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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, SHANGHAL."

HOTELS.

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel Des Wagons Lite, Peking.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

Moat Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms Bewly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone.

Ten Dances:

Hotal)

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1928.

CHICAGO'S REIGN OF ARCHIE COMPSTON'S

TEROR.

MORE BOMB OUTRAGES EXPECTED.

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Washington, Mar. 28. As a result of the bombing of

the home of the United States

BRILLIANCE.

FOURTEEN HOLES LEAD ON

HAGEN IN 36.

AMERICAN COTTON

DEALINGS:

IMPORTANT DECISION BY

EXCHANGES.

New York, Apr. 27. The New York Cotton Exchanges |

GOLFING FIREWORKS. have proposed the establishment

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It in suggested that the Commit tee be empowered to fix a mini- mum limit for colton contracts to be held by any member of the Ex- change in one month and also that it be, entitled to investigate, the dealings of members and examine their books-Beuter's America" Service.

Senator, Mr. Deneen, the house of

of a. Control · Committee with a every prominent politician in Chi-

London, Apr. 27. cago is under police guard as

Playing brilliant golf through- Board equipped with regulatory further outrages are expected.

out the day, Archic Compston, in powers. A vote will be taken on It is freely admitted that the the 72-hole challenge match, vir- the matter at a special meeting to life of no Republican politieal tunlly for the world's match-play be held on May 9th.

against Walter The proposal is intended to leader will be safe until after the championship, Republican primary election on lagen established a lend of 14 holes satisfy Congressional opposition A sum of £750 is at to the present methods of Cotton April 10, when the voters of Chi- at the close.

Exchange, brokora, cago will decide whether the fac-stake.

round, During the morning tion of the party headed by Mr. Deneen or the wing led by "Big Compston gavo a sensational display Bill Thompson will secure control. of golfing fire-works. At the tenth, ho was six holes up on Hagen, but The political warfare now in pro-the American pulled back two by gregs, which has turned to bombs, the eighteenth. shotguns, machine-guns, and other In the afternoon, the American deadly weapons, is too intricate to was even more completely outplay be easily explained. In a fowed, Compston gaining an almost words, however, it marks an at- Impregnable advantage of 14 holes. tempt on Big Bill's side to retain Thirty-six holes remain to be play- office, and with it the appointment ed. of thousands of city employeen, The match is being played at policemen, the fire brigade, and all Moor Park, and prior to the com others dependent upon the city mencement Hagen said he would be pay-rolls, and an attempt by the likely to suffer from lack of practice.

son "gang" and put its own men in, The war has been carried even into national politics, both sides-Renter. | hoping by winning the municipal election to control the delegation to the National Convention hay- ing the selection of Mr. Coolidge'a. successor. Both sides accuse the other of being responsible for the bombing of Mr. Deneen's house, the Thompson faction, asserting that Dencen was privy to the bomb.

Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 5 to 7 p.in. Hotel Launch, meets all steamers. ($25 for thirty Tiffin Tickets can be had at the Office of the above other side to turn out the Thomp-

Tol. Add:"Victoria."

HOTELS OF

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Telephone C. 878

J. EL 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 Bailway Station. Representative meets all steamers.

Daily Rates from

$ 6.00.

$130.00.

Monthly Rates from.................. Under the Personal Supervision and attention of

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

PALACE

MR. & MRS. H. J. WHITE.

Cables. "Kowlotel," Kowloon.'

HOTEL.

Tal Kowloon No. 8

Tol Address "PALACE" Threo minutos from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. Entirely, under English Manggement Electric Light and Fan throughout. Every Room with, Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms, Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Teras moderate. Special terms to families on application to:

Mr. J. II. OXBERRY, Proprietress,

EUROPE

After-dinner dancing every

Tuesday, Thursday

and Saturday.‹

Cables:-

"EUROPE

Singapore.

HOTEL

SINGAPORE.

Grill®

THE EUROPE HOTEL LTD.

Arthur E. Odoll, Managing Director.

THE HOTEL RIVIERA

MACAO

Cable Address:—'! RIVIERA, MACAO”

EMBODYING THE

LUXURIES OF MODERN HOTEL CONSTRUCTION

THE FINAL EXPRESSION

OF COMFORT SERVICE

AND

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by ALTRED MOBIMY, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria Hongkong.

He sent a wireless message from the Aquitania to get the match postponed, but this was impossible.

