1928-04-25 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1928.

BRITISH BUDGET.

POLICE RESERVE.

The

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ORDERS BY THE HON, CAPT. SUPERINTENDENT.

CHINESE COMPANY.

All ranks of the

TSINANFU FALLS.

eral."

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No Help From Wu-llan.

Hankow, Yesterday.

THE CHINA MAIL,

BOMBAY MILLS.

117,000, WORKERS NOW ON STRIKE,

PRODUCTION CEASES.

remain

મ the existing stan- dard rate of 4 in the would yield £235,000,000. He esti

No active support has yet been Chinese Com-given by General Cheng Chien mated that the gross revenue on the existing basis of taxation, with Police Station at 6.30 p.m. sharp on local, Wu-Han, Nationalist lead- pany will parade at the Central and General Pei Chung-hai (the

Bombay, Yesterday, the aforementioned

The mill strike has still further material Wednesday, April 25; recruits for ers) to the Nationalist ally, Feng extended, and 117,000 operatives changes at 1812,497,000, making a Squad Drill, and advanced men for Yu-halang, the "Christian Gen-are now out, Production has ceas- prospective surplus of £6,302,000. Rifle Exercises and Instruction in

ed except in a few mille in outlying Chancellor then entered the care of Arms under Sergeant upon what is described as the most R. J. Hunt. Dreas-Blue Uniformed to be at Changsha, in Hunan.

Both these Generals are report-diatricts.-Reuter. controversial part of his speech. Cap with white cover, Belt and They were recently visited by re-

ile said an unsatisfactory pic-Frog (no truncheon).

presentatives of the Szechuan ture was presented by the heavy

Indian Company.

General, Yang Sen. British Iritish industries, in which unem-

Strength. The following have Naval Wireless. ployment taxation or "Rates," had enrolled in the Indian Company on

[Note: Yang Sen has an in- directly increased the cost of pro- April 20:-Constables R.230. Hassan dependent government, Discus- duction and affected the competing Din, R.240 Amir Bux.

Ision between his emissaries and power of these industries, at Home

Sqund Drill-Recruits will parade the Wu-Han Nationalists may and abroad. According to the lat-at. Central Police Station on Wed-point to an understanding be- nesday, April 25, for Squad Drill tween them instead of an alliance under Sergt. Hunt. Fall in at 5.30 between Wu-Han and the "Chris-

tian Gerieral."]

of

taxed arena and thus threw an in-

A Mass Manoeuvre.".

Flying Squad.

DRINKERS' EYES.

BLINDING EFFECT OF INDULGENCE.

WOOD ALCOHOL.

Sy

Shadows Before

COMING EVENTS- ANNOUNCED IN THE "MAIL.”

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To-day Queen's "Everybody's Acting."

Theatre;

To-day-World Theatre; "The Big Parade," 2.90, 6.30, 9.15 p.m. General."

To-day-Star Theatre; "The

To-day-Concert at Club Lusi- tano by Prof. G. Cattaneo.

April 26 St. Peter's Club con- cert in St. John's Cathedral Hall.

April 26-28-Queen's Theatre;| "The Cohens and Kelly's in Paris." April 26-28 Star Theatre; "Footidose Widowa,"

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April 29-1 May Queen's Then- tre: "Annie Lauric."

April 29-30-World

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April 30-Cheer '0 Y.M.C.A.

May 1-2-World Theatre; "The Sap."

May 1-2-Star Theatre; "The Manicure Girl."

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est ascertainments everyone the colliery districts showed a net Joss of working and yet the coal p.m. sharp.

Blindness is not only due to industry was being required to pay

Tsinanfu's Fate.

drinking wood alcohol, but it is not The weekly instructional patrol several millions a pear in Local of the Hong Kong section will take

Peking, Yesterday. Infrequently the result of over- Government taxation. Frequently place on Thursday, April 26. Fall Nationalist Allies is expected mo- normal variety, according to Miss The capture of Tsinanfu by the indulgence in the legitimate and depressed industrick left a heavily in at Central Police Station at 5.16 mentarily, the Northern forces in

p.m. sharp. Dress:-Khaki. Shantung appearing to he incap. M. Smith Clark, ophthalmic ad- Battles of Coronel and Falkland May 2-5-Queen's Theatre; "The Preased burden of taxation on the Sharpshooters' Company. able of offering any resistance to viser to the British Ministry of Islands." industries remaining. Some relief Revolver Practice will be carried Feng Yu-hsiang's and Chiang Pensions. In the continental edition May 3-6-World Theatre; "The of production from local taxation out at the Kennedy-road Range Kai-shek's victorious advance. was urgently needed.

