SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1928.
CHINA'S TREATY.
DEVELOPMENTS IN SEVERAL DIRECTIONS.
THE INTERIM REGULATIONS.
Shanghai, Yesterday. According to a despatch from Nanking, the Nationalist Gavern- rent has announced the termina- tion of the Sino-Spanish, Sino- Portuguese, Sino-Italian, and Sino-Danish Treaties, to the na tionals of which countries the seven interim regulations now apply, pending the conclusion of
new treaties.--Reuter.
NEGOTIATIONS.
Fourthly, whenever the land, p the building rented, etc., shall be discovered to have been utilised for profit or commercial purposes, the focal authorities shalt stop such en- terprises or declare the contract of lenge invetkl.
Fifthly, all existing transactions are to be reported to the local au- thorities. In cases where the tiilo of the land was purchased by the foreign mission, the said missior whall be necorded the rights of Землес.
TOTALISATOR.
MONOPOLY CÒMPLAINT NY THE SOCIALISTS.
EPSOM DIFFICULTIES.
By having an afterndon sitting
THE CHINA MAIL,
CINEMA NOTES.
FINAL SCREENINGS FOR TO-DAY.
"HOTEL IMPERIAL"
A remarkable. picture of War. the Standing Committee of the yet with the actual scenes of buttle Sixthly, these regulations ahul House of Commons which is consi-suggested rather
than pictured, come into effect from the site ordering the Racecourse Betting Bill, Ilote! Imperial." brings its season promulgation; e, today.Reuter.
was able, to make some little pro-
to a close to-day at the Queen's greas, but there is still a formid Theatre. Pola Negri is the leading able array of amendments to be dis-reactions of war's grim realities on player in this vivid story of the posed of. troduced by Major Glyn (U., Abing, duals who act as pawns of nations The bill, which was in the minds and conduct of indivi- den), authorises the introduction in conflict. Some remarkable camera of the totalisator on racecourses ap-effects have been introduced in this proved by the Control Board..
picture which
came
the
SHANGHAI'S COURT.
Shanghai, Yesterday, Two cases came before the Provisional Court this afternoon for hearing at which the Italian Consular official, Dr. Ramondino. should have sat with the Chinese judge, .Shanghai, Yesterday,
Mr. Hayday (Lab-Soe. Notting-direction of Mauritz Steller, a Dr. Ramondine attended court ham, W.) proposed that the totalisa-famous Swedish producer.
under
The "Sin Wan Pao" states that the Nationalist Foreign Ministry fudges reported to him that the racecourses to which the public and was in chambers when the tor should be confined to parts of has instructed the Chinese Minis-court had received a despatch Ler at Lisbon to open negotiations from Nanking announcing the ex-vent an unrestricted right of for the revision of the Sino-Por-piry of the Sino-Italian Treaty posing prohibitive fees the Jockey RECERS. He protested that by im- and they therefore suggested that Dr. Ramondino should not Club would give a mononely to four or five of the richest bookmakers. It is understood thut Dr. In the Interests of the public he Rumondino ussented the wanted the totalisator to be restrict- understanding that the cases ed to. places where people had to should be postponed.
Kiukinng. Yesterday, About 2,000 troops of the Na-sit. tionalist 5th Army (supporting Nan- king and opposed to Ilankow) have arrived here from further down the Yangtze, British Naval Wireless.
(Note: Kiukiang 22 miles above Nooking and 112 miles below Hankow.]
tuguese Treaty, while the Chinese Minister at Copenhagen reports the willingness of Denmark to ap point a delegate to revise the Sino-Danish Trenty. Us
WORLD THEATRE.
Jetta Goudal, Robert Ames and
Clive Brook are the leading players in "Three Faces East" a thrilling story of love, espionage and the Secret Service, which will have its final showings at the World Thestre to-day. The picture has all the pay in order to resort for the pur-elements of swift dramatic action, The Chinese judge, subsequent-pase of betting.
thrille and heart appeal. ly announced in open court that Sir G. the eases had been postponed be- cause the Italian deputy was no longer allowed to sit. Reuter,
NANKING CONDITIONS.
STAR THEATRE.
TEASERS.
„Answers to To-day's Questions.