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SHARE PRICES.

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

The following in the list of local

ing so as to discredit his op-share quotations issued to-day: ponents.

Big Rewards.

Rewards aggregating £13,000 for Information leading to the arrest and conviction of the bombers have been offered, persons furnishing information being guaranteed im- munity from prosecution..

Mayor Thompson has offered £1,000, and a similar amount is pledged by the chief of police, a Thompson adherent, So wide-

spread is the terror that many prominent men are moving their families out of their houses and xoing to hotels or to the suburbs.

The Union Ministers' Associa. tion has adopted a resolution pled- ging its members to do all in their power to arouse the citizens of Chicago," and further demanding that the Attorney-General of Illi nois and the Attorney-General of the United States "assert their constitutional power to abolish the near anarchy in the community."

BRITISH RAILWAY RECORDS.

TWO NON-STOP RUNS FROM LONDON TO SCOTLAND.

London, Apr. 27. Two runs from London to Scot- land by "Royal. Scdt" expresses, helonging to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, travelling from Euston Station to Edinburgh and Clasgow respectively, a dis- tance of 400 miles, created a world non-stop passenger-train recorì.

Both arrived in n trifle over eight houra and carried spare drivers and firemen who changed duty en route--Reuter.

PREMIER A FREEMAN OF STOKE.

BRITAIN'S POTTERY FINEST IN WORLD.

London, Apr. 27. The Premier and Mrs. Baldwin visited the Pottery District to-day where the freedom of Stoke was [conferred upon the Premier.

Speaking at a luncheon at the Town Hall, Mr. Stanley Baldwin said there was no other country in the world which could compete with Britain in pottery." There |would always be room for goods of

the higher

British standard. -British Wireless.

AIR MINISTRY POSTS.

CHANGES DUE TO AUSTRA- LIAN VISIT.'

London, Apr. 27. The Air Ministry has announced the appointment of Air Vice- Marshal Scarlett to be Air Officer Commanding the Air Defence of Great Britain temporarily, during the absence in Australia of Air: Marshal Sir John Salmond.

Air Vice-Marshal Lambe le ap- pointed to be Air Officer Com manding the British coastal area In place of Air Vice-Marshal Scar- lott-British Wireless.

Mr. Rayner Goddard, K.C., Corder of Bath, has accepted Recordership of Plymouth.

Banks

Hongkong Bank, $13021 a. Chartered Bank, £21 b. Mercantile A. & B., £33. P. and O. n. East Asia $75 n.

Insurances.

Canton Ins., $680 b. Union Ins., $342 6. North China, Ins., Tls. 140 n. Yangtaze Ins., $47 b. China Underwriters, 123 China Fires, 8215 n. H. K. Fire Ins., $760 Shipping..

Douglasos, 401 8.

b.

b.

H. K. Steamboats, $281 b. H. K. Tugs, $21. Indo-Chinas, (Def.) $78 b. Sholl Trans., 90/- n. Union Waterboats, $20 b.

Mining..

Bonguets, $21 n.

Kailans, 68/- b

Langkats, Tls. $134 n.

BIG PIRATE GANG DISPERSED.

,

TWO-HOUR FIGHT WITH POLICE.

Shanghai, Apr. 23.

A message from Scochow states that on Thursday the Chief Con- stable of the 3rd Division of the Marine Public Safety Bureau directed four corps of constables, aboard 47 sampana, in an attack on the pirates' lair before the Shek Yen Temple in the Tsingpu Dis- |trict.

The pirates numbered more than 100, and it was not until_after_s two hours' battle that they were

overcome.

Five pirates were killed, and four of their sampans were seized, while Hix victims held for ransom wern released. The gang is belloved now to have been dispersed,

BRITISH TRIBUTE TO CHINESE.

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autonomy to the Empire. They were making a determined effort to see the component parts of the Empire developing themselves. 'In giving them that freedom they had no fear because they belioved in the loyalty and historic tradition of the Empire, whose problems could be worked out in co-opera- tion.

Spirit of Co-operation, This was an era of 'hetive co- operation and this was the spirit

S'hai Exploration, Tls. 2.85 n. that he was in Malaya to preach.

Raubs, 4 n.

Tronolis, 17/6 b.

Docks, etc.

Kowloon Wharves, $137 N. Whampoa Docks, $43 h. China Providonts $6 8. Hongkews, Tis, 166 b.. New Engineerings, Tls, 4.80 Shanghai Docks, Tla. 109 Cottons.

