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NO INSINCERITY,

REASON FOR DELAY IN ENDING

BOYCOTT.

ARRANGEMENTS, INCOMPLETE.

CANTON HEARS OF SERIOUS REVERSES.

[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]

The Chinese believe that the delay of the Kuomintang in terminating the boycott is simply due to incomplete ar- rangements. They discount any sugges tion of insincerity on the part of the ruling party in Canton and it is consi- dered that Mr. Eugene Chen will make his pronouncement on the subject as soon

as he is able.

The Strike Committes are to make a

THE HONGKONG

U.S.A. MINISTER AT CANTON,

DINNER GIVEN BY MADAME SUN.

A PARTY ENJOYED BY ALL

Madame Sun Yat Sen

GATO informal dinner to the visiting American Minister, Mr. J. V. A MacMurray, and hisparty, at Mr. T. V. Boong's residence on Sunday evening,

Among the Americas guests present besides Mr. and Mrs. MacMurray were Mr. and Mrs. Willy Peck, Consul General and Mrs. Jenkins, Captain Moss and Captain Mayfield, and Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Tyson.

DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER - 2ND. 1926

TYPHOON DAMAGE.

DESTITUTE CREW REACH HONGKONG.”

GAP ROCK'S THRILLING ORDEAL.

Further reports of the tall of the typhoon were received yesterday. Late

THE BLACK PIRATE"

ACTION, ADVENTURE AND

• ROMANCE.

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS GREAT PICTURE AT THE QUEEN'S.

"The Black Pirate," the great picture

on Thursday evening a heartrending story which opened as the Queen's Theatre last of hardship was reported at the Harbour night, is assured of a long run in the Olice by the zefugees of four junks which Colony. It is perhaps the greatest pic. were blown off Kit Shek in the Fukien, ture ever-screened here, and assuredly it district. They were blows into the open is the finest saa picture ever Elmed, ses and drifted for several days. The Hongkong cinema enthusiasts bars re condition of the fisherfolk was pitiable.cently seen "Captain Blood" and the They were sent to the Kwong Wah Hos

"Sea Hawk," both marvellous pictures, pital where they were clothed and fed but in comparison with "The - Black until such arrangements have been made Pirate they are both poor. This is per- to send them back to their native pro baps due to Douglas Fairbanks' süberb

acting.

Waves Over Lighthouse.

The members of the Government at the dinner included Mr. Chang Ching Klang. Acting Chairman of the Central Executive Committee, Mr. Tan Yen Kai, | vinces. Chaieran of the Nationalist Govern-

Douglas Fairbanks is not only an e ment, Dr. George Hau Chien, Mr. Eugene

Gap Rock, situate thirty miles south of thusiast for detail and precision, but he new register of all strikers still idle. Chen and T. V. Suong. There were also Hongkong. its only inhabitants being the insists on having his way even down to It is thought that when the registration present Mrs. H. H. Kung and Miss European lighthouse keepers and their the most minute matters of period cor- is complete it will be found that the Mayling Soong,, sister of Madame Sun.staffs, received almost the full violence rectness His fighting ships have been strikers will be much reduced in numbers Much cordiality marked the occasion of the typhoon and that there will be no necessity for which was enjoyed by all-Canton maintaining 50 many free boarding Gatette.

houses as ht present.

The "Tramc in Generals."

The buying and selling" of Generala -

·POSTAL THEFTS.

still continues according to the rumours.TEMPTED BY CINEMA PICTURES. The latest report is that General Li |

once

The case in which two clerks at the Pust Office were charged with the theft of postal packets corduded before Mr. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy on Thursday,

More Lives Lost at Macao.

rebuilt frem actual models of famous pirate vessels. And moreover Fairbanks has never acted better than in this pro- duction.

From Macao comes, the news that a `junk heavily laden with cargo, and with serenty passengers aboard, arrived off

"A Coloured Wonder," Lappa last Sunday evening, too late to Colourful, literally as well as gura pass the Customs' examination, and on tively, is the only word which correctly the following morning she was struck by describes the production, "for it is aut the typhoon whilst lying at anchor. The only a rollicking, thrilling, romantic tale junk foundered on the spot, and of the of adventure and piracy, but it has been passengers only about fifteen were saved filmed entirely in natural colour. Not From Sheklang it is reported that the only do the picturesque costumes, elabor. typhoon did very considerable damage to ately ornamented vessels and beautiful houses and other property.

