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WORLD THEATRE IN BANKRUPTCY.

ISSUE TRIED AS TO THE OLD

PARTNERSHIPS. ·

two

"and

CREDITORS FOR $17,000.

defendants,

EL

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of property for the purpone, of erecting cinema, and they ob tained a lease of Inland Lot 2,323 and proceeded to build the World Theatre on it.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

BORODIN'S PLOT.

SCHEMING AGAINST

HANKOW.

GENEVA DEADLOCK

CONTINUES.

DELEGATES SEEKING WAY TO CLOSURE.

-COMPROMISE UNLIKELY.

Geneva, Aug. 1.

in 1931.

No New American Plan.

Washington, Aug. 1.

British Principles Unshaken.

TUESDAY

HSUCHOW'S FALL.

SOUTHERN FORCES

DEMORALISED.

EVACUATION IN A HURRY.

Hauchowfu, July 25. There was. intermittent' rifle fire across the Grand Canal all night

AUGUST 2, 1927.

THE MODERN GIRL IN JAPAN.

ADVENT OF UP-TO-DATE FLAPPERS.

OLD FEUDALISM ALARMED.

The modern girl in Japan has become" the bitt of a series of last night which increased in newspaper attacks, and vigorously.

guns enemy

ed some of the more conservative

of

At 11 a.m. the Honan repeated the advance manoeuvre and drew much heavior rifle fro, indicating that the enemy's front positions, had been reinforced. During this en gagement the commanding officer, Major Koteloff, and the forward gun commander, Major Hramoir

Here, it may be noted that, (7), sustained flesh wounds in the

be withdrawn through the modern girl, the arms and had to from duty.

Japanese language is richer by a A 2 o'clock this afternoon two new phrase. Whn reference is brigades of infantry were order- made to the "dapper," no pure used or has ed to stand-by behind the em- Japanese phrase is bankment along the canal on both been coined. The English words sides of the bridge and prépare are returned and, when set Into to charge across under the sup-Japanese script, read "medanu port of the Shantang, the Honan gaer" It. is this "modanu paeru" and the 6th Army fold artillery, who is said to be driving Japanese which was advanced to the canal manhood to distraction, Japanese womanhood to the dogs and other Japan to perdition. In words, the Japanese young woman who boba her hair, who wears short skirts; who Charlestons or fortrots, is set down to be a reck- less and sensual creature, menace to public morals, and a dis- grace to her sex and to her people.

bank.

A Slow Advance.

No More Shrinking.

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Of course, this is arrant non- sense. As Japan develops more and more from the old feudal stage, which still is predominant

the needs of the present age, in the thought of the country, to Japanese women are ceasing to be used to be. No longer will the shrinking musume (girls) they Japanese woman walk ten yards or

HIS VIRTUAL EXPULSION.

The changes in complexion of two the Hankow Government and the An issue as to whother Chinese, Lai Hoi-san and Lal Man- possible unification of the Kuo- There is still no indication of wai, were partners in the World mintang party are the result of the fate of the naval conference.

A compromise appears doubtful, volume after daylight this morn-has hit back at her critics. The Theatre, in bankruptcy, before it an accidental exposure of one of was taken over by the Hongkong the most sinister plans conceiv-and the impression prevails that ing. At 9 o'clock this morn-Increasing number of city girls Amusements, Limited, was trieded by the Third International and the delegations are consideringing the armoured train In the Supreme Court this morn-quietly being carried out by Com- the best means of suitably closing again advanced to the bridge to who don foreign attire has lash- ing before the acting Chlef Justice, rade Borodin, writes Mr. George the conference, probably adjourn-draw fire and discover the dis- Mr. J. R. Wood. His Lordship E. Sokolsky in the N. C. Dailying the whole question until the position of the enemy forces; and folk in this land of fluttering ravision of the Washington treaty after some firing with three-inch feelings to rush into print and held, after hearing the evidence, News.

deplore guns and machine'

the degeneration that the men were partners, and I shall give this story as it hus remarked that the effect of his come to, me from sources which The plenary conference has positions were located in several Japanese womanhood. The critics maintain that Parisian skirts, judgment was that both men were may be accepted as reliable and been fixed for Thursday-Reuter. villages and in fields of tal kno-

Liang (sorghum); The Honan bobbed hule, rouge and dancing bankrupts and their property was which should be thoroughly in-

then withdrew, and reported that are the roads to damnation and rendered liable.

formed with regard to aventa in The plaintiffs were the Hont-Wahan:

it appeared, after shelling the vi-that any woman imitating any of kong Amusements, Limited, for Some time in June, in a casual The British Ambassador, Sir Jages, that the enemy had, two these Occidental styles is bound whom Mr. F. C. Jenkin appeared, conversation an Indian Commun-Fame Howard, unexpectedly re-three-inch guns only, well behind to be a bad creature. The police took up the hue-and-cry, for the instructed by Mr. E. S. C. Brooks. ist callad altention to the new turned from his summer quarters the lines in the hills. Mr. E. L. Agassiz, the Official Reprogramme of the Third Interna and privately conferred with Mr.

