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CANADIAN

PACIFIC

A DELIGHTFUL CRUISE DE LUXE

by the

S.S. "EMPRESS OF AUSTRALIA"

21,850 Tons Gross, Length 615 Feet.

LEAVING HONGKONG, FEBRUARY 13th, 1928.

via Shanghai, Chinwangtao (for Peking), Beppu, Kobe, Yokohama, Honolulu, Hilo, San Francisco, Balboa, Panama, through the Panama Canal to Cristobal, Colon: Havana,

Arriving NEW YORK, APRIL 12th, 1928.

Two days available for sight-seeing in NEW YORK.

Leave NEW YORK ~

14th APRIL,

arriving SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL, 22nd 1928.

Shore excursions and sight-seeing tours at all Ports.

For Particulars. Apply To

CANADIAN PACIFIC.

Phone Central 753.

Tol, address "GACANPAC."

INDO CHINA STEAM- NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

BAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

Destination.

TO TSINGTAU via SWATOW

-- SHANGHAI „

TO OSAKA via ÁMOY, MOJI - Kutsang

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

TELEVISION.

RESULTS AT NEW YORK DEMONSTRATION."

Now York, Jan. 14. "

A number of scientista yesterday ovaning witnessed a demonstration designed to prove that television is almost sufficiently advanced for gen- oral introduction into the home.

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MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1928.

THOMAS HARDY'S

FUNERAL.

HIS HEART FOR WESSEX.

London, Jan. 14.

· An eleventh hour alteration In the arrangements for the burial of Thomas Hardy was made last

night. It was decided to place

GIRL BANDIT.

SENSATIONAL COUP IN SHANGHAL

(Our Own Correspondent.)

Shanghai, Jan, 13. Manipulating her

automatle

the

the famous novelist's heart in the pistols with the utmost nonchn On the machine a small plate was churchyard of Stinsford, nearance, a Chinese bobbed-haired shown which prosently became lumi-Clorchester and to inter the ashes bandit was the leading figure in a nous and the face of a man masipuin Westminster Abbey.

sensational raid to-day..

The girl had cight male lating a machine at an. electrical works three miles away grew visible, The decision representa a com-desperados assisting in

Their victims were a He was smoking a cigar and the promise between the views of operation. smoke was seen ascending, Marc- Hardy's own people in Dorsetshire, Chinese family in the Chinese city. over, his remarks were distinctly including several relations, who The raid was daringly carried desired him to be buried in his out at midday and yielded loot. own countryside, and those who of cash and jewellery.. took the view that the great writer belonged not to Wessex alone but to the whole nation. The decision is in keeping with Hardy's own wish The opening wards of his It is admitted that the apparatus will were: "I desire to be buried.

heard.

The face of a young woman then appeared. She was playing a man- doline, the notos of which word elearly audible. When sho showed a book its illustrations ware plainly visible.

is not yet rectly for the market, in Stinsford Church." The doctor but it is stated to be an advance-removed the heart last night. mont on anything hitherto discovOI- ed.-Reuter's American Service.

MISSIONS LOOTED,

N

Was

NO HIGHBROWS.

QUALIFICATIONS OF A

PROHIBITION AGENT.

Washington, Jan. 14,

THE

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***PERSEUS"

"HECTOR" "GLADOUS

25th Jan. Mar'les, London, I'dam & Glasgow

7th Feb. Marla, London, R'dam & Hamburg.. 22nd Fob. Mac'los, London, R'dam & Glasgow.

6th Mar. Mar'les, London, R'dam & Hamburg

· Via Casablanca.'.'

LIVERPOOL SERVICE

Numorous other instances of the burial of the heart apart from the Mr. Ryan, is body are recorded by history, but fifteen hundred out of his force of such cases have been very rare two thousand agents failed to pass in modern times. The tragic fata the Civil Service examination, re of the post Shelley is recalled. cently required of them.

"OYOLUPE" - cast Mr. Ryan fears that the dismis. When Shelley's body ashore near Vinreggis, In July, sai of the delinquents may be order. 1822, it was for a time buried in ed. and naks whether an easier He sand, Later, in the presence of examination is not possible. Byron, Hunt and Trelawney, it says he could not have passed this was cremated to permit interment examination himself and expresses of the ashes in the Protestant the opinion that the men should be Cemetery at Rome. The heart, accepted owing to their character, which would not burn, was snatch-experience and personality, not be ly refers to Chundian and other mised from the flames by Trelawney.cause they can pass a written test.

It was given to Mary Shelley, and |--Router's American Service. is now at Bournemouth.-British Wireless,

FENG YU-HSIANG'S POLICY.

Peking, Jan, 14 The statement by General Feng Yu-hsinng that foreign Imperialists in his territory, will henceforth micet with unreserved opposition an

sionaries in Honan, ty

The Canadians also state that many cmserts have been despoiled and ill treated, some being tortured and killed-Reatore

The Pail-Bearers.

Londen, Jan. 16.

GERMAN POLITICS.

A MOMENTOUS STER.

Berlin, Jan. 14.

this policy seems already, to have been carried out. Anyhow, auther Lic news has reached. Peking that the Kominchun, rercntly looted The premises of unny Canadian Presby

erians who evnenáted Homan in the spring at the ailvince of Fong Yu- It is officially stated that the Among the numerous ministers. any's fores. One instance is a pall-bearers at the funeral of of a dozen Cabinets since the re- Girl's Hoarding School which was Thomas Hardy at Westminster Fitted in His year with new beds, Abbey on Monday will be the solutions Herr Gessler alone has besiding, equipment and books. Premier, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, maintained his position throughout was looted and burned. Similarly, and the leader of the Opposition, and has been continuously the elsewhere, missiomries report that Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, Mr. Rad centre of the most fierce contro- pove nal and mission property has yard Kipling, Sir James Barrie, Mr. versies. He stood to his guns in- Javn stolen or dost sayil,

Bernard Shaw, Mr. John Gals.domitably but finally was compell- worthy, Sir Edmund Gosse anded to acknowledge his inability to Professor, A. E. Housman (for the deal with the critics of the forth- Provost of Queen's College, Ocoming army estimates. Gessler ford, and the Master of Magdalene is palpably the victim of physical afflictions accentuated by the death College, Cambridge.)-Reuter,

of his father and mother and two most promising sons within a year. Friction is alleged to have occurred recently between the Ministries of War and Foreign Affairs over munitions discovered mentous not only an account of at Kiel. The resignation is mo-

the War Ministry's influence on foreign policy but because of Gessier's great personal influence over Marshal Hindenburg-Reuter. [These munitions are believed to have been intended for China.]

THE PRAYER BOOK.

.." Steziners

Sailiege.

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Fooghing

? KOBE

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TO OSAKA vis AMOY.

[Laisang

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7 a.11. 7 a.m. 1a.m 7 a.m 7.a.m. 7 a.m.

SHANGHAI, MOJI Z KOBE

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{ Yatshing

Fooshing

TO STRAITS & CALCUTTA

{ Namsang

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TO SANDAKAN

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Frankfort-on-Main, Jan., 14.

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