1. The Greek god of war.
2. The Asiatic Petroleum Com- pany.
3. An amber-like substance, used for pipes, jewellery, etc.
4.. 480.
5. A pointed Turkish rowing skiff used on the Bosphorous.
6. Commodore J. L. Pearson, C.M.G.
Shadows Before
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED
IN THE "MAIL."
To-day--Queen's Theatre; "Hotel Imperial."
To-day-World Theatre: "Three Faces East."
Theatre: "The
Music Master."
To-day-Star
July 22-23-World Theatre; "The Show Off."
High Road."
July 22-23-Star Theatre; "Hell's
Hume-Williams (U.. Bassetlaw) expressed surprise that a member of the Labour party
"The Music Muster" which also should propose to deprive the poor is being shown to-day for the last est class of the opportunity of tak-time at the Star Theatre is an Peking, Yesterday.
ing advantage of the totalisator by appealing story of an old musician An American official who in- continug it to places to which pay who gives up a brilliant career in The Foreign Ministry to-day is vestigated the conditions in the meat for admission was demanded. search of his lost wife and her handing the Japanese Consul at American Consulate at Nanking,
Mr. Compton (Lab.-Soc., Gorton)
July 22-24- Queen's Theatre; Nanking a note addressed to the on July 6 found the tennis courts pointed out that the report of those betrayer. Alec B. Francis gives a "Frisco Sally Levy." Japanese Minister at Peking, the being used as a drill ground and asked by the Jockey Club Committee musician, while Lois Moran, as his Forty Winks."
remarkable performance ng the July 24-25 World Theatre; terms of which are believed to be the Consulate as a barracks. A to inquire whether there was any daughter is sweetly pretty and Similar to the French and Italian hundred soldiers were quartered difficulty in instaling machines, gives notes, and is also enbling the note there. The building was badly &c. on racecourses was to the effect difficult role.
excellent support in her to the Chinese Minister at Tokyo damaged, there being holes in the that out of forty-seven courses for delivery to the Japanese ceiling and floors and practically thirty offered no difficulty, eleven Foreign Office.---Reuter.
no furniture was visible. Win-offered difficulties which could be dows were missing and human excreta littered the floors and the remaining six presented difficul-
VIA THE POLE. got over without much trouble, and
passages. Altogether much must be done before the Consular offi-
ties which did not, however, cials can re-inhabit the building if the soldiers can be induced to
JAPAN'S VIEW.
Tokyo, Yesterday, Discussing the question of Japan's attitude in the event of China notifying its intention of abrogating the treaty, which is leave. fully expected, à Foreign. Office It is understood that the situn- spokesman intimated that
hotion at the British Consulate is notice of it will be taken for the equally bad. The Consulate is time being, but instead Japan being used as a cemetery for will await China's next move, Chinese sokliers. The Vice-Con- though possibly the Consul-Get- sular residence is still being used eral at Shanghai or Peking will as a barracks while the Asiatic make informal protest, emphasis-Petroleum Co. residence is used as ing that it is impossible for a stable for the horses-Reuter. Japan to consider abrogation as
LI CHAI-SUM. clause 26 of the present treaty automatically provided renewal
Peking, Yesterday. until October, 1936. as revision Marshal Li Chai-sum of Canton was not affected within the half called at the British Legation and of the year stipulated. On the held a two-hours conversation other hand, if China asks for re-with Sir Miles Lampson, the Bri- vision, Japan will willingly con-¡tish Minister.-Reuter. sider the request, and will refer the matter to the Cabinet Council, after which a reply will be sent. Reuter.
CONSUL REFUSES.
H.K.V.D.C. “PROM.”
LAST NIGHT'S CONCERT A SUCCESS.
Was
NEW AIR ROUTE TO FAR EAST.
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future, the regular air route from The possibility that, in the Europe to the Far East will pass over the North Pole, was referred
to by Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for Air, speaking at a luncheon given to Captain George Wilkins and Lieutenant Eielson
July 24-25-Star Theatre; "The Coming of Amos."
July 25-28 Queen's Theatre; "Sorrows of Satan.”
July 26-28 World Theatre; "Mark of Zorro."
July 26-28-Star Theatre; "Love 'Em and Leave 'Em."