Ewo Cottona, Tls. 8.25 Orientale, Tls, 2 b. S'hai Cottona, Tis. 55 (old)

Landa, Hotels, etc.

8.

b.,

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H. and S. Hotels, $82 H. K. Lands, $661 B. S'hai Lands Tis. 140 Humphrays, 814) Roalties, $8.25 b. Torritorials, $1

D.

Public Utilities.

Tramways, $25.20 n. Peak Trams, (old) $13 b... Star Ferrios, 804 B. China Lights, (Old) $13.25 s. H'kong Electrics, $71. Macao Electrics, $261 b. Tolophones $4.70 b. China Buses, Tis: 7 n.

| He wanted to see co-operation of

| Colony with Colony, not merely co- operation of Colony with Great Britain. The British Empire was something bigger than Great Britain and Malaya, something bigger than the self-governing Dominions such as Canada and Australia. It was an organism the

a.

like of which the world had never

b.

before seen. If any improvement

was to be made it could only bo

n.

} done, by enlarging the horizon of

all its citizens.

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BRITISH HONOUR FOR

EXPLORER.

KING APPROVES MEDAL FOR CAPT. WILKINS.

London, Apr. 27. The King has approved the award of the Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographieal Society to Caplain G. H. Wilkins, for his work in the Polar regions; cul- minating in the recent flight from Point Barrow to Spitzbergen.---

Reuter.

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The ten Conservatives who voted against the Second Reading.

Singapore Tractious, 11/9 b. of the Franchise Bill were Cap-

Industrials.

China Sugars, $5.35. n. Malabons, $246. Canton Icos, in. Comonts (Comb.) $10.40 s. 'Ropos (Old) $72 b.

United Asbestos $10 a

Stores &c.

Dairy Farms, $22.75 n. Watsons, $14 b.

Dor A Wing, .50 n. Lane Crawforde, $3.75 b. Mackintosh, $22. Binooras, $11 b Wm. Powells, $3 s

Miscellaneous.

Amusements, $29 Constructions, $1) n. B'que Ind. G. Bonds, 62% b. H. K. G. Loan, 10

Prom.

tain Charles Craig, Major Kin- dersley, Mr. George Balfour, Mr. Samuel Samuel,

Mr. Eamond. Harmsworth, Sir Joseph Hall, Sir Frederick Hall, Sir William Bull, Sir Charles Oman, Sir A. Boyd- Carpenter. The tellers were Briga- dier-General Sir George Cockerii!· |and Colonel Applin. There was a large attendance of Socialist and Liberal Members. It would neem, therefore, that practically half the Conservative Party did not go into the Lobby in favour of the Second Reading.

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

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

11. In Belgium. 2. The Dowle Colony of Zion City, nola. 8. Cardinal Giuseppi Mezzo fante, who died March 16, 1849, 4. Tha period when a planet to in conjunction or opposi tion with another plant. 6. St. Clement Danos, in the Strand, 4, 1.700.000.000, The Colonial Secretariat will D'Annunzia, the Italian soldier-post 8. 154 occupy the third floor of the Ban-England to eat grey Dean fried in hulter. in the A. 9. It's the autor in the North Reques de l'Indo Chine, French Build These are called "chrlings. 10. br walks to tag, as from April 30, and until Richmond 20.000 bent, 11, 10) "Harry words: (b) of the the structural alterations to the d'Urbervilles 172,000 wordes (e) "B. I.“ present offices are completed

172,690 words. 11. 22,500,000,сDo

Funnier Than Ever!

The famous bickering partners in a new and greater production— The amusing sequel to their first · big comedy success!

(INT'LAIMMLJE pravdići

GEORGE SIDNEY1⁄4

· 3. FARRELİ MacDONA

AWilliam Beaudine Pratall

New Gags New Story New Laughs*

UNIVERSAL PICTURE

COHENS and KELLYS IN PARIS

with Vera Gordon, Kate Price and

\Gertrude Astor.

HE COHENS AND KELLYS, grown THE

rich in business partnership, never cease to squabble. When pretty Sayde Cohen announces her engagement to young Pat Kelly in Paris, the irate parents take the same bost-to-France-to-stop the wedding!

See what happens to them in Paris -The surprising · adventures, the diverting complications and the thrilling climax!

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