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KOWLOON HOTEL

KOWLOON.

Under the Personal' Supervision and Attention of

Phone Nos,

K. 608 & K. 609.

Mr. & Mrs. H. J. WHITE.

Cables "KowLOTEL

Hongkong.

PALACE HOTEL.

Tel Kowloon No. 3.

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UNDER ENTIRELY EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT.

A firat la Beidential and Tourist Hotel with All the conveniences

of a forno.

Bar and three Billiard Tab'es; two It Now. Billined Satnow. Moderate Terms : families specially externd for:

Hotel newly renovated."

EUROPE

After dinner dancing every Tuesday, Thursday

and Saturday,

MRS. I. OXBERRY,

Proprietress.

Cables:-

"EUROPE"

Singapore.

HOTEL

SINGAPORE

Grill

THE EUROPE HOTEL LTD.

Arthur E, Odell, Managing-Director.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

KING MAKES GOOD

PROGRESS.

DUKE OF GLOUCESTER MAKES

FAREWELL VISIT.

PREMIER TO PAY CALL.

London, Mar, 24.

5

MONDAY, MARCH

CANTON AND CHINA CRISIS.

(Continued from, Page 1.).

"Reds" Walling? :

1929, 1

AMERICAN FLOOD DISASTER.

HARRIMAN FLOODED TO A DEPTH OF 30 FEET.

TEN PEOPLE MISSING.

:

In addition to many other wor- rles. It is feared that the Com- munists may make another bid for power at any moment, and a large number of arrests and several ex-{"

New York, Mar. 24. ceutions have taken place during the The flood watere in, Tennesse The King's good progress con week. Quite a number of alleged are apparently still rising. A re tinues, and the Ono weather still Communists have been arrested port from Atlanta, Georgia, permits of his spending a consider when landing from Incoming steam-states that ton persons able time each day in the groundsers, several at the wharves of the of Craigwell House.

Hongkong atomers;

Though the Reds" may make a bid for power within the city it is not thought that any attack on Canton will be made from outside. Neverthless a number of guns have boen placed around the Goddess of Mercy Hill and on the remains of the old city walls where they com mand a wide area including the whole of Canton And the outlying suburbs,

Yesterday, His Majesty walked to the son wall and there sat for some time with the Queen, read- ing the papers in full view of passers-by on the beach below.

The King's third son, the Duke of Gloucester, motored to Bognor to-day to pay a farewell visit to the King and Queen prior to his departure for Japan lator in the week.

The Prime Minister will visit Craigwell House this week to sob the King. This is regarded as one of the most significant indica- tions of the excellent progress His Majesty is making, for it will be the first occasion on which anyone' outside members of the Royal Family and few high Household oficials has been received by the King since his lness-British Wireless,

HABEAS CORPUS.

APPLICATION.

(Continued from Page 1ễ Mr. Loseby submitted that Mr. Lindsell, having intimated that the fugitive would be discharged If the requisition was not received by a certain date, the fugitive was, in effect, discharged on that date when the requisition had not arrived, and, therefore, all subse quent preceedings were bad. in law.

The altuation is somewhat similar to that prevailing during the fow days that preceeded the Communist uprising of December 1927, with the exception that the Russian In- fluence la not so pronounced,

All Leaders Away.

missing at Harriman, Tennessee, where parts of the town are sub-. merged to a depth of thirty feet, which in practically unprecedented.

The river chiefly the cause of the disaster is the Emery River which has overflowed its banka over an immenso area. Router's American Service.

aro

Boy Scouts Drowned. Chattanooga, Tenn., Mar. 23. Twenty eight boy, scouts reported to have boon, drowned hear Harriman in a flood early this morning. The flood carried away the bungalow in which they were camping.

Lator.

It is confirmed that a Scoutmaster and two Boy Scouts, were drowned. Five Scouts are missing, and op- Parently were washed into the Ton-

casco River.

Thirteen others clung to treetops and have been rescued. Reuter's American Service.

Another thing which tonds to make matters more scrious is that Canton is at present in the hands of a number of young and inexperi enced Government officials who have little authority, and are afraid or unable to make any big decision.

With Marshal LI Chal' Sum de- tained in Nanking, General Chan PARDONABLE MISTAKE Ming Shu in hospital in Hongkong,

the Mayor Mr. Lam Won-koi in Nanking, Admiral Chan Chat, Mr. Chu Chno Hsin, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Fan Kee Mo, the newly appointed Finance Mini- ster and Superintendant of Cueloma, Mr. Kam Cheng Tang, of the Branch Polition Council; General Chan Chal-tong and many others all being in Nanking the position is critical-Our Own Correspondent.

