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SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1933

Famous Figures At The Conference. Attractive Personality Of Mr. T. V. Soong

GERMAN

LOYALTY TOO ·

EXUBERANT

Vulgar, Cheap Sentiment.

BUTCHER WHO EXHIBITED HITLER IN LARD

Berlin.

"Kitsch" is a useful German word

THE CHINA MAIE

To-Day's Short Story;

MURDER IN STUDIO C

By David Evans,

YRUS FORMLEY, the make-torust himself into his house, where up man at the Service Film]be had drunk about half a bottle of Production Company's studios, and had of whisky and had talked murder to his wife until he-Form- was having a bad day.

SOVIET AND JAPANESE DELEGATES meaning all that is vulgar, cheap Mr. Formley, and be had been bad-down. He had only known him

(From Our London Correspondent.)

Mr. T. V. Soong

(CHINA.)

Viscount Kikujiro Ishii

(JAPAN)

.

&

He was a nervy little man, was ley-could have screamed the place

sentimental, and commercial in the ly overworked of late. Day after week, too. Young Samson had come arts.

day, all four studios had been work-the day after the ... damn the mur- It has recently been approplated ing at nigh pressure, and three deri

of "My word. Cyrus."--the plati- by Dr. Goebbels, the young man nights out of four one or more responsible for enlightening the them had been occupied by directors inum blonde in the chair simpered German people as to the aims and making retakes of unsatisfactory "you are jumpy! What's the matter, Mr. T. V. Soong is the Montagu Viscount Ishil is probably the nature of National-Socialism, to de- scenes. And he had to be there the ducks? Nervy? I must say it's en- Norman of China. He founded the most distinguished, as well as the cribe the "vulgarisation of the Na- whole time. His job was to see to it ough to make anybody nervy, too, Central Bank of his country, and most experienced, diplomat who tional Revival", and its exploita that every face that was filmed was working here? What with the mur as Finance Minister controls the has ever represented Japan abroad. tion for commercial purposes. properly made up, and anybody who der an all.”

knows anything about film work He dusted her face with the pow erratic finances of the Chinese Re-

But while he and his minis- try of Propaganda have set

knows also what a responsible, der-puff, and his touch was a good themselves the task of stamp-

finicking job that is.

deal gentler than his thoughts. ing out these tendencies, they

He needed a holiday badly, if it "I expect you got upset, too, didn't are finding it very difficult to.

were only for the sake of getting you? You were one of the very last draw the line between "vul-

away from the bever ending talk to see her alive, weren't you? Poor garisation" and "legal" en:

about Fenella Lane's murder. He old Cyrus! They do overwork you." | thusiasm.

was in no condition to listen all day He was treated to a practice smile For instance,

people who thought in the mirror-a smile which earn- government and every day

public with the help of a staff of war, the Peace Conferences, and American experts.

For several years, during the

the many sessions of the League of He himself is a graduate of Nations Council, he figured at Yale. He is paying his first visit every international assembly of to England.

statesmen.

Mr. Soong has an attractive per. Bonality.

He has been successively Ambas- He is only forty-one,sador in Washington and Paris, Ibeks still younger, has an athletic

Japanese Minister of Foreign

Kai-Shek.

Mrs. Chiang Kai-Shek whe verted her husband to Christianity three years ago.

Mr. Soong began his career as Sun-Yat-Sen's private secretary,

Nations.

and

+

...

Of all the idiots he had ever seen

figure, and wears well-cut Euro-: Affairs, delegate to the Naval Dis-which has set such value on flags of nothing else but that. But evered the young lady same fifty pounds pean clothes. His spectacles are Ermament Conference, and chief and flag-flying can hardly forbid since Fenella Lane's body had been a week-and presently she was gone, slightly tinted. He is as erudite as Japanese delegate to the League of men to sell paper swastika flags discovered in C studio a week ago, having quite unconsciously, taken he is able.

and "windmills" to children on the he had had to put up with it. One with her the maledictions of the In the new China the importance

after another, actors and actresses overwrought Mr. Formley.. strects. In Paris and Geneva his cryptic of Mr. Soong's family has assumed

Similarly, sets of toy troopers, would come into his rom, seat them- He looked at himself in the big of his sisters is the widow of Sun. M. Briand once said of him after replacing the lead soldiers of aiselves in his chair and start talking mirror. No wonder they all kept on almost dynastic proportions. One utterances were famous. The late

telling him he looked nervy

and Yat Sen. Another is the wife and meeting of the League Council -Nazi generation, have long about it right away.

