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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1930,
ROVING RED RABBLE
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DIRECTIONS.
"PLAYS, NEW AND OLD."
SOME COM.ABISONS OF OLD AND MODERN DRAMA,
LECTURE AT THE
UNIVERSITY,
SEISTAN'S WIRELESS
OPERATOR.
TRACED BY THE POLICE YESTERDAY.
An extensive search in enricus parts of the Colony during the last two days for Mr. Richard Barnett was rewarded yesterday afternoon when he was located by the police. The circumstances under which he not given in tho
was found aro
A Canton report says that follow. ing their capture of Nambung, the
In the Union Assembly Room, Chu-lo Reds struck down in two the University, Mra PE. Barker, directions to attack Chibing and
M.A., delivered a short but ex- brief police report, but he is stated Yanfa The people's, militia and
tremely interesting lecture on to be safe and well. two battalions of the garrison
Plays, Now and Old," when she Mr., Barnett, who is a wireless troops of Namhang, which retreat-
drew a very vivid comparison be- operator on the .. Selatan, was ed to Chibing when Namhung was.
not at his post when the vessel Wednesday. captured, are now engaged in fight-tween the plays written in the sailed for Amoy on ing against the Reds who arrived | Elizabethan
those of He was reported as missing from at Chiling on Thursday,
the ship since Monday."
and era
The Canton Government_received,modern times." on Thursday morning, a telegrüm Mrs. Barker spoke of some of the from the Magistrate of Chihing great plays of the olden days and the modern saying that his city, which was de- then abowed how fended by only two battalions of writers have improved on them, garrison troops, was being attacked giving as instances the works of by the Reds and requesting for the such famous dramatists as Jeba
Willinam An- Galaworthy, dispatch of reinforcements. other telegram received from the Magistrate of Yanfa was to the effect that his city was also threat ened by the Reds. He added that there were no garrison roops in the city and asked for immediate re lief.
Upon receipt of the telegrams, the Canton Government has, in addition to troops already sent to the threatened areas, wired Wu- chow recalling more troops to deal with the Reds.
Telegraphic communication e Itween Canton and Chihing was suddenly interrupted yesterday and it is generally thought that the city has fallen into the hands of the Red invaders
Somerset
Maughan and Henrik Ibsen. The modern audiences, said the lee turer, were not so easily satisfied orchested" as those of elden days, and again the latter were not, nearly so critical as the farmer. This was where Bernard Shaw failed as a dramatist, as he was rather apt to talk through his characters,
WILD
Journey's End Recommended. One fine piece of moders drama Journey's End written by R. C. Sherriff. The lecturer read extracts from the book after which she said that she recommended all those interested in plays to make it a point being present when The roving Red rabbie has been this was presented next week in a menace in northern Kwangtung one of the local theatres. She was and southern Kiangsi and Fükien, not damning Elizabethan plays en They were driven out from Kwangmase, conclude Mrs. Barker, nor tung after a desultory campaign was she praising modere drama last year and they led to Kiangsi: unduly. Some of the dramatists of Taking advantage of the with yore have written very good plays drawal of most of the garrison indeed, but one cannot deny that surpassed by troops from the northern berder of these have been Kwangtung for active service in modern writers. Kwangsi. they again invaded Kwangtung Their reappearance has greatly worried the Canton authorities, as Canton enn scarcely spare sufficient troops to cope with them. The campaign against them often proves a difficult matter, as when troops are sent against them, they dash to other districts, often without offering any, resistance.]
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There was a large gathering pre- sent over which Mr. Lo Chi Chin. Chairman of the Arts Association, presided, and after the lecture, tea and refreshments were served.
A FORGED CHEQUE?
EUROPEAN ARRESTED ON
CANTON BOAT.
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LOCAL & GENERAL QUEEN'S
The engagement is announced be tween Robert Evan, son of Mr. E. Davidson, of Beckenham, and Mrs. Mary, younger daughter of the late Cash, of Edinburgh, and Loveday Mr. E. T. Bond, of Canton, China, and of Mrs. Bond, of Thornfield, Reigate, Surrey.
The Financial Times, London, re-
ports that at the end of 1923 in the London area there were 601,907 tele- phones, representing an increase of 47,794 or 7.9 per cent. in the year. There are now 137 exchanges in the London aren A compared with 100 last year, manual exchanges, 24 automatic exchanges, two toli exchanges, the trunk exchanges and the tandem ex: change.
