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would prevent the disastrous effects feared." This view, incidentally, coincides absolutely with that of Mr. Osborne, a former businessman of the Colony, as put forward with much clarity and conviction some twenty-seven years ago when a similar situation to that now ob- taining prevailed,

We welcome Professor Robert-! son's evidence, because it comes from a disinterested witness who, by his qualifications, is in a posi- tion to offer advice based on the sheer economics of the situation.

DAY BY DAY.

IT IS BY ATTEMPTING TO REACH TO THE TOP AT A SINGLE LEAP THAT so MUCH MISERY IS PRODUCED IN THE WORLD.Cobbett.

"CONDEMNED.”

FINE ACTING BY RONALD

COLMAN.

The Very Idea!

A fiery-tempered, major was

Something out of the ordinary! having a round of golf over his is provided by "Condemned," which, favourite course, when another There was a clean bill of health screened for the first time at the player persisted in crossing in in the Colony yesterday.

Queen Theatre yesterday, met with, front of his line of vision, Immediate approval, not only from the admirers of Ronald Colman, but also from the general body of cinema fans who have come to rea- The P. and O. .s. Alipore, from lise the unlimited possibilities of Singapore, is due at 6 a.m. on Tues-the talkie as a medium for dramatic

expression. day..

The B.I. S. Talamba, from Singapore, is due here on Sunday.

The scene of the drama is laid The forthcoming wedding is an- on Devil's Island, where is pic- nounced of Mr. Vivian Alfred Shaw,tured, one may suppose with some No. 2, Third Lane, Tai Hang, Hong- truth, the lives of poor wretches kong, to Miss Jenny Piry, of the who are condemned to eke out their existence in miserable circuma tances, in expatiation for the out- a civilized rages committed on world.

sume address.

A woman of 66, Woosung Street was fined $280 by Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning for being in possession of 1.7 taels of prepared opium and for keeping her premises as an opium divan,

His views may possibly have the effect of causing many who have feured any tampering with a de- loste and complex position to take nilitude. up & more courageous

Ronald Colman, as Michel, one We do suggest, in all sincerity, that

of these hardened criminals, falls it is no answer to the problem mere

under the refined influence of the ly to keep on dolefully reiterating

Governor's wife, as a result of which his whole aspect on life is There what may occur if the Colony acts

fundamentally altered. independently of China; obviously,

A motor car cleaner of the Yuen comes to him a great desire for li

berty to enjoy the happy vists thus this cannot be more than a matter On Garage of Shanghai Street was of opinion, for no-one can predict fined $10 by Mr. Whyte Smith at opened up. How he is aided in his the Kowloon Magistracy this morn-escape by a fellow-convict and by future happenings. It may be re-ing for driving a motor car with- the woman provides a sensational torted that the same argument ap out a licence and without the climax. The chase in a motor-boat and the tracking of the fugitives plies to those who advocate stabi-owner's permission.

in a mangrove swamp are gripping- lisation. To an extent this is true,

Three members of the St. Johny portrayed in aight and sounds, but with this exception-that the Ambulance Brigade were respon- holding the audience spell bound. advocate of the change from silver sible for the ariest of a thief who to gold has the experience of others had stolen an opium pipe valued at $30 and a jacket from 958, Canton to which to point, besides which he Road where he had been living with Mr. Whyte can back up his arguments by the the complainants.

Smith sentenced the man, to two science of economics, which, if it months hard labour and remarked has any value at all, must surely be that the Ambulance men had done counted when we come to calculate good work.

Hongkong Telegraph. probable tendencies.

THURSDAY, MAY 8, 93,

STABILISATION.

From the communiques which it has issued from time to time, it

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In this flm Ronald Colman' shows that he has a real sense of humour, and his charm and person- ality and pleasant voice do much to make the film entertaining. There are also two excellent bits of acting by Mr. Dudley Digges as the ward- en, and by Mr. Louis Wilhelm aa another convict. It is the latter who makes his escape with Michel, and one of the best things in the film is the pursuit of the refugees through the jungle.

The film is excellently produced in almost every respect, and aided by the flawless acting of the three principal characters concerned, can be recommended as one of the best talkie films presented to a Hong-

As a result of a special watch in Cameron Road near No. 17, where quite a number of larcenies had The King's Cup.

beer committed recently, a Chinese returned Another study In contrasta is detective arrested provided by the news received banishee who was found loitering The man was from London yesterday that Flight about the street. Lieutenant Atcherley, who won the taken before Mr. Whyte Smith and sentenced to eight months' hard la- victory for England in the Schnet-bour. Detective Sergeant Hum-kong audience. der Cup contest last year, is to phreys intimated that every day last week articles of clothing had been stolen from the roof of 17, Cameron Road.

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TWO BOYS ENTICED AWAY.

