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WEEK-ENDING IN THE AIR.
MASTER OF SEMPILL DROPS IN " ON FRIENDS IN COUNTRY.
PLANE IN GARAGE.
Week and airtrips are foreshadowed by,
Master of Sempill, soion of a well-known Scottish family.
the
BRIT
SIR FRED
CHINA
LUCARD ON
BOLSHEVISAÏ.“
VEXATIOUS SUMMONS.
SANITARY DEPARTMENT PROSECU TION. FAILS.
SIR PAUL CHATER.
TPS PERSONAL MEMOIR.
The following reference” to the late The hearing was concluded, at the T. P. OConnor, appeared in the Daily Sir Paul Chater, from the pen of Mr. Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon, Telegraph of May 31st. It will de of the case in which Mr. M. K. Lorand with interest by Hongkong reais represented the defendant who was atm- dents, although Mr. O'Connor las ob
viously mired up wide tartem ens matory Preparerentur Paul's interprises the Government plan
Sir Frederick Lugard, who presided at reunion of the Victoria, Hongtong, and South China Diocesan Association at Victory House, Leicester- +raditional-feeling of good will and sympathy in England With his wife as a passenger, he left with Chiria had recently found expres-respect of the alleged, insanitary condi- for taking over the military, lende in
sion in the appointment of Lord South- tion of a lavatory at No. 01, Wong Nei the central part of the Colony and flew
In a sense it may be said that Paul Edgware, in a Moth seroplane,
borough's committee for Improving our Cheng Road.
It will be recalled that, when the case Chater, whose death was reported in by way of High Wycombe and Oxford
relations with that great country, and to Sherborne
within the last few days by the formation was before the Court last week, Mr. Lo Saturday's issue, was Hongkong and Then he flew on overTewkesbury, of the Universities of China Committee, said that it was vexatious" sum Hongkong was Paul Chater. When he Hereford, New Radnor, Lianidloes, the object of which was to improve the mens, taken out because of a letter of arrived in Hongkong in 1864, a young chinlleth, round the Cader Idris, and cultural relations between our seats of complaint made to the Sanitary Depart Armenian, fresh from Calcutta, he was came down on the sands at Berth on the learning and China by the exchange of ment relative to alleged rude behaviour glad to get employment as an assistant Welsh coast between Barmouth and lectures People in England were pul of Inspector John Hughes on one of his in a bank, bat by dint of irrepressible energy, courage, and resource, he soon Aberystwyth, where he was met by ed to know the reason of the anti-British | visita.
The basis of Mr. Lo's defence was that started for himself as an exchange and friends.
feeling which had been shown in China. For his own part, he felt very hopeful of the summons had been wrongfully taken bill-broker. Within two years of his the future, mainly because China had at out, inasmuch as that the Inspector had arrival he had already pushed himself fast came to realize the bandful influence known, the name of the cccupier before to the front, and formed an asspciation of Bolsheviam, and that the leaders and applying for the summons, although he with the great firm of Jardine, Mathesta agents of that movement had fallen com- had not known the name on an earlier & Co., the East India merchants. plately into disrepute. That gave him visit. hope that the gestures of good will to- wards China which he had mentioned might meet with some respouse.
t
After lunch he made an afternoon fight of about an hour between Bar mouth and Aberystwyth along the coast
When he came back, he landed again on the sands, folded the wings of his aero- plane, and pushed it up over the shingle beach, and put it into an ordinary car garage for the night.
Next day (Sunday) he stayed at Barth, and on Monday he left again, flying over Carnarvon, Llanethly. He crossed the Bristol Channel at a place where it is. 20 miles wide to Lynmouth, and few on to Barnstaple and Instow. There he had lunch, and filled up with petrol which he bought at a garage near where he landed: In the afternoon he flew on over Devon and part of Cornwall, and landed for the night at a farm:
On the following day his route was from Morchard Bishop to Exeter, up the valley to Minchend, following the Bristol Channel and River Severn to Chelten ham. There he landed on the highest point of the locality, called Cleese Com men, had lunch, called on some friends, and flew on in the evening to Broadway.
