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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9th. 1928.

HONG KONG & SHANGHAI

BANK REPORT;

SUCCESSFUL YEAR'S WORK.

FINANCES FLOURISHING.

CINEMA NEWS.

CURRENT PICTURES AT THE WORLD AND STAR

ANOTHER WAR COMEDY.

:

GERMANY'S DON JUAN.

1,300 FIANCEES.

PROFITABLE SOURCE OF

INCOME.

BERLIN.

Franz Liefke, a handsome man

soulful eyes, has been arrested nt of forty with black moustache and

to the following advertisement: as he was collecting the 331 answers

"Barney," a story of the old The directors, in their 12th re- port, which will be submitted to time prize ring, comes to the World until Saturday. the shareholders at the City Hall Theatre to-day

Renée Adorée and Ralph Graves- on February 25th, state-

The net profits for the year, tops the leading roles. The back gether with 83,309,085.84, balance ground. is the New York Bowery, the office of a newspaper here just brought forward from last account, and sporting life of 50 years ago after paying all charges, deducting has been reproduced with skill and interest paid and die, and making cure. Three fights are staged in the provision for bad and doubtful ac-course of the film. counts and contingencies, amount to $17,839,353,98.

Tho

directors recommend the transfer of $500,000 from the Profit and Loss Account to the Silver Reserve, which will then stand st $14,000,000.

They also recommend writing off Bank Premises Account the sum of $1,000,000.

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After making these transfers, de ducting the Interim Dividend of £3 per share, paid on August 8th last, ris.450.000 at 24,800,000, Directors.

and

to remuneration ther remains for appropriation $11.298.353.94, out of which the Directors recommend the "payment of a final dividend of £3 per share, Fri: 910,000, and a bonus of £2 per share, rit., £320,000, amounting in all to £800,000 which, at 2-, the rate of the day, will absorb $7,876,923,08,

Civil servant, widower, desires to meet a widow, about 30, with At The Star.

a view to matrimony. No objec- tion to child. Some property by the "The Man Upstairs"

desirable, but not essential. And a very good thing it was nuthor of "Seven Keys to Bald- Inte and The Chinese Parrot,' will be shewn at the Star to-day for the 331 widows that the palie til Saturday Monte Blue plays pounced on Fram, for whain they "Geoffrey West." alone in London and in search of romance. Dorothy have been looking since the sum- Devere plays "Marian Larnard," mer of 1923. They state that he

in search of

adventure. has been making a aso..

medium ol the Through

the

... agony

column of a daily news. paper, the two young people be come acquainted. To gratify her love of excitement. West sends her a series of letters describing a mys terious murder which is purely im- She decides to turn the aginery. Juke on him and gives his letters to the police, and he is sent to prison for a murder which took place only in his imagination! The tax is in keeping with the rest

of the story.

confortable Living for the last 13 years, with the exception of the year which he passed in prison, by swindling girls and widows who were anxious to marry.

Between 1912 and 1924 be had swindled some 900 of them and carried on his profitable life-work of getting engaged in every part at last of Germany. He was caught and sentenced to 10 years? hard labour but after a year he escuped and resumed his old lifes For The Queen's Next Week.

Franz's method was very shuple, Another excellent comedy "Two

He inserted a modest advertise. Arabian Kaights" on the lines of

Behind the Front" and "We'rement in the chief newspaper of the in the Navy Now" is coming to place he was working in-even the German newspapers accept the Queen's Theatre on Sunday for

such advertisements-nad started a the days. It is a story of two

He soldiers, private and sergeant, who correspondence with four or five

of the women, who replied. disguise themselves as Arabs to escape from a German prison camp arranged to meet one of them, and and find themselves eventually in he was such a past-master in the The sterling equivalents of the Arabia. Louis. Wolheim, who play-art of inspiring confidence and of assets and liabilities are shown at ed the original part of Captain awakening affection that he usual Flagg in What Price Glory1"ty gucceeded in extracting money 27. the rate ruling-on-the-last-n-stage play, takes the role of jewellery from his victim. day of the year.

The balance $3,411,130.90 to ba carried to New Profit and Loss Ac *count.

Mr. A. H. Compton has been elected Chairman for the year 1998, and Mr. N. S. Brown has been elect ed Deputy Chairman.

The Hon. Mr. A. O. Lang, Mr.

J. A. Plummer and Mr. G. M. Young resigned their seats on leav ing the Colony and Mr. "C. G. S. Muckio, Mr. A. Macgown and Mr. N. S. Brown were invited to join the Board,

These appointments require con. firmation at the, meeting.

The Hon. Mr. D. G. M. Bernard, Mr. A. H. Compton, and Mr. W. L. Pattenden retire in rotation, but being eligible for re-election, offer themselves accordingly.

the sergeant, and William Boyd, plays the gentleman ranker. Mary Astor is the daughter of an Arabian Emir, who leads the two soldiers into a web of complications in the land of harems,

£3,000-A-YEAR OFFER TO DR. NORWOOD.

A

CITY TEMPLE PASTON REFUSES TO LEAVE

POST IN CANADA. three-thousand-pounds-a-year

post in Montreal has been declized The accounts have been audited by Dr. F. W. Norwood, the minis by Mr. C. Bernard Brown, A.C.A.ter of the City Temple."

The offer was received by Dr. and Mr. John Fleming, C.A., who wood from the American Pres after themselves for re-election.

byterian Church in Montreal. It took him only six hours to decide that he could not leave the City WINNER OF NORTHAMP-Temple in Holborn Viaduct, where

he has preached since 1910. TON BYE-ELECTION.

