BIG KWANGTUNG HIGHWAY.
CONNECTING CANTON WITH DISTRICTS.
TO BE BEGUN IN AUGUST.
LABOUR RAISED FROM EACH PLACE BENEFITTED.
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CANTON'S MUNICIPAL
'BUSES.
BETTER THAN COMPANY
VEHICLES.
The new buses operated by the Munipal Bureau of Public Utility. have proved so successful that it has been decided to måke additions, to the fleet as rapidly as funds permit, saya the Canton Gazette.
are enjoying great popularity with the public, there being a marked desire to travel by Among the many plans of im- these vehicles, in preference to the now being put into older, type operated by private provement effect by the Kwangtung Govern- companies. meat, 15 the construction of A
(TRÒN OVR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT] These buses
CANTON, July 3th.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 9th, 1928.
THE "YOUNG GENERAL."
AN ACCOMPLISHED YOUNG
MAN.
HOW WILL HE SHAPE AS RULER.
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THE CAT'S PYJAMAS.
COMEDY FILM AT THE QUEEN'S.
HAS BARRIE SPOILT BETTY BRONSON!
THE WEEK'S PROGRAMMES,
*
RISE IN CHINA SECURITIES.
ECONOMIC
INFLUENCE OF EC
CONFERENCE.
ALL. NOW DEPENDS ON THE GENERALS.
SHANGHAI. July 4th.
Manchuria, probably the most
[ST UUE FILM CRITIC.]
The immediate effect of the Cre- significant piece of territory in the
cent Economic Conference has been whole Far East, has suddenly pass-
The career of Betty Bronson is no increased interest in Chinese ed from the hands of age to the
in the balance. She has youth. domestic and foreign loans by the hands of youth. writes Mr. Randall Gould, one of the United Presseauty and talent on her side, but investing market. Large purchases against her the influence of Sir have been made of Reorganisation correspondents,
James Barrie's fantasie. Miss bonds by local purchasets, both Bronson was almost unknown and Chinese and foreign, through banks quite a child when Sir James chose and investment houses, Inquiries
modern highway connecting Caa. cured to serve as patterns for bus and twenty-seven-year-old Chang her for the Alm." Peter Pan." have been sent out with regard to |
Chang Tao Lin who lived by the These buses were originally pro- sword has perished by the sword; proprietors when making replace
Now regulations ton, Poon Yp and Fah districts.ments.
were Hauch Liang, adept in many a Elaborate plans are being drawn up brought in requiring a change-over gentler art, must try his skill at
from the present cbsolete vehicles to the art of rulership. and actual, work will be started on
new ones, of similar type to the
No unexpected change is this. August 1st. The whole route is Municipal machines, the change to now being surveyed. It will start be effected within three month Marshal Chang foresaw it. So did
Splendidly as she acted the part other Chinese issues which have tine it might have been in her bet been active on any market for a ter interests
have let her fall long period. Although there has
back into the comparative obscurity been a rise in Railway bonds, these of small parts; but A Kiss for are
not directly affected by the
from the North Gate, Canton, and after date of announcement of young Chang-"the Young Gen- | Cinderella followed. Such a part, Economic Conference, because the
will pass through San Yuen Li of Nam Hoi district, whence it will go through Fat, Ling city, Hok Ping, Morn Kong, Nam Troon, Hni Leung, Pek Toon, and Ah Woo, all of the Pong Yu district. From here the projected highway will go right into Fab Shing City, the Capital of the district of Fah, touch ing Lung Tam, Ping Shan and other places. The whole work is expected to be completed, before
order.
The bus companies raised many objections to this order, and in nounced a few days ago that they are combining to atop their services when the time limit is up. The buses procured by the Municipality were brought here to form a model service, and there was no intention of competing with private enter- prize, but since very satisfactory results have been gained from the operation of these buses, and in view of the stubborn attitude of the
eral" as he has been called for years back.
..
as Miss Bronson played it, must market for thess loans is extreme- have been terrible mental strainly narrow and bonds often cannot and worse still it confirmed her in be parchased at prices quoted be the mannerisms which had been so successful in "Peter Pan."
That is why, on the day that first met the Young General" as he gamboled about a tennis-court of the Mukden Club like any other operating young man of whateve race, I was later to hear that he was at the moment holding coner Madonna was her greatest triumph, rently some six important Mukden perhaps the greatest she will ever Government posts, including at have. Small as the part was it was of Chief of Staff.
Her role in "Ben Hur" as the
cause there are no sellers.
