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One of the great pictures of the year; the greatest picture of pure action."-H. Y. EVENING WORLD.
"It was real, reall-destined for another of those almost endiens runs-N. Y. JOURNAL
"...an excellent photoplay. Ac len contributes the best per formance which has thus far dis tinguished his career."N. Y AMERICAN,
with
William Powell, Richard Arlen, Fr Wray, Clive Brook and Noah Beery
THE FOUR FEATHERS
a Garamount Picture
Paramount Sound News and
Moon Bride Wedding"
Bound Comedy.
The Komance of "BEAU GESTE And the Thrills of "CHANG" combined.
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Trial Love and True Love
in
A wild night. A wedding.. A wakening! Will compa. nionate Mar- rlage Stand the test. Come and see. See the man she loathes become her idol on a desert isle.
ADOLIN PUKÖR JESSE I LASKY
ESTHER RALSTON Half a Bride
WITH GARY COOPER
MAJESTIC
HATHAN ROAD KOWLOON TO-DAY ONLY.';
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A Paramount Picture
THE HONGKONG TFLEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1980.
WOMAN CONDUCTS SINO-GERMAN AIR
OWN CASE.
DENIES PARTNERSHIP. IN FIRM.
WANTS WITNESSES TO BE SUBPOENAED.
SCHEME.
DETAILS OF AMBITIOUS PROJECT.
SERVICE TO EUROPE.
Nanking, Aug. 20. Important details of the ambi- tious contract entered into, between the Ministry of Communication and the German Lufthansa Company for the operation of Sino-German air mail and passenger service,
LIUYANG SEIZED BY" "REDS."
5,000 BANDITS TAKE ANOTHER CITY.
CHANGSHA FEARS ANOTHER INVASION.
FOREIGN ANXIETY,
Hankow, Aug. 25. Some 5,000, Communist ban- dita,under the leadership of the notorious Chu Tak, Mo Tsak- tung and Pang Tak-wai, captur- ed Liuyang city yesterday, to the great concern
STORY OF ENMITY.
"Witness and his father scold-have been disclosed. ed me and said I was ‘saucy' so' The contract, It is learned, pro- I left. They rushed out of the vides for the organization of a door after me, pointed, their Sino-German Aviation Corporation fingers at me, and said we must in accordance with Chinese law for the operation of the air lines. The do our utmost to get you involv- Corporation is to have, a capital ed so that you will not be able of $3,400,000 to be divided into dents of Changsha who fear that to get a mouthful of food," said 3,000 shares of $1,000 each. The the Communists are planning a Mak Ying, earth-contractor, de- Chinese Government will hold second invasion of that city. fendant in an adjourned action 2,000 shares; the German Com-
The proximity of Luyang, to which was resumed before the pany; 1,000 shares Within three
after the. coming Changsha is the reason for the Chief Justice (Sir Joseph Kemp) into force of the contract,
months
the great apprehension felt. Japanese
I
of the resi-
in the Supreme Court this morn-Chinese Government is to pay up sources state that General Ho ing.
$200,000 of the subscribed share Chien's troops deserted Lluyang The plaintiff is the Ho Shing capital; the German Company, before the Communist invasion, to firm, No. 69, Des Voeux Road $100,000. Within nine months, the great Indignation of the West, and defendants are The Ying the German Company is to advance Changsha residents. Fat Arm, No. 282, Queen's Road adequate funds for the purchase West, bankers and money of all necessary machines and changers, and Mak Ying, widow, equipment, and in an alleged partner, trading as Mak thereof, the Sino-German Corpora Ying-kee, earth contractor, No. 65, tion is to issue to the German Company shares up to the value of Second Street..
the funds so advanced.
Plaintiff originally brought an action for the recovery of $2,200 in which he succeeded, but defen- dant denied her responsibility to pay on the ground that she was not a partner, and the partnership issue was set down for trial.
Originally Mr. H. G. Sheldon, instructed by Mr. F. X. D'Almada, senior, of Messrs. D'Almada and Mason, was for plaintiff; while de fendant was not represented, but this morning no counsel appeared and the parties conducted their
own cases.
ner
Firm Closes Down.
