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DEATH

SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1930.

Alm producers the world over, for RELIEF SHIP AT ST.

even

among British films it is! understood that many of the com-|

panies are trying to force the sale'

KILDA.

ISLANDERS..

A vivid account of conditions on the Island of St. Kilda, in the

COUPLETS.

A wet sheet and a flowing nea Curtailed the trip of our "Maskee." Should auld acquaintance be for

got?

of bad silent pictures with one GREAT REJOICINGS AMONG THE good sound film. This is certainly not a policy that will help the British film industry as a whole, Happily British International Outer Hebrides, was given when Not when the creditor's a Scot.

the Fleetwood steam trawler Harry Films are not guilty of this fault. Melling arrived in port recently. O Caledonia, stern and wild, at least in regard to their dealings Laden with relief stores for the Why are your sons so quickly with the East, for the Australian islanders, the vessel left Fleetwood

riled?

exile of Erin

Exhaling sedition and adours of

Films (Malaya) Ltd., have com- on April 16, and when the trawler There came to the beach a poor dropped anchor in Parson's Bay at pleted an agreement that leaves them the loophole of rejection in the event of a film being unsuit able for screening.

News in Brief

The ferry service between Hong Kong and Aberdeen has been dis- continued.

The name of Mr. Cheah Khay Chuan, M.B., B.S., has been added to the register of medical practi- tioners,

It is notified that the name of The Hong Kong and Japan Estate Company, Limited, has been struck off the register of companies.

midnight the next day it was ac corded a great reception, followed by a general holiday and rejoicing on the island,

herrin'..

Now fades the glimmering land-

scape on the Bight Sandy after Rubble Burns night.

Describing his voyage Skipper Quirk sald as he knew the island-Said ers were short of food he madej | full speed for St. Kilda. When apoj proaching the island he noticed a solitary light in one of the houses, and before he had got anchor down But not. alas, those chits signed he saw the door thrown wide open.

A

Heaven from all creatures hides

the book of fate,

after eight.

-JOK

RADIO

few blasts on the trawler's whistle announced to the islanders that the relief ship had arrived, and immediately lights appeared in every house. Within a short time

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME. the islanders had launched their small boat, which was soon along-

The following programme will be side the trawler. A large stock of breadcast to-day from the Hong Kong provisions, comprising potatoes, Broadcasting Station Z.B.W, on 385 onions, cabbages, butter, and metres:---

Bells of Shandon Israel March Intermezzo

.Meale

.Petrali

.Lind. .Cullen.

Costa,

.Mascagni.

Savoy Orpheans.

bacon were transferred to the 12.00-1 p.m.-Organ Recital by small boat, and eight bulky bags Mr. G. Longyear. It is notified that at the expira- of. mails were also loaded. On Fountain Melody tion of three months from date the shore the whole of the inhabitants Allegro Moderato

Suite No. 2 International Trading Company, had gathered carrying lanterns. Limited wil, unless cause is shown Describing the scenes on shore, to the contrary, be struck off the Skipper Quirk said: "The island- regiatoř of companies and be dis-ers were greatly relieved when we 1-2 p.m.--Programme of H.M.V. Aplyed.

arrived, as they had been living on Records by courtesy of Messrs. meal and water and salted fulmar. Moutrie and Co. Sheik Kassim Moosa, clerk, who Though they were food hungry 7 p.m died at No. 1, Chi Wo Street, Yau- they were also newa hungry, and "Lids Lady" (Selection). mati, Kowloon, on September. S. when the bags of mails were open- 7.08 p.m. 1929, left Hong Kong estate to the ed at the house of Mr. Ferguson, "Getting a Mator", persons attended films weekly. value of $10,300. Probate has the postmaster, there was a scram-

Constance Colller and

Ronald Squire. Apart from those who are lucky been granted to the widow, Ayeshable for letters. Everybody WAS at the same scon reading letters or opening enough to participate in the finan-Moosa, residing

address, the executrix appointed parcels, and fires were lit and the "My love is like a Red, Red Rose", cial success of so important an in the will, to whom everything is cooking of provisions startad." 7.23 p.m. industry, the political aspect of bequeathed.

Skipper Quirk said there was no "The Arcadions" such a valuable means of pro-

school for the children the next!

7.32 p.m.- day, some of whom had been with "Faust" Ballet Music, paganda cannot be allowed to sink

out footwear for weeks. Continu- into insignificance. For it means

ing, he said that all the thirty-two

7.40 p that if one country keeps the

islanders, except one or two very "Glory of the Sea",

AN EXPERT.

