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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

LAMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel De Wagons Lila, Peking,

KING EDWARD 'HOTEL.

Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colons, all Bed Rooms newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beda, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone.

TEA DANCES:

Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 5 to 7 p.m. Hotel launch meets mil steamers,

($25 for thirty Tin Tickets can be, had at the Office of the ahore Hotel). Dinner Dances Tuesday and Saturday 8 to 18 a.m.

J. EL WITCHELL, Tol. Add:-"Victoria.” Telephone C.. 878

HOTELS OF

Manager.

DISTINCTION

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1928.

GRAF ZEPPELIN'S COLONY'S CREDIT

BALANCE..

PROGRESS.

EXPECTED AT THE AZORES LAST NIGHT.

SATISFACTORY FIGURES FOR HALF-YEAR.

PASSENGERS AIRSICK.

· ི་

· REVENUE INCREASES.

·

SHOT BY FORMER LOVER

RUSSIAN GIRL ATTACKED. IN SHANGHAI.

ASSAILANT HELD.

Shanghai, Oct. 10.

London, Oct. 12. The Gorman · airship "Graf Details of the Colony's revenue

A Kussian woman; Mrs. Mary Zeppelin, which is Aying the Atlan-and expenditure up to June 30th

Dedeneca, was shot through the left tic, passed over Madeira this show that on that date the credit shoulder yesterday evening and now afternoon, and in a wireless mes balance was $5,638,816, as com lies in St. Mario's Hospital in a sage picked up at Ponta Delgada, parod with 85,544,028 at the end of serious condition, as a result of a in the Azores, states that she will May.

quarrel between her and an old The revenue for the month of sweetheart at 459 Avenue Joffre. pass over the Azores to-night.

The message adds that the June was $1,071,290, as against K. Chiedotinistin, another Russian, majority of the passengers are $1,526,949 for the same month last has been arrested by the French exceedingly air-aick. British year, whilst the respective expen-Police and will be charged with diture figures were $1,677,092 and attempted murder, the unlawful $1,661,288,

possession of arms, and returning For the first six months of the to the French Concession after the year, the total revenue was $11,Court had previously ordered him ta 420,424, against $9,926,501 in 1927.

be expelled. The year's estimate is $20,103,390. Expenditure for the six months totalled 89,867,368, as compared with $9,103,814 last year, on a year's estimate of $22,183,045.

Wireless.

Drops Malls.

Later. The wireless statios at Chatham, Massachusetts, has picked up a message from the Zeppelin, stating: "Weather warm. Proceeding to Bermuda. If weather continues good expect to arrive at noon on

It will thus be seen that there Sunday, Speed eighty-five miles per- hour. Have dropped mall at Fun-ls for the half-year a substantial Increase in revenue as compared chal."

with 1927, although expenditure has risen. The year's Estimates for revenue are shown to have been framed on a conservative basis, whilst expenditure looks like being far less than anticipated,

Funchal is the capital of Madeira,

-Renter

Stimmun

Earlier Reports.

Parle, Oct. 12. Reports from Madrid state that the Graf Zeppelin paased Cna- tellon de la Plana at 11.40 o'clock last night.—Reuter,

[ Castellon de la Plana is a sea- port in the Gulf of Valencia, about

METROPOLE-SAVOY—BOA VISTA 10 miles north of Valencia del Cid,

PALACE

Tel. Kowloon No. 3,

HOTEL

Tel. Address: "Palace." UNDER ENTIRELY KUROPEAN MANAGEMENT:

A first-class Residential and Tourist Hotel with all the conveniences

of a Home.

AZELTONASIOC

Bar and three Billiard Tables; two in New Billiard Baloon. Moderate Terma: families spécially catered for.

For terms apply to:--

Hotel newly renovated,

Mrs. J. I. Oxberry,

Proprietress.

KOWLOON HOTEL

KOWLOON..

SPECIAL SUMMER RATES.

Daily from $ 5.00 Monthly from $125.00

Under the Personal Supervision and Attention of

Mn. & Mrs. H. J. WHITE."

Phone Nos.

K.008 & K. 609.

Cables "KoWLOTEL

Hongkong.

"

EUROPE

After-dinner dancing every

Tuesday, Thursday

and Saturday.

Qables ---

"EUROPK

Singapore

HOTEL

SINGAPORE.

Grill

THE EUROPE HOTEL LTD.'

Arthur E. Odell, Managing - Director,

Courtesy, Comfort, Service and Luxuries of Modern Hotel Construction

THE HOTEL RIVIERA,

MACAU,

Cable Address: “RIVIERA, MACAU,"

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due west of the Balearic Islands,]

Passes Gibraltar,

Gibraltar, Oct. 12. The Graf Zeppelin passed here, at five o'clock this morning. Reuter,

The following wirdess meaange has been received from the Graf Zeppelin: "Over Atlantic. All well. Expect to fly over New York Sunday-Reuter's American Ser- vice.

Passes Over Madeira,

Horta, Oct. 12, The Graf Zeppelin passed over Madeira at 1.35 this afternoon.--- Reiter:

Madeira is the largest of a group of islands in the North At- lantic, about 390 miles from the coust of, Morocco and about 880 miles south west of Gibraltar.]

Weather Reported Bad."

Friedrichshafen, Oct. 12. The weather in the North Atlan- tic is reported to be very bad. Strong adverse winds have consi- derably diminished the speed of the Graf Zeppelin, which is expected to take at least a hundred hours to reach Lakehurst, New Jersey, as compared with seventy-five taken by her predecessor as the course of the Graf Zeppelin is at least 2,000 kilometres longer than her decessor, the ZR3, now the Los Angeles. Reuter.

pre-

SHANGHAI DOUBLE

TRAGEDY.

