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AND

SHANGHAI

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MAJESTIC HOTEL, A

Telegraphic 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 Rooma, nowly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and

Cold Water, also Telephone.

All Trams pass in front of Hotel.

Most Moderate Ratea in the Colony.

Hotel launch meets all steamers.

Dining Room and Lounge now open to the Public.

(825 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.

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Telephone C.373.,

Manager.

J. H. WITCHELL,-

HOTEL SAVOY

Comfort, Convenience and Distinction.

HOTEL METROPOLE. HOTEL BOA VISTA.

22, Ico Houso Street.

UNDER THE

£

Macao.

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

HL. J. WHITE,

Manager.

Tel. Nos. K608 & K609. Cubles, 'KOWĻOTEL,'

Hongkong.

PALACE HOTEL.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

ARMISTICE DAY IN LONDON.

SIMPLE CEREMONIAL

HOME.

London, Nov.. 11. Sunny frosty weather, favoured the_celebration of Armistice Duy: in London. Thoir Majesties, the King and Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York and other members of the Royal Family, members of the Cabinet and re- presentatives of the Dominions, partleipated in the impressive ceremony at the Cenotaph.

The two minutes, silence was everywhere scrupulously observed and the wearing" of Flanders Popples WIS universal, Tho broadcast appeal of the Prince of Wales last evening uzging all to "give a little more than last year" and other appeals, including that of Earl Haig evoked a magnificent response.

The sellera of poppies started their work at midnight outside the House of Commons and in the West End-Reuter..

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The Crowd in Whitehall.

London, Nov. 11. "The great crowd that assembles in Whitchull on Armistice Day is like no other crowd that London knows throughout the year. It assembles and atands in silence and its perfect quietude is a men- sure of deep emotions which are stirred in British hearts and which are mellowed but undiminished by the passage of nine years.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1927.

THE S.S. IRENE PIRACY.

This picture shows the commander of H.M.S. Dehli, directing fire fighting operations on the ill-fated s.a. Irene, which sank in Blas Bay following piracy and fire,

In the early hours of this morn- Ing people began to gather near the Cenotaph which had already been loaded with wreaths, sent by Bri- tish communities overseas, as far distant as Sao Paolo, Brazil and Rhodesia, and long before the aer OUR vice began Whitehall was again a 'mass of unmoving and noiseless humanity.

The same simple ceremonial, as in previous years was followed. Ten minutes before it began the King arrived" und stood between his sons in a hollow square around the Cenotaph formed by service and ex-service detachmtnis. He stepped forward and laid his wreath at the base of the Cenotaph, after which others were laid by the Princes, members of the Government and representatives of the Services and 24 from Overseas,

Reverent Pilgrimage,. Then with the firing of signals came the two minutes' silence. As it ended the bugle notes of the Last Post sounded, and then the crowd, led by choirs and massed guards bands, sang "O God Our Help."

The service ended with Tel. Address "PALACE.” the National Anthem. Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. Then began the long reverent Entirely, under English Management. Electric Light and Fans throughout. | pilgrimage to the Cenotaph by Private Bath, Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Blooms, patient queues of people, to lay Unrivalled Cuisine under the personmilies on application to: proprietress where wevice had been held at Mrs. J. I. OXBERRY, Proprietress. the tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey, and in in numerable churches throughout the country. Throughout the whole

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Empire and in British communities abroad silence was observed. This year for the first time Canberra, the new capital of Australiú, was

DAILY TALK ON

HEALTH.

"A LIKELY CAUSE OF PELLAGRA.

THE MISSING VITAMIN.

1:

JUNK CAPSIZES IN HARBOUR.

ALL THE CREW RESCUED,

While attempting to get along- side the s.s. Hanol, which was moored to a buoy in the harbour, at six o'clock yesterday evening, a cargo junk capsized and the five In the area south of the Po. occupants were thrown into the tomac and the Ohio rivers and water. They were promptly res- indeed in many other portions of cured, but all the cargo was lost. the south particularly, the disease It appears that the junk, which known as peilagra is still a algas carrying a cargo of about 200 niflcant cause of "death and ofpicule was being towed by a launch from the Praya, Kennedy disability.

In this condition there is a typi-Town, to the s.s. Hanoi When Launch cal eruption on the skin, associat close to the vessel the ed with a loss of strength, indiges-cast off and went away. In endea tion, nervousness, dizziness, verti vouring to secure his position go, headache and a burned or

alongside, the master put over the scaled feeling of the mouth and on the side of the junk the ba- helm, and as the crew were stand- tongue. In a small percentage

ance was upset and the boat over. turned.

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SWANSON

THE UNTAMED LADY

A FRANK TUTTLE PRODUCTION.

BEAUTIFUL, wealthy, spolled. See how weak- ness conquers her where strength fails.

From the story by Fannie Hurst writ- ten specially for the . Star..

Also.-Felix Busts Into Business ́ ́

AT THE

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THE of the eases the mind is disturbed

water.

sufficiently to demand asylum care but the exact relationship of the Boats nearby went to the rescue mental disturbance to the diagase and succeeded in saving the five has not been accurately determine men who were struggling in the United States Public Health Ser-

As Dr. Josph Goldberger of vice, emphasizes in a recent con- sidetation of the subject, the dis- ease is rarely seen in persons who cat much meant or who drink fresh milk "regularly.

