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THE

HONGKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HÓTEL; PEAK HÖTEL. Telegraphic Addreas: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.

AND

SHANGHAI

'ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL

Tolographic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL"

HOTELS

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel Das Wagona Lits, Poking,

KING EDWARD HOTEL

Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Room newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Dods, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone,

TEA DANCES:

Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 5 to 7 p.m. Hotel Kunch mesti all steamers,

(5 for thirty Tin Tickets can be bad at the Office of the

above Hotel).

Tel. Addi-"Victoria."" :

Telephone 0.878

HOTELS OF

J. H. WITCHELL,

Manager.

DISTINCTION

METROPOLE SAVOY BOA VISTA

KOWLOON HOTEL

KOWLOON.

Under the Personal Supervision and Attention of

Phone Now.

K. 308 & K. 609,

MR. & Mus. H. J. WHITE.

Cables "KowŁOTEL'

Hongkong,

PALACE HOTEL.

Tel Kowloon No. 8,

י,

Tol. Adresar"

UNDER ENTIRELY EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT.

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

of a Home.

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

Hotel newly renovated.

EUROPE

After.dinner dancing every

Tuesday, Thursday

and Saturday.

THE

MRS. J. H. OXBERRY,

Proprietress.

Gables:

"EUROPE'

Singapore.

HOTEL

SINGAPORE

Grill

EUROPË HOTEL LTD.

Arthur E. Odoll, Managing Director.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1928.

COMMUNISM AT ITS EFFECT OF WATER REGISTERED MAIL

WORST.

· RESTRICTION.

TOWNS AND VILLAGES NOT PULLING THEIR WEIGHT.

Riga, Dec. 6.

THEFT.

DECREASED CONSUMPTION IN LETTERS & DRAFTS WORTH

NOVEMBER.

£10,000.

"GREAT" EXPERIMENT. KOWLOON BETTER OFF, ROBBERY ON TRAIN.

The effect of confining residenta

London, Dec. 6. Speaking at a Communist Con- in the rider main districts to water

Postal officials are concorned over ference at Leningrad to-day, M. supply from street fountaina is Rykoff referred at considerable shown in the monthly statement the mysterious disappearance of a longth to the danger of a possible issued by the Water Authority mail bag, containing registered "fet- breach between town and village disclosing the amount of water laters and bank drafts, which wàs que owing to the inability of one to storage in the Colony on Decem- of a batch brought by mal train aupply the needs of the other.

He said that although the popula tion of Russia was increasing by 3,00,000 annually, the present cult.vated area was less than in 1913, while the average yield was ten per cent. below that of the years before the War.

bor 1st.

The figures given for November, the first full month of supply by street fountains, reveal that the total consumption on the inland was 190.17 million gallona, as compared with 283.83 last year. The daily consumption per head of the population was 15.3 gallons, as against 227 gallons last year.

In comparing those figures, it should be remembered that in M. Rykoff expressed the fear that November last year there was a the danger of an "explosion of the full supply in all ridor main dis- entire scheme and system of industrista up to the 18th of the month, after whielt there was a res trialisation" is neute.-Reuter.

tricted supply in the diatrists west of Easternißtreet at *

RUNNYMEDE HOTEL LP-PENANG

(Incorporated in the Straits Settlements) LARGEST BALLROOM IN THE STRAITS.

Overlooking the Sea. ·

Hol and Gold Running Water, Modern Sanitary System, Highest Quality Catering,

European Chief.

PRODUCTS DIRECT FROM LONDON MARKET.

WILLIAM HAROLD PERRY-Manager,

Courtesy, Comfort, Service and Luxuries of Modern Hotel Construction

THE HOTEL RIVIERA,

MACAU.

Cable Address “RIVIERA, MACAU,”

Peasants only sold suficient grain to cover the taxes and were not Inclined to provide more as the towns failed to supply the villages with industrial products..

NO CONVICTION IN "FISHY" CASE.

SCAVENGING COOLIE AND A BIG JAR

"

A charge of being in possession

The total storakovia Hongkong reservoirs on December 1st was 1,201.88 million gallung; compared with 1,701:25 last year) hai

In Kowloon, the reservoir con tents on December 1st showed in | increase over those on the same date last year, the respective guren being 542.50 million gal-

of a huge jar reasonably suspect-lona and 399.71, whilst the con- ed to have been, stolen or unlaw. Aumption per head per day has fully obtained was brought against risen from 19.1 gallons to 20.9. a-scavenging coolie before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning.

Defendant said that he had Instructions to collect broken articles which he found lying about the streets and to convey them to the rubbish cart.

IL was pointed out that the Jar was, not broken in any way.

Inspector Roylance, called to give evidence, informed his. Wor- ship, that defendant at the time of his arrest was on duty.

Hin Worship:-His remark about instructions given about broken things is actually correct 1 believe?—Yes, your. Worship.

The total rainfall from January to November inclusive was 71.14 inches, compared with 106.50 for the same period last year..

VESTRIS SINGING

FINDINGS.

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Boat number eight, to which Mr. Dana was assigned, was holed as it was let down.

from Cardiff to London,

The missing bag contained let ters and drafts valued at $10,000, and there is no doubt that It has been stolen.

No bags were missing when the train arrived at Paddington Station, and the police are of the opinion that the thloves concealed them- selves in the mail van between Pad- dington and Mount Pleasant Sort- ing Office, during which time they managed to extract the letters and drafts.

An empty mail bag has been re-' covered.-Router:

PUBLIC MOTOR-CAR DESTROYED.

CATCHES FIRE WHILE ON THE ROAD.