A Matter Of Speculation,“ The rise in bond issues is due to belief in the activity of the Chinese bankers with regard to Uovernment finance. The present prices must
the rice harvesting season which right ahead to provide Municipal |manded troops in at least haltplaying that the two earlier roles Government, it is little more than.
will be about November. When completed this will be a splendid the provincial highway, linking busiest and the most
controlled transport services for the city.
it is thought that within this noath two or three buses will be ulded to the present feet, while it intended to acquire a total of twenty buses by the end of the year.
had done.
gramme has been ratified by the
a citizens' proposal. The bonds The Aim magazines do not say will undoubtedly continue to rise much about Betty Bronson, except as long as there are indications on one occasion when copy was that the bankers will have their
That is why young Chang has for intensely significant, and she play-be regarded, however, as specula- private companies, the Municipal many years been forced into tighted it perfectly, but it required the tive because, until the bankers' pro-
are evidently going places of every sort. He has com aame unearthly suggestion in the Luthorities
dozen important campaigns, and the way has not been made smooth for him. He has operated on a basis of equality with seasoned generals, and when he made mis takes his warlord father has not been backward in scolding him as made of the fact that she had way, but Marshal Feng's failure to furiously as though he wère possess- ed of decades of experience. It has refused to wear, a diaphanous cos go to Peking must not be overlook- been a rough school but an effectume because as she put it "Myed in any appraisal of the situa tive one.
public do not like it." It seems a tion.
It is understood that Mr. T. V. Probably the most valuable work very unhealthy sign for a young by river junks. The opening of this read is expected to bring not only STUDY OF FOREIGN METHODS the young General has achieved for actress who has on three or four Soong, Minister of Finance, may the Mukden Party has been as big films to her credit to avoid the leave for Peking shortly to place diplomatic at large among for- usus publicity, which is part of his programme before the militar eigcers. In Mukden, in Peking, the
ofista in council there and that hy Dorma! professionalism
thickly populated districts of Kwangtung. At present there is no such high- way in these districts, and trans- portation has been carried on main-
better and quicker modes of travel and transportation, but also new avenues of foreign trade by means of trucks and automobiles. Upon the completion of the highway there will be bus services carrying people and commodities to and from these busy districts.
DR. CHAO HSIN CHU AN ORIGINATOR.
CANTON'S DETECTIVES.
PROPOSED.
of
made foreign friends everywhere." Young Chang's very naturalness
zssassination.
while cam
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Some Present Prices
Mr. Lam Wan Koi, Chairman of in Tientsin, in Shanghai Chang the alm world, and to speak of will have behind him the support the Municipal Council, and General has mixed consistently sad has her "public" as if he were in of the bankers to the extent that, some way sacrosant, and one won-if their programme for fiscal re- Tang Shi Chang, Commissioner of
funds for any militarists Recent- the Bureau of Public Safety, are
young woman. jointly considering the question of bas nt times made it seem that heders what future lies before this form is rejected, they will have no
was lacking in ability. But there from the
"The Cat's Pyjamas" may give ly when General Chiang Kai Shek sending selected men
He does not be- is a difference.
from the Chinese bankers for Secret Service Corps to some foreve in playing the Crown Prines answer though not a very satis came to Shanghai to borrow money siga country, to undergo training role to excess, but he is no simple is one which any actress could play Peking, he was flatly turned down,
factory one. The part of "Sally"
Largcase to the militarists in it crime detection methods. Most child of nature. Everywhere he Bébé Daniels would have thorough which did still more more to en of the members of the force have has gone, the "Young General hasly, enjoyed it for example: It does never had the benefit of scientific gained friends and experience and not demand subslety, passion, ten-gender confidence in the sincerity training, any skill they possess he The whole scheme was first con- ing the result of experience. Pro- information which may prove of derness, or any great beauty, and of the bankers.
the greatest value in the present but for her mannerisms Betty ceived by Dr. Chao Hsin Chu, the
But Commissioner for Foreign Affairs per training will, of couse, increase crisis caused by Marshal Chang's Bronson played it well.
The standing of the 2 per cent. "Sally" was not a "Peter Pan'
surtax bands is most interesting. for Kwangtung, and Mr. Wa Koon their efficiency as crime detectors
The police administration Ki, a member of the Provincial Tientsin is considered one of the
On The Social Side.
or a half mad little girl; she had The first issue is at par and there The second issue Government, who sent a joint peti- most efficient in the country, and
On the social side, the Young Gen- a good job and an adoring father, are no sellers. tion to the Provincial Council, re- the advisability of sending men toeral has always been rated highly and her school girl passion for the has reached 84. Tobacco bonds are type common to not on the market because there questing it to construct the road in this city for study is being contem- He has won prizes for dancing in singer is of a
no" sellers. The $40,000,000 question. The petition was kang-
plated.
