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500,000 People visited the Philharmonie Hall to see
THE
LIGHT
OF
ASIA
during its 5 months' ran in the West End of London
Such popularity
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th,
SIR WALTER
·COCKERLINE. ·
INSPECTOR'S EVIDENCE.
MILLIONAIRE AND HIS TAXES,
MR. BRIDGEMAN ON
· KELLOGG "PACT.
FREEDOM OF THE SEAS.
THE ANGLO-FRENCH AGREEMENT.
CINEMA NEWS.
· TITANIC ? FOR THE
QUEEN'S.
"Titanic." story of ambition filmed with many big scenes, in cluding the sinking of an ocean Hui, Aug. 15th
HELLIFIELD, August 11th. liner after crashing into an iceberg, Further evidence was given yes,
Mr. W. C. Bridgeman, First comes to the Queen's to-day. It terday before Mr. J. R. Macdonald, Lord of the Admiralty, speaking at has been directed by Allan Dwan, the Hull stipendiary magistrate, in
open-air fête at Hellifield, to-day, who made "Robin Hood" for the case in which, Sir Walter Her claimed that this country had done Douglas Fairbanks. The story con bert Cockerline, aged 72, a million far more in the direction of discerns a youth of New York's East. sire, shipowner anda, former sheriff armament than say other country, of Hull, is summoned at the in- and said that we had shown we were stange of the Inland Revenue De-prepared to do more.. Mr. Lloyd partment concerning £107,108 in George, who ought to have known better, had lent his support to a statement that our navy was much more expensive now than before the war. Having regard to the dif ference in the value 'money, we were now saving something like thirty millions on the navy, how ever. If the proposals he (Mr. Bridgeman) made at the Naval Conference at Geneva had been ne cepted we could have effected a sav ing of between fifts and a hundred millions in a comparatively few
come tax from 1911 to 1925.
The summons alleges that certain false statements were made in con- nection with the tax returns, and according to the prosecution, the amount stated "was the amount which would have been lost to the revenue during the 14 years cover- ed by the summons had the alleged fraud not been found out and the money paid
CROSS-
to
Sir
A Balance To Sir Walter. Mr. Athol G. Gregson, a member of a Hull firm of chartered, ac- countants,
further WBS examined in reference Walter Cockerline's accounts.
He said that of an. item of £129,401. mentioned by the Inland Revenue Inquiry Branch, £105,406 was capital. Of the balance he did not think it improper for Sir Walter to include £18,923 in his capital account.
It was euggested by the Inland Revenue that about £3,000 should be brought into account in respect of underwriting commission, Sir Walter.contended that his businesa was not that of an, underwriter, and therefore any receipts would bo casual profits.
Mr. Paley Scott: The underwrit ing figures were investigated and properly brought into charge in these accounts, but they reaulted in a balance to Sir Walter of more thân 37,000,
Inspector's Inquiries,
years.
The Kellogg Fact.
We had to maintain the freedom of the seas or we would starve in about two months. "The proposal of Mr. Kellogg for a Multilateral Pact," he proceeded, is only an other way of proposing what I pro- posed at Geneva' a year ago. Mr. Kellogg says:
We in Americs are idealists and we are going to outlaw 'war It is much easier to make phrases of that kind than to carry them out in formula and agreement. But when Mr. Kellogg proceeded to explain what he meant by the outlawry of war he showed that his idea was that no nation which
signed the Pact should use war as a instrument of national policy:"
That is a perfectly plain state- ment, with which I cordially agree and always have agreed. It means that no nation shall setgot to get something it wants as against other nations by piling up armaments, as the Germans did before the Great war. It means that each nation can take what measures it thinks fit for its own defence, but that cach is bound in honour not to Mr. Geoffrey Beck, an inspector appeal to armaments in order to of taxes, said that in September carry out an aggressive policy. 1825 he saw Mr, Dean, Sir Walter's Therefore it is almost exactly the bookkeeper, and also Sir Walter, same thing in principle as what who referred to Dean as being the we proposed at Geneva. It is that person who had prepared certain we should consider aggressive war- income-tax and super-tax returns. fare entirely out of court and come Dean said: "Sir Walter won't to an agreement on what each of have 'n bank column," giving as us wants for our own self-defence. the reason that anyone standingIt is a very long step in the right in the office-for. instance, a ship's captain could see the bank bal
Lice.....
direction."
Side who fights his way from the Ghetto to Park Avenue and back again to the slums. Throughout the story the life of the growing city is traced through the lives of the men and women who come into contact with the youth in his dramatic rise and still more dramatic fall. A thrilling and spectacular scene is provided by the sinking of the Titanic, a piece of photography
George
remarkably well done... O'Brien and Virginia Valli head a strong cast.