A public car, No. 230, in charge of an Indian driver, caught fire and was totally destroyed while out on the road in the early hours of this morning.

It appears that the vehicle was returning to the clly from Aber- deen, when, on nearing the Chinese Cemetery at Pokfulum, fire broke out In the radiator and spread to the body of the car, which in a short time was completely destroy-

ed.

The driver, Nawab Khan, esenp- ed without injury, later proceeding to the West Point Police Station where he made a report of the ne- cident.

The hole was patched up with a plece of tin but, the tin did not hold. The boat contained ten FOUR EMBEZZLEMENT women and two children and a crew of four negroes.

Ship Goes Down.

His Worship remarked that although it looked very fishy, he could not convict on the evidener. He didn't like the look of the case but it was difficult to see how the

The ship heeled over and sank defondant expected to escape the three minutes. after they pulled notice of Inspector Roylance who might see him at any moment. The defendant

away.

The 40 men who were left on

was given the board raced down the side of the benent of the doubt and dis-ship and dived off as she sunk with

charged..

BIRCHING IN LIEU OF NINE MONTHS,

SENTENCE ON RETURNED BANISHER.

A Chinese, who was sentenced to twelve months hard labour last year for returning from banish- ment was charged beford Mr. E.W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Magis- tracy this morning with a similar offence.

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une buat still on deck.

The boat on the starboard side was cut away and rowet ruend and picked up a lot of swimmers. Mr. Dana's boat began to fill and capalzed. One woman was drown ed. The others righted. the boat and climbed in, but the waves pounded the boat to pieces.

Children and women disappeared with the exception of Mrs. Ball. She and Mr. Dana swam to a plece of wreckage and clung to it,

CHARGES.

ARRESTED CHINESE IN COUNT.

4.

The police have arrested Lo Kung-pak, for whom a warrant was obtained some time ago in connex- ion with the alleged embezzlement of about $2,000 from the Kwong On Yuen firm.

When the defendant was brought before Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy this morning, Mr. F. E. Nash, who prosecuted, asked for a week's remand in order to go into the details of the case. He informed the Magistrate that there was a possibility of further charges being brought against the

defendant.

The water was warm, but great

The charge against the defen- crashed down waves

on them, dant is that he embezzled from the almost knocking the life of their complainants on various dates, this bodies and smothering them.

year, sums of $1,000, $200, $200 were picked up by the and $413. They "American Shipper".

The defendant, when informed of his previous conviction said that on It has since being revealed that this occasion he was merely pass-all the children on the doomed ship ing through Hongkong on his way perished and that only ten women

abroad.

His Worship: suppose that's what you said last time.

Sentence of three months' bard labour and 15 strokes of the birch was imposed. If the defendant, after examination, be certified an anfit for birching, the alternative Was a further nine months' hard labour.

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICE Pmcy FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong.

FOOLISH EXCUSE.

'PAID TO CARNY FOUR CRABS.

You must think I'm a fool," re- marked Mr. E.W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning when a Chinese who was charged with hawking crabs, said he had been asked to carry them by a woman who was following at a

distance.

The defendant said that he was given the crabs at the Yaumali Ferry and asked to carry them. The woman, who was to have paid him tewenty cents followed some distance behind.

Sergeant Hargreaves pointed out that it was unlikely that a Chinese woman would pay a man to carry four craba.

Tits Worship imposed a fine of $5 or seven days.

FINE TO CLOUDY.

C D G D

were saved.

Twice previously the Vestris had

narrow escapea,

In 1015 she arrived in New York from South America after evading the German cruiser Karlsruhe,

Four years later fire broke out in one of her holds, and the vessel put into Saint Lucia (British West however, Indies). The flames, were extinguished without serious damage to the cargo or injury to passengers and crew.

EMPIRE AGRICULTURE INFORMATION.

CLEARING HOUSE SCHEME DEBATED,

The defendant has two other aliases namely, Lo Pak-wai and Lo Cheong Lee, and at this mornin hearing he was not legally repre sented."

CHINA'S LATEST TREATIES.

(Continued from Page 1.)

The Proviso, While stating that the article will be operative on January 1, 1930, it goes on to statą:

"Before such date the Chinese Government wil make detailed arrangements with the "Italian Government for the assumption by China of Jurisdiction over Italian subjects, Failing such arrangements on the said date, Italian subjects shall be amenable London, Dec. 6:

to Chinese laws and Jurisdiction Mr. L.M.S. Amery, Dominions Secretary, stated in the House of from a date to be fixed by China Commons to-day that meetings of after having come to an representatives of various parts of ment for the abolition of extrater the Empire had recently been held ritoriality with all the Powers of the Washington in London to consider schemes for signatory

agree.

the establishment, on an Inter-Treaties, it being understood that Imperial basis, of a clearing house such a date shall be applicable to of information on various branches all such' Powera..

of agricultural subjects, as recom- "By Powera signatory of the mended by the Imperial Conference. Washington Treaties shall be The recommendatioits had not, meant those Powers, other than however, yet been received by the China, which directly participated Governmente concerned, so that he in the discussion of Pacific and could not give details British Far Eastern Questions in the Wireless.

Conference on the Limitation of Armament held in Washington in 1921-22

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The Royal Observatory reports that the anticyclone over China is unchanged. Fresh to strong mon-

Paria, -Dec. 0. Roon may be expected along the The Cabinet has drafted the de South East Coast of China and finitive wording of articles in re- gard to Church missionaries, over the North China Sea,

The forecast till noon to-morrow allowing nine Congregations to be fa-forth East winds, fresh, fino established according to specifted Ito cloudy.

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