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HOTELS.

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Hotel launch meets all steamers..

Dining Room and Lounge now open to the Public.

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MISS MARGUERITE SENOUR will give Exhibition Dances every

TUESDAY & FRIDAY

Tel. Add Victoria.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, AUGUST

STANDARDS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD CAVALRY,

1927.

His Majesty recently presented new standards to the Household" Cavalry on Horse Guards Parade. The King is seen with the Prince of Wales. Duke of Comaught, and Prince Arthur of Connaught riding to the Horse Guard Parade.

THE GENEVA FAILURE. IS' BOXING BRUTAL?

AFTERMATH.

L

5 to 6.30 p.m.

J. H. WITCHELL,

Telephone C.373.

Manager.

NO HARM BUT SOME GOOD DONE.

'SIR A. CONAN DOYLE'S REPLY ¦ TO SIR HALL CAINE.

1.

HOTEL SAVOY

The Savor the notatedrag Hotel

in Bongkong and wge of the tient appointed in Ruth Citan.

HOTEL METROPOLE. HOTEL BOA VISTA.

22, Ice House Street.

Macao

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KOWLOON HOTEL

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Modern Tallat System.

Elevator and Telophones 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

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H.J WHITE

Manager

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Tel. Address “PALACE” 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 proprietresa. Tarms moderate. Epecial terms to familles on application to:

Hrs. J. H, OXBERRY, Proprietress.

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NO ŠAVAL RACE LIKELY..

Paris, Aug.-5.

The Walker-Milligan fight, and the punishmen Miigah took to- wards the end, has led Sir Hall Caine to tharacterise boxing con- tests as gross exhaitions of merciless savagery and of loath-

HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR.

LOCOMOTIVE SPEED AND

POWER,

FIGURES EXPLAINED.

Mr. W. C. Bridgeman, on his waying trafficking in human suffer- Western, the London and North-

to London, Interviewed by Reuter,

said the Geneva conference had cer- ing."

For some time past the Great

Eastern, and the London, Midland

Sir Arthur Conan' Dafle, who, and Scottish Railways have each takes a claimed to possess the most power-

tainly done no harm, and it was just as well so many different angles wrote "Rodney Stone",

of the question of naval disarma-ury different view. "Boxing," he ful express engine in the Kingdom, ment had been thoroughly explored. said to an interviewer, "is a noble and now the Great Western comes He found the Japanese rendiest sport--the grandest sport in the forward with yet another claimant, meet the British wishes.country, I would have it taught to in the shape of the "King George every man, though Sir Hall Caine, which underwent "her" first trials last week, states a writer in

Home paper in mall week.

to Renter.

Service.

a

is a litle too old to learn how. Boise, Idaho, Aug. 5. Mr...Borah, interviewed, said the "Boxing is no more brutal than United States should devote its at- Rugby foothall or any other manly The layman has probably been tention to a revival of world arma apert. So long as there is such a puzzled by these claims, but the ex- ment limitation efforts, without at thing as war in the world we have planution is easy. One method of tempting to assess the blame for to encourage courage as a great calculating the power of a locomo- the failure of the Geneva parley, virtue thing upon which the tive is by means of its "tractive Anything in the nature of a naval whole safety of a nation may force," which is determined by a race would be a disaster with depend. I think every public ex-formula analogous with that used world-wide consequences.

hibition of courage is a good thing in establishing the taxable h.p. of The burden of taxation under When we get

But an engine which into the land of a motor-car, which all the peoples of the world angels we shall not need such exceeds, a rival so far as tractive were now bending was bludgeon-things, but in this world we have force is concerned may itself bo ing the human family into a state to keep up our nerve and courage, walght, boiler dimensions, or haul- surpassed in the matter of size, of peonage. Reuter's American and boxing and playing manly (age capacity. Hence the Great games are ways in which we can western "Castle," the Southern do it

"Lord Nelsons," and the London and "Sir Hall Caine is an old friend North-Eastern "Pacifics" can all QUARRELSOME MEN. of mine. He was not present, at make out a valid claim. Which is the Walker-Milligan fight. I was, actually the most powerful is al- and I think he had been there he most impossible to determine. would not have considered it a Tests have been made, but as these brutal exhibition. It waS cer-involve the running of a locomo- tainly an exhibition of very great tive on a "foreign" railway, where A quarcel between two Chinese

courage. I consider that every the driver is handicapped by im- outside a shop in Pottinger Street, public exhibition of courage is a perfect knowledge of the signaia created so much interest that'a big

good, thing.

and other characteristics of the crowd gathered round the door of

"If I did not hold that view I "road," the results have been inter- the shop and completely blocked should not have attended. It is eating rather than conclusive. the road..

left to the audience and the referee

Enthusiasts have declared the Policemen, suspecting some-at such exhibitions to see that "King George V." to be capable of thing of a serious nature, were there is no brutality, and I saw hauling a heavy train at a hundred quickly on the scene. When they no brutality at all. If that fight miles an hour, which is nonsense. get through the crowd and found had been stopped earlier I think An immense amount of nonsense that the trouble was no more than Milligan would have had ahas, in fact, been written concern- a quarrel between two men, they grievance, because I have seen ing high railway speeds, and the Look the combatants to the police many a fight pulled out of the truth is that on the one hand no- station and charged them with fire. disorderly conduct.

