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RUSSIA'S PLEDGE.
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It is scarcely to be wondered at that some anxiety should be ex- pressed in the House of Commons regarding the value of the Soviet
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20.3
DAY BY DAY.
can only now regret that this body. was not definitely named in the undertaking. Nevertheless, the
HOWEVER WELL PROVEN A FRIEND British Government's bone fdea
SHIP MAY APPEAR, THERE ARE CON: cannot be questioned-it regards FIDENCES THAT IT SHOULD NOT HEAR the pledge as covering the Comin- AND SACRIFICES WHICH SHOULD NOT tern and, according to Mr. Hender-BE REQUIRED OF T-Joseph Roux. son, it intends to insist on the undertaking being obeorved both in the letter and in the spirit,
The P. and O. ss. Kashgar from Shanghai, is due here at 6 a.m. on Friday.
The P. & 0, 8.5. Karmala, from Hongkong, arrived at London on the 17th November at 8 am,
1929..
FOX FOLLIES.-
BEAUTIFUL GIRLS-IN THE CHORUSES.
The day of the "beautiful but dumb" Ahow girl has passed. This statement is true, at least, so far as the show giris featured in the William Fox Movietone Fol- Hles of 1929 are concerned:
The Very Idea!
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"My little daughter Beryl, whiono quaint sayings - have, somètimoa... appeared in your columns," writes a lady to a London paper,, "was taken to Levanto at the age of 15 months. There being no room In the hotel garage, we were obliged |to house our car in a dlaused A curious reporter, talking with stable in the village. Op our After the side-etepping indulged
several of these stately beauties return to Lovante (without the in by the Izvestia, It. is, we pro
during the production of the Fox car) two years later we chanced aume, too much to hope for that
Follies, is said to have been as to pass the stable, and Beryl Imme-
car!" the Soviet Government will now
tounded to And that they knew diately pointed to It crying Car.. their philosophy and literature. come out with a clear declaration
The girls, incidentally, are now. A most remarkable instance of that it agrees with the British in-
displaying their charms in the infant memory is cited in "Car
13 It terpretation of the no-propaganda The Emprus of Asia, which Fox Follies at the Queen's Thea-penter's Mental Physiology."
relates how a Mr. Hansard, qu pledge, but when the Ambassador left Hongkong on the 31st October, tre
arrived at Vancouver on the 18th Dolving into their educational clergyman, on visiting seaside from Moscow takes up his duties November.
place declared that he recognised history, the reporter discovered It would be well to have the post-
that all had the equivalent of a It, though he had no recollection high school education, while ser- of having visited it before. He tion made clear of all possible
Mr. W. Schofield, who returned eral had spent several years in pointed out a place where he re- membered to have bean with ambiguity. We fear, however,
from leave. last week. resumed finishing schools or universities.
grown-up people, and it was found that, pledge or no pledge, Bolshevik duties as Kowloon Magistrate this
Iris Ashton, for instance, re that he had actually been there as propaganda in British territory will morning, relieving Mr. T. S. Whyte ceived her elementary schooling an infant in arms. He was only riot cease.
Indeed, we doubt Mos-Smith who was formerly Assistant in San Francisco, followed by an six or eight months old at that
Aendemic curriculum at the fn-time. cow's ability to stop it, even if it
shionable institution known as had the inclination. The Third Internationale now has its agents
Crown Solicitor.
