1927-05-11 — Page 8

QUEEN'S

TO-MORROW till SATURDAY

TWO BIG ATTRACTIONS

RAFFLES

THE MAN OF MYSTERY

in

HIS SENSATIONAL ACT

CHEATING THE GRAVE

AND

BUSTER KEATON

in

SEVEN CHANCES

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CORRECTION.

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presenting

LATEST COMEDIES & DRAMAS

PREVIOUS PLANS CANCELLED. NEW PLANS NOW OPEN AT MOUTRIS AND STAR

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THURSDAY, May 12th, FRIDAY, May 13th, SATURDAY, May 14th.

at 9.15 pm.

at 9.15. p.m.

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ASTOUNDING.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

NOBODY'S CHILD.

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WEDNESDAY,

Y.M.C.A. CONCERT.

TROOPS ENTERTAINED AT

· KOWLOON.

MAY 11, 1927.

AMERICAN SEAMAN

FINED.

SEQUEL TO BARBER-SHOP

VISIT.

AMMUNITION IN PORTMANTEAU.

ARMED ROPHERIES IN SHANGHAI.

"PRESIDENT" BOAT STEWARD FINED.

GANGS MAKE OFF WITH $1,905.

Seven

armed robberies worc

barber's shop. As a matter of his effects by someone else, when fact, the seaman had only one it was discovered that police dollar, which he was willing to searchers were on board. give to the barber. Being unable

of China. Created in the early eighties from very amal begin- There was a happy gathering of nings, it slowly broke down the soldiers at the Services Y.M.C.A.

One of the American crew of A special search was made, by prejudices and suspicions of the in Kowloon last evening, when the President Grant, who paid off a party of detectives, of the lug officially reported towards the end Court until, in 1908, China seem- local artists gave another of the

on the arrival of the liner in Hong-gage belonging to members of the of last week in Shanghai, among ed embarked on a programme of enjoyable concerts which have be- kong, has got into trouble down crew of the President Grant who them boing severni daring ralds by railway construction which would come a regular feature of the en Wanchal way. have enriched her vastly. In tertainment programme drawn up

were paid off on the ship's arrival | small bands, resulting in large Sergeant Hopkins was last night in port on Monday morning. A hauls being made. Some $1,905 1908, however, Germany bought for the hunefit of the men of the called into a barber's shop at the scrutiny of the men's belongings, worth of goods was taken. None her place la the financial sun by | Services in the Colony,

Praya East, where it was reported was institated partly because of a of the robbers was arrested. No conceding financial control of

There were vocal and instru- that an American seaman, while complaint which was made to the shots were fired during the raids. railway funds to China, and Na- mental items, funny stories, and under the influence of liquor, had police regarding certain members Early in the morning of Wednes- tionalism first reared its head. dances, all of which evoked hearty acted in a very disorderly manner of the crew, and partly in pur daya Chinese entered a silver- War on the forciguer began, that applause. I was evident that the and smashed one of the chairs.suance of the usual procedure. smith's shop at 1862 Sinza Rond war of petty pinpricks, minor in- large audience thoroughly pre was not in the shop when the dignities, the last is so well skill-preciated the show.

In the lining of a portmanteau and told the owner that he wished officer looked in, but Sergeant belonging to Henry Miano, one of to sull a heavy gold ring. A deal ed in. Mr. C. W. Kinder, C.M.G., At the conclusion, Mr. R. Suther Hopkins very the man to whon! China owed the land, who had himself contributed enme up with him

soon afterwards the discharged men, were found was made, from which the Chinese on the Praya 17 rounds of pistol ammunition. gained $53. The Chinese then Wine initial policy of rigid impromptu to the evening's pro and took him into custody. He The man was taken into custody, stated that he wished to buy a pair economy, her adegitate railway granime, referred to the hard work gave his name as G. H. Connoly. and was this morning charged be of gold bangles. Some were pro- standards, her gauge, the spirit

of the committee who hud arranged. of the service, resigned in 1909, the show, and particularly thanked ink, when Cernoly was charged fal possession.

