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CINEMA NEWS.

THE LITTLE FRENCH GIRL"

'AT THE QUEEN'S.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21st, 1928.

NEWS FROM HAINAN,

WHY THE FRENCH MISSION. ARY WAS MURDERED.

[FROM A CORTESPONDENT.]

This Island, though only 230 miles) From here, a practically terra Lincognita to the great majority of. foreigners, but it has king been known to contain vast potentia? mineral and agricultural wealth.

It is one of the legat-developed portions of South China, but when conditions settle down sufficiently to allow commercial development to forge ahead, Hainan may well be one of the most prosperous of any of the Southern Provinces.

Hong Kong should know thing about this not-so-distant laland.

come.

be

in

A KOWLOON POSTER HOARDING.

ADVERTISING AND PUBLICITY BUREAU'S COMPLAINT.

ITS MERITS DEFENDED.

LIVELY DISCUSSION AT K.R.A. ANNUAL MEETING.

At the Kowloon Residents' Associations. annual meeting yes Mr B. Thompson. of the Advertising and Publicity Bureau, complained that the hoarding near the Station had been the subject of unfair attack to which she had had no opportunity to reply. A letter which she said had been sent to the South China Morning Post but not published was read by her, and Mrs. Thompson inade a spirited defence of the hoarding

The Chairman replied that the Committee of the Association. was not prepared to answer the points raised without considera. tion. "The attitude of the Corumittee of the Association to the board- ing was disclosed in a letter written at its instruction by its Secretary, to the Hon. Colonial Secretary asking that the honeding be removed,

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A discussion followed in the course of which" Mrs. Thompson was assured that the Committee would give every"consideration of It is not so long ago that Françe

the points that she had raised. comidered Hainan to

When the matter of the hoard- Geatlemen, you are all business its sphere of influence," and more than are company was formed to inas, came up for discussion Mrs. men and you must appreciate the prospect it thoroughly, even to the B. Thompson said she had recently finest form of advertising. "Why do extent of planning an aerial survey, read a series of articles in the sou particularise in the name of That is past, a to-day Hainan | South China Morning Post on the the K.R.A. Why do you hit at is in no sphere of influence but that subject of posting stations near the that one particular form of adver. Shetising and it is the best in the of China to which it belongs, but Kowloon Railway Station. when the brighter days dawn-of wanted them to tell her why the Colony, the best the Colony has Residents' Association) ever seen. Bare the hoarding, at which there is now so much hopeful Kowloon promise China will undoubtedly particularly had kicked against that the Station was built the place was a dunip bep. We have built on welcome foreign co-operation in one station and that one form of it, and returfed it and it is the opening up, prospecting and deve advertising, and not against other finest advertising station Hong Kong people. They had not been able to bas ever seen, he will ever see. Be loping the riches of this Island.

retaliate because the press would cause the Advertising and Publicity not publish their letters. She had Bureau put it up, in the eyes of the letter which she said she would | K.I.A. it is an eyesore, and there Chinn Morning Post last week and read. It was seat to the South has been agitiation towards the Gov

ernment to have it taken down. not published.

A Red Plot.

The news to hand in regard to the murder of the unfortunate French Priest in January last, proves that It was not 11 isolated incident caused by the Priest's brave efforts to protect some of his flock.

For two years past the Righ: Party in Canton has been repre- sented in Hainan by General Yip, the Commander-in-Chiel.

Opposed to him was the Eed General Hui Hak Foo, and the Red

forces have been greatly strengthen ed since the failure of the Red

roup.

The letted stated intre, alia: -- As for over two years we have been constantly preaching in prac tically very country in the world the actual, and still more, the potential geatness of Hong Kong as the spear head of Foreign trade in South China, we have already re- gretted the consistently parochial attitude adopted by the Morning

Post.

tion.

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Time For Chairman's Reply. The Chairman: I do not feel able to answer your question, any inore directly than by asking the secre- tary to read the letter that this Association wrote to the Govern ment. In passing I would say with a very great amount of de ference that you are treating us unfairly by reading the letter which you have shrown at us. You In few ways has this "small-town have given us no chance" of con- mind" been more apparent than insidering your points and you d the bitter attitude adopted towards liberately ask for an answer. We the Kowloon Railway Posting Sta- don't consider things from just one point of view, but the point I want Hui Hak Foc, working on the Before any part of it had been to make without entering into usual Soviet lines, had tried to con- completed you were commenting on particulars is that it would be un it as an eyesore. When it was erectfair to both of us to answer the vert the Hainanese to Red doctrines ed and illuminated and planted up. We cannot answer on the spur ol. question without consideration. by threats. When these failed, pro-we expected at least a grudging the moment. You have landed ny paganda was adopted, This had note of appreciation of what is reached a stage when the next step undoubtedly a credit to the Colony, with a question we have bad ng was nearly ready to be taken: the We have received any appre the Secretary to rend the letter.

chauen to consider. I can only ask killing of foreigners and the gentry, cintive comments from Kowloon which would have been followed by residents who express great surprise written to the Government.

