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JOHN BOLES
Sean Sawant romantic idol
Bert Wheeler Robert Woolsey Dorothy Lee Don Alvarado
anila Tamurand Others
Glorious old songs and
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A
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A Whisper Above Hongkong Echoes in
a Million Hearts.
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"THE FLEET'S IN!"
with
CLARA BOW.
What Screams! What Laughs! Hong Kong's got the Merry Fa, Ha's!
ELEANORE NINON
and LEO MANTIN.
"GAY PAREE"
triumphing in
Both Attractions at 9.20 pm. Continuing the record breaking policy of Stage and Screen at the
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We advise early selection of seats.
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THE CHONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
COMMUNISM BAN BY LABOUR.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1930.
THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.
BRITISH BRANCHES OF SOVIET BODIES.
SERIOUS PROBLEMS HAVE TO BE TACKLED.
PARTY CANDIDATES.
London, Sept. 22.
ECONOMIC MATTERS.
London. Sept. 22.
LATEST REVOLT IN
S. AMERICA.
CHILEAN GENERAL FAILS IN ATTEMPT.
EXCHANGE OF SHOTS.
Santiago de Chile, Sept. 22. A communique announcing that a revolt at Concepcion has been crushed says that the Instigators. have been imprisoned.---Reuter's American Service.
In a report to be submitted tu It is offcially announced thut the Labour Party Conference at as the Prime Minister of Canada Llandudno, on October 6, the will not be able to reach London Parliamentary Committee state until September 30, the opening that, exclusive of 289 Labour meeting of the Imperial Confer Members of Parliament, the num-ence has been deferred until
Buenos Aires, Sept. 22. ber of prospective Parliamentary October 1 ··
The revolt at Concepcion was Labour candidates endorsed for The opening, which will take instigated by the exiled General place in London next week, is Grube, who arrived there by av the next general election is 158.
General The organisations declared to awaited with keen interest. It is from Argentina with be ineligible for affiliation to the anticipated that the most impor Bravo. General Lira, command- Labou: Party include the League tant discussions will be those in the garrison, was ordered to Against the Imperialists, the left dealing with economic questions, arrest. Grube, who fired a revolver wing movement, minority move and their range will be of the at Lira. The latter replied to
widest character, They will the
Inter-
American Service.
Earlier Message.
fire, and both exchanged ment of the Workers' national, the Relief of. National embrace tariff changes, and the several shots before Grube was
extent and effect of recent arvested. Unemployed Workers Committee imperial tariff preferences, bulk movements, the Friends of Soviet purchase, agriculture and com- solitary continement at the naval The rebels have been given Russia, and the International Classmunications, including shipping, station at Talcahuano-Reuter's War Prisoners Aid all of which aviation, cables and wireless. are described as ancillary of sub
The Secretary of the Dominions, sidiary to the Communist Party. Mr. J. H. Thomas, referred to the Members of these organisations complex problems before the Cun- are ineligible to be individual ference in a speech at the Wool members of the Labour Party, to Research Conference in London be delegates to the party locally to-day. He added:→→→There never or nationally, or ta ́be candidates was an Imperial Conference held of the party for Parliamentary or in more difficult circumstances, Jocal Government cications,
but it is equally-trun thật never The Commitive add that the was a conference more neces existence of organisation ancillar; †sary."
New York, Sept. 22. According to, a message from Buenos Aires a revolt broke dut in Concepción, Chile, against the Government. President Carlos Ibanez of Chile has reported that an aeroplane landed at Concepcion |
the 21st inst with Generals Marmaduke Grube and Brave and the Deputy, Leon gralde, who arrangued the Regiment compos-
re-
or subsidiary to the Communist Each constituted part of the | International has been established Empire was faced with its own
without doubt, and the technique domestic and economic, problems.ing the garrison there. of their organisation and pro- "We in the old country are pass- This regiment afterwards paganda has been elaborated bying through a period unexampled volted. The Chilean Embassy in the Communist International in history. I have confidence. New York states that the revolt itself, Brifish Wireless,
however, that the old spirit of grit has been frustrated and that the and determination that saw the country is tranquil.-Renter's country through many of its dif-American Service. ficulties in the past will pull us through. At the Imperial. Con-- ference we shall sit down, not with a desire to think for our- selves alone, but with a single- minded desire to see how we can combine our brains and energies to make the best use of the Empire, with its unlimited poten- tialities and possibilities
KOWLOON BAND CONCERT..
FINE PROGRAMME FOR
TO-MORROW. ·
The programme to be given by the band of the 2nd. Battalion
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders under the conductorship of Mr. C. S. Iteat, A.R.C.M., at the Kowloon Football Club ground to-morrow night is as follows:
Part I.
1.March on Themes from "Der Ring des Nibelungen". Richard Wagner (1813-83).
2.-Excerpt from Dramatic Sym- phony in B minor "Unfinished". Schubert.
3.Selection. "Rose Marie",
Friml,
4-Scottish Melodies by Com bined Band and Pipes, Arr. C. S
Beat..
By Special Request.) Soloist: Pipe-Major R. Sinclair.
5-Rhythmic Medley, "On with the Show", (1930), Arr Somers.
min.
Part II.
HEALTH BUREAU CASE APPEAL. :
(Continued from Page 1.)
for cepting the plea of nutrefois acquit Common good of all the Magistrate was wrong for two British Wireless."
the
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The first was ·be-: Cause there WAS no jurisdie- tion at all in a Magistrate
YOUNG RUSSIAN TO BE to entertain that plen because
EXPELLED.
