14.
HOTELS
/ THE
HONGKONG
HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL Telegraphic Address: “KREMLİN, HONGKONG,
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL;
MAJESTIC HOTEL.
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 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 ali 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.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1927.
·IMPRESSIVE CENOTAPH CEREMONY.
H.E, the Officer "Administering the Government (the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn) is scen Laying the Colony's wreath on the base of the Cenotaph at Friday's Impressive Armistice Day ceremony. (Photo: Welcome Studio.)
HUNAN UNREST.
J: H. WITCHELL
Telephone C.878.
Manager.
HOTEL SAVOY
Comfort, Convenience and Distinction.
HOTEL METROPOLE. HOTEL BOA VISTA.
22, Ico 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.
זי
Very moderate rates
on application to-
H. J. WHITE,
Tel. Nos. K608 & K609, Cables, KOWLOTEL'
Hongkong.
Manager.
#Tel. Address "PALACE."
PALACE HOTEL. Tel. Kowloon No. 8"
Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station, Entirely, under English Management. Electric Light and Fana throughout, Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Turma 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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Communists Not Dealt With.
STABILITY FOR ALL AEROPLANES.
AUTOMATIC DEVICE TO BE TESTED.
London, Nov. 13.
#
DAY BY DAY."
Theft of clothing valued at $233 is reported by the owner of cargo junk No. 126. The clothing was kept in the hold of the junk which was padlocked but the thief mar- aged to prise open the hatch cover.
Mr. L. A. dog Remedios, residing
All this is to the good and the government is to be congratulated on sʊ MOON restoring apparent
Sir Samuel Hoare, the Air peace and order, but disturbing Minister, and
a party of Air signs are not lacking. First, no Ministry technical experts, will A Chinese girl aged three, was ene trusts Tang Seng-chi, or has make an exhaustive test of the sent to the Kowloon Hospital yes- any confidence in his revolutionary
Few Handley-Page,automatic slo-terday suffering from Injuries principles or military integrity; ted wing device, at Cricklewood, on to her left leg, caused by He will probably try to hold Friday next. The slotted wing being run over by an empty earth Changsha, in case his plans for device in its present form renders truck at the reclamation in Kowloon Central China fail, but no one it practically impossible for an City Road. thinks that he would not, for his own advantage, sacrifice his party aeroplane to stafl--the most pre-
valent cause of disaster. or his province. It is said that he has been asked by Ho Chien to In the original form, some years at No. 6, Austin Road, reports that retire, and he may not be unwilling: ago, it was operated at will, batas 4 p.m. on Saturday while riding to take the hint as he has made a the latest development makes it motor cycle No. 941 in Nathan good deal out of Hunan during his automatic in pperation,
Road, near Yaumati School, a yeur of office. Again, none of the Communist leaders have been Aeronautical experts consider it Chinese boy ran across the road and brought to account. Insignificant to be the most important step for-was, knocked down, receiving in- subordinates have perished and ward made in aeronautical design juries to, his head, face and” lega, The youth was taken to the Kwong the government is making a great since the war-British Wireless.
Wah ospital. show of its activities against the movement, but the leaders them- selves are at large and more or less openly working. Chuan San, the oldest revolutionary society which is known to have trained
violent of the most tremists last April, has just ob- |tained "permanent headquarters from the government. Moreover, the merciless taxation is stendily: driving away all the former weal thy families and merchants. The
some
ex-
18 PERISH AS SHIP
The body of a Chinese coolic was picked up front the Harbour, near the Kowloon City reclamation, and sent to the Kowloon Mortuary yes terday. It has since been estab lished
Than that the
belong- 32 Lighter No.
SINKS.
A. PHILIPPINES ISLAND
"
· TRAGEDY.
to ed
of
Eighteen passengers and erew the Netherland Harbour Works board a small boat are believed to and that he fell into the sea and has in most cases been given have perished in the sea when the two days age while in the act of back to the owners, hat in spite of aft sunk off the coast of Burgos, stepping ashore from the lighter. the good harvest they receive allocos Norte on the night of No- most nothing from it. A landown.vember 4. This is according to a
DR. C. E. SMITH KNOCKED,
DOWN BY CAR.
er told me recently that out of 200 constabulary report from the pre- SINGAPORE ACCIDENT. Lan of rice, the government took vincia! commander of Hocos Norte. www|100; the farmer 25; taxes for eda. The boat sailed from Lanag and
cution of peasants' children came
when was bound, for Claveria to five and 20 had to be put aside. for next year. The 50 tan left heavy squalls caught it near Bur- were sent into the city to be sold, ros. Unable to weather the rough but before they reached the sea, the vessel sank with the pas
While alighting from a motor market, more than $70 had been sengers and crew, the report says bus in East Coast Road on Sun- spent on military taxes,
The coasts of Hocos Norte were day afternoon last, Dr. Clarence likin, market dues, etc. As unhusked patrolled by constabulary soldiers, E. Smith, an assistant surgeon at rice sells for $1.60 2 lan, the owner and outgoing vessels were notified the General Hospital was knock- made just $10 on the whole trans- of the disaster, according to the ed down by a car and is at present action. In the city taxes have al-provincial commander-Manila in the General Hospital with a ready been paid to two different Bidletin. governments this year, and now
the taxes for the next two yours have been collected...
