SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1928.
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THE LITTLE
FRENCH GIRL
HERBERT
BRENON
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ALICE JOYCE
NEIL HAMIDIN
MARY BRIAN ESTHER RAISIR
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The story of a lovely French girl who went out into the world In search of a husband. Based on the sensational novel by Anne Douglas Sedgwick. Produced by the man who made "Peter Pan."
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Experts are agreed that the time is now ripe for rapid progress in Canton where conditions have again settled down to normal. Improvement in the Canton situation means increased trade for Hong Kong. And increased trade is some- thing worth booming all over the world.
How better times have set in is explained carefully and simply in the "Overland China Mail." Hong Kong-ites should make it their duty to tell their business connections and their friends abroad that opportunities are available and the easiest and fairest way of doing so is by sending them copies of the "Overland."
This number of the "Overland" has a series of articles written specially for the benefit of those unconversant with China. These articles will be appreciated by folks at Home who often wonder what our surroundings are.
Tell them how Hong Kong has once more found plenty of money to spend at the annual races, how Canton is sincere in her policy to put down pirates, bandits and Communists- and how the outlook now is better than for nearly three years.
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OVERLAND CHINA MAIL.
SEVERE SHOCK.
MAHARÄNEE AND HER
RIVAL
PROTEST BY FASTING.
THE CHINA MAIL,
OLD CRIMES,
THE PROBLEM OF EXPIATION.
THE CONVICTED HEIR.
HOODED MAN.
SHOP INTRUDER PUT TO FLIGHT.
WOMAN'S FIGHT.
Bombay. The proposed marriage The Headquarters Committee of the ex-Maharaja Holkar of Inor the British Legion, meeting in the centre of London displayed The manageress of two shops in dore and Miss Nancy Miller, an London under the presidency of pluck and presence of mind in deal- American gold minor's daughter, Colonel G. R. Crosfield, the chair-ing with suspects, one of whom was has administered a novere shock to! the second Maharanee, previously port in principle the resolutions
man of the Legion, agreed to sup-hooded.
The hooded man, calling out, the ex-ruler's favourite wife. The passed recently by the Grand Jury Your money or your life," pointed first Maharanae is also alive.at Birmingham Quarter Sessions a covered object. resembling a re It apears that the Maharanee hae--that sailors and soldiers who volver in the face of the man- tened to Colombo, Ceylon, to meet died in the war ought to have ageress of the Eclipse Wine Com- the ex-Maharaja on his arrival)
there from America. Upon meet- ing her husband and hearing from him that he intended to marry a white woman she fainted.
A few hours afterwards the Mn- haranee returned to Indore. Shel refused to eat during the journey. and it is reported that she is still fasting.
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British officials at Indore approve of the proposed marriage.
It is now revealed that Misd Miller's mother, a wealthy widow, lives at San Francisco and that during his recent visit to the United Statea the ex-Maharaja
spent a fortnight at the family's home.
In The Hills.
Colombo. Much secrecy has hid- den the movements of the ex-Maha- raja of Indore during the past few days, but I am now able to state, that he is staying at an hotel at Nuwara Eliya, the fashionable hill station 26 miles south of Kandy,
Miss Miller and her grandmother are staying at the same hotel. The ex-Maharaja is said to be Indis- posed. He is not receiving visi- tors. He is waiting for permission from the Indian Government to marry Miss Miller, Negotiations, are in progress for her conversion to Hinduism
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Another visitor at the hotel is the ex-Maharaja's treasurer, who is stated to have more than £30,000 in his possession."Daily Mail" cor- respondent.
SOVIET TALES.
AN AMAZING REPORT JUST ISSUED.
"Soviet Russia To-day" (Labour Research Department, 6d.) is an- other of those ridiculous reports re- presenting the verdict of tourists who go to Moscow knowing nothing
*HEART MILLER, WANG R'B,
Mre. Perry S. Parker, mother of *ttle Marlen Parker, who was kid- napped from school and slain by Willom E Hickman.
erased any criminal convictions recorded against them.
pany's shop in, Lisle Street, Leicés. ter-square, W.C, and attempted to steal the contents of the till.
To a reporter Miss Eva Tapley, the manageress, said:-
I'was alone in the shop when I Buddenly saw a man in front of me. Over his head was a piece of serge material, and I could see only the tip of his nose. He pointed in my face something covered with a plece. of serge, and shouted out, "Your money or your life."!
I knocked his hand up and said, "Don't be a fool!" I then put my arm on t till' and resisted his efforts to n it. He picked up a model of a white horse used as an advertisement and flung it at me, striking me on the forehead and smashing the ornament. Although injured. I was still able to resist him, and he looked round for some- thing else to throw at me. I came round to the front of the counter after him, and with that he ran out of the shop. A young man
next door chased him down Leicester- place as far as Leicester-square, where he was lost.
