THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1930.
FERILS OF RIKISHA ROUND THE CINEMAS
TRAFFIC.
GROWING DANGER IN, SHANGHAI.
A CHINESE VIEW.
Ronald Colman in "Condemned."
FILM OF MANY THRILLS.
Michel
Mndane Vidal
Jacques Pierre the-s
Hong Kong, apparently, is not dul alone its in rikisha traffic problem: "A Chinese" writing to Sunday Times, says:-
Vidal's Orderly
Ronald Colman,
Ann Harding.
Tulley Digger.
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leave of 5161 rikishas, the licences inhumanity to man" makes count./beer drinking and less bread eating. "Big City," 5.15 and 9.20 p.m.; before 8th the admitted after the
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All broken, chafed, and damageð Home Mails.
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Social Function. The physical napects of rationa- To-morrow Tea and Dinner Louis Wolheimisation were discussed by Dr. C. Dances at Peninsula Hotel, 5 and William Elmer. Deliale Barns at a conference Albert Kingsley.
of 3.80 p.m..respectively. ..WEllam Vaughn. works directors, managers, fore- Of the 49 talkies hitherto pro-men, and forewomen, held at Balliol It is said in the Shunpao that af certain merchant named Chenfduced at the Queen's Theatre none College, Oxford,
He predicted that there would be Lee-ming, has recently sent an apis ac full of thrills, suspense and
Con decrease in heavy labour, and the peal to the National Ministry of pulsating sensations as
True is it that "can's disappearance of the navyy; loss Foreign Affairs, requesting the re-demned."
but the People would not be so sleepy, slow. of which were withdrawn by the less thousands mourn,”
wrote that knew no-worn-out, and exhausted, With the International Municipal Council in hard who 1924, and now, for the relief of thing of the appalling horrors of removal of a great deal of muscular thousands of famine sufferers Devil's Island, the French penal work there would be a greater place only one in industry for women. In America that the Chinese officials of the settlement from which
already occur- Ministry propose to the Inter-authentic case of escape has ever rationalisation had
That would 8. national Municipal Council author- een recorded. Only on such an red in the kitchen.
island can "man's income to Britain, decreasing the ities to restore the number of outcast rikishas to 15,161 as formerly. humanity to man" be pictured in inbour of women in household and The Ministry of Foreign Affairs grim reality. Not only is it a livincreasing their opportunities for and Europe via Siberia (Empress 14th inst. at 10 am. by our surveyors has ordered Mr. S. K. Chen, the ing grave-it is an incarnation of intellectual activities,
"A young Durham miner," said To-morrow-Inward from Europe Chief of Staff of Foreign Affairs all the revolting fron discipline
bestial cruelly toward Dr. Burns, "told me that if a young via Suez (Khiva), from U.S.A. and led by in Shanghai, to bring up the mat-and
varying degrees of man of twenty-five or thirty want-ports (President Jackson). ter before the Municipal authority men
criminality.. The producer of to get married he found that the for an immediate settlement.
Simultaneously the Minister of "Condemned" has done, more than girls would consent only on condi- Industry and Commercial and produce what in film phraseology tion that they had no cooking to do Duddell Street, household furni-
term "colour" he has in-for the night shift (as there were ture, 2.30 p.m. Labour has also sent a special de-fis puty to Shanghai in connertion vested the picture with an atmos-Thermos fusks), and that they had phere calculated to shake civilian-two evenings in the week for them. with the matter,
tion to its foundation and clamour selves. The young miner put this Disadvantages.
for the total abolition of such down to the education of the ele Upon reading the above news, places as Devil's Island no mat-mentary school. I would like the public and the ter whose flag flies
over them. authorities carefully to think over Let criminals be punished by all the proposition of increasing fur-means as they sow so must the thermore the number of rikishas reap-but there ought to be a in Shanghai. Should the Mini-sulf between discipline and cipal Authority favour the pro-brutality for Drutality's sake, position and give back the heldi It is not easy to dismiss the licences of some 5,000. rikishas, grim scenes in "Condemned" as
of
Mechanised Homes.
"A third thing which he said the girls demanded
was that there should be no ornaments on the man- telpiece." (Laughter.) Rationa- lisation meant the mechanisation of domestic lie. We should have 1
rough, heavy, sleeping type; a type,
of Canada).
.
