CHINESE MUSIC IN BONHAM STRAND.
LEADING MERCHANT FINED FOR PERMITTING IT.
IN EARLY MORNING,
PREMIER REFUSES TAXES ON FOOD.
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Sovereign's escort of Household Cavalry guarding the old State Coach.
Norfolk, aged twenty-two, the here- ditary Earl Marshal of England. Mr. Tom Henderson (Comptroller of the Household and formerly a ship's joiner) and Mr. Ben Smith (Treasurer of the Household, who onee drove a taxicab in the streets of London).
The King's Speech,
As their Majesties passed the Royal robing room of the House of Lords in a glittering procession, An array of Chinese musical in-they were attended by the Duke of struments were brought into Mr. Williams' Court this morning ac- companied by an offer to play them, in connexion with a sum mons against a Chinese merchant, -named Hui Chi-aze, of No. 48. Bonham Strand, for committing a broach of the rouditions of his theatricals permit by playing music and beating gangs during prohibited hours, namely 130 a.m. For the defendant. Mr. Horace Lo admitted that music was go ing on up to that hour. The only question, he said, really was whe ther the heating of gongs and using that type of instrument really came within the meaning prohibited under the Ordinance. Apart from that one point, he would like to set out the circum- stances of the ense
He understood that the defen- dant had been to see the Secre- tariat for Chinese Affairs, where the official seen was sympathetic, and took a neutral attitude in re
THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
BRITON TAKEN FOR A RIDE.
BLUFF THAT SAVED
'HIS LIFE.
COP-CROOKS.
An Englishman. Mr. George W. Fellowes, who knows more about Chicago gunmen and racketeers than most Americans has returned to London after waging war for many years against the leaders of the underworld.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1930.
ENQUIRY INTO LOSS OF THE R.101.
LONDON TRAFFIC
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gan the flight to India when he did because he wanted it, necom- plished while the Imperial Conference was sitting.
There was no written report of the trial flight, he added.
The court then adjourned, Moving Commons Reference. A moving reference to R.101 disaster was made early in the House of "To set foot in any of the cities proceedings of the
Commons this afternoon. where I have been acting as n
Speaking after the Address in secret service investigator," he
the King's Speech had reply to Lold' an interviewer, would mean teen moved and seconded, Mr. ing of Parliament expresses deep The King's Speech on the open-
my death.
"My job
Baldwin saíd interest in the labours of the Im-
that anything| to investigate | fraudulent cinims on behalf of a
thereon that the Premier might perial Conference, and earnestly great American Insurance
think it to say would have the trusts that the Indian Round Table Conference
pany. I became a secret service heartfelt sympathy and support of. will result in agreed and wise solutions of the fornin, and my war on hi-jackers, of the House.
investigator in the State of Cali-every man on the opposition side important questions
racketeers and gangsters became liberate.
so fierce that I was put on their murder-list.
it will de-
He is very glad to entrust his son, the Duke of Gloucester, with the duty of representing him at the coronation of the Emperor of Ethiopin.
He trusts that a general dis. armament convention will shortly be concluded; and points out that the application of the treaty for are victims of aggression, recently signed at Geneva, ix conlitional upon, the enforcement of such 3 convention.
gurd to the case. So far as he financial assistance of States which
was instructed the S.C.A. did not wish to take any case against the defendant.
The defendant, Mr. Lo went on to say, was one of & Committee
was
"Shadow-Box" Al
com-
Apart from the public tragedy, we feel a profound sympathy with the Prime Minister in the loss of Lord Thomson, who was not only
colleague but a proved and well- beloved friend," added. Mr. Bald- win.
Inspiring Chief.
Speaking a little later, Mr. Ramsay Macdonald expressed the grief of the House for those who died together and appropriately shared a common grave.
#
devoted
MERGER.
PUBLIC TO OWN TUBES, TRAMS AND BUSES.
£120,000,000 POOL.
The British Government have) decided to introduce legislation to co-ordinate the whole of London's passenger transport and have it managed by a new public body.
Tubes, trams and buses are all to come into the scheme.
It is understood that the merger will involve a £120,000,000.
capital of over
The new public authority will embrace:
Railway, bus
and tramway undertakings controlled by the Underground Electric Company:
Metropolitan Railway: Local authorities' tramway undertakings:
Other omnibus undertakings operating in the London area.
