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SLAVE SHIP
Storming in epic sweep over half the world. as the last slaver sails on its last desperate voyage, "Stave Ship" showing at the Queen's Theatre to-day, giving the screen a new claimant for the title of mightiest of all the sea sagès.
Twentieth Century-Fox's most spectacular production of the year, "Slave Ship" co-stars Warner Bax- ter and Wallace Beery in a pulsing tale of the slave-trading era, with Elizabeth Allan and Mickey Rooney among those on the boat as, with decks reddened
QUOTA
CHEAP PICTURES NOT TO QUALIFY
A statement on the future of the British film quota is to be made by the President of the Board of Trade jin the House of Commons before
the rising of Parliament
The present quota of 20 per cent., enforced by the Cinematograph Filma Act. 1927. expires next March; and its renewal, with fresh conditions, will be contained in a Bill for presentation to Parliament during the autumn.
The new proposals will shortly go before the Cabinet, and Mr. Oliver Stanley's statement of the Government's policy will follow immediately...
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Negotiations are still proceeding between the film industry and the Board of Trade on the proposal to introduce a price standard of £15, 000, the idea being that no picture costing less shall qualify for the quota.
The main object of the Bill, beyong renewing the quota, will be to put an end to the "quickie" system. wherby cheap films are thrown into the market to make up the quota..
Despite certain objections by the exhibitors some minimum cost standard will be introduced.
ALP.S, AND BRITISH FILMS A move to advance the interests of British Alms was made at a
NORTH CHINESE CITIES QUIET
Shanghai. Aug. 22. According to reports from cities in the north, comparative quiet prevails there.
I'm Tsingtao the Japanese measures for the
evacuation of their nationals have largely been carried out. The camps of the by mutiny, it Hitler Youth, comprising German roams the seas on its final fury-youth from all over China. Is to racked voyage.
remain unt!! the confusion Shanghai is over. Only those
In the most colourful role of a
in
colourful career, Warner Baxter youths from North China-Pelping plays Captain Jim Lovett, roman-Tsinantu and Tientsin, have been tic scourge of two seas, who de-
returned In Tsinnafu everything fes the navies of the world, is 1s reported absolutely quiet.-- betrayed by a shipmate, and fights Transocean News Service. at last for love in the greatest sea adventure of them all.
George Sanders, Jare. Darwell and Joseph Schildraut are among CHINESE ATTACKING those who appear in the huge east.
PAGLIACCI
The nearest you can get to sum ming up Richard Tauber in one sentence is to say that his per- sonality has all the galety and freedom of the Viennese Waltzes be loves. Born into a theatrical family This father was general manager of the Chemnitz Stadt Theatre in Saxony) Tauber was brought up among artists, and a passionate love for all the arts de- veloped early in him, and together rigid conventions observed by those outside, the artistic circles
in which he moved.
now
STUBBORNLY
"Tokyo, Aug. 22. According to a communique by the Japanese Naval Command at Shanghal, the Chinese troops are stubbornly attacking Japanese positions in Shanghai, In some cases advancing in armoured cars. The Japanese, however, allege that they were repulsed in every case.—
Fransocean News Sermed,
FOUR NEW JAPANESE
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meeting in the House of Commons which was attended by represer- tatives of both Houses of Parlia- ment and a number of "public bodies.
Sir William Wayland, M.P., sald the object of the meeting was to form a British Films Advancement Council to further the national and economic Interests of the Bri- tish film.. Lord Strabolgt presided, and it was agreed to create a body to be known as the British Flims Advancement Council, defined by the following resolution: "That & British Films Advancement Council be hereby formed to take »such action as may be deemed expedient to bring before the public, publie authorities, social and educational institutions" and the Government, the national, economic, and educa- tional importance of British Alms, and to secure public support for such legislative or other measures as may be necessary to assure the British film fair treatment' in all countries which market film pro- ducts In the United Kingdom.
An executive committee WILS naminated comprising Sir William Wayland. M.P... Lord Strabolg!, Lord Mottistone, Professor J. Graham Kert, M.P.. Mr. G. K. G.' A. Maitland, MP., and Sir Edwård Campbell, M.P., with power to add to their number.
