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INTERESTING

MOTOR POINT.

CHINESE CONGRATULATED ON WAS THE TRAFFIC OFFICER

PUBLIC SPIRIT.

SEVERE SENTENCE.

SPEEDING?

MOTOR-CAR CHASE.

not

"Whether this man is guilty or The question as to whether, a. not, I congratulate you on your traffic officer, while following up public spirit" said Mr. R. E. Linda motor car that was being driven sell this morning to a Chinese at an excessivo, speed, was namod Leung Nam-hing, the mins- himself driving in a dangerous ter of the Tai Sing sauce shop, manner was raised before Major who on observing a Chinese run- C. Willson, at the Central Magis- ning away from a European lady, tracy this morning, and was promptly gave chase.

MORE CANTON RUMOURS.

GEN. LI CHAI-SUM'S MOVEMENTS.

GOVERNMENT PLANS ON BANK NOTES.

FURTHER FAILURES.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 31 1928.

FALSE PRETENCES CASE.

RELEASED CAPTIVE" GIVES EVIDENCE

AGAIN ADJOURNED.

"BEN HUR" A REAL TRIUMPH.

MASTERPIECE OF FILMS SHOWN HERE

CROWDED HOUSES.

The hearing was resumed before Hongkong is indeed well favour Major C. Willson, at the Centraled in so early having opportunity Magistracy this morning, of the of seeing the most famous motion caso In which Ho Tin, an ex-picture of all time "Ben Hur," Beaman, is charged with and the management of the deavouring to obtain $4,000 from Queen's Theatre is to be heartly A reliable report says that the two Chinese women by pretending complimented on Its enterprise. argued by Mr. Horace Lo,

rumour, now prevalling in Can that he was authorised to collect Many famous writers and critics The incident occurred yesterday The case was one in which the son, that, General L Chal-sum this money for the purpose of at Queen's Road West near Eastern Chinese driver of public motor spands all his nights on Shameen, securing the release of three ro- have lavished high praise on the Street, when a Chinese snatched

car No. 413 was summoned for as a result of uneasiness concern-latives who were arrested us flima screen ople which was A parse from Miss Sylvia. Keigh, dangerous driving on January 24. ing the netivities of reactionary suspected Comunists by the Chin-min of 102, Second Street. Miss Keigh Mr. Lo defended.

made not so much for profit elements inside the city, is entire- was carrying her handbag by the strap in her left hand when she that at 12.45 pan, on the day in newspapers at General Ld's lead complainants, this morning stated the production) but which was an

Traffle Sergt. F. J. Clarke saldly false. Enquiries by Cantonese authorities in Shanghai.

Chan Kwok-chuen, one of the (owing to the tremendous cost of felt a tug from behind at the bag question he saw the defendant's quarters disclosed the fact that the that defendant visited her at her attempt by the producera to make running away with her purse. car travelling along Des Voeux General goes to his office to execute home at No. 17, Staunton Street Miss Keigh in court anid that she Road, past Wing Lok Street, going his duties as usuni every day, and and showed her the same document the finest possible picture of the was unable to identify the snatch-in a westerly direction and pass on Friday night he attended a ban that he had produced in the other theme chosen. And just how well or but indicated that the culprit ing the Macno wharf. The car quet given by the Canton Political

case. He then informed her that was about the same size and build was going at a high speed, so Council to celebrate the Chinese unless a sum of $5,000 was forth they have succeeded has been as the man charged in Court. She witness chased and caught up New Year, at which almost all the coming, her husband, Poon Yau- testified to by all who have seen cried out "stop thief" in English with the car at Centre Street, her oeials of the Government dng: who was one of the captives, and written of the play.

were present. On Saturday night, would be shot. and then observed two Chinese in elvillan clothes run after the

General La gave a dinner party at fugitive.

which 'General Wang Shao-hung, the Kwangsi leader who left for the East River on the following day, was the guest of honour. General Li was said to have been prosent on both occassions,

and the next moment, a ma: Was

Merchant Takes Up Chase,

Leung Man-hin was one of the men. He was standing outaide his shop but on observing a man running away with a European lady in pursuit, he promptly ran aftor the fugitive. Another man, alad in civilian dress, joined the chase and Leung naw the fugitiva caught, by the other, who proved to be a constable in plain clothes.

where they stopped. The car was being driven, In witness's estima- tion, at about 25 m.p.h. all the way. It was the day after Chin ese New Year and the streets were very crowded Mans had Sergt. Buckner in the alde-car.

