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PROFITS AND PROSPECTS.
An encouraging state of affairs with regard to the earnings during the past year, and an even further
Richard Charles Williams, dima Stone, the young Canadian, who
In "The Chinese Parrot Paul improvement during the present has been charged with defrauding a number of banks by means of a Leni has set out to do an excred-year was reported by the Chairman forged letter of credit was yesteringly difficult thing-to tell his story at the ninth ordinary yearly meet- day sentenced by the
almost entirely by means of tricking of shareholders of the China Justice (Sir Henry Gollan) to taree Photography and lighting effects. Light and Fewer Co. (1918), Ltd., years' hard labour. Williams, whose age was given as 39, pleaded guilty to the charges and admitted to using seven aliases in the course of what the Judge described as his
"world tour of crime."
Mr. Leo d'Almada, who appear- ed for the defence, pleaded that defendant had been gassed during
the war, and also that there was. mental derangement.
The charges were
(a) That he on December 2nd, 1098, at No. 4a, Des Yaux Road Central, in this Colony, did by false pretences obtain 8502.62 in Hong Kong currency, and chattels
tens to defraud;
which was held yesterday, no noon,
the head office of the Company, St. George's Building."
Mr. R. G Shewan (Chairman)
His first essay in this direction was "The Cat and the Canary" to horror and reality to a quite ordi. which the clever camera work gave any "Thriller." But in this, his presided, and he was supported by Intest fim, he has built up a me. Sir Robert Ho Tung, Mr. H. P. morable picture from even less pro White, Mr. A. H. Compton and mixing material. The story of the Mr. C. A. da Roza (Directors), Mr. drama but from it he has made a pearls is a typical film crook meda-. H. Doanithorne (Works Man-
picture which is artistic and haunt ing in the extremel
The direction of the Chinese Parrot is the work an enthusiast and a genius, but we tremble to think what horrors may be per
-clever
or valuable securities, namely, 10 petrated if so delicate and coor travellers' cheques, Nos. 214170 to plicated a technique is tried by less 214178 (inclusive) of the value of £ each, and 40 travellers' cheques,
men The extraordinary Nos. 34125 to 341296 (inclusive) of kaleidescope of China town, at the value of £10 each, issued by the Chinese New Year,faces, lanterns, American Express Co., Inc., of No. a motor, a dragon, a sea of þobbling 65 Broadway, New York, with in
lanterns sweeping away the solid figures of a policeman" and two chattering old Chinese ladies, a pair of slender legs hesitating on the pavement, give in a few shoit moments a complete impression (all the move vivid to those who live in China) of a Chinese street on a festival night.
(b) That he-on December 2nd. 1026, at the same address in this Colony, did utter, knowing to be forged, a certain valuable security, namely, a letter of credit purport ing to have been issued in his favour by the Banque Imperiale Otmane at Jerusalem for an amount not exceeding £2,000, with intent to defraud; and
The prologue is exceptionally good, the murder of the dancing (e) That be on December 2nd, girl (Anna Mary Wong) the most 1928, in this Colony, did feloniously perfectly expressed murder scene and with intent to defraud, demand we have seen on either stage or und receive certain money on car-screen, because it expresses the on-- tain serurities for money, namely, looker's impression rather thani 8504.02 in Hong Kong currency, the actual happening. and 50 travellers cheques issued by the American Express Co., Inc. 10 of which were of the value of £5 each, and 40 of the value of £10 each, by virtue of a certain false instrument, to wit, a forged letter of credit purporting to have been issued by the Banque Imperiale Ottomane at Jerusalem in hás favour for an amount not exceeding on the whole £2,000, knowing it to be forged.
Mr. F. C. Jenkin, instructed by Mr. C. S. Hugh-Jones appeared for the prosecution, whilst the accused was defended by Mr. Leo d'Almada, junior.
Mr. Jenkin exhibited a letter of credit iseted to prisoner in the sum
ger), Mr. Noel Braga (Secretary) and the following Shareholders:- Messrs. F. M. Ellis, J. Toppin, Tse Botelho and Capt. R. D. Thomas. Tsan Tai, Allan Keith, A. A.
The Chairman's Speech.
shareholders, said:-
The CHAIRMAN, addressing the.
The net amount, including 832,675.40 brought forward from fast year, available for distribution is 8308,843 42, which we recommend be appropriated as follows:-
To put to Credit of Reserve for Special Renewals, Repairs, and Change of Voltage .........................................* 60,219.03 To pay Dividend of 8 per cent., or 40 cents per share, on- 400,000 "Old" shares 160,000.00 To pay a Dividend
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18 ccata per share,
on 199,950 Now shares
31,070.00
To carry forward to...
next year's account 37,645.39
*$309,843.49
The Working Account shows G gross profit of $478,688.41, against 8405,638.41 last year, an increase of about 873,000, which is distinctly earnings for the present year so far ancouraging, especially the also show an even further improve
ment.
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K. Sojin as Charlie Chan is per- fect, he dominates the picture frain his fist entrance, and in an extre ordinary fashion acts the dual role of comic relief end nemesis. Marion Mixon makes a very charming and appealing little heroine though the has little to do except to be that.