Business Men in Control
The Government's scheme was outlined by Mr. Herbert Morrison (Minister of Transport) to repro- sentatives of the various under- takings affected.
comprised of the Bonham Strand the continuance of heavy unemploy.tions with his gangster friends service of the State in many fields tion had long been recognised,
AD
which,
every
"I have met Al Capone, the Chicago leader. I saw him in the police shadow-box-a screened stage flooded with powerful lights. The police can observe their vic- tim in the box, but he cannot see them. Al Capone was brought up for investigation, but that was all "I know most of the tricks of the racketeers. I knew a police official who had a private telephone in his house, and he used it for conversa- at He expresses grave concern
There is the case of kaifong. His Worship might be ment, and refers to the world-wide about graft.
a police inspector who took a aware that the street
was very economic depression and restriction £5,000 bribe not to investigate a well-known as being the place of of international trade, which are business of the very first-class felt with particular severity by case. I met a saloon-keeper who became chief of police and I Chinese merchants of the Colony; industries especially dependent on
spent a week in hospital after an They formed Themacives into export.
interview with the police, who sup- association
Trade Expansion.
posed I had some secret documents year. on the anniversary of The Government will persist in
un' me. the birth of Confucius, held its efforts to develop and extend
The Hicks Murder Case. theatricals. That had been go home, Imperial and foreign trade, ing on for twenty
figured in the murder mystery years, from and help in the measures leading to speak, to greater efficiency in industry. time immemorial, so
of Hicks, the St. Louis lawyer. Hicks got into trouble with the Every year it was the practice of Proposals will be submitted to the association to apply to the Parliament for the promotion of
gangsters. Three men set upon S.C.A. for a permit to hold such increased settlement and employ-
him in one of the leading hotels theatricals, and every year that ment on the land. and large-scale in the city, and he was killed by a petition had been granted, this farming operations, and the
gun with a silencer. They drag- year after one had been sent in over¦quisition and improvement ufed the dead man through the the signature of 18 well-known | agricultural land needing recon-
vestibute the guests believing it and highly respected merchants. ditioning; also the organisation of
was just a case of a drunken man being helped home by his friends producers for marketing purposes. "Mild Singing."
The Speech announces the im--and dropped him in a ditch eight In the petition. they asked, mediate establishment
miles away. They peppered the of a com among other, things, to be allowed mission to enquire into unemploy body and the ground round about on each night, to have musical playment insurance particularly allega.it with shot to create the impres ing and singing, but in compliance tions of its abuse.
sion that the murder had been with the regulations, the playing of Meanwhile, a measure making committed there. big drums and gongs were to stop further financial provision for the at 11 p.m. After that there would Unemployment Fund will be sub be "mild singing," accompanied by mitted to Parliament; also other musical instruments, up to measure of electoral reform and four o'clock in the morning.
measures to secure for the com- As a matter of fact, continued munity a share in the site value of Mr. Lo, that had been the practice land, to raise the
ened. age of com- for twenty years, with no deviationpulsory school attendance, to amend from the general, rule. The show the Trade Disputes Act, to establish was wanted by all the members of consumers' council, and to ratify the association who subscribed to the Washington Hours and Safety wards getting it up. Consequently, of Life at Sen
no inconvenience could be said to Renter, have been suffered by any in the
street at all.
In view of the fact that the re gulations were complied with, in that the big drums and gongs were withdrawn at the stipulated hour of
Conventions.
ne.
the
"An ex-convic, then came on the scene. He split. and said that £1,000 had passed between
ang and a police official. The ex-convict was shot dead by six policemen and my life was threat
He said the Government proposed friend and a man who was also usions at a very early date.
Their leader was
to introduce the necessary legis- Intion at once and to open discus- great minister devoted to the
of action, an inspiring head of the department of gallant pioneers in whose ranks had been enlisted some of the finest, most single- minded and most promising of British youth.
Lord Thomson, Sir Sefton Brancker and their comrades were pioneers of conquest and they had handed over a sacred trust to the living to continue their work.
The Premier added an expres- sion af special gratitude of M. Tardieu and France, and the| people of Beauvais, for the prac tical sympathy shown, adding. "France has once again touched the
hearts of our people."- Reuter and British Wireless,
"THE ROGUE SONG."
DRAWING BIG HOUSES TO
THE QUEEN'S.
