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7. CHATER ROAD,
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HONG KONG
ARCADE
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SHOWING TO-DAY
A 2.30. 5.10. 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.
The First All-Talking, Singing. Dancing "Sound On Fin." Chinese Picture
“ROMANCE · OF THE OPERA ”
Featuring NURMEI YOUNG
(The Foremost Screen Favourite of Ching).
with VIOLET WONG
(or Tze Lo-lan, the Famous Cantonese Dancing Star.
PHU KHUAN ENG
(Dancing Queen of Shanghai),
And an all-star cast including the best players of China.
COMING ATTRACTION!
CHARLES (Buddy)
ROGERS "Young Eagles"
EAN ARTHUR PAUL LUKAS
Guramount Pictudy
The
China Mail.
ESTABLISHED 1845.
HONG KONG, MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1931.
LOCAL SHARE MARKET.
Week Opens Quiet But Steady..
LITTLE BUSINESS.
The official summary issued by the Stock Exchange to-day states: The market opened quiet, but steady this morning with very Hitle business passing.
Unions were reported sales $440.
at
Raubs were in demand at $35. Wharves were wanted at $150. Providents (old), after being done at 85.40, closed in demand at $5.36, with scilors asking $5.45.
Hotels (old) were reported to have been put through at $14.
Humphreys (old) were in demand at $184, as were also the
new shares at $18.
Ewos were offering at Taels
16%.
Zoong Sings were in request at Trams could have been obtained
Taels 13.
at $21.
Star Ferries, were in demand at 892.
Hong Kong Electrics were want ed at $77, but sellers required $78. Hong Kong Ropes were in de- mand at $172.
Watsons were wanted at $15. Lane, Crawfords (old) were demand at $6.40.
Constructions (new) were in quest at $1.10.
it
CHINESE IN MEXICO.
Driven Out of State of Sonora.
TERRORIST METHODS.
[Contributed.]
HYDE PARK DEMONSTRATION.
Post Office Servants' Protest.
WAGE CUTS.
London, Yesterday."
Poor China! Hers is un uo- happy lot. What with civil war
A hundred thousand lower which, seemingly, will never end, famine and floods taking toll of grade Civil Servants, mostly em- hundreds of thousands of lives and ployed in the Post Office, headed a debased currency that is all but by kilted Pipers and enlivened by twenty-two brass bands, worthless, Her cup of troubles would seem to be running over. went in procession along the Em- bankment to Hyde Park to-day But now comes the outrageous ac-
to protest against wage cuta tion of the Mexican State of Sonora in driving out Chinese re- which, they allege, amount to sidents who have established busi- forty per cent. Among inscrip- nesses, frequently of much fm- portance, south of the Rio Grande.
tions were:-
"Post Office profits £60,000,000. Post Office wages forty per cent. reduction."
"Do You Want Your Letters In The Morning?"
The Mexicans have not been con- tent with wholesale expulsion and confiscation of property, they are said to have actually slain at least
They were addressed by three three Chinese residents and by ex-Ministers of the House of terrorist methods to have reduced
Commons. Hundreds of police the others to a state of panic. Fair-
stration went off in orderly minded people the world over will were out but the whole demon- join in the hope that the assurances
manner.-Reuter. of the Governor of Sonora that the expulsions will be stopped, aro honest and that the persecutions and murders will cease.
Yet
NECROMANCY.
Gruesome Finds in Germany.
BLACK MAGIC SECT.
Barred by immigration laws in almost every country of the world, there seems no chance for the am- bitious Chinese to better his con dition by leaving his own unfor.
Helsingfors, Yesterday. re-tunate land for new fields.
other nations, including the United In connection with the dis- States, which keep the bara upenvery of the mutilated corpses owe the Police are of the opinion that "gainst the Oriental races,
thrift, it is a case of outbreak of Satan-: much to the industry, patience and orderliness of those, ism or necromancy, involving the adventurous Chinese, Japanese and mutilation of corpses, as autop! Filipinos who in the past left their sies on limbs proved that they homes to aid in the development of had been severed after death and alien lands.
belonged to people who had been dead some weeks.
WAITING AT FERRY.
Excellent Poster Work by Local Artists.
but in Chinese is abominable, Chinese is abdominable, but in view of the Californian attitude to ward all Orientals the United States cannot, well call the kettle black.
It has been said that waiting is the dullest thing in life, but waiting for the Star Ferry need never be dull. It is some years now since the free cinema dis- appeared, but there is still ample amusement to be obtained dur
or four minutes!.. ing the three between ferries. After glancing at the weather reports, one can inspect the various posters which adorn the walls around the pier.. Recently, there has been a welcome tendency to advertise the various concerts, fairs, etc., which take place at this season of the year, with hand-painted bills, many of which are of ex- ceptional merit,
The University Arts Associa tion used a most intriguing illus- tration to announce their drama- tic evening, whilst the excellent placards advertising the Old English Faire must have con- tributed greatly to the success of that event.
At the present moment there is on show an excellent poster issued by the organisers of the China Exhibition. This poster
U.S. MINISTER.
Wedding in Tientsin Yesterday.
Peking, Saturday.
It is known that the arrested caretaker was interested in oc- cult practices. He is now spend- ing his time in jail singing hymns with cubalistic
words, but denies all knowledge of the mutilations.
The Police have decided to open all new paupers', graves, as the bodies found do not accomti for all the limbs found.
The aid of Scotland Yard has been invoked, because an Eng The United States Minister,lish book on black magic was dis- Mr. Nelson Trusler Johnson, is covered in the caretaker's house. marrying to-morrow afternoon-Reuter.
at the Tientsin Consulate Miss [Forty mutilated bodies in a Jane Beck, whose home is at well have been discovered ner!
Helsingfors, also a pauper's ceme- Cody, Wyoming.
Miss Beck and her brother tery. It is believed that the] have been guests of Mr. Johnson mutilations are the work of an international sect practising for the past two months.
After the ceremony the Minis-"black magic," and inquiries are ter and his Bride will go to Pek- being made concerning a natural- ing but will visit Nanking on ised Briton said to be living in
London. Incriminating corre Monday. Reuter.
spondence. and literature
AN 18TH CENTURY RESIDENCE, have been seized]
For over two centuries the ne
is not illustrated, but is a model house known as Little Grove has of what such a poster should be, stood on the summit of Cat Hill bold, clear, pleasing, and well set East Barnet, nearly 300ft. above sca out, it well repays a close ex-level. It was built in 1719 of brick, amination:
but a great part of its outer walls has since been coated with "compo." By reason of its ample accounimoda. tion it is well suited for use as a convalescent home, school, convent, or other. Institution. This property is for offer at a low reserve by Hampton and Sons on October 13.
Our amateur poster artists aro to be congratulated on their work and we hope that many Epecimens of their work will be seen from time to time.
A case of totanus (lock-Jaw). with complications, has just been eured at the Metropolitan Hospital, Kingsland Road, E. Such cures are
raro.
TRAIN LOOTED. Passengers and Their Belongings Seized.
TROOPS USELESS.
A report from Tientsin says that bandits yesterday attacked and looted a train at Lihokow,! westward of Hainmintun, seizing all the passengers and their belongings.
Chinese troops arrived on the The distance between the north scene, but the bandita put up a and south poles on the earth's sur-stiff fight and got off with their face is 12,480 miles?
bootyReuter.
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