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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1928.

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"HOT HEELS.”

1 - 8

SHADOWS BEFORE.

FORTY COOKS REQUIRED TO NEGRO “PASSING" ON THE SPARKLING. COMEDY AT THE COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED

INCREASE.

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4,200 POUNDS OF MEAT.

Barnsley, Aug. 1.

TRAGIC INCIDENTS.

'QUEEN'S..

THE APACHE DANCE.

through.

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Heels."

Thentre "Little

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D

Club tish Co.) meeting at Headquarters,

September 13-Seaplane meating for local enthusiasts, in

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October 18-H.K.V.D.C. annual athletic meeting on Kowloon Cricket Club ground, 2.30. p.m.

September 13-H.K.V.D.C. geants' Meas Meeting, Volunteer Headquarters, 6 pm.

Sport, September 22-American toarna. Recreation Club, ment, Ladies' Peak-road, at 2.30 p.m. -

Biscellaneour. Central British School,

September 17 Reopening of

September 14 H.K.V.D.C. (Ma- "VOLGA BOATMAN."chine Gun Co.) dinner at Head-

quarters, 7.45 p.m.

A DRAMA OF RUSSIA IN REVOLT.

'IN THE “MAIL"-

To-day-Quean't Theatre; "Hot

The New York. Five thousand An excellent

To-day-World Theatre; comedy, "Hot As a result of techn al experi- Whon a country Innkeeper, ap negroes in America turn white Heels," is being screened at the Light of Asia." To-day-Star ments made with wit trans-plied here to-day for permission each year. They are so white in Queen's Theatre to-day. It features mission of still pictures y the Bri- to sell drink in the field in which appearance that they find it pos- Glonn Tryon and Patay Ruth Miller Annie Roonie."

September 21-Promenade. Con- lish Broadcasting Corporation and the monster ple, weighing over sible to live among white people and tell of a small-town hotel pro- the General Post Office short ple- three tona, will be served and and adopted their way of living. prieter who was fooled into pur-cert at Volunteer parade ground, tures for transmission will be made eaten at Denby Date, a few miles

The phenomenon is so com-chasing a

third-rate travelling 9.15 p.m. daily from Daventry 6XX outside away, on Saturday, Mr. Herbert mon that it is known as "pass theatrical company and transport- regular programme hours beginning Smith, the minera president, re-ing," but the figures revealed by ing it to Cuba. He realises his In October. If and when there is marked: "I suppose they will want

Bishop J. W. Martin (himself a sufficient public demand for still something to wash it down with," negro), of the American Epis mistake after he has parted with all copal Zion Church, to the annual his money, but he also realises he pictures radiated in this way trane- and permission to sell in the field conference of the Association for is in love with the leading lady, and mission will be included in the re-between 2 and 7 p.m. was grant the Advancement of Coloured everything comes gular programme hours. The Ful-ed, relates the "Manchester Guar- People, are a revelation of the the end. The film is remarkable Messrs. Jardine, Matheson's board tograph system will be used. This dian.”

growing extent of the practice. for two features the Apache should not be confused with what is Thousands of people from many A negro who "passes cuts him- Dance given by the principals commonly known ns television, miles round are expected to visit self off from his past life even aboard a steamer, and the steeple- which is in no way involved in this this Yorkshire hamlet for the ple more completely than does a new chase which the company's proper series of experiments.—British | cutting ceremony, some estimat-Immigrant. He cannot afford to ty horse manages to win and thus Wireless Service.

