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THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1931.

Great VICTORIA LEAGUE IN get the automobile into the

Powers over to his side. Britain is old in diplomacy, how- ever, and it is extremely unlikely that Mr. Henderson will fall for

ཉྙཾ ༄་ LONDON.

such superficial bait. Diplomatic Assistance to Overseas recognition will only be given to

Britons. the Sun Fo-cum-Chen-cum-Wang- Ching-wel faction,when the over- throw of the present Nanking regime is complete, thus signify-don, among its other activities.

ten feet of water. Such were the methods, engineers were compelled to resort to during the war to keep. bridges and roads clear for the

troops and supplies.

Jung Collyer is the tallesi girl played opposite to Gary, who Miss COMMITTEE IN COLONY.

standa. 6 feet 2 inches. Collyer as the society girl ambul- The Victoria League in Lon-inches with whom Gary, a captain ance-driver, measures 5 feet 5

ing the changed opinions of the renders assistance to British of the engineers in the scene, is in love. Others who support the world who go Home, more espe-Durkin, E. H. Calvert, Mary Foy, cially for purposes of education.pd Dearing and Morgan Farley, If, on the other hand, Mr. Chen The Lengue is prepared to re-all noted cinema players

Chinese nation as a political subjects from any part of the cast are Regla Toomey, James

entity..

and his proselytes are sincere in der assistance in the matter of More than 250 ex-Service men.. their belief that justice has not finding quarters, advising on edu- including 100 who served in the cational matters, as far as pos- been meted out to foreigners in sible helping in regard to admis-Engineers Corps, appear in the China in the past, and he has sien to the universities, giving battle scenes. They were recruit- ed from the American Legion and every honest intention of rectify-facilities for visiting places of other ex-service organisation in

ing these political errors of a interest, and generally in bring Hollywood.

ing students into contact with still undeveloped British social life. The League The picture, on the whole, is a

young and Republic, he has our best wishes, has kindly consented to renderne production, with par-real war our congratulations, and our un-such assistance to British sub-scenes. It has given justice to the conditional support. He would jects going Home from Hong men of the Engineer Corps who have seen action in the world war. Kong. enter history as the than who

Paramount reseffrch department A local Committee has been in preparing for this Gary Cooper's saved China from the slur of in-formed, consisting of:-

Colonial, Secretary, (Chair-that these troops were increased a latest picture, discovered the fact

man).

hundredfold during the war and the ratio of death casualties in the battle among officers to similar casualties among enlisted men was

A.

justice and underhand, petty dealing, and, by his efforts, his' country would blossom into land of equity and sound states- manship worthy, to stand beside the great nations of the world. But he has yet to prove himself!

Vice-Chancellor, University,

(Vice Chairman). Secretary for Chinese Affairs. Director of Education.

Hon. Mr. S. W. T'so, 0.B.E., higher with the engineers than

with the infantry, artillery cavalry..

LL.D.

Mr. T. N. Chau. Miss Alice Kwok.

Inspector of English Schools,

or

There was a regiment of en- gineera with each division of sol-

(Education Office), Joint diery. In case of an advance, the engineers went forward with the Honorary Secretary.

News in Brief. Captain B. Montague Ede arrived by the s.s. President. Wilson to-day. Such persons as may wish to tured enemy positions by revers- avail themselves of the assistanceing their face and repairing shell damages. In the case of retreat .Ore

typhoid fever of the League should apply to they form part of the rear guard, case of

one of the Honorary Secretaries demolishing roads and bridges or (Chinese) was notified yesterday.

with a view to obtaining a letter

Mr. Tso Tsun-on, Joint Honor-division, bridging streams, repair- ing roads, consolidating the cap- ary Secretary.

of the Foreign Minister is signi- ficant. "It may be taken as

The lowest open air temperature to the Secretary of the League in electing obstacles to delay the While all special enemy pursuit. sincere gesture of friendliness

yesterday was 70 degrees, The London.

troops were spared as much fight- toward all the foreign nations humidity at 10 am. was 87 and at that are in diplomatic relations 4 p.m. 84.

with this Republic. They may

Yesterday the Customs Office at rest assured that Mr. Chen will

Canton was open as usual, the do nothing that may in any way river steamers from Hong Kong

injure or jeopardise the legitim-and elsewhere going alongside ate interests of foreigners peace-their own respective wharves with- fully residing in China and carry-out any hindrance. ing on their lawful business..

ROUND THE CINEMAS as possible, the engineers were

NANCY CARROLL AS A DRAMATIC ACTRESS.

"LAUGHTER."

As a dramatic actress of the

always regarded as available to be used as infantry in case of emer- gency, and were frequently detail- ed to hold and defend by hard fighting the trenches they had 'con- structed, A romantic love story adds more interest to the picture..

