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CINEMA AGREEMENT.
HUNGHOM THEATRE SUIT.
Further evidence was given in The only cases of notifiable acting Puisne Judge, Mr. P. Jacks, the Summary Court before the
and were two Chinese disease reported over the week-this morning, in the caso in which caacs of Ng Shun-fat claims $1,000 in con- typhoid fever.
nexion with the leasing of the Mee Chui picture house at Hunghom. that an agreement was drawn up At a previous hearing it was stated by the plaintiff and the defendant, Tam Fung-shek, regarding the leas ing of the theatre to the plaintiff. agreement is a forgery, The defendant's case is that the
valued at $40 has been reported by The theft of two table fans the Chinese Christian Church, at 332, Nathan Road.
tributed by them to various naval and military hospitals here to date.
H.E, the Governor, has appointed Mr. Abbas el Arculli to be a mom. bor of the Board of Education for a further period of two years, with effect from July 8, 1927. M
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Injured Motorist-"Doctor, tell me the worst.".....
"Well, two whools and the Doctor (a motoring enthusiast): radiator are amashed."
A cow on a farm in Hampshire was recently taken ill, No treat- the animal subsequently died. A ment appeared to give relief, and post-mortem was held, and a hat- pin was discovered through the cow's heart.
Solicitor at Wealdstona: Were you on friendly terms with your husband? Woman: We could. not be, too friendly, as he was: never at home.
Midland police official: You do not seem to love men in police uniform. Woman: Oh, I love men in any uniform
not defend himself,
Young man fined at Kingaton for assault: I had just left the peaceful Home public house.
Giving evidence to-day, the license of the theatre said plaintiff went to him on April 26 for a con- tract to be arranged. Mr. D. Me draft of a contract and Mr. C. A. S Buss, for plaintiff, objected to the document going in on the ground that there was such a draft in exis-had a child in each hand and could that there had been no previous hint Wife at Kingston: My husband
draft was not signed, however. tence. It was admitted that the
Continuing, defendant said he had had twenty years' experience Among those returning to Hong-in the cinema business. It was not When a cheque for £25,000 was kong to-day from Manila by the usual to give a lessee three or four shown to Mr. Justice Russell in Empress of Asia, were Mr. and days to determine what returns the the Chancery Division recently he
theatre was making.
"I have never seen' The returns exclaimed: Mrs. John Fleming and Mr. C.
were dependent on the weather, the such a thing before." quality of the film and several other things.
The story of the boy who wrote Witness received a deposit of in an examination The President Lincoln, arriving $1,200 together with $200 bargain "Chlorine gas is very injurious to
paper- from Seattle and Shanghai, re-money. ports the death by auicide of one cinema zud at times had made a experiment, therefore, should only He had personally run the the human body; the following mate Chinese deck passenger, who profit and at others a loss. In be performed by the teacher, jumped overboard at 2.30 a.m. on 1925, during the crisis, trade was reminds me (says a writer in the July 10, when within a few hours dull owing to the fact that many of Hongkong.
Chinese went to Canton. Plaintiff was to pay him $150 per month for the theatre.
Thwaites.
of special requirements that is The Hospital Comforts Commit being largely stressed, and weteo sends us a list of stores as dia-Callum, for defendant, produced the cannot see that Britain, with her wide-flung territories, and her great mercantile marine to which open soa: lanes are essential, 'can consent to modification of these particular considerations. Yet, once the lighter craft problem has been solved, apparently the matter of capital ships will be easy by comparison, ao, with the tendency to obtain agreement that is ac- tuating all parties, one can afford to remain optimistic of satisfac- tory rosulte. But one cannot help wondering whether the agenda at Geneva has not several serious omissions. Science has advanced the range of offence and defence, both on land and sea, and engines, of war can be potently constructed that will probably place the biggest navics" at a dis- advantage. We refer of course 128, Montague Ede Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Jose Luiz de to the navigation of the air, and Selavisa Alves, aged 79 years. for a proper appreciation of in- Funeral will pass the monu-ternational disarmament, quite ment at 5.45 p.m. to-day.
This morning's Harbour Offee apart from mere saving in build-departures, of which five and four reports gave 12 arrivals and 11
ing of warships, we should like respectively were British, leaving to see the matter of aircraft in. 78 vessels in harbour of which 32 were British. The total return troduced and thoroughly discuss over the weekend gave 23 arrivals ed. It is a subject which must and 22 departures, of which nine and eight respectively were inevitably come up for considera-
British. tion by the nations, sooner later.
Ordinance Hongkong, Alexandra Buildings, Dos Voeux Road Central
DEATH.
ALVES-At his residence, No.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, JULY 11, 1927.
NAVAL PROBLEMS.
The optimists who expected a
called
More Treachery.
or
A report made to the police yes- thieves entered. a Chinese temple Lerday was to the effect that at Kwan T, Fan Ling, and stole some joas ornaments valued at $100. The joss ornaments are the Property of the Kwan Ti kai fony, the village elders.
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London Morning Post) of another aspirant for scientific Honours whose courage was evidently for greater.
that a reasonable and fair.rent?
