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„TUESDAY, DECEMBER

RECOGNITION OF RUSSIA

No Evidence of Soviet Good Faith

"JIX'S" WARNING

The Logical Attitude Of The United States

THE ARCOS RAID

THE CHINA MAIL,

SANDHURST ACCENT

IN A TALKIE

LOVE IN THE DESERT IN ****BEHIND THAT CURTAIN”

A MYSTERY FILM

Drummond."

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CANTON HOLDING OUT

GUERILLA BÂND CAUSES 'A SCARE

| KWANGSI-ITES THROWN-BACK

In spite of supposed' disagree- ment between the Cantonese and

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SHADOWS BEFORE

COMING EVENTS "ANNOUNCED JN “GUINA, MAIL"

.: Social Functions To-day-Tea Dances at Hopg Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 480 p.m.

To-day-Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 8.30. p.m. pulse Bay Hotel, 8.30 p.m.

To-day-Dinner Dance at Re-

Jan. 10 Second annual dance

To say that "Behind that Curtain"; [is] the best "talkie'l to come

to the "Queen's" Theatro, is' an exaggeration. It is thrilling in parts, and almost the Northern troops who camé always interesting, but it is not so high down from the North to help an artistic achievement as "Bulldog them, neither the Ironsides "nor As the Minister who was mainly responsible for the raid on Drunumond," Both begin in Londeo, the Kwangal-ites are any nearer Arcos, and for the determination of the late Government to break mand" with the exquisite scene in the Yesterday it was made out that

but the opening of "Bulldog Drum- their goal, Canton. off relations with Russia, I am more than anxious as to the reasons Senior Conservative club, is finer be the final entry of the enemies of which have caused the change of policy on the part of the new Gov-view one is given of the embankment in ments into Canton was imminent. of the Hong Kong Ladies' Hockey

yond compare than the bird's eye the National and Cantón Govern- ernment, and which have made them enter into at least a tentative "Behind that Curtain.”

It is said that comparisons Nevertheless Hong Kong's con- Club, at Lane, Crawford's Restaur- agreement with the Soviet Government of Russia the country odious, and, in any case, the public is fidence in the preservation of ant. which we, and Mr. MacDonald's friends in America, have declined no longer interested In "Bulldog Capton's banknotes Increased!

Entertainments to recognise.

A Misunderstanding

To-day Queen's Except for one outstanding charac-, Misunderstanding arose through "Behind that Curtain."

Theatre, So writes Viscount Brentford (formerly Sir William Joynson Frederick Bruce), the enunciation is after roaching a point on the Brigade."

ter (he who plays the part of Sir Intelligence that the Tronsides, To-day-Star Theatre, "Fire Hicks, in an open letter to the "Daily Telegraph."

"Yanqui," though it certainly is not too Canton-Hankow Railway (Kwang-To-day pronounced. Eve Durand, the soulful- eyed blande heroine, ilves call her tung, section) about 35 miles north "Two Lovers." villainous husband "Urig" for Eric, of Canton, had continued Rastward To-day-Majestic Theatre; and says that she "Kant" do this for (surprisingly) Instead of wheeling "King of Klags."

But the night watchman, southward on their objectives;

Dec. 14-At Theatre Royal, "The Pomicky is a perfect Cockney type, that by forced marches in one Gelaha, 9.15 p.m. albeit he turns out to be a nasty little night they had passed the Can- bounder.

tonese flank and were even The story is somewhat disconnected, threatening the defender's rear by An Experiment that Falled

but we are given to understand that their startling move

on the east Colonel Beetham, explorer and strong, of Canton, a quarter from which Once we tried this experimentsilent man, suffers a grand passion for which the United States have al Eve. Cupid's darling hopes, however, danger was least expected. ways refused to try. We recognisare shattered by the entrance of

This report is now believed to

REPUGNANT TO MORAL SENSE

I should have been indeed glad If Mr. MacDonald and Mr. Hoover could have included in their recent conversations this question, because America has been, if anything, stronger and more firm than we have in the matter, and has put her refusal to recognise Russia on the highest possible ground.

good faith with you. We won't promise what we will do, but we will talk it over."

"Yew."

They far."

