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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1936.

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:

"Half Angel"

ORIENTAL:-

"Colleen"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:-

"If You Could Only Cook” MAJESTIC:-

"Collegiate"

STAR:

"Ship Cate"

Coming

KING'S:

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"Come Out of The Pantry"

"The Mystery of The Wax

Museum.

MAJESTIC:-

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"Frisco Kiď”

SHIP CAFE

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Carl Brisson,. for, played the role of Prince Danilo in "The Merry Widow" for one thousand sucosasive nights in London,

The Danisir star Jemonstrates his versatility in his latest char acterization, that of a coal heaver

Cafe,'

ONE FUGITIVE WINS

HIS FREEDOM

Hearing Before Full Court

Yesterday morning is a Full Court, before the Chief Justice,

Sir Atholl MacGregor, and the Acting-Pulane Judge, Mr. Justice J. J. Hayden, an order for writ of habeas corpus was discharged on three fugitives from the justice of the courts at Nanking, and an order was made absolute for the fourth.

On June 30, 1935, the four men, Police Magistrate, Mr. W. Schofield, Yu Lap Fui, allas Li Chi On, alias considered Wang as an accomplice. Li Shek Yu. Chan Bau Ping, Wu Even assuming that every word of rai Hoi, allas Wu N1, Cheung, allas the prosecution was true, there was Và Típ Chan, and Chung. Chị Hơn, no evidence against the fourth were committed to the Victoria fugitive, and it was Mr. Sheldon's Gaol by Magistrate, Mr. W. Scho-submission that the order be made Held, for the attempted assassina- tion of Wang Ching Wel.

On July 14, Mr. H. Q. Sheldon, K.C, made a formal application in an order nist for a writ of habeas corpus and to show cause why is should not be made absciute.

The bearing yesterday morning was in the nature of an objection by the Crown, for whom appear- ed Mr. Leo D'Almadà e Castri, Jr. instructed by Mr. D. L. Strellett, of Messrs. G. K. Hall Brutton Co.

Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.Ü.. instruct- ed by Mr. Pete: # Sin, apprired for the fugitives.

Before the bearing could begin the Court found that there was not an eld present interpreter

The translate English into Mandarin. Fortunately, one was despatched from the Central Magistracy.

Before Mr. Shekon addressed their Lordships, however, Mr. D'Almada informed the court that

absolute.

D

CROWN'S SUBMISSION Mr. "D'Almada said that it was court that the perfectly clear should not interfere with the Ma- gistrate's decision.

Lordships wêre Unless thel satisfed that there was no such evidence, they could not interfere, and make the move absolute. He had no hesitation in submitting in the utmost confidence that Wang'a evidence, admittedly an accom- plice, was such that the Magistrate

could rely on.

It was his submission, also, that the Magistrate's decision found the evidence creditable, and therefore, to be believed, Uncorroborated evidence had to be received with caution, unless satisfied" as to its credibility.

Wang was unshaken under cross- examination, so he must have told

ESTARE CHINESE INCOME tan stokehold of a ship, in "Ship there was another warrant being a reasonably trite story. Out of a

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

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SATURDAY, ONE DAY ONLY!

An Old Favourite From Warner Bros. THE MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM'

"HALF ANGEL"

With

TAX

Picture, held for the first fugitive, Yu Lap coming to the Star theatre, which Fu features also Arline Judge, Willi Mr. Sheldon began by reading am Frawley, Mady Christians, Inca formal application for an order

Withers.

LAW DISCUSSED Courtney, Eddie Devis and Grant nist to show cause why a writ of

MERCHANTS ASK FOR

DELAY IN ENFORCEMENT

Shanghai, July 22,

habeas corpus should not be made absolute.

EXERCISING THEIR RIGHT

Brisson is by birth a Dane native of Copenhagen, but by habit an Englishman. He started in the theatre by dancing and then man,

The fugitives were exercising nging a troupe, 'Brisson's Blue Blondes" in a Stockholm play

their right to appeal with a writ house. A Miss Gusteffen, who of habeas corpus. They had been worked in a beauty parlour, asked charged with conspiring to carry for a job in the chorus there. The pug an attempted murder in the lady in now known as Greta Garbo, jurisdiction of China, and were be

At the age of sixteen Brisson ing held in the Victoria Gaol. was six feet two and weighed 150 under the Chinese Extradition or pounds. He joined up with Joe Edwards, boxing impresario, whcdinance, No. 7, of 1889.