STILL AT LARGE.
ESCAPED CONVICTS ELUDE
CAPTURE.
...
fracture of the smaller bone of his left leg. He had one foot only on the ground when the bus hit him, and although his other leg. bone was not was injured, the broken.
It is expected that Dr. Smith will be an inmate of the hospital for five or six weeks. The driver
of the car has been arrested and
Secret Meetings of Farmers,
Conditions are even worse in the country, Bands of brigands, most of them soldiers who have deserted with their arms, roam about, plundering, killing, and holding for
The search for the four convicts charged with causing hurt by a ransom In the south of the pro-who escaped from the Gaol on rash act. vince a force of more than 500 men Thursday afternoon was continued gees from place to place, seizing during the week-end, and a hum-Second Police Court on the follow- the population of a whole city and ber of raids were carried out ating morning and the accused re- holding them in terror till enough likely haunts frequented by crimi-manded on bail of $500, money hus been collected. Innial characters..
many country places the organiza-
tion of the Farmers' Union is still
No results have been obtained,
The case was mentioned in the
complete, and men meet in secret the official statement made this HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW? from time to time. At Liling remorning being to the effect that! cently, a group of men drove out the men are still at large.
the magistrato in the name of Com- munism, and this was believed to be the beginning of a widesprend plot. There seems no doubt in the minds of the people that the Communists are working and can- nol effectively be suppressed.
HARBOUR ROBBERY.
MASTER ROBBED OF £65.
A robbery was perpetrated an Friday last on board the Bank Line
STEAMERS COLLIDE.
BOTH SLIGHTLY DAMAGED.
Oslo, Nov. 13.
The Norwegian steamer Tysla, from Calcutta, and the Swedish steamer Nanking, "from Vladivos- tok, have put in here, damaged in a collision-Reuter.
The following are the replies to to-day's questions:-
1. France. 2. Stating a future event as if It had already occurred; e... "Two brothers nad the murdered man rode on to Florence." 3. Mi Emma Cona, 4. Hearts, boUg, love and acorns. 5. Voltaire in "Candle." Lorengarin-LUSO), Cyprus.. 7. The Poor Clare Collellnes, 8. H. K. Vyner Brooke of Serawak. 9. From the Infanta af Castile, who married John of Gaunt The, common people found the pronounciation dept to. Bulwer Lytton. 11. Fifty-nine. 12. "The Hunting pf. the Shark." by Lewis Caroll
Lady Gerald Wellesley had a narrow escape when a flat below that which she occupies in Mount street, Park-lane, caught fire early
THE AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., INC. vessel Tinhow, as a result of CHICAGO HOTEL FIRE. one recent morning. She and other
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MRS. SEKAI
MASSAGE ›
2nd Floor
2. Daddoll Street, Hongkong.
WOMAN AND CHILDREN ́
KILLED.
The Star of
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in a new romance-
A colourful tale of love, plot and counter plot, set against the back- ground of sunny Spain.
MAE MURRAY
IN
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DIMITRI BUCHOWETZKI Production
with
LLOYD HUGHES
AT THE
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Mayer
PICTURE
QUEEN'S TO-DAY ONLY
At 2.30, 5.10, 715 & 9.20
in
ADOLPHE MENJOU
Social Celebrity
MALCOLM ST.CLAIR Production with CHESTER CONKLIN LOUISE BROOKS
The comedy of a
barber who posed
as a French count.
with unexpected results.
AT THE
WORLD
TO-DAY ONLY
Orchestra 5.15 & 9.20. Interpreter 2.30 & 7.15.
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PRESENTED I JEDES 1. LASKY
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LAST MAN
which the thief or thieves "got
occupants of the building bad to away with £65 in money belonging |
leave in their night clothes. The to the Captain of the steamer..
fire was in. the lower part of the From the accounts received it'
house, and it spread rapidly to the would appear that the Captain of
upper floor, Lady Gerald Wellesley's MASSAGE HALL the vessel went ashore to spend
flat, being involved. The two peri the evening with friends and re-
sons who had the narrowest es AT THE turned to his boat shortly after Eight women and 18 children capes were a nursemaid and a little midnight.
were killed and injured in a fire at girl, who just managed to get out To his surprise, he found that a fashionable hotel. Many were of their bedroom in time. A few his cabin had been broken into trapped on the third floor, minutes later flames were coming and that his safe had been rifled the flames roaring up thaift out of the doorways and up the
MRS. §. UZUNOYE,' Expert Masseuse
37, Queen's Road. 0.2nd. floor
Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.
Chicago, Nov. 18,
STAR
5.30 to 8.30 Continuous.
A report of the affair has since shaft Renter's-American Service, stairs from the rooms below. The At 9.15-Our Cabaret in "HEY! HEY!'' been made to the police,
fire brigade were quickly at work
and soon put the fire out.
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