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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 Hotel Dos Wagons Lite, 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 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.

Teleplicne C.373. J. H. WITCHELL,

Manager,

HOTEL SAVOY

Comfort, Convenienco and Distinction.

HOTEL METROPOLE. HOTEL BOA VISTA.

22, Ice House Street,

Macao.

UNDER THE SAME MANAGEMENT,

KOWLOON HOTEL

KOWLOON

A FIRST CLASS HOTEL WITH ALL MODERN

•

CONVENIENCES.

High Class Cuisine and Table Appointments." Wonderful view of the Harbour and Peak, and five minutes from the Ferry, Wharves and Station.

Drawing Rooms, Saloon Bar and Billiard Room.

Very moderate rates

on application to

H. J. WHITE,

Manager.

Tel. Nos. K608 & K609. Cables, KOWLOTEL,'

Hongkong.

Tel Kowloon No. 8

PALACE HOTEL.

Tol. Address "PALACE." 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 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,

BIG SCALE WAR IN CHINA.

(Continued from Page 1.) AMERICAN DECISION.

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Not to Pay Latest Taxes.

Shanghai, Oct. 3.

It is understood that Washing- ton has instructed the American Consular officers to refuse in future to pay other than treaty Customs duties, similarly to Britain, namely 6 por cent. ad valorem, plus 2 1/2 per cent. tentatively agreed upon at the Washington Conference, plus the 2 1/2 per cent. fuxury tax

Reuter.

PIRATES ON YANGTSZE. ··

Boarded as Passengers.

Chungking, Oct. 3. Pirates boarding two Italian steamers as passengers, took con- trol of the bridge at the point of the pistol between Ichang and Kweifu, "and ransacked the vės- eels. Ordinary passengers lost all their personal luggage, and in the case of one of the vessels, it was only released on

payment of $1,000.

In Chungking. anti-foreign agitation appears to be dying out, and street poster propaganda has already ceased.--Naval Wireless.

In Buffer Zone.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER

ANOTHER RAILWAY,

OUTRAGE.

CANTON-KOWLOON LINE, DAMAGED. '

ALL CLEAR NOW.

4.1927.

AN ESCAPE FROM PIRATES.

BRITISH GUNBOAT ARRIVES

OPPORTUNELY. THIS

The narrow escape is ricorded of the s.s: Shing On, a Hongkong- Wuchow, steamer, from being pirated at the Unkortsul in her For the second time within the last trip from Wuchow to the space of three weeks, the rails on Colony. The 88. Shing On is a the Chinese section of the Kow- Cargo boat, and the attack on her loon-Canton Railway have been by the pirates is indeed something malleiously damaged by anti- new, considering that pirates Canton Government plotters, with seldom aim at a cargo boat and the result that yesterday an always prefer passenger vessels, armoured car sont along the line

On her voyage the s.s. Shing On in advance of the express was de- stopped at Samshul, and took on railed near Sheung Ping.

board some cargo, while an old] Chinese lady, believed to be the Both up and down lines were mother of the owner of the ss. blocked as the result of the crash, Shing On, is also said to have and the expresses from Canton boarded the vessel at Samshuf. and Kowloon were both delayed: Probably the pirates obtained the A change-over of passengers was finally decided upon, and the train news, and wanted to attack the which left Kowloon in the morn-steamer with the sole desire of ing returned at about 6.30 pr. last kidnapping this lady, whom they evening with the passengers from thought to be rich. Canton.

Leaving Samshui the vessel 'ar-

It is not known whether casual-rived at the Unkortsui district, ties cecurred as the result of the where the river is narrow, and of pirates with bright wrecking of the armoured car, but scores we are Informed that the obstruc- torches and holding rifles and tion has now been removed, and pistols were seen running about the line readjusted, The express preparing to make an attack. It left Kowloon for Canton at eight was then quite dark. o'clock this morning as usual, and it is understood that the Canton section has resumed normal ser- vice also.

SAVING SHANGHAI.

(Continued from Page 1.)

Hankow, Sept. 30. The bandits, who had been in terfering with the shipping navi- gating in the neighbourhood of Patung, were driven away by Gen- eral Yang Sen's troops. But the majority of the bandits have again appeared at a point three or four tempt to co-ordinate the efforts of the community in this direction, nautical miles above Ichang.

und Mr. Firth was to be con These bandits fire at vessels navigating in the vicinity and gratulated on the courage he had force them to halt. They demand $600 from a large-sized vessel and $400 from a small-sized ship. It appears that almost all vessels comply with their demand.

are

shown.

In the course of a speech, Mr. Edgar Strother said:

There are four lines of work which, it seems to me, the Fascisti can do in Shanghai, which amply As the place where the bandits justify its existence, which, indeed, stationed is a buffer zone make it a necessity. They are: between General Yang Sen's

1. Do things, which the officials Army and that of General Liu would like to do but cannot do. Hsiao-ping, the bandits are free

2.- Render the officials much from attack, and steamers sailing needed assistance, along various in that vicinity are greatly lines.

menaced. Toho.

SWATOW QUIET.

Troops from Canton,

Swatow, Oct. 3. The troops arrived from Cancos are those under General Huang Shao-Isiung, and number only a few hundred. The city is quiet- and doubtless will very quickly return to normalcy.--Naval Wire lesa,

Yangisze War.

