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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1930.

BISHOP WARNS BEAUTIES.

CHOCOLATE-BOX FACES CLOY HOLLYWOOD.

"The real tragedy of Holly- wood is the crowd of girls who. having won prizes in beauty com- petitions in Greap Britain and

SYREN WHO DOOMED

50,000 MEN.

MATA HARI'S JOKES ON

. DAY OF EXECUTION.

BROKEN, PROMISE TO FIRE BLANKS.

CROWN LAND SALES,

THREE LOTS, DISPOSED OF YESTERDAY.

At the Crown Land Office yester day three lots of land at Kowloon were auctioned and sold by Mr. LC. Parkerces,

The first lot, Kowloon Inland Lot

The full story why Mata Hari, No. 2336, situated at Nathan Road, was sold to Messrs., Chau Kau overy country in the world. have the lovely Dutch spy. who is said Wong Tung and Yuen Kwong, of

flocked to Hollywood thinking their

fortunes were made.”.

That is what the chaplain of a Hollywood church told the Bishop of Aberdeen.

In almost avery case," continu- ed the chaplain, they are failures, and are stranded without any money and have to be got home somehow to their people."

The Bishop, who has returned to Aberdeen, added:-

"A large part of the chaplain's time is spent in looking after these silly young women.

It takes more than a chocolate lox face to make a sucGE 55.

A Moral Community,

*I believe there is an erroneous impression," said the Bishop, that Hollywood is a sink of iniquity. crowded with dissolute and worth- less characters.

Takng them on the average. they are hard-working, good-heart- ed. moral people. It is grossly un fair to impute to an entire com. munity the moral offences of those who, after all, are only the excer tions."

CHINESE ESTATES IN HONG KONG.

WIDOW LEAVES OVER A MILLION DOLLARS.

Probate has been granted locally in respect of the estate of Tang Ho Shi, a widow, who died at Leighton Hill Road on October 27, 1927, at the age of 61.

Testator's estate in Hong Kong, which comprised mostly house pro- perty and mortgage securities; was assessed at a value of $1,366,000 Estate duty payable on this amount, at seven per cent, was 8104,155.

In appointing certain members of

to have been responsible for the deaths of 30,000 men during the war, went to her execution in 191 laughing and joking has just been revealed.

She did not know she was going

to die.

She thought that one of her lovers had bribed the officer of the firing squad to use blank cartridges,

Not only had the officer in charge of the ring squad been bribed to use blank cartridges," writes Major Thomas Coulson in his book, Mata Hari, Courtesan and Spy," "but the gendarmes respon sible for pinioning Mata Hari's arms were also bribed to fasten the cords so lightly that her body could sink to the ground when the shots were fired.",

But although the gendarmes tied her loosely to the tree, the offeur in charge of the firing party did not fula) his promise about the car- tridges, for the beautiful spy fell dead at the first volley..

Mata Hari betrayed to her Ger- man employers the plans of the Freuch offensive at Chemin des Dames, with the result that the French suffered terrible casualties.

She obtained most of her in- formation from young French öff, cers, who were infatuated with her. A member of the French Govern- ment gave evidence on her behalf

at the court martial. He was one of the few of her many lovers who was loyal to her in her fatal hour,

Last Appeal,

Another of her lovers, Maitre Clanet, conducted her delence. He made an impassioned but vain ap- peal for her life, and when she was sentenced to death be tried to in-. fience the French President in her favour.

Even when the day of her execu

6, Bute Street, for 330,350. The upset price was 817,350. The land bas as area of about 6,040 square feet and its annual rental is $80.

the next offered and was purchased Kowloon Inland Lot No. 9337 was

by Messrs. L E. Basto, L. & V. Ribeiro and B. Souza at the upset

ed at Kowloon Tong and has an area of about 10,000 square feet. Its annual rental is 968.

price of $5,000. The land is situat

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The last lot, Kowloon Inland Lot No. 2024, with an area of about $5,250 square feet, was sold to Mr. Street, at the upset price of $27,625, Yam Taz Hing, of 185 Tai Nan The land is situated at Argyle Street and has an annual rental of $380.

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SPIRAL GLASS BRACELETS-RETURN OF JADE

-"SPOON" NECKLACES-BEADWORK

Those elevated and mysterious people who are responsible for the launching of the latest Parisian tushion wisely realise that there is Lever a period during the year ben the elegant woman does not seek for some fresh adornment.

The makers of both expensive and inexpensive jewellery seem to have been working overtime during the last few weeks to think of really new and original ideas.

jade bangles and carved pendants crowd the shop windows.

Instead, jade is treated as a pre- Cious stone and provided with elaborate mountings of diamonds or paste with a touch of onyx or black enamel to make the whole thing look really modern...