FINED AND BOUND OVER.

Major C. Willson fined the men $2 each, this morning, and boun

them over in a personal bond of $25 each. to be of good behaviour for three months.

STOLEN PLIERS.

THEFT FROM HALS. FOXGLOVE.

?

EPIDEMIC OF FEMALE

SUICIDES.

EXTRAORDINARY STATISTICS FROM VIENNA,

Vienna According to newly published statistics. 247 suicides;

body knows the maximum speed which a locomotive can attain, while on the other hand, it would be unsafe to try to find out in, practice. Curves, junctions, and spoed restrictions on certain see- tions of line make it impossible to Met out an engine as a motor-car can be let out" on a racing track.

Suspicious Claims.

and 870 attempts at suicide were Actually, any claims of speeds in committed in 1926 by Viennese excess of ninety miles an hour are who had not yet reached their to be regarded with suspicion, al- thirtieth year. A quarter of those though short bursts of between A Chinese, who pleaded guilty persons were not evea twenty eighty-five miles an hour are at- to stealing a pair of pliers from years old, and two-thirds of those tained on our railways every day.

been ascer- Much of the exaggeration in re-. H.MS. Foxglove when the vessel were girls. It has was undergoing repairs in Taikos tained that every three hundredth gard to locomotive speeds da due Viennese woman between the to confusion between the maximum Docks about a month ago, was sentenced to three weeks" hard ages of sixteen and twenty either attained on a journey and the aver For instance, committed suicide or attempted age rate of travel. |labeur by Mr. R. E. Lindsell this There are cases of melan- the fastest expresses between Lon-

morning.

timed to cholia, unhappy love, family con-don and Brighton are Asked by the Magistrate how fiets, and frequently economic cover 50%1⁄2 miles in exactly sixty the man found his way on board reasons. The other day a servant minutes. But it takes some time the battleship, Sub-Inspector girl of scarcely fifteen left a letter to get up speed, allowance must be MacDonald stated that the man to her mistress asking her for-made for slowing down at the end was amongst a number of work-giveness for using up so much of the run, and speed restrictions men employed to do aundry repair gas in committing suicide, which are enforced at various points en ing jobs on, the boat. The pliers she did because she had forgotten route. Hence, the speed for the bore a certain mark which were to give the dog his meal. known only to the crew of the

Foxglove.

distance is actually in excess of. sixty miles an hour, while on cer- tain sections it la very much faster. Probably, the "King George V." Tenders are being called for could cover a few miles at the speed the pawnshop was fined $10 for the making of improvements and of a hundred miles an hour if ex- receiving stolen property.

The man who took the pliers to

alterations Station.

A resolution was passed at a further conference on auction bri dge at the Portland Club asking" all bridge

to Taipo Marketperiments were tried on a suitable

players to adopt HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?›

"majority calling" until October

track. But auch a track does not exist. According to tradition, an; engine driver on the old broad.; gauge Great Western Railway offer- ed to travel the hundred and twenty odd miles between London and 31. Clubs and bridge playing

Bristol within the hour "if the com- circles are asked to report to the Portland Club on or before that to-day's questions:-

The following are the replies to pany would look after his wife and children." The directors refused date giving their views of the 1. James 1, 2, from Calicut in India, to entertain this sporting offer, and trial. "Majority calling" means 4, 570: 6, Over twenty years, with 20,000 men we ehall never know whether thei whence it was originally Imported; 3. Yew: that a bid of a greater number of working: 0, An African. quadruped of the feat might have been accomplished. odd tricks ranks higher than a bid horse species, striped like the scura, but only

.we shall never

of Darnley: 10, Glathe, Lacheals, and Atropos: know the utmost that "King George

of a less number. For instance, "three clubs" overbids "twe trumpa.".

on the tread: 7 Xantippe: 8, Bit. I. Earl Similarly,

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churchyard of Staka Pogen Church near

12. Buckingham Palace, by Nash; 12. In the or her rivals is capable of

Slough, in Becka: 13, Blondin'; 14, Catharina | doing. Parr, Botilor.

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