KIDNAPPING ALLEGATION AT KOWLOON.

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Driven to desperation, the major went up to the delinquent, and after a few bitter words on each side, the complainer blackened both of the other's eyes.

He was reported to the commit- tee, and asked for an explanation. "Well," said the major, the

dotted his 'T's' " fellow crossed my 't's,' so I just

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The vicar began to give out the banus of marriage, when he dis- covered that he could not find the book. As he groped about for the lost volume, he said: "I publish the banns of marriage between- between-

"Between the. cushion" and the

the whispered seat," hoarsely,

The producer was trying hard to encourage a new actress.

"You must put more expression into your voice," he warned her. The most trite remark gains colour and beauty when spoken by a finished actor. Why, there was a chap in one of my plays who could so read a menu card as to make the audience weep."

A hearty laugh from a stage hand in the wings interruped the homily.

"What on earth," began the director.

"I was just thinking that it was the prices he read," apologised the scene shifter.

Passer-by-"What would your mother say, little boy, if she could hear you swear like that?"

Boy-"She'd be tickled to death if she could hear it."

Passer-by-How can you lie lie. She's like that?"

Boy "That's stone deaf."

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At a time when work was scarca and there was much distress in a certain coalfield area, the locul minister met a minor who was taking his dog for a walk.

"Come, come, my man, he said, "do you think it is right to keep that animal when your wife and It children are half-starving7 would be a great deal better for them if you sold the dog and bought a pig."

"An' a bonny fule I'd look gaun poachin' wi a pig!" answered the miner."

is apparent that the Currency Com-participate in the King's Cup race together with another high speed mittee is gathering together

airman whose recent experience mass of extremely useful evidence.

has been confined to propulsion A peculiar incident was related Views of prominent business men, through the air at speeds of some-

to Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kow- bankers and at least one economist thing like five miles a minute. "The loon Magistracy, this morning have been laid before the Com fastest men in the world' as Bri- when Inspector Stimson charged mittee, whose members have been tain's Schneider pilots have been an elderly man with larceny of

two fish from the Hunghom Mar- In the hope of arresting others able to question the witnesses and described will be forced to fly light ket. The defendant admitted the who were concerned and recovering, thus to get down to detail on the aeroplanes in the race round Bri- charge, but said that he had been the two boys kidnapped. Sub In- assaulted, and showed two spector Chester Woods applied to scratches on his forehead. The Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon

Remarkable stories are reaching Police officer, however told his Magistracy this morning for 48 London concerning a hybrid, man- Worship that when being chased hours remand in a case in which a carrying apparatus which is said the defendant was seen by a Ser- Chinese was accused of enticing to be part aeroplane and part geant to scratch himself deliber-two boys away from their parents submarine. Several foreign Gov-

The at 1,152 Canton Road. ately with a pocket knife. defendant was given seven days' imprisonment.

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The officer remarked that the Police were endeavouring to arrest two others who were alleged to have taken part in the kidnapping, while they also hoped to recover the boys who, it was believed, had been taken to Amoy.

ernments, it is reported, have been made aware of its existence. The machine is said to be undergoing secret tests at a lonely point on the Danish coast. It has a metal with telescopic boat-like body

latter, ap- metal winge. The parently, can be drawn in or reefed The defendants were according alongside the body; whereupon ly remanded till Saturday, the crew, closing watertight.com- When Detective Sergeant Men- partments, can submerge their dows mentioned a charge of kid- vessel and operate it beneath Two deaths at sea were reported mapping of a boy from Tai Nam water. Beneath the body is an by incoming vessels in this morn- Street he intimated that the defen- amphibian type of gear, with ing's Harbour Office reports, a Chin-dant, a widow, had been taken ill wheels, enabling the craft, when ese deck passenger being concerned since her arrest and was detained desired, to leave air or water for in both cases,

in the Government Civil Hospital. land and move about Arriving here yesterday from The case was adjourned till Mon- ground. Singapore and Hoihow, Capt. Inglis, day. master of the sa. Seistan, reported to the Harbour Office that a Chin- ese male deck passenger died from beri beri on May 3 and the body was buried at sea.

tain. This means that their speed various suggestions put forward. will be about one third of that at The final result should be a very which they have flown. They will voluminous Report, giving the pros demonstrate, however, the versatil and cons of the whole question. ily of the members of the Royal Whilst it is apparent that there Air Force and will probably prove their aerial conclusively that is a considerable school of thought

achievements are not confined to which opposes any divorcing of the vibrating little planes with huge! Colony's currency from silver un-engines which rush through the air less China also goes on to gold, it af speeds well over three hundred Is also clear that there are others miles an hour. The contrast is who believe that this attitude rests similar to that recently furnished on fears which may not be war-in London when Sir Henry Segrave, ranted by experience if the change who drove the Golden Arrow at over 231 miles an hour along Day- tona Beach, was fined for driving We do not think we are mis-stat-at forty miles an hour in London. however, be violent ing the facts in saying that most of There must, the witnesses who have so far given contrasts in the lives of men re- evidence believe that stability is sponsible for outstanding achieve best for the Colony if it can be ments, for in every day lives they must bring themselves into line attained. A majority admittedly

with the rest of the world, not the thinks that Hongkong cannot at rest of the world coming into line tempt stabilisation unless China with themselves. The possibility

