TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1932.
PREVIEW AT QUEEN'S
THEATRE.
Joan Crawford in
"Possessed.”
A FINE PRODUCTION,
A preview of the Metro- Goldwyn-Meyer' production. "Pos- sessed"
shown WILS
at the Queen's Theatre this morning.
Clark Gable plays opposite Joan Crawford in the leading: role, and scores a decided triumph in a type that has been well- chosen. The story has a highly| dramatic theme and a grand climax, with o`cutely theme song running through.
THE
The Doukhobors and Their Nude Parades
Astounding Scenes In Canada
POLICEMEN'S TRIALS
GAOLS FILLED TO OVERFLOWING.
CHINA MAIL.
THE VILLAGE ROAD MURDER."
"I Don't Know Who Killed Fung."
CHRISTIE IN BOX.
BLACK OUTLOOK IN INDIA Impressions of Mr. C. F. Andrews.
RISKY GAMBLE ON THE REFORMS
Sydney Cecil Christie con- tinued his evidence for the Mr. C. F. Andrews arrived at Crown against Cheng Kwok-yau Tilbury from India on May 6 on the (20) on resumption of the George Maloja. He left England last Fung murder trial in the Central November for South Africa to take Police Court yesterday after-part in negotiations concerning In- noon, before Mr. Wynne-Jones. dians in South Africa, and his) Christie admitted that he original plan was then to go on via, had conceived a plot for black-Bombay to, China, where he would Nude Parades by Doukhobors in Canada have mailing Cheng, but denied that join the Dean of Canterbury, Dr. featured recent press despatches. Published below the killing of Fung had formed Hewlett Johnson, in his investiga
any part of this conspiracy. tions in the flooded areas. Many who saw "Laughing Sin are two stories from a Canadian paper which Witness was sharply taken to "But when I reached India," he ners" were slightly disappointed at
"I found the situation the appearance of Joan Crawford Would indicate that motorists are constantly con- task by Mr. G. K. Hall-Brutton, explained. with Clark Gable, hit "Possessed" fronted by crowds of naked fanatics. The story tered difficulties in his recollec- my friends, Indian and European, to For the defence, when he encoun- so critical that I was advised by all
will satisfy $"
mit exacting below was written from Nelson in British Columbia. tion of the exact Chinese words postpone my visit to China. For fana.
he had said accused used, when the present I must tell what I have Charming Singing.
On their way
towards Nelson hard and turned streaming of water the plan to beat Fung up at the seen in India." Joan Crawford and Clark Gable
Mr. Andrews in the last few film, drawing an auto load of effects by on the police. The latter counter- Hotel Nathan bad failed. in a dramatic slightly sexy where Jaan begins in a box factory shoulder straps, Doukhobors fromed by attacking with lengths of gar- Replying to the Public Prose-weeks has travelled over the whole She Porto Rico, some twenty miles den hose and liberal quantities of cutor (Mr. Lindsell) witness of the North of India. Everywhere, and ends in a Lorial heaven.
among the Inaked nong beautiful south of Nelson, are trudging along itching power sprinkled on naked said he did not kill Fung, and he he said, even has never
is charming. The highway. They are sympathi- bodies of men and women, young did not know who did.
moderate, there is a feeling that and hef singing voica
Cross-examined by Mr. Hall-things have gone wrong. Discontent The theme song is rathy "How zers of the 117 Sons of Freedom and eld. Long will it Last?", and she sings thrown into all Saturday, for ande
This led to a general disrobing Brutton, witness reiterated the is universal. The Government real by others and a wave of resistance statement, and said he had noises this, but it is gambling now on it in French, German and English. parading.
Little progress has been made to which found officers sometimes intention of killing him.
a good monsoon and improved We have glimpses of the heroine in ginghams, then in pargons gowns wards bringing those in jail to trial. A lot of smooth talk It will take several days before want, what men commitments can be completed. The want, their courage, alc. etc., comes Doukhobors in jail are apparently the most dramati moment when happy and are chating their fell Joan tells Gable, har Inver, that she gious songs continuously. has only been laying, and that she really prefers the common grained lover of her own station. They act an well, that they almost make you believe in the story.
and sables. of what women
cross-
by police. As fast as officers grabb-|
+
most)
befors
beating back three and four nude Mr. Hall-Brutton: Exactly; economic conditions to smoothe over Doukhobors. The women were and your object of this conver the discontent while it proceeds as particularly vicious. As the itch sation with Cheng the accused fast as possible with the reforms. powder was not fully effective in was for the purpose of extract- After this the prisoners may be re- the high wind that prevailed the ing money from him if possible? leased, there may be a general Doukhobora started an offensivo-Yes, Sir.
amnesty, and all will be well, ac- Nelson jail to-day is filled to over- by using water from a garden hose. The poison was bought for the cording to the calculations. flowing. On Sunday 117 men and Several officers were drenched be-same purpose? - Yes.