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Miss Hamlin's School for Girls. Mr. Meekly: "My dear, a friend Stating that he had no parents. There she majored in literary and of mine was shot at by a burglar, and branches in all parts of the young Chinese who was charged dramatic activities and has since and his life wussaved by the
and short stories bullet striking a button." the written verse world: the Soviet has set going a Kowloon Magistracy this morning professionally. Followed a course Mrs. Meekly: "What of it?" movement which it may no longer with trespassing on a Government of
before Mr. W. Schofield' at
subsistance.
dancing instruction with
Mr. M.: "Nothing, only his
be able to control. In the circum-plantation, was remanded for en- Marion Morgan, and she soon be- stances, all that can be done is to quiries to be made into means of came a featured Marion Morgan buttons must have been on."
dancer in vaudeville,
Blanche Fisher, beauty contest The Pope received a touchlag, insist that the pledge to Britain be
vinner in Omaha, Nebraska, in but somewhat embarrassing token observed. If it is not, then the Soviet must not complain if, with-
1925, is a high school graduate of affection from Tivoli pilgrims and, in addition, has, had consider. recently." Eight men bore into the out any more ado, Russia is de-
able instruction in hrt. She is a Vatican a gourd-like plant weigh- ing 6 cwt. This was a pizzatello, talented painter. finitely placed outside the pale.
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On two charges of larceny of clothing in Canton Road, a Chinese who had a previous conviction for a similar offence, was given a term of three months hard labour by Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, The de fendant had served a term of two months' in July last.
The Future of the Airship. The Completion of the major acceptance trials of the giant British dirigible, the R. 101, ruises the highly important question of coolies in Hunghom led to their A fight between two scavenging the use to which she will be put. appearance before Mr. W. Schofield Her latest successful light uc at the Kowloon Magistracy this cupied a period of roughly 20 hours, in the course of which airships traversed large area's of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, contending for long perinds:
morning on charges of disorderly conduct. On it being stated that the neither was injured in any way, both were ordered to sign personal bonds for their future behaviour.
(Rachmaninoff," Op 18) pledge to refrain from subversive against unfavourable weather con
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A gruesome discovery was made ditions, fogs and adverse winds at about 10 a.m. yesterday when It has been conclusively shown a Chinese named Wong Sing, aged that the R.101 when actually in the 56, of 100, Second Street, Wes
Melva Cornell, one of the most a speciality of that region, the fruit of which had been carved gorgeous giris "California ever into a representation of the cupola produced, was educated in the of St. Peter's. Pius IX admired schools of Santa Barbara, where the gift and the ingenuity of the she was born. Completing high givers, upon whom he bestowed n school, she studied for the stuge blessing. for a time, then turned to dancing,
engaged by Fabchon and Marco. becoming so proficient she was She is a prolific reader.
Lita Chevret, known through- out the cinema world as the "girl with the perfect, figure," is a na- tive of Canada, although her au- castry was Russian. Her great dunt was a famous actress in Mos- cow, years ago, Miss Chevret, as a child, moved to California with her parents' and was educated at Berkeley, site of the University While a co-ed "she became inter- of California, which she attended,
propaganda in British territory. When the recently-concluded · Pro- tocol was before Parliament a fort-air is safer and more reliable found hanging by his neck, from ested in the Little Theatre move- į night or so age, the distinct im-than any airship yet built, and a tree in Kennedy pression left by Mr. Henderson's other things being equal, should Life was already extinct, and
Road. ment, and appeared with the Ber- keley Community Playera. Later, she took up dancing.
male
f:
Lucile Jueques, a cousin of the famous Fay Bainter, was graduat- ed from the Otis Institute of Art, Los Angel, were she majored 'in designing and painting. Before joining the Fox Movietone Fol- lies, as a show girl, she was a solo dancer.
