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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1929.

THE GREATEST CRIME

Black Spots Of Slavery In The World

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EAST DAY AT QUEEN'S Five Million People Still In Servitude

Vilma Banky makes a triumph, in her experiment with the role of, LADY SIMON'S WORK

a modern girl in "This Is Heaven,"

Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, will be instituted without further Lady Simon, the wife of Sir John Simon, who is devoting her-will have its last showings to-day her newest atarring picture which

4.30 p.m.

notice To-day-Dinner Dances at Hong whose Calls remain unpaid on the against Contributories self to the movement for the abolition of slavery, and whose aim is

at the Queen's Theatre. Blonde Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, B1st December, 1929. and beautiful s to see the noble work begun by Wilberforce completed in the pre-waitress' "costume, appealing as sent generation, has written a challenging and an outspoken book ever in her love scenes with James on the subject entitled "Slavery," which Hodder and Stoughton areable aptitude for comedy in the Hall, and showing an unpredict publishing.. Slavery, she feels, is, as Lord Cecil of Chelwood de-light situations of the earlier part clared at the League of Nations, "the greatest crime against the of the picture, she has proved to human race," and she hopes, in sending out his book to the public, jdid wisely when he decided to give her public that Samuel Goldwyn that they will feel as she feels about it, and be inspired to join her in striving to bring it to an end.

A MODERN TRAGEDY

So

her a role in which she could be just a beautiful girl of our own time.

a

To-day-Dinner Dance at Repulse Bay Hotel, 8.30 p.m. Year's Eve Carnival, 8 p.m

Dec 31-Peninsula Hotel New

Dec. 31-Repulse Bay Hotel New Year's Eve Carnival.

Dec. 81-Craigengewer Cricket Club President's Dance, 9.16 p.m. Jan. 6 St. George's Ball. Jan. 10 Second annual dance of the Hong Kong Ladies' Hockey Club, at Lane, Crawford's Restaur

Entertainment This is Heaven."

To-day - Queen's

To-day-Star Theatre, Nights". "Tenderloin,"

To-day World

ant.

Theatre,

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To-day-Inward from America

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"This Is Heaven" gives her the part of a little immigrant Cin derella whe arrives at Ellis Island and is immediately swallowed up In the seething mass of New York- ers trying to earn a living. She goes to work as a waitress in a ing the frontier, where the poor

white-tiled restaurant, meets her creatures disencumber themselves of dream here under the impression everything that will hamper them that he is a chauffeur, and does and express their in their escape towards freedom, not discover that he is really

joy when they blue-blooded millionaire until his sce fluttering in the breeze the reticence on the subject has almost sometimes much-abused flag of old ruined their happiness.

Even though the first part of the picture is almost light comedy, The sentence in the letter which complications arise and the berlain on January 21, 1928, when no break in the acting or direcKowloon Whf., miscellaneous goods, was written by Sir Austen Cham-situation grows serious, there is he was Foreign Secretary, to the tion.

The result is that Miss11 a.m. Anti-Slavery Society will, I am con- Banky's ability in serious roles vinced, give encouragement and still stands her in good stead and Stewart Terrace) household furni satisfaction to

every British shows both the new and the old ture, 2.30 p.m. subject, and to every friend of the Vilma in a part which gives her Anti-Slavery Movemer: all over the excellent opportunities world: 'In no case,' he declared, has directions. any escaped slave been sent back to Abyssinia.

"I was led to write it," she said

"There is a world of drama in the in an inerview with a represent-seventy-five miles of desert border- Alive of the "Observer," "by à strong feeling that it is the duty of us all to do everything we can to support the International effort or ganized by the League of Nations to end slavery in the world. many people think that the work was finished in the days of Wilber-England, which waves them on to force. The truth is that the very freedom and happiness. success of his crusade to change British law and practice by abolish- Ing the slave-trade and liberating slaves in British Colonies blinds many people to the tragic fact that In many areas of the world even to- day the trade in slaves still con- tinues, and slavery is practised.

