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Banished in 1923 for a term of ten years, a Chinesʊ disobeyed that order by returning to the Colony. -On
appearance before Mr. T, 3. Whyte-Smith to-day was sentenced ORDERS to eight months' hard labour.
FOR THE CURRENT
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A Chinese boy named Hong Shun, two years of age, of 67 Portland Street, Yaumati, is now in the Kwong Wah Hospital suffering from scalp wounds 'received when he fell off he bed and struck his head Wolfe, C.M.G., Inspector-General Orders by the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. against a spittoon. His injuries of Police, state-
although painful, are not considerad zerious."
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The China Mail doubtful whether the measures and Ward contributed a song call 5.30 pm. sharp.
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"FAST COMPANY."
BOMB IN COURT...
INFERNAL MACHINE INSIDE PORTALS.
POSSIBLY COMMUNIST.
AFTER 83 YEARS.
ARCTIC GIVES UP GRIM SECRET,
FRANKLIN'S FATE Fort McMurray, Alberta,
Saturday.
Leipzig, August 30. An Infernal machine was dis< covered' to-day by the ushers in- General.
side the portal of the building of Revolver Practice. The regular the Reich Supreme Court. The A fire alarm was received at lary) will take place at the Bowen bomb which proved to be compos
weekly, revolver, practice (volun-police were called and removed the Mongkok Fira Station
Road Revolver Range on Wednes-ed of, a hand grenade filled with Saturday night about
day from 5.30 p.m. to 7 p.m. o'clock
It pleric acid and connected with an Changsha Street,
will be open to all ranks of the alarm-clock. Shamshuipo, and two
Police, Special Constables, Indian gince were despatched. On ar-
Experis after careful examina- fval on the scene it was found all persons holding permits to the bomb would not have created Company. Police Reserve, and to tion declared that the explosion of to be only a chimney of a Chin- use house on fire, and that was
any serious damage. On the box very easily extinguished.
Police Training School. containing the tomb there were The weekly classes for Police drawn the Communist emblems Reservists at the Police Training but it is not yet known whether ROUND THE CINEMAS School, Kowloon, will be held to- this points to Communist origin morrow at 5.30 p.m. All members or to a trick by other extremists of the Chinese and Indian Com-intended to draw a herring across FIVE COMPOSERS WRITE SIXpanies, and of the Flying Squad the trail. The matter is now
SONGS.
who have not yet passed Part 2 under investigation by the police. of Training Course should attend. Trans-Ocean Kuo Min. "CHILDREN. OF PLEASURE.”
Winter Uniform. Members of the Chinese, Indian, i Five well-known song writers Flying Squad and Sharpshooters' are associated with the musical Companies are warne: to get their features of "Children of Pleasure," Winter uniform ready; those who Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's romance are not in possession of same will · of Tin Pan Alley which will be at apply to their respective Equip- the Queen's Theatre to-morrow. ment Officers.
Fred Fisher, composer of the
Indian Company. smash hit "Dardaneella," con- Revolver Practice. All ranks of tributed four numbers, "The Bet the Indian Company will attend ter Things In Life," "Leave Itat the Bowen Road Revolver
The tragic fate of the Franklin That Way," "Girl Trouble," and Range on Wednesday at 5.30 p.m. Arctic expedition, when Sir John "Dust," which is accompanied by a sharp for revolver practice under Franklin was lost 83 years ago, black-face revue.
Musketry Instructor E. Carpenter. is now reconstructable from dis- Roy Turk and Fred Ahlert com-
Flying Squad.
coveries of relies made by Major bined on the words and lyrics of The weekly instructional patrol Burwash, Canadian Government. Australia far from being in this The Whole Darned Thing's For place to-morrow. Fall in at Taim- pilot, Gilbert.
Lawrence Gray's big song.number, of the Kowloon Section will take explorer, according to Burwash's ideal position, but it is gravely You." and the team of Montgomery tra-tsut Fire Brigade Station at There is evidence that some of Dress-Khaki the adventurers died of scurvy, she is taking will not aggravate
ed "A Couple of Birda."
uniform and cap with khaki cover, and others, starved to death, Harry Beaumont, director, in- The weekly instructional patrol her troubles. She is ruthlessly cluded several vaudeville skits and of the Hong Kong Section will orderly fashion, were found, in Several graves, arranged in an cutting down her imports. That night club revues.
take place on Friday, Fall in at dicating that the men died one by the Central Police Station at 5.16 one, and may, indeed, be a gain from; one
were buried by their Dress-Khaki unicompanions. point of view, and it may not hit]
pm sharp.
Bones and skele form and cap with khaki cover.
Lons the Old Country so hardly as some
were discovered in rocky "Fast Company was on view Sharpshooters' Company.
cairns, also are inclined to fear.
