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AVIATION AND THE EMPIRE
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25,¤~1929:
again next year to relieve H.M. PANGEROUS SPEED AWARWICK
H.M:S. "Argus" is coming out:
"Hermes."
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IN KOWLOON
The Hon. B. D. F., Beith and Lient-Colonel and Mrs. Hayley Bell, with the Misses Hayley Bell-return- ed, here: today from Shanghai: by the P. & O. a.s. "Kalyan."
GIRL KNOCKED DOWN BY A MOTOR CYCLE
LIEUTENANT SUMMONED
COSS
LATEST SUCCESSES
HIGH NIGHTS" AT THE *GIHLATRE ROYAL
KEEN ENTHUSIASM
The preacher in St. Andrew's That it was rather an excessive The Warwick Revue Company Church, Kowloon, on Sunday morn-speed to travel at 30 miles an repeated their success in "High ing, will be the Rev. A. D..Stewart, hour f A public thorough- Lights" at the Theatre Royal last M.A., head master of St. Paul's fare like Latchikek Road was the evening. The audience was not a College, Hong Kong.
comment made by Mr., T.. S. are one, but it made up for num- Whyte-Smith at the Kowloonberg by keen enthusiasm. Amongst Rear Admiral H. J. Tweedle, C.B., Magistracy to-day, when Lieuteh those who attended last night was who has relinguished the Yangtszennt C. S. Howard, of the Somerset His Excellency the Officer adminis Command, arrived in the Colony Light Infantry, answered a sum-tering the Government with a party to-day on the P. & D. steamer mons issued by Inspector F. Hoare from Government House, "Kalyan" on his way to London. for driving a motor cycle 'In a All the artistes were in excellent
manner dangerous to the public. form and there Was An unemployed Chinese was at
not a dull What Inspector Saw the Kowloon. Magistracy to-day,
moment throughout. "The "Lilting Inspector Hoare said that on Litigation" was delightful and for fined $6, with the alternative of a September 27 he was on the veran- the first time we saw a lady counsel week in jail, for the theft of some dah of the Shamshulpo Police in "action" in Hong Kong, and after wood, worth 25 cente, from the Wan Station when he saw the defen- this we are Sheng Timber Yard, in Hunghom.
in favour of the ad- dant.go past on hia motor cycle mission of ladies to the Bar. at the rate of 45 miles an hour.
CASC.
IN CANTON
the Club
[From Our Own Correspondent.]"
Canton, Yesterday.
The six Chinese men arraigned on On reaching the junction of Kwei-i charges of robbery at 869, Canton-in Street where a motor bus had road, the Kwa KI Firewood shop, on just started to move, a Chinese October 7; mado another appearance girl came from the front of theThe Peep Show" Performance in before. Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith at bus and defendant knocked, her the Kowloon Magistracy this morn-down, her head, side and left leg. ing. His Worship fixed November being grazed. 22, 23 and 24 for the hearing of the
It appeared to witness that the defendant did not slow down at. all, as in his opinion, had he done The Warwick again scored a huge Charged with the unlawful pos- so he would have avoided the success on Tuesday night at the session of eight taela of raw opium girl. But even if he had swerved Canton Club when they gave "The at 94, Austin-road. Kowloon, aaway from the girl he would have Peep Show" to an enthusiastic au- Hakka, entered. a plea of guilty at knocked down some other pedes-dience. In fact the Company have the Kowloon Magistracy to-day trian, as there were always people been prevalled upon to and was fined $240 or, one month's walking on that particular part of again next Monday and Tuesday to hard labour In default, and the the road.
give further performances, so over- oplum ordered to be confiscated.
Cross-examined, witness said whelming has been their success. that the defendant must have been This has never happened before in Tam Law Sze, alias Lo Kwai-hing, travelling at about 30 miles Canton, where the number of resi alias Lo
Shing (or Sing)-yee, per hour.
Lieutenant Howard dents is not large enough to justify widow, late of No. 46, High-street, said that as he pulled level with any Company staying more than may one day ensue in the waters who died Intestate on May 8, 1929 the front of the 'bus mentioned two days, no matter how good they
at the age of 46, left $8,500 in the the Chinese girl crossed the road in have been. Colony. Letters of administration front of that vehicle. have been granted to her elder son, travelling at 30 miles per hour, the hit of the evening with an old- Miss Enid Nicobon again made Tam. In-fung, Chinese medicine Owing to the fact that the 'bus fashioned English song, whlek she hid his view on the left hand side sang with, much freshness and the of the pavement he could not see simplicity that is
between the Singapore Naval Base and the Pacific Islands
dealer, of. IA, Hail Side-terrace.
