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THE

HONGKONG

PENINSULA HOTELI ·

HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTELI

PEAK HOTEL.

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE: PALACE HOTEL: MAJESTIC HOTEL.

HOTELS

LIMITED.

In Mesociation with the Grand Hotel Das Wagona -Láta, Paking,

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

.

Mork Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, pil Bed Rooms, newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Bods, Hot and Cold

Water, also Telephone,

· Telephone, C. 372 ^

HOTELS OF

J. K. WITCHELLĄ, Manager.

DISTINCTION

METROPOLE-SAVOY—BOA VISTA

KOWLOON HOTEL

KOWLOON.

Under the Personal Supervision and Attention of MR. & Mrs. H. J. WHITE.

Phone Nos.

K. 608 & K: 009,

Cables "KowLOTEL'

Hongkong,

PALACE HOTEL

Tel. Adress:"

Tal. Kowloon No. 8,

UNDER ENTIRELY EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT....

A first-class Baridential and Tourist Hotel with all the conveniencës

of A Home.

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

Hotel newly renovated.

EUROPE

After.dinner dancing every

MRS. J. II. OXBERRY,

Proprietress.

Cables:-

"EUROPE!L

Singapore.

HOTEL

SINGAPORE

Tuesday, Thursday Grill

and Saturday..

THE EUROPE HOTEL LTD.

Arthur E. Odell, Managing Director.

RUNNYMEDE HOTEL LTD-PENANG

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

Hot and Cold Running Water, Modern Sanitary System, Highest Quality Ontering.

European Chef,

PRODUCTS DIRECT FROM LONDON MARKET. CABLES.-"RUNNYMEDE." WILLIAM HAROLD PERRY-Manager

Courtesy, Comfort, Service and Luxuries of Modern Hotel Construction

THE HOTEL RIVIERA,

MACAU.

Cable Address:~~~" RIVIERA¦ MAUAU,"

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PEROX FRANKLIN, at 1 and B. Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria Hongkong.

THE HONGKÒNG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1929.

HERTZOG MEETING HOME CUP DRAWS THAW CAUSES NEW

WITH VICTORY?

ONE NATIVE BILL SCRAPES THROUGH.

STRONG CRITICISMS.

AND REPLAYS.

|MANY SOCCER GAMES YESTERDAY.

Capetown, Feb. 20.・・ | PORTSMOUTH BEAT CHELSEA : A very close content, with the Government just getting its ma-

TWO LONDONERS IN. jority in the many divisions, mark- ed the passing of the Natives Parliamentary Representation Bill through the committee stage.

The Bill successfully negotiated all the difficult corners, the Gov- ernment gaining a majority varying between eight and twelve on each of the many divisions..

CELTIC-MOTHERWELL.

London, Feb. 20, Motherwell defeated Airdfoon- fans by three goals to one in the Scottish Cup replay to-day, while Subsequently, General Hertzog the return match in the same com moved the second reading of the petition between Dundee and Coloured People's Rights Bill, Dundes United resulted in a sur which ends the historic Capo Fran- priss victory for the United by the chiac, provides that coloured peoples only goal of the game s outside Cape Province shall have one representative in the Andem-

v Motherwell.

The draw for the Fourth Hound bly, constitutes a Board to com-f the Scottish Cup was after pile a new register of all coloured warde mstle, resulting 43 follows: voters, including those in Cape Coltle Province, and lays down a separ-Rangers ate roll for the coloured people.

St. Mirren The Opposition volted

very

Raith strong criticism of the Bill, des- cribing it as an infringement of: the rights of coloured voters in the Cape, who are at present on the asme footing as the while voters. The debate was adjourned. Reuter,

NEW U.S. NAVAL SECRETARY.

FAMOUS YACHTSMAN

APPOINTED.

Washington, Fab. 20.

▾ Dundee. Un. v Aberdeen ▾ Kilmarnock. Matches to be played on March

3rd.

DANGERS.

SERIOUS FLOODS REPORTED IN EUROPE.

DAMAGE IN GREECE.

