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HOTELS.

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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 Moderato Rates in the Colony.

Hotel launch meets all steamers.

Dining Room and Lounge now open to the Public.

($25 for thirty Tiffin Tickets can be had at the Office of the above Hotel).

TEA DANCES

MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS

Tel. Add. Victoria.

5 to 7 p.m.

J. H. WITCHELL,

Telephone C.373.

Manager.

HOTEL SAVOY

Comfort, Convenience and Distinction.

HOTEL METROPOLE.

22, Ice House Street,

HOTEL BOA VISTA.

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 Room, Saloon Bar and Billiard Room.

Very moderate rates

on application to-

H. J. WHITE,

Manager.

Tel. Nos. K608 & K009. Cables, 'KQWLOTEL,'

Hongkong.

PALACE HOTEL.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

FIRM IN FINANCIAL STRAITS.

COMPOSITION AGREEMENT

CLAIMED.

Mr. D. McCallum appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. E. S. C. Brooks defended the action.

The debt was admitted but it was stated that the Hung Cheong firm, which had been losing money for several years was endeavouring to dispose of its business, and in order to facilitate matters, tried to arrange a composition."

OCTOBER 25, 1927.

TUESDAY,

FENGTIEN ADVANCE

DEATH FROM YELLOW FEVER.

ORDERED.

(Continued from Page 1).

Chen-hua's forces have gone over sage anticipates the early capture to the Shantung side. The mes-

of Kaifeng-Reuter.

STABBED WITH BAYONET.

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WHILE INVESTIGATING THE DISEASE.

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That the plaintif had gone back

pathologists, and an authority on One of Britain's most eminent on an agreement to accept a com position, was the defence raised in

tropical diseases, Professor Adrian a case at the Summary Court this

Stokes, who has been devoting six morning, before Mr. Justice Wood,

months' leave of absence from Guy's in which the Kwan Tye firm sued

Foreign Captain Attacker. Hospital to help in conquering the. the Hung Cheong firm, otherwise

scourage of yellow fever, has died known as L. Charles and Co., for

A number of foreign official re- from that complaint contracted $181.05 due for goods sold and deports reaching Peking indicate that while at his duty at Lagos, West livered.

the situation in the Upper Yang-Africa (says the Daily Mail). taze continues to be dangerous. Brief cablegrams from Lagos Numbers of Japanese vessels have show that he was amitten by the been fired on while other foreign fever last Thursday, and was taken ships, particularly those of the to the European Hospital. Al- Yangtze Rapids Steamship. Com-though the date of his death fe not pany, have been forced continually given, it is believed that he passed to carry troops free of charge. away on Monday afternoon.

Recently

authorities kt. He was due to return next month Ichang demanded a loan of twelve from the researches he was and a half thousand dollars from conducting

1 member of this concern and upon being refused the Rockefeller Commission од The creditors of the Hung Cheong troops entered offices and refused yellow

fever.. He had viait- firm were invited to a meeting at to leave till two thousand dollars ed West Africa in 1920 as a mem- which plaintiffs were represented, had been paid. The authorities ber of the same Commission, and and an offer of 50 per cent. if full are still demanding the other ten he knew well the peril of his task settlement was made. The credi: thousand dollars. Also, the com- when he asked this year for his tors accepted the offer. plain pany has been forced to pay large leave to be extended to six months tiff agreeing to the composition, gums for each trip made by its to enable him to continue the work. And it was further agreed that the ships.

Professor Stokes received a com- honey should be paid into a solici

Another serious incident occurr-mission in the R. A. M. C. in 1914. tor's hands as a guarantee of payed on board the same company's won the D. S. O. and other decora- mert.

vessel, lling. A party of soldiers tions, and was mentioned in dis- A schoolmaster, who stated that demanded passage and bayonetted patches He was 40 and unmarried. "We have our fish hooked. It is as a friend of the managing part Captain Ternroth in the abdomen ner of the defendant firm, he ar- and compelled him to turn the ship now just a matter of landing him. ranged for the disposal of the bus-about and take them to their desir Unless we are careless or the tackle ed destination. Captain Tornroth breaks, it is only a question of time. ness and for the composition, told Court that plaintiffs agreed to ac-is suffering from a pasty though The time may be years but it must

come." cept 50 per cent. in full settlement. not a dangerous wound.