of the London "Daily Mail,” on Wednesday: May 2, at 5 p.m.

she White Rose," Fifteen thousand survivors of writes: Dress:-Mufti. Members will as- Son Chuan-fang's

May 3-5-Star Theatre; "Hell Northern "Some of the primary effects dis-Bent For Heaven." He had threfore proposed to the semble on the

Range with their Army are falling back from played by alcoholic poisoning are a Prime Minister that as a coneli-own revolvers; no belts or pouches Ningyong, endeavouring to reach moist and red eye with inflamed and

Lammerts Auction. will be required.

April 26-Valuable Curioa, at Tehchow and are planning to join puffy eye-lids, which ing financial effort in this' Parlia

Summer Uniform.

appear in Sales Room, 2.30 p.m... ment, he should try to form a mess

up with the Manchurian forces, acute as well as chronic overindul- manacuvre of between twenty and Indian Companies are warned to cut off from the north by the Na-io, further, a weakness of the upper p.m.

Members of the Chinese and but ceemingly have again been gerce.

April 27-Household furniture, In chronic poisoning there 42, Humphreys-bidg., Kowloon, 2.45, thirty millions sterling yearly for a get their summer uniform ready;tionalist occupation of Tai-an. great operation upon Local Gov-those who are not in possession of

eyelids, and the eyes lose their Streams of Deserters?

April 28-Household furniture, ernment taxation. The Govern-same will apply to their respective

natural sensitiveness, so that they Observatory Villas, Kowloon. ment had completed their plans and Equipment Officer.

Chinese reports that Chang do not wash Taung-chang chartered a number the blinking of the eyelids, which age Stamps, 5.15 p.m.

themselves out, and

April 30-At Sales Room, Post- legislation required for this pur-

of vessels at Lungkow, presumnesiata this washing, is almost en- pose must inevitably become the

ally for evacuation purposes, lend tirely abolished, thereby increasing mat important measure of its kind!

colour to the belief that the north the redness of the eye.

To-day-H.K.C.C. Tennis Tour- during the last session. He had to

of Shantung province will shortly

nament; Semi-final open Singles, be flooded with thousands of de-wirking stare of the hard drinker

"We have all noticed the fixed un-Ng Sze-kwong v. S. A. Rumjaka.. serters streaming

To-day Inter - Unit across the when sober as well as drunk. The Meeting, Sookumpoo.

Athletic Miss Betty Bronson is to be seen Wei-hai-wei with the resultant inflammation of the central fibres country to Lungkow, Chefoo and most vital damage, however, is the have much doubt whether we ought ngain at the Queen's Theatre in a to do it. During the 19th century new picture called "Everybody's outbreak of disorder and brigand- of the optic nerve, causing conse the industrial power of this coun-Acting. Her superb work in "A try had rested on the basis of the Kiss for Cinderella" and "Peter coal industry but the 20th century Pan will be remembered by all had syn us becoming increasingly encgoers. In "Everybody's Acting" dependent upon imported liquid she has not such a difficult role, but fuel, scarcely any of which washer performance maintains the high found inside the British Empire. level we have come to expect from

New Duty on Oil.

find a substantial amount of new revenue to carry out the policy. Hej did not suppose any one would

Sugar Duty Reduced,

BETTY BRONSON. STARS IN NEW PICTURE AT

QUEEN'S.

j

age.-Reuter

The Yellow River, [The Northern line of retreat Tai-an, then to Tsinanfu, which is has been from Ningyang up to the southern bank of the Yellow River.

!fence.

the

quent impairment of vision. The arteries of the eye, like the other blood-vessels of the body, become brittle and break, causing, effusion of blood, which diminishes vision further,

"Where tobacco and alcohol are indulged in, the

and the sufferer usually attributes

Snorts.

Association's final tournament, Lea April 28-Hong Kong Boxing Theatre, 9.15 p.m.

