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HOTELS

THE

HONGKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL Telegraphic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL

Telegraphie Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL"

HOTELS.

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel

Dea Wagons Lits, Peking.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

CHRISTMAS EVE & NEW YEARS EVE

Z$.50

"

Dinner Dance

8.30 p.m. to 12 midnight.

per person

booking can now be made at the Hotel.

HOTEL SAVOY

Comfort, Concerning and extinction.

HOTEL METROPOLE. HOTEL BOA VISTA.

22. Ico House Streal.

UNDER THE SAME

Macao:

MANAGEMENT.

The Kowloon Hotel.

Kowloon.

The Premier Hotel in Kowloon with all modern conveni- ences. High Class Cusine and Table Appointments. Wonderful view of the Harbour and Peak, and five minutes from the Ferry, Representative meeta ali Wharves and Railway Station.

steamers.

1

Daily Rates from.

Monthly Rates from ..

$ 5.00. $125.00..

Under the Personal Supervision and attention of

MR. & MRS. H. J. WHITE.

Tel. No. K.608 & K.609. Cables. "Kowlotel," Kewldon."

Tel. Kowloon No. 8

PALACE HOTEL.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1927.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

"RED" DESTRUCTION IN CANTON,

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ROCKING MOON

The above two photographs, give further vivid impressions of the damage caused to pro-"

perty during the recent reign of terror in Canton. (Photos: Mee Cheung).

THREE NANKING CAMPAIGNS.

(Continued from Page1.).

Tol. Address "PALACE." Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. Entirely, under English Management. Electric Light and Fana throughout. and Billiard-Rooms. Every Room with Private Bath. Leunge, Bar Unrivalled Cuisine under the partonal supervision of the proprietress.province of the exact nature of the Tarma moderate. Special terms to families on application to:

Mrs. J. BL OXBERRY, Proprietress,

EUROPE

After-dinner. dancing every

Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Cables :-

EUROPE"

Singapore.

HOTEL

SINGAPORE.

Grill

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Arthur E. Odall, Managing-Director.

GLENEALY PRIVATE HOTEL.

3 and 4, Genealy, Hongkong

(Near Daley Farini.

Tel..Ad. "Glenealy" Hongkong.

Telepkane 0.980.

Splendidly situated within chay walking distance to all business centres yet away from the holes. of rabo

Large airy roonis, Hot and cold water. Every room with private bath. Excellent food under the personal mupervision, of the proprietress, English, penish and French Spoken.

Moderate Terms, Special family and manibly tales. Apply

Proprietroos.

A AFTER NEARLY 16

YEARS' SILENCE:

SUPPOSED VICTIM OF "TITANIC" DISASTER.

CANTON MILITARY

SITUATION.

(Continued from Page. 1.}

the meantime, Pel's second-in- command, General Chung Ting- fan, is remaining in Shanghai-- Naval Wireless.

into the 38th Nationalist Army of Nanking). has issued a proclamu

London, Dec. 2. tion informing the people of the

One of the supposed victims Situation. He has exposed the un among the 1,500 odd persons who compromising attitude of the two were drowned when the "Titanic" Generals and the work of have sank in the North Atlantic in April, ntready wrought by the troops of 1912, after striking an iceberg on the neighbouring provinces (Kweiher maiden voyage to America has chow and Szechuen) who have in-re-appeared, after nearly 16 years' planning to despatch a portion of yaded Yunnan at their instigation silence.

the Revolutionary naval forces

NANKING NAVY. Craft Coming South.

Nanking, Dec. 15.

The Nationalist Government is

In conclusion, General 'Long Yun

The person in question is Mrs.under Admiral Yang Shu-chwang declared in the mandate that he would fight to the death against E. Robertson, who has just visited to the South for assisting in the the rebels in order to bring about her home in Coalville, Leicester-suppression of the Communist up- the liberation of the province from shire. this form of militarism.

The city of Yunnan-fu and its environs, as well as the railway heit between the capital and the border of Tonkin, are perfectly tranquil.

"

rising there.Kuo Wen.

WHAMPOA CADETS. Many Reach Shanghai, A large number of cadets from Whampoa military Academy, the institution which was in charge of Russians in the early days of the Cantonese adventure, have arrived in Shanghai as refugees.

