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Morning Coffee and Afternoon Tea served in the airy lounge on the 8th Floor.

The Terraces command fine views of the Harbour and surrounding scenery. Un- doubtedly the ideal rendezvous in the cool of the evening.

Old English Bar where service and quality reign.

Express Lifts during rush hours

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Cable Address:-"Gloucester."

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GLOUCESTER BUILDING

HONGKONG LAND STANE UT MENT

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"THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH"

AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC

COMPETITION

$150.00 CASH PRIZES

First Prize

Second Prize

Third Prize

$60,00

$40.00

$20.00

Three Consolation Prizes $10.00 Each

In addition to the Cash Prizes The Eastman Kodak Company offer a Special Prize which will be known as the--

EASTMAN KODAK

PRIZE.

A 1932 Model Kodak 616 with £.6.3 Anastipmat Lens, which will be awarded for the

BEST STORY TELLING PICTURE.

SECTION FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN.

Messrs. Waibel & Co. ("DEFAG") offer six "AGFA" box camerasło be competed for by school-children. These will be awarded to best six pictures in this class.

Bathing Scenes. Picnic Illustrations, Local Beauty Spots, Typical Chinese Studies, etc. All photographs must be of subjects taken in the Colony. Photographs may be submitted forthwith, and it is intended to reproduce selected pictures in the Telegraph Pictorial Supplement as from the first Saturday in July. The Competition will close on August 31st, 1932.

The following rules will govern the Competition- 1.--The Competition is confined exclusively to

amateur photographers.

2~~The prizes will be awarded to the competitors sending in what are adjudged to be the best photographs submitted up to August 31st, 1932. In the event of two or more photographs being considered of equal merit, any or all of the prizes- will be divided accordingly. The decision of the Judges shall be final.

3. The right to publish any or all of the entries in the Telegraph Pictorial Supplement is reserved. 4.--Photographs which have been already entered in

local competitions will be ineligible. 5.-No photographs will be returned. 6--Photographs, preferably in black and white, must be addressed to the Editor and must bear on back the name and address of competitor.

7. No correspondence will be entered into in

connexion with the Competition.

8.-The, six "Agfa" cameras donated by Messrs. Waibel & Co. ("Defag") may only be competed for by local school-children. Each entry in this section must bear the name of the competitor together with that of his or her school. THAT “SNAP” MAY WIN $60.00 !

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THE

HONGKONG

HONGKONG NAMES

INTERESTING RADIO TALK BY MR. LINDSELL

TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1932.

THE ONCE OVER

GENERAL NOT IMPRESSED WITH MANCHUKUO

Tokyo, July 11. An interesting lecture on

General Mazaki, Vice Chief of "Chinese Placeaumes in Hong the General Staff, who has just kong" was given by Mr. R. Ereturned from a three-week tour Lindsell over the radio last night.or fuspection in Manchuria, put a Mr. Lindsell, to whom the sub-dumper on those who are voci- ject is a favourite one, having de ferously demanding the Im- fivered it frat six years ago and mediate recognition of the Man- published it in the press, gave a chukuo Government. very interesting sidelight into the

Asserting that the Japanese meanings of a number of local lack patience, General Mazaki, in placenames, some of which were a press interview, compared the connected with Chinese legends. Manchukuo to a chicken just Originally. said Mr. Lindsell, hatched and declared the Japan- Hongkong was not called by its

ese werc making a mistake present name. According to the wanting to treat it like A full- hest Chinese opinion it was known fledged nation. long before 1830 as Kwan Tai Lo,

General Mazaki asserted it which meant literally "the road would be sufficient at present if like a petticoat girille." Skirts the Government appointed n com- were commonly worn by Chinese mission to deliberate on the ques- women in the old days, especially | tion of recognition. Declaring

in

on ceremonial occasions, and it the Manchurian question one of was to be supposed that the west- the most complicated problems ern part of the island was then with which Japan had ever been encircled on the lower middle faced, General Mazaki warned levels by a single track, which them of the danger of uttering suggested the waist of a petticoat, | thoughtless words, and admitted The Peak being regarded as the that personally he was not over jarket and the lowest slopes as, optimistic regarding the outcome. The petticoat itself.

