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BRITISH NORTH

BORNEO.

YEAR'S QUIET PROGRESS.

GRADUAL ABOLITION OF GAMING.

His Excellency Mr. J. L. Humphreys, C.M.G., C.B.E., Gov-

SINGAPORE AND JAPAN.

COMMENT ON LABOUR GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE.

[United Press.].

Tokyo. The reported decision of

ernor and Commander-in-Chief of the Labour Government headed by

course of his administration report don work on the Singapore naval

"BABY CYCLONE.”

MUSICAL COMEDY ON THE SCREEN.

CASANOVA' " AND "SCOTCH

SHYLOCK."

[ey OUR FILM CRITIC)

Before I write anything about thei

want to clear up another point. A

the State of North Borneo, in the Mr. Ramsay. MacDonald to shan-film version of "Baby Cyclone " I for 1028, says that the year maybase has met with unqualified P correspondent wrote the other day be regarded as one of quiet pro-proval in Japan, where it is inter-drawing attention to my conclud-

preted 13 1 sign that Britain realizes Japan is not a menace to the peace of southern Asia.

gress. In spite of the serious effecta

|ing sentence in the critique of Casanova- certainly B Alm to of the slump in rubber prices the total of revenue was the second

see." He did not enjoy the picture Unexpressed Indignation. highest in the history of the State,

and, in consequence, objected to the and it was possible to maintain the

Japanese have resented the advice. The difficulty arises over general schemes of development and Singapore base bitterly ever since the attitude which you take up with reorganization adopted in 1997. Britain's plans to build it, follow-regard to films generally. From the The country was peaceful.The reing the Washington paval confer point of view of the critic or ci vised land terms for small holdings ence and termination of the Anglo- anyone interested in the develop and the payment af passages for Japanese Alliance, were nanounced. ment of cinematography, "Casa- immigrants from China continued in line with the tendency. of nova was an important film be- Japanese to keep quiet about cause it came from a French in- The year was notable as the first things which cannot be helped stead of an American studio. It in the ten-year scheme of road con- there has been no great outcry in was-a film to see if you had pleasant struction and in the three-year the Press, and Japanese statesmien memories of Venice or were 17 sebeme of gaming abolition. It was and publicists have maintained a ardent reader of fancy-dress Also notable for the welcome reviv-studied calm whez the subject is romances. It was not a well made al in the timber trade that follow-mentioned. This surface, calm, how. ed the improvement of internal con-

ever, belied the deep resentment ditions in China.

underneath.

to attract sett'ers.

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CHANG TSỞ LIN'S

MURDER.

JAPANESE OFFICER

PUNISHED.

(Unlad Press.]

1J

Sim, as I pointed out, but from my point of view its faults were the

Tokyo, Lieut.-General Chotaro most interesting part of the picture. Muraoka, former Commander of Immigration.

The big newspapers of Japan. I am sorry I led at least one person the Kwantung Garrison-the Jap Immigration, he writes, is con- which usually are an excellent, in astray, but I think the first part anete military force in Manchuria. has returned to Tokyo and been fined to Chinese, apart from the imdex to what the Government and of my criticism gave a fairly clear

placed 02 the retired list portation of Javanese labourers by the people are thinking, have fol idea of what to expect. estates. Government assists Chin lowed every move in the construc. Turning to Baby Cyclone" it purishment for his alleged negli ese already settled in the State to tion of the base with the greates: will interest a certain, number of gence in connection with the assas-" bring in friends and relations, pro- care. Their correspondents in Lon-people who saw the musical comedy, sintion of Generalissimo Chang Tso viding them with free passages don have had standing orders for especially those who like to draw Lin... from Hong Kong to any part of years to report in detail every step comparisone. It interests the critic,

Details of the connection between because it an example of the type the former Japanese command in the State. During the year there in the plans for the base.

of stage play which does not make Manchuria, and the bombing of were 1,372 applications for passes

a, good film. The average play films Generalissime Chang's train out- compared with 1,054, during 1927.

well, and I amused myself by side Mukden of June 4, 1929, have mentally tabulating the reasons why not yet been published. Prees re "Baby Cyclone" qua film did not

ports, however. state Genera interest or amuse me at all. It

Muraoka was held to blame an

Arrivals numbered 1,187 compared

with 868 in 1927. The total cost to Government of these passages were $22,105.67, or 818.62 per immigrant. Apart from there assisted immi- grabts, 2,724 unassisted new arri- vals were recorded, and 363 Chinese labourers were imported for work

on estates.

.

White Australia." Many Japanese viewed the naval base as a part of the "Waite Australia "

programme, which bar. red Japanese immigration from the Commonwealth, and have felt that it was in line with the British policy of friendship for America which in a measure aligned, the two great English-speaking peoples against Japan in the Pacific area. Japan- The subsidised settlements at Inese "felt that America. forced the anam, Menggatal, Telipok, and termination of the Anglo-Japanese Kudat have enjoyed moderate pros- Aliance, and hence indirectly de- perity only, as a result of the conserved a share of the blame for the tinued slump in rubber prices. British decision to build the Singa- Outstanding loans, however, were

pore baze. reduced by 82,440 to 812,928.

