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FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1927.

KIDNAPPED?

DISAPPEARANCE OF LOCAL

MERCHANT.

WITHDRAWAL FROM BANK.

A few days after her hus-

AT THE QUEEN'S.

SUCCESS OF "THAT ROYLE GIRL"

GREAT CYCLONE SCENE.

A JURY VILLAGE.

THE CHINA MAIL.

SOVIET MURDER.

FATE.

MOUTHIER AND ITS CHERRY TREES.

FINNISH OFFICER'S

A LOVELY SPOT,

AN EVASIVE, REPLY.

jus.

be a

the

Shadows Before.

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED

IN THE "MAIL"

July

Entertainmenta.

29-Queen's

Theatre;

July 29-World Theatre: "The Alaskan,"

July 2-Star Theatre, Kowloon

It is always pleasant to

The Soviet Government has now The mysterious disappearance In "That Giri Royle," now pioneer, if only in a small way, and replied with characteristic in- "The Royle Girl." of a Chinese merchant has been showing at the Queen's Theatre, to stay in a French village in which, solence and evasiveness to the reported to the Police and the there are vivid contrasts that apparently, no Englishman has ever pertinent questions put to it by Secretariat for Chinese Affairs. must appeal to every lover of the stayed before is to feel an ever-

The merchant had not long re- pictures. It may seem far fetch-so-distant kinship with Raleigh and the Finnish Minister in Moscow turned to Hong Kong from the ed for a bellicose little paper Drake and Christopher Columbus. regarding the fate of Colonel (not "The Street of Forgotten Men." U.S.A. where he had made enough seller to set her ideals

Certainly, the American Indian cau General) Elvengren, says

July 29-Ten Dance, Cafe Res- on hardly have looked with greater "Daily Telegraph." to keep himself and family in Abraham Lincoln's famous dictum curiosity upon his European dis The Soviet Government admits taura Parisien, 430 p.m. comfort for the rest of his days that "right is might" when every coverer than did the inhabitants of the execution of the colonel, July 29-Concert, at "Cheer '0,"l Together with his wife and daugh-thing has gone wrong in her life, the village of Mouthier, in the De-and seeks to justify it by alleg-7 p.m., at "Better 'Ole," 7 p.m. ter, he settled down in Shamshui- from being drives from pillar to partment of the Doubs, upon their ing counter-revolutionary activi- July 30 Grand Concert, City] po where they appear to have post to a home that cannot pos-first English visitors. Even the ties on his part. It imparts, Hall, 6.30 p.m. settled down in comfort. On the sibly be associated with the octogenarian erone, who sita most

July, 30-Fifth Grand promen- 8th inst. the man left the house theme of the old song, "Home, of the day on her doorstep mutter- however, no detailed information

these alleged activities. ade concert, Lee Gardens, 9 p.m. and has not since been seen. Sweet Home."

Ing imprecations on all passers-by, as to

July 31-Open Air Concert by As "That Girl Royle" Carol was too much dazzled at our novelty The Soviet Government then has band's disappearance, the wife Dempster, who takes the leading to bestow even a mild curse upon the effrontery to express surprise Band of Queen's Royal Regiment,

at the suggestion that Colonel received a letter purporting to be part with consummate ease and from her husband enclosing a much ability, becomes a manne-lish visitor discovers Mouthier, and and professes to have always P

It cannot be long before the Eng- Elvengren is a Finnish subject, Kowloon Dock Bathing Beach, 5 $100 note and advising her to go quin in a fashionable emporium loses his novelty there (and then understood that the murdered August 2-Concert by Miss "V. back to the U.S.A. with her and well does she display the what will the old lady say to us as man regarded himself and was re- Capell" and her Company of ama- daughter.

beautiful.ereations of gowns and we pass). for the village is not Enquiries at a Chinese bank furs that she has to wear to ad- inaccessible, the railway being only garded by Helsingfors as a Rus-teur entertainers the "J-Pans."