This includes 100
The National Committee for Opium Suppression has issuedà circular notice to various provin cial and municipal authorities with the request that they should instruct An offcial police report yesterday their subordinates to pay special stated that P. G. Carnell, a Euro-attention opium amuggling con- penn, has been arrested on a charge of fraud.
It is alleged that a cheque which Carnell handed to the Fine Garage, of Des Voeux Road Centrul, on Wednesday for goods purchased amounting to $130, has been found to be forged, on inquiries being made at the National City Bank. seck to leave the Colony, the Police Anticipating that Carnell would kept watch at all wharves and at the railway station. A few minutes before the Tung On was due to sail for Canton, Carnell was arrested as he was boarding the ship.
He will be charged at the Central Magistracy this morning.
· · VOCATIONAL TRAINING
FOR SERVICE MEN,
FACILITIES FOR THOSE
: INVALIDED.
The Naval Intelligence Office has forwarded us a copy of the follow. ing statements with regard to facilities for vocational training, and the obtaining of work, arrang ed by the authorities, and various authorised associations, on behalf ARMED ROBBERS IN NEW of man invalided from the Fighting
Services. TERRITORY
་་
A SMALL BOY INCLUDED IN THE HAUL
The statements are as follow:- Whenever men are invalided from the Service, arrangements are to be made for an officer to be detailed to advise them as" to suitable occupa- An outrage by a gang of armedtions and explain' the various forms men in the New Territories was of assistance open to them. reported to the police yesterday, The assistance falls under the They stole notes and coins worth ("following categories:- over 8200, title deeds to two pro- perties and two promissory notes. Not satisfied with their booty, they carried away, the three-year old son of Wong Kan Ying, wife of a rail way employce.
a.m.
According to the statement of the woman, her husband was away at work when five men armed with revolvers and daggers broke into their quarters at Lowu at about The woman and her sister in-law were compelled by threats to disclose where they kept money and valuables. The boy who was kidnapped was still asleep when carried away by the robbers.
The gang escaped over the border into Chinese territory. The only clues provided in the report were that the men vore dark glothing
and spoke the Hakka dialect,
TO-DAY ONLY At 2.30, 5.30, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
SHEPHERD OF HILLS
THE
HAROLD BELL
WRIGHT Molly O'Day
A Great human drama
of the American back- woods.
AT THE
MAJESTIC
Hathan Road, Kowloon.
Vocational Training.
ducted by foreigners. Every proof, should be secured. tha, smugglers photographed and the means of smuggling they have adopted so as to furnish China with good proofs in presenting such cases to the League of Nations.
The Port of London Authority passenger landing-stage at Tilbury recently announced that the new
ing-stage and a baggage hall have will be opened on May 18. A Boat- been built, and the railway com- pany have enlarged and recon- atructed the station adjoining. The Tilbury landing-stage makes it pastible to embark and disembark passengers without the aid of ten ders and also to discontinue the alternative practice of passengers waiting aboard ships until the vessels have berthed in dock.
Some twenty Chinese of the student type appeared on Whampoo Road, Shanghai, in the vicinity.of the Japanese Consulate a 5.13 p.m. last Saturday and distributed Communistic pamphlets bearing on Labour Day (May 1) and then dis- persed. A second group of about twenty distributed to mill workers. on Thorburn Road, at about 0.15 p.m. pamphlets bearing on anniversary of the elimination of Communists by the' Kuomintang in 1997. Before dispersing, this group shouted the usuni Communistic slogans.
the
H.3LS. Cumberland, Captain L. F. Fetter, left Sheerness on March the China Station, after 8 for being refitted and recommissioned. The Cumberland is the first British 10,000-ton post-Washington cruiser, d is contained in A.F.O. 2008/20, sister-ships, is attached to the Fifth "A complete list of courses author-and in company with her four and detailed information as to Cruiser Squadron, China. Owing those available at each Home Port to the absence of facilities east of is communicated by the Vocational Training Centre to all ships and
turn. The second of the group, establishments there. Men invalid-
H.M.S. Berwick, left Hong Kong ed through causes beyond their own control who wish to take advantag for home on February 4, and the of these facilities should be directed next to return will be the Suffolk, to apply forthwith, if they have not scheduled to leave the China Sta already done so, to the Commodoretion on June 15. The Cumberland R. N. Barracks, or in the case of is due at Hong Kong on April 16, Royal Marines, to the Colonel Com-She is then to proceed to Shanghai mandant Royal Marines.
to relieve the Cornwall.
