TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1930.
COMPLEXITY OF THE, TOO MUCH SAID
FAMINE PROBLEM.
Impossible for America to Help China..
STARTLING FACTS.
ABOUT DEATH.
Sir Oliver Lodge's Birthday Talk,
THE CHINA MAIL.
A MURDER IN A
CHURCH.
Clergyman Killed by
NEW
SHADOWS BEFORE ADVERTISEMENTS.
Wife's Former Husband. COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED
JEALOUSY AND REVENGE.
Niagara Falls (U.S.A.), June 28.
A Minister was
church to-day by his wife's former shot dead in husband.
Sir Oliver Lodge, the famous scientist and apiritualist. was 79 years old on June 12. He was born at Penkhull, Staffordshire, and is now living at Lake, near Salisbury. Some startling facts and figures "I am no longer interested in birth- concerning China's complex fumine days," he said. "I am going up to problem were quoted by Mr. Ernest London, though, to give a talk over P. Bicknell, who presided at the the wireless, but apart from that 1 annual convention of the American think the day will be quite un- National Red Cross in, Washington eventful."
ed. recently.
Yet in his long life there have Mr. Bicknell stated that, in the been few uneventful days, for no spring of 1999; in compliance with one has delved more than he has the wishes of President Hoover, into the mysteries of life, both -the-Rett-Cross-sent-a ̈Commission from the scientific and spiritual
to China to obtain the actual facts point of view. of the situation.
After months. of investigation, the Commission reported and might be summarised briefly thus:-
China's poverty is so widespread and intense that it has been estimated by students of the pro- blem that 30,000,000 Chinese are always striving to live on A smaller amount of food than the minimum considered by scientists
's necessary to sustain life.
Sir Oliver said:
IN CHINA MAIL.
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To-day- Star Theatre,
The wife was shot at and wound-Tho Life of a Tuchun," (Chinese Today World Theatre,
pleture). known local'evangelist, was lead-Take Me Home."
The Roy, Edgar Wood,, a well-
To-day — Majestic Theatre; ing the congregation in prayer at the Pentecostal Mission-Church."Love Paradie."
To-day Central Theatre In the body of the church sat
Sports his wife, Mildred. Until her re cent divorce ale had been the wife
See Special Sports Diary on paga Frank Ross, a local business man..
Meeting, August 15Kowloon .C.C. extra ordinary meeting, 5.30 pm.
We are only at the beginning of things and hardly civilised yet. It is an intensely interesting period,
Far. down at the end of the and sometimes I wish I were young crowded church Frank Ross, hi enough to take a full and vigorous self sat in a pew, listening to the, part, instead of only admiring what rervice. other people are doing.
dead.
Then Ross turned the revolver towards Airs. Wond.
9.
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of New York,
F. McD. COURTNEY,
Manager.
August 12, 1930,
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of
appeal, and the combination O'Brien, Grey and Mias Carol is Cinema-goers will remember a happy one. It provides a dis- that the first picture to be shown tinet, trent in the first real "West- at the Central Theatre was the ern" to be transferred to the "Love Parade”—a talkie that was audible screen..
The minister was just finishing ROUND THE CINEMAS where and accept any Position. Young at 70.
prayer when Ross rose to his We talk too much about death feet, drew a revolver, and opened and the grave. I am absolutely fre, convinced that human existence is
One hullet struck the minister in not limited to the material body the heart. He dropped to the floor In normal time, some 30,000,000 and does not cease with the death Chinese die annually from starva- of the brain. We make too much tion. With a vast population thus of the brain. It is the mind, and living at the very edge of existence, not the brain, that designs and it is inevitable that any serious plans. disturbance of the routine of life! I know by direct experience that must intensify the suffering. The those whom we call derd are not causes of the famine then in dead, but have just been separated existence (ie. in 1929) were many from their bodily mechanism. and complex. Chiefly, they were have been in touch with the minds the results of the political disorder of certain people who have parted which had existed in China for a from their bollies and yet have number of years.
preserved their memories, charac-
I
Sir Oliver remarked that a spirit
She was struck near the heart and fell, seriously injured. who has not yet been identified.
Another bullet injured a man
the talk of the town, but unfor- Few pictures ever made, allant. "Men sitting near Ross rushed to tunately it was not shown longer all talking, ever presented his way through them, brandishing have a chance of seeing it. grapple with him, but he forced enough to enable every one to many more thrills, so much spec- his revolver, and escaped from the
tacular, action and entrancing a church amid the screams of women. Parade" will be shown again at the stirring adventures of the By popular request, "The Love romance. The story deals with
Police have set out to hunt the all performances to-day. It will daring Texas Rangers in the days murderer.
positively be the last screening of when the West was wild and The tragedy of this human this superb production in Hong woolly A delightful love story triangle is heightened by the fact Kong, and those who have not threads its way through the un- that the .inister and the woman, seen the picture would do well to folding of the plot and the climax though long married, had already make a point of seeing it. is simply immense. become estranged.
POISONLESS GAS.
GERMAN CHEMICAL EXPERT'S ANNOUNCEMENT.
