Innovation by Local Company Robbery Believed to be the Motive Stating that his company had de-sided to establish a hotel in Shang hai where Chinese would find home comforts and all, modern conven. jences, Mr. Chung Bey, general manager of the New Asia Hotel, informed the "North-China Daily. News" on Aug. 7 that he and his. colleagues had decided to. break: vay from the prevailing standards of Chinese hotels by barring mah-Jongg, women of ill-lame, and o
organised under the' "Hongkong The New Asia Hotel's company Companies Ordinances, already. has Branches in Canton and Hongkong. and it is the proposal of the promoters to extend their activities to Shanghai and to exact a nine-storeyed building at the corner of Tiendong and. North Szechuen Roads (opposite. the Head Chinese Post Office). "Land for the purpose has already been leased for a lengthy: Period and. the buildings—which formerly occupied the lot have been demolished and a, goon as the plans which were drawn up by the Republic Investment Con, Land wave been passed by Mr. Poy Leo, the consulting architect, work. on the now hotel building will commenced.
"We will start business with a building 407 ft. long on the Tie dong Road side and' 50 ft, long' the "North Szechuen Road side, anid Mr. Chung, "Built along entirely modern lines, arranged. with the most up-to-date hotel equipment and having' the services of men who have had considerable experience in hotel business in the past, the New Asin Hotel will have some 950 Yooms, 180 large and 170 small; a Jarge'' ceremonial hall, "a spacious dining "room where foreign and Chinese food will be served, a root. garden capable of accommodating 2,000 persons, and a large billiard Believed to have been the victim lof a dastardly crime, Mr. Wilson FY. ¥. Kung, comptroller of the Naial Committee of Y.M.C.As. toms River Police. The Chinese authorities were promptly notified fand an inquest was held by a Procurator of the Shanghai District Court on Aug. 7) when was revealed that the corpse bore severe knife wound in the left side the neck. As the deceased gentleman was not known to have any enemies, and as there was reason to think that he took. his own life, the general belief is that
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