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Brian Denlevy twice clears lovely Frances Dee of murder charges in "Half Angel," which will be shown al the King's Theatre soon.

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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1936

10,000 NEWSPAPERS IN RUSSIA

CIRCULATION OF OVER 37,000,000

NO "BOURGEOISE SO-CALLED FREEDOM OF THE PRESS”

Moscow.

Russian Communists, having openly abolished freedom of the press. nevertheless announce that they are publishing in 1936 more than 10,000 newspapers with a combined circulation of 37,000,000 copies, as compared with $59 newspapers in Rus- six before the revolution. Newspapers are published in more than 50 languages.

HIRING “A WHITE increased in Soviet Russia?

ELEPHANT"

Siamese Royal Yacht

COMMERCIAL PROPOSITION

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A scene from the Warner Bros. production, "Frisco Kid," which is now being shown at the Oriental Theatre.

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

In other countries where freedom predictable extent. The press of the press has been abolished or must assume the largest degree of restricted, the number of news-responsibility for applying the new paper readers has recently declin-constitution, for inculcating in ted How, then, does it happen every citizen a warm and holy

that newspaper-reading has great feeling of Soviet patriotism."

Li Sum, a bricklayer, was this, Lee Chan was admitted to the So-called "Freedom" In the first place, the Soviet re- But Communist

add morning charged before Mr. W. Government Civil Hospital suffer- writers

Schofield' at the Central Magis-ing from injuries reived when gime has greatly increased literacy. that the new constitution does not

Des Whereas in 1917, not more than provide for "bourgeois so-called racy with assaulting and causing he fell from a tram-car in

bodily harm to Chan Sing on July Voeux Road Central yesterday, 20 per cent. of the people could freedom of the press," They ex2 at the site of the new Queen and Choi Chan was also sent to the read and write, Moscow now claims plain that "there is no freedom of Mary Hospital, and was sentenced hospital when he received injuries that literacy exceeds 90 per cent the press in bourgeois society and to three months' hard labour and caused by jumping off a moving Secondly, the Soviet press has benever will be" One writer adds ordered to pay $25 to the com- tram-car in Johnston Road. come the mouth-piece of the dicta-that "the only honest press in

one month

One case each of smallpox and enteric fever were reported to the local Health authorities during

torial state, which controls every bourgeois countries is that which plainant as compensation for loss phase of human activity in Russia, struggles against capitalism, the of wages, or to serve an additional Penang. A Siamese has been and the ruling. Communists make press of the working class.” Ke found who is willing to hire the every effort to ensure wide read-does not explain how such a press Siamese Royal yacht. "Maha Chaking of their newspapers.

can exist if there is no freedom Hong Kong rainfall for the 24the 24 hours ended on Wednesday. kri" for the purpose of turning

hours ending at 10 am to-day was her into a temporary floating bar

The m.v. Silveryew, from New In Soviet Russia, declare the 0.01 inch. The total since January and restaurant in

Communists, there is no need for 1 has been 31.55 inches. against York, sailed from Los Angeles on! June 30 and is expected here on that "bourgeois fetish." freedom, an average of 49.32 inches. - of the press. For Russia has

for about July 30. created a "class-less society," and

the

describe the

of the press.

Connecting Apparatus The Communists evening. while the public will be encourag-press as the "apparatus which con- ed to go on board during the day nects the party with the people" to view the yacht for a small fee. Every newspaper in Russia is re-

He is willing to devote 50 per garded as an instruments of the so-called freedom of the press in

the Navy and in return has asked people in the alleged advantages of for a naval brass or string band Communism.

of

terests, which no longer exist Russia.

The speaker at the Rotary Club's!

There will be a special open

cent. of the profit to the funds of Communist Party, to educate the other countries is merely freedom weekly tiffin-meeting on Tuesday meeting under the auspices of thel

No non-Communist to express the clash of class to play on board every evening. viewpoint is permitted means

Dancing on board and deck expression. chairs and canvas beds on

Every editor and journalist is hire for those who wish to derive be-either a member of the nefit from the cool of the evening party or an active sympathiser. on the river are among the attrac-The newspaper Pravda recently tions talked of.

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rating.

declared: All Soviet journalists are first of all fighters for Com- munism."

No Diversity Allowed Twenty-four hours after the offer was mentioned in public the acting For some time after the revolu- Secretary to the Minister of De-tion 'Soviet newspapers permitted fence, stated publicly that as the the expression of diverse views. Navy still had need for the Royal Important state policies were some- yacht the Ministry did not desire times debated in the press. But to dispose of her or hire the vessel for several years no such debates out to any one.

SCHOOLBOY'S INJURY

Counsel Attacks L.C.C.