Riot Drill. Riot Drill will be bearskin trousers, and
a jacket, a pair of But, if it yesterday and will doubtless be
packing them in for some days to carried out to-morrow. Members coverings. means any reduction of exports come at the Central Theatre. will fall in outside Queen's Pier During the flight the remains also, it will make it more difficult "Fast Company" has to do with at 5.15 p.m. sharp, and proceed of the derelict ship were seen.- for Australia to pay what she al-a "bush League" ball player, Jack by motor transport to Kennedy Reuter'a American Service. ready owes externally.
Oakie, who plays baseball so well Road. Uniform if possible. Mem- that he is signed by the Yankees. bers will bring their rifles, trun- What is worse, it betrays no He leaves his little old home town cheons, revolvers, belts and hol- consciousness of the fact that the and is plunged into the fast com- sters. A full attendance is desir real trouble is elsewhere. In so pany of city-bred girls and biged. far as Australia has been suffer-tower of strength on the Yankees will be carried out
League players. He becomes tho Rifle Practice. Rifle practice ing from an excess of imports, it and they win-the pennant. Then Hang Rifle Range on Sunday at Members will assemble was because those imports repre- comes the world's series with 10 a.m. sented, not a healthy exchange game to be played on the morrow, both rifles and revolvers, as some With the deciding on the range at that time with but reckless borrowing, and that a number of upsetting events pro-revolver practice will be carried est son of the Dukes of Brabant borrowing has gone largely to inject themselves into the pathway out during the morning. Uniform (the Crown Prince) will in future fate costs of production, which turns him down, and a gang of available on the range.
of success for Oakie. His girl optional, Ammunition will be be known as the Comte de Hainaut. are the main cause of Australia's smart gamblers make him difficulty. Australia has been too unwitting dupe. All seems dark
D.S.P. (R.) much
"the working man's when a very happy twist of fate Paradise," and that sort of proslovable hero.
saves the day for the boastful but roles they created in the stage version of "Ris Rita.", Dorothy perity has been forced like a Everybody who ever read, Lard- Lee, the baby-talk comedienne of hothouse plant. It could not con-nor's stories will want to see this "Syncopation": Helen Kaiser, one While the majority of people in tinue in that artificial condition Ring Lardner story, and Director Georges Renavent, French stage Mr. Bernard Shaw, in address-
pleture. It is based on an original of Ziegfeld's "glorified" girls; this Colony, thinking of Austra- for ever, but now that borrowing Sutherland has exerted all his star; Don Alvarado and. Nick de Ing the LLP. Summer School, said lis, think in terms of cricketers or has been checked, how is the directorial ability to have the Ruiz, former tenor of the Metro- the Government should produce a kangeroos, there are for some prosperity to survive? The only famous slang dialogue, of the politan Grand Opera Company, are new Reform Bill, establishing a others very much more serious re-way is economy all round, but play. Jack Oakie is what show-
great humorist injected into the others in the large featured cast. now Constitution, abolishing the Much of the film was photo-party system, and giving Home flections on the position of one of there will be a desperate struggle men call a "natural" comedian for graplied in technicalour. The sets Rute to England. Scotland, and our greatest Dominions, and the before the Trade Unions in the part he plays. He is a brag and costumes which dress this Wales, and should fight the next one nearest to Hong Kong. Aus-Australia are convinced that youth, and his comedy-cracks col- Grande country are the most sump the people be made to understand
ging, happy-go-lucky,.
of the Rio election on it. romantic operetta likable
Only thus could tralia, indeed, may be potentially economy must include first and lect hundreds of laughs.
tuous yet seen on the sound screen. the reasons for Labour's failures. the greatest and should be the foremost a reduction in the ex- All the advantages of sound re-i
Labour had been expected to pro- most prosperous of these. She actions of Labour. They will duction. You hear the fans yell- cording are brought into the pro
"THE LAST COMMAND.” has an enormous and widely diver-fight fiercely to maintain their ing, you hear the players razzing
There were packed houses at all machine expressly designed to pre- duce results with a Constitutional performances at the Majestic sified territory; she has a prac-artificial standard of living and the other team, you hear the crack Theatre. yesterday when Pare vent such results. The dole polley You hear the mount's silent production, "The should be organised into national was ruinous. The unemployed tically homogeneous stock of Bri-probably nothing but bitter ex-of hat on ball. tish race; she has the most varied perience will convince them that spoke." Evelyn Brent is swell as American "slanguage as she is
Last Command," opened its aca. resources and an admirable clim-fit cannot be done now that the the city-bred girl who finally falls
Mr. Emil Jannings, the noted ate (except in the arid interior); artificial support of borrowing for Oakie. "Sheets" Gallagher is character actor of "Way of All she is far removed from the inter- has been withdrawn.
the quick-tongued manager
Flesh" and "The Patrlot" fame, Is national troubles and dangers liniy
Oakle, and Gwen Lee is the blonde the leading player with Evelyn and comedy girl friend who helps Brent in a splendid cast which in to.mess up the progress of the loya Visaroff and Nicholas Soussanin. cludes William Powell, Michael plot.