Ing that there will be a quarter risk communicating with old retrieves the hero's fortunes. There of a million people in the village. friends and relatives for fear of never was a dance like that one, The population of Denby and Cum discovery. If his own brother and never a steeplechase like that berworth, of which Denby Dale it-passes him in the street they go one. These two items alone are OKLAHOMA'S OIL.self forms but a small part, is by without recognition. What-worth a visit to the Queen's.

only 3,763, but the villagers are ever those who are left behind The other comedy, "Breaking confident that they will be able to may think, they never betray one Records," is not so successful, but OUTPUT OF: “SLUŠH” OIL- deal adequately with the huge of their number who has taken there is an excellent Ink-well funny

FIELDS RESTRICTED. crowds expected.

the final step. It is a step which drawing in the programme, and the The Question of Thirat, is not retrace ble. A negro going M.G.M. news reel is interesting allr. W. J. Hill, M. I. Mech. E. at September 19-Presentation to Remarking that he had no ob-back to his dwn people after once jection to the granting of the ap-crossing the barriers which sur-

Engineers' & Shipbuilders Instita- plication to-day, Superintendent round his race is unknown.

tion, 6 p...... Blacker said he would rather have

Call of Ambition, the people in the fields than in

Most negroes who "pass" The State Corporation Commis the village "streets.

women as well as men, though not sion has issued an order providing

Application was made for per-so frequently-are led to do so by

September 20-Presentation of restriction in the output of the mission to sell in the field until 9 some special occasion. They find

medals and labels to members of St. Slush Oilfields of the State top.m., but the Chairman thought that positions are refused them

John Ambulance Brigade by H. E. 700,000 barrels daily until the end that the ple would have been eaten as negroes which they could

A romantic and dramatic screen the Officer Administering the Gov. spectacle with the recent revoluernment at Govt. House, 6.p.m. by seven o'clock. The justices otherwise obtain.

It is not always the mere desire tion in Russia had already granted an extension-

as a background of club and public-house hours for more money, though a white "The Volga Boatman," produced from 2 to 5 p.m. for the day. man can always obtain more by Cecil B. De Mille, the famous When the question arose as to how money for the same job than a director of "The Ten Command- TRANS-PERSIAN RY. black man can. Often young ments," will be screened at the much thirst the pie was likely to

that their oppor- Queen's Theatre from Thursday to negroes find produce, Mr. Smith wanted to

-CONTRACT-SIGNED AT tunities for advancement in the Saturday.. next, according to a

TEHERAN. know the amount of salt which was profession are limited, by their special announcement in this issue. to be put into It!.

colour. Many accept the condi. "The Volga Boatman" is a love Sixteen feet long by five festtion rather than desert their own story woven around the thrilling ed in Teheran with

London. The contract was sign- In the course of a detective wide, the pie will contain. In ad- people; others accept the call to a adventures of a Russian princess

a German- patrol, Detective-Inspector Fallon, dition to other ingredients, 4.200 wider sphere and henceforth are and a peasant bontman of the struction of two ports, 310 miles of American syndicate for the con- caught two Chinese in an untenant-lb. of meat without bone. The dead to all who have known them Volga. One of the big situations ed flat at No. 36, Nanking-street, dish weighs about two tons, and before. Yaumati. Under their sleeping mat it is

in the picture is a meeting in a estimated that by careful A negro who is a close student volga inn of a small party of was a torch and a penknife. serving a single pie would feed of the affairs of his race told that royalists and a band of "Reds." At the Kowton Court this morn-over 20,000 persons. It will figure "passing" is on the increase, be-One of those present is killed and ing, one of the men said that he had in a village carnival due to start cause negroes are becoming more this starts off an amazingly drama- obtained the torch from a friend. at 2.15 p.m., and, as the pie-cut-conscious of the barriers against the series of events which culmin Both denied possession of a knife. įting should begin about four them. The coloured people have ate in a thrilling elimax A not- Both stated they had come from o'clock, it might appear that all been reaching out since the war,able cast has been assembled for Macao... The magistrate said that (the ple will be eaten by p.m. coming north in their thousands the production, including William he agreed with Inspector Fallon But the process of serving it to and thus race-prejudice, he de- Boyd. Elinor Fair, Victor Varconi that their story was not true. Sen- some 20,000 people must neces- 'clares, has come into existence or and Julia Faye, The Volga Boat tence of 6 weeks' imprisonment was sarily be a large one, and about has become obvious where hither-man" is one of the big pictures of imposed on both.

