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No. 27,707
HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28,
FOR
THE FAR EAST
CHAIN OF NEW THEATRES
SPIRITED BID FOR CONTROL OF
FILM INDUSTRY.
IDEAL NEW SOUND SYSTEM
BASIS.
JAPAN CENTRE OF STERLING SALARIES
DRUG TRAFFIC.
Control Admitted to Be Defective.
SEIZURES IN INDIA,
1929.
London, Yesterday.
Half at 1/6 and Half at Prevailing Rate.
MOTION FOR COUNCIL.
.
1931.
-The
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR closing rate of the dollar demand, to-day was 11%.
on
PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
PRINCESS SLIPS AT WHERE THE
PALACE.
'Accident to Aunt of King George.
ACUTE BRONCHITIS.
H.R.H.
A SECRET?;
An Irish Motorist thinks that the Dunlop Rubber Company possess a valuable secret. Read what he says:-
g from practical experience 1 have been long since convinced that Dunlop eovers and tubes are the best made for cars, motor cycles and cycles. I say this from long experience," ·
"The Dunlop Company. I think, is like Guinness & Co. It has a manufacturing secret, undiscovered by its competitors."
The Dunlop Rubber Co., (China) Lid. Pedder, Buliding.
Telephone 24554.
MONEY FIVE MILLION WAGE
EARNERS IDLE.
GOES.
Exchange Effect on Expenditure.
$7,140 MORE FOR 1930.
Grave Situation in the
United States.
ALARMING FIGURES.
Washington, Yesterday. According to an estimate pre-
pared by Mr. Green, President of the American Federation of La- hour, there were 5,700,000 of the. unemployed wage earners in the United States early in January, His Excellency the Governor-excluding farm and office work. ers.-Reuter's American Service.
ESTIMATES, 1930.
At the meeting of the Legisla
London, Yesterday. Sir John Campbell (India) told tive Council on Thursday the
At a meeting of the Finance Princess the Opium Committee that large Colonial Secretary will move-ped and fell at Kensington Palace be considered:---
Beatrice, Committee on Thursday the fol aunt of HI.M. King George, slip lawing Supplementary Votes will quantities of cocaine with Japan- ese marks and labels bad been. "That this Council approves yesterday and fractured her left seized in India. They were in-the modification of its resolution |
forearm. A bulletin issued to- tended for illegal traffic. Sír
of June 19, 1930, on the Salaries factorily progressing, but an at- night states that the arm is satis- John Campbell added that im- mense stocks of cocaine were re-Commission report by the addi- tack of acute bronchitis has Incidental Expenses, $400. cently available for export from Lion thereto of the following supervened. Her condition is not Provision made in Esti- That Hong Kong, besides the rest of the Far East, will soon Japan, where 4,974 kilogrammes proviso:-
without anxiety.
mates see regular programmes of the latest British talking-films, is an an- remained unaccounted for over at
Forearm Fractured.
Provision made by Supple- Provided that, nouncement which the China Mail is able to make today, following period extending from 1928 to
as from
Rugby, Yesterday.
mentary Vote January 1, 1931, and until the upon exclusive information from those closely connected with what
A communique issued yester- question of the exchange rate day from Kensington Palace stat- is considered to be an epoch-making movement in the film business
for sterling salaries paid to ed that on Friday, Princess Bea Government in this part of the world.
servants while trice, aunt of the King, slipped in serving in the Colony is next her room and in falling fractured reviewed and until such rute is both bones of her left forearm. altered with the approval of Her Royal Highneas is making this Council, tida Council ap-aatisfactory progress. proves that such salaries bel paid as to half thereof at the Princess Beatrice had passed a It was stated this morning that rate of 1/6 to the dollar and as somewhat restless night but that to the other half at the prevail her condition was satisfactory.- ing Hong Kong Treasury, rate." British Wireless Service. THE JUNE REGULATION.