It
One of the most striking and beautiful films ever
seen in the Colony is now showing at the Queen's Theatre. This is "The Rogue Song," which features Low rence Tibbett, the world-famous. The Blue Works:
baritone, and which has been pro- "I was lured
duced entirely in techni-colour, telephone message to my wife, Love." many of the haunting re- to an office by a is based on the operetta "Gipay bundled into a car and taken for a frains of which five-hour ride, which I was told served, whilst there are many addi- have been pre- would be my last. But bluffed tional musical numbers of decided them. I told them that they were merit. Of course, Lawrence Tib- being followed by the police, and bett is responsible for most of the after half-killing me, they threw singing. His voice is of superb me out on to the road.
"They were
quality, and he sings with much after documents, understanding. but the one I have in my pocket whilst opposite him is beautiful He plays the hero, Previous Day. Yesterday.
now," said Mr. Fellowes, produc- Catherine Dale Owen, 123.816
123.815
ing a typed confession by one of charming throughout.
who is 25.03
26.02 So the gang, provides the reason for
There are
magnificent 1.16 my not ever
going back to St. scenic effects, and, in particular. 193 Louis."
mention must be made of the beautiful ballet scenes, which are the finest we have seen on the
EXCHANGE RATES.
1 p.m., and that what music that was carried on from that hour was Paris.
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of a mild nature, Mr. Lo suggested, Geneva that the case was one for a right Berlin. interpretation of the Ordinance. Helsingfors
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Montevideo or beaten within his premises, be Brussels. tween the hours of 11 p.m. and Milan. a.m."
Jarring Music.
Madrid Bucharest.
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Mr. Lo argued that the intention Bombay
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BALACLAVA BALL.
BRILLIANT FUNCTION AT THE PENINSULA.
од
screen.
voices.
some
The urgent need for co-ordina- and it had been recommended in Varying forms by successive Com- missions and Committees.
which he made in Parliament in He recalled the announcement
December, 1929, when be outlined the Government's policy as
Elimination of uneconomic and unnecessary competition.
Substitution of a single and simple form of public ownership for the complicated network of separate private and municipal
interests.
Public ownership with com- mercial management.
Safe for Investors.
The Government believed that by this means London passenger transport as a whole. could be made a sound business proposition ensuring a safe and reasonable return to the capital invested in It, by the elimination of waste and a steady and progressive develop- ment of the facilities required in the public interest.
As the suburban lines of the Amalgamated Railway Companies are inextricably bound up with the main lines the Government do not contemplate that the existing ownerships should be disturbed.
Arrangements will, however, he made to enable the suburban lines to discharge their proper function transport.. in a fully correlated scheme of
The New Authority.
he favoured a
Mr. Morrison said that at first joint municipal
his experience of joint authorities authority representative of the local authorities in the area, but
was that there was too much "joint" and not enough "authority" about them.
They had not come to final con- clusions as to the precise com- position of the new Board, but they aimed at the
creation of a small Board consisting of persons of proved business capacity.
Provision would be made in the Bill for securing fair and proper treatment for officers and em- taken over. ployces of the undertakings to be
The Man and the Money. For nine months past the finan- cial side of the proposed gigantic the Government by a Scotsman- merger has been investigated for
Sir William McLintock, the famous accountant,
He is 57 years of age, and is senior partner of Messrs. Thom-
son, McLintock and Co.
On a number of occasions he has placed his services at the dis- posal of the Government, notably connexion with the cable and wireless merger.
His duty when appointed to ad- vise the Government on the Lon don traffic scheme, was to ascer- tain the financial possibilities and liabilities of all the companies concerned,
Filming three separate scenes, with independent action in each, simultaneously, was one of the tasks accomplished by Lionel Barry- more in directing the film.*
The scene shows courtyard, tap- Over three hundred guests at room, and a private room of an inn, 1.815 the Balaclava Ball given by memand in each something different is 92.775 bers of the Warrant. Officers and going on while Tibbett's song is
18.16 Sergeants Mess of the 2nd Ba. 1634 Argyll and
heard throughout. Sutherland
So that the High- 108.25 landers (93rd Foot)
action was in perfect "step" with at the Peninsula Hotel last night pre-three scenes, and three microphones the song, three cameras filmed the of the Ordinance was to prohibit Yakohama.....2/09/16
1/5vided a brilliant pieture, and made recorded them, simultaneously. music disturbing or jarring to the Silver (spot &
2/0.19/92 the function one of the season's ears such as that produced by the
social successes.