August 4-5-6-Pot-pourri enter- with which the husband had de-vertise. A glimpse into the jazz three kilometres distant at Lods, sign subject.

the Wild Swan Co- Bolshevik bad faith in this re-tainment by posited $10,000 showed that the night life of Chicago is furnished, or twenty at Pontarlier. Mouthier, money was drawn out by the hus- some of these scenes being pretty, moreover, when one does rench it, spect is sufficiently exposed by optimists at Royal Naval Canteen band personally a few days ago.

is a wonderfully lovely spot, and is the military record of Colonel Theatre, 8.30 each evening. albeit others are a little boister-endowed with an admirable pen- Elvéngren. He fought, as a August 6--Charles Chamier pre- In the belief that her husband ous. But then they must be true sion-the ancient manor house, of cavalry captain, in the Finnish sents "Our Cabaret," in a series of has been kidnapped and forced to to, life-the life of Chicago, the place at which it is possible make the withdrawal, the wife

The "eternal triangle" finds a to stay cheaply and comfortably. War of Liberation, being promot-intimate Revues, at

ed to the rank of lieutenant-Theatre, Kowloon, 9.30 p.m. has made a report locally.

place in the film but it is rather a The village tea on the side of

August 22-Social Service for pity that conjugat unhappiness the valley on the river Loue, just colonel in the army of the new should be just a trifle overdone by below the point at which the valley Finnish Republic. He fought the Service men on the roof of St. D. W. Griffiths to the extent of a changes its character and becomes Bolsheviks a second time when Peter's Y.M. Club.

August 26--Whist drive at St. Mouthier gorge. Below

the holding this higher rank, a fact display of violence between hus-valley is wide, with pastures, and of which the Soviet authorities John's Cathedral Hall. band and wife and between a vineyards, and cherry orchards and were well aware and had good rea-Podolsky famous pianist, and Vera August 8-Concert by Leo millionaire gangster and his very on each side, above the cultivated son to remember. jealous mistress. Again, Griffithstands. a sheer cliff of limestone.

Mirova, premiere danseuse, Queen's Shot Without Trial. < may say it is true to life, but all At Mouthier the valley narrows,

Theatre, 9.30 p.m. To the final inquiry, concerning the same it does not enhance the and less than a kilometre above the

Lammert's Auctions. At the Central Magistracy pieture when shown before Orien-village the valley becomes a gorge, the nature of the judicial proceed-

August 4-5--Household furniture, yesterday afternoon, Mr. R. E. | tals.

with shrubs clinging to its walls, ings which led to Colonel Elven- Lindsell heart a case in which two

which run for four kilometres up gren's execution, the Soviet Gov-pictures, curing, etc., of the late Fortunately there is much in Chinese were charged with bribe the picture that adds relief. There sized river, the Loue plunges roar answer.

to the point where, already a full-ernment has so far returned no Mrs. M. J. D. Stephens, No. 5, Peak ing a Chinese detective.

are many really humorous scenes ing out of a cavern in the face of he was shot without any trial,perties in the New Territories, at

Neither could it, since Road, 11 a.m.

September 15- Valuable Mr. C. A. S. Russ appeared for and many a touch of pathos and the rock. This, indeed, seems to Such brutality and cynicism could Messrs. Lammerta' Sales Room, 8, the defence, whilst the prosceu sadness that make one forget the be a habit amore rivers in the Jura hardly be exceeded. Although Duddell Street, 3 p.m. tion. was conducted by Sub-carlier sordid side and conclude Mountains. and another river, the Inspector Lane,

that Griffiths has really "made Pontet, alsu leaps out of a cave ne good." The cyclone scenes are in Mouthier, and after a brief but tur a "street" by themselves.

bulent career of a couple of hun- dred yards or so, joins the Loue.

Where Two Worlds Meet.

ALLEGED BRIBERY.

LOTTERY OWNERS APPROACH POLICE.

NO H. Q. PARADES IN AUGUST.

According to the Chinese de- -tective a very large Popių Lottery Syndicate in Macno which had been in the habit of smuggling tickets to Hong Kong to sell. THE VOLUNTEERS. knew of the witness's ability in detecting smuggling lottery tickets, so they attempted to stop the detective's activities by at- tempting to bribe him. The first accused who knew the detective | was given the job of bribing the detective. This man made an ap- pointment with the detective at the Sik Yuen Restaurant in Des

up with another man.

