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THE

HONGKONG

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

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL;

MÁJESTIC HOTEL.

Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL"

HOTELS

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel Dea 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 Telephone.

TEA DANCES:

Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from ₺ to 7 p.m. Hotel launch meets all steamers,

above Hotel),

($25 for thirty Tin Tickets can be hud at the Office of the Tel. Add:-"Victoria," Telephone C. 373

HOTELS OF

VOTEL PAEROP

J. H. WITCHELL, **

Manager.

DISTINCTION

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SHIP'S LOADLINE

POLICY.

BRITAIN'S DESIRE FOR UNANIMITY.

COMMONS QUESTIONS.

London, July 31.

The President of the Board of Trade was asked in the House of Commons what aelion the Govern ment was taking in purauance of iis policy of promoting inter- national uniformity in the matter of ships loadings.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1928.

GRAND TATTOO THE ANGLO-FRENCH

: PROPOSALS.

CHANGE OF DATES IS! ANNOUNCED.

DECORATED MOTOR-CAR.

PROCESSION.

OTHER FEATURES.

COMPROMISE.

HOPES OF FACILITATING DISARMAMENT.

#

NAVAL AGREEMENT.

Paris, July 31.

A communiquc issued from the Quai d'Orsay explains that owing to differences among the disarma- ment Preparatory Committee, dn order to enable the Committee to continue it's work, France and England have agreed on a com- Hongkong's Grand Tattou is to be promise formulu which anfeguards Sir Philip Cunliffe Lister ra- held at Happy Valley on Tuesday, French naval interests, and which piled that the rules relating to Wednesday and Thursday, Septem- both Governments hope will be ne- ehips loadings were being revised her 11, 12 and 18, and not on the cepted by the other naval Powers. by a Committee, and the revised date previously announced. Some de

London, July 31. Reuter learns that the Anglo- rules would be sent to the Domin-lay has been occasioned in the or ion and foreign Governments for ganisation of the Tattoo owing to French Agreement, to which Sir consideration. Every effort was various difficulties connected with Austen Chamberinin referred in the being made to secure international the insurance which must be effect-House of Commons yesterday, is the agreement. It was too early' yet ed for displays of this kind, and outcome of discussions which took to say what the precise alterations the protracted negotiations neces-place between British and French would be. The Minister added sary before the insurance details inval experts last Spring.

were definitely settled resulted in that this subject was not one

Home little delay. which, in the ordinary course.

the League of Nations.,

These discussions related to the In view of this, the Working draft Conventions which Britain would go before the Comittee of Committee, at u meeting held last and France respectively presented night, decided to postpone the to the Geneva Naval Conference in Tattoo, originally arranged for 1926 and which they have since at- September 4, 6 and 8. As stated tempted at various times to coalesce above, it will now take place in the into a single text. following week on three consecutive nights beginning September 11.

The President of the Board of Trade was also asked about the overloading of ships at certain ports, especially ships engaged in the American coastal trade.

It is hoped that the formula now agreed to may be acceptable to the Arrangements for the novel event Preparatory Disarmament. Com He replied that the Board of Trade had been collecting informa- are now going forward rapidly, Amittee, and thus hasten the convoca- tion on the manner in which ships the moment, no definite decision has tion of the Disarmament Confer- were loaded in different trades.been reached regarding the prices ence.-Reuter, He had received a statement to the of the various seats and stands, but it is expected that the Committee effect that overloading of ships responsible for these matters will took place in certain trades. What make a definite announcement in the

near future.

METROPOLE-SAVOY-BOA VISTA action could be taken was being

PALACE HOTEL.,

Tol. Kowloon No. 8

Tel. Address "PALACE” Three minuten from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. Entirely under English Management. Electric Light and Fans throughout. Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Rar and Billiard-Rooms. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Terms moderate. Special terms to familles on application to:

Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietress.

·KOWLOON HOTEL

KOWLOON.

SPECIAL SUMMER RATES.

Daily from $ 5.00 Monthly from $125.00 ́

Under the Personal Supervision and Attention of

carefully considered in the inter-

Tickets will be sold in advance els of the Merchant Service and it will be possible for those British Wireless.

NEW ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.

BISHOP OF MANCHESTER · APPOINTED.

London, July 31. His Majesty the King has ap- proved the nomination of the Right Rev. William Temple, Bishop of Manchester, to the Archbishop of York, in succession to the Right.j Dr. Cosmo Lang, who, has been elevated Archbishop of Canter- bury-Reuter.

wishing to attend the Grand Tattoo to see seating plans and make their Feservations. Seating plans will be opened at various places on both sides of the harbour.