Maurice Chevalier, as the ir The title role was made for repressible lover, is seen at the O'Brien and he gives one of the peak of his form in a role and best performances of his career, musical romance that has a dis-which is saying a great deaf when tinet appeal to even the hardest one recalls his various successes. Supporting the principals are critic.
What he does in "The Love several prominent actors, notably Parade" has already proved a Walter McGrail, Warren Hymer what he does to the women movie. Erickson's direction is sure and super-panic on Broadway-and und Elizabeth Patterson. A. F.
goers is nobody's business. It is finished.
Civil war has prevailed inter-tera, and affections. mittently in many sections of the country. Independent armies, led communication with his son Ray- by ambitious warlords, have lived mond, who was killed in the War, upon the territory through which was the means of finding a lost they marched, or in which they will. eamyed.
People ought to live at least 100 Bandits' Depredations,
years. The old Psalmist has done Bandits, numbering hundreds of a lot of harm by talking about thousands, take advantage of the three score years and ten, In absence of law and order and those days there was no sanitation, ravage the countryside with ruth- but with the improvements of medi. less cruelty. These bodies of law. cine, sanitation, and the more less, men have seized the food sup-wholesome habits of life, we ought plies in large sections of the to be quite young at seventy. country, have taken the . farm Sir Oliver suggested as one of animals, and robbed the peasantry the means of prolonging life that danger to human life-coal gas pola dashing, singing, smiling, in-
all the merely mechanical things ought to be done by machinery, but for any artistic or thoughtful work human hands alone
are suitable. BRITISH POLICY.
of everything valuable which could be carried away. This has prevent ed farmers from planting their harvests.
In the past two or three years,
in certain of the sections thus ravaged by armies and bandita, a
lack of rainfall has added to the APPEAL TO SETTLERS IN EAST
woes of the farmers. Thus, nature!
and man have combined to force these, poverty stricken people inte
a condition of famine, and the
AFRICA.
Is the world to be shortly freed from the most common source of
sening
Dr. Bertelsmann, the chemical expert of the Berlin gas-works, de- clared in a lecture at the World Power Conference in Berlin recent
first entices, then enthralls, then fectiously captivating role that enraptures every beholder.
"MISS ISHBEL."
supporting cast. A girl with "It" LUCKY ESCAPE WHILE BOATING
Jeanette MacDonald heads the ly that at the experimental gas ins-in her voice and in her demeanour. Litute, nt Gossen, near Berlin, She possesses much of the same
IN SCOTLAND. elimination of the dangerous car freshing viewpoint that is mier's daughter, had an alarming process had been perfected for the magnetic personality and gay, re Miss Ishbel MacDonald, the Pre- hon elements from ordinary 835 Chevalier's. fuel without deteriorating its heat choice could have been made for Lossiemouth.
No more fitting experience during her brief stay at Nairobi, July 11.
ing qualities or making it more ex-the leading woman for the great death rate from starvation in such An appeal to Kenya settlers to pensive.
While boating with her father sections has been largely increas-posed deputation to London to give near future it would be possible to the handsome Maurice lays his merged tree root and threw Miss French star. No. feminine heart and several friends on Spynia Loch, provide funds to finance the pro-
It was haped, he said, that in the in the audience, will rebel when near Elgin, the boat struck a sub- It is, however, difficult to dis-evidence before the Joint Parlia-introduce the new poisonless gas heart at the well-shot feet of the Ishbel overboard. cover the line which distinguishes African question has been launched
mentary 'Committee on the East into Germany. famine conditions from the general by the East African Standard.
fair Jeanette in "The Love Parade."
Fortunately the mishap occurred poverty of the people, since famine Lord Delamere, in a letter to the
the director, Ernst Lubitsch. and she suffered no ill-effects from The crafty master-strokes of Ishbel was helped back to the boat at a shallow part of the loch. Miss the general poverty in certain paper to-day, in support of the ap
Here is a film that has the subtle her immersion. areas. This fact largely explains Kenya elected members towards the peal, outlines the attitude of the the great discrepancies in guesses White Paper. a8 to the number of famine j sufferers.
Lord Delamere, who is chairman
ed.
causes simply an intensification of
It is necessary to bear in mind of the elected members organisa
the fact that all estimates
are
tion, declares that the proposals
-
First of all, however, certain would obviate any alteration in the justmente had to be made which
design of the millions of gas stoves and meters.
ty, the volatile, aliveness that can that she was standing up when the Miss Ishbel said come from none but a genius boat struck. at picture-supervision. Lubitsch
IN THE SERPENTINE.
here sets a mark for many who "The mishap might have happened "It was nothing," she stated. Before the echoes of Mr. Lans-will try to imitate him.7
to anybody on holiday. I didn't
am none the worse."