"Heard the latest about the mur-overworked. He looked ghastly, and ider?"! ficial Nazi supply depots.

"No arrest yet, I see." he felt it, to. He looked ten years forceful partner of General Chiang- that although Ishii's eyes always been manufactured and sold in of-

The seal of official disapproval, "What do you think about it. older than he had a week ago, The Soongs are all seemed to be half-closed, he saw Christians and modernists. It was farther and more clearly than any has, however, definitely been set, Cyrus?"

"I understand the po- His doar slammed and he jumped of his colleagues.

on "The Game of the National Relice know exactly who murdered round. Samson had come in without con- Viscount Ishii is 77.

vival"-a sort of "Snakes and Lad- her."... And so on, day after day. his hearing him open the door. Although he no longer holds any ders" with "Reds" for snakes. until the thing had got on Mr. Form-

"Why the devil didn't you knock?" public office in Japan, he still

After the instances of "National ley's already frayed nerves. exercises a powerful infuence over Kitsch" which are to be banned

"I did, old beany." He could not Meep at night for it. and was the chief witness of his his country's foreign policy, include Franfurter sausages in the His wife was as full of the affair as in his life, Samson, in his opinion, last testament-a document which jearly this year, as president of the form of a Swastika, cakes of the was everybody else. In fact, it easily took the first prize. A weedy- |

League of Nations Union in Japan, is read aloud on ceremonial occaled the campaign of protest against Hitler's portrait, pencils with the eating, sleeping and breathing the projecting teeth and no chin, and a same shape, fountain pens with might be said that Mr. Farmley was looking youth, with watery bhe eyes, the League's censure on the

Horst-Wessel song engraved on murder of Fenella Lane, and he felt voice like a squeaking door.. Ah, Japanese policy in Manchuria.

them, black-white-and-red ash trays that the time was approaching when well, one met some funny people in and paper serviettes, Swastika he could stand it no longer.

this business! What the devil the lamp-shades, and even-toilette) The telephone bell rang, and Mr. fellow was doing in a film studio be paper decorated with a Swastika. Formley gave such a start that he-Formley couldn't make out.

The portraits in metal, alabaster, nearly poked out the eye of the could not act. About the one thing he porcelain, and so on, which are yound lady in his chair with the eye-seemed good at was talking. lightly tolerated by the Kings of brow pencil. He picked up the re-talked everybody's head off ever since fother lands are considered a "Slur ceiver.

he had first made nis appearance Jon Germany" when Hitler's like- It was the chinles young Idiot, there.

ness is thus offered for sale. wrath of officialdom has been in- couldn't he make himself up? It was less face nearly split in two by that

The Samson, again. Why the devil

As Samson stood there, his chin-.

curred by a butcher of East Prus- a straightforward enough make-up: silly grin of his, Mr. Formley felt an sia, who éxhibited at a Trade Fair nothing unusual about it. Oh, well, almost overpowering impulse to take a portrait of Hitler in Lard, re-he'd better come next and get it him by the scruff of the neck, turn calling that of the Prince of Wales over. Cackling young idiot! He'd him about and boot him through the in butter at the British Empire Ex-insisted on running him home in his door. hibition at Wembley-Reater.

car the evening.., before, and almost

sians and has made "T.V.'s" name "known all over China.

He has on more than one occa- sion narrowly escaped assassina- tion. Two years ago in Shanghai!

station a gang of Chinese attacked

him with bombs and pistols as he stepped out of the Nanking

express. His secretary was killed

and six other persons were wound- ed. Mr. Soong escaped unscratch- ed.

His adventures have lessened

*

LATE MRS. S. ABBAS

Many Attend Funeral Yesterday.

“EAT MORE BREAD

MOVEMENT.

He

He'd

.But Samson seemed a trifle too friendly with one or two of the direc tors to be taken liberties with, Per- "haps he was some sort of relative of one of them. He certainly couldn't have got a job there on the strength of his ability alone. Brains 7 Bruins and Samson? The two ideas just didn't mix: ::

The funeral of Mrs. S. Abbas, the nonagenarian mother of Messrs. neither his fortitude nor his imper- A.R., Ali., and A. Abbas, was held turbability.

yesterday evening according to Muslim rites at the Mohammedan M. Maxim Litvinoff

jcemetery, Happy Valley. (RUSSIA.)