explanatory speech was that for be capable of better performance tuary. It is believed that he com
his body was taken to the Mar. purposed of the no-propaganda than the Graf Zeppelin, which
mitted suicide. pledge, the 'Communist Internation has some excellent achievements to her credit. It is likely more- ale would be regarded as an organ of the Soviet Government. It was, over that this will prove to be theFor lying inshore during pro in fact, asserted by Mr. Hen-cuse, without, it would now appear, hibited hours, one master and derson that he had plainly stated satisfying the experts. The chief three mistresses of passenger boats
Betty Recklaw, beautiful blonde, this to the Soviet representatives. snips, the R.101 is included, comes T. W. H. Hosegood. The
criticism of the new British air were fined $3 each at the Marine
Court this morning by Mr.attended loly Name Convent, Hol- The official organ of the Soviet, from the least expected quarter, defendant had an additional charge versity of
lywood High School and the Unl
California in Los however, now comes forward with namely, from Commander Sir of failing stop when called upon Angeles. She wanted to become a statement that
neither the Charles Dennistoun Burney. their to do so by a police officer, and he
a school teacher. Her beauty.. was further fined $10. abortive Agreement of 1024 nor principal designer. Commander',
however, attracted attention and the Protocol of October last con- Burney describes as arrant non-
she was persuaded to go Into mo- tion pictures. She also studied tained a single word relating to the sense the suggestions that the Comintern, which is the Executive R.100 and R.101 are posolete be Committee of the Third Inter-fore they have been given a fair nationale.
test,, but his recent book definite circumy puts them down as incapable of becoming commercial or profit earning vehicles. He is of opinion that greater speed is es Henderson's recent interpretation sential and that greater lifting of the Protocol was a distortion of capacity should be provided. As the agreement reached, it obviously laymen, it is impossible for us to became necessary that the whole follow his argument all the way, position should be clarified. This but he justifies the expenditure of has now been done by Mr. Hender-two or three millions sterling on The precise facts are that these two airships on the ground` under the terms of the Protocol the that they embody in their Soviet Government undertakes to struction a great advance on what confirm, on the day when its Am- has hitherto been done and
that extent and apparently t bassador presents his credentials,
His attention drawn to the the pledge regarding propaganda ful. Their construction, he adds, who appeared to be deriving in- that extent only-they are success behaviour of a Chinese spectator: which was contained in Article 16 had led to the advancement of tense amusement from the
A
In the face of these stances, and the further observa- tion of the Izvesti that Mr.
200,
con-
to
air
IN COURT.
The case in which Koo Chung-dancing. hi, No. 181, Laichikok Shamshuipo, the owner of a motor-car, claimed $221,40 from Leung Shiuming, No. 4, Wo Hop Street, the owner SEVENTEEN GAMBLERS of a lorry, for damages arising out of a collision between the two vehicles, was concluded yesterday judgment for the plaintiff on the afternoon. Mr. Justice Wood gave claim, with costs, and counter-claim.
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on the
"
FINDS AMUSEMENT IN COURT.
CHINESE REBUKED BY THE MAGISTRATE.
and grinning?
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pro-
The delinquent (now thoroughly. frightened):-I did not smile.
Mr. Hamilton-Don't tell 'lies. What are you doing here?
NEARLY FIVE DOLLARS FOR THE POOR BOX.
of monstrosities, has been strongly At Mitcham Fair the exhibition
discouraged.]
The pleasures of u simpler age
No more intrigue the highbrow
mind.
The booth, the "pictures," and the
stage
Some new distraction needs must
And
It is not meet to stand and store At pig-faced ladies at a fair.
Time was when the two-headed
calf,
Or possibly the six-legged sheep, Could draw the loud and vulgár
laugh;
✓
But such delights.. we must not
keep.
Where is the beared lady gone And where the living skeleton?
I own that to disgust profound
By such like shows I should be
moved.
Yet when I pause and look around I wonder, are we much improved? Do modern books and modern art. Falfit, indeed, a nobler part?
Unlovely lumps of tortured stone That hang above us as we, pass And books I should not care to
DWT
+
To these our culture leads, alas! Yea, the New Art the highbrow.
seeks Exalts the strangest kind of freaks.
kind o
*
.
"He's quite a seriously-minded fellow-always telling me to put something away for a rainy day." "I suppose you are saving his letters?"
