TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1928,
BADLY HURT.
(Continued from Paps 1.)
EARLIER ACCOUNTS.
Events At Mukden on Chang's Arrival
Mukden, Yesterday, Marshal Chang Tso-lin arrived at 6 am. to-day. Reuter,
Bodyguard Opens Fire.
QUEER CASE.
(Continued from Page 1.)-
he was taken, to the premises of the Hang Lee Passenger Towboat Com- pany, at No. 69, Connaught-road Central where he was detained for: six or seven days. Two of the de- fendants in the other case wore
THE MATCH.
FIREMAKING THROUGH THE CENTURIES.
WHO INVENTED IT?
THE CHINA MAIL,
CINEMA NOTES.
“THE SECRET STUDIO” AT QUEEN'S.
Shadows Before
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED
IN THE "MAIL" "
To-day-Queen's Theatre; "The
To-day-World Theatre; "Wan- |derer of the Wasteland."
To-day-Star Theatre; "The
A FLAPPER AMONG ARTISTS. Secret Studio."
and
Frontiersman."
Lammerts' Auctions, June 7-At Sales Room, house-
June B-Household goods,
In Fairfield-road, Bow, London, Prosenting the artists left in the place to guard the de-, there is a vastly interesting but models of the gay Latia quarter, little-known museum devoted on-The Secret Studio" comes to the fendant;
All the time the defendant was tirely to the story of man's strug Queen's Theatre us the chief attrac in this house he was not allowed gles down the ages to preserve to tion to-day and to-morrow. Olive hold goods, 2.80 p.m. to go out, although he had made himself those most blessed gifts of Bordon has the role of a typical Tokyo, Yesterday. A War Office official message several applications. In the house the sore and light. In many young, modern fiapper who goes out and 4, Knutsford Terrace, Kow- train was passing through a accounts and on June 4 he wa cross-station from the Peking-forced to sign a deed. Mukden Railway to the South The prisoner did not make any
says that when Chang Tso-lin's he was kept busy making up the granted, of exhibits the tale la alone into the world thinking the loc, 26
graphically told, and Messrs. a. capable of taking care of herself,}
Bryant and May, in whose offices and whose distilusionment comes in
Sports. June 16 American Mixed Dou the museum is to be found, have a starting manner. Clifford Hol-bles (handicap) tennis tournament,
Manchuria Railway, Chinese in serious attempt to get in touch with boon at pains to present. the col- land makes his screen debut in this Ladies Recreation Club. plain clothes threw bombs, with the police because he knew of the lection in strict chronological order picture, playing opposito Miss the result that Chang Tso-lin two warrants for his arrest, and and logical array.
Borden., Ben Bard appears as the
Meetings.
To-day-General· ́ meeting, of
and General' Wu Chun-aheng was in a predicument, in that event is said to be the most com- sinister artist and master of "The Christian Brothers' Alumni Asso-1 (Governor of Heilungkiang) were if he succeeded in getting out of plote collection of its kind in the Secret Studio." Margarat Living-ciation, St. Joseph's College, 6 p.m.; slightly injured and several of the house, he would be arrested by world, a boast that no one who had stone la cast as a beautiful siron
agen it would deny. For many who makes free with other women's Tramways Co., Ltd. Hong Kong June 7-Annual meeting of Peak the Marshal's suite were killed the police on the warrants. and wounded.
Proceeding, the C. D. I. and that years
privato collector, Mr. husbands while Joseph Crawford Hotel, noon. of solicitors Edward Bidwell, now over eighty, completes an on June 3, the firm
excellent cast and June 9--Annual meeting, Mesura, industriously assembled most of relieves the more serious side of the William Powell, Ltd., noon. Messrs. Lee and Russ, received a telegram concerning the prisoner. the exhibits, others have been add-picture with his quaint antics. A The telegram was given to himed, other collections embraced, feature of the picture is a gorgeous (the C. D. I.) yesterday. He look until now the detailed catalogue artists' ball with its tableaux of ed up his files and finding the war-Prepared by Mr. Miller Christy, an beautiful girls. rants against the prisoner, he visit-authority on the history of fire-
Chang Tso-lin's bodyguard fired on the bombers.
