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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, SILANGHAI”!

HOTELS.

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel

Des Wagons Lits, Péking.

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.

Hotel.)

Hotel launch meets all steamers.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

NO INDIAN TROOPS

FOR IRAK.

HOLY WAR FEARS STILL

UNCONFIRMED...

IBN SAUD'S SUBSIDY.

... London, Mar. 12. The situation in Arabia was dis- cussed in the House of Commons at question-time, when Mr., L. C. M. S. Amery, the Dominions Secre tury, expressed himself as glad of the opportunity to deny the report that Indian troops had been order- ed to Koweit.

Mr. Amery added that there had been no confirmation of the report that Ibn Saud, the King of the Hedjaz, had declared a Holy War, or had made any movement which could be identified as such.

It was still considered unneces sary by the British authorities to send a British representative to Ibn Saud's court, recent advices showing that the position had been exaggerated and there is little cause for immediate anxiety, though a large force of Waliabis

($25 for thirty Tiffin Tickets can be had at the Office of the above is reported to be concentrated on

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HOTELS OF

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Manager.

DISTINCTION

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Kowloon.

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Daily Rates from

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$130,00. Under the Personal Supervision and attention of

MR. & MRS. H. J. WHITE.

Cables. "Kowlotel." Kowloon,

Tol. No, K.608 & K.009.

PALACE HOTEL.

Tel, Kowloon No. 8

Tel. Address "PALACE.” Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. Entirely, under English Management. Electric Light and Fan throughout. Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Terme moderate. Special terms is 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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the Transjordanian frontier.

The Dominions Secretary also informed a questioner that the total cost of the subsidy paid to Ibn Saud in the years 1917-1923 wis approximately £542,000. No subsidy had been paid to the King of the Hedjaz since 1923.-Reuter.

London, Mar. 12,

Asked whether the sensational

TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1928.

FAMOUS BRITISH AIRMAN" KILLED.

Flight' Lieutenant Kinkend, who was killed instantan- eously yesterday, whilst attempting a new speed record at Calshot, Southampton Water, is seen in the centre of the above group. With him are Flight Lieut. Worsley (left) and Flight Lleut. Webster. They composed the British team which won the Schneider Cup for Great Britain at

Venice last year. #

RUNNING NOT AFFECTED BY

BIRTHDAY.

reports which had appeared in the SAFETY OF TRAM-CARS. GOVERNOR'S 62ND newspapers could be disregarded na being unduly alarmint, Mr. Amery thought they might. He added there was no evidence that Ibn Saud was directly respon- sible for the raids which it would be scarcely accurate to describe as an invasión.

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The British Government were in frequent communication with Ibn Saud, "

Last December they suggested a meeting at a convenient spot be- tween Ibn Saud and the Resident at the Persian Gulf to discuss any outstanding matters.

STATE OF ROADWAY.

SIR HUGH CLIFFORD HAS AERIAL TRIP.

45 YEARS SERVICE..

Singapore, Mar. 5. To-day is Sir Hugh Clifford's

The accident to a London County Council tramcur in Balham High- road, as a result of which many per- Bons were injured, has given rise to some anxiety regarding the state of the roadways in London, over which 1,600 tramcars pass daily. It was suggested that a section of the line near the scene of the ac-sixty-second birthday, and it is cident had fallen beneath the level entirely characteristic of His. Ex-

cellency that he proposes to cele brate the event by making a, 15,000 fect altitude flight in one of H.M.S. Hermes' seaplanes this afternoon.

of the roadway.

The officials of the tramways de- The suggestion had been seve- ral times repeated bat Ibn Saud,partment of the LC.C., however, so far, had not availed himself of dispose of the theory that the sub sidence or the emergence of the

His Excellency told a Straits the opportunity offered him for tram-track from the roadway has Times representative at Govern- fall discussion of outstanding anything to do with its safety. ment House this morning that the questions.-British Wireless.

"The best answer to that as greatest.height he had ever flown sertion," said one of the officials to before was, 8,000 feet. He made a newspaper representative, is his first flight over Colombo in a AGRICULTURE IN THE that we can continue our running seaplane from the Hermes, and with perfect safety while a road is also his first fight over Singapore, being formed on either side of the when the Hermes was here last track. The state of the roadway September. makes absolutely no difference, 18 long as the line itself is in good running order."

EMPIRE.

St

LOVAT COMMITTEE MAKES SUGGESTIONS.

London, Mar. 12.

BIG EXPLOSION AT QUARRY BAY,

(Continued from Page 1.)

Boiler in Ulse.