Lies!

7.17 p.m.-

John Turner.

(Vocal Gems),

Light Opera Ca

Royal Opera Orchestra, Covent Garden.

monopoly of this industry, its George Washington Told old men who have spent their livesThe Border Ballad"..Peter Dawson

ideas and more than often false impressions of life in western "ountries; will be gradually assimilated in the all too impres- sionable minds of those who at-

and films regularly.

* *

CHERRY TREE MYTH.

Paris, May 11. George Washington was one of the most expert llars that ever lived. Such is the verdict of Mr. Rupert Hughes, the American historian, There are always who is completing the last two of Tread More those who laugh five volumes on the life of Wash-

Softly.

and say that no fngton. He is in Paris making re- searches into the War of Independ one takes

ence from the French national films seriously; they are enter-archives. tainment and their scope is Mr. Hughes has destroyed the limited to that. That may be true George Washington was a plaster American schoolbook theory that to a certain extent in Europe, saint,

the

but here in the East, the Straits "It was not difficult," he told me. Times reminds us that we must "to explode the cherry tres myth, tread more softly, for there are but I must say that Washington's Hes were mostly military lies and

manoeuvres to deceive the British.

"Washington's saintliness was also relative. He did not blaspheme, but he swore volubly on more than tableau which flickers before their one occasion, particularly when he eyes in the darkness of the accused General Lee of cowardice. cinema.

there, want to come away. "They 7.43 p.m.- have gone through such privations "Evensong Easthopo, Martin",

Herbert Dawson, Organ. this winter," he added, "that they

7.82 Do don't want to face another."

"Lilac Time,” Vocal Gems,

-'8 p.m

on

ESTATE TRAGEDY.

Accused Said to Be Insane.

Kuala Lumpur, June 5. "During the eight days I had been

Light Opera Co.

"Sanctuary of the Heart",

Reginald Fuort (Organ). 8.09 p.m. "Down in the Forest",

"O Flower of all the World";

Waiter Glynne, 8.15 p.m.- "Patience", Selection,

8.23 p.m.-

Coldstream Guards.

"Sweetheart" (Strauss),

Wood-Metexa

the estate I suffered from "I'll see you again". (Bitter Sweet), `malarla. One evening I felt con- 8.32 p.m.-

fused and giddy. After that I knew "Gipsy Love", Tamil coolie, standing In the dock nothing." In these few words, a

before the Hon'ble Mr. Justice P. H. Farrer-Manby and two assessors at the Selangor Assizes yesterday, de- scribed his experience of a terrible tragedy.

International Concert Orch.. 8.40 p.m "Spanish Serenade",

Spanish Dance No. 1",

New Light Symphony Orch. 8.40 p. "By the Big Hawallan Waters",

Reginald Foorte.

YOUNG PIK-CHI. ~ Mr. Young Fik-chi; at his residence at No. 126. Kennedy Road, died on Friday, June 13, 1930, atmillions who view films purport were used да genuine war Having arrived at a rubber estate 8.53 p.m. 6.00 p.m. The remains willing to depict Western life and be removed to Canton for have no other idea of European burial and friends may life and codes of morals than the pay their last respects at the Hong Kong, Canton and Macao Steamship Company's Wharf, Connaught Road, on Sunday, 15th instant, between 3 and 4 p.m.

Hong Kong, Saturday, June 14, 1930.

STILL WATERS

BIONS.

SIR C. CLEMENTI.

Medicine.

Slogapore, June 6.

A medical witness stated that down at 11.30 p.m. to-night until

accused was at the time insane. Monday at 11 a.m.

He was formally acquitted of It is understood that the plant murder, and sent to prison, ponding will be closed down for necessary the decision of the British Resident repairs and improvements to tho of Selangor-Malay Mall -

FALL FROM WINDOW

European Injured at Penang Hotel,

transmitting apparatus. It is quite certain, however, that the Broad- casting Studio will offer even bet- ter service than before when the changes have been made.

HoWe should all know some- thing about first aid to the injured.

She: I believe I'd know what to do for most emergencies.