May 5-H.K. Jockey Club fourth extra race meeting.

Miscellaneous.

April 27-Laying of foundation stone of new St. Stephen's-bldg. at Stanley Peninsula, by H.E. the Governor, 3.30 p.m.

OF THE DEVIL."

kerosine might throw upon the con- is well supported by a Hal Roach not on the road to Peking-and "If attended to in time, a com- perfidy of woman, and no doubt

on gazette.

A FREE RIDE.

sumer, Mr. Churchill proposed to comedy and an interesting news reduced the existing cuties sugar. The duty on all imported sugar would be reduced by the amount, equivalent to a farthing in the pound in the retail price. By

this is the area which, it is feared may

Except for small batches of the clever little lady. The film is raiders, there are no Nationalist immoderately The Government had therefore out a group of theatrical peror Kuominchun troops in Shan-vision of both eyes becomes misty, IN THE MIDDLE AGES decided to impose a new duty of assistance of a newspaper editor,

formers who adopt, with the tung north of the Yellow River. fourpence per gallon on

Tehchow is north of the Yellow this to his eyesight declining, and WOMAN "AN INSTRUMENT certain

the baby of one kinds of imported oil. The New

of their number River, near the Chihli-Shantung thinks that he requires glasses. tax would be confined to the lighter who is shot by a drunken husband. frontier and is the southernmost In fact, the visual nenity is reduced hydrocarbon oils including petrol the time she falls in love. In order most direct from north to south, reading of small print and perform less than in our own times, was They bring her up carefully until extremity of a line running al- to about a half of normal, and Woman in the Middle Ages, noi but excluding heavy oils and lubri-to impress the girl's prospective which the Peking Government ing fine work become very difficult. an unfailing subject of interest to enting oil. The tax would be im-mother-in-law, they set the part of has ordered to be prepared for de- The danger is that the sufforer writers and speakers, said Miss posed as from to-morrow, and was rich and' titled folk. Betty, how- -estimated to yield £14.000.000 this ever, as the girl, "spills tho beans,"

Koos to an optician for glassen. Eileen Power in her lecture on year und £17,500,000 in 1920.

Retreat Cut Off?

which, by giving temporary relief, Mediaeval Ideas about Women at and ma-in-law to-be is very angry.

The north-east of Shantung is obscure. the real cause of the con- King's College for Women. Everything works out capitally in In order to balance the extra the end,

away from the war zone, by rea-dition, however. "Everybody's

In all nations from, the ancient 5seal burden, which the tax on Acting" is a pleasing picture and

son of its geographical position- Recovery May Be Complete.

Egyptians onwards there had al- ways existed stories about the may be obtained. the Cave man used to tell those be over-run by demoralised plete recovery or disbanded Northern troops.

However sympathetic the ophthal-stories over his fire at night. The reference to chartering of

mic surgeon may feel, he is bound ships may point to the Northern order a sensible reduction in the General Chang Tsung-chang anti-enjoyment of alcohol and tobacco. "Of course, the patient's idiosyn from retreat northward to Pek-crasy must be taken into account. afford relief to British refinera,:

tion of the Kowloon-Canton Rail-

person is highly aus ing, leaving the sea as the only Where a who had

ceptible to the effects of small ment of the Devil, inferior and She was regarded as an instru- long complained that way, a small Chinese youth was

fined $10, with the alternative, of course of getting out.]

quantitles of alcohol, it is advisable evil, according to the early his- to enforce complete abstention. tory of the Church, and, as the Further, the matter of fresh air, ascetic idea rose and flourished, sufficient sleep, and proper diet there came into being the concep should be carefully advised upon. tion of woman as the supreme It may even be necessary to treat temptress, the most dangerous of with drugs, but that is a matter all obstacles in the way of salva~} for skilled hands to direct. Under tion. proper treatment a recovery may First Woman Journalist, A romance of the Scottish High-be looked for in опе to three The aristocracy, a narrow mili- lands, "Annie Laurie," with Lillian months,

tary caste, regarded women as Gish in the leading role, will be the "Acute consequences from alcoho- ornamental assets, and, like the big picture at the Queen's Theatre flic indulgence are more frequently Church, all through the Middle A 15-year-old Chinese girl named from Sunday to Tuesday next, ac- met with In America, where Pro-Agca considered them, on the one Kwok Fuk-yee, living at No. 119, cording to a special advertisement hibition has given rise to the con-hand as inferior and in subject- Queen's-road West, attempted to in this issue. Famous old castles, sumption of wood alcohol, imma-ion, and on the other, put them on commit suicide yesterday

historic after-including

Maxwelton, ture whisky, and quack medicines, a pedestal and worshipped them.

