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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1931.
BRITISH PRESS ON · MORATORIUM.
ANY FURTHER DELAYS MUST BE AVOIDED.
London, July 8.
ARMED ROBBERY CASE NOT PROVED.
TWO MEN DISCHARGED AT KOWLOON.
ANOTHER CINEMA
PROBABLE.
THEATRE TO SHOW CHINESE FILMS.
on
The possibility of the construc- The two defendants, Wong Shun Discussions with the French and Chung Tal in the case of arm. tion of an up-to-date cinema Government regarding the pro-ed robbery on board a cargo junk the site now occupied by the Ka Ping Restaurant on Des Voeux jected meeting In London of at Say S Mun on May 1. were Rond Central, opposite the P. and experts of the Governments of the discharged on all counts by Mr.O. Building, is mentioned in a re- Powars which are parties to the Hamilton, at the Kowloon Magis-port to the affect that the manage- The ment of the United Photoplay Young Plan, aro proceeding. It tracy yesterday
Service Limited has almost com- will be the duty of these experts first
pleted negotiations with the own deers of the building housing the to examine the matters upon which
of restaurant. Pri the observations of the French Government were attached to the announcement of an agreement with America on President five singlets. Hoover's proposed war debts holl- day.
fence.
afternoon. defendant WAR further charged with conspiracy to fraud Chi Kiu-on-of a cargo
The United Photoplay Service, singlets and cloth, and the second defendant with having received d. is a public company formed by prominent Chinese merchants In Hongkong and Canton. Includ Mr. F. C. E. Rendall and Mring Sir Robert Ifo Tung, who Has F. H. Loseby conducted the de- been elected Chairman of the Board of Directors. This million Evidence was given yesterday dollar concern is interested in the by a Chinese detective of the ar-manufacture of Chinese talkies rest of the two defendants. He and silent pictures, as well as in further added that in the cubiela the theatre business.
second defendant
The first studio was established of the
at the Ming Yuen Gardens, North found five singlets,
ago, and since Mr. F. Breit, chief assistant Point, some months ago Junk Inspector, gave evidence to then, with the Shanghai studio. the effect that the junk had never the Company has been able to or two pictures a Owing, however, to the of Junk had returned to Hongkong system existing between the local theatres and the Amertean Film the on May 11 and had left the same Producing companies, the Com-
the
While it is recognised in Paris that a conference of Ministers must follow the meeting of ex- perts, anal reply from French Government is awaited be fore the dates and other details can be arranged. Meanwhile, the vlow is expressed in Paris that the suggented period of one week may prove insufficient for the experts to complete their taak.
cloared from the harbour on Mavone
1. He also said that that same
The general satisfaction ex- pressed when the first news favourable result Franco-American negotiations day.
the
was received. in reflected in Lo- day's newspaper comment..
Statements Made.
any have found it difficult to ob
produc- tain an outlet for their An interpreter then produced tions.
the Board of Consequently The Times in an editorini hend-
the statements made by the defen. ing anys that the hope inspired
danta. The first defendant had Directors has given serious st by the French acceptance should aid in reply to the conspiracy tention to the need of construct- enable German credit. which during the week-end found itself charge that a man named Chunking its own theatre in a central locally for showing Chinese pic- Ng-tai and another were connes- almost at the end of its tether, toted with the matter.
tures. An official of the United turn the corner, and though the
Photoplay Service Limited told
of the presa period of recovery must be slow
that the Company there is no reason why the collapse
representative which was threatening should not
enterently believed that their films produced at the local and Shanghai studios would be able to meet the requirements of their own theatre.
be .nverted.
"For. whatever outstanding difficulties still remain to be sat tled between the various Mixnu- tories to the Young Plan on the
The defendant denied making this statement, and alleged that he was beaten by the police and
made to sign a paper.
He elected to make a statement from the box on declaration, and said that the charges brought against him were false.
The second defendant.said that mora.
details of the pre Government at one time he way the owner of
the
yer to secure. In comparison
with this all important concession reservations are of secondary in portance."
not
Lane to Be Widened. Negotiations for the purchase
n
torlum, the French have conceded
paramount a launch which was pirated. Five of the Ka Ping Restaurant site principle of complete relief for pirates were arrested, and three have been going on for some time Germany from reparation pay- were sentenced to be hanged. He and the price agreed upon, it is ments for twelve months, which it had also been in the employ of the understood, is a little over threo catch lakhs. While this new theatre was the object of President Hoo- Chinese Government
will he built with every modern pirates at loifung, and bad art facility it will contain only from tured, some pirates. It was
to 800 seats, true that he had been present at 600 the
In connexion with the building armed robbery on the junk at Sau S1 Mun. He Was at that of this cinema house it is learned French Objections.
time In his shop at Sal Kun, and that if the Ka Ping Restaurant Building is pulled down the Gov- Referring to the French ob-had two customers.
part fisherman, bore orament Intonda to resume Chung Fu, a
jane servations on the guarantee fund,
widen the the Times says. "It is clear that out this statement, by saying that of the land to
property from Mr. Hoover's proposals lie wholly about 4 p.m. on May 1 he went to separating the
HOME
from the Whitenway Laidlaw and Co., Ltd. outside the scope of the Young claim
Thera are still some points to Plan, and under the agreement second defendant at his shop, and France has obtained.
re-had stayed the night with him. he settled befo,e the deal can be cognition, implied in the arrange- The defendant did not leave the consummated. Meanwhile the Uni- ted Photoplay Service, Ltd. is ments male for repayment of the house while he was there.
renovating part of the Ming Yuen Annuity, suspended neolitional
Gardens in order to give open air that her juridicial rights under
pic- showings of their Chinese
from hanghai, tures, many of which have arrived These shows will he
the maintained. until could,
performance will be held on utterly Saturday.
express
money
Tissue of Lles.
the plan are in no way defeated by
In discharging the two defen this holiday. It la difeult, there- dants. Mr. Hamilton said that the fore, to see on what grounds she whole evidence was a tissue of is now demanding modification of lies upon which no jury the rights of other creditor should or would convict. The theatre can be bullt. The first Powers. As to the amount of de-crew of the junk were
of an alibi, which
RUSSIANS TO EMULATE
M. PICCARD.
liveries in kind, owing to the comdias
mdiscredited by the discovery that plicated nature of the subject a they had concealed their return conference of experta appeara to to Hongkong on May 11 when bo inevitable, but it is essential they did not report the alleged that, whatever technical details robberywered the allegations and The second defendant may ultimately be agreed upon, had
Riga (Latvia), June 17. the temporary burden of financing called ovidence
An attempt to follow in Profes- these deliveries should be lifted he quite believed. He, however, From the shoulders of the German did not believe the statement of Bor Piccard's wake and to ascend Government. The precarious the first defendant that he had into the stratosphere is being or situation of German credit ren heen beaten. He was quite satie-ganised in Stalingrad, writes the dors prompt agreement on-this fied that the defendant had made Krosnaya Gazela, by an associa point absolutely necessary." those statements to the police, but tion for furthering the construction
did not incriminate himself in of airships,
evidence
A special air-tight cabin, similar them, and they were nat
Delays Must be Avoided. The Morning Post says everybody against the second defendunt, to the gondola in which Professor. will cordially endorse the satis-apart from the doubtful point as Piccard left the earth's weather faction with which Mr. Hoover to whether the name used refer belt, Is to be constructed for the or
of casion. has welcomed the Franco-Ameri-red to the second defendant,
He he proof. enn settlements, but if the uni- which there was versal enthusiasm with which Mr. was quite satisfied that both de Hoover's proposal was at first re-fendants could not possibly be ceived is to be revived, further found guilty on all the charges delays must at all costs be avoided. against them, and therefore
is therefore urgently to be was his duty to discharge them. hoped that the conference to settle
It
the final detalls of the scheme will
It
meet promptly, and will promptly is the great achievement; but its reach its conclusions. The Hoo-not yet enough. It gains one ver moratorium, provided it comes year. That year must be red into immediate operation, will unnot only for reconsideration of the doubtedly confer incalculable ad whole debt problem, but for wido vantages upon the whole.harassed
measures of fancial reform. world.
Above all it must be used for a The Daily Herald says. "The genuine reduction in armaments." Hoover plan is now in force. That British Wireless,
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