MONDAY, MAY 11, 1931.
POLICE JAILED.
THE CHINA MAIL.
OPERA STAR'S DEATH ROUND THE CINEMAS
FOLK LORE,
PIECE OF EVIDENCE WHICH INSPECTOR FORGOT.
RESULT OF MOTOR SMASH.
AMERICAN THIRD DEGREE METHODS.
NEWS HELD BACK.
AN ENTRANCING FESTIVAL.
NATIONS" AMITY,
Under the distinguished
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SERIOUS CHARGËS.
Two Shantung Police Constables
patronage of H.E. the Governor appeared before Mr. W. Schofield
сега,
"PAID."
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
THE FIFTH EXTRA RACE
The MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE.
Members are notified that they
T MEETING will be held (wea ther permitting) at Happy Valley Rugby, Saturday.
Amerlean "third degree" takes up on SATURDAY, 16th May, 1931, Miss Bertha Sullivan, a well- big portion of the action in the commencing at 2.30 p.m.
and talkie "Paid," featuring Joan Craw- The first bell will be rung at (Sir William Peel. K.C.M.G., in the Central Police Court on Sat-1 known singer in Gilbert K.B.E.) and Lady Peel, an Inter-urday, on charges of the posaca Sullivan light opera, died last ford, which started its run at the 2 p.m. national Festival of Folk Dance son of 25,000 pills containing night following a motor accident] Queen's Theatre yesterday. and song was held in the grounds heroin and, secondly, with miscon-a few days ago. News of her picture la, of course, a version of
was kept from her col the play "Within the Law," the and their ladies must wear their of the Diocesan Girls' Schoul ducting themselves as Police off-death
leagues in the company, with story of which is too well-known to badges prominently displayed. on Saturday afternoon.
The objects of the festival, as Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, D.S.P.. whom she was extremely popu- recount here. Joan is well cast in
No one without a badge will be lar, until after last night's per the role of Mary Turner and has a admitted to the Members' Enclos- set out in the programme, are to appeared for the prosecution.
Inspector F. E. Booker said, informance.
good supporting cast in the picture,
Badgea ure.
admitting поп- encourage mutual understanding
Robert Armstrong Sir Henry Lytton, the veteran particularly
members to the Members' Enclos- and good fellowship among all evidence, that on May 6. (Wedner- races and nationalities. Further day) he was on duty on the Hing light opers star, who was injured as Joe Garson, Marie Prevasture and Club Rooms at $5 for more, it strives to stimulate in Kee Wharf when he noticed two in the same accident, is making as Agnes Lyneb, and Kent Douglas Gentlemen and $3 for Ladies (both are obtainable terest in the preservation of tra-men, one in uniform and the other good progress.--British Wireless as Bob Gilder whom Mary married including tax)
to revenge Gilder, senior. It through the Secretary upon Intro- ditional songs, dances and music.dreased in plain clothes, walking Servce.
good entertalument and certainly duction by a member, such member First defendant English
the pier. folk-dances were from
variety from the usual song and to be responsible for payment of given by the girls of the D.G.S. was carrying a large parcel, and,
all ́chita, &c. Included in the programme is a tor Booker found that it contain-
Badges admitting to Members' Hearst Newsreel and an Our Gang Enclosure will not be on sale at "Newcastle," "Rufty Tufty" ed tins of pink pilla.
comedy entitled Tough Winter" the Race Course. and "Gathering Peascods" were maintained they were
In which Stepin Fetchit joins the. was in
Members can obtain outstanding numbers of the lat-Second defendant, who
upon ap- kiddies in their fooling. The 'story' plication to the Secretary badges a smaller ter participants, whilst Morris uniform, was carrying
is rather too silly even for "Our(limited to ONE) for the free ad- Dances were excellently rendered parcel, and when questioned as to
Gang." by the school girls, St. Andrew's its contents sald that they were Church boy choristers rendered cigarettes. English folk-songs, together with the Scottish Highland Tra ditional Air.
and the St. Andrew's Church on tearing a corner of it, Inspec- DEATH SENTENCES. dance picture.
Folk-dancers.
Defendant medicine.
The Proper Course.
SEQUEL TO RIOTS IN BURMA.
"WAR AGAINST THE KING.”
P
Rangoon, Saturday.
"RANGO."
Should you ever travel in the A special tribunal has sen-jungle-don't trust any tiger you
mission to the Members' Enclosure of wives, Indy relatives and friends. Names must be stated when applying.
