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MEMORIALS

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C. E. WARREN & Co., Ltd.

CHINA BUILDING,

RUSSIANS

TEL. C. 269.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

FOUNDED LAW SATURDAY,

23,276

FOUND GUILTY.

CHARGE OF STIRRING UP AGITATION.

EFFECT OF THE

ACTION.

FENG HAS A

SET-BACK.

AMERICAN LEGION HONOURED.

FRANCE PROCLAIMS A HOLIDAY.

SEPTEMBER

BRITISH PLUCK.

A DUBLIN-NEW YORK FLIGHT.

17,

$ PER ANNUM

1927. BRING COPY 10 CENTS

VICE STILL TO BE TOLERATED.

FRENCH AND JAPANESE CAUTIOUS.

ENGLISHWOMAN'S APPEAL.

Geneva, Sept. 16. Warnings not to proceed

too

OLDSMOBILE for 1928.

First shipment is due to arrive on Septem- All of ber 18- President Cleveland." this shipment is sold-on view at our premises for a few days only. Early Inspection is cprutally invited.

THE DRAGON MOTORCAN CO., LTD.

Telephone Central 1346 or 1347. 53. Wong Nei Chung Road,

Happy Valley.

Bulls and Inners

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From the Office Butts.

Sir Thomas Beecham is planning

There were very high tides last

for wireless enthusiasts to hear week but fortunately the giris

If were suitably clothed. opera at two pence a week.! they want to see.it, we expect the

price will still be a guinea a box.

ᄆᄆ Mr. Henry Ford has purchased

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Say it with brakes and save on. the flowers.

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START MADE IN. RAIN. WAR MEMORIES REVIVED.

London, Sept. 16, Captain Mackintosh and Com. Cherbourg, Sept. 16. Owing to the American Legion mandant FilzMaurice have hopped swiftly in the abolition of maisonsvermillion acres of Brazil. "Phonographs "with a soul" are BRITISH NAVAL making an exception in holding its off in a Fokker monoplane for tolerees were made in the League he rumour that he really intends now being advertised. We wish

annual national convention this

were equipped with a heart. - year in Paris, the French Govern-Trans-Atlantic flight from Dublin. Committee discussing social vice, to produce spare nuts for flivvers some of their owners in Kowloon Captain Mackintosh is an Im after Dame Ethel Lyttleton, on is entirely without foundation.

The Kandy Kids will be selling ment has proclaimed Sentember: 19 a national holiday in honour of the perial Airways pilot, and Com- behalf of Britain, had appealed

The weather is coming when Divinity Brittle at Lee Gardens. visit.

mandant FitzMaurice is a Compassionately to the Assembly to Headed by General Pershing, mandant of the Irish Free State recommend the strongest repres- men will get stout in the Clubs next week. Veritas says it always

sive legislation next year.

What about forming a Girth, Con- WAS, former commander of the American Air Force.

The French spokesman said that trol Society? Their monoplane is named the Expeditionary Force, the list con- tingent of over 18,000 Legionaries "Princess Xenia," and has a nine-France was striving to abolish arrived at Cherbourg,to-day, aboard cylinder Bristol-Jupiter 550 horse- licensed houses, but too precipitate the liner Leviathan, convoyed by power engine. It carries a rubber action, would develop clandestine hauling their collar bones.

The Japanese spokesman de- We are a democratic people. see: "Unruly Scene in Council: nry of the war time conveys, the wireless.

clared that the Governors of some two American destroyers. In mem-boat, but it is not equipped with vice.

Vote." American troopships were wel-

It started from Dublin at 1.36 Japanese provinces had already The Peak tram brings everyone Unofficial Member Demanda A

down to the same level.

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Pedder necessary to

Mental telepathy must have around These cars camed with the booming of salutes ing and droning of aéropianes, and Atlantic conditions were reported it WAS

So are been a great success at the Kow- prudently and cautiously-Reuter. The men to be favourable.