"But even if their plans work like! The syringe also? - Yes. clockwork '(continued Mr. Andrews) women, allegedly Sons and Daugh- fore the pipe line was disconnected ters of Freedom, cast aside their
Now, I take it that Zimmern the reforms cannot come garments and staged a nude parade, ed a nudist he was set upon by one, was in this plot of extracting Parliament before April next year, and that would mean no elections in The final scene is the best ending This led to a fight of about three-two or three more. One nude wo- money? Not in the beginning;
man stepped backwards and fell not until I told him.
Constitution India under the new to a picture we have seen in a long quarters of an hour with eighteen time. Gable dors the best work of provincial police officers and the into a glass hothouse. Another.re-
The hearing was adjourned to till October, 1933. Are they going to renew the ordinances (which his short sensational career, show-freedom of the paraders ended when ceived a severe gash on the fore- this afternoon. ing himself capable of tenderness they were loaded into motor trucks head and is at present in hospital.
were imposed as a temporary emer- and passion. The political speech- and autos and packed in the jail. She "forgave" the palice "for they
gency measure) and keep Mr. did know what they did."
Gandhi and all the independent lead-! making sequence is a severe test of The parade is reported to have been
ers of the country an actor's abilities, and here he is headed by Pete Maloff and "Old
in prison for Bottlenose," a woman fanatic.
another year or 18 months? The convincing and dignified.
The parade, which began at
one thing that everybody in India The whole enst in good, Skeets
knows is that Gandhi is in prison, Gallagher not to funny. Wallace Thrums, sixteen miles from here, Ford, plays the small-town lad con- was partly a protest against ex- vincingly and John Miljan stands pulsion of Sons of Freedom from out in a "bit." M.M. guarantee the Doukhobor communities by or- for perfect direction by Clarence thodox lenders. Some of the free- Brown, and the usual long list of dom-loving falk are said to have excentives who make everything Communist leanings, too, and it is that this studio turn out rank as possible that May Day struck them as a suitable time for their clothes- one hundred per cent.
at the less celebration. Apart from this, "Possessed" will open Queen's Theatre on Sunday next.
however, parading in the nulle is an old custom among the Sons of Freedom.
Expecting trouble.
FARMERS' DISTRESS IN JAPAN.
Moratorium Passed by Diet,
Tokyo, Yesterday. The Diet's Petitions Committee has passed the petition submitted by 45,000 Tarmers asking for three-years moratorium. on debts,, a subsidy of Yen 60,000,000 on cleared land and a Yen 50,000,000 subsidy on emigration to churia.-Reuter,
Inspector
When the fight was over the
police had eight-four men and thirty-three women cornered in an orchard. Many of them were com pletely devoid of clothing and all were in various stages of undress.
Possible Penalty is Three
Year
A parade in the nude was held
REINFORCEMENTS FOR MANCHURIA.
greater the discontent will be.
Japanese Send Further and the longer he is in prison the
Troops.
Tokyo, Yesterday.
"Amritsar Atmosphere."
"The risk is enormous. If the ordinances are renewed for another
110
Forbes Cruickshank and Staff Ser-sons guilty of parading in the nude It has been intimated that "It is quite useless to send over,
geant Stephenson stationed their provincial officers at Shore Acres: about five miles from Thrums. A motorcycle officer was sent along the highway. He ran into the nude parade and summoned the officers. The police gave some fifty nude paraders twenty minutes to dress or get off the highway, but they paid
no heed.
The police quickly closed in on the parade. The marchers fought
Man FRANCE AND THE
MANCHUKUO.
Loan May Be Granted.
SHARE MARKET.
The official summary issued by the Stock Exchange to-day states: Conditions were again quiet this morning, and quotations more or less unchanged.
Sales.
Hotels (Cum Rights), $12. Hong Kong Lands, $78. Humphreys, $16.60. Hong Kong Trams, $23.16/23%. China Lights (Old), $20/86. Hong Kong Electrics, $74%. Hong Kong Ropes, $14.20. Dairy Farms, $28.30.
Buyers.
33.
Bank of East Asia, $115. Canton Insurances, $1,200.- Chinn Fire Insurances, $600. H.K. & W. Docks, $18. Providents (New), '$2.30. Hong Kong Lands, $77. Humphreys, $16.40. Hong Kong Trams, $28.10; Star Ferries, $904. China Lights (018), $20%, Hong Kong Electrics, $74.60;
Macao, Electrica, $24. Telephones (PP), $23%. Hong Kong Ropes, $14. Dairy Farms, $28.80.
Lane, Crawfords (Old), $6.
New), 26.80
Lane, Crawfords Sinceres, 116
H.K Govt
NEGOTIATIONS DENIED IN
DIET.
