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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1936.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
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"Colleen"
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A crowd had assembled at the scene of a fire, and a policeman was moving them on. One man however, "refused to go.
"Why should he stop," he said, pointing to a man who was watch ing the confiagration with con derable interest, “and I move on?"
"Well, str, it's his fire.
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ACTRESS BRIDE FOR C. W. A. SCOTT
MET HER IN AUSTRALIA DURING
Mr.
Miss
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Coming
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A new romande team is snown at the Oriental Theatre ta- day and Wednesday when
SEASON
AT KULLANG NOW
OPEN
Forbow's Summer Resort A Relief To Many
VISITORS FROM ALL OVER FUKIEN
Kullang, Aug. 1.
The season at Foochow's Kuling.
[NEW SYSTEM FOR COOLIE HIRE
China Merchants Put Work Up For Public Tender
EXPECTED TO REMOVE IRREGULARITIES
which is one of the most impor- tant wharves of the Company.
Shanghal, August 12. Introducing a new system for or Kullang. as it is known in the
coolte hire, the China Merchants' focal dialect. has now begun. Theres. N. Co. yesterday received Its are about one hundred and fifty for-rst public tenders for the hand- elgners staying here, mostly from ing of the coolle hire at its Poochaw, the rest being from other wharves. No less than eight bids parts of Fuklen, The usual ac-
were made for the Lower Wharf tivities are in progress, including tennis and hiking, for Kuling is well provided with facilities for both The walks are particularly good, the most favoured being to Kushan monastery, three miles away, and one of the important Buddist monasteries of China, Bach Thursday there is a "Liter- ary evening" at the Kullang Club. The first took the form of book reviews, in which a very interesting review was given by Bishop Hind of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. The following Thursday all en- joyed a lecture on Oxford Univer- lty by the Rev. J. H. Erait who recently spent his hollday there in research work.
So far the weather has been good, and no typhoons have paid Kulting a visit. Any house which is not protected by a natural bar- rer made by the hillside must of necessity have a strong typhoon wall built on the north-east side. These typhoon walls are a con- spicuous feature of Kullang. They are built of stone and vary in thickness trem six to ten feet at the base to three or four feet at the top.
•
From Foochow, Kullang is now much easier to reach than it was
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayers “Exclusive | formerly, for a motor road runs Story" opens with Franchot Tone from the city to the foot of the and Madge Evans heading the mountain. Only the ascent of the cast.
mountain itselt must be done by The story itself is a dramatiza- { chair, and the more energetic pre- tion of the real-life activ.ules of a fer to walk up. The climbs, by New York newspaperman, Marunatone steps all the way, takes about Mooney: who started the metro- one and a half hours. Kullang is polls with a series of articles ex-abou: 2,000 feet above sea level, posing the "numbers" racketeers. which means a diference of 10 de- He is the writer who recently was grees Fahrenheit or more from the given a prison sentence for refus-plan below. So far the maximum ing to divulge the source of his temperature has been 80 degrees astonishing information. Michael Fesster, noted scenarist, wrote the adaptation.
An excellent picture, timely as 4 front page, the new picture deals dramtically with the noto- rious police racket" of New York, telling in swift narrative the crusade against these, modern-day racketeers by a young newspaper pablisher and the beautiful daugh- ter of a racket victim. These, of course, are the role played by Tone And Miss Evans, Ntuart Erwin portrays the not-so dumb reporter. Joseph Callein is cellent as the rat-hearted public enemy and gang leader,
Others in the Robert Barot,
الا الله
Jarge cast J. Farrell Mac-
and the minimum 72 degrees. The sea can be seen from, the mountain tops, and a cool breeze sweeping over it brings relief to those who have endured the heat of the plain below.
No tigers or leopards have been reported here this year but in April three tigers were seen near the third rest, house on the way to Kuling. The local people dug pits order to catch them. but they were not successful.
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Tenderers were required to quote their rates for handling charges according to a certain percentage of the tariffs that. are now In effect at the various wharves for different kinds of cargo. It was discovered yesterday that the dlf- ferent tenders ranged from as low as 74.5 per cent and as high as 95 per cent, of the previous cost.
