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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1930.
CENTRAL THEATRE
Paramounts Sound Pictures R
TO-DAY at 2.15, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 p.m.
SHOWING TO FULL HOUSES.
MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS EARLY.
WITH
"My Love Parade"
Dream Lover
JEANETTE MACDONALD ULLIAN ROTH
LUPINO LANE
a Paramount Picture
New York stood in Line to pay $2
a sent to see it!
The screen's.
first
musical
romance, Spectacular! Tuneful Witty! Romantic!
The perfect combination. Chevalier directed by Lubitsch. MAURICH
CHEVALIER The Love Parade
AN ERNST
LUBITSCH
PRODUCTION
Hear Chevalier sing "Anything To Please The Queeà, '"'Nobody's Using It Now, My Love Parade," and other hits, Hear Jeunette MacDonald sing "Dream Lower''
Never was heard the like! Never was seen the like! Never was known the like!
GOVERNMENT AND TRADE RESUMED
AT NANNING.
PIRACY.
CONCERN AT HOME OVER NEW | MILITARY SQUEEZE ALMOST
GUARD ACTION.
COST OF MILITARY,
There appears to be no limit to the burdens to which the Govern- mont are prepared to subject Bri- tish shipping interests in the Far East, writes a special representa tive of the London Morning Post, who goes on to say that on March 21 it was announced that the au- thorities had decided to abolish the system of carrying armed guards of British white troops in ships in Chinese waters the only effective way of subduing Chinese pirates. The date originally fixed for the abolition of the white guard system was March 31, but action was in- definitely postponed.
It is now disclosed that the Bri tish authorities only consented to the postponement on condition that the shipowners paid for any white protection they desired until the police guards, which are now be ing trained at Hongkong and else- where to take the place of 'white' non-commissioned officers and man, are ready for employment in this capacity.
This change of policy, on the part of Whitehall, has aroused the greatest, indignation amongst Bri- tish shipowners trading in Chinese waters, and correspondence has passed between the War Office, the Hongkong authorities, and Messrs. John Swire and Sons, managers of the China Navigation Company.
An official of the Company in- formed me that the shipowners had to pay not only the ordinary ser- vice pay and allowances of officers, non-commissioned officers and men engaged on this service, but also the "non-effective" charges of 5s. Gd. a day per officer and from 25. to 8d. a day per man.
The company, in a letter to the War Office, dated May 6 stated that their reading of the position
was:
(1) They pay their share of the cost of the Army in English in- come tax at the rate of 4s. 6d. in the £;
(2) They pay a second time for that part of the Army detailed for the protection of British ships and trade on the China coast;
(3) They pay a third time for pensions, liabilities, &c.
The official to whom I spoke as- sured me that it was an entirely new principle that the shipping
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PROHIBITIVE.
KWANGSI OUTLOOK,
Wuchow, June 13. Your correspondent recently arrived here from Nahning via the West River. While General Wang Shao-hung's forces are still in Nanning, their purpose is,i simply to protect the city; no plans have been made for an elaborate defence of the place. The merchants have succeeded in persuading both the Canto rese and General Wang's forces to permit a resumption of trade, after a period of seven months' embargo.
A certain amount of trade has begun, but the military "squeeze“ is almost prohibitive. A sum of $2,000, local currency, is supposed. to have been paid by the first bont to pass through the lines, besides a 7% per cent, tax on general cargo at Nanning and again at Kweiping.
The lines of the Cantonese forces have not advanced beyond Kweihsien,
The boat on which the writer and his family were travelling was commandeered at Kweihsien, in spite of the fact that it was heavily loaded with merchandise and had a large number of pas- sengers on board. Several bouts were thus taken, presumably as troop transports.
It is claimed by the Cantonese that they expect to move on to Nanning. This seems to be borne out by the fact that the motor boat in which the writer succeed- ed in securing passage had to pump a ton of crude oil out of its own hold and make a present of it to the Government..
The removal of the scene of actual fighting from Kwangsi, to Hunan has reduced the local situation to one of waiting and watching for the outcome of the Northern campaign.
