1929-07-11 — Page 7

THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1929.

SINGAPORE BASE

ACTION BY CHINESE

RUSSIAN OFFICES IN HARBIN CLOSED

NEW FIRST LORD MAKES A STATEMENT

ARRESTS & DEPORTATIONS

Harbin, To-day."

WORK PROGRESSING

London, Yesterday.

THE CHINA MAIL,

ROUND THE CINEMAS SHADOWS BEFORE.

THRILLING ROMANCE OF

ALGIERS

"THE FOREIGN LEGION"

Entertainments

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Social Functions Hong Kong Hotel and Penin- Thrilling adventure, exotic ro- sular Hotel Dinner Dance, 8.30 pm.;'

picturesque scenes In the House of Commons, inmance,

and Repulse Bay Hotel Dinner Dance, The offices of the Soviet Mer- cantile Fleet, the Far Eastern reply to questions, Mr. Alexander, characters, and a stirring story of Star Trading organisation and First Lord." said that under ar- love and revolt are all to be found the Naphtha Syndicate were close rangements made the late Govern-in Universal's big production, The ed at noon yesterday by the localment had approved that the work Foreign Legion," which comes to the

at the Singapore Base should be Queen's Theatre to-day, Chinese authorities.

Twenty important Soviet off-completed in 1937.

The expenditure to date had been cials of the Chinese Eastern Rail-i way were arrested and were to £866,312 and it was estimated that have been deported in the even the amount for the completion of ing to Russia, together with a fur-the work would be £6,900,466. ther 40 Soviet employees of the Railway and trade union officials. --Reuter.

FIRST & FINAL RETURN of CAPITAL of $2.705 will Repulse Bay Hotel.

July 15 Cabaret Entertainment, be paid to Contributories on the

12th July, 1929. Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden.

To-day Queen's Theatre; "The Foreign Legion." To-day World "Ramona."

July 13-Cabaret Entertainment, A

Theatre;

Theatre;

Norman Kerry and Lewis Stone, two of the best known actors on the screen, undoubtedly do the finest work of their long and successful! careers in the starring roles. Karry and Richard, the unfortune victimi of circumstances, and Stone as his

To-dayStar unknown father, Colonel Destinn, have opportunities for acting, that "Square Crooks,"

To-day Majestic Theatre; come in other pictures, rarely

Lammert's Auctions Needless to say, both of these skill-"The Way of All Flesh." ful players make the most of them.

July 17-At Sales Room valuable The supporting cast is also good.

household furniture, 2.30 p.m.

July 12-At Sales Room, Postage Stamps, 5.15 p.m.

These figures did not included the floating dock. expenditure on amounting to £971,492, nearly all of which had been paid. The Antecedents

Replying to Peking. Yesterday.

ก supplementary It is reliably reported from question Mr. Alexander said that Harbin that Lu Yung-huan, the considerable sums had been received Director-General of the Chinese from the Dominions and also from Eastern Railway, has forwarded the Federated Malay States.-Reu-Mary Nolan a note to the Soviet Directors of ter. the railway on behalf of the Chin-

ese Directors, announcing four de mands:--

(1) Abolition of the Soviet Unions

to which Chinese Eastern Railway employees belong:

current

(2) Cessation of propaganda by the Soviet railway authorities.

in

silver (3) Redemption eninage before 1903 of the Romanoff paper money paid to the Chinese au- thorities in 1918;

(4) The transfer diplomatic powers from the Director of the Con- tro Department of the Railway Board to the Directors.

of

Threat to Deport

"DRY" EMBASSY

SIR E. HOWARD'S ACTION "PURELY PERSONAL"

STATEMENT IN COMMONS

as the unprincipled

blonde and June Marlowe as the girl-sweetheart appear to great ad- vantage. Miss Nolan, a former Follies beauty, received her screen training in Germany, which partial- Japan and

Home Mail To-morrow-Outward Shanghai,

Europe via Siberial

y explains her success in her exotic ("Aldington Court"), 10.30 a.m. role. Craufard Kent and Walter

Perry also do good work.

