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THE

HONGKONG

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HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTELI

PEAK HOTEL

AND

SHANGHAI

CASTOR HOUSE1 PALACE HOTELI

HOTELS

LIMITED.

in association with the Grand Hotel Des Wagons Lits; Peking.

KOWLOON HOTEL

KOWLOON.

Under the Personal Supervision and Attention of

Phone No

K. 608 & K. 60%

Mr. & Mrs. H. J. WHITE.

Cables KowLOTEL

Hongkong.

PALACE HOTFI -

Tel Kowlonu No. 3,

vening of a Home.

Tel. Address Palace,"

A First Glan R sidential, and Tourist Hotel with all the Con Under Entirely European Management. Cory Lounge and Billiard Saloon. Three minutes from Farry. Families specially

ared for. Moderate term,

EUROPE

Mrs. J. H. Oxberr},

Propri.tress,

HOTEL

"Renowned by Recommendation"

DANCING:

MUSIC:

GRILL:

After Dinner every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

VERANDAH every On the 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 HOTEL Ltd.

Arthur E. Odell Managing Director.

RUNNYMEDE HOTEL-PENANG

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

MODERN THROUGHOUT

Dinner-dance twice weekly

RUNNYMEDE HOTEL LTD. George Goldsack.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1930.

A NEW THEORY BY EINSTEIN.

MORE COMPREHENSIVE THAN FORMER ONE,

London, June 7. Professor Albert Einstein lec- tured at Nottingham University yesterday on the trend of modern physics. He announced that he hopes shortly to complete a new and even more comprehensive theory in which the laws of geometry and gravitation, as established by his general theory of relativity, will be united with the laws governing electro- magnetic phenomena which have

NEW -16-STOREY HOTEL.

STATLER CO. AND SHANGHAI,

REPRESENTATIVE NOW ON A VISIT.

SITES CONSIDERED.

Shanghai, May 28. Shanghai, during the early not yet been brought into the part of 1931 may be invaded general scheme. This he hopes to do by concentrating on the ques-by one of the largest hotel tion of direction in space instead concerns in the world, headed by of on size only.-British Wireless.

KING'S CUP RACE.

MACHINE ENTERED BY THE PRINCE OF WALES.

London, June 7.

BENZINE BLAZE AT

CANTON..

(Continued from Page 1) Mission and with their hoses, kept the burning all up against this raft.

Some of the launches foolishly tried to extinguish the fire by directing their hoses right into the centre of the barning oil, but this only splashed up the benzine" and caused it to spread further. The only thing to do was, as the-cox- wain of Jardine's launch did, to try to keep the burning oil confin- jed up against the side of the raft and let it burn itself out, which it finally did shortly before 1 o'clock

Skore Damage Prevented, " In this way thousands of dollars Mr. H. N. Statler, of Statler of damage on short was avoided; in hotels fame, who, it was learned fact, the only shore damage caus- yesterday on good authority, based by the blaze was a few hundred long contemplated the erection dollars worth of damage to the of a large, modern hotel here. Mitsui Bussan Kaisha's bamboo and, who, for the past three landing stages" at their coal yard. weeks has had a representative The raft of logs suffered a certain" amount of damage, many being here looking over the situation.

burned.

The fire was clearly visible. from The representative is reported to have quietly investigated the the Shameen bond, being just op- The Prince of Wales has enter-situation and to have considered a posite, the distance being not over ed a Hawker "Tomtit" aeroplane number of sites for the proposed half a mile Our Own Cor- hotel. It was stated that the

respondent. for the King's Cup air race to be hotel, if decision is reached to flown on July 5th over a 750 mile build here, will be modelled after course. The machine is of the the Pennsylvania Hotel, New York dual control type, designed for City, one of the world's largest HONGKONG OARSMEN training purposes, and Is

fitted hotels.

The latter institution

with a 120 horse-power Arm- boasts 2,200 rooms, each with strong-Siddeley "Mongoose"

--

en-private bath.

gine. It will be flown by Squadron-Leader Don, with Flight- Lieutenant Heslop as navigator.