The Work of Abolition

in both

"DESERT NIGHTS"

Canada"). ica and ports("Empress of

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Meeting

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Miscellaneous

Jan. 4-5-New Territories Agri- (near Sheung Shui Railway Sta cultural Show, at Shek Wu Hul

"And what escape is there-or what hope is there of abolishing the filming of the desert sequences So intense was the best during slavery-in other parts of the in "Desert Nights," Metro-Gold- tion). world?"

wyn-Mayer's latest feature, star

"The League of Nations is doing ring John Gilbert at the Star a great international work in get-Theatre, that the film had to be

Practically the entire picture

The Chinese Problem "It is, I am convinced, merely a question of arousing the public con- science for more to be done. A few years ago, when it was found that a system of slavery still exlated in the Sierra Leone Protectorate, and that when a slave

ran away the courts felt bound to justify his re- capture, British public opinion was deeply stirred. Mr. Amery, at the Colonial Office, took prompt action,ting reports from each country con-kept in. asbestos containers and and an Ordinance abolishing slavery cerned on the steps that are being packed in specially cooled com in the Protectorate was at once taken. And what the Maharajah ofpartments of the camera cars used 3&ssed.

Nepal has done may be cited as a for trucking the cameras. very good example of what can be done by an individual ruler if he was filmed in the heart of the really wishes to bring about the great Mojave desert for the action abolition of slavery in his country. of the picture necessitated Realizing that from a humane asSouth African locale. The plot of well as from an economie point of the story revolves about the sen- view slavery is bad for a country, he sational and daring robbery of a determined to bring it to an end. diamond mine and the ensuing ex He called Kitmandu, and there for three become lost in the desort..

a great meeting at periences of its participants who hours he represented to his people slavery against their fellow-men. and to slave-owners the iniquity of His dramatic appeal resulted in the liberation of 52,000 slaves held by 15,000 slave-owners.

"In the same way is very en- couraging to see how the present Government is taking more active steps to bring to an end the system of Mui Tsai (child slavery) in Hong Kong. But alavery In China is so much an integral part of the domestic life of the Chinese that it will be more difficult to bring it to an end than when it exists simply as trading. With all this I have dealt in my book.

"The book deals, too, with slavery in Abyssinia, in the Sudan, In Ara- bla, and elsewhere. At the very least there are still in all parts of the world five million slaves, and probaby six million. They are held as property to be sold at the will of their masters, just as they were in the days when Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote her memorable book on slavery, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin.'"

Horrors of the System "Do you mean to say," Lady Simon, was asked, "that slaves are ill-treated in these days as were then?"

they

"I am sadly afraid that such bar- barities still exist," she said, "Tako, for example, Abysslala. They begin there with the slave raider, who is a merciless man-hunter, ralding a village, massacreing without mercy those who are useless to him and carrying off those whom he intends to sell to the slave traders.

"Major Darley has described a convoy of thousands of slaves marching across the desert, the man roped together, the women and children following as best they can. The little babies, when the mothers are too weak to carry them, are: strapped two and three together on the mules Thus they reach the slave market, where they are sold to the traders. Families are broken up, never to meet again. They are gold into a life of hopeless misery which ends only with the grave,

Their punishments are terrible. I have a picture of a slave who had stolen some trifling object. HIB

hand and his foot had been cut off,

and he was thrown into the market place to dis In-terrible suffering. Nobody seemingly cared, for he was a property slave, d

There are terrible stories of children bought in China, vouched, for by Dr. Coates, a missionary of twenty years, standing

ment by pouring boiling water over their hands and dislo

have also the evidence of the de- "From a British point of view we termination of Sir Harcourt Butler in Burma to bring slavery to an end, and continue its suppression in spite of the difficulties of 'eternal vigilance."

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of Messrs. Moutrie,

Several hundred

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9 p.m.-Programme of Victer

ture. Ernest Torrence, veteran character actor of both stage and Follies beauty, appear in promin- screen, and Mary Nolan, former ent supporting roles of the new drama.