Lammerts Auctions. July 24-At Sales Room, 4 & 4A. Duddell-st., valuable household furniture, etc., 2.30 p.m.
August 2-At Auction Rooms, Duddell-at., the steamship
"Gorjistan," noon."
Meeting.. July 23-H.K.V.D.C. Sports Com-
mittee meeting at Headquarters, 5.45 pm.
Licut.-Colonel David A. Clark, Health, died suddenly at Ottawa Assistant Deputy Minister of.
pear insurmountable. Epsom was included in the last category, be-} cause at the summer meetings an immense crowd, apparently uneon- trolled, spread over a large area of common land. The committee con- sidered, however, that if power was obtained to enclose more land on the Downs there would be no reason why Epsom should not be adapted in London. to the system.
"The distance between Eng- Epsom, consequently, Mr. Comp-land and Japan," stated Sir ton declared, outside the Samuel, "Is about 6,500 miles by purview of the totalisator, so the route over the North Pole, as that it was no nae talking about the compared with more than 11,000 while listening to a wireless con- cert. Dr. Clark had recently com- machine being open to the poorest. miles by the ordinary flying pleted a tour of Great Britain in
the case of Newmarket, the routes of to-day. Who shall say Jockey Club were told that the cost that with the development of the connection with the medical ex- of installing the totalisator on the airship and the aeroplane, the amination of emigrants to Canada. two courses would be from £30.000 Polar regions may not in the to £35,000. Further, it had been future become a regular and ac- suggested that in the case of smail cepted route of swift travel be- meetings the Pari-mutuel system tween West and East?"
Wilkins Capt. might be substituted. In addition, i there was
a portable totalisator Eielson had set themselves the ships to enter Russian Black Sea machine likely to be brought out at task of crossing the Polar Sea Ports. All foreign ships, it is add- a coat of £3,000 or £1,000. In view from Alaska to Spitsbergen by a ed, may freely enter Soviet porta.
new route. For three-quarters
It is officially stated in Moscow that there is no truth in reports to the effect that the Soviet Go- vernment haa forbidden Greek
Licut. and
Peking, Yesterday. Mr. Yoshizawa, the Japanese j Minister, has received LL Con-
In almost every respect last munication from the Japanese night's promenade concert, on the of that information. Mr. Compton of their journey they had never Consul at Nanking stating that Volunteer Parade Ground, was a declared further examination of the been seen by any man. the Nationalist Government had success. There Was i satis- whole question was necessary.
The weather and visibility had handed him a note saying that factory audience, and the pro- Major Glyn explained that there been bad.. At one time the tem- as the three months extension gramme was very much enjoyed. was no proposal that the Epsomperature had been 50 degrees be- granted by the late Peking Goy.It is to be hoped that other simi- Racecourse Company should take low zero, at another the worst, ernment for negotiations of the lar concerts will be arranged dur- over further land at Epsom. Per- storm that Spitsbergen had ever Sino-Japanese treaty expired on ing the hot weather.
mission would have to be got from endured at that season of the year July 20, the seven regulations The various items played by the the Common landowners to put had broken upon them. Yet they governing the modus vivendi for Borderers' Band were well select- down a cable to connect the power, had continuously carried out their the interim period, must apply toled, "William Tell," German's house and the points on the Downs observations and in. the space of Japanese residing in China.. Three Dances," "Lilac Time" and where offices were established at twenty flying hours: completed
The Consul refused formally to the "Gondolier's" selection being which people could go and get their their adventure. receive the note on the ground | received with applause. The cor- money. There would be no en- that the contents where quite un-net solo was an outstanding and croachment' on the rights of the acceptable to Japan, but finally pleasing feature.
public with regard to the use of the
agreed to transmit to the Japan- Mrs. O. C. Womack sang, to the Downs by the erection of perman- ese Legation the fact that the Band's accompaniment, and acquit-ent buildings. All that was wanted note had been submitted to him ted her difficult part admirably. was merely a small platform to and apparently wiring the con- "The Heart of 題 Rose" and which cable connection was made, tents or the gist unofficially. Jocelyn's exquisite "Berceuse" were and which would be removed when
It is understood the Japanese her contributions to which, in res- racing was over. Legation, under the orders of ponse to a demand for an encore, Tokyo, will promptly notify Nan- she sang two of Dorothy Foster's the amendment defeated by 23 votes The discussion was closured and king that as the new treaty was lovely songs. Even with so unusual not negotiated within six months an accompaniment and In the open from October, 1926, it automatic- Mrs. Womack's beautiful soprano ally continues for a further de-was distinctly heard. Needless to cade.--Reuter.
say, her singing was very highly enjoyed.
