THE NGAI NAM COMPANY
present
THE WORLD FAMOUS FEMALE IMPERSONATOR
Dr. MEI LAN FAN
and his troupe of Actors in a repertoire of
FAMOUS PLAYS
nt the
KO SHING THEATRE 117, Queen's Road West, Hongkong from
23th May to 30 May, 1931.
NIGHTLY at 8.00 p.m.
Ilooking at the Thestra,
Tel. 27189.
PRICES OF ADMISION (Zorluding tur : —$6.80, $5.60, $4.50 $3.40 and $2.30
Yes gentlemen, you have seen the name on the battle, but by its ex- cellent taste you would know it was
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1931.
GOLD SUNK IN WARSHIP.
PLANS TO RAISE RUSSIAN
VESSEL
Takya, May 25. The salvaging of Russian money valued at 2,000,000 yen from the ses-bed off Port Arthur, stored in the Russian warship Petropau losvak which was sunk by the Japanese navy during the Russo Japanese war, is being planned by Mr. Kuuhachi Kataoka who has returned from Port Arthur with the required information. He is well-known as a salvage expert. in press interview, Mr. Kataoka xit:
"There
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RULES OF SOCCER. | HOTEL CECIL SHARES.
IMPORTANT CHANGÈS £12,500 DIVIDEND NOT TO BE
PROPOSED.
Important proposals to change the laws of the Association game will be discussed at the annual general meeting of the Football Association to be held in London on Monday next.
PAID.
Court. Chancery,
Judge. Mr. Justice Maugham. Counsel.—Mr. A. Gront, K.C., and | Mr G. Whitehead (instructed by Messrs. Tarry Shélock and King) appeared for the United Realisation It is expected that the Football Company: and (instructed by Association will ask the Intern Messrs. Linklaters and Paines) Mr. tional Board to change the defini-Gavin Simonds, K.C., and Mr. C. R. tion of "carrying" by the goal- keeper, who, instead of being per- mitted only two steps, will be able to take four steps in future.
Komer for the liquidator; Mr. Gor-- don Brown for directors, of the hotel company; and Mr. Cleveland Stovens. K.C., and Mr. Harold Christie for a preference share- holder.
The Irish Football Association will ask members to support their irrefutable proposal to be submitted to the evidence, that 2,000,000 rea in International Board that in the
Victims of the Jabez Balfour actually stored in the wurship butense of an infringement of the crash in 1892 will beneft by the from the report of the commander | thrown-in no free kick be awarded, decision of Mr. Justice Maugham, of the warship we know that the but the Throw-in revert the up. The interests of sufferers under position of the sunken vessel is posite sile.
the Liberator smash were exchang- corrret. This fact being seer- nined. I believe that the other reports may be true, namely that the gold is stored in the ship The position of the sunken vessel is one mile out of Port Arthur at a depth of 18 fathoms. There is no current to speak of and there would be no difliculty in sub- martne work. The hill being envered with sand, some work will
required to raise the In June we shall return and text the temperature of the water. We shall probable start the refloating in July,"
..
Another prарова! to be laided for shares in the United Realisa- before the International Board by tion Company, which owns half of the Football Association will do the 100,000 Ordinary shares in the away with the free kick allowed hotel company. when a player touches the ball as Following the sale of the Hotel it is dropped by the referee, Cevil and its contents for £1,522.- following a temporary suspension09, the United Realisation Com- of play.
The couincit will ask the
ny took proceedings to restrain the Board of the Hotel Cecil, Limit- ed, from paying to the Preference another dividend,
As ciation to include in their rules a sentence making it impossible shareholders, vessel,
for any professional player who is not British born to take part any P. A. competition without a two years' residential palifica-
“ALI BABA'S CAVE.”
SUFFERING AT SCENE OF GOLD STRIKE.
Mazatlan, May 27.
Bitter suffering amid polential guidfields near El Tambor, Sinaloa,
who, ulandoning efforia to make a fortune.
returning are
horne,
tion.
INDIAN DRIVER
FINED.
IGNORED POINTSMAN'S
SIGNAL.
on
the
30
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS.
Асгоня
123
26
10
131
1 Indeed Corn conten in before tea,
highly beautifled.
5 This is a enteh-look and you
will see it.
BA young man of Abydos who used to go for a swim every night tu down.
10 Only ene side of this room be
longs to us,
adinting to £12,500. ground that the hotel company had made a lows, so that any dividend would have to be paid out of capital 11 A little dog does this. which rightly belonged to the Ordl-12 This bont is nothing in a puddle. ary shareholders.