Japanese police are, of all Japan-, ese, the most conservative. The tional ceiver was also in court.

with regard to China. Kellogg at Washington. In outlining the facts. Mr. Jen Mr. Sun Fo and Mr. Wang Ching- Officials decline to indicate the

police in Japan are the moral censors of the people, but in the kin said the issue was ordered to wei had heard nothing of such a significance of Sir Esme Howard's be tried on February & last year change in policy and were, ac-visit, in view of the situation nt

matter af feminine styles, how- for the parties to decide whether cording to my informant, surpris-Geneva, but it is pointed out that

ever, their kases were not head- or not the men were partners. He led that there should have been there is no. prospect of a new

ed remarked that the plaintiffs were a change without their know- American proposal in relation to creditors in the bankruptcy of the ledge. In the course of the dis-the deadlock at the naval confer- "theatre for the sum of $17,000, of cussion on the subject, they were ence. Reuter's American Service,

which $6,000 was for films aup-shown a copy of the new instrue- plied, and $11,000 was under an tlons, which practically indicat- assignment on the Hongkong Goved that Borodin was to organize

London, Aug. 1. ernment for rant due by the a 100 per cent. Communist Gov-

At the request of the United ernment in lankow; that he was Staton delegation, the plenary theatre to the Government.

the Kuomintang session of the Naval Limitation In March, 1921, he continued, to destroy all four brothers, including the leaders in the place and that he Conference at Geneva, which was Pak-hai was to organize Communist army fixed for to-morrow afternoon, has Lai Tung-hot, conceived which was to fight and eventual-been postponed, as the Americans the Iden of acquiring from ly eliminate the Hankow Govern-are understood to require more time for the examination of the the Grown

certain piece ment's armies.

The Programme of Duplicity. British proposals. It is not ex- As given to me, this programme pected that the plenary session Twelve three-ingh guns in all contained fire provisions, as fol-will be held before Thursday. then heavily shelled the villages; Although reports from Washing-where the enemy position had lows:

1. Land in Human and Hupeh ton hold out little hope of an been located, with shrapnel and is to be confiscated by the pea agreement being reached, the high explosive, while the rifle The proprietors who were carry-

sants without any. reference to postponement is regarded as a men in the trenches and the ma- ing on the business constituted n Arm of which the first defendant the Government, the peasants act- farsurable factor, and it is under-chine guns raked the kaoliang stood that Mr. Gibson is in close fields. At first the enemy repli- Lai Hoisan was the principal ing through the C.P.

2. A new leadership is to be telegraphic consultation with the ed with a furious rifle fusilado, partner and the only active "one.

but this slackened after about ten He contributed, on their evidence, created withia the Kuomintang authorities at Washington.

The Times Geneva correspon-minutes shelling of the villages four fifths of the total capital, consisting entirely of C.P. mem-

The partner bers; the Left Wing of the Kuo-dent says America's insistence on when soldiers could be seen run- which was $50,000.

The eight-inch as against the six- ship appointed Mr. Wong Tai-190 mintang is to be eliminated,

3. The Kuomintang organiza- ach gun, has been modified, and ning from them. At the end of the principal witness, in the mal-

advance was ordered and the ter, to net for them in their Englion is to be reconstructed along her epposition is now based on the twenty minutes' fire, an infantry lish, business, of which there was more radical lines, so that in due amount of the suggested new Shantung troops came out into the

the Kuomintang as tonnage, although that amount is a considerable amount. He was course,

along the embankments from both also related to the second defen- party disappears and the Com-less than originally put forward open and marched to the bridge dant, Lai Maa-wai, by marriage munist Party of China lakes ita in the American proposal, and is sides and from the rear with the very near to what, in the earlier greatest sang froid Speed was place.

so behind, her lord and minster, as Theatre Built.