360 persons are needed to help in to it has been hardly known.

the season, bir the serving alone.

The process is surrounded by In addition to the meat, on tragedies of a kind easily imagin which the village b. chers started ed. A negro who has "passed,"

A DUEL. to get busy to-day, the ple will however, much he may long for contain IG cwt. of potatoen, old fellowships, dare not resume Eighty stones of floor will be re- them. His mother may be dying quired to make the crust, with 8 but he dare not visit her death- ewt. of lard, and on Friday, after bed. To do so would be to sacri- the meat has been stewed, fortyfice everything in the new life he Love and roniance and life in women of the village will go on has built up for himself, India when Buddha walked the baking the pie throughout the earth, are all portrayed in a beau-night

of 1928-Reuter.

IN A FLAT.

WITH A TORCH ÅND A

PEN-KNIFE.

"LIGHT OF ASIA.”

SPECTACULAR DRAMA OF BUDDHA AND INDIA.

JUIL

tiful dramu being screened at the This custom of baking a ple World Theatre on a three days' goes back many years. The vil lagers baked one in 1788 to com- The picture is well worth see. memorate the recovery of George ing, and is the first drama shown III. from his serious illness, and screen of Hong Kong others have been baked since then on the enacted by a cast other than at times of national rejoicing. European.

£100,000 REFUSED.

RECORD OFFER FOR DERBY

WINNER.

LESSON SERMON.

יי

ITALIAN DEMAND TO A

FRENCH NEWSPAPER.

railway, and a dam at Ahwaz, in connection with the proposed Trans-Persian Railway.''

The estimated total cost of the will be

Trans-Persian Railway

thance

about £13,000,000, The railway will start from Khormusa, on the Pérsian Gulf, and pass through Ahwaz, Dizful, Burujird, Mamadan, and Kazvla

to Teheran; through Firuzkuh (or Seman) to the Caspian Sea At Ahwaz a barrage bridge is to be constructed to carry the railway across the Karun River and provide an irriga- tion dam for the Khuristan district, which, as soon as water is supplied, should produce cotton, dates and cereals.

At two points--when crossing the Aveh. and Firuzkuh passes the line will ascend to 7,800 ft. The terminus on the Caspian Sea will be Bendergar until the new terminal port, nearly 20 miles far- ther east near the entrance of Con- Astorabed Bay, can be built. tracts have been placed with several

section of the railway. firms, including one British,

of the southern the construction

Paris, The editors, of the two Italian newspapers, the "Impero" and the "Brillante,” have challenged The Tragic Side.

the editor of "Le Matin," of Paris. Some men and women "pass" to fight a duel and the challenge for love. Others find themselves was

received in a letter by "Le involved in love affairs which, Matin." whether they confess their colour

The Italian editora make the or not, have all the elements of startling proposal that "Le Matin" theme of the romantically minded six or twelve of its most reapon tragedy in them. A favourite should organize a team of either is the tragedy which occurs whensible editorial people, and that this two people, ostensibly white, have entire team should line up with born to them a baby indubitably

weapons-sword or pistols Dr. R A. Belilios, who has been black. He declared that in all the against an Italian group of the same spending a holiday in the United cases of "passing" he had known no such case had ever occurred. But there is no doubt that the

for

strength.

States, is due back in Shang- The challenge is not a joke. The hai by the "President Wilson.”. fear of it is a very lively terror to particularly the "Impero and the visited the Mayo Clinle in Roches- editors of Italian newspapors, and While in America Dr. Belllios many people.

furious with "Le ter, Minn., where he had an oppor-; 'Bishop Martin declares that "Brillante," are the mayor of a certain Ameri-Matin," in consequence of criticisms tunity of following the work of the can town is a pure-born negro. made. In that newspaper in con- eye department.

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONG KONG.

