1930-02-27 — Page 7

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1930.

KIDNAPPED GENERAL

Bolshevist Beauty Believed Responsible

RECENT WEALTH

Questioned By French Secret Service

WORK OF 0.G.P.U.

Mystery us baffling as that which for years cawrapped the circumstances of the murder of the notorious monk Rasputin, the evil genius of the late Czarina, still clouds the disappearance of the anti-Bolshevist General Koutepoiť.

General Koutepoff, a Russian hero of the Russo-Japanese and of the Great War, succeeded the Grand Duke Nicholas as leader of

the Russian emigres and head of the anti-Soviet movement outside

Russia,

VANISHED AFTER CHURCH

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE BEGGAR FOLK OF CALCUTTA

PHYSICAL DEFORMITIES A DESIRABLE ASSET

SYNDICATED INDUSTRY

On an evening's walk down Chowringhee-Calcutta's best and one of the world's finest streets -you may see, if you look for

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IN CHINA MAIL

UNIVERSITY ANNUAL SPORTS.

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED THE ENTRANCE FEE for Re- lay Race Open fo Colony la $10. Entry CLOSES before noon,; March 8.

Social Functions. To-day-Ton Dance at Hong Kong Hotel: 4.30. p.m.

8.30p.m.

PIANOS

(Sd.) A. A. AZIZ, Hon. Secretary, Sports Sub-Committee. Hong Kong, 27th Feb.; 1930.

TO POSSESS

A PIANO IS

EVIDENCE

OF CULTURE

S To-day Tea Dance at Paninsula them. a fow ugly and sinister Hotel, 5 p.m.

To-day-Dinner Dances at Hong well as a things as theof all things bright and Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, ROUND THE CINEMAS beautiful; but there is one that

The Wonder of Women"] may test your nerves unless ad them-a little more than all time and experience have fossilis

at Queen's Theatre the rest do. It is the sight of

To-day-Dinner Dance at Repulse Bay Hotel, 8.30 p.m.

March 7-S.P.C.A. Ball, Penin- sula Hotel, 8' p.m.

March 8--Old Bedfordian Dinner,

an apparently cheerful, half-naked Hong Kong Club 8 p.m.

tiny boy squatting in the middle

Entertainmentʊ of the pavement, bent double over

To-day Queen's his twisted knees, saluting pass "Wonder of Women." ers-by with a teable arm whose

To-day -Star elbow rests on the ground, In "Glorious Betsy," the cool of nightfall he wears a

To-day World

dirty piece of cloth round his "Black Diamond Express,

To-day Majestic back "The Gorilla."

A GRIPPING DRAMA

Men, although too conceited to Theatre, acknowledge the fact; know deep downi {in their hearts that a woman's in- Theatre, fiuence, either for good or for bad, plays

Jan Important role in their lives.

concert at City Hall, 9.15 p.m.

Sports

As reported in the China Mail, It will be recalled that M. Bessa- neck. It hangs no lower because General Routepoff recently attend-dowsky, the First Counsellor of the where the small of his ed divine service at the Russian Soviet Embassy in Paris, had to should be there is a horrible, huge To-morrow - English Church in Paris' and then left for make a hasty departure from the hump, and if the hump were his home in the Latin Quarter. Embassy premises last October fol. covered his market value in the He went out again a few minutes loving his discovery that a plot trade of beggary would be seri later to go to a Russian ex-officers' existed to take him back to Moscow ously depreciated. At the apex (9. club-and from that moment"dead or alive."

of the hump there is the sign of vanished.

After a week's patient search, daring which no fewer than 80 different clues have been followed up, the whereabouts of the general remain utterly unknown.

Ogpu Agents

|

As intense Interpretation of this in-

Buence is to be found in The Wonder

Theatres

of Women," which is being screened at Theatre; the Queen's Theatre to-day.

In this semi-talkie Stephan Tromholt, Singers' a composer of famo, encouraged by his numerous admirers of the opposite sex, has learned all the arts of philander- ing to a nicety. Leading a Bohemian life, he la constantly surrounded by a large number of over-painted women whose pouting lips freely bestow kisses, and enress. their arms always opered to embraco

Armend

See Special Sports Diary on page

Lammerts Auction M. Bessadowsky, who sought the an old sore, suggesting that at To-morrow At 20, pratection of the French police some time or other the point of Building, Kowloon, household furni- alleged that an Ogpu envoy had the hump has been cut off rather tare, 11 am arrived in Paris with a long black clumsily.