The despatch refutes the Press reports that Japanese troops guarding the line clashed with the
Chinese.--Reuter.
minutes.
The casualties are, up to the present, unascertainable. The Chinese and Japanese are still confronting one another.
ed the premises of the Hang Lee making appliances, already com- Company where he found the pri- prises over 250 pages!
soner with one of the defondants in the other case.. The first defendant
Primitive Fire-making.
In the show-cases ranged round
+
Macellanous.
June 6-Frst of a series of
addresses at Union Church Hall, Kennedy-rd,, on the Old Testament,
A PICTURE IN COLOUR, by Mr. J. 8. Flacks, at 5.30 p.m. "Wanderer of the Wasteland," November 13- Matriculation, ivhich comes to the World Theatre Senior and Junior Local exams. at to-day and to-morrow, is the first the Hong Kong University. Paramount picture to be made en-
GOLD-RED HAIR.
Pagkaka
LINE" AT THE ACADEMY.
FAME AT 14.
40 Minutes' Clash.
Shanghai, Yesterday. Japanese Press reports state that Chang Tso-lin's train con. sisted of 22 saloon cars packed with bodyguards.
in the other case was also there the large and airy gallery you ob-tirely in natural colours, and has bombs blew the with several other fokla of the firm. serve the gradual climb of our the further distinction of having The
up eleventh car from the engine and He arrested the prisoner, and early ancestors from the wood- been filmed in the original settings set fire to the next four which consequent upon a statement made friction methods as seen in the of Zane Grey's story-the gorgeous YOUNGEST ARTIST "ON THE to him by the prisoner he seized laborious fire-drills, fire-saws, and Painted Desert of Arizona and were completely burned out.
Immediately the explosions oc- some documents and books and ar-fire-ploughs, which were probably th Valley, California. The curred, the bodyguards opened rested the three defendants in the the earliest instruments devised by story tells of a man driven into the fire promiscuously, mainly aiming other case. They wore charged on primitive man, to the flint-and-desert by an unjust persecution, to at the Japanese gendarmerie the statements made by the prison-Pyrites method that marked the become a wanderer of the waste- The "picture of the year" at the guarding the railway. The later.
Stone and Bronze Ages. This lat- land and an outcast. Many exeit- Royal Academy is not a painting, ter replied, the firing lasting forty The C. D. 1. said that in viewter consisted of obtaining sparks ing incidents occur before, he re- but a beautiful little girl with
of the facts that the arrests were
which lighted tinder by striking
turns to civilisation to claim the wonderful golden-red hair, who only made yesterday. he did not nodule of the common mineral think a week's remand for the pur-iron-pyrites with a pointed flake of girl of his heart. Jack Holt and flits about the galleries of Burling- pose of going into the case from fint. This method is still employ-Billie Dove are the lending players ton House.
and important roles are filled by ed by certain Eskimo tribes.
She brings joy to the hearts of both angles was unreasonable.
Noah Beery and Kathlyn Williams. the artists and the staff. The flint-and-pyrites The Magistrate and that it seem-waned whon, about three thousand method
PIONEER THRILLS. ed to him that bail of $10,000 was years ago, man discovered the art
Joan Manning Sanders, the 14- rather high in view of the fact that of smelting iron, a progression that which will be shown at the Star red, is the youngest exhibitor at Based on actual history, "The years-old girl with the long and what the C. D I., had said was in resulted in the more ardent flint Theatre to-day and to-morrow, is a the Academy.