-World Theatre,

Home Maila To-day-Outward for Europe via Siberia ("Agama Mary"), & p.m. : Lammerts Auctions Dec. 12 At Sales Room, Toys, 2.80 p.m.

Dec. 12 At Sales Room, Post-

Meetings

To-day--Sanitary Board meeting, 4.15 p.m.

Miscellaneous To-day Helena May Institute Lecture on "The Pro-History of Hong Kong and New Territories," by Dr. J. L. Shelishear, 5.30 p.m.

To-morrow-Social evening in St. John's Cathedral Hall; 9 p.m.

To-morrow-Royal Naval Canteen!

Concert.

The Note went on to explain that say to Mr. MacDonald, before it islings and anxious moments under. have been guerillas flying their Streeter, 5.30 p.m.

Dec. 12-University Lecture on "Questions Arising out of the Pacific Conference," by Canon Dec. 18-Pianoforte, recital by Mra, Suiter's puplis at St. Andrew's Hall, Kowloon, 5 p.m.

CARS COLLIDE

Two Europeang In One

. Vehicle

ed Russia, and her Ambassadors "Uric," who has the conventional heavy be a myth. It was caused by the and trade delegates came over here tread and an "Aha we meet again" operations of a guerilla band, outage Stamps, 5.15 p.m. It is in the year 1920 that Mr. We found, as Mr. Root prophesied, leer on his malicious lips.

to make bay while the sun shone. Bainbridge Colby, then Secretary of that they used their position as Then things happen with great Aftar withdrawing in order to State in the last Government of Ambassadors of a great and pro-speed. A fawyer with whom Bestham guard against an enveloping move- President Wilson, startled, the fessedly friendly nation to corrupt wearing Chinese slippers embroidered truth and immediately resumed Club Meeting, Jarding Matheson's

has quarrelled is found murdered, ment, the defenders learned the diplomatic world by a Note, of our citizens and to attempt to with the legend of "tread softly go their positions, because the Iron-Board Room, 5.30 p.m.

To-day-Royal Hong Kong Golf precision and courage, on this destroy our Constitution. aubject. Here is his statement: were found out-none too soun-

"In the view of this Government, and they were turned out with the furiates her uncle thereby and breaks interval.

Eve marries "Urie" secretly, and in-sides had not moved up in the there cannot be any common ground approval of the hation. upon which it can stand with a Power whose conceptions

Now, without any

Beetham's heart. He chews his lips,Near the confluence of the change of and says, bravely, "I go to the desert." North of international

and West Rivers, the relations are so utterly alien to its heart or of attitude, without any In his office in Scotland Yard, Sir Ewangsi-ites crossed the water its own, so utterly repugnant to its single act on their part which could Frederick Bruce gathers up the threads ways at a quiet spot but the num- moral sense. We cannot recog- be regarded as evidence of good of mystery and decides to "tread softber was too small to consolidate give friendly reception to the agents which they wrecked once before, sherbert and camel bella; heat beat-tonese. nise, hold oficial relations with, or faith, they have come to the partyly and go far."

Thence we are led to the land of after being engaged by the' Can. their gola and were thrown back of a Government which is determined and bound to conspire against our asking that they should again being with love in the perched desert; institutions, whose diplomats will be taken on trust. the agitators of dangerous revolt."

olive-skinned girls crowning "pooney-

Ironside Vanguards? Friendly Relations Impossible But, with great respect, let me rooney," under the punkah, wife bet.Late yesterday afternoon, the Ironside vanguards (who may also this attitude of the American too late, talk this thing over with Peralan moon (sic). Government was not due to any dis

President Hoover. Personally, I A fewer thousand feet of Fox Movie- tanner) were in action with the approval or dislike of the political am prepared to stand by my own tone film later, and we are rushing defendera up the Canton-Rankow or economic government set up by Views; I was prepared for five years curtain falls on. "Behind that, Cur- be the real trial of strength for

about San Francisco. By the time the Railway. Russia: that had nothing to do with as a Minister to do what I deemed tain" one feels like a Cock's tourist.