A new Far Eastern Company, formed for the essential purpose of bringing the best British films to patrons in the Orient has now been formed. The head office will be in Hong Kong, and the direc- torate consists of the heads of several banks, and other prominent business men.
AMBITIOUS
PROGRAMME
The
Japanese Government were bound by international obli- gations to suppress these activi- ties, but, in spite of seizures and jinformation given to the Japanese
Government, no tangible results; had been obtained.
in Japan was slightly defective. Mr. Sato admitted that control
His Government were anxious to remedy that. He promised later to give figures different from Sir John Campbell's.---Reuter.
DEVELOPMENT IN DRUG SEIZURE.
Inspection Yields 1,400 Tins of Opium. VALUED AT $175,000.
As it is a private limited lia-terests, and the result was the bility company, and as its incor-perfection of the apparatus which poration is not yet formally com- is now causing numbers of pre pleted, the actual names of the vious installations to be scrapped. prime movers of the concern can- In its new theatres, China not yet be divulged, but the name Theatre Enterprises will use the of the Company will be China British acoustic system, which, Theatre Enterprises, Ltd.
combined with the pure diction of The distribution of the best the new British films, will make British films will be directly under talkie entertainment as good as it
New York, Yesterday. its supervision, not only for Hong, can possibly be made.
Further inspection of the Bri- Kong, but for the whole of the British Producing System. tish motor ship Ruby Castle re- Far East, including Japan, Not only does the new Bri-vealed an additional 1,400 tins of China, Siam, Malay, and the tish Acoustic system cater for the opium, bringing the total value of Dutch East Indies. Besides dis-reproduction of talkies in the narcotice aboard up to $175,000 tributing the films to existing theatre, but it has also been de- (gold).-Reuter's American Ser- theatres, the company has plans veloped for the making of the vice.
AATHENS RAVAGED BY
EPIDEMIC.
in hand for building first-class actual talkies themselves in the theatres of its own, and ore of big studios in Great Britain. the first of these to be under-significant fact is that up till a taken will be a theatre de luxe in few months ago, the British film Kowloon, the site for which has industry was dependent, upor already been chosen.
American methods of production. Many imperfections were found under these methods, and the
Of National Importance.
It is easy to understand why much-desired British dialogue and Hong Kong should become the diction did not have a satisfac- centre of such an important en-tory method of conveyance to the terprise. Not only is it in favourable position; also, the public. The new Acoustic pye
tem has started a new era for
A
The resolution of June 10, which was carried by 10 votes to 16 after two unsuccessful Un-
CENTRAL BRITISH SCHOOL.
."
Preparation Of New Site Deferred?
In
the
Supplementary Votes in the 1931 Estimates, to come before the Finance Committee to-morrow, a vole of $3,228 for the "improve" ment" of Kowloon Circus is to be met by a saving of $2,380 on account of the preparation for the new site of the Kowloon Central Eri- tish School and of $1000 for preparing areas. for playing fields,
Does this imply that, in view of the financial crisis, the Government has wisely decided to defer preparation of the new site for the School to a more propitions date? The large sum of $50,000 ap- peared in the 1931 Estimates for the preparation of the site alone!
Alarming Outbreak of Influenza.
PRIME MINISTER ILL.
spread of British films is regard-British talkies which may have has assumed euch alarming pre-
Athens, Yesterday. ed as of such great importance the effect of removing the centre portions that the Government The influenza epidemic. here to British trade and prestige that of the motion picture industry has decided to close all schools its development is considered to be best fostered from this Colony. from America to Britain
The formation of the Company, China Talking Filme Co., which theatres, and music halls for 10 It is noteworthy that the until further notice and cinemas, it was learned to-day, has been by no means a sudden move, but is a subsidiary to China Theatre days. Public meetings are pro-
hibited for four days, Is the result of months of study Enterprises, Ltd., will use the of the situation by 'both local British. acoustic
Several Cabinet Ministers are official amendments, apparatus capitalists and by principals of the throughout its studios at Laichi-ill and the Prime Minister, M. British film industry at Home, kok, when it begins making Venizelos, is also a victim, but Careful inquiries have been made talkies in Cantonese and other his condition is satisfactory.— "That this Council in each country of the Far East Chineso dialects in the new Router.
