CENTRA
THEATREL
HEAR
Breaking all Local Records Please Book Early
a
Guramount Picture
Af 2.15 p.m.
THE
HE best of the season's musical plays It's gay. rollicking and tuneful," says The New York Telegram All New York raved about it. The screen's first original musical- romance.
MAURICE
CHEVALIER The Love Parade
AN ERNST
LUBITSCH
PRODUCTION.
WITH
JEANETTE MACDONALD
LUPINO LANE ULUAN ROTH
A SUPER-PRODUCTION
AT POPULAR PRICES.
Times and Prices.
At 5.10 & 7.15 p.m.
At 9.15 p.m.
$1.00, 70 Cis, & 50 Cts. $1.20, 80 Cts. & 60 Cfg. $1.50, $1.00 & 70 Cts.
Servicemen 50 Cts. to Stalls for all Shows.
Bookings at Anderson Music Store and at the Theatre (Telephone 25720).
TO-DAY ONLY. at 2.30, 5.80, 7.20 & 9.20
THE
National
ск
“ MAJESTIC
THE
from the
'DOTE]
by Philip Gibbs.
Meet the Reckless Lady who bats her way on cards or love, play a hand with her, and win or lose, know that you've sounded the depths of drama and hit the heightsof love.
with
BELLE BEN NETT,
LOIS MORAN.
NATHAN ROAD. KOWLOON.
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria
Hongkong.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1930.
RED HEADMASTER EXECUTED.
SEVEN OTHERS ALSO
PAY PENALTY.
COMMUNIST PLOT UNEARTHED
IN SWATOW."
LINK WITH KULANGSU.
After
FLOWER STALLS DAMAGED.
MOTOR LORRY RUNS INTO STRUCTURES.
"
VENDORS SCARE.
Considerable damage was done to two of the flower stalls In Wellington Street shortly after ten o'clock this morning, when a motor lorry crashed into them.
Fortunately, the stallholders saw the lorry in time to jump from their seats and thus escape injury. As it was, the stalls of Ab Kee and Shiu Kee were upset, but the others were untouched,
NO QUESTION OF DISHONESTY.
BARRISTER MAKES AN
EXPLANATION.
PLAYS GOLF REGULARLY WITH OPPOSING COUNSEL!
HOTEL CASE POINT.
An assurance to his Lordship that he was not questioning Mr. Eldon Potter's honesty, when they exchanged comments yes- terday morning, was made by
Mr. H. G. Sheldon at the open- ing of to-day's proceedings in the Supreme Court.
The lorry, driven by a Chinese, Swatow, June 11. was passing the spot when the a lapse of some two vehicle swerved and ran into two of the stalls. These were over years, there has been a returned and the flowers scattered in crudescence of serious Com- all directions. munist plotting in the port. A plot with wide ramifications was discussed ten or twelve days ago and swift action was taken by the authorities, information being witheld from the public party because some of the plot- ters had influential connexions and partly to prevent undue excitement. Some forty arrests were made-eight ringleaders, certained no doubts as to each others' including the Headmaster of the Middle School, were executed after the discovery made, and twenty to thirty are. still in prison,
soon
was
The discovery of the plot is said to have been due indirectly to the activity of the Kityang Dis- trict Magistrate. For the last year he has dealt successfully with unsatisfactory characters within his district and in the course of his investigations he came upon evidence which showed connexions with a Swatow organisation.
Eight Executed.
This official sent his prisoner's to Sivatow and under examination they made revelations which led to the arrest of the Headmaster (Mr. Wu), of the Yu-liang Middle School: The school was searched and a great haul was made of Communist literature, documents relating to local organisations, lists of names and, in addition, a stare of weapons and ammunition.
It will be recalled that the flower stalls were recently moved from On Lan Street, after being
THE EXTRALITY PARLEY CONTINUES.
Matter Left Largely to British Minister.
COMMONS STATEMENT,
London, June 18.
In the House of Commons to-day, Mr. Arthur Hender- son, the Foreign Secretary, was questioned regarding the 'seizure of the Customs at Tientsin by Marshal Yen Hsi- shan, the Shansi Commander.
In the courac of his reply, Mr. Henderson said that de- spite the unsettled state of the country, negotiations about extra-territorial rights would continue.