Lammerts' Auction To-morrow-At Sales Room,
RECEPTION ON THE ARRIVAL Meetings, To-day-Society for the Pre- OF H.E. SIR WM. PEEL, K.B.E. vention of Cruelty to Animals,
OFFICIAL WELCOME AND Mesurs. Jardine's Board Room, 5.15 p.m.
| PREȘENTATION OF ADDRESS. annual May 16-Forty-ninth
of meeting
Canton Insurance Office. Ltd., Messrs. Jardine's Office, noon.
May 30-Union Insurance Society China Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., 11.15 am of Canton, Ltd., 11 a.m.;
British Traders' Insurance Co.,
Miscellaneous.
that might produce the worst dis-only a picture." One only march finer type of man and woman Ltd., 11.20 a.m. respectively.
among manual workers, less of the advantages to traffic. Shanghai,vels at the ease with which the since 1924 has had increased num-netors and the chief actress enter hers of motor cars, buses, cargo into the spirit of the film. They trucks, trolleys and many other all combine to make a triumph modern vehicles, and all of thesent their respective parts. Ronald trung, but much more amenable to william Peel. would give no room for the Colman,
it may be expected, is reason because more alert.
ger.
To-morrow-Union Church An- therefore, much more difficult to nual Spring Jumble Sale, 2.30 p.m. govern because much more highly
To-morrow Arrival of H.E. Sir
"We want
RADIO
May 10-St. Paul's Institution Dr. Burns said that to be bene-Blessing of New Chapel, 3.30 p.m. rikishas to move freely on the singled out not because of the ronds. In the busiest parts of prominence given to him by theficial rationalisation depended on the town rikishas often stop the producers in preliminary articles.aving a new sort of man and wo trafile and put the riders in dan-but because his is a long and try man in management.
ing ordeal even for a film artiste. not a heavy, slow-witted, kindly old Recent Rikisha Tragedies. Ann Harding, who comes from the gentleman who drinks beer and eats Two prominent instances lately legitimate stage to the talkies. a lot of bread and works it off in in- happened in, the Settlement in-wins the sympathy of all-anddustry, but a more alert, agile per- volving two famous personals: that, of course, implies that none son willing to make changes."
her role with one was an educationalist and the other could fulfil other was a doctor. Both of them an equal measure of success. But were killed on the rikishas when honours must go to Dudley Digges. the drivers wrongly made their whose acting invested the film way in front of motor cars. In with a sense of reality it could looking at the present condition not otherwise passeks. of the traffic in Shanghai, it evid-
than a ently tells us that even the 10,000 fine talkie-it is a triumph for all working rikishas seemed not to concerned in any way, large or have enough work to do for one small, with its production. can see rikishas parking at the
"Condemned" is more
sideways of every street waiting CAMBAE MOSQUITO. for engagement, and we know that the earning of these rikisha coolies are very poor and limited.
TRAFFIC IN BOYS.
Eats All Other Mosquitoes.
"Old Bills" Out of Place, Another speaker, Major L.
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
INFORMATION has now been
that H. E. Sir WM. PEEL, K.B.E., will arrive in this Colony, on instead of Thursday morning, the FRIDAY morning, the 9th instant.
Sth instant, as previously intimat- ed.
The arrangements and times ns previously published for the 8th instant will stand for the. 5th Instant, the day only being changed.
ARRIVAL OF HE. SIR WILLIAM PEEL.
N H.D. SIR WILLIAM PEEL
leaving Queen's Fier he will, accompanied by H.E. The Officer Administering the Government and party, proceed in motor care in a Westerly direction down Connaught Road Central and. Connaught Road Weat. At Shek Tong Tsui he will turn up Hill Road and thence by Queen's Road West and Queen's Road Central- to the City Hall, where the public. address will be presented.
Urwick, dealing with employers, said the attitude of Old Bill, the im perturbable old soldier of Bairns- father's war-time cartoons, in ad The following programme will be far as it represented a refusal to be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong rattled, was a priceless value, but Broadcasting Station 2.B.W. en 366 part of it was lack of imagina-metres
6-6.30 p.m-Children's tion and part 2 profound dis- like of change. There might 6.30-8 p.m. Programme have
H.M.V. & Victor Records by Bill" would never have taken the courtesy of Messrs. Moutrie & RECEPTION ON THE ARRIVAL
Company:-
OF ME. SIR WILLIAM PEEL, action necessary to find it unless he Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna"
K.R.E. (Suppe),
I
been but it was clear
"better
that
had been blown into it.
