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TRADE TENDENCIES
IN CHINA.
A HOPEFUL OUTLOOK.
ENCOURAGEMENT DRAWN FROM HONG KONG.
[BY EM. DULL, SECRETARY OF THE CHINA ASSOCIATION. }
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29th, 1927.
NAVAL AND MILITARY
ITEMS.
RESERVISTS IN SHANGHAI
DEFENCE- 'FORCE.
NAVAL APPOINTMENTS,
"THE TOWER OF LIES."
THE KING'S GRAPES.
A FILM OF TRAGIC BEAUTY. 300 BUNCHES A YEAR FROM
A 1768 VINE.
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GREAT ACTING BY LON CHANEY AND NORMA SHEARER.
(BY OUR FILM CRITIC.]
AT HAMPTON COURT,
The royal vine at Hampton Court has been cut, and its grapes are now on sale to the public at five shillings a pound
In connection with the service in China of soldiers recalled, to the Colours, and the approaching re
The producers of "The Tower of turn to England of a number of Lies," which is shewing to-day at 1709, is Black Hamburger, like This historie vine, planted in While the details of the present them, it has been decided that time the Queen's, have attempted some the famous King's Vine in Old commercial position-in-China-are-with the Shanghai-Defence-Force-thing which has been rarely tried Windsor Park. The Hampton nhacure, partly owing to the absence will count as continuous Reserva on either the stage or screen. af statistics. but more because of service towards the completion of "The Tower of Lies" is undiluted the kaleidoscopic nature of Chinese the term of engagement in the politics. lending teatures are toler Reserve. In the event of a Section ably clear and in certain respects A man not having completed his encouraging. The encouragement is Reserve service" when sent home to be found in the proof of resiliency from China, he will continue in the furnished by, the trade of Hong Reserve until his engagement is Kong and, to lesser extent, by completed. About a thousand men the figures of British exports of will go home during the winter steet (other than sheet bars and A new turbine course for officers
Court "veteran is now only allowed, to preduce about ve hundred tragedy with no comic relief to bunches a year, each weighing from soften its effect. There is beauty one to two and a half pounds, but certainly, and love, but they are the King's Fine this year bears used to deepen the tragedy rather twelve hundred bunches, which than to afford relief.
average from four to five pounda in weight-
It is alm which might have very easily been marred by, bad acting, and perhaps, there is no other screen actor who could have
When in its prime, the Hampton Court vine has been known to pro- duce two thousand two hundred a single
STAR THEATRE tinplate bars) and textile machinery. of the engineer branch began on played Jan. quite so well as Lon bunches of fruit in
The Musical Comedy Co.
THE QUAINTS
TO-NIGHT
over
Pride Of Fontainebleau.
Chaney does. Lon Chaney has a year. About twenty, years ngg it curious reputation, be has, unfortu- was noticed that its prolific rate nately, often been cast. for parts in of production was beginning to which horror was the predominent react upon its general health and characteristic until one began to stamina, and the annual gathering think of him as a warped and of a thousand bunches was accord- sinister figure to whom a gift for ingly thinned down to a couple of the grotesque and terrible, and a hundred. talent for make up have stood in the place of histrionic ability. Jan. the Swedish peasant tenant of of this drastic pruning, and now It soon responded to a few years.
poverty stricken farm, is, as Lon goes on bearing a steady thousand Chaney plays him, another Lear. For sa bunches each year, and main- He, too, is driven witless by a when only five hundred of this tains a perfectly sound condition.
daughter, a Cordelia of more human quantity are allowed to mature, flesh and blood than Shakespeare's; Another King'a Vine," though. shadowy princess.
it is no longer owned by a reigning monarch, is France's.equivalent of the Hampton Court specimen.
Exports from the United Kingdom September 26th at Portsmouth. And Northern Ireland to Hong Among those appointed for it is Kong for the first six months of Courmander (E) V. J. H. H. this year are about 30 per cent. Sankey, who was promoted at the better than they were during the New Year, after being Assistant to corresponding period of 1990, while the Chief Engineer at Hong Kong the increase in the combined values | Dockyard. » of the items mentioned, calculated | At Chatham Dockyard on Septem over the same period, is represcat-ber 28th Engineer Captain, E. G. ed by about 8 per cent.
Paliott, D.S.0, took the In view of the distinctly depres duties of Manager of the Engineer- sing information which must pre-ing Department. He was Chief Engineer at Hong Kong Dockyard until December last, and has since been employed on special service.
Among appointments of Royal Marine officers is that of Captajn ever, the presence of comforting. H. G. Wills, from Portsmouth, factors means more than mere to the cruiser Durban, in Chin compensation: it means hope- ful outlook. The Hong Kong figures of all the Colony has "Buffer- ed, its commercial vitality remains unimpaired, Boycott and taxation have not succeeded in sapping it. Both are still embarrassing, but to THE WEEK ENDING OCTOBER Tower of Lies is one of the most
Saturday, Oct. 29th at 9.15p.m.sently follow, the encouragement to be derived from these features has the somewhat negative character of comfort. In certain situations, how-.
