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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

Telographic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL"

HOTELS,

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel Des Wagons Lits. Peking.

KING EDWARD HOTEL, ·

Most Modern and Central Hotel'in the Colony, all Bed Rooms, nawly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and All Trams pass in front of Cold Water, also Telephone. Hotel. Most Moderate Rates in the Colony. Hotel launch moots all steamers.

Dining Room and Lounge now open to the Public.

PROF. C. THERESES

and

MISS MARGUERITE SENOUR

will give Exhibition Dances every TUESDAY & FRIDAY

Tel: Add Victoria.

5 to 6.30 p.m.

Telephone C.373. J. H. WITCHELL,

Manager.

HOTEL SAVOY

The Havay in the outstanding Hotel

In Hongkong and one of the nest

Appointed to South Chips.

HOTEL METROPOLE. HOTEL BOA VISTA.

22, Ioe House Street.

Macao,

UNDER THE SAME MANAGEMENT.

KOWLOON HOTEL

PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON.

Modern Toilet Systom.

Elevator and Tolephones to each floor.

Smoking Room and Saloon Bar. First Class Billiard Table

Recently renovated throughout..

Manager's Personal Attention

Tels. E, 608-609.

Cables KOWLOTEL. HONGKONG

H. J WHITE

Manager

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

SHANGHAI FAREWELL

TO TROOPS.

DURHAMS AND GLOUCESTERS DEPARTING.

A VERY HEARTY “ŞEND-OFF.

community in The British Shanghai showed their apprecia- tion for the valuable services ren- dered during the uncertain days of March by the 2nd Battalion the Gloucestershire Regiment and the 2nd Battalion Durham Light In- fantry by holding a farewell enter- tainment for the officers and men at the Race Course, by kind per- mission of the Stewards, last Sun- day at 5.30 p.m.

When it was learned that the two regiments were leaving Shang- bai the United Services Association took it upon themselves to give send the two units a combined off, all full well remembering the useful service which they had performed in holding back the Northern forces which were trap- ped in the native cities by the Nationalist Army.

of the Through the medium press all Britishers were asked to come forward and give small do-i nations for the celebrations and the call was generously answered.

It was decided that the affair was to consist of a vaudeville un- tertainment. to be put on by the roops, one of the military banca also to be on hand to play during the show, and I was hoped that there would be a cinema later in the evening, showing, films of particu Aside lar interest to Shanghai. from this there would be served beer and light refreshments.

The entire British community was invited to take part in the celebrations and it was expected that one of the largest crowds to gather at the enclosure would be present to show their gratitude to the Grst units to come by the assistance of foreign nationals in Shanghai during the hectic days in March.

SLAVERY AS CHINA KNOWS IT.

.GIRL MORTGAGED FOR TEN YEARS.

An interesting case was present- ed before Judge. Chau in the Shanghai Provisional Court last Wednesday, when Sub-inspector

the

TUESDAY, JULY

19,

1927.

CHINA'S CHIEF WAR-LORDS.

Chang Tso-lin

Feng Yu-hsiang

Sun Chuan-fang

Chang Kai-shek

The war-lords of the hour in China are pictured here. Sun Chuan-fang, defeated in the north, may yet resume his place in the scheme of things; but meanwhile interest chiefly turns on the possible, armistice between North and South, to enable Chiang Kai-shek to subdue Hankow, while Chang Tso-lip and Feng Yu-hsiang may fight it out along the Yellow River région.

A PLUCKY CHINESE SCHOOL-MISTRESS.

CRY FOR HELP SCARES ARMED MEN,

UNEMPLOYED MAN'S THEFT.

ATTEMPT TO APPROPRIATE GAS METER.

A Chinese coolie, who arrived

he was picked up a meter and was walk- ing away with it when accosted by a fitter who took him to the manager.

Mrs. Him Yim-shan, a Chinese school-mistreses, has reported to late at the gas works, West Point, Clissold of the S. 31. P. applied to the police that some time between yesterday, and did not get a job,

court to have a 12-year-old eight and nine o'clock last night Chinese girl handed over to the several atmod. men attempted to care of the Dour of Hope, a local in commit a robbery at her house, atitution which cares for down-No. 3 Lyndhurst Terrace..

Sub-Inspector trodden children. Clissold reminded the court that the case had been before it on the previous Momlay when the mis- ss of a Chinese sing-song-house, to whom the little girl had been mortgaged by her father for 10 years for $150, failed to appear in answer to a summons.

Witness stated that the little exit.

PALACE HOTEL.

Tel, Address "PALACE." Tel. Kowloon No. 8

Three 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.girl had run away from the sing Tarms moderate. Special terms to familles on application to:

This morning the man AVAS

The men gained admittance by knocking at the door and giving the name of one of the inmates of the house. When they entered, charged with the theft of the they eaught bold of the school- mistress and attempted to bind her meter before Mr. P. E. Lindsell, It appears that the fitter insked up. She screamed for help, and at the Central Magistracy, them the robbers made a hasty the defendant what he was doing without taking anything with

When the police were called in with the meter, and he replied he song house. The mistress, hethey examined the house thorough was taking it to the furnace Mrs. J. E. OXBERRY, Propristress. said, had since appeared in courtly, and discovered two daggers repairer. Knowing

t' been fined $60 by the Lower on the stairs, apparently dropped Court. I suggest," he said "that by the robbers in their flight. It is the intention of the father of the little girl to recover posses- sion of her in order that he might re-sell her."

