured at the arrested on board the Sunning on the Military Authorities as from hands of any other nation. But suspicion of having taken part in the 1st instant under an agreement I have always felt and the piracy, but who was released which provides for a monthly always known that there are after the inquiry at Hong Kong, rental to the Company and rein- limits beyond which patience there being no evidence against statement of the premises during cannot be carried. We have no him.
tenancy. Although the terms of desire and we make no attempt to The presence of this man, if he the agreement are, in all circum- interfere with the Soviet Govern was in fact the suspected plr-stances of the case, reasonable, ment within their own boundaries. ate, on board the Anhui was ob- your Board would have preferred We have carried on no diplomatieviously a sign that trouble might in the ultimate interests of the campaign against them in any be expected on the voyage, and Cap- Company to have been able to part of the world. We have vedtain Pennefather, mastor of the proceed towards completion. up not merely to the letter but Anhui,. reported his auspicions to to the fallest spirit of the mutual the police. engagement which we undertook with them. What we ask of them is not that they shall change their domestic Institutions, nol that they shall refrain from preaching, to their own people that their own Institutions, are superior to those which are preferred by the rest of the world, but that they should make their policy conform to the ordinary comity of nations and abstain from an effort to promote world revolutions and from all in terference in our internal affairs."
Freedom to Act.
Sir Austen Chamberlain con- cluded: "It is not merely verbal acceptance that we look for or it is acts of that we can accept. which we complain and it is to acts in the future that we must look
The search was directed. by Mr. A. H. Dickinson, A. S..P. in charge of the detective branch, and was conducted by a force of detectives, about sixty men from the police depot, and officers of the Govern- ment Monopolies Department.
All approached to the wharf were guarded, and the search Justed from four to nine o'clock. Hurriedly though it was arranged, it was nevertheless pretty thorough, and the persons and property of some 1,700 deck passengers were careful ly inspected, while the second-class passengers were also searched.
The results were negative.from the police point of view, but reas- suring from that of the ship's officers. No arms were discovered. but a few rounds of ammunition were seized.
I
am sure you will agree, however, that no other course was open to your Directors but to amicably acquiesce in the Military Autho rities making use of this build- ing which is so obviously emin- ently suited to their immediate It is, of course, requirements. impossible to estimate the dura- tion of the troubles in Chini, but so long as abnormal conditions. prevail and it is necessary for ad- ditional forces to be stationed in the Far East, I am confident you fully endorse the policy of your Board in loyally giving this Com- pany's co-operation and support.
No Dividend. Regarding the important mat- ter of finance, I regret it is im possible in present circumstances for your Board to recommend the Twenty-five deck declaration of a dividend in res- to see whether there is to be any passengers were detained, but there pect of the past financial year. Cantonese As you are of course aware, the
20 suspicious
redress for these long series of were outrages or whether the patience among them.
and forbearance which the British Government, and this country and
Empire have shown, are in vain ABSENT FROM DUTY.Company being, a success. Since
EUROPEAN CONSTABLE
FINED.
situation which arose in June, 1926, prevented the then propos- ed issue of further shares of the
that time one can hardly say that business conditions generally, and more patiently diandalk, very greatly improvad. The Com- At the instance of the Captain pany was committed to the ered. of Police, P.C tion of the Peninsula Hotel, and Superintendent Ernest Wright was charged before heavy payments or that account Major C. Willson, at the Central-which should, in the ordinary Magistrcy, this morning with be course of events, have been financ- ing absent from Station duty fromed by the augmentation of the 8 m. on the 2nd till 11 am, on the Company's subscribed capital
have in the circumstances been 3rd instant..
met out of monies advanced to the overdraft facilities Company or
Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, D.S.P., prosecuting, stated that defendant
and no longer" possible of contin- Lance. His Majesty's, Government reserve to themselves the right to judge both of the expediency of any step they contemplate and the moment when that step shall be Eniten. We have thought, before we proceed to any extremity, that it was right to call the world to witness the serious nature of the complaint which we have made and to give the Soviet Government one more opportunity of conforming their condutt to the ordinary rules of international life and comity."was in the Police Court for some -British Wircles.
time on the morning of the 3rd, in connection with some summonses, which was all right, but it was as certained that he had been absent from Station duty since 8 a.m. the London, Mar. 3.
previous day. The present action The Anglo-Russian relations de- was taken following a number of bate in the Commons arose on the previous offences, which on the Initiative of Sir Archbald 3in-occasion was dealt with depart clair, who, in moving a reduction of mentally by the infliction of a fine the vote, declared that for the past of $7 by the Captain Superinten- two years Britain's trade with Rus-dent of Police.