Two huge backgrounds made it an ideal story for trees more than fifty years old were up- colour photography, but it has been rooted and crashed on top of a house handled so expertly that story and colour which was completely destroyed.

go hand, and hand, supplementing 'but On Sunday evening the sea was lashed never obtruding on each other. There into a boiling ferment by the squalls are innumerable scenes that are atrik- which presaged the approach of the ingly beautiful, and

scenes that are typhoon, but the wild night was but a magnificent studies in the blending of mild indication of what was to follow. colour.. pose and characterisation, sug- In the early morning the storm broke in gesting the works of great painters with the added effect, that they are vibrant its full violence, the vortex passing only with life From the colour standpoint a few miles to the South,

alone, the picture is well worth seeing one will amply reward all who see it. This, however, is but one angle of the excellent audience values, which embrace star, stunts" and story,

Fung Hsiang and General Chau Ching, PLLA FOR LENIENCY SUCCEEDS.

anti-Reds" in Fukien, are to join the Kuomintang one as a Corps Com- mander and the other as a division com- månder. General Faa Shek Shang, one time a commander, in Canton, is to re- join the Eucmiatang as a "Corps Com- mander. The Kuomintang now has 18

Mr. D. McCallum, who appeared for the corps commanders with General Li-Fung Chinese defendant, said that in spite of Hsiang.commanding the 16th, and Gen- a message sent to Macao the defendant eral Fan Shek Shang, the 17th. Since had not returned, and he would therefore the commencement of the Northern Ex-leave the matter in his Worship's bands. pedition, the Kuomintang has bought The bail of $100 was estreated.. nine or ten corps commander. General On behalf of the Indian defendant, Mr. Liu Tso Lin, who sold Wu Pei Fu and Leo D'Almada made a strong plea for joined the Reds" carrying Hanyang leniency by pointing out that the defen- with him, is reported to have returned dant was young and was tempted to take to the command of Marshal Wu Pei Fu, the packets which contained pictures of "explaining that he surrendered Hanyang tinuna stars. Defendant, he said, had and his command simply to preserve the been dismissed from the service, Kad been place and his men intact and that he, disgraced, and it would be difficult för had no intention of remaining perman-him to obtain employment in the future. ently a "Red."

Is conclusion he asked his Worship not War News.

to send defendant to prison for what was after all a youthful offence.".

Addressing the defendant, his Worship Huge doors, necessary to such an ex- said defendant had done a stupid thing, but he would be let of this imposed lighthouse, were forced in by the hoped it would not ocene again. Defen-combined action of the wind and waves, daal was bound over in a sum of $100 to the quarters were completely flooded, and

one up for judgment when called upon.

On the fight of September 20th some 3,000 Whampoa cadets were rushed from Canton to the "front" by way of the Kwangtung section of the. Canton- Eankow railway.

Canton hears that Pingsinng and Tungcheng have been retaken by "anti- Reds" sent by General Sun Chuan Fang of Kiangsu and Chekiang.

A ROGUE'S MISTAKE.

GAVE CORRECT NAME TO "PAWNBROKER.

When news came from the "front" on September 29th, that many Kuomintang troops had been killed or wounded at the latest battle of Liling, the General

A three years old police record sheet was produced before Mr. R. E. Lindsell Headquarters & Canton decided, it is at the Central Magistracy yesterday to understood to withhold re-inforcements prove that a Chinese youth hud been 8 cane for a from Southern Kwangtung and to send given ninę strokes with

Larceny offence. more men to Hunan and Kiangsi.

According to a Swatow report, the Kuomintang have been able to dispose of some 82,865,000 worth of war bonds "in the Chao-mei districts of Eastern Kwang

tung.