On no pretext will children be
permitted in either Enclosure dur-
skilfully by pupils of Misses DPolice Station and therefore should tenced fifteen rebels to death and might chance to meet. Thus advises ing the Meeting.
An Irish Jig was done very
and W.
Henderson,
First defendant stated that he was carrying the parcel to the
not have been detained. O'Keefe
Asked by the Magistrate as to whilst the four B's Quartet ren-what was the proper course for a dered Old Irish Songs.
piracy guard to take if he found An unclaimed parcel on the ship, Mrs. Esther Hooper was warm- Inspector Booker replied that he ly applauded for her rendering would have to report either to the of an Old Welsh Song "Bugeilor Sergeant in charge of the Russian or the ship's cap- Gwenith Gwyn." The male choir piracy guards.
First defendant said that there no Sergeant there, and he Traditional was
"Welsh Items.
of the South Wales Borderers tuin. pleased the audience with some
very fine
Welsh
Airs, which included the Welsh feould not understand the Captain.
National Hymn, and Ar Hyd y
Nos (All Through the Night).
Mr. Wodehouse explained that the first defendant was a guard on
The Kowloon Dock dancers, the 8.8. Szechuen, whilst the
nis
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.
56 others to transportation for Ernest B. Schoedsack, the soldier of
cameraman a charge of waging or fortune
who med life on abetting war against the King "Rango" in the primeval wilds of The Price of admission to the last January. The remaining 24 the Sumatra forests. Schoedsack is Public Enclosure $2 includ- persons were acquitted.-Reuter. qualified to speak since he has studi- ing tax, for all persons includ- ed the habits of all big animals-ing ladies and is payable at the olephants, hippopotami, rhinos, Gate. leopards, panthers, and tigers-in Soldiers and Sellors in uniform
picture-making activities in aro admitted half price. "Chang," "Grass" and "The Four] Bookmakers, Tic Tac men, &c., Feathers."
will not be permitted to operate "The tiger is the supreme killer within the precincts of the Hong of all jungle beasts," asserts Schoed-Kong Jockey Club during the Race Back. "Unlike the lion, he does not{ Meeting. kill only when he can eat, but mur-} Tiffin will be obtainable In the ders for the sheer love of inflicting Restaurant in the Public Enclos- suffering and terror upon his fei-ure. low creatures,
WAGHORN'S FATE.
SYMPATHY OF ITALIAN AIR MINISTER.
SUITABLE REPLY.
Rugby, Saturday.
under Pipe-Major Mackie, did the second defendant, who had been General Balbo, the Italian Air Eightsome Reel and the Highland to Shanghai as a guard on another Minister, on behalf of himself Fling, also the Scottish Sword ship, was a passenger on the Sza-and the Italian Air Service, sent "Fires are little if any protection
Dance.
China Does Its Part. China's share in the entertain- ment was provided by the Chin
chuen,
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The Inspector Forgot. Inspector Booker remarked that there were seven or eight loose packets of cigarettes in second de- fendant's parcel.
from the attack of a hungry tiger.
which the only animal known to
an expression of sympathy to British aviation on the death of
light-Lieutenant. Waghorn, the prowl beyond a blaze in search of food. Unless he is lazy from a re- Schneider Trophy winner.
cent feast, the striped cat does not try to avoid an encounter with men, but will stalk them through the tall grass awaiting an oppor- tunity to spring."
The British Air Minister, Lord Amulree, has suitably acknow.
His Worship: A very important į ledged the message.--British piece of evidence that should have Wireless Service.
been put in.
Inspector Booker: Yes, your Worship, I had forgotten all about the cigarettes,
His Worship convicted both men. Mr. Wodchouse said that first de- fendant had been fined 50 centa previously for smuggling salt. The case was not regarded as serl. ous then. He was pressing for a heavy penalty, as it was so easy for piracy guards to smuggle, and so hard for the Police to catch them at it.
"Robert, darling my dear!?
His Worship Imposed a fine of "Dross or hat?"— Buen Humor,} $500 or four months' hard labour Madrid.
In default on euch on the first charge, whilst on the charge of misconducting themselves as Woo Athletic Association Musi-policemen, his Worship passed cians, who gave a selection of sentence of one month's hard Chinese music. A dance by girls labour each. of the Yeung Chung School was splendid, whilst the St. Stephen's
College girls were warmly ap- plauded for their Old
World
SOME NEW APHORISMS.
Chinese Dance.
