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HOTELS.
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"In association with the Grand Hotel Das Wagons Lits, Peking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
Rooms will not be available for the Public, neither the Lounge & Dining Room. till after the 14th day of June. There is a special lounge at the back of the Bar for the Public.
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When in doubt, make it The Savoy !
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Cables KOWLOTEL. HONGKONG
-Tol. Kowloon No. G
H. J. WHITE
Manager
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1927.
FENGTIEN ARMY'S BIG PREVENTIVE OFFICER
REVERSE.
(Continued from Page 1). per cent. to Shanghai silver cur rency. On the 12th inst. this dis- count Increased to 15 per cent. while it is definitely known that business was done at a discount of 18 per cent. later in the week. It was further reported that one large transaction had gone through at 20 per cent. but this, if correct, is believed to have been excep tional.
Throughout the week feeling of lack of confidence in the administration continued to grow till to-day, upon reports that hostile troops were approaching. from three distinct directions, it culminated in panie.
KILLED.
MALAY, SMUGGLERS FIRE
ON LAUNCH.
TRAGEDY NEAR SINGAPORE.
Singapore, May 24-The tragic death of a European officer was the outcome of an exciting encounter between rubber smugglers and a restriction launch in the neighbour- hood of Batu Pahat yesterday. The Lalat, under the command of Mr. Wakefield, was patrolling at Tan- jong Tohor, and sighted and even- tually captured a boat manned by three Malays, and containing a quantity of rubber.
The Commander of the Lalat gave orders for the other boat to be tied on behind, and this was done, but the smugglers opened fire from be hind on the revenue launch, and kill- ed Mr. Wakefield.
There are no further details yet available, but it is reported that the smugglers are missing, and it is rumoured that they were either. drowned or killed by the crew of the Lmint.
Such was the desire to convert irredeemable paper currency in some article likely to be of a mora enduring nature that there was a rush to buy stamps at the post office. The post office responded by limiting the amount which any one person might purchase to
The deceased Officer had been in $20 subsequently reducing it to $10 and then as the rush continued the Preventive Servies for about to $5. Meantime the shops and Afteen months having previously merchants who for some time had been employed in the Straits Steam- been very unwilling sellers for ship Company in the Renong and payment in Nationalist currency the Penang. The patrol areas are became more so throughout the day changed from time to time and last till by the evening it was practical-month he had been on the Pulo ly impossible to buy, anything at all Pisang area changing over to Tan- and it might then be said that jong Tohor this morning. all business, wholesale and retail, had been brought to a standstill. FOOCHOW PROBLEMS.
new
The sad news was sent to Singa- pore by the Assistant British Ad- visor at Batu Pahat and arrange- ments were made for the funeral which will take place this morning. at 9 o'clock at Bidadari.
THE PHILIPPINES GOVERNOR.
Education and Politics.
Mr. Wakefield, who a young man Foochow, May 21.-The educa-of about 30, was married, and the tional situation in Foochow cor- greatest. sympathy will be felt for tinues to be one of interest fraught his wife, who was staying at Batu with perplexity and uncertainty. Pahat when the tragedy occurred, In government circles the Commissioner of Education has" arrived under appointment from the Nanking government: a PMD. from Columbia, and a man who is reported to be Inclined towards the radical, and favoured by cer- tain radical elements here. But there is so much opposition to his accepting office that there is stil a question as to whether or not local people will defy the the Nanking government in the matter.
CALLS ON SIR CECIL CLEMENTI.
'Governor General Wood, of the Philippines, paid a visit to H.E. the Governor (Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G.) at Government House this morning.
He was accompanied by Major Barton Y. Reed, his aide-de-camp... and we understand the visit was an unofficial one.
