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HOTEL METROPOLE

KOWLOON HOTEL

KOWLOON,

Under the Personal Supervision and Attention of

Phone Nos.

K. 609 & K, 609,

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Mr. & Mrs. H. J. WHITE. Cables "KowloгEL ' Hongkong.

PALACE HOTEL.

Tel. Kowloon No. 3,

Tel. Address :**

PALACE,

UNDER ENTIRELY EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT,

A first class Recidonial and Tourist Hotel with all the conveniences

of a Honio.

Bar and three Billiard Tab'en; twa in New Hilliard Hatoon. Moderate Terms: families specially catered for.

Kotel newly renovated.

MRS. J. H. OXHENRY,

EUROPE

After dinner dancing every Tuesday, Thursday

and Saturday.

Proprietreon.

Cables :--

"EUROPE"

Singapore.

HOTEL

SINGAPORE

Grill

THE EUROPE HOTEL LTD.

Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Director.

RUNNYMEDE HOTEL LTD PENANG

-PENANG

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

Overlooking the Sea,

Hot and Cold Running Water.

Highest Quality Catering.

Modern Sanitary System European Chef.

PRODUCTS DIRECT FROM LONDON MARKET.

GABLES,~~" RUNNYMEDE." WILLIAN HAROLD PERRY-Manager,

PHYSICIAN TO THE

COLONIAL OFFICE.

"MOTOR HOTEL” IN PICCADILLY,

RETIREMENT OF SIR WILLIAM} SIX CONCRETE FLOORS FOR

PROUT.

CARS,

London, Mar. 30.

London, Mar. 30. Sir William Prout is about to

Colonel Wilfrid. Ashley, Minis- rolinquish his apointment aster of Transport, attended the consulting physician to the opening of the new Plecadilly. Colonial Office and the Crown Cireus Garage, which he describ- Agents.

ed as a "motor hotel." Dr. Manaon-Bahr has been ap- It covers 10,000 square feet and pointed to a similar position, consists of concrete floors. · ·

[Dr. Philip Manson-Bahr, D.S.O. |- It has a road communicating, (1917), Bt. Major R.A.M.C. (T.C.), direct to the basement and the M.A... M.D., F.R.C.P. (Lon.), first floor."

M.R.C.S. (Eng.), D.T.M. and II. A machine automatically

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1929.

FINE TRIBUTES TO CABLES-WIRELESS BIG NEW EMPRESS

SEGRAVE.

BRITISH PROWESS ON LAND, SEA AND AIR.

MODELS AT MILAN.

London, Apr. 14. Major Sir H. Segrave, on arriv ing in London yesterday, was given a great welcome by a huge and enthusiastic crowd which had come to Waterloo Station to greet him,

"MERGER.

RELATIONS OF COMPANIES EXPLAINED.

DIFFERENT INTEREST.

the

London, Apr. 14. Electra House, London's magni ficent new communications centre, has issued a statement explaining the relationship between Imperial and International Com- muntentions, Limited, and Cables The Lord-Mayor" and "many and Wireless, Limited, which has other prominent people were wait-boen puzzling some people. lng on the platform" and accom- The two companies were regis- panied him and Lady Segrave, to- tered on fow days ago, formally gother with Captain Irving, the effecting the wirclean-cable designer of the record-breaking || mérger. "Golden Arrow" ear, and Mr. Scott Paine, who constructed the motor boat Miss England," to West- pinster where Mr. Douglas Huck Ing. Minister for Overseas Trade, greeted him on behalf of the Gay- ernment.

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The Electra House statement says that the old cable companies and Marconi's little more than formally exist under the new regime.

LINER.

25,000-TON BOAT TO DO 21 KNOTS.

BETTER FACILITIES.

Arriving here to-day, Mr. Harry B. Beaumont, Steamship General Passenger Agent of the Canadian Pacific Railway, with headquarters at Montreal, said he Wad optimistic regarding the inter- the change of trade between Orient and Canada.

Mr. Beaumont is accompanied by Mr. J. J. Forster, Steamship General Passenger Agent of the Canadian Pacific at Vancouver.

Thoroughly in touch with pre- sent conditions in the shipping world, Mr. Beaumont basen his anticipation of steadily improving business on the plans of the Canadian Pacific for expansion. In the course of an interview į he said:

The Cables and Wireless com- pany will be under Mr. Denison In a speech of welcome, Mr. Pender and will conduct, all the Hacking mentioned that 29 British non-communications business of

"The Canadian Pacific Steam- manufacturers ad produced the the old cable companies and the ships' recent ship-building pro- component parts of the "Golden' Marconi Company, particularly gramme-the biggest in the world Arrow.” which was entirely of the latter's manufacturing busiInvolves eleven huge vessels of British design, British material | ness.