Street are pretty thick.

loon Cricket Club last Saturday some of the drivers. enthusiastic cheering.

Captain Mackintosh said he was

since beer was served out to the had a civic reception, and then en-steering direct for Newfoundland, marched to the town hall, were they

troops. and expected to make New York in

O D trained for Paris.--Reuter.

26 hours.Reuter.

Thera will soon be a boom in yachts in Hongkong.

The preliminary trial of a number of Rusians who were arrested in the raid, by Chang Tso-lin's orders, on the Russian Embassy at Peking, some months ago, has concluded, all being found guilty of stirring up agitation in China. They are being sent up for trial by a higher court,

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Owing to the successful action by British Naval men in safe guarding junks and hulks belonging to British companies, on the Yangtze, there is a slight indication of anti-British feeling at the places affectel. On the other hand, the situation at Chungking is normal, and British property there which had been under Chinese guards is reported to be almost intact.

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Paris Celebrates."

Fliers Are Confident. Paris. Sept. 16. A thunderous greeting awaited

London, Sept. 16. He was wel-

Captain Mackintosh and Com- The Nanking Conference has eliminated a number of Communists General Pershing.

Petain and Gouraud, in a back-mandant FitzMaurice started on a and besides these it is stated that certain prominent men are outcomed by M. Painleve. Generals of the Kuomintang political arena for the time being, including ground of flags and soldiers in trans-Atlantic flight at half-past- There is apparently a possibility of the session uniform, popular shouts and bands one this afternoon, from Baldonnel

playing American patriotic airs. Aerodrome, Dublin.. Chiang Kai-shek. removing from Nanking to Shanghai.

There is not very much news of war activities, but a report suggests that Feng Yu-hslang has had a set-back, his forces having to evacuate two towns recently occupied.

KUOMINTANG LEADERS

Peking, Sept. 16.

RETIRE.

Labour conditions are normal The preliminary trial of fiteen and coal and provisions are avail- Russians arrested in the Embassy able from contractors.. raid in March concluded yester

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The principal streets were illum- inated and there was dancing all night long in the public squares.

Reuter.

UNNECESSARY SCARE IN LONDON.

HARMLESS "BOMB" IN THE UNDERGROUND.

A LEAGUE PLAN FOR PEACE.

FRENCH DELEGATE'S

SCHEME.

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how Rugger players are

O O The M.C.L. are sending a trunk over call for White Elephants,

A headline. we never expect to

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Newcomer: No, derbys are not

worn in Hongkong until Decem- ber 16.

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In spite of recent Canton shoot- ings, Hongkong is too crowded.

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Sir Harry has accepted the Frec- McWhirter dom of Edinburgh.

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In a recent Police Court case, the defendant being charged with

"squeeze," the charge was pressed.

C.N.C.-Can Now Continue.

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After sitting next to McWhirter says he is welcome to all he can Geneva, Sept. 16.

for a session at poker. we are get of it including the right to sit A comprehensive plan for ap-inclined to the belief that a for- in the Gardens on a Sunday.

Mussolini has been invested proaching the disarmament protune awaits the man who invents by way security a pipe capable of consuming its

with the order of the White Despite the recent disastery to blem

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Elephant. The Socialists feel like waiting at Baldonnel for eleven Disarmament Committee by M

Having disposed of the Budget, that about him too. Atlantic fliers, they have been guarantees, was submitted to the own smoke. days, determined to start as soon Paul Boncour (France), firstly pro- as better conditions were reported Viding for the rapid convocation Hongkong's next pressing need of the Council in the event of an will be heavy underwear" that over the Atlantic. Their aero-

international crisis; secondly pro- doesn't itch.

