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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.

Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL"

HOTELS.

LIMITED.

In 288ociation with tho. Grand Hotel Des Wagons Lits, Peking.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

Now Lounge and Bar still open to the public for refreshment. Arrangemonte era in hand for more spacious public accommodation. Highest degree of comfort and good taste. Butrance by public bar; sino privatsexit All the other accommodation is at present used by this Military Authorition.]

Renovations and lavish decora tions just completed; ovary modern conveniendo catering do fuxej bost food and liquora.

Each room has hot and cold water private phone, box mattress Eto, spacious publia facilitios attention" and sorvico,

Manager, J. H. Witchell Phone C, 373. Cables " Victoria, Hongkong.

HOTEL SAVOY

When in doubt, make it The Savoy!

KOWLOON HOTEL·

PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON »

Modern Toilet System. Elevator and Telephones to each floor. Smoking Room and Saloon Bar. First Class Billiard Table

Recently renovated throughout.

Manager's Personal Attention

Tola. K. 608-609.

Cables KOWLOTEL. HONGKONG

WM. HAROLD PERRY

Monager

PALACE HOTEL.

Tel. Kowloon No. 3

Tol, Address "PALACE.” Threo minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. Entirely under English Management. Electric Light and Fans throughout. Every Room with Private Bath, Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Temas moderate. Special terms to families on application to:

EUROPE

After-dinner dancing every

Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietress.

Cables :-

"EUROPE'

Singapore.

HOTEL

SINGAPORE.

Grill

THE EUROPE HOTEL. LTD..

Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Director.

COLGATES IS

THE BEST

Insist upon Colgates Specialities

DENTAL

obtainable at all high class Stores.

Extract Eclat "

Dental Powder

Sole Agents for South China' HONGKONG TRADING CO., LTD,

Bank of Canton Building.

Printed and Published for the Proprietor "by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 5, Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

FOREIGN APPREHEN-

SION GROWS.

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MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1927.

SHANGHAI DRAMA.

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silenced. One gun emplacement feuds, since the Sirdar had suc- was dismantled and the barracks cessfully kept himself clen from were destroyed. The Chinese these. They believe that it was of casualties are unknown, for the a seditious naturo, since the mur- moment the firing opened the dered man has been one of the Chinese disappeared rapidly. most loyal in putting down sedi-

All foreign shipping on the tion amongst the Silkhe. Yangtze is now escorted by British and American warships.-British Wireless.

For this reason, it is bellevad, the premises of the local Gurd- wara or Sikh Temple, were raided The Chinese Casualties.

the same afternoon. The raid was carried out by the "C" company of In the report of the shelling by the Border Regiment under the H.M.S. Veteran, replying to shrap-| direction of Assistant Commis- nel and rifle fire from a fort be- siqners W. Beatty and W. G. tween Vine Point and Chinkiang, Clarke, who are in charge of the

stated that the Chinese Sikh branch, casualties are believed to be The Company formed at 18 numerous, but are unknown, as North Szechuen Road about ŏ they disappeared so rapidly-p'clock and marched down North Naval Wireless.

It is

HANKOW ACAOINTMENT.

Commander of 41st. Army.

Canton, April 10 The Hankow Government has appolated General Chang Chi- kung, a military leader in Western Honan, to be commander of the 41st. Nationalist Army.Nam Chung Pao.

SOUTHERN REVERSES,

Gradual Retreat Reported.

Chinkiang, April 9. Marshal Sun Chuan-fang's suc- cesses are continuing, and the Southerners are gradually falling

back on the river.

Troops, field guns, stores and wounded Southerners are slowing arriving at Chinkiang from the other side of the river, and the return to the south side is continu- ing.

"

Every indication is, that a severe engagement has been taking place. -Naval Wireless.

PEKING FEARS.

Exodus of Americans.

Peking. April 4.

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Szechuan Road Extension to the entrance to the Gurdwara and on into Chapei. Before any of those in the building could have time to got out the building was sur- rounded by the company with their bayonets fixed and their rics loaded.

The officers then searched the premises and arrested 11 men, police station. No literature of a who were taken to the Central

editious nature is said to have been found in the building.

SHANGHAI NEWS.

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with their warlike movements. The Nanking outrage was .commit. ted by the British, with the result that thousands of innocent Chinese citizens were killed. We must therefore, organise lecturing parties ie deliver anti-British speeches. We must boycott Brit- ish goods. All Chinese citizens in the employ of the British must declare a general strike.

