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HONGKONG

PENINSULA HOTELI

HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL:

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AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE: PALACE HOTEL:

MAJESTIC HOTEL

KING

HOTELS

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel Des Wagons Lits, Poking.

EDWARD HOTEL

* DINNER DANCE

Chinese New Year's Eve Saturday, 8 p.m. to 12 mn. 9th February 1929

$3.00 per person

AND

Special Tea Dance.

Chinese New Year's' Day Sunday, 3.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. 10th February 1919 50 cts. per person Booking can now bo mado..

HOTELS OF

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METROPOLE-SAVOY-BOA VISTA

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Hongkong.

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

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THE KING'S STEADY

IMPROVEMENT.

REMOVAL TO SOUTH COAST

A NOW DESIRABLE.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1929.

NOVEL UPRISING IN CAIRO SENSATION

SHANTUNG.

EMPEROR SET UP WITH. CAPITAL AND FLAGS.

SEQUEL.

WAFDIST LAWYERS ACQUITTED OF CHARGES.

EGYPTIAN POLITICS.

Cairo, Feb. 7.

| INCREASE IN WEIGHT. A GROWING SOCIETY.

London, Feb. 7.

Nanking, Feb. 1. Five doctors were at Bucking- According to a special despatch The Egyptian political sensation ham Palace for nearly two hours to the "Chin Pno," an outlaw in June last year when leading this morning, after which the fol- by the name of Ma Hsi-wel pro- members of the Government were lowing bulletin regarding His Maclaimed himself emperor at Chow-necused of demanding excessive jesty's health was fegued:

toun, in Shantung, on February fees from the mother of the mad 2. Chewtsun, a small village near Prince Ahman Selfeddin, who Chanshan, was made the capital, escaped from England, in an action and yellow fings, formerly the to obtain removal of the restric- royal standards of kings, hoisted. tion placed on the Prince by the During the early years of the Court, had an interesting sequel

to-day. republic, a secret society was or- ganized in that district, known as Yi Sin Tang, Chin Ti Hui, and Fan I Tao at various tires. Ma, whole the leader of the group, is an old man of over 60 years of age. It is creported that the members of the society havo to hand over their land and property to the society, and the food and clothing of the members and their family are provided for by the society. Its influence is gradual- ly spreading towards Wantal,

"Though the stage of con- valescence has not yet arrived, His Majesty's progress is such that the proposed change to the South Coast is now desirable." It is understood that the phrase "now desirable" means that the King will be moved almost imme diately. It is believed that the long medical diecussion this morning, centred chiefly on the choice of a suitable date for the journey which, however, will de- pend largely on the weather.

The British Medical Journal and the Lancet both comment on His Majesty's progress which they at- tribute to a large extent to the ray treatment. They state that there has been a slight gam in weight and a definite increase in strength. His Majesty ant up on two occasions with benefit to his health and spirits-Reuter and British Wire-

Jess,

HAIPHONG CHINESE

CHARGED.

Tzechuan,

Poshan,

The Council of Discipline at the Native Bar has acquitted Mus- tapha Pasha, Nahas Pasha, the ex-Premler, Wisan Bey Wassif, ex- President of the Chamber, and Gafar Bey Fakliry, a former lead- ing Waflist deputy, of the charges, and of acting in a manner contrary to the dignity of the Bar.

papers

the midst of a political crisis, the The allegations were made in Opposition

publishing these lawyers demanded £117,000 Chowning. documents purporting to show that before they would undertake the

Lingtze, and other districts in Shantung. Many Red Spears and peasant armies have joined the society.

Money for Hospital.

case.

It was immediately on the pub- lication of this document, alleged | to have been stolen from Gafur In order to prevent the govern Fakiiry, that the Cabinet was dis- ment authorities from interfering with Its activities; the society solved by Royal Rescript; the con- presented to, General Changstitution later being suspended for Chung-chang, when the latter three years.-Reuter. was the governor of Shantung, 64 gold bars and more than $100,- 000 in cash. The money was supposed to be a contribution to the military hospital fund. After The ease. against a Haiphong the Tainan Incident, there WAS Chinese, who is charged with an

a rumour that Ma agreed to pay offence against the bankruptcy $30,000 every month to the Peace laws of French Indo-Chinn, was Preservation Society at Tsi-nan, again mentioned before Mr. Wynne-presumably for the organization Jones at the Central Police Court to-day.