Frontiersman," Д new picture abundant hair of deepest Titian the prisoner's favour,
The C. D. 1. then anid that he in slowly improving forms, up to and-steel method which perslated,
thrilling tale of the days of Reports that Chang Tso-lin's would agree to the bail being re-around the year 1835, and, in fact, General Andrew Jackson and of the cepted; it has been hung. train has been bombed have been duced by half, but he would like fa still practised by South Euro-events which occurred during his only has it been hung, but it is confirmed. The confirmatory the prisoner in police custody for message adds that as the train three inys before he was admitted pean peasants and many semi- endeavour to promote friendly rela-hung "on the line." was passing under a railway to bail.
civilised peoples. Steel and flint tions between settler and Indian.
She is the youngest artist to
mounds clasped in the hand of a
ward. The popular new Western
of Andrew Jackson's Dostoievsky-and has never learnt
to draw! Colonel Tim McCoy, and
Her father is a novelist. Her the leading mother is a poet. Claire Windsor are players. Russell Simpson is cast as
Joan was demuro and self-com- Andrew Jackson, while Tom The museum shows how packed O'Brien of "The Big Parade" fame, posed when she told an "Evening were the three thousand years pre relieves the more serious side of
Standard" representative of her The other three men arrested in ceding the arrival of the "Instan- the picture with his quaint antics, brief artistic career. connection with the same case, taneous match" we know to-day "The Frontiersman" was directed "I have never learned to draw, with the ingenious efforts of in- by Reginald Barker, who made as they do in the schools," she Wong Fu-ting (44) described as ventors of the world. Although The Flaming-Forest
said. “I have never been taught to draw perspective and shading, which most artists have to study in their early days.
Chang Tso-lin received slight injuries in the face. He hurriedly entered a motor car and proceed- ca to his headquarters-Reuter, "Of Soviet Origin."
Peking, Yesterday.
Not only has her work been ac- Not
bridge at 5.30 a.m. the would-be complainant a chance
He wanted to give the have often been found in burial. The story deals with the capture achieve the distinction. She rends
assassins dropped two bombs which smashed the train and kill- ed and wounded several people.
General Wu Chun-sheng was slightly injured.
A number of suspecta were ar- rested and at least two were sum-, marily shot.
|
'This was
$5,000 Ball.
of coming
forward or sending up a solicitor. dead warrior ready for immediate agreed to, and those to lighten his way when he Magistrate accordingly reduced ball awakes. In the world beyond! to $5.000, but Arst remanded the accused for three daya in police. custody.
were:
The Tinder-Box Era.
and rescue
star,
TENNYSON.
Chang Tso-lin proceeded to his residence in a motor car.
According to Japanese reports the bombs-were-of-Soviet-manu-auditor of the Hang Lee Company, the flint and steel were basic neces facture. Reuter,
of No. 69, Connaught-road Central, sitles in all such designs, the: and You Fuk (47) and Lau Mat variety of form and materials was (47) described as watchmon on the unlimited. Tinder-boxes of wood, Shekkel junk run by the Hang Lee horn, metal, and bone are shown SON'S CLAIM FOR COPYRIGHT Company.
There were three charges against Wong as follows:-
A
ARMED ROBBERY.
SIX ROBBERS WHO RENTED A CUBICLE.
POLICE HAVE THREE.
(1) compounding a felony with Mow Yat-chuen (defendant in the
The Complainant.
the Magistrate KATE 题 week's formal romand in police custody.
*
'HEAVED-UP.”
by the score; fire-steels of every pattern, some beautifully wrought,
DAMAGES.
"I just paint things as they seem to me.
"My first encouragement came from Mrs. Dod Proctor, who works
and, in the case of Eastern speci- Allahabad Lord Tennyson, son mens, richly adorned with jewels of the poet, is plaintiff in the a good deal in Cornwall. She ap and engraving; tinder-boxes for the Court of the District Judge of proved of my efforts and urged other case), between May 29 and pocket as small as snuff-boxes and Allahabad in a suit, in which the me to continue.