On Smaller Scale.

In conversation with a repre-i

The Prince will fly from London.sentative of the Shanghai Tintes

to Cardiff to-morrow to speak at

WATER LEVELS.

REACH MACAO.

GOOD PROGRESS DESPITE MINER ACCIDENTS.

Macao, June 8. The Portuguese lads who set out the annual conference of the yesterday, an official of an import- British Legion, British Wireless, ant realty concern, which is inter-from Hongkong this morning about ested in obtaining a site for the 4 o'clock reached Macao this after- proposed hotel, explained that the noon about 3, at the hour they ex- Statler interests, if they invade pected to arrive.

Two minor accidents occurred on case the the Orient, do not propose to erect the way across, in each a hotel here on the same monster rudder giving way. On the second scale as that of their operations in occasion the mishap took place in New York, Detroit, St. Louis and Portuguese waters, close to

destination. Buffalo, where their smallest hotelry boasts 1,000 rooms.

Tentative plans, the official stat. The following table, issued byld call for the erection here of a the members of the Committee of the the Kwangtang River Conservancy hotel of about 16 storeys and 500 Commission, shows in English feet or more rooms, each of which will the water levels on the West be outside rooms and with private River, North River and East bath, hot and cold water, modern

plumbing and circulating water.

ON WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS.

River, on the dates named:

Shuibing

June 7 June 8

15.4

17.4

Tsingyuen

9.6

9.2

8.6

10.3

Sheklung ... 1.3

1.9.

Sumshui

Statler System.

ice

The proposed hotel would be operated under the widely-known

their

A large crowd was present to wit- ness the last stages of the journey, Sociedade Unins Recreativa offering. every help to the tired but happy Hongkong carsmen.

[Our correspondent reported last week that the attempt was to be made "four-oar," the party undertaking in a the fent being-H. R. Pinna, stroke; R. A. Silva-Netto, No. 3; H. M. Remedios, No. 2; S. E. Souza, bow; L. Roza-Pereira, eox.]

At an aerial at Geldern, near

The highest levels on record are: Statler system, it was asserted. Dusseldorf, a parachutist named Shiuhing, 41 feet; Tsingyuen, Mr. Statler has made hotel his- banger forgot to unhook his 29.2 feet: Samshui, 27.8 feet; Shek-tory in America and is responsible parachute and jumped 1,600 feet. lung, 15.5 feet,

for many new and startling in-He was killed before thousands The lowest level on record at novations and improvements, all of of horrifield spectators. Samshui is feet and at Shek which are for the benefit of the lung 2.7 'feet.

MANY CHINESE LEAVING THE CITY.

guests.

It was reported yesterday that Janeiro, Berlin and other foreign the Statler representative for a cities. week or more carefully considered

The report that the Statler re-

CLASH AT FOOCHOW. the site of a present centrally-presentative had been negotiating located hotel, but that no agree with the owners of the Palace men was made with the owners Hotel could not be confirmed yes- concerning the purchase of the terday. It was made known, how- site. The Statler representative ever, that any site purchased by is also preparing to look over the the hotel concern will be central- situation, as regards hotels, in at

ly located.' least three Japan cities and also 'n Tsingtao.

Foochow; June 7. Following a clash beyond the upper bridge between Liu Ho-ting, commanding the 56th Division, and Luh Sin-bang, many Chinese residents are leaving the city.

Mr. Statler startled hotel pat- rons of America a number of years ago with his iron-clad rule that Other Cities Mentioned.

"the guest is alwe right." He The realty official yesterday as adopted the attitude that it was a"hotel to obtain an Two spies from Luh Sing-bang's serted that the Statler interests easier for headquarters were captured in are preparing to broaden and that employee than a new guest to sup. city restaurant yesterday And t would not be at all surprising if plant one who had taken excep- later shot. The situation here is the Statler company erected hotels (tion to an action of an employee, quiet and foreign residents are not only in Shanghai, Tsingtao hence the employee usually lost not perturbed. Reuter.

and Japan, but in Paris, Rio de his or her job.

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