FANLING- HUNT.

THE GRAND NATIONAL MEETING.

Mr. Laseby also argued that the Magistrate hnd no power subse- quently to commit the man,

had been becauso there

110 evidence. before the Court of Hal- phong being situated in a French

The Grand National Meeting in possession or Colony, and also connexion with the Fanling Hunt, because there were no provisions held on Sunday, was

A great in the Extradition Treaty between France and England for extradi-success. The chief event wa the Fanling Grand National, in which tion of offenders between Hong- kong and Toukin,, in which the As You Like It beat Ace of Spades town of Haiphong-in which the on the post. present offence was alleged to have occurred-was altunted,

The detailed results of the racing

follow:

March · Beef Stakes-Once round

inaldo course, * Mr. Ulater's Erin's Isle,

(Mr. Charles) 1 (Mr. Cave), 2

ir. Cave's Movanagher' Mr. Macnamara's James Pigg

יד

(Mr. Wallis) 3 Pari Mutuelt Win $10.00. Place $5.30, $5.40, $6.30,

Spring Plate About. 1.miles on National Course. Mr. Hashim's My Lady

(Mr. Charles) I Dr. Pierce-Grove's Siang River

(Dr. MacGown) Mr. One's Sea Hawk

(Mr. Clarko) March Maidens. About 1 mile Inside Courac,

HOW AMERICA GOT ITS

NAME.

It is probably unknown to many persons-not only in the New, but also in the Old World-that the credit for having given a name

the Americas is due to

to Martin Waltzenmuller, a six- teenth-century geographer: Walt- zenmuller was the son of a butcher who carried on his trade at Radolfazell, a small town on Lake Constance. In course of time young Waltzenmuller was appoint- ed lecturer in geography at the college of Duke Rene II of Lor- raine. In 1607 he was writing his "Cosmographiae Introductio," for which he designed a map of the world in connexion with the

published by him." new edition of Ptolemy's atias

At the time Columbus had been dead a twelvemonth and his fame was largely, overshadowed by the bombastic and highly-coloured de scriptions of the newly discovered continent. composed by Amerigo Vespucci. Whilst Columbus was content to describe the facts as ho found them, Vespucci gave the most imaginary accounts of the population, the fauna and the flora of the New World. He even us, serted that he had set foot on the continent as carly as 1497, 1.e., a year before Columbus discovered the mainland of South America." The general belief, therefore, was that Vespucci had discovered America, and Waltzenmuller pro posed that the new, continent

Applicant's Option. Against this, the Assistant Attorney-General submitted that the man having been scat before their Lordships, the Court was not concerned with the question of illegal detention or irregularity of procedure in what had gone The applicant could before. always have the option of a civil action for false imprisonment.

Mr. Fitzroy then dealt with the question of the provisional war- rant in his submission that the man was properly before the Ma- gistrate to answer the charge on which extradition was subsequent-Dr. MacGown's Duke of Njeblung (Dr. MacGown) ly sought.

Coming to the question raised Mr. Mattingley's Fire Call

(Mr. Bulteel) 2 by the status of Tonkin as a pro- | Dr. Durran's Drake (Dr. Durran) 3 tectorate, Mr. Fitzroy said there Pari Mutuel: Win $7.90. Place. This would mean the country

2

3

should be named after him. "Now

on

that these regions," he wrote,

"have been further explored, and,

in new continent, has been dis-

was sufficient evidence on the $0.50, $7.10, $20.80; official documents they received Fanling, Grand National Handicap, miles on National Courzo.

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doubts on this point. The papers bore the impress of the seal and of the motto of the Republic of France.

The case is proceeding,

BIG MANILA OPIUM SEIZURE.

ACCIDENT LEADS TO DISCOVERY.

Manila, Mar. 21.

2

Major Lako's As You Like It

(Mr. Clarke) Mr. Ulster's Ace of Spades

(Mr.Charles) Mr. McCartney's Fanling Stag

(Mr. Cave) 1 Pari Mutuel: Win $36.00. Place $8.30, $8.00.

The Country Cup-About 1% miles on National Course.