Some of these jade-centred brooches and pendants seen in the big jewellery shops in the Ras de la Paix are really marvels of mo dern design and workmanship.

In the inexpensive class are some particularly amusing spiral brace- Pendants of all sorts seen very icts made of big glass beads, which much in fashion again among wo wind round the arm from the wrist men who can afford real jewellery, to the elbow. A necklace of big | Some of the loveliest are made of links of the same clear glass goes crystal or cloudy white jade in with the bracelet,

strange oblong or cylindrical shapes with platinum mountings.

These new glass sets can be had

in most colourings, but perhaps

the most attractive of all are. in

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In the realms of less expensive.

pale jade shade that is partijewellery, one of the most amusing

cularly, snart at the moment.

new trifles consists of a necklace of small red beads threaded alter-

Jade, indeed, whether real ornately between tiny gilt spoons. imitation, has very much come back The effect is not quite so ex- to fashion again for jewellery after traordinary as it sounds, for the slight cloud owing to its over-miniature spoons are only about popularity a couple of years ago. an inch in length..

The new jade ornaments

Still, these spoon necklace, vor- quite different from the old, how-viinly took most original, and have ever. No longer do heavy plain a very distinctive barbaric chara

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Her family as executors, the testator tion arrived he did not give up CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS.

that French law prohibited the execution of an expectant mother,

The governor of the prison asked who could possibly be the father,

Clunet. who and Maitre seventy-five, cried, Suppose it was I?"

directs that the estate be adminis- hope. Early in the morning he tered on trust. The trustees are appeared at the prison and de- authorised to make investments,manded her reprieve on the ground purchase property in Hong Kong, and accept mortgages.

Testator leaves 350 a month for life to her only son and specifically lays down that he is not to share in the benefits of the estate. There are five legacies of 83,000 each to members of the family, and the greater part of the estate goes to her grandsons when they come of

age.

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A Merchant's Fortune. Letters of administration have been granted to Lau Wy Fook in respect, of the estate of his late father, Lau Shu Tong, alias Lau Fat, merchant, formerly of 75, Whitefeld Road, Hong Kong,

Testator, who died in October last year, loft a local estate of $129,800. His family consisted of a widow, seven concubines, and 20 children, including the petitioner. All the wives have renounced their title to the estate.

FICTITIOUS REPORT TO THE POLICE.

ÁN ALLEGED KIDNAPPING

STORY."

A story about the kidnapping of fer three-weeks-old child was told to the police yesterday by a woman from Tai Tol Yuen village, Taipo, but on making investigation was found that the report was a together a false one..

Was

But Mata Hari, when she heard of the incident, roared with laugh. ter, and described Maitre Clunet "an excruciatingly funny old dear."

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When she was dead the officer in charge of the firing party asked. "Does any one claim this body" but nobody answered.

Ob ingratitude" writes Major. Coulson. "The lively amber-tint- ed body that had danced for the delight of so many was despised and rejected by all her mumerous lovers when death had stilled its allurements."

FOREIGN BANK'S LOSS.

ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT FROM MERCANTILE BANK.

Following inquiries made by the hank officials, says the N.-C. Daily News, it transpired on May that there is every reason to be- lieve that funds in the possession of the Mercantile Bank of India to the extent of about. Tis. 150,000 have been embezzled..

It is stated that the second com itpradore of the bank, Mr. Chu Shiaoshing had occasion, through illness or other cause, to be absent from the bank for two days. On his return he is understod to have found that certain accounts 'were missing. This led to an investiga tiou, on his part, and in the course of the day the matter was placed in the hands of detectives of the Central Police Station.

The woman stated that "at 3 ́s.m. a strange woman entered her mat shed and asked for the loan of a kerosene tin to carry water. The demand being refused, the stran- ger proceeded to blow out the light and rendered the woman helpless before carrying away the baby. It was alleged that a rope was wound 1ound-her-neck and sand forced into her month. Another feature in this flavoured story was that her husband slept...in an adjoining matched, but that she was unable to call out for his 'assistance.

SHIPS IN " HARBOUR,

Det.-8gt. Darters is in charge of the case, and from information ob- tained by him, it is anticipated that arrests will be forthcoming shortly.

Buoys-A1 Chichibu Maru, A£ Tjisondari, A3 Perzeux, A5 Tjianroca, Ao Takada, B7 Tean, AB Tjibadak, B9 KwLDg- chow, A10 Kwangtung, B11 Shan- tung. Biz Nannjog, B13 Kanchow. C1s. Relikon, C1 Centon, C19

Hải Wharves APC North Point Hing. Rej Daviken, 833 Hangang Sumite Sdrony Baehrker, Gold Shur Lot, Ess Tong Tong, Lar Tai Poo Bek, B38. Mag Las Cas

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