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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1930:

THE

CHINA MAIL.

ECONOMIC MISSION TO FAR EAST. ROUND THE CINEMAS REBEL FORCES NOW

Statement by Mr. Gillett, M.P.

Cotton Sub-Mission. Attached to the Mission will be a special Cotton Sub-Mission. This body has been appointed in view of the special position which the cot

It is part of the Government's portion of British trade with the policy for assisting trade that Fur East. Economie Missions should be sent from this country to visit other selected countries for the purpose of studying economic conditions aml the measures which should be taken, by industries in' this country to en sure the fullest development of our export trade,

The Overseas Trade Development Council of the Department of Over- seas Trade have had under careful review for some time the principal features of British trade with cer- tain Far Eastern countries, notably China

The

"LET'S GO PLACES" A LAUGH TONIC.

Fox

TWO ADVENTURERS,

DISARMED.

(Continued from Page 1.)

has wired to Yen Hai-shan for hav ing put down his namie กะ Д member of the Central Executive Committee of the

Yen Hsi-ahan's HQ:

.Peking. Sunday,

assert, the audiences at the Queen's obtaining his willingness.

If laughter is a tante, as doctors Peking Government, without first Theatre should be in a healthy con- era! Chang continues that in dition this week.

Gen-

order to avoid further misunder- poft trade to the Far East. ton trade holds in the British ex-quantities fenture "Let's Go Places," Wellington Koo. Tang Yi-woo and Mirth and merriment in large standing he has summoned Dr. Sub-Mission will work la co-opera-vaganza which headlines the pro

Movietone musical

extra-Lo Wen-kan back to Alukden. tion with the Main, Mission and its gramme at the Queen's, and which chairman is also chairman of the is attracting: many by, its humour Main Mission. The Sub-Mission and its originality. contains représentatives of various

Up to present a place suitable for sections of the British cotton in-bers and a background of Hollywood shen's H.Q. at Peking has not been Several spectacular ballet num- the establishment of Yen Hsi- dustry, from both

em-show spots, as well as its irresistible found. Yen intends to reside in ploying and the operatives'

songs are also responsible for much Sishan' where Chao Pe-nien of the film's popularity.

proposes to have his

* QUBE. Joseph Wagstaff and Lola Laneters established, while Cho enuet important roles in this enter-Chi-chun suggests Tung Chise

sides,

the-

of

From

the nature constitution the Sub-Mis- sion will thus be able to carry out a most detailed technical study of the cotton trade in the Far Easting story of two adventurers Min Hang by giving the rea and their conquest of the screen son that Sishan may be raided by Walter Catlett, Charles Judels and is therefore not yet solved.

Frank Richardson, Nationalist 'planes. The question

comedy. Dixie Lee and Sharon Ilka Chase foratshing most of tho Lynn are also the groups in this picture, directed represented among by Frank Strayer.

its After a careful study of all the available information the Council came to the conclusion that 4 Mission to the Far East would have beneficial and far-reaching re sult to this country. This view bas the fullest support of the Gov- ernment, who have decided tirt an Economie. Mission should be sent tix the Far East and that ther

and its report and recommendations capital, with should be of the greatest value to the British cotton industry.

I may state that Lancashire has zonsidered the despatch of a special Cotton Sub-Mission to the Far East should be attached to it and work-to be of such importance that the ing in co-operation with it a succial Cotton Sub-Mission. The constit tion and terms af reference of the the Sub-Mission are given in detail in the official state- ment, of which copies have been handed to the Press.

Mission and

Reasons for Mission.

I should like, however, to make a fuller personal statement as to the reasons for the despatch of this Economic Mission to the Far East and as to the results which it is hoped to attain

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Catton Industry has agreed to make agrant of £6,000 towards expenses. The Government is extremely grati fied at this remarkable response to the needs of the situation and this concrete evidence of the interest which the trade takes in the pos sibilities of expansion in the Far Eastern market,

"CAUGHT SHORT."

The customary quiet of

a big

A man leaped out of a barber's shop half shaved.

Kwangsi Situation.

the middle of a traffic inter-section.