Män "The

From Wyoming,"

Cheung Sai-kai (24) of 13 screen, Nadley Carroll is making a which is showing at the Central The foreign Press in the Treaty McDonnell Road, is suffering from strong bid for honours in that Theatre to-day and to-morrow, has an equal appen to any class of 10 to ex-service mon. Ports and elsewhere in China electrical scalds, thought to have category.

In "Laughter," the Paramount people (sic) has consistently complained been caused by contact with a live

talkie now playing at the King's Everybody should see it and appre fuse. He was removed, to the

Theatre. Miss Caroll scores a great jciate it. It is a treat to see the that Chiang Kai-shek did not Government Civil Hospital.

triumph, her more recent success fallnrit Gary Cooper as a soldier- 'play the game' with friendly

Her ability kind of hero again in "Fighting foreigners in China. He gave A woman, Chan Fee (20), who being "The Devi's Holiday" with now, and then see him as another

occupied a room in the Empress Phillips Holmes. orders to declare extrality abol- Hotel, is suffering from the effects act in dramatic roles is more than Caravans." another 1931 Para- mount production which is coming. of which evidenced in "Laughter." ished when some of the treaties of poisoning by carbolic

Her leading man is Fredric to Hong Kong very soon. would not expire for another two she is alleged to have swallowed.

serious.

to

or three years. Chiang has ad. Her condition is not considered March, who gained fame in "Sarah "PRINCESS' AND PLUMBER:"

mitted his blunder, but it is. too late..

." The article then pro-

Williams

and Son," "The Marriage Play- ground," and "True: to the Navy."

Romance up to date is the theme Chan Kaw, a barber's "foki," was One has judged March as an actor of the new Fox Movietone, "The ceeds to quote from our article this morning charged before Mr. capable of handling serious roles, Princess and the Plumber," featur- at the Kowloon Police but in "Laughter" he intimately ing Charles Farrell, which opens word for word and, what per-Court with the theft of an electric displays his skill as a comedian.

The story is founded on a good at the King's Theatre next.

Time was when only a prince Hong Kong, Thursday, June 11, 1931. haps should be more gratifying massage machine, from the Wong

in love could marry a princess, bụt. In to our vanity, actually agrees Size barber shop at 493, Shanghai

Street. Five weeks' imprisonment with a poor musician, and so she these modern days almost any- with it without reservations of

marries an elderly and wealthy thing can happen. This is es- was imposed.

banker taken by Frank Morgan),pecially true in Daritzia,

a little

Mr. Chen's Red Herring. any sort.

theme. Miss Carroll is

Owing to the fact that the Kow-who simply dotes on luxuries. Her Balkan principality, whose lonely This friendly overture of Mr.

loon Magistrate, Mr. E. W. Hamil-happiness is found not in love but princess is Maureen O'Sullivan. What is tantamount to a direct Chen toward the China Mail ton, is at present indisposed, the merely in gorgeous jewels and rich The arrival of a young Amerlenn reply to the China Mail's leading (whom he "bmits to mention by cases in the Kowloon Magistracy finery. One day the musician re-engineer and the ensuing love article of May 28, entitled "A name, however), would be taken were this morning heard before turns from Paris unexpectedly, and affair makes the film highly enter

Mr. Williams. It to understood his entry into the Morgan home taining, with plenty of comedy and Land of Turmoil," appeared in by us as a flattering tribute to that Mr. Hamilton is suffering from immediately changes the atmos- surprises occurring before the the Canton Daily Sun of June 5 jour political foresight and saga-a severe cold.

As the picture is unwound, final fade out.. we see that Miss Carroll confesses and raises several points of great city were it not for the fact that

For doing wilful damage to a that her happiness is all pretended,

phere.

political significance on the we seem to have been deliberate brick wall in Kimberley Road two and that she is "dying" for laugh- question of extraterritoriality ly misunderstood. In criticising Chinese were at the Kowloon Magister It would be unfair to tell the

the

a

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“A MAN FROM WYOMING.”

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CALCUTTA OUTRAGE.

Brahmo Missionary's Widow !

Strangled.

Navabidhan Brahmo Samaj, was

found strangled on her bed at her' house at $4, Upper Circular Road, Calcutta.

and the recognition of the rights the failure and short-sightedness tracy this morning fined $50 or a rest of the narrative here. of foreigners in China. The of Chiang Kai-shek we were not month's imprisonment. For

As the musician, Fredrië March Daily Sun was launched only attacking either his Party or his theft of 27 bricks from the same is splendid, whilst excellent support about two months ago and is the moral abilities as a leader; wether two weeks' jail.

wall they were fined $10 or a fur- comes from Glen Anders, Diare

Ellis, Leonard Carey, and Ollie Mrs. Soudamini Majumdar, widow official organ of the new political were not siding with Mr. Chen

Burgoyne.