Home Mails trunk in which hĩa body was to be enclosed should he refuse to return voluntarily.

KNOWING DOGS

Against those weapons of allurement -weapons by no means impotent, for even Cleopatra used them successfully to captivate Anthony Brigitte, a widow with three children, fought and Out-won-but was her victory decisive?

The boy belongs to one of Cal- To-day Lnward from Europe cutta's largest commercial com via Suez (Rawalpindi). munities. At the census of 1921 To-morrow-Inward from Europe it consisted of 26,926 persona de-via Siberia (Macedonia); scribing themselves as beggars ward for Europe via Marseilles and prostitutes, 12,866 people (Macedonia), 10.30 a.m. claiming to be procurers and pro-

Meetings stitutes, 14,560 simple beggars, To-morrow Kowloon

that her orthodox wifely solicitude for

Alas, poor Brigitto lives to find out

her husband is no defence against the jonslaught of worldly women. How Realdents Tromholt again succumbs to the charm Church and gaiety of his former life and how eventually he is won back to hearth and Society, home go to give an Intense and grip-

ping interpretation of influence.

and an uncertain proportion of Association St. Andrew's the 508,513 people whose occupa-Hall, 6 p.m. tions were "insufficiently describ- March 3-Benevolent ed." The numbers of the first annual meeting, Cheer O Canteen, two sections can be accounted 11.15 .. for, of course, by the well-known!

March 10-Union Waterboat Co., influence of demand upon supply; meeting of shareholders, Dodwell and they do not include the taxi & Co.'s office, 11 a.m.

An attendant ut a nursing home The charge against the counsel states that he saw General Koute-lor was stated to be one of dis poff enter a waiting motor-car in loyalty to Moscow, and subsequent company with two unknown men ly Ogpu agents even tried to kid No nap hia 10-years-old son and hold and a uniformed policeman. paliecman was on duty at that him as a hostage. point In the town, and the assump. tion is that the uniformed man was an agent of the Ogpu in disguise. The French detective force uscér. tained subsequently that the miss- ing general had been in touch with a beautiful woman well-known in Bolshevist circles in Paris. This woman, a fascinating blonde, whose Bame is given as Ludmilla Ivanova Wong Ng a married Chinese Tchoban Pobedonotzeff, was inter- female residing at an unnumbered eat in the business. But the un- rogated by M. Perrier, the head of hut at Shaukiwan was attacked by diluted trade of beggary, in which the secret service, at the Prefec-three dogs, and sustained bites on the diminutive hunchback has a ture of Police.

both legs, her right arm, and wrist. diminutive stake, is less simple It appears that there was an argu-and quite as vicious as that, and ment between Lai Yin, a widow, is not as plain and straightward and Wong Ng, and the dogs went to as it seems.

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The woman's part in General Koutepoff's disappearance is cupying the attention of the police... but the information concerning her is that she is a German married to

a Russian employed at a motor-car

works in a Paris suburb.

Previously In what appeared to be straitened circumstances, Lud- milla has shown during the past few weeks unusual signs of wealth

Go to Assistance of Mistress

vation.

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worgan's

In this picture one has to agree with Douglas Fairbanks who told us that the best talkie is one that can work In the right percentage of talk,

A

drivers and ghariwallahs (cab- March 12-Hong Kong Electric 100 per cent. talkie, according to Fair. men) who take an active inter-Co.. shareholders' meeting, 11 am, banks, will ruin the picture.

March 13-Forty-third annual There is a lot of truth in what this meeting of H. K. & W. Whf. & star has said. The "Wonder of Godown Co., Ltd., Masars Jardine Womon" has just the right percentage of talk. It is not overdone, and the Matheson's offices, noon.

