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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.

Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL"

HOTELS.

LIMITED..

In association with the Grand Hotel Des Wagons Lits, Peking.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

Most Modern and Contral Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and

-Cold Water, also Telephone.

All Trams paas in front of Hotol.

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 bad at the Office

of the above Hotel.)

TEA DANCES

MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS

5 to 7 p.m.

Tol. Add. Victoria..

Telephone C. 373. J. H. WİTCHELL,

HOTELS OF

Manager.

DISTINCTION

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, Wharves and Rallway Station. Representative meeta. all

steamers.

Daily Rates, from

$5.00 $125.00.

Monthly Rates from ................... Under the Personal Supervision and attention of

MR. & MRS. H. J. WHITE.

Tel. No. K.608 & K.609. Cables. "Kowlotel." Kowloon.

PALACE HOTEL.

EUROPE

Cables:

"EUROPE"

Singapore,

HOTEL

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

ST. GEORGE'S BALL.

LAST NIGHT'S HAPPY: ·

- CELEBRATION.

The utmost success attended the ball given by the Hongkong So- ciety of St. George at the. "City Hall last night, and the function will be long remembered as one of the happiest ever hold under the auspices of the Society.

The charming lighting effects, the effective decorations and the gay concourse of guests, including a goodly number of naval and military officers in uniform, com- bined to present a very colourful, scene, and when the dancing was in full swing an extremely bright and happy atmosphore prevailed. The arrangements made by the officials, in which connoxion a special word of praise is due to the energetic Hon. Secretary (Mr. S. 7. Butlin), were all that could be desired.

On the arrival of HE, Major General Luard, who was represent ing H.E. the Governor, the guest of honour was met at the entrance by the President of the Society (Mr. C. G. Alabaster), and mem- bera of the Committee. Then, escorted by Beefeaters and the drum and fife band of the Queen's Regiment playing a lively air, the party made their way to St. George's Hall, where, after the playing of the National Anthem, the ball started with the official set of Lancors.

Later in the evening, the official supper party was played down to the Theatre, Royal, where the ex- tremely effective setting of the stage called forth much admira- tion.

President's Speech.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1928,

KILLED IN BELGIAN CONGO.

"A huge male gorilla, which Colonel, F. H. Fenn, of the Eritish expedition in the Belgian Congo, recently tracked down. It kept up a running fight for three hours and several times charged at close. quarters before it was despatched. It weighed 450 lbs., stood 5 ft. 8 in. high, and had a chest measurement of 62 ins.

GREEN HOWARDS.

A

LEAVE SHANGHAI FOR HOME.

BANK RETURNS,”

FIGURES FOR DECEMBER.

The returns of the average amount of bank notes in circula- ion and of specie in reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended

Banks. Averago

Amount. *

Specie in Reserve.

3

Chartered

15,755,477 6,800,000*

During the course of the supper, the President of the Society de livered the customary speech. He

Shanghai, Jan. 6. said "Your Excellencies, ladies

The troopship Dorsetshire left and gentlemen, This year the to-day bound for Home with the duty and privilege devolve on me 1st Battalion of the Green of proposing the toast of our Howards and 200 gunners. They 31st December, 1927, as certified Patron Saint and Country, but were given an enthusiastje send by the Managers of the respective before doing so I feel sure I am

off in which the United States Banks are: voicing the sentiments not only of Marines were very prominent.- the English but of all present, Reuter." members as well as guests, when I express our heartfelt sorrow that the illness of Lady Clementi has prevented her and His Excellency the Governor being with us to- night. It is the earnest hope of all of us that she will be apeedily restored to complete health and strength,(Applause). The tonst which I am proposing la one, such

Shanghai, Jan. 6. is the modesty of the English Following the suspicion that! character, that is given all too some of the Nationalists, troops posited with the Crown Agenta valued seldom. Only twice in every year now in Hantão are disloyal, they at £1,229,100. do we honour it and on one of have been disarmed as a precau- those occasions when only Eng-tion against trouble.

APPREHENSION IN SHANGHAI.

SOME TROOPS, DISARMED.

Bandits at Shasi.

Bank ..... Hongkong and

Shanghai

Bank..... 47,195,845 34,000,000+ Mercantile

Bank of

India ......

1,955,310 650,000$

Total .$64,808,432 40,460,000

*In addition Sterling Securities de-

In addition Securities deposited

FORGED TICKETS.

TWO MEN CHARGED.

Before Major C. Willson, this morning. two Chinese were charged with uttering forged tie- kets of the Hongkong Canton and Macao Steamboat Company.

with the Crown Agents and Straits Tel Address "PALACE” fish are present. That is on St. In Shanghai there is some feel-Government valued at £3,287,205. Tel Kowloon No. 8

In addition Securities deposited Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. George's Day, the 23rd April, aing of apprehension owing to the Entirely, under English Management Electric Light and Fans throughout day marked in history not only presence in the city of agents of with the Crown Agents valued at

Sun Chuang-fang-£180,000. Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms.

as the anniversary of the martyr Marshal Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress.dom of our Patron Saint but also Naval Wireless. ferma moderate. Special tarms to familles on application to:

Mrs. J. EL OXBERRY, Proprietress 28 the anniversary of stirring events on land and sea, from the

Shasi, Jan. 6. defeat of the Saracen in the

There are indications that the Crusades to the glorious episode 20th Army of General Yang Seng on the Mole at Zeebrugge will soon move up the river. from (Applause). It is a day honoured Shasi. Their place at Shasi will by association with more peace be taken by the 2nd Array under ful memories for it is the birthday the command of Loh Ting-ping, of Shakespeare. Some historians There are large numbers of tell us that on St. George's Day bandits in the district.-Naval Shakespeare also died but those Wireless. historians, I shrewdly suspect, were Baconian in their ideas, for surely as long as the English language and English literature survive, Shakespeare' will never die. (Applause). The other oe

