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THE HONGKONG

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

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL

Telographic Address:

"CENTRAL SHANGHAL."

HOTELS

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel Des Wagons Lita, Peking, KING EDWARD HOTEL.

Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooma newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephono.

TEA DANCES:

Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 6 to 7. p.m. Hotel launch meets all atcamore,

($25 for thirty Tin Tickets can be had at the Once of the abovo Hotel). Dianer Dances Tuesday and Saturday 8 to 12 a.m.

J. H. WITCHELL, Tel. Add:"Victoria." Telephone C. 373

HOTELS' OF

Manager.

DISTINCTION

METROPOLE-SAVÒY—BOA VISTA

PALACE HOTEL.

Tel Kowloon No. 3,

Tel Address: "Palace." UNDER ENTIRELY EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT

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

pt a Home,

Bar and three Billiard Tables; two in New Billiard Saloon. Moderate Terms: familles specially catered for.

For terms apply to:-

Hotel newly renovated.

Mrs. J. II. 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. 609 & K. 409.

MR. & Mrs. H. J. WHITE.

Cables "KowLOTEL'

Hongkong.

EUROPE

After-dinner dancing every

Tuesday, Thursday

and Saturday.

Cables:

"EUROPE

Singapore

HOTEL

SINGAPORE.

Grill

THE EUROPE HOTEL

Arthur E. Odeil, Managing Director,

LTD.

Courtesy, Comfort, Service and Luxuries of Modern Hotel Construction

THE HOTEL RIVIERA,

MACAU.

Cable Address:-"RIVIERA, MACAU."

THEATRE ROYAL SATURDAY, Oct. 27. At 9.15 p.m.

MOISEIWITSCH

THE MOST POPULAR PIANIST OF THE DAY.

LAST RECITAL MOUTH'S Prices–84, 83, &$2. Direction-

A. #TROK.

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PEROY Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8. Mongkong.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1928.

H.M.S. LONDON NOW SHANGHAI SEIZURE LADY MISSIONARY

ON TRIALS.

SEQUEL.

* 'IN CAPTIVITY.

RESULTS ARE TO BE KEPT A SECRET.

STATE COUNCIL'S ORDER TO

CUSTOMS HOUSE.

#

FOR MEDITERRANEAN. IMPORTATION OF ARMS.

Licc.

BISHOP HOLDEN OFFERS TO TAKE HER PLACE.

RANSOM, PAYMENT,

Confirmation of the news that London, Oct. 25.

Shanghai, Oct. 25. The latest ship in the Navy to

The State Council hna notified the Chiuping magistrate's repre- bear the name of London is now the Superintendent of Customs at aentative has at last established chief of tho undergoing her trials, the result of Shanghai that from now on, ali touch with the which will be kept secret, in accord- shipments of arms and ammunt brigande, who are holding Miss ance with modern Admiralty praction, and munitions of war if any Tobin captive, reaches us thie The brigand chief has definitely As soon as her trials are com-kind passing through Shanghai, morning by mall from Wachow pleted, II.M.S. London is to go out even when accompanied by per asserted that the lady missionary to the Mediterranean as flagship of mite, must be detained.

is well and that he would answer On detention, the Superinten for her health and safety with one of the Cruiser Squadrons there. She is one of the 10,000 ton County dent is instructed to communicate his life. Negotiations, have since

Nanking authorities Class and not one of the 8,000-ion with the

giving details of the shipments proceeded apace, and, as

Wuchow correspondent cabled on City Class,

and asking for instruction.

Wednesday, arrangements have been made for the payment of the ransom demanded to-day.

London has always been very keenly interested in shins named after it, which have been numerous, both armed merchantmen and ships of the regular Navy.

The last warship of the name was an 18-knot battleship of 16,000 tons, which distinguished itself in the Dardanelles in 1915 and after- wards co-operated with the Italian flect at Toranto. After the Armis. tice, she was broken up.-British Wireless.