MP. C. M. Manners: I should that we have taken the newspaper like to call attention to the minutes attacks lying down, that we are compelled to ask for the courtesy the matter seems to be more or of space in your paper to show less a personal attack possibly on that there are two sides to, even, Committee and that is way I wish this question,

Apart from the fact that local to call your attention to this point. At the caminitter meeting held ou residents on both sides of the Har- bour appreciate what a great ad Monday, October 30th, 1927. atten- vance in foster advertising this tion was called to the unsightly Posting Station represents, it may alvertisements in Kowon which be of interest to record that Amedesirable and geneally were a bot were not considered in any way rican and European travellers hare

The secretary sought us out to congratulate us on a Station that is stated to have few, if any equals, In England or America.

wholesale incendiarism.

On the ocension of this murder Hui Hak Foo at once spread about that men of General Yin's army were the murderers. General | Yip, who is well versed in the wiles of the Reds, immediately formed a commission of investigation con sisting of one representative of the Missionaries, one of the Commui sioner of Foreign Affairs and one. of his Army.

- A Night Attack.

The investigation proved beyond doubt that the murder was ou nitted by the Red so diers, and it also shed light on the phins detailed above.

Proderd by Herbert Brenon, who mnde Beau Geste" and Peter Pan." the new picture, at the Queen's Theatre to-day and to morrow. The Little French Girl" is a story of France and England during and after the war based on on the novel by Anne Douglas At once Generul Yip brought al: Sedgwick. Cinema-goers should note his available troops into the dis trict of Man Chong and made a that there will be no 5.13 movie per right attack on the led headquar- formance in the Queen's Theatre toters, the town of Chupak.. morrow afternoon, as Miss Violet Capeits pupils are giving a dancing display at that time.

Dire of the members of our

on the landscape. was instructed to write to the Hon. Colonial Secretary protesting against the creation of advertising Coloured sketches have been shown hoardings in Kowloon and parti in London and elsewhere, and the cularly the one outside the railway station and any other disfiguring Empire Marketing Board, appre erection outside the Star Ferry ciating the wonderful opportunity of killing two birds with one stone approach. The point I wish to make that during this discussion trying to jog British residents of Mr. Wylie was present and be par Hong Kong out of their parochialis ticularly stressed the point and Several hundreds were killed, ipinto a realization of their position asked that it be put or record as an Outpost of Empire, as well that he had taken no part in the cluding the leader Hui Hak Foo,

as making ear Chinese fellow discussion affecting advertising ns and the remainder were driven oju.

citizens realise that Hong Kong be said it might come back and They have now concentrated in something more than a speck of the village of Bo Fong where the land at the mouth of the Canton some people might say he had been a party to this tmsiness. At that have erected another leader, a mili-river,-are sending their well-known time, we did not talk about any tary graduate of the Whatapon posters out to be shown on this particular company in any shape colege.

Station. It is not logical to prese

attacks are to be made.....

A beautifully simple pan is alupted to sort the Reds from the cthere. When soldiers appear on anti-Red duty, a' the villagers are talled out. Those not responding are treated as Reda.

Russians Again.

untidy, dirtyy posters that disfigure every post, pillar and wall that is available, even in the heart of the City, ve

The romäss of a candid. lovable litile French girl who is sout to England and the dramatic experiences the undergoes for the sake of her divorcee mother and for her own love before she finds happiness!---

Based on the sensational novel of the

same name.

THE LITTLE

A HERBERT BRENON FILM

With

FRENCH GIRL

ALICE JOYCE-NEIL HAMILTON-MARY BRIAN ESTHER RALSTON

..

Produced by the man who made "Peter Pan."

AT THE

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

QUEEN'S - At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20.

To-Morrow At 5-Miss Violet Capell s Pupils' Dancing Display.

The famous cowboy hero in the drama of a great land rash-

WILLIAM S. HART

In

TUMBLEWEEDS

AT THE

WORLD TODAY & TO-MORROW

Orchestra 5.15 & 9.20.

Interpreter- 2.30 & 7.15

Who prowled through a lonely mansion in search of a hidden fortune?, See the exciting screen version of a famous play-

THE BAT

with

JEWEL CARMEN & JACK PICKFORD

AT THE

STAR

The Hoarding Defended. Mrs. Thompson: I ask is this 'hoarding more disfiguring than what was there before. Can any The Secretary read the letter reasonably minded person object to sent by the Kowloon Residents it. Why particularly do they hit Association to the Hon. Colonin! Secretary, which was as under:

at this and not any ather ones

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW Continuous 230 to 11.15.

More than 300 people since I have been back from home have con- gratulated me on the erection of that hoarding. I think it is gross- led by the Morning Post, without ly unfair to have a series of attacks allowing us the opportunity of retaliating. That is why I have. come to vent my grievance and to make this protest. *?