There was other machinery

Ono interesting fact His Ex- cellency mentioned was that of all the group who flow from Port "Swettenham to Seletar last week in the R.A.F. machines he was the 'senior uinman, in that he had flown before any of them. Group Caplain Cave-Brown-Cave, first went up in 1913, whereas His Ex- cellency made his first flight in 1912, with Grahame-White at Hendon. "That was in the days

when you sat on something like, a baker's tray, with nothing bat in wires under your feet," Sir Hugh

A report of the Committee which has been considering a scheme for the creation of a Colonial agricul- tural and scientific research service' and headed by Lord Lovat, ex- timates the cost to be £127,000 star- ling. The committee recommends a joint council and two committees, the latter dealing with agriculture, and animal health respectively and the building, but the owner ex-added. should sit in the Imperial Institute, plained that this was run by While on the subject of flying while'n room should be available in electricity and did not depend for His Excellency said that he was the Colonial Office for the agricul-power on the boller. Electricians very anxious to see the Malayan tural adviserk.

were on the scene, almost imme-mail services knitted up. "I think The chief adviser should be a din-diately after the explosion and it must come soon," he said, “and tinguished scientist on a salary of attended to such wires and fuses it will be of very great value, es- £2,500 with an assistant on a salary as needed attention.

pecially on the West Coast." of £2,000. It is essential to attract the best men if permanant results are to be expected,

At the time of the explosion the "I don't think I have any boiler was in use, with live coal at message to give you except that I the bottom. After its top had shot am very glad to find myself back The Empire Marketing Board Is through the roof, it lay in a hori-in this country again," His Ex- willing to help substantially to-zontal position on one side of the cellency said. "There are many wards the cost and the Colonies will big hole which had been blown in problems of very great importance be invited to contribute-Renter.the roof of the factory.

QUICKER IMPERIAL

SERVICES.

to be dealt with during my term of offico, but I do not wish to talk prematurely. I believe in taking full-year of study before one begins to talk, especially in such a large country as Malay"

Injured by Falling Wall. The explosion itself, although extremely forceful, caused little bodily injury to the workmen, was the collapse of the thick brick wall at the side of the boiler and

After stating that he hoped to the crashing down of the roof that visit Lebuan, Brunei, and British (Continued from Page 1) accounted for most of the injuries. North Borneo in May, and Sarawak larly, new for old types of ma-weighing several hundredweight, ment upon the present rubber Two huge pieces of the wall, each in November, His Excellency add- ed one brief but important com- chines; and thirdly, the right of were later found amongst the situation. "Personally I regard re- the State to share in any ultimate debris. prosperity that the Company might

striction as something of the first, The owner informed our repre- importance," he said, "and the obtuin.

sentative that he was having his sudden weakening of restriction, if meal, with his family and a few such a thing were to happen, senior fokis, at the time of the would be very disastrous in its explosion. They were all torrified consequences,

Everybody, anust at the loud retort and dashed for know that for themselves." safety as fragments of cement and His Excellency, has now, com- ploted forty-five years service in Police from the Shauk wan the Colonies.·· The Minister expressed regret Station were quickly on the at the opposition of the Perafanacene, and the ambulance Government to the Persian section WAR

The details of the agreement were still under discussion with the Government of India. and the Imperial Airways.

Persia's Opposition.

brick flew in all directions,

immediately acnt, for.

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

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

of the route. He pointed out that Prior, to this, the injured fokia the project would have cost the were given such nasistarice as wes Persinn Government nothing and available on the spot, and on the would be a real asset to Persia.arrival of the ambulance the eleven The disbavery of the course of the Conce These obvious advantages, had mon were rushed to hospital River IL M. Stanley,, 2. The M8, of Thomna, Hardy's last poem, “Chriftia in seemed at one time greatly to ap- The building and the machinery, the Lluis Room, B. President of the Board peal to the Persian Government, it is learned, are covered by insur- President of the Board of Trade: Australian of durations: Pint Land of the Admiralty ; whose officials had helped to map Janes, but the full extent of the dam-Commonwealth Minister of Health President out the route, and an agreement age is not yet established. A rough State (4) Fish-cating astmunis, (b) veget of the Executive Council of this Irish Free had actually boon signed between estimate places the damage to the chin and grain saling animali. 16. Alhamisi the British and Persian Govern- walls, roof and boiler at over $2,000,phon, as he wrote no books himself, 6. Four- ments: These facts made, him hope that the present difficulties were due to a misunderstanding" Long Beach (Cal.), Feb. 10. An movement In Crow to 1794, and fell into and that an agreement might etill entire block of the city, including porch of Bolorson's Temple, erected by Hirain be reached, satisfactory to both an off refinery, is reported to have King of Tyre. Australia. 10. Eula (19- nois) and Waitham. (Mahanchisastia),;. (1." (w) been burned down by fire early rich blue stone from, which the blum pixs Governments. Meanwhile, the Air this morning, which caused the lossen, ultramarine, was originally obtained Ministry had been investigating of six lives. Six oil. derricks were 2. Confidentially certain privileges being (b) one, who cute and sola prezidila atones, the possibilities of alternative burned to the ground.

certain obligations ;.,unabridged; what good routes.British Wirelcan,

Will 16 det

philosopher; from his friends Plato and Xeno

teenth century. 7. Thomas Campbell, Kosi rolako, a. Pollsh patriot, headed the rational

the hands of the Russians. 8. Pillars at the

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STEPHEN DALLAS

The HENRY KING Production

STELLA DALLAS

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TOD BROWNING'S production with MAE BUSCH MATT MOORE

The

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