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HOTELS.

THE

HONGKONG

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

AND

SHANGHAI

·ASTÜR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL: MAJESTIC HOTEL.

Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL"

HOTELS.

LIMITED..

In association with the Grand Hotel

Dos Wagons Lite, Poking.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH.

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.

Hotol.)

Hotet launch meets all stesmurs.

($25 for thirty Tin Tickets can be had at the Office of the above

Telephone C. 373

Tel. Add:"Victoria."

HOTELS OF

APOTEL, METROPOL

J. H. WITCHELL,

Manager.

DISTINCTION

The Kowloon Hotel Kowloon,

The Premier Hotel in Kowloon with all modern conveniences. High Class Cusine and Table Appolutments. Wonderful view of the Harbour and Peak, and five minutes from the Ferry, Wharves and Railway Station. Representative meets all steamers.

Daily Rates from Monthly Rates from

$ 3.00.

$130.00.

FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1928.

DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS OF MARSHAL LI CHAI-SUM'S PARTY.

Above are three of the members included in Marshai Li Chal-sum's parly which is at present on an official visit to Hongkong. On the left is General Hau Ching-tang. Com- mander of Troops in the Eastern Command; In the centre, is Mr. Chu Chao-hain, Foreign. Minister to the Southern Government; and. at right, is Admiral Chan Chat, Chief of the. Naval Department of the Southern Government.

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PREVIOUS RECORDS

BEATEN.

MANUFACTURERS LIFE INSURANCE CO REPORT.

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WELCOME TO LI CHAI-SUM.

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Chang Hu-cheng. Admiral Chan Chat and General Hsu Ching-tang, On The Pier.

EARL HAIG MEMORIAL APPEAL,

NATIONAL TRIBUTE IN FORM

OF HOMES.

London, Mar. 1.

A national appeal has been! published seeking a sum of Those assembled on the pier to £500,000 to provide and endow

The forty-first annual report of the Manufacturers Life Insuranco! Company, of which Messrs. Arnold and Co. are the Hongkong agents,

a subinitted to policyholders and meet the party included Con- Homes for Ex-Service Men, their shareholders,nt the annual meet-modore J. L. Pearson, C.M.G. widows and orphans, in niemory ing held on the 19th of January, Fasme. Commdr. II. Rogers, and of the late Field-Marshal Earl indicates a year of marked expan-Captain A. R. Palmer, of H.M.S. Haig.

Argus, (representing 11. E. Vice

The appeal is signed by Mr.. "Another record in new assur-Admiral Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt), Stanley Baldwin, Mr. Ramsay Mac- ances was established. The new H.E. Major General C. C. Luard, Donald, Mr. Lloyd George, Earl business for 1927 amounted to CB, C.M.C., hia A.D.C., Lieut. R. Jellicoe, and the Chiefs of Staffs of $77,576,008, bringing the insurance. Johnston and Col: C. Russell the Army, Navy and Air Force. in force at December 31st, 1927, Brown, D.S.O., Group Commander

The funds will be controlled by to $102,554,431.

G. D. A. Robertson, the Hon. Sir The assets of the Company in- Henry Pollock, K.C., the Hon. Sir untional trustees of which the creased by $8,750,000, and at the Shou-son Chow, the Hon. Mr. R. H.Prince of Wales and the Prime end of December reached the large Kolewall, C.ALG., the Hon. Mr. E. Minister will undertake the res- sum of $76,483,181. Of this R. Hallifax C.M.G., C.B.E., Hon, ponsibility, while the leaders of Inmount over $27,000,000 is invest Sir Joseph Kemp, K.C., C.B.E., the the Liberal and Labour Parties ed in Government, Government Hon. Mr. Mel Messer, O.B.E., the will each nominate one.Reuter. Guaranteed and Municipal Bonds Hon. Mr. II. T. Creasy, the Hon. and more than 20,000,000 com Mr. D. G. M. Bernard, the Hon. prises First mortgages on improv-Mr. R. A. C. North, the Hon. Mr. LARGE OBSERVATORY E. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G., the Hon.

