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"THE GOLD DIGGERS"
Nine Enormous Reels of Magnificent Scenes with Hope Hampton, Wyndham Standing, Louise Fazenda and A Great Cast.
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Belasco agreed Yes The Belasco! And when he agreed., It was a momentous occasion for the moving picture in dustry. And a feather in the cap of the producers of the Warner Bros. Classics of the Screen. The above well- "known stars have the principal Featured parts in this effervescent screen, drama which depicts the mad, bad, sad and glad goings-on of the little cross section of humanity known on Broadway as Gold Diggers See Jerky Lamar as the brightest of the clan as she attends gay parties after her work as a chorus girl: See how she manipulates wealthy millionaires, and shows her mettle. when taking the challenge of a crusty prejudiced broker who considers show girls dangerous. She sends him to defeat, clinches the romance of a young couple, and then turns the tables by falling in love with the would-be- reformer
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Mrs. H. Lechmere Clift will conduct the Bible-Circle at the Helena May Institute on Friday, December 12, at 10.30 am. The meeting is open to ali women.
Next year a preliminary survey of the country between Nairobi | and Mombasa is to be undertaken with the object of estimating the cost of a road sufficiently good to be used by motor cars in the dry
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A man was admitted to the Kwong Wah Hospital yesterday, suffering from Injuries to his leg caused by being struck down by a truck In Laichike Road..
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Ten passengers carried in excess of the number provided in her Hcence cost a coolle boat mistress $10, this being the amount of a fine Imposed at the Marine Court this morning.
Two Chinese, arrested in Fife Street, were charged at the. Kowloon Magistracy, this morning By mooring their craft at the
foot of the Eastern Street steps') with possession of a dagger.
and thereby obstructing the men were remanded.
Cheung Chau.. Ferry,, two: “junk masters were each fined $5 at the | Marine Court this morning.
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The annual athletic champion" A Chicago report says that ship contests of the Chinese Jacob Franks, father of the boy | Y:M.G. A/ will wke place in the killed by Nathan Leopold, junr. and gymastum hall commencing at Richard Loeb, has. planned' a třest | 7.30 this evening. Twelve events fund that may be used after his will be worked off for which there "death to oppose any efforts to free are 25 entries.
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Vessels arriving from the The tramway authorities in Tokyo believe that so per cent. of South still report heavy weather the trouble between passengers
bpt there is little or no mention of and conductors will be obviatedwinds of gale force. Instead of taking six days, steamers are now by the employment of women coming up from Singapore in five conductors. Their uniform is to be designed by a Parisian taflor...although the Osaka Maru" prov-
ed an exception by taking eight.
In the French Chamber of Deputies M. Herriot, stated that Germany having accepted the Dawes plan, any claim on Germany's part to a right demand, a new estimate of her capacity for payment would be in formal con- tradition with the Dawes plan,
An amateur wireless enthusiast, in the Dopartment of Basses- Pyrenees, Menars, states that he picked up the Jiwa station at Tokyo on a ninety metre wave length. The station was heard clearly for ten minutes. This is the first time an amateur transmitt ing Station in Japan has picked up an amateur receiver in France
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Fines of $ were imposed, at the Marine Court this morning for anchoring in the cable reserves extending along the Central Praya from Murray Pler to Statue Pier and on to "Star" Ferry Pier. The motor boat "Simplex No. 6", and three junkéwere the offending vessels...
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The Women's Suffragette Movement of China is reported to have sent out a circular' telegram urging the different provinces to send representatives to Shanghai to meet with its members to discuss political matters and the destiny of China which, they say, now reste in their hands.
A large quantity of firearms and ammunition having come into the possession of civilians since- the recent local fighting, the Shanghai Occupation Commle- stoner has offered monetary com- penisation for any that are sur- rendered. It is said that he has had to pay out very little money so far.
During the discussion of the French war budget M. Noller re-i The theft of jewellery and marked that French military ex- other articles, including a revolver, penditure reached a total of valued at a totil sum of $562, is 4,468,000,000 francs as against reported to the police by Mr. T. R 1,700,000,000 in 1914. Taking ace Rennett, an assistant at Messrs. count of the fall in the value of Lane, Crawford, Ltd. The articles the franc the present expenditure were stolen from his residence No.is 24 per cent. below prewar ex- 13, Chatham Street, some time be penditure whereas the United tween November 30, and yester" "Stāfes had increased such expendi- | day,
ture by 74 per cent. and Japan by 18 per cent, while' England main... tained her expenditure at the prewar level, says the Havas agency.
which American papers
"Mr. John W. Cook, who has indabled for much of their been a secretary of the Y.M.C.A. information about what is hap. in America for 35 years, is on a pening in Europe-has come visit to Hongkong for a few days a cropper over its announce while on his world tour. Mr. Cook ment of the award of the Filene will meet the local directors and a. conference next Peace Prize of 100,000 franes officers at offered to French competitors. It Saturday" evening, and on Sunday reported that the successful cand evening at 8 o'clock he will give date was R watchman in one of an address, to men at the the
Paris "normal auditorium." numerous schools." It seemed surprising that anyone following such an occupation should win a distinction requiring an expert knowledge of international law and politics. And it turns out that the prize winner actually holds the office of surveillant général-ie.. super- visor of studies in the Ecole Normale Supérieure. A special graduate school for advanced studies.
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Banit Singh, a clerk in the employ of an Indian firm, appear ed at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning as defendant on charges of embezzling $64.37 from various persons during November. Mr. H. C. Lee, who appeared for the prosecution, asked leave to with- draw the summonses as the de- fendant had made ample repara- tions. The application was allowed.