London, Feb. 21. The tardy thaw has at length ar- rived in England, and traffic dis- location is disappearing,

Plumbers are reaping a golden harvest owing to the demand on their services for the repairing of burst pipes.

Meanwhile, the melting snows are bringing disaster to many places abroad.Heuter,

Athens, Feb. 21. Reports have been received of serious damage by floods In Greek Macedonia and Thrace, while a number of villages in the Maritza Valley are isolated and have run short of food. Two aeroplanes havé dropped foodstuffs for the re- lief of the distressed villagers.

Floods are also reported from Peloponnesus and Thessaly,

The total losses are expected to he hundreds of millions' of. drachmal. The Government le tak- Ing urgent measures of relle?.- Reuter.

in order to allow the flood water to

Belgrade, Fab, 21. Several artillery batteries are The tit-bit of the draw to the match between Glasgow Celtic and standing by at the fron gates of Motherwell at Celtic Park. The the Danube to blow up the ico-jams Rangers are presented with the escape In case the tremendous simplest proposition, strengthen-massos of snow melt suddenly be ing their position as favourites fore the river is clear of fee, for the Cup.

which would result in grave floods. ---Reuter,

London, Feb. 20. The temperature recorded In Central London at three o'clock afternoon WOB 41 do- this

Fahrenheit, "or nine grees above freezing point. This was the highest.point touched since the great frost commenced ten days Bournemouth. I ago, and represented a continuous oriae lnce the early hours of the 0 morning.

ENGLISH CUP RE-PLAYS.

The three ro-plays in the R. A. Cup (Fifth Round) wore contested to-day, the results panning out in accord with expectations, the home team winning in each case: The

I is learned that President-results were. Elect Hoover has chosen, as Secre-West Ham Un. tary of the Navy, Mr. Charlos Portsmouth Francis Adams, the well-known | The Arsenal lawyer and Treasurer of the Cor- poration of Harvard College.

1 Chelsea 1 Swindon

The revised draw for the Sixth

v Bolton Wdrs.

v The Arsenal

v West Ham.

v Huddersfield.

Mr. Adams is a famous amateur Round is, therefore, as appended: yachlaman, a great grandson of Blackburn the late President John Quincy Aston Villa Adams, and a great-great-grand- Portsmouth son of John Adams, the second West Brom, A. President of the United States. -Reuter's American Service.

The records of all the sides with [Charles Francis Adams was the exception of Portsmouth and published on born at Quincy, Mass., on August West Ham were 2nd, 1866. He read in law at the Tuesday, The season's experien- office of Sigourney Butler, of ces of the two clubs mentioned are Boston, and was admitted to the as follows: Suffolk Bar In 1893. He began practice with his low preceptor, and later continued with: Judge Everett C. Bumpus until the death of his father. He is the director of many companies.

In 1920, he was the skipper of the yacht Resolute which defeated the Shamrock IV in the Inter- national races for the America Cup.]

KING'S CONDITION SATISFACTORY.

EXPRESSES DESIRE TO GO OUT OF DOORS,

Was

London, Feb. 20. officially stated

Pitajte Pottsmouth.

II. v, Charlton .

21

H. v. Bradford C... A. v. Chelasmottakertés I. v. Chelsda

2-0

1-1

1-0

0-2

West Ham,

II. v. Sunderland

H. v. Corinthians

A. v. Bournemouth

I. v. Bournemouth

LEAGUE SOCCER.

منا

1-1 1-0

0-1

|

The rise in temperature was re- garded as a foretaste of the thaw, but frost is again predicted for to- night,

There was yesterday a thaw in south-west England, but over the rest of Great Britain there was no appreciable relaxation in the grip of the frost.--British Wireless.

CHAIR OF IMPERIAL. ECONOMICS.

EMPIRE MARKETING BOARD'S HOPES AND FLANS.

London, Feb. 20. The Empire Marketing Board has made a grant to the London of Economies for the establishment of a Chair of Imperial Economic Re- Intions.

