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HOTELS.

THE

HONGKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HÖTEL: PEAK HOTEL Telegraphic 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 Lita. Peking.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

Most Modern and Central Hotel In the Colony, all Bed Rooms, Kewly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and All Trams pase in front of Cold Water, also Telephone. Hotel. Most Moderate Rates in the Colony, Hotel launch meets all steamers. Dining Room and Lounge now open to the Public.

PROF. C. THERESES

and

MISS MARGUERITE 'SENOUR

will give Exhibition Dances every

Tel. Add Victoria.

TUESDAY & FRIDAY

6 to 6.30 p.m.

Telephone C.373. J. H. WITCHELL,"

Manager.

HOTEL SAVOY

Famions for its Comfort, Conveni- enza, Appointments and Cuisite.

You'll be proud to stay at the Savoy

HOTEL METROPOLE. HOTEL BOA VISTA.

22, Ice House Street..

Macho.

UNDER THE SAME MANAGEMENT.

KOWLOON HOTEL

PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON

Modern Toilet System.

Elevator and Telephones to each door.

Smoking Room and Salcon Bar. First Class Billiard Table

Recently renovated throughout.

Manager's Personal Attention

Tels. K 608-609.

Cables KOWLOTEL. HONGKONG

PALACE HOTEL.

H. J. WHITE

Manager

Tel. Address "PALACE." Tel Kowloon No, B

These 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. Tarma 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.

-TO-NIGHT at 9.15 pm.

WILBUR PLAYERS

in

ALIAS THE DEACON

TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY & FRIDAY.

"SPOOKS" "THE ROSARY"

Booking at Moutries and THE STAR

Pristed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

C.N.C. STRIKE.

(Continued from Paga 1.)

MONDAY, JULY

1927.

LEIPZIG AUTUMN

FAIR.

PREPARATIONS FOR A BIG

EVENT.

and dialocation of services, but that they had decided pending re- sumption of normal trading by

The Loipzig Autumn Fair 1927 the company's services to review

will be held from August 28th till the position of ench quarter and if, in their opinion, the re- September 3rd. The Textile Fair, sults justify it, to pay the 10 per a branch of the Sample Fair, will, cent. for such quarter. The at the special request of the textile Guilds, however, ignored this pro-industry commitice, be opened for posal and demanded that adjust-5 days, instead of 4, that mont and arbitration boards is to say, from August 28th The Shoe should be called under the agree till 1st September.

and Leather Fair will, ment of May, 1916. They also have stated that the company in-usual, be opened for 4 days, tond to jettison the whole of that that is to say, from August 28th agreement. This is absolutely in- till August 31st. The Building Fair and the Technical Fair will 1916 agreement. have the same duration as the dealt with certain provisions with Sample Fair. The Technical Fair, regard to pension scheme, scale as in Autumn of last year, will not of pay, home leave and recognition be so extensive as in Spring, as of the Guilds, and the company's several of the exhibiting firms attitude with regard to such pro only attend the Spring Fatra, visione remains unchanged but The House of Electrotechnics will they made it quito clear Inn also in all probability remain letter to the Guilds dated Decoms closed. ber 11, 1917, when all the out- standing questions in the 1916 settlement had been settled, that any future reference to arbitra- tion must be by mutual consent.

correct. The

Letter to the Guilds.

|

Like former fairs this Autumn Fair will again bring important As novelties in various sections. part of the Leipzig Textile Fair, a special Fair for "German Sport Clothing and Equipment" will be This letter read as follows: held from August 28th Hill Sop- "All the outstanding questions témber 1st. It will be accommodat in the settlement on May 12, 1916ed in the rooms of the Graasi Tex- between the companies and the tile Fair House. This special Fair captains and officers' representa-will be connected with a competi tives having now been settled, aurten for clothing the German principals have instructed us to Olympin candidates. for Amster advise you that so far as they are dam and for the introduction of a concerned any future proposals to standard sport. The exhibition refer to arbitration must be by will also bring together the

leading sport and requisites industry with a view to standardizing hygienic, fashion- able, and economic clothing and equipment for the sporting world.