(Continued from Pape 1.)

MAGNIFICENT CAKE.

The above mbikalficent cake was feature of the recent Napier-Nowson wedding. It was made at Home and re- erected and arranged here by Messrs. Lane, Crawford,

M.

STABILISING THE BALKANS.

M. VENIZELOS CONTINUES

THIS MISSION,

a man which was lying about 100

Belgrade, Oct. 12. Venizelos, ft. from the body which he first

the Greek observed, and which subsequently Premier, and M. Chamenovitch, proved to be that of Miss Thompson. the Yugo-Slavlan Foreien Minister As he passed, he noticed that the have signed an agreement under man moved and his first thoughts which Greece and Yugo-Slavin were that a motor accident had oc-have agreed to draw up a Pact curred. On reflection, and noticing of Friendsblý, providing for the that the woman appeared to be dead, pacific setilement of litigious he suspected shooting and questions.

being unarmed, proceeded with The Pact will be valid for a all haste to Bubbling Well period of five years.--Renter. palice station where. he re- ported the affair. He accom. panied two police constables to the scene where they arrived shortly after 7 p.m.

ITALIAN AIRMAN HONOURED.

PRESENTED WITH UNITED

STATES' D.F.C.

Rome, Oct. 12.

Choadotiniatin is reported to have called at 439 Avenue Joffre in an excited condition to meet the girl about & p.m. to renew an old ac- quaintance. Shortly after he' mot the girl, neighbours heard words being exchanged between them, Chacdotinatin shouting "I will shoot you." Immediately afterwards there was the sound of a pistol shot. Neighbours summoned the police, who found the girl struggling with her assailant in the doorway. Chaedotinistin was taken into custody, and the wounded girl re- moved to the hospital.

Under examination it was found that Chaedotiniatin, has been pre- viously convicted by the French Court and sentenced to expulsion from the Concession. A Colt auto- matie was found on him, for which he had no licence. He was former- ly employed by the compradore of the Shanghat Race Club.

SOLDIER CHARGED,

ALLEGED ASSAULT ON AN AMAH.

James McKnight, a private of the K.O.S.B., was charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the Central Police Court this morning, with as saulting an amah employed in a house at Spring Garden Lane,

It was alated by the police that the Woman on whom the defendant called Inst night would not have anything to do with him. McKnight was then said to have lost his tem- an old per, and to have struck woman, who was employed there as an amah, with the heavy end of his Servico cane as he passed out into the street.

Defendant denied the charge, The case is pra'eeding.

GERMAN TEXTILE

INDUSTRY.

190,000 OPERATIVES TO BE LOCKED OUT.

Cologne, Oct. 12. The milbowners of the Rhine- land and Westphalian sections of the German texille Industry havo decided to lock out 190,000 opera- lives on the 27th instant, failing settlement in the meantime of thei Muenchangladiach wages dispute.

It is improbable that the dis-i pute will be settled.--Reuter.

AMERICAN WEATHER-

PHENOMENON.

SUMMER IN CHICAGO: SNOW IN WYOMING.

New York, Oct. 12. A remarkable illustration of the vagaries of the weather is being provided in the United States. While the people of New York and Chicago are enjoying summer heat and the warmest October since 1885, over LA a blizzard

sweeping Wyoming a little farther West, the State being buried. in eighteen in-

FINE WEEK-END.

Another Car on the Scene. Some 220 yards from the bodies, a hired car was seen ranked at the side of the road and the police, suspecting kidnapping, stopped their car and approached the On the occasion of the anniver-ches of snow-Reuter's Amerison stationary car. This car proved sary of the discovery of America, Service. to be unoccupied and no one was in which is a national holiday in Italy, the vicinity. The position of this the American Ambassador gave n our was near a path which deads banquet In honour of Commander to the Red Joss House village. De Pinedo, the fainous Itallen, air- On reaching the aceno, he sawman, and presented him with the that the man had rolled over on his Distinguished Flying Cross award- side, the position of the latter ed recently by President Coolidge. when witness first saw him being-Reuter. face downwards. The police ascertained that the man was alive and that the woman was dead and, In response to a request by the pollco, witness hurried back to Bubbling Well Police Station with a message asking for an ambul- He did not anco and detectives. return with the latter.

In reply to a question by Det.. Sub-Inspr. Grubb, witness sald

that he noticed no one in the

SPANISH MINISTER'S

DEATH.

DUKE OF TETUAN PASSES AWAY.

Madrid, Oct. 12, The death is announced of the vicinity of the scene at any time, Duke of Tetuan, the Spanish He saw no one from the time he Minister for War-Reuter. turned down Keswick Road into

Breman Road,

In reply to the Coroner, witness The deaths of two Chinese dock stated that the hired car above passengers from consumption were referred to, was not present when reported this morning, one by the witness first approached the scenes.s. Anbul from the Straits and

This concluded the evidence and one by the sa. Tai Fook Bing from the inquest was adfou ned unlil Saigon. Friday at 2.16 p.m.

"North-east winds, moderate; fine, is the weather forecast up to noon to-morrow, Moderate to fresh monsoon may be expected along the sith-east coast of China and over the North China Sca.

It is understood that there is to to a rehearing of the recent case against Captain. Midgeley, of the .. Tal Leo. Captain Mid- geley was fined $250 at the Marine Court on a charge of working cargo on Sunday.

This morning's Harbour Office reports gave 20 arrivals and 12 departures, of which 11 and six respectively were British. Ton- 'nago' and 'freights were both good, with the British total of cargo under both headings approximat- ing 14,000 tons,

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