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TURA KONG.

LEAGUE MUST CHANGE ATTITUDE

ACCUSED OF BEING PRO-JAPANESE

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,1

NANKING, Dad, 20. Foreign Office spokesman to-day deolared that the Chinese Gov

ernment is unable to accept the resolution drawn up by the Com mittee of Five in its present form The spokesman added that un- low the League changes its pre- Japanese attitude, there is no way foraotiloment of the Manchurinn issue.

A.D.C. PRODUCTIONS AND

TRIUMPHS RECALLED

MR. W. A. CORNELL'S WITTY ADDRESS TO ROTARY CLUB

MISADVENTURES OF WHICH AUDIENCES KNEW NOTHING

At yesterday's meeting of the Rotary Club Mr. W. A. Cornell recalled many pleasant memories in his address ca "Some Re- miniscences of Happy Days and Nights at the Theatre Royal," which proved an interesting and witty review of A.D.O. produc- tions during the past twenty years. Mr, Cornell has played no small part, by his expert assistance with scenery and lighting effects, in the repeated successes of the local dramatic society, but his work has been rather taken for granted by audiences though members of the Society know what they owe to him.

In proposing a vote of thanks, Mr. P. S. Cassidy emphasised the extent of the help that Mr. Cornell had given to Mr. Sin-: clair, the producer to whom the A. D. 6. owe so much of their fine. tradition).

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The Hon. Dr. Two, O.B.E., who presided at the meeting, an necunced, amid applause, that H.E. the Governor had sent a dona- tion of $30 towards the Club's Playground Fund.

The Club's annual dinner at which members of the Canton Rotary Club are to be entertained was arranged for Saturday, January 14 It was decided that no other guests should be invited.

HOW THE THEATRE WAS NEARLY BURNT OUT

an architect, and always you very old clothes and looked extremely shobby. Some of the ladies of the cast thought he was hard up and give him some old shirts, collars and ties "to wear.

CHINA'S INTERNAL PROBLEMS

STERN MEASURES PRO... POSED BY MR. BLAND

(Special Air-Mail Service)

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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE.

On and after NOVEMBER 15, 1932, until Further Notion (all previous

Time Tables cancelled),

UP TRAINS

STATIONS No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. | No. No.

B 10 10 -8 13 43) 13 10 18 24 26 38

[AM] A,M,{ A.M. (MUznĀ] 2.M; JPM.| BM.| P.M. P.M. F.M. R.X..

0.34 201911.41 £9,19 1.27||| ..

5.06.14, 7,48 ::. 5,15 6.378.00

Kowloon Dep. 6.25 8.15 8.37 9.08 2.15 10.1811.80 12.18 1.20 2.90 493 4,55 6.06 7.40 Yaumati.Dep. 6.83... Shatin... Dep. 6.48 Talpo Dep. 6.50 Tarpo Mazket.

9.301081 11.5 1281 1,39).... 8.50 10.462.08 17.45-1.52-...

8.286.41 8.14

5.35 6.48)5.19

...5.42 0.67 5.39

LONDON, Nov. 29. Mr. J. O. P. Blad in his book China: The Pity of It" (pub- lished by Heinemann. 88, 8d.) ex- horts his readers to the stump-

Dep. 7.04.

0.63 10.50 12.16 12.19 1.507 tion of no less a task than inter-Fanling.Dep. 7.16

10.06 11.01 12.82 1269 2.00 vention by force in China's domes Sheangahul... tic politics for the restoration of

Dep. 7.20

(9,14 0,42 10.1111.0619.87 104 2,132,50 order and security, which us8am-

Arr 7.20 8.53 9.90 9.48 10.17) 11.1212.45 -1.10 2.17 8.05) 5.13|5.53 7.08 8.40 ing a refusal by the leaders of the Kuomintang to co-operate in, or Canton...Arr.] ... {11.95] ...N

5.80

... 17.401... permit, the application of reme dial measures, would be given effect in the following way:-

"After due warnings and the expiration of a reasonable time no effective steps having been taken," For guarantees given, for the sup pression of banditry and the dis handment of superfluous troops, The Powers might proceed to de: vise and apply a definite scheme (ie. one suggested by Mr. Yoshi.. zawa in a lectura in Tokyo in 1927, when he was Japanese Minister, at Peiping, for the temporary occu- pation and control of Chinese tail- ways)."

Ides Behind Proposal.

The idea behind this proposal, Mr. Bland mys, based on Japan's experience in Manchuria, was thint the Powers should proceed, after formal intimation to the Nanking Government and the provine hi war lords, to declare the railways! of Central China and the Yang- te region in particular out of hounds. for all movements or armed bodies.