'ole." "Old
Action was urgently necessary in British industry. For ten years
gramme.
It is hoped that occupiers of Pro-premises adjoining the route taken, will make a suitable die- of play of flags and bunting.
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Professor Robert Heger.
we had had over a million unemploy- "Don Carlos-0 Den Fatale (Oh, fed and to-day were threatened with Fatal Gift)" (Verdi),.
+
OFFICIAL WELCOME AND PRESENTATION OF ADDRESS.
It is hoped that as many resi- dents of the Colony as possible will attend this Public Meeting at the Theatre Royal, and thus give a practical demonstration of
new Governor.· ̈
If this is the case, an increase in rikishas would probably kill their living; so the Shanghai Rikisha [Extract from the minutes of a Union Labour Association sees meeting of the Pan-Pacific Science this, and has advertised in to- Council in Honolulu, O. H. Swezey, day's Sinwanpao declarations entomologist, speaking.]
two millions.. This barrage of "La Favorita Mie Fernando (Oh, at the City Hall on FRIDAY, T A PUBLIC MEETING held against the Municipal Authority "This mosquito story has refer misfortune was partly inevitably the Dearest Ferdinand) (Donizett).
Sigrid Onegin, Contralto the 4th April, it was decided to to accept the said proposition of ence to the fact that we are at-result of circumstances outside our
- with Orchestra. giving back the held-bark licences tempting at present the introduc- control, but it was not enough, to "Sweetheart" (Stroast),
present H.E. Sir WILLIAM PEEL,! of 6161 rikishas in due course, tion of a new mosquito to the make the best of the situation as it "Gipsy Love" (Lebar),
K.B.E; with an Address of WEL Unsuitable Coolies.
Hawalian Islands. This particular was. British industry, Judging by
International Concert COME on his arrival'in this!
Orchestra.
Colony, which will be during the was led and Furthermore, these famine mosquito has a peculiar habit of its public utterances,
"Night Winds" (Oscar Levant), sufferers mentioned by the pro-
eating other mosquitoes.
staffed by "Old Bills."
| morning of the 9th May next. "Until Love Comes Along" "There have been known in dif- "Take the great employers' or poser in his statement.
(Oscar Levant),
At the same Public Meeting it are the rural folks of Kiangpeh who are toes with this habit but not a great politicians who are supposed to be ferent parts of the world monqul-ganisations, the bankers, and the
Bebe Daniels, Soprano was decided that the whole of the
with Orchestra.
Theatre Royal should be thrown mostly ignorant and inexperi- deal has been known about them dealing with these industrial ques: Valse Tristo" (Sibelius),
"A Keltic Lament" (Foulds),
open to the public without charge enced with the driving work.
Isn't it true that the whole.
Victor Olof Sextet. Save only that the stage be re Once they are put on the job of nor much study given to them. A tions.
few months ago when Mr. Muir] burden of their argument is to leave
Instrumental Sextet. served for the Reception Com- dragging rikishas, especially on
Diallazzurro mittee, Members of the Executive 'If you know a better "Andreachenler - Un the tracks of Shanghai, we really was here he stated to one of the well alone?
the Azure and Legislative Councils, Repre don't know what a confusion will prominent men in the Planters As-ele go to it-that is the universal Spazio (Once -O'er
Fielda)" (Giordano), be caused to the traffic, and the sociation that something might be motif of their song."
"La Fanciulladel West-Ch'alla. Mi sentatives of the Navy, Army and result must be serious to their own entomologists' travelling abroad in
done with the experiment station No "Hush Hush" Engines,
Creda Libero (The Girl of the Air Forces and the Heads of Golden West Let Her Bekuove)" Public Departments, the first two lives as well as the riders'.
various parts of the world to give |
Sir Henry Fowler, chief mechani
(Pacelni),
rows of the stalls for the Con- Armand Tokatyan, Tenor
sular Body and their wives ánd some attention to finding name of cal engineer of the LM.S. Railway
with Orchestra.
the We have three Company, urged the breaking down Ballad No. 3" (Chopin),
representatives of the mosquitoes.
the well known mosquitoes here and of jealousy between firm and firm.
