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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1935.
Sprawling Tientsin Is East's Greatest
City Of Intrigue
The Prince of Wales, seen arriving there, was an eager Ustener as British delegates sought in Længuo of Nailons council at Geneva to out-manoeuvre Italy in the Intest European diplomalie war, which has Ethiopia as prize,
PLOT AND COUNTERPLOT
Headquarters Of Foreign Concessions
Great Narcotic
Trade Ring
Responsible For
Situation?
Tientsin. Oct. 30.
Tientsin, sprawling commercial seaport on the banks of the slatternly Haiho River, is rapidly earning the nick-- name, "City of Intrigue", where grandiose schemes, plots, counter-plots and conspiracies are hatched and nurtured by the score.
Most of these schemes wither and dic, some have blossomed into full "incidents" and others are only now coming into bloom. Tientsin is a haven and sanctuary for all manner of political exile and outcast due to the
protection of its foreign concessions, including British,
Italian, French, Japanese and the former Austrian, Bel-
MR. KORDA TO SIGN UP gian and German concessions which still have three police
KING VIDOR
Visits by Marlene Dietrich and Paulette Goddard
PLANS FOR CHARLIE CHAPLIN
Mr. Alexander Korda talked enthusiastically of his many plans when interviewed in London on his return from Hollywood.
Dur. g his stay there he was made a partner in United Artists Corporation of the United States, with Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Samuel Goldwyn.
Mr. Korila was accompanied, -—- on his arrival in London by Sid |
Connop Guthrie, who represents Stan Laurel
the investment of the Prudential
Assurance Company in London Twice Weds
Film Productions, and who has been appointed to the board of United Artists.
Sir Connop said that the immediate result of the Holly- wood-negotiations-would-be that 20 first-class films would be produced yearly, at Д cost of £2,000,000, at the new studios being built at Denham, Buckinghamshire.
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administrations separate from regular Chinese, territory.
Fugitives from one national authority take refuge in another and are adequately protected. The Japanese Concession is full of outlawed Chinese "wanted" by Nanking. The other foreign concessions are full of persons wanted by both Chinese and Japanese authority, and so on.
of revolution against Chinese Government in Nanking are even. now busy with their project in the concessions here.
Three former Presidents of
China, members of the one-time motorious Anfu and Chihil cliques, former warlords, tuchung and politicians whose names once rung around the world, ard living here, some in exile planning a comeback. Peiping officials who have important secret plans to discuss often come to Tintsin for that purpose.
At the present
The underground work and foundation for ang scheme or plan, ranging from organisation of an opium caravan to revolution against the government. is laid in Tientsin-dtt Peiping gets 11 writing, General Sung Cheb-yun 21, the credit. It was always thus. Commander of the Peiping Even during the Boxer Rebellion. į Tientsin Garrison, General Chin the siege of Tintsin was for more Teh-chuan, Governor of Chahar, severe than the siege of Peiping, and Mr. Halas Chen-ying, mender but Peiping bad all the authors of the Peiping Military Council, and unspaper men at that time, are here in a four-day conferenc and received all the glory. Few They know where to contact the people know anything about Tien-string-pullers. tsin's suffering.
Peiping is loved because it has all the atmosphere" and the his- |torien background of old China wherens Tientsin is an ugly, tawdry, foreignized .apart, de void of all chura and buty
Tourists avoid it like a plague.
Peking Club Cocktails.
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Japanese Headquarters
The Japanese military heart- quarters which directs Japanese policy in North China is in Tien- isin and the Japanese, Consulate-
General has jurisdiction over Pel-
ping.
Headquarters of the great nar-. catle trafle throughout the north Most of the North. China corres is in this city. This is also the pondents live in Peijing per-centre of the pleasure and gayely manently, seldom visiting here. in the north. sing-aong houses Florence Arizona Oct. 22.
