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HOTELS.

THE

HONGKONG

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

AND -'

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALAGE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL.

Telegraphie Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAI,”

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, newly renovated and Installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and

Cold Water, also Telephone.

All Trama pass in front of Hotel.

Most Moderate Rates in the Colony.

Hotel launch meets all steamers.

Dining Room and Lounge now open to the Public.

($25 for thirty Tin Tickets 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.373: J. H. WITCHELL,

Manager.

HOTEL SAVOY

Comfort, Couronner, 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

Tals. K. 608--609.

Jabloв KOWLOTEL HONGKONG

Tel. Kowloon No. 8

H. J WHITE

Manager

PALACE HOTEL.

Tel. Address "PALACE." Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station- Entirely, under English Management. Electric Light and Fans throughout. and Billiard-Rooms. Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar Harivalled 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.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1927.

THE KING AS A YACHTSMAN.

AN ICE-CREAM SCARE AT HOME.

200 VICTIMS OF POISONING EPIDEMIC.

TRAIL OF INFECTION.:

Poisoning by ice-cream sold from a hawker's cart is believed to have bean the causo of a serious | epidemic which has occurred in and close to Bath.

More than 200 persona, mostly children, are affected, and one. child has died. Threa serious cases were taken to Bath Hospital last month, and six more later, but no further deaths are expected.

The trail of infection stretches. from West Twerton, a suburb of Bath on the road to Bristol, through the villages of Weston, Corston, Saltford, Willsbridge, and Bitton to Keynsham, seven milea

away.

The outbreak is most serious at Keynsham, where there are more than 100 cases. There are twenty victims at Bitton,, 28 at Corston, and '30 at West Tiverton, where the only death, that of a little girl of B, has occurred.

So far as can be ascertained (says the Daily Express) all the victims ate ice-cream from the same source. Other persons also ate ice-cream without suffering any ill effects.

Cases began to occur on Friday, evening. Sickness was the first symptom, and this was followed by drowsiness and high tempera-

ture.

Ice-Cream Responsible, Immediately the outbreak began to assume alarming proportions, the medical officers in the aren were notified, and they proceeded to make investigations. Their

inquiries

The King spent every day of his recent stay at Odwes, wet or fine, on board his yacht Britannia. H.M. treats this as hia one real holiday in the year and is nover so happy as when he is taking the wheel of his cutter in the breeze in the Solent.

HANKOW EXODUS.

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all point to the conclusion that the ice-cream was responsible... cing the sale of Hatamen cigarettes The child who died was Olive and pointing out that this cargo Irene Watts, daughter of the was imported and had so dam- lodge-keeper at the Mill House, aged the sale of Nanking Brother's Tiverton.

products, that the latter com- Mr. and Mrs. Watts said that pany could no longer afford to their child visited Keynsham on give them even coppers daily while Friday, where she had a half- the B.C.C. factories remained penny ice-cream cornet at about closed eight o'clock at night.

L

Three persons in one household for a big mass meeting to be held These workmen are agitating are seriously ill and two in an sometime this week with the ob other. Two policemen ate some ject of commencing an official boy- of the ice-cream One became

cott against B.A.T. sales until such ill and the other did not.

Dr. Blackett, Medical Officer of time as they open their factories on the workers' terms. According Health for Bath, stated that the County Council authori-to reports the Nanyang Bros. are taking but little interest in the ties are investigating the epidemic proceedings, and such agitators as and are in touch with the Ministry were out trying to rouse public of Health.

opinion and press "upon the

In the city itself there are about coclies the necessity of ceasing to thirty cases, he continued, and handle cargo that was being used they are entirely confined to the to take away the food of the work- west and Tiverton. So far as ers' met with a rather cold re- We are aware all are known to have coption." eaten ice-cream from a particular supply on Friday,

The symptons are similar in each case chiefly gastro-enteritis, vomiting and diarrhea. Some of the cases are very severe, others only mild. I do not think that there are going to be any. more deaths, and I have no reason to believe that there will be any re- petition of the trouble..

There is no suggestion that it is botulism-a more serious thing but rather some sort of bacterial poisoning. That, how- ever, is merely a theory.

It is impossible to obtain any Pamples of the ice-cream for analysis, but Mr. Watts, the sanitary inspector for the urban district of Keynsham states that samples of the contents of the stomachs of affected persons have been sent to Bristol and to Weston- super-Mare for analysis.

source

Not Chemicals Used.

The

from which the suspected ice-cream was supplied has been stopped as a precaution.

The maker and vendor of the suspected ice-cream stated that he had made and gold ice-cream for twenty years, with the exception of the "period from 1914, when he was serving in the Navy.

