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UNCENSORED PLAY THRILLS.

"SHANGHAI GESTURE “ IN LONDON.

DIPLOMATS AND CELEBRITIES PRESENT,

Starving crowds watched theatri- eal celebrities pouring into the Scala Theatre when the banned American play, The Shanghai Gestura," which ran for two years in New York, was produced privately by the Society, write HS." in the Daily Express.

Venturers'

Diplomats were there: Pola Negri was among the stars; authors were present, almost by the dozen.

The Shanghai Gesture," toned 'down though it had been, was the frankest play staged in London for years. Ita admirers say it is Grecian in its tragie inevitability. I prefer to say that it is one long series of "inderenetes, designed to tivitate and shock.

Girls offered for sale in cages are

ng the minor thrills.

Revenge.

Madam Godam, the Chinese owner of a house of ill-fame plots vengeance against the rich white A who betrayed her years before,

and sold her to worse than slavery

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PLOT TO AVENGE RASPUTIN.

COFFEE MYSTERY.

COUNTESS REPORT OF MURDER · CAMPAIGN,

D.P." Special Service.]

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1929.

The sensational theory that at empty have been made to poison Priner Youssopoff and certain of his relations to avenge the death of the notorious Russian monk, Rasputin. has been advanced in connection with a curious case now

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SUMMONS AGAINST BY MAIL, WIRE, AND

A DOCTOR.

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REPLY. TO A FALSE, TITLES

ACCUSATION.

EX-R‚Á‚3⁄4‚C. COLONEL.

WIRELESS.

Paris. Trace has been found, after nearly thirteen years, of company of the 4th Australian Battalion, believed to have been blown to pieces at Beaumont Hamel. The bodies of some of the inen and a number of personal be- longings have been discovered and taken over by the War Graves' Commission.

A summons against Lieut.-Cot John Kynaston, late R.A.M.C., of London-Dr. William Reming- Langham House, Regent Street, ten, of the Cominon, Woolwich, at Shooters Hill, washed with W., "alleging, shinc he falsely pre surgeon to Division of Police tended to be a doctor of medicine, 374 costs at Woolwich Police Court and that ho wilfully and falsely for driving a motor-car in a dan- used the title of M.R.C.S. (Engerous manner at Plumstend High- aad), was heard by Mr. Cancellor, ᎥᎿ Marlborough Street Court,

Police

upying the attention of the

Mr. G. D. Roberts prosecuted on each police. The Countess Lareinty,behalf of the Royal College of Sur.

the formerly Russian Princess | geons. Vernidoff,, and her husband, and a number of friends staying at the

L'ountess

de Lareinty's chateau nude Sigedu, in the Ande Depart- meat, have been on various oc- ensions sized with a mysterious

illness,

Powerful Narcotic.

The family doctor diagnosed the illnesses as poisoning by bella. domy, a powerinl narcotic, which

trophies the will power, and if administered in sufficiently large ses can cause, a violent death.

fall after drinking coffee at the

171 junk. She described thed in to investigate the case also shames and horrúrs, at great chaten.

length.

street.

Washington. --English has been adopted by the Philippine Legis lature as the official language for because of the Spanish-speaking court pleadings and records, but population their language will enjoy co-legality with it until January 1, 1940, the Commerce De- partment has been advised by its office in Manila.

HOME CRICKET.

SURREY'S BIG WIN.

[THEODCH REUTER'S "ARENCY.]

LONDON, June 13. Surrey beat "Glamorgan by an isaings wed 73 runs.

Scores:-

filamorgan 37, (M. J. C. Allem 5 for 14. Geary 3 for 22), and 150 (Geary 8 for 48). Surrey 205 for declared, (Sandham 187, Mercer 6 for 78)...

AGA" LIGHT.

GARDEN ROAD SIGNAL INSTALLED.

As mentioned in the Daily Press yesterday, the work of erecting Colonel Kynaston contended that

the "Aga" Signal Light to control traffic at the foot of Garden Road the Royal College of Surgeons had

Edward was started in the morning under Lowell, Mass.-When no power to withdraw his diploma.

Dilion, 54, approached Thomas the supervision of a P.W.D. oth and that he was, therefore, legally Dalton, 33, in quest of a 91 loan, cial, while the manager of the a member of the college, in spite the latter met the request with a

Swedish Trading Co., Ltd., who' At St. John's boe are the suppliers of the new signal baseball bat. of their having withdrawn it,

Mr. Roberts said that Colonel pital, Dilion was treated for apparatus, was also present.