National Association for Employ-
ment of Service Men.
The procedure for placing men in touch with the National Association officially laid down is to be care- fully observed. A list of branches of the Association is given on page 141 of the Navy List Advertiser.
Malta, it is necessary to bring each of these five ships home in
The French Concession of Shang- hai offers a municipal loan of 1930 of 20,000.debentures of 8100 ench, for which subscriptions will be re eeived no the Secretary's office from
April 8, 1930. The following con- ditions will be observed: The de bentures will be issued at par and
are
The Royal Naval Benevolent Trust. reimbursed at par, in whole or in The objects of the Royal Naval part during the period between Benevolent Trust, and the addresses April 30, 1940-35. They will carry of the Honorary Local Secretaries, interest at 8 per cent. as from the are given on page 1 of the Navy date of the subscription, payable List Advertiser. The Trust has a halfyearly. The debentures special organisation for assisting transferable and only the names of the re-settlement of invalided men.
holders inscribed in the register of The men's attention should also the French Municipal Council will be drawn to the important informa- be recognized as legal owners. The tion now contained in Form property and revenue of the French S.1300A (Revised December, 1929) Concession, under reserve of the regardig the National Association, guarantee given holders of provi Vocational Training, Labour Exously issued debentures, will be put changes, health matters, the Royal as guarantee of interest and re Naval Benevolent Trust and other imbursement. organisations Naval ratings.
Every man receives a copy of this Form before discharge together with a copy of the official "Guide to Employment."
which
benefit ex-
A NEW ATLANTIC
FLIGHT.
[UNITED PEESH.].
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With the completion of "Thru Different Eyes" Edmund Lowe, ac credited the best-dressed actor in screentand, laid away his immacu late evening clothes and donned once again the uniform of a Ser geant of Marine. Twice a sergeant of marine, once in "What Price Glory". and now iu." The Cock- Eyed World," Lowe does not com plain, for he insists that Sergeant Quirt" in "What Price Glory" was the turning-point of his career, Harrisburg, Pa., March 29.-O. and is willing to play sergeants cials of Beckley College announced until the end of his screen days. to-day that Martin Jensen, winner Victor MeLaglen is again the arch. # of second prize in the Dole Con-enemy of Lowe in "The Cock-Eyed test fight to Hawaii from Oakland World," The entire production was in the summer of 1927, was arrang- made by Fox Movietone, and is ab ing for a fight from Paris to New all-talker, which means that the York in a specially built seroplane. public will have a real treat in Tests of the plane will start soon actually hearing the quarrels of with a flight from here to Santhose two leathernecks" whereas Francisco and back.
COST OF CHICAGO BLIZZARD.
[UNITED PRESL] Chicago, March 28-An estimate of the cost of the recent blizzard to the city of Chicago, to-day gave the total as in excess of G.83,000,000. (Continued at foot of next column).
in "What Price Glory much was left to the imagination. Lily Damita is the feminine lead in this picture, which is due to open at the Queen's Theatre to-morrow. Lelia. Karnelly, Jean Bary, El Brendel, and Joe Brown are also prominently cast.
Items figured in this estimate included extra labour in clearing streets, damage to property, and loss to business houses.
NORMA TALMADGE "NEW YORK NIGHTS"
GILBERT ROLAND LEWIS MILESTONE
JOM W. CONIOVÉ JA
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Romanca Under the Bright Lights
of Broadway!
NEWSREEL
ALL TALKING
UNITED
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MUSICAL NUMBER SINGING DANCING
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.10, 7.18 & 9.20
WORLD
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TEMPEST
- CAMILLA HORN ... LOUIS WOLHEIM -
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY &t 2.30 & 7,15--Interpreter. At 5.15 & 9.20-Orchestra.
STAR
A DARING STORY OF THE RICH
YOUNG SET
OF
TO-DAY
JOAN CRAWFORD
ANITA PAGE
JOHN MACK BROWN
OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS
FINAL SHOWINCS TO-DAY At 2.80, 5.30 & 9.20.
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