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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 association with the Grand Hota!

Dea Wagons Lita, Peking.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms, newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and All Trams pass in front of Cold Water, aisa Telephone Hotel. Most Moderate Rates in the Colony.

Hotel launch meets all steamers.

Dining Room and Lounge now open to the Public.

TEA DANCES

MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, - 1927.

TOLL OF THE TYPHOON.

The above picture shows the damage caused by Saturday's typhoon to Des Voeux Villas, Mount Kellett, the Peak. The collapsed verandah.and the missing interior window speak

eloquently of the force of the storm.

6 to 7 p.m.

Tel. Add Victoria.

Telephone C.378,

J. H. WITCHELL,

Manager.

WILLIAM FOX PRESENTS

Elenore Meherin's novel

SANDY

SHE DEFIED LIFE'S - CONVENTIONS IN HER SEARCH FOR THRILLS

with MADGE BELLAMY HARRISON FORD LESLIE FENTON DAVID TORRENCE GLORIA HOPE CHARLES FARRELL

Scenario by

EVE UNSELL, from the story published in leading newspapers

HOTEL SAVOY

The Savoy is she outalading Botel

in Hongkong ad op of the appointed in deuth Chlon.

Oneal

HOTEL METROPOLE. HOTEL BOA VISTA.

22, Ice House Street.

Масло.

UNDER THE SAME MANAGEMENT.

KOWLOON HOTEL

PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON

Modern Toilet System.

Elevator and Telephones to each floor.

Smoking Room and Saloon Bar. First Class Billiard Table

-11

Recently renovated throughout.

Manager's Personal Attention

Tola, K. 668--609.

Cables KOWLOTEL. HONG KONG

Tel. Kowloon No. 8

PALACE HOTEL.

H. J. WHITE

Manager

11

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

Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietress.

EUROPE

After-dinner dancing every

Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Cables :-

"EUROPE"

Singapore.

HOTEL

SINGAPORE.

Grill

THE EUROPE HOTEL. LTD.

Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Director.

CALDBECK'S SHERRIES.

Montilla,

Amontillado,

Manzanilla,

Pale Gold,

Oloroso.

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & COMPANY, LIMITED. (Incorporated under the Hongkong Companies Ordinances 1811-1015.) Prince's Building (Ground floor.).

Ice House Street.

A supplementary order of the day subeldy of $60,000 and of an annual for a meeting of the Straits Legis- grant of $20,000 limited to 5 years, Iative Council notifies that the Co- in the first instance, to the Light lonial Secretary will move "That Aeroplane Club recently formed in this Council approves of an initial Singapore."

..

Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1' and B, Wyndham Street, In the City of Victoria, Hongkong.

There were two lives lost in the collapse of a recently-built house at Shamshuipo, shown above. Our photograph was taken the following day, after shoring had been erect- ed to protect the neighbouring house.

in the above picture.

The damage that was suffered by the Clubhouse of the Kowloon Cricket Club is seen Both the additions in front were wrecked, and holes can be seen in

the roof of the main building.

THE RICH GIRL FROM CANADA.

BRIDEGROOM'S CHANGE OF

HEART.

SOVIET EMBARGO ON A SHIP.

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

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

1. Our sun belongs to a system including 300.000.000 atare. But there zoem to be other systems beyond our stellar system. There 14 a minute black eye, about one-twenty-fifth of an inch in diameter, hidden in the mola's head. As an organ of sight a development has been arrested, and if it forme an image it must be a blurred one; nevertheless, the mole can use its eye to detect a moving object, and it is sensitive to light and sinde. 8. A supply of oxygen practically indispensable

FORMER "WHITE" VESSEL.

Moscow, Aug. 24. A jury, of whom two were wo! The Odessa District Court has men, In the Sheriff's Court at New-placed an embargo on the former port, Monmouthshire, awarded Soviet vessel inkerman, which it Miss Olive Winifred May Cook, is claimed was seized by White aged 20, £158 damages and costs Russians and sold to an Egyptian

to e. But some parasitic threadworms in in a breath of promise action company.-Reuter,

the food canal are living in a medium with practically no oxygen: they may set their against William Mathias Williams, aged 23, a farmer, of Redwick, A Moscow message of August 21 supply by some chemical reaction, or they may 2et all they need from the blood of thele hosts, Odessa District Accessory food-anbatances, minute la quan four miles from Newport, who tated: The

Virtually did not defend the action.

Court will shortly examine the tity, necessary for good health. claim of the Marine Administra-discovered by Sir F. Gowland Hopkins, famous Cambridge blo-chemist. Their chemical nature Counsel for Miss Cook said that tion for the return of the ex Soviet remains obscure. Ya, the duck-billed the marriage date was fixed, she Mercantile Fleet vessel Inkerman play anteater (echidna), of Australia, Tas- platypus, of Australia and Tasmania, and the left her employment as a shop According to the official Taes mania, and New Guinea. 6. On that part of assistant, and Williams's parents Agency, the Inkerman belonged to deg. Cantigrade. Below the margin of the gave up their farm and took an the Russian Black Sea Mercantile great solar furnace the temperature rises to other, so that the young couple Fleet and was taken by the White above a million degrees, and it increases to could go to live there. The cou-Guards when evacuating Odessa ple set about furnishing the farm, in 1920, and subsequently sold to And among the guests invited to the wedding were some relativen an Egyptian firm and renamed the from Canada, including a Miss Lilla Williams, a step-niece of Williams, who was to be a brides- maid.