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The machine was housed this time in barn overnight, and the air tourist few home by way of Oxford and High Wycombe...
RUSSIAN MIGRATION.
SIBERIA FOR EUROPEANS. EXCITES INTEREST IN JAPAN, The Japanese journal ochi learna that on consultation with the Far Eastern Government at Habarovsk, the Soviet Government has recently laid down an ambitious scheme of migrating large numbers of farmers from European Hussia to Amur and Maritime Provinces This scheme, the Tokyo journal says, exciting considerable interest among the authorities of the Japanese and Chinese Governments. The main reason for this
Chater soon came to the conclusion Major Willson thought a nominal Gae that if Hongkong was for develop it practically required reconstruction Land would meet the caeci
Mr. Lo replied that this would not was available, but it was largely a mect the case. He wished the whole mat awamp His first great work was to re ter thrashed cut. He held that the sum-claim part of the harbour, a costly task mons against the owner was "vexatious
His Worship It is a question of law. Mr. Lo: Yes it is a question of law; but based on fact.
His Worship: You are asking me to and that the summons was wrongly taken out on a question of law.
which took six years to complete; and year after year he had some new and
One startling project of development.
of his last projects was to purchase from the military authorities all the sites which stood in the business part of the island for £2,000,000
Mr. Lo argued that Inspector Hughes Sir Path had a hand in everything in knew the name of the occupier when he Hongkong. He was a director of some applied for the summons. He had sd-sixte
sixteen companies, and took an active mitted in evidence that he did not know part in the administration of the colony. the name of the occupier, nor did he see He was a member of its Executive Cean- the occupier when he visited the pre-eil and of the Legislative Assembly. misca. He had stated that he found out Even these innumerable engagements on June 1st and did not limit his activities. He had the the name of the occupier then applied for a summons.o finest collection of old porcelain at his
During the fight he covered between Plan is that due to the crude methods of Inspector Hughes said what- he had magnificent house, which could be, with
750 and 200 iniles.
Colonel Sempill remarked on landing I think my little week-end trip has proved fairly conclusively that one can take one's wife in an aeroplane for a week-end trip in much the same way that one does it in armotor-car
U.S. AND PROHIBITION.
cultivation adopted by Russian-farmers,
His Worship pointed out that at the previous bearing Inspector Hughes had asked for a adjournment in order to call further evidence, and asked if he was going to do so.
it is becoming more dificult for the farm-stated had been perfectly true. He did out any poetic licence described as a mar ing population in European Russia. to be not know the name of the occupier when ble hall. He bought pictures and engrav- adequately supported. Inasmuch, how he visited the place fret. He only foundings and braries. He was one of the ever, as the trans-Baikal district east of Traktsk is too arid to be it for settle out the name by deducing it from a great patrons of the fine University which meat, the Soviet authorities have decided letter, and this letter was not relevant Hongkong how possesses, and he helped -to-settle-tho-surplus population of farm to the case.
to build athedral, the Seamen's ers in European Russia in the Amur and
Home, and St. Andrew's Church. Maritime Provinces. There is a collateral reason for the scheme, which, the Hocai says, causes more alarm to the Japanese and Chinese authorities. That is that. the Soviet authorities are partly actuated "HOW IT WILL DIE."
by a desire to check the inflow of America is rapidly tiring of prohibi-Japanese and Chinese immigrants. inte tion for many reasons, but probably these districts, and to secure, moreover, mainly because the nation's sense of footing there for future encroachment humour has been touched by the effort of on Manchuria and Mongolia by means of The Flachi describes the emigration. the kill joy reformers to repeal nature's Japanese authorities as being specially law of fermentation by Act of Congress.
No-law can stand when public senti-concerned about the prospect of the grow ing density of the Russian population in ment is against it. That American sea Northern Saghalen, as a result of this: timent is mainly against prohibition is shown by the absolute lack of co-opera plan, increasing the chances of trouble tion on the part of the public and of between Japanese and Russians on that
islàed. local officials in aiding the enforcement of the law. Every good citizen is in favour of laws against real crimes; fer welcome a law which attempts by fiat to make a crime out of something that is not in fact a crime..