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SAVE AUSTRALIA.
which beset the -Old World.
Everything suggests that she
should be the envy of the world,
News in Brief.
Lieut. Col. F. J. C. Wyatt, O.B.E,
both at present and in the future. MC., R.E.. accompanied by Mrs.
Pittsburgh.
!}
"RIO RITA."
their
of
son.
on the Tal
(Sgd.) D. L. KING.
Once again in this Alm does Jan- nings win more laurels for his out- standing acting, which is second to none, He has the role. of a Rus-
BELGIAN HEIR.
OFFICIAL DESIGNATION ANNOUNCED.
tent
Brussels, Saturday.
In connection with the birth of douin, a decree states that the old- an heir presumptive, Prince Bau-
-Reuter.
NEW REFORM BILL, SUGGESTION OF HOME RULE FOR EVERYBODY.
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labour corps.
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Ten Years Ago.
[From the "China Mall," September 15, 1920.J
To-day's dollar is worth 4/4 d.
*
Nightingale, head master of Kow- The friends of Mr. G. Franklin
Yet, to take a small illustra- Wyatt left for Home on board the The voice that has been the talk Bian General, who, when turned of tion, we had recently the storya. Mantua on Saturday. Col Wyatt of Hollywooll this season will be by revolutionista, finds consolation loon British School, will regret of two stowaways who, failing to during his stay in Hong Kong had heard from the screen of the in a studio In Hollywood, as an to hear that he is lying in find employment, endured the shown himself to be a cricketer Central Theatre next week.. setor, where he dies.
of high merit, ? most frightful tortures, in their
It belongs to Bebe Daniels and The next change at the Mafcatic treakdown.
Japan, suffering from a nervous desperation to ze by thoi To-day, Chan Wah, a house coole lobe the picture Theatre, warring Adolphe Menjou
will be heard singing the songs of Theatre will be "A Night of temporarily acting na head maator. Mr. A..0. Brawn is
Australia, while, on the national employed at 8 Humphreys Build- operetta sensation,
and. Evelyn Brent. scale, we read that the Federal, and stated to be a very good in all the revolutions and sur
Ten Years Hence. worker, pleaded guilty before Mr. prises talking pictures Government is forced to take the T. 3. Whyte Smith to the theft of brought into the film industry, most drastic and perilous mea a plece of wood from a building nothing has created more of sen- aures to save the country from fined $8, and a coolie from the remarkable singing volce possess site in Carnarvon Road, He was sation than the "discovery" of the bankruptcy."
Y.M.C.A. volunteered to pay It. ed by this favourite of the silent
Obviously, there has been some- thing very far wrong with the management of things.
screen
have
From the "China Mail" of September 15, 1940.]
"THE BATTLING BUTLER."
lionaire, with a band of servants at Portraying the role of a mill-
Berlour-faced comediam, is the cause ing the erection of an awnlog his beck and call, Buster Keaton, the A correspondent writes suggest- of much laughter in "The Battling from the Star. Ferry wharf to Ico the Star Theatre to-day only. repetition of "scenes" in typhoon Butler" which is being screened at House. Strest-to-save-a-continual-
crowds
scrambling for rikishas and
Sergeant J Feely to-day charged Opposite Bebe in the filmver a Chinese before Mr. T. S. Whyte sion of Flo Ziegfeld's most famous Keaton is the leading man, and Sally weathor owing to the Immi-
Smith with the larceny of $60 in musical show will be seen John O'Neil is the girl. grants should be pouring into the Hong Kong currency and $1.20 in Boles, erstwhile favourite of the The film is one big laugh: from chairs. country, eager to enjoy the bless Chinese money, the property of a musical comedy stage, and the beginning to end. Kenton, in the ings of an earthly Paradise; the woman living at 17 Hong Lok tenor most in demand in talking attempt to got the girl of his heart, country should be able to absorb sentenced to three monthe hard
Street, Mongkok. Accused was pictures.
The cast which has transferred
displays his prowess as a pugiliit., In view of the continued. In- many millions and find them all labour. Sergeant Feely stated that the Broadway hit to the sound Marion Davies In The Red Mill" Is Protection Association is to be To-morrow and Wednesday; crease in renta -a" now · Tenants' a prosperous living. The State the theft was carried out during the screen is a large one and includes the attraction, while from Thurs-formed, which, it is asserted, will finances should be the healthiest woman's absence, and when she many favourites of both stage and day to Saturday will be screened publish the names of all taxanta returned she found the accused la screen. Bert Wheeler and Robert Laura La Plante and Neil Hamilton who pay ofor a certain figure to in the world. Yet, not only is her, apartments...;
Woolsey will be seen in the comedy in "The Love Trap."
be laid down by the Association.
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