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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1930.

FUNERAL OF NAVAL DISASTER VICTIMS.

THE

HONGKONG

[PENINSULA HOTEL:

HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTELI

PEAK HOTEL

AND

SHANGHAI

ABTOR HOUSE: PALACE HOTELI

HOTELS

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel

Des Wagons Lits, 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. 609.

Mr. & Mrs. H. J. WHITE.

Cables "KowLOTEL

Hongkong.

PALACE HOTEL.

Tel Kowloou Ng. J.

Tel. Address "Palace."

Солт

A First Class Rsidential, and Tourist Hotel with all the Con. vesi noes of a Homs. Under Entirely European Management. Loungs and Billiard Saloon. Thres minutes from Ferry. Families specially catered for. Moderate tarm.

Mrs. J. H. Oxberry,

Propri.treas.

EUROPE HOTEL "Renowned by Recommendation".

DANCING:

MUSIC:

GRILL:

After Dinner every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

On the VERANDAH every Saturday from 12 noon to 1.30 p.m. and every Tuesday, Thurs- day and Saturday from 7:30 to 8.30 p.m.

Telephone, 5341 (8 lines) Cables "EUROPE" Singapore.

THE EUROPE HOTELLtd. Arthur E. Odell Managing Director.

RUNNYMEDE HOTEL-PENANG

"MALAYA'S NICEST HOTEL"....... With beautiful private lawns to the Sen

MODERN THROUGHOUT

Dinner-dance twice weekly

RUNNYMEDE HOTEL LTD. George Goldsack.

CABLES." RUNNYMEDE."

Manager.

To-day & To-morrow. at 2.30, 5.30, 7.20 & 9,20,

MILTON SILLS

NATALIE KINGSTON

in

"FRAMED "

Hate as black and a man as hard as a diamond in the rough! But a beautiful woman and a tropical moon modelled him into a gem among men !

AT

THE

MAJESTIC

NATHAN ROAD

KOWLOON.

BUSES

Photographs taken at the funeral of the victims of the Sepoy disaster. Top, sailors carrying floral tributes; centre, the impressive scene at the graveside; bottom, the remains being conveyed on gun-carriages to the cemetery. (Photos: Mee Cheung):

SILVER SLUMP

PROBLEM.

STABILITY WOULD BENEFIT WORLD'S TRADERS.

AMERICAN VIEWS.

Guneral

Washington, Apr. 6.

ob- opinion among

"SEPOY" DISASTER

FUND,

NAVY LEAGUE APPEALS TO THE COMMUNITY.

VERY WORTHY CAUSE.

CIRCLE CYCLING

DANGEROUS.

WORSE THAN WHEN NOT USING HANDS.

in

THE

William HAINES

MAGISTRATE'S VIEW.

Mr. Whyte Smith, at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning expressed

The Hongkong Branch of the servers here is that a tariff on Navy League has decided to open silver would offer but little help a special fund for the relief of the the opinion that riding a bicycle in | to the world situation, with pos dependents of the victims of the circles was a greater danger to the

sible harm.

A Department of Commerce recent explosion on H.M.S. Sepoy public than riding a machine with- survey declared that stabilization) and is making a special appeal to of silver would provide a boom for the public to support it.

nut hands on the handle bars, and traders of the world,

Silver

he differentiated between the two

nevertheless would probably con The branch has opened the tinue to play its historic role as a fund with a contribution of £25 offences by imposing fines of $10 luctuating medium.

from its own funds. Mr. A. Lan Chinese who committed breaches One authority pointed out to the United Press that it was generally Shields, the new President of the of the former regulation and $5 overlooked that silver was purely League in Hongkong, Rear-Ad- on those who were guilty of not a commodity, like copper or cornmiral R.A.S. Hill, C.B.E, the Vice using their hands on the Production of silver was found to

bars.

have been steadily on the increase President, and members of the since 1921, with a consequent ten- Committee express the hope that dency toward overproduction just

as would be the case with any numNECZN other commodity în like "circum- stances.

It is believed here that there is only a remote possibility of China's adoption of a gold stan- dard, despite recommendations to that end by the Kemmerer -Com-

Help the Navy League's Sepoy Fund. He gives twice who gives quickly?

handle

His Worship gave it as his view

that when riding without hands, the rider had a certain amount of con- trol of the machine and was not such a danger to other traffic as when circling. He said a cyclist

course

mission and other authorities, contributions from the Colony's could maintain a straight since China neither controls nor residents will be forthcoming and even if he did not use his hands. possesses suficient stocks of gold point out that the object. in view He himself had ridden a push bicy to bring this about,

will be helped considerably if con le without using his hands and

Dispatches received from Colàtributions can be sent in as quick had had control of the machine.

...".

Sub-Inspector Chester Woods re-

rado and other Western States ly as possible. show that a trade newspaper came. These should be sent to Mr. W A. Dowley, the treasurer, at Room paign has been started, urging 22, fourth floor, Alexandra Build plied that he had had a similar ex- young men to become. prospectorsings. They will be acknowledged pertence, but he had also fallen off

The campaign declares that from time to time in the Press. American youth should emulate)

because of a stone on the roadway.

By opening the fund the Navy If a machine ran over an obstacle,

the young men of the days of 49 League gives residents a means of and buying burros, picks, bacon and flour to go forth on the hunt expressing In a practical form the bicycle would probably dash into for gold. Such a course would sympathy for the bereaved rela- some pedestrian before the rider solve the unemployment problem tives of the victims of the explo- could control the machine. in the United States and increase ion and also an opportunity of

that it was

more serious to ride in circles.

the world supply of gold, because illustrating Hongkong's apprecia- His Worship held Printed and Published for the Proprietor's by FREDERICK PERCY gold was plentiful in the moun- tion of the debt which it owes to FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoristains,

the Navy. Heurkong,

DUKE

STEPS

OUT

with

JOAN

CRAWFORD-KARL DANE

AT THE

QUEEN'S

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.30, 5.10. 7,15 and 8.20.

Vilma Banky

A NEW

STAR

IN HER FIRST GREAT FILMI

in THE

Awakening

LOVE

with

LOUIS WOLHEIM WALTER BYRON

THRILLING

TO THE END!

UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE

AT THE

WORLD

AT THE

TO-DAY 8TO-MORROW AL230 € 7.13 · Interpreter -At 5.15 & 9.20 Orchestra

The Romance of a Debutante

and an Engineer.

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STAR

To-day

To-Marraw

At 5.30

TO-NIGHT

At 8,14

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