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THE

HONGKONG

PENINSULA HOTEL:

HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTELI

PEAK HOTEL.:

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE1 PALACE HOTELI

MAJESTIC - HOTEL.

HOTELS

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel Dos Wagons Lita, Poking,

Hotel SAVOY

The Newest and. Finest Hostelry in THE Colony

Convenient ... Cosmopolitan

KOWLOON HOTEL

KOWLOON.

Under the Personal Supervision and Attention of

Phone Nos."

K. 608 & K. 809.

Mr. & Mrs. H. J. WHITE. Cables KowLOTEL "

Hongkong.

PALACE HOTEL.

Tel. Kawlonu No. 3.

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Tel Adres's "Palace,** A First Class Residential, and Tourist Hotel with all the Con. Ossy veniences of a Home. Undes Entirely Europeän Management. Ladungsand Hilliard Haloon. Three minutes from Vorry. Paullien specially ostared for. Moderate term.

EUROPE

After dinner dancing every Tuesday, Thursday

and Saturday.

Mrk, J. II. Oxberry,

Proprietress.

Cables:-

"EUROPE"

Singapore.

HOTEL

SINGAPORE

Grill:

THE EUROPE HOTEL LTD. Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Director.

RUNNYMEDE HOTEL-PENANG

"MALAYA'S NICEST HOTEL":

Wita beautiful private lawns to the Sea.

MODERN THROUGHOUT

Dinner-dance twice weekly-

CABLES. --~ RENNYMEDE.”

RUNNYMEDE HOTEL LTD. George Goldsack.

Manager.

TO-DAY ONLY. at 2.30, 5.30, 7.20 & 9.20

By General Request RICHARD BARTHELMESS

in

"THE PATENT

LEATHER KID"

THE

A Gripping Love Drama MAJESTIC

NATHAN ROAD

KOWLOON:

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3. Wyndham Street, in the City of Vict Kangkong.

THE · HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY**

VERANDAH THEFTS WHEAT PRICE WAR BIG SEIZURES OF

AT KOWLOON.

EUROPEAN LADY AND AMAH ROBBED.

ADMISSION OF GUILT.

WITH CANADA.

POOL REFUSING SALE TO EUROPE..

CONTRABAND.

POLICE MAKE HAULS FROM TWO STEAMERS,

WEAPONS AND WINE.

Two charges of theft of clothing❘ HOPE TO KEEP UP PRICE IN Two large seizures of con- from houses in Nathan Road, with

M SPITE OF GLUT.

of receiving I alternative counts

stolen property, were brought against a Chinese who appeared before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning. MR. THOMAS'S STAKE.

traband goods were made by parties of detectives from the Water Police Station this morn- ing, the more important of the two. being a haul of three firearms and over 2,000 rounds of ammuni-

tion on board the .s. Shidzuoka The defondant was charged with

London, Feb. 11. Maru which arrived from the stealing & counterpane and five articles of clothing, the property Canadian wheat producers North early this morning. of Mrs. H. D. Marcel, of the first are threatened with a stagger-On the arrival of the Skidzuoka floor of 658, Nathan Road, and ing blow in the near future as a Maru. Detective Sergeant Kellelt three pieces of clothing belonging outcome of the battle over wheat and a party of detectives went on to an amah of the first floor of prices which is now proceeding board to carry out the usual search of passengers. luggago 654, Nathan Road. Alternative charges of receiving stolen pro-between the British and Euro- prior to their disembarkation. berty were brought against the de- pean purchasers of wheat and After a thorough sonrch of the and other containers fendant in respect of each theft. the producera of North Ameri-

The defendant, answer to ca, who seek, by withholding belonging to the passengers, the the charges, admitted haring supplies; to maintain prices in police were rewarded by the dis- covery of a large haul of arms and stolen the clothing.

spite of the existing glut.

ammunition.