Hongkong seems to be, in the minds of many Chinese, the model or perfection of evil-it is hard to say which. On at least one occasion when cur baggage was being searched it was said by the examiner that we were to examined as thoroughly AA Chinese who entered Hongkong!- Our Own Correspondent..
companies should be made to pay | FIVE MEN ́ ATTACK A
for the protection afforded by Bri- tish troops. "The question of pay- ment has never been raised by pre- vious Governments," he added.
The Officers Merchant Marine Federation, the officers' organisa-
CHINESE.
EUROPEAN INTERVENES AND SEIZES RINGLEADER,
was
tion, is also greatly concerned at Last week 1 Chinese the action of the Government, since acquitted of a charge of picking the additional heavy burden laid on the pocket of a compatriot and the industry diverts large sums which might otherwise be utilised stealing $20, the case being before for increases in salaries and the Mr. Grantham, who regarded the formulation of pensions schemes. evidence as insuficient and suз-
pected a "frame-up." Captain Coombs, General Manager of the Federation, informed me that the industry was saddled through 99 this action on the part of the Gov- ernment with an additional burden which he calculated to be at the rate of between £30,000 and £50,000
"THE LOVE PARADE'
At 2.15 p.m.
Times and Prices
At 5.15 & 7.15 p.m.
$1.00, 70 cts. & 50 cts. $1.20, 80 cts. & 60 cts. $1.50. $1.00 & 70 cts. Servicemen 50 cts. to stalls for all shows.
At 9.15 p.m.
...
Bookings at Anderson's and at the Theatre.
SEGRAVE INQUEST
OPENED.
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HECTIC TIMES IN INDO-CHINA.
Continued from Page 1)
The Times Bays: "By his intensification of the revolutionary courage, his determination, his propaganda in that country. vitality, and his devotion to an Indopacific.
an
end, Sir Henry Segrave set example to all. A man of genius in his own world, he must be counted among those who have de- served well of their King and his name will be remembered in hon
Our."
Former Governor's Views.
PEACE RUMOURS
DENIED.
REBELLION MUST BE
SUPPRESSED:
a year.
MOTOR CYCLE TOOLS STOLEN.
CHINESE YOUTH SENT TO PRISON.
The principal roles in that case were reversed to-day, when the defendant in the previous case appeared as complainant, and the complainant as defendant 14 another matter which appears have been a sequel to the recent incident.
It was now alleged that the' acquitted man, who is a travelling trader, was set upon by the other man, who had the assistance of a number of friends. The attack was said to occur in Des Voeux Road Central.
Mr. F. D. Quark, of the Asiatic Petroleum Co., said he was an Whilst motor cycle No. 228, be- eye-witness to what ensued, when five men set upon the travelling longing to Mr. Griffiths, of 41. trader and knocked him to the Humphreys Building, was parked ground. They were still pummel- in Hanoi Road, a young Chinese ling and kicking him when wit- opened the tool box and extractedness intervened and seized the four spanners, a tyre lever and ringleader. a screw-driver.
The thief immediately sought a purchaser for the goods and ap- proached a marine stall dealer to whom he disposed of them for fifteen cents. They were, valued by, the owner at $5. It was whilst he was in the act of selling the tools that a Chinese detective ar- rived on the scene and, after ques- tioning him, had the lad arrested.
After enquiries were made it was found that the tools had been stolen from Mr. Griffiths cycle, the mah admitting having taken them whilst the machine was parked in Hanoi Road,
His Worship found the case proved and fined the aggressor $50, or one month's hard labour,
GAOL RECORD NOT CORRECT.
a Chinese
FEAR OF EARLY RELEASE Shanghai, June 14.
UNWARRANTED. Interviewed by Reuter on the
Surprise that a man who, Paris, June 8.. rumour of a probable settlement
according to his criminal record, M. Merlin, a former Governor of the dispute between Nanking
had been sentenced to four! General of Indo-China, presiding and the northern rebels, Dr. C. T.