Voeux Road Central, and turned

Colony. The detective himself would be paid $270 in cash and monthly allowance of $45 to "keep

COMMANDANT'S ORDERS.

The following orders are issued by Lt. Col. L. G. Bird, D.S.O.. A ministrative Commandant of the

II.K.V.D. Corps:—

1 of to-day's date.

11

Meetings.

the Star

The Viva-tonal Columbia

POPULAR TABLE GRAND $90.00.

Represents the highest Standard of Value at its price,

In general 'favour for its style, its new Standard of

tone sets it far ahead of many Instruments costing

more.

Anderson Music Co., Ed.

ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING.

HARVEY'S BRISTOL MILK

OLD GÓLDEN SHERRY

and

HARVEY'S BRISTOL CREAM

Solv Agents:-

•

pro-

July 29-Annual meeting of mem- bers of the Peak Club, at the Club, 6 pm.

August 2-Water Polo Associa- tion Meeting at Victoria Recreation Club. 6 p.m.

the Communists and possibly a few Socialist elements, in Finland might wish to gloss over Moscow's latest outrage, public opinion at Helsingfors and throughout the Mouthier lies about 450 metres country has been deeply stirred by jabove sen-level and is the highest

village in this district at which the It is now possible to explain of the Hong Kong and Kowloon vine is cultivated. Behind and in why Moscow has been so sorely Taxicab Co., Ltd. Liquidators [front the cliffs rise to over S00 hit by the Anglo-Soviet diploma-Ofice, 3. Queen's Road Central,

metres, and it is hard not to ima tie rupture, and is consequently so H. K. noon. gine-as one sees the cultivation bitter against Great Britain. The

it.

August 18-Meeting of Creditors

Sports

kiving way to rock and thicket all rupture, which was bound to July 30 Lawn Bowls League; roundthat one is at the end of all check the flow of foreign credits Lawn Tennis League; H.K. Base- civilsation, with nothing but moun- to Soviet Russin, happened at the ball League: Friendly Football. tain wilderness beyond. But climb

one

of these rocks, lautepierre, very worst moment for the Bol-

July 30 Second Night Feto;

Miscellaneous,

Y.JL.C.

Y.M.C.A.

No parades will be held for example, which rises to 880 shevik Government.. For the Victoria Recreation Club, 9 pm volunteer Headquarters during the metres above the sea, and you will financial and economic situation August 1-Races at Clear Water month of August, 1927. All arms see that another world lies over in the U.S.S.R. has never been so Bay, arranged by St. Peter's Young At the restaurant the first as are required for the annual over the top of the clits, an undulating desperate as it is at present. One Men's Club (launch leaves Queen's cused told the detective that $400 | haul.

world of pasture and grain-crops. may lend little credence or im- Pier, 11.30 a.m.). would be paid by the syndicate to

M1.1. Company.

Mouthier is out the end of

August 5-Whist drive at St. the portance to the scattered and local John's Cathedral Hall, 8.30 p.m. the detective's informer on con-

Parate at stables at 5,30 p.m. on dition that this man leave the Tuesday, August 2. Dress; mufti World-it is where two worlds meet anti-Soviet risings. One may also i

The greatest glory of Mouthier is

August 8-Social for Service Armoured Car Co. See Order No. ita cherry orchards. The two main take the view that the quarrels men at St. Peter's Y.M. Club House.

products of the village are wine between the Soviet leaders, al-

August 13-Moonlight bathing Portuguese Co.

and kirch, and for the production though now so heute as to have picnic under the auspices of St. Friday, July 29, 1927. All mem of the latter some nine hundred compelled the dominant clique to Peter's Y.M. Club. his eyes closed" to the syndicate's hers who have not passed Tests 1 acres or so are planted with cherry resort to more drastic measures doings. The other man (second to 4, parade at Volunteer Heaquar trees. In late April or the first than before against its opponents, accused) then produced $100 as ters at 5.30 p.m. Dress: mufti..

days of May, the sight of these do not affect Moscow's inter-tion of the Garrison Children's July 29-Annual prize distribu- the first instalment towards the

Stores and Repairs. informer's $400.