This is a precautionary, measure against the unlimited restriction of arma-Reuter,

our

Bishop Holdon has been in- The order appears to be a sequeÏTM to the seizure made in Shanghai defatigable in his efforts to secure yesterday, exclusively reported in Miss Tobin's release, and the day the Telegraph, involving the deten- before the better news came, he tion of field guns, shells and put forward the proposition that dynamite being transported under an exchange of captives should be the direction of n Nationallat milf-effected and that he himself would

be the aubstitute! tary oflicor.

Fortunately, this drastic course not likely to prove necessary, as

not. the Chiuping magistrato is likely to haggle over the amount of the ransom or to delay its pay-

It was found that the shipment exceeded considerably the quantity dotailed in a permit which the The munitions were detained by the Defence Commissioner, pendment. It is thought that Miss ing Instruction from Nanking. Tobin will be act free immediately

the money has changed hands.

PRISONERS CALLED AS offer held.

WITNESSES.

ONE REFUSES TO SHIELD

WOMAN.

Sentences totailing twelve months' hard labour were imposed by Mr. R .E. Lindsell this morning on a Chinese woman who was con- victed on three counts of receiving stolen property.

The property in question was stolen from two addresses, namely, No. 31 Hae Wong Terrace and No. 363 Des Vieux Road West, in con- mexion with which two men have been convicted at the Supreme Court for armed robbery and are How serving terms of five years' "Evidence had been given to the Court previously to show that the Woman had pawned certain of the stolen articles at various pawnshops, It was also shown that other stolen property was recovered from two boxes, which the defendant claimed, belonged to her.

imprisonment.

men

were

The woman expressed a desire to call the two prisoners as witnesses, These

nccordingly brought before the Court. The first man, who had taken part in the robbery in Des Voeux Rond Wast told his Worship that the woman had probably no knowledge that the property was stolen, as she land al ways been misled as to the sources from which they obtained the pro- perty,

NEW YORK HOTEL

TRAGEDY.

!

YOUNG HEIRS' FATAL FALL ACCIDENTAL.

CORONER SATISFIED.

There is still a dispute between the officials and the bandits regard- ing the admission of the latter into the ranks of the Army, but this la not expected to affect the question of Miss Tobin. They have ex

plained that in kidnapping Miss

Tobin and Miss Watkins (who was subsequently released) they had no thought of holding them for ran- som, but captured them in order to press their claims to Govern- ment clemency.

Troops had been harassing the New York, Oct. 25. The tragic death of Benny and bandits for some time, and they Torence Waldeman, the young position by bringing foreign In- thought that by creating a difficult grandsons of Mr. Benjamin Gug-quence to bear, the Chinese au genheim, the millionaire, who was thorities would be forced to grant drowned in the disaster of

thêm certain privileges.

Parcels "Titanic" in 1912, has been a

of food and clothing lively topic of conversation in the have been sent to the prisoner, United States.

the

An inquest to enquire into the and it is stated by the bandit circumstances surrounding their leador that she has received them death was held to-day, when the safely. distracted mother, who was with the boys when the tragedy occur- red, gave evidence.

It appears that the mother and her two boys were on the roof of the Hotel Surrey on Sunday after- noon, looking down on the city. Mre. Waldeman lifted the younger boy on to the low parapet, and the elder tugged at her to be lifted up 100.

MOTOR CYCLE AND CAR COLLIDE.

P.W.D. OVERSEER RECEIVES

NASTY INJURIES.

Nasty Injuries were received by Mr. H. C. Koen, an overseer of the Public Works Department, na tho result of a collision which occur. red between 'hla molor-cycle and a public ear on the Castle Peak Road at 2 p.nt, yesterday.

One of them slipped and fell The second prisoner stoutly thirteen storeys to the street be- denied that he knew anything of the low, dragging his brother with robbery for which he was convicted him. They were killed instantly.