A Woman Of Paris, Charlie Chaplin's only non-comedy film, "A Woman of Paris," will të screened at the World to-day to Saturday. Written and directed by the great star, the story is told with such simplicity, and keen per-. ception of humanity, that the pic- ture has been acclaimed as one of the turning points in screeen art. The title role is filled by one of Charlie's famous leading ladies, Edna Purivance, and the support- ing cast is fed by Adolphe Menjou, who gained his first big success in this masterly picture.
Irish Hearts,
The amusing adventures of two Irish lovers in America, make "Irish Hearts" which can be seen at the Star to-day until Saturday. After a series of humorous incidents, dur- ing which a lost brooch takes a part in shaping the destiny of the pair, a happy ending is reached. Medvoy and Jason Robards are the leading players, being well support- ed by Warner Richmond, Kathleen Key and many others.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S
MOTHER.
May
DEATH AT HOLLYWOOD.
HOLLYWOOD, California,"
August 29th.
Mr. Beck read the note he made of an interview he had with Sir Walter on November 11th, 1923, to arrange for a formal discussion, Sir Walter said that he regretted any inquiry was necessary, but then things abould be looked at in a business way, and be could not Tun His business to Buit
the Government.
There was nothing wrong with the. books. All the entries were then we have had conversations Charlie never forgot his mother,
The Anglo-French Agreement,“. Referring to the discussions be tween the British and French Gov. eraments regarding disarmament,
Mrs. Hannan Chaplin, mother of Mr. Bridgeman said: "The pro- the famed comedian Charlie Chap posals are not yet public, and there-lin, died here to-day.. fore I am not at liberty to say Mrs. Chaplin, an Englishwoman exactly what they are. But I am and herself a veteran of the stage. able to say this much: at previous lived to see her son move from ob- meetings of the Preparatory Com-scure vaudeville beginning on the mittee on disarmament a good deal London stage at the age of seven to of difference was revealed between a premier position in the film the French view and ours. Since world.
clearly there and there would be no concealment.
with the French, and by concessions on both sides we have arrived at
future to arrive at some agreement at a disarmament conference at Geneva. We are prepared to do all we can, but not to go to such lengths as will endanger the security and life of our country.
Singapore Base Schema "To Go
The note continued: "I said
an agreement which we hope will the gravity of the present position be accepted by all the other nations. arcse, not from failure to show
"If is nothing to do with the Admiralty credits in the books, American Multilateral Pact, but it but in the taxation accounts,, which will make it perhaps easier in the were all we normally saw The position was that receipts in 1915 and 1991 were held in abeyance and never disclosed for taxation purposes till in 1824 we asked pointedly about them. Sir Walter said he thought" I was wrong in this. Dean was a competent book. keeper. It had always been in tended to clear the matter up and they were now doing so."
Mr. Beck having pointed out in the super-tax returns, the total for 1922-23 being Over £7,000, Sir Walter said: I do not think so. Dean makes them up and knows all about it,
the
'serious'
inaccuracies
10
A letter from Sir Walter on November 17th, 1923, was read, agreeing to Mr. Beck's proposal that complete audited accounts should be prepared and adding that he was willing to afford any facilities for the detailed investiga- tion of the books by the depart
ment.
When Mr. Beek told him the cstimate of duty was £73,000, he protested violently, and wanted all the matters settled being a further payment.
**Accounts-Left To Dean.”
Forward."
Mr. Bridgeman was interviewed by a reporter at Hellifield, York shire, on the subject of the Singa pore Base and the statement that has appeared that the contracts were being held up in view of the approaching meeting in Paris for the signing of the Kellogg Pact.
and her last years were spent in luxury purchased by the world- wide love for her boy's acting.
A CRANE ACCIDENT.
VICTIM'S LEO AMPUTATED
ON THE SPOT."
1928.
TITANIC
A Story of Wrecks and Rescues
With
GEORGE
O'BRIEN
VIRGINIA VALLI
J. FARREL MACDONALD
WILLIAM FOX. presents
AN EPIC OF GREAT AMBITION-AND ITS TOLL IN THE LIVES AND LOVES OF MEN, See
A youth's battle against tremendous odds to conquer the great city!
The thousand and one wonders of America's modern city of the Caliphs ↑·
A great ocean liner crashing to her doom after smashing into a monster iceberg I
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EDNA PURIVANCE In
A WOMAN
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Written and Directed by CHARLES CHAPLIN
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A
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IRISH HEARTS
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1,200,000,000 ACRES OF
FOREST.
CONTROLLERS IN CON-
FERENCE.