Danish folk-songs were givan
by Mr. Alex Hamre, who sang
Here are a few epigrama cull-
two numbers, and the Quarry Bayed from a collection with the say. School children delighted with inge of Mr. H. Pattinson-Knight, Scandinavian folk-songs, which which has just been published: included "The Burgomaster."
In the beginning man may have The German Community Choir sprung from the anthropoid apes: contributed songs by Schubert nowadays he springs from road- and von Schober. They were, one
huga. * . thinks, the best singers on the programme,
to
BIG DEFICIT.
AUSTRALIAN TREASURY
RETURNS.
N.S.W. DEFAULT.
Canberra, Saturday.
According to Schoedsack, tiger hunting requires a cool head and perfect marksmanship. Express
By Order,
Hong Kong, 9th May, 1931,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary.
SHADOWS BEFORE
rifles carrying two 450 calibre bul. COMING. EVENTS ANNOUNCED
lets are used for this type of hunt- Ing, offering the man behind the: rifle but two chances to bring down his tiger or meet an unspeakable
end.
IN CHINA MAIL.
Social Functions.
To-day-Teu Dance at Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances at
Theatre;
Theatre;
Theatre;
"The tiger gives you just one fair] Peninsula and Hong Kong Hotels.
Entertainments. A deficit of £192,201,000 is break, only one." declares Schoed-,
"He crouches for a full two) Today — King's shown in the Federal Treasury sack. returns for the past ten months. minutes before he springs, bellow- "Fast and Loose."
Today Queen's ing terrifying roars in the hope that Expenditure... £67,900,000 Receipts ...... $48,699,000 the prey will turn his back to es- "Paid."
To-day Central The expenditure Includes cape, thus making the killing a sim £1,699,000 for interest payment ple matter. During these two pre-"Rango,"
To-day Majestic on behalf of New South Wales.cious minutes It is up to the hunter Reuter.
to aim between the eyes or at the "The Big Pond."
The latest available figures
1927-28-show:
Expenditure £82,120,495 Receipts
£76,670,258
£ 5,450,237 Reuter.
Deficit
SUGAR INDUSTRY.
INTERNATIONAL EXPORT QUOTAS.
The
SCHEME SIGNED.
***Home Mails.
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Theatre;
chest of the beast and shoot to kill." To-morrow-Inward from Europe
"Rango," a picture in which tigera play the parts of villains, comes to the Central Theatre to- day.
"HELL'S ANGELS.“
via Siberia (General Metzinger); Outward for Europe via Siberia (President Cleveland), 2 p.m.; for Europe via Marseilles (Aneas and General Metzinger), 2 p.m. and 2.80 p.m. respectively.
Sports.
The latest and most perfect sound recording in the history of
See Sports Diary on Page 9.
Miscellaneous. motion pictures; "Hell's Angels,"
To-day Mozart Commemora- Howard Houghs' $4,000,000 ⋅ air | spectacle, will open at the Queen's tion Concert, Helena May Institute,
9.15 p.m. Theatre on Wednesday,
"Hell's Angels" is the first film apectacle in syhich there are no faked sounds, and so realistic are: the audiblo- effects that special
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BENEFIT DANCE.
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OSBORNE.
The average woman wears bet- ter than the average man, but not
Brussels, Saturday. The Cherry Dance, by Miss so much...
so-called Chadbourne electrical equipment and special OVER $600 HANDED TO MRS. The dentist has Yuki Takeda was Japan's con-
a great pull scheme for fixing" the inter-projectors are required to present tribution, and Mr. E. Govor most of his acquaintances. national sugar export quotas was the picture effectively on the
The telephons · girl seema d'Aquino sang two Portuguese folk-songs, these being "If the work on the wrong lines, Roses Know" and, "The Royal Many a coy curate considers Hunt." The singer was in eplon that a man's hereafter depends did form, and carned much ap-upon what he is aftar here. plause.
The film star practises economy husband The Sea
contri-by keeping her present, buted the Hornpipe, Donald Paul for another season, being in good form with sea shankisa her; but never lets a kiss A smart miss may let à fool
fool her. take life as it comes,
Many motorists are content to
A farewell concert will be given Truth will out when it is suffi- by Mr. Harry Ore in the Helena ciently scandalous.
May Institute to-morrow, when the
Scouts
ties.
WHEN THE PROPHET WAS TAKEN ABACK.
گرو في
FAREWELL CONCERT
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signed this morning by the de-screen.