March 14 Thirty-fourth meeting the audience to get a firm grip of the few captions at the beginning enable of the Dairy Farm Ice & Cold drama, and when the players give Storage Co., Ltd., 2, Lower Albert voice to their feelings, the audience is Rd., 11 am.

treated to a dialogue entirely unlike March 18-Annual meeting of what they have heard before.

The Hong Kong Derby run on Tues- Hong Kong Tramways Ltd., Mesars. Jardine Matheson's offices, noon. Iday

the is also vividly shown on March 19-Green Island Cement Screen. Co., shareholders' meeting, noon.

"THE GORILLA” .......... Comedy is supposed to be closely Miscellaneous

akin to tragedy. To-day-Lecture, "Some Remark comedians

The greatest

Controlled by a Syndicate

| the assistance of their mistress.

In both cases the dogs were re-. Those who have troubled to moved to Kennedy Town for obser- explore its ramifications will tell you that almost the whole trade Leung Wo, a Chinese, 31 years in Calcutta is organised and con-i of age, living at 3. Graham Street, trolled by a syndicate, powerful was detained this morning at the and elusive, which "makes Government Civil Hospital, suffer-very good thing out of it.

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and critics eay the best

—to explain which she has told hering from a dog bite on the leg. He Adults they engage as beggare in able Inventions," by Professor comedy is that which is mingled with few acquaintances of an alleged was visiting Chang Siu Szo, the the ordinary relationship of prin-C. A. Middleton Smith, Room "K" pathos. If this is true, Charlie Murray

owner of the dog. at 162 Welling- cipal and agent or employer and University, 8.45 p.m.

an

uncle in

inheritance from Berlin.

She has made frequent journeys at the same time Germany, where it is stated that she has met a .Russian woman whose husband is chief of the Ogpu flying squad in Berlin.

ton Street when the incident oc- employed, but the children, as a March 5-Distribution of prizes curred.

rule, are begged, borrowed, hired, by H.E. the Officer Administering bought, or perhaps stolen from the Government at King's College.

PRICE OF WHEAT

The police are therefore seeking to U.S. Exhanges May Close

determine whether Ludmilla is the woman in a beige mantle who is reported to have been seen talking to General Koutopoff not far from the spot where he apparently en-` tered the taxicab with his kidnap

per.

The newspaper published in Paris for Russian refugees, called

the Renaissance, has offered a re- ward of £800 if the person who telephoned to the newspaper office last Sunday to say that General Koutepoff had been kidnapped will come forward with evidence to show who kidnapped him.

"A Serious Crisis" Riga, Latvia.The Moscow news. papers. strongly deny that any foreign detachments of the Ogpu (the Soviet Secret Servico) are con cerned in the disappearance is Paris of General Koutepoff. An- xiety is expressed at the same time with regard to the demands in the French newspapers that a police

search should be made of the Soviet Embassy.

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The Soviet Government's dip lomatic relations with France, äc-

cording to Izvestys, have reached a

Temporarily

-

their

parents.. Their various! "beats" are allotted to them: you can sometimes see them being es

certed thither by men who may be members or servants of the syndicate. If they are cripples, so much the better: the more Washington, Yesterday. serious the deformity the greater The Senate has passed a resalu- the profit: You will remember tion calling on the Secretary for that W. H. Davis was envied for: Agriculture to submit recommen-his wooden log by the tramps in dations regarding the price of American workhouses. But some cotton and wheat even to the times the Calcutta beggar's de- extent of a temporary closing of formity is less certainly due to the exchanges-Reuter's Ameri-mlashance than Mr. Davies's one- can Service.

leggedness is. One still hears

March

who is featured in "The Gorilla” has all the laughs coming to him.

"The Gorilla" is the hilarious and hysterical mystery comedy which will Show arbe shown at the Majestic Theatre, Kow 6--Annual Flowers and Vegetables, City Hall. loon, to-day, in which Charlie Marray March 11-Volunteers full dress and Fred Kelsey combine to form a new practica parade, Murray Parade Ground, 5.80 p.m.