An excellent series of photo- graphs taken at the Fanling Golf Course have been prepared by. The usher in Mr. A. W. G. H. Messrs. Mee Cheung. These are. Grantham's Court at the Central now on display at the various shops Magistracy this morning, was oc- owned by this firm, and will doubt- cupled for fully five minutes in C88 And favour among lovers of arranging before His Worship Hongkong's famous links. seventeen Chinese who were charg
ed with gambling at 66, Hollywood | nummur
Road, and after the Interpreter
hnd spent a further three minutes WHO WAS
in making known to them the charge, they all pleaded guilty and were fined $1 each.
but he falled to put in an appear An eighteenth man was charged,
ės-
picked up in the gambling den, and the magistrate ordered it to
be put inte the Poor Box.
"
BANISHEE'S RECORD.
DEPORTED FROM SINGAPORE
TARAKEE?
The philosophy of the West- ern nations sees no merits in eccentric and useless forms of self-discipline, such as are practised in the Orient, Land, the name of Tarakee is got, honoured in our midst.
"In certain parts, of India, however, this same Tarakce is røvered as a most holy man. He is reputed to have lived to the age of claven hundred, and to have practised a different form of mortification each cen tury.
of the 1924 Treaty, and that the proposals for developments that ceedings in Court, Mr. E. W. Hami- ance, and tail of $6 was British Government regards that are not embodied in these
Iton this morning, ordered the man treated. to be brought forward, when the The police stated that $4.50 was pledke as clearly applicable to the ships, "such a course being neces question was put to him: What propagandist activities
of thesarily common to all undertaking, do you mean by coming into Court Comintern. That there is justifica of an experimental nature." We tion for so regarding the pledge may say at once that we serious is obvious from its text. If there ly doubt if sanction would have is one thing about Article 10 of the been givon for two such airships 1924 Treaty more pronounced than four or five years.ago had it been The man I came up to listen
to the proceedings. any other feature it is its all-em-made perfectly clear that they
The Magistrate:-Have you got
AND HONGKONG. bracing.
were to be regarded as experino work to do? character. Under the
The man-Yes, I work at the monta. We think it more likely clause, the Soviet
Described by Inspector Murphy Government
that at that time Commander Central Market, but I am off duty as possessing a wonderful record, undertook to restrain all persons
Burney's ideas were totally differ The Magistrate: Well, don't sit victed and sentenced to three a Chinese was this morning con. and organisations under its directent to those ho now entertains, down and grin.. Go away.
indirect control, including It is possible also that the famous
months' imprisonment by Mr. A. The man was promptly turned. G. II. Grantham, at the Central organisations in receipt of any designer is so enthusiastic regard, out.
Magistracy, for stealing a wood financial assistance from the Goving new plans he has conceived→→
box.....
The Police Inspector said that ernment, from any act, overt or detalls of which were published in
from the Straits Bettlements and These singular devotione the man had been banished for life
or
.
a matter
now..
position to construct, a
vessel
•
During the first hundred years of this earthly life, for instance, he spent his waking hours standing on one floor, with arms upraised to the sky. For the whole of the next con- tury he walked on tiptoe. At other periods of his existence he suspended himself head." downwards from a tree, or buried himself up to the chin. in the earth
SO a aimmilar sentence was passed on prod
him in Hongkong on July 9th,
1929
covert, llable in any way whated the Telegraph recently, providing which will give us the fast and ever to endanger the tranquility or for landing of airships on water long-distance, transport we the prosperity of any part of the that he is inclined to under urgently need for Empire pur British Empire. That the Comin-assess the merits of the present poses, and that nothing is, to be
The facts given as to the nature tern comes within the ambit of the ships. It is, however,
gained by deceiving ourselves re Article there cannot be the slightest for serious consideration when garding the R.100 and R.101. Itmitted, were that he stole the box of his offence, which defendant ad- doubt, even though it is not acknowledged expert states that would be helpful, nevertheless, If just after a man had purchased It further technical progress has to he would point out a method of from a shop, and he was caught specifically named. In view, how be made before we shall be in their useful employment.
and arrested by a watchman ever, of the Investio's attitude, we
none of which contribute any»! thing whatever to the welfare.
or happiness of mankind, are
to a certain extent significant.
of the general negative trendy Ma of Oriental religions.
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