Thousands of persons have read "The Red Mirage," by Miss I. A. R. London. Yesterday. Wylie, from which "The Foreign full In the House of Commons, ques-Legion" adapted. The

was regarding Sir Esine flavour of the book has been retain- tioned Howard's making of the Washing-ed in the film version. ton Embassy

Edward Sloman's skilful direc- "dry." Mr. A.

FOOLISH TRUST

IS IT A JOKE ?

SICKERT SETS AN RA PUZZLE

"SEMI CARICATURE'

No picture of recent years has 90. much controversy roused

Hong Kong, 10th July, 1929.

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among the art critics as Mr. Walter Sickert's portrait of Sir Nigel! Playfair in the part of "Tony Lumpkin" in "She Stoops to Con- Comprising:- quer," which is being exhibited in Teak Hatstands, Chesterfield OBLIGING A FRIEND ENDS IN this year's Royal Academy.

Couch and Armchairs, Glass BANKRUPTCY

While some critics declare it to Cabinets, Carpets, Rugs, Ceiling be the outstanding work of the and Table. Fans, Table Lamps,

It is understood the note is Henderson (Secretary of State for tion is responsible for a good part dated July 6 and a reply is re-Foreign Affairs) pointed out that of the entertainment value of the quested by July 20.-Reuter.

Sir E. Howard's decision. was production. purely personal and would not Harbin, Yesterday. affect the right of his successor, The Chinese authorities this-Reuter. morning took over control of the Chinese Eastern telegraph system. arresting twelve Russian em- ployees, whom they are threaten- ing to deport to Siberia as Com- munists.

The general trade union and railway Soviet trade union in Harbin have been closed by the police. Reuter.

Japanese Problems

Shanghai, To-day.

PARLIAMENT

GOVERNMENT SUPPORTERS

ELATED

"LARGE MAJORITIES"

M. E. Pereira, a South Indian. show, to others it appears more Gramophones, Desks, Curios, Or living at the Railway quarters in suitable for the walls of a pothouse naments, etc., etc. Somerset-road, Singapore, during or as a magazine cover. By some

his public examination before Mr.it is treated as a jest. Juntice Deane in the Bankruptcy Sir Nigel "Surprised"

as a

Teak Dining Tables, Dining Chairs, White Frust Refrigera- tors. Teak Sideboards with Bevel-

Court there, said he supported Sir Nigel Playfair, the subjected Mirrors, Dinner Waggons, Ice London, Yesterday, his mother, a sister and two of Mr. Sickert's study, is not all Chests, Dinner Crockery, etc., etc. The Commons are agreed that brothers in India out of a salary perturbed by the treatment he, or

Teak and Iron Bedsteads, Ward- the reply to the Address on the of $70 and allowances. He sent the character he represents, has re-rohes with Bevelled Mirrors, Teak It is reported that Dr. C. T.King's speech debate has not pro- them $20 a month.

ceived at the hands of the painter.

Dressing Tables, · Chesterfield Wang's special mission to Peking duced any development which in He worked

traffic clerk, It is a little difficult for me to is to negotiate with General

any way weakens the Parliament an and the cause of his bankruptcy discuss the picture," he said in Couch and Armchairs, Chests of Chang Hsueh-liang, head of the position of the Government whose was 2 debt which he incurred mail week, "as it is a presentation Drawers, Mosquito Nets, Linen, Manchurian Government, over the supporters are elated by the large through standing surety for a portrait from all the artists who Chamber Stands, etc. impending diplomatic problems of majorites with which they have friend named Rajoo. Ile sigued bave worked under me, but I must

ita Manchuria, especially those in re-been favoured

acknowledge

brilliance. I the opening for $310. lation to Japan. Considerable at- stages of the Parliamentary Kajou paid while he was in think it is a very striking work, tention is said to have been given

Singapore but discontinued the in- though I admit I was a little sur- by Japanese diplomatic eircles in

stalments after his transfer to prised when I first saw it. regard to Chang Hsueh-liang's

Pahang. action at Peking.