mutual consent."

gymnastic

"At the same time, they desire it to be made perfectly clear that this is by no means to be taken as an indication that the China Navigation Company is opposed to

The National Union of Choco- arbitration; it meana only that the company cannot hold itself late Business Proprietora of Ger- bound to submit any and all ques-many, registered in 1906, and the tions which may possibly arise to Swiss House. Joint Stock Co., will arbitration and he bound by the crganize the Confectionery Fair result."

as a National Confectionery Fair. This new National Confectionery. Fair will be much more extensive than the former special Confec tionery Fair in the Swiss House and it will be held in hall 7 on the exhibition ground.

While the company deplore the action of the Guilds in forcing the issue by deliberately choosing to call a strike, they feel they cannot depart from their position because such extreme measures are employed.

Building Section.

Compulsory arbitration in any and all points would create an impossible position in any busi- news. The company have always. maintained that they cannot agree to submit any and all questions which may arise in connexion with their business ..10 arbitration. The Building Fair in the exhibi- They have taken pains to ascertion grounds will be considerably i tain and confirm

their extended" this Autumn. Several that attitude is a correct one and they special exhibitions and importunt are prepared to support their meetings will be held in connex position by all "reasonable and ion with it. Special worthy of

mention legitimate means.

"Das is an exhibition Siedlungshaus" (garden-colony house) with ground plans, build- ing materials and other necessary requisites, more especially furni- ture. Then there will also be the 4th. Brick Building Exhibition, such as was already held with sue- cess during the Autumn Fair 1926. The "German Building Week" will be held during the Building Fair. It will be arranged by the German Economic Union for the Building Trade, by the German Employers' Union for the Building Trade, and by the Corporation of German There will Building Masters.. also be a special exhibition for street building. The main attrae- The two lieutenants expressed tion this year will be practical de pleasure at having been given the monstrations (street-laying ma- trans-Pacific assignment, but mod-chines, street-laying with various materials, probably laying of an estly insisted that there were experimental street). A limited many pilots and navigators in the number of scientific lectures will army air service who undoubted also be given. ly would have performed the task satisfactorily.

PACIFIC FLIGHT.

(Continued from Page 1)

eating to tell newspapermen, free of charge, the complete story of their Bight, for which they had just turned down. $10,000.

When questioned about their food, Maitland explained that they had taken only water since they started, the food having been so securely stowed under the piloting board cover that they were unable to find it

On the exhibition grounds there will also be a large hygienie ex- hibition with a special section for travelling and health resorts.

The International Aerological Commission will also meet during the Fair. This commission does research work in atmospherical conditions. In this connexion it

Their Experiences,

is intended to held a special ex- Wheeler Field, June 29.-The hibition of those firms which story of the epochal flight of manufacture apparatus and intru- Lieutenants Lester Maitland and ments for examining the atmos-

A. F. Hegenberger from Oaklandphere.

to Wheeler Field. Hawali, as told

1

to the Associated Press, follows:

"We made our flight by dead

The skeleton of a gigantle ani- reckoning, with the aid of a few mal that lived about 3,000,000 celestial observations. The radio years ago has been discovered by beacon worked fine for an hour engineers who are building a rail- after we took off, and then went roar between Turkestan And cifT. It came back again for a Siberin. The beast is believed to short time last night.

have been a saurian.

"When we landed we had enough gas left for 800 miles more of flying. There were more than 250 gallons left in the tanks.

"We fought unfavourable weather conditions all the way. In the night we flew at an altitude. of 10,000 feet in order to get above the clouds 30 that we could observe the stars. During the day, we flew practically all the time at an altitude of 300 feet in order to be" under the clouds.

"We didn't always know our position but we didn't get lost.

"We had motor trouble with the centre engine at midnight, but we got it to function perfectly before we landed.

"We had no chow during the trip. We couldn't find the coffee and sandwiches. They were atow- ed away somewhere in the plane, the Lord only knows where."