When any-trouble breaks out or is being populär maeting places for Stanley Laurel, of the Laurel threatened in North China. the scattered cliques and leaders who and Hardy partnership, to-day Shanghai correspondents run
Mrs.
to prefer not to go to the other Tel- Virginia Ruth married
Potping where there are cocktails low's house. Tientsin is hand- Rogers, of Hollywood.
of superlative quality at the quarters for "Tsai Pang," the Lauret first married Mrs. Rogera Peking Club and dancing on the great at Agua Caliente, Mexico, in April roof of the Peking Hotel, and whose tentacles reach into every underworld organisablon He added that Mr. Charlie 1934. But at the same time he write long interpretive stories hamlet of North China. Chaplin hopes to be in London announced that they were not go-about North China. To
Th's for the presentation of his new ing to live together in California Tientsin is only a whistling station negotiations with Chinese officials Kwantung Army conducis its film, "Modern Times," before the until his divorce from his first or watertank stop. end of the year.
in Tientsin. This city is also the and that it is wife, Mrs. Lois Laurel, becanic
Yet those who pull the stringa centre of at least two and possibly likely he will direct at Denham Goal. Then we are going are in this hotbed of intrigue and three important espionage systema filni starring Paulette Goddard.
{through another ceremony/ he conspiracy. The abortive rebel- in the North.
lion and attack on Peiping last All-Colour Film
Mrs. Lois Laurel got a divorce spring was hatched in Tientsin. most "over-written" city but many Nobody claims Peiping is the Mr. Korda said that, in addition from her husband in October 1933, The Japanese bloodless invasion" believe that Tientsin is the most to the Denham studios, colour1She said that life with a comedian shortly before, had its nerve "under-written" eity in the Far laboratories would be completed, was anything int fuung--Bester centre in Tientsin.
The plotters East.-United Press. and that the first British all- colour film would probably be based on 1 religious subject, written by Miss Mary Borden, and directed by Mr. Victor Senstrom.
"Next year," said Mr. Korda, "we shall have at Denham such famous directors as Mr. King Vidor of 'The Big Parade, Mr. William K "Howard of 'Vanessa' and Trans-atlantic,' Mr. Henry D'Arrast, who worked with Mr. Chaplin in producing 'A Woman of Paris,' and, most probably Mr. Frank: Lloyd, who directed, 'Caval- cade,'
"I have also arranged for Mr. Edmund Goulding, of Grand Hotel' and 'Riptide', to direct, next spring, the first Denhami Alm starring Miss Merle Oberon, while Miss Marlene Dietrich will arrive for one film to begin next April,
The most remarkable feature of my visit to Hollywood has been the change of attitude to British. Alms. When I worked in Holly- wood it was generally said that films could not be made in 'Lon- don. Now every American pro- ducer is looking forward to tho day when he can work here.
"I think the British flm Indus- try may look forward to Increasing revenue from the United States. In the past 16 years American film companies havo-takon -$120,- 600,000 out of British cinemas, and it is only fair that thera should be some more aquitable exchange of alma betweon Britain and, the United States,"
Isaid.
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QUITS LABOUR PARTY
Lord Ponsonby, who has resigned the Loadership of the Socialist Party in the House of Lords owing to his "serious differences with the party on foreign policy."
Briton's Two Years In Spanish Gaol
SEQUEL TO RAID ON RESTAURANT
Barcelona, Oct. 20.
For more than two years a young Englishman has lain in Jail at Barcelona awaiting trial on a charge of murder. Only now has the date of his trial been fixed.
He is Mr. William Robert Lamb, agred Iwenty-five, A native of Beeston, Notta. It was on August. 3, 1923, Bhat he was arrested after a bandit raid on a Barcelona restaurant, in which the cashier was, fatally wounded. The young Englishman was secused of firing! the shot which killed the cashler.
Mr. Lamb was alleged to have! made
thy raid
with four! Spaniards. He was rescued from an angry mob after the shooting.
At the time a British diplo. matic protest was made, and it was pointed out that Lamb was not a bandit, but was actually trying to capture the fleeing robbers when he was set upon by the excited mob and then arrested.
17 Years' Sentence ?· The Barcelona authorities deny t four. Spaniards, Angol Masear- this, alleging that Lamb and the boure, Pedro Campo, Adolfo Val- lano, and fourth nicknamed "El Gallego", who fled from Spain, entered the cafe together,
They further allege that when the cashier refused to hand over the contents of the till, Lamb shot him on the orders of "El Gallego."
The Public Prosecutor has made
it known that he will demand a sentence of 17 years and day upon Lamb and the Spaniards.
ROYAL AIR FORCE MACHINES ON FLIGHT TO EAST-One of the giant Royal Air Force four-engined Short Singapore flying boats engaged on an all British route flight from Plymouth, Basra, Iraq. Four of
theso #giant
vessels are scheduled to visit llong kong later this year.
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