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HOTELS.

THE HONGKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL.

"KREMLIN, HONGKONG. Telegraphic Address:

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL.

Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL"

HOTELS.

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel Dea Wagons Lits, 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

Cold Water, also Telephone,

All Trams pass in front of Hotel.

Most Moderate Ratea in the Colony.

Hotel launch meets all steamers.

Dining Room and Lounge now open to the Public.

(825 for thirty Tiffin Ticketa can be had at the Office

of the above Hotel).

TEA DANCES

MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS

Tel. Add. Victoria.

5 to 7 p.m.

Telephone C.878. J. H. WITCHELL,

Manager.

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.

Manager's Personal Attention

Tel. K. 608-609.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

HONGKONG WAR LOAN.

A DRAWING OF BONDS,

Notice is given in the Govern- ment Gazette that pursuant to the provisions of the War loan Or dinance, 1916, a drawing of Bonds for redemption will take place on Monday, the 26th. September, 1927; at 10 am at the Colonial Treasury, when the following Bonds will be drawn:-

Series A of the nominal value of $100 each to the total nominal vaule of $25,600,

Series B of the nominal value of $500 each to the total nominal value of $118,500.

Series C of the nominal value of $1,000 each to the total nominal value of $406.00.

Series D of the nominal value of $5,000 each to the total nominal value of $855,000,

SHARE PRICES.

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

The following is the list of local share quotations issued to-day:

Banks

Hongkong Bank, $1075 b Chartered Bank, £20 n. Mercantile A. & B., 432 Mercantile C., £133 n. P. and O., £93 b. East Asia, $68 n.

Marine Ins.

Canton Ins, $590 s.

n

China Underwritors, $1.50 North China, Th. 143 n.. Union Ins., $2951 n. Yangtsze Ins., $40 b.

Fire Lus.

China Fires, $210 n. H. K. Fire Ins., $600

Shipping,

Douglases, $33 b.

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H K. Steamboats, $21 H: K. Tuge, $1.10 b. Indo-Chinae, (Pref.) $30 . Shell Trans, 92/- Star Ferries, $54.60 Waterboats, $17 n. Refineries.

China Bugars, $15 Malabons, $31

H. J. WHITE

Manager

Mining,

PALACE HOTEL.

Cables KOWLOTEL, HONGKONG

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. Terms moderate. Special terms to familles 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.

HARBOUR VIEW

GooD-FOOD-SERVICE-CLBANLINESS. Moderate Monthly and Daily Rates.

CARLES PERRYBURNS, Hongkung. Tels. K, 999 & 1.000.

W. H. Perry, Proprietor.

American

Express

Travelers Cheques

8.

b.

SATURDAY,

KUTWO OUTRAGE.

FIRED UPON FOR SEVEN MILES.

SEVERE DECK - DAMAGE.

The

SEPTEMBER 10,

PUBLIC OPINION. AROUSED.

(Continued from Page 1.)

in the wastes of the Atlantic- passengers should be forbidden. Money offered by passengers tempts pilots to take unnecessary Central China Post risks. I cannot bellove any pilot -Pas- publishes the following graphic really wants, a passenger. account of the journey made by laengers are in the way, and take the s.a. Kutwo, of Messrs. Jardine, up room which could be used for But more stringent tests were Matheson and Company's flect, fuel or wireless. which arrived at Hankow from Shanghai on August 30. The ac-greatly needed in view of the count, which comes from one of stupendous task of flying the the passengers, indicates the law-Atlantic. No machine should be allowed to start unless it had a lessness of the Southern troops in reasonable chance of reaching the other side. We had now, ha a striking way.

"At the very commencement of thought, reached the limit of hu- the journey there was a delay of man and mechanical endurance in some hours as the Chinese Na the present stage of aerial deve- tionalists had declared martial lopments. Pioneers of flying had conquerod the air by their courage law at Woosung in order to pre-and magnificent ongines. Science vent a repetition of the attack on must now step in, and teach us

the the Woosung Forts by

how to use the air. Northern navy. The delay was

Lord Thomson in conclusion ex- not important in itself but it led pressed the belief that the solution to the Kutwo arriving at Chin-of the Atlantic problem would be Klang after the convoy for the day reached with the airship rather had left, so about twenty-four than the aeroplane.-British Wire-

Bless. hours had to be spent there.

