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THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1930.

America are not the only places ROUND THE CINEMASA YANKEE ABROAD. where unemployment is rifa; that

Hong Kong can show compara- Glimpses of Our Cousins Egypt's Great Plague tively just as good results of in "New York Nights.”

economy and wages-reductiona.

Or perhaps they have not even

"BOOZE" PARTIES.

considered the matter.. Perhaps "New York Nights,” which started

Spot.

(By De Witt Mackenzie.)

•

The world was startled to learn,

they say: "We are sorry for these fits ran at the Queen's Theatre yee-through the League of Nations, men-but, business is business, terday, is a "red-hot" pleture of night that Egypt has more than 500,000 [you know."

life in New York, with glimpses of back drug addicts, out of its 14,000,000 stage intriguo 'Sentiment, which may be non-"booze" parties in night clubs, and the tots of six years.

A large theatre, population. Some are said to be

aense, is apt to become blunted by inevitable "necking,"

The theme of the picture is the illicit

Perhaps the outside world has our concentration on profits. Pa- love of the theatre boss, who is also been more astounded than Egypt. triotism, of which, we all of us head gangster, for another man's wife. Cleopatra's land always has been jooast, is apt to become blurred. The wife (Norma Talmadge) in a naughty. If it worried about morals pretty chorus girl and her husband it never lost any aleep. The Nile ut what answer have we to give (Gilbert Roland) is a composer of songs has had some pretty grimy linen these unemployed Britons in who never knows when to stop once he washed in it at one time or another.

sterts drinking "moonshine." Hong Kong,' some of whom fought| This leads to scenes between him and This gateway to the seats of the Port Said is Egypt's plague spot. or us during the Great War to his wife until on her birthday he pre Pharaohs didn't get the title "cess- nd war?

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mises to turn a new leaf, but the crook

manager (John Wray) who wants pool of the East" for nothing. Norma but is continuously spurned by Drug taking is a mild evil compared her, aces that Gilbert breaks his pro-to others in this seething port. mize. Ho persuades Gilbert to take

All That's Bad this just one drink as a toast to Norma.

I have been in some tough places orning fined $50 by Mr. A.W. G.H. After one drink it was easy to make in many countries, but never on- Grantham for giving short weight Gilbert drunk and easy to get him to countered such filth as in this city

"neck" with another chorus girl.

A salt-fish monger was

› customers.

The Canadian Confectionery has panod a new Soda Fountain, and hope to be favoured with customers luring the hot season.

'A

third chorus girl, a great gossip, sees of myriad tongues. the "necking," and she tells Norma all about it.

Port Said lies at the point where Orient, Occident and savage Africa The Green God,

converge. Perhaps because of this Norma breaks, with her husband and it is the bottom of the whirlpool into Roce to the manager, Another man which is sucked the flotsam and makes love to Norma and John (the jetsam of evil from many nations. H.M.S. Medway and H.M. sub-manager) shoots him. John is taken to arines Oswald,

the Police Station and Norma goes Otus and Osiris

her husband, now reduced to ■ hobo.

Lawless Desert

So much has been said recently

It's only fair to say that Part Sald doesn't represent moral stan will arrive in Hong Kong from the with him. In the station Norman meatsdards for all Egypt. "Very likely United Kingdom during the month she still loves him, so she pays his bail Egyptian cialdom is as much of July.

and they leave together, resolved to distressed as anyone could be. start anew in another city, Yeung I-kwai, alias Yeung Yeuk. John guts ball also and forthwith sats would like to remove, but inds Every country has blemishes it wan, who died in Honam on No-his gang to kidnap Norma at all cost, difficulty in doing so. zember 10, 1929. left estate in even if it was necessary to shoot her Hong Kong valued at $92,000. husband. The underlings fali, so John Another Honam merchant, Li Kam- 50s himself for revenge for what he

huen, who died on May 6, 1990, calls double-crossing him. But in the about child marriage in India that eft estate amounting to $28,800 meantime detectives had been put wise most people overlook the fact that many ways they are of benefit to

In the Colony,

to John's double e, thanks his it is fairly prevalent in Egypt. underlings "equealing" after their ar the trade of this Colony, and we

Some of the customs of the desert On a charge of the unlawful pos- and pounce on John at the critical mo- not be charged against Cairo and Two detectives hide on the train tribes are shocking. But that can- are glad and honoured to have session of 57 cattles of wild tree ment in the quarrel between him and Alexandria.. them.

As is only right, they ranches and shrubbery, six Hakka Norma's husband, leaving husband and employ their own nationals, with women paid fines of $5 each at the wife to go off happily on their second themselves. No government would The Bedouins are a law unto perhaps a

Kowloon Magistracy this morning, honeymoon, full of resolve to few Chinese clerical Inspector Elaton sald that the happiness at last.

be able to change them except by force of arms.