The signal was put into 1180 Kyaaston was put on the register fractured right arm, broken finger during the day and the tests gave

bone and bruises.

satisfactory results both "for the Berlin. The government ha Stop" and "Go" indicators and special agricultural for the red and green Lashing created council, which is to consider ways lights which. are used at night and

assisting the The old signal box was demolished The council com- in the afternoon. agriculturista. prises several former ministers of Agriculture and representatives of high time to take action was em ail political parties. That it is

cereal exchange here, the price of rye fell below that of maize in con- sequence of large rye offers from Poland.

as far back as 1885, and he dug qualified as M.R.C.S. and L.R.CE 1 May 192, his mapie was removed from the Medical Register after in quiry by the General Medical Council." for what was described as intamous conduct in a profession- al respect."

College Charter.

means

fur

That did cot imply anything A french detective who was caiferiminal, because the conduct berhasized by the fact that on the

was convicted of was advertising,

"A man not on the Medical Re ister." said Mr. Roberts, is en titled to practise in the same way us a medical practitioner, but ke is not entitled to pretend he is on the register, or inake representa tions to lead the public to believe he is so registered,"

The Countesse Larvinty has in- fler revenge was to sell the white formed the police that recently when Prince Youssopoff and her wan's daughter to a similar life,

husband were staying at Mar- and in the presence, tou, of all the seilles the prince was suddenly Lighly-placed people of Shanghai,taken ill. and showed all thes bought to her house by, threats Symptoms from which she

Count, and their friends suf red and fear. The junkrien wait with previously at their chateau, icherbus eyes; "the white folk Prince Yousopoff, who is now in shiver with shame.

Pigna, is stated, however, to have

Cathleen Nesbitt gave the per- formance of her life. Although barely convalescent after a trying illness, she was intensely dramatic, Her accent and her makeup were perfect.

Bought for £10,000.

The glee with which she deserily ed the girls in cages, shown at the hack of the stage, and the fadish delight with which she denounced, in the presence of his rich friends, the man who had sold her, becamé almust devilish in their suppressed ferocity. It Was a magnificent piece of acting.

Hermione Baddeley, as the white ay's half-Chinese daughter, who had become a dope fiend, went through her scenes of depravity in a way that held the house.

Lee Ephraim, who had bought the play from Al Woods for, Lon- d for £10,000 on account of fees, if he could get it past the censor, was in the house. Not one scene, of course, could pass any, English

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made light of the suggestion,"

the

Nevertheless, the countess per sists in her theory that the motive for the supposed poison plot is to retrage Rasputin's tragic death in 1910, and that she and her husband are among the intended victims because they are friends of Prince Youssopoff."

Alleged Statement.

A member of the count's

held has been arrested. -

Mr. S. Forrest Cowell, secretary of the Royal College of Surgeons, said that under a charter of 1s the college had power to withdraw their diploma. They did not com municate with Colonel Kyouston before withdrawing his diploma; they accepted the decision of the General Medical Council, where he bad the opportunity of defending himsef.

Colpael Kynaston: You have not had my diploma returned 1-Ng.

And you have no reason to dis- house-beere that it is at the present

moment in my physical possession -No.

The man was taken to Careas- some, where he is alleged to bave made an extraordinary statement.

crim.

He declared that he was pletely under the domination of another men, whose nume he gave, who exercised an hypnotic in-

And you could have brought an action for detaining college pro perty if you had any right to it?

The magistrate: That is a legal question.

Colonel Kynaston, giving evi.

Des

The low umbrella-like con- trivance with Bashing lights above the, red and green indicators at additional constable was on duty. tracted much attention and LA giving hints to

Chinese motor

drivers passing the station as to how the indicators worked. A police officer stated that smooth work- Moines, Ia.-Long. road ing may be expected in the course trips for college and university of about two days when the drivers athletes improve rather than re-home familiar with the signs. tard their scholastic standing, in The new signal light should con- the opinion of Joe Pipal, coach of siderably ease the traffic difficul- Occidental College. Los Angeles.ties at this spot. Pipal brought nine Moines for the Drake Relays last month, and in an address to a CONSIGNEE NOTICES. sivic club explained his views.