"During the night before the Kutwo reached Chinklang she had been compelled to anchor for a time. It seems that martial law. had been proclaimed at one point on the river, but instead of send- ing out a notice or letting a launch convey the order, the Southern military simply fred at the bridge of the steamer. The Captain had just stepped back under a sudden impulse when one of the shots crossed the bridge from end to u. end.

Benguots, $1.70 n. Kailans, 49/- b Langkats, Tis. $17 b S'hai Exploration, Tle. 3.15 b. Shanghai Loans, Tls. 6 b. Raubs, $4 b.. Tronous, 19/3 n." Ural Caspians, 5/- a.-

Docks, etc.

Kowloon Wharves, $114 b. Whampoa Docks, $35 n. Hongkews, Tla. 143 b New Engineerings, Tls. 4) b. Shanghai Docks Tis. 92 b

Lands, Hotels, etc.

11.

b.

b.

H. and S. Hotels, 6 H. K. Lands, $552 Realtys, $6. Territorials, $18. Humphreys, $12 Princes Bldgs, $95 b. Rural Lands, $11 n.

Cottons.

Ewo Cottona, Tis: 37.858

b. Orientals, Tls $1.50 S'bai Cottona, Tls $47 b.

Buses, Trams.

China Buses, Tls. 71. Tramways, $20 s

E,

Peak Trams, (old) $14 Singapore Trams, 12/6-"b." Taxis, $1 D.

Miscellaneous.

1,

Amusements, $20, n. Canton Ices, $5 f. Coments (Comb.) $78. China Lights, $121 China Prov. $4. Constructions, $148. Dairy Farms, $15.20 b. Der A. Wing, 36 n. H'kong Electrics, $53 Macao Electrics, $37 b. Ropes (Old) $10 n. Lane Crawfords, $5 s. Mackintosh, $22 Sinceros, 8

6.

FOUR BRITISH SOLDIERS STABBED.

one

FIGHT IN SHANGHAI CAFE.

Four British soldiers and Portuguese sailor were wounded in a cafe fight on North Szechuen Road, at Jukong Road, on Friday night. Later one of the British soldiers was reported to be in a "Late in the afternoon H.M.S.dangerous condition. Knives and i Ladybird arrived at Chfakiang fists were used freely in the battle, soldiers sustaining with the down-river steamers. It the British was at once obvious that she had stab wounds. been in action. Enquiries elicited the fact that the vessels under her care had been fired upon from both banks. She had replied with her six-inch guns as well as with her other equipment.

The Convoy

According to reports, several service men became involved in an argument over a dancing girl in Hot words were Mascot Cafe. passed and knives sald to have been drawn by Portuguese sailors. Before the fight ended police of Chapel took a hand. The British "The six vessels that bad as soldiers were outnumbered but de- sembled fell into line at six a.m.fended themselves as best they on Friday, expecting to leave un- could from their assailants.

The Mascot Cafe is in the heart der the care of the Ladybird But the start was delayed till HM.S. [of a section of the city where Witherington and Wolverine had numerous diaturbances have taken arrived and under this powerful place recently. escort the journey to Nanking was accomplished in quietness,

Why can a colt or a calf follow the herd 20 minutes after birth, while the human infant does not walk until ten or twelve months? Why does the new-born guinea- pig seem quite at home in the world while the rat is absolutely quea- helpless at birth? These tions were discussed (says the Literary Digest) by Dr. Louis Casamajor in a recent New York address on "The Nervous Sys- by the

"In the course of the day three Chinese fisherman were seen float ing down stream on a wrecked boat, The Imperialistic Wither- ington at once altered her course and intercepted the wreckage from which she hauled the fisher- men. They came from a village on the river bank and later in the day the Witherington stopped in her course while British blue- jackets rowed the shermen back to their home. Good old navy ltem," summarised as follows in a Fired at one day and returning Press bulletin issued good for evil on the next.

American Association for Medical

だって! mammals, Progress: In Seven Exciting Miles.

speaker said, the various path-. "Leaving Chinkiang without ways of the nervous system do not escort the Kutwo soon left the develop at the same time. Some of these tracts appear as fully other five vessels behind. All went well till she was seven miles developed long before the birth of the animal, while others may not below Wuhu a little before mid- develop until after birth. Whe night. She was near the South the fibre tracts in the central bank which is pretty high at that nervous system are completely point. Without the least warning, developed, each fibre is surround- soldiers on his bank began to freed by a sheath of specialised steadily at the saloon deck and fatty substance called myolin. the firing was continued with one Investigators have found that the brief lull, for fifty minutes, guinea-pig, which seems able to Soldiers in boats joined in the at- take care of itself at birth, has ite full complement of myelin tack.