At the Police Court this morn-fore Mr. W. Schofield with unlaw-diced. Nojie was what the Chi- hose wanted. When sufleient- waenziard after 6 and 20 Miss D. O'Keefe for her kind as with being drunk and disorderly, The defendant icmitted posses-ly valuable pair of bangles had years, disgusted, disillusioned, un-

sistance in staging the clever was stated that he refused to sion, but stated that he knew no bon produced, the Chinese calmly able to tolerate the policy of petty dances by her pupils, and the Lyric meet a demand for $2 as compen-thing about the ammunition, which pocketed them. In payment he interference of the Board of Com-rchestra for its contributions.sation for the damage done in the had probably been planted among pulled out a pistol, with which he metnications which had been in-

His call for three cheers for the

kept the, shop assistants covered augurated in 1906. That was the

while he made his escape before beginning of the end, face then artists was heartily responded to.

The contributors to the

the alarm could be raised.' foreign control has slowly

tertainment included the Lyrie weakened, matil to-day the expen Orchestra, Mr. It. Sutherland, the

Shroffs As Victims. dilure of over £1,000 must receive Misses D. Tollan and P. Pestonji the tardy sanction of Peking.

dancing); Mr. G. E. Robson, Criticism' has not been lacking, int Ching has silenced criticism by the appointment of advisers, men at £2,000 a year and in experience of the country, men who doubtless gave quite sound advice, min whe filled the filing baskets, but not the nationals of the entries with most capital at stake,, in spite of the grubual wenkenk of Foreign authority, 'moral was slow to die. The Chinese Railway Service

Utter Breakdown Not Far ofl. gearhod its zenith of prosperity

The investor needs some wärd- and efficiency in 1918 when there was a surplus of $8,000 per miley an the subject of railway maintenance. A railway does not and the railway ennings fluctuat-

mechanism of ed between 10 and 22 per cunt. strike one s

Patrons of the Cafe Restaurant on the capital invested. The war great, delicacy, but atter and com- era set in 1920, the Bessell assault plete breakdown is not far distant. Parisien will be interested to hear Unless something is done, the that, commencing on Saturday ease in 1925 marked the end of

time is not far distant when grass | night, May 14th,,' exhibition dances all adequale foreign control, the end of discipline. Chinese rail-will grow on China's railways and will be given by Miss Marguerite a wheezing, sluttering, engine will! Senour, of Kentucky, USA, and waynen could no longer bak to

creep along and wake' to`sluggishį Professor C. Thereses; Liverpent, the foreigner for protection 02

life, say once a day, the erstwhile England. fair treatment.

bustling railway towns of China.

Work of 40 Years Wrecked.

Paid-off Waiter.

in the cells. to find bail, he had spent a night

Sergeant Barnicle snid that the Two shroits belonging to Sung Misa 1. Tollan, Mr. O, Eager, the charge. He said that he was paid one of the men paid off on Mon-up by armed robbers at 4.10 p.m. Connoly pleaded guilty to the defendant was a waiter, and was Zing-tan, a land agent, were held Misses Margery Simpson and By-off from the President Grant and day. The police searched the dis-during the afternoon. The shroffs, with others was awaiting trans-charged men's baggage as they who were carrying honey collect- part back to the States.

left the ship. The police had re- ed, were accompanied by three A fine of $5 was inflicted by Mr.ceived instructions te search for body-guards. R. E. Lindsell.

other things as well as for arms, The ammunition was found in the lining of defendant's portman-

ac-

2

with Mr. George Grimble as ran Byrne, and Mr. T. 6. Paterson, companist. The final item was clever dance entitled "Jazz" the Misses B. Cleme, A.,Tollan, G. Smith, B. Pestonji, L. Tollan and M. Bryson.

Even that "once a day will not For long continae because faridbed will eventually become unsafe for any traffic.

CABARET DANCES.

ATTRACTION AT CAFE

PARISIEN.