Haririb. Keamit

men to Des

Roosevelt,

hunting in the wilds of China, cables that he has shot a giant panda, said to be a cross between

bear and a racoon. " Vienna-The world's record for continuous piano-playing for 72 hours, held by an American named Kamp, was broken as Vienna by a pianist named Geze Ledopsky, who played for 18 hours.

Cleveland. Recent statistics have disclosed that the associated companies of the Bell Telephone system are responsible for one of the largest publishing businesses in the world. The annual output of telephone directories has reached

copies.

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swear to poison the count and the He added that the man prince. had given him poison, and had promised him £400 if he would put it into the count's coffee until it

took effect.

The prisoner has since retracted this statement, and refuses to say

The police are

him by the General Medical Coun cil was of indirect advertising.

I had never issued an adventise mest of any sort, kind, or descrip tion," he said. "I did not appea against their decision, but I have always held it to be ultra vires. although admit de facto that

not on the register."

Question of Expense.

magistrate: You never thought it right to test it in the High Courts "

In mean-

The author's one idea has been any more. Lo stage a house of. ill-fame in awhile" continuing their investiga-

its horrors. There is po restraint: tions.

there is no reserve. It is one long

leer.

It was partly because at The

"PAUL LECAT."

Shanghai Gesture that the police cleaned up

the New York stage. THE END OF A WELL-KNOWN They were quite right.

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VESSEL.

The famous Messageries Märi: times liner Pat Lecat, one of the best known steamships on the East éra trade, has been condemned as not worth repair, and has been sold by the Services Contractuels as she lies burned out at Marseilles.

passenger

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Colonel Kynaston: No, because registration is not necessary. There no law compelling a qualified medical man to register.. I bave not registered my L.R.C.P. for twenty years. My father was a professor of surgery and surgeon at a great hospital, and he would not register and never did so in his life.

"I did not appeal to the High Courts against the decision of the General Medical Council because I could not afford the expense, and the only thing "I was prevented from doing was signing death certi licates.

mona aine die.

"RED" CLERGYMAN ROUSES STORM. CURSE ON BRITISH EMPIRE.

COUNCIL EMBARGO.'

"To hell with the British Em-

pire," a phrase alleged to have been used by the Rev. C. J. Buck- nall, known at Launceston as the "Red Curate of Delabole," roused much indignation.

has

Mr. Bucknall was delivering a speech at Launceston on the Castle Green, which belongs to the cor- parution. The town council have to allow Mr. since decided not Bucknall in future to speak on any property controlled by them.

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Frequent Complaints. Frequent complainte have been minde against the Socialist doc- trines of Mr. Bucknall, and in 1925 the parishioners petitioned for his removal. The Bishop of Truro, however, declined to ac- quiesce.

Mr. Bucknall achieved notoriety when at Thaxted, Essex, by dis- playing a Sinn Fein flag on one side of the church and a red flag on the other.

He delivered a speech on one oc casion smoking a clay pipe and standing between a red flag and a crucifix. He is alleged to have re- ferred to the Union Jack as "an unchristian flag."

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"...Singapore Torp, care Klover Shanghai

She was the first ship of the new The launching of H.MS. Exeter Messageries Maritimes programme, will take place at Devonport Dock-

and caused a great sensation when yard on Thursday, July 19, in the

she was built at their own yard at afternoon. Lady Madden, wife of

La Ciotat in 1911, for her gross Admiral of the Flees Sir Charles tonnage of 12,000 was nearly double If I am to be prosecuted and Madden, First Sei Lord, has con-that if any other ships of their brought before a criminal court,

ented to perform the naming fire, and she promised a new era desire to say that I propose at the eremony. As the keel-plate of the

on the heavily subsidiard, bús very earliest opportunity to ask the cruiser was laid on August 1, 1929.

of the Court of Chancery to say whether she will be taking the water in just popular Eastern service under 12 months from the date of company. She was a stee twin the General Medical Council is, or steamer, with quadruple is not, acting within its jurisdie her laying down. She should be screw

about, another 18 expansion engines.driving her at a tion. I say they are not, but the completed in

speed of filteri knots, and had Registrar has carefully avoided montbs.

which accommodation The Exeter is the fourth ship far in advance of any of her going into the witness-box so I

cannot question "him." launched at Devonport since the predecessors. Also, she was a very Colonel Kynaston added that he War, the others being the Ffine looking ship with her slightly proposed to call evidence to show