Various Items. Kuomintang authorities in Canton explain that the threatened strike on the part of workers in the Kwangtung Arsenal at Shekekeng the other day was due to fear the Kuomintang would pay part of the men's wages in war bonds. The Kwangtung Arsenal is now working as usual. N

Défendant, who had now passed the age limit, was sentenced to four weeks' hard labour this time for stealing a watch and chain 'valued at $4

Tremendous waves best ceaselessly all round the, rock, the spray shooting hun. dreds of feet into the air. Wares broke clean over the top of the lighthouse, the light of which is 140 feet above high water level, and with such force that, one by one, eight of the lenses were smashed The lenses are half an inch thick.

seawater "got into the machinery of the light, causing it to work erratically.

Coping stones were washed completely away, and a newly erected steel jib was twisted amazingly.

It was reported yesterday that many corpses have been washed ashore at. Gap Rock.

THE WEATHER.

YESTERDAY'S OBSERVATORY

REPORTS.

The report of the Royal Observatory issued yesterday morning stated that tioned that in pawning the articles defen-antral Jaran. It had increased slightly Divisional Inspector Blackman men- pressure had decreased considerably over dant gave his proper name, and this led

to his arrest.

A sum of 82 was found on defendant when he was arrested. Eis Worship ordered this money to be returned to the complainant to help him to redeem his property.

TECHNICAL INSTITUTE,

NEW TERM BEGUN YESTERDAY. The latest union organized in Carton City is that of the Bank Clerks. Its nial Institute opened yesterday. Mr. E. The new term of the Hongkong Tech- office was formally organized last Satur-Ralphs a director and the following are day. The Canton bankers may expect to the lecturers:- receive a request for higher wages from their employes within a short time,

Mr. T. Y. Soong, Kuomintang Minis ter of Finance, is asking the four leading commercial guilds în Canton to purchase a further 8850,000 worth of war bonds. The four, guilds hive contributed $350,000, and "Mr. Boong is asking them to make the guilds' total subscription 81,000,000.

PICKETS ON THE BORDER:

PASSENGERS STILL BEING

"SEARCHED "AT LOWU.

The pickets did not leave the border at Shumchun on Thursday as reported

earlier.

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Hongkong.

from Chefoo to Hongkong and was nearly stationary over the Philippine

The typhoon entered the coast to the north of Tourane on Thursday evening.

An anti-cyclone had formed over China Moderate to fresh monsoon might be expected along the coast of China and over the North China Sea.

Rainfall for the 24 hours eading at 10a.m. yesterday, 240 inches. Total to date, 03.23 inches, against an average of

5.87 inches.

Last Evening's Report." The weather report, forecast, and re- at 5 o'clock last night, stated: marks, issued from the Royal Observatory

The anti-cyclone over China has strengthened. A trough of low pressure Engineering Section-Building sun-extends from Indo-China to east of struction, MR. J. B. Clark, A.R.I.B.A.; Luzon. electrical engineering, Ma, 1. Day, Local forecast:-East winds, moderate, A.M. I.E.E.

cloudy, occasional rain...

Science Section.-Mathematics, Mr. M.

G. O'Connor, B. A.; chemistry, practical and theoretical, Mr. H. G. Wallington, B.; physics, Mr. J. Raleter, M.A.

Commerce Section.-English 1, Mr. A. White English II, Mr. H. G. Wallington. BA shorthand, Mr. D. Young; book. keeping, Mr. E. J. Edwards; translation, Mr. Lo Kam Chak.

QUARREL ON A 'BUS.

COMPENSATION FOR CHINESE LABOURERER.

Teachers' Classes-Women, Miss K. M. Magistracy yesterday afternoon, before The case was concluded at the Kowloon Anderson and Miss 0. M. Cotton; men, Mr. J. H. B. Nihill, in which Capt. W. Jr. J. Ralston, MA, Mr. E. J. Edwards, Weston, of the a.s. Ling Nam, and Mr. Mr. A. T. Hamilton; vernacular, Mr. Ng T. S. Jeffrey summoned a Chinese tele Fung Chau (Supervisor), Mr. Ho Wai phone labourer for assault alleged to

The Story,

The role of the Black Pirate in a typical Fairbanks' role. There is no dearth of opportunity for him to use to distinct advantage his dashing personality and superbly athletic physique, but also plentiful chances for more repressed action, the role calling for the matching of wits as well as the employment of spectacular stunts, and Fairbanks mea sures fully up to all requirements.