Tientsin; he has turned in some girls all over the world. Betty are tioned, and the two petitioners were A further suggestion is to de excellent golf cards at Peking when Bronson is heading for a fall, be- First Rehabilitation Loan, which is duly authorized to draw up the spatch men to study the methods at the capital for a week-end cause she can't or won't act like being sold abroad to Chinese over-
normal young woman.
seas has found a ready response in necessary plans and submit them and system of the French Annam military conference
"Are Parents People which Mahila, other places not having to the Provincial Council. The work mounted police. The record of this psigning in Honan; he plays an
was produced earlier than A Kiss been heard from. has been entrusted to a committee, force is said to be brilliant and enthusistic game of tennis.
The standard Reorganization called the Kwang-Poon-Fah High-therefore their organisation is Once upon a time the present for Cinderella," I believe, caught way Construction Committee, which worthy of adoption.
writer published a newspaper are her before her Peter Panisms had Bonds (British Issue) were quoted! has its headquarters on the third
ticle intimating that while young hardened into a formula with the on June 1st at 83 with coupon of floor of the Canton Foreign Office.
Chang was a good poker player, bis consequence that she was quaint 22h. On June 28th, this issne stood Dr. Chu and Mr. Wu are taking a
natural and the Chinese genius in and charming in the part The at as with coupon. The dividend keen interest in the project, a
general did not run to bridge. The only hope for her unless she can of £2) was paid at the end of June both of them are natives of these
following week I was invited to get a long rest away from every and yesterday, the issue was quot- districts and want to see that their
company the young General to a thing contested with the films and ed in London at 64 without coupon districts have the best highways.
battleground in his private railwayfind out that she is just an ordi- a rise of 34 points over June 1st. In their petitions to the Provincial The provincial authorities of the car; and once under way, be court pary pretty girl, is that Kipling's The market was reported to be firm. "Brushwood Boy "or some othei The rise in domestic bonds has Council they pointed out three ad- Two Kwangs are jointly consider-eously but firmly invited me to st vantages of such a highway. Isting the suggestion submitted by down and have a personal test of mystic part may be produced for been marked and a large volume of
her benefit.
business has been done locally. The cost of living in Canton and several military leaders, that when his prowess at bridge. in these two districts will be cofi- demobilization is begun, the dis The truth had to out. I do not Let us retam however to The North China Daily News. siderable lowered, by means of charged soldiers be employed on play bridge.". Still anxious to prove Cat's Pyjamas." The cat is ador better, quicker and cheaper trans- constructive work, such as the ex- his point, young Chang pressed intoable; he is a huge supercilious per portation. 2nd, The cost of both tension of the Yuet-Han Railway. service several foreign military asian and same up the exotic at- men's and women's labour in the
taches who were fellow-guests, and mosphere of the atory of the entertaining, instructive, staus- districts of Far and Poon Yu is a
before my eyes he despoiled them famous tenor and his marriage. ing and a true story, which cer "good deal cheaper than that in
of all the spare cash they had in The tenor "Cesaro Grasso" is tainly increases its human interest Canton. Upon completion of the
their pockets. The demonstration played by Ricado Cortez with very value. Its theme is gripping, and highway, capitalitics will be more
was convincing and I was glad it considerable skill. Mr. Cortez is of historical beauty there is plenty. .wasn't 'at my expense.
known in Hollywood as "the Star" Chang" is a marvel movie, Every- inclined to take advantage of this and establish factories to avail
with a Sorrow." It used to be nothing else describes it. themselves of the cheap labour. According to the Canton Gazelle
that he was to take Valentino parts one should see it!" Giving employment to paupers, and the bureau of Public Health is
when the latter died, and here be wandering people will minimize or arranging an anti-fly and anti-rat tend to minimize banditry. Finally, campaign. Beginning from to-day
has another grievance in having to Canton is already badly congested there will be a series of processions and the construction of such a high displaying posters illustrated how way will afford the best opportunity the disease is spread by these pesta for expansion for the southern The processions will be headed by metropolis.
bands in order to attract the atten- tion of the public. The medical profession, has been asked to sup- port the campaign and fifteen are to give lectures on the subject.