Renter

This interpretations. However, WAS not accepted by certain materialists, who said that the name came into use only after, the building of Queen's Road, the word "Kwan" being the nearest one could get in Chinese to "Queen,"

Velida Silent.

Tokyo, July 11, Count. Uchida, former President; of the S. M. R. and recently ap pointed Minister for Foreign Af- fairs, at an informal gathering off and "Tai Lo" meaning merely foreign correspondents to-day, re- great road. However, he did not quested that no questions be ask- believe in this interpretation.

od of his attitude on the recogni- The speaker went en mention of the Manchukuo Govern- tion several other

To say Was Babie placenames ment, as he which in some way or other were anything at present, although he Connected with Chinese legends, hoped to clarify his position; and gave altogether very interestshortly. ing information on the subject.

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AVIATION IN EAST.

He remarked jokingly “If BOLER other country would recognise the Manchukuo, so much the bet- ter."

He also remarked he had not yet had time to consider the So-j

FLIGHT BY ATLANTIC FLIER (viet's proposal in January of a

PROJECTED

It has been learned that another ght from Spain to Manila is pro- jected in the near future, by Cap- tain Ignacio Jimenez, who, with Captain Francisco Iglesias, flew the South Atlantic in 1919 from Seville to Bahia, in Brazil.

non-aggression Pact although hel hoped to study the question in due course.

It is expected Chat Count Uchida will see the League Com- mission either to-morrow or next day. It is reported that the Com-) mission has requested bat the inconversations be not communicat-] Captain Jimenez arrived

Reater. Hongkong last week by the N.Y.K. to the press. liner Kashima Maru, and spent the day out at Kui Tak nerodrome with Senor Fernando Rein Loring. After Senor Reit: had departed, he caught the American Mail ner President Adarns for Manila, to await the arrival of his Poin- patriot.

2

REIN IN MANILA.

GIVEN GREAT RECEPTION ON ARRIVAL BY AIR

Two thousand men and women braved the steady rain and carried the fier shoulder high from aerodrome, ~Reuter,

the

Manila, July 11. It is understood that Captain)

Fernando Rein Loring landed at Jimenez is proceeding to Manila to!

Manila, this after- consider a proposal which will be Grace Park. placed before him by several in-noon, completing his flight from Madrid in 78 days, including a six fluential Spanish residents upon

lie his arrival.

will afterwards weeks delay at Hongkong. return to Spain, and commence his proposed light to the Philippines.

Captain Jimenez' light of the Atlantic was made on March 24-26, 1929. With his companion, he took in the monoplane "Jenus del Gran Poder" early on the morning of March 24, and flying non-stop, landed at Bahia, in Brazil, 4 hours 48 minutes later. The distance covered was estimated at 4,100 miles. Jimenez, was given a tumultous reception

up in bin return to Spain where he became a national hero.

Inter flew from Spain to India, and early this year, attended the World Conference on Aviation, convened at Rome by Signor Mussolini, as the official representative of Spain.

He

GOOD MUSIC.

THE "PENINSULA" AND ITS.

SYMPHONIC CONCERTS

The compte-rendu of the Seventh Symphonic Concert given at the Peninsula Hotel last Sunday even- ing by Mr. Futera's orchestra, and the violin solos rendered by the new violinist, Prof. C. de la Cruz, with piano accompaniment by Prof. F. Gonzalez, can undoubted- ly be classified as one of the best.

All the numbers on the pro- gramme were extremely efficiently rendered and were received with hearty rounds of applause from the large and appreciative gathering of delighted listeners.

It would be no casy

tnak to differentiate among the items, the arrangement of which having been carefully thought out to give good a variety as possible in the limited time, and the management of the Hotel has enuse to be gruti- fied with the success achieved by these Sunday entertainmentă, which are equal to those heard 'In the big cities of other parts of the world.

If a suggestion may be made, not in the nature of criticism, tho Introduction into each of the three parts of the programme of some. thing exceptionally light and airy would add favourably to the variety. However, this is just a small matter that may be worth while considering in the prepara- tion of future Concert grammes.-A. B.

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