Registration is still the outstand ing question in mission educa- tional circles. The University and the Anglo-Chinese College (u Middle School) have both gone into the Commission form of gov Governor Gensial Wood accom- rnment; in both cases the companied by Mrs Wood and his Staff, mission consists of a member of is passing through the Colony on the faculty (the senior Chinese the ss. President Madison, on his member of the staff), a member way to the United States "on leave, just added to the staff in order to take part in this administration, Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY, Propristress.and a third member not on the
staff of the institution.
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Insubordination.
The Union Theological School closed over
a matter of insubor- dination, on the part of the students. This arose from a re- quest that the students be allowed. to have the Monday Memorial Service in place of the regular chapel; the request was referred to the faculty, who passed it to the Board of Managers; the Board deferred action until next week when it could get a full attendance at the meeting. The students re- fused to await further for their was answer, and their attitude such that the faculty found no alternative but to close for the rest of this term, at least.
ON INTERPORTS.
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themselves, performing against local exponents of the game who are content to be willing sacrifices. But when our new Governor tulks of sending Malayan teams in all branches of sport-"from pitch and tons to manslaughter" on gay journeyings to Ceylon on the one side and as far as Yokohama or the other we are afraid he is asking too much, To the men who might compose such teams the first duty
The President Madison, which was delayed in answering the dis- tress call of the Ganges Maru, ar. rived at eleven o'clock last night, and anchored at Kowloon Bay until daylight. She Bails to- morrow morning.
EXASPERATED.
ARTIST AND 'PLANES.
London, April 26.
"I became half mad when those things came over the house. I did not want to hit anyone and fired behind the plane. What can one do to keep them away?" gald Trelawney Reed, the Bournemouth Farmer-artist, when charged with attempting to wound Squadron- Leader Longton, and damaging property.
In the police court, today, the prosecuting counsel said that Reed had previously complained to the police that 'planes during the August meeting flew over hla house, upsetting his mother and frightening the cattle.
Farm labourers gave evidence that Reed watched two 'planes pass and then picked up a gun. borrowed cartridges, and fired at the third machine.
Reed was committed for trial.
•
Believed to be the oldest.coroner in England, Mr. John Graham, of Sunderland, has returned to his official duties in the Chester Ward of Durham County after an extend-
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?
The following are answers to to-day's qucations.
in life is to do their jobs of worked holiday. Although 93, he ex- Sport to them is an incidental, and, hibits the vigour of a man much save on very special occasions, say younger. He was elected in 1873 once in three years, it should not to the coroner-ship of the Chester take them beyond the confines of Ward by a vote of the freeholders, Malaya. Employers of labour arc. and has discharged. the duties on the whole, reasonable beings. ever since. They like to see their young men keen on games because it makes for neath and fitness, interest in their residence in a tropical clime and But contentment with their lot. there is a limit to all things and they cannot continually be financing
1. Kinge Louis XVI and XVIII. of France indirectly sporting jaunts abroad.
3. Horrdiary insifact from trampling down For this reason it is invariably the grase in a former wild state. . Their FunG- caso that the cricket team coming tion is unknown; they are probably rudlepen tary gill. 4. The penguin, 8, When Stephen from Hongkong to Malaya, or vice son's "Eockei" was first ran over the Chat Moss Railway in 1836, and Mr. Huskieson, versa, is not composed of the best
4. The love penny three farthings. B apple. 7. About talent available. Some hardhearted for Liverpool, was killed
That is shoots itë qullla, 8, The point of dila. employer of a brilliant batsman' or
tas at which, when mixed with gunpowder, a deadly bowler is sure to have
the latter can still be fired, 10. From the other views. In the matter-of-fact German Unch-beech The Arap books were parlance of the lower middle classes made of thin sheets of beens wood. 11. When
sie in beated Itira, ervating firms are not put here for their This is filed by air from notgbouring diatrieta zushing in to take six place. 12, Lighton 15, health, and their fervent prayer 18, The tobness of Landaefs, which, when green,
·la peat-dried.' 14. From da Vinal's picture et The Last Supper," in which the salt collar sa The Lord save us from a sports- mad Governor."
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