After closely questioning Mrs. He even denied that he knew the defendant which caused his Wor-Waldeman, the Coroner recorded a ship to observe that the witness was verdict of "Accidental Death" devoid of all decency. Addressing announcing that he was satisfled Police Headquarters this morning were entirely in regard to the accident was that the man, his Worship said that the that the deaths other prisoner at least had accidental.-Reuter's American made by the driver of the public the decency to make an effori

to shield the woman, but that he (the witness) was like a brutal animal:

THEFT OF SHIP'S COMPASS.

Service,

SERIOUS WATER SHORTAGE.

(Continued from Page 1.)

the Fire Brigade would be without KALGAN CASE MAY LEAD TO the means of fighting fires, at least

NEW EVIDENCE.

in their initial stages when the Brigade is most effective. Even with a turncock atanding by the necessary valves, in some cases an effective water supply could not

Developments which may lead to further evidence being furnished against two Chinese, who appear

ed on remand before Mr. W. Scho-be ensured. for possibly half an field at the Kowloon Magistracy hour or more after notice to turn

on water had been given. this morning, are being pursued by the police engaged in the ease. The defendunts are held charge of larceny of a liquid com- pass from the 2.8. Kalgan on Octo- ber 1.

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This disadvantage does not oc. cur in the Rider Main Districts even with a fountain supply, as the principal mains are always charg ed,

When the case was called, Sub-

Negligible Results, Inspector Dorling, who is in charge of the investigations, asked 2.--Unless hours of supply were for a week's formal remand, in- very drastically cut down, the timating that during the period the economy would be negligible, if two men have been in police cus- any.

tody further developments have Consumers would probably draw been revealed from enquiries more than required and would which were made since their ori-throw away the old water unused ginal appearance before the Court. and draw fresh water dach day:

The only report available, at

car. It showed that the accident occurred while the two machines were endeavouring to paas each other at a bend of the main road, on the boundary line between Tain- wan District and Shamshuipo.

Mr. Keen apparently was unable to stop when the car drew up at the bend with the consequence that his machine collided head-on with the It rebounded with great car. force, unseating the rider and throwing him on to the ground, Mr. Keen was injured in the lega

and chest,

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Shortly afterwards, arrival of another car, Mr. Keen was assisted back to Kowloon where he received medical atten- ilon.

TO VISIT MACAO,

PORTUGAL'S MINISTER DUE HERE ON MONDAY.

A telegram has been received in Hongkong to the effect that ILE, Senhor Blanchi, dhe Portuguese Minister to China, is leaving Shanghai by the s.a. Empress of Asin to-morrow en route to Macao. His Excellency is dus in Hong-

It was possible that the deve- When the mains filled up each kong on Monday, but as he has lopments would lend to further day, the sediment in them would not yet recovered from his recent evidence being obtained against be stirred up and the first water indisposition it is not known from the taps would be possibly whether he will remain here for black and certainly brown. This any length of time before proceed- water would be run to waste, and ing to Macao.

the defendants.

The case was adjourned for one week.

FINE WEATHER.

To-day's Observatory report, atatés: An anticyclone is central

so much of the possible economy i would go down the drains.

This is particularly so in the Peak where the distribution pipes are wrought iron.

Danger of Burste.

but with complicated mains in

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of streets at all sorts gradients very slow and careful filling is necessary or air locks very damaging to the joints will form and hydraulic pressures and shocks will be set up in the mains, causing pressures for in excess of those the main is designed to withstand.

near Vladivostok. The typhoon 3-Continual charging and appears to be about 200 miles east of Manila, but its position and emptying of mains le dangerous direction of motion are uncertain. and certain to lead to burnts and Another typhoon is shown about leakages.

When a muin has been emptied, 4Supplies outside Rider Main 150 miles N.N.L. of Guam, pro it naturally becomes filled with Areas are either by street foun- ably moving N.W. Moderate to fresh monsoon will continue along air, and when the main to recharg-tain or by meter. Wastage in me. the 8.E. coast of China and overed this air has to be expelled as tered supplies can be quickly the North China Sea. The fore the water fills the pipe. With a noticed, as meters are read month- cast till noon to-morrow In:-N.E.single main on a rising grade its by and comparison can at once ba winds, moderate; fine.

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