The law on proceedings of this toured Germany and Austria with

A decision to petition the Gov- ernment to delay the enforcement of the Income Tax Law was reach- ed on the second day of the joint conference of representatives of Chinese chambers of commerce of a flying squadron of boxers, giving nature, the lawfulness of custody, alneteen provinces and muntel-exhibitions. After a year of this! and that if no "prima facie" evi- palities. The session, which w work, he knocked out someone im- denc. was found against the pri- be continued to-day, was held in portant and was hailed as the welsoners, then there could be no con-

ter weight champion of Middleviction, the local chamber in North Soo-

Europe and Scandinavia, but the

The case against the fugitives chow Road...

treasurer absconded with the gat" was based entirely on the chief receipts.

In view of the present depres sion, it was argued, the people should not be called upon to pay the new tax, which is to be en forced on August 1. Five delegates were selected from the Shanghai, Changsha, and Hankow chambers to dratt a petition to the Central Government.

After another bout Brisson found and slept in a himself broke mortuary, The next day he rais ed twenty cents and bought a tun ing fork in a pawn shop. Although he was tone deaf he tuned 38 pianos in two days and then left in a first class compartment for Copenhagen."

mass of dates and details on. examination during two after- noons, there might be slight dis- crepancies, but Mr. D'Almada sub- mitted that that could be taken as corroborated evidence and their Lordships could not interfere.

It was Mr. D'Almada's contention that the discrepancy of "dates in Wang's evidence was not serious.

Upon cross-examination. Wang's father said that his son did Kve on the premises. Being a secret meeting, the members would have kept their presence a secret.

Chung, the fourth fugitive, was found on the premises of 1, Kwong Ming Terrace, to which the police were directed to arrest the fugi tives. That the address came from Nanking could only be true, as they were not given by the fugitives.

Mr. D'Almada "submitted that- their Lordships had not the ad vantage of seeing witnesses' de- meanors at the Police Court, and asked that the writ be discharged

JUDGMENT

witness's evidence for the prosecu- tion, which in Mr. Sheldon's sub- mission, was wholly false. There

The Chief Justice, Bir Atholl was no evidence before the Magis

which the order could MacGregor, said that some of the trate on have been made.

points raised in argument" were Wang Yan Shan, the chief wit very interesting, insofar as he did hess for the prosecution, had con-not know where he could find the In Ship Cafe" Brisson is cast spired to take a part in the at- authority. The functions of that stoker who tempted murder, and he even ad- court in the proceedings was clear; B singing ship

the only way was to decide whether meeting in the morning included achieves overnight fame in a water-mitted complicity in the con- the following:-That the Legisla- front dive with his singing. He apuracy. Under cross-examination the "prima facie" case justified in tive Yuan be petitioned to draw falls into the clutches of a rich by Mr. Si at the Police Court, he dismissal or not, up. laws fixing the responsibilities countess who takes him under her had made a confession in Nan- of partners in Arms: that mis-wing and makes him her gigolo. king at the time of his arrest, and cellaneous taxes similar to likia A series of uproarious experiences ne fully expected to return there

of his own accord" be abolished; and that Mr. T. L. bring him to his senses.

Other resolutions passed at the

Soong, the newly-appointed Com- A comedy drama with, music. missioner of Finance for Kwang Ship Cafe" includes the follow. tung. be asked to abolish misceling popular song hits. "Fatal Fas cination," and "Ch.inge Your laneous taxes there. Mr. Boong is

Mind." understood to have announced his intention to comply with this.

Discussions in the afternoon centred on the effects of smuggling In the north and measures to check the liclt trade. The sub-

Alive

romance, breathless with thrills, hilarious with comedy and tingling with suspense, "Half Angel." Darry F. Zanuck Twentieta Ject will be further discussed to- Century production opens to-day day.(N.C.D.N.). "

at... the King's Theatre, with

Frances Dee, Brian Donlevy and

Charles Butterworth in the teatured roles:

THEFT FROM DOCKS

A SISTER SHIP

KEEL TO BE LAID IN AUGUST

The learned Mastatrite had pre- pared and put in writing a lengthy judgment setting down to commit- tal all four of the fugitives. Those The plot had been an exceedingly | ground. conid be put shortly: that informal affair. If Wang's story the chief witness was an accom- uncorro- was true, then he was an accom- | plice; that evidence piice in the conspiracy, and Mr. borated inust

with be received Sheldon asked their Lordships to great caution; the conclusion that scrutinise carefully the evidence Wang's evidence was reasonable and make their judgment accord- ¦ and creditable, and that there had ingly,

been several corroborations.

The learned Magistrate had come to his conclusion found in the de- tails and set out the requisite cor- roboration he had gathered him- self in order to give a committal."