Sergt. G. Buckner corroborated Sargt, Clarke's evidence, and estimated the speed of the dafen- dant's car at between 25 and 30 m.ph.

Replying to Mr. Lo, witness auid the car was about 50 yards ahead when the chase began and gained On being caught the alleged a load of about a quarter of a snatcher said he was not running mile. He considered that the car away from the lady but had been was travelling at a dangerous fighting and was running away speed, but not the combination. from his assailants.

·

The report concludes by saying that it is known that two nights ago General Li Chat-sum went to Sha- meen to a dinner party given at a certain foreign Consulate and the party lasted until midnight, when General Li returned to his reaid ence, This visit probably explains the false reports prevailing.

Anti-Piracy Work,

The circumstances connected with the man's arrival and demand for money aroused her suspicions, After putting him off for the time being, she boarded the President McKinley on January 3rd to pro- ceod to Shanghai. There, inde- pendent enquiries made amongst her relatives, while establishing the fact of the arrest, also reveal ed that defendant held no au- thority to come down to Hongkong to collect the money. A telegram was immediately sent here warn ing the relatives,

Release Obtained,

There were crowded houses át every performance yesterday and bookings for the remainder of the season are already vory heavy.

It was the into Mr. Marcus Loow to whom the screen industry owes the production of "Ben Hur because he wanted to make it a monument of what the best sort of American film production could do. It turned out to be the most expensive picture ever produced because Mr. Loow determined to have things right, even though they had to be done two and three times over. An entire company was taken to Rome for the chariot race, and a colossal reproduction Witness, proceeding, said she of the Circus Maximus construct- In view of pirate activity in Nin-had a relative named Yu Fook-chied, when owing labour troubles farahan waters, near Canton, the who opened negotiations with the and Government restrictions the the two gunboats Kongkung and Chinese authorities on the spot, whole thing was "scrapped" and

taken back and with funds amounting to the company Kongkoo to scour these waters, $2,900, secured from Hongkong America where the great circus Two of the biggest gunboats of ultimately obtained the release of scene was built.up afresh. The the Canton Navy, the Faiying and all three captives. The money was fleet of Roman triremes, needed in yards at Genoa for the purpose of the Chungshan, have arrived at handed to Yu Fook-chi, who acted the sea battle, was built in the ship:

as a go-between. ing back a number of wounded

thrilling sea fight between the Canton from the East River, bring-

getting historical accuracy. The soldiers as well as prisoners taken during recent battles with the

Romans and pirates took place in "Trenaide" remnanta,

Canton Government has instructed

toen of where this money went to? His Worship:-Have you any That I don't know. The money was hauded to Yu Fook-chi,

Do you know what he did with it? No.

Much amusement was caused in

Not. Dangerous? the court by a Chinese, visiting

Mr. Lo submitted that he had Hongkong on business, who stated that he came across the purse in no case to answer. The estimat Second Street. When he picked up ed speed, according the prosecu-They left Canton yesterday, the handbag four men tried to tion, was 20 m.p.h. and they had got it off him. Someone shouted from, the last witness that he to him to keep the purse, and did not consider that the combine withers, depite the fact that heon was travelling at a rale was struck, did not release his dangerous to the public. hald. "I would net surrender It His Worship pointed out that even to a policeman and not until the witness had said he considered I reached the police station, did i the car was being driven danger- part with it," sald this witness. ously:

Mr. Lindsell: "I consider you Mr. Lo replied that he thought have done extraordinarily well, a side-car was very much more congratulate you. It is a pity dangerous. It was well-known There are not more like you in bat cars were very much more Hongkong."

{manageable, add the brakes were The defendant said he was much better. formerly a waiter,, but was now The Magistrate intimated that out of employment. IIe washe considered that Mr. Lo had a

Bank Note Fluctuation. sentenced to nine months hard ease to answer and the defendant The fluctuation in the value of labour and twenty strokes.

WAR called.

