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Hong Kong Daily Press Office.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1929.

CORRESPONDENCE.

MORE ABOUT FILMS..

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG

"DAILY PRESS."]

SIR-Although not a Director. I do happen to know a good deal of the inside workings of the Hong Kong Amusements Co.

It seems to me rather an extra ordinary thing that the chairman at the general meeting, should have gone out of his way to make some very favourable, comments regarding

AN APPEAL TO THE FERRY

COMPANY.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG DAILY PRESS."']

Six-The Kowloon Residents' Association would be doitig a great ervice to the publie whe bave to make use of the Star Ferry every day if they would advise the Star Ferry Co, to erect signals on either side of the wharves to show when the launches are coming in or going

Mr. Ray's service with the Com-out.

раду.

On this account the Directors are evidently not in a position to give a reply to the criticisms.re pictures, 4 actually, practically all these pictures which the Directors must agree are some of them not good were contracted for by Mr. Ray before his resignation, notwithstand ing the oft-repeated complaints that the Sims were better during his regime. Having been contracted for by a responsible servant of the company, they must be taken up. Reginald Denny pictures-I believe they are Paramount efforts-and other good pictures from the same studio had to be discontinued for zome time, owing to difficulties this studio's representative had with the late Managing Director." Gradually these difficulties have been smoothed orer, and we are bound to see more of this excellent studio's production as time goes..on.

As regards the pictures shown, it

is a well-known fact that in con- tracting for a series of pictures issued from a studio, the purchaser · cannot pick and choose if clients are to be catered for, as if a regular service is required the producer must take all or none.

At present a great deal of incon venience is caused to the travelling public who do not know when the launches are arriving or leaving, and have to rush about in order to catch a ferry. Some two years age on both the there were signals Hong Kong and Kowloon "wharves, but without any reason they were taken away and have never been replaced.

I am sure it will not cost the. Company much to replace these signals, and the service the would render to the public would be much appreciated.

One word more,

Could not there "sailers" be instrusted to be a little more" polite to their patrons, and not slam the gutes against un- fortunate passengers' faces i little politeness would not cost any thing, and the goodwill gained would be immense.

A

Thanking you for allotting me space in your popular paper fer this letter, and hoping that some

good may result from it.-Youra,

etc..

S. C. KNOX. Hong Kong, August 2.

MOTOR-BUS SERVICES.

BY MAIL, WIRE, AND WIRELESS.

Accounts

London.-The

of the for the past year show a trading West Ham Tramways undertaking

murphs of £58,232, as compared with A surplus the year before of £31,803.

Hastings-A bed was formally endowed by the Trinting Machine Managers Association at the Her mitage Home of the Printers Medical Aid and Senatorium Asso- ciation, at Hastings

Wellington. Mr. F. Hugo Fox, bead of the wollen industry in Wellington, has handed to the Gov ernors of Wellington School, Somer. set, of which he has for many years been chairman, the sum of £1,000 for the foundation of a leaving scholar

ship.

Doncaster verdict of "Death from Natural Causes was return- ed at an inquest un the body of James Kerwin, 63, an old soldier, who was found dead in a cave which he had dug and fixed in for 20 years at Bawtry, near Doncaster.

Chatham-A fire occurred fathe pleasure steamer Essex Queen, be longing to the Medway Steam Packet Company, which was lying as Strood pier, near Roochester Bridge. The fire brigade extin- guished the flames.

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Moson-At a meeting of the Soviet of People's Commissars of the B.S.F.S.H. (Russia proper), it was reported that absenteeism in.

At the

the factories caused a loss of 20 days per workman per year. Treshgorny cotton mills, employing 7,200 workinen, the number of cases of infringement of labour discipline was 1,500 in year.

Bangkok-Contrary to reports, no wireless telephone service has been opened between Germany and Siam, The conversations which were held between the Nauen wireless station and Bangkok recently were experi ments carried out at the request of peine Purachatra, the Minister of Commerce and Communications.

"RED" AGITATORS MONEYLENDERS AND

IN HONG KONG.

THE LAW.

POLICE VIGILANCE REWARDED.

FOUR ARRESTS,

T

An alert watch was kept by the police for activities by agitators who might be likely to enliven "Red Thursday" by a little sedition in Hong Kong.

USE OF REGISTERED NAME NECESSARY.