OTHER POINTS.
Hopes Of Liberals.,
sia had been greater than with He (Mr. Wodehouse) had seen China. He thought the last wa da P. C. Wright many times, and had of the Soviet Note offered an op himself hoped that the constable portunity for improving Anglo- would keep a control over himself Russian relations and laying the and turn over a new leaf. The foundations of world peace. charge was taken into Court as a
Sir Austen Chamberlain denied warning to the defendant. that he had allowed matters to drift, Defendant, replying to the but on the contrary he had made Magistrate, said that on the day more than one specific protest in question he met some old com- against specifie acts of the Soviet rades coming off a troopship, and Government but he had not received had one or two drinks, which had any satisfaction. The Minister the effect of making him lose con- cited an utterance by Mr. Philip trol of himself. Snowdon to the effect that Bolshe Remarking that this was vik activities were directed mainly excuse, his Worship imposed a fine against Britain, and that the anti-at $25, or 14 days' Hard labour. British rising in China was deliber-
by the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank, to whom our thanks are therefore due for the considerate attitude shown in what cannot but be regarded as a period of finan- cia: stringency.
A Personal Note.
I think there is little I could usefully add at this juncture. Before closing my remarks, how ever, I am compelled to make re- ference "to a matter: personal to myself. It became necessary dur- course of last year for ing the your Board to grant to me leave of absence on the ground of ill- health and fo June last Mr. Haw- ker was, on my recommendation, promoted by the Board to the posi- tion of a Managing Director, an appointment which his hard work in your interests, particularly dur ing the past two years, so well On my return to the merited. Colony in December last, I was constrained to resign my own posi.. tion $19 Managing Director, whereupon the Directors invited me to a seat on the Board and elected me to the Chairmanship; it is on that account that your confirmation is requested at this meeting to my appointment as a Director. I shouli The debate resulted in the re-perhaps add that Mr. Hawker will section of the Liberal motion by proceed on Home leave on the 15th
71 votes-40 145.
instant and that from that date it The question of Russia was has been arranged that I shall be also discussed in the House of Lords tem resume the position of a where Lord Salisbury made a state. Managing Director,
no
ately due to Bolshevik inspiration. | matic relations with a country Sir Austen Chamberlain asked if which abuses them, anybody could possibly contend that what the Soviets had done and were
doing was not a clear contravention of solemn engagements. He agreed with Sir Archibald Sinclair that when the Trade Agreement was signed, Mr. Lloyd George and the
| 'Government did not expect the con-
Motion Rejected."
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$300,000 be transferred to General Director, on the proposition of Mr. Reserve and $503,769.45 be carried J. T. Bagram, seconded by Mr. H.
When Gittins, forward to 1927 account?
It was proposed by Mr. N. V. AN that proposal is been seconded, shall be pleased for shareholders to Croucher, and seconded by Mr. W. put questions, and then to answer E. Van Eps, that Messrs. Percy them to the best of my ability.. Smith, Seth and Fleming bo re- Sir Robert Ho Tung seconded, elected auditors at a fee of $2,000,
nent similarly to Sir Austen Gham- The accounts before you show and there being no questions, the and, that Messrs. Thomason and ditions to be kept, but we were erlain, and Lord Reading and that $276,677,32 has been charged resolution was put to the meeting Co. be re-elected auditors of the
Shanghai branch at a fee of Tis." entitled to anticipate that, in a Lord Grey supported the Govern as depreciation, leaving a nett hand unanimously carried. reasonable time, the engagements ment's attitude. The latter was lance of $803,769.45 to be dealt
Other Business. id
1,000. The resolution was unani- would be, implemented and hence of opinion, however, that it would with at this meeting, and I now The appointment of Mesara, mously carried,
The Chairman:-That is all the forth kept.. But they had never have been better to my nothing formally beg to propose that the Allan Cameron, John Fleming, B. been on the Soviet side. It was than to send a Noto which it who report and accounts as presented be Lander Lewis, and J. H. Taggart as business, gentlemen, and I am only a question now, as to how lone expedient to follow up at présent. adopted and that of the balanes of Directors was confirmed, and Mr. much obliged to you for your wo were going to entertain diploReuter.",
Profit and Loss Account the sum of E. M. Raymond was re-elected altendance.
at-
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