EUROPE

After-dinner dancing every

Tuesday, Thursday

and Saturday.

Cables :-

"EUROPE"

Singapore.

HOTEL

SINGAPORE.

Grill

THE EUROPE HOTEL. LTD.

Arthur E. Odell, Managing Director.

Beautiful!

Clothes well cleaned

will keep good for

•

a long period. It's

worth the cleaning

BUSINESS HOURSI-

MONDAY to FRIDAY: From 8 am, to 7 p.m. SATURDAYS

3.1. to & p.m.

SUNDAY.

+ &a.. to 12 Noon.

THE INTERNATIONAL DRY CLEANING & DYEING CO.

19 Wyndham Birool,

Hongkong

36 Nathan Road. Kowtoon.

Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK PEROY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.

Witness also told the court" why the sing-song mistress had failed

to make her appearance lust. Men-

that the

furnace repairer had nothing to do 'with meters; the fitter informed the manager who decided to pro- sccute. It was stated that the defendant, who was

Casual coolle, would probably have been A shopkeeper of No. 45, Pottin-given a job if he had not been late. He was sent to prison for six

DAY BY DAY.

day and said that it was because ger Street, has been victimised to weeks with hard labour. she had been warned against do-the extent of $115, by a Chinese ing so by a lawyer. Further she who represented himself as a foki had been threatened by a gang of of a shop in Wanchai. The im loafers against doing so, they pro-poster obtained delivery of eight mising to shoot her if she went to suitcases under a false order.

court.

The court ordered the child to be sent to the Door of Hope.

RUSSIAN AGENTS

ARRESTED.

A

HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

ORDERS BY THE CAPTAIN SUPERINTENDENT.

Arriving in the Colony two days ago, the 3.5. Shing On, a Wuchow boat belonging to a Chin- ese shipping company, the Yuen Yuen Company, was visited by the

The following Police Reserve Police, who found six parcels of orders are issued by the Hon. illicit opium, says the vernacular Mr. E.D.C. Wolfe, C. S. P: press. The opium was - wrapped up in some mats.

Parades. The Chinese Company will parade at the Central Police Station Compound at 5.30 p.m. sharp on the following dates for Squad Drill and Rifle Exorcises under Sergt R. J. Hunt:

Thursday, 21st July; Tuesday, 26th July.

(Continued from Page 1.) conditions there were such as to prevent the immediate reopening of trade, and to render residence risky and undesirable.

Arrangements had been made Mrs. Morris, head-mistress of for a further investigation next the Victoria British School, has state of the. reported to the police that a Chin- month, when the river would be most favourable ese entered the school premises for an extension of the investi- yesterday on the pretext of repair- gation to Chungking and Chang-ing certain telephone wires. She sha..

allowed him to carry on his work, belt, Meanwhile, the situation at the but when the man had gone It was Yangtsze porta above Hankow was discovered that a table-fan was being constantly watched, with a

missing. view to ascertaining whether 'con- ditions there had so far improv- ed as to render them safe for British residents Ard trade

British Wirclesa......

WUCHOW BOYCOTT,

Pickets Visit Ships.

Dress on both days, mufti. Members of "A" Squad will wear

I

The Indian Company will parade at the Central Police Station Com pound at 5.30 pa. sharp on the following data for Squad Drill under Sergt. R. J. Hunt:

Friday, 22nd July; Monday, 25th

ไ

(Sgd.) G. B. Hartford, D. S. P. (R), Adjutant.

Hongkong, 19th July, 1927.

After being given $100 with which to purchase stock for the July. shop, a salesman of a piece-goods store at 130, Canton Road, où-: sconded with the money after the goods had been ordered and de- Pickets have been active."livered. He was later arrested, Wuchow since the 17th instant, all steamers arriving in that port be. ing visited by pickets looking for Japanese products.

on

tho

Arriving in Wuchow 17th, the s.s. Tai Hing was visited

On HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

and was charged at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning. pleading guilty, the man was sen- tenced to six weeks' hard labour,

The following are the replies to to-day's questions

1. A mimgo seen off the Straits of Messine.

No. 1 of Vol. 4 of the Linguam. An edition of the Bible in which aim by more than ten of these pickets who, when they could not succeed Agricultural Review (Canton Chris-119, 101, is printed: "Printers have per in finding any Japanese goods, de- tinh Collogo) is out. It describes accuted mo without a cause." a, Ninth month of the Mohammedan" year. 4. An extinct roy- manded that some bottles

of some interesting research work with wingn like a bat's and benk like mineral water that belonged to "A Chinese. Earthworm," "Con- bird. 6. The annual test of the waight and quality of gold and silver coins, 6, Sir Philip Cattle," Abortion of the cook of the steamer should tagious

Sassoon. 7. Ioad-hunting cannibals of Borneo, be confiscated, states the vernacu-Worms in. Goats, vegetable dyes, King Arthur's word. 0, Major Jehn Hay lar press. The crew explained that poisons and other subjects. The Belth. 10. Sir Wolfe Barryz 11. About 11 tone. 12. Legendary King of Africa, who mar Sandwich Islands, 14, Fletcher, in "fare's the battles were for the passen-Roview is a record of valuable ried a beggar maid. 18. Kilaues at Jinwall, eventually work of a type which China badly saves of James V. of Scotland: gers, but the pickets took them away.

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