this means it was possible also to For defrauding the administra-cipating his being

British

on

while the Empire sugar producer days hard labour, at the Kowloon had been assisted by preference Magistracy, this morning. and when the home grown beet industry had been helped

Mr. Winyard, traffic Inspector refiners had been left to

of the K.C.R., in prosecuting, stated engage that the defendant was found without assistance in the struggle the steps of a 3rd class enr, when against competitors domestic and nearing Tripo station, apparently foreign. The reduction of the duly endeavouring to avoid payment. was designed to encourage the im- The defendant admitted having no portation of raw sagar

which money.

would undergo refining in this enuntry rather than the importa-

tion of white sugar refined abroad. -British Wireless Service.

Popular Interest in the Budget. London, Yesterday.

The House

of Commons WHA

sion.

cut off

"ANNIE LAURIE."

LILLIAN GISH IN A NEW FILM.

The Church and the aristocracy were the only two articulate bodies, and they were the forces which created theory about, woman...

the mediaeval

noon by jumping into the harbour) were reproduced for the picture. "The victim suffers from head- Had public opinion been created crowded this morning, and full of from the Fraya at Kennedy-town. Hordes of kilted warriors are seen uche; his paplls are dilated and he from the bottom upwards instead animation in anticipation of Mr. She was rescued and removed Churchill's Budget speech.

to in battle, sleek courtiers are scen may become blind in both eyes, the of from the top downwards the Public Interest was shown by the

the Government Civil Hospital plotting for power-and through blindness setting in immediately or opinion of women might have lang queues at all the public en-suffering from the effects of immer-it runs the story of the love of within a few days. The blindness been very different. But the other Annie Lauric. Norman Kerry is may improve temporarily, but gen-two classes, the bourgeoisie and seen as the hero, the fighting chief blindness. It is due to the inflam-

erally

relapses into permanent the workers, were inarticulate.

What women A number of banking and other

thought of a famous clan. Hobart Boa-mation and consequent destruction themselves was hardly ever heard, financial authorities occupied seats

worth is the grim "Wolf of Glen-of the optic nerve and the retina as it was not until the end of the in the Distinguished Strangera supplementary demands of local coe." Brandon Huret in the

authorities-Reuter.

villainous rival and Creighton. Hale ! the treacherous Donald. David

trances to the House Borse time be-

fore the members met.

Gallery.

The tea duty, which is un- The Chancellor's Difficulties.

changed, was also agreed to in the remaining budget resolutions, continuing the existing taxes and authorising new ones.

A Half-Penny Per Foot. The Government decision to in- crease the duty on foreign films by a half-penny, a foot is estim- ated to produce £45.00.

Expenditure And Revenue.

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Was

$727,-

of the eye.

of

Fourteenth Century that there Jappeared a woman writer to take up the cudgels on behalf of her

That was Christine de Pisan,

Mr. Churchill said he could not Torrence, Russell Simpson, Chinese constable No. 871. Li sex, recall any budget which had suc- Patrial Avery, Joseph Striker and Chik, attached to No. 7, Police Sta- ceeded despite so many adverse other well known players are cast tion, has been arrested at the married at 15, and left a widow factors. He had to face last year under the direction of John S. instance of the Secretariat for at 25, with three children to sup- nearly £25,000,000 shortage in re Robertson.. The story is based on Chinese Affairs for harbouring Yau port by her pen--the first woman venue for additional expense, in fact and fiction, concerning the Yee-las, a girl under the age of 21. journalist. cluding £3,000,000 for Shanghai, Glencoe Massacre. £2,500,000 ordinary supplementary Lovett, the author, utilised this estimates; £3,000,000 loss on ex- tragic episode in history na the cess profits duty, which actually background for a stirring drama of yielded 4 minus quantity of the screen.

Josephine

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