13 You will fail to hit her.
17 Gnomez,
Objection was also taken to a 16 Much may be drawn from this propisal for the payment, as addi-j mix-up between the Devil and a tional remuneration, to three of the Ductor of Ivinity. directors of a sum equal to one per cent, of the total purchase money received for services rendered in connexion with the negotiations for the sale of the hotel and to other
matters.
Mr. Justice Maugham held that Indian A privately-employed chauffeur was summoned before there were no nel profits sufficient are related by disheartened miners Mr. Schofield, at the Central Police to pay the proposed dividend and Court this morning, for disubeying granted a declaration to that effect. The incident ne It was atated that a compromise Caravans and prospectors and fami- traffic directions. ly arrive at the field daily but Andeurred at 2.16 p.m. on the 17th in- had been arrived at on the other they cannot stake a claim until legal tual, at the junction of Pedder points, and that the directors re- points connected with these have Street and Queen's Rond Central, Hinquished their claim to the adli- been settled.
A Shantung constable stated that final remuneration voled them. then observing a European driving a car approaching the junction along Qoven's Bond from the rast, he wave him the signal to turn into Padder Street. At the same time, another car, No. 2652, driven by the defendant. coming up from Pedder Street, also turnett into Queen's Road, heading in a wester- ly direction, This was done with the signal against him.
Troops are posted aesund fusid to prevent new claim staking
Even the "hucky" individuals wh Juve staked a claim, eke out only a miserable existence at the mercy of moneylenders who have Cont:dilished a Hoarishing business.
SHORTER HOURS ON SAME PAY.
AIM OF INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE.
Geneva, May 28.
working A rednellon in th hours of the labouring classes throughout the world, for the pur pone. incidentally, of regulating the output of manufactured gels, and th tending tre lay the "economic blizzard," will be the principal aim of the International Labour Conference which opened bere botlay.
It is antisipated that the lea. i the Conference will achiew wil}} ve an international arreemin limition: the hours of coal-miners,
AIR MAIL PILOT LOSES LIFE.
AMERICAN PLANE CRASHES OVER MOUNTAINS.
Hellefonte, Penn., May 21. Jimmy Cleveland, of the air mail. was killed when his plane crashed to-day,
Cleveland was lost in a blinding rain word fort wirde ging over th memtain. This plane struck. hillside, Fle
wrapped the w chante and based the lip a well as the mail.
At only 27
GIRL PARACHUTE
JUMPER.
3,000 METRES LEAP OVER TOKYO BAY.
Tokyo, May 25. Mr. F. C. Goodall, who was the Miss Miyoko Miyamori, the fore- European in the other car referr-most parachute jumper of Japan. ed to, supported the pointsman's to-day was being showered with evidence. He did not Bee the congratulations as the result of signal changed at any time, and her most spectacular jump. was emphatic that the signal, as far as he was concerned, was de- finitely to proceed.
Although she is unable to swim Miss Miyamori jumped, from an altitude of 3,000 meters over, Tokyo Bay yesterday.
Eleven minutes after she jump-
After he had parked his car at the Pedder Street stand, he te turned to the constable and offereded from the aeroplane in which of his ear in the pointsman's book landed in the to write his name and the number she was fying Miss Miyamori sen off Urayasu- which he did.
There were two previous convie- tins for negligent driving against the defendant, ant, eonvicted also og the present summons, he was fed $20,
LEVEL CROSSING
TRAGEDY.
FOUR KILLED IN SMASH IN SUSSEX.
London, May 24. Two pwn and two girls were kill ed instantly at the Bethlington level crossing near Lewes to-lay
their when
car crash through the gates and was stra - by the Brighton express.
Biolo
failed to observe that the eros
parently the driver of the car
sing gates were card til he wa only thirty yards away. Simant tanemely he
Paw the one strafu, train and jammed on the fakes.
The car skidded and crashed pany. Pilot through an antes, At that t
funt the train patred, dasking in tok! azimions in the air mail ser- theat tend stonin? Or car do vier
posed and were known a
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
mitly met.
Pho, Chi Prefecture. She land- «d 10 miles from the start of her imp
Miss Miyamori successfully tested * W parachute. Upon reaching the water the silk of the parachute became inflated, form- in a fe raft on which the girl ambered and on which she re- mained until she was taken to
FANLING GOLF.
STARTING TIMES FOR SUNDAY.
9.21 W. R. Wallace & Commander
Priestly.
9.28 A. 1. Penn & J. R. "Col®. 932 A. D. Humphreys & O. Enger.
jolin.
18 In many country places thest
lead a common life. 20 Elevate.
Take back your hat in this state. 21 Though starting with the knock
you beconte quite speedy.
24 This baby-carriage has a queer
occupant.
28 The name of two English kings.
29 This is out, and always will i
૧.