CLAIM FOR DAMAGES DISMISSED

in-will be Rotarian E. J. R. Mitchell Discussion Group on Sunday, July in O.B.E, and his subject "Modern 26, at 9 pm, in the West Lounge Life Insurance.” It is announced of the YM.C.A. The speaker will be the Rev. W. H. Hudspeth, M.A.. that, owing to the non-arrival of the film, the cinema show of the "Among the Tribes in Western China." Ladies are invited to recent Shanghai Conference (ar-

Ithe meeting. ranged for this evening) has been postponed until further notice.

"This is a dishonest and discre-

bave been tolerated. If party ditable attempt by the LC.C. to

It was reported recently that leaders differ on any question, the erade the results of an unfortunate the Royal yacht was in the mar-public knows nothing about it accident.”

At Anchor

the

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At a meeting of the Aquarium Society on Wednesday evening, which was well attended, Mr. R.; A. Pereira gave a fascinating ac- count of the various forms of goldfish, illustrating his talk both with live with drawings and

shes in a tank. It was shown that a great many varieties can be kept as pets, and the average re

A sum of £850 is allowed for sident who purchases the common- the holiday expenses of little jer specimens exposed for sale

according to

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ket. Built in Japan at a cost of until dissenters are "liquidated." Mr. R. Castle-Miller made this Gloria Vanderbilt in a judicial locally, cannot know of the in- over a quarter of a million sterling The Communists claim that their comment at Southwark County order signed by Judge James teresting forms which breeders in she has proved a greater white system is the most efficient form Court last month, when he appear- Foley, elephant than her smaller sister of government which has yet been ed for Leslie Hayes, aged 11, Ful-New York Herald-Tribune. built at Cowes the "Seabelle 11,"devised, because it unites the peo-ham Palace-road, S.W. The boy. The *order permits Mrs. the yacht of the Governor of the ple as no other system can do. In through his father, claimed dama Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt to Straits Settlements.

this process the press is regarded ges from the L.C.C. for personal withdraw the money from the of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. White took The first Royal yacht was 2

$5 a powerful instrument. As injuries. paddle boat, the second was lost Pravda put it: "Irreconcilable Judgment, was given for the estate of her daughter for holi-place at Happy Valley yesterday

day maintenance.

afternoon, the Bev. H-W. Bainea in Malayan waters. She was bai hostility to the enemies of Com-LC.C. with costs, it being held that lasted with ingots of tin, which munism, passionate propaganda negligence had not been establish- An estimated expense list officiating. Those present includ- THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION were afterwards recovered.

for the teachings of Marx, Engels, ed.

submitted by the mother in-ed the father and other relatives, Lenin and Stalin; this always has

Leg Bone Broken

cludes £75 for the detective, the Misses Ivy Soong, Grace Mak, been and is now the soul of our It was alleged that while Hayes, $20 for the butler, $20 for the Grace Hue, Mrs. Kwong and Mr.

Wreaths were senti The third Royal yacht was built press."

a pupil of Fulham Central School, chauffeur, £36 for bakeries, and D. V. Maber.

by "Mum and Dad,” Granddad and 4,000,000 Who Write was playing football, games £24 for Mrs. Vanderbilt. at. Leith and took King Chula-

Grandmother, Gert., Geo. and Vic longkorn to Europe in 1897, and To make the press popular, to master kicked at the ball and struck

It is not known where the Jim and Ann, Mr. and Mrs. Peter the fourth was built at Kobe. The give it the appearance of express him on the leg, breaking a bone holiday is taking place, but Cheung, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. White- machinery of the third yacht was ing the will of the people. Soviet! "It is my case," said Mr. Castle built into the fourth.

newspapers have enlisted more Miller, "that Mr. Rowe, the head-according to the court order, itfeld, and the Misses Petty Yung..

be within New York Jenny Lau and Grace Hue.

A man who was treated as King Vajiravadh died before he than 4,000,000 worker-correspon-master, from first to last, has done must State.

trusted friend by a woman was could make any extensive use of dents, that is to say, men, women his best to persuade the boy that

The Hong Kong Singers have de-sentenced at the London Sessions the fourth. King Prajadhipok and children who write letters and the games master never

cided to hold one more rehearsal last month to six months" hard visited he Dutch East Indies and articles for newspapera. Editors his leg. Malaya in her, and she was often select from this voluminous corres- "The LC.C. how put forward a

for Elgar's "King Olaf" on Tues-labour. He was found guilty of LOCAL ESTATE

day next, July 28, at 9 p.m. in the stealing $30 worth of dresses used for cruises from Hua Hin. pondence the material which most fantastic suggestion that the in-

Cathedral Hall, before stopping from her fist while she was away. But the greater part of her life strongly reinforces state policy. jury was caused by the boy being

Chu Wai Yung, alias Rafael

The accused Ronald Vivian has been spent at anchor on the

As an example, the Kremlin de-struck by the ball"

will be resumed од Tuesday. Laurence, aged 41, an engineer, broad bosom of the Mother of the cided last autumn to concentrate

A surgeon from Fulham Hos- Chuy Wey, grocer, late of No. 15 for a few weeks' rest. Behearsals Waters the Bangkok river.

its attention upon the Stakhatoff pital, where Hayes was a patient, Argyle Street, left local movement, designed to speed up expressed the opinion that the in-valued at $24,300. Probate of the August 25, at 5.30 p.m. in the pleaded not guilty and conducted and increase the efficiency of injury was caused by a fall and not Will has been granted to Chu Union Church, Kennedy Road, his own defence.