Her explanation is that she cancelled her booked passage to America on the ill-fated vessel at the last moment. She says that she did war work and was captured by the Germans, but would not give any details of her later movements. "In addition to the military Mrs. Robertson visited Coalville to activities of the two dissentient see her mother, whose shock at Generals, small bands of robliers seeing her was only mitigated by Expelled by General Chang Fat- continue to infest different parts the fact that a reporter had called kwai, the leader who captured the city from General Li Chai-sum and

of the province. At Lunan, south on her on the previous day to say

of Yi Leung, they forced the that he had met her daughter. in turn lost it to the Communists, peasants to furnish money and provisions, but were later driven

tong, to the north-west of Yunnan-

fu, have been equally troubled by

bands of looters and have appealed

ment.

Mrs. Robertson stayed at Coal-250 cadets arrived at Shanghai on left. three steamers on December 10, back to Lo Plug by the armed ville for two nights, then

After staying a short peasant and village guarda. The giving no indications of her future 11 and 10.

time they went to Hangchow. districts of Mow Ting and Kwong movements.

· EDITOR IN GAOL,

At the Marine Court this morn-

COMIC OPERA OF A VIENNA for assistance from the Governing, before Commdr. G. F. Hole.)

PAPER. Hon Ngau-chal, an unlicensed

Vienna, Nov. 9." A Vienna journalist, Alexander Elsewhere, at Lu-Sze, to the east haker of Tai Kok Tsui, wai

bandit charged with boarding s.. Linan Weiss, was recently sentenced to of the Province, other

month's imprisonment. hordes have laid siege, and have without permission, at the instance several killed a number of police who at- of Mr. Duncanson, second officer Now the Opposition allege that, tempted to defend the place. They of that ship. Pleading guilty, the though in prison, he still enjoys then gave themselves over to all accused was sentenced to one great advantages for his politienl kinds of excesses, not hesitating to month's imprisonment with hard activities. The "Arbeiterzeitung" the shoot down the peasants without labour, the sentence to run con-states that Weiss receives

secutively to that inflicted at the whole staff of his paper, holda any reason.

Kowloon Court on a charge of editorial conforence with them. Paris-A curious quarrel is Budapest, November 1-An echo The Government has purchased assault. This case is reported and, in fact, arranges each issue agitating the cathedral town of of the morality campaign is heard a large quantity of liver, with a elsewhere, Montpellier. The Bishop recently in the present debate in Parliament view to the minting of a new cur- dismissed a sexton of the cathedral over the Minister of Welfare's because his own chauffeur and the motion do prohibit the sale of daughter of the sexton wished to loohol to men under the age of

ber 16th by the Labour, Depart-stayed with him for two hours. get married., The sexton has re- twenty-one. It is also suggested

ment of the Kuomintang ordering It is further reported that, In fused to go, and has brought an that minors shall not be permitted The Strike Movement. all operatives then on strike to civilian dress, he is allowed in action for wrongful dismissal and to consume alcoholic drinks

resume work forthwith and pro-visit his dentist three times a damages against the Bishop. The public, even in the company of their

London, Dec. 20. Bishop has asked the Courts to parents. It is stated that in the According to advices from hibiting others from going on week, having refused to be treated issue in expulsion order against the grape-growing districts children China, the general strike which strike, under pain of punishment. at the prison hospital. On those Occasions the prisoner uses an sexton, and has now obtained the habitually drink wine and adversely was timed to take place in Shang- Strikes at Wuhu and Kiukiong automobile. The above-mention- drder, but it cannot be put in force affect their mental development. hai on December 19th has not have also been settled, but con-d journal declares that he availa until January, and by that time the The motion is arousing much taken place, and the general ditions have apparently not himself of these visits to his action for damages will have been antagonism among vineyard- situation remains unchanged. aufficiently improved at Wuhu todontist for holding further edi- heard,

owners and wine-sellers,

The failure of the Communists to allow the local Commissioner of torial conferences; and the paper bring about the stoppage may not Customs to dispense with the vigorously protests against a.state be altogether unconnected with the protection of British gunboats of things reminiscent of comic isaue of a proclamation on Decem-British Wireless.

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Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.

reney-Indo-Pacifi

GENERAL SITUATION.

of the journal before it goes to press. During the first days of his imprisonment four of his staf editors made their appearance and

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