30 Here are a thousand in the Ex- change, an all very wet and miserable.
31 Destroyed.
Down
A hundred in a day lose time by idleness.
2 Cracked. Due to damp and cold. 5 Mensures sometimes
taken for punishment.
4 Grieve over this.
& A brave follow is nothing to her. 6 Where one's shadow grows less.
STICKERS.
The above design contains (if squares. What is the least number of pizzes you can cut it la to make an eight by right square, with the pattern preserved?.
7 An astronomical observation with
considerable scope.
9 Although angry, I led most of the
114 Performed.
way,
15 This may take place even before
ten.
16 Accuses publicly, and carries
little weights. very
18 Spanish province.
19 Slipped away and easily made
picward.
20 Banishment.
121 The holder of a hereditary tille.
25 Wived.
24 This ant doesn't sound in the
ienst seriou
27 Jere we have a very small mat-
ter taken from a moat.
Yesterday's Solution
PARTICIPATE
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Yesterday's Solution
Each pup weighed seven pounds and cock kitten weighed three pounds. Thes a combination of four pups and thro kittens would weigh 37′ posunda and ■. combination of three paps and fruz kit. 3. tens would weigh 33 pounds.
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EXCHANGE RATES:
Previous Day. Yesterday,
BUSINESS ONE OF US. MAJOR Buenos Aires.
INDUSTRIES.
Washington, May 24.
The Assveintion against the Pro-Vienna hibition Amendment to the
.18.14%
20.48
19.1024*
MILLIONS SPENT ON BOOTLEG LIQUOR.
Paris
124.23% 121.27
¡Geneva
Berlin..
.25.16
26.16
20.18
Oslo Helsingfor
.18.16
.1934
10834"
Athens
.376
375
Shanghai.
..1/2
New York
.33.15/10
4.80.11/32
33.9/10 1/2
4.80.7/16
Amsterdam
.12.09%%
Stockholm.
12.09% 18.14粒
34.60%
34.60
con- Madrid
Bucharest.
60.15
$2,80
.817
817
28
27%
11%
11%
34.92
34.91%
02.02%
92.94
-18.16%
18.18
1644
104%
108.25
108.20
3.5/16
3% .1/6.27/32 1/6.25/32 .2/0.15/32 2/0.13/82 12.0/10
1214 (forward) 12.5/16
Britisk. Wireless.
By Blosser
9.46 J. G. Campbell & M. K. Littk-stitution estimates that the annual | Montevideo. 5.10 W. W. Mackenzie & G. G. John-expenditure in the United States on Hongkong.
bootleg liquor reaches the tremend- Brussels ous total of $2,848,000,000, which Milan.
Copenhagen represents an increase of over a
Prague thousand millions dollars compar- od with expenditure on liquor in in. 1914.
Bombay. The Association declares that the Yokohama
stou. 5,44 1. Purtons & D. J. Gilmore. BIG A. G. Coppin & G. A. Millar,
W. G. Shields & P. A. Redmond, 156 1. Myerek & W. Mulenby. ni W, G. Enley & II. R. Campbell, 10.04 V, R. Gordon & A. C... Buwker.
G. T. May & IT. W. M. Dully. | illegal fiquor business has become Silver (spot)....12% 10.1% IN I Evan & F. C, Young one of American's major, indus-
tries,
The Hero?
WHAT ALL DID HE HAVE TO
TAGALING
SAY, JAY?
WAS TELLIN you?
URODONAL
THE DEFINITE REMEDY FOR
RHEUMATISM
AND ALL-
URIC ACID, TROUBLES SOLE AGENTS FOR HONGKONG CANTON & MACAU
I VAS JUST OVER 10 TAG'S
HOUSE, WHERE HE WAS TELLING!
ME ALL ABOUT law! FRECKLES WAS RESCUED
IN THAT SECRET
TUNNEL.....
THE PHARMACY Aslatio Building, Tol, 2034
HE TOLD HOW FRECKLES AN' THAT OLD HERMIT", "VAS WERKS TRYING TO
FIND THEIR WAY OUT... TOO. BAD THEY HAD TO WAIT.
SO LONG FOR SOMEBODY
TO COME TO THEIR
RESCUE
SAY! I WOULD HAVE RESCUED FRECKLES IP UNCLE CLEM HADNT MADE ME COME BACK TO THE RANCH AN' THEN SENT ME
ON HOME !!
YSR
REALLY
WER. U, I. PAT, OFF
CHBA) BY NEA KURVICE,
WHAT!!
I-I SAID IF UNCLE CLEM HADN'T
SENT. WE HOME I
WOULDA HELPED
LOOK FOR
You !!
'YDID NOT: SAY THAT,
OSCAR
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