KNOTTY POINTS OF LAW.

A curious gase bas qecupied the attention of the Posne Judge in the Summary Court during the two last Friday sittings and was yes- terday adjourned till next Friday. Inflammatory leaflets were in

Sapcoran Singh, a moneylender, fact distributed in certain centres claimed 8513 on a promissory note where there was less risk of detec said to have been signed by three

tion, and the mischief makers alse men of whom the art was in'

resorted to throwing literature * from the upper storeys of build ings, Officers of the Criminal In vestigation Department, assisted by

court This man, who was sued under the name of "R. T. Leung. denied all knowledge of the plain- diff or of the loan and declared

that hie name

was I. S. Ling,

district watchmen; made a search of boarding houses and other likely haunts, but it was not until late The second signatory. Fung Shu in the evening that they were able Hay could not be found, and the to capture a few of the Communist third Li Kim was stated to have agents with their propaganda gear

gone bankrupt. the Sincere Company's premises.

Disclosures in Court,

The sequel was heard at Central Magistracy yesterday before Mr.

Mr. J. Wiltshire, bailiff of the Supreme Court, gave evidence at the first hearing of serving the E. W. Hamilton when a number writ on defendant, who, he said, of men were placed on trial. De fan away through the back door tective-Sergeant Mottram produc-

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The case was adjourned in order that the plaintiff should subpoena Li Kim to give evidence as to the identity of the defendant..

ed a quantity of papers, some of on seeing him approach with the Witners Enow him which had been distributed in the moneylender. streets. A boarding house man was as Y. S. Ling. charged with possession of the "literature' and remanded for

8 one week.

A batch of three men were then brought up on charges of possession Geneva The League Economic and distribution of seditious pro-t

A New Point, Committee, of which Sir Sydney paganda. It was stated that a

After further evidence had been Champan (Great Britain) is Vice- President, met in Geneva recently. Ewangsi man and a Hakka, two

of the defendants.

heard, yesterday, the defendant still. were among It approved the proposal of the Coal Sub-Committee to, proceed on those caught near the Sincere maintained that he had no know- September 30 next to consult a

Company. The third, a Cantonese, edge of the plaintiff. The Puisne mixed group of experts from con

rew point had suming

the would not have been in the 'dock Judge said that a countries, knowing

but for the fact that be followed arisen. He had looked up the Further, the question of what is [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG opinion of employers' and workers

organizations, with a view to the the man arrested at the boarding ordinance and found it laid down continuation of the coal inquiry.

house. His behaviour in the Cen- that a moneylender should only tral Police Station compound trade under his registered name. case in 1924 prompted the officers to search There had been him. Seditious literature" was when two moneylenders had formed found in the pocket of his trousers, a partnership and registered their A remand for one week was also names as partners. One of these note in his two later accepted a allowed in this case.

recover own name, add' failed to because it was not in the registered name of the firm. From the ruling

DAILY PRESS."]

an: attractive picture or not I thought a matter of individual taste.

S1-There appeared in your However, I now see it is all a ques-issue of the 19th ultime a letter tion of degree of intelligence, but anyway the result is the same, what! suits one does not suit another, but it requires a much higher manage- ment than any, mortal one to put this right.

As regards price, for a decent seat in a London cinema show the price is 58., which is 150 per cent. more than the same class of "seat

from "Foolsure" requesting the Hong Kong Tramway, Company to extend its Happy Valley bus service up

Village Road to the Jewish cemetery. Nothing has so far trans- pired, and I suppose the Tramway Company notorious as it is for its

Tarnow. The remains of General Josef Bem, who played a notable part in the struggle for Hungarian and Polish independence, were placed in a mausoleum, erected for the purpose, in the city of Tarnow,, the general's birthplare. The cere mony was attended by thousands of people and by a large number of troops. The general's remains had been brought from Aleppo, where he' died in 1950.

scan: treatment towards its patrons Sydney.Mr. William Macleod, passing a canal bridge at Neath in that case it would appear that

Halifax (N. S.). Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are considering the establishment of a joint office in London, with an Agent-General to represent both Provinces.

