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Tel Address "PALACE." Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. Entirely under English Management: Electric Light and Fans throughout. Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rouma. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress, Terma moderate. Special terms to families on application to:
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII,
PEASANT "REDS” IN
REVOLT.
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THE SPLIT.
Chiang at Nanking.
Nanking, April 18. Chiang Kai-shek is still at Nan. king. His formar allles at Han-
MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1927.
BRITISH FILMS.
|FAMOUS PEOPLE IN £1,000,000
COMPANY.
A. gigantic organisation involv |ing a capital of £1,000,000, already secured, has been created for the purpose of developing the British Empire film industry.
Leading British authors, actors, Are 4890-
kow are now in active opposition artists, and architects to him and he to them. He is re-ciated with this scheme, which in ported to be consulting with Mo-volves picture production in Bri- derntes from his own Southern tala, Canada, Australia, India, leaders and also with Moderates and South Africa, and which will from the Northern party as to a securo for these pictures exhibi- future policy.
tion throughout the world.
Chiang's dismissal from Com.
For the past twelve months a mander-in-Chief of the Nationalist syndicate known as British Au military forces by the Hankow thors' Productions has been at section is confirmed.
work on the details of this scheme, General Chiang Kai-shek's troops and a start with film work will be are continuing their movements to made almost immediately. round up Communists in the Chin-Thus, after years of talk, a
city. and
environs.Naval British Hollywood is now within Wircicas,
cse
IS HANKOW NEXT? Rumours of Clean-up of Communists.
Hankow, April 16, Confirmation has been received
measurable distance of becoming 2R established fact. Central studios will be near London, and the studio floors will be availablo before the end of the year.
This new British film syndicate was established by Mr. Ralph J. Pugh, who founded the English of the split between Chiang Kai-
First National Company. He has shek's party and the Southern the backing the Lancashire cot-
party at Wuhan, and anti-Chiang Mason.
bon manufa arer, Mr. Rupert
propaganda of a very virulent British
nature has made its appearance. will now be controlled by a new Authors' Productions A rumour which is in circulation company to be called British In- that Chiang Kai-shek is planning corporated Pictures with an initial to march on Hankow with the incapital of £500,000. This new tention of ridding the place of company will produce only British Communists, is causing the general stories and will employ only Bri- situation to remain uncertain.tah personnel. Naval Wireless.
Borodin's Arrest Ordered.
Shanghai, April 16. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's head- quarters has ordered the arrest
W
British Incorporated Pictures
Picture has already a series of five years' agreements for stories by a num- ber of famous writers, and the off- cials and cast are all well-knoWI people long connected with British
of M. Borodin, Hau Chien. Tang art and drama. Yin-tak. T. V. Soong and other, "Red" leaders of the Hankow Government.
Four Empire Companies.
In addition to British Incoropor- Shen Chun-yu and Hau Fa-lated Pictures, affiliated producing chen, Commissioners of the Che-companies will operate in Canada, iang Provincial Government, have Australia, South Africa, and India. been arnested
by Chiang Kai Each of the affiliated Empire com- shek's loyal generals there be-panies will be responsible for the ing accused as Red sympathizers. distribution in their territory of -Weh Kiu Yat Pao.
the films of the producing com- panies.
BIG SWINDLE.
ALLEGED PARIS PLOTS WITH VALUELESS PAPER.
A sensation has been caused on the Paris Bourse by the discovery of an alleged gigantic fraud said to involve millions of francs.
At
.
None of the existing distribu- tion organisations; most of which have materially contributed to the past failure of British, pictures, will be used..
The affliated Canadian Produc- ing Company has been established under the title of British Empire whole of the capital of £100.000 Films of Canada, Limited. The fall of which will be subscribed in Canada) is definitely assured.
In Australia, a powerful ex A man named Rochette, who is alleged to be the head of the gang, Dontinions Films Exchange (Aus- change under the title of British was arrested recently along with tralia) Company, Limited, has Andre Mexandra and been established with the object Marcel Thore, the manager and secretary
financial news-
of distributing British films. of a
Sir Cheminial Setalvad K.C.I.E.. paper.
According to details given by the of Bombay and ex-President of the Vice-Chancellor of the University Paris papers, the plan followed Central Parliament of India, is was to run a simultanepus campaign organising the establishment of in favour of some particular value the Indian United at Poona, and lean scenrity in the various small negotiations are proceeding for Bnancial papers published by those the early establishment of the engaged in the scheme.