It was atated by Detective Sergeant Fowlie that the defen- dant was arrested by a detective. in the street carrying the bundle of clothes, which were wet. The man was taken back to the Station for enquiries and it was discovered

The Canadian wheat pool is the most important factor in the strug- gle at present. The pool aontrols at least fifty-three per cent, of the wheat surplus which is marketable at the present day, and it embraces 140,000 members who are deter

trunks

Concealed in the false bottom of

America, the trunks belonging to a Chinese passenger from and an automatic pistol, together police discovered 4 Lugar pistol, with no less than 1,900 rounds of

that they had been taken from the mined to pursue a policy of "order- Lugar ammunition and 870 rounds

verandah of the houses i

ly marketing." question. The defendant had ap- parently climbed up the water- pipe.

Sentence of three months hard labour on each of the larceny charges were imposed, the terms to run consecutively.

Pool in Danger,

The pool has definitely refused to send supplies to Europe at the ex- isting unreasonably low" price.

Meanwhile, new supplies from the Argentine and Australia will short- ly come on the market afid the source of supply to Europe may force down MISS 1930'S OPINION OF prices and inflict a staggering blow on the pool and business in. Canada as much "farmer's paper" is in circulation.

VENUS:

HUGE CROWDS SEE OLD MASTERS,

London, Jan. 'G Although the Italian Art. Ex- hibition at the Royal Academy has only been open for three and u half days, over 24,000 people have passed through the turnstiles. It is anticipated that as the wonders of the exhibition become more widely known the dally rush of visitors will become even greater.

The Exhibition opened on Wed- nesday afternoon, and attendances for the four days were:

Wednesday

4,791 7,853 2,905" 8,982

་

Thursday

Friday (58. day) Saturday These figures are nearly twice as great as for the corresponding days of the Dutch Exhibition Inst

year.

Already, too, the 'takings are up something like £2,000.

The Girl Who Was Frank. Saturday afternoon's crowd was the most representative since the opening of the exhibition. Girl typista straight from their offices had come to see for themselves what all this talk about Old Masters really wan. Some of them had brought newspaper cuttings about the pictures, and compared the critical notes with the originals.

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Plentiful Stocks in Britain, The Canadian High Commission- er in London, however, declares that the financial position of the grain fiamma is "thoroughly sound."

In the meantime, the supplies in Great Britain are extremely large, It is estimated that the stocks are sufficient b Inst for at least ten weeks,

Brend Prices Down.

The price of the quartern loaf has been reduced by a half-penny.

Discussions are proceeding be tween the Rt. Hon. Mr. J. H. Thomas, the Minister in charge of Employment, and the wheat pool representatives,

"I

Questions on the situation wire naked in the House of Commons to- day.

Canadian Criticisms.

of automatie' ammunition. The owner, who gave his name as Mock Kong, was taken to the Water Police Station and whilst he was being searched the police found a fully-loaded automatic pistol can- cealed under his girdle,

The man was, detained and will appear before the Kowloon Magis- trate to-morrow morning.

The second haul comprised a large quantity of duitable Chinese wine which was found" on board the .s. Sunning after her arrival from Canton where she had gone on arriving from Swatow and Amoy some days ago.

Under Detective Sergeant Humphreys a party of polico officers boarded the ship, having previously received information, and found about 60 bottles of dutiablo Chinese wine under the control, it is alleged, of a member of the crew who was described n as the cook.

*been wing has After the analysed, the man, who had since been detained, will be charged. before the Kowloon Magistrate.

SCOTTISH LEAGUE FOOTBALL

RANGERS AND QUEEN'S PARK SCORE WINS.

London, Feb. 11, In the Scottish League to-day, Glasgow Rangers defeated St. Mirren by the only goal scored. A similar result was reached in the match between

Queen's Park

Mr. Thomas was invited to say whether his attention had been drawn to the reports published in Cannda that there is an organised campaign by British millers against Canadian wheat. He was also asked what action he proposed to take in view of the harmful renc- tion of such a campaign on his scheme for the development of trade "between Great Britain and Rangers Canada.

and Dundee United, Queen's Park being the winners.--Reuter.

Following is the corrected league table:

Aberdeen

P. W. D. L. F. A. Pts.! 26 21 3 2 68 20-45 28 18 5 5 66 42 41 27 10 3 8 61.41 35

28 16 2 11 58 41 32

27 13 59 60 43 31

28 18 4-9-87.