In view of these and similar in- Mr. McCallum, in cross-examina. cidents it is considered that the time tion, sought to show that the plain-has not yet arrived for the return tiffs had resisted the composition of missionaries and traders to the throughout, but witness denied this. Upper Yangtze. Seven of the biggest creditors-the Arm owed between $4,000 And $5,000-were present at the meet- ing, including the Kwin Tye firm,! and all agreed. Even if the plain- Mme. Sun Yat-sen has addressed tiffs had not agreed, as they did, it fa telegram to her family in Shang was understood that the question should be decided by majority.

The Judgment.

Further evidence was called, and his Lordship found thai another agreement was reached between the plaintiffs and de- fendants outside the composition, and gave judgment for the plain tils, for the amount of the claim,

with half the costs.

́LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

FOUR NEW BILLS..

MME. SUN AND EUGENE CHEN,

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Movement. and Plans.

hai denying the report which appeared in the Daily Mail and in other newspapers to the effect that she had been married to Mr. Eugene Chen. Mme. Sun declares the report to be "a calumnious as- sertion without any foundation."

Mme. Son is at the present time in Russia, where she is travelling in the company of Mrs. William Prohme. It is understood that Mr. Eugene Chen is elsewhere in South Russia and will shortly take up re- sidence at Geneva from which place he will issue lengthy and vitriolic broadsides against the various Governments in China and against the present control of the Kuomintang Party.

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In these words, in a letter to Dr. T. B. Johnston Dean of Guy's Hos pital Medical School, London, Pro- fessor Adrian Stokes wrote of the progress of his fight against the yellow fever scourge a few weeks before he him- {self contracted the disease which was killed him leaving hia task all but accomplished.

He knew quite well that in going out to West Africa to engage in this fight he was running risks to his own life. Dr. Johnston said to n Press Association representative in an interview to-day, but Stokes was never a man to spare himself.

There can be no, doubt whatever that his death was due to the inves- tigations he was carrying out. He caught the infection, I should think. from one of the infected mosquitoes which he was keeping for experi- mental purposea.

[Note.-Yellow fever is an acute non-contagious fever, usually caus- ing a mortality of 45 to 80 per cent. in West Africa and 25 per cent. in those parts of the American Contin- Occasionally

ent where it occurs.

Comrade Borodin is reported to it has appeared in Europe, the last have arrived in Moscow and to be time in Madrid in 1878. It has not TL Kowloon No. 8

Tel Address "PALACE."

preparing for conference of prevailed in England since 1865. Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. A meeting of the Legislative Chinese Communists in the Rus-it is spread by a mosquito (the Batirely, under English Management Electric Light and Fans throughout. Council will be held on Thursday, sian capital. The attitude of the stegomyiz calopus) and gets it Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooma afternoon at which the Attorney Soviet Government towards

name from the fact that jaundice Darivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision

the the proprietress. General will move the first read Chinese Communists is, however, gives a yellow tint to the skin:] Tema moderate. Special terms to families on application to:

Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietress. ing of the following four new uncertain.

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Bills:

An Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the Procurator in Hongkong of the English Assis- tancy of the Jesuit Order.

An Ordinance to amend the General Loan and Inscribed Stock Ordinance, 1913.

An Ordinance to amend the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884.

An Ordinance to provide for the registration and regulation of watchmen.

The Bills have previously been published.

The Council will also consider the second reading of:

An Ordinance to. amend the Liquors Consolidation Ordinance,

1911.

CRAFTY FENG.

How He Failed Shansi,

It is reported from Kalgan that, prior to his departure from that city, General Shang Chen, calling together citizens, delivered pathetic speech, the gist of which follows:

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COXSWAIN'S DEATH.

A VALUED SERVANT.