Home Industry Benefits.
as to the class of film required. future. the methods adopted by American concerns who have so far had more or less their own way in the moving picture business, and the circumstances of each circuit of theatres to be supplied.
The result is that in a few weaks' time, regular programmes of all-British productions will be available to theatre-goers, and a wealth of material from British: literature and historical stage pro ductions, will be reproduced, via
An official of China Theatre En- terprises showed a China Mail re- presentative how prosperity has swept the British talking film in- dustry during the last few months.
TARIFF TRUCE,
OUR COMPETITORS FAIL TO RATIFY.
TIME LIMIT EXPIRED.
under:
Was
TROOPS KILLED BY AVALANCE.
Catastrophe Overcomes Alpine Force.
CAPTAIN DEAD.
Paris, Yesterday.
Total
$5,000
amount paid in dollars at 1/3% is 2,000 38,611.97. Deficit $2,061.07.
The remaining $358.03 asked for
for in July has been found in- ings under Subsistence of Prison-
$7,000 is to cover freight, insurance, etc. The supplementary vote asked The above is to be met from sav~.
sufficient. anvings under Coal.
The above is to be met from
Other
ers,
Miscellaneous Miscellaneous Services: $4,545. Revenue Transport,
Imperial Bureau of Entomology, London: $276; Imperial Institute, Imports and Exports Office: $1,651; Institution of Civil En- Charges: Transport, gineers; Committee oa Deteriora- 3160.
tion of Structures exposed to Bea Provision made in Estimates, Action, $276; London School of $1,600.
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, distilleries, etc., in outlying dis- 8276;
More attention has been paid to $551; Tropical Diseases Research, Society of Comparative tricts. This has entailed more Legislation, London, $2; League of visits and consequently more bus, Nations Health Organisation East ferry and tram fares.
ern Bureau, $1,518. The above is to be met from Provision made in Estimates, savings under other charges:$9,011. Conveyance and motor allow- tances.
Commercial Moorings,
The provision in 1930 Estimates was based on a rate of exchange of $118. 10d.
The sums pro- vided have, in consequence of the Harbour Department: Con- fall in exchange, become insufficient. version of commercial moorings, in cases dealing with sterling pay-
A message from Modane states $6,400. that an avalanche surprised ទ Provision made in Estimates, column of Italian Alpine troops $92,200. near the Franco-Italian frontier in January last year and carried away the Captain and 12 mėn. A company of Alpini who were missing are reported to have arrivel at Baronneche with several dead-Reuter.
MRS. VICTOR BRUCE IN
'PLANE MISHAP.
Machine Overturns Whilst Taking Off.
ONLY SLIGHTLY HURT.
Baltimore, Yesterday. The Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce was injured here to-day when her 'plane overturned as she was tak- ing off for a flight to Washington. Only Cuts and Bruises.
Later, It transpires that Mrs. Victor as Bruce's injuries were only slight cuts and bruises. Reuter's
approves American Service.
.
-
NO AID FOR IDLE.
chain cable W88 ordered through Crown Agents and estimated to cost £1,740 at AD ex- change of $118, 10d. = When Crown Agents account was receiv- ed in August It was found that the chain had cost £1,961.12.7 at an exchange of $119.4-51/6 = $28,860.75 Freight, etc. 1,747,75.
A contract was let in February to Taikoo Dock for laying moorings, etc., and bills rendered amount to
amount The total expended is there- fore
$18,981.82
$80,608.50
ments.
ESTIMATES 1931.
Kowloon Canton Railway: Special Expenditure. Heavy Type Sliding Gates, Kowloon Platform. $325.
Provision made in Estimates, $600.
