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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, SHANGHAI,”

HOTELS.

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel

Den Wagons Lite, Påking.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

Most Modera and. Central'Hotel In the Colony, all, Bed Rooms newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone.

Hotal.)

Tea Dances:

Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 6 to 7 p.m.

Hotel launch meets all ateamors.

($28 for thirty Tiffin Tickets can be had at the Office of the above

Tel. Add:"Victoria."

HOTELS

MOTEL MET

Telephone C. 878 J. H. WITCHELL

Manager.

DISTINCTION

METROPOLE-SAVOY-BOA VISTA

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 Ballway Station. Representative meets all steamers,

Daily Rates from

Monthly Rates from

$ 6.00;

$130.00.

Under the Personal Supervision and attention of

Tel. No. H.608 & K.009.

MR. & MRS. H. J. WHITE.

Cables. "Kowlotel." Kowloos.

HOTEL.

SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1928.

THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH,

HONGKONG'S POLICE FORCE SEEN ON PARADE.

Your Last Chance!

DAY is your last opportunity

TO DAY

to see the two comies of "What Price Glory" in their own

Absurdly funny big special comedy!- WILLIAM FOX

presente

The GAY RETREAT

Here is an excellent photograph of the Hongkong Police Force taken on the occasion

of the annual inspection by His Excellency the Governor on Tuesday last. (Photo: Ming

BULGARIAN QUAKE TERRORS.

WHOLE DISTRICTS RUINED OVER WIDE AREA.

DEATH ROLL MOUNTS.

Sofin, Apr. 20.

Yuen).

FAR EASTERN AIR MAILS.

DUTCH PLAN TO SAVE' SIX DAYS.

FURTHER WINDOW

SMASHING.

TWO QUEEN'S PRIVATES NOW CHARGED.

WANT HARD LABOUR,

The first step in the air route to the East Indies le likely to be confined to the Dutch transporting mails by air from Amsterdam to Marseilles and also from Sabang A further case of stone-throwing| The Bulgarian Premier in an in-(Sumarta) to Sourabaya (Java), by soldiers came before Mr. R: E. terview at Philippopolis said that thus saving six days, according to Lindsell this morning, when Private the earthquakes on Saturday and a message received from London, W. G. Hayes and Private T. Duffy, Wednesday destroyed whole din vin Australia. tricts within an area of 1,000 square kilometres.

It is understood that the Dutch are anxious to co-operate with Eighty thousand families have Britain for air carriage over the been rendered homeless by the whole route, especially in view of aster, but great deal of relief the difficulties attached to flying work is already in progresa, lover foreign countries. It is be-

The death roll is steadily mount-lieved that India is anxious to con ing, the totals reported up to date nect the Karachi-Rangoon sector. are much in excess of 100 killed and It has been suggested that Britain 400 injured..

or Australia should link up from Sofia, Apr. 20.

Singapore onward... Except for a small area a quar- ter of a mile across, aituated on high ground in the centre of the town, the whole of Philippolis suffered severely from the earth- quake. A hospital and a number of churches are among the build- ings destroyed. Only a few houses are visible among the ruina.

A score of villages and the houses in Borisovgrad, which ca-| caped the first earthquake, were. demolished in the later visitation.

PEKING ORDERS

RETREAT.

(Continued, from Page 1.)

Striking, Victory.

With

of the Queen's Regt., were charged TED MCNAMARA & SAMMY COHEN

with throwing stones into a shop window and smashing the glass.

The incident was stated to have occurred in the early hours of thi morning, when the two soldiers per- mitted themselves to be arrested, after smashing a plate-glass win- dow in the show-room of the Hong- kong Electric Company at 2, Queen's Road Central. The damage done was assessed at $20.

His Worship. (to defendants)-- Do you think it funny to do this?

Private Hayes:We have got nothing to say, sir..

His Worship:-Do you want to go to gaol? Do you like the idea of going to gnol?

There was no reply to this.

His Worship was informed by Detective Sergeant Humphreys that both men were perfectly sober when taken into custody...

Shanghai, Apr. 20:

His Worship (to defendants) :-) Nationalist headquarters re You are each fined $100, or aix A hundred bodies have hitherto ports the capture on the 16th of weeks' hard labour. You each pay been recovered and many more are Kufowhalen, the birthplace of $10 compensation or do a further under the ruins. PALACE

After the earthquake the water Confucius, a strategie centre where seven days' hard labour

Chiang Kai-shek's and Feng_Yu- After being sentenced, Hayes Tel. Kowloon No. 8

Tel Address "PALACE."

spouted up from the fissures in-halang's armies have mot. They lingered behind while his comrade Three minutes from Kowloop Wharf, Forry and Railway Station undating the countryside. The also claim the capture of 80,000 was being led away, and asked the Entirely, under English Management. Electric Light and Fan throughout.

32 field guns, 18,000 Magistrato: "Can we do hard Erary Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar end Billiard-Rooms. population of Sofia is still panicky prisoners, Unrivalled Cuisins under the personal supervision of the proprietress, and families are camping in the rifles and 0,000 machineguns labour instead of paying the fine?" His Worship:-Well, you, have Terma moderate. Special terms to families on application to:

The losses from the two earth- Mrs. J. B. OXBERRY, Proprietress,

the alternative, If you think you quakes are estimated at several

Army Deserts.

can get out of the Army by this hundred million levas.--Reitter.

means, I understand you will be grossly mistaken..

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 Addreas;~" RIVIERA, MACÃO”

EMBODYING THE

LUXURIES OF MODERN HOTEL CONSTRUCTION

THE FINAL EXPRESSION

OF

COMFORT AND

SERVICE

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by ALVEED MORLEY, 1 and 8, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria Hongkong.

open.

