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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

Telographic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL”

HOTELS.

1

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 Telophone.

Hotal.)

Tea Dances:

Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 5 to 7 p.m.

Hotel launch meets all steamers.

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

"

Tel. Add:Victoria."

HOTELS

Telephone C. 978

J. H. WITCHELL,

Manager.

DISTINCTION

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1928.

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TO-DAY'S CEREMONY AT HONGKONG CENOTAPH,

大ちゃ

Romance & Comedy!

LOVE AND LAUGHS in'a gay, entertaining story of college life-

RICHARD DIX

WITH

ESTHER RALSTON Directed by FRED NEWMEYER

Quramount Picture

VHAN THE ADOLPH JUXOR JESSE & TASKY

THE POPULAR

screen athelete with a cast includ-

ing a beautiful "Peter Pan" star and many famous sporlamen:

PASTEL ME

HOLBOA VISTA

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 Railway Station. Representative meots all steamers.

Daily Rates from

Monthly Rates from

$ 0.00,

$130.00.

Undur the Personal Supervision and attention of

MR. & MRS. HL J. WHITE.

Tel. No. K.608 & K.609.

PALACE

Cables. "Kowlotel." Kowloon,'

HOTEL.

Terima moderate. Special terms to families on application to:

Officials of the Hongkong St. George's Society this morning attended a wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph-an annual feature of St. George's Day. Above, Lieut.-Col. L. G. Bird, President, and the Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, Past President, are seen taking the wreath to the monument; whilst below are members of the" Committee who assembled to take part in the ceremony. (Photos: Mee Cheng).

VEHICULAR FERRY SERVICE.

Following this discussion, the Chamber to the Government point- fed out that the objections to a

site at Arsenal Street applied with.

AMERICAN SAILOR WOUNDED.

SHOT IN CHEST AT.

SHANGHAL

(Continued from Pape 1.)

| almost equal force to a site at the Dangers of Arsenal Street.

Victoria Recreation Club. In The Harbour Master intimated adultion, it was considered un- the that he was opposed to the Ar-desirable to concentrate in senal Street site purely from the centre of the City all the cross-critical condition in the General navigational point of view.

harbour lorry traffic.

Chamber's Suggestion.

Shanghal, Apr. 17. D. G. Way, electrician's mate on the U. S. S. Isabel, is lying in a

Hospital suffering from a wound received in a mysterious shooting Tal. Kowloon No. 8

Tol, Address "PALACE."

air at a Russian boarding house Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station.

From Arsenal Street the ferrica i

at 114 Range Road' early yester- Entirely, ander English Management. Electric Light and Fan throughout, would have to cut right through

I would be desirable to keep in day morning. Every Room with Private Bath Lounge, Har and Billiard-Rooms, the Naval anchorage, go through

The sailor was found by Mr. Unrivalled Cuisins under the personal supervision of the proprietress.a very crowded part of the har-view the possibility of an eventuall

house, bour, cross the main line of traffic need for two vehicular ferry, Goldenberg, owner of the Mrs. J. II. OXBERKY, Proprietress. of vessels entering and leaving the systems across the Harbour, hav-lying wounded on the floor of a Naval Yard, where there is always ing regard to the wide distance room he had occupied in the a great deal of movement, and separating the Western district house, Goldenberg was awakened have to manoeuvre past the Star from the areas of levelopment from his sleep at 2 a.m., yesterday Ferries at the difficult moment gastward. The sites of the first by the sound of a pistol shot and when they are making from the ferry piers to be built should be when he investigated he wharf at Kowloon.

40 selected as not to prejudice upon the sailor bleeding from. a satisfactory arrangements. for two wound in the chest. He thought the Naval Author- systems.

The police were informed and ities would probably raise difficul-

the room was searched, but, no lies as 10 the ferries passing A ferry between Jordan Road pistol was brought to light, nor through the Naval anchorage. He and the Western District of long could anything much be learnt regarded the route from Arsenal kong should obviously come first, from a Russian girl, who was in Street as inconvenient, and tend-and, particularly as it is thought the room. As the wounded sailor ing towards the dangerous.

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

理查

THE FINAL EXPRESSION

OF COMFORT AND SERVICE

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by ALFRED MORLEY, at'1 and 8, Wyndham Street in the City of Victorin Hongkong.

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Volume of Traffic. The Captain Superintendent of Police thought that, even allowing for the reclamations at Prays' East and North Point, there would not

came

that eventually a second forry was being moved down the stairs, may be required, giving a route to the ambulance, another shot to Jordan Road of 1.57 miles, as rang out in the room. Investiga- compared with 1.67 miles from the tions were recommenced and a Victoria Recreation Club.

