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HOTELS

THE

HONGKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL; REFULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL Telographic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; FALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL.

Telegraphic Address:

"CENTRAL, SHANGHAL”

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 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 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.

Telephone C.373, J. H. WITCHELL.

Manager..

HOTEL SAVOY

The Savay in the outstanding intel

Hongkong word one of the next appointed. In South Chine.

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 Room, Saloon Bar and Billiard Room,

Very moderate rates

on application to

H. J. WHITE,

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

Hongkong..

Tul. Kowloon No. 8

PALACE HOTEL.

Manager.

Tel Address "PALACE”

Fares, minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. Entirely, under English Management. Electric Light and Fans throughout. Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Har and Billiard-Rooms. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Tarm moderate. Special terms to families on application to:

Mrs. J. IL 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.

KOWLOON'S BUSES.

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So the chassis must have been pretty well worn out?-No, it does not follow, the engine la running for seventeen or eighteen hours a day, and wears out much more quickly than the chassis.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1927.

LONDON STORES

RAIDED.

BURGLARS LADDER CLIMB.

TIMELY RESPONSE TO

Entertainments

S. O. S.

AT THE

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Formose Saves 127 Lives.

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After spending an hour or more among the valuable stock of Messrs. Poniings, the drapers and

London, Oct. 26. milliners, of Kensington High-

South American telegrams re- street, W., early one recent morn-port the sinking last night, be- With a full load, a bus of this, ing, burglars left with booty valu-tween Bahia and Pernambuco, type is inclined to be top-heavy fed ut less than 4350. Their heul with the loss of some hundreds of More so than an ordinary car. consisted of frocks, costumes, Principessa Mafalda, 9,210 gross lives, of the Italian Steamship

Not Made to Hit Trees.

Mr. Armstrong: If the bus hit a tree, it would be very liable to turn over?

Mr. Russ: I don't think that's a fair question, your Lordship. Buses aren't made to hit trees.

necklaces, watches, silverware, bracelets, and branches.

The British Avelons and the Brazilian steamer Piahy which arrived on the scene of the disas ter later are helping to convey the survivors to Río de Janeiro.

tonnage. bound from Genou to They apparently left a car in vessel carried 968 passengers and Buenos Aires. It is believed that the Wright's-lane, behind the stores. 230 crew of whom 720 are report- and crossed the Metropolitan Railed to have been saved by the way to a window through which. French steamer Formose. after breaking the glass, they en- tered. It is clear that they car- In answer to Mr. Justice Wood, ried a ladder, probably of a collup- Inspector Mason said that a rea-sible type, which they could raise sonable price for the bus on to a height of 16ft. September 5, when he subjected In the ribbes department they When the first news reached Rio packed goods which they apparent- de Janeiro, the Brazilian cruiser ly decided to leave on making Rio Grande was immediately rush-

their minds up

to try theed to the scene. No particulars jewellery, department In this de- are yet available as to the cause partment they rited whole show of the disaster. but few hopes are cases, ignoring or weilooking the apparently entertained for the best and mast valuable articles in missing. The Principessa Mafal- the department.

da belonged to the Compagnia Navigazione Generale

it to a severe test, was $800.

He admitted that all buses of the particular type were inclined to be top-heavy, and added that he had known them to blow over in a strong wind.

Mr. Justice Wood:

And yet you pass them out as fit for the road I suppose you are only acting on instructions from

Police Department.

His Lordship then passed comment first mentioned."

the

the

Mr. Russ (to witness) You will o as far as this. If buses are driven properly and not forced into trees they are quite all right.

Mr. Justice Wood: Naturally; it is hardly likely they turn over every journey.

Inspector Mason has been very frank in his evidence, and helpful to the Court, his Lordship con- cluded.

Defendant's Evidence.

They had opened

steel doors which slide into the walls and had wedged them ajar while they ntus- rected for goods.

They left behind bundles of comparatively small value which they had lavished much at- tention, finger and foot prints, a candle, a clasp-knife, and an American cloth bag.

AUSTRALIA'S RISING

COSTS.

THE INCREASED TARIFFS CONDEMNED.