He was
come up
Ao often
the
We earnestly hope that such a disaster may never come to be, but, should our naval and mill Six months hard labour was the girl, until he had knocked. her height of artistry. So enthusiastic tury seera be, right, we should passed by Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith at down. He turned back to see if and insistent were the audience that on the Chinese who was remanded perfectly all right, until he touch-
perhaps look back with gratitude the Kowloon Magistracy to-day she was hurt. She seemed to be she was forced to give two encores
scream.
to the day when pioneers like on a charge of larceny of an ironed her and then she started to Sir Alan Cobham at Home, and fresh-water pump and a brass cap. Captain Vaughan Fowler in the valued at $28.50, from the Jardine, Far East, strove to enthuse the on Oct. 21.
Matheson & Co.'s 0.8. "Yatshing," British public to take a personal interest in aviation.
THE TALKIES
and then only was allowed to go off the stage because the audience did
not wish to ask too much of her. 30"A Tale of Montmartre which was Another outstanding success was a sort of apache dance by Miss Barbara Weale and Guy Lathom. The feeling and tenseness they put
"Cut It Down" Defendant admitted that miles an hour was rather fast for that road, and laughingly remark Keeping the first floor of 292; ed that he would have to "cut it Shanghai-street, as a sly house, led down." On most occasions, оп to, a Chinese woman being fined at entering and leaving the camp, he
was used to travelling at even
spell-bound, and the technique was very satisfying.
into this dance held the audience
the Kowloon Maglatracy, to-day, $50, with the alternative of one more than 40 miles an hour. month's hard labour. As order was give him credit for being a very splendidly and received much well- - Inspector Hoare: I certainly querade" and "Columbine's Garden" Robert Poole aang "The Mas Most people in Hong Kong visit carry out the restoration of the
made that the contractor should, the local cinemas at least occa-house.
deserved applause. sionally, if not frequently. Many
good driver.
The next question was the com- pensation 23 thegirl's parents many ways is Rex Burchell whose The Hfe and soul of the show in claimed that they had to pay $10
are enthusiastic film "fans," to Tse Chun-sing, contractor, late of
as doctor's fee; but that his Wor-personality, humorous and inconse use a popular Americaniam, and $6,700 in Hong Kong. He died not be even more than five dollarsting an undertone of cheeriness and 4, Triangle-street, Wanchai, left ship held was not true. It could quential, dominates everything, giv look forward with eagerness to intestate in the Hoiping district, the appearance of their favourite Kwangtung, or February 18, 1929. would meet the
Inspector Hoare considered that laughter. Gladys Volle and Selwyn "star." How the invasion of the renounced all right and title, letters ing down, of children who ran in audience in fits of laughter with Driver are his staunch lieutenants His widow, Tae Kwan Shi, having Worship answered that this knock- and the three of them kept their
CAB but his talkie into the sacred precincts of of administration have now been front of a motor vehicle would get their quips and clever burlesquing. the silent drama is going to affect granted to the elder son, Tse Pak-very common. He held that 35 was have reminded many of the audience them is more than we care to ping.
Such an entertaining Company must even too much for compensation predict.
but, nevertheless, he fined-defend. of the shows they-saw when last on Taking the law into his own ant $10, with $5 as compensation There is reason whatsoever hands, a tall Chinese street coolle for the girl..
Home-leave.. why it should not be as enter-was at the Kowloon Magistracy this Mr. Graham White and the taining as the silent film, if not morning, cautioned by Mr. T. S. marked that the road was a very Traffle Inspector MacWalter re early aeronautical pioneers chang-more
To hear Bonald Whyte-Smith for hitting a young busy one, and even to travel at 26 ed British history when they Coleman or Norma Shearer de- It was stated that the lad was gerous.
Chinese apprentice in Kansu-street. miles an hour would still be dan- constructed vehicles that were claim their passion in voice as carrying a pole on his shoulder and said, the Chinese boys and girls But, as Lieut. Howard had independent of boundaries. The well as facial expression should accidently struck the defendant in had a bad habit of crossing in front power of Great Britain's Insular- indeed be a pleasure.
the left eye. A rumpus started fof or behind a 'bus. ity waned from that day, andOn the other hand, we cannot Yaumati Police Station.
which was Anally quelled at the
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TRESPASSERS ON RIFLE RANGE CHINESE WHO PICK UP SPENT BULLETS
CHINESE ACTOR
MEI LAN-FANG GOING TO AMERICA
TO VISIT HOLLYWOOD
Mei Lam-fang, famous Chinese actor and impersonator of feminine
ber, he told a few members of the roles, will open in New York in a repertoire of plays in mid-Decem-
B.S.
tion of equality with other talkie will replace the drama.