The estimated cost, when the 1031 Estimates were framed, of the heavy type sliding gates, Kowloon | platform, was $600.
This eam is found to be in- adequate partly on account of the fall in exchange, and partly because 4 special locking bolts, not pro- vided for in the original estimate, were also supplied and fixed, mak Ing a total cost of $925. For Charity. Charitable Services:-Little Sia- tera of the Poor, $250.
Application has been received from the Little Sisters of the Poor 67,991.82 for a remission of Crown rent and it has been decided by the Governor In Council, that instead of such re- mission a corresponding charitable grant should be made.
$98,599,82
Kowloon Development.
Railway Emoluments. Kowloon Canton Railway-Per- Public Works Extraordinary: sonal Emoluments, $2,100; New Kowloon Communications, Kowloon Development area at $862,776. Kowloon Teal, extension of 100-
Total
Frovision made in Estimates,“
Before the 1980 revision' of: foot road, $500.
salaries the Trafic Manager (and Provision made in Esti-
Storekeeper). drew an allowance of mates
Chief $ 5,000 $1,000 per annum and the Provision made by
Mechanical Engineer an allowance Supplementary Vote 6,400 of $1,500 per annum, for the per
formance of work additional to their $11,400 substantive duties. The Salaries abolition of all "charge allowances" Commission recommended the.
(within which definition these two Considerably more rock and allowances had been Included) and was originally anticipated and Estimates for 1931 this will necessitate a Supplemen
The Secretary of State has now tary Vote of $500 to meet the ruled that these allowances were. final bill.
nat analogous to Charge Allowances The above is to be met from and that they should continue while savings under Now Government the existing combination of duties Store, Hung Hom.
remains in effect, but at the reduc ed figure of $900 and $1,200 re-. spectively.
the recommendation of the Salaries Commission published in Sessional Paper No. 7 of 1929 as modified by the Governor's Des- GOVERNMENT WONT PROMOTE patch No. 87 of January 22, 1980, and approved by the Secretary of
PUBLIC LOAN, State for the Colonies in his tele- gram of March 25, 1980, publish- "Britain failed entirely, with
MR..SNOWDEN'S POLICY. ed: in Sessional Paper No. 3 of the silent film," he said, "but the
1930, and further modified by the London, Yesterday. triumph of the British voice la
exclusion of the high cost of In the House of Commons at
London, Yesterday. now complete.
In the House of Commons, reiving allowance referred to in question time Mr. Philip Snowden No longer is the plying to a batch of questions on industry in Great Britain scatter-the tariff truce convention, M. paragraph 12 of the Commission-adhered to his position of Novem Expenditure in 1980 to com- ed over a few small struggling W. Graham, President of the for dollar salaried officers of less cally, not the Government's polley companies, but production is now Board of Trade, stated that 11 than ten years service referred to promote a public loan for un-crowbar work was entailed than no provision le made for them in
ers report and the rant allowance ber, namely, that it was emphati-plete work, ́ $11,900. the talkie film, in Far Eastern well-organised and there will be countries, Including Britain, had to in paragraph 180 of the report employment Reuter.
over 200 feature films produced in ratified it. The time limit of rati- which allowances shall not be British Acoustic System.
Britain in 1931., Particularly are fication expired on January 25. provided without further specific Another activity, just as im the British people concerned over No provision had been made for sanction of this Council, and ac portant as the distribution of Brithe expert trade in talkies. The its extension and he was unable cordingly reaclves that a sum of tish of films, which China Thea London once made the statement mercial competitors failed to Revenue and other-funds of the American Trade Commissioner in to explain why our chief com- $1,628,917 be charged upon the tre Enterprises has undertaken. will be the distribution of what that every foot of American film ratify. Is known as the British acoustic shown abroad meant five dollar's system of reproduction of talkies, worth of export business for The equipment of theatres America, and the London film convention into force was post
poned sine die --Reuter S talkies has been so far largely in people are now making a deter American hands in the Far East, ned effort to emulate the Ameri- and most of the theatres have can example of making trade fol- taken the Western Electric syslow the film" tem. A
Theatres.