Central Bank notes continues, fol-paid. The defendant sard his speddlewing the edict of the Govern- was 18 m.p.h. His ear was filled ment that 80 per cent, of all pay- with a speedometer which register-ments for taxation must be made ed that speed, but he did not know in silver coin. if it was accurate. The road was not very crowded.

RUSSIAN RAILWAY

PROJECT.

CONSIDERABLE PURCHASES

IN U.S.A..

New York, Jan. 30.

to

the Mediterranean Sea. The grent: The Chungshan årrived at Can-

ideal of the makers was "to get it right" and it is because of the ton and berthed opposite the East Bund on Saturday. She is now' em-

Do you know who arrested theas accuracy of the settings, costumes, played on patrol duty on Cantonmen?--I have been inforined that uniforms, etc., that "Ben Hur" is a River, but will return to Swatow in it was people in Chinese territory triumph. a few days" time. The Falying who arrested, my husband and his arrived yesterday and is now an-

The Story. two companions. chored off Whampoa

Replying to further' questions, The story of "Ben Hur" lenda witness said she did not know the Itself do wonderfully to the mak exact authority who made the ar- ing released after the money was of Christ and the early Christians, rests, but she Inter saw them being of a great picture play. It deals with the truly historic days

of the power and might of Rome, of the subjugation of the Jews, and of stirring incident and high passions. Ben Hur," the young scion of a princely Jewish house,

Defendant's Denial. Replying to the Court, defendant said he. merely informed witness In some quarters it is thought and the other relatives here of the the number of people about, heta restore the value of the notes for a moment suggest that he was

Considering to be the idea of the Government fact of the arrests, and, did not finds himself among the despised didnt consider, that he was back to their former footing to have the custody of the money driving at a dangerous speed.

Mr. Lo said they were charged. Within the past few days, well himself. with driving at the speed of

dressed Chinese, apparently Gor

place where

that the Government intends to collect the notes at a low price ¡Contimied on Page 14.)

Romans who hold sway over his - lower being than the proud country. His humiliation and his His Worship (to witness)-So sufferings, when he is sent as a The Soviet Railway delegation 25 m.p.h.. but his Worship inter-ernment officials,, have been seen that had it not been for the de- galley slave, only serve to steel now visiting the United States, vered and sad the figure le calling at the native banks and fendant, your husband would still his heart and harden his sinewa purchased in Cleveland a number accepted was 30 m.p.,

money shops in Shapsamhong, the be a prisoner? Yes; I had not for revenge. The graphic man- of locomotives, steam shovelą,

ner in which he finds escape from most of the native | heard of my husband'a detention. Mr. La replied that the traffic drilling implements and motor-officer had put the speed most debunks are situate, producing large Your husband might have been slavery and how he becomes the ears for use in the construction finitely at 25 mph., while the amounts of silver to exchange for shot?-I would have gone toidol of games-loving Rome consti- tute a specially appealing part of of the proposed 300-miles railway second witness, who was not a Central Bank notes. It is thought Shanghai in any case. connecting Tashkent with Novosi-traffic officer and who was in the

It may be that, had you not ar- the picture. His search for his birak.

side-car, said between 25 and

rived in time, your husband might Iost mother and sister takes him to The line is being built in order 30 m.p.h. Putting it at its highest,"

have been shot Witness replied Antioch, and it is in that romantic 4o carry large quantities of grain, continued Mr. Lo, the speed for

that she doubted whether this city where anclent East and Weat timber, efe, produced in the re-the prosecution should not be

drastic step would be taken.

meet that he re-encounters Mes- gion, Into Central Asia, where it taken at more than the figure of

Still these delays are dangerous? sala, once his friend but through hoped to stimulate the produc-25, The person who was not

-Witness replied that the ap- whose imperious action he was tion of cotton and tobacco,~~ | driving would naturally feel very

pearance of the defendant in the wrongly. condemned to his torture Reuter's American Service.

case merely precipitated her de- at the galley oars. The wonderful parture for Shanghai, which she chariot race in which "Ben Hur" hind already contemplated before rides his enemy down to death is the defendant's visit.

never-to-be-forgotten thrill, and Her husband had been in Shang- lerves one marvelling at the hui since August of last year, his possibility of ao realistic a per- object being to look for employ-formance. And the love story of ment. He was at one time em- "Ben Hur is an especially moving ployed in the Wing On Company one, mingled as it is with the in- in Hongkong.