A

The Curfew Breakers.

A novel suggestion is made by correspondent to one of the foreign newspapers who outlines a method to deal with the inveterate earfow breakers. After pointing out that in these troublous. times it is inconsiderate on the part of curfew breakers to give the troops and volunteers extra work, he sug- gests that curfew breakers, when arrested should pay a fine of one dollar.

The exodus of Americans from this city is incrensing in number, but the American Legation denies the issuance of instructions..

TSINGTAO APPREHENSION,

Men-of-War Disarmed.

He suggests that if this was done the patrols would soon Tsingtao, April 4.

and the ranks of curfew breakers As there is fear that the six considerably decreased, and the Chinese men-of-war stationed her, nes thus collected could be utilised for some charity, perhaps that of were disarmed udy Arelief for refugees. they

to-day.

SHANGHAI PRECAUTIONS.

2.

Wayside Comb-Out.

Shanghai, April 5. At four o'clock this morning a force of

about seven hundred police and Volunteers conducted a round up for suspicious characters and armis in the Wayside district, Three arrests were made for in- vestigation, but the detained men were released this afternoon.

FORTUNATE OFFICIALS.

HIGHER WAGES OWING TO SURPLUS.

Paris, April 10. The revenue returns for . 1926 showing an additional surplus of more than 500,000,000 frames, the government has decided to in- creuse the wages of oficials from August 3, 1926 instead of January 1, 1927 as previously in- from

tended-Hacas.

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A Chinese, who is thought to have lost his reason, jumped from the Praya yesterday." Ile picked up by sampan taken to the Government Civil Hospital

folk and

Entertainments,

Susan was a Society Girl who EXCITEMENT! When she got detective in a department store, that life was just one big THRIL another!

Come and See

BEBE DANIELS

in

The Fastest, Thrilliest, Funniest Comedy

She has given to the Screen!

WILD, WILD SUSAN

TO-DAY AND

TO-MORROW

QUEEN'S

WORLD

RICHARD DIX LOIS WILSON MARGERY DAW

in

THE CALL OF

THE CANYON

CRIME SIDELIGHTS.

"CROOKS" IN AMERICAN SOCIETY.

2.30, 5.10, 7.15, 9.20.

STAR

FLORENCE VIDOR, TOM MOORE, FORD STERLING

in

THE TROUBLE WITH WIVES

ATTACHMENT OF SALARIES.

BURMA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE VIEW.

TO GET CHEAPER COAL.

MILLIONAIRE CAR MANU- FACTURERS'S SCHEME.

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Rangoon, March, 18. How Mr. W. R. Morris, the mil- last meeting, the ionaire motor car manufacturer,

Parade of Japanese Forces. A parade uf approximately 1,500 Japanese naval forces was held through the Central District at 2 o'clock this afternaÐU.

SHANGHAI BARRICADES.

Shopkeepers Union Protest.

Shanghai, April 6. The Amalgamated Association

Writing in the March

At Wide

their of Street Unions has now found

World Magazine, Mr. Shaw Des-Chamber

Committee of the Burma proposes to reduce the price of cause for protest in Shanghai and

of Commerce record- coal and pay higher wages was exi in a letter to the Shanghai Muni-

mond throws some remarkable ed A letter, dated January plained to me by Mr. Sydney cipal Council strongly protest

sidelights on American grime..

27th, 1927, from the Deputy Secre- Taylor (writes a correspondent of against the erection of barbed- This morning's Harbour Office Wire barricades in the Settlement Reports gave 15 arcivals and nine

enclosing a copy of a letter from ed-Morris Collieries, Ltd--to ne-

Home and Political Department), tury to the Government of Burma, the Westminster Gazette). on the ground that Chinese shop-departures, of which four and

A new company has been form- men are unable to do business and three respectively were British.do sometimes quin entrance to the the Registrar, High Court, from quire several coal mines in the are being ruined.

leaving 60 vessels in harbour, efter of fact, American "smart so- allowances of a public officer, or a be governing director and chair- beat American society. As a niat which it appears that the salary or Forest of Dean. Mr. Morris will which the British number 22.

elety" is now so elastic that it is servant of a railway company or man, and Mr. Taylor managing infinitely easler for clever crimin-fany local authority may be attach-director,

The measures taken for the de- fence of the Settlement are de- scribed as "absurd" and "oppres-i Hive" and it is pointed out that the The Yuen Sang, carrying the Chinese are forced to pay taxes mail from Europe via Suez, dated but "not permitted," owing to the March 10, was sighted one mile suspension of traffic due to the vif Gap Rock at 10.30 this morn erection of the barricades and, the ing Mail will probably be distri enforcement of curfew, to carry on buted some time this afternoon. their business.

