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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1927.
BLOCKADE THREAT.
LORD BIRKENHEAD'S FIRST CIGARS.
AN INTERVIEW WITH EUGENE 'CHEN.
дого
worth
PENNY EACH WHEN HE WAS 18.
Foreign Minister, declared that
blockade of penny each. Then he knew no
In
The development of the cigar trade, he continued was a marvel understood what a cigar was lous one. Anyone to-day who would never admit that those, who smoked cigarettes er pipes smoked at all. They had crude and gross palates.
and
LAWN TENNIS.
TOO MANY DARING PLAYS?
"EVERY NEW ONE HAS TO GO BIT FURTHER.",
"RED" TRIAL SCENE
Ruste
TRICK TO OVER-RIDE EXHIBITION MATCHES ON
H.K.C.C. GROUND, MAJ
COURT-MARTIAL:
Vienna, Professor Twico postponed on account of In view of Sir Auston Chamber-
unfavourable weather, the exhibition" "There is a distinct danger at Vambery, who is legal adviser lain's remark in the House of Proposing the toast of "The matches in aid of the Hongkong the present moment of the British the British Legation at Budape Commons that Mr. Eugene Chon Cigar Trade" at the second annual Women's' Guild and Ministering and his Noton reprocented little luncheon of the Cigar. Merchants Children's League were played on stage becoming a sink of sexuality and a noted writer, created a sce than his personal opinion, Association, held in Londen recent the stand court at the Hongkong To be successful every new play at the trial by court-martial and that, therefore it was notly, the Earl of Birkenhead said it Cricket Club ground yesterday after-has to go a bit further-has to be Budapest of Zoltain Szanto and
The threatening Great Britain's while, to was at the age of 18, when at Ox-on,
weather more daring (it used to be spolt others charged with conspiring
rostore the Bolshevist Governme address & now Note to the Hankow ford, that he first acquired the with the exception of one short
doubtless affected the attendance, but indecency."
in Hungary under the direction Foreign Minister ou the subject of habit of smoking cigars, which he shower during the mixed doubles, This statement was made by the Russian Soviets. sanctions for the Nanking, outrage, had followed ever since with great rain did not interfere seriously with Mr. Jerome K. Jerome in a speech Prof. Vambery and 29 other a the following interview which Mr.
Пdelity.
the games.
from the stage of Bristol's "Little vocates are defending the accus Chon granted to a foreign newA-
Hemen, and their plan was to papor correspondent at Hankow is
The cigars he smoked at 18 were Mr. R. E. Lindsell efficiently dis. Theatre" the other day. of considerable interest.
the best he ever smoked in his charged the duties of umpire. blamed, the large theatre, "which three days with speeches so th has to cater for the mob," in the trial must be transferred to Mr. Bugono Chen, Henkow's life, for they were made of French
tobacco-(laughter)-and cost a contested, and having regard to the
Both matches wore very evenly order to pay expenses, and advocat-civil court, because every coul slippery state of the court, heavy of the establishment of little martial must conclude on the thi the ovent of a
day. (Laughter.) A
theatres everywhere. man balls and bad light the tennis was
The President of the court d the Yangtze the Powers would others." suffer more than the Nationalists with limited means could easily quite good, particularly in the men's
A play, to be successful in
cided that the defending advocat London, must draw something an- could not be heard. The Publ because the latter would instantly smoke ten or a dozen of them a day doubles.
without experiencing financial convert the blockade into a vigor.
Major Lucas and Mrs. Tottenham proaching $2,000 a week, and when: ous boycott of the blockaders which stringency. (Laughter.)
beat M. K. Lo and Miss Enid Lo 6-3, riches Hike that come pouring in ing, when Prof. Vambery rosa e Prosecutor thereupon 'began rea This is the first occasion on through the box office window art citedly and cried: "In the same might well endure for at least a
6-4. geseration. The Minister said that
which Miss Lo has played flies out at the stage door.
liberty I protest against this pri he does not think a blockade in Possible unless the world's gone
upon putting up a public on the Cricket Club
she is to be can
The theatre must set to work to cedure, and in the name of t good exhibi
of its
human justi mad," adding that if it happens
patrons, The big sacredness tion. Although leaving must of the educate
against silencing the advocate we still have rice, boing enstain ing, and can hold out indefinitely."
work to her partner, she fobbed of theatre dare not risk it. As fectively and volleyed well when oc friend of mine, a London manager, for the defence.""
