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CHIANG KAI SHEK'S RETURN.
REQUEST FROM CANTON LEADERS.
SUPPORT FOR COALITION GOVERNMENT.
"RED." INVADERS ENLISTING BRIGANDS.
FIGHT DOCTORS'
FOR A LIFE.
COOLIE'S DEATH UNDER ANÆSTHETIC.
A BISK HAD TO BE TAKEN.'
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,
CORRESPONDENCE.
WRECKED GARAGE,
fro THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG DAILY PRESS."
FRIDAY, AUGUST 26th, 1927.
CAPTAIN BLOOD" AT
THE WORLD.
A TALE OF PIRATES, SET IN THE HARBADOES.
WORLD THEATRE NEWLY DECORATED,
“OUR CABARET.":
PRESENTS THE DISORDERLY ROOM,"
BRIEF SEASON OPENED AT THEATRE ROYAL,
Charles Chamier's "Our Cabaret" scored a distinct success last night" "Captain Blood" is shewing at at the Theatre Royal, when they presented the one-act comedy, the. World today and tomorrow.
Sra, It has come to our know- ledge that statements are being CURIOUS IDENTITY MISTAKE. made to the effect that the Kowloon premises of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Taxicab Co., Ltd., which It is an adaptation of ons of Rafael" Disorderly Room," While undergoing an opcaration collapsed during last Saturday's Sabatini's most successful novels, for gall bladder troubles, a Chinese typhoon, were constructed by, or and deals with the romantic life of who took the roles of Serg-Major under the supervision, of the Horgan Irish doctor who escapes from Pullthrough and Captain Merry- [FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENS.] died of heart failure.
effort was made to save him but Kong Engineering and Construction the slavery at a deportee in the weather, respectively, were the out-
The problem of co-operation be tween Nanking and Hankow is still "exercising the minds of influential leaders in Canton. A series of confer ences have been held and the con-
Every
without success. The deceased was buried under a wrong name, and without having his identity eatab
lished. The mistake occurred through a misunderstanding on the
ernment Civil Hospital
Yesterday at the Central Magis
Co., Ltd.
As such statements are likely to be detrimental to this Company 1 am instructed to state publicly that we had no connection whatever with
premises in question.
The facts of the case are, I be
sensus of opinion is that the Hankow part of the ward-master at the Go- the design or construction of the seemingly hopeless love affair;
Government ought immediately to pease to function, & circular telegram has been issued declaring that tracy. Mr. R. E. Lindsell sat as eve, that the premises were built I used well and the result is Canton desires the abolition of the Coroner with a jury to enquire by firm of contractors which had abriel existence in 1994 under the Hankow Government and pledging | its support of an amalgamated the death of this man, Lan Tuk, name of the South China Con- Hankow-Nanking Government when a grass cutter. it is constituted.
Charles Mason and Billy Bras.
The programme included some
Barbadoes to become a pirate and standing figures. finally, by a sarà of fortune, to end up as Governor of Jamaica. Here thing of everything and everything is all the material for un excellent of the best" from the previous per film; there is adventure fighting formances given at the Star Theatre, and romance; a beautiful lady and Kowloop.
Charles Mason was also to the gallantry and brutality; and above all 2 gorgeous and picturesque forefront again with his comic songs, setting.
The material has been being encored time after time, The a Rich Man being sung by this Rita and Delia Vivienne present- memorable fim.is is all straight excellent comedian splendidly. forward and somewhat bloodthirsty stuff with the lovemaking kept wei ed a graceful Eastern dance. Their lithe movements and the symmetry in the background, and no mor- bidity. In fact, most refreshing of their bodies were no doubt, the Our Cabaret" will give two A fellow grass cutter who was In view of our persistent efforts change from the pseudo-psycho-jerry of many good dancers.
analysis mania of so many modern
more performances here, and each high standard of film. That the communists still exercise employed with the deceased atto maintain a
The fights above all are excel night an entirely different pro- some degree of influence in Canton Belcher's Fort on August 17th, said materials and workmanship it is
whien Captain Blood's crew board is evident from a recent manifeste that the deccused complained of extremely annoying to learn that lently staged, especially that in gramme will be presented. issued in the name of "The Cam-acute pain in the abdomen. An such imputations are being made, the French flagship. We can prob- mittee of the Chinese Kuomintang ambulance was immediately sum and I trust you will give publicity ably trust the producer to have SARTORIAL COINCIDENCES.
made it fairly authentic historic- for declaring up the counter-re-i moned to take the man to the GOT to this disclaimer.-Yours faithfully, ally; at all events to the lay mind
·
into the circumstances which led to
struction Company."