Shanghai. Oct. 3. No news of any importance is to hand from the Yangtsze war front. Hostilities appear, do have been suspended. Shanghai is quiet. Naval Wireless.

3. Create public sentiment or form public opinion on vital mat- teru.

4. Serve as a bond of union be- tween all individuals who are try-! ing to stand against lawlessness, and thus prove that "In Union There Is Strength."

Press Support,

The steamer tried to elude the piratea by going at full speed, while the latter ran along the two banks, shouting and demanding that the steainer come to a halt, threatening that if the boat did not stop they would open fire.: Later, two steam launches paint- ed black, belonging to the pirates were "seen steaming after the

Shing On..

This chase lasted for a short while only, as a British gunboat was seen coming from the opposite When the two pirate direction. launches saw the gunboat they sailed away, while all the shouting and yelling persons on the banks threw away their torches and took to their heels, when they saw that the guns in the warship were aiming at them, states the verna- cular press.

The men on the Shing On state that had the gunboat not arrived, the vessel must have fallen into the hands of the pirates.

CAR'S INEFFICIENT BRAKES.

A PATENT THAT WOULD- NOT WORK.

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Mr, A. S. Gubbay's Indian chau- ffeur was summoned before Major C. Willson at the "Central Police Court this morning for driving with inefficient brakes, and admitt In the course of an editorialed the offence. note. on the meeting, the North In explanation, Mr. A. S. Gub- China Daily News states:

bay stated that this car was only Mr. Bernard Firth's first meet-a year old, and the hand-brake in ing of his Shanghai Fascisti would question was a new patent device. seem to have been an unqualified which had failed repeatedly, and success. There is a tendency in and just as often been repaired, this community to look upon this but no permanent success was

obtained. effort to organize international

As had happened when the car public opinion-for that is what it really amounts to with an air of was proceeding up Garden Road, superior, tolerant amusement, as the application of this patent brake alone was not sufficient, al- an adult would look upon children's efforts to build sand though it was advertised as castles or make mud pies. With emergency brake. He had there- this attitude we have no patience fore written to the garage for it whatever. The objection to the to be removed. During the time use of the name. Fascisti is he had this patent brake, he had possibly more widespread than the spent 3100 na it

Sergeant Hopkins said that in a objections to the organization - self. The original Fascisti is said test of the brake, he found that it by critics to have been peculiarly was useless when applied: alane, Italian, peculiarly Latin in spirit, The car rolled down Garden Road and implies a political creed to all the same, although its velocity

who are willing was checked somewhat... enough to do their share in up- His Worship's view was that in- holding law and order in Shanghai efficient brakes should not have could not conscientiously sub-been used by Mr. Gubbay so long. bcribe. Some seem to think that He inflicted a fine of $3. the choice of name shows little

Other Cases. Two other private drivers were originality that it automatically marks the movement as a moribund fined $10 each also for having in- effert. Fascism, however, conveys efficient brakes. much to those who

The driver of publie car No. familiar with its workings 436 was fined $10 for speeding. Italy which it probably does not at 25 miles an hour along convey to the Shanghal founders Queen's Roat West. of the association. But to all it

A Chinese driver who possessed. moans essentially opposition to a license to drive a Ford lorry in Shanghai, Sept. 30.

everything that has a Red or even Kowloon only, was fined $10 for Another attempt at Storming the a Pink colouring. The word failing to report an aebident re- Woosung Forta was made by he stands, in the average Anglo-Saxon sulting from an attempt to drive Northerners late last night, when understanding, forwar on another lorry on this side of the three warships of the Peihai fleet radicalism, disruption of trade, harbour. He ran into a private from Taingtao steamed towards industry and. normal social life, ricksha, and caused damage to. the mouth of the Yangtze River. and bad faith in international the latter vehicle to the extent of Their effort, however, was frustrat- dealings.

$25. ed by military preparedness on

WUHAN AND NANKING.

Attempt to Patch Up.

Nanking, Oct. 3. The Nanking Government has not accepted na definite the diver gence of the Wuhan clique, and further.attempts to reach an ami- cable settlement of their dif- ferences are being made.

General Chu Pei-teh has been entrusted with the task of emis- sary of the Nanking Government, and he will proceed to Kiukiang to interview Mr. Wang Ching-wei.

The city generally is quiet, though the British Consulate has once again been seized by the military authorities, who are in occupation.-Naval Wireless,

WOOSUNG BOMBARDED.

Warships at Mouth of Yangtze,

the part of the Nationalist De-

which some

are very

fence Force at Woosung, who contending forces when ships on espied the incoming war-craft both sides opened fire. and despatched several cruisers to obstruct their passage.

The Woosung Forta assisted

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

The following are the replies to with searchlights, located the to-day's questions:- opposing ships on the dark sca, when they were fired upon by theme from the bean and usually encased in a Nationalist cruisera.

1. Formaninifera-one-celled ife, extractor

tiny 'shell. 2. It is soon to contain, wood, bark, spores of plants, etc. Rootlets extend from the seam to the underlying clay. and

At nine p.m. yesterday the au- thorities in charge of the Woo sung Forts received a message to the effect that three units of the Peihai fleet, sailing down south, Alt about 2 a.m. this morning overlying shale or anndalone beats Impressions were near the mouth of the the fight came to a close, the Pei- of plants. . It is vegetable matter, thrown

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duwa'ns sodimont in water. d. Low growing

-Curing the submergence of <uk-lensk 1,500 :£net.

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