Yaumoti Ferry.

be from that area as great a volume A suggestion which commended

of traffic as existed now in the itself to the Chamber was that the centre

of Hongkong and in the present Yaumati Ferry should he West. By deciding on a terminus combined with the vehicular ferry.

further search resulted in the dis-

THQUARTERBACK

A

ROMANTIC comedy with an under-

lying note of seriousness and ́a whirlwind finish in the most exciting foot- ball game ever screened!

AT THE

́ ́

QUEEN'S FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.10 & 7.15

No public movie performance at 9.15 to-night.

ROMANCE, comedy, thrills and valour in the

famous of the war films !----

THE BIG

With

PARADE

covery of a pistol hidden under the JOHN GILBERT-RENEE

mattress of the bed. Two empty shells were found on the floor.

The sailor was removed to hospital, where his condition was pronounced to be serious. The

at Arsenal Street all this traffic The prospects were remote of girl, who claims to have been

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would have to cross Hongkong there being much passenger traffic detained for inquiries. Neighbours legally married to the sailor, was Central.

on a ferry from the Victoria Re-tell of the noise of a heated argu- creation Club to Jordan Road, but ment in the room before the first

vehicular ferry from, say, shot wae heard.. Jubilee Street, could conveniently take all the passengers who at pre- sent use the Yaumati Ferry, and 2 the additional revenue received) would help to ensure financial

Though there were objections to the V.R.C. site, it. was much cheap- er than the Jubilee Street area owing to the depth of water at the latter place.

The street approaches to the Jubilee Street area were narrow and congested; whereas, at the V.R.C., there were wide roads in vatibus directions, and ample space in Statue Square, in which traffe could be sorted out.

Long Time to Wait,

success.

One-Way Streeta.

TYPHOON NEAR TOKYO.

to-morrow.

The Royal Observatory weather report states:-The depression hus developed into a typhoon and is central to the North-cast of Tokyo. The Chamber therefore strongly The trough has filled up. The anti- favoured the Jubilee Street alto, cyclone over North China has and considered that any anticipat-strengthened. The forecast till ed, difficulties In handling traffic, noon

is North-east owing to the narrowness of some winds; fresh; overcast, some rain. The Harbour Master suggested of the connecting streets in that that there would be a tendency, if area, could be largely met by a vehicular ferry existed, to land making two of the streets between goods into lorries, bring the lorries Des Voeux Road and the Praya over to Hongkong on the furries into one-way for arriving and de- and deliver the goods at destina-iparting vehicles respectively. tion, thus reducing handling charges. He thought the question'

Costs and Revenue,

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

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

1. Lint-Col B. Levita. 2. The Skupskéíru. Alphonse Berillion (1688-1914). Fire or six years, 6. They are the countion round Middlesex, Borrey, Kent, Evex, Hartfordabire, Backing Lamaliire, Berkaidrs.

of facilitating existing trade was: The Government estimated that Londo more urgent than providing for the capital cost of the project, in-. Robert Looks Staracson; W. Locke; t future development.

cluding compensation for strue-tain Maryat; Mark Twain. 7. (*) Dafrict of, Mesopotamia lying between Arabia on the As to whether it was' thought tures on, the V.R.C.' site, and of west and Parala on the cast sometimes called there would ultimately be need three ferry boats, would be Lower Meapotamia; (b) Ferings of Northern India (p) Kingdom to the East of the Adria for two ferry services, the Cap. $1,900,000.

lie Ben, comprising the former kingdoms of tain Superintendent of Police

The estimate of revenue and ex- Burbia and Montenegro, large, mocassions from thought that the second one would penditure. for a year's working, from Bugaria, S. A blck laser of fat under Austria and Hungary, 'and small accufatione not be wanted for the next ten or based on a twenty minutes service the skin of whales D. A gridia is a mythical twenty years.

between 6 am, and midnight, were roughcoated dog, and a hunting game birds. roughly:-$1,300 per day equalling 10. (a) flow counds are made and depicted: Against the Jubilee Street aite $478,600 per annum, while the cost writtent (1% how words are traced t

(b) how words are pronounced; (e) bow words it was urged that it would cost of operation was placed at $262,- their source to and their manis. 11. The four or five lakhs more to form the 250, leaving a net revenue of $216,-perature, been made to wait light 13. The

atele of a body which has, ky ruleinar ita tem terminus there.

250;

people in the United States who Įslavery before, the Civil War

monster, part lion, part maklu; a griffon le a

opposed

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WORLD

ADOREE

TO-DAY TO

SATURDAY

At 2.30, 6.30 & 9.15.

ASTIRING drama of the Plains filmed in the

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CARL LATMML& presarstí

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See the thrilling stampede of fear- maddened horses & the sensational steeplechase!

AKING OF WILD HORSES.

WILD BEAUTY

With

-HENRY MacRAF

JUNE MARLOWE and HUGH ALLEN

AT THE

STAR

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY Continuous, 2.30 to 8.30,