"But I work quite alone. I do June 4, 1928; (2) inducing Mow as beautifully carved; tinder-bags Educational Book Depot of Al-
anyone Yat-chen to execute and sign B and pouches for the early smokers; lahabad and the printer of the Na-not share a studio with Before Mr. W. Schofield, at the paper with intent to defraud, at tinder-pistols, often the work of tional Press, through the Macmil else, as artists often do, I have a Kowloon Magistracy yesterday,
No. 59, Connaught-road, Central, famous gunsmiths (there are over lun Co. of Calcutta, are charged large studio, and I work there all
day. there was a sequel te the recent first floor, on June 3; and (3) de hundred of these collected in a with infringement of copyright.
Plaintiff claims damages from
At the Age of 11, armed robbery at No. 15, Temple, will with intent to procure à ran-[extensively used in the seventeenth the defendants for publishing in) taining Mow Yat-chuen against his number of countries; they were
"When I was eleven' and a half, street, Yaumati, when three. Chin- доп or benefit, at No. 59, and early eighteenth centuries); its entirety, without permission, working under my governess, the ese were charged with having been Connaught-road Central, first floor, burning lenses, la some cases in the poem, "Crossing the Bar," the rector of our church in Cornwall concerned in the robbery with three others, not in custody. The between May 29 and June 4, 1928. erted In the lid of a tin of to-work of the plaintiff's father, in a saw some of my water colours, and mastor of the raided house was the
The other two accused, Yau and bacco!--these are representative of book entitled "Intermediate Poems he asked me to make twelve de- owner of a Chinese coffin shop, and Lau were only concerned with the the exhibits of the "Tinder-Box for General Study, 1926-28" This sigas for the church walls,
is a collection of poems by vari- "Eighteen months ago I began it was alleged by the prosecution third charge relating to the unlaw-Era."
Mechanical-minded wizards of ous standard authors prescribed painting in oils. A year ago, that the robbers, posing as respectful detention of Mow Yat-chuen. able people, rented a cubicle in the
that period produced many in-by the Board of Intermediate and when I was thirteen, I was hung The Captain Superintendent of genious devices, if somewhat a la High School Education of the Unit- at the Newlyn Artists' Society victim's flat with the intention of Police appeared on the chargesuch was the tinder-box pistol that candidates for the Intermediate) and the Young Artista' Exhibition, Heath Robinson in conception: ed Provinces for general study by show. Then I was hung at Dublin committing the robbery. At first three men 'rented the cubicle on
sheet-as-complainant-- In the ease,
was fired by an alarm-clock. The Arts examination.. A summons and was accepted, but not hung March 29. About a month later against the three prisoners.
All three accused, who were not alarm fired the pistol and ignited was served on each of the defen- at the Royal Academy. they were jolnad by three others legally represented, pleaded "not a pinch of gunpowder, which in dants.
This year came the greatest (the prisoners in the dock).
honour of all. I had a picture in After studying the movements of guilty," and on the application of turn lighted a candle that had the master of the house, the ten- Chief Detective Inspector Murphy, sprung from inside the box! An-for the box! The match was the New English show. And now ants carried out the robbery during who also prosecuted in this case, other was intended for sluggards, pressed between the fingers in a I am on the line at the Academy.
|Patented in 1824, it consisted of a plece of sandpaper.
I do not paint landscapes: I picce of string passing over a pul- By 1834 the "Lucifers" and nearly always choose human char ley attached to the stopper of an "Congraves," which were the first
acters. eeld bottle. As you lay in bed you phosphorus matches, were in com-
"My Academy pleture is The pulled the string, lifting the stop-mon use, to be followed later by Brothers, three local fishermen per, which applied a spot of acid "Fuzeos," "Veatas, Vesuviana, playing draughts. My New Eng- to a crude sulphur match, which and "Safeties." They had many lish portrait was 'Gracie,' an old rotated on a wheel until it came disadvantages. A strong sun, or next to the wick of a spirit lamp, a sudden blow, would be able to woman. Last year's Academy plc- which, if everything went accord- ignite the box.
ture was 'The Fedlar." More than one
"I nover make preliminary ing to plan, gave you your. light! label In the museum warned pur
The First Match.
chasers that, owing to the poison- studies. I have not portfolios" full This acid device, or "Fortable ous fumes, no one with weak lungs sketches, as other artists havė.