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DEATH

The Robert Dollar Co, regrets to

announce the death of Mr. K. L. O'Hoy, their Compradore. The on Friday afternoon, April 4, at which time the Company's Office will be clos

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Hong Kong, Thursday, April 3, 1830

WELCOME, RUSSIANS!

It is wise to be hospitable; it is a Christian virtue. This applies to individuals and to nations. All great nations throw the gates of their cities open to the stranger from an alien land. It is difficult

for none but à Bolshevik to enter

We are more

grass.

a licence!

rest,

"Legs O'Nations" Intrigue Marines.

BATTLES OVER GIRLS.

find

In

WHOSE TOBACCO ?

Man & Woman Charged in Court,

and a woman

trespassers camouflaged the fresh- The White Russian exiles, who cut tree branches with dried have suffered so many privations) since they fled before the Revolu A Hakka rikisha puller, who per- tion have, we recall with sym-sony went to the Police Station pathy, no country, nor have they report an accident, was found

The League of Nations has for business

to be an unlicensed driver. connections in

At the its objective world peace! the Kowloon Magistracy this morning "The Cock Eyed World," the "Legs appeared before Mr. T. S. Whyto-

A Chinese man Colony. They are obliged to de- he was cautioned. It was stated o' Nations" cause more real fight Smith at the. Kowloon Magletracy pend on local firms to provide for that he produced an old paper, and ing than a half dozen revolutions. this them employment and, being a thought that he could use that as

morning Meaning that Edmund Lowe and with the unlawful possession of charged jointly Victor McLaglen, of "What Price 07 b. of datiable tobacco at 332, pretty girls though the war is, more Glory" fame, are still fighting over Reclamation Street. than ten years old.

A second charge of seiling with ont a They are still in the Marines and ought against the man.

-retailer's licence age healthy Briton. Indeed, such as out with her employer's baby Nicaragua and other countries, In- for a week's remand, which was is the astonishing power of self-in Kennedy Road, she was attacked cluding America and always in-granted.

Revenue Officer Young applied denial and "simplicity" of the by a Chinese at the foot of the path trigued by a pair of shapely limbs. Russian, that he is known to sub-Bowen Road. The ruffian approach limbs that most intrigue. "Top Ser-ed that Mr. J. M. d'Almada leading to the Military Hospital, Their amoura continue and the the woman, while it was intimat- Mr. F. H. Loseby appeared for sist on less than a monthly salaryd her from behind, knocked her geant Flagg" and "Line Sergeant Remedios was appearing for the of one hundred and fifty dollars. to the ground, relieved her of her Quirt" are those of the beautiful first defendant. Some of these Russians are skilled wedding ring, and decamped, in their various trades and pro-

people of simpler needs than our- selves, are content with much

Mrs. J. S. White, nurse employed smaller galaries than would Mr. Hewitt, of St. Paul's College, satisfy, even physically, the aver-hat at about 5.20 p.m., whilst share seeing the world visiting Russia, reported to the Police last evening

Royal

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Gunner Coe, of the fessions and obtain, with that Artillery, and three comrades got a clever trait in the Slavonic char-wetting in the harbour yesterday acter, posta na highly paid as five run in Gunner Coe's sailing boat, afternoon whilst they were out for and even seven hundred dollara a Caught by a sudden

gust of month. We are glad to have such wind

concerned. whlist sailing down'

All of which makes the a body of trained and efficient men the boat was capsized and all four World" which is an all talking Fox

central fairway in the harbour, Walsh effort, "The

for much hilarity in this Raon) Cock Eyed

Lily Damita for whose affections

Bail in the sums of $1,000 and they wage bitter war. Likewise $700, respectively, were allowed. and Jean Bary, an American beauty. Lelia Karnelly, a beautiful Russian, are causes of a series of battles. them in so far as pretty girls are Geography медле nothing to

Random Reflections

FROM THE EXPURGATED DIARY OF TUOK SUN PAO

Hong Kong, Yesterday! Maskes bimby makee go world side, and everybody talkee maskee. World blong velly small, and any piecee junk can makes go world alde. Ah Ching makee talkee my world side, one piece Bank that bimby when Maskee makeu

and one piecee Hong Kong newspaper than makeo go too.