He: Suppose a person swallowed polson by mistake?

eight days previously with a friend, "Bird of Love Divine", they both

"Valley of Laughter", obtained employment |

Mavis Bennett, Soprano. there. On the night in question, # p.m.-Weather Report and the mandor's wife in the next room Dance Programme, of Victor Re was awakened by the sound of some-cords, by courtesy of Messrs. thing being struck against the Moutrie and Co. The great American hero was a bad boards. Her husband ran out, and

11.30 p.m.-Close Down. tempered man, but he possessed the seized the accused as he was run-

Temporary Suspension. rare power of keeping his temper ning out of his room in blood stained The public are notified that, in Film producers as under proper control on most occn- garments. The man's behaviour order to carry out necessary re- Racial amusement pur

that evening had been peculiar, and pairs to the transmitter there will Questions vevors do not enre

"It also acems that Washington the mandor, peeping into the ac- be no broadcasting from Z. B. W. did not pray at Valler Forge, eused's room, found accused's friend the Ignored.

Broadcasting much

Hong Kong about the

Pennsylvania, as history has fre- | lying dead, fearfully hacked with an station to-morrow. racial questions that viously said, nor did he attend axe.

Z. B. W. will, therefore, close may arise; they are blind to all church with regularity. His favour- At a moment save the financial success of their ite occupation on Sundays was Test Cricket when the whole venture. A troupe of "peppy" dining long and heavily with friends, or fox-hunting." Dally cricket world dancing girls is to them the essen- Mail. has its eyes centred on the first tial appeal of the average screen Test match between England and musical show and therefore they, Australia, anxiously scanning the must be included. But actually newspapers for the very latest the dancing girls, who are nor news, they are "let down" by mally scantily clad, have not the Opens New College of Reuter's News Agency. Not a entertainment value that the word came through from Home average producer thinks, nor the yesterday, in time for the after appeal. The story, and the tune- noon newspapers here. There ful music will last and it is no vas complete silence în respect to the actual team to take the field se trying to bolster up a weak idea, or hackneyed tunes or weak against Australia; not a syllable as to the state of the ground; and lyrics with leering, leggy lassies. One soon grows tired of this nothing about the prospects as

eternal parade. viewed by the experts at the eleventh hour. In short, Reuter has not "played cricket" by either the public or the Press here. Doubtless the Press will make a

Dr. Hoops, in the course of bis He had come from Ipoh the pre-To-day'a dollar la worth 3%. formal but emphatic protest in ingly curious as to what the country had defective teeth, hotel register as an engineer. due course against this kind of British films will offer in the way inaugural address, spoke of the devious day and Intended returning 75%d. treatment, but it is as well that of talkies, for on their quality, a sire that the College should develop by the night mall yesterday.

into a medical faculty of the Univer- Some time ago Mr. Robertson had Over four hundred passengera great deal depends, apart from ally of Malaya, but His Excelleney, a stroke, but had apparently re- who travelled, from Macao to Hong the general newspaper-reading

the flippant appeal of a musical while stating that he would do all covered. Ex public should know at the earliest

Kong by the Sul An to-day were Indignant with the responsible possible moment where the fault comedy. Here in a Crown Colony in his power to bring that about,

harbour authorities. their success matters a lot for reminded his hearers that even

though the Government provided Reading over the replies to his A Chinese fireman, employed on though numerous excellent pro- half the annual income of such a advertisement for an organlat, the the ship dropped dead with heart the auctiona

nated from University, an endowrasnt fund pro- clergyman came across this failure, and on arrival in Hong Kong 'merica

of hopeless ducing not less than £40,000 per Dear sir, I notice you have

e forthcoming from vacancy for an organist and choir- wiched be yeary must be

other sources and In addition a very master, either lady or rentleman. apere capital sum would be needed Having been both for several years,

I beg to apply for the position.” that this is a wealmess of for building purposes-Ex

Flirazreza film &indi 34Industry

walll be co

mind that about

British Films.

Havé

She: Give him plenty of mlik. He: Correct. And now. what do

Penang, June 5, At the E. and O. Hotel shortly His Excellency the Governor, de-'bofore six o'clock yesterday oven. livered his longest address since ing a European was seen to fall coming to Malaya when he opened on the lawn from the second the new academic year of the King forey of the new wing. He was Edward VII. College of Medicine picked up and first-aid was ren- you think should be done in a caso yesterday. In the course of his dered until the ambulance arriv-of drowning?

She: Have a funeral. speech he expressed the hope that ad, when he was rushed to hos- before long there would be a Gov-pital, where he was found to be ernment dental service in Malaya, suffering from severe injuries to Like the Straits mainly for work in the schools, the head and ankles, photog Times, we be since it was estimated that 75 per The man is Mr. St. John cant of the school-children in the Robertson and is described in the come Increas

Ten Years Ago

(From the "China. Mall”

June 14, 1920,] ---

signals were made calling for both the Health Officer and the Police. Passengers and all had long wall of the Health Officer, and to any more is not necessary