S. COURTNEY COOK, Secretary, "For and on behalf of the
HONG KONG ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.
Dr. Baw first administered one part of cholerform and two parts
volutionaries in Kwangtung andernment Civil Hospital. He went Kwangi." This manifest denounces with the deceased, and at the Hos the Hankow Government for ex-pital he was asked his own name relling the Reds and says it has and address," which he gave. No committed a similar crime to that one had asked him the name and of Chiang Kai Shek. Dr. Sun Yat address of the deceased. This was Sen's policy, it asserts, was to work the last he saw of the dead map.
Dr. S. W. Phoon, M.B., B.S., in alliance with. Russia.
Many Kuomintang leaders includ-attached to the staff of the Hong ing Li Thai Hsia, Yeung, Shu Kong University, said that he of ether. This was followed up Cheng and others have jointly sent qualified five years ago and had a telegram to Chiang, Kai Shek re- been on the staff of Guys Hospital questing him to return to office. London. During the last five years The telegram points out that Mar. he had performed many internal shai Chiang has done well in saving the Kuomintang from the tyranny of Bolshevik agitators and that his resignation will mean the failure of the Kuomintang when on the point!
of success.
THE THREAT FROM THE
NORTH....
operations, at the Government Civil) Hospital. He is Senior Assistant to Dr. K. H. Digby, Chief Surgeon of the Hong Kong University.
with pare ether. After the opera- tion had lasted 45 minutes, the patient, collapsed, but up till then, the patient's pulse was satisfactory The man finally died of heart failure through shock which was caused by (a) acute pain before the operation (b) the operation itself and (c) the anaesthetic.
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Coincidences too remarkable to be PRICES ARE SO MODERATE true were claimed in a case which come before Mr. R. E. Lindsell nt the Central Magistracy yesterday morning.
A coolie was charged with the larceny of a coat and a pair of employed by the Sang Lee firm, of trousers belonging to "workmen contractors. The clothing was hung to dry and the coolic was alleged outside & matshed at Morrison Hill
The clothing was to be washed. later, identified by two workmen as belonging to the complainants.
When charged yesterday the coolic claimed the clothing as his..
The complainant identified the trousers as his, and gave the name of the Chinese tailor from whom he bought them ready-made.
the effect is convincing, and these men do appear to be fighting des perately for life.
The hero is played by Warren Kerrigan. He is not perhaps quite the Peter Blood of Sabatini's novel but he is a gallant and interesting personality and plays his part well He holds your attention and your sympathy all through the nini, a hero nor as a Yulentino" lover. mainly because he poses neither a He is aäghting man, who yet does not disdain the courtly graces of his age and its gorgeous costumes.
Who is Jean Page She plays to have wrapped it up in his own the heroine Arabella and her charm-coat and gone of. When stopped by a Chinese detective, the coolic ng serious face and her hesitating aid that he was taking the clothes poses seem so familiar that we be ueve she is Aaron Nixon who has possibly changed her stage name silice Captain Blood" was filmed. But whatever her name, she has 4. wistful charm which makes her very Immediate Operation Needed.
suitable for the part and her won Witness said that he was summon. Dr. Mustafa Bin Camond, As-deful dresses, suit her to perfection sistant Pathologist and Bacterio- ed by Dr. Yoh, house surgeon a logist of the Hong Kong Univer
Not to be ontdone, the defendant It is a pity that the World cinema the G.C.H., to 1 patient. Op aity, said that he performed the mortem examination ON
is so little patronised by Europeans, replied that he bought from the arrival there at 9. p.m., he saw & post
August 18th. The deceased's heart for it not infrequently happens that same tailor
Commenting that it was rather Chinese male named Chun Hing was weak and one of the blood the most interesting pictures SIC whose age was given as 40, but vessais supplying the heart bad shown there. Within the last few remarkable that both mer should from his look, witness said that he been punctured. This, witness said, months there have been the Nibe deal with the tailor- his Worship
was probably or apparently caused
Chinese m "The Three King- the coat. With regard to this the was inclined to think the man was by the hypodermic needle lung pictures, The Fall of Troy," naked for evidence with regard to about 50. He complained of acuto right side of the heart was also dom," and an interesting German complainant said that there were Witness dilated. The liver was rotting, but production Wind Force 8." Each five stitches missing on the right pain in the abdomen. diagnosed the cause as gall bladder the other organs were reasonably of these Gims had a great deal to sleeve, and this was found to be the
healthy for a man of that age, He recommend it and "they were, above case.