• SUM OF 595,000 SAID TO BE INVOLVED,

Mr. Somerset Fitzroy stated that. it appeared, from the requisition papers received for the man's ex- tradition, Umat the amount involved was $95,000, including an item which the necused was alleged to have eredited to a man long since deceased.

The French official document" bore the signature of the local Magistrate, but it was noticed that

af additional police units to maintain peace in Tainan. ·

MILITARY STABBING

AFFAIR.

PRIVATE BOYLE AGAIN REMANDED.

Private Boyle, charged with In- licting grievous bodily harm out On January 30, Ma issued an Sergeant A. Kerr of the King's "imperial mandate" announcing Own Scottish Borderers, was again that he would be proclaimed | brought before Mr. Wynne-Jones emperor on February 2, and that at the Central Magistracy this mor- a man by the name of Wang Yu-ning when another week's remand ping would be appointed his was ordered. premier, foreign minister, and magistrate of Chanalan Hsien. Reuter,`.

the seal of the Minister of Justice WEST RIVER “REDS" was lacking. Therefore, it had

been necessary again to communi-ROUNDED, UP, cate with the French authorities,

and a further remand was requir; ed:

Mr. F. H. Loseby, for, the de- fence, made an ineffectual protest against this farther delay to the proceedings, His Worship re-

SEVEN MEN AND A WOMAN EXECUTED.

manded the case for another week. AFTER CANTON TRIAL

STATIONARY CAR AT BANK.

OFFENDER CAUTIONED. IN

KOWLOON.

Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, for the Crown, stated that the injured man was still in hospital, and in view of the uncertainty regarding his condition, it might be necessary to

proceed with the case by commit-

ting the accused to the Sessions on a charge of inflicting grievous hodily harm

Should the injured man die be- fore then, Private Boyle would be charged with murder, Mr. Fitzroy added.

BRITISH NATIONAL

DEBT.

OVER £170 PËR HEAD OF /

POPULATION.

London, Feb. 7.

In the House of Commons to-

Following the receipt in Cunton of sensational news of intended Communist plots in Kongmoon ad the West River districts Lo create upheavals during the Chinese New Year holidays, the new gunboat, Chungyuen, which was recently built by Messrs. Appearing before Mr. E. W. W. S. Bailey & Co., of Hongkong, Hamilton at the Kowloon Magi was commissioned by the police day, Mr. Winston Churchill, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, stat- strucy this morning on behalf of a Monday to go to Kongmooned that the total amount of the motor driver who was charged with conveying a number of police

National Debt on December 31st causing an obstruction by leaving officers for the purpose of raiding was £7,738,000,000, and the charge his car outside the Hongkong and the "Red" haunts. Shanghai Bank in Salisbury, Road,

Upon their arrival in port the for interest and management in the Mr. C. F. L. Grist pleaded guilty to police were assisted by the Kong-fancial year ended March 31st, a technical offence and submitted moon officials and a number of 1928, was £313,000,000.

Divided by the number of the that owing to the width of the raids were carried out in Suinam road there could only be a techni-village, believe to be the centre of population, these figures became cal obstruction caused,

Communist activity in Kongmoon £170 G., and £6 168., respectively.

His Worship said that he thought district. These resulted in seven--British Wirelera.

it should be made quite clear that men and one woman, a former motorists could not leave their student of the Chungshan Univer. rars outside the bank while doing sity in Canton City, being detain-| their banking. He did not pro- cd.

pose to inflet any penalty in this Those arrested were taken to the instance but if one driver was al-Kongmoon lowed to leave his car there, then everybody would be doing it,

The defendant was cautioned,

TUG DISASTER

SEQUEL.

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ness could see it clearly and also the men in the boat. Witness went on swimming and saw the Engineer for 15 minutes and the hout for about half an hour,

Witness salammed and bagged the crew to let him hang on to the boat but they rowed away. Wit- ness enw the serang put a box, two life buoys and a chopper into the bout.