South African Unit. Copies of their journals would be) addressed to an intended victim, ing of central studios near Lon- Plans are prepared for the build- who was naturafly impressed by the don. The first studio floors will fact that the same security was be available before the end of this landed simultaneously in different year. FALJA÷‡‡3.
Entertainments.
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The Man
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Monte
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HE went to Monte Carlo horing
for the great romance. thought she had found it when a' Prince laid his heart at her feat.
then she learned that he wat
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VIOLA DANA
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In addition to the provision of Then the elegantly dressed repre-studio accommodation, it is pro- sentatives, travelling by motor car,posed to rive financial assistance would finish the work of the convicto independent meritorious British Lion and succeed in getting their producers. victims to hand over their State An offer has been received to Bonds in exchange for valueless purchase the world's 'rights of the stock. Moreover, Rochetto managed first three films on terms which for wome time cleverly to maintain will ensure adequate profit. the quotation of his securities until A notable feature of this com one day the erash came. The pany is that after the exhibition ramifications of the gang extend of the first two pictures British throughout France.
exhibitors will be given an op- Profit of Millions.
portunity to join the company on basis which does not entail in- According to the Peti Parivien, vestment. This would be a com- Rochette is said to have told an emplete answer to the exhibitor com- ployer who hesitated to take part in lines which Americans are seck- auch practions: "You will never doing to establish in the country. anything in life, my lad. You By arrangement with the Ameri- hesitate to risk a year's imprison can Film Producing Company, the ment for a profit of millions of pictures of these affiliated com- franes. It is stupidity."
The search made of Pochette's panies will be exhibited in the offices shows, it is said, that he was tors, players, and technical ex-
United States, and British direc
A story that recalls Bishop proparing to flee.
Born in 1878, at Molun, Rochatto perts now in America will be Hatto and other medieval legends started life in a railway buffet.brought back to England, so that comes from Temesvar, the former Then inheriting a little money, he youthful talent in this country Hungarian town in the Banat, took lessons in accountancy in Paris may have the benefit of their ex- which is now Roumanian territory. and entered a bank. Soon after his
A man of seventy, Leka Bogdanov, perience.
. Both as regards flm-making was found dead with his skuli fruitful apparenticeship ho launched ont into finance on his own. He and film-marketing, this scheme broken and his face horribly was undoubtedly a genius (says is by far the most important yet mutilated. He Roctor), if genius in definable as an conceived. In its full develop infinite apneity for taking other ment it may involve, a capital of
£3,000,000. people's money.
By 1909, he is reported to have amassed over one hundred million franca by bogus company promoting.
was £1 reclase,
with no friends, his only pleasure being his pigeons, which he treat ed with the greatest affection and care. On their behalf he waged a bitter war against the cata of the neighbourhood, whose corpses he throw on his dung-hill. "His face was discovered in an almost
state, farther unrecognisable
bitten, seratched, and gnawed at, the nose being entirely bitton off. The supersitions villagers are convin ced that the fell a victim to the re venge of the cats.
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Nothing daunted, Rochette, as Then the crash came. A long-pon s he came out of prison, con- drawn out series of trials and ap-tinued to dabble in finance, and in peals followed, and when in 1912 198! was rearrested on a Rochelle got three years' imprison charge of winding, but was acquit ment, it was discovered he had fledted. So far, the affair does not to Mexico. During the war Ro- neam to have. dotcloped fully: chotto joined up in the French army Fower than a dozen complaints have ns a motor cyclist under an assumed heon lodged aganst Rochetto, but name. In 1917 he got into trouble it in charged as corinis thut the with the military authorities, and arrest of the alleged ringleaders in
Small pox is still spreading in was sentenced to two years impri- the case will bring forward a rum-South Wales. In mail, week one Bonment. It was then ravenloil that her of his "clients." As, however, hundred and forty cases had been the motor cyclist, Biennime, was no most of Rochette's clientele reside diagnosed, and two new areas of Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK other than the famous Rochette, and the Provinces, it will take the infection were reported at Aber-PERCY FRANKLIN at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street, in the City of Rochette norved his sentence after prosecution some days to collect all hargned and at Abordare.
Victoria, Hongkong" all its evidence.
ail.
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