* LABOUR ON A FEUDAL
SYSTEM.
CANTON'S DISBANDED
SOLDIERS.
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CANTON'S ANTI-FLY AND ANTI-RAT CAMPAIGN.
Highways to direct the construction work and each magisterial yamen will send out onough foremen to watch the work and to see that everything is done properly. Soldiers will be despatched from the West Rehabilitation Region to; protect the workers..
The Government spends no money. on the project, but merely super vises the work. All the money comes the people. concerned. Every village, city or town within a cer tan distance from the projected rond is required to provide a cor tain number of laborers, depending upon the population of the place Every villager between the ages of 19 and 30 is required to work a certain number of days. If he does not want to do it, he will either have to get some one else to take his place or else pay a certain amount to the person in charge. The elders of each village are strictly held accountable for the people of their village doing their duty.
The construction of the highway will be done in sections which will bo eventually linked up.. This is this highway will be straight and the quickest way to complete the wide Rice fields and anything else project. Civil engineers will be in the way will be cut through sent out by the Bureau of Pablie the fashion of the Roman engineers
(Continued on nezt dolumn). of antiquity."
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The
In Fine With Moderate Kuomintang.
On the political side Chang Hsueh Liang would appear to runk vir tually even with the middle-of-the-play second fiddle to Betty Bron-in " Girl Wanted" which has
Janet Gaynor the heroine of "th Heaven" and "Sunrise" is starred been made from a popular Broad
son. In his determination not to be Valentino Mr. Cortez plays way play. movement
"Graceo" almost too well for his pablic. He is never the handsome woman killer but a superstition ridden young man with a golden voice of which he is inordinately proud.
Nationalist road Koumintang leaders who con- trol the against which the Mukdenites have been pitted militarily. He has for years been advanced," in com- parison with his older colleagues of the Mukden clique. He is not radical, and neither is the present Nationalist movement.
Arlette Marchai looks very beauti- | Young Chang and the right-wingful as the dancer whom Graceo is Kuomintang share an abhorrence of prepared to marry to protect him- the Soviet Russians. They advocate self against other women. At the constructive reforme" and stand critical moment they quarrel be for advance by evolution rather cause the dancer feels she is not than revolution, even though the getting her fair share of publicity Kuomintang still calls itself revolu-and Gracco in a pique marries the seamstress Sally. How Sally tries tionary in name.
.recommend
The
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A year ago the Young General his love and wins it carrice the spoke before a group of students, tale to an appropriate end. There advocating the making of provin is nothing very nech in it except cial and party differences for the some excellent settings, and common good. This slogan should human and well moving story, but Cat's stand him in thoroughly good stead W in sinking his difference with the Pyjamas" as being the kind of Nationaliste, if he is left a free film that one enjoys, without being hand by his Chinese comrades and deeply thrilled. even more important-by Soviet Russis to the north and Japan on the south.
THE WEEK'S FILMS.
«Queen's. To-day The Cat's Pyjamas." To-morrow and Wednesday: Little Journey," the story of romance on a train starring Claire Windsor.
Thursday to Saturday: "Mother Machree, the film version of the famous song.
World. To-day "Painting the Town," a brisk farce with Patey Ruth Miller and Glenn Tryon.
To-morrow and Wednesday: Wages of Virtue, a P. C. Wren story of the Foreign Legion with Gloria Swanson in obe of her most: attractive parts.
The whole work is under the direction of the Kwong Poon-Fab Highway Construction Committee, which has the power to send soldiets to guard various places, to collect funds and mobilize Inbour. Provincial Bureau of Public High ways which ordinarily would baye had charge of the undertaking is in this case is acting merely as supervisor.
Tomorrow Unlike most of the Chinese roads
Thursday to Saturday: "Up- stage," a story of life behind the scenes with Norms Shearer was heroine.
Star.
Big Pictures Coming. Two pictures which should be of
Today: Tim McCoy in "Cali considerable interest are advertised It is unlucky for young Chang coming soon to the Queen'sfornia. that his homeland must inevitably Of one of these "Chang"" which
and Wednesday': be the spot where Bussida and was taken in a Burmese jungle, Bébé Daniels and Rod La Rocque Japanese interests conflict. But, the New York Daily News writes: in Wild Wild Susan." given anything like an even break, This is a picture that will de- Thursday to Saturday: "Woinen drama of New Chang Hauch Liang may find a new light children and adults alike, It Love: Diamonds," solution for ancient illa.
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