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Harry Richman

Puttin

in

ON THE Ritz

JOAN DENNETT

JAMES GLEASON

AILEEN PRINGLE

and

LILYAN TASHMAN music & lyrics by

JRVING BERLIN directed by EDWARD HUSLOMAN

persented by JOSEPH M. SCHENCK,

UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE

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"There's Danger in

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"Puttin' on the

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sung by

HARRY

RICHMAN

The Star of the Picture.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

U.S. BASEBALL.

LEAGUE RESULTS AND

STANDINGS.

FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1930.

SECRET DOCUMENT DISCLOSED.

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New York, May 10. would denounce a Treaty formally To-day's baseball matches. re-entered into, but when the Treaty was reconsidered in 1935 he hoped sulted as follows;

that they would enter into the discussions more watchful and more careful than the present Government,

Detroit

American League.

New York St. Louis Boston Cleveland Philadephia

Chicