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Owing to some unforeseen reasons
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1931. -
MURDER TRIAL INDIA LABOUR POSEIDON RELIEF
SEQUEL.
NEW CHARGE MAY BE PREFERRED.
+
REMAND ORDERED.
THE SHOWING OF “PLÜNDER” is postponed. who was tried for murder at the
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.
We are showing the Rare Picture
of South Seas Romance
A Release of May, 1931.
Marlene, Dietrich
Clara Bow
~~Nancy Carroli
ANY of the 1931 romantic pets
can
TAKE LOVE LESSONS
FROM THE VIVACIOUS
TAR OF
TABU
A Paramount Release
COMING SOON
LON CHANEY'S LAST ON THE SCREEN "THE PHANTOM of the OPERA"
CONDITIONS.
BRITISH MISSION'S
REVELATIONS,
FUND.
STILL $4,000 SHORT
OF THE MARK.
AT THE
¿. HONGKONG.
THE LATEST LIST. QUEEN'S
Now subscriptions to the Navy League Poseidon Fund up to noon to-day totalled over $2,000, bring- ing the total of $45.600. To reach the desired total of 60,000, a fur-
USURY SCANDAL. The possibility of a new indict-
London, July 1. nient being preferred against Wong Cheung, alias Wong Sik-cheung,
No fewer than three hundred and fifty-seven recommenda- Criminal Sessions a few days ago, when the jury could not agree on a tions are made in the Report of ther 84,370 is required, and there are only two days more, the Fund verdict, after three retirements,
Lclesing on Saturday, na mentioned at the Criminal Be the Royal Commission on sions this morning.
bour in Indin, which has been
Clubs, and firms who have sta After the jury's failure to agree engaged in an exhaustive sur-should, nate the closing date. the jury were discharged and pri soner remanded until to-day, for vey of labour conditions in that Ex-Active Service Men's Asso- the purpose of giving Mr. Somerset country under the chairman- Fitzroy, for the Crown, time to ship of Mr. J. H. Whitley, the consider the position.
former Speaker of the House of Before the Chief Justice (3ir Joseph Kemp) this morning, Mr. Commons.
Fitzroy stated that he proposed to The Commission consisted go on with the case on Monday six British members and next, and there was a possibility of Indians, and their Report is un- a new indictment being preferred. animous.
His Lordship pointed out that,
elation
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Members, Kowloon Cricket
100.00
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Staff, Navy, Army & Air
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European Staff Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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China
em Mr. M. M. Maas-Manila
Most of the recommendation in that event, it would have to be decided which indictment should be take the form of advice to proceeded with first, In order not players in India, while proposals. to embarrass the defence.
are made aiming at finding a re-Deck & Engine Room Ofcere, 8.5. Cheung Shing... Mr. Fitzroy agreed and said bemedy for the appalling state of the Master, Officers & Engineers, would have to consider
the pos"unregulated factories," namely, 5.9. Ilinsang sibility entering a molle prosequi on those factories which
the charge of murder.
After an
application by Mr.
F. C. Jenkin, defending counsel, for
Are not Mrs. M. K. More
subject to the Factory Acts.
10.00 Detatchment R.A.V.C., China Anonymous
These factories are notable for I. Harry
conditions, corporalW.G.S.
a copy of his Lordship's notes, had uuhealthy been granted, prisoner was remand-punishment, tong hours and low! ed until ten o'clock on Monday pay. An example is given where
morning.
BURMA UNREST.
a factory requires work "from ten to twelve hours daily for two annas from children of the ten- derest years."
FURTHER HUNDRED REBELSditiona
SURRENDER.
London, July 1.
10,00
5.00
5.00
2,115.00
Previously acknowledged 43,611.17
Total
$46,026.17
Recommendations are made fur
The Commission recom- the improvement of working con- jannuni
in mines, plantations. mends that relief be granted from railways and docks, and atten-the consequent oppressive legal tion is drawn to the chronic in- steps.
The Commission suggests n detedness of the workers, of whom the great majority are indebted reduction of working hours for the greater part of their lives factories from sixty to fifty-four, interest renching one with a maximum of live for chil hundred and fty per cent. per dren.-Reuter,
A Rangoon message reports that a further hundred rebels have ar- rendered in the. Prome Diatrlet. paying British Wireless.
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Charlie Chaplin
CITY LIGHTS
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HEAR
Mr. Finnemore, prosecuting, sald It was only through an accident that Kettleborough was caught,
MATRIMONIAL AGENCY DUPES: The house of a wooup concerned
in the ease was broken into-and "This la the most heartless and some lettera atolen. When the cruel fraud I have over tried," police were making inquiries, the Hald Mr. G. Wightman Powers, the woman told them the story which Recorder, at Leicester, when aan-put them on Kettleborough's track. tencing Frank Kettleborough, aged
Detective-Supt. Boon said Kettle- 10, a jeweller, of Claverton-street, Westminster, B.W., to five years borough was a native of Linesin- shiṛe, but had worked fr. pawn- penal servitude,
It was stated that on the pre-brokers' ahops in Hull, Leeds, and tence of marriage, Kettleborough other Yorkshire towns. Ife had obtained $711 from five women, number of convictions for theft and, in all, obtained Introductions and fraud, Including a sentence of through a matrimonial agency to three years' Denal servitude
98 women.
1928.
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Victor McLaglen
A DEVIL with WOMEN
PICTURES
Hla newest comedy -rom-nce is an education
in love technique.
A soldier of fortune who was lucky with the ladies.
With
MONA MARIS, HUMPHREY BOGART and LUAMA ALCANIZ
Directed by Irving Cummings SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT
PEGGY and GUY
First appearance in the Colony.
An Acrobatic Duo from the leading London Theatres & Clubs. At 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 pm. Only.
Booking at the Theatre.
Telephones: 26318, 9583
WARKER BROS.
у отри
JOHN
in important entertainment events
BARRYMORE
IN HIS FIRST TALKING PICTURE
GENERAL CRACK
Distinguished peer of present day stars of
stage and screen---seem at his best in a thrilling story of chivalry and mad adventure. (A soldier of fortune, who "fights and loves with
equal facility.
With Lowell Sherman, Marian Nixon, Armide, Hobart Bosworth.
the novel by
Based
Georgs Freedy. Direc
ted: by Alan Crosland.