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, Anniversaries and Holidays —— St. Bartholomew. Calcutta found- ed by Charnock, 1590.
Auctions.Remaining Portion of New Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1820 (West Corner Norfolk Road), at Lammert's Sales Room. 3 p.m.
Mails. (See Pagë 16).
* Meetings.-Women Helpers, at Helena May. Garden Road, for making bandages and needed ar- ticles for wounded Chinese troops in Shanghat, from 10 n.mn. till
noon.
Miscellaneous. - Rotary TIÊM, Hong Kong Hotel, (Ladies' Day); Hon. Mr. R. H. Katewall opens Art Exhibition at Chinese Y.W.C.A., 38C, Bonham Road, 11 a.m.; Majestic Amateur Photo Service Exhibition. China Building, 10 a.m. to 9.p.m.
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Social. Craigengower Cricket Club Weekly Tombola. 0.20 p.m., Cheero Club Whist Drive, 8:30 p.m.
Sports-(See Page 10). Moon.-VII Moon, 19th. Day. Sunrise.-6.03 a.m. Sunset.-6.48
*p.m
Tides. High at 10.25 and 23.00; Low at 04.06 and 16.58.
Holidays.--
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25 Anniversaries and Allan Plakerton born, 1819. F. W. Nietzsche died, 1900. St. Louis. King of France.
Mails. (See Page 16).. Meetings-Annual, of the m dian Recreation Club, Bookunpoo 5.15 p.m.; of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, at North Point, 5.45 p.m.; of the H.K. Hockey Associa tion. Committee, in "8. and 8. Home," 5.30 p.m.
Exhibition
Miscellaneous. - Art
DIVISIONS TO GABRISON
PEIPING-TIENTSIN Nanking. Aug. 22: According to military intelligence message re- ceived here to-day, Japan is plan- He first appeared in operetta inning to send four new divisions of 1923. and his Alms include "The troops to garrison the Pelping Right to Happiness," "The End of Tientsin area. These new troops the Rainbow," "Blossom_Time," do not include the reinforcements "Heart's Desire," Land. Without recently landed in Tientsin and Music." and
"Pagliacci." now in action in the Tientsin and which comes to the King's Theatre Nankow area, which brought theat Chinese Y.W.C.A., Bonham to-day.
total number of Japanese fighting in the area to nearly 45,000.
It is also learned that a number of Japanese transports laden with military supplies from Japan ar- rived off Tangku yesterday.
Owing to the torrential rains in the Tientsin area in the past few London Aug 22. Colonel Arthur William Good-days, the Japanese have been place on a Sunday. the day ap- Even Carlyle, who sought informa- man, Member of Parliament (.) forced to convey their new sup- pointed for the Introduction of and her stool figured occurred in for North Islington since 1931, died plies to Tientsin from Tangku by
liturgy into Scottish tion to provide
Three hundred years ago this week, on July 23, 1837, the famous Incident in which Jenny Geddes St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh.
There is to be seen on a wall of
Cathedral the
tablet com- a
Mein, a merchant in Edinburgh. Efforts have been made to show that Jenny Geddes and · Barbara Hampton were one and the same person; but the mystery of the real identity of the woman who memorating the affair. It took threw the stool remains unsolved.
the new churches.
There are many versions of the incident, one generally recounted being that, when the Dean of
a
COL. GOODMAN DEAD
a solution, does here to-day, aged 57. not seem to have been able to obtain it.
Born in Melbourne, and educat- ed there, he started as a newsboy, made a fortune in India.
The date of the by-election will be announced shortly.— Reuter.
boat.
