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HOTELS.

THE

HONGKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL; REFULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL Telegraphic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL

Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL."

HOTELS.

LIMITED.

In Basociation with the Grand Hotel. Des Wagons Lits, Poking.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

A

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.

Hotol.)

Tea Dances:

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

Hotel launch meets all steamers,

4$25 for thirty Tiffin Tickets can be had at the Office of the above

Tal. Add:"Victoria."

HOTELS OF

Telephone C. 378

J. H. WITCHELL

Manager.

DISTINCTION

J

FOR1BOY STA

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 meets all steamers.

Daily Rates from

Monthly Rates from

8 6.00.

$130.00.

Under the Personal Supervision and attention of

MR. & MRS, H."J. WHITE.

Cables. "Kowlotel." Kowloon, HOTEL.

Tel. No. K.608 & K.600.

PALACE

Tel. Address "PALACE." Tal. Kawloon No. B

Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Forry and Railway Station. Tabirely, under English Management. Electric Light and Fan throughout. Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooma. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the propriotrcas. Torma modorate. Special terms to families on application to:

Mrs. J. II. OXDERRY, 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.

THE HOTEL RIVIERA

MACAO

Cáhle Address :—“ RIVIERA, MACAOʻ

EMBODYING THE

LUXURIES OF MODERN HOTEL CONSTRUCTION

THE FINAL EXPRESSION OF COMFORT AND SERVICE

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

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1928.

THE VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS NEW COLOURS.

Above are the new Corps Colours given by the ladies of the Colony to the Hongkong. Volunteer Defence Corps, which are to be formally handed over by H.. the Governor at a special parade on, the Murray Parade Ground to-morrow morning. (Photo: Mee Cheung)."

DUTCH PEAT FIRE DANGERS.

DISTRICT ROUND-EMMEN-A- RAGING FURNACE.

JAPANESE IN DIRE

PERIL...

CLASSIC VICTORY FOR KING.

FIRST SINCE MINORU'S 1909 DERBY.

(Continued from Page 1.Je;

Immediately afterwards the Chinese again began, looting! whereupon the Japanese troops LIKE ECLIPSE OF SUN, were again ordered out to protect ONE THOUSAND GNS. Japanese properties. The Nation-

London, May. 4. Amsterdam, May 4.

M. the King won his first The fen fires in the Province of lists fired on the Japanese, who Drenthe are becoming more exten-replied, the firing and testing go-felassic race to-day, when his fly Seattle was successful in the One sive and it is feared that only the ing oni spasmodically, until six in Thousand Guinens race at New- cessation of the wind, accompanied by heavy rain, can end the confla-the morning, when General market.

Scuttle won by a length in a gration.

Fukuda reached an agreement

field of fourteen, the King and the The spread is largely due to the with Marahal Chiang Kai-shek Prince of Wales being present to

under

which all Nationalists witness a fine victory. inadequacy of the extinguishing

The crowd, with bared heads, facilities in the sparsely populat-

troops should be withdrawn from

loudly cheered His Majesty'a- ed moorland region.

The district round Emmen on the foreign settlement area by victory, which is the first horse to the German frontier is now a raking furnace and many houses seven o'clock. are burning

The Japanese disarmed

win a classic for a reigning 1,000 sovereign since Minoru won the Two Thousand Guineas and the Derby for the late King Edward in 1909.

An area of several square miles men who were not withdrawn by has been evacuated and the at-that hour. mospheric conditions resemble an eclipse of the sun, so dense are the smoke clouds.

The atmosphere is sufocating while the columns of smoke fre visible for miles.--Reufér. :

U.S. FARM RELIEF BILL.

BIG MAJORITY IN HOUSE OF

́, REPRESENTATIVES.

Washington, May 4. The House of Representatives has passed, by 204 votes to 121, the McNary Haugen Farm Relief Bill, the Republicans failing to succeed in securing the omission of the equalisation fee.

There is a report that some foreigners other than Japanese were killed, but this is not con'- firmable. f:

The One Thousand Guineas yes. turday resulted as follows:

1

The King's Scattle....... Lord Dewar's Jurisdiction. 2 3 Lord Derby's Toboggan ..

Won Fourteen ran,

a by There are 3,000 Japanese troops | length: six lengths between second and 10,000 Nationalists at the pre-and third. sent time in Tainaniu.--Router.

Railway and Air Units,

Tokyo, May 4.

In addition to the 2,000 troops from Dairen, it has been decided to despatch an air unit from Korea. and a railway unit from Japan to Tsingtao, making total reinforce- ments of 2,300,-Revier.

Warships Ordered Also.

Tokyo; May 4.

Betting: 15/8 Scuttle; 100/8 Jurisdiction; 11/2 Toboggan. British Wireless.

NORTHERN RETREAT

CONTINUES. MARSHAL CHIANG READY -TO FOLLOW UP.

Shanghal, May, 4. Marshal, Chiang Kai-shek, it is As a precautionary measure in stated, crossed, to the north bank the case of anti-Japanese outof the Yellow Hiver am Wednesday President Coolidge last year breaks elsewhere the Navy Office to inspect the Nationalist front. veted similar legislation as being has ordered warships to proceed to Among those who went with the unconstitutional.

various ports on the Yangisze. and Marshal during the inspection The Bill seeks to establish a loan in south China, where there are were Generals Fang Chen-wu, Sun fund of £80,000,000 for farmers Japanese residing, while four ad-ang-ching. Chan Tiu-yuan and and an equalisation fee to assist ditional destroyers are going to Ila Yiu-cho..