Mr. McCallum: Do you consider he would distinguish between This youth had been asked how Witness: I let it to Hongkong tively nitrogen, nitrous oxide, and three bell-jars containing respec- Amusements without the appara-nitric acid gas. His reply was:- tus for $250.
Mr. McCallum; In his evidence contents of each jar. That which "I should inhale a portion of the plaintiff says he took $16.60 on the produced no effect I should know first day.
Would that represent a to be nitrogen; that which caused fair day's takings?
more than that.
me to hurst into a peal of laughter Witness: It should have been would be nitrous oxide, while that which made me cough and spit blood would be nitric acid gas."
Mr. McCallum: He also says he says he took $17 on the second day and $11.50 on the third.:
Witness: I don't think those are correct amounts.
Mr. McCallum: He further saya that he was showing a first class Chinese picture.
Witness: Everyone in the audi-
The case is proceeding.
A special police squad on search duty at Kennedy Road on Satur-ence cursed that picture because it duy came across a Chinese who was was a very bad one for the Chinese carrying his hat in a suspicious community. It deals with robbing way. On examination it was
a bride after marriage. found that a chicken was con- cd before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this cealed in the hat. He was charg- morning with the theft chicken, and fined $5, or in de- fault seven days hard labour.
Governments cannot move faster than peoples--Major J. W. Hilla, M.P.
because they are too ambitious.-- Many women tennis playera fail
Miss Helen Wills.
finitely worse than crossing the Crossing through. Paris was in- Atlantic-Captain Lindbergh
I do hot think there is any such thing as the freedom of the Press. -Lord Hewart (Lord Chief Justice).
One New Zealander is worth
of the TUNG WAH HOSPITAL, more to us as a customer than
BIG LOTTERY SCHEME FOR NEW HOSPITAL,''
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twelve Frenchmen, two dozen Germans or Americans, a hundred Amery. Chinese, or 400 Russians,--Mr.
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The position in the north, in the region of Tsingtao, has been rather obscure for several days past, and very smooth passage for the vari-
was not made any the clearer by the defection of General Chen Yen- ous proposals made by the Powers yt, who has "gone over" from the at the Geneva Naval Conference side of Marshal Sun Chunn-fang to A Chinese "boy" employed na 1 must be sadly disappointed, and that of Marahal Chiang Kai-shek. mess coolie at the residence of the Surely, there is no other country in staff of the Commercial Press, even those who accepted with re- the world where disloyalty and Limited, in West Point was charg-
A general meeting was held in clothes dealer's shop window in The scene was a second-hand serve the bright forecasts of com- treachery is so glibly practised ored before Mr. R. P. Lindsell this the Tung Wah Hospital or Satur- which goods were displayed at mentators in Britain, America and as here in China.
so readily forgiven and overlooked morning with larceny of ten day afternoon, at which the Exe-grently reduced prices. Various Without the pieces of clothing belonging to live Committee of the Hospital "tickets" explained the cheapness Japan, cannot be satisfied with the slightest warning, Generals and so- various members of the staff, chants, were present, for the dis- "Misfit," "Not Claimed," "Tailor's and several prontinent Chinese mer of the goods by announcing, way things have gone. It is in-,
Marshals change their valued at $60. The defendant colours, pro-North one day and pleaded guilty to the charge and funds for the building of the new
cussion of the methods of collecting Sample," and so on. teresting to find that the United pro-South the next, ready to betray was sentenced to ten weeks' hard hospital at Causeway Bay.
In the centre of the window, States have proved the most dif- their erstwhile comradea-nye, and labour." ficult to please; Japan, who was strong description for conduct of ready to kill them. The West has
Mr. Li Hoi-tung, occupying themade, for a pair of trousers, de- some amall. mistake had been
exported to be the main objector that king and very wholesome was held on Saturday evening at
A very enjoyable whist drive ing a new hospital in the vicinity of bore a card which stated, "These chair, stated that the idea of build-cidedly unusual in cut and colour, in certain instances, being after China, it is all part and parcel of Bowling Green Club, the event was conceived by the management loathing for it, too, But here in the new clubhouse of the Kowloon the Chinese living in that. district
Causeway Bay for the benefit of Trousers Were Uncalled For all, less adamant on most points, that damnable system of militarism, having been arranged by Mr. D. of the Tung Wah Hospital a long able designation" of "gentleman" and willing to compromise when under which local mandarins be- Harvey and a Committee. Over time ago, and that last year a piece
The good old-fashioned-honour- ever possible. Also, the British come Generals and provincial rulers forty members and friends took of ground was granted by the Gov-appears to be becoming proposals, which appeared at first self and lacking loyalty to anything Ladies-1, Mrs. Harvey; 2, Mrs. of ground is 150,000 square feet
become Marshals, each out for him- part, the prize winners being: ernment at Sookunpoo. sight to be simple, straightfor- or anyone other than his own well- Purslow; bool Mrs. Cameron. and is given by the Government on these distinctions.