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Advertiser" The "Japán says Because the captain failed: to take proper steps to rescue or to search for the body of a sailor. who fell overboard, the crew of the N.Y.K. steamer. "Chikugo.j Maru," which reached Yokohama, from the South Seas at the end of last month, have lodged a strong protest against the captain at the office of the NYK The men contended that the Captain refused to stop the ship when one of the crew, who was washing the deck, fell overboard accidentally. Their protest against the captain is joined in by crews of other N.Y.K. ships.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Mr. Ling Hung-hsun has taken. Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Coales arrived over the post of president of the in Shanghai hast week by the Shanghai section of the University P. & O. s.s. "Kaiva." They left on of Communications-formerly Nan Monday for Changsha where Mr. yang College-at Siccawei, a post Coales is taking up the position of to which he was appointed some Consul. days ago by Mr. Yeh Kung-cho," Minister of Communications.
Mr. C. K. Utam, the Manager of Messrs. J. T. Chanrai & Co., Shang. hal, arrived in the, Colony by the s.s." Empress of Asia" and will take, charge of the firm here, as the general manager for China. He relieves Mr.. G. P. Daswani, the present general manager, who leaves for home on a holiday..
Mr. W. Yinson Lee, president of the Shanghai Y's Men's Club, has received a letter from Mr. P. W. Alexander, director of the Inter national Association of Y's Men's Clubs, Informing him that the Shanghai Y's Men's Club has been admfited as a member of the In ternational Club and a charter of affiliation has been granted.
The following appointments In the 24th Bombay Grenadiers are notified in Command Orders:— Captain R. M. Newton-King, to be Offcinting Company Commander, vice Captain E. R. S. Dods, M.C.,
Mr. JS Gabbay returned to the Colony yesterday by the s.s.proceeded, to United Kingdom to "Empress of Asia." Mr. and Mrs. join Staff College, Camberley; H. E. Goldsmith, Mr. and Mrs. G. Captain W. D. Bacon, to be Yates and Madame L. Negre were Officiating Company Commander, also passengers by the same-ship.
vice Major C. P. F. Warton, O.B,E., relieved.
Mrs. Susan Blackwell, of Cham bere Road, Southport, widow, left £16,656, and thereout for the bene ft of native women in India or China in connection with the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society £2,000.
M. Trotsky, say s'a Moscow cable, has been suffering the same as he did last year, from infectious fever for the past month, as a sequel to an attack of influenza. His doctors are urgently ordering him to a Caucasus health resort.
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Major-General Sir Charles Ben-
Knowles, KC.B.; of jamin Eastfelds, Camberley, Surrey, a Crimean veteran, who also saw, service in the Afghan War, 1878-80, and in Egypt, and colonel of the Hampshire Regiment, who died on July 29, aged 88, left unsettled property in his own disposition of the gross value of £15,494, with net personalty £14,824.
was in
Frances Isbella Dowager Coun News has just reached Shanghai manahan Castle, Clonmel, Co. of Donoughmore, of Kil-
Mr Guy F. H..Acheson, Dean of that Mr. Frithjof Hoehnke, manag. Tipperary, and of Buckinghans Customs College, Feking, died ing director of the Scandinavian gate, S. W., and of Sidmouth, suddenly on Monday evening from Brewery Co. Ltd. has become en-
Devon, widow of the fifth Earl, angina pectoris, says a Peking gaged to Miss Margrethe Konow, and daughter of the late General message to the Daily Bulletin." of Bergen, Norway. The wedding Stephens, of the East India Deceased, apparently, will take place at the beginning of Company's Service, left fun- normal health until Monday January next, after which Mr. settled) (net personalty £1,921) afternoon, when he complained Hoehnke will bring his bride out, £3,196
that he felt Hi and lay down, but arriving vid Suez some time in"
shortly afterwards he quietly pass March.
ed away. The late Mr. Acheson returned last March from. London, where he had been in charge of the Customs office.
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Passengers arriving by s.s. "Empress of Asia" yesterday Lieutenant Osborne C. Wood, included Prince and Princess, son of Governor General Wood of Prajatipok, of Slam, who are the Philippines gained nearly returning from a tour of Europe world-wide fans year when and are travelling in a strictly
Mr. Ronald Edward David During their the story of killings" on unofficial manner. various Wall Street deals was told, stay in Hongkong the Prince and, Sassoon, of Knightsbridge, S.W Is dropping some of that money fa Princess are residing at the Hong- and of Messrs. David Sassoon and Paris "exchange" shops, according kong Hotel and only entertainment Co., Ltd, who saw service in to advices from Paris. Lieutenant of an informal nature will take France during the Great War, and who died at: Baghdad on July 11. Wood was reported as having place.
while travelling in Perila, aged 28, cleaned up more than $1,000,000
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gold, playing the market from The Gazette" announces, under left unsettled property of the gross Manila id cabled tips. He resign- date June 1, that the King has value of £257,420, with net He died ed his army moussion after the appointed Mr.JF Johns to be personalty £241.780. story was revealed. But the Paris His Majesty's Consul General for intestate and a bachelor without God of Chance is not as favourable, the Kingdom of Slam, to reside af parent, and letters of administra- to Libut. Wood, so the stories go, Bangkok and Mr. J. D. Hoge, ton or his property have been and has said to have recently M.BE to be His Majesty's Consul granted to the only next-of-klu, his parted with quite a few france at for the Contuur Diftrict of Songster, Mrs. Murist Helene Ezra, of The Circle Haussman, a palatial gora, compiling the Monthon Hogwarren Park, Cobham, Salrey, establishment presided over by the of Puket, Surastra Naka wag, The dulles on the property at this opulent "Andro," a former funeral Sritamarat and Patini, to reside in valuation will amount to about
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