e. A court is to be created stages of the conference the impossible because of the aur bors she was expected to do in olden Continuing, Mr. Jenkin explain consisting of persons with known United States regarded as that had to cross a single bridge. times; no longer will she admit ed that the building was complet reputations, which

con- is to judge reasonable figure. ed in July, 1921, and shortly after counter-revolutionary military

"It was only when the Ameri- but instead of drawing fire from that she is just a mere

the enemy, the formidable body of venience.. She demands her right- wards a mortgage was exrented men and is to punish them for caus discovered that their

soldiers had the opposite effect, ful place in life and the right to in favour of the Bank of East Asia their opposition to the revolution-limits involved building if the Fire slackened at once and the call her sout her own. From this for $20,000. That was attended

wished to maintain parity, that Jary activities of the C.P.

enemy soldiery were seen running freshly-awakened consciousness has to by Lai Hoi-san, who was really G. Finally, an army is to be they shifted their grand. In the towards the rear from the kao-emanated a form of independence the master mind in anything of organized, drilled" and armed. British view, the question

liung fields. A steel car blocked | where youth's rebellion against. importance that took place in cop-This army is to consist of 20,000 parity must be considered as an

the bridge, the rails had been re-

what it considers the officiousness nexion with the business..

and 50,000 flair of the United States.

moved and the sleepers nurned of others.has asserted itself in no The second defendant was

British delegation, with so the armoured trains could not uncertain manner. approval and support of the dormant partner, and in July, 1925,

Nearly everyone is on the side shortly after the strike had broken

Comrade Borodin was faced British Government, is still guided cross; but the infantry laid planks out and the financial position of with these proposals and was ask by the principle that adequate around the car on the eye beams the theatre was critical, he made ed why he had not informed the protection of Empire trade routes and crossed, taking up their posi.of the flapper and thinks she The mere fact tions in the kaoliang and opening deserves every sympathy in trying to get free from the trammels. n. an attempt to transfer his share Kuomintang and the Wuhan Gov- is its first care.

that he had of $1,000 to a lady, named Mrs. ernment

re that enemy warships in the late fire at once, while the armoured them. His reply be war sank over 7.800,000 tons of trains covered them with machine feudalage society has imposed on her. The only ones, perhaps, who Young. The papers were handed ceived

hope the flappers will be beaten to Wong Tai-tso, who, however, ing unsatisfactory, the Wuhan shipping carrying British supplies gun and shrapnel fire.

A Disordered Rout. began to take should be argument enough that

nre the police, who, of course, hope did not put through the transae-Government

Fives minutes after the crossing that thereby they will be able to tion. He took them to Mr. H. Kateps to prevent its destruction by this is a matter no British states-

began the enemy appeared to be extend their powers and obtain Woo, for reasons, which were not the C. P. For these proposals man can trifle with.

completely demoralized and their sanctions" that will enable them material. They were photo- were definitely aimed at the Left

return fire censed altogether. to ordain the nature of women's graphed, and the originals were Wing members of the Kuomintang retarned Lo the second de who were managing that Govern- In the last few weeks, the atten- Men could be seen in fall flight for clothes, even as they now have from every direction, the power to say whether such- fendant, since when they had ment and at the Hunan and Hupeh tion of the public has been allow the rear not been seen.

not military men who had been sap-ed to drift away from the original many having thrown away their and-such a picture or film. ehall in the Colony, but he had filed an porting it. Borodin was placed in purpose of the conference. When rifles, and the retreat was soon a affidavit in the maiter at Shang-he position of defending himself the British Government consented disordered rout, with the North-or shall not be shown.

erners in as close parauit as their hai about a year ago. The photo against the charge of having to take part in the conference it graphs in that respect was the "double-crossed" those Chinese expressly stated that the views of slow passage of the bridge would They were soon recalled, only evidence they could produce. who had preferred to support him His Majesty's Government upon

Giving evidence, Wong Tai-tso, against General Chiang Kai-shek the special geographical position however, from what was a hapha an architect's amprentice, spoke of when the split took place and who of the British Empire, the length zard pursuit and were set to clear HOW MUCH DO YOU of inter-Imperial communications, part played in had retained him in China against the business by Lai Hoi-san, the advice of other Kuomintang and the necessity for protectioning out the villages, after which to how he engaged leaders who assured them that if of its food supplies, were well the enemy was followed up in and

their fixed

sala- he left the country there would be known, and, together with the more systematic fashion along the

special conditions and require-rallway. It took two rieg.