This may or may not America, and equally it has nothing other nation in the world. But if not flawless, and one need not be to be right without reference to any The film, however, is quite enjoyable,

possession of Canton. to do with ourselves, If Russia

Evidently the Ironsides and the likes to be under the rule of Com-here we have a Prime Minister who bored. The acting of Sir Frederick Kwangal-ites are still playing a mualam-and even worse-It is not desires to work in close touch with Brace, the "brains" of Scotland Yard, waiting game, because opposition a matter about which other nations the United States, and I ask him is superb. The charm of the man to the National Government is in- need concern themselves.

what reason there is to suppose stands out of the film as only a rich creasing all over the country. At But before recognising and mak.that America is wrong.

personality can, and one wonders why any moment, Marshal Chiang Kai- ing friends with a Government, it

As I write, the jubilation and the on earth people made such a fuss of shok may withdraw, his Northern- is surely desirable to do as America sneers have begun in Moscow; the Valentino and Ramon Navaro when this era, whom he sent to succour Can- did, and to consider whether such agreement is described, before the beau ideal, a perfect type of cool, dar ton, to make a stand for him in a Government is one with which ink on it is dry, as the "rout of the in, cultured British gentleman, was South-East China should he be friendly relations can be maintain- pseudo-Labour Government." The waiting to be known. Without doubt, aqueezed out of Nanking. ed. The Government of the United official Government Press in Mos we hope more will be heard and seen Canton was still quiet yesterday Mr. W. Russell, Government Marine

he is a great "find" of the "talkie," and Reliable observers state that States were convinced "that the cow declares that unconditional re- of him. existing regime in Russia is based habilitation was the one demand of stream to a perched traveller (vide the) and it has to be added that al-Surveyor, who was coming to town upon the negation of every prinel their Government, and that it has local G.P.D. moite) to hear the accent though the puthorities are on the ple of honour and good faith, and forced the British Government to of Sandhurst after the blatter of qui vive there is no panic. every usage and convention under accept; and further, that they look "Uric,” lying the whole structure of inter. national law.** These are strong words; they were true in 1920, and they are true to-day.

They are true of a Government This is, indeed, a sorry position which at that time and continuously for England-once so proud, and since has boasted of its willingness now to be trampled upon and jeered to sign agreements and undertakat by her new allies Verily, the ings with foreign Powera--without Labour party cannot sink much having the slightest intention of lower. carrying them out. Does Mr. Henderson realise this? Does he realise that time after time the Russian Government has promised, in no less definite terms than it ap- pears to have promised now, tej abstain from propaganda, and yet there has been no cessation what- ever from their activities in this direction?

It was sa refreshing as

A

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KING'S COLLEGE

A Centenary Of Engineering

NO CASUALTIES

A collision between two motor care occurred at the junction of Park and Bonham Roads at 9 o'clock this morning:

One of the cars was owned by

with Mr. K. S. Robertson, of the P.W.D. The latter was driving.

The other car was A Chinese owned vehicle in the charge of a Chinese driver.

Complaint Against Northerners There appears to be some ground for saying that the Can tonese are dissatisfled with the

Mr. Russell's car was only a few recently-arrived Northerners for yards from the junction of Park not taking a more active part in Road when the other car suddenly offering resistance. to the Tron-appeared across Bonham Road from rally, this increased to 180 inside. The complaint is that the the upper road.

Northerners Insist on being no It was impossible to pull up Mr. 1868, after which there was a fur-

more than reserves. On the other Russell's car at such, short notice ther fall and another rise, which hand, the local No. 1 appoint and it ran into the other, although culminated in a peak of 804 in 1892.ed by Chiang Kai-shek desires to the force of the impact was con- A further peak occurred in 1906 keep the Cantonese in the front siderably checked by the action of followed by a decrease between

line. In lack of harmony may

the quickly applied brakes which then and 1914, partly owing to the lie the undoing of the defenders' slackened the speed of the car. closing down of the evening classes. (and the National Government's)

During the war there were only cause in Canton.

a few students, none of whom was

:

of British nationality, but in 1920 a rush of ex-service men sent up "THE KING OF KINGS" The Governing Body of King's the number to 240. Since..then College, London, has taken the there had been a further, decrease, Cynical Repudiation