The President said he would d Chen voiced the popular query
casion, demanded. There was very said to me only a little while ago, little between the pairs, and it would "My expenses are fifteen hundred cide later whether the accused me among Chinese as well as foreigners for the renson of the presence
With regard to the coming Bud have been no surprise had it gone to pounds a week, and I cannot afford had treasonably rebelled or h
Mrs. Tottenham playeart."
only made preparations, in whi of
than 30 more
get, said Lord Birkenhead, I am three sets. warships
latter event the civil courts wou Hankow, decrying the show
and of not aware what my colleague the excellently all the way through,
The big manager does not ask take over the case. force as
an emphatic indication Chancellor of the Exchequer is ing, well from the baseline
placing excellently.
inclined to be erratic
Her partner whether a play is good or bad.
but did of the clutch of foreign imperialism likely to submit to the Cabinet. I
was
He asks "Has it got a punch in at the throat of Chinn,
lot of good things, But be certainly think he ought to be an
it? Will it bring them In?" By did not intimaty that he was plan-indulgent judge of your neces-hearty abandon whomever he had a "them, of course, he means the its chief constituent in manufa
An imitation für, with resin his oppor- ning a protest. He asserted, how sities, I know he smokes a very opportunity and puzzling
ents with a difficult twisting service. great unthinking the people who ture, is being developed to su ever, that the warships "strengthen large number of cigars. I have
M. K. Lo was consistent and at the regard the theatre as an interlude an extent that chemists believe the hands of Hankow, arousing carefully read certain of your
he spirit of nationalism, and arguments, and I think they ought net was the most effective of the between a dinner and a dance-will replace natural fur, T gaining support for the
four, He also served very and it was hard luck that many of the hope of having their animal our and has all the appearance an which, he said, seeks to end what is regarded as intolerable oppres Bion and interference with tho
Continuing. Lord Birkenhead Chinese rule of their own country. "National power will be ours short said the habit of smoking cigars
In the second game, S. A. Rumjahn ly Unless America decides other was not likely to be acquired in wise, we wish always to greet her later life. It must be a great blow and H. D. Rumjahn beat Colonel As a friend who interposed the to the cigar trade if the duty made Russell Brown and R. E. Tottenham
A modern Euripides, adapting their. Hay, doctrine, and secured some re-it impossible for the trade to pro-2-6, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4. All four were in best form and the games word spite for the nation then ander induce a cigar at a reasonable price: keenly contested, many going to Homer for the stage and dreaming ternational pillage."
The question here was a financial deuce several times before they were of a popular success would cut one and would, no doubt, receive eventually won. The Rumjans ex-out all the Troy business, and serious Treasury consideration. celled at the net, where they volleyed come straight to the misconduct; acting is all that is demanded and smashed with their accustomed and the American producer would, it. With any sort of luck it oug accuracy. Colonel Russell Brown one feels confident, give to the film to pay its way.. That, as it seeri showed up prominently with some version some such title as "Up in to me, is the essence of the co forceful chop strokes and Tottenham's placing always, kept his opponents guessing. The third and fourth fumes produced tennis of a high standard, frequently brilliant.
America's Mistake.
at
He declared that America is making a greut mistake in follow- iag Great Britain in the Orient and pleads for "unity among the Powers" in their attitude towards the Nationalist movement..
ed. More than that i would not be proper for me to say,
It must be realised that any arti- cle of luxury, which la taxed to such an extent that it reduces the consumption defeats the objects
of the tax.
with
first services were only a fraction outside the line.
Men's Doubles.
appetitba tickled, their animal
passions excited by sensation-lasting qualities of animal fur. alism by sexuality. An appetite grows by what it feeds on.
London, a Pleasure City,
Helen's Rooms."
a judge's mouth water. heroines' dresses have not to made by Lucille or Paquin.
Art and Charity. J Good plays, good all roun
11 tract. Art cannot live on charit
To justify its existence it musi There is another reason, why earn Its own living. nothing else but the commercial That is the law, and all hone drama can hope to win through in things must conform to it. A su During more than an hour's in- torview, Chen was voluble, Qual stage of the campaign. That The Rumjahre atarted badly in all London. London has become the sidised theatre would but repla nervously. He is. L energetic is realising the objective of the four sets, but they always picked up pleasure elty of the world. It is one evil by another. The Sund At first they were inclined to take the foreigners, the hoards of clubs, do clever work, but th little inan of middle age. Ha
northern expedition-conquest, na- somewhat dranintically discussed tional
authority." This things easily, but were fully extended provincials up for a apree, the partake too much of the charact the aims and aspirations of the we could not durompass at Shang- Kuomintang-at loast the section hai, Chen addodi
which is here. The interview was held in the spacious reception room of the offices of the old st gabelle, near the Bund in the former German Concession.