ARRIVES HERE WITHOUT
PROPER PASSPORT.
Admitting a charge of arriving'
of the existence upon the record of the plea of not guilty which had been put forward first. No one took. the point that the two pleas could not be recorded together. Mr. Jénkin quoted an authority in sup, Iport of his submission.
Dealing with his second point,
in the Colony yesterday, from Can.counsel said that in order to es- ton, without an appropriate pass. tablish the plea of autrefois acquit, port, a young Russian Suovoroff although the test was expressed dif was ordered by Mr. Lindsell, at ferently in different authorities, Central Magistracy this morn the test of a 1914 case could be ing, to pay fine of $51 rtaken as final and conclusive. It mi prove undergo a term of six weeks in that defendant prisonment to be followed by his either that on the first occasion he' explusion from the Colony.
was acquitted of the identical of- fence with which he is ΠΟΥ charged," or "that on the form- er occasion he could have been con- victed of the present oilence," or that on the former occasion he could have been convicted of an offence which is substantially the Same as the present offence."
Detective Sergeant Whant in 6-Czardas from the Opera, formed his Worship that quite "Der Geist des Woiwoden", Gross-number of people had arrived in the Colony recently without 7-Highland Dance, Piper J. means and without their papers Anderson.
being, in order, and it cost the Government a lot of money to repatriate them. The defendant had arrived from Canton on the train, having gone to Centon from Shanghai. He came to the Colony to look for work.
8-Humoresque, Dvorak. 9.Two Songs
(a) "Eonny Wee Thing"
Arr C. S. Bent. (b) "Wells o' Weary." "Arr
C. S. Beat..
10. Selection of Old Favourites, Squire.
Regimental March-"In the Garb of Old Gaul."
God Save the King.
DANGER OF EATING MUSHROOMS.
POISONOUS SPECIES TAKEN BY CHINESE.
A species of poisonous fungus, mistaken for edible mushrooms, is believed to have been taken by a family living at 1094. Canton Rond, Kowloon, at their evening meal yesterday.
could prove one or another of those Counsel said that if defendant
three, then the plea was good and was sustained, but if he failed to fail to establish the plea and would prove one or another then he would
fail to show that he was in jeopardy Whanton previous occasions for the same He came up to register and asked for substantially the same offence. to be allowed to remain to find work.
His Worship:-Did he give him self up to the Police? Detective Sergeant
Mr. Jenkin submitted it was clear that none of those things had been You have nothing against him?satisfied in the present case, and -We have nothing against him. therefore defendant's plea could not but it is entirely the principle of be sustained. the thing. So many people are floating down without their papers being in order.
"Appeal Allowed.
After hearing Mr. Leo Almada's submission that the plea of autrefois acquit was good, LARCENY OF SUM OF in so far that the charge was not taken as an indictment, but was dealt with summarily, the Court decided that the appeal must be allowed,
$12,500.
FURTHER REMAND OF THE ACCUSED MAN,
Soon after the meal, the woman
Mr. Justice Wood said that wl- and her three sons, aged 22, 15
though they were of the opinion and 9 years respectively, were
the learned. Magistrate was cor seized with pains which necessitat-
On the application of the com-reet in treating the plea at the ed their removal to hospital, the plainant in the case in which a
convenience of the Court, he was woman to the Kwong Wah and the Chinese was charged with larceny wrong in accepting it as a good three sons to the Kowloon Hos of $12,5000 from a money changer, plea. They ordered that the case Their condition is not the defendant was again remanded be remitted to the Central Magi- pital. serious, however, according to n by Mr. Lindsell at the Central Po-strate, for either Mr. report made by the hospital lice Court this morning, to enable or any other Magistrate there to
the complainant to secure further hear again de novo.. information from the accused of certain accounts of the shop.
authorities.
and
the 4C-
RAIN EXPECTED.
Butters,
The defendant, who pleaded CAPTAIN LOSES BIG
guilty to stealing the money on his SUM OF MONEY.
irst appearance yesterday, was re- manded to allow him to explain NEARLY $2,500 TAKEN FROM ¦ en tain items in the accounts of the The Royal Observatory reports
SAFE IN CABIN,
firm in which the defendant was that the anti-cyclone is central to formerly employed.
the north of the Lower Yangtze Netherlands Indies
Although the police indicated to Valley. Depressions are shown to japanese money of a total value his Worship this morning that ac-the north of Tokyo and to the east in local currency of $2,426, is cording to what they had been told of Tourane. The local forecast is: reported by Captain P. Abbo, of by the complainant
---N.E. winds, fresh; generally the 3.C.J. as. Tjikembang to counts had been satiactorily cloudy, some rain later. have been stolen from a safe in explained, the complainants's son,
who appeared in.cquit, asked his Air traffe in France, especially Worship to discharge the defen-in Paris, has grown so in the past dunt so that he could explain a two years that it has been found certain item in respect of a sum necessary to construct another port some, distance from Le Bour- get field. This port will cost £200,000, and is to be presented. for consideration to the French Chamber of Deputies soon.
his cabin.
+
During Sunday night, Javanese member of the crew 18 believed to have entered the cabin and, by means of a key take:: from a pocket of Captain Abba'a coất. to have opened the safe and helped himself to the contents.: Police investigations are proceed
ing.
of $3,000.
His Worship pointed out that he could not discharge the defendant, but remanded him for another three days,
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BESSIE LOVE J. C. NUGENT Beuny Rubin-Mary Docan
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Story and direction by
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