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The police were not pressing the charge, and were only asking for a nominal fine.

His Worship inflicted a fine of $25, with the alternative of three weeks' hard. Jabour,

BIG DEATH ROLL.

The bodyguards. were herded into the house by the robbers, one of whom was armed and kept them covered. Another member of the gang snatched a bag from one of the shroffs, con

Before making off taining $600. the gang warned the shroffs not to report the matter to the police, under pain of assassination.

A carefully planned coup was carried out in the morning against ja dwelling house, No. 696 North

Chengtu Road, by a

group of bandits. An alarm was Taised from a neighbouring house, and police rushed to the scene. It was found, however, that the robbers had not attacked the house.from which the alarmi was raised, and by the time the police had located. the scene of the robbery the band had escaped...

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Professor Thereses is a ballet those unfortunates who were in master of repute, having presente water and attempting to keep afloat by clinging to wreckage and theed various dancing acts success flotsam..

rally at the Palace and Alhambra The Kwong Fook Cheong states Theatres, London, and at the that the Moonshine continued to Folies Bergere, Paris. Although stand by after the collision, but.

Three men knocked at the front It was opened. They forced this is his first visit to Hongkong the On Lee did not observe the door. he is well known in Shanghai, as presence of any other craft. The their way in, one of them pro-

Threatened With Pistol.

It is something more than hard to see the work of 40 years wreek-

In China you must renew each ed, it is beyond the capacity of the older men of the service tor at least 2 per cent of the sleepers to carry traffic normally, huild it up again with worthless Since there are some 2,200 sleepers well as throughout India and Java. account of one survivor is to the ducing a revolver. The inhabitants pools, the younger men have gone to each mile of line and sleepers olsewhere, For some years the

on this account alané

dances.

There appears to be a great deal of confusion with respect to, the details, but it is certain that the inship sunk in less than five minutes,

lot of the railway man has been cast in these days about $t each in one of discomfort and no little place. $800 must be spent each danger, they have had to look on ye while their men were cruelly every mile of line. Delay this for beaten, they have witnessed exe-year of two and this work - cutions of railwaymen which were

comes a capital repair beyond the mere blood lust, they have had to venues of railways. Again the nesda most. careful scavenge for the Chinese Armies, locomotive

quoted loan regular maintenance, fire tobes On completing two years and now they are agreements the foreign staff of leak, fire boxes burn and buckle command of II. M. S. Wishart Opinion is unanimous that she three. They can go after a life- builers are not properly cared Third Destroyer Fletilla, last re-went down by the end with a

for. Neglect, again,

at Hankow, Lieutenant-heavy list to starboard. time in the service without a pin-

Interviewed this morning. the sion, minus back-pay or gratuity, months' innction, n '1,000 tons of Commander Stephen Barry is be- That is the spirit of the Board to haulage power the less for every ing relieved by, Lieutenant-Com-agents could give little informa engine thus deficient, the capital mander 1. G. Glennie, from the tion. The Leung Kwong is not repair again if the process is Westminster, Atlantic Fleet. The insured, but there is a fair pros multiplied. And it is multiplying latter officer was on the staff of peet of salvage.

the R.N. College, Dartmouth, in 1922-4,

day.

"The increasing hopelessaess of the Railway situation needs some

without a shadow of doubt,"

During the season, which will be effect that fishing ducks from the were herded into a small room on short one, exhibitions of classi-shore came to the rescue, while the ground floor, where one of the cal, ballad and ballroom dancing others state that no craft other three robbers mounted guard over will be given, including detailed than the boats of the Kwong Fock them. Meanwhile the amah in the a" knock demonstrations of the Charleston, Cheong and On Lee were on the back quarters answered

Ratiamond Flax House Rene.

on the back door of the house, and Black

was instantly over-powered by two men who pushell in as she opened the door. These two men, members of the same gang of robbers, joined the others in ran- sacking the building. Goods and money totaling $123 were taken.

