CONTRACTORS FINED Blasting Without
Due Care
GIRL INJURED AND MAN KILLED
Yeung Fat, a building contrac-i tor, was this, morning fined $200, by Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magistracy, for failing to take! proper precautions while blasting! at Lyemun Barracks at noon March 22.
On
GOVERNOR OF BANK OF ENGLAND RE-ELECTED
~THE CHINA-MAH:- WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1-1936
FOREIGNERS IN
COLONY
Iscrease In Numbers Noted
FEWER DESTITUTES
According to
figures obtained from the Police authorities, there: were a total of 5.705 aliens other than Chinese living in the Colony up to December 31, last year, as compared with a number of 4.843) in the previous year."
During the past year 362 - per- sons were registered under the Registration of Persons. Ordin- ancé, which was brought into force during 1934. Of this aum- ¡ber 44 persons died during the year, while 4,059 left the Colony.
Inspector O'Connor' said the matter was first brought to their: notice when a girl was brought toj the police station to be taken toi the hospital. It appears that she was in a nullah in Island Road washing clothing, about 200 feet away from the blasting. The de-j fendant did not take any precau- tion with his blasting, in fact, no weight of any consequence Was London, To-day--Mr. Montague ties other than Chinese were used, but only some gunny bags. Collet
Norman T3.5
Twenty-four persons were con- victed for failing to register un- Ider the ordinance, while a total of $5 persons of different nationali-
re-elected brought before the police courts A piece of rock, weighing 15 lbs. Governor of the Bank of England for the following offences: Va- broke the branch of a tree and yesterday, and thus enters on his grancy (15), Stowaways (7), and fell on the girl, who was badly in-17th year of office.--British Wize Passports (44). jured. Had she been hit on the less Service.
head she might have been killed. S
While the girl was in the Hospi-i
tal the defendant had visited her GOWN SHOWN
and it was arranged that $10 be paid.
Another Case
IN COURT
Alleged Claim To Copyright
QUESTION OF "BURNING MOMENT"
Yu Yat Hing, a contractor, was Aned $200 for the same offence. and in this case Inspector O'Con- nor said that on 9.15 a.m. ON March 17, a man was killed as the result of blasting. Four тел were working side by side and had lighted their fuses. The de- Is a dress design copyright? ceased, in taking cover, fell This question-stated to be of tripped himself and was perhaps "burning moment" to the dress- rendered unconscious or was to making trade-was the subject of scared to move. His own blast, a test action before Mr. Justice | which was only about 18 feet Clauson in the Chancery Division away, went off. He was hit by dy-recently.
because they
or
Park-street,
Maay Deportations
FAMOUS PICTURE BOUGHT
FOR U.S. MUSEUMI
"Venus And The Inte Player" By Tihan
New York: The Metropoila Masgim annonces that it has made its most important single purchase" from Duveen Brothers. the art dealers
It is Titian's "Venus and the Late Player,* which the Daveens the Earl of
purchased from
Leicester in 1931.
Mr. Edward Duveen stated that the sale had been negotiated by his brother, Lord Daveen
He said: "I am not at liberty to reveal the price paid for the picture.
•
"Although a very fine picture. is has been on our hands for six years because of its great”gize.
The Canvas measures 65 inches by 82 inches, and is there- fore most suited for a museum or some other spacious building."
UNSTAMPED RECEIPTS
Two Men Fined
A TALKIE BY CHAPLIN?
He Wants To Play Napoleon
FUTURE PLANS REVEALED
New York: "Hullo, Mr. Chap- lin an interviewer' called over the long-distance telephone to Hollywood from New York. And "Greetings!" came the answer in Charlie Chaplin's mellifluous English voice, which screen diences have never heard.
21-
the
Then, for half an hour, famous comedian talked of his plans for the future of a "talkie" he may act in (but not as the famous tramp); of his great ambition to play Napoleon, and of his determination never to be seen in a colour film
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But Chaplin's immediate plans have nothing to do with films. He is going to Mexico on three-months fishing expedition. He says he cannot get to London before next year.
unstamped Chaplin in another silent
see
On his return from Mexico he" has in mind a light comedy with satirical elements, starring The number of destitutes dealt
Paulette Goddard and with himself with was. less, being a total of
Chan Cheung, of Yee Fat Co., as director-but not as actor. It 38 as against 65 in 1934.
No. 123 Wing Lok Street, was this will be a talkie Deportation orders tctalled 10-morning fined $10 by Mr. W.