Schools, Hong Kong V. D. Corps, The attention of all concerned isees, against the vivid green of the national position. drawn to the fact that au member grass and the grey of the rocks, and with the river rushing down the

Peasantry Dissatisfied. Drill Hall, Garden Road, 3 p.m. $300 Paid.

of the Corps is entitled to give middle of the valley, is one of in-santry are extremely dissatisfied launch picnic, 3.30 p.m.

The fact remains that the pea- July 30-St. Peter's After this interview the detec-orders to any firm or shop, describable beauty.

with tíve received several letters from goods or repairs, connected

Even when the cherry bloom is with the prices charged for essen-

July 30-European the syndicate making further the Corps, or otherwise, unless such over the place is very lovely, and tial commodities, more particular bathing picnic. appointments, and at one of these an order is signed by the Adjutant the village itself is not without in-ly manufactured goods, owing to further sum of $300 was paid for If this procedure is not adopted terest. The arches of the early the working of the State Mono- the detective to get rid of his in his own liability and there can be markably graceful and well-propor-poly were done away with, the repoly of Trade. Yet, if the mono- former. All these happenings no guarantee that the expenditure Lioned; and in the courtyard of one Soviet Government were communicated to Inspector will be met out of the Corps funds of the houses of the main

would be street Lane by the detective who work-

Arms,

there is a statue of the Virgin with faced with bankruptcy. It would ed under the Inspector's instruc- Many members of the Corps are the body of Christ upon her knees, not know where to find revenue; at present keeping their rifles and which is a moving piece of work for the trade balance in these Finally a trap was laid by the bayonets in their own possession. On the picture postcards (which circumstances would go heavily NOT police. The accused had asked This practice is contrary to even Mouthier boasts) this statue against the U.S.S.R., who might INSURANCE OFFICES will be Kulations. Members are reminded is reputed to be of the ninth cen-be unable to export more than 20 the detective by letter to keep an that all rifles when not in use must tury-but one need not, perhaps, or 25 per cent. of its present total CLOSED for the transaction of appointment at another eating be kept at Corps or Platoon Head take this chronological attribution under the head of farming pro- house in Des Voeux Road Central quarters. Those members of the too seriously.

business on MONDAY, 1st on July 14. This the detective Corps now in possession of rifles!

August, 1927. did and was paid $270 by the and bayonets must return them im-

Then Inspector second accused. Lane who was hiding in the vicin- ity of the eating house was signalled to. He raided the place

tions.

and arrested the two accused,

At this stage further hearing was adjourned until Thursday

afternoon next.

CRIMINALS AS "MUGS." "Criminals and other mugs," was the characteristic title of an address which Mr. Edgar Wallace, the well-known novelist,

the individual gives the order at sixteenth-century church are

mediately.

Nothing To Do."

duce.

Moscow thus finds itself in a It is not, however, the "sights" of painful dilemma, from which M. Mouthier that give it Its beauty; it Stalin's so-called New Economic Promotions and Appointments. The following promotions and ap-1 rather the general aspect of the pointments take effect from July village, lying on the crest of a fold Policy has failed to rescue it, be in the valley's side, and in the cause it could not be applied. 26, 1927- 188 Col. II. C. Robson to be which compose it. For most of the commercial official f the Soviet Armoured Car Company:-No. colours and lines of the old farms Only a few weeks ago the chief Sergeant; No. 438 Lee.-Corpl. R. W houses are farms, and each one is Administration at Minsk, in Lee to be Lance-Sergeant; No. 847 built with accommodation for both White Russia, had to be sacrificed Pte. C. R. Wilson to be Lance-man and beast within its four walle, by Moscow, and dismissed, owing Corporal: No. 1235 Pte. J. K. Shaw cattie is driven down the street, on Similarly, the President of the that when the village herd of to the clamour of the peasantry. its way back from the pastures of an

to be Lance-Corporal

Transfer.