-MISHAP IN FOG. casion, on which we honour this toúst is to-night, which is the

New York, Dec. 31. Feast of the Epiphany, twelve

The U. S. coatgaard service nights after Christmas and itself

Dollar the Christmas of Old England. has advised that the On such a night, with the Yule Log round the world liner President the British on the hearth and the boar's head Hayes collided with and sirloin on the festive board, steamer Taranta to-day in a fog in the Englishman rejoices to be at Ambrose Channel and thereafter home to entertain his friends. returned to its pier in Jersey City. On behalf of the Society I wish you all a hearty welcome and trust that you have enjoyed yourselves and will continue to do so for the rest of the evening. (Applause). Before I close, I should like to say

After-dinner dancing every

Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

SINGAPORE.

Grill

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"PRESIDENT HAYES" IN COLLISION,

The Hayes is reported seriously damaged. It was outbound for Easton from New York and had no passengers aboard-Associated Preas..

Mr. F. E. Nash prosecuted on behalf br Mr. Woo Hay-tong, the complainant in the case, and Mr. Horace Lo defended one of the two Chinese.

The unrepresented defendant made a atatement to the effect that

he picked up the tickets from a waste paper basket in the ship- ping company's office and handed them to Mr. Lo's client.

On the application of Mr. Nash, his Worship granted a week's re- mand to enable the police to make further enquiries.

OFFICIAL VISIT ENDS.

SECRETARY FOR WAR TO LEAVE INDIA.

Warsaw, Dec. 8.~A ́guest. atsa how gratified I am for the ready wedding feast in a village near and willing labours of our inde-Vana brought with him a shell fatigable Ball Secretary and the from a nearby battlefield. He members of the committees and had started to unscrew the cap

London, Jan. 6. aub-committees, without which this when there was a terrible explo- The Secretary for War, Bir Ball could not have been the sue- sion. The bride and two others Laming-Worthington-Evans,-who- cess I hope it has beens (Ap were killed outright, and four left London In November for an plause). Your Excellencies, ladies mortally wounded. The house offelal visit to India, will leave and gentlemen, I give you St. was demolished.

Bombay on January 28th on his ro- George and England,"

turn Home-British Wireless.

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?..

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

No sooner had the toast been honoured than the drums and fifes struck up the strains of Land of Hope and Glory," in the singing of which all present joined.

An admirable programme of dance music was provided by Art Smith's Hongkong Hotel orchestra, and Yorkshire Bank Ltd. (a) Fertain years on a charge of housebreaking

and dancing continued until the early hours of the morning.

TO-DAY.

Dollar on demand · 2/- 11/16. · Lighting-up

5.53 p.m.

1. Chairman of the Disarmament, Conference; a director of the Bank of England and head

Said to have only left prison in September and with a record of

previous everal

convictions, Anthony Bernard Abbott, 29, sea- was at Middlesex Sessions the Ministry of Agriculture. 2. The Bank of Bent to penal servitude for three

of Baring Brothers and Co., Ltd.; warld's new

chess champion: Parliamentary Betratary to man,

Liverpool and Martins Ltd. and the Lança.

ing to Moses) an inland design of small at Ealing. Abbott pleaded that his particles of stone, glass, ele., In verloss coloum. 4. Baalile formation on island of Career of crime followed on his Staffo. In Hebrides. 6. Ten feet; Day of Conviction at that court in 1922. Fundy (seventy feet). Mediterranean (prac Sir Montagu Sharpe asked: “Are

leally ni G. From the Norman Conquest (2000) until the middle of Use furteenth people who commit crimes not to century. They are situated near a caits be locked up, or, are they to be raining district ami Bear'n'coalfeld; thus the neceatties of is leather trade are at hand, allowed liberty to prey on the In 411 A.D. to defend far from the Inva public? I am sorry to have to sion of the Gotha, S. Wal., 10. Sir Walter sentence you. It is no pleasure to Scutt: Longfellow; Millan: Koate; Toningon.

E. 39.87 inches., 12. A zatural puse in a me to do so."

line of postry, usually near the middle.

Entertainments

LAUGHS APLENTY!

Girls, golf, gaiety and fast fun in the sparkling screen version of a stage play that ran for three years in New York. A comedy full of amusing com- plications ending in a thrilling elimax-

EDDIE CANTOR

KID BOOTS

with

CLARA BOW

BILLIE DOVE

LAWRENCE GRAY

and

BEVIES OF ZIEGFELD BEAUTIES

TIMES & PRICES-

2.30 5.10 & 7.15...$1.00, 60 c., 40 c. & 80 c. 9.20

...$1.50, $1.00, 60 c. & 40 c.

AT THE

QUEEN'S

FINAL SHOWINGS

TO-DAY

Thrilling as a bandit, supreme as a lover-

RUDOLPH

VALENTINO

In

THE

EAGLE

-Also-

CANTON REVOLT

AT THE

FILM

WORLD

FINAL SHOWINGS

TO-DAY

Orchestra 5.15 & 9.20. Interpreter 2.30 & 7.15.

ADOLPH TUKOR JESSEL LABKY!

AT THE

The

Show Off

STAR

Malcolm St. Clair Production FORDSTERLING, LOIS WILSON LOUISE BROOKS, GREGORY KELLY

a

Gicture

The

amusing story of a big bluff, Adapted

from a play that

ran for two years

FINAL SHOWINGS

TO-DAY

Continuous From 2.30 to 11,15.