Tokyo, Yesterday. Questioned in the Diet to-day, Viscount Saito, Prime Minister, denied that the French Govern- ment was negotiating loans with the Manchukuo Government un-'
CENTRAL THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY
at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
THE GREATEST CHINESE TRIUMPH ON THE SCREEN
LAY SHAO SHAO & RAYMOND KING
IN
HUMANITY
again at the same spot and pass- Imperial sanction has been six months in June there can hardly ing motorists were pelted with rocks obtained for the despatch of fur- be any question that the police will by the fanatics. Police went to the ther troops, to Manchuria, and get out of hand more and more. scene but all was quiet upon their the withdrawal of others. al-I have already come across many! jarrivals.
Under an amendment to the cri- though it has not been stated worse cases than that of. Dr. For- whether the changes will entall|rester-Paton, and an "Amritsar,at- minal code brought down last year a numerical increase, or if they mosphere, even if there is by the Dominion Government, per-will be merely replacements. Amritsar incident, is developing. are liable to three years in prison. mainly cavalry will be despatch-time after time, the information The parades followed a series of ed. This is presumably due to that things are getting better. Out- attracks on property in the neigh-that fact that mounted infantry wardly, there may seem to be n bourhood of Doukhobor settlement, tactics are best suited to coping pause, but is like the hush before for which members of the Sons of with the activities of the mount-a storm, not a pause that denotes Freedom sect are blamed. At-
ed bandits. - Reuter.
fair weather ahead. If there were tempts have been made to bura
any outbreak of police cruelty the schools an irrigation pipe was
storm would break immediately." shattered by a bomb, railways were
Mr. Andrews stated that imme- tampered with and a switch was blown up by a bomb just after a train passed over it.
IMPROVED WATER SITUATION.
Storage Increased by 110 Million Gallons.
BUT STILL BELOW AVERAGE.
THOMAS LEAVES diately after his return from South
FOR DUBLIN.
Invited by De Valera to Parley.
Africa to India he asked to be allowed to see Mr. Gandhi, but was refused.
Mr. Andrews is somewhat hap-
pir about his mission to South Africa. They did gain some relief for Indians in South Africa, he
Dr. Forrester-Paton, whose arrest
London, Yesterday. said. In the House of Commons to- day, M. 3. H. Thomas, Dominion in India in January was the subject
· pre-
has since been Sir Samuel Hoare to
Secretary, announced
of an inquiry and that Mr. Eamon de Valera, Prime Minister admitted by of the Irish Free State, had have been a mistake, is also at pre- sent in this country. He arrived Invited the Government to a
ten, days ago The Colony's water storage liminary discussion at Dublin he's increased by 110,000,000 the present difficulty between the gallons, as a result of the steady two countries in connection with rainfall during the past four the Ottawa Conference.
Mr. Thomas is leaving for Dublin days, particularly on Friday and
te-night, accompanied by Lord Hail- Saturday.
sham, War Secretary.
L
In spite of the gain, however,
:
Mr. de Valera has agreed to
Mr. Andrews expects to be in Manchester in a few days.
APPEAL TO EMPEROR.
Tokyo, Yesterday. Voicing the growing spirit of
der a guarantet from the Japan- the water in the Colony's reser-resume his conversations in Lon-unrest and dissatisfaction among ese Government, but Reutervoirs is still much below average don on Friday-Reuter. learns from a reliable source that and consequently there is no
a representative of the Franco-chance of any immediate relaxa- Asiatic Bank is at present in tion in the water restrictions, Tokyo.
according to a statement made
Department of the
He will leave shortly for Man- by an official of the Waterworks
churia where he is to discues
with both the Manchukuo and The effect of W.D."
Soviet authorities, the question of French rights and interests in the Chinese Eastern Railway, in which he will seek a share of the directorate.
restrictions
now in force has been the re- duction of consumption from 11,000,000 gallons to 6,500,000 gallons per day, whilst the pre- sent consumption, compared, to It is understood that if the ne- that for two or three days prior gotiations are successful, the to restrictions being imposed, is French representative will offer a little more than a third, the a loan to the Manchukuo Govern-quantity of water then used ment for the Improvement of the amounting to 18,000,000 gallons railway, after which offer he will per day.
negotiate other loans with
mate industrial
althoug
caly
DO
the agricultural communities, aris Ing out of the keen economic dis- tress, representatives of 120,000 farmers in Northern Japan' are to make a direct ap
GEORGE PHILIPPAR, Throne, for menadlate
DISASTER.
Judicial Enquiry to Be Held.
rellet
The delegation this afternoon visited the Speaker of the Lower House, to whom they complained that successive Government had asserted that the matter was under consideration, but rellef was not forthcoming. As a result, they des Owing to the great perturbaclared, that patience of the farmers by the loss of the was now exhausted as conditions Mliner Georges
Paris, Yesterday.
Adon last
ed, according
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