1928-03-23 — Page 14

14

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 Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Tolephone,

Hotel.)

Hotet launch meets all steamers,

Tel. Add:-"Victoria,"

HOTEL

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

Telephone C. 373

Manager.

HOTELS OF

J. H. WITCHELL,

DISTINCTION

The Kowloon Hotel Kowloon..

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

Daily Rates from

Monthly Rates from

$ 6.00.

$130,00.

Under the Personal Supervision and attention of

MR. & MRS. H. J. WHITE.

Cables. "Kowlotel." Kowloon.

Tel. No. K.608 & 1.609.

PALACE HOTEL.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1928.

THIS MORNING'S OFFICIAL LANDING.

Above, an extreme left, is seen Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol, Commander-in-Chief of.

the US: Asiatic Fleet saluting as he stepped ashore at Queen's Pier this morning to make his official landing. (Photo: Mee Cheung).

"RED" ACTIVITIES IN HONGKONG.

AMERICAN NAVAL VISIT.

PRISON FOR POSSESSION OF

LITERATURE.

STORMY PASSAGE FOR DUTCH BILL.

FINANCE MINISTER AGAIN SEEKS REFUGE,

(Continued from Page “1.) Hongkong Baseball League, is en- It was revealed in Mr. Lindsell's deavouring to make the necessary arrangements. Local teams have Court this morning, that such signified their willingness to meet Communists as were in Hongkong the Americans and if the difficulty un the occasion of the anniversary interesting games should result. of the death of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, The American ships are expected to pass Article 2 of the Bill sought to make a widespread dis-to stay in Hongkong for ten days. authorising tribution of Communistic and After leaving Hongkong. Ad-nationals abroad. other seditious literature on that miral Bristol will go to Shanghai

The Hague, Mar. 22, Another shock for the Finance Minister occurred in the Second of a ground can be overcome, Chamber to-day, when it refused

day.

the

taxation of

On the resumption of the debate, aboard the Pittsburg and the destroyers will conduct their the article, which authorises the ap-usual summer target practice Crown to grant exemptions and to

Chefoo, where the sub-

One such man, who was

marines will also have their bage, make complementary adjustments Parently a leader, was charged at before the Magistrate, this morn-It is expected that the ships will be in the tax, was discussed and re- ing, with being in possession of away from Manila for about six jected. seditious literature. He pleaded months... that he found the papera, which were in his possession, in a dust- bin, and had no idea.as to their contents.

- Distinguished Naval Carcer,

The Finance Minister according-

ly asked for an adjournment of Rear Admiral Mark Lambert the debate. When the Bill was Bristol was börn nt Glassboro, New

Hearst before the House, several Defendant also had several Jersey, on April 17th, 1869. "Red" placards in his possession, graduated from the United States clauses proved objectionable and which denounced "Imperialism." Naval Academy in 1887 and be to avoid its defeat, the Finance came an Ensign on May 19th, 1889, One of the documents called upon and was made Captain on July 1, Minister sought refuge in an 'ad- adherents to the cause to "oppose 1913. He has served in all classes journment and subsequent aziend Tel. Kowloon No. 8

Tel. Address "PALACE,"

and promised of ships of the U.-S. Navy on all Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. all foreigners” Entirely, under English Management. Electric Light and Fan throughout. promotion of every "Red" picket the chief stations of the world. He ments.--Reuter, Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms to the rank of a "Red Terror Com was on board the battleship Texas Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress.rade."

at the Battle of Santiago and also Terma moderate. Special terms to families on application to:

On the defendant was also found served throughout the Spanish- the address of a house in Cross American War. He has been close. Street, which the police subse-ly connected with the development quently raided and in which were of modern gunnery In the U. S. discovered thirty-six sheets of Navy and of torpedors and aircraft. He was in charge of the aero- "anti-Imperialist" documents, 629 translations of the Red Flag, which nautical development of the Navy were described as Communistic from 1913 to 1910 and was com but not seditious, as well as manding the North Carolina in

"There is no doubt that ho is seventy-nine pamphlets,

1917, convoying troops to Europe which

during the Great War.

the cleverest cat burglar in the He com- were distinctly seditious in paris.manded the Oklahoma, Battleship Kingdom `・・ Hole known, Sentence of three months' hard Division six, in European Waters and properly known, as the 'king labour was imposed by his Wor-in July, 1918, and was Commander of cat burglars." " ship.

Mrs. J. H, OXBERRY, Propeletress.

EUROPE

After-dinner dancing every

Tuesday, Thursday

and Saturday.

Cables

"EUROPE

Singapore.

HOTEL

SINGAPORE.

Grill

THE EUROPE HOTEL LTD.

Arthur E. Odell, Managing - Director.

THE HOTEL RIVIERA

MACAO

Cable Address:—“ RIVIERA," MACAO"

EMBODYING THE

LUXURIES OF MODERN HOTEL CONSTRUCTION

THE FINAL EXPRESSION OF COMFORT AND SERVICE

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by ALFRED MOELEY, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.

"KING" OF THE CAT BURGLARS.