The letter concludes with a ware ing and with the expression of the hope that the Council will give the maller its consideration.

SINGAPORE AFFAIR.

well educated crooks of both sexes Despite all denials, he anys,

alu to gain an entree to good ed before being earned, whereas Economies would be effezi houses than it would be in Europe, such is not the case in respect of a he said, in the following way where the barriers are still rigid servant in private employ; that the Electrification of all the collierie and impassable.

Judges of the High Court consider installation of modern plant; ons

A Strong Protest.

tions for the miners. One pro- posal was to provide a motor ser-

A queer sidelight upon this that this is "an unwarranted pre-sales ngeney; a central pumping. clasticity of feeling and morale ference in favour of private em-station for the whole area: pool- in modern American "society" has ployees," and they suggest that the ing of railway waggons; working recently been afforded by the ac- Government of India be moved to the "barriers" of coal between the cusations that the name of a Eu-amend the law so as to make it up-properties of the various owners. When the electric lamp was ropean princess was misused hyplicable to all classes of en first invented, it gave but a feeble some of her hosts in connexion ployees, and inviting the views of Morris intended to improve condi- Mr. Taylor added that Mr. lumination, and unshaded lights with charity for their own ends. the Chamber on this point. were necessary, but of late years These accusations were probab'y auch progress has been made in groundless, but the very fact that the improvement of limps that they can be flung about and state- 1927, was sent strongly protesting work. At present many of them A reply, dated February 15th, vice to convey men to and from their illuminating power, if not ments made that royal names couli against the proposal to attach have to walk long distances. toned down, is positively, harmful be used for personal advantage salaries of private employees be to eyesight, said Mr Edwin Seddon, "tells a great big story," to use an fore they are due, stating that High Court lay special stress on POLICE NOT BLAMED,

M. I. E. E., murger of the Corpora Americanism. tion Electricity Department, In the

such a proposal, if accepted would the point that the salaries of a Bingaporo, April 0.

course of an address on "Elec- It is a fact that during and after lead to an intolerable situation public officer or the servant of a The inquest was concluded in the tricity in the Home" at c. Fabian the war, "smart society" in Ameri- and defeat itself in the end as railway company or other local au- Criminal District Court, bolero the Society meeting held in Edin- en was the happy hunting-ground private employers would promptly thority are attachable before be- neting Coronor (Colonel J.H. Tyte) burgh. The bad habits people of all sorts of bogus "princesses," dismiss employees whose salaries ing earned, and that this makes an and a jury consisting of two Euro- had eontracted in the early days "dukes," and "counts" galore; had been attached before they unwarranted preference in fuv- peans and three leading Chinoso ro had persisted, continued Mr. Sed-and society dames who ought to were earned; that furthermore, the our of private employees; that it eidonts, into the deaths of six don, a was shown in the have known better tumbled over law, If amended, on the lines sug- seems to the Chamber that the op- Chinese who wore killed in the use to-day of improperly shad- one another to get these "notablli-gested, would have a very bad vlous remedy is to amend the law shooting affair in front of Krota of lamps. It was truc that ties" to accept their invitations. effect, aa it would serve as a direct so as to bring employees of public Ayer Police Station on March 13. tho use of shades lowor- The existence of social clim- encouragement to money-lenders bodies into line with private em The jury returned a verdict thated the efficiency of the light, but bers" gives the crook his chance to extend their business with playeça, i.c., salaries to be unab "death was the result of gunshot one must not interchange the of an entree to circles that are private employees, who would, in tachable until earned and dus, wounda inflicted by tho Police terms "brilliant" and "good" In supposed to be exclusivo but theory at all events, afford a bot- and that, as the proposa whilst dealing with a dense crowd that. connexion, but incrifice which, as a matter of fact, can beter basis of security than at pre-stands, the Chamber most stro outside tho Polico Station."-

efficiency in some measure to fairly waily penetrated by any-sent; that the Committee note ly objects to it and urges that ensure comfort,

one with the necessary assurance. Ithat the Hon'bla Judges of the be dropped.

Beuter.