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ADOEPH ZUKOR ANY ŻEBLE LIABLY PRESTME

ZANE GREY'S

Wanderer

of the Wasteland

JACK HOLT J IRVIN WILLAT próduction

· KATILYN WILLIAMS --

KOA BEERY

BILLIE DOVE

ZANE GREY'S famous story.

Filmed in the original natural castings and all in

colours. A superb picture.

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HOTELS.

THE

HONGKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL Tolographic Address:- "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL;"

MAJESTIC HOTEL

Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAI"

HOTELS.

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel

Das Wagons Lits, Peldag.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

Most Modern and Contral Hotel in the Colony, all Bed RooMTIA, newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone.

All Trams pass in front of Hotel.

Most Moderate Rates in the Colony,

Hotel launch meets all steainers.

Dining Room and Lounge now open to the Public.

($25 for thirty Tiffin Tickets can be had at the Office,

of the above Ilotel)..

TEA DANCES

MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS

5 to 7 p.m.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER

51927.

ATLANTIC AIR TRAGEDY FEARED.

It. feared that Lloyd Bertand: (right) and James D.

Hill (left) have perished, with Journalist passenger, in the Atlantic.

Latest news

"Page 1.

AT THE

Tel. Add. Victoria.

Telephone C.373. J. H. WITCHELL,

Mannger.

NEW SPIRIT OF EMPIRE.

-

MYSTERY MONK OF LONDON.

HOTEL SAVOY

Comfort, Convenience and Distinction.

HOTEL METROPOLE HOTEL BOA VISTA.

22, Ice House Street.

Macao.

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.

Recently renovated throughout.

;

visit

AUSTRALIAN FINDS A

CHANGING ENGLAND.

of the value of Empire trade, reciprocity, and co-operation.

"Newly-Awakened”

APPEAL FOR OLD "CLOSE.””

THIEVES WORK WHEN LOCKED IN.

£1,600 POST OFFICE HAUL.

"London, Aug. 15.

By breaking through an 8-inch "Be a sport, in the name of Speaking at a luncheon given in his honour by the Lord Mayor of God." This strange appeal is brick wall and burning through cash and Newcastle, New South Wales Sir written above a collecting box a sheet of thick steel, a gang of Cicorge Pearce said that when he which stands on a table outside a burglars have stolen. was last in Great Britain, at the lingy house in the Vauxhall stamps worth £1,600 from a Lon- dan post office safe which stood end

of the war, the people of Bridge-road.

Food is requested and old fin full view of passing policemen Austriala had a wider and fuller conception of Empire citizenship lose" ends another notice during the hours of their opera- than the people of Britain. He had "close" no doubt being meant for tions.

This ingenious robbery was been most impressed on his present "clothes"--and A further notice

tremendous ppeals for work for a sixty-year-carried out during the holiday the to hote growth, in the interval, of the ld woman who, it is claimed, is period last month, at the sub-post consci-the wife of a clergyman, and was office in the premises of Messrs. English people's Empire ousness, and of their realisation rescued from the Embankment Allen and Donaldson, Ltd., print- recently. The appeals are sign-ers, In Maraham-street. West- B. F. Francis, S. of P. short mister, S.W., and was discovered for "Servant of the Poor."

only when the office was opened There is behind these oddly yesterday.

arrived they When officials worded and ill-spelled notices the "I am most confident." Sistory of one of those strange, found that the padlock on the George went on, "that this newly-fantastic figures that from time door could not be opened by tho awakened spirit of Empire con to time appear in the streets of usual key. Although resembling of migraLondon. This one is a tall young the padlock put in position on sciousness in matters tion and trade is no mere passingman who dresses as a monk and Saturday, it was a substituted one. phase. It will stay and it willys that he is a member of the The door-lock had apparently been develop ridely. Australia has order of the Irish Franciscans. picked.

an object of considerable

Nicely Calculated. much to learn regarding migration. He PALACE HOTEL

Certain Australians believe that curiosity in the neighbourhood,

When they entered the office the Tel. Address "PALACE.": it is possible and advisable to and tells a strange quixotic story.

A Day Express representative safe behind the counter; looked Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station.ahut out migrants and goods. Entirely, under English Management, Electric light and Fans throughout. The majority of Australians, how-found hid in an untidy front room perfectly normal, and there i

that policefhen Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms.

which was littered, with papers burned over it the light which Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. ever, do not share this view!

"Nothing is better calculated to and an odd assortment of old had been left so

might gaze into the shop at night Terms moderate. Special terms to familica on application to:

prevent the spread of these perni-lothes. A pair of boots and cious doctrines and encourage pair of silver dance shoes reposed and see that all was well.