ALLEGED SWINDLE.
JAVA MERCHANT HELD IN CUSTODY IN SHANGHAL ..
GLDRS. 600,000 PEPPER DEAL.
After further evidence, his worship held that the summons had been wrong; fully taken ort against defendant; and dismissed the case
AT THE CINEMAS, PROGRAMMES AT THE QUEEN'S
AND STAR.''
In his youth he was an indefatigable cricketer. His greatest hobby, however, was racing. He could boast that he never missed a local race meeting for sixty-one years. He was the senior Steward of the local, Jockey Club; he was an owner and a breeder. In 1984-be won Efteen races with ten different
.: ponies record in sporting annals; and * in 1925 he won the great Shanghai Derby
Morriss, who won the English Derby a "beating, curiously enough, Mr. H., E.
few weeks later.
The attractive programmes that were presented at the Queen's and Star Theatres on Sunday and yesterday, will be substituted to-day by rer of equal appeal, attraction and interest.
It was largely through his initiative and boundless energy that Hongkong rose to the position of the third greatest port in the world, and also rese: to be
There was 26 first a general tendency
At the Queen's Theatre, Winds of a healthy, well-built, and increasing city. Chance will be turcened to do and
He held outstanding position as prac to accept prohibition on the assumption
to-morrow. This is a First National Pic that it was the great moral reform it'
ture and stars Anna Nilsson. I tically the father of the place, its richest claimed-to-be, and because no one had
A Chinese, alleged to be a Dutch sub is from a Rex Beach story and deals with resident its greatest benefactor. His "a good word to say for the saloon. But
fame and achievements, appealed to the the evils that have followed prohibition ject, made his appearance in the Dutch romance and adventure in Alaska.
Beach has written a a brilliant story of Colonial Office with the result that he have been far worse than anything Consular Court, Shanghai, on the 22nd known in the old wet days.. Corruption-inst, charged with having obtained the the fast frontier, and in picturising it exists on every hand, liquor is easily sum of 600,000 guilders by means of false Lloyd has enhanced the adventure by is created a C.M. G. on Queen Victoria's obtainable, but of bad quality, alleged pretences in Java some time ago. The careful attention to details and by lead Golden Jubiles, and received a knight- whisky and gin are everywhera pro accused was arrested in Nanking by ing his players through all the perils and hood on the coronation of King Edward curable, but beer and wine cannot be had. Detective Sergeant Gaab, who went to uncertainties that made the days of 1503
The French Government also recognised All these things have convince the the provincial capital armed with a desteem with thrills and romance,
his services us a financier-by-awarding better class of citizens, who cannot be patch warrant and carried out his par
him the Legion of Honour. said to have any francia interest in pose with the assistance of the Nanking the liquor traffic, that prohibition is one authorities. of the most, immoral and intemperate The complainants in the case are the devices ever attempted by man. It has Netherlands Trading Society, who alleg completely killed the temperance moved that the accused realized this large ment, which was making great strides-in-sure of money from a swindle over a deal the United States before prohibition-It-in-popper has disgusted parents, who find their Mr. H. C. Mei and Dr. Fisher appear children now carrying flasks for ed for accused lark "These same children would never have thought of liquor in the days when it was legally procurable." -
Repealing a constitutional amendment,
A week's remand was ordered to settle the question of jurisdiction which has been raised by counsel for the defence. The accused is to remain in custody of
Anna Q: Nilsson, Ben Lyon, Viola Dans and Vietor cLaglen, the British stars He-came to Europe pretty frequentie have the featured roles, whilst the sup- and it was at Vichy that I met him for porting cast of hardly less importance the first time. I was prepared to find includes Hobart Bosworth, Claude Gila man of commanding appearance, but lingwater, Dorothy Sebastian, and Philo with surprise found myself in the McCol
in America is a tremendous task, and it the Shanghai Municipal Eolice during man's stage. play transported to the of the language and his manners were);
What
will probably not be attempted will happen is that the infamous Tolstend Act, which is the Act passed by Congress, to carry out what are alleged to be the intentions of the amendment, will be repealed.