It was accomplished by Barry- Chinese reed pipe, which
The ballroom of the hotel was monitor room overlooking the sets,
more watching from the glass shrill instrument, played daring
decorated lavishly, and all the while Charles Dorian, his assistant, those hours only on very special
appointments were up to the occasions. He submitted that no
standard which the hotel has a handled the physical action on the such jarring musie was
STEAMER MOVEMENTS. being
A fine display of the regimental stages as Barrymore checked on the played after 11 p.m. that night.
silver of the Argyll and Suther- The drums and gongs had gone out,
The mv. Col di Lana sailed from land Highlanders enhanced the The picture is a drama of Rus-in of business, and those other Singapore on the 28th October, and is effect, and made a most remark-sia with Tibbett as a swash-buck- instruments which were played at due here on the 2nd November. able show.
ling bandit chief. Elaborate song The 9.5. Cracovia the hour mentioned in the sum Colombo on the 28th October, and is emerging from the lift, with twa by Albertina Rasch, comedy relief
sailed from One
confronted. Wus
numbers and a huge ballet staged mons were a small gong and drum which were used to accompany
expected here on the 9th November.
soldiers, dressed in the full dress by Laurel and Hardy, Hal Roach The S., Moncalieri sailed from string instruments which were not Massaun on the 28th October, and is uniform, and the note of colour comedians, adventure and romance disturbing or jarring to the cars. expected here on the 10th November. struck was carried into the ball-ture, the opera star's debut in talk- and brilliance that was thus are integral parts of the new pic- He had had this small gong and drum brought, into Court, and
where room,
the glittering
ing films. offered to demonstrate their use if he could carry on till three the dresses, made a kaleidoscopic Belmore, Nance O'Neil, Florence
uniforms, and the many hues of
Besides the two leads, the cast in support of his contention that
includes Wallace Macdonald, Lionel they were really mild instruments,
picture. essential as accompaniment to the
Officer's Complaint.
Many distinguished guests were Lake, Judith Vosselli, Alsa Alsen, mild singing that was going on.
Sergeant Pennell remarked that present, and included Lady Peel, famous operatic soprano James He admitted that within the it might not be the right time and H.B. Major-General J. W, Sandi- Bradbury, Jr., Burr McIntosh and place to say it, but he felt he must lands, C.M.G.. D.S.O.. Rear-others. It is an original story by refer to another matter, which Admiral R. S. Hill, C.B.E., a num- Frances Marion, with dialogue by was that the defendant at the her of members of the Government John Colton, famous for "Rain" and Police Station subsequently made and Consular Services, and, of "The Shanghai Gesture" The report against the European Ser- course, many officers of all units songs are by Herbert Stothart and geant of being drunk. "I thought in Hongkong.
Clifford Grey with interpolations by Sergeant Pennell who brought of taking another summons against A very pleasant programme of Franz Lehur. A symphony orches the summons, told the Court that the defendant for making a false music was provided by band tra accompanies the singer, and ul- a pair of cymbals were being allegation against the Police. I with a Bense of rhythm and 80 plays Dimitri Tiomkin's modern- played with occasional bursts of had plenty of witnesses to say that melody, whilst the supper was of istic music for the Rasch Ballet.. loud noise when he arrived on the I was sober," said Sergeant Pennell the most lavish description. A "The Rogue Song" is being scene at the hour mentioned. He After further. argument by Mr. st successful ball terminated screened for the rest of the week. asked the defendant for his Lo His Worship decided that a shortly before 3, a.m., when tired it should certainly not be missed. license, as the street was in a hos-nominal fine would meet the case, guests reluctantly made their way There were crowded audiences at pital area. The defendant asked and he inflicted a fine of $10, home.
yesterday's showings.`
strict wording of the Ordinance, this small gong might well come within the definition but suggest ed that it was not the intention in the Ordinance to cover such a
small instrument.
o'clock.
- According to "Modern Trans- port," the scheme will involve a
colossal character of the scheme: capital of over £120,000,000.
The following figures show the Number of London buses
5,500 Number of London trams. 2,750 Bus passengers daily .. 5,265,000 Tram passengers daily 2,789,000 Underground railway
group passengers. 1,160,377 The railways, buses and trams. controlled by the Underground group, of which the London Gene- ral Omnibus Company forms part, employ 45,000 people.
The Third Annual Dinner of the Hongkong Automobile Association is advertised to take place at the Peninsula Hotel, on Friday, Decem ber 12th.
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