Canberra, Oct. 5. The imposition of increased tariffs on certain classes of im- ports are condemned by the Tariff Board in its report to Parliament" in which they state that instead of improving the industries of the Commonwealth such tariffs have in stagnation resulted creased costs of production, and living.

Italiana.

British Wireless. [The Principessa Mafalda is rated in Lloyds Register Ns' a twin-screw steamier of 9,210 gross and 5,087 nett tonnage, built in 1906 by the Societe Esercizio Bacim, Riva Trigoso, to the order of the Navigazione Generale Ita- liano and registered at Genoa. Her dimensions are given as length 485.2 feet, beam 55,6 feet and mouided depth 32.6 feet, with engines developing 917 N.H.P. The vessel is stated as being fitted with submarine signalling ap- paratus and wireless.

Bahia is situated on the coast of Brazil in Latitude, 18 South, and Longitude 38.24 West, approxi- mately 900 miles up the coast to the northward of Rio de Janeiro.]

CANTON'S LATEST EXPEDITION.

The driver of the ear, an as- sistant compradore to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co. said that he followed the bus from the turning just below Laichikok prison, but could not pass owing to the narrowness of the road. Near the light railway he had an opportunity to pass, as the road widened out. The bus was on its proper side. and he had sufficient room to get by. While he was passing, a "coolie woman stepped from the right hand side of the road and he had to swerve his car that there is a prevailing ten-the Kuominchun are retreating in to the left to avoid her. He was too close to apply kis brakes and stop. He had sounded his horn, and thought the woman knew he was passing the bus

and in-

The report regretfully concludes

dency to abuse the protective sys- tem at the behest of Industrial unions, of secondary and primary producers and urges industrial leaders to recognise the serious Mr. Russ, cross-examining, sug-nothing but disaster is ahead.

menage of rising costs; otherwise gested that if everyone adopted the defendant's tactics in swerv-

ing like that to avoid people there would be hundreds of accidents.

Defendant's father, Mr. Leung in-kwan, a director of the Sun Company, who was a passenger in the car, gave corroborative evid-|

ence.

Liability Issue.

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operating as far as Chungmow, 30 miles from Chengchow and that

the direction of Honar.fu.

Earlier telegrams from Teinanfu state that the Chihli-Shantung forces, when they captured Lan- feng, took a bridge commander and 1,000 prisoners and captured 800 rifles.

SETTLER'S DASH FOR carried out a successful air raid at

LIFE.

THROUGH FLAMES ON HORSEBACK.

The Ankuochun headquarters claim that a Fengtien aeroplane.

Tayuaniu, dropping four bombs and causing considerable damage to the commander-in-chief's hood- quarters and the arsenal-Reuter.

Bandits Intervene.

Shanghai, Oct. 26. The Hun hutsz (mountain ban-

from Meiyun to Sunyi (about sixty dits) who are in favour of Mar- shal Yen Shi-shan have advanced miles from north of Peking) are One brigade of infantry has been preasing hard on the Capital. ordered from Fengtion by Marshal Chang Tso-lin to garrison Tung-

Sydney, Sept. 22. Following a series of smaller Mr. Russ argued on the question bush fires the hills round Esk, near

Ipswich, Queensland of negligence, and in reply to Mr. ablaze since yesterday, and the have been Justice Wood said that Inspector town of Esk is enveloped in smoke. Mason had only gone as far as to say that in typhoon weather and large areas of grass lost, but Miles of fencing have beer burnt the buses might be unsafe, and though out-louses and haystacks more likely to overturn than some have been destroyed the homesteads other kinds of buses. His Lord have escaped. Thousands of cattle ship pointed out that the bus had are believed to have perished. been passed by the Police, but it: A settler named Schultz, return-Shansi "Civilians" in Peking, Mar- Owing to the activity of the seemed to him that he must finding to his farm after warning a shal Chang Tsc-lin has offered a 'that the bus was unsafe for travel. neighbour, was surrounded by the

tradict that.

chow.

Mr. Russ intimated that he was lanes and climbed a tree, but the reward of $200,000 to clean the prepared to call evidence to con- tree caught fire, igniting his clothes, city of them. His Lordship then He then jumped on his horse and mentioned that Inspector Mason fureed it through a ring of flame, had said that if he had his way and he died from his injuries.

but all his clothes were burnt off he would not pass the bus for traf- fic.