He

The picture opens with the capture of ship by pirates who, after looting it bind the crew, and blow up the ship. The only survivors are Douglas and his Enther, who dies soon after. Yowing vengeance, Douglas joins the pirate crew who come ashore to hide their treasure. by defeating their leader in a dual. by capturing a merchant ship- single- Taken on probation he proves his prowess handed, and finds a girl on board. uses his wits to save her by holding her as hostage while sending emissaries to demand ransom. Douglas, now known as the Black Pirate, seeks to take ber ashore, but is caught and forced to walk the plank. Escaping to the shore, he returns with a boatload of picked men. The pirates apparently sink this galleon. but in reality the crew bas scuttled the

pirate vessel and capture it. It develops ship and swimming under water Douglas and his men swarm up the sides of the that the Black Pirate is really a Spanish duke, and publicly offering his hand in marriage, the princess accepts.

was privileged to see the film before it A representative of the Daily Prem" was shown to the public, and we can safely assure local cinema-goers that a visit to the Queen's will be amply repaid.

Throughout the performances yesterday there were packed houses, and it is cer tain that as long as the picture is screen- ed here, capacity houses will be a feature at the Queen's

The public are requested to book early,

ITALIAN OPERA.

AT THE THEATRE ROYAL NEXT WEEK.

Signor A. Carpi, of the Carpi Italian Grand Opera Company, arrived in Hong- kong on Thursday from Manila, and has arranged for the Company to open a ten-day season at the Theatre Royal on Wednesday, October 6th.

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The leading soloists include Signos. Aida Ganbini (soprano dramatic), Marie broso (soprano), Marg. De Cartosio (lyric Henkina (colotura soprano), Lena Am- Boprano), Guiseppina Ciampaglia (mezzo soprano), Ines Bollardi, Aida Ballerin (mezzo soprano), Adolfo Bellotti (lyric tenor), Vincenzo Artino (tenor), Antonio.

Ko, Mr. Pak Chik Po, Mr. Liu Hoi Tung, have taken place on a 'bus at Kowloon Catalano (assistant maestro), and Viclefo The telephone labourer cross-summoned Scamuzzi, who will be remembered for his Capt. Weston and Mr. Jeffrey separately, wonderful voice and dramatic ability.

Mr. Leung Cheuk U, Mr. Ng Pak Keung. Mr. Kung Hon, Mr. Li Lun Kwai and Mr. Tari Pak Yuet. The No. 1 in charge of the pickets Hygiene Mrs. E . Minett, M.D., informed the detective of the Assistant | D.P.H. | Superintendent of Police (New Terri-

Kowloon,' tories) that he is waiting for fresh in- structions from Canton and that the picketa will be" withdrawn by the 10th of October at the latest.

for a similar offence.

Maestro Cantoni, who is from the Ban Carlo Theatre, Naples, is à conductor of outstanding merit, and his assistant is. Antonio Catalano,

Mr. J. A. Gordon Leask appeared for Capt. Weston and Mr. Jeffrey and Mr. Leo d'Almada for the Chinese Mathematics.-Mr. W. G. O'Connor, The case against the inbourer was not The Company's repertoire is a long one, proved. That against Mr. Jeffrey was including some of the operas which, owing Chemistry (practical and theoretical.also not proved.

to the costly settings required, are seldom Mr. T. R. Rowell. B.Sc., Dip. Ed.

An Indian constable gave evidence that taken on long tours. Among these may Physics. Mr. T. R. Rowell.

he saw Capt Weston strike the labourer be mentioned

"Madame. Butterfly

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Two pickets were on duty at Lowu, on Thursday afternoon and again yesterday inorning. They have been searching | goods and passengers is before No French-Miss F: E Ritson, B.A. pickets have been seen elsewhere on the Shorthand Mr. T. F. O'Sullivan, Frontier.

¡ELP.8., P.CT.

...

Cookery. — Mrs. J. Cooper, Dip. frst who then retaliated. His Worship did "Faust," "Mignon," "La Tosca," "La Cookery.

not consider the case terious, but order- ed Capt. Weston to pay $10 compensation to the labourer for the time wasted in attending Court.

Bohcine," "Carmen." "Calvalleria Bus titans " and " Rigoletto.".

Booking opens at Anderson's to-mor- row (Saturday) morning.

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