២. plane, the "Princess Xenis," is Aviding that each Power should be Fokker monoplane. It has no assured of collective aid being "Half a Loaf" and "Fallen wireless apparatus, but carries a organised by the League, because Angels" sound not unlike the rubber boat, with two paddles. such action would tend to prevent recipe for a delicacy on horse- The machine is capable of carry war and eventually protect the back! ing 701 gallons of petrol, and can victim of aggression; and thirdly atay in the air for 41 hours. It the conclusion has a range of 3,977 miles. It is fitted with a Bristol-Jupiter engine of 510 maximum horsepower, and

Captain Mackintosh has had has a speed of 125 miles an hour. great experience as a flier, having crossed the English Channel more times than any other pilot.. recently completed eight years ser- vice on the Loudon-Paris route. His companion, Commandant Fitz Maurice, is an officer in command of the Irish Free State Air Force Discussing his chances of suc

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According to the Gazette, there are, 25 churches in the Colony of arbitration We notice that Fenucci and where weddings may be celebrat- agreements with the object of Divinity will be present at the ed. Man has small chance now- creating mutual confidence among "Fun O' The Fair." Awfully sweet days to avoid trouble.

0 0 Grilles are to be abolished on all the States, and also systematic of them. articles of the Covenant, and mak- The "White Elephant Stall" is 'ships, but the pirates will still ing the terms of the Protocol more preparation to enforce the various

call it a "Jumbo" Sale?

Apparently the greatest fun o' clastic in order to permit the quite an original idea, but why not have a stake in the business. signatories obligations- proportionately with The Chila Mail enunciates the the fair will be with the dark.

O D the ties uniting the various nations principle that it is as well to be

The only part of a meal that This merely prove's that the writer customers got at the Parisien last According to geographical situa- hung for a sheep as a lamb." tion.-Reuter,

doesn't care a hang for correct week-end was a desert.

to determine their

Londen, Sept. 16. What was thought to be a bomb, British property at Lungmenbao

tundel of the Underground rail- day, all being found guilty of has been in the care of a Chinese was found during the night in a agitating to produce internal dis- guard which, it is reported, is way near the Temple station.

leaving to-day. The Naval Can- Upon examination by the police, it was discovered to be nothing turbance in China.

for very come teen is intact except

more dangerous than a tin con- The prisoners will now

of black Įtaining one ounce before the High Procurate Court. minor damage.

Tang Sheng-chi was returned magnesium powder, which is used -Reuter.

for flash-light photography...

Reports that the tin contained Communists at Puchiko are rea charge fuse are denied, and the ported to have, defeated troops suggestion published in certain sent out to deal with an outbreak.newspapers that an attempt had cess the other day, Capt. Mackin SEVERAL MISHAPS. been made to blow up the tunnel tosh said, "We shall not be fool- -Nuval Wireless.

by Sacco and Vanzetti sym-harily. The whole of the flight pathisers is accordingly shown to which we propose to make has be unfounded--British Wireless. been properly organised. Our ma- chine will definitely do the range. We have full confidence, in our engine, and personally I have the fullest confidence in my own abili- ties in conjunction with Comman-

ANTI-BRITISH FEELING.

Congress at Shanghai? '

Wuhu, Sept. 16.

The frustration of the attempt to commandeer junks attached to British firms has resulted in slight anti-British feeling.

It is rumoured that the big con- ference between the Wuhan aud Nanking parties will be held at Shanghai instead of Nanking. Naval Wirelesa.

An Official Departs."

Chinklang, Sept. 16. The Commissioner for Foreign Affairs has left for Shanghai Naml Wireless.

CHUNGKING NORMAL

British Property Safe.

Chungking, Sept. 16.

FENG'S SETBACK.

Two Towns Evacuated.

Peking, Sept. 16. According to reliable foreign reports from Honan, General Feng Yu-hsiang has evacuated Kaifeng and Chengchow--Reuter.

OUT OF POLITICS.

Ex-Kuomintang Officials.

LEAGUE COUNCIL.

EFFECT OF CANADA'S ELECTION.