According to the provisions of the bidding, the China Merchants will pick the most experienced tenderer with the lowest bid. Onc qualified tenderer is picked to handle the coolle hire, while another tenderer is placed on the reserve list.
The innovation will du away with the "racketeering" that has been prevalent in the matter of coolte hire. In the past it has been customary for a dock fore- man to handle all of the coolla hire with the result that dis crimination ensugd, some coolies being picked if they paid in a little "squeeze" to the employer. Those who did not pay were squeezed out And went without work on that particular wharf. Under the new system the con- tractor will engage his own help.
This move by the China Mer- chants is in line with many other of the changes that they have made for the better in the past few months. Among other things that they have done is made their tea boys go to school to learn their work thoroughly. They have been
subjected to medical" and physical tests and those that were upft for work were discharged.
There was much furore at the time from the Seamen's Union against the wholesale discharge of employees, but when it was point- ed out to Union heads that only those who were diseased or phy- sically unflź had been dismissed, the Un'on came Late Line and since then have been collaborating with the company in keeping its ranks up to standard-(N.C.D.N.)
A USEFUL PRESENT
London, July 25.
Since visitors to Kullang come from various parts of the Fukien
The citizens of Shanghal have province, it is possible to gather shown a nice sense of their own information about conditions in
Interests by presenting a squadron the lesser known parta. It appears of 10 Aghting 'planes to Marshal that the province is not so clear Chiang Kai-shek on the occasion of Reds as is generally thought. At
of his fiftieth birthday. That is Donald, Louise Henry. Margaret Present they are operating in the quite a change from a gold watch! mountainous districts about fifty and albert, but no doubt the Mar- Irving, Wade
miles north of Foochow in the Nishal will know what to do with the Deh area. They rad villages, but gift, while the Japanese may have are evidently not strong enough to attack towns.
Boteler, Charles Trowbridge and William Henry.
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"BULLDOG JACK”
"Bulldog Jack” showing to-day
REDS RAID VILLAGE As recently as the end of June a London, July 28.
number of Reds surrounded "a Charles W. A. Scott the at the King's Theatre, is a great country church in the village of airman, has become engaged to plece of fun, Jack Hulbert, at his Long-tau, while a service was in progress. The service stopped, and Greca Bremner, younger very best mixing extravagant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. L heroics with uproarious comedy the congregation dispersed. At the Bremner, of Melbourne, Australia. In the story, Jack. the hero, achi-seized, but he managed to elude the catech'st was They are to be married soon, Mr. eves this long-cherished ambition the grasp of the Reds and ran away
to splash about as an amateur sleuth. He blunders from one mis- taken clue to another, and plunges into an orgy on wild adventures. At midnight he has a hectic time
Scott said to-day.
Miss Bremner is an actress. "I met her in Australia on my 1831 Bight." said Mr. Scott. "Her sister, Miss Marie Bremner, is a well-
known actress there."
church door
a feeling that, in a peculiar sense, the present is intended also for them should ambition take them that way. We are reminded of the man who celebrated his cashier's
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MR. WINDHAM BALDWIN
London. July 28 The engagement was announced
THE NEW ARMY RESERVE
A REVIVAL OF THE SPECIALS
London, July 24. This erratic summer has excelled itself this week-end so far as Lon- don is concerned. You in Man- satisfaction yesterday as the wire- chester may wëll have glowed with less told you of wet interruptions yesterday of Mr. Arthur Windham section of the Supplementary Re at Wimbledon while Old Trafford Baldwin, younger son of the Prime serve is virtually a revival of the shine. The tables were not turn-of View Bank, Lossiemouth. It is ed afte. the war. was basking in uninterrupted sun- Minister, and Miss Elspeth Tomes. Special Reserve which was abolish-
we began with frost also in parts. At Mill Hill a wakeful. inhabitant
London, July 29. Mr. Duff Cooper's new infantry
to the bills. Having falled to secure the catechist the Reds then Their excuse was that her face was took a woman and tied her up. white, and that she must therefore in an old disused tube station and
eat white rice and good food and Mr. Scott, with Mr. T. Campbell discovers the kidnapped Ann. at the Black won the England-Australia bottom of a lift shaft. The gang ever, had a tongue which moved
be a capitalist. The woman, how race in October, 1934, in record captures Jack; he escapes and to continuously the whole time she
This had been time. He has made three other boggans down the spiral staircase
ed upon you to-day, though our understood that the wedding wil formed under the Haldane scheme record
was tied up. After a few hours of weather was brilliant in parts, for take place very shortly. alghts between the two on an upturned table. By a secret continuous scolding, the Reds let
In lieu of the Militia, which was countries.
underground passage the gang en her go.