Central News
HUNDREDS KILLED BY TWO SHELLS
THE REVOLT The only thing certain is that Edinburgh. Dr. George Hanna the action of the woman in ques entered the pulpit of.8t. Gfles' | tion, whether Jenny Geddes ur and opened the service book, Barbara Hamilton, or the "good number of women began clapping | Christian woman" to whom anony-
Shanghai, Aug. 23. their hands and raising an outery, mously some accounts of the in-
Two shells landed in front of the One was stated to have thrown acident refer, not only created a organise resistance to the policy skyscraper department stores of Bible, and another a stool, at the sensation in St. Giles' Itself that of Charles I. The National Coven wing On and Sincere. Companies, Dean. The woman who threw the Sunday, and closed all the kirks ant was framed, and there began creating havoc. It is feared that stool was generally named Jenny and suspended all preaching in in Old Greyfriars Churchyard in | hundreds have killed.— Geddes, a bérb woman. Contem-Edinburgh for the next few weeks, February, 1638, thé signing of that Reuter. porary accounts state that as she but lit a fire of religious revolt historic document which was to throw she cried, "Traitor, dost which spread all over Scotland lead to a long and bliter struggle thou say Mass at my lug?"
and into England. the Scottish between the Covenanters and the The fame of Jenny Geddes has rising being followed by the tin- forces of the Crownl come down through the centuries, peachment of Archbishop Laud The tercentenary of the signing though her Identity has been and the Civil War.
of the Covenant will be celebrat
London, Aug. 22, questioned. Woodrow, the minis-
The Immediate result of the St. ed in Edinburgh and Glasgow at The Prime Minister, Mr. Neville ter-historian of Eastwood Parish, Giler protest in Scotland was, of conventions of the Reformed Chamberlain, will shorten his leave Renfrewshire, was one of the first 'course, a demand for the with-Presbyterian Church, and the oc- and return to London, in order to give publicity to a theory that drawal of, the offending liturgy csalon is not likely to pass un- to confer with the Cabinet on the she was not Jenny Geddes, but and, this demand not being con-noticed by the Church of Scot-situation in the Far East.---
Transocean News Service, Barbara Hamilton, wife of John | ceded, arrangements were made to land itself.
~CHINA SITUATION
Road, 10 am. to 8.30 p.m.; Majes- tic Amateur Photo Service Exhibi- tion at China Building. 10 am. to 9 p.m.
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Social-Whist Drive and Tom- Garrison Bergto'. Mess,
bola,
Queen's Road. 8.30 pm.
Sports (See Page 10). Moon.---VII Moon, 20th Day. Sunrise.-6.03 a.m. Sunset.-6.47
p.m..
Tides.--High at 11.30 and 23.32. Low at 0450 and 17.29.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 26 Anniversaries and Holidays— Prince Consort born, 1819. Lord Tweedsmuir born 1875.
Mails(8ee Page 18). Meetings. — Monthly, of Hong Kong Philatelic Bociety, "g, C. M. Post" Board Room, 5.30 p.m.
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JAPANESE BEATEN IN SURPRISE ATTACK
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700TH ANNIVERSARY
Berlin, Aug. 22. The 700th anniversary of the foundation of Berlin ended on Sunday with a great "procession through the main streets of the city, ending at the Lustgarten. that is a large open square in afront of the old Imperial Palace, #here mass meetings are usually held.
Huallai, Aug. 23: The right flank of the Japanese forces mov- ing along the Felping-Suiyuan Rallway was dealt a severe blow on August 21, when a nying column of Chinese troops launched Miscellaneous-Art Exhibition at sudden attack. chinese Y.W.C.A...300., Bonhaza
Contract
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Road, 10 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.; Majes- The Japanese troops are report-
10.000 members of the local tic Amateur Photo Service Ex-ed to have died in the greatest
confusion, the Chinese having National Socialist organisations hibition China Building, 10 am..
come upon them at an opportune reinforced by delegations from to 9 pm.
moment Alarze miantity of Austria and Sudeten Germans Bocad Cheers Club Bridge and Mah Jong, 8 pm; Japanese arms and military sup and the Egerland, all in their plies are reported to have been national costumes marched along Civil Service Whist. Drive, 9.20 p.m. captured from the retreating the route.
Sports(See Page 10). Moon-VII Moon Zist Day. 'Sunrise.-8.03 a.m. Sunset.-6.43
p.m.
force.
The Chinese forces are con- tinuing eastward on the Pelping Tides-High at 12.03 Low at | Bulyuan : Rällway line.--- 05.40 and 17.57.;
Central News.
Although rain fell in torrents, the Berlin population turned out' in thousands until the colourful display was over.-*-
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