195.000 gross tons, and will be and British workmanship. Under

complete in 1931 when the Empress of Britain, of 40,000 sion between Canada and Europe. gross tons, is placed in commis- We hope, with the fast speed- '24-25 knola-of the Emprers of Britain, and our shorter distance from Quebec to Europe compared bid with New York, to make u for the fastest time across the Atlantic.

The company will be controlled the terrific strain which had been by a management committee, con- mposed on it, even one mall flaw sisting of Mr. Denison Pender. in material, design 'er, workman- Sir Basil Blackett, Mr. F. G.

khip might have resulted in disas-

MORE HELP FOR THE

ter, but the "Golden Arrow" hracom withefond the strain at the unpre- cedented land speed of 291 miles per hour, which was an increase |of ten per cent, on the previous

record.

Mr. Hacking mentioned that' in The British Pavilion of the Milan Exhibition, a model-lént by Major Fegrave of the "Golden Arrow" would be alongside the models of the Mauretania, which holds the speed record for liners, and of the seaplane which won the Schneider cup-un indication of British prowess on land, sea and air.

Sir H. Segrave, replying, waran- ly praised the designer and en- gineers responsible for his car and boat, who, he saith, had alone รวม si 0:19 success mossible,- British Wirriers.

CARELESS BLASTING.

ROCKS FALL ON POLICE ·

RECREATION CLUB

Mr. E. W. Hamilton, at the Central Police Court this morning, gave his decision In the case in which Mossrs. Sang Lee, the leasees of the Government quarries at Morrison Hill, were summoned for failing to take proper precau-

ons when blasting.

The incident complained of was described by Polico Sergeant Moran, who said that two big pieces of rack dropped on the grounds of the Police Club on the afternoon of the 27th of last month, during blasting operations,

MINERS' FUND.

Collection at the Police Boxing Tourney.

NEAR THE $7,000 MARK.

We are to-day pleased 10 acknowledge a further welcome 'donation to the Miners' Fund, this being a sum of $69 which was collected at the Police and Prisons Boxing Tournament on Saturday, night. Our thanks are due to the officials for their kindly action.

This now brings the sum received by the Telegraph to $6,862 and £2 168.

The Fund closus on the 29th instant, and we shall be happy to acknowledge further dona- tions.

Kellaway, and Lord Inverforth, The statement points out that the Advisory Committee representing the Governments of the Empire la not concerned with the 100- communicntiafia business.

The Communications Company, under Sir Basil Blackett as chair- man, and with Mr. Denison Pender and Mr. Kellaway as managing directors will carry the public's telegraphic messages,—Reuter.

·

"Our Empress ficut. from Van- couver already gives us the fastest time across the Pacific, and. we desire to retain it. For this purpose we are building, the new Empress of Japan, of 21 knots, The Empress of Japan will be 25,000 tona gross register, and is planned to be the finest and fastest vessel on the Pacific. The Empress of Canada will parallel the Empress of Japan as she is being re-engined to give her a similar speed of 21 knots. We are making some structural alterations in the already, de luxe character of the Empress of Canara to provide greater per sonal comforts for her patrons.

"Our competitors on the Pacifle} are also preparing to place new tonnage on the Pacific, and I hope that the recent considera- tion of greater co-operative efforts of the steamship dines to create and stimulate a larger passenger movement across the Pacific in both directions, will bring the desired results. We believe that. friendly association of compet!- tions is good for trade and tends to Improve the facilities available for the travelling public who seek the ocean for recreation and business.

"In the last fifteen years," he continued, "our imports from China have risen from an annual total of $752,768 In 1913 to $2. 678,211 for last year, and there is no doubt that had it not been

would have been much greater."

at about a distance of 300 feet SHOCKING CRUELTY for the war years this progress

from the Club.

His Worship found the Bum- mons proved, aufleient care not having been taken. In coriment- ing on a legal point which he had held over for consideration, his Worship informed Mr. F. H. Laseby, who appeared for the defence, that he thought it was

the document upon which the

TO CALF.