Flowers were

sent by Mr. and Aged 57. Born of Jewish parents Mrs. Y. Abbas, Mr. and Mrs. E. M.] at Belostock in 1876. His ren|Alarukia, Cicil Abbib and children,] name is Meer Moiseeff Wallach. Mr. M. Farid and family, Mr. and Assistant Commissar for Foreign Mrs. V. Franco, Mr. and Mra, W. Affairs, 1318-1930. To-day, full Hun. Mr. and Mrs. Eric Mitchell, Commissar for Foreign Affairs. Mr. and Mrs. D. E. da Roza, Colonel

A revolutionary from his early and Mrs. T. A. Robertson Mr. and) youth, Litvinoff had his first brush Mrs. Seto, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. B. with the Tearist secret police Silva Netto, jar. Mr. and Mrs. Yu when he was 25. He was arrested Hoi-sang, Mr. and Mrs. Yung Pak- in 1001 for running a secret print-way, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. E. Pereira, ing press and imprisoned in Kieff Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Roberts. gaol, from which he succeeded in Dr. H. B. Matthews, Messrs. remedy to reunité China," said Mr. The millers have launched an that. I've got a lot to do. They're escaping abroad. His most popu-Chan Cheuk-wan, Chan Hing. D. Bush, in the course of his advertising campaign in Britain going to start shooting in C studio lar pseudonyms as a revolutionary tong, Choy Man-hung, A. B. interesting address on "National to make everybody eat an extra inis afternoon; and that bunch will were Maximovitch, Gustav Graf, Harbord, Hoy Yuen, Lam Wun-Renaissance. in China," at the Y's slice of bread each day. It is a be here soo"

sang, Loh Chun, K. R. Laing, Li Men's Club weekly luncheon on strange thing, but since the war, Samson straightened the ridicu- He came to England some time Wing-kee, Lee Chong, Lam Vik- Thursday last. at Lane Crawford's there has been a drop of 2,500,000 lous white bow he affected and szun- Before the war and was employed foo, Lai Ping-yan, J. B. Macdonald, Restaurant.

sacks in the amount of flour con-tered forward to seat himself down

and Litvinoff.

LEGALISM NEED. IN CHINA.

Mr. Bush Addresses Y's Men's Club.

"Legalism is the most needed

British Millers Launch Campaign.

"Come on," growled Mr. Formley, "get a move on, and for goodness' London. zake don't stand there looking like

as a printer's assistant, working Mak Kow, Quan Wah, F. O. Reed, Dr. 3. W. Phoon, the Chairman sumed annually in Britain, ĝin thẻ chair before the mirror. ^** under the name of Harrison. Sum Wong, Sum Wong. Chan and of the Club, before calling on the One statistician has estimated "And "look here, Samson, my lad, Living in a little semi-detached Tong, Tang Yau, Tam Suit-pui, D. speaker to deliver his address, that, if every British family for God's sake'don't talk about that villa in West Hampstead, he gave G. Wilson. Yam Chak-chee, Yu Man- drew to the attention of the mem- bought an extra pint of milk' a damned murder. I Haven't heard Russian lessons to Englishrnen, in- cho, Young Ko-chun, Yip Yuk-bers present the Exhibition of day and an extra pound of home- the latest, I don't want to near the cluding Mr. Rex Leeper. of the ling, Ho Ping-kee, Chan Chak-kan, wood-carving work done by the Brown' meat each week, British latest, I don't know what the police Foreign Office.

C. A. Tsan; Chow Cheingwing. pupils of the Poor School which is agriculture would gain by are doing about it, and I don't-care.' When the war broke out he was Messrs. Kwong Nam and Co., maintained by the Club.

£100,000,000 every yar.