NATIONAL MEMORIAL

-TO-EARL HAIG.

EQUESTRIAN · STATUE FACING CENOTAPIL.

Reuter.

Shanghai, Apr. 20. All reports, go to show that Sun Chuan-fang's army of 50,000 men, was wiped out by the Nationalist. occupation of Yenchowfu cutting them off from Chang Chung- chang's Chihli forces, which also: suffered very heavy losses,

Corruption is rife in the Nor- thern ranks whose seventh army has gone over in a body, while London, Apr. 20. there have undoubtedly been fur-

It is understood that an eques-ther defections on a large scale. trian statue in London will be the 1-Router. national memorial to Field Mar- shal Earl Haig and that the Royal Fine Art Commission which was deputed to consider the subject

ment to this effect.

Warning Issued.

Shanghai, Apr. 20.

QUEEN'S NEPHEW

BURIED.

PRIVATE SERVICE AT

WINDSOR

Lordon, Apr. 20. The funeral of Lord Trematon, the only son of the Earl of Athlone, the Governor-General of South Africa, and the nephew of Queen Mary, took place to-day.

will report shortly to the Govern- Japanese reports from Tainan-He was buried in the royal fu suggest that the Nationalist vaults of Windsor Castle. The It is stated that the afte pro- vanguards were yesterday ap-service was of a private charac posed for the memorial will be in prosching Taishan Hills overlook-ter, The King and the Prince of Whitehall, facing the Cenotaph. ing Teinanfu. This is borne out Wales, representing the Earl and

If the proposals

are approved, in announcement by the British Counter of Athlone walked im sculptors of high reputation will and American consuls-general at mediately behind British Wireless... be invited to submit designs for Tsinanfu who have advised their the final approval of Government. nationals to leave in view of the -British Wireless.

fighting zone moving in that direc: tion.-Reuter.

COLOMBO MAKING UP

ITS MIND.

FAVOURS REMOVAL OF RUBBER RESTRICTIONS.

PRINCESS MARY'S RETURN,

the coffin.

AMERICAN COTTON SCOURGE.

QUARANTINE REGULATIONS ON PLANTATIONS.

New York, Apr. 20 Marsellies, Apr. 20.

Following discoveries of an out- Princess Mary and Viscount Labreak of the dreaded pink boll- calles have left for London on their worm in the cotton districts, the return from Egypt.-Reuter.

Department of Agriculture hes placed nine plantations in Texas In quarantine as from April 25th.

The regulations prohibit the outward movement of cotton sced- from the arca affected and require the fumigation of cotton lint be fore shipment-Reuter..

Colombo, Apr. 20. After a long session, the Ceylon Estates Proprietary Association has passed a resolution that "while favouring the immediate removal of HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

the restriction of rubber exports,

or its gradual removal between

now and Novembor 1st. the Associa

The following are the replies to

tion defer a definito decision until to-day question the receipt of further information

1, Early English, 1100 in 13061, the Decor

1647 (those dates are approxliumia, as traḥ

concerning the discussions at pre-mid, 1100 to 1880; the Parpendicular, 1868 to sent in progress between Malaya and Ceylon."Reuter

BANDITS SETBACK.

GENERAL LIÙ ESTABLISHES BETTER ORDEN,”

Ichang, Apr. 20.

ikan work makes it impossible to be exact).

1. On May 4, 1979, whn Edward Vit, then j Prince of Wales, moka on the Deceased **Wife's Klaten K. GROTZA Washington, by the National Gallery," and Abraham Lincoln, in Parliament aquaru. 6. A. sseriaty is to be kulit immediately sunk of the north transept. [à. Only by the Indirect method of applying for bilee under the Crown, udally the Stewardship of the Chillar Hundreds. 6.

Winstar Abber Bil Giles, Chippicante: St. Olaves, Herbstreet. 1. Mary Tudor wai the wife of Philip II of Spain. B. QW.L. High Wycombe, Banbury, and Langin

ARBITRATION PACT SIGNED.

ITALY AND AMERICA IN AGREEMENT.

Rome, Apr. 20. The arbitration treaty to which

--| 8pm: 14.S., Bistablar, Hugby and Cover Italy and the United States are

9. Rubena" with Antwerp Memling - with

The arrival of the 5th Indepen-pecially John Troms, with Norwich, 10. today. The terms are similar to Brut: the Norwich School generally, but parties, was signed at Washington dent Division, under General Liu Phalley's Hyms to the Intellectual Featty those contained in the treaty bo- 11 Akhough it is optional, the words way, ho Ho-ting, has had a good effect on completely anglicies that it to clickily, Haid tween France and America. the local bandits-Naval Wireless, los but to do so, 12. Cinopales, Reuter.

THE THRILLING and amusing adven- tures of a valet and a chauffeur who join the army to look after the sleep-walking son of a millionaire.

A Rush of Action And Fun!

AT THE

QUEEN'S

FINAL SHOWINGS

TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20.

THE SHADOW OF THE PAST!

CARL

The amazing drama of a man who had mouldered in a prison dungeon then, gained freedom only to find himself in a startling new crisis !--

with

Arthur Carewe

CONRADA George

VEIDT

AT THE

UNIVERSĀS PICTURE

WORLD

Orchestra 5.15 sad:9.20.

Siegmsan

MAN'S PAST

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY Interprater” 1.50 and 7.13.

N UNUSUAL' story of a

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“doormat" "mother

and what happened when she began a royal revolt I-

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