euemy
power,
TH
Defeat Own Ends. Returning to the question of the attitude of the Powers towards Chinn at present, Chen, in Hankow Not Communistic. ponse to a question, asserted that the Powers ar defeating their Chen described Shanghai as "own ends in sending troops to centre of reaction and a haunt of Shanghai. "You seek to defend
litical lepers, where one must either become a tool at foreign property and lives but you are creating more hard feeling among infperialism or, if one has nerve, the masses than all our propa come into armed conflict with it.gands ever could. It is this foreign The Nationalist objective enn be imperialiem we are against. We achieved only by defeating the Want a free government and de- on the front of decision, aire to end the super-government followed by the Nationalist Or- cupation of Peking, where historic now misruling Chinn in the guise wrongs must be redeemed and the of Poking diplomaties and run our owe Dution. The United States is period of national humiliation
making a great error in following. come to an end."
the British in Chinn. We want He added that the northern ex-to retain the traditional friendship pedition continues its march on of the American people but the Wash- the "Mongolian oner.mpment known ington policy does not live up to aa Peking, leaving other forces the kindly words of individuals. of the revolution to deal with the This, I think, is largely because certain mombers of the American leprous limb of Shanghai."
Legation and some Americans Chen scouted the idea that the here aro more anti-Nationläist Hankow Government is com-than the typical British die-hard." munistic "unless the great Nation- Chen said Hankow is chiefly con- alist task of destroying Chinese corned with two things at present, feudalism and freeing the country namely the military campaign and from foreign imperialism is
anthe economic situation. He said adventure in Communism," insist that the labour unions are under-1 ing on this not because of the de- taking to control the workers, sire "to solicit American assist-seeking to influence them not to aneo or oven sympathy but in the make uneconomic demands. We. interests of truth and historic as well as: the unions, are telling amity between China and America." the workers it is inadvisable to He said that Chiang Kai-shek's neck, for example, a haudred per allegation of Communist domina- cent, increase of wages forthwith. tion at Wuhan is an attempt to Wo favour a gradual rise in the confuse the point, at issue.
labour scale. He said that the unions had agreed to a move
The question is not Communism rational policy.
versus non-Communism, når Kuo- minlang versus Communism. The actual issue io between Chiang
Foreigners Needed. '
Kui-shek and the Kuomintang and Chen said the Chinese want the
involvos
to remain. Ho. sair?
basis of foreigners the entire
the Nationaliste aro not. political thought and practice. Tho that latter categorically rejects the anti-foreign but decidedly anti-im- feudal conception of one-man perialist and added that it "the believo China is tou government in favour of the al foreigners
rovolution during the tornative conception of a modern dangerous
But he did not government resting on strong they may leave." party foundations. Chieng Kai-advise the departure, stating that Nationalists offor adequato shek, howover, stands for personal the authority and personal govern- protection,
Asked about Nanking, Chon re- ment. This is the real issue. And formulated on those tormo there plied that it is still a moot ques- would be ons decisive judgment tion. Hankow is not ready to there is from Nationalist Ching on the accept guilt. Certainly issue, namely utter condemnation no llegation against the Nation- of Chiang Kai-shek. This explains alist authorities of a "deliberately his attempt to paint the issue red." organized anti-foreign attack and looting. We must have an inquiry Chen declared that the defection into the Nanking 'affair, as aug- of Chiang Kai-shok does not affect geated in my note. It is the only the position of the Nationalist civilised way to settle the quen- Government vitally, declaring that tion of guilt. There should be no its military strength is intact on objection to such a plan." He again the decisive front in Honan. intimated the theory discarded by "Among the forces on this front foreignors that Northerners might in the fourth army, known as the prove to have been guilty, adding Iron army, which conquered the approximately 30,000 Northern- way to Wuhan, and enabled the ors were captured on the night of Nationalist Government to reach March 24, as well as the next day the Yangtze, We are entering the inside the walls of Nanking."
towards the end.
op
Americans fleeing from prohibi-of secret societies. Art, to.. At the conclusion of the games tion, who are the main support ut, healthy, must breathe the
West End theatres. air.. Mrs. Southorn presented the ladies London's
I should like to see a litt and the winners of the men's doubles They are no blame to them--in
theatre in every town of mo with small souvenirs, and congrats holiday mood. inted them on the excellent tennis
than 40,000 souls. And it could they had put up,
In the provinces expenses can done. Local patriotism wonf be kept within limit. The little surely help. « theatre gets known. It enters At the present moment half th
Exhibition Game.
A doubles tennis match will take into the life of the town. It is theatres in London are controll place to-morrow at the H. K. C. C. not one small lamp surrounded by from America. The other ha ground (stand court) between Ng hundred flaring rivals. It does scon will be. That the danger Sze-kwong and T. Honda and the not have to advertise. It does not not imaginary is proved by wha Rumjahn Cousins in aid of the In-have to engage matinee idols and has happened in the case of th dian Recreation Club pavilion funds. low comedians at salaries to make cinema.
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