A belated report of the death. of To Tai, the Chinese coxswaia of the Government launch Stan- "Feng Yu-hsiang is the incarna ley has been received, he having tion of craftiness. As he does died on Friday last at his home not fulfil his promise to the Shansi in Yaumati at the age of 56. Army, our military operations The deceased had proved him- have entirely miscarried and our self to be a very loyal and army is now compelled to retreat. efficient servant of the Harbour Indeed, the crushing defeat of the Department and was the first of Shansi forces is due to the insin-Chinese coxswains to take over cerity of Feng Yu-hsiang.”

the duties of master of the Stan- ley.

His knowledge of the Delta waterways was invaluable to the.

An Ordinance to amend the LOCAL SHIPBUILDING. service and throughout the recent Chinese Extradition Ordinance, 1899.

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DRIVERS FINED.

(Continued from Páge 1.)

MOTOR VESSEL ORDERED AT KOWLOON DOCK

. Confirmation of an order for the building of a motor vessel at the Kowloon Dock has just been received and although the ship is not of heavy tonnage the work is welcome and will give employment for the next few months.

strike, he was the only Chinese member of the floating staff who stuck to his post.

Joining the Government service in 1918 his ability was soon re- cognised and promotion quickly followed. The cause of death is understood to be heart failure, as a complication of beri-beri. The. funeral on Saturday was largely attended and wreaths were sent by all members of the Harbour Office staff.

His Worship said that if civil nction was taken, it was desirable to adjourn the case while awaiting the outcome of the action.

The new ship is to be built to Me: Dennys pointed out that the the order of Messrs. Aboltiz and charge was of negligent driving Company Inc., of Cebu, and is to bu years had been inseparable The lifewish of two men who for and rot of causing an accident. be-a twin screwed steel ship of friends was fulfilled when they died Any decision arrived ar by his Wor-134 feet, beam 27 feet and mould-within an hour of each other in ship would not affect the issue of od depth 11.2 feet, to carry 800 Sydney, one at the age of 95 and the civil action.

tons on a nine fret draught. His Worship agreed, but owing The main ongines will be Deutz Salomon roet when Pollock was a the other 85. Michael Pollock and to the large number of other full Deisels, with four cycles at young man of 20 and and Solomon traffic cases which were before 300 R.P.M., producing 330 B.H.P., a bachelor of 30. Fate Had not him, adjourned the hearing until giving a speed of approximately been to kind to them, and when they Friday afternoon.

nine knots. These are to be sup heard that gold had been discover- plied by the Atlas Company. ed on the west coast of New Construction commentes almos; Zealand they pooled their money and went off together to join in the rush. They remained in New Zealand for 40 years, living at the house at Hokitika. Later they got engaged, Mr. Pollock marrying Mr. Solomon's sister. The wives died, but the old men. lived on, both cared for by Misa Mabel, Mr. Solomon's daughter. Until a few weeks ago neither had suffered a serious illneas, though both had often expressed the wish that when the time came they might be taken together. On the same.

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW? immediately.

The following are the replies to to-day's questions:-

1. In the wooden tramways or wagonways used, in the sixteenth century in and around Newcastle-on-Tyne for conveyance of min- erala, 2, The Farth Bridge. 8,008 ft. B

TWO BRITISH ENGINEERS KILLED.

Width between the inner edges of rails. 4 WHILE MOVING GIRDER ON

The 1840's: £500,000,000 in capital win- volved, and there was much wild speculation. 8, Union Pacle-Central Pacide; 1860; 1.848

salics. 6. Rate at which a railway line of

Wing Woo Street TEL 25 Central

roud slurs or falla above or below horizontal. 7. September 27, 1826; Stockton and Darilng ton, Ratiway, B. The Rocket: George and

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London, Oct. 8. Beira. While moving a girder

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Robert Stepher an, 1828. 9. En named be on a bridge on the Beira-Umtall afternoon botit were seized with ente in early railway-days inst-class passen-line, two British officers, Colonel influenza, and had to take to their sers could book their seats in advance. 10% Arnold and Colonel Jenkins, bridge beds. They fought hard against

1707. 11. The Jungfraujoch station, on the

12, The early tastal rails were called tran

pinteau between the peaks of the Jungfrau engineers, were killed.

and the Monch Mountaina 11,500 fost bigb

the illness, but ten days later they Two natives, one a Chinese were died, the one an hour after the

other.

way or barrow-way plates, and the hurt who injured.

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