PRODDED ALONG WITH ITS LEG BROKEN.

well taken, but that on examining FOUR CHINESE FINED. quarries were held, it did not seem

Lo him to fulfil the legal definition Two young Chinese appeared of the lease. It conveyed no title, before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith, ati and it was nothing that could be the Kowloon Magistracy this morn transferred.

ing, on a charge of causing un- Mr. Losely said that his point necessary cruelty to a calf, while WAR not taken up in connexion an elderly man was charged with with the lense. He had submitted aiding and abetting the att. that whether leased or otherwise, The first of the two lade said he¦ these were Government quarries was merely pushing the calf with subject to the special proviso of a stick, while the second said that Section 240 of the Public Health he was pushing from behind with and Building Ordinance,

his hands.,

The basis of our success on the Atlantic and the Pacific is our ability to care for our patrons under one management through- out the world, combining railroad travel, increasing ocean fleets, at- tractive hotels, and an extensive and efficient organization In

Canada, United States, the British Isten, the European continent, the Orient, Australia and New Zea

land."

HIGHWAY ROBBERY,

WOMAN WHO WAS ROUGHLY HANDLED.

A Chinese married woman. named Fong Slu-mui, related an His Worship held that the sum- Inspector Stimson Bald. It was extraordinary case of highway mans was taken, under the proper pet so much the hitting of the robbery to the police last night, section, giving as his ruling that a calf that constituted the offence Government quarry was defined as but that the defendants were o'clock a Chinese hired her boat She states that about scyen a quarry worked by the Govern-driving an animal which had one opposite the Tin Hau Temple to leg broken. They were hitting it Defendant was fined $50 on the to make it go faster, whereas the cross the water. With him he had

calf had difficulty in maintaining its balance on three legs.

On enquiries later, It was dis- covered that the animal was to Macao. It been taken to

ment.

summons.

LONDON DEFEATS

PARIS.

havo

a fairly large parcel. She took her boat across the water, where- upon her fare naked her if she would carry his parcel to a spot near Lyeemun village.

To this the woman agreed, and,

wan, however, sent by the police to after proceeding a few hundred the Slaughter House and slaughyards, she was "thrown to the ANNUAL RUGBY· MATCH IN

tered, as it was in great pain.

a thud. The man ground with His Worship pointed out to the after knocking me down sat on my FRANCE.

defendants that they should not chest and, stripped me of all my have been driving the calf at all. trinkets worth about $10.00 and London, Apr., 14.

The third defendant was stated also took $2 in cash. Despite my At the Colombes Stadium toto have admitted ownership of the appeal, he also took the silver day, London won the annual

(Camb.), FZ9, F.S.A., is one offgisters the date and, time each, Rugby match against Parts by calf, but, in reply to his Worship, girdle which held my trousers up."

tho most eminent consulting car enters the building.

physicians in tropical discanCS. The garage cost £70,000.

He is a lecturer at the London:

School of Tropical Medicine and a

twelve Wirclean.

points to

he said that, he had sold it to the aix-British master of the first defendant. He

"

For stealing 100 third-class

told the police he was the owner because he had not yet been paid. for the animal,

Inspector Stimson said the third

FINE WEATHER,

To-day's Observatory report says

physician of the Hospital for late Sir Patrick Manson, G.C.M.G. Tropical Diseases, Endsleigh Gar-Dr. Manson. Bahr was In charge of Peak Tramway ticket coupons, a defendant had stated at the calf the anticyclone now extends from dens and Albort Dock Hospital. the Stanley Research Expedition to enolic employed at the Gough Hill Born in 1881, he was educated at Fiil, 1909; research expedition on Police Station was sentenced to two had had its leg broken in a fight the gulf of Tongking across the Loo Rugby; Cambridge, and the London Spruc, Ceylon, 1912-13; War months hard Inbour by Mr. W with another calf at Fanling. It choos to the Bonins, Depressions Hospital. He married in 1909 Service Gallipoli, Egypt, Pales- Hamilton at the Central. Police had been brought to Kowloon by are situated over B. Manchurts and Edith. Margaret, daughter of the tine, Syria, 1914-19,]

Court this morning. Sub-Inspector | lorry..

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8. Wyndham Street,. In the City of Victoria Hongkong.

Logan suld the tickets were stolen His Worship fined the first and from a drawer in which they were second defendanta $5 each, and the kept for the use of the police. Ithird defendant $10,

and to the North-east of Hokkaido, Modernte monsoon will continue over the North China Sea. The forecast till hoan to-morrow is: Edst winds, moderate, Anc.

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