"Had I beets a free man," said Dr. Norwood, "I should have ac cepted the invitation, but I love COL. MALONE'S CURIOUS

the City Temple and do not wish CAREER.

to leave it.

KNOWN, BUT NOT POPULAR

OUT HERE."

The winner of the Northampton by-election, Colonel C. L'Estrange Malone, F.R.Ae. S.; is well-known in certain circles in China and to most Chinese in this country. One

"I gave the matter most serious consideration, but within six hours I had cabled back declining the offer.

Later I received in letter point ug out the great opportunity for in Canada now that the various denominations have united.

"There is talk in these days of the paucity of good preachers-and of the aristocrats of the Indepen-it may have some bearing on this dent Labour Party, and only invitation--but I think it is more years of age, he comes of a York apparent than real. shire family, and is a great-grand- son of the ninth Earl of Sear, borough,

I believe there are many able prenchers in this country, but the Limelight falls only on a few. The great Churches do not consider how He has been successively a

the great preacher in the ttie Liberal, Coalition Liberal, obscure church is to become known, Communist, and a Socialist. While and often do not seek to give the a Communist he was imprisoned unknown a chance.

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for six months in 21 for a The Churches should look out Bctious speech at the Albert Hall, for promising preachers among and was struck of the OB.E. r their younger men and unallor gister, but he recanted his Com-churches.

munist views daring the recent Great men of special attain- election campaign. He was deprivments cannot be expected to select ed of his rank as lieutenant-en- the ministry as their vacation un mander in the Navy for visiting less the ministry itself holds a high Soviet Russia without permission pince in the reverence of the of the Admiralty. He entered the

people. When the people demand Royal Navy in 1005, and, with good preaching they will obtain Commander Samson, was a pioner it." in the flying service, commanding the R.N.A.S. unite in the raid on in December, 1914. Cuxhaven Later he served in the Dardanelles, and, after further distinguished War service became the First. British Air Attaché to the British Embassy in Paris and Air Repre sentative on the Supreme War Council at Versailles.

CHINESE MARITIME

CUSTOMS.

SERVICE LIST

the

The Afty-third issue of Chinese Maritime Customs Ber- vied List" corrected up to June With the outbreak of the trouble ast, which has just come to hand,' in China he came into prominence shows a total fariga and Chinese through the part he took in the staff of 8,724, of whom 1,154 are and 7,840 Chinese. Labour Party's opposition to the foreigners Government's policy. Nothing at Divided into categories, there are

best

When he had fleeced her he sent a little note to say that he was going away for a fortnight, and Earned his attention to another promising widow. It is stated that his victims in the last year are as many as 100%

STUDENT'S POEM OF HIS DEATH.

TRAGIC FULFILMENT IN HIGHLANDS.

LOST IN THE SNOWs.

GLASGOW. Special poignancy is added to the loss of Mr. Hugh Barrie, a Glasgow University undergraduate, in the snows of the wild Cafingarta Mountains of Inverness-shire, by the discovery of a poun, almost prophetic, which he wrote net long before his disappearance.

in

He and Mr. Thomas Baird, M.A., assistant demonstrator in the snows of the wid Cairngorm geology, had gone on a climbing ex pedition, and Mr. Baird was found a lonely corrie. unconscious in Glen Inech, between Aviemore and Braemar, all efforts to revive him' were in vain.

But the search for Mr. Barrie, carried out in biling weather, has resulted in nothing bring found ex- cept a shepherd's crook, a coloured handkerchief, and a sock, which have been identified as his.

So that peculiar pathos must now attach itself to a poem he wrote recently in the "University Magazine" with strength and free dom of manner, and a certain ad- venturous fearlessness.

The opening lines were:-- When I am dend

And this strange spark of life

that in me ljes

Is fled to join the great core of

Efe That

inde

surely eternitice,

Bury me not I pray thee.

beyond

In the dark earth, where comes

not any ray

Of light or wanath or aught that

made life dear.

But take my whitened homes far.

far away

Out of the hum and turmoil of

the town.

Find me a windswept boulder for ...a bier

And on it lay me down,

Whore far beneath drops sheer

the rocky ridge

Down to the gloomy valley and

the streams

Fall forming

white against Mack, tooling rocks, *** Where the sun's kindly radiance

seldom gleams,

Mr. Baird was discovered by two

It is

all was heard from him during their the Revenue Department 1,023 Perth bank clerks, who did all they recent election as to what Britain foreigners and 6,302 Chinese. Of could to novive him by massage should or should not do in China. the former 262 are on the Indoor and artificial cuspiration, In the light of events Labour very Staff, 718 Outdoor; and 42 Const.presumed that he had set out for Ekely prefers to forget,

Col. The Marine Department, 138 for help after Mr. Barrie had met with Malone visited Chinn on a tour of eigners and 1,030 Chinese. The an acendent, but was overcome by, investigation, and the results were foreigners are employed as follows the intense cold.

Both men were well-known at published in 1928 in two Indepen- Coast Inspectors, 33; Harbours, dent Labour Party publications 46; Lights, 49; Marine, 10. The the University. Mr. Barrie was a entitled "New China," the first Works Department comprises 23 keen tennis and badminton player, giving his views on the political foreigners and 18 Chinsee.. The and has often played for the ituation and the second on labour Engineers Staff complazes 8 for University badminton, team. Mr. conditions and organisations in eigners, the Office Staff 1, and the Baird, who was the son of a school- master, was buried at afternook. that country.

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The star of "The Big Parade" in a stirring romance of the days when men fought to a finish with bare knuckles-

BLARNEY

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