Benno Molselvitch: Churches, also the first two rows every one of them is a nuisance. Dr. Northcott, the chairman, ob-
Pianoforte Solo.
of the dress circle for. ladies. Produced before Mr. T. S. Whyte- So Mr. Pemberton, one of the en-serving that he thought the confer-Peer Gynt" (Grieg),
Royal Opera Orchestra,, Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy tomologists at the HS.P.A. experience was in sympathy with Sir
Covent Garden. Guest this morning on charges of kid- ment station, working on other pro Henry's point of view, asked, "But
Conductor-Engene papping and harbouring two Chin-jects at New Guiries, found one why do the L.M.S. and L.N.E.R.
Goessens. ese boys, of 1162, Canton Road, a of these so-called carnivorong mos- make us hush hush' engines?" Chinese named Cheung Fuk was re-quitoes, whose larvae, living in "The engines,” replied Sir Henry, manded for 48 hours, in Police water holes where other mosqui- "are neither of them hush hush. toes breed and produce their wrig That term applies simply to the way Sub.-Insp. Chester-Woods intim-glera, feed upon the others and in in which the exaust come out of the ated that the prosecution are on that way helps to reduce the num-chhaney. (Laughter.) Mr. Greeley "Love Lies"-Solection,
this committee was submitted to the the track of two others Implicated her of the detrimental mosquito.(chief mechanical engineer of the "Five O'Clock Girl Selection,
Now Mayfair Orchestra. Department of Public Prosecution in the case.
"Whereas this mosquito has a L.N.E.R.) showed me the whole of "Meditation From "Thais" " The two boys are still missing,
the off- to study whether (Massenet Crawford), bill in proportion to the size his drawings and I did the same In another case. It was intimated of the animal, it doesn't use it with mine:”
"Souvenir" (Drdla-Crawford),
clal's action justified the situation. Jesse Crawford, Wurlizer The department's final report was by Det. Sergt. Meadows that the to bite people or sack blood. It'
Organ. defendant Ta woman) had been normally feeds upon fruit juices.
that no responsibility could be taken 8-10.30 p.m. Chinese
Pro- taken ill at the G.C.II. aince her So. Mr. Pemberton, having found
by Phra Rajayati who was acting in
arrest.
this mosquito, made some observa- stock to carry on the breeding and
the course of his duty, A remand till Monday was actions and took advantage of an op- get this large mosquito established cordingly granted.
portunity to send up a few of the here. Possibly it will be factor The woman is charged with kid- larvap by a tramp steamer, from in helping to check the mosquitoos. napping a Chinese boy, (8) from New Britain island where he was The fact that we were able to take 248, Tai Nam Street, on April 80, located New Britain Island is off care, of these mosquitoes is due to to the northeast from New Guinea the mosquito research work of the
rounding up the suspicious charac tern following the expected. The question of air races, how- and really a part of the territory Pan-Pacific Research Institution
affray, a man intervened so ever, was discussed by the Socfaty of New Guinea. Recent geo- with Mr. Weinrich and Mr. Au's as-
as to prevent the authori- of British Aircraft Constructors, graphic changes have resulted in sistance supplying us with the
Based upon the finding of the ties from making arrests. The among whom the general feeling New Guinea becoming considered mosquito wrigglers of the com was in favour of a race on a for- as a territory Including one other mon variety to feed these others Department of Public Prosecution, Governor approached the group to mula drawn up with a view to alisland besides the great island. They are thrlying. Just yes the Minister of Interior, Bangkok, enquire what the matter was where- cidating certain qualities of thego last Saturday this tramp terday one of the mosquito wrig issued an order walving all respon upon the person mentioned draw out arcraft. The Royal Aero Club has steamor docked and we secured the glors arrived at the puberty stage ibilities against Phra Rajayati a firearm. Phra Rajayati, it ap- decided to run such a contest con- mosquitoes. We had very little and matured, so we have one adult Raksha, governor of Changvad peared, was quicker on the draw, and currently with the King's Cup Air Idea of what shape they would be mosquito. It is a very small be, Samud Songgram, in shooting to shot the man dead. It was later Race, instead of the usual handi- in but what turned out to be about ginning and Mr. Pemberton advis death recently, a non-commissioned discovered that the man who was ehot was a non-commissioned police. cap based on reputed performance | 19 larvae arrived Alive""Endwered us it was a trial shipment and officer at a wat fair. and this is in accordance with the have those now trying to induce that he would send others later on A special committee was appoints officer of the neighbouring district. desires of manufacturers and do them to eat enough to become ma-if he is able to secure them."-Paued to make an Inquiry into the In He came to the fair in plain clothes.
ture. From them we can get a Pacific Union Bulletin
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