No. 830 Gunner H. R. Remington, evening, it gradually diminishes its Ukraine Soviet has had to pro- Artillery Company, is permitted to progress as each cow is diverted in test to Moscow repentedly against transfer to the Reserve Company times the same front door that its Government lays hands on all the

as from July 21, 1927.

Leave.

NOTICES.

INSURANCE OFFICES

HOLIDAYS.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that all FIRE AND MARINE

LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS,

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AND CANTON. Hong Kong, 29th July, 1927.

HONG KONG TRAMWAYS, LIMITED.

N INTERIM DIVIDEND of 60

turn into its own front door-some- the manner in which the Central Acenta, per share has been

master and mistress use. In Mou-produce of the country and on all declared payable on TUESDAY, beast may use the same house, and and the Central Provinces, whose which date

and its imports for the use of itself 23rd AUGUST next, on and after Dividend Warrants

thier, however, though man No. 245 C.Q.M.S. E. G. Stewart,

gave to a brotherhood meeting in Infantry Company, is granted leave St. Peter's Church, Greenwich. of absence from the Corps, from by the same door, they do not needs it feels obliged to gratify at may be obtained upon application Mr. Wallace is a native of Green-July 26, 1927, to August 8, 1927. (as is alleged to be the case in our the expense of other regions. at the Registered Office of the

sister island), share the same apart- These manifestations of discon- Bowrington, Hong Kong.

Company. Canal Road ·East, wich, and an old boy of St. Peter's

Trout-fishing is to be had in the tent are widespread and signi- NOTICE IS HEREBY Loue. but otherwise there is,

of cant.

School. Crime, he said, was the

worst paying job anybody could

WARNING TO FIRMS.

ment within the house.

Buff-

GIVEN

that the REGISTER OF MEM- BERS of the Company will be

take up. He had known person- The attention of all firms is course, "nothing to do" at Moutheir. ally some notorious criminals, drawn to Corps Order No. 287 of But to those who enjoy idling in PAINTER'S 1,000 PICTUNES. closed from TUESDAY, 9th and one of them told him that his July 20, 1927, Issued by the Com- lovely surroundings, or are

For the first time in Norway, a AUGUST to MONDAY, 22nd mandant, Hong Kong Volunteer ciently energetic to enjoy average earnings for the past Defence Corps. Firms in the past bless mong the rocks and long walks genius while he is still alive. This clusive.

Beram-painter has been proclaimed AUGUST. 1927, both days in- thirty-five years had been under have accepted orders from mem- by the river's brink, Mouthier sis Edward Musch, whom the Na- 14s. per week, and he had spent bera of the Corps which have not spot which has much to offer..

By Order of the Board, twenty years in prison. One, the been backed by the Adjutant, will

W. F. SIMMONS, most desperate man he had ever they please note that under these

Secretary, known, a Scotsman with a uni- conditions they have no claim on

Hong Kong, 29th July, 1927. versity education, admitted to the Corps for payment out of public him that he had only made an average of 128. per week in a lifetime of crime.

Mr. Wallace did not belleve

funds.

EVERY USER IS A FRIEND. The personal recommendations of

donal Gallery has invited to exhibit all his paintings. The Gallery has received as a loan practically every painting by Manch in private

pas

I am all against girls and session in Scandinavia and Ger- young women going out to busi-many, and the exhibition sumbera ness.Sir Abe Bailey,

about a thousand pictures. Edward Munch is a man in the early Afties.

I believe that life will some Among his great works is the de

that there was a single criminal people who have been cured by Cham- day be created in the labora-coration of the State Room of the in England to-day who possessed berlain's Cough Remedy, have £200 he could call his own, and more than all else to increase the salo

so he thought he was quite justi-aduse

done tories.-Sir Oliver Lodge.

University in Oslo. Himself a very shy man, he left town before the exhibition was opened to the public.

of this preparation, until The historical novel is destruc-H pictures are rather impression- fied in describing all criminals there are now more bottle of it sative alike to history and to the stle, but his handling of colours is

each year than of any other cough medicine. It la for sale everywhere. imagination.-Dr. Emil Ludwig.traly remarkable.

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