“OH JOY.”.
TO-MORROW
SUNDAY, OCT. 30th at 9.15
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TUESDAY TO SATURDAY" November 1st to 5th.
The Sign of
THE
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BUREAU
Alexandra Buildings.
The Advertising Agency
that supplies Advertisers
with a Complete Service of Original Copy, Ideas, and Designs for Posters and Blocks
that checks all insertions ini
Foreign and Chinese appers for its Clients,
show that, in spite
a much less extent and in changed circumstances. If pickets at Canton are again interfering with British shipping and goods they are no longer the agents of a vast anti- British conspiracy. Eighteen months or so ago they had the Kuomintang behind them and men of the type of Eugene Chen. To-dny. Chen is a refugee in Moscow and the Kuo- mintang is disintegrating.
Position On The Yangtaxo. This big change in the political situation is too recent for figures to show whether Chinese trade as a whole has begun to react to it. For the first six months of the year Customa returns show a decided drup. But just as Hong Kong's re- covery began with the transference of the Kuomintang from South to Central Gains soother-things being equal, Shanghai may be ex pected to benefit as the Nationalist grip on the Yangtaze weakens. Other things, unfortunately, are not yet equal. Trade on the Yangtsze is to a large extent paralysed by financial chaos. There is an em bargo on silver, and Hankow is flooded with notes that nobody
wants.
Writing to his London office from Hankow on August 20th a corres. pondent says: It is difficult to purchase cargo even with payment in Shanghai taels, simply because
the dealers do not know in what Practical form to change them in order to pay the countryman, who is naturally becoming shyer and shyer of accepting local bank notes. Silver will probably become the only medium, but there is an embargo on silver from Shanghai to Hankow and Kiukiang, apart from our own embargo here, so that business at any moment may be brought to a complete standstill."
HEALTH BULLETIN. OF EASTERN PORTS.
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....
Perhaps the ending is a little banal, but it is seldom allowed to
This is the pride of Fontaine- writer or playwrights to follow bleat, and is traditionally suppos their themes to their logical conTV. Its fruit is considered the ed to have been planted by Henry clusion in the face of the public finest of its kind in Europe. demand for a happy ending." The
A single vine which grows today in the Reggio Emilla province of remarkable Sims we have seen; it Northern Italy, which is known to be at least a centenarian, and be is hardly likely to achieve a popu-lieved to be much older, is probably
gend.
Plague.
1 death at Bombay.
*
I case at Rangoon.
1 case at Colombo (one in appeals the mass
fected ra: found).
seek their entertainment in
tease at Bangkok. Infected rate found at Amay.
Cholera.
2 cases at. Basrah.
death at Rangoon death. at Bangkok death at Shanghai.
6 deaths at Canton.
"Small-pox.
4 cases at Bombay and 2 deaths.
7 cases at Rangoon and *1 death.
O cases at Tuticorin and 10 deaths.
lar success, for its meaning is the most remarkable specimen in neither too obvious por auch oy
the world.
It bas of those who
trunk circumference measurement of four feet, and some of its branches reach seventy feet einema. But it is nevertheless a from the trunk. In a good year it triumph for the Metro-Godwin yields as many grapes as, the aver
age small vineyard. Studio.
Even the famous Germersheim the Rhine Palatinate, which is said to be the oldest in the world, has a main stem circumfer ace of only a little over three feet, though its roots are over eighty yards long. Its historians say that it was planted in the year 1800..
Que exceedingly interesting aspect - £1 A Bunch, of "The Tower of Lies" is the very, vine in faithful attempt at realism and truth which is evinced throughout. Such minor details as the baby "glory," who was played by a genuine new born baby, though of little importance to the develop- Some famous vines were imported- ment of the theme assist enormous Abbey by the Duke of Portland in from Syrin-and-planted at Welbeck ly in the realism of the story. the early nineteenth century, and a Claire McDowell as the old mother, chronicler, writing in 1888, refers to Katrina, shewed admirable restraint Marquis of Rockingham that weigh- a bunch sent as a present to the and understanding of her part bothed nineteen pounds and measured in acting and dressing. While four and a half feet round and Jat's mind had strayed in the mists twenty-three inches in length. DIVIDEND 'ANNOUNCEMENTS. of fancy, to her remains the rigid
12 cases at Bandjermasin and
1 death..
cases at Samarinda.
RUBBER AND MINING.
Messrs. Carroll Bros. have been advised of the following dividends on rubber and mining share:-
Kempas: 10 per cent, final, mak.
ing 35 per cent. for the year. Mandai-Tekong: 3 per cent. final, making 10 percent. for the
year.
Petaling: 5 (4th) interim.
