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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

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 wwwly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, alas Telephony.

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TEA DANCES:

Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 5 to 7 p.m. Hotel launch moots all steamors.

(828 for thirty Tin Tickets can be bad at the Once of the .above Hotel). Dinner Dances Tuesday and Saturday 8 to 12 a.m. »

Tél. Add:-"Victoria."

J. H. WİTCHELL, Telophone C. 878

HOTELS OF

Manager.

DISTINCTION

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1928.

MISS TOBIN NOT YET IMPORTANT CABLE THE SOMME BATTLE

RELEASED.

BUILDING.

BANDITS WANT MONEY FOR TELEGRAPH CENTRALISATION

· ALONG THAMESIDE.

"EXPENSES."

· IN GOOD HEALTH.

release

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NEW "EASTERN" SITE.

RECALLED.

CROSS AT HISTORIC SPOT TO BE DEDICATED.

GALLANT GUARDSMEN.

No news is yet to hand of the

London, Oct. 19. release of Miss Tobin, the British

London, Oct. 19. The Eastern Telegraph Com- lady missionary who was cap pany announce that they have

Next Sunday a moving little tured by Kwangai bandita laat secured ha important site on the ceremony will take place near Los. month, and whose

was Thames

Embankment, "now boeufs on the Somme. A simple excepted two days ago,

occupied by the Tramways Depart-granite cross has been erected at News from Bishop Holden on ment of the London the day before the expected re-Council, at one time the Education into Lesboeufs replacing the rot County the head of a sunken rond loading lease stated that three representa Office, and before that, the pro tives of the brigands had visited mises of the London School Board, the Chioping magistrate's militia captain at the village about thirty present building and to erect on It is proposed to demolish the Hfrom Saam-Chung, In the the site another, specially designed

it 1s

to meet the requirements of over- vicinity of which place believed Miss Tobin is held.

seas telegraph communication. They demanded that all the

It will be bullt on a magnificent soldiers should be withdrawn, and that their "expenses" should scale and will house the Eastern be met. No sum was named and and Associated Companies, the the magistrate promised to treat Marconi Company, the Pace along these lines if Miss Tobin Cable Company and West Indica

were released without delay,

The briganda' men promised to roturn with a definite answer in one or two days and they were asked to take back to Miss Tobin two tins of milk which the

magistrate had among

others. They averred that she was well in health, but, of course would give no indication of her dwelling, The magistrate, however, said that he had had them shadowed by some of his own sples.

undertakings, and the Government Beam Wireless.

ting, wooden cross which was put

ion in memory of their comrades up by the British Guards Divi-

after the two great battles on The Somme in 1915.

One hundred and thirty officers and men of the presont Guards Division, the Grendlers, Coldstrea mers, Scots, Irish and Welsh, will be drawn up round the cross to as- sist in its dedication which will be performed by the Reverend Pat. tins-in-the-Fields, London, who McCormick, Rector of Saint Mar- was Sanfor Chaplain to the Guards Division in 1918:

Major-General

Sir Geoffrey

This important step is taken in recognition of the fact that the highest possible efficiency can only be attained by centralisation,

It is anticipated that the eleva-Fielding, who commanded the tion of the new building will add Guards Division in the Semme bat- dignity to London's beautiful waterside thoroughfare. It is pos- of Cavan, who commanded the tles, will be present, also the Earl sible that Electra House and Fourteenth Corps in which the Marconi House will and their way Guards served.

into the market as. neither will be

On Wednesday, Bishop Holden required any longer for present sent 10 the magistrate two purposes.

METROPOLE-SAVOY-BOA VISTA || parcels et food and clothing for

PALACE

Tel. Kowloon No. 3,

HOTEL.

Tel Address: "Palace."

UNDER ENTIRELY EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT

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

of a Home.

Bar and three Billiard Tables; two in Now Billiard Saloon. Moderate Terms; families specially catered for.

For terms apply to:-

Hotel newly renovated.

Mr. 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

Phone Nos.

K. 008 & K. 600,

MR. & Mas. H. J. WHITE.

Cables KowLOTEL”

Hongkong.

EUROPE

'After-dinner dancing overy

Tuesday, Thursday

and Saturday.

Cables:-

"EUROPX

Bingapore

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,

"For the Beat - LOCAL VIEWS

and

PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHS

Go To

MEE CHEUNG

Studio, Los House St.