March 13-Volunteers Inspection, Murray parade

5.25 p.m.

screen team,

And one must not forget the gorilla himself. This is where Charlie Marray annual and his, pathas and comedy como in grennd, It is comedy for the audience to see him playing around cliffs,, house-topā, collars, etc., with a nine-foot, four hun dred pound ape-man, but, as for Murray, let the pathos speak for itself, Just place yourself in the samo predi cament and imagine the fun,

RADIO

[Under the Influence of fresh tales, talk which cannot alto- reports of Russian wheat exporta-gether be discounted, of things|| Ka tions, wheat prices at the close of most horrible done in soma parts the U.S. Board of Trade session were the lowest recorded, this sea-of India.

Bon.

Values were 'driven down 2 cents

a bushel in the last 15 minutes of trading and finish 2 to 2 coats lower than the previous day.].

EAST INDIES TIN

Substantial Reduction of Output Fixed

Occasionally some well-meaning

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME

person or organisation will try to The following programme will be rescue a beggar boy from the broadcast to-day from the Hong atreets or a girl "from a "brothel, Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. and lodge them in a good home. on 255 metres:- The case will be taken into court)

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"The-Gorilla": 'is an adaptation of: Ralph Sponco's stage play of the samb namo, and combines all the elements of fun and chills that made the legitimate Iverston bo popular in Broadway. Thi motion picture'ls a combination of the weirdest, spooklest mystery, and thê greatest comedy:'imaginable, tanmate

Murray and Kelsey' have the roles of the two dumb defectives, Mulligan and Garrity, whose greatest problem to keep together. The remainder of the cast includes Alice Day, Tally Marshall, Claude Gillingwater, Waltor Pidgeon, Gaston Glass, Aggie Horring, and Syd Crossly.

LEGITIMISED AT 81

by a man who (for all one knowa) 5-7 p.m.-Earopean Programme | 7771% may be in the syndicate er fin- of Victor Records. anced by it for the purpose, and 7.8 p.m.-Experimental Pro-

gramme.

will claim that the boy is his son never to be parted from him, or that the girl has reached the so-called aged of consent. In two such cases lately these claims The Board of Billiton Tin were antisfactorily disproved; but

The Hague, Yesterday.

serious crisia, and France is Mines has stated that, although the luck is often on the other

8-p.m-Chinese Programme. 10.30 pm-Close Down.

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Daughter of a Crimea. Soldier

In the London Divorca Court re- cently, before Mr. Justice Hill, a declaration of legitimacy WAS

threatened with a trade boycott the Dutch East Indies tin produc-side. The little hunchback, as a "Rather hard on people if they whose parents were

granted to an 81-years-old widow should she listen to the pleas of ers have maintained a fairly matter, of fact, refused, the offer always have to find the shop

the White Russians and search the Soviet's Paris premises.

The Kidnapping Experts Kidnapping is much in favour with the Red Secret Service in deal ing with "disloyal" Russians.

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pany is disposed: in the general terrorised. It is impossible to So said Mr... T. S. Whyte-Smith The petitioner was born In interest to fix production for the know.IVA next working year on the basis Prudence, timidity, apathy, or at the Kowloon Magistracy this Croydon. Her father lived in oh mean production in the last the very difficulty of the problem morning, to an unemployed Chin Scotland til, at the age of 18, he three years.

ese who was discharged on enlisted in the Scots Fusiliers. This will mean it is hard to say which has charge of the unlawful possession He served in the Crimea and after fairly substantial reduction com-hitherto restrained the authorities of a pair of trousers, suspected of his discharge in 1860 settled at pared with last year. Reuter.

from any serious efforts to get to being stolen,

Dorking Meth the roof of the matter, or to dis. The defendant estated that He Mn Tyndale, for the petitioner, it up and destroy it if they have had bought them last year, and said she was interested in the over found It But it is a good that he was carrying them to the will of a nephew who died in- opportunity for the Calcutta Cot pawnshop to pawn for some money testata in 1928 leaving more than when the police caught himla £7,000. If she succeeded in the petition she would take one-ninth of the estate,

POLICE SUPERINTENDENT'S -LEAVE

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stop at a particular stopplus Hong Kong, is proceeding home on place, were taking the law into long leave on the P. & 0, 80. their own hands was the observa.. Macedonia, sailing on Saturday, tion made by Mr. T. 8. Whyte- Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy, this morning when he fined 1 D.

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