This Chair, it is hoped, will pro- vide an authoritative centro for the setentific study of the many economic problems confronting those engaged in the active deve- lopment of Empire trade,

It is also hoped to increase the

Several league matches, Eng-supply of trained economists quali- fed to undertake economic re- lish and Scottish were played to-earch along lines calculated to day, the only big surprise being benefit directly the marketing of the heavy win of Kilmarnock at Empire products in the Ayr. The results were:

Craigweil House, Begnor, this evening that HM. The King had passed a satisfactory day. His M- Aston Villa jesty was able to sit at the window Bolton W. again and enjoy the sunshine.

It is now understood that the King has expressed a desire to go out of doors, and members of the Royal suite are anxious that the weather should sufficiently improve to enable him to do so.

English Division I.

3 Sheffield Un. 2 Sunderland

Division II,

2

0.

Middlebro

1 Oldham Notts. Forest 2 Swansea

Division III (South).

3 Walsall Scottish League.

Southand

Sir Hugh Rigby, the surgeon who operated on the King, paid a visit to Craigwell House this afternoon, and, it is understood, Hibernians expressed his satisfaction at the Raith Rovers King's conditionBritish Wire Falkirk

'Ayr. United

fras.

SHANGHAI ESTATE SCANDAL,

THE U.S.

GOVERNMENT SEIZES

'. FORTUNE.

Shanghai, Feb. 21. Despite vigorous dentals, the Kiangau Government has ordered the détention and seizure of the Shong Kung Pao fortune,

On a plea of aqueoze," the Treasurer has been arrested and taken to Nanking.

It is now learned that the prin cipal reason for the dislodgment of Judge Loo Hsing-yuan from the Provisional Court was his stendy refusal to bo, an accessory to the refzure of the estate, Correspondent.

3 Clyde

2 Aberdeen

1 Kilmarnock

3 Third Lanark

Kingdom, Reuter.

United

THE MISHAP TO THE "MOTH."

1 EXPECTED IN HONGKONG

VERY SOON.

1

0

Our, Canton correspondent writes that enquirica made at the British Consulate General show that H.M.S. Math, which recently struck a sub- 2 merged rock, has been beached and is now undergoing temporary re- pairs sufficient to enable her to be towed to Hongkong, H.M. ships Tarantula and Moorhen are stand- ing by, and It is hoped that the PETROLEUM trip to Hongkong will be made at

/ OUTPUT..

-Neuter.

COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER CONTROL.

New York, Fab. 20. The American Petroleum In- stitute announces the formation of Committee, composed of tho heads of about eight of the lead- ing of companies in the United States, in order to study means of controlling production-Reutor's "American Service.

1

the end of this week.

Before the forward deck, which was completely submerged, could be rafsed, the heavy 6-inch gun had to be diamantled and transferred to II.M.S. Tarantula..

BRITISH ADVISER TO NANKING.

SIR- FREDERICK WHYTE'S APPOINTMENT.

Shanghai, Feb, 21. Following a recommendation by

un TORRENTIAL RAINS IN nembore, Sir Frederick Whyte has

Filipe Abuloyan, 72 years of age, appeared before Major Willson this morning on a charge of vagrancy. The old man had spent more than 40 years at sea, and he had with him a model of his last sailing ship, He was ordered to be detained un- til arrangements could be made for him to be sent to Manila, a kindly disposed resident having offered to pay-his fare. He last loft, Manila bofore the American occupation.

· BRAZIL.

COFFEE CROP SUFFERS HEAVILY.

}

Río, Feb. 20. The heaviest rainfall for nearly

..

a group of influential Government been appointed an adviser, to the Nanking Government,

When interviewed, Sir Frede rick Whyte tacitly admitted the appointment.-Our Own Corres pondent.

The Progress Medal of the ten years is reported from the Royal Photographic Society, has Sao Paolo district of Brazil, and been awarded to Mr. Olaf Bloch it is estimated that as the result in recognition of his various of the havoc among the crops, the Inventions, researches, and publi- coffee. crop in this area will be cations, which have resulted in reduced by at least twenty-five important advances in the develop per cent Reuter.

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