The tug sunk actually at Pum,

Civil Headquaters, where they were given a brief preliminary trial and later trans- |ferred to the gunbont Chungyuen. Three of the prisoners are suid

U.S. CRUISER BILL.

'APPROVED BY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Washington, Feb. 7. The U.S. Cruiser Bill, providing

to be returned "Reds" who came for the construction of fifteen now back not long ago from Moscow cruisera by July, 1931, and which From their confesylons it is said provided such a keen debate in the that they intended, If their work Senate, was passed by the House unhindered, to stage of Representatives to-day, and it gigantic revolution in the West now goes to the White House.- River area, securing the help of Reuter's American Service. bandits and Communist farmera,

was

The gunboat arrived in Canton City on Wednesday, and after a long trial in the afternoon, all the prisoners were executed on Wed- nesday at midnight.

ANOTHER VICTORY FOR ́ARNE BORG.

NO CHANGE.

The local weather forecast.up till noon to-morrow is: "N.E. anticyclone over China has wen- winds, moderate; overcast." The kened slightly. Fresh to moderate monsoon may be expected along the S.E. coast of China and over

There was plenty of room in the CAPTURES AUSTRALIAN MILE the China Sen.

boat for them all. Witnesa was in

the water til 9 a.m. when he was

CHAMPIONSHIP.

Adelaide, Feb, 7.

This morning's Harbour Office

pleked up by the 8.8. Shwedagon,

After the tug went down the In a raça for the mile swimming reports gavo 19 arrivals and 14 Captain, the Engineer and witness Championship of Australia to-day, départures, with British five and were swimming round and round. Arne Borg, the Swedish tourist, four respectively.

There were

again defeated Australia's best, nine nationalities in the return, the result being:

He could not give the exact helight of the waves at the time. They were all carried away in the same Arne Borg (Sweden)

direction the lifeboat went.

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Ryan (New South Wales) .. Walter (Victoria) Mr. Barber on behalf of the ac- eused applied for bail.

Borg won by 150 yards, there he The Magistrato rejected the aping Len yards between Ryan and plication and remanded all the ac- Walter. Borg's time was 21 mins, cused in custody till 21st January, 15 seconds, a close 'approach to

record.--Reuter,

with fair tonnage but low freight returns. The total of British car goes was less than 5,000 tons, Nor- weglan registering the highest in- Ward and Japanese the best of the throughs. At a.m. there were 66 vessels in port, of which 20 were British.

TWO GREAT STARS TOGETHER AGAIN!

HOW

a universe can topplo in a single parting such as this!.

Already a world lies in ruins about the feet of Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, as they are torn from each other's arma in "Street Angel"... And darker, things are to come...She... indescribably enchanting, smiling through her tears, that he may be heartened and not loss his grip on himself. He torn with angui;* following the circus where she performs, seeing in her the inspiration for his painting only to have her snatched from his arms! His star will set... he will lose a great artistic commission until their sinking orbits meet again and they blare out into a new constellation.

WILLIAM FOX Presents

Frank Borzage's

STREET ANGEL

AT THE

wille

JANET GAYNOR

and

CHARLES FARRELL

QUEEN'S

The Picture

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW.

At 2.80, 5.10, 7.15, & 9.20,

of Love's Truths!

THER'S was the springtime of passion ............. but to please a parent's whim, love and youth were sac- rificed. Here is a drama for all of us to see. It is throbbing with the drama of life! featuring CLAIRE. WINDSOR

BERT ROACH, LUCILLE RICKSEN WILLIAM HAINES, EDWARD CONNELLY

HOBART HENLEY'S

production

Denial

AT THE

from the play "The Square Peg"

by LEWIS BEACH Adipled by Agnes Christine Johnston Produced by LOUIS B.MAYER' "Metro Goldwyn Picture

WORLD

TO-DAY and TO-MORROW At 5.15. & 9.20, only.

**Till We Meet Again."

2.30 8 7.13. Chinese Picture,

BARDELYS The Magnificent

Starring JOHN GILBERT

AN EPIC OF ROMANCE & INTRIGUE!

AT THE

STAR

TO-DAY and TO-MORROW

At 5.15 & 9.20,