The Tramp Again 346 as compared with 13,217 in Schofield at the Central Maxis- The world will certainly 1934. Of these, 3.500 were Hous tracy for issuing an Kong banishees, 4,727 were gaol receipt for $21.67 on January 21, with his famous tramp as hero. discharges who were automatical-while Wong Sang of, No. 35 Stall But just what he will do after the ly expelled, 609 were Singapore of Western Market. was fined a Goddard flm is finished he has vagrants, while the remainder milar sum for issuing an nn-not decided. were undersirables and deportees stamped receipt of $21.74. The of the Dutch East Indies, Deli and latter pleaded that owing to the pearing in a talkie provided he Ocean Island.
pressure of work on Chinese New plays some part other than his Year eve be had forgotten the little man in the bowler hat, matter.
baggy trousers, and inevitable
ELDERLY LADY'S
FUNERAL
Elaborate Rites And Procession
He has no objection to ap-
For failing to affix sufficient cane. It was easy to see where stamps on a bill of $236.30 on Chaplin's heart lies. He wants January 21, Lee Lai, of the Wing to play Napoleon! |Coffee Co. was fined $5. Sergeant|
Ee said: "I've been thinking Whitcroft, attached to the Trea-about it for a long time, but it sury, prosecuted.
won't be my next picture.
"The truth is I cannot make up my mind whether I'm the to play the great Frenchman; and I've no one in mind who could.”
"When you do play him," the interviewer interrupted, "how do
AIRMAN TO TRY.
AGAIN
Two Forced Landings On Australia Flight
ing rock and died soon after. In The case concerned a red chiffon this case no weights were used dinner-gown, which was in court, and there were quite a number of and the main question, ssid coun- workmen near by as the erection sel, was whether it was “a work of buildings was going on in the of artistic craftsmanship within The funeral of the late Mrs. Ho
wracks
the meaning of the Copyright Wah-sang took place to-day from These contractors, Inspector Act."
her residence at On Hing Terrace, 'Connor concluded, think that Mrs. Marjone Lilian Burke, of the funeral procession being on a
are од Military
W. and Margot very elaborate scale. ground they may do as they think Burke, Lt of Dover-street, Mrs. Ho Wah-sang, who was in W. (of which Mrs. Burke her 65th year, passed away at her is a director and manageress).residence March 29.
од
Her sought an injunction to re-husband, Mr. Ho Wah-sang, is the strain Spicers Dress Designs, of proprietor of the Shui Cheong infringing a copyright in the Fo Leang Kok; and the Tung last month to make another start dress, and asked for an inquiry as Wah Hospital. ito datrages.
with the blasting.
SLEEPING OUT IN on Parroad, we from Dispensary and a director of the
LONDON
Pride Goes Before A Bed
· Defence Claim
WEATHER REPORT
KOBUL
you intend to portray Napoleon ?” “As a human being, with all the weaknesses and greatness of one. Hythe.
I conceive him as a great то- After two forced landings inmantic figure, but I would not France Mr. C. M. G. Turner, the dramatise him as a god among
men."
Kent airman, returned to England
on his attempted solo flight to Australia in a six-year-old cabin: monoplane..
His Colour Ban Chaplin will never be seen in a colour film.
reality."
He left Lympne early in Febra-|
He does not think much of the The defence was that the de-.
and said frankly: ary, intending to make his first invention 'sign did not come within the pro- PUBLIC ASSISTANCE REPORT tection of the Copyright Act.
stop at Lyons, but came down at "Colour is more artificial than Mr. S. O. Henn Collins, K.C., for move
The anti-cyclone continues to Epinal, the centre of fortified ter black and white. Personally, I eastward, and is now ritory, owing to bad visibility. don't like it, because colour is Between the hours of midnight Mra Burke and the plaintiff com centred over Japan and the Sea Considerable anxiety was felt in not true reproduction. It lacks and 3 am. on February 15-16 last pany, said that in a limited sense of Japan. The depression of the England, no news of him being! year there.. were 77 homeless the action was a friendly one- people walking the streets of Lon-
Pacific is
Another thing intensely per- probably situated received for nearly seven hours The defence was that the deabout 150 miles north of Pelew, after he landed.
sonal to himself is the great don.
Mr. Justice Clauson said he moving north-west. North-east Next day he took off for Lyons,
actor's conviction that he never This is revealed in the annual thought that dressmakers did not winds, moderate; fine to cloudy, but made another forced landing report on public assistance issued mind dresses being copied so long was the forecast for to-day, as at St. Alban. Later he few told days," was the way he put it. by the LCC. last month.
as every precaution was taken that issued by the Royal Observatory Lyons. Mr. Turner said that he A census showed that of these the wearer of the copy did not this morning. seventy-seven 59 were men and 18 meet the one wearing the original. women. The total number of Mr. Henn Collins said the term persons who might be regarded as "fine arts" could not only mean homeless (excluding those who drama, music, and painting. paid for their beds in common Mr. Justice Clauson: In the lodging-houses) that night, was making of a dress, is the object to 3,421.
produce a covering, or it is mere- A motor accident, fortunately Vacant Beds
is expected ly to gratify an aesthetic am-inot attended by any serious dam-here from Shanghai at 6 am. on never compete with him. But despite this, there
were bition?
age, occurred in Cameron Road, Friday. vacant beds" in casual words and "Undoubtedly the latter," repli- Kowloon, this morning when an hostels.
ed Mr. Henn Collins.