The Police have received a report nations or building against those However excellent is the repro- Leung Hong, salesman of a Chinese of alleged false pretences from which appeared most aggressive. duction of the movietone, It re-shop in New Market Street. Ac- Great Britain, like any other maina a mechanical apparatus, cording to Leung, a man, who gave nation, has no protection against and brings us little near to the the name of Ho Yeung visited the
"Malolo" round-the-Pacific aerial attack other than counter flesh than did the soundless pic-ting of blue of, worth $101.44, by shop on Oct. 18, and obtained 20
crulde party whom he entertained air attacks and anti-aircraft gun ture.
during their visit in Peking." tem barrages:
: representing that he had been sent A Hakka lad, 18 years old, appeared: San Francisco the last week ́ ́in Mr. Mel sald he would sail for One fear has been expressed by a customer of the shop. Later it at the Kowloon. Magistracy this morn- November with a troupe of 23 and ing charged with trespassing on the that if successful on Broadway he never ordered the oil.
CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE
She is alive, however, to the that the actors will "announce" was discovered that the customer Military Rifle range, near Talpo Road,planned a tour of Europe. Includ-
have gathered the theme from their actions and expressions.
mer-
tremendous part that the aero- their emotions long after we
at the Somerset Light Infantry's Bar- plane is going to play in the
Mr. Harry Owen Hughes,
fracks at Shamshulpo,
ed in his company will be Liu future of the world's history,
chant, of Messrs. Harry Wicking &ing brief on behalf of the regiment: rallway department of the Chiness Capt R. N. Thicknesse held a watch-Ching-san, former director of the both commercially and in mill- One immensurable advantage Frances Isabel Oakley, of 367, the ing, sald that defendant was arrested George Kin Leung, publieity direc Co., is to be married shortly to Miss Lance Sergeant. Rogers prosecut- Ministry of Communications, and tary defence.
of its introduction to Hong Kong, Pean, Mr. Owen Hughes is an by Sergeant Harbour, of the Bakal fore Great Britain has greater need however, is that it will enable Interport cricketer, an all-round car the ride range, picking up bullets perhaps of an efficient air fleet local audiences to hear actors of sportaman, and he holds a Commia which had been fired by the troops;
While in Hollywood, on his way than any other Power, since her international repute, and that, Defence Corps. His father, the done to the range by several other contract is fulfilled.
Hard To Catch
east; Mr. Mai expects to take a sion in the Hong Kong. Volunteer Dominions are scattered over al: we cannot but deny, has never. Hon, Mr. J. Owen Hughes (who re little Chinese boys, and they were very The "Malolo" party were guests There had been considerable damage may make a film when his stage screen test with the hope that he the corners of the earth. By air been realised in our Colony, presents the Hong Kong General hard to catch as they always had; and communication she not
with the of the
strengthens the the only We look forward to the "birth Chamber of Commerce on the Legis: have, another, toy who keeps a watch.at a special performance given by : peoples of her Dóminions, but expose the mean and son have taken keen interest in
NEWS IN BRIEF
with curiosity, and lative Council) has been away on out for any soldier, or policeman, and Mr. Mal during their stay in and,"
leave for some months. Both father consequently they always got away, Peking. He enacted the feminine provides the assurance that, in time, congratulate the Hong the local St. David's Society. His Worship warned the boy to tell King's Parting with his Favorite."
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Central British School, has had two the Court hours and be forged. + P her own.
of his drawings published in the Taking into consideration the fact Overseas Book of the Royal Draw that the Jad. had, had a night in, the Australia to-day occupies a
Ing Society, London. The drawing cells his Worship cautioned him vastly important position in the
McNeill is salling on the examination was held in Jane_this & 0.8.e. "Kashgar for Shanghai year, and Miller took Division. 3, world's economic geography, for where he intends spending a few passing with honours Thirteen this world to which we must shut Pa: "There are many things fa she is a country fertile, unhabit-mouthe going on to America drawings have been chosen by the our eyes." GAN
8ciety's directors from all parts of Tommy: "Yes, ps, and soap is one be used at the British Empire:
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