NONSIGNEEB of Cargo by the above- named Vessel are hereby informed lisher, in 1850, and the Cornwall

that their Goods are being landed and and Devonshire, in 1996 and 1997 curved stem and two big funnels that all his patients were told that She was designed for the Japanese he was not on the medical register. respectively. No stup of the 1020

service but was well known on theIt was also on his letter heading.

placed AT THE is in the Hong Kong and Kowloos Wharf and Godown naval "programme was allocated to

Indian run as well, and had made Mr. Cancellor adjourned the sum-

Godawas'nt

was at Kowlcon, where Devonport, and consequently none

A great reputation for herself when

Consignment will be sorted out each became due for launching during War broke out. She was im-

Mary by Mark and Delivery can be 1028 The Exeter will be of a

obtained mediately armed and commissioned,

the Goods are landed, similar type to the York, which the but employed as a heavily armed

The method of electrocution is-to Optional Goods will be landed here Duchess of York launched on the

a cruiser, transport rather than

INVISIBLE BEAM. Tyne last July

be applied to whale-hunting dur- unless Instructions have been given to although she had been originally These "B" type cruisers are of designed with cruiser duties in

ing the coming season in the An- the contrary Bix hours before arrival of REMARKABLE" PROTECTION

tarctic. The usual way of killing the Stomter, 8,400 tons, forming a medium class view, had been receiving a heavy

AGAINST ROBBERY: whales is to shoot a harpoon into Goods not cleared within 8 days, in- to the 10,000 ton ships of the annual subsidy for that purpose Suffolk and London types. They and had a battery of quickfirer

the animal, and either let it tire cluding date of arrival, will be subject to have a length of 540ft. as compared reserved for her at home and in the ware worth £500,000, which is being whaleboat, or to fix explosives to

Fifteenth century gold and siver itself to death by tugging the Bant.

No Fire Insurance will be affected by with 503ft... and while the horse- East

any mase whatever. - power (80,000) and designed speed She did excellent work carrying exhibited in London, is guarded-by-the-harpoon.Both these methods Damaged Packages must be left in the

are cruel, and to some degree un- (32) knots) are the same, the fuel Franch troops to the Dardanelles an invisible ray providing surer capacity has been reduced from Expedition and from Africu to protection than the whole of Best-economic, because of the whale's Godowns for examination by the Uon be presented to the Undersigned on or great loss of blood before death.goes, and the Company's Burveyors, before the 3rd July, 1920, or they will

Mors, GODDARD & DOCULAR, st 10 Ax.. not 2,200 to 1,900 tons, and only six France, in addition to a certain land Yard,

recognized. Recently Viscount Lascelles and The new method provides for a Bin. guns, instead of eight, will be amount of patrolling.

on Mondays

All broken, chafed and damaged Goods ays sad Thursdays, within the

are to be left in the Godowas, where mounted in the main armament. After the Armistice there was so Princess Mary made a private visit metal line attached to the rope Free Storage period.

Viscount Las- which connects the harpoon with

All Claims against the Steamer must they will be examined on the 18th The machiery of the Exeter is being much arrears of business to be to the exhibition; manufactured by the Parsons

worked off by her owners that sheeelies mentioned that a valuable the whaleship. When the harpoon be presented to the Undersigned on or instant, at 10 am, by Mearms. Goddard BONG Marine Steam Turbine Company. was put on to the Far Eastern ser-cup was within easy reach, and has landed in the whale, a strong before 1st Joly, 1929, or they will not & Douglas.

be recognized. It No Claims will be admitted after the vies immediately, and it was not attempted to touch it. But before electric current, is sent along the

Veginning of 100 both the try it broke lisensing immediate death.. The R.M.S. Empress of France went to her old yard at La Ciotat through the invisible beam, and remains to be der here teaser have finde de

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & Co.,

Agenta from Hong Kong on June 6 left to be thoroughly overhauled and re- loud alarma in various parts of the electric current affects the quality Yokohama on June 13, and is due conditioned as a first-class passen-building rang up with a deafening of the oil, which is the main ob

ject of whale-hunting,

Hong Kong, 12th June, 1929. (7943 clamour. at Vancouver on June

ger ship.

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Monrovia, Calif.

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Kashgar informed that all Goods are being

Parker Boll, Kowloon landed at their risk into the hazardous

Fatel and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the

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No Claims will be admitted after the Goods hars left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 19th instant, will be subject to Bent

All Olaims against the Steamer muat

be

No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned, GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD,

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