The son of the managing part
of the plaintiff firm gave evidence at the last hearing, when he affirmed that he was employed in the defendant firm by defendant for seven months.
consideration
The administration of the Cor: poration is to be veated in a Board of nine directors, of whom six are to be nominated by the Chinese Government; three by the German Company. The Board le to have one chairman and two vice-chair- men. Under the Board, there shall be three departments; namely, finance and operation. business, The capital and other cash assets of the Corporation are to be de posited in a Chinese bank.
The Corporation is to operate the following air mail and pass- enger lines:
via
1. Shanghai to Berlin: Nanking, Tientsin, Peking, Man- chuli, and Siberia,
via
Trouble Feared.
All the Japanese citizens at Changsha have taken shelter in General the foreign settlement. Ho Chien, the military governor of Hunan Province, is absent from Changsha, and as a consequence the residents fear a desertion by the Government forces, as they did on the occasion of the previous attack.
General Liu Kien-shui is acting on behalf of General Ho Chien and he has announced officially that he will direct an expedition to Liuyang.
Hankow and Shanghai firme have received telegrams from Changsha connexions their advising a temporary suspension of shipments of cargo.
$1,000,000 Fund.
use
The determination of the Nan- king Government to eliminate the Communist hooligans in Hunan via and Kiangsi is shown by the pro- vision of $1,000,000 to General Ho Chien, who is instructed to the fund for a big anti-bandit campaign in Hunan, dividing the Province into six districts. Four regiments of troops have been in- structed to proceed to Changsha from Hankow to assist in the war against the Communists.
THE LATE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND.
2.Shanghai to Berlin: Nanking, Tientsin, Peking, Kulun (Outer Mongolia) and Siberia. 3-Shanghai to Berlin: Nanking, Sinkiang, Kansu and Defendant denied this: She ex-Siberia.Kua Min plained that she knew witness's father (plaintiff) who, was in the same business as herself, an earth-contractor. She had occa- sign to see him on business and he asked her to patronise the Ying Fat firm, saying, that, he had share in it of several thousands of dollars. She agreed to do so and his son went with her to the firm's premises to show her where they were. On arrival there she chang- ed some money and witness went behind the counter to the rear of the premises,
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BURIAL IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
London, Aug. 25. The Duke of Northumberland, who died on Saturday, is to be buried in Westminster Abbey on Wednesday.
The Dukes of Northumberland One day, continued defendant, have a prescriptive right to burial she went to the bank and found it in the Abbey and also to the use was closed. She was told by of the great west door, which is foki that plaintiff had removed the entrance to the Abbey reser- every cash and the firm had closed ved for royalty. No other family down.
Accordingly she went to in the land has this prescriptive see plaintiff on two occasions, right, but it has not always been when he told her not to worry and exercised. said that he would settle with her) amicably.
sence
Man Advises Patience.
As she did not get her money she had paid in, she went to see plaintiff a third time in the pre- of witness. They both scolded her and said..she was "saucy." As she left they rushed to the door, pointed their fingers at her, and threatened to get her involved so that she would not be able to get a mouthful of food.
Defendant alleged that plaintiff had paid witnesses $200 but ex- plained, in reply to his Lordship, that she could not get them to Court unless they were sub- poenaed,
The coffin will be taken through the great west door and placed in the Northumberland tomb in the Chapel of St. Nicholas.-British Wireless.
BANK LOSE ACTION IN SHANGHAI.
SUCCESSFUL CLAIM BY A HARBIN CONCERN.
The revival of Communism neari Changsha is regretted by mer- chants here.and in Shanghai, who have been looking forward with much optimism to the resumption of the river boat services plying between Shanghai, Hankow and Changsha.
Nanking's Vigilance. The attention of the Nanking Government has been called to the serious condition on the Yangtze in a protest from foreign quarters demanding that adequate protec- tion should be afforded to foreign life and property in Chinese terri- tories.