months' hard labour on March 7 at a meeting of shareholders in Wang asserted that the rumour-
should have been discharged from the Mining Company of Namkoked settlement of the present mili- On being brought before Mr. gaol so soon after his conviction, The Manchester Guardian says, concern incorporated in Indo tary situation, with the retire Whyte Smith at the Kowloon was expressed by Mr Whyte "He is lost in the undying attempt China) declared that it would be ment
of Marshal Chiang Kai- Magistracy this morning. Detec Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy to under-rate the shek, is absolutely groundless. to discipline the forces of nature imprudent
revolutionary
tive Sergeant Humphreys produced this morning when to man's purposes. Like men who strength of the
Such reports, he said, were cir- a previous conviction for larceny appeared on a charge of stealing have tried to make-flying safer movement in Indo-China, but he
discounted and quicker for the bulk Sir regard to the future of the Colony, purpose of shifting the respon- months' hard labour on the present His Worship noticed from the any pessimism with culated by reactionaries for the against the lad, who was given five three iron bars from a building
under construction, Henry Segrave was setting, www- -Indopacific..
sibility for the continuation of the charge.
defendant's criminal record' that perimentally, a pace that may be M. Merlin is recalled as the war on to the shoulders of the
he had been previously convicted normal to our grandsons. His Governor-General of Indo-China Nationalist Government, which Zane Grey, the American nove- speed boat will no doubt be the on whose life an attempt
for unlawful possession, while on was was "fighting in the noble cause list, who is a keen, deep-sea fisher- March 7 he was given four parent of faster and yet more re-made in a bomb outrage which oc. of unifying China," whereas Feng man, and author of "The Angler's months' hard labour for stealing. liable motor craft than any we curred three years ago during a Yu-halang and Yen Hsi-shan stand Eldorado," has caught, off Papeete "I don't see why he is out of prison yet know of and Sir Henry banquet given in his honour by for regionalism.
in the Central Pacific, a record yet," commented his Worship. Segrave's bravery and determina- French residents of Shameen.
the "He should not be out of prison tion rank as an heroic enterprise." His assailant, who is believed to that there cannot be peace until weight of Mr. Grey's fish as, yet unless he got some of his
The Foreign Minister stated swordfish.. Reuter gives Annemite cadet of the the present rebellion is suppress 1,040lbs. Hitherto the record had sentence remitted" ed out of the water Segrave's Whampoa Military Academy, ed. "The National Government been Captain Mitchell's 9761b.
It is revealed that when pull be an
first words were, "Did we break afterwards perished by drowning has the situation well in hand taken off the north of New Zea that it was in February that he
The defendant, however, Bup- swordfish, hooked, played and plied the solution by intimating the record?"-British Wireless. in the river.
and certainly will not compromise Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY its sacred mission for what at best land in 1926. That had been ae was sentenced, and not March
His Worship now. imposed FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8. Wyndham Street, in the City of Vietorin is but a temporary truce, Reu-cepted as the biggest fish ever
sentence of Hongkong.
ter.
taken with rod and line,
labour.
six
months'
ALL
TALKING The Perfect Triangle!
Movietone
She
William Fox presents
SALUTE
loved. heroes-two
GEORGE O'BRIEN HELEN CHANDLER
WILLIAM JANNIÝ". JOYCE COMPTON STEFIN "FETCHLIT"- "TEAN) ALFIRISON DAYID BUTTER "LUMSDEN HARE
CLIFFORD BEMYSŁY - Story by Tristram Tupper and John Stone cir
brothers, one of the Army and the other of the Navy... Rivals on the gridi- rou-and rivals for her affections.
Directed by JOHN FORD
It's something to hear and see that will thrill you every moment.
SEE THE ARMY us, NAVY CLASSIC!
MUSICAL
GUS EDWARD'S SONG REVUE IN NATURAL COLOURS
FOX NEWSREEL
ITALY'S rulers pay visit to Pope. GENE TUNNEY back from honeymoon trip. 600 NEGRO SINGERS.
WESTPOINT and NOTREDAME Clash in final game of the season.
85,000 see
AT THE
QUEEN S
REX
INGRAM'S
,"
TO-DAY TO WEDNESDAY
At 2,30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20
THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN
OF
THE FOUR HORSEMEN
AT THE
WORLD
OF THE APOCALYPSE
with RUDOLPH VALENTINO ALICE TERRY
FINAL SHOWI»GS TO-DAY ́Aƒ 2,30 € 7.1: Interprater At 5,15 & 9.20 Orchestra
Gilda Gray CABARET
IN
TOM MOORE and CHESTER CONKLIN
hard
AT
THE
STAR
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
At 8,50 & 9.20