"Not Nice"

A Siamese paper remarked that dustrial and agricultural prodne by a blow.

it did not believe any Siamese in-tion. The press enlisted its dividual was in a financial position "worker-correspondents" in popo-

touched

CHILDREN

From Smoke-Filled Room

to acquire the yacht. The vessel larising this campaign. Each news-NURSE RESCUES might be bought by a foreign in-paper published thousands of let- dividual or firm, and that indivi-ters from "Stakhanovists,” describ- dual or firm might well boast of jing how they had successfully ap possessing the yacht that belonged plied new methods, how they were

Hundreds of) to the King of Siam. Such ad-teaching others. vertisement would not be nice for letters accused directors and fore- the Siamese nation!

men of obstructing the movement. "Successful War"

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EX-“YARD" CHIEF ROBBED

Burglars recently stole money, jewellery and furs, valued at £250 from the Tottenham home of er Chief Det-Insp. Charles Wesley, formerly of Scotland Yard.

MAN SENTENCED -Woman Robbed By

Trusted Friend

seven years

and thereafter every Tuesday until Mr. G. D. Roberts, prosecuting the performance of the work for Mr. Kathleen Metaxa, of Red- "King Olaf" has already proved cliffe-gardens, W., daughter of Sir itself exceedingly popular and William Maxwell, a retired Indian should attract a large number of Civil Servant, said: “Mrs. Metaxa singers. · Applications for mem-is a woman apparently most kind- bership of the Hong Kong Singers hearted and most careless about should be made without delay to her money. She met Laurence so- the Hon. Conductor, Mr. J. Ander cially about six or son Miller. 51, Kimberley Road,jago, and they became friends. Kowloon (Tel. 50283).

Free Hand "In April this year Mrs. Metaxa) was going into the country for three weeks. She agreed that Laurence should decorate the place. He was to be paid 10s a day, to have a free hand in ordering ma- terial, and also a key of the flat.” "He abused the confidence put

The Vice-Consul

Who

Lost His Trousers

When fire broke out in an empty. It was suggested that such

building in Hoxton-square, Shore catastrophe: might be averted by Others complained that workers each of the population of 13,000,000 were threatening and "beating up" ditch, last month, Margery Throw- sacrificing 25 cents to pay for the Stakhanovists. But the press rab-, & nursemaid employed by the purchase of the vessel, and then lished no letters from the num Rev. R. Pelly, of St. Leonard's of the Vicarage, next door to the burning having the satisfaction of knowing erous sincere opponents

building, rescued thé vicar's four that the King's yacht was proudly movement. The newspapers children from a smoke-filled room. riding st

Siamese ported that "the people"

Southampton-Consular com-the Consulate, including those of in him by stealing nearly all Mrs. waters, instead of its being in an-waging successful warfare against where they were in danger of

Metaxa's wardrobe. Half the miss- other country.

"enemies of Stakhanovism and being suffocated.

Flames from the building plications have followed a visit the safe, A

Mr. Albano was able to entering clothing was found in a suit- Communism."

the Consulate with the commis-case at Paddington Station" With the approaching promulga-scorched the walls of the vicarage, paid to the Southampton lide by

Laurence, in a statement, said tion of the new Soviet constitu- and owing to the possibility of one Mr. Joaquim Albano, the Brazilisionaire's pass-key, but was pre- tion, the Communists announce of the walls collapsing on to the Vice-Consul here.

vented from doing any work, as that the clothing was given to his that they intend to expand the Vicarage the children were found After a bathe he returned to his all the important papers and stamps wife in return for work she did The forthcoming wedding is work of the press, Our new temporary accommodation in the cubicle to find his trousers miss of the Consulate were in the safe, in the fat. M

Ing. He was Jent a pair of white As the Brazilian Consul" was Mrs. Metaxa gave evidence that)? announced of Mr. James Lee, of constitution will be the most de-curate's house.

The fire is believed to have trousers by one of the bath atten- then present on a holiday at Bude, there had never been any sugger- No. 241, Kee Long Street, Sham-mocratie-in the world, declares shuipo, and Miss Ivy Jackson, of Pravda "and will permit Soviet heen caused by children, who dauts, but, unfortunately, the miss Mr. Albano had to make a special tion that she should give clothing

ing trousers contained the keys of journey there to borrow his keys to his wife. No. 671, Shanghai Street, Kowloon democracy, to blossom to an unbroke into the building.

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