Mr. Henderson added that he left the matter largely in the bands of the Minister on the spot-Reuter.
Mr. Wu, the Headmaster, had influential connexions with the Chamber of Commerce which CLEAN: 9 BERTONICS IN TEREZNOJ 325A TJERA KOBİKLİ made the position embarrassing, but he and seven others were speedily executed.
It is highly probable, and there is said to be some evidence, that this organisation was connected with that discovered in the Inter- national Concession on Kulangsu
Island, Amoy,
situated in Wyndham Street, for many years, to the upper section of D'Aguilar Street.
་
Owing, however, to road repairs taking place at the spot, the stails have been temporarily
accom-
modated in part of Wellington Street, where traffic conditions are at present none too good, owing to the narrowness of the thorough fare.
FAIK TO SHOWERY.
Mr. Potter accepted this and said there was no such question between them. They still played golf together on Saturday after- noons.
Mr. Sheldon, in emphasising this as being obvious that they enter-
integrity, added that he had play- ed with Mr. Potter for three years, and not once had he ever counted Mr. Potter's score!
Defending counsel thanked Mr. Sheldon for this tributo,
Too Ridiculous.
Before Mr. Rasey continued his examination-in-chief, Mr. Sheldon in addressing his Lordship said:- My Lord, I would like to point out that in the Press there, have ap- peared statements which rather lead people to believe that somet question of Mr. Potter's honesty was raised by me yesterday. This, is, of course, too ridiculous to believe, and I did not intend auch a suggestion.
Mr. Potter: We have no such 15. We between question .still play golf on Saturdays.
Mr. Sheldon:-I have played three years with Mr. Potter and never counted his strokes on any occasion,
Mr. Potter: I thank you for the tribute.
Continuing his evidence, Mr. Rasey, second witness for Messrs, Andersen, Meyer and Co., Ltd., who are the plaintiffs in the case against the Hongkong and Shang- hai Hotels, Co., Ltd., said that in his opinion the thermometers in the storage rooms were placed in the correct positions. Ventilation not used in modern refri- was
gerating plants,
Machinery Efficient. Witness considered that the machinery installed in the Penin- sula Hotel was proper and efficient,! It was as per contract and they The Royal Observatory reports claimed it to be the highest grade that a depression covers China on the market. It was fully cap- and a trough of low pressure ex-able of performing all the work tend from the Philippines to required by the Hotel. The radia Guam. The local forecast is: tor section was aire efficient South winds, moderate; fair to
Kit-yang Alarms. Communist activity up-country became more pronounced during the change of garrisons there. Before the 62nd Division was well settled in, there had been the threat to Tai-pu, a raid on the prosperous town of Ko-pi, below Tai-pu on the Han River, and another raid on the town of Sin hi in the Kit-yang district.
The consequence was that, a week ago, there were, throughout the countryside, alarmist rumours of the imminent fall of Kit-yang, showery. while the city, Chaochowfu, was for some days a prey to nervous ness, its guards going out ten
miles from the city in prospect trate before them, has thoroughly of an attack from Communists disintegrated government over an coming from the Tai-pu direction. increasingly wide period.
When the Sin-Hi raid took place, That there were movements of considerable bodies of Com- Kit-yang was denuded of troops. munists leading to local concen- During last week-end, details of the trations, and having as possible 62nd Division were sent in from objectives, in the event of the Swatow, so that the city, if not the general situation becoming worse, district, may for a time be consi- Kit-yang ΟΙ possibly Chas- dered safe." chowfu, there is no doubt. That
is not to say that there is a
Other Force Retires.
although the 8 section in stalled in the Peninsula Hotel re- quired cleaning more often than the 6-ft section. It controll d temperature and prevented. exces- sive frostation as well as the 6-ft. plant.
He was familiar with Mr. Hacker's figures for the counter- claim, and considered them fair prices.
In his cross-examination, Mr. Potter referred to the blue slip which contained Ewar's tables for the finding of coeficients, and pointed out to witness that Mr. Hacker had not been able to dis- tinguish one figure as being either
"threat" to the Swatow-Chao- In addition to the concentration chowfu district; but it means in the Chim-bou hills the numbers that if the Provincial Government in "the eight villages" under Ku were to weaken as a result of events Thai-tshun have been increased, it a "2" or a "9" He put it to wit- in the North, there could be an in- is said, to an effective force of ness that if he were on their side rush of these waiting forces and a 2,000. They have recently been of the table with Mr. Hacker on turn-over of authority in every dis-operating on the East River in the Ng-fa (Chong-lou) district, and after initial success have had to re- tire to their strongholds. They made a separate but allied concen tration to those in the Kit-yang hills.
trict.