A special feature of last year's
trade was the interest shown in
inlexible morality of the peasant. Yet Katrina is not by any means an unpleasant charater but she is true to life, rather than fiction. She has no hesitation in her mind her daughter, sinner or no 'is atili her child, but she will not condone her shame by accepting her money. ! Love for either husband or child as the romanticista know love has no
meaning for Katrina, she only feels Diesel engines, a form of power;" the urge of protecting maternity for the report continued, that is both of them. becoming increasingly popular in
The British banks have not yet found it possible to reopen and com- munication is difficult. Between China because of its reliability and
The daughter Glory, is played by Shanghai and Hankow shipping its enormous economy as compared Norma Shearer who is already facilities arc restricted; above with steam-launches." Demand for established as an actress of con- Hankow they were until a few days this engine derives part of its siderable skill, and is a very beauti ago to a large extent non-existent. strength. from the multiplication of The agreement made with the electric light plants. The total ful woman. Here she plays the
Nationalists for the Government of value of electrical materials and role of the spoilt darling of the little. the British Concession is working accessories imported into China in farmstead who becomes the embit badly and conditions of residence 108 was 8.9 million faels, compared tered woman of the world, with there are difficult and trying. The with 6.0 million tacla in the pre- premises of at least one large vious year, Great Britain's propor distinction, and the restraint which British firm are still occupied by tion of the trade last year being marks the whole production. Chinese troops or wore on August roughly 16 per cent.; and Japan's
ever sold in London was disposed The largest single bunch of grapes
of last year at Covent Garden at £1 pound. It weighed thirty- seven pounds.
ESE
ALPS.
FRANK
MILK
AT THE
QUEEN'S
A
TO DAY ONLY
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20
great picture with the two stars and the director of
"HE WHO GET'S SLAPPED "
A
VICTOR SEASTROM
pro
The
TOWEROFLIES
Adapted for the conveni by Adam Chelatine Johnatan
ŠELMA LACERLOF.
AT THE
Starring
NORMA SHEARER LON CHANEY!
WORLD
Parametend Hcture
ADELEN ZUVOR JOSE L, SALTY PAGSINT
TO-DAY ONLY
GLORIA SWANSON
IN
MADAME
SANS GENE
A Romance of Napoleon's Day
Orchestra at 5.15 & 9.20. Chinese Interpreter at 2.30 & 7.15 [The picture starts promptly at the above tinter.]
AT THE
STAR
TO-DAY ONLY -- Continuous. From 2.80 to 8:80
ZANE GREY'S great story—
The CALL of
the
CANYON
WITH
RICHARD DIX LOIS WILSON MARJORIE DAW
TO-NIGHT AT 9.15
THE QUAINTS IN “OH JOY."
ANCHOR BRAND PURE MANILA ROPE.
"THE COEDAGE YOU CAN TRUST,"
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goth-and the psychology of the area about 33 per cent. Most of the To all those who are interested The Food of Life TRANSMIS
Demand For Machinery,
is a compound of mistrust and fore electric conduit was bought from in good acting and a story which boding.
us belle, switches, etc., from Ger- has the ring of truth, we recoin- many and Japan; fans, fittings, dry mend this film which will not easily The expansion of China's export cells, flash-lights, etc., from the be forgotten by any who see it. of factory products of all kinds is United States, whose proportion of worth noting. In 1020 it was valued the whole trade was about 17 per at Tls. 20,050.000 as against Tis. cent. 3,784.000 in 1921, the list now comprising building materials, e,
The Old Glory.
"The topical gazette at the Queen's Theatre shows the start of "Old Glory's ""ill-fated attempt to fly across the Atlantic, the Conway Bridge celebrations, the girls' golf championship and a strangar deer dance in Kent.
In the interests of Good Health"
it is advisable, to use only a well-known and established brand. Buy always and insist on
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and fittings: match-making mate where conditions are more or less rials and matches, sorp, photo- normal, and with other northern
The World and Star. ...that being independent, graphic and printing materials, ports. But until the Yangtze re-
The Call of the Canyon "is can place all this know, type: This development is, of covers Shanghai's recovery can be
course, part of the country's coun- only partial. Yet figures for the beinw shown at the tar to-day. ledge and experience at the try's industrial growth, in connec first six months of the year show and at 8.15 The Quaints are pre- free disposal of its Clients, tion with which the Statistical that, so far as the United Kingsenting Oh Joy The principal ensuring that the money Secreta test report says The recovery will not make up for lost Swanson's production of "Madame Secretary of the Chinese Customs dom's trade is concerned, partial picture at the World Theatre, Gloria they spend on Advertising need for modern machinery and the ground. Our total exports to Chins Sans Gene, the famous play of will bring them the best wish to acquire it are ever present (as distinct from Hong Kong), Napoleon's day by Victorien Sardou in China. At the least lull in the nearly half of which go to Shang. and Emile Moreau, bogins promptly possible return.
-political crisis inquiries come hai, are over 43 per cent. less than at the times advertised namely A. B. MOULDER & CO. they were during the first six with orchestra 6.15 and 9.20 with Telephone Central 30.
(Continued on next dolumn.)) months of 1920.
Chinese interpreter,. 2:30, and 7.15.
forth."
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