HEAD-ON MOTOR COLLISION.

A CHAUFFEUR SERIOUSLY

INJURED.

Two public motor-ears met in a head-on collision in the early hours Decorated Motor-Cars.

of this morning, on the main road Preliminary details of the pro- nt Aberdeen. One of the drivers while injured, seriously An-was gramme have alrally heen

received nounced, but farther details are several » passengers now available regarding the pro-bruises ami, cuts, resulting in at cession of decorated motor-cars least one of them being detained in. which is being organised by the hospital, Hongkong. Automobile Association and which will be given on the of gation by the officials of the the three nights of the Grand Traße Department with a view to

Tattoo.

The accident is under investi-

Three prizes will be given for the determining which driver is to best decorated vehicles; one in each blame for the accident, for it la of three classes. The first class alleged that one of the drivers was will be open to motor ears or lor on the wrong side of the road.

The From a statement made to the Dr. Temple, who la himself the rics representing the "trade." HO of a previous Archbishop of second class will be for the most police this morning by Kwong Canterbury, was born at Exeter in original design and. best decorated | Kee, the driver of car No. 226, it 1881. He was educated at Rugby private motor car, while the third appears that he was proceeding motor along the main road, when, at a and Balliol College, Oxford, where class will be confined to

point near Tin Wan, he collided, he won high honours, and was cycles, either solo or combination,

There will be an entrance or rehend-on, with public ear No. 620 President of the Oxford Union in 1904. From that year until 1910, gistration fee for this of one dollar. The time of the accident was ten

was Fellow and Lecturer in and, if sufficient inducement la of-

Kwang Kee himself was not in- will distribute prizes to the yalue Philosophy at Queen's College, Oxfered, the Automobile Association minutes past two. ford, having taken holy ordera in $500. Those intending to partijured beyond a severe shaking, cipate in this event nre asked to butin foki who was sented beside communicate with Mr. G. M. Man him was injured by splintered ners, c/o the Hongkong and Kow-glass from the windscreen, bleed-

ing considerably from a loon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd.

ber of cuts in the end. The driver of the other car had his

MR. & MRS. H. J. WHITE.

Phone Nos.

K 608 & K. 809,

Cables "KOWLOTEL "

Hongkong.

he

EUROPE

'After-dinner, dancing every

Tuesday, Thursday

and Saturday.

Cablés :-

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Singapore.

HOTEL

SINGAPORE.

Grill

THE EUROPE HOTEL LTD.

Arthur E. Odell, Managing - Director.

THE HOTEL RIVIERA

MACAO M

Cable Address:—"RIVIERA, `MACAO""'

EMBODYING THE

LUXURIES OF MODERN HOTEL CONSTRUCTION

EXPRESSION

THE FINAL

OF. COMFORT AND SERVICE

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by ALFRED MORLEYy, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong,

1908.

He was Chaplain to the Arch bishop of Canterbury in 1910, from which year until 1914 he was Hendmaster of Repton School. In 1914, he was appointed Rector of

Other Displays.

Bum-

St. James, Piccadilly, continuing Details of the displays to be given left hand crushed, while a passei until 1918, having been in the by the Portuguese and Chinese com-ger, a Chinese woman, was also meantime editor of The Challenge,munities have not been definitely badly injured.

of Manchester. He was editor of the Grand Tattoo and

a joint

Lake

From 1919 lo 1921, he was Canon arranged at the moment! The All the injured were taken to of Westminster, and in the latter Portuguese community has signi- the Government Civil Hosptal. year he was elevated to the Seened its willingness to co-operate in When a police Inspector visited The Pilgrim from 1920 to 1927 meeting of the Club Lusitano the scene this morning to and President of the Workers and the Club de Recreio is measurements of the roadway and Educational Association from 1908 being held to decide on the nature possible skidmarks, it was seen to 1921. In 1915, he was Chaplain of their event. lo II.M the King. Dr. Temple la the author of many religious and sociological works.]-

AMERICAN MOTOR MERGER,

THE DODGE AND CHRYSLER COMBINE.

Lieut. Col. Hayley Bell, D.5.0., has been appointed by the Working Committee to co-operate with the organisers of the civilian displays In the general arrangement of the various events.

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that both ears were considerably damaged by the collision. Owing to the force of the impact the front part of one of the cars was. lifted into the air and came to rest astride the bonnet of the other,"

HEALTHY BEGGAR.

UNABLE TO FIND EMPLOYMENT.