It was also Mr. Sheldon's' sub- mission that there was direct con- tradiction of Wang' evidence. A wholly disinterested witness, in the person of a hotel roomboy, Ma Tong, of the Tung Ah Hotel, at In his judgment the order ought Canton, had deposed that the first to be made absolute on the fourth fugitive, Yn Lap Fui, was at Can- | fugitive, Chung Chỉ Hon, and dis Mr. Morrison the Financial Seton between November 7 to 11, charged the other three fugitives. 1935, a guest of that hotel, in room 804. Yu could not be at two places

first discrepancy.

London, July 28.

It is seldom that all the ifk An unemployed, named Tamcretary to the Treasury stated in gredients of great entertainment Fung, 40 years, and Lam Fun, 51, a Commons answer that the Chan are so skilfully blended as they odd job coolie, charged separately cellor of the Exchequer had re- have been by Sidney Lanfield, with the theft of an iron shackle | celved spectac proposals from the director of "Half Angel" Hilarious bolt and four pleces of brass from Cunard White Star Company and advances agreed that situations and sparking dialogue the Kowloon Docks, were remand- had now

ventures

at the same time. That was the

THE FOURTH ACCUSED vie with exciting episodes, unusual ed for 24 hours when they appear-should be made under the North The second discrepancy was a

breath-taking ad-

ed before Mr. Himsworth at the Atlantic romance and

Shipping Act for the much more decisive one. Wang Kowloon ... Magistracy' yesterday. building of the sister ship to the Pik Shuf, the father of Wang Yan Sergt. E. J. Stewart appeared for Queen Mary. Company had sup- Shan, gave evidence that he had the prosecution.

plied evidence showing clearly the never seen the fugitives at the technical and compfercial con- | King. Nal Association. He, the alderations for which they should rather, had been in Canton be- place the contract with Messrs. tween February 10 and 20 until

The story of "Half Angel" is concerned with a beautiful young girl, an irrepressible reporter, and his comical "atooge."

To

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Miss Dee, the girl, through a Helen Westley, who befriends Miss series of sinister circumstances is Dee after her first trial. Living in the house is a weird sssortment of twice involved in poison murders. She is acquitted the first time ex-criminals, any of whom might

have committed the crime.

The Cunard White Star Company was made manifest in a letter to Margaret Lee, the only daughter when the jury, returns an uner-

complications. three in a statement from their Liverpool the press denying such allegations, of Mr. E. Lee and of the late Mrs. Immaculate Conception entered dered on the orgen by Miss Lanas

-on; the arm pected verdiet, of not guilty. But add to the

of her Gosano, a nearby Office said the new ship would be Mr. Sheldon adduced that if their H. Lee of Liverpool, England, be the church'

She looked charming-Among those présent were the the second time it appears almost maniacs escape from

known as number "552" while, un- Lordships came to the conclusion came the bride of Mr. Hugh father.

gown trim Rev. Brothers of St. Joseph's and a foregone conclusion that she asylum.

der construction which will give that the evdence of Wang was not Gregory Asome a member of the in a white satin Misa Dee's beauty, Doniery's

The Rev. Father P. Joy, SJ, of carried a bouquet of white tube St. Joseph's College and a few in- Brian Donlevy, the reporter, is daring and Charles Butterworth's employment to about 7.000 men worthy of belief, then the case Staff of St. Joseph's College. med with tiny white roses. She La Salle Colleges, the lay staff of

directly at Clydebank and indirect against the fugidves must fall, fr

roses,

timate frienda. attracted to the girl from the comedy combine to make Halfly to about 300,000 athers. The Regarding the fourth fugitive Eciated at the wedding. Arst. He believes in her and takes Angel" an outstanding hit. Also keel will probably be laid down at Chung Chi Hon, it was immaterial The bridegroom who is the Miss Betty Ribeiro, da brides By kind permission of the Rev

receptio desperate risks to prove her inno. prominent in the cast are Henry the end of August and it is hoped whether wang's evidence was true eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. mald, wore a pink silk dress set Father N Maestrini,

ist Hall cence. He devises a clever ruse to Stephenson and Bara Haden " the new ship will be launched at or not. He was merely a listerjer, Asome of Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, off with a hat to match and car was given at the Paro

On leaving ar trap the real criminal but it seems

Bess Meredyth and Clene Fowler, the end of 1937 and be ready for and took me active part in the BWL, takes a keen interest in ried a sheaf of pink gladioll an almost impossible task, two of Hollywood's greatest Atlantic service in the summer of conspiracy, E

the School's sporting activites. Mr. C. N. Dragon, of the CAM Which is being pent

The bride who is on the start of Post ondertook the dudes of best Among the suspects are the writer's authored the screen play '1938-

a school run by the Sisters of the man, Appropriate music was ren with conte members of the household or of "Hali Angel

i will be convicted.

britisk Wreza.

It was proved that Wang had lied about his address and the

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