The Fire-Box," as it is called, was one should' strike the matches! With call moneyat seven per of the earliest forms of "Instan- harmless
When I get an idea I get red phosphorus of straight on to the canvas and work cent. for the first time in seven taneous lights," and was invented modern "strike anywhere" matches it out." years the Stock Market this after Italy in 1786. Similar to it was arrived in 1898, though the maxi-Father's View. noon violently "heaved-up" and the "Promethean Match," patented ous yellow phosphorus with its Joan's father described her 35 early advances were wiped out by Samuel Jones, of the Strand, in peril to worker, and consumer was still quite a child.”...... $25 per share. and replaced the losses of $10 to 1828. A minute quantity of sul-not legally banned until 1910. "I am afraid the other sides of phuric acid sealed in a tiny glass Pictorial Labeled her education are being neglected," ing available, the reconstruction nounced that collateral loans at of chlorate of potash, was enclosof match-box labels of different her studio all the time. What Shortly after closing it was an vesicle, surrounded by a compound The museum also contains scores be said. ""She wants to work in scheme put forward by the direc- the close of business, exceeded Aveled in paper spill. When the countries that must surely be unl does it matter? If you develop in tors of Leyland Motors Ltd. was and quarter billions, being 360 glass vesicle was broken, either by que. Foreign covers are shown your best line that is the best edu defeated at a meeting of share millions over the April figures the hammer supplied with the with famous "beauties reproduced cation of all.
P holders at Leyland. After pro Reuters American Service "match" or with the teeth, the upon them in gaudy colours; others Though Joan is a normal child, ceedings in private an official
Weld inflamed the potash and ignit-bear bird and flower designs; she reads, unusual books for her statement was issued stating that According to an item in this ed the paper while some, like that showing the age. She la fond of Dostoievsky the scheme could not proceed. Ap morning a police reports, a ricsha
Despite the many claimants, the meeting of Dr. Livingstons, and and similar writers. She had la proximately the poll showed 54,000 coolle is now in the Government honour of inventing the "first real Stanley, suggest that match-boxes perfectly ordinary/childhood, with in favour and 19,000 agalast the Civil Hospital suffering from in friction match" of the kind with once supplied belated pictorial her brother David He Is walve, scheme, the feeling appoaring to juries to his head received in the which we are famillar to-day be-nows to patronstones and wants to be an engineer. Ver be that the Ordinary shareholders process of being arrested after longs to John Walker, & Stockton- If written application is made were not being asked to make suhe was alleged to have stolen $10 on-Tees chemist. In 1826 he was beforehand to the comp elent encrifices in proportion to the from Leading Seaman W. Miller seling his friction lights for a shil, exhibits, may be, sean Preference shareholder ASRDA of HMS.Tamar
by line for a hundred, and twopence charge.
his absence at 3 am, on May 21 and decamped with over $300 worth of clothing, money and jewellery. The three accused ran Into a police picket in Shanghai-street, and were arrested with part of the booty in their possession. The EFFECT OF 7 PER CENT, CALL other three, who had gone in an- other direction, escaped,. The case was adjourned.
LEYLAND MOTORS.
RECONSTRUCTION SCHEME DEFEATED.
Leyland. The requisite three fourth majority in favour not he
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New York, Yesterday,
...
"We don't know what we will
do with Joan next. She is too young to travel, but she will prob ably do so after a while.”
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