"No decision was given on the

question of liability, but damages were assessed at $481 in the event of his Lordship

finding for the plaints. He intimated that soli- citors in the case should inform him to-morrow if they wished to be heard on the question of liabi- lity.

CLUE IN ESSEX MURDER.

AMMUNITION “FINDS:”"

London, Sept. 30. Further clues have cropped up in the murder of the Essex con- stable, Gutteridge, which at first sight, promised, to be one of the most balling of modern crimes. A service revolver has been found on the Thames foreshore, near Hammersmith Bridge and 'a tin box marked "Caledonia oatcakes"

THE AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., INC. containing 100 rounds of revolver

4-A, Des Vœux Road, Central, Hongkong.

Two days after her return to Among the missing jewels are a Brussels from a holiday on the tiara in brilliants, diamond car- rings, rings, brooches, pendants, coast, Mme. Goldzicher, a widow and bracelets. The police are con- living in the Avorue des Arte, has vinced that the robbery is the work discovered that during her absence of professional thieves and that thieves entered her house and stole they entered the unoccupied house Jewellery valued at about £5,710. by means of duplicate keys.

Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street, In the City of Victoria, Hongkong.

ammunition wrapped in & cambric handkerchief bearing the name A. H. Miller in marking ink, as well as a cardboard box containing twelve rounds of service rifle am- munition.

Scotland Yard has issued photo- graphs of the articles.

Hundreds of detectives last) night were searching west and south London for three criminals answering to the dea criptions of the men

at the Billericay the night before

murder.

zcen

ex-

Shansi Sortie Succeeds.. After two days serious attack on Chochow by the Fengtien forces In one township a schoolmistress the Shansi troops within the city and her pupils took refuge in a attempted another sortie yesterday creek till the flames, passed..

INDIAN PAVILION AT WEMBLEY.

TO BE A PIANO FACTORY.

London, Oct. 6. The Indian Pavilion at Wembly is destined to become factory for the mass production of pianos and gramaphones under a purchase competed to-day.

Bles't be the tie that blinds

when she picks it out.

and a considerable number of them escaped from the city and retreated westward. Marshal Chang Haueh-liang is still at Cho- chow directing the bombardment of the city.-Wah Kiu Yat Po.

THE GOLD BANGLES CASE.

SOLICITOR APPEARS FOR DEFENDANT.

Mr. Leo D'Almada applied to Mr. W. Schofield, at the Kowloon Magls- tracy this morning, for a further remand in the case in which a Chinese is charged with victimis- ing a pawnbroker.

It is alleged that on October 17 he tock a pair of hangles, which he represented to be gold, to the Kin Hing pawn shon, 342 Reclamation Street, where he obtained a sum of money for them. The pawnbroker, subsequently discovered that they were not solid gold. A woman, who was also charged, was set free, because His Worship held that guilty knowledge had not been proved against her.

The police allege that gold leaf and implements implying guilty knowledge were found in possession of the man..

This morning, Mr. Loo D'Almada said he had only just been instruct- ed for the remaining defendant and would like time to go into the case. The defendant was remanded until Tuesday next.

QUEEN'S

TO-DAY

ONLY

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20.

RICHARD DIX

LET'S GET MARRIED.

A fast comedy

packed with laughs and romance.

a Garamount Glature

with Lois Wilson

Portanto de ADOLPH 29808 1111E ULÁRET

From the play "The Man From Mexico."

AT THE

WORLD

TO-DAY

ΤΟ

SATURDAY

A splendid production of the famous play of Napoleon's day by Victorien Sardon and Emile Moreau.

Filmed

In

France

ADOLPH ZUXOR

JESSE L LASRY

Romance

and Intrigue

Gloria Swanson

IN

"Madame Sans Gene"

A Paramount Picture

Orchestra at 5 15 & 9.20 Chinese Interpreter at 2.30 8 7.15.

AT THE

STAR

THE

THURSDAY

ΤΟ

SATURDAY

Continuous From 3.30 to 11.15.

WITH

RICHARD DIX. LOIS WILSON MARJORIE DAW

ZAJE GREY'S FAMOUS STORY.

CALL

OF THE

CANYON