The assailant la described as be- ing a man of about 22 to 24, 5%ft. in height, wearing a cloth cap and an overcoat. He spoke with rough voice.
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Miss Tapley had her forehead badly bruised and was treated by a chemist.
Shop Scene Sequel.
In the second case a man ten- dered half a crown at a sweetshop in Charing Cross Road. W.C.
Sir Henry Maddocks, K.C., the Recorder of Birmingham, men tioned in charging the Grand Jury that an Act of Parliament would grove, a strongly built young wo The manageress, Miss Ethel Red- have to be passed before the conman, suspecting that the coin was said he regarded it as common police and locked the door... victions could be expunged. Ke a bad one, sent an assistant for the justice that men who gave their lives for the country should have their convictions blotted out, -
Pre-War Convictions.
The recommendation will be forwarded to the Home
noises in the shop and took the cus A policeman while passing heard tomer to the police station.
SURVEY OF PAPUA.
Lieutenant Wackett Returns,
Melbourne, Dec. 20.. Flight-Lieut. E. C. Wackett, who,
AT ALL AGES.
of the Russian language or country-Office, and a "Daily Mall report-
The British Workers' Delegation of 1927 is nominally responsible for ceive the fullest and most careful er was told there that it will re- the statements which it contains, consideration. It was pointed out but these are adorned by meaning- by an official of the department, in September last left to undertake lese gibberish-which is astonish- ingly reminiscent of the
however, that the proposal an aerial survey of Papua and the other publications of the Labour Research
bristles with difficulties, G Mandated, Territory, returned to Department-such as "given a com-
One in particular was that a the Laverton depot to-day. In a plementary state of society, co number of men joined the Forces three months' flight Lieut. Wackett operation can be the means to not from patriotic motives, but so has flown about 10,000 miles, He establish Socialism" and "it con- that they might be sent abroad was accompanied on the survey by solidated their realisation."
and thus escape arrest for other Flight-Lieut. J. H. Roas, who re- The delegates, who went at the crimes which the police suspected mained in the territory to com Soviet's expense, had, of course, to them of having committed. Asplete details of the work. Lieuten- travel where the Soviet sent them, soon as the Home Secretary show-ant Wackett left Papua on Decem conducted by persons who were ed himself to be in sympathy with bar 11. paid and employed by the Soviet to the suggestion it was believed mislead them. Their astonishing (the official added) that a similar credulity is illustrated in every Hine. plea would be made on behalf of Thus the report states, "ten years, ex-Service men with pre-war con- we were told, is the maximum ben-victions who have survived the If you are young Pinkettes-taken when necessary-will help you keep tence in Soviet Russia." Yet day war.
A barrister said that a general
in perfect physical condition by en- after day the Soviet journals pub-expiration would be bound to pro-If middle-aged, Pinkettes will keep suring daily functional regularity. lah news that men and women have been condemned to death and mind the case of the heir of a fresh, your brain clear. To remedy duca complications. He had in your liver, active, your complexion shot. At this very moment the wealthy man who was to receive that bane of the elderly, chronic Soviet trader Poliakov is under sentence of death for "corruption," the fortune only if he kept free while on August 23 three Customs forfeited the legacy, and was kill- from crime. He was convicted, officials were shot at Minsk for ed in the war. The fortune pass-constipation, Pinkettes are perfec- "making false declarations of Im-ed to another branch of the tion, because they are not habit- ported goods."
family, and it was conceivable forming and neither pain nor that the, present ownership would purge: They also aid digestion, Again, the report states that for be contested if the conviction banish billous attacks and sick Soviet railway workers "the hours are eight per day usually, but four against the man for whom it was headaches, quickly relieve Files. Your chemist sella them, or post originally intended was erased. and six for those on dangerous and
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I wish to point to the violation of labour legislation in transport undertakings. There is no single railway on which the regulations concerning houra of work have
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A FILM AUTHOR.
NOVICE SUCCEEDS. WHERE EXPERTS FAILED.
Some time ago it was decided to been observed, although there make a sequel to the most success exists for this purpose a special ful of pictures, "Mademoiselle from decree of the commissariat of Armentieres," with the title "Made- labour. Labour le explofted just moiselle from Armentieres, O.B.E.” as if there were no labour legla-with the title settled, those In lation at all charge of production at the Gau As for unemployment, the delega-mont studio In Shepherd's Bush, tlon admits that "at certain times began to cast about for a good ori- of the year there are over 1,500,000 ginal story on which the sequel: unemployed persons in Soviet might be based
RussiaBut the figures are really This proved unexpectedly dim-j much more serious as M. Kulby cult. Eleven authors several of sheff, the chairman of the Supreme whom have considerable reputa People's Economie Councily some tions, were eventually engaged in weeks ago placed the number of un-writing stories about the further employed in the winter at more adventures of Mademoiselle, but than 5,000,000.9MVAIE
The book would be amusing were what was wanted.
none of these stories proved to be not the malignant Soviet attack on
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