The question of bringing
NEW LEGISLATION.
the
Revolution in Few Months. At the meeting of the Legislative Ten months ago, the British "The talkie industry in Great Council on Thursday the Attorney- acoustic apparatus was perfect Britain has undergone a rovoiu- General will move the First reading od, and it has created a veritable tion in just a few months. Ac of furore in Great Britain and on tually it was only ten months ago the Continent. Since that time that the Industry began to pro-tration of nurses for the sick,"
"A Bill to provide for the reglá over 300 theatres have been induce good talkles and good thestre "A Bill to amend further tho stalled with what is claimed to be equipment.
the most perfect system of repro- duction that science can at pre- sent evolye. The combined brains of the experts of the Marconi Company, the British Gaumont ation His Master's Voice Gramophon mpany principal
Companies were contmandeuré «uroduce?
#prodi
anything
Widows and Orphans' Pension Or- dinance, 1908
"A Bill to amend further the Public Health and Buildings Or dinance, 1903, and an Enactinent
aterring thereto.
"You recently aw Atlantie at one of the Hong Kong theatres, but it must not be as a modern British
was made two
sara bro, and good as it is in sound and clearness of diction, it bro
[quited = compared with the taki
fis the last few
sto máke, provision; for time to time the. Cen-
the Mercha
Colony, in addition to the sums al- ready provided in the Estimates for 1930 for the purpose of carry. ing into effect as from January 1, 1930, the recommendations 80 modified:"
MR. A. DYER. BALL
Death Reported. From Ceylon
The Colonial Secretary courteously Informs the Chiso Mail of the death on Sunday Jast of Mr. A.- Dyer Ball, formerly of the Hong Kong Civil Service, and clatterly in tha Ceylon Seri 106,
No details are to hand,
IMPROVING LATER.
To-day's weather report from the Royal Observatory states: The anti-cyclone has weaken- ed considerably. It is now central near Shanghai...."
Fresh monsoon pravalls along the S.E. coast of China and over the N. China Sea,
Forecast N.:: E. winds; fresh; cvercast ́at fret,.... im- proving later.
Rainfall Rainfall to 10 am to-day 0.04 inch. Rainfall since Janu- ary 1, 0.82 Inch. against an average of 120.
ybe Temperature., The temperaturo at cortsin. specified centres this morning at 8 o'clock was :-
Hong Kong
Macao Pratas Island,avi Manila
Feochow
Amoy Bwato
Chai
87. 76%
50
Police Light and Fans. Police Force: Light and Elec
~Light a tric Fans, $850. Provision made la Estimate 885,000 Provision made by Supple-.
mentary Vote
Total
The combination of duties re mains in effect and a vote to cover these allowances for the whole of 8,500 1981 is requested.
•
Kowloon "Circus.”- $88,500 Public Works Extraordinary-
Kowloon, Miscellaneous. Traffle Owing to an under-estimate. of Improvement at Traffic Circus, the amount required to cover ex-Tsim Sha Tsui Wharf, $8,328, penditure for November and A special Vote was approved in December a further excess of $850 1980 for the above work but it was has been incurred on this vote, found possible to spend only The above is to be met from sav-$7,715.16 of that amount during Inge under coal for barracks..
that year. The completion of work- Prison Printery.p
is being proceeded with and, the Prisons Department: Special balance of the Vote is now asked Expenditure. Rota Print Machine, for. The estimated cost of 811,000 $2,600,
has not been exceeded. Provision made in Estimates, The above is to be met from any
* Inge, under Kowloon British School This is due to the fall in ex-Site and Building, $2,880, and change, The Crown Agents - Playing Field-preparing areas fa- count amounts to £360 23.6, which commended by the Committee as 1/10$6,116,48 The total such may be approved $1,000,
$8,550.