A chauffeur deserted his car in

A woman tore from a hair- dresser's shop, her coiffure done upstate of slege, "permanent waves."

the funny pins that bring

And that Wild the ner in which Chuck Reisner "Caught Short"

in

man-

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Canton, Yesterday, With the occupation of Per yang, the 8th Route Army have headed for Chinkiang from threa directions: the centre column un der the command of Wong Yam- resort hotel was broken by the Eadier General Ych Shao of the

the left wing under wan;

Bri- raucous cries of news boys crying 59th division and the right wing extras.

under Colonel Fan Tch-shing and. a contingent of the 63rd division, Our Rivals Advancing.

The above forces reached their It is well known that the posi-

objectives on the 6th. After tion of British trade with the Far

several hours' East is

encounter the re- bela not satisfactory and that

entrenched themselves whilst our trade has been more or

Chinklang, ivhich fa now in a It is proposed that the Mission of our rivals

less stationary of recent years, that

A contingent of the 50th divi- and the Sal-Mission should pro- rapidly.

has been advancing

sion pre There may be an impres

Bow stationed along ceed to Japan and, after a short slon that the Chinese market expressed la

Kwelhsien and Kweiping, a por stay in the latter country, go on to

one which As regards the visit to tivating in Chi ca.

tion of the Training brigade along worth culis not

version of what happened Pingnum and Monghow and a Japan, this to some extent will be sunate disturbances which have the bottom

view of unfor on that fateful "October 23," when brigade of the 63rd division are a courtesy visit and in the nature

taken place during

fell out of the of a return of the visit of the

patrolling Mongkong and Tang- the past market. few years in China, but this im- Japins Mission which came

"Caight pression is

Short," this entry in 1922, ander the pre-spite of internal disturbance the on Friday, is

most unjustified.

the attrac

tage in plundering villages. The upper tion at the Queen's Theatre

as far Admiral, therefore, determines to Ridency of Baron Takuma Dan,

import trade of China is making ier-Pally Moran talking comedy: the 8th Route Army.

a Marie Dress-45 Kweihsten are now occupied by stay in Hoihow, personally to great advances every year, and last based

direct his marines in clearing all As regards China, it is proposed year her total foreign trade re- ty debacle. Other players include on the famous securi-

these outlaws. He will not return that the Mission should, after call-gistered a record vaine.

to Canton. until all these bandits ing upon the National Government for instance, the

In 1928, Anita Page, Charles Merton. T. Roy

Agency. are exterminated.-Canton News at Nanking, spend several months in

imports Barnes, Herbert Frlor, and Nancy amounted to £170,000,000, an ad-Price. visiting the more important cen vance of £24,000,000 over the pre- tres in China where British trade

vious year.

In this advance Great has been developed in the past and Britain is nut taking her proper where it is considered that there place and it will be the principal are prospects of future develop-duty of the Economic Mission to the Maude Adams to new heights of, rent, The main districts to be Far East and its Sub-Mission to glory has now been transplanted to and to sug-the screen as an all-talking motion

picture.

Prospects in China.

to

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visited will be Shanghai. Hankow. ascertain, the recons if possible, Northern China. Man-gest remedies. churia, and, in Southern China, the

in

.net

No Pigeon-Roling.

In

stock

yuan.

The districts along the West River from Wuchow

"THE DOCTOR'S SECRET."

The dramatic vehicle that swept

Barrie's renowned play, "Half an The rights to Sir James M. Hour," were acquired by Paramount and made into a full length all- talking production under the titlo the Overseas Trade Development of "The Doctor's Secret," and will Council to make abundantly sure be presented at the Central Theatre that reports of Economic Missions to-morrow. are discussed in detail with the

distri.t around Canton. The Mis I should like to say that on the sion study the present position return of the Mission there will be of British trade, the methods of no question of their report being trading and manufacture now pigeon-holed. nse, transport and marketing, the

It is the policy of tastes and preferences of customers, and a questions affecting the sale of British goods in the Far East. They will consider what recom- meniations can be made for the improvement of British trade and the stimulation of British exports to the Far East.

The main Mission includes presentatives of the following:

Ruth Chatterton, H. B. Warner. Robert Edeson,

trades concerned and that plans John

Loder,

is stage train-

C.