Mr. Thomas replied by reading Motherwell a statement by the National Asso- St Mirren.. One wondered how many out of clation of Millers of Great Britain, Partick this vast jostling crowd who push- denying the reports and declaring Celtic. ed and elbowed through the gal- that they were always anxious to Kilmarnock leries really did appreciate the purchase Canadian, wheat provided Hearts plctures, and how many merely the prices approximated to world Queen's Park 29 13 8 18 64 muttered "Marvellous" or "Won-prices-Reuter. |derful colouring" because it seem-

ed the thing to do..

In an attempt to find out how the average visitor reacted to the pictures stood (writes a repre- sentative of The Daily Chronicle) among the throng who lingered by Botticelli's "Birth of Venus," and these are the kind of comments I heard:

"I don't like her feet,, do you?" "The composition is wonderful. Look at the expression in the face of the zephyrs."

"Why, you can see the zephyrs' breath. Venus must be cold!"

"Marvellous-look at the folds of that dresΔ.

AYT

Hamilton

27-11 8 B 47 27 10 8 53

27 12 4 1

20 10 6. X 20 9 7-10

Cowdenbeath 26 8.7 11 30

Falkirk

NATIVE MUTINY IN

Dundee

Airdrie

Morton

Clyda

· INDO-CHINA.

(Continued from Page 1.) `

The set of events which turned on the present crisis at Yen-bay

Ac- or Yen-bal, is interesting. cording to previous news received here, it was recently apprehended that an attack would be made on Hanol, the capital, itself. This was borne out by a number of dis coveries, chief amongst which But for real knowledge of pic-were cases of hombs found buried Lures it was hard to beat the in the rice fields around the city. school boys and girls who dragged with them reluctant parents,

Scene of Trouble. while for sincerity I liked the girl

Yen-bal, where a mutiny of who declared openly: "It is too crowded, and I don't understand native troops, assisted by civilians, is now reported to have occurred, pictures."

is a strategic point on the northern system of railways, being situated half-way between the capital, and Lackay, the French town on the Chinese border which guards the approach by railway from the Yunnan elde

HONGKONG'S NEW TELEPHONES.

(Continued from Page 1.)

Or, again, perhaps, the number may

Yen-bal is only twelve hours from the capital,

Connected with the evidence of be engaged, in which case an auto-armed designs on the capital, and matic signal informs the calling also with the consideration that a subscriber.

great deal of the agitation emanat

As a rule, if the telephone feed from Chinese sources, the part promptly answered, the call takes which Yen-bal is reported to have only a few seconds after the taken therein is to be regarded number has been dialed, as the com. seriously... pletion of the dialing of the pum ber Instantly causes the telephone coller, to ring.

The "Sharpshooters" referred to in the Reuters message would be more correctly described as "tlrail, leurs" or native troops usually employed for garrison purposes.

Previous Affair.

It was pointed out this morning that the delay in the installation of the Telephone Company's auto- Matic system was quite unavoid- able, and is not due to any serious There is a precedent for this attempt in the affair of 1918, when

obstacle.

Hibernians

25 9 14.321

27 10 2 16 300

28 8-6-14 52 66

27 7 7 18 45 58

27 G 8 13 20 44.20 Dundee. U. 270-417 89 75′16 St. Johnstone 28 4.717 20 68 15

KET OFF OWING TO TECHNICALITY.

FIVE WOMEN CAUTIONED AT.

KOWLOON.

Benetting by a technicality, five Chinese women, who appeared be foro Mr. Whyle Smith at the Kow loon Magistracy this morning on charges of a carrying pigwash through a public place during pro- hibited hours, were all discharged.

The defendants were stated to have been standing beside their buckets of pigwadh awaiting the departure of a dorry at the June- tion of Waterloo and Nathan Roads,

His Worship pointed out that the defendants were charged with carrying the pigwash, and, said that he did not think the section under which they wore charged covered their standing besides their buckets. He would therefore discharge, the defendants with a caution.

political prisoners from a penal settlement at Thai-Nguyen mutini- ed, killed the French prison officials, and, reinforced by native troops, marched upon the capital;" They were within striding distance when French regulars defented. and dispersed then in a number of sanguinary encounters,

1930.

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raved about this one-the first song-and-dance revue of the screen!

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with

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WILLIAM HAINES BUSTER-KEATON

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