An examination of the premises more vigorous migration than the on the piano.

"You must excuse the untidi- showed that the back of the safe realisation by Australians of the: British people's determination to ness," he said, "but I am just try.had been cut put, and all its valu- help Australian development bying to find some clothes for this able contents removed.

Manager's Personal Attention

Tola K. 608-609. Cables KOWLOTEL, HONGKONG

Tol Kowloon No. 8

H. J. WHITE

Manager

Mrs. J. II, OXBERRY, Proprietress.

Cables :-

EUROPE

After-dinner dancing every

Tuesday, Thursday

and Saturday.

** EUROPE"

Singapore.

HOTEL

SINGAPORE.

Grill

THE EUROPE HOTEL. LTD.

Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Director..

HARBOUR VIEW

Goou--Foop-Service-OfBANLINESH.

Moderate Monthly ami Daily Rates.

CARLES PERRYBURNS, Hongkong. Tux. K. 990 & 1.000.

W. H. Perry, Proprieter,

CALDBECK'S SHERRIES.

Montilla,

Amontillado,

Manzanilla,

Pale Gold,

Oloroso.

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & COMPANY, LIMITED. (Incorporated under the Hongkong Companies' Ordinances 1311-1916.)

Ico House Street. Prince's Building (Ground Dior.)

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

the encouragement of marketing pour her products in Britain."

AIR SURGERY."

"AMBULANCE 'PLANES

middle-aged A woman." woman was busy trying on bright green jumper.

a

On

away.

The safe stands against a brick wall which divides the post office from the printing works behind. By means of accurate calculations "Father Francis found me

had made a hole the Embankment last night," she the thieves. said. "He gave me food and told through the brick wall exactly at me to go to Cecil House but they the back of the safe, which had

to been almost entirely cut were full up. Then I went another hostel, but they charged apparently by some kind of acid.

Immediately over the safe in 10d. a night, and I had only 5d. in my pocket, so I came here, and the wall between the post office Father Francia gave me a room" and the printing works is a win- The Rev. B : Francis, as he dow, and it is presumed the bur- styles himself, said that he came glars worked by day, as any light Designs are being prepared for to Londen three months ago with used, in their laborious operations an aeroplane ambulance for milli C100 in his pocket. He took the might have been seen shinig

Wash and Brush Up.: tary and civil cases in the Em house in Vauxhall Bridge-road through it. pire's outposts. The plane will and let off part to pay the rent, The police on duty in Marsham- be equipped with a folding table, but retained two rooms as refuge built in the fuselage, "a basin, dh for London's "down-and-outs." struments, and hot water, enabling

PLANNED.

London, Aug. 15.-

a surgeon and two assistants to

"LABOUR CLUB" RAIDED.

"

street are in the habit of examin ing the padlock on the door. It is thought, therefore, that after the burglars had broken" in

carry out operations while the In the Paris Appeal Court, the through the front door a con- 'plane is moving at a speed of 150 hearing, began recently of the federate locked them in, using a miles an hour. At that speed it appeal of Captain Vivian Strand-padlock of the same type as that would be more stable than a shipers, a former officer in the British on the door, brought specially for in a heavy sea.*

Army, who was sentenced in the purpose.

After removing the cash and the Four hundred and fifty h.p. March last by the Paris Correc- Napier Lion engines will be fitted, tional Court to two years' impri- postage, unemployment, and in- also silencers, as soon as an effec- sonment and Shed 1,000 francs on surance stamps from the safe the tive type is available.

a charge of espionage. It was thieves polished their shoes and alleged that the ex-official, who washed their hands. left the Army after service on the British aviation section of the Inter-Allied Mission of Control in Germany, and who had become agent for aviation firms, had been In communication with a Dr Weber of the German Espionage Service: Documents concerning French military aeroplanes and tanks were, apid to have been com- municated-to Dr. Weber in return On Tuesday afternoon at for £75. The defence was that o'clock, a posse of Chinese and the information asked by and European detectives arrived at the given to Dr. Weber was purely of Nanyang Tobacco Company's a business, character, and did not Workers Club, Bowrington Canal, concern any French military se and raided the whole premises. crets. The trial continues.... ju After a thorough search a box was taken back to the Police

MORE THAN 2,000 BADGES SEIZED.

:

camera.

Station and in it were found 20 par- HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW? cels of badges, containing about 2,000 badges altogether. It is said that the clerk. of the club and a servant were taken into custody, but later released

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