When the strike of 1925 no split.

ments of other countries invited two brigades to cross the Canal, broke out, he continued, the part-

to participate in the conversa-so the remaining troops were held ners were being pressed by credi On July 13, a meeting took place tons, must be taken into account. in reserve while the tors, and a petition in bankruptcy at Mr. Wang Ching-wei's house in The principle that the level to prepared a better footway on the was filed on August 22nd, 1925, the course of which, it was deter- which the navies could be reduced bridge, after which a full division

hour. no crossed in half an Negotiations Fail,

musi be compatible with Negotiations were entered into Communism outlawed. The folher security, was also admitted total Northern casualties did not with Mr. Lo Kau, a director of the lowing day meeting took place from the first by the United States exceed 100 but the enemy dead Hongkong Amusements, Limited, at the Central Bank in Hankow, in Government, and was twice men were dotted all over the landscape. but nothing materialised. On the presence of Mr. T. V. Soong, at toned in its replies to the refusal There was no time to search the March 19, 1926, acting on the in-which it was decided that Rorodin of France to join in the confer- kaoliang fields, but it is believed that the total Southern loss ran structions of Lai Hoi-san, witness should return to Russia; that alence.

In the earlier stages of the can- into many hundreds. wrote a letter to the manager of plenary session of the Central

be ference, the American delegation

the active

and

BA

men

He was

armed Communists labourers and peasants of Hunan and Hupeh.

Mike Ordered to Leave. "

mined to declare the C. P. and

Attention Distracted.

OWD

of

The the

the Pathe Orlent, one paragraph Executive Committee, should

called al Hankow to meet on declared itself guided by a desire

perimit.

hours for

engineers

The

All this afternoon Generals. Wang and Hau sat in the saloon of which read, "Our proprietor, Mr. Lal Hol-aan, has agreed to August 15; that all radical move to take up and determine on their of the "Shantung" receiving and Word has should be forbidden and merits, in a spirit of mutual despatching couriers." Algo and will give his ürm's chop ments

respective come in from the left flank report- to guarantee the above payment, that a delegate be sent to Moscow accommodation, the and by doing 60 we hope you will to explain to the Third Interna-technical naval problems, eaching that the 3rd Army had cap- tional the true character and in-having regard to the needs of the tured Taierhchuang at 10 a.m. and be satisfied."

Witness agreed that the letter tention of the Kuomintang and others. It was not until Admiral that the left flank of the centre bore the signature of Lal Hoi-san the reasons for the present actions. Jones introduced the question of advance had crossed the canal be- An attempt was made by Com-parity into the discussions that fore noon, driving the anomy be.. against the word "Guarantor."

After looking at the photo rade Borodin's friends to obtain the American delegation evolved fort it but losing a hundred men graphs, witness said that one was for him a safe passage via Shang- the theory that contingencies drowned in the operation. n receipt of the World Theatre is. hai, but this they were unable to respect of commerce raiding in o'clock this evening a courier from sued in favour of Lai Man-weide as Nanking apparently was time of war must not be allowed the advance column reported that for $1,000, his share money, and unwilling to let him pass. He ist influence preparations in time it had reached. Erhlangshan and that the other was a document" of now sald to be on his way to Mos- peace.”—British Wircices. transfer of that share to Mrs. Young Yuk-lun. They bore the dates July 28, 1925.

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At 6

waa advancing upon Rauchowfu, meeting with no resistance. 50 car- loads of munitions had been picked

(Continued on Page 11.)

This morning's Harbour Office up while 2,000 prisoners had been given evidence as to Lai Hoi-san's reports gave 12 arrivals and nine taken. At 8 o'clock this evening In reply to Mr. Jenkin, witness activities, and the photographer departures of which four and two word came that Lluchuan, 18 miles said he had no knowledge of that had spolten as to the taking of respectively were British. The re-from Hsuchowfu, had been occa- transfer having been put through the photographs, his Lordship turn for the holiday period as from pled without opposition and that After Wong Lam-tso, at present said he considered the mattor had Saturday to Tuesday gave 33 fty carloads of munitions had employed in the Chinese advertis, been sufficiently proved, and gave arrivals and 81 departares, of which bean taken there, which I am in- ing department of Hongkong judgment for the plaintiffs on the eight and five respectively were clined to bellove.

em-issue, with costs from estate. Amusements, and formerly

British, leaving 77 vessels in har

(Continued on Page 11.) ployed at the World Theatre, had

bqur, British 84.

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