Costi.

the sun visible to us the temperaturé la 0,000

about 43,500,000der. at the centre. 7. An in-

A young

barn or herediary zower of "doing things" without learning or Kpprenticeship

walden makes its web true to the characteris

Le pattern of its species the first time is teles.

This is initactive. as is most of the behavi- our of ante, bois, and wait. A kitten's bo haviour to a rose, at the age of about two months, la instinctive, but most of kitten's behaviour in based on intelligence. 8. If beast of prey means a member of the carnivore ordez European wessel hina a umaller and more

albino variety of the ordinary brown rat, In

In the sex cells before fertilisation. The eyes

average depth la 24 miles: the maximUJN 11, A FORD- lika foam occurring in summer an ZYARSEN, the result of the acilan' of young frog-hoppers.

Departures by 8.8. Empress of of mammals, the answer is the weasel. The They arrived three weeks be Russin yesterday, included Mr. courageous rival in the mouse weasel of North (fore the wedding day, and the day P. R. Austin, Captain. H. C. Barnes, America. 9. A white rat, for example, is an aftr their appearance Williams Miss M. Cressey, Mr. J. S. Aita Inheritance there has been lose of the looked to be very unhappy A Curreem, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Cough hereditary factors for pigment production. few days later he said to Miss Jen, Mr. A. W. Harper, Mias C. E. This lows comes about in the intricate changes Cook: "I am an a hell of a state," Hadnut, Mr. H. Kadoorie, Lieut. of albinos are pink, because the ral blood and confessed that he had fallen in Cel. and Mrs. E. W. Miller, Mr. and shines through an unpigmented iris. 10. The love with the bridesmaid from Mrs. L, Martin, Mr. D. M. Mc-denth is rather over six miles. Canada,

Phedran, Lieut. and Mrs. E. M. After the usual crying, said Powers, Mt. M. J. Quist, Miss R. counsel, they went on putting the Rosselet, Mr. H. W. Ray, and Mr. carpet on the stairs. A coolness and Mrs. D. Tollan. developed, and Williams said it was better to break off the engage- ment then than on the morning of the wedding, and that he had writ- ten to the Wesleyan minister tell- ing him that his services would not be wanted. -

insects that suck up the sweet map and whip into ther" by repested movements of

the body. "This "inther" also KREVER SEEN protection for the insect, which later in the year develope wings and Allen away, 12. · XL « m hundred printers" fali-miope are placed in con tact Je à row the combined length is shopt an inch and Sir Oliver Loday 'saya it would

At the meeting of the Straits used 260,003,000 atoms to stretch that length. Legislative Council last Monday the Colonial Socretary was to move: That this Gounell approves of an Further evidence was heard by Initial subsidy of $60,000 and of Mr. W: Schofield at the Kowloon "Perhaps," added counsel, "the

an annual grant of $20,000 limited fact that the now expectant bride to five years, in the first instance, Magistracy yesterday afternoon in from Canada was coming into a

to the Light Aeroplane Club recent the case in which a Chinese con- substantial dowry had somethingly formed in Singapore.

stable is being charged with mis- to do with Williams's change of

conduct. Other" witnesses were heart. His parents have retaken possession of their old farm,”

The King of the Serbs, Croates called, corroborating the complain. Miss Cook said she had ordered and Slovenes will probably visit ant's evidence and the case was the wedding cake and taken rooms London during September, at Burnham for the honeymoon.

again adjourned,

AT THE

QUEEN'S

HARRY BEAUMONT

PAODUCTION-.

THURSDAY to SATURDAY 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 and 9.20.

A Romance of the Spanish Main

When piratos sailed the Seas!

J. WARREN KERRIGAN ́

AT THE

Jean Paige and a Notable Cast In

APTAIN BLOOD

by RAFAEL SABATINI

WORLD

THURSDAY TO SATURDAY Orchestra at 5.10 and 9:20 Chinese Interpreter at 2.30 & 7.15

The picture starts promptly at the times advertised.

DANCE

MADNESS

AT THE

NOBODY knew her names

the gorgeous masked dan

o who was the sensation of

Paris!

But be played a startling rois in ́this brilliant plomes at a tan soď

a male who Charlestoned into mi thego," and then' discovered thele row Kdo we all out of step

DON'T MISS IT!

STAR

ROBERT Z

LEONARD'S production

CLAIRE WINDSOR sandCONRAD NÄGEL

Story by S. Jay Kaufman. Bernardo by Frederice

"Directed by Robert was b

Metro-Goldwyn

Mayer PICTURE

THURSDAY TO SATURDAY

Continuous from 2.30 to 11:15.