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友芝國中

Hond Koso, NOVEMBER 7, 1937.

KEEP ON KEEPING ON

We recognise that it is mighty easy to give advice from the That 15,633 shares of $5.00 back aut," but there appears to each of the authorised. Capital | us to be a very detrimental pro- of the Company anissued be clivity of the part-of not a few cancelled, and the issued people to reimark, in jew of the capital of the Company be recent happenings along section reduced from $4,421,835.90 of the war front, "I toh you so." divided into $89,578 shares of They mean by that, presumably, $5.00 each fully paid and that they always realised that 294,789 shares of $5.00 each Japan would advarer and that upon which the sum of $2.50 China would retreat. They for- has been paid to $2,210,917.50 | got, however, that there is such divided into 583,578 shares of $2.50 each fully paid and 294,789 shares of $2.50 each upon which 75 cents per share shall be deemed to have beer paid and that such reduction be effected in the following

manner :-

extent

of

feature in the science of war- fare known as the strategical retreat, and instances are not lacking to prove that tactics of this nature bave been the means of achieving ultimate victory.

If Gossip We Must

In

the

course of Penelope's wanderings to and fro last week, Keeping a sensitive ear attuned to all gossip as usual, she chanced to hear some remarks passed in connection with the forthcoming variety concert in aid of War tellef in North China which is to be held at the Queen's Theatre on November 17, and it seems that the most enticing plans are afoot. giving rise to hopes of promising things to come.

Readers, who have been con- scientiously scanning our columns this past week. already know some of the details, but Penelope is willing to bet that they know only the barest facts, and nothing of what she has since heard and is all a-dither to pass on.

PRODUCER

For instance. she learned that the busy-bee who is producing the show is none other than Ann Bachara, or to use her married name under which she is known in Hong Kong, Mrs. Ann Ellis.

As Ann Bachara, Mrs. Ellis is well-knokn in Shanghai's singing circles. possessing a remarkably

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and nice lyric soprano volce, gained much of her experience in America when she was engaged in radio. stage and Alm work. In the latter instance, she appeared in

"Don't Bet On Love" with Hong Kong's Wendy Barrie, who incidentally, was Instrumental in the introducing Mrs. Es to screen. Attractive and versatile,

audiences can expect much from A show produced under her abie direction..

It seems a pity that in the forthcoming variety performance Mrs. Ellis has chosen to work backstage only but Penelope hears it is to be a performance given solely by a group of clever amateurs. At any rate Mrs. Ellis will have her hands full seeing that everything goes off with swing.

A

DAUGHTER TO PERFORM However, her daughter Delle. Is in the cast, and from what is known of her. Penelope wouldn't be in the least surprised if she taps her way into the hearts of Hong Kong audiences as she did

THE IMPERIAL TRAGEDY

November 7, 1937.

It is not, however, with the

Having studied the situation closely, we venture to give it as technical aspect that we are cry

our considered opinion that what Japan wants is not the friend- a layman we shum cerned. As the role of back sat triver."ship of China, upon whom she looks down as an inferior race. but the man power of China for the inevitable struggle between But when it comes to a matter herself and Russia that she forsees as coming at no distant date. of assessing what may be termed

nod.

(a) By cancelling Capital which has beca lost or is unrepresented by available "assets to the

$2.50 per the spiritual values of the Sino-Nothing would please the doughty Nipponese better than to see share upon each of the Japanese conflict, then we claim China disintegrated so that she would become the paramount 589,578 fully paid shares we lave, every justification for power in the Far East with the rest of the mainland outside of those countries controlled by white Powers trembling at her every of the Company which offering opinions and criticisms have been issued, and which, we most sincerely trust to the extent of $1.75 will be accepted in that spirit per share upon each off sincerity in which they are the 294,789 partly paid given. shares of the Company Whatever our Chinese cou which have been issued.temporaries may elect to do in (b) By releasing the holders the matter of policy and news

said of the

294,789 features is certainly their own

As Soviet Russia is a more difficult proposition than Czarist we would not, of partly paid shares which affair, and have been issued from course, presume to offer either Russia, and as in her heart of watts she realises that she would be unable to cope, single-handed, with the well-equipped and dis- liability in respect of advice or criticism. The verna- their shares to the excular Press would resent that ciplined millions which her porthern antagonist would be putting tent of 75 cents per just as much as we would if into the field, Japan must strive with all her might and mais to:

share.