"Secret Agreements" Chang Hsueh-liang has brought with him to Peking a large quan- tity of documents and secret agreements concerning the diplo- matic history of Manchuria In the last thirty years. It is his inten- tion to hand these documents over to Dr. Wang for eustody, at Nan-

battle-Reuter,

in

EX-CAPT.-GENERAL

SENTENCED FOR NEGLECT OF DUTY

ONE YEAR'S DETENTION

His Lordship: That was very stily of you when you are drawing a small salary to stand surety for

$300.

"The remarkable thing about the picture is that I did not sit for Mr. Sickert. I once posed for him for about a minute on the stage with- out wig or make-up, that was all. I told him then not to make me look ghastly pale nor to forget my wig, but he has done both."

Describing it as one of the out-

"Times" says:

"It is a picture, finished because

1929.

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Hong Kong, July 11, 1929.

IN OTHER PLACES

CHRONICLES FROM JAPAN TO JAVA

A birthday party in honour of

Examinee said they worked in the same office, and he did it to oblige his friend who was a Ceylon Tamil. Examinee got Madrid, Yesterday. nothing for putting his name to standing works of the year, the General Castro Girona, an ex- the note, but his friends were king. This seems to be his mo-Captain General at Valencia, has helping him in the matter, and it is completed to the last ebb of Mrs. T. R. lyde was given recent- tive in placing the responsibility been senteroced to a year's deten- as a result he would be in a post of the so-called Manchurian and tion in a military prison for culp- tion to offer half the amount Mongolian problem with Japan able negligence in carrying out his due. under the control of the National duties during the revolt at Valencia Government.-Nan Chung Kuo last January-Renter. News Service.

Partly Explained

Peking. To-day. Chang Hsush-liang's hurried de- parture appears to be explained; by news reaching here from Har-1 bin this morning.

It is reported that at the orders

DRUG HAUL

WOMEN'S HUSBAND

SUSPENDED

Washington, Yesterday.

The Assistant Official Assignee (Mr. T. B. Cocker): Yes, but in the meantime how much can you pay ?

Examinee offered $10. His Lordship: In the mean- time what is this other man do- ing?

pay?

The

Fifteen guests were

the impulse in which it was begun, ly at the Little Club, Shanghai, by making the finish of the works sur Mr. Hyde. rounding it a mechanical exercise. present.

Inimitable. Everybody will agree that in Gallery VIII. It was announced that the Russian Sickert's inimitable semi-caricature Merchants' Club, Shanghai, will of Sir Nigel Playfair in the part shortly function again, the delay be- of Tony Lumpkin makes everything ing caused by a search for new pre- else pale Daily Telegraph." mises. The necessary funds havė

Masterly Bravara. Mr. Walter been raised, it was stated. Sickert will promote feelings rang-

Why do not you make him

ing from disgust at his apparent Dr. H. H. Kung, Minister of Examinee:

petitioning inability to draw and paint to Commerce, Industry and Labour, creditor has reported to the Gen-chuckles of glee from those who arrived in Shanghai from Nanking of the Manchurian Communica- The Chinese Minister bas tions Committee, the Chinese have suspended Ying Kao, the consular eral Manager F.M.S. Railways, know how remarkably well he can

last week. Chang Shou-yung, taken over the Central Telegraph official at San Francisco in whose and they are trying to make Rajce do both. Mr. Sickert's painting of vice-Minister of Finance, and Mr. and the Chinese Eastern Tele- wife's luggage a large quantity of Pay,

Sir Nigel Playfair in "She Stoops graphs and Telephones; and have opium was found.

Mr. Cocker said he was content to Conquer" is sheer bravura, but Yang lang-fuh, member

Central Executive Committee, have closed the Soviet Railway Commit

It was not a bad masterly bravura."Daily Mail.” - The Executive Committee of the to accept. $10.

tee, Soviet Trade Commission, Kuomintang in America has adopt-bankruptcy, and he had no doubt Pictorial Ilamoresque. Mr. arrived in the capital.

officials being arrested--Reuter.