The Captain took no time to when born, and that the rat, which dress but dashed to the bridge in has no reactions at birth, has no his bare feet. The steamer put myelin in its central nervous full speed, expecting every system at birth. The develop minute to get out of the dangerment of fibre tracts of mammals zone. But the troops were beat is seldom complete at birth, and. on murder and for seven miles all fibre tracts do not myelinate the firing was taken up by squad at the same time. after squad.

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"It is understood that as the The passengers behaved splen- didly. The conduct of the women result of this dastardly attack,

other and children was splendid, though which probably included the patter of the bullets on the vessels, the convoy system will bą plating and the crash as shots extended and steamers will move came within the defences was un-in daylight and anchor at night nerving. In all about fifty-six under escort. bullets reached the roof or the "The passengers are all deeply aldes of the saloon and cabins, os sensible of the heroic efforts for the height from which the shots their safety made by the Captain were fired enabled a large number and his staff and rejoice that this to pass above the plating.

Juurderoue onslaught has not ro- aulted in any injury to them. "Through Four Walls.

Slangwo Badly Damaged, "Besides shots which buried Evidently whetted by the dast way they fired on the themselves in the ice chest, and ardiy

the Southern-forces in the saloon door, and dented the Kutwa life-boats, a particularly vicious stationed below Wuhu concentrat bullet went through the wooden ed still further energy on an at- wall Into the ladles' bathroom, out tack on 8.8. Slangwo which was. Into the corridor, through both following and for an hour and a was made the aides of the ventilating shaft and half the steamer into the ceiling over the men's target of massed riflemen on both bathroom.. That bullet missed a banks of the river. Last night Rusting war relica belonging lady passenger by a foot.

when she came into port she bore, to Edinburgh, comprising guns

"It is understood that the 8.8, ample evidence of the determined presented to the city after the Siangwo will have an even more effort of the soldiery to obtain Boer War and the Great War, are serious story to tell, as she relles casualties, for there was hardly a to go. A labour motion was sub- on the steel walls of her cabins window whole while such things as mitted to a Lord Provost's "Sub- and not on plates Axed outside ventilators and funnel casing, THE AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., INC. Committee by Chancellor Hardio, with the result the bullets fired which are made of thinner metal,

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proposing the removal of all guns, from the high bank would smash were amply perforated. The deck tarika, and similar souvenirs whith the cabin windows and place the houses on the Slangwo are of were presented to the city follow-passengers in jeopardy.

steel construction, but this left ing the two wars. After diaeus- "On the Kutwo the only person the decks open. It was therefore sion, the Sub-Committee agreed to hit was a Chinese tallyman whose most fortunate that no casualties should be disposed of immediate of bullet. He is getting on all were counted on the bridge and recommend that the trophies back was cut open by a splinter resulted, for no less than 67 hits

ly.

right

promenade decka.

AT THE

QUEEN'S

were

JACK HOLT · KATHRYN WILLIAMS NOAH BEERY BILLIE DOVE

TO-DAY ONLY 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 and 9,20.

ADOUN ZUROR AND JEDBE LIABKY MALE.

ZANE GREY'S

Wanderer

of the

Wasteland"

IRVIN WILLAT production

'ANE GREY'S famous story.

Filmed in the original settings and all in colours. A superb picture.

a Paramount Picture

natural

MADE ENTIRELY IN NATURAL COLORS/

ALSO-

AT ALL PERFORMANCES TO-DAY

THE BROADWAY FOLLIES

Complete Change of Programme including

The

FOLLIES SPECIAL [Performances begin promptly at the times advertised.]

USUAL ORICES EXCEPT AT 2.30 & 7.15

HEYA GIBSON

HEY!

AT THE

COWBOY

WORLD

WITH

GRETA NISSEN BESSIE LOVE

#A

MONTA

BELL

PRODUCTION

AT THE

STAR

TO-DAY at 5.15 & 9.20 ONLY A$ 2.30 & 7.15 Chinese Love Drama

(Second Part).

ADOLPHE MENJOU,

IN

HIS LATEST COMEDY

THE KING ON MAIN STREET

a Paramount Picture

TO-DAY ONLY Continuous from 2.30 to 11.15%