RAF. lorry, No. 102, W39 The report attempts to explain
Fitting Difficulties
volved in collision with a Kow-
this, and finds that:
wants to go back to the theatre.
"I have no longings for those
"At present in films," he de- clared, "we have
too many me» | |chanical devices. I'm afraid that
to be really great the film is still) too involved. You see, art is such
Finger In Pie "Take Michelangelo.
would set out again in a few days,
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES personal, thing.
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4.8. Ranchi
The
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We can He did
his job alone. He didn't depend on carpenters to help him,
"But we have not only carpen- During the absence of Bishop ters but cameramen, stage-hands. Later a mannequin entered the loon motor bas, No. 549. There Hall on leave the Rev. E. W. Ldirectors, producers-all having Men prefer to sleep out rather court wearing the gown. After were no passengers in the bus at Martin, of St. Stephen's Boys' a finger in the pie." than prove they are destitute, removing her hat, she walked in the time, and the bus driver was College, Stanley, will act as his Chaplin did not deny that some which is the condition of being front of Mr. Justice Clauson, turn very lucky
with only Commissary, but all correspond great films had been produced, al- granted public assistance.
ed round, and then held out her minor scratches,
should be although his ence
addressed "It is impossible to give rea-arms in the most approved manne- compartment was badly smashed. Bishop's House-
to though, when pressed, he artfully
declined to mention them—not | sons for what is on the face of it quin style to show off the symme
even any of his own. unreasonable a proceeding astrical lines of the creation.
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to escape
"It might make me foo napapu-|
"Until they simplify films 1 don't see how we shall, get much Improvement. But I do think the
Among the passengers who #x- Recent appointments by the Ad- to sleep out in a London street in Mr. Henn Collins said Mr. Jus-rived in port this morning by the miralty include that of: Lt (E) |lar," he remarked with a chuckle. February 'en a good bed is antice Clauson might appreciate the ss. Carthage was Mrs. G. Alabas-A Kirkconnel to Cumberland available sternative," says the difficulties involved in the fitting ter, wife of the Attorney-General, (undated). report, "but apart from eccen- of the frock, and the latter repli- the Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster. tricfties of behaviour, a motive infed: “I have not been married 33 many cases may be a desire to years without knowing something give an appearance. of complete about it" destitution as a means of appeal- ing to the pockets of the charit- ably minded.
Begging Preferred
The hearing was adjourned.
A dinner dance will be held at film is in advance of the thes-
Mr. W. Pryde, former Hon. Se-Repulse Bay Hotel at 8.30 this tre." cretary of the Hong Kong Foot-evening. ball Club, was also a passenger by
Television No Threst Mention was made about tele- vision in relation to films.
Chaplin is sure that this great İzcience of the future will do no damage to films. He sees people enjoying "movies”...gn their
the s.5. Carthage, who disembark- A fancy dress dance will be | OLD CONTEMPTIBLES PARADE ed this morning. accompanied by held at the Sailors' and Soldiers' "The problem is one of mendi-
Mrs. Pryde and
the masters Home, 22, Hennessy Road, Wan cancy as well as one of destitution. The Lord Mayor of London, Pryde.
chai, at 8:30 to-night "It would seem that there are with the City Sheriffs and Alder- persons who, except in the sever men. will attend in State the m- Lt. Comdr. Sadholme, E. N.,
The fortnightly whist drive of homes, but, as he explained, Man est weather conditions, do not nual parade service of the London arrived in the Colony this morní-the Craigengower Gricket Club
is a gregarious animal and likes seek shelter, ́ but remain in the Old Contemptibles at St. Paul'sjing by the 1.8. Carthage. streets.
Cathedral on Sunday afternoon "There is no reason to believe March 15.
that. Hegying a resorted to by apparently destitute persons be-
cause they are : umzwxre-of the
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Mr. G. Worrall and Major and Mes. Galloway and infant were also arrivals this morning by the
a. Carthage
will be held on Saturday, begin- ning at 9 pm.
The ships' company
HMS Dorsetshire is holding a dance to morrow at the China Fleet Club, from 9 pmA. -
The R. A. Sergeants" Mess fort-
ww
to take his pleasures in the com- pany of others.”.
"Television is just another form of distributing entertainment,” was the ferse way in which · he put his ideas on the subject.
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Lady Louis Mountbatten, one of... Jill a fox which they had chased the richest women in the world, "It seems more probable that for half a mile along the railway the heiress of Sir Ernest Cassel, nightly whist drive and tombola A helicopter of new design at- they prefer begging became it line last month an express was arrived in the Colony yesterday will be held in the premises of tained a speed of 100 miles an does not involve the supervision brought to a halt in the middle of morning from Java by the JCJI the mess on Friday.next, April Z, bour on its first test recently inciduntal to the grant pf relief" the pack and the fox escaped | steamer Tjizadane.
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