Expenditure Heavy. The whole cast is good and the As was expected, the expenditure, settings are beyond reproach The on the distribution system has been Chinese music provided by the heavy, due to extensions and altern- Queen's orchestra does much to tions of mains in the Sham Shui Po, heighten the realism of some of the Kowloon Tong and Kowloon City earlies scenes.
districts Further expenditure will
Tong Estate and the linking up of bave to be met in the laying of underground mains in the Kowloon Sham Shui Po, Kowloon Tong and Kau Pui Shek Sub-stations. These extensions are neccesary in order to enable us to cope with the de- mand in the districts referred to,
who want all there T's crossed may It is possible that thoes people
not find "The Chinese Parrot" quite to their taste; it is a picture which makes a call on the intelligence of
of 3200 which had been burned in the audience, but we believe that four places. Prisoner's explanation most of you will think it interest was that whilst dismounting from aing and refreshing.
jacket on a blacksmith's anvil and
horse in Palestine he placed his "We shall look forward to seeing a piece of hot iron fell on it, bara- more of Mr. Leni's work. He may ing the latter. At his request, the give us something even better than bank issued a new letter of credit this, though it is hard to believe for £200. He then travelled around working out of his theory would taat possible. A rather fuller probably be appreciated by the average cinema goer. The only fear is that so excellent an idea may be throttled by worthless imitations, or that this impressionistic direction may fail, commercially by too great
Palestine and Irak.
In reply to His Lordship, Mr. Jenkin said that prisoner had made claims to have been born in Helio- polis, in Egypt. in Barcelona, Spain, and his heaviest claim seemed to be Quebec, in Canada. He was aspecialisation,
linguist of no mean order..
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As regards the change voltage, the alteration to the low tension distribution in the Yaumati district but with a view to curtailing im was completed early in the year, mediate expenditure the change-over to the higher pressure of supply was postponed. We are. now in a position to go ahead with mises, and we anticipate the change the change-over on consumers' pre-
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During the next twelve months we shall be called upon to meet expenditure on Capital Account for the proposed purchase and reclaim
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Does your cough get more per- sistent every year! Do you easily catch cold and cough violently or
He fetched up at Bombay on October 14th, 1926, and drew an
After that, he went to other £75 on this letter of credit.
suffered ♫ A little later. by altering it, he Gallipoli, where he was able to obtain another £1,000 similar fate. He was once mention from the American Express Comed in despatches, and was invalid. pany by a further forgery. It ap- ed out of the Army. Like othering of approximately 72,3530 sq. ft. exposure to weather? Is there a reared that he altered the letter to young men, he was tempted from of land on the East side of our painui tightness in your chest and show its value at £500 faće value. time to time, and he fell
Hok-Un Works, purchase of land your breathing rasping - These are In Hong Kong.
His mother, said Mr. d'Almada, for two kiosk sub-stations at Kow-most frequent signe of bronchitis- had been addicted to drugs and loon Tong, and Kowloon Tong sub-traily in inflammation of the de Prisoner arrived in Hong Kong had been in a lunatic asylum station and quarters, also cables,licate tubes through which ** on or after December 1st, 1998, and Prisoner on two occasions (in Flor. etc., for the distribution system and breathe into the lungs the Oxygen on December 2nd obtained £500 cuce and Vienna) had been confined change of voltage.A necessary to sustain life. Hence from the American Express Com- to a mental asylum and there was I regret that the showroom leaves the terror when bronchitie threatens pany, which was the subject of the
a descit of 89,732.98, including to stop-up the breathing tubes... | three charges. He also obtained some mental derangement.
His Lordship: His aberration $4,282.78 for depreciation; but this The great difference between Peps £450 by means of travellers'
is not all loss, as against it we treatment and old-fashioped me cheques, which he disposed of in does not show any sign of in
must place the increased demand theds of dealing with coughs, colds Hong Kong and Canton. The sanity.
for the supply of electricity creat and bronchial complaints is that balance of £50 be obtained in local Counsel went on to explain thated by the various articles sold. As the Peps medicine is breatheable there were two other letters of stocks have been moving of more and it goes direct to the root of the
currency.
From here, continued Mr. Jenkin. prisoner visited Feking and subse quently Japan, where he obtained a letter of credit from the Hun dredth Bank in Yokohama for £80.
Against that on January 2nd he drow £75. He succeed in forging
this letter of credit.
Among prisoner'a belongings were chemicals for removing ink, also a phial containing a curious kind of
credit, to the value of roughly $3,300 which prisoner possessed and was willing to hand over to the prosecution as partial retribution Prisoner was also a partner in an
8,000 acre estate in South Africa, and had already given instructions for his share to be realised in order to pay back what he could;
"Hat Driven By Necessity." His Lordship, in passing sentence ink and a brush, a box of aniline | of-three years' imprisonment with powder, a box of paints and a hard labour, said it was not a case -sheet of carbon which, when beld in which a person had been driven to the light revealed the tracing of by some great necessity or by some a coat of armia. Tu
great temptation to bring himself Counsel then said that prisoner within the reach of the criminal had been in the hands of the police law.. in various parts of the world. He was imprisoned in Versailles in 1925
for two years for swindling. Counsel added that the police here had pris- oner's Scotland Yard record.
War Service.
quickly lately we have deferred trouble. Aa the closing of the showroom till March 31st next.
I bow beg to propose the adop: tion of the Report and Accounts as presented, and when this has been seconded. I shall be pleased to answer any questions you may
desire to ask.
Mr. White seconded, and the motion was carried unanimously.
Other Business."
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Mr. Leo d'Almada for the de- what has been urged by counsel on animouly, fenos, said Williams was born in your behalf and will also pay regarded Dividend. Warrants,
to the fact that you not only joined
Dividend
Quebec 30 years ago. At the out break of the war he joined up and "p during the war but that after The CHAIRMAN: That is all the
you were gassed you went back to business of the meeting, gentle your attendance. was gassed at the Battle of the the front Sentence was then men, and I am much obliged for rants are now ready, and can be
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