TO-MORROW AT THE QUEEN'S

on," Lady Simon added, "I have the man" in "The Black Watch," the "In the work which I am carrying Myrna Loy, the exotic "Yas- sympathetic support of my hus-all-talking Victor McLaglen-John band, who has written a preface to Ford production which comes to burning question. the book I am bringing out on this the Queen's Theatre to-morrow is that to most of us the subject is one Curiously enough, her debut on

He points out well on her way to which arouses, a merely historical the

stardom.

interest, and says:-

screen WAS made with "The object of my wife's book is responsible for the critical acclaim McLaglen, the very person now survival of various forms of chattel her present role the most out to direct public attention to the she has been receiving: Prior to slavery in the world to-day; to map standing character she has de- Dut, the areas chiefly affected, and lineated was that of the gypay to tabulate the information relating girl In "The Squall." to each. generation to complete the work 80 It is an appeal to this nobly begun by Wilberforce and Clarkson."

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M'LLE AMETA FOR THE STAR

M'ile Ameta the noted Parisian' dancer, will open a short engage ment at the Star Theatre and is

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Company. Gems from "The Love Song", Chorus, "Yes or No", Baritone Solo, Osly a Dream", Tenor and Ladies, Trio, "He Writes

a Song, Contralto and Chorus, "Love Song

(Remember Ma) (Smith-Kanneke-Offenbach),

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AGRICULTURAL SHOW To Be Opened By Governor Next Week

To be held under the patronage of His Excellency the. Governor, the New Territories Agricultural Show will open next Saturday (January, 4), and will continue throughout Sunday. The venue will be Shek- wu-hul, near the Sheungshui rafl- way station.

The public will be admitted to the exhibition grounds from 11 a.m., on Saturday, and the judging of the

aace by the Chung Sing Benevolent exhibits will take place at 11.15. There will be a theatrical perform-

Association, from noon to 1 p.m.

By kind permission of Lieut. Col. H. B. Vertion and Officers, the Band' of the 2/15th-Punjabis will be in attendance during the day.

Sunday's Programme The gates will be open at the same hour on Sunday, and the rest of the Programme for the day will be as follows

11 to 12 am. Display by Lain Wo Athletic Association.

ance by Miss Lo Pul-lan and other

12 to 1 p.m. Theatrical perform

musical selections.

2.30 p.m. distribution of prizes by Mrs. JA. Fraser. Victor Light Oparà Company.8 to 4 p.m. Chinead boxing dia

"Dance Music."

"Gelsha" Selection (Jones)

9.30 p.m. ZE "Belle of New YorkSelection,

(Kerkar)

of H.M. Call **Band

Atream Guards. "Dance Music. 10 p.m.-News Bulletin.

11.80 p.m.-Close Down,

"Dance Music.". 10.30 p.m. Chinese Programme.

MR. H. R. PHELIPS

bound to delight her audiences Popular Civil Servant To with her charming dances in which the gorgeous colouring and

Leave Colony

lighting effects beggar descrip Hir large hest of friends in Hang Kong will hear with regret that Mr.

tion....

play.

A European restaurant will be run on the exhibition grounds under the management of the Queen's Cafeteria

Seven sheds will be set aside for vegetables, fruits, cereals and sugar. There will also be a poultry section and an exhibit of honey

Special trafns at special rates wi be run on the two days by the Kowloon-Canton Railway, while the Chung Mel Garage Co., of Mongkok and the Nam Shing. Motor Bus Co.

of Sheung Shul are also providing 4 cheap, service to the exhibition grounds.

Informal. Welcome For MOTHERS UNION

President

The name of Dr. Shi Man-wal, over the world and has appeared auditor, is leaving for Home on retire. Mlle Ameta has travelled all. R. Phelips, the focal Government's M.B., B.S. (Hong Kong), of St. before Royalty with these dances, ment on January 4, 1980, after 25 John's Hall, the University, has which must be seen to be appre years, service in the Colony. been added to the list of medical clated. She is the personification Mr. Phelips, came out hors in 1904 practitioners in the Colony.

of grace and is a consumate art and at once took a prominent and fate. Her mirror effects are heactive part in the sporting life of Hong authorised chemists and druggists Bolo dancer and a ballet. Her

There are 29 names in the list of wildering, giving the effect of a Kong He was brilliant leurls An informal gathering to wel- practising in Hong Kong.

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