MANIA FOR CLOTHES.go

in this Colony, the majority of soldiers were thrown into the water Movietone picture coming next we whom are, in addition, willing to They hung on to the upturned boat to the Queen's Theatre. accept low wages, and we raise until they were pulled out by Leung our hats to those British firms Li-tsin, the master of a passenger who have the-we will not say the worse for the ducking.

sampan None of the soldiers was patriotic, but at least, acute- sense of business and economy to employ them. At present there are no restrictions imposed on Russians who desire to enter the Colony. All that is required is

BODY DUMPED.

Mystery of Man's Death Solved.

Contre Street. The presence of.

The

Habitual Thief Sent

to Jail,

My

My talkee Ah Ching, maakee, All good newspaper men maker To-day Li Fook (33), pleaded stop Hong Kong elde, and s'pose Great Britain, and in the United that they shall be possessed of ad the discovery by the Police of the Smith charged with thefts of only blong sorry for the sharks.

Yesterday the China Mail report this morning before Mr. Whyte chow chow for sharks, maskee, he guilty at the Kowloon Magistracy any newspaper man wantches makes States the foreigner is invited by sum not less than one hundred body of a Chinese on the Connaught clothing from Chinese residents

can makee do, what he like. the example of others to set him- dollars, and that they shall be Road Praya, near the function of of the Shamshulpo district.

Maakee, I talkee you something self up, his goods and chattel, on / White and not Red. The question nark of strangulation on the neck detective, was wearing

Accused, when arrested by Peak side. My no

more. Yesterday my makes go American soil and, after some of political colour is determined ed to investigation by the locsi fackets which were too big for him My hear too much ho hà

several

see anything. Оле formalities, to call himself an by a Russian employee of the Gov-CID., as to the circumstances sur The discovery of many pawn tickets plecae man makee alles same taipan American. In Great Britain and ernment who examines the passounding the man's death.

fashion. My too much laugh. led to the recovery, of most of the Bimby pleaty shroffs makes come ports or other credentials of these dentified at the public mortuary ita, Colonies

body was subsequently stolen property." Ant particular; there is not people.

is that of Tang Chik (48) s foki ofthefts carried out?

His Worship: How were these man puttee his hand in pocket side. and too much trouble makee. This the same lawlessness, the Let us glimpse at another pic. No. 8 conservancy junk, who was same undignified democracy to ture. In this Colony there is a hanging himself on board, the junk climbing on the verandah of

but no can find one pleca copper itated to have committed suicide by plied that they were mostly done by smoke, and then be blong velly Detective-Sergeant Meadows XB- cent. He bo got money to buy ure the alion of every type, number anot inconsiderable whilst she was lying off the Fraya, an empty house on the post floor. sorry he makee stop Peak side. respectable and ignoble, to citizen-mber of able-bodied British ear Jardine's wharf. ship.

subjects. They have no jobs; This has resulted in the Police you were in prison for 21 daysfackdaw. no

His Worship (to accused) "Well, in mission school.

This blong all same I'makce read One pleco Hence that proportion of Ger- they are destitute, or would be resting four other fokis of the about this time last year."

can makee ali same man, Scandinavian, Italian, and but for the generosity of friends, inderstood that they will be charg unk for dumping the body. It is

peacock. Gallic blood which is in the aver-Associations and, more dubiously,

My talkee you more to-morrow.. Briton in due largely to an the Government. We are an odd older cause, than that which has race, that we should be so hospit evoked a similar phenomenon in able to others, and not to our own America

people. Perhaps that is the true

This, the accused admitted, id before a Magistrate in dao of three months' hard-Isbour on The Maglatrate passed sentence our...

each charge, the terms to run consecutively making nine months in all.

CALCUTTA RIOTS.

Calcutta, Yesterday.

In Hong Kong, more than in chivalry! Not all of these men The death roll In yesterday's other of our Colonies, we are hos are undesirables or degenerates;o-day, the buffalo carts plying as A fots totals six. All was quiet

NOTIFIABLE DISEASE. pitable A true sign of our reat-not every one is unwilling or unfit soal, the police patrols having case of small-pox, all Chinese, Three cases of typhoid and one ness is the generous welcome we to work. Some have lost cen withdrawn, and the shops were reported to the Medical Om extend to the llen whether he be their employment because they inving reopened with business German

cer on April 2007 refused, with that sense of dignity back to normal-Rauter

diver

Ten Years Ago

[From: the "China ·Mall," April 3, 1920.1

Today's dollar is worth in

A local peper says it is wide-

ly known that a very old resident

of the Colony has offered a gift of £25,000 to form an endowment tand for St John's Cathedral and The first report of the Greater a similar and to endow St An London Regional Planning Commits drew's Church, Kowloon.

vocates the creation of joint. It is equilly widely wn that

which would co-ordinate on his aerial in this en planning, schemes of local yarı zaro, thizer