TWO MINISTERS COMING.

OFFICIAL VISITS TO HONGKONG.

much more nervous than the per- son who had control, and a traffic officer would be able to give a more reliable estimate.

His Worship replied that he shared that view. What he would like to know, however, was whether the road was crowded.

. Sub-Inspector Alexander said it was always crowded In the day- time and there were many side turnings.

Traffic Officer's Duty.

As already announced, Sir Miles Lampson, British Minister to China, is shortly to pay an official visit to Hongkong. He is due to leave Shanghai about February Mr. Lo then, commented on the 5th and will call at various ports fact that the combination must on his way down aboard one of have

in H.M.'s sloops. Sir Miles should dangerous manner, under the eir- reach Hongkong at about the end cumstances, as the ear was travel- of February. He will also visit ling at 25 m.ph, was a quarter Canton.

of a mile alidad, and was being

been

travelling

a

Sir John Tulley, British Ambas-chased. sador to Tokyo, is also to pay a His Worship said the officer vist to Hongkong in the neur travelled at a high speed in the future.

execution of his duty.

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE LATE EARL HAIG.

To the Editor, Hongkong

Telegraph.]

Answering this, Mr. Lo said the officer might be excused from boing' prosecuted for going at that speed, but it was the witness who' sald the speed was not excessive. If his Worship found that the com- bination was not going at a dan- gerous speed, under the circum- stances, he could not find that the car in front was going at a Bir-With the lamented passing dangerous rite. It would not be of "Britain's most-loved soldier, fair to have that finding. It Field Marshal Earl Halg, would it was a question of opinion, but 25 not be fitting that a Memorial Serm.p.h. was at no time a dangerous Vice should be held in this outpost speed. They had it from a witness of the Empire, at which the attend-who was sitting beside the traffic Bice of as many as possible of his officer, catching up with a car troops should be arranged?—Yours, a quarter of a malls in front, that ets,

the combination was not going at

ONE WHO BERVED UNDER HIM. a dangerous rate. In any case it Hongkong, Jan. 31, 1928)

(Continued on Page 14.)

Who was Martin Stannard

?

One of a little group of financiers is found

SELF-POISONED

In the last agonies he has written on a sheet of notepaper; "Martin Stannard is back.” How does that explain his death ?' And who is Stannard? He is the Mystery Man in

THE

Captive's Story.

fluence of the newly-founded religion taught by the new King- the King who came without a sword, to save and hot kill.

The next witness was one of the released captives, Hau Sun-fat, a There are great mass scenes that! son of the late Hau Hang, who was have had no equal in screen bis- up till his death a few years ago, tory, and the wonderful play thai Chief Chinese detective in the has been made of imposing Hongkong: Police Force." He said architecture' and big' Jines is a he came

to know the defendant treat in conception. The repro- when employed us a ship-runner duction of the Circus Maximus, in in Shanghai. He met him at one which the chariot race is run, is

of the steamship offices in that nothing short of a triumph. city.

Fine Acting/

On December 16th, with two companioné, he was arrested by

Some specially fine acting Is officials of the Bureau of Public done by Roman Navarro, who Safety as a suspected Communist, takes the title role, whilst Francis being taken to the No. 5 District. Bushman, as Messala, and May Station, and subsequently to the McAvoy, an Eather, worthily fill

VANISHING Headquarters of the Bureau, the principal supporting, roles:

VENGEANCE

by

DOUGLAS NEWTON The new and thrilling serial which commences in the

"Telegraph.". TO-MORROW.

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where he was interrogated.

The entire cast has been specially He argued that there was no well chosen, and the directing is of proof to sustain, the charge, but, the very finest. nevertheless, was detained for 37 The restraint with which the days without being informed of producers have handled the episoes what the Chinese authorities in which centre around the figure of tended to do with him.

Christ is particularly pleasing, and On the fourth day after his ar though the film is essentially rest, the defendant interviewed orthodox, there is nothing that him in his cell and informed bim offends even the most sensitive that there were only five days more susceptibilities. Fred Niblo, the before he would be shot. Defon Director, has made his greatest dant then suggested that he Alm, and the Metro-Goldwyn- should call on his relatives to Mayer producers have created: a (Continued on Page 141) new standard at which to aim.

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