***PEACEFUL PICKETING "--
HOME SECRETARY DEFINES ITS MEANING.
At the request of the Home Secretary, the following was broadcast in the Press: MEAN
Everybody is familiar with the phrase peaceful picketing But the ex- tent to which picketing can the lawfully carried out, even in connection with genuine trades dispute, to widely mis understood
"It cannot be too dearly emphasised that the use of any kind of compulsion, force, threats, or intimidation, whether actual or implied, for the purpose of preventing persons from working who wish to do so, is unlawful, and persons who throng outside docks, factories, or other-premises, or on the highway for that purpose are liable to prosecution for a criminal offence.
the remand.
THE YANGTSZE COLLISION.
S.S.
RHEINLAND AND S.S.
MITSUHI MARU.”.
With regard to the collision reported between the above vessels, we learn that the Hitsuki Maru has staggered into port with her bows badly damaged and is. anchored at present within Hankow har bour limits, says the Central China Port of June 18th. Details of the accident are lacking, but it seems that the Rheinland was struck, mishipa and that she is lying helpless at pretent with her engine rooms flooded. According to Chinese reports there was toss of life.
presence of a man rather below the mid; From Thursday to Saturday inqirive dhe height, robust, with a fine chest and the great attraction of the week will be broad shoulders and in addition an air screened, The-Cohens-and-the Kellys, of perfect simplicity and modesty. one of the comedy successes of the year Though the face was rather handsome, ke and a record breaker, in most places in just looked like a busy and paternal stockbroker. The skin was somewhat The story is clever. It is Aaron Hoff dark so were the eyes; but his command which it has been shown.
screen an Irish and a Jewish family are those of a typical Englishman, with a neighbours in the East side of New York complexion browned by the Eastern sun. City They have never had money. He was quite approachable spent little Death all their quarrels they are the staunchest of friends. Then, without warning, the Jewish family inherits a mil lion dollars and moves to Park Avenue- street of aristocrats. That's where the fun begins and it would detract from the pleasure of witnessing the pict te besten the whole plot. The story can't be beaten and the cast is well chosen.
Charlie Murray is one of the reverat well known movie stars, featured in the
production.
THE STAR THEATRES
or nothing on his own needs; and secined quite unconscious of his own great posi
tion and achievementører
The last time I saw him was at his modest rooms in Whitehall Court, where I went as a beggar this time on behalf of his fellow Armenians; and he gave me a handsome subscription for the fund. He looked robust at this time, thongh he had been compelled to go to Vichy for
a cure, and it comes to me with some thing of a shock that this apparently attong man, in spite of his advanced At the Star Theatre, Kowloon, to-day years, has passed away. Doubtless a and to-morrow, Broadway Rose," a statue of him will one day take its place Tiffany production, directed by Robert Z in the central point of the town. Mean--- Leonard, and starring Mae Murray, in a time, the Londoner has an opportunity story of much dramatic interest, will be of studying his expressive, strong, and pleasant face in the picture of him in the shown.
From Thursday to Saturday The Royal Academy by Mr. George, Henry, Three Chinese youths were recently Fighting Coward will be shown, and it. And arraigned in the police court for kiss may be said, that the picture is as attracHe was always keen to collect any ing a twenty-eight years old married tive as its name. It is an adaptation by literature that had any reference to Chinese woman in the Central Park in Walter Woods of Booth Tarkington's Hongkong, and I had promised to give the evening. The woman was walking stage success Magnólia, which was him a copy of a very interesting work on produced in Broadway during 1923. the Enat by Clande Ferrére. But I kept alone when the three rushed up and at Ernest Torrence, Mary Astor, Nosh it to give him on bis return to England tempted to embrace her. The shouts of
are featured in the principal roles." | book will never reach his hands the Woman brought the police and the Beery, Phyllis Haver, and Cullen Landis on one of his uus fring, and no
arrests followed.