Branch 7, Beaconsfield Arcade,

Memories will be recalled of 7,000 Guardsmen who died in the

It is understood that the pur-tragic month of September, 1918. him to send to Miss Tobin. Ichase price of the new site was in action at Ginchy and Lesboeufs was then felt that the negotia £310,000, while the cost of the new nad of how the Guards, helped for tions might possibly be protracted, building to be erected will prob- the first time by tanks, stormed but it did seem as if there were ably be round about, £500,000,- forward in progressive assault and definile hopes of Miss Tobin's re- Reuter.

of how Colonel John Campbell of lease at no distant date.

the Coldstreams, led his men with hunting horn and won the Vle toria Cross for great gallantry.--- British Wireless.

ARMISTICE DAY.

CELEBRATIONS AT HOME AND

IN HONGKONG,

ATLANTIC FLIGHT.

NO NEWS OF MACDONALD.

Up to the time of going to press, there is no news of Lieut.-Comdr. We are officially. Informed that MacDonald, who two days ago set His Majesty has approved that out on flight across the Atlantic the arrangements for the obsemall Moth aeroplane. The vance of Armistic Day should be

following message was received Inst

on November 11th

night: on the same lines as last year. Permission. Is also given for the broadensting of the Cenotaph service.

The aerodromes at Croydon and all night long while the staffs kept Staglane were brilliantly lighted

vain watch for signs of Lieut. Commdr. MacDonald, Anxiety grew greater at four o'clock in the morning when it was realised that likely exigusted. the airman's petrol supply was most

It is understood that the Very Reverend the Dehn of St. John's. Cathedral is preparing to have Matins on November 11th at 3.45 a finishing at about 10.30 in order to give ample time to all

The only news of Lieut. Commdr. those attending the service at the MecDonald's whereabouts since he Cathedral to be in position near set out on his flight is a report that the Cenotaph before the arrival of he was seen by Dutch steamer at His Excellency the Officer Ad-12:10 vésterday morning at a spot ministering the Government, and 600 miles from the noint of his de- further, that the Dean is proposing parture.--Reuter,

to communicate direct with the various bodies who generally apply for special representation at the Cenotaph with a view to allotting them a certain number of sents at the Cathedral service,

It is proposed to allot special senta in the Cathedral to members of the Executive and Legislative Councils and to the Consular Body,

EXTRADITION CASE,

FUGITIVE HANDED OVER TO CANTON,

www.

JAPAN AND CHINA.

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INFORMAL CONVERSATIONS

CONTINUE.

Shanghal, Oct. 19.

SIR OSWALD MOSLEY'S SECOND THOUGHTS.

BARONETCY "NOT WORTH

GIVING UP.”

-Nice, Sept. 22.

not worth giving it up, because

"I intend to retain the title: It's! tities nowadays don't count for anything," declared Sir Oswald Mosley, the well-known Labour M.P., in an interview here to-day.

Sir Oswald has just succeeded | to the title as sixth Baronet on the death of his father yesterday, and the foregoing' answers question that has been discussed the

whether, in view of the views he and Lady Cynthia Mosley have expressed on the subject of titles, he would consent to the use of the "Sir."

The new Baronet, who is lear ing the Riviera to return to Eng. land, further said that he intend- ed to continue his work AR AN M.P.

Mr, Mosley, writing on April 12. 1926, in the Daily Herald, said: "I stated long ago, in ans- Outstanding Sino-Japanese pro-wer to a question when I first join. blems have been discussed at some ed the Labour Party, that on the length between Dr. C. T. Wang, death of my father I would re. the Nanking Foreign Minister, and nounce the title I should then the Japanese Consul General in acquire. I was informed that it Shanghai, Mr. Yada.

was impossible legally to renounce Nanking reports state that a title, but it will be quite easy Va-day unofeial conversations and not to be addressed by it." views were exchanged between

DOUBTFUL.