Rotarian, Cornell said: have always been extremely interested in stage work, and when a boy Lossessed n very fine model stage After leaving school, I was placed

He left Hoag in the 'oles of Bertie Crowe, of London, who at that time was one Kong soon after and joined up in of the leading architects in Eng- the Guards Division. This made land for the, design and constructs think somewhat, and later we tion of theatres and music halls. I heard that the poor fellow had was in his office for one time and heen killed in action in France, helped, in a very small way to build Still later we read in the newspaper of this kind on the part of" the

that he had leit £48,000.

the Lyceum Theatre in London, The Tivoli at Liverpool, The Palace at Glasgow, The Hippodrome at Portsmouth, the Alhambra in Paris, and several others.

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In 1012 I came out here to Hong Kong and almost the first job H. W. Bird gave me to do was to de- sign and build the grid floor over stage at the Theatre Royal, and to lower the side boxes about four feet .or..80. These side boxes are uncomfortable now, as some of you must know who have had the mis- fortune to occupy them, you can just imagine what they were like when four feet higher,

A week or two later "A pair of Spectacles" was produced by the A.D.C. in which Claud Severn, H. W. Bird and Barton took part. I Was an Occasional scene shifter and so watched the show from the stage free of charge.

In 1913, Twelfth Night" was produced by Sinclair, and it was then that I first met him. He fre! quently had me to dinner at his house on Mount Kellett to discuss scenery and lighting with the help of a model of the Theatre Royal stage which I had made for him,

We spent many happy evenings together in this way and in connec tion with the subsequent plays that be produced until he left the Colony in 1920.

In 1914 A Privy Council," "The Open Door" and "Between the Boup and the Savoury" were pro duced by Sinclair, with Mr. and Mrs C H. P. Hay and Northcote in the principal parta. Sinclair designed the scenery and. I helped ||-with-odd-scale drawings and the

construction.

In 1014 Sinclair produced Blue "Bindi,” and asked me to do the

lighting."

During one of the changes of scenery, I was rather, late in fixing up the lights on the stage, and the eurtain, was rung up leaving me no time to get off. The scene repre sented, a raised terrace with steps leading up to a' centre doorway, "The raised terracej portions was only canvas and latinng, and in "day hurry to get off the stage I forgot this and attempted to run along the canvas terrace. I sank az awhil erash through it and had to remain underneath during the scene, whic "fortunafaly" Maa Alvary ahoztiona

and hold up the rents in the canvas floor from below repla

The next show was Snowwhite and the Frog Prince," produced by Binclair. The scenery was, by Grissell and the lighting by mess

Grissell'n-scenery was exceptional My fine. He was a peculiar - man,

In 1918 Sinclair produced "The Angel in the House and took part Himself with Mrs. Competz, I do wigned some of the scenery and did the lighting. One scene repro- (Continued an2 Page -10.) -

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The creation of neutral zones' around and about these railways, from which all military adven turer and freebooters would be excluded, would not (Mr. Bland thinks) call for any large military force, inasmuch as. united action

Powers would have sa immediate and sobering effect upon the wealthy and essentially timid in-. dividuals whose trade is civil war. Determined opposition on the part of any individual war "lord or combination of war lords, might at first necessitate military opera tions but few who have knowledge and experience of the material from which China'a modern armies are

will be composed

disposed to credit more than a

very small minority of disciplined troops with the desire or the determination to. die on the stricken field,"

IN HONG KONG TO-DAY

FINE GENERALLY

YESTERDAY'S WEATHER · REPORT,

FORECAST AND REMARKS, 188UED BY THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY AT ON P-M-STATED

THE ANTI-CYCLONE REMAINS CEN-U

TERED TO THE NORTI OF THE YANGTZE VALLEY. THE DEPRES- BION IE SITUATED TO THE BONTH= WEST OF HOERAIDO MOVING E.N.E. FRESH MONSOON WILL

PREVAIL -ALONG THE "COÂNT" AND OVER, THE NOrthern CHINA BRA/

LOCAL TOBECANT —N.E. WINDE, FRESH; TINE GENERALLY,

Employment of Air-forces. Mr. Bland

proposal also in cludes the employment of air for ope (in the event of major, military operations" being required against. the botter organized Cantonese, troops," or the elusive forces of the Christian General"); occups tion, of China's arsenals and of HIB BAY the creation of "s Chinese railway police force officer ed by Europeans; the appointment reign railway accountants engineers-in-Chief, and dis

and

Shamchan

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Dep. ↑ 7.80 8.16 Shada.

Dap. 7.488,80, Yamati ........... .Dep. 7,66 8,43 Kowloon

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11.10 12.39) 2,00) 4.31| 4.58) 0.01 | (85) ...

1114 12.64 8,11) 4,35) 5,00| 8,00 (8.40) 11. 11,98 12,58, 3,34 4.50, 6,14 8.37 (6,68 |11.41 1.13 8.37| 50% 6,28|6,42 |7,06|| AR. 8,02 8.40 11.08 11.47 – 1.18 8.45. 6.10 8.82 6.48 7.117738 7.5: -First Class only. Will stop at any station où raqam. 1Q-Sundays and Customs Holidaya szcepted.

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