A silk hong was raided the same evening. The hong is situated in 1246 Peking Poad. Four men, two armed, forced their way in shortly after 7 o'clock, and held up the workers. Going to the cashier's office they seized the cash box and made of. The box contained $773.00.

means ported

inadequate to meet the enormous rolling stock repairs.every day increasing in volume.

Customs

Europeins Drowned.

Out of the macistrem of con ascertained that among the miss dieting information, it has been iny are the Chief Engineer, A. Pakhoi Road was raided about an A coal and firewood shop in 143 Donaldson and Chief Officer hour later. Six men, three of them Martin. Mr. Donaldson never seen after the colli-

advertisement. From the British investors standpojat alune, it is In these days of war perpetual, as well to draw attention to the all locomotives are under guard, fact that we have sank nearly drivers who have not escaped are 13 millions of money in China's kept on their engines three weeks railway in effective operation.or more at a stretsh, the engine From a trade point of view, it is gets a coal and water, absolutely

The British Investor has been right that we should except cómeno other cart, for months on end. drugged, with the opiate of his

armed, held up the occupants and return for the part we have taken Seven Years Deterioration. 5 per cent and by the extraor

rifled the cash drawer of $80, be in China development. The all-

This process of starvation of dinary power of recovers shown, but Mr. Martin was obfort the alarm could be raised. ways in which, we are interested vitsi railway needs has been in the past, but trade is dying life fine was thrown, he was too shop in Yaugtszepoo Road and rob- served to be swimming and when a Twn armed men entered a rice should, if properly maintaine

oing on since 1920, when Mardhat under present conditions, it is pend at least £500,000 annually a fast neumed control of the drifting back to unmetalled roads, exhausted to grasp it and subse-bed the owner of goods and money for imported material.

quently disappeared. Peking-Hankow Railway, It has the pack mule, the hilly road on

totalling $83. About the same Practically all the first class time two armed men raided 576 Then again, British investors

Terently attacked the Peking-which there are are concerned in the Anglo-French Mukden hallway, the premier line stations. There is no confidence death roll is mainly confined to inhabitants at the point of the pis-

passengers were saved, while the Carter Road, holding up the three ' Loan of $5,000,000 which redeem- of China, it will now infallibly at- in the future, railway transport those who were travelling steer- ed the original Peking-Hankow Railway Loan, they are involved fack the Shanghai-Nanking uit grows too expensive, when

and jewellery valued at $63. The JJ(2 means of excape. The in the Four Power Loan of £5,- foreign controlled railways. Re-cas, freight in addition, and then disaster was so sudden and war raid occupied less than three min- to the extent of at least a quarter, the least vulnerable of all must be paid to soldiery for every age, with the grillos locked ant tel and getting away with inaney

inno certainty of delivery.

ing so short that the fore part 000,000 which has been used in member there, has been war

There has been extraordinary was submerged the constraction of that pitiful China practically every other your project, the Canton-Hankow Rail-since 1922, and that railways are public myopia in our appreciation thoroughly realised that anything

Major-General Lewis ST. Halli- of the trend of railway affairs in serious had happened. way, the railway man's, despair, the foci of all wars, that the wr China's Panama Canal Bega in of 1924 involved every railway in China, little or no appreciation of

The tale, so far as the survivors day, V. C, who on April 5 was ap pointed Adjutant-General of the incomplete and

to-day,China," that the present distur- Chinese psychology. As a result, are concerned is now told. There Royal Marines, gained the V. Cent Further, at least £500,000 has banees are having an almost the only cure for China's railway is nothing more to add, since all Peking during the defence of the been sunk in preliminary work on similar effect. Recollect, as well, and all other ills is the neutraliza-available sources of information Legations in the Boxer rebellion. the Pakow-Siayang and Nanking that the railways have no credit tion of the railways-an expen-have been tapped. It is not to be For the wounds ho received on that Hunan lines which ceased all to meet capital repairs, and that give process which might, perhaps, doubted that many, res were lost cension he gets a pension of. work in 1916.

the workshops of the country are have bean delayed indefinitely. owing to locked

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