That 15,633, shares of $5.60 each of the authorised Capital of the Company unissued be cancelled, and the issued capital of the Company be reduced from $4,421,835,00 'divided into 589,578 shares of $5.00 each fully paid and 294,789 shares of $5.00 each upon which the sum of $2.50 has been paid to $2,210,917.50 divided into 589,578 shares of Hong Kong, 30th Sept., 1937. $2.50 each fully paid and 294,789 shares of $2.50 each upon which 75 cents per share shall be deemed to have been paid and that such reduction be effected in the following

manner :-

(a) By canceiling Capital

which has been lost or unrepresented by

is

avaliable assets to the extent of $2.50 per share upon each of the 589,578 fully paid shares

of the Company which

The breaking up of China would enable her to set up a num ber of puppet states which she could gobble up in a leisurely way when they became ripe. In this way she hopes to oppose to Russia the inexhaustible manpower of China and the resources of the provinces under her domination so that win or lose, the brunt and cost of the conflict would be borne by other than her nationals and her treasury."

sinash all the power of attack that China might be able to mis- ter against that inevitable day of reckoning between herself and

Russia.

Chinese bretheran of the Inky By Order of the Board,

Way started a campaign designed J. C. GUTERRES, to alter our editorial or news

To defeat Japan in her cherished object, China should pro- However, whilst ad- Secretary. policies.

mitting their capabilities and long the struggle as much as possible in the hope of either frus whilst recognising their right to trating her in her vile object or, failing that, to weaken her to All their pages as they deems most such an extent financially and in minitions of war that Russin. fitting to the present occasion. sooner than most people imagin, may pounce upon her in her yet we would be guilty of moral exhausted state, and do that before she will have had time to cowardice if we did not clearly recover and replenish her depleted stocks-both in terms of man and definitely state it as our con-power and war materials.

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MILITARY ALLIANCE

To Be Signed Between

Turkey And Greece.

"Athens, Nov. 6. A military alliance is to be sign- ed between Turkey and Greece.

says an announcement here to-day.

sidered opinion that it is directly The time is ripe. Japan's miscalculations have landed her attributable to the over-enthu-in the proverbial quicksand of China. She should retreat, but siastic patriotism of the Chinese she cannot. She must feel her position so keenly that her exas Press that so many people are ❘peration is maddening her. unnecessarily despondent in the face of the regular and under

Both Greece and Turkey are standable tactics being adopted

What a "curtain" to the Imperial tragedy.

PRODUCING

An attractive study of Mrs. Ann Ellis, producer of the forthcoming Variety Concert to be given at the Queen's Theatre

on November 17.

with Shanghai and audiences in other places in the Far East.

Like her mother, Dellie showed marked liking for the stage from a very tender age. She has that natural ease before audiences which characterises a born publie performer. Plus talent and under the able tuition of a well-known

of American instructor

stage, dancing, Deille. shows every pro- mise of becoming a future pro fessional. In Shanghai, she once stole a performance from pro- fessionals. This was last year and Dellie was the only amateur in the entire cast, but that didn't prevent her from walking off with a fair share of the night's laurels.

In Tsingtao, she had occasion to." perform at the Edgewater Man- slons on several occasions, and was affectionately acclaimed there as the nearest approach this side of the globe to America's juvenile screen sensation. Shirley Temple. MORE TALENT

That though enticing in itself. 'g by no means all. There are heaps of other clever amateurs in" the cast, some whose names have been heard so often that one is eastly inclined to err in linking them with professional per- formers:

There is Mr, Gus D'Aquino, for instance, whose name is cropping up in programmes so regularly of late, that it is hard to think of him in anything but a professional capacity. "He will sing several ballards and Lght arias in that pleasant tenor volce which has charmed so many audiences of Iate.

Great mystery surrounds a cer- tain performer called Steppin- Fetchit, and he is not to be con-

screen fused with the

actor of

that name.

WBS All Penelope able to glean about this artist is that he is likely to prove quite a sensation. His particular talenta lle in the direction of being able to do some very amusing and in- tricate tap-dancing routines.