"Substance" was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon. in all Churches

The latter part of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday,

His origin has never been aus nection with the Italia North Pole of his holiday was spont at San September 9,

The Golden Text was from 1pected, but his brother is to this expedition. London, The "Daily Express" Chronicles 29:11,12. "Thine is the day a negro preacher. A breath understands that Sir Hugo Cunliffe-kingdom, O Lord, and thou art of suspicion would mean that the mayor would have to go, but he

Owen

FROM AMERICA;

.

has received and refused exaited as head above all, Both lives apparently quite happy on an offer of £100,000 for his Derby riches and honour come of thee, top of the volcano which threat

winner Felstead. The offer came and thou reignest over all." from America.

ens him, or would do so but for Among the citations which com the loyalty of his race. Sir Hugo has decided to run the prised the Lesson-Sermon was the boree in the St. Leger.

following from the Biblo: "Now · AIR BATTLESHIP.

were

faith is the substance of things The record price paid för a racehorse is £60.000 which was hoped for, the evidence of things paid for Call Boy, last year's Dorby not seen. Through faith we un winner, by Sir Henry Mallaby-derstand that the worlds Deely, who bought the horse from framed by the word of God, as that seen ware not the executors of the late Mr. Frank things which are Curzon, his brother.

made of things which do appear." Papyrus, the winner of the 1923 Derby was sold by Mr. Ben Irish

to Mr. J. P. Hornung for £35,000.

(£40,000).

His Highness the Prince Aga

refused to sell the horse.

NEW 'PLANE WITH GUN TURRET.

London,--The new French air- battleship, the "Bleriot 127," has been ordered, in quantity following The Lesson-Sermon also includ.performance tests.

Heb. 11:1,13

ed the following passages from

This, multi-engined machine is a the Christian Science textbook, monoplane with a gun turret mount-

Other famous horses Bold for Selence and Health with Key to ing two machine guns in the extreme large suma include Tracery (253,000), Cyllene (289,376), the Scriptures," by Mary Baker 105.

The gun turret Is so arranged ing Fox (£39,376), Diamond Eddy: "Substance is that which is Jubilee (£23,076), Prince Palatine eternal and Incapable of discord that it is claimed that the guns and 'decay. Truth, Life and Love can be swung, without undue 'ex- are substance as the Scriptures ertion, by a gunner while the ma Khan, as the "Dally Express" reuse this word in Hebrows: The chine is travelling at 150 mp.h. substance of things hoped for, the In most high-speed machines con- ported exclusively. at "the' time, evidence of things not seen alderable strength is required to offered Sir. John Rutherford $100,000 for Solario, but Sir John Spirit, the synonym of Mind, Soul swing the guns against the rush

or God, is the only real substance.", of air kapa (F. 468). ⠀⠀

The "Bleriot has two other gun positions from which the machine News is to hand that Mr. J. L. can be defended against attacks) Humphreys, C.M.G., Governor of delivered from the rear. The British North Borneo, s arriving aeroplans is one of the most power home in September on short Jeave, ful fighting machines in the French when he will confer on many mate Air Service: Premier Llapehoff has recon-ters with the President of the structed the Cabinet, excluding Court of Directors of the British John E. Jones and John Jones, General Volkoff, ex-War Minister North Borneo (Chartered) Com both aged 15, of Carnarvon Central Bouroff. Ex-Foreign Minister pany, Sir Neill Malcolm, KCB, In School, were drowned while bath Holoff has taken the latter's placs. London:

ing la the River Selent.

BULGARIAN CRISIS.

Sofia, Yesterday,

Francisco.

| ANOTHER REMARKABLE PICTURE BY THE FAMOUS DIRECTOR OF "THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.”

A thrilling story of modern Russia in the maelstrom of revolution

"The VOLGA

BOATMAN"

Win

WILLIAM BOYD-ELLINOR, FAIR VICTOR VARCONI-JULIA FAYE

THEODORE KOSLOFF.

Cecil B. De

COMING TO THE

Produced by

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Tremendous scenes in the romance of a Russian princesa and a peasant boatman ?'

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