"No chemicals whatever," he said, "were used in its manufacture, and I have never had a complaint about the ice-cream, which has been made all along in the same conditions. The ingredients us? are Grade A new milk, new-laid es, corn-flour of a well-known brand, and vanilla flavouring. I have been doing the same country round ever since I came back from the war.

While a number of people in my own village have become ill, many others ate some of the same cream and arò quite well.

He and his wife are much up- set at the misfortune which has befallen them. The making of ice-cream la their only means of livelihood.

The Brighton Town Council has decided to place a tablet on the walls of the Royal Crescent Hotel

STOP PRESS.

JAPANESE TYPHOON

DISASTER.

Osaka, Sept. 14. The combination of a terrific gale, torrential rain and a tida} wave in Tuesday morning's typhoon created havoc in western: Kiushiu, particularly in the prefectura of Kuina- moto, and part of the prefec-.. ture of Fukuoka,

Partial reports show that 780 houses were washed away, and 2,000 were inundated, of which 76 collapsed.

There were 270 casualtiès and over 1,000 people are iniasing.

In the city of Kumamoto the electric, gas and water ser- vices have broken. down and there were no street cars or newspapers this morning.

"I

A coastvilläger survivor of the tidal wave narrates that at ten o'clock yesterday morn- ing amid a raging typhoon the. Hea rose mountain high. barely had time to climb up a' tree on an embankment with my wife and children but a tremendous billow tore them. away. Similarly, wave swallowed more than thirty other villagers.

Railways, telephones and telegraphs. are interrupted in many places but repairs are being pushed most energe tically Reuter.

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SHARE PRICES.

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.",

1.

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

Banke.

Hongkong Bank, $1090 b. Chartered Bank, £204 »n. Mercantile A. & B., £32 n. Mercantile C., 413%

P. and O., 91.b. East Asia, $68 m.

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ALLAN DIVAN

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with ROD LA ROCQUE

and

RICARDO CORTEZ

AT THE

QUEEN'S

Paramon

Picture

TO-DAY ONLY

2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20.

MARSHALL NEILAN'S

PRODUCTION,

Wild Oats

Lane

Canton. Ine, $590 B. China Underwriters, $1.50 n. North China, Tis. 143 "Union Ine., $193 n.

Yangtze Ins., $41 b.

Fire Ins.

Chia Fires, $210 b

H. K. Fire Ins., $600 8.

.Shipping.

Douglases, $33 b.

H K. Steamboats, $21 s. H E. Tugs, $1 15 sa. Indo-China, Pref.) $30 n Sholl Trans., 92/- 0.

b. Star Ferries, $14.60 Waterboats, 317 n. Refineries.

China Sugare, $15 a Malabous, $21

Mining.

9.

Benguets, $1,70 n. "Kailans, 49/- b.

Langkats, Fla. $171 b. S'hai Exploration, Tls. 3.15.b. Shanghai Loans, Tis. 64b. Raubs, $4. b.

Tronohs, 19/3 n. Ural Casians. 5/-n.

Docks, etc. Kowloon Wharves, $114f Whampoa Docks, $35. a. Hongkews, Tls. 141 X. Div. New Engineerings, Tle. 41 B. Shanghai Docks Tie, 92

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Lands, Hotels, etc.

H. and S. Hotels, 6} H. K. Lands, #55) Realtys, $6. m Territorials, $1 a. Humphreys, $12 b. Princes Bldga, $95 b. Rural Lands, $1 n.

Cottons.

Ewo Cottons, Tle. $7.65 b Oriontals, Tis $1.50 S'hai Cottons, Tis $47 n.

Buses, Trams. China Buses, TIs.. 7° 11, Tramways, $20 ʼn, Peak Trams, (old) £14 Singapore Trame, 12/6. b. Taxis, $1.

B.

Miscellaneous. Amusements. · $20 n. Canton Icos, $5 71. Cemente Comb: $7 s China Lights, . $121. b. China Prov., $4_n. Constructions, $17, a. Dairy Farms, $15 b Der A. Wing, 86, n' H'kong Electrics, 453 Macao Electrios, $37. b.: Ropes Old, $10 n.

. Lane Crawfords, $5 · ́s. Mackintosh, $22 - ́n - Sinceres, 8

United Abertos, $128 Watsons $111

Powells, 85 Telephone 3.70

AT THE

WORLD

WITH

VIOLA DANA

ROBERT AGNEW

AND-

TO-DAY

At 5.15 and 9.20 only

At 2.30 & 7.15:-Chinese Love Drama (Second Part),

b.

DOUGLAS

MACLEAN

GED.M.COHANS GREATEST COMEDY

b.

THEY told?" him not a soul

could enter- jand seven villains had.

keys!

A delightrul comedy with all the ele- ments of an exciting my- stery play.

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KEYS TO BALDPATE

STAR

TO-DAY ONLY

Continuous from 2:30 to 11:15