FOR MANCHURIA. The payments to policyholders Mr. J. Owen Hughes, the Hon. also constitute a reconi. Death Mr. A. C. Hynes, Mr. W. E, L. Shenton, Mr. R/ E. Lindsell,' Mr. claims amounted to $2,412,000 W. J. Carrie, Mr. A. E. Wood, matured policies, annuities, etc., Mr. D. W. Tratman, Mr. J. $3,219,065 and dividends to policy, Franks, Mr. G. R. Sager, holders $1,611,217. Payments to

Mr. C. G. Perdue. Mr. E. L. living

Mukden, Fob. 21. polleyholders totalled. almost twice the sum paid bene-Li Yau-tsun (chairman of the are afoot to establish a large, up- As previously reported, plans Agassiz, Mr. E. W. Hamilton, Mr. ficiaries under death cloima. Chinese Chamber of Commerce, to-date astronomical and meteoro Tel. Address "PALACE." addition to the above the Com-Mr. Leung Kwal-dien, and Mr. Luk logical observatory in the leased Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station.

pany set aside $1,973,852,

territory of South Manchuria. Entirely, under English Management. Electric Light and Fan throughout.dividenda to policyholders to pe

H.E. Major General Luard took The observatory, which is to be Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms. Unrivalled Culaine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. paid during 1928.

the salute as the band and guard | Inaugurated in commemoration of Terms moderate. Special terma to familles on application to:

Surplus earnings in 1927 were of honour of the King's Own the forthcoming coronation of very satisfactory and have made Scottish Borderers marched past, the Japanese Emperor is planned possible an increase in the seale Matshal Li (to-day lunched on a grand scale and, if built of dividends payable to policy-at Government House, to-according to the plan, will be holders for the fourth consecutive vether with members of the foremost in Asia, with few year.

the Executive and Legisla equals in the world. It is to be tive Councils and leading mem-filled out with the best and most bers of the Chinese community. modern instruments, including a To-night he will be present at a 20 inch reflector and a 60 inch re- dinner to the whole of the Canton fractor. The cost is figured at party at Government House, and Yen. 1,500,000, the main portion this will be followed by a recep-of which la to be provided by the tion to which the heads of busi-South Manchuria Railway Co., al- FOUR WOMEN FINED FOR ness firms and members of the though the observatory will bo

OBSTRUCTION.

Chinese community have been established in the joint names of invited.

all the Japanese residents in Man- churin. In regard to climatic con- ditions, scarcity of precipitation

Under the Personal Supervision and attention of

MIL. & MRS. H. J. WHITE.

Cables. "Kowlotel." Kowloon.

Tel. No. K.608 & K.600.

PALACE HOTEL.

Tol. Kowloon No. 8

Mrs. J. II. OXBERRY, Proprietress,

EUROPE

After-dinner dancing every

Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Cables:-

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Singapore.

HOTEL

SINGAPORE.

Grill

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Arthur E. Odell, Managing Director.

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HONGKONG.

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by ALFRED MORLEY, 1 and 3, Wyndham Street, In the City of Victoris, Hongkong.

WASHING AT STREET FOUNTAINS.

The water restrictiorik: 311 Chinese houses in. Wanchai have

Wan-chau.

..

A Heavy Programine,

TO COMMEMORATE THE CORONATION,

led the tenants of these houses to To-morrow, a conference will be and clearness of the air, Man- do their washing at the street held at Government House at churia is said to compare favour- fountains, The police officer 10 a.m. to discuss matters of ably with California. The site of prosecuting four women found so joint interest to Canton and Hong-the new building has not yet been doing informed Major C. Willson kong, following which Marshal Ldefinitely fixed, but Mts. Samon that these people formed an ob-will be entertained at the house of and Nanshan have been suggest- struction- and often allowed the the Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall, ed.

water from the 'street fountains C.M.G., for Liffin.

to run to waste. The footpath Sir 'Shou-son Chow and Mr.