A man's heroism while his leg, pinned under a "mits of débris, was being amputated, was warmly praised by his rescuers when a 9-ton crane collapsed at the excavations for the new British Medical Asso
The railway ex-ticket collector re-
SOVA, Fiji ciation building in Tavistock ferred to by the Dean "of Windsor
"Delegates who will attend, the square, W.C. One man was killed (Dr. A. V. Baillie) as having beConference on Empire Forestry in and six injured, the dead man being Mr. Arnold Franz, aged come an expert in heraldry is Mr. Australia and New Zealand will about 45, of Sherbrooke-roud, Ful- Reginald Courtenay, of 78, Elli-
the controllers represent bam, S.W.
mang-avenue, Slough, Buckingham-1,200,000,000 acres" of forest land shire. He said to a Daily Mail throughout the many lands which form the British Empire," said Freporter:
Ir. R. L. Robinson, Forestry Com- I first took up heraldry because missioner and British representa someone showed me a cigarette tive to the conference which opened card bearing a coat of arms and in Fremantle on August 23rd, and bet that I could not paint as is to work its way. across the well as the artist who had continent to Canberra, winding up designed it.
All the men were working in the excavations when the crane, which was raising a load of steel girders, collapsed.
You can say there is nothing in it whatever said Mr. Bridgeman. There has been no avoidable de- lay. There has been no change or modification of policy whatever on Men who saw it falling, shouted the part of the Government, and to the workmen in danger and the coming Paris meeting has not
everal of them had narrow. affected the matter at all. Some escapes. Mr. Dawson, a builder's. little delay arose in the completion draughtsman, ran under the crane of the contracts because of points and was struck by its steel arm of detail as between the Admiralty which pinned him to the ground, and the Treasury, but these are now almost severing the leg above the in process of settlement and the knee. scheme will go forward as framed."
Mr. Beck agreed that from. Mr. Paley, Scott: It seems at November 19th, 1925, until after sight a staggering thing that the final payment in July last, no man receives £19,000 from Govern- official request was made to Sirment securities and has to pay tax Walter to explain the figures. Sir twice in respect of that year. Walter said that the accounts were left to Dear.
Mr. Paley Scott: He disclaimed any knowledge of the details of what they showed 1.
Made Light Of Ik
of
commis-
in New Zealand on October 26th I went home and cut a post-Lord Clinton, another card to the size of the cigarettesioner, will also attend the con- card, and painted the arms of the ference. Duke of Norfolk. That was my
Mr. Hobinson said that the first attempt at heraldry, but I have never looked back since. I forestry movement has undoubted- suppose I have inherited they given a great impetus to the aptitude for the subject from my systematic management and con
Britain was great-grandfather, William Mit.servation of forests. chell, who was a great heraldic of 23,000 acres, and had to date now planting annually at the rate
-painter.
care:
He was one of the original boys planted 136,000 acres. He did not discuss the forests of Fiji, at Dotheboys Hall, zeferred to by but would make a full report to Charles Dickens in "Nicholas the Colonial Office. Nicklebyte
With Mr. Robinson is Major Mr. Courtenay said that AmeriFurse, Private Secretary (Appoint ean tourists were the best customers ments) to the Secretary of State for the Dominions. The major has for his models. He added:**
A pile of bricks and débris fell on him and other workmen.. All except Mr. Dawson were released in a few minutes, but it was found that his leg was so badly injured that he could not be moved. ..... ---
He was conscious and made Mr. Beck said that if a book-light of his position, and a doctor keeper followed the procedure for, decided that the limb would have super tar it should have kept him to be amputated before he could be removed. Without an anesthe- on the right lines.
tie the doctor carried out the operation where Mr. Dawson was lying, supported by two policemen.
I first met the Dean of Windsor come to the South Seas to see for After the operation Mr. Dawson, Mr. F. A. Tongue, a Govern- who had tried to hide the pain, by writing for permission to copy himself the conditions under which Itment accountant, said that he went collapsed. He, however, was still coat of arms in the royal Civil Servante live and work, to chapel, and since then the Dean that, as controller of appoint- through the books with accountants partly conscious when he was taken who acted. for Bir Walter Cocker to the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's has given me every encouragements, he may be able more effi
ment. He has obtained permiciently to carry out his work in line. The books were not proper-Inn-road, where a second operation
sion for me to use the royal London. He said that the Colonial ly kept. The actual figurer of pro-was performed.
library at Windsor, and through Offee was very keen to develop the fits, were agreed between the ac- An eye-witness told & Daily Mait
reporter, have dever seen any-him the Queen has bought several service to the highest point
efficiency. ef-my-models. The hearing was adjourned.
one bear pain with such courage,
M. Beck: Not in terms to me. While Mr. Beck was explaining must bedeserved that an item should have appeared
THE LIGHT OF ASIA
is coming to the
twice in the returns for super-tax, Mr. Macdonald- remarked, ought to be a warning to anybody not to be so rich as to pay super tax."
Mr. Beck said he regarded it as fraudulent that the item had not (Continued at foot of next column.
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Paras OFFICE,
Mr. Beck agreed that there had been no falmification of books, which were kept so that the true accounts could be discovered.
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