Comes With Poverty.

junk is now upside down, practi- Alhthe cargo was lost and the cally submerged. The value of the loss is not yet known.

the scene of the Australian cele- ; The disease may occur in any WOMEN AS JOCKEYS.

bration.

one but the poor are the chief]

A party of more than two hün-sufferers. When the cost of food dred members of the Old Contemp. increases greatly the incidence of tibles Association, members of the this disease rises rapidly original British Expeditionary Investigations made in many Force in the Great War, observed places lend increasing support to the two minutes' silence to-day at the opinion that,pellagra is the spot where they first came into result of living of an unbalanced contact with the Germana during diet and that people who eat a the war. Thus yearly since the mixed, well-balanced and varied Armistice, nine years ago, repro- | diet do not have the discaso. sentatives of British soldiers who were in the Battle of Mons have

The diet of the rural population commemorated it on the spot they themselves made famous.

*Historie Broadcast,

MISS SAUNDERS THE WINNER.

London, Oct. 14. Once again yesterday the New- market Town Plate was taken by a woman, the winner being Miss D. Saunders, on Fay Toy, a 7-year- old horse trained by herself and owned by her father, Mr. F. D.. Saunders.

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At 2.30, 5.10, 715 & 9.20

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He

AT THE

Who gets Slapped

from the play by LEONID ANDREYEV

Adapted by CAREY WILSON LON CHANEY NORMA SHEARER JOHN GILBERT · TULLY MARSHALL stre Goldwyn

Produced by LOUIS B. MAYER

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THE

SPANISH DANCER

of the south is made up mostly of There were only three starters, cornmeal, hominy grits, white and all of them wheat flour, white rice, dried women.

were ridden by beans salt pork, sorghum or cane Miss Elleen Joel, daughter of molasses and collards, or Mr. S. B. Joel, rode Mr. W. Earl's Everywhere in Britain as in "greens," Apparently there is Hogier, on which she won the Town many other parts. of the in it too little of some important Flate two years ago, when she was Empire, Flanders poppley were vitamin to prevent the appearance the first woman to win the race. sold to aid the funds of the of pellagra.

Miss Iris Rickaby, who was British Legion, were worn in This vitamin is believed to be first last year on Stephania, rode remembrance of those who surviv-present in nearly if not quite all Mayor R. Ratcliffe's Happy Greet- ed the war only to suffer in death natural foods except the oils and ing yesterday.'

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and misfortune from its effects; fats. There is little in cornmeal, Misa Saunders jumped off in Last night the Prince of Wales in white flour or rice, but a great front and held the lead all the way, a moving speech, appealed for this deal in lean ment and powdered winning easily by a distance. cause. He mentioned that the sale yeast.

Mina Rickaby came in second, of poppies, which in the first year, 1921, had produced £106,000, had able single foods for the prevent was four miles.

Milk is one of the most valu-and Miss Joel was rather a bad third. The distance of the race risen annually until last year tion of pellagra, but when lean £435,000 were given. This year

Miss Saunders wore hauled for half a milling eat, yeast, vegetables and frults velvet jockey cap with a long peak, Popples are made at a special face are not in the diet, at least a man's shirt and collar, a gold tory where only disabled ex-quart of milk must be taken every and light blue tie, and khaki riding servicemen are employed.

day to provide an adequate amount breechen with leggings. To-night during the Remem- of vitamin. hrance festival at the Albert Hall,

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the Prince of Wales will give, a short address which will be relayed The yolk of the egg contains a throughout the Empire by short good deal of the preventive sub- wave telephony. The United stance. She vegetables as pota-to-day's questions:- States will also attempt to inter-toes, turnips, string beans, toma- 1. A scarf sometimes worn by men in the toes, cabbage and spinach, as well Land's End. 4. Chaminch, hedgesperrow middle ages. The patriarch Job. 1, Of as the fruits, contain the vitamin.turkey, nightingale, & Imogen, 6. Orion but in relatively small amounts. Aterritorial division of a district or zounty; similar to the division known as "Ebo "Poster publicity work is a very matoes or a quart of canned to-tre 11. Island near the menth of the Thus nearly two pounds of to hundred. 8. An elegant ready-made gar ment. 2. 1858 Donail's comet 10. King tricky business," said Mr. S. G. mato juice are needed to have the River Clyde, in Bootland. 12. Milton. Marketing Board, at the City of

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London Tradesmen's Club. "An of buttermilk or a half pound of American soap company spent ean meat or an ounce of pow who already show symptoms. The AT THE £2,500 on an advertisement deplet dared yeast.

cast may be given in milk, to- ing a young woman hanging wash- Dr. Goldberger recommends one mato juice or fruit juices with ad- ing on a line with a baby on the ounce of powdered yeast a day for itional benefit from the drink it- grass at her feet, but every poster an adult, or half of this for a elf In the average case,” he had to be scrapped because the child under twelve years of age,ays, "the patient, if carefully fod, artist forgot to give the woman a for the control of the disease in Vill be fully convalescent in from wedding ring." (Laughter.) those on bad diets or in persons uix to twelve weeks”

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