The plot Leas often used is the word. being. The winning side is the
"lady." We are nervous about ward, and eminently desirable, only side to be on in China, and Gents, Mr. D. Harvey, Junior; the condition that the building is
We play for have turned out the biggest point every other consideration seems to 2. Mr. A. W. E. Davidson; booby, finished within five years.
We are all "men" safety first. The of controversy. From the latest Little or no question of right or
be made subservient to that rule. Mr. N. Watson,
Chairman added that the comple"female" died during the early. and "women;" for the appellation tion of the new hospital will cost nineteenth century, despatches, despite the amount of wrong, or of progressive policies, A Chinese youth was charged total sum of $300,000, but as secrecy which is being maintained, or of the prospect of good or bad before Mr. R. B. Lindsell, this there were from 500,000 to 600,000 finally to discard that horrible How much more, then, ought we there is a more hopeful tone apmatter of deciding upon what or
government seems to enter into the morning, with defrauding a Chin-be a very difficult matter to collect Mr. Justice Hill has just protested
Chinese in the Colony it should not
abbreviation gent-against which parent, and seemingly the greatest whose side a man of military in-
ese woman of $20 on the pretence the said amount. stumbling-block has been tackledence-large or small-shall be her a licence from the Secretariat that, for the purpose of collecting the same person as a "gentleman."
that he was in a position to get It was proposed at the meeting He is an opportunist, out for him for Chinese Affairs. The youth, first, so should this be successful-self every time, and stops at in answer to the charge said that funds, a 50,000 ticket lottery of But He existed. The appeal was Jy negotiated, it should be possible nothing to "keep his own end up." he did not defraud the woman of $10 per ticket should be held, if male to hin in sales catalogues. to proceed more or less smoothly of callous assassination, of heart trying to get the necessary in-are sold there will be a sum of
Many a story of black treachery, the money, but it was spent in the Government. If all the tickete "Gent.'s pyjamas." It was mainly
permission can be obtained from to the desired agreement.
towards obtaining the $500,000, and after sixty per cent.
fluence
common.
as updignified?
un-
A "gent.." it is true, was never
a commercial compliment, never an indication of rank or profe
And.thero let us stop. We need not be too uncouth. We hope
Peculiarly enough, the question Chinese history, and one almost licence. The Magistrate remanded. of the amount has been awarded tosion. Let us return to man."
less betrayal besmirches modern
so long as military domination re- despairs of seeing anything better mains the uppermost desire of the majority of those who come to the
the case.
Paris
of cruisers has become the big problem for decision at Geneva. Tonnage and armament, and ton
top in China's human maclatrom. nage in relation to armament, and The birth of a truly national idea less tonnage with greater arma-is still awaited, for we doubt if the "Nationalista" have soriously ment, and so on, are apparently tried to purge themselves of that controversial points in the argu- personal idea which ordinarily Brussels ment. Britain put forward a pro- The prospect of a true Nationalism Copenhagen
limits the vision of Chinese leaders. Berlin
Amsterdam
position for having specific ton-as against the narrow and cruel in- Vienna nages, with definite gun calibres, dividualism of the past would be Helsingfors but both the other Powera have where in sight.
a grandly alluring one, were it any- Lisbon...
disagreed, and Japan's latest in- | timation is that she would consent"
the winners, the hospital will be able to make a profit of $200,000.
It was decided to seek permis-"man" will not follow "gentleman""
and "gent." on the downward path. We hope modesty will not go so far as to compel advertisement of shirta and hats for bounders!
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Los Angeles, July 2.. 776 for a very long time, an ingenious actress, was sentenced to from one. Dorothy Mackayo, a dramatic 47% Chinese landlord thought out to three years. In San Quentin pri- 2/034
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1/11 6/18 good form of advertisement. He
.4.8534 wrote several notices on attrac-son to-day following her conviction 26,22 tively-coloured paper and pasted charges after the death in April of a week ago yesterday of conspiracy .89.11 them on lamp posts in the district her boy husband Ray Raymond. 18.134
A complaint by the Gas Com .18.77 pany to the Police, however, re-
a fist fight with Raymond over .163.85 sulted in the police charging the Dorothy, entered San Quentin to- 28.40 man with "sticking posters with day on a term of from one to ten
out. proper permission."
to limited size of vessels were a A Chinese living in Wusung Gonova bigger type of gun sanctioned. It street attempted to commit suicide Milan seems that much. of the present in a goat shed at Whitfeld. Bar Stockham hesitation hangs on programmes racks yesterday. He was found by Oslo
an Indian gunner of the No. 1 Pragus already laid down, so that the de-Mortar Battery hanging by a cloth Madrid legates who are raising all the rope attached to a bamboo pole. objections fear the necessity to The man was cut down and sent Bombay
to the Government Civil Hospital Hongkong scrap a great deal of comparative It Is stated that he is not in a Silver Spot and Forward ly now tonnage were a treaty serious condition,
British Wireless.
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Paul Kelly, a film actor who had
.1/5 18/18 The Magistrate Mr. R. End-years on a charge of manslaughter, Dorothy was convicted of con- .1/11% sell, did not consider the offence spiring with Dr. W. J. Sullivan to:
257 very serious and fined the defen- conceal the facts of her husband's
dant $2.
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