LAND REGULATIONS.
to 13.
MEDIUM EXPOSED.
SPIRIT GIRL" WHOSE BRACES WERE VISIBLE.
Paris, June 19. There was a dramatic climax to
Nantes, which, it is stated, attract a series of spiritualist seances at
ed attention from as far as Austra-
la America, and Japan.
A journalist, seizing a supposed spirit girl, whom the mother was about to embrace, found it to be the
medium, Balise, who was supposed substantial body of the famous
MILITARY FUNERAL
Shanghai, Yesterday, The "Aloha Septette" by mem-served yesterday at the funeral of Full military honours were ob- According to a report from bers of the Portuguese Co. provid- Private Christopher Folty, of " In the meantime to be in a cabinet Nanking, the Ministry of the pleasing variety in their co- Company, 1st Batt. Queen's Royal in a trance. He declares that he saw Interior has circularised the Pro-tributions, playing and singing in Regiment, at the Roman Catholic Balise's braces underneath a trans- vincial and Civil Affairs Depart-typical Hawaiian style. ments instructing them to an-
The prom," was merely slightly Cemetery, Happy Valley. Deceased parent robe, before flashing his nounce and enforce the provision marred by a shower, which, luckily, succumbed in the Military Hospital, electric torch.
Bowen-road, yesterday morning, A scene followed, 20 persons at el regulations governing the lease assed away quickly.
after an attack of of land and buildings by foreign
double tacking the journalist, who escaped missionaries in the provinces;
pneumonia. He was 34 years of with bruises and torn clothes, also to enforce the interim regula-
age and leaves a sister in Canada. tions governing the relations be
Mr. R. M. Henderson, the Water Company which provided the The battalion, band attended as did twees China and Foreign Govern- Authority, Informed the Hon. Dr. firing party. The Rev. Pera Sotti ments after the termination of R. H. Kotowall, C.M.G., LL.D. existing treaties and pending the
Ponsonby, commanding officer, nt- conducted the service. Lt. Col. conclusion of new ones.
The provisional land regula tions promulgated are as fol lows:-
WATER RATIONING.
member of the Legislative Coun- c) and Mr. Li Yau-tsun (chairman of the Hong Kong Chinese General Chamber of Commerce), who called
tended.
on him yesterday,, that six more. During a Rugby match at Christ- Firstly, all foreign missionarier
street fountains will be erected church (N.Z.) recently Mr. J. who are pormifted by treaty agres shortly and that men of the Public Turpin dislocated his cervical ments to establish mission stations Works Department would be sent vetebrao. He was operated on and open hoitals and schools in out to ensure the full two hours at the public hospital and the interior of China may lease land supply through the rider mains. the vertebrac and construct dr rent building for
were successfully
mission purposes.
Secondly, when so doing they shal) that water be transported from The patient is doing well,
Mr. Li Yau-tsun's suggestion manipulated back into position.
in conjunction with the owner of the Wanchat and the mainland to the
property first renart the transactions central and western districts, As Addressing a public meeting at to the local authorities and obtain was done some thirty years ago, Wellington (NZ), Mr. Coates, the permission therefor.
Thirdly, when the aron of land to has to be referred to higher au Prime. Minister, declared that' be bo loased, or the number and size thorities. M
had no hesitation. In saying that
of the bulidinga to be rented, con Dr. Kotowall and Mr. Li made the outlook for New Zealand. was structed, or purchased, oxceeds the requirement of the mission the local the calf in response to a large bright and that the clouds were -authorities shall not be permitted to number of complaints by the Chin- dispersing. There was, he aald,
approve the transactions,
no room for pessimism.
ese against water rationing.
Leicester Corporation Electricity Department report a suplus of £41,000.
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