Miss, Tomes is the youngest the oldest organisation' in the Bri- His marriage to Mrs Kathleen ter the British Museum to steal Bcott was dissolved last Decem-jewels from a goddess. Again the
It's interesting to note that pre- rose before six o'clock to see the daughter of the late Mr. C. Tomes, tish Army. Those who are anti- ous about the obvious inadequacy indomitable sleuth is after them vious to this Red attack three ground covered white with frost She is at present staying in Lon-
don.
of the existing Army Reserve" and Mr. Campbell Black ajao married there is a battle royal, and he lays young men had "appeared, selling and any idea that this might be
Mr. Windham Baldwin, who is about the deficiencies of recruit-- They entered Florence Des-out the criminals with boomerangs. Western medicines.
an optical illusion caused by sun The villain gets away on a driver- the village shop and asked to see on dew was dispelled by the milk32, has never taken an active in- ing will welcome this new expert- less tube train and there is a great the shopkeeper who was the local man, who announced that on his terest in politics or appeared on a ment, the conditions of which may struggle between Morelle (Ralph beadman, but he sent his wife to round he had encountered "hall-public platform. He is a direczór well appeal to many who are re- Richardson). and Bulldog Jack meet them instead. Before ar- stones as big as peas." The only of three industrial firms, Archibald luctant to enllat for full service in (Jack Hulbert), There is first riving at the village they had given meteorological records of frost in Kenrick and Sons, the Earl of Dud- the ordinary way. class support from Clande Hubert a countryman $10 to lead them to July since 1880 (when and 1921 Redpath, Browi and Co. of Edin- adding to the reserve, while in- ley's Round" Oak Steelworks, and This is an inexpensive way of a village where a man whom they begun) are in 1903, 1919, and Fay Wray,
ber.
an
actress-Miss
I mond.
SCOTT'S "DISCOVERY” FOR SALE
London, July 25,
The Royal research ship Dis-
| wanted lived. ⠀⠀⠀ The countryman
took the money, but led the sples
In
burgh.
cidentally the option to enlist for Miss Tomen, who is two years | full service after the completion" astray. The medicine sellers were a village has been ransacked. older than her flance met Mr. of the Arst preliminary training covery, in which Captain Scott 736 tons, the Discovery was re- also noticed at other villages which most of the places they have en Baldwin eight years ago,
| may do something to solve "the, made his first voyage to the An-Atted in 1920 and fent to the Bri-were afterwards attacked
tered, their first objective) is to Mr. Windham Baldwin will be general recrufting protiam. It w taretië in 1901, is for sale. Thetish, Australian, and New Zealand So far no troops have been sent kill the headman, the schoolmaster, the frat of the Premier's two sons is clever stroke, too, on the part of ship, which is the property of the Antarctic Expedition under. Bir to deal with these Red bands. The and the church leader, if they can to marry. Of the Premier's four the War Minister to make servien Crown Agents for the Colonies, la Douglas Mawson. She returned in position is also complicated because catch them. Many villagers on daughters three are married the in this Supplementary Reserve no longer required, a member of 1931 and has not been used since. the poor people rather welcome hearing of the approach of Reds. Hon. Mis Arthur Howard, Lady rank as an insurable occupation... the Discovery committee told a re- She is berthed in the East India their coming as ati opportunity take to the hills and remam there Huntington Walteley and Mre 0.- 3 Very valuable benefit # the Tou ported yesterday. A vessel of only Dock.
to share in the loot available after till the danger is past/(N,C.D.N.). D. Kemp Welch.
servist falls into unemployment.
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