Mr. Cock: Hoardings in general may be very good from the paint

At The World. ** Tumbleweeds," which is to be seen at the World Theatre to-day and to-morrow, is a William S. Hart

General Yip has now formed for the removal of what travelleder form and did not refer to any production in which great crowds Volunteer corps in the villages passers-through have called the particular company. ¡ of people are used, as well as enor-whors duty is to give warning of finest Posting Station in the Far Letter To Hon. Colonial Secretary,

mous herds of cattle and horses, any Heds in the district and to East, and to turn a blind eye to the The story denis with the rush too-operate with the soldiers when settle on the Cherokee Land Strip

Sir, I am instructed by my We are trying to raise the When it was opened in 1889,

Neither is it logical to press for Committee to draw your attention standard of advertising by posters At The Star.

the removal of one form of advertis- to the fact that disfiguring Adver Three mysterious murders, a bank

ing that happens to annoy your tisement Hoardings are being erect in Hong Kong and we have worked of view of the people who are ad- while, in the same breath, advocated in various parts of Kowloon very hard. There is any form of vertising. But I challenge at once any statement that any boarding robbery, wild flights in motor-cars,

ing another form which happens to and, particularly, to the erection advertising advocated all over the can be made beautiful. I would a haunted bourgare some of the

beneût you.

going up alongside the Kowloon"

"world and that is posting. As say that the hoarding put up at the thrills of The Bat, which is being-Casertanately-Canton cannot Let-us-by-all-means allow Hong Railway Station. A. B: MOULDER & CO. screened at the Star Theatre to-day are troops with which to rern-Kong to revert to a contemplative It is the considered opinion of Hong Kong is the gateway to Kowloon Railway Station is a very force the Rainau Commander-in state where the condition of its my Committee that the amenities South China it should be brought god vas of its kind but I would Also say it in the wrong place. Chief, whose Bruny is too small to parish pump is its sole concern. of Kowloon should be preserved as On Thursday At The Queer's. police effectually the whole of the Let us abolish ail advertising, news fully as possible art that erections up to modern raethods of advertis. If I have anything to do with it on Ramon "Novarro's firet film since island.

paper as well as posters, and take of this tature at the very gateway, ing. Is it fair to attack us and the Committee I shall press for its Us of all people Why removal because it is in the wrong in each other's washing as a means apart from serving no useful in-squash us. As a consequence the South-East

place. These hoardings are all to "Ben Hur," drama of modern side of Hainan is a Red hot-bed of existence. That is consistent and formative purpose, are distinctly Sprin called Lovers," will be there has existed here for one logical, and a policy that merits out of keeping with the natural particularly us, who are trying to be found in Kowloon or the Chinese residential part of Hong Kong. screened at the Queen's Theatre me a Soviet form of Government, the strong support of all who agree surroundings which it is desirabln put-bill-posting on the level it quarters and do not extend to other to keep as clear as possible so 28, deserves. Attractive designs and If it is of such great attractiveness from Thursday to Saturday.. Laid and reliable news is to hand that with you.

To others, however, who disagree. in the greatest possible manner, to within the last few days two Bus

They conserve the few natural beauties well-kept stations were replacing as it has been made out to be in modern Spain. "Lovers" tells the sins have arrived at Lims with such a policy is anathema..

Kowloon.

the unsightly scenes of old To am surprised it is not, found in advocate everything that will help ot

other places Residents elect their story of a family whose lives are junks loaded up with arina, am

We appeal to you, Bir, to order take West Point for instance it has own committee and while I am en wrecked by scandal Alice Terry munition and, more we come ill, Hong Kong to regain its place as

one of the leading sex ports of the the erection removed and venture world, and to acquire its rightful to hope any further applications. been cleaned up and something we deal will matters without

fear or plays the young wife. This is the Hong Kong bank notes,

favour, not allowing mem They have come to Hainan to position,-in conjunction with Can- for the erection of any kind of more attractive has been put up."

bera to grind personal first time for some seasons that orgaaise, develop and direct the Ramon Novarro and Miss Terry Soviet established in S.E. Haan, ton, as the great emporium of disfigurement of a sinar mat Take the Dairy Farm wall. We... Bailey; should like

or adjoining the principal

most attractive. Now we have in which the lady has spoken. She have played opposite each other, and in the interests of peace and trade in South China setting he

scrutinered before being granted. and as they are one of the famous good order it is sincerely to before itself the definite goal of rival thoroughfares witbo osrefully have cleaned that up and made it to expres appreciation for the way If the Government consider it put up the finest station in the has had no support and I for one- am impressed with the way she has pairs of screen lovers, their appear hoped that Canton will be able to ling Shanghai,

Why?"

desirable to permit advertisements Colony, and you are kicking at us

put her case forward. I think we co together is of unusual interest. devote enough reinforcements to

Continuing, Mrs. Thompson said, such as are going up at present and are saying it insighйly. It The cast includes Roy D'Arcy, General Yip to enable him to deal George K. Arthur and Edward Con with this fed pest and scotch it Why wasn't this letter published may we suggest they only be allow is only a few who are represented must admire her pluck and her Lolly The picture is full of dramatic before it penetrates to other parts We have not been allowed to have ed alongside the Railway Line in the K.BA. I un perfectly suro atrility to present a case. She will. a-say-in the matter. We have had where their presence would not be that 75 per cent. of the Kowloon get fair consideration from the situations of which the most remark of the Island-

residents appreciate that hoarding commituce, C. J. C.

to take everything lying down. obtrusive.

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