Delhi. The Standing Committee of the Chamber of Princes met to Ministers Sub-committee on the discuss the resolutions passed by the Butler Committee's Report.

and utter unconcern for the in: one of the founders of the Sydney here. The chief picture in a London terests and welfare of the public-Bulletin, has died, aged 79. show runs for at least three weeks do not propose to do anything: ex- constantly, whilst here owing to less cept how! and rave later when a population it is necessary to have more enterprising, concern which a change of picture three times a will study the public needs steps in week. Even the lowest degree of and fills a long overdue need intelligence, and I venture to hope Let us hope the Hong Kong Hotel the highest degree of intelligence Company will come along now and also, can see the risk of getting a start to run a few buses from the certain number of poor pictures if Jewish Cemetery.to Statue Square, the management has to get 156 pic-say every quarter of an hour, from tures per annum, ie, three per 8.30 am., to 0.30 a.m. and I p.m. week, instead of 1 pictures per to 2.16 p.m., and leaving Statue year or once every three weeks. It Square say, every quarter of an reflects greatly to the credit of the hour, from 12:45 to 2 p.m. and frem management the fact that almost 5 to 8 pm,

The Tramway Company deserves ten times as many pictures are: bought for display and yet the seat- no sympathy from the Government ing prices are kept at such a low for anyone else. Its trams are dead- ly slow, and its buses are most un- igure in comparison with

comfortable and often like" ovens. thickly, populated areas.

more

boon..

As regards choosing of pictures with the windows purposely so ad- for foreign clients by a Chinese justed that the majority only open staff, this if it were done would, of a few inches. The comfortable buscs: course, bé suicidal. Actually the of the Hotel Company would be a pictures are chosen by the issuing

Surely the Government will per studios, who contract to give a re gular supply, and the Chinese staff mit the Hotel Company to do some- thing as indicated, particularly can be neither praised nor blamed when the Tramway Company does for the pictures being poor or other- not intend to move, and one hopes wise. They must be shown as re- that the Hotel Company will set to work with its noted enterprise by ceived, or there would be no pic-starting the above run, which is tures to show at all, and although bound within a very short time to some of your correspondente might be a well paying one-Yours, etc.,

TRAVELLER. thick this a blessing judging from Hong Kong, August 2

the trend of their letters, there are Juany others who would be very

sorry.

"

The enticing advertisements are Amusement Co., it will be found also supplied by the advertising ex--that films from all the best studios perts attached to the same studios,are shews here, and surely the and are seat with the pictures, so highest intelligence cannot expect if they are misleading then the better than the best. entire world is being misled, as The handsome profits the company I venture to hope that even the has made, notwithstanding having average intelligence will realise that purchased a constant supply of Brst- none of the Metro Goldwyn,, Par-releases from the leading studios at amount, etc., pictures are made ex a price evidently satisfactory to the clusively for Hong Kong.

studioa concerned, points to the fact that the theatres must be well patronized, and this must mean that at least a good many patrons in Hong Kong" are well satisfed.-. Yours, etc.,

X.Y.Z.

In conclusion, if any sufficiently interested person carcs to purchase any of the recognised cinema maga zines, and refers to the names of the leading studios, and takes note of the releases of the Hong Kong (Continued at foot of next column)

Hong Kong, August 2.

Nenth.--Benjamin Harris, 14, a schopiboy, of Skewen (Glam), was when he saw Francis Davies, aged the Moneylenders' Association of 2. fail into the deep part of the which the plaintiff was a member canal. He jumped in and rescued and in whose name the writ was the child.

Inverness.The Town Council have issued was in the same position. agreed to offer the freedom of the The note was made out not to the burgh to Mr. MacDonald, Mr. association but to Sapooran Singh, Baldwin, and Sir Murdoch Mac- Donald, M.F., in recognition of the and while he felt sure that the Clan MacDonald. Mr. Baldwin's acted in good faith the note was distinction they have brought to the members of the association had mother was a MacDonald.

not really taken up on their behalf at London-The Corporation of the but on behalf of one of their mem- widening St. bers. He advised the plaintiff to City of London are proposing to spend £81,500 on Paul's-churchyard and Cannon-street give up the association and claim to a minimum of 60ft. between the in his own name and to get the Returda and Red Lion-court and

Rangoon. During a storm Akyab a launch carrying about 30 passengers foundered, and only 20 of them were saved. Another launch had an exciting time, nine passes gers being washed overboard, but eight were saved.

(Continued on next Column.)

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