Due to the heavy rains of tho last fow days, there was a small fall of earth on the Wong. Nel Chung Gap Road, leading to Re- pulse Bay. Although sufficient to block all motor traffic, the fall was not very groat

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Entertainments

HOUSEBREAKER-BEGGAR-POET!

JOHN BARRYMORE

in and as

THE BELOVED ROGUE

The Romantic story of the gay, whimsical, impudent, brilliant reckless and lovable poet, vagabond and housebreaker known as Francois Villon

Wonderful Reproductions of Medieval Paris and the Court of Louis XI, à fine dramatic story and a plentiful allowance, of comedy make up a first class entertainment. TIMES & PRICES

2.30, 5.10, 7.15. $1.00, 80 ets. and 40 cts. $1.50, $1.00 and 60 cts.

9.20

p.m.

-QUEEN'S-

WORLD

2.30, 5.15, 7.15, 9.20

By Special Pequest

si

HELD

by the

LAW

Direct from The Queen's

SPANISH REFORMS.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TO

MEET IN AUTUMN.

An official Note has been issued explaining the functions of the National Assembly, which will

meet in the autumn.

STAR

2.30 to 8.30 p.m. TOM MIX

THE RAINBOW TRAIL

RUSSIAN STAR IN BRITISH FILM.

SIR HARRY LAUDER'S SCREEN PARTNER.

WILBUR PLAYERS at 9.15 p.m.

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW

The following are the repli to-day's questions

Southern Italy, Hannibal, VATTENUT AUeb Through the Looking-Glass," B Stewart, commonly known a James des Glen. Inventor of the Popish PE Charles / rolgn. 5. Carthaginian Charles I. 7. After Sir Robert Teel 'or

This is how Mme. Vera Veronina,

I was born in Kiev," she the Russian film actress who has come from Hollywood to act in where my father held an offy film with Sir Harry Lauder, apposition. The Bolsheviks peared to a Daily Express repre-theatened to imprison my fan sentative.

if they rofused

to spy,

andi

Tall, slim, wonderful dark eyes shining like pansies in her equare for of the furers Sward used by Ca

3. Mullut, 10. The Arabs, Crees. 11. Ank face, with its high Slavonic cheek a mountain, south-west of Lake Vi

Nyanza. 12. Four, 12 Talllefer. · 163 It will consist of about 300 bones, an ivory and rose comple-, Väck. 16. 1. Alban. members, who will meet once axion crowned by fair short hair. week in a purely consultative capacity, forming committees to Investigate proposed laws pre- gented by the Government.

They will also discuss. Govern ment estimates and arrange the reorganisation of the Civil Ser-

The film in which they are to act managed to escape to Vien vice, after investigating the re-

is, a version of Mr. John Buchan's where I obtained work in a ca cords of recent years.

The Assembly will also prepare book. "Huntingtower," and Mme.ret, and also as a mannequin. Q the elections for the new Parlia. Veroninu was brought all the way night,, when I was in a cafe mont, in which men and women from California to Cricklewood be- my husband, a film producer c will have votes, and of which both cause the producer, Mr. T. A. over to us, explained that I ha Welsh, happened to see her in a real 'film face,' and offered to g Beges can become members.

a trial. Later a Stockho Eventually the new Parlament film studio, and, without know-me will undertake the reform of the ing her nationality, decided that producer saw one of my pictu "she looked like & Russian prin- and offered me an engagem national Constitution.

Another offer came while I was General Primo de Rivera, in cess."

Stockholm, this time from a Hol concluding the Note, says that he Her ilfe and adventures have in wood producer." bolievos the country will support many respects been similar to him in refusing to accept the those of the Russian princess in Some of the scenes of "Huntli extraordinary Ideas which have "Huntingtower." She belongs to tower" will be filmed in Nort caused enormous damage in coun- an old Russian family, and is now nmberland and others near Lo tries such as Russia.

don. only in her early twenties.