CHINESE HOSPITAL CASES..

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It is believed that the Indian

One swallow doesn't make #Merchant's Club is run by'a Sind-

summer; on the other hand several hicate.

stammer.

refers

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It will be a fair wind that puts you on a Lee (Garden) shore next to week

too many are apt to make one 口口 A contemporary A number of mishaps occurred yesterday which resulted

divorce courts as "divorce mills." several Chinese being sent to the we should say that some of them Government Civil Hospital for handle decidedly raw material. treatment.

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It is understood that the man

Bowls and Bols have a spiritual affinity after the game is over.

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West River pirates have a decid-

In one case a girl, seven years dant FitzMaurice. Although we old, living on the second floor at who was discovered in a vat of ed objection to the popular tune believe there is a certain amount 80. Bridges. Street, accidentally beer near Southampton, had mis- "When the Red, Red Robin comes of risk, we have endeavoured to collided with her mother, who was taken a fellow reduce it to a minimum."

froth-blower's bobbin' along.”

crying a pot of boiling water invitation to "join him in one." The child was scalded on her face,

Before starting on the flight to- day, Capt. Mackintosh said he ex-right arm, and right knee. pected to reach New York in 26 hours.-British Wireless.

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"Widows are wonderful" accord "Man makes millions out of Tin" ing to a popular song, but Mrs. Other cases necessitating hos- states a newspaper heading.. This Schlee, wife of the airman, doesn't

believe it apparently. pital treatment included a man must refer to Henry. who was found lying near the tram

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Geneva, Sept. 16. Some foreign circles here con- Shanghai, Sept. 16. sider that the election of Canada to In addition to the Communists the Council does not open any big

lines beside the Praya Wast A little present often smooths American Will Try. excommunicated from the Kucmin- problems though it tends to deprive scat on the

station, with injuries to his head. over a rough past. tang party, the following are Europe of the new

O O London, Sept. 16.

It is believed that the man had presumed to have retired from Council in future. Moreover, it is.

Advice to suburbia: Break into contended that Great Britain is no. politics for the present:

There has been a sudden change fallen while attempting to alight

song if you will, but keep out of The Trade Delegation has ar- T. V. Soong, Chiang Kai-shek, longer able to speak in the name of

Chinese living at 115, strange flats. rived here.

Wang Ching-wei, Chen Kung-pothe Dominions in the Council but in the plans of the American mil-from a moving tram car. The city is quiet and there has (head of the political department only in the name of Great Britain.lionaire, Mr. Levine, who was re- A Бест по re-appearance of any of Wuhan), Koo Meng-yu, and But these commentators appear to ported the other day to be flying to Whitfield Road, ground floor, who

disregard the fact that there are the East. 'anti-British feeling.

other British Dominions besides Canada-Reuter.

Kam Nai-kwong--Reuter.

VOLUNTEER OFFICERS. BULGARIAN KING IN..

THREE PROMOTIONS,"

It is notified in the Government Gazette that H.D. the Governor has made the following promo- tlons in the Hongkong Volunteeri Defence. Corps, with effect from the 14th. September, 1927%---

Lieutenant Kenneth Morrison, to be Captain.

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BRITAIN.

LAYS WREATH ON UNKNOWN WARRIOR'S TOMB.

London, Sept. 16. King Boris of Bulgaria, which country was an enemy of Great Sinclair Britain in the late war, laid a

A PRUSSIAN LOAN REQUIRED.

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NEGOTIATIONS WITH AMERICA.

Berlin, Sept. 16. The Prussian State Bank, on wreath on the grave of the British behalf of the Prussian State, Is Second Lieutenant Henry Char-Unknown Soldier, in Westminister negotiating with America for a 6 per cent loan of G$30,000,000, He was accompanied by four probably to be issued at 96% to members of the Bulgarian Lega-197-Reuter. tion staff.

les Macnamara, to Lieutenant.