If the Bate is 6nally and de- Abolition of Gaming.. finitely abandoned it seems safe to The year marked the first stage say that a majority of Japanese in the abolition of gaming. From will feel Britain has done a tangible Jan, 1, 1999, gaming was confined thing to show her confidence in the to: Chinese and restricted to seven desire of the Japanese people for centres; all natives and Muham- peace in the Pacific and their madans were prohibited from en- determination to follow, no pro. tering any public gaming place. gramme of imperialism or terri At the end of the year the first torial expansion. “ stage towards abolition was con- cluded, for the years 1929 and 1930

Dutch Interests.

the stage and might prove so as in which the Japanese army was was, I believe, very successful on the train was bombed in an area!

a"talkie," but as a silent film you supposed to exercise control. feel cheated of the words and the screams on which its humor de- pends. There are moments of real FIRE comedy in the action, but there is far too much padding between them. with reference to the film critiques is welcome and helpful.

Let me add that "correspondence

CINEMA NEWS.

NEW YEAR'S EVE.”

Mary Astor achieves new laurels "New Year's Eve," which comes to the Queen's on Tuesday, a story

ON THE STRANDED

LOK SAN.

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According to a naval wireless mesange, the s.s. Lok Ban, which is aground on Bamun Island, was on fre yesterday. The cause and ex- tent of the damago are unknown

Captain Arthur, of Messrs. Car- michael Clarke, the local agents of the ship informed the Daily Press that he had no knowledge of the which contains elements of romance, comedy and adventure, and has for matter beyond the wireless message. setting the fringes of the under H.M.S. Bridgewater had gone out world. The few hours of the action to the ship, and he supposed, as no H.M. The Late are crowded with excitement, and report had been made, that the fire Queen Victoria Henry Lehrman, the director, has was not of a serious nature.

is claimed introduced the right was quite unable to account for it amount of comedy to round out the as there is now no one on board. production.

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Some Japanese, too, have felt it will be confined to two centres only; at the end of 1930 it will be that Holland desired construction entirely prohibited.

of the bass because of the fact The good effects of prohibition on her most valuable possession, the the native population were evident Dutch Indies, fronts on Singapore, during the year; women and chil.from, which it is separated only by dren appeared to the better clothed a comparatively narrow channel. and nourished, and rents and taxes With the base abandoned it will be SOLDIERS. PLEAD GUILTY. 13 All the passengers, over 700 in were paid with greater prompti- taken for granted here that Hol

tude.

Radio and Telegraphs.

land, too, fee's no suspicion of Japan's goodwill and does not con. Seven radio telegraph stations sider the Japanese Navy a menace and four land line telegraph offices to the Indier. are maintained for internal and external communication, in addi- tion to a connection to the East-

ern

Extension Telegraph Co.'s

"

cable station at Labuan. The total amount of traffic shows a decrease of approximately 7 per cent. due chiefy to the decrease in Govern- ment Service messages handled. 'A short-wave direct wireless servico with Hong Kong was inaugurated during the year and traffic shows steady increase. Direct communi- cation is also established with tho Philippine Islands and Sarawak.

There are twelve telephone ex- changes in operation in the State, the main exchanges being at Sanda kan and Jesselton. Eleven of the exchanges are, manually operated; the Sandakan exchange is an auto matic one of 200 lines. The total number of telephones connected to the various exchanges was 373.

Trado;

with

The total volume of trade, ex- cluding transhipment trade and treasure movements, amounted to 819,831,067, compared 824,416,522 during 1927, decrease of "18": per cent due to the Yelp in the price of estate rubber,

(Continued on next Column.)

The aggregate value of exporta exceeded, the value of imports by 82,987,043, or 35 per cent. as com ared with $6,498,018 or 72 per cent. in 1927.

The six leading imports together with their value were: Rice, four and grain 82,201,687, cloth $3,023,023, provisions 8029,933, tobacco 8570,943, "iron and metal ware 8493,067, sundries 8464,000.

Compared with the order of im ports for 1927 tobacco and irouware have each advanced one place at the expense of sundries, now the lowest on the list.

ODD REASONS GIVEN FOR JEWELLERY THEFT/

The attempted theft of a silver rose bowl and a silver cup by. Privates Woodley and Seale of the Somerset Light Infantry" from a shop in Queen's Road Central on Friday night, led to their appear- ance before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at Central Magistracy on Saturday. Both defendants pleaded guilty to the theft..

His Worship: Is this the old story-you want to get out of the Army

Pte. Woodley: No, sir. The Army is all right.

It will be remembered that the Lok San weat ashore during a blind-

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number, were safely landed and the 1,000 tons of cargo. eubsequently re- moved.

Efforts to salve the vergel have not so far met with any success.

U.S. CONSULATE AT SHANGHAI.

TO BE ORNATE AND MAGNIFICENT,

WASHINGTON," July 25, Changes in the proposed Sheng- hai Consulate as suggested by Americans in Shanghai have been approved by the Foreign Service Building Commission.

Asked, if he bad anything to say, The six leading exports were: Pte. Woodley stated that be was

The structure will be more ornate catate rubber 84,075,803, timber 82,119,443, estate, tobacco 8099,968, in debt and wanted money, so he that was at first planned. Balconies copra 8882,984, coal 8618,970, dried stole the rose bowl. Pte. Scale stat- are to be added at each end, with and salt fish: #288,907,

ed that he had nothing to say. Although not one of the vital in-

His Worship: Surely you have dustries of the State, the collection of edible birds' nests is a trade in some reason for doing this! which North Borneo has special ad- vantages. The crop is collected by the natives from the vast caves in which the birds make their nests that no damage was done to the and is sold to Chinese dealers for shop.

cea fetched were 2212 per picul for

Scale: I was short of money. The Police informed the Court

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