hold out no prospect of the associa bury's promise have died away The whole tone of the picture is think anything of it at all, and guess work. Through this period tion of settlers In the government German and the Swiss call the po-duction blended with inspired sim- London has its Strandbab, and the one of majestic lavishness of pro- of suffering, the people of the of the country until the natives, leased from the payments of taxes.ble to participate on an equal basis, fted the shores or their lakes for sequence. The songs fit neatly famine districts have not been re-who were savages 30 years ago, are puler institutions, which have dot plicity and directness of aetion! The tax collectors have been busy He does not believe that such a state years. Let us recognite the efforts into the scheme, the plot unravels LAW SUIT OVER GRANITE forcing the wretched and starving of affairs could over come about.
of our forebears, who made pos without a pause or an over-hasty people to pay exorbitant tribute, which is often collected for several
He believe that the essential artsible what is being done to-day in leap, the characters are natural, of ruling
the comedy is free-flowing and bred in the inherent Hyde Park. years in advance. '
characteristics of a people, and it is
Most people imagine that bath-robustious, the satire is spicy; the Abundance in Manchuria.
has existed, large harvests of grain
SUPPLY.
Fairly large supplies of granite to an Indian contractor named
In Manchuria, where no famine gift that cannot wholly be hand-ing in the Serpentine has, hitherto dialogue razy, yet not maudlin-P. Suppiah formed the subject of
ed on by teaching an example. been a pastime only indulged in by the picture, in sum, is an amazing annually have been produced and trusteeship" In connection with Swimming Club In the early morn-marks a high point of achievement fore the Chief Justice (Sir He suggests that the word the members of the Serpentine piece of entertainment, one that an action in the Supreme Court be- should have provided ample food East African policy: has become ing, and by a few poor children in in the New Show World. for the famine regions. Because
(You remom- smeared with the oil of unctuous and the late afternoon. of the inadequate railroads (in all unpractical rectitade, under which ber the enthusiastic old Indy who China there are only 7,000 miles it ordinary meaning has been lost sold, after a walk she had token and those chiefly near the coast) near the coast) and the seizing of standing on well-tried Empire, prin- that so great was the number of
The Koyna settlers, he says, are
by the watersido: one het evening, existing roads and their engines ciples; the vary first of which is children the share was black with and cars by the military leaders that we are a governing people."
their-little-pink bodies.") for the use of their armies, it has
In place of the word "pare
The truth is that eighty years
Wallam Murison), the plaintif being a Chinese building contractor. “SOUTH SEA ROSE."
and granite supplier named Goh Teck Lec
displays her exotic charm at the was largely a matter of accounts
Lenore Ulric
Mr. Braga, counsel for the gifted Belasco star plaintif, explained that the dispute Queen's Theatre on Wednesday in which, would have to be referred to "South Sea Rose," her latest, all the Registrar but one issue bad bren Impossible to transport this mountcy, which has become 'con-1 ago there were, more bathers in the talking, ali, singing and dancing Arst to be decided and that was whe- food, except in small quantities, troversial, Lord Delamere suggests Serpentine than this generation or "South Sea Rose" is a tensely granits from the plaintif after starting feature, for Fox Movietone. ther the defendant agreed to buy from Manchuria to the districts the use of the phrase "equality the last over saw there where people were starving under law and Mo
It should be made clear that food He points out that white civilisaed in the luxury of a bathe there Peatuous exploits of a madcap price of $5.56 per cubic yard. Up Twelve thousand people Indulgemantic story tracing the tem- December. 30, 1929, at the increased In substantial quantities has exist ton museo rooted in the poll of during, a single summer day in French maiden confined in the to that time the price per cubic ed in China during all this period Africa because natural develop 1894, but the Serpentine was not the captain of a trading vessel who Evidence was given by the plain South Islands. She is rescued by yard was 54 cents less. Conten of famine, but, under the dement will not remove the sloth, the stretch of clean water it is now tricks her into a sea marriage in it who stated that three contracta moralised condition prevalling slavery and witchcraft of countless was an almost stagnant lake order to obtain a fortune which could not be transported. As China
tota
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the country, sometiines, senti
mountain ranges, the pro
Fadequate relief na bean
nsoluble
sympathy for the
largely tainted by the refuso of
Rayewater and Paddington. Its swalts the girl in France.
The
were entered into prior to December tale is that in. 1780, Queen Caro action is speady at all times, and 80, 1929, by which he was to supply the defendant with granite blocks line, Consort of George II, a lady the story unfolds with tenso Intercosting $2.416 (first supply), 82,200 the far egions can of many ideas, was struck by Ant the piquant tom
Teste be expended in a very help Walpole and one or two experts, particularly big one, and aided by
Ulrfe
very famine community food proceaded to carry it out forth Ing
with
hese people and their present le for sale. Quantities are small, unfortunate plight, the American but a moderate supply can be had Red Crois was convinced that by the payment of exceptionally under prevailing conditions is high prices. Missionaries holdkig would be unwise and futile to dak relief funda
the American people to contribute those c
great relief fund which could not greatest res
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(second supply) and 8775 (third supply. On December 80 he re- ceived intimation from Heinhead (from whom he bought the granite) that the price had risen 64 cents per cubic yard. Accordingly he com municated this fact to defendant on January 1, 1920, by lotter and at an Interview the next day defendant told. aim to carry on.""
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