Defendant replied to this that bis trouble, which necessitated an imagreed with the cause of death as all, different from the ordinary run
coat also bad a few stitches miss. atuted by Dr. Baw. mediate operation.
The Worldting- vistas of thought. The bomb outrages ascribed to.
said that carding massage in order not so comfortable a theatre as the In reply to the jury, Dr. Osmond productions and opened new
This was commented upon as Red" agitators have occurred in Swatow. The news from that town
to be effective had to puncture the Queen's, but it does not lay very being another extraordinary coin. Defendant was found guilty, and Klangsi are sending a large number ter the anaesthetic and this was blood vessel and than into the heart, far behind. It has just been newly cidence.
Identity Error.
decorated, a pleasant pale yellow,
was sent to prison for two weeks of agitators and spies to Eastern given in accordance with the com-
open Dr. J. Valentine was then called and is cool and well ventilated. Kwangtung, especially Hoyuen, Hai- mon practice known as the fung and Chao-An They
are method. The first anaesthetic was by the Coroner to explain how the The orchestra plays at the 6.13 and on each charge, the sentences to run making a great attempt, to secure
age had becur. He said that when preter being on duty at the alter- the support of the peasant corps a mixture of cholorform and ether mistake in the deceased's name and 9.20 performances, a Chinese inter-concurrents.
a patient was brought into Hos Date houses. M. Grovini has made and the local troops of bandits, and and then pure ether was used. also to rouse the countryside gene-
On opening the abdomen, witnesspital by a friend, it was not al- such a great success of the Queen's rally against the present adminis- found the gall bladder distended ways necessary to keep a detailed orchestru, that we wish he would tration.
and he at once suspected a stone register. It was the duty of the turn his attention to that of the
Further reports from Tai O re General i Tani Hsin did not re- in one of the pipes. He removed word master to get the patient's smaller theatre, or spare it some-
garding typhoon damage show that turn to Canton on Wednesday as about 20 ounces of decomposed bile, narne, address, and occupation. is of his musicians, for it must be
practically every matshed was blowe had been reported. He has tele- whereas in an ordinary person be this case, this had been done, but admitted that the World takes a
through a misunderstanding the back seat in this respect.
down and several houses suffered graphed the Government to the would expect to have found about ward master was supplied with the effect that he has left Wuchow and 2 ounces. As he was sewing "P friend's instead of the patient's
Caire Windsor and Conrad Nagel extensively.
Dance Sergeant Swan, of the Tai O Dr. Valentine also agreed with are the leading players in he was expected at Canton yester the patient collapsed.
The Coroner: Is it not the busi- day.
All three doctors
Sergt. The Military Department has ness of the surgeon to see whether the evidence of Doctors Phoon, Baw Sadness, the new picture which is Palice Station assisted by the sons at the Star Theatre as the feature of the koi fong, Mr. Ng Ping Nam, Were experienced and careful men. issued an order granting an amnesty or no the patient is fit for the and Osmond.
attraction until tomorrow. They carried out rescue work,
The "anti-Red" General Chien Tai Chun who has brought a portion of Northern Kwangtung is ruling it with the heavy hand. He is said to be in close touch with the Reds in Southern Kiangsi, "but he is busy trying to enlist the support of any warring faction that will join him against General Li Tsai Hsin and
the Cantonese troops.
is that the communists in Southern
"He called in Dr. Bow," Assistant Surgeon at the G.C.H. to adminis
Dance Madness."
TYPHOON DAMAGE AT
TAI O.
to all political exites banished be- | operation 7-Yes, it is a part of the The time taken for the operation play the rôles, of a young couple / Swan was the only "European
tween August 20th, 1993, and March surgeon's duty." 20th, 1998. These men were sent
Witness then went on to say that before the operation he decided that the patient was fit to undergo it, Furthermore it was clear to him that the man would die during the night if an operation was not per formed. After the patient had col. lapsed he kept on sewing up the opening, and the other doctors at tended to the patient's heart.
by Dr. Phoon was quite good. He who spend their honeymoon at the member of the Force present, his Away for their hostility to the
would himself have taken the risk night clubs of New York, Cairo and colleague being at Hong Kong, and Part of the roof of the Police: extremist government in power at
considering that the man was in Paris. Although very much in love unable to return until Monday. agony and would have died without with his wife, the husband cannot
resist the lure of a pew face, with Station was blown away and a that time.