Add to this the names of Mr. A. A. Simpson and Mr. J. Gren- Sever in ham who will be seen in a comedy

countries bordering on the Aegean by the Chinese military command victory" in this particular "raid." stinted self-sacrifice. Sea, the communication between which have entailed certain, Our Chinese friend, like ourself. any of his statements has the sketch, the Misses Stella Best and the Mediterranean and the Black technical retreats in the Shang- regarded this misrepresentation Generalissimo anderestimated the Sea, while the Sea of Marmora hai sector.

There is all the more in sorrow than in anger. gravity of the situation or

It is entirely surrounded by Turkish territory, lies between the Black difference in the world between When it is remembered that the strength of the enemy.

now the time to remember what Sea and the Aegean Sea.

Draft of the treaty sald to have been made on the occasion of the Inst visit to Ankara, the Turks capital, of the Greek Premier. General Metaxas

share.

By Order of the Board,

J. C. GUTERRES,

Secretary.

will be effected in about months' time.-- Transocean News Service.

the

a retreat and a roat. Apparently raid lasted for six hours and that there is soine confusion on that not one Japanese raider wis that great leader has said, for the point, with the regrettable result hrought down, to describe the time has arrived when China has that many people are adopting encounter as a "victory" is, to to nerve herself, to keep on keep that defeatist "I told you so" say the least, an example of ing on. attitude. The plain fact is the handling the there has been an injudicious dis-arekssly, position throughout the Chinese

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com.

Peggy Scotcher, clever pupils of Goncharo's Dancing Academy, the Misses, Dorothy and Beasle Wong, Miss Agnes Rocha and the Moana Boyz and the public have a performance which has all the earmarks of being a real theatrical treat all amateurs.

To

are

SETTINGS

CLEVER JUVENILE DANCER

have been issued, and to the extent of $1.75 per share upon each of the 294,789 partly paid. shares of the Compan which have been issued. (b) By releasing the holders

elaborate stage settings There will be retreats and of the

inth somewhat

among other things being said 294,789

1. The treaty is to include the

Further retreats in the course of planned. One, ao Penelope hears. partly paid shares which

ariny and navy of both countries,

colourful scene of have been issued from and experts are already preparing

Now, on a section of the front, events, but if the spirit of the 15 to be a

(Continued an Back Page) / liability in respect of reports.

Press to create the impression the Chinese are strategically re-people of Chira continues strong their shares to the ex· Duration of the treaty will pro- tent of 75 cents per bably be ten years, and signature that the Chinese armies were treating, and the facts are so and if they continue to be truc to themselves, then there can be Two sweeping everything before them.well-known through the

to the result. We had a striking personal in- mendably frank communiques no doubt as stance of this type of misapplied from the Chinese headquarters Therefore, it were well if from: now onwards the Press, which enthusiasm for the cause of that 'even

a strategical retreat China.

cannot be converted into a tech has a grave responsibility to the VALUABLES STOLEN

We were in Canton when anical advance, and, the restination as well as to itself, were Japanese aid raid commenced is that some people, thousands to guard against the building-up Gold and jade cult-links, other ornaments all to a total of shortly after eight in the morning of miles from the front lines of false hopes. Bet the facts are showing alight signs of bestand revealed in the merciléss China $745 were reported missing from and finished shortly after two i

limelight of publicity. Nothing of coming faint-hearted.. No. 459. Parker Road, first floor, the afternoon."

Such an attitude is unworthy has nothing to fear she has the residence of Mrs. Florence serious nature was done to Can

nothing to hide. She has the Gallather. The police

ton itself during that raid, and unjustifiable. search of a man who was seen in though some damage was done. When China decided to make leaders, the numbers, the equip a room adjacent to Mrs. Gallather's

determined stand for her ment and, above all, she has the which must room by a house boy. The talef.to the railway line running north, a It is believed, told the house boy and bombs were dropped in the sovereign rights, it was stated in righteous

That very definite terms by the triumph in the long to he qutet while he was making vicinity of Whampoo. hle get-away.

evening when we reached Hong Generalissimo and the other brute force and Kong, a Chinese friend bought leaders of the nation, that the aggression.

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The house boy, however, was frightened and locked himself in a room till the thief had dis- appeared.

one of the vernacular newsparers struggle would be long and

the

run. over

imperialistic

Doomed

in which great prominence was arduous, demanding the utmost "Battalion, and keep on keeping given to "the magnificent Chinese in unswerving loyalty and un- on!

Dellie Ellis, one of a clever cast

of amateurs, who will perform

at the Queen's Theatre next