Mr. Maas's Caviare (Mr. Cave) Mr. Watson's Blotting Paper

•

1 covered by Amorfeus Vespuccius

I do not see why the name of 'Amerigen' should not be given to

of Americus' and would com- memorate Americus, its discoverer, who is a man of keenintel- ligence."

Although Waltzenmuller sub- 1equently convinced himself that he had been under a wrong im- pression, he could not prevent the new name from being generally adopted; because it had been. In corporated with his map of the world.

America, however, hás after- wards done what justice it could

1

to Columbus, the actual discoverer,

(Dr. MacGown)

2

(Mr. Fischer)

Mr. Bjuke's Solitaire.

The Cash Sweeps.

The results of the sweeps were as

One of the largest hauls of con- | follow: traband opfum made in Manila in many months was effected on the waterfront yesterday when a cargo. aling on a Chinese vessel broke and

THE HOTEL RIVIERA, || dumped a case containing 1,800 tine

MACAO.

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Cable Adress:-"RIVIERA, MACAU,

·JOURNALIST BURIED.

TRIBUTES TO THE LATE MR. .MELVILLE STONE.

Washington, Mar. 23.

In recognition of his contribu-

tion to American and Internation-i

·FRANCE SUFFERS · ANOTHER LOSS. DEATH OF GENERAL BARRAIL

Paris, Mar. 23. The death is announced at the al journaliam the late Mr. Melvillehage of 73 of General Maurice Paul Stone 'was buried in the Washing- Emmanuel Sarrall, who command-2 ton Cathedral, which contains the ed the French army in Salonika ashes of former President Wilson, during the Great War and was Admiral George Dewey and other later High Commissioner in Syria. distinguished Americans.

--Reuter.

President. Hoover, Messrs. Kellogg, Mollon, Taft, and the those who palda last tribute to diplomatic representatives of a Mr. Blond's memory.-Reuter's

were among American Service. score of countries

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of oplum into the bay,

Acting on a "ip" that contra- band was to be landed off the 3.5. Tang Shang yesterday, secret ser vico men placed a cordon around the ship and maintained vigilant watch for several hours. Nothing was revealed.

The Tong Bhang was unloading general merchandise. One of the secret service men was watching 4 allag full of packing cases swing- ing from the ship to the pler. The aling broke and dumped three packing cases into the bay.

The three were recovered. Two or-

af them were found to contain o dinary merchandise.

The third was marked "T. B." the shipping mark of a creditable local firm, one of several which im- porta heavlly from China.

When the mark became emoired in contact with salt water it aroused suspleton and the case was opened. Eighteen hundred tins of the best quality of opium, valued at Peso3 20,000, was found inside.

No arrest has been made yet!

* Face 1. Ticket No. 16

43 35

$119.70 84.20

17.10

$10 tickets are Nos. 0, 42, 12, 29. Raco 2,

Ticket No. 57

·O· 80

$240.80 68.80 84.40 $10 tickets are Nos. 12 and. 70.- Raro 2.

11

Tickel No. 5

05

70 7

***$285.00

.67.40. 23:70:

by using his name in a variety of ways, thus giving honour to whom honour was due.

STUNG TO DEATH,

ALLEGED THIEF STEPS ON HORNETS NEST,

At a Singapore Coroner's in- quiry last week Into the death of

a Chinero who was stung to death that by horaete it was stated while running away after a raid on a Chinese householder's fowl-run the man stopped · on a hornets' npst...

*

The, Chinese householder said that while pursuing the man he $10 tickets are Nos. 42; 19, 11; 80, also was attacked by hornets, *OB,

Race 4.

Ticket No. 42

-00

74

Race -5,

$223.00 65,40 32.70 10.00

Ticket No. 80 $344,40 08.40 $10 tickets are Nos, DD, 8, 95.

The Big Sweep.* .. Special drawing for 4th Race, Ticket No. 944 $2,321.00 668.40 "2204

381,70 -"* 4391 Tickets Nos. 2,218, 4,178, 2,008. 8.311, 2,534, 1.009, 2,622 and 2,247 $48.00 each. A

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and so badly bitten that lo had to seek medical assistance. Ho ran one way and the thief the other, and the next morning ho heard that a man had been found dead in the vicinity. He recognis- ed the body as that of the thief he had pursued the previous evening.

The inquiry was adjourned.

To-morrow morning at 9.30, wreaths will be laid on the Hong- kong' Cendliph in memory of, tho' late Marshal Foolt by. The Ex- Activo Service Men's Association and the local branch of the Bri- Tish Leric

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