Second Lieutenant Thomas Ad- dis Martin, to be Lieutenant.

COLONY'S FINANCE.

STATEMENT FOR JUNE.

Abbey.

King Boria, whose visit to this country is incognito, has been staying with Sir Alexander Kay Muir and Lady Muir at Blair Lady. Drummond, Perthshire, Muir is a daughter of the former. Bulgarian Minister in London.

His Majesty visited King George

IRISH ELECTION.

THREE MEN SHOT.

Three men

London, Sept. 16.

were shot, one

The Colony'a financial statement for the month of June is published in the current Gazette and it is shown that the receipts for the and Queen Mary at Balmoral on month were $1,526,949 and the ex- Tuesday, remaining until yester-seriously, in an election fight at day, when he came to London Raphoe, Donegal, between suppor- penditure $1,661,288.

The Colony's balance of assets travelling as an ordinary passen-ters of De Valera and the Govern- over Habilities was reduced from ger on the night express from ment-Reuter. 84,441,816 to 84,306,977.

Aberdeen. British Wireless.

He has received favourable wea. ther reports, and is preparing for a trans-Atlantic flight to-morrow Renter.

FINE WEEK-END.

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The Royal Observatory forecast up till noon to-morrow "North-east winds, moderate, fine.""

STOP PRESS.

BRITISH FLIGHT DELAYED

London, Sept 16. Captain Mackintosh Was forced to lang near Bally Bunior, County Kerry, at six this evening-Router.

was sent for treatment for wounds!

There was no firework display. when Broek arrived.

DOT The Colony, having so much interest in the activities of chair- men has little time for airmen.

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Although the cakewalk is dead, choreans in a-bun-dance.

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The lady who wears a very to his head and back, alleged that fashionable evening dress these the wounds were infleted by an- days is, strange to say, very much we have recently had terps!- other Chinese with a broken rice out of it." bowl. His opponent, he states, threw the rice bowl at him twice, from short range. The accused "Theoretical gents looking for overhead valve motor cycle of 493.

Utopia might take a look at Natal, horse power. This an overhead> man is in police custody.

BAND CONCERT.

PROGRAMME AT KOWLOON DOCK,

The following is the programma to be given by the band of the lat Cameronians at the Kowloon Dock Untied Services Club on Sunday evening from 8.80 to 10.80:-

March, "New Colonial"

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American

paper:

A contemporary advertises an

In Egypt, where 97 per cent, of the value, we believe,

people can neither rend nor write."

But perhaps they know a little geography?

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Matshed owners at Repulse Bay,

have now come to the conclusion that privacy is a privation under certain circumstances.

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of the ciation and a Society is seen in the concert announcements D.O.G.A. Bow-wow!

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With all these troop concerts;

the soldiers are beginning to wonder if there are any new songs" in the world.

In view of the popularity of picking pockets on bathing beaches, Sunday Is again regarded as a day of arrest.

We are promised a number of white elephants on view next Saturday. It is understood that

Cornet Solo, "Sizlietta," Soloist, A water boot master was fined the exhibition has official approval.

Bda. G. Phillips.

Selcetion, "Rigoletto."

the other day for not producing his license. Local club stewarde

Musical Travesty, "Dye Ken are reported to be in close confer-

cace with the analysts. John Peel"

Selection, "Patience"

Bell Gavotte, "Balls of St. Malo;" Bells, Bds. A. Lovick.

Pot Pourri of Scottish Airs. Grand Military Tattoo... The Cameronians Rant." God Save The King.

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In a police case, a watchman

Mr. Man On Wing of Wanchai was up in the air at not being allowed to meet the world fliers,

was used as a stool pigeon. We A China contemporary in refer have seen many watchmen roost ring to the Navy's "destruction of ing on, stools, during the dark pirate liars," was probably under hours, especially outside business the impression that truth was

stranger than fetion. premise