Now keep your mouth shut and keep -employed as a clerk at India House, Messrs. Lowe, Bingham and The articles will be auctioned Moreover, three more loaves quiet, there's a good cnap. I'm sick the buying centre for the Russian Matthews, Dre. Strahan, Kirk and among the members, and the pro- they say, would mean £26,000,000

of bread a week to every family, to death of talking about it." army. He left this employment in Nicolsen, Messrs. Wing Sang Co. ceeds will go to the fund being more a year to the farmers. 1917 to become, first Balshevist Messrs. Wong Siu Woon Co. raised for the opening of another, Minister to England. He took an Mesara, C. E. Warren and Co. Ltd., school for the poor in Kowloon." ¿Reuter. office in Victoria-street and was Mesara. Yew Sing. Co., and the ejected by the landlord. Although Chinese Staff of the Hong Kong not recognised officially by the Club. "British Government, he conducted unofficial negotiations with a Foreign Office representative' in St. James's Park

M: Litvinoff was arrested by the 'British Government in September, 1918, na reprisal for the arrest of British officials in Russia, and imprisoned in Brixton gaol. He

́was sent back to Russia in Octo-

ber. 1918.

THOUGHTFUL THIEVES IN SPAIN

Returned Borrowed, Car To Taxi-Driver

Madrid.

JUNK PIRATED AT NAM TAU.

Potato Cargo Taken.

"But my dear old sardine tin." squeaked the youth, settling himself down in the chair, "it's such a 'dash- ed interesting thing. Dash it, don't you know, one doesn't met so close ENGLISHMAN FOUNDS SCHOOL to a murder every day, and besides,

I've got a theory."""

IN CHILE

Mountain Retreat For Poor Children

Santiago, Chile.

"So's everybody else tho's been in [here every day this wek: The Barn

place is full of theories."

""Aha, but just you listen to this Jone, my pippin. This is a real hot] effort,, and I haven't told -azýbody

On the night of July 8, when only jone day out from Nam Tau, a small A summer holiday school for about it yet. I saved it all up for junk carrying a cargo of potatoes poor children, has been built in you."

was pirated by eight armed men. the Andean mountains near・ "For the love of Mike(72% 5” Mr.

The piracy occurred off the is-Talca by Mr. Henry Jenkins, an Formley began.

M. Litvinoff is a heavily-built Two bandits set. upon a Bar-land of Lin, Tin The cargo boat English philanthropist and re- "I think she must have been mur- man with pince-nez, a high-intel- celona taxi-driver, trussed him up was hailed by the pirates gave no sident of Talca,

dered while they were actually tak- lectual forehead, and a Grm mouth. in a tunnel and then borrowed resistance at all, and two men arm. He intends to take 500 chiling the folly old film, don't you He speaks good English with his car to use while committing ed with revolvers boarded the boat dren to his mountain retreat know." strong Jewish accent. His wife is ja robbery.

and bound the hands of their every summer.

*?" "What! The sudden exploston an Englishwoman, formerly Miss Before leaving him, however, prisoners with wire,

The building with electric made Samson blink with surprise. Ivy Low and a niece of the late they lent him an overcoat to keep The prisoners were then remove equipment, has been erected at "Yes," he went on, I don't think Sir Sidney Low.

him warm and allowed him to re-ed to the pirate boat and put in the a cost of £20,000 and it will cost that the girl who played in that M. Litvinoff is not without tain 2/6d, which they found on hold where they were locked up £2,000 a year to run. Mr. scene was Fenella at all." benevolente. But he remains hit him because he was obviously a or four days. They were put, Jenidas proposes to pay all ex-e waited for another explosion ter about Taariam, to which, as far poor, man “enofont plut sekian schore at Tai 0.

penses of the children, including from Mr. Formley, but that gentle- as is known, he has paid only one. Two hours elapsed and the・ Young' Ping and three other mountain transportation, school man seemed engrossed, In his work- compliment. On being released thieves returned with the car. Chinese of the Ill,fated Junk report ing, clothing and medical atten from Brixton he remarked to the As they disappeared into the ed the piracy at the Water Police tion, 47, 5) VE Foreign Office official who win ar-darkness they shouted Station yesterday morning The The Chilean Government is to ranging his departure: The Kieff "We thieves are not such a bad total value of the cargo of potades, supply teachers, and lesson books. -“gani, was; more comfortable and lot after all

and other property was. $361.50. Reuter. expler to escape from ["

Renter

say," the squeaky voice con- tinued, "I've got another ides, 100, think the chappy who bumped her off was left-handed, top.

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