MAN WHO WANTED REVENGE.

gen-

of the U. S. Naval Base, Plymouth, This was the description given In connexion with the raid on England, from October, 1918, until by the police of Arthur Sherwood, No. 7, Cross, Street, a man and a January, 1919. He was also woman were also charged, but the member of the International Com-49, who, at Bromley, was

tenced with Richard Miller, 37, to evidence offered by the police was mittee of Enquiry into the Greek three months hard labour on a such that the Magistrate was not occupation of Smyrna In Septem-charge of being a suspected per- satisfied that the defendants werejber and October, 1919.

in actual possession of the docu- ments. They were accordingly discharged.

RECENT MOTOR INCIDENT..

H.E. THE GOVERNOR OBTAINS! ASSISTANCE.

COLONIAL GOVERNOR

PENSIONS.

ACCORDING TO LENGTH OF SERVICE.

London, Mar. 22, The Committee, over which Earl Buxton presided, and of, which

In a press report of Wednesday Capt. W, G. A. Ormsby-Gore was last, under the heading "A car

son. Both men were arrested by Flying Squad detectives in residential district between Bick-

ley and Chislehurst,

ย

Detectives Inspector Wood sald that Sherwood had been convicted n great number of times, and convictions there wore three against Miller. Sherwood, he sald, would climb up almost any thing. He and Miller were a dnn- gerous combination, and the police. "very lucky: In making this very important arrest.”

Sherwood said that he had serv

in a pond: Charge against Miss member, which inquired into the ed in the Boer War, and, after G. Gale fails on a technicality: position of Colonial Governors, leaving home mixed with a cosmo Drunk or nervous?" appears the with special reference to pensions, politan crowd." following: "Sergeant Tyler, on recommends that the pensions for

each year of service:

First-clase: £72. Second-class: £50. Third-class: 248.: Fourth-class: £36.

being called, said that His Excel the four classes of Governors "I was made callous because, loney the Governor's A.D.C went should be the following rates for being an innocent ind, I got aix

ho months," continued, "The to Shamshuipo Police Station in an

consequence was that, being as- excited condition."

soclated and mixed up with these cosmopolitan and most hardened criminals on the face of the earth, when I came out instead of going right I went wrong.

The fact is that the Governor, who was driving along the Taipe Rond on the afternoon of the 29th

The total pension from all February, saw a motor car in a sources shall not exceed £2,000 per ditch, and a lady, apparently In annum. Reuter. distress, scated in the car. He

then drove himself with Captain. Whyte, A.D.C., to the Shamshulpo

"I was convicted although inno- jeent. I wanted to get revenge upon society for putting me there. These cosmopolitan criminals waited for me when I came out of prison, knowing that I was willing, they made a tool of me. The following are the replies to I was only what society made me." te-day's questions:---...

Sherwood Baid that he served 1. Boil Hand, Devon, and it immedia surroundings. £. First edition of Milton's in the Great War on three differ- "Lycidas, The Bank of Zuzland. 4ent fronts. "I was known as the Carew, Lovelace, Petrarch, Herrick 5.

Police Station to obtain assistance HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW? and returned bringing a - police Inspector with him in his ear, while other police officers followed later, on His Excellency's instruc tion, to give assistance.

BANDITS EXECUTED.

Ichang, Mar, 22. Bandits have been executed both

here and at Shasi, The situation at the latter place is quiet Naval Wireless.

mythical monster, half man, half horse. Crown and Anchor King" ho Harvard College, founded 1686. T. R. D.

Blackmore, Joseph Conrad, Edgar Allan Poe added. "I made 218,000 during Raphael Babatini, George du Maurier, &. (the war, and I went into business,

"God Bava The King," (b) "La Marselilaise,”

(c) "Die Wacht am Bbelt," (6) "The which falled."

panced Banner 9. Chron. 10. Leader

of the Lollarde; first English Historian ; trans®]

The Chairman of the Bench

tor, of the Bible: Bean of Bt. Paul and congratulated the police on their famous poet. 11. Elher. 18. A legst an thority for one person to set for another is Capture. the transaction of his business,

RINGING WITH ROMANCEI-

From a Paris sewer to the 7th Henvon they climbed, the little street-walf and the stalwart Chico-Follow every step in the magnificent screen version of a

·brilliant stage success!--

7TH HEAVEN

With

JANET GAYNOR & CHARLES FARRELL-

SPECIAL INCIDENTAL SONG..

"At 6:00 & 9.15, Miss Aileen Woods Sings "Diano".

AT THE

QUEEN'S

Át 2:30

TO-DAY and TO-MORROW

TIMES & PRICES-

At 6.00 & 9.15...

$1.20, 80 cts., 60 cis., &* 40 cts. $2.00, $1,20, 80 eta., &′ 50 -

0 cts.

Service mes la uniform 60 Cents to bank stalls and 40 Crate to front nisilu at all performantas.

N UNUSUAL love drama that takes one bekind

AN

the scenes of a real Russian vaudeville show--

At The

WORLD

...

Orchestra, 5,19'and, 0.20. ̧

FLORENCE

VIDOR

In

you NEVER KNOW WOMEN

ट

With

LOWELL SHERMAN

CLIVE

BROOK

TO-DAY and TO-MORROW

Interpretar 2.50 and 7.15.

HE COMEDY of an ardent lover who had to..

girl of his heart!--

Directed by s

WILLIAM BEAUDINE

Giremount

STAR

DOUGLAS

MACLEAN

HOLD THAT

LION

Laughs and thrills in story full of surprises with

a delightful climax.

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW Continuous 2.30 to II.15.

AT THE