Crowded houses marked the pot opportunity afforded by the. cen-though, at the moment a new up-formances at the Majestic Theatre, Russia has gene so far as to say tenary of the foundation. of that ward tendency was evident. Pro Kowloon, yesterday, at the showing of that no agreement made with a non Institution to issue an appeal for fessor Wilson further pointed out Cecil B. de Mills production, The Holshevik Government can have any funds, in order that a number of that the Engineering Department King of Kings," to-day, being the final moral or binding force. Let Mr. chairs, including one in electrical had been singularly fortunate in day; Colby, writing as Secretary of engineering and another in physics, the distinguished teachers and vue atar, sang reverently at the 1.15 Miss Daphne Leigh, the Britian re- State, once more speak:

may be adequately endowed. Be students who had bean connected and 9.16 p.m. performances. "There can be no mutual ton-fore opening their purse-atrings, with it.. Among the former he fidence or truat, no respect even, however, generous donora like to cited the. names of Daniell, If pledges are to be given and know something about the qualities Wheatstone, Clerk Maxwell, Grylls

"THE AUSTRIAN CRISIS agreements made with a cynical of the person or object they are call- Adams, D. S. Capper, and John repudiation of their obligations d upon to support, and, the wise Hopkinson, while among the latter

Bugby. Yesterday already in the mind of one of the course has therefore been taken of were W.-H. Prence, W. Anderson, of the cries in Anttia, Me? Henderson Regarding the reported settlement partles. We cannot recognise the arranging a series of eight public Douglas Fox, J. Dewrance, said that he had no information beyond agents of a Government..... lectures to show what the college Siemens, L. B.Atkinson, C.Hthat which had appeared in the Press, whose spokesmen say that they has done during the past hundred Wordingham, J. Snell, and J. High but he welcomed the report that a aign agreements with no inten years to assist culture in its many field. In 1893 the Presidents, of satisfactory settlement of the const tion of keeping them."

branches. Although the Engineer the three great engineering institutational question had been reached ing Department has not been in tons, namely, Mr. Harrison Hayter, British Wireless Service existence for the whole of that Sir William Anderson and Sir period, it has rightly been includ- W. H. Preece, were all King's ed; and a very interesting and in College inen. formative lecture, sketching its

Mr. Chicherin, the Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Government, telegraphed to Presi dent Coolidge In December, 1923, but received a somewhat sharp re buke from the Secretary of State, who pointed out that if the Soviet authorities were ready to restore the confiscated property of Ameri can citizens, or make effective com pensation, they could do so. If they were ready to repeal their de cres-repudiating Russia's obliga tions to American citizens they could do so. It requires said Mr Hughes, "no conference or negotia tion to accomplish these results, which can and should be achieved ber of students attending engineer With natural diffidence Pro-

The department had also been history and the careers of those who helped by numerous patrons,

at Moscow, an evi

Thithe

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EDITOR'S DEATH.

- New York, Yesterday.

Pamori

have taken part in its development, among whom the names, of White Pater Harpilton, Editor of the Wall The "death is appounced of Mr. Wm. was given by Professor Ernest worth, Wheatstone, Muntz and Street Journal. Reute Wilson, the William Siemens Fro Lady Siemens might be mentioned. Servics, Tensor of Electrical Engineering in The King's Callego Engineering the college, on October 23. Mr. Society was founded in 1847 and Llewelyn B. Atkinson, who is an was probably the earliest and still old student and also a Fellow of the was one of the most successful of College, occupied the chair. its kind, though for one year if Professor Wilson began by call was turned into dramallo society ing attention to a diagram, which owing to the Influence of a student showed the variation in the hum named W. S. Gilbert

of gooding courses since 1888 In that fessor Wilson said nothing about

year there were 30 students, and the large, part he himself has play been this gradually rose to 72 in 1640, ed in the progress of the depart good. falling again tol about 40 during sent during the long,

M the middle fifties. fter this, ing which be hak, bas lers owing to theppani

with it but?

the graca!

the

As it was, the front axle of Mr. Russell's car was bent, both head- lights smashed, and one mud-guard broken. The other car's running board was damaged, and the left side dented.

STUDENTS' RIOTS

Over 900 Arrests In Seoul

Tokyo, Yesterday"" Over 900 Korean students have been arrested in Seoul following student rioting,necessitating the mobilising of the entire Seoul, police, according to The trouble in the outgrowth of vernacular dispatches.

long-standing quarrels between the Japanese and Korean students, in the middle schools-Beuter.

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