Mille,

are devised to give practical effeer Ethel Wales, Wilfred Noy and to any recommendations that may Nancy be made by these Missiona. One of enst

Price compriae the which the great benefits arising from this, William re-policy is that British industries famous stage and screen director. learn at first hand what they must not only.directed the production but

adapted the story as well.

their trade with foreign countries,

The cotton industry, the wool in-do not only to retain but to develop dustry, engineering (iron and steel) and the co-operative movement. The Mission also includes a trade unionist member and the Special Commissioner to the Overseas Trade Development Council. The im portant industries represented on the Mission cover a very large pro-

While there is a whimsical touch I will conclude with wishing the ovident in most Mission and the Sub-Mission every such as "Peter Pan," it is not so of Barrie's play, success in their enquiries and ex- evident in "The Doctor's Secret." pressing the sincere hope of the This is a play of dramatic inten- British Government that these will sity, filled with suspense and ruth- be attended by most fruitful re- less realism, and plerced with flashes aults.

of almost aardonfe humour. It is W

one of Barrie's finest plays, "Half planted to an Hour," and with its being trans-

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audible of the draina may be assured of entertainment, film fans and lovers perfect enjoyment.

TONSORIAL CONTEST a heyday of snipping, scraping and

Iron brandishing.

About an hour later 70 men had FREE HAIR CUTS AND SHAVES received free trims, free shaves and

IN TOKYO.

..

"HUNTINGTOWER."

free curls. They also received pay- ment for submitting themselves to the ordeal. Most of them agreed that, their improved appearince made it Acting for the silent moving plc- worth while although the barbors, intures and singing for phonograph their haste, were not especially gen-recorda gives one much the same the in turning heads.

sensation, according to Sir Harry

"In both cases,"

says Lauder, "the audience is an invisible reality.

Seventy paid customers received 70 shaves, haircuts and hair-curls in Tokyo recently, and most astound- ing of all was the fact that not one

Before the big contest the barbers Lauder, the famous Scottish Hatened to an address by one of the comedian and songster, whose first had to listen to his barber'a views

promoters of the event. The day film vanture, "Huntingtower" - Is on the market of the weather. has passed, the speaker said, when now showing at

The accasion

the Majestic was the con- a barber's shop is a placa merely for Theatre, Kowloon. test held at the Hibiya public clipping and scraping. Barbering auditorium to award the ton-has become an art. sorial title of tho Kwanto, A man is often made or broken I always act my songs whether or winning team receiving by the style in which his hair is not my public can actually see the trimmed. Another important fea- motions because putting the feeling ture of the art, he said, is speed of the words and phases Into my The record holder, an American, facial and body expression helps trimmed a head of hair in 40 me to catch the human, sympathetic | seconds. This astounding informa-strain in the words more com tion, the vernaclar newspapers state, pletely. was greated with many an involun-

the

a championship pennant indicative

of its proficiency in the art, ·.

The contending teams consisted of picked men, each group representing a barbers' guld. The actual con- test consisted of each barber giving s hired customer the "tensorial works" and his ability was gauged |tary "san,” by judges who based their decision

"In acting for motion pictures.

I felt the words each succeeding motion would call forth If I were ports, Lauder's art has lost none of miss the actual presence of the According to the Press re-acting on the stage and I did not

Its appeal in the screen appearance.

audience to any great extent

Sir Harry. Lauder has been a

en the victims' before and after ap- find. pearances, upon the speed with which the job was turned out and upon the barber's choice of style of hair-cut for his patron.

Each contender had to give a demonstration of hair-cutting, shave ing and hair curling (many modern boys it seems go in for the last) In not more than 35 minutes.

In this picture Vera Voronina, the favourite of the concert and Russian actress, who has made many vaudeville stages of every city in cluding an important part with Emde countless phonograph recorda successes in the United States, in- the world for a generation. "He has leading part. Jannings in "The Patriot," plays Scottish songs in the Scottish A dialect which every one of ovary BeottiaHuntingtower won praise lo "Huntingtower" is an entertain nationality enjoys.

The stage was too small for all 70 | Ing story of a whimsical

men to work at once so they were

| grocer⋅ who geta – mixed Finan London, where it was first ahewn and

divided into two groups, the "cua Internationaiintrigue,

tomers" were placed in the chaira and the next few minutes brought

Lauder was hailed as a true screen

the Majestic Theatre

(Continued at foot of preceding

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Chairman of Council.

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Peking. Yesterday. It is now reported that Marshal Yen Hsi-shan arrived several gangs of bandits hid here last evening. It is announc-

ehow are still taking every advan- to-morrow morning-Reuter. and the eastern sector of Kiung- of Chairman of the State Council themselves in Five Fingers Hills ed that he will take up the post

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