L
In this connexion, the Nanking advised the authorities have Kwangtung Provincial Govern- ment to make a lenthy report con- cerning the organisation of the labour unions and all aspects of the Communist and labour move- ment in Canton in 1927 when the southern metropolis was invaded and devastated by Communists from the East River,
The Nanking order to Canton is Shanghai, Aug. 26.
Interpreted as showing a desire to
the Judgment was given in the study
labour movement United States' Court, yesterday in and to work out precautionary: the action against the National measures to prevent the labour City Bank of New York by the Har-unions from being involved in bin Electric Joint Stock Company Communist activities. for the recovery of the balance of two deposits, with accumulated interest, which the plaintiffs made with the defendant bank in Harbin in 1923.
She went on to say that before the present action started she wanted to sue the Ying Fat firm for the recovery of her money and
The public utilities franchise she entrusted the matter to a man with the surname Ho. He told was at issue and the plaintiffs were her not to be in too much of a awarded $496,839 with costs and hurry so she stopped the proceed-interest at the rate of six per cent. ings. The documents relating to per annum from August 25, 1930- that. proposed action, she said, Mr. Rodger was for the Harbin were in possession of Ho, and she Company Our Own Correspon expressed a wish that he be sub-dent. poenaed.
Books Locked Up. Defendant, said that witness's evidence was not true as she had never employed him but he had merely taken her to the premises to show her where they were. She denied being a partner.
SHANGHAI WEDDING.
the
Tientsin Enlistment... Accordin to Tientsin messages, the Shanel Government is paying particular attention to activities of Communists and plain clothes Nanking troops, many of whom are believed to have arrived to stir up disturbánées. The Shansi Government is enlisting 1,000 new Garrison troops who will be assigned to street patro!, with a view to preserving peace.
A brief Tsingtao telegram says! that Communists are stirring up trouble among the labourers, hop- ing to organise a general strike in the city. Nothing eventful "has occurred so far and the authori- tles are maintaining a keen lock-
In the latest copy to hand of the actor-acting into the role of Hugh Sydney Bulletin a photograph is Yoysey. He has been a member of given of Mr. W. K. Reynolde, well-amateur dramatic clubs in Hong-Replying to his Lordship, wit known here as secretary of the City kong and Gibraltar." Hall and a keen member of the
The loss of a diamond ring Amateur Dramatic Club. The paper! statcs: Mr. W. K. Reynolds is a valued at £40 was reported to the
Answering further questions, newcomer to Melbourne, and one of police yesterday by Mrs. Beven,
Magazine Gap. The lady witness stated that his wages were our Bepertory players. He made of his first appearance with the Mel-missed the ring between the $8 a month and the firm closed bourne troupe in Granville Barker's Central Theatre and Battery Path, down on September 16, last year. "Toysey Inheritance," which recent and it is presumed that it was When he paid out money he The Royal Observatory reports ly had a four-nights' season at the dropped on the road somewhere obtained small sums from the that pressure la rélatively low Playhouse, and put some good char-between these two places.
MRS. FUTTERER AND MR.
F. H. ENGELS. DE
'Shangbai, Aug. 25. Mrs. Rose Futterer, a well-out. ness said that when the business known local business woman, mar- closed down defendant, had the ried Mr. Franz H. Engels at the books locked up in a safe and German Consulate on August 23,
Our Own Correspondent. later removed them.
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK. PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8.Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong.
FAIR WEATHER.
accountant, but when he paid out near the Bonins and to the west of large sums he obtained it from Korea. Pressure gradients are defendant personally. He denied shallow over the China Sea. The local forecast fs:-Light S. E. or that he was the manager. The case la proceeding.
variable. winds; fair.
Nanking's Plan.
Peking, Aug. 25. - Foreign reports from Tainan state that the military conference there has decided to leave, Haz Fu-chu to defend the line of the Yellow River, and withdraw all the other Nanking troops towards the Lung-Hai railway for a life or death struggle against Feng.
Heavy gunfire is going on across the Yellow River in the vicinity of Telho and Lokow-Reuter,
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