[See also under "Sudden Depar- ture from Peking".}

MUI TSAI

FURTHER REPORT FROM HIS EXCELLENCY

STATEMENT IN COMMONS

London, Yesterday.

LIEUT. COL. COMYN

Licut. Col. L. J. Comyn, of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, left The Colony yesterday for Home by the s.s. "Sarpedon."

ordered.

MARY'S LITTLE LAMB THE ORIGINAL MARY'S 88TH BIRTHDAY

of the

Soviet trade unions, Soviet ed a resolution requesting that the the bankrupt would soon be able Sickert will shock the Academy

A Korean named Li Ying-tah, Naptha Syndicate, in addition to woman be sent back to China for to obtain his discharge, through the public with his large high-spirited

gaul many prominent Russian railway trial-Reater,

assistance of his friends.

picture of Sir Nigel Playfair as who has just completed a

for procuring girls for A monthly payment of $10 was Tony Lumpkin. But nothing Mr. sentence

Sickert can do is without his rare houses of ill fame, was in Shanghai pictorial qualities, and it remains last week deported to Korea by the Li was a picture a pictorial humoresque local Japanese authorities. thrown off by a master while so placed aboard the ""Tientsin many of the paintings around it are Maru," sailing for Dairen. not. "Manchester Guardian,"

Lively Painting.--One pieture: Continuing their warfare against. makes one laugh, and that is be- Shanghai's criminala, police of the) Enquiries made by a "China Mail" Mra. Mary Hughes, born at

36 Settlement in cause the artist in painting it has International representative at Headquarters Com- Tyissa Farm, Llangollen, in mand this morning, revealed the fact 1841, who claims to be the original enjoyed his joke. This is Richard hours arrested four men suspected that nothing definitely could be said re- Mary

of connection with various armed of nursery rhyme fame, "Daily Chronicle."

Sickert's "Sit Nigel Playfair.

robbers, and also three persons garding Cel. Comyn's movements. it celebrated her eighty-eighth was generally understood that he had birthday in mail week. She re

Condemned

charged with uttering counterfeit Two of the suspected Others of the critics condemn it notes. fone Home for a holidy.

ceived greetings wishing her

robbers were armed with pistola. The 2nd-Battn. King's Own Scottish

Fit for a Pothouse-This is Mr. ing questions, Mr. W Lunn (of Borderers, of course, are due to leave "Many happy returns of the day" just as strongly

from children and adults in Sickert's annual joke, and might the Overseas Department) said here for India in February next year.

Angered because a number of various parts of Great Britain, have been made by "Tony" himself student disturbers were arrested that a further report from the

from Ireland, Canada, the United not by Sir. Nigel. It has a Gold-by the police on May 30 while Governor of Hong Kong, on the

States. Australia, and Africa. smith-Rowlandson sort of humour creating trouble in the Settlement, question of the abolition of the

Mrs. Hughes is a conarmed which will irritate many people and mui tsai, had been received and

a group of other students have When a Chinese youth was this morn-invalid because of rheumatism, make them declare that this pic-formed an organization with the was now being considered.-Reu-

ing charged before Mr. E. W. Hamil- and is nearly blind, but is remark-torial jest is more suitable for a high-sounding name of The Com- ter

ton, at the Central Magistracy, with ably cheerful and interested in pothouse than for the dignified mittee to Pacify All Persona touting for fare for a motor car in everything. With great vivacity walls of the Royal Academy. Arrested By the Foreign Police Hill-road, West Point, he said with she relates stories of her escap "Morning Post" some dignity that he was not an ordinades with the lamb at school Disrespectful-It is a curious on May 30, It has not been made ary tout, but the agent of the ear, the stories which are corroborated by gesture on the part of Mr. Sickert clear how the persons arrested will owner of which was his relative! contemporary playmates.

to accept an Associateship and then be pacified. to treat the venerable institution “Struwwel Feter" (Shock-headed with such scant respect, as he ap- Peter), beloved of children all over parently has done Daily News." the world, has now had a memorial

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