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in association with the Grand Hotel

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HOTEL METROPOLE

Contral, Convenience, Con- fort, Good Meals & Moderato

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THE BURST PRAYA TANK.

SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1929,

A POWERFUL, ROMANTIC AND EMOTIONAL DRAMA OF LOVE AND PASSION AT A DESERT OUTPOSTI

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KERRY

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IN

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KOWLOON.

Under the Personal Supervision and - Attention of

Phone Nost

K 608 & K. 009.

Mr. & Mrs. H. J. WHITE.

Cabica KowLUTEL, "

Hongkong.

PALACE HOTEL.

Tel. Kowloon Nu. 3,

Tol Address :**

PALACE.

UNDER ENTIRELY 'EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT.

A Brat clan Rennfentsal and Tourist Hotel with all the conveniences

of a Home

Bur and there Billsurd Tabfen; two in Now Bilburd Salano. Molerute Terma : Ingvilion spearshly entured fis

Hotel mewly reinvated.

EUROPE

After dinner dancing every Tuesday, Thursday

and Saturday.

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MRS. J H. OXBERRY,

Proprietross,

Cables:-

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Singapore.

HOTEL

SINGAPORE

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THE EUROPE HOTEL LTD.

Arthur E. Odell, Managing Director.

RUNNYMEDE HOTEL LTD

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(Incorporated in the Straits Settlements.

LARGEST BALLROOM IN THE STRAITS.

Overlooking the Sea.

Hot and Cold Running Water.

Highest Quality Catering.

M¿dern Sanitary System. European Chef.

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Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8. Wyndham Strost, in the City of Victoria

Hongkong.

"

Above are sousa per al "igʻa,tures of the remains of No. 9 tank on the Central Praya the caviy stof Thursday morning. They show nuk e walls of the led bously

the road by the tremendous prentate of the Water,

after it but

tank were

DEVELOPMENT IN COLONIES.

EFFECT OF MR. THOMAS'S NEW BILL.

GILLINGHAM FETE DEATHROLL.

VICTIMS NOW NUMBER FOURTEEN.

London, July 12. The denth roll in the Gilling- TORY ENDORSEMENT, ham fete disaster is now fourteen. The victims are unrecognisable Several firemen were seriously injured,

London, July 12. The House of Commons to-day agreed to money resolution"

THE DRUG TRAFFIC

IN BRITAIN.

PRACTICALLY STAMPED OUT BY STRONG ACTIÓN.

EMPIRE LESS HAPPY.

London, July 12. That England maintained its re- The detalled casualty list Includes cord in the matter of drug smug- moved by the B. Hon. Mr. J. two men and nine Sea Scouts (the gling is diacloned by the annual Thumus, relating to the Colonial latter under 16 years of age) arreport of the British Government Development Bill, which is to be being incinerated. The fete war to the League of Nations on illicit introduced shortly na indicated in mainly Mr. Thomas's recent speech on Fospital.

on behalf of Rochester, drug traffic.

It is stated that during the unemployment measures.

The Bill provides for the estab-} The terrible shock of whole of 1928 not a single seizure Jishment of a Colonial Develop-"the tragedy was heightened of illicit drugs was made in ment Fund of £1,000,000 per by the fact that many Britain, and it is added that there annum, and for an extension of the in the crowd did not realise what can be no doubt that illicit traffic benefits of the Colonial Stock Act, was happening, and regarded the in drugs exists only on the very which will facilitate borrowing affair s merely a "realistic smallest scale in Great Britain. from certain Protectorates and spectacle" as described in the pro- Mandated Territories.

gramme.

Unfortunately the same claims eannot be made in respect of The amendment of the Palest

British Colonies and Dominions, tine and East Afrient Loana The town was horror stricken particularly in India and Canada Act will enable interest to be added when the truth became known, and (the latter from the United States) to the capital during the period of frantic relatives of the victim showed that the illicit traffic hay construction and an increase in flocked to the mortuary, but the been carried on vigorously through the period of the loay.

bodies were unrecognisable, 15

out the year. Great quantities of Mr. Thonias emphasised that the watch or remnant of clothing be drugs have been smuggled, parti unexpendent balaners of the ing the only means of identifica-cularly to North America, Egypt, Development would not be carried|tion,-Neuter.. forward:

this

He expressed the opinion that

India and China,

The report adds that Britain continued to work in close co-opera-

proviso would make the The London Gazette of June 14tion with the preventive services Colonies speed up their develop-announces that the King has up of the Colonies, Dominions, India, ment plans. He estimated that the proved of. Mr. K. C. Krentz fund would enable £40,000,000 Vice-Consul of the United States worth of work to be undertaken, of America at Hongkong. because many Colonies were pre-

pared to carry out certain work if Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Steken were! the Imperial Government guarante both removed to Kowloon Hospital| ed half the interest for a period.

Thursday evening by am-

toft

ITe gave as instances of schemes bulance, suffering from fever.. which will probably be undertaken. Their numerous friends hope they the drainage of Sierra Leone, the will make a speedy recovery to

North Rhodesian Government Sér

vice Extension with a view to:

health.

ess woman shortly after

tries with a view to the suppres the United States and other coun-

sion of the traffic-Reuter,

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WARSHIPS IN PORT.

The following warships are now. In port:

Basin H.M.8. Tamar and Sub.

J

Bridge-

copper developments there, and the According to a report to the marinen L16 and L19. construction of a railway to the Police, a robber attacked a Chin- Kenya-Uganda main line, Col.

ninej North Arm.II.MS. Amery and Sir Hilton Young sup- o'clock yesterday evening outside water and HM.S. Sidar, ported the resolution--Reuter. the Central Market, while she was West Wall.-ILMS., Castor and

alighting from a rickaha. The H.M.S. Sepoy. Yesterday's return of notifiable thief snatched her hand-bag. diseases shows two cases of typhoid which contufned $180 in Hongkong and one of diphtheria. All were banknotes, and succeeded in mak-

Chinese.

ing off with the booty

In Dock-H.M.S. Cicala, No. 8 Buoy.-H.M.S. Moorhen. Foreign-Japanese gunboat Uli and American gunboat Guam.

The

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