Those who supported the Bene- Lodge. Cunningham, chiet of egates of Cuba; Java, Germany, Pelgium, Hungary, Poland, and sound on "Hell's Angels," and one at Dance held by the Royal Army Czecho-Slovakia. Reuter, cf the foremost sound experts in Ordnance Corps in the Garrison the alm business, declares that five Lecture Hall, Wellington Barracks, times the normal electrical power on Saturday, April 25, will required to project "Hell's be thtefcated to learn that as a Angela" on the screen.
result the sum of $656.18 has been Six extra horns are required to handed over for transmission to reproduce the authentic aeroplane Mrs. Osborne. A copy of accounts and Zeppelin sounds, and a separ will be sent to the Clubs' and ate film is used to preserve the Messes which so kindly assisted in quality of the tone throughout the the sale of tickets. presentation of "Hell's Angels.
"Hell's Angels" is the most
TO BE GIVEN BY MR. HARRY ORE TO-MORROW.
I
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Applicants for renewal of Money talks so loudly that no- leases of city property used, says body seems to notice what gram-programme will be as follows: lavish and spectacular film produc-
Mr. Saver, to attend at the bar mar it uses.
of the Court of Common Council
to answer any questions..
Once
the applicant was the Rev.
Michael Baxter, proprietor of the Christion Herald, a paper that devoted a good real of space to
FLYING BOAT.
prophecies as to the early end of START OF DO-X DELAYED FROM
the present age.
: Mr. T H. Ellis at once took. him in hand. Baxter admitted
BOLAMA.
Rio de Janeiro; Saturday.
he was the proprietor, and wrote Weight, prevented the flying- some of its prophetic articles boat. DO-X from rising when she "that the world would come to an attempted to make a start from end within the next few years? Holama Portuguese Guines, this City did,"
was the reply, morning. According to a wire- "Then why are you now apply less message from the machine Ing for a 99 years lease of your she has proceeded to Orange primerty ?MAINE Island, the outermost of the Bis
2951. (Pupils). 1. Polonaise in C sharp minor,
(Chopin)....Miss Marle "Alves
2. Negro Dance (Coleridge Taylor),
Miss Doreen Ma Nocturne In
In C sharp minor
Miss Daisy Mu
3. (Chopin)
(b) The Autumn (Moszkovski),
Valae (Chopin),
Mr. Antonio. Tubino 11. (Hong Kong Trio).
4 Firth
5. Trio in D'minor. (Arenaky)
(a) Allegro moderato, (b) -Scherza,
(c) Elegy (d):
tion of all time, and required, three years to produce.
STEAMERS MOVEMENTS
The C.P.S. R.M.S. Empress of Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Har Canada 'drrived at Honolulu on low and 20,000 supporting: players May 8 (Fri.) at 8 a.m., left Hogo-, comprise the east, and more than lulu on May 8 (Fri.)" at 5.30 p.m., 100 true wartime aeroplaner take and is due at Vancouver on May part in the overhead action of the 14 (Thurs.). She leaves Vancou picture.
ver on May 23 (Sat).
: The C.P.3. R.M.S. Empress of Russia arrived at Shanghai on It is noted in the Western Cana May 10 (Sun.) at 6. p.m., left da News Bulletin that production Shanghai on May 11 (Mon.) et. 0 In the following industries in them, and 13 due at Nagasaki on Prairie Provinces now exceeds Bay 12 (Tues.) at 6 p.m. She Mesara, H. Ore"(Piano), F. men's furnishing goods; dyeing, Magalona
89,000,000-cotton and jute bags; leaves Nagasaki on May 13 (Wed.) cleaning and laundry work The C.PS RMS. Empress of women's factory clothing: hosiery Japan arrived at Kobe on May 10 6 Benate Appasulonate (Beethoven). Unit goods and fabric gloves gun.) at 1480 5m, fart Kobe ov mon's factory clothing hate and May 11 (Mon) 4 am, and is 7. Cradle Song
(Debussy).
Gonzales. (Violin),
Skante ('Cello).
HI: (Mry H. Oreg
(Tichalkovsky)!!
The Answer if any, was come sagos, group, from where sheh L'ials, Joyçass: The Isis of joy) caps: awnings, tents and vaalis: due at Shanghấf on May 18' (Wed.); Bough China Fantasy (H. Ore) carpets and other textile Indus at 7am She leaves Shanghat ou 10. Boiree de Vienne (Bxhubert-Liant), tries.
||May 13 (Wed:) ât:8.80 p.m."
pletely lost in the laughter which start, Cater across the Atlantic
convulsed the Court
Router.
Without
5290 Czardas
--Madrigale
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Love Bird
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