round the street fountain, said the Kotewall will be joint hosts at a insurrection of his subordinate, officer, was rendered dangerous reception to be held at 4 p.m. in General Chan King-ming, the Fei- due to the presence of soapsuus. the Chinese Merchants' Club, ying was one of the warships The women pleaded that they China Building; and at 7 p.m. the which steamed into the front were unable to wash their clothing distinguished visitor will attend reach at Canton and took part in at home due to the water restrie- a dinner given in his honour by the memorable bombardment of tions and were fined $2 each. the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, the city. Admiral Chan Chak was Marshal Li will return to Can- then, as now, in control of the ton on Sunday, leaving Queen's Fleet, and had his flug on HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW? Pier at 10 am. A Guard of Wing-fung (now rechristened the Honour will be assembled on Chungahan, after the late Kuomin- Queen's Pier, and the usual tang leader), which led the bom-

barding fleet upstream. salutes will be fired.

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

Badance which doctors whose follow

A return visit of H. E. dhe Governor has been arranged for sts recently murdered a British officer, Captain March 9th, but as yet no official Fergusen. Prines of Louis of Hourbon, the details are available.

blind grandson of Loula XVII, who' claima Chambord Chatte and declares himself heir to

the French throne. . It was named after

ita bullder, fir John Bond. Comptrofier to

THE "FEIYING.""

Queen Henrietta Maria in 1CRC, 4. Sure Formerly Belonged to Germany,

Fir Thonina Läwrence, Pieton, Horwell, Swift

Nelson, and Lady Hamilton. G. The lan-

the

For a time, the Felying did odd commissions, and has in latter years been constantlý employed as a dispatch boat between Shanghai, Swatow and Canton.

The Felying has a length of 260 feet, a breadth of 29 feet, a draftf

guage spoken la Afghanistan, G.Lyceum, The Feiying, by which Marshal of 13 feet, and displaces 850 tons.. 2.006, Drury Lane, 3.CD0.. Palladian, 2.372. Li and party came down from She is equipped with two sets of 4690 92 Viscount, 4480. Baron, 4926 Canton, is the largest of the engines of 5.500 h.p, and develops a speed of 22 knots, which must

7. Duke, £180 2a. Marqula, 2030 241: Eat!,

Z. 8. Aluminium and Iran are. The der Southern Government's flotilla of have accounted for her being re- tala 70 per cent. of pure aluminium. A gunboata. Built at the Stettin named the "Feiying," or Flying

poslts just found in the Atlas mountains con.

Aint mining and filot cutting. 11. That of

Gelma Graves, In Norfolk, 10. That of naval yards, he was one of Eagle, when taken over with other piet of ground at Homell, granted by Jam number of gunboats secured by warships from Germany in 1914. 1. for a period of 2,900 years at sixpenco China on that country joining the per annum. 15. King Amanuliah of AL banlan, who is proprietar ef the hotel at allied Powers during the Great Kabul, Els capital, and the Journal "Amant-l-War, and has had a decidedly with the view to Colonial and long

Of a composite type devised

distance cruising needs, the Fei- chequered career since,

Formerly under the control of ying is very well equipped, as re- The final oficial figures give the the Peking Government, she was garde armament for a vessel of totul value of the field crops of one of the warships which first her size, A 105 mm. gun 1s Canada last year as £220,888,400, declared their neutrality from any the secondary armament consists

mounted for'ard and aft, while! which is an increase of £5,800,000 Governmental control, and subse-of three smaller guns mounted on over 1026. The wheat yield, the quantly came down South from either alde, four, machine-guns, second-largest in the history of the Yangtze to support the late and three torpedo tubes. She has Canada, was 440,024,000 bushels, Dr. Sun Yat-sen. valued at £87,888,000, on the basis

four funnels. When Dr. Sun was forced to flee

of one dollar a bushel received by from Canton, in 1923, owing to theries 146 officers and men.

Fally, manned, the Felying car

growers.

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