More Detailed Register In Future. the result that he quickly falls rowing boat used by the Police is General Ho Chie Wu who has
an operation. been in command of about 3,000
Dr. Valentine agreed to keep a under the spell of the mysterious still missing. men in the east of Kwangtung has telegraphed his resignation to the
more detailed register in future and masked dancer who is the sensation cures her husband's failing makes Nanking Government and it has
inform the police at the first in- of all Faris. How the young wife stance in order to arrange for iden-
an extremely clever and witty The Coroner: Would you say that cification. been accepted. Probably he will be given & command elsewhere in
Addressing the jury the Coroner story. every known method of keeping the Kwangtung. He is a keen supporter heart going was adopted --Yet, said that it would be impossible to
is his
various infection's were given and establish the identity of the deceas of Chiang Kai Shek as successor, Fong Chun, who has been finally a direct cardiac massage,ed, but there could be no doubt that in command of the 1st Division of All efforts proved unavailing and the man who died was the man A PLEASING PICTURE AT THE things that make up the life of the the Kuomintang 1st Army Corps
Dr. Pheon also said that his operati on lasted less than an hour.
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the Caroner said, was borne out by
MADGE BELLAMY STARRED. shoots himself, she begins to realise that one cannot live life as one "The Central Bank of China, in
the fellow grass cutter's evidence.
From the evidence given by the
"Sandy
is the title of the might wish without involving others Canton, is going through another
Dr. T. Z. Btw, M.B., B.S., who doctors, you will no doubt be satis feature attraction showing at the who are innocent.
The supporting cast is good. run began on Wednesday even-
Queen's Theatre until to-morrow, it ing. It issued a notice at noon that administered the anaesthetic, asid fled that the cause of death was
ns described by Dr. Baw, and you is also the name of the chief char-Bardson Bard plays the part of
DECORATIVE a refined verdict day that those wishing to withdraw, that he graduated in May 1926, and
Aacter in the picture, a part played a husband possessing money would not be allowed to take that in the past year he had can only return
These three doctors are more than $100, and in case of administered no less than 500 cordance with the medical evid to perfection with her usual success brutality, arrogance and bullying manner, and if the part is per- by Madge Bellarmy. businesses the company's chop, anaesthetic. He thoroughly examin-CDCC. would be required. As soon as the ed the deceased prior to giving him careful and experienced and When we have a Fox film offered haps a little overdone, it is most news. spread the whole of the city's the anaesthetic, and had found that possible reflection could be cast it can usually be relied upon to realistic and one feels no sympathy but upon them. As regards the regis provide an interesting and enjoy for him when " Bandy" leaves right, business would lose its morale. deceased's Jungs were
ter and identification, I think it ahle screen-play, and when Madge him. Everyone refused to accept the that his heart was weak.
has been already covered by Dr. Bellamy is starred in the principal There is an interesting love story. Witness said that in ordinary Valentine undertaking to attend to role, then there is no need to won running, apart from the central Bank's notes and their value sank
of the stormy petrel with extraordinary rapidity until circumstances, he would not have them in future cases. some were actually said at five per administered anaesthetic to
The jury without retiring retura-der whether the picture is going to gure ccat. of their face value. An out-man, but as the case was urgent he
the medical ing, for she is always good and well piness foolishly, miserably fails.------ We can throughly recommend worth seeing come of the crisis is that the Finan had to take a risk. The risk of the ed a verdict that death was caused be either interesting or entertain Sandy, who, ever seeking hap
vidence.
As "Sandy," "Madge Bellamy is Bandy" as well produced,. weil cial Department of the Canton patient's heart collapsing was not as given out in Government has decided to publish so great as the risk of allowing
The Coroner: Dra Phoot Bawenlled-upon to play a part calling acted, and extremely interesting a monthly report on the Bank's posi-him to go without an operation. tion, and the exact amount of notes He took the risk in the hope that and Osmond, you have done all for much emotional acting and con-and-entertaining-picture-one with you could, and there is no blame tant movement. She plays it most a cason-and-moral_in_it—that
should be seen. that have been issued. It is hoped the man's life would be saved,
attaching to any of you gentle-
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