In another report, Capt. Miller also does, but, none the less, the of a record entry for the King's of the Kweiyang stated that a deck disadvantages of the present uncer- Cup race is a distinctly entouraging pasenger died during the vessel's tainties are conceded practically on feature for it provides further voyage from Bangkok and Hoihow all hands. It is not surprising that evidence of the growing interest and the body was taken ashore at there should be this recognition of in civil aviation in Great Britain, the latter port and buried.

Possibly some lady flyer or maybe

DOG OWNERS FINED.

ANIMALS UNMUZZLED IN

THE STREETS.

A summons against Mrs. 0. Creery, of 11, Cameron Road, was mentioned before Mr. Whyte Smith morning when his Worship Imposed

RIVAL WIVES IN A FIGHT.

QUARREL DURING ABSENCE

-OF HUSBAND

A fight between the two wives of a Chinese who is at present in Shanghai was mentioned to Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Ma-. gistracy this morning when the Po- lice brought a charge of assault against one of the women.

the harmful effects of currency in airman with little actal flying stability on trade, for surely the experience will steal the cup from displacement of uncertainty by cer-Britain's famous pilots. If this tainty would be immensely advan- does happen, however, it will be

Inspector Hourihan intimated tageous to business transactions, no detriment to the men thus de-

that the complainant had been mar- The same might not be true in re- fented and there will be no dis-

ried to her husband according to European customs and had a certi- gard to exchange business, which is grace. For they have proved their worth in other fields and there ean

ficate issued by the local authorities, quite a different matter from or-only be one winner of the race

while the defendant had been mar- dinary.commercial activity. We round England.

It promises to a fine of $5 against the lady for ried according to Chinese rites.

The complainant, who said that suggest, however, that Hongkong be one of the most interesting con- allowing her dog to be abroad with-

Church, remarked that the defen- lives, or should live, by its trade tests of recent years and should still out a muzzle whilst she was resid-she had been married at St. Mary's rather than by exchange operations, further stimulate the spirit of air-ing at 6 Minden Avenue,

dent, who was not her husband's legal wife, had often assaulted her. At the suggestion of his Worship the matter was referred ・to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs for

mindedness now well apparent in England.

Mr. Lam Ming-fun, of 723, Na- than Road, was fired a total of $17 for keeping a dog and a bitch with out a muzzle and for allowing the latter animal on the streets with- out a muzzle. :

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settlement.

OPIUM POISONING.

MARRIED WOMAN SENT TO HOSPITAL

Professor Robertson, in dealing with this point, thinks that too much emphasis is laid on the mere mechanism of exchange, and he What is regarded as the biggest points out that if a gold standard development in the technique of were adapted, exchange mechanisin days of the art has resulted from RESCUE IN HARBOUR. stained glass since the earliest

would be wholly altered and much the invention of Mr. Basil B. of the exchange business now tran-Bayne, of Gerrard's Crosa, Buck

inghamshire. Mr. Bayne, an sacted would cease. "But," to artist who exhibited at the Royal TWO MEN JUMP IN NEAR quote the official version of his Academy at the age of 18 and TUNG ON WHARE. evidence before the Committee, "he served as a camouflage officer

during the war, has succeeded, Falling from the seawall near thought that the trade of Hongkong after many experiments, in fusing the Tung On Wharf, last night, rested on other foundations than different coloured glass. It is Chan Shiu (45), à married woman, a mero coincidence of its currency claimed that the use of both lead was saved by a prompt rescue and

work and enamels is avoided, and taken to hospital. with that, of China, and that its that great possibilities in decord- Her rescuers were Chan Kau, She was staying at the Tal Ting. natural advantages as an entrepot, tive art are opened up. It is also a boatman, and Wong Kau, a re- Boarding House on Connaught claimed that the new, glass can venue officer who witnessing the Road Central and a room-boy dis- in addition to the settled conditions be produced, more cheaply than act, jumped into the water after covered her in an unconscious con- and secure administrative and judi- ordinary leaded, stained, and the woman. She is said to have dition in the room and the police gial-machinery to be found here, painted glass.

bad domestic troubles.

'were informed.

Chau Man-ying (22), a married was admitted into the woman, Government Civil Hospital yester. day suffering from the effects of oplum poisoning.

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