Working Committee, The Working Committee of the Grand Tattoo consists of the fol- lowing:H.E. Major General C.C. Luard C.B., C.M.G. (Chairman), Mr. R. Sutherland, O.B.E., and Lieut.-Col. L. J. Comyn, C.M.G, D.S.O., (Vice-Chairmen), Mr. G.E.

A Chinese of good build stood New York, July 31. Towns (Hon. Treasurer), Mr. J.H. The merger between the Chrys- Hunt, O.B.E., (Hon. General Sec- before Major C. Willson this morn- ler Corporation and Dodge retary), Sir Henry Pollock, K. C., Brothers has been completed with the Hon. Mr. E.D.C, Wolfe, C.M.G.,ing, at the Central Magistracy, to the consent of 90 per cent. of the

W.L. Pattenden, Mr. P, S. answer a charge of begging in shareholders in both Companies. Carpenter, Mr. H.R. Forsyth, Mr. B.

Cassidy, Mr. B.O. Blaker, Mr. E.W. Pedder Street.

The defendant pleaded guilty. The joint capital of the new or Wylie, Mr. Duncan, O.B.E., Lieut.- His Worship enquired of the de- ganisation, whose car production Col. L. G. Bird, D.S.O., Lieut. Col. fondant why, with a healthy body, will runk next to the Ceneral Mo-F. Hayley Bell, D.S.O. Mr. J.P. he did not seek employment of tore Corporation and Ford's Fuc- Braga, the Hon. Mr. C. Gordon some kind, to which the defendant tories, will be, $600,000,000.- Mackle, Mr. Ll Jowson, Mr. Wong replied that he had tried his best Reuter's Americast Correspondent.Kwong-tin, Mr. B. Wang Tape, Mr. but was not able to earn a living.

LI. Sing-kui, Mr. Lau Yu-wan, Mr. A fine of $4, or seven daya' hard ER. Robinson, Mr. C. M. Mannera, labour, was imposed by his Wor- Mr. G.G. Wood, and Mr. C.P. An-

ship. derson. In addition, there aro other Military members of the Com- mittee.

KELLOGG TREATY,

GETTING READY FOR SIGNATURE.

The Organiser la Colonel R.B. Skinner, O.B.E.

THE RUBBER QUOTA.

SIXTY PER CENT. FOR LAST THREE MONTHS,

BRITISH EMIGRANTS.

FIGURES FOR THE PAST

YEAR...

London, July 31. In the House of Commons, the President of the Board of Trade stated that the total number of emigrants' of' British nationality to the British Empire, overens for the year ending June 30th was 108,695, and to the United States 22,778.

London, July 31. The British Government is to sign, the Kellogg Peace Treaty In Paris on August 27th. Similar In- |vitations arò being transmitted to

the Dominions Governments.

Sir Austen Chamberlain, sponki ing yesterday in the House of Con- mons, expressed the hope that st might be his good fortune to go to Its officially announced that Paris to sign the Treaty on behalf the standard production of rubber of this country. Whom the Domi- which may be exported at the nions Governments will designate minimum rate of duty from Cey The number of persons migrat to sign the Treaty will be known ion and Malaya for the quartering within the British Empire who when they reply to the invitations, beginning August let, will be 60 were granted free or assisted pass- --British Wircleza,

per cent. Reuter.

London, July 31.

ages was 47,892, British Wireless.

SHE SENT HIM TO HELL —and brought him back again AN AMAZING woman - exotic-beautiful -the toast of the bright lights--the world at her feet-but she chose a man who was flotsam in the backwash of life. ·A strange and gripping drama of the Gold Coast!

THE

MIDNIGHT

With

ROSE

LYA DE PUTTI

& KENNETH HARLANT

∙AT THE

JAMES W.YOUNG,

PRODUCTION,

UNIVERSAL PICTURE

QUEEN'S

FINAL SHOWINGS, TO-DAY At 2.30, 5,10 & 7.15 only

TO-NIGHT

At 9.20 p.m.\

The world famous, magician

LONG TACK SAM and his brilliant company of CHINESE WONDER WORKERS

in a medley of ̧· ORIENTAL FEATS

MARY PICKFORD

AT THE

SPARROWS

WORLD

Orchestra 5.15 & 9.20.

A human story, sincere and gripping from start to finish. A perfect example of the dramatic art of the cinema ending in one of the most thrill- ing climaxes ever screen- ed!

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY Interpreter 2.50 & 7,15,

AN ABSORBING MYSTERY STORY OF THE SECRET SERVICE! JETTA GOUDAL ROBERT AMES

in

CECIL B.DEMILLE

Three Faces

East

AT THE WASHI

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

STAR Continuous 2.80 to 11.18.