of the Rev. Pratap Chunder The programme also includes a Majumdar, a coadjutor of Keshub party which as arisen in the South and his Southern faction and conto ateal," said Lin Sui-lan in the Paramount pictorial, and a screen Chander Sea, the founder of the

"It was my intention to go there against the regime of President veying an innuendo that their Kowloon Police Court to-day, when song, which features George Dewey Chiang Kai-shek. There is every policy had our support. We sus- charged with being found on the Washington.. reason to believe that the leading cribe to no particular Party in premises of 98, Parkes ·~· Strestį article in question was written China and whatever Party is in shortly after 3 a.m. He admitted

An ulmirah in the room was by Mr. Eugene Chen, because an Power is of no concern or inter-to jall for four months.

a previous conyletion and was sent

War time exploits of the Ameri- found open and its contents, were article by Mr. Chen of similar eat to us. We are concerned

can Engineer Corps are effectively strewn about on the floor. From wording and style appeared about merely with the protection of

Mr. P. Vickers, of 80 Cumberland reproduced in Gary Cooper's latest this it is believed that robbery was the same time in China Truth. foreigners and their rights, and Road, Kowloon Tong, has reported starring film "A Man From Wyo, the motive of the crime.

to the Police that his chow dog bit ming," showing at the Central This is the second murder of a The China Maz, in its leading the legal recognition of the terms Mrs. Blandford, of 9 Middle Road, Theatre to-day, in which the gal similar nature which has been com- article above referred to, drew upon which our extrality rights on the face, whilst she was on lant Gary portrays a captain in mitted in the jurisdiction of the attention to the fact that "the in China have their basis. If we visit to his residence at ten o'clock that famous branch of the A.E.F Amherst Street police station, new faction promises to entertain welcome the friendly attitude of serious, and Mrs. Blandford was

last night!

within a week. In the first case The injury was not of America.

A pontoon bridge 150 feet long the mother of Mr. B. C. Bose, an friendly relations toward the out the new faction in the South to treated by a medical practitioner, and 16 feet wide was smashed by advocate of the Calcatta High side Powers and such a cordial outside foreign: Powers, and to

shell-fire explosions for one of the Court, was strangled at No. 1 overture as this cannot be lightly Great Britain in particular, it is

scenes. The bridge was built over Patanteln Street." astream, the outlet of Malibu Mrs. Majumdar, who had, the re- regarded by those who entertain for this reason only, and not be

Lake in California: Dynamite putation of being,a rich woman, had for the Canton powers-that-be calise we believe that Mr. Chen

blasts, producing the effect of ex-lately made a trust of her entire the belief that they will be vic-possesses greater, moral qualities

ploding shells, sent the structure property, worth about Rs. 50,000, terlous in the forthcoming cam- than Mr. Chlang. At the same terrier, died recently and was burl- the explosions throwing huge Samaj,

Snip, the King's favourite Cairn flying into splintors, the force of for the benefit of the Navabidhan paign." Mr. Chen goes even fur-time, knowing the Foreign Minised in a corner of the flower garden chunks of timber 50 feet and more. She was 84 years old. ther than that, and says that heter of old, we are not entirely free at Sandringham. Salp used to ac- into the air. Safety lines were does realise that at present there of the auspicion that his new-company His Majesty wherever he drawn fifty yards around the exist "special circumstances found friendliness is but a red two years ago no one was more ere while Cooper and his men dar- went, and when the King was ill bridge for the protection of work- created by the deadlock diplo herring drawn across our path concerned than she. She would ed death and possible injury work macy under Chiang Kai-shek's He is careful in his article, tolle for hours outside the door, and ing in the scene.deal personal dictatorship which sug-promise nothing direct or definite had to be tempted to leave her past An ambulance was sunk to a gests the expediency, in dealing in regard to the extrality nogo which Snip possessed, however. The ambulance was sent speeding even for meals. One bad habit watery grave in another scont

with the problem of treaties in tiations, and is only using the was that of chasing the pigeons in over the bridge until it reached. terms of reasoned statesmanship, case of extrality, apparently, as the Royal gardens, and it. Is be-point at which a bomb had been The Fourth Submarine Flotilla as he puts it, rather than In the a pawn In his double game of in-leved that this led to her untimely planted. The explosion turned the serving on the China Station sent manner of a L.M.C.A. 'drive. " duencing opinion against Chiang end. When she died a post-mortem car.od fte side and tore a gap in the sum of £996-176.6d. to be dis examination revealed the fact that the bridge. Cooper and his squad tributed among the necessitoja The Daily Sun would have us Kai-shek and endeavouring to a feather, and lodged in the throat of engineers then rushed on to the dependants of the men who lost- believe that the above statement, win the support of the foreign 'ånd choked har............

bridge and with a mighty heave their lives in Submarine KD.

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