By Concentration.
There was no fighting in the Stu-hi raid. As before the com- on with their mon people went
the other, he (witness) would ridicule Mr. Hacker's evidence on: the point of the coefficient.
Mr. Rasey: Isn't that what you are doing now?
Mr. Potter:-That is exactly what we are going to do.
A Possible Explanation.
Mr. Rasey said it appeared that
As far as can be ascertained, the Communist force which, suddenly, nine days, ago, overran Sin-hi (a market town of 10,000 inhabitants) was made up of bandits from the Kit-yang hills, new-comers from the Han River (whose passage near work, but when the raiders reached Chaochowfu alarmed that city), the market they turned on the Mr. Hacker experienced difficulty some from the "eight villages" in shops, looted extensively, and made in reading the number of B.T.U.'s Fungahun district, and a small but some captives. The hospital and as "3", probably because he was significant number from Phon-leng dispensary of a successful medical unfamiliar with reading of the district. Only a few hundreds took man were looted. He himself was part in the raid, but there was a away, but his wife, three students, large body-at the base-camp in the and two patients were carried off. Chim-bou hills,
The wife has been ransomed for
The significance of this concen- $8,000. tration, if it is correctly reported, Anxiety is felt for the safety is the pushing south of the bands of the French priest who was taken which have been organised in Tal- captive to the south of Ho-thien pu and Yun-thin districts for two some three months ago. Apparent or three years, and their effectingly no word has been received from some kind of link with the "eight him and no negotiations have taken village" districts of Fung-shan and place. It is greatly feared that he another link through Phou-leng may not have survived.--Our Oum with the Hai-ink Fung region. Corespondent.
Authorities Important,
Amoy Quiet.
#
top line on the blue paper.
..
Mr. Potter:I put it to you that this is rather strange in view of the fact that Mr. Hacker said it was a formulae universally used, and from which he himself partly worked out his load. He did not appear to be very familiar with it in his explanation? No, he did
not really know the real answer to that question. That "g" is taken for damp cork.
His next attempt to explain it was perhaps even more interest- ing. He agreed that it was a The effective nature of this link- News received by the Hongkong figure ""; and then suggested it ing up may easily, be exaggerated, naval authorities from Amoy was a copying error. I wonder and so far among these many local states that the situation is now what you would say if Mr. Turner, groups no outstanding personally quiet, following the recent Com-
our 'expert, made that mistake 7 has arisen as leader. But they are munist disurbances.
have no doubt that he will make malleable material for anyone who The local authorities report a
may command them, and the care. strengthening of the Communist even worse ones than that. lessness of the higher authorities movement on the mainland, how. (laughter).
The case is proceedfag. and Impotence of the local magis ever.
WILLIAM FOX
BIG TIME
ALL TALKING Fox Movietone Drama
with
LEE TRACY
MAE CLARKE-JOSEPHINE DUNN.
MUSIQAL
SONGS
by Mme Kurenco. "Shadow Sorg !' *Song of India"
AT THE
AT
ΤΗΣ
QUEEN'S
NEWSREEL
Barrel looping at Daytons. Admiral Byrd homeward bound. Paris celeb rate Lenten Festival. Lincolnshire
won by French horse
THURSDAY TO SATURDAY At 2:80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20
HIGHLIGHTS IN THE LIFE OF A "GIGOLO”
'An exciting, colourful drama
With
ROD
LA ROCQUE, ЈОВУНА RALSTON.
RODA ROCQUE
Gigolo
WORLD
THURSDAY TO SATURDAY At 5.15 & 9.20 Only"
"Unrequited Love.”
230 & 7.15, Ohinese Picture,
FROM MICHAEL ARLEN'S FAMOUS NOVEL
JOHN
GRETA
GILBERT GARBO
Woman of Affairs
ZAT STAR
THE
THURSDAY TO SATURDAY
KAI 5,30 2.3.20