Tsang Yu, who, it will be re- Mr. Yada and Dr. Wang, princí- membered, was committed to gaol pally on the tariff issues and the MR. HOOVER'S POSITION on September 26, to await the Nanking ineident settlement. order of His Excellency the Officer Regarding the settlement of the Administering the Government, Tsinanfu incident, it is alleged was handed over to the Canton that Mr. Yada has expressed the authorities on Thursday last, being view that at present the Japanesu taken to Canton on the ss. Tung Government is not likely to con -On-

went to the Nationalist proposal It was revealed in the case demanding the complete evacua- against Teang Yu at the Central tion of all Japanese troops from Magistracy that the fugitive way Shantung, Mr. Yada is returning one of a party of armed bandits to Shanghai to-morrow. who raided the village of Pak Fong

on July 5, and carried away nine boys from a shool. Later, the head of one of the captives was cut off and was returned to the village, stuck on a pole. This was part of the bandils' scheme to warn the inhabitants of the consequences of failing to pay 4] ransoms demanded.

THE ANGLO-PERSIAN DIVIDEND.

HUGE SUM CARRIED FORWARD.

London, Oct, 19. The Directors of the Anglo-Por alan Oil Company have decided to recommend, at the annual meeting to be held on November Oth the payment of a dividend of 7% per cent. on ordinary shares, less tax, for the your ended March 31st, 1928, and to carry forward £2,224,- 266.-Router.

A report has been made to the police to the effect that five blocks of tinfoil valued at 8500 have been

of Whitfield.

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERorstolen from the Hop Yick Company FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong.

FRENCH TRADE.

RECORDS OF TRANSVAAL ELECTION DESTROYED.

Johannesburg, Oct, 19.

It is impossible positively to dis- prove the allegation that Mr. Hoover, the American presidential candidáte, voted in the Transvaal election years ago..

The Secretary to the Mayor has replied to the query from New York that all records of the Muni- IMPORTS SHOW MARKED.ctpal Election of the time mention-

INCREASE.

fed were destroyed long ago,~

Reuter.

Parle, Oct. 19. French imports for the first nine months of 1928 totalled Fra. 28,708,000,000, showing an increase of Fra. 828,000,000 compared with the same period last year.

Exports totallgå Frs. 37,551,000,- 000, being a decrease of Frs. 2,600 000. All figures are approximate. -Hans.

FINE WEEK-END.

The forecast til noon to-morrow is:North-east winds, fresh: fine. The anticyclone in unchanged and fresh to strong monsoon will con tinue along the count and over the North China Sea.

Hospital Sunday, is being ob- served at St. John's Cathedral to morrow. The itev, H. V. Koop is to preach.

BELGIAN PRINCE TO VISIT EAST?

PLANNING TOUR OF DUTCH EAST INDIES.'

Brussels, Oct. 19. Prince Leopold of Bolglum is re-||| ported to be contemplating a voyage, to the Dutch East Indies shortly for the purposes of study.-Reuter.

A Chinese farmer, who bought a cow for $31 from a stranger at the cross-roads at Fanling. at 11 o'click yesterday, hnd to hand the animal: back, half an hour later, to the rightful owner. The purchaser was shown sufficient proof that the an- imal was only stolen a few ralnutes before it was sold. The police have

been notified;

REX INGRAM'S

Production

The GARDEN OF ALLAH

The FAMOUS

BOOK

-at last in films!

The world- famous ro inance, retu- ally filmed in the Sahara Desert.

Another triumph

by the man who made **The Four Horseman"

with

ALICE TERRY and IVAN PETROVICH

A GREAT novel and stage success, this power-

ful story by Robert Hichens is transferred to the screen in a wealth of Oriental colour!

;

NEVER such a story of love and

temptation!

AT THE

QUEEN'S

FINAL SHOWINGS

At 2.30, 5.10. 7.15 & 9.20

TO-DAY

BUSTER'S HAPPIEST COMEDYI

THOUSAND and one laughs in a delightful

A

story concerning a bookworm who takes up sport at college to win the girl be loves!

AT THE

Joseph

Scheuch,

SASSENTE

KEATON *College®

The Intercollegiate LAUGH RIOT

with

ANN CORNWALL

A United Artists Picture.

WORLD

Orchestra E.15 Ø 8.20.

FINAL SHOWINGS

TO-DAY Interpreter 2,30 8.7.18..

FUN, FASHION AND FOLLY!

A

DAZZLING COMEDY-DRAMA of Palm Beach Society, with Gloria Swanson at her

very bent!

Swanson

THE

COAST OF FOLLY

AT THE

Directed by Allan Dwan. ›

STAR FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

Continuous 2.30 to II.15.