In the marketing of surplus Tsingtao,—Reuter, agricultural conumoditica pro- fitably.

The Bill has been criticised on the ground that it follows elusely the principles of the Stevenson rubber scheme, Inasmuch as it provides Government control and Hupervision

of farm prices -Renter's American Service:

BANK COMPRADORE'S

ESTATE.

arme

ド

North Offers Arms.

Tokyo, May 4.

General Sun Liang-ching has made preparations to cross the Tsiho, north-west of Tsinanfu, in an endeavour to attack Techow

In expressing regret for the from the rear. Tsinanfu affair Chang Teo-lin

A general retreat of the North- offered to assist the Japanese with erners on the Peking-Hankow line

and ammunition, but the has been reported. offer was declined on the ground that the Japanese intend to press the outrages unaided.

Reuter.

Armoured Trains.

Tokyo, May 4.

Peking Military Conference, Yang Ya-ting Chief of Staff of the On Wednesday evening, General

Fengllen Army, and General Chang Hsuch-liang, son of the Peking Dictator, arrived in Peking in re- port on the latest developments on the various fronts. A military Hongkong estate to the value of According to a message from conference was held the same $32,000 was luft: by Luk Chor-ting, Tlentain the Japanese military au- evening. otherwise Lu Tso-ting, who died at thorities are sending armoured An overnight Chinese cable says Foochow on or about January 20th trains with reinforcements to thut the Nationalist Government this year. Letters of administra-Tainanfu.-Reuter.” tion with the will annexed have been granted to Mr. L. R. An-. drewes, of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master, who is the attorney af, Luk Lo-se, (described in the will

US. Sends Submarines,

Taingino, May 4. The American submarine tender

arrived-Reuter.

as Lo Shih), widow, the sole bene-Beaver with six submarinca has

ficiary.

Luk Chor-iing was the compra- dore at Foochow of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

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

1. Glasgow, nasmand, në 213,500,000. NI. compared with London'a 46,000,000, and Westovinster' £9,000,000, 2. The. Initials of Mr. Krugera Gray, the designar. ..... “Lloyd's Idet," the shipping awapapar, started la 1726. 4, A French rallway to cross the Anties, from north to mouth. K. In 1829. 8. The Grenadier Guards in 1686. 7. The Freneb champlon, M. Erial, played 100 games almul taneously at Cannicans, winning 102, losing

RUSSIAN DIPLOMÁT SHOT AT.

WOUNDED WHEN IN MOTOR CAR

Berlin, May 4.

A, message from Warnaw`states- that Russian emigre fired a reviver at a car in which M

has issued an edict seeking the ar rest of Mr. Llang Shih-yi, known as the Chinese "God of Wealth" and Mr. Wang Ke-min, the former Minister of Finance of the Peking Government. The reason for the required arrests is that they are and to have supported the Peking Government with large sums of money, with the result that civil war in the country has been pro- tracled.

SPENCE'S WONDERFUL

$

VICTORY,

GREAT TENNIS DUEL WITH FRENCH "CHAMPION.

London, May '4.

At Bournemouth to-day in the semi-final of the British Hard-

one and drawing three. 8. £155,009,000; Lizareff and another member 64 million per day. 9. An officiel of the the Soviet. Legation were travel courts Championships, Spence, the Court empowered to effect arrests for con tempt; he carries an eighteen-inch sta deling, M, Lizaroff was wounded in famous South African, dafented bed with a golden crown, 10, in 1831, from the hand by a bullet and his face the All-England Champion, J. Bayswater to the Marble Arch. 11. Statue

of a king, believed to be 500 years old, found injured by splintered glass.. Hia Cochet: (Franco) 5-7,4-5, 6-2, 6-8, I Hadow-rond, Stockwell. 12 Guinea-pics assailant was arrested, Reuter. 9-7-Reuter,..

are being fed on them) at the Zlier Institute

SUPERB BATTLE SCENESI

A

WONDERFULLY vivid pictorial record

of the two most stirring and dramatic- naval engagements of modern times!-

The BATTLES OF CORONEL AND FALKLAND ISLANDS

A

GREAT and profoundly moving drama produced with strong co-operation from the Admiralty including the use of battle-craft of every type and the full facili- ties of four dockyards!

-NOVELTY GAZETTE-

“Our Britain," with Miss Doris Woods as Vocalist

AT THE

QUEEN'S

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20.

FOUR GREAT screen stars in one of the biggest

productions of a famous director!-- ·

D. W. GRIFFITH

Presents

THE WHITE ROSE

With

MAE MARSH

IVOR NOVELLO CAROL DEMPSTER" NEIL HAMILTON

AT THE

WORLD

Orchestra 5.00 and 9.30.

3 MAX MAISH

in "EWGRIFFITH'S THE WHITE JOSE

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

Interpreter 2:30 and 7.15.

HELL BENT

FER HEAVEN

HE DRAMA of an

THE

old family feud flam-

ed into fighting heat- The thrills, hates and loves, of the Carolina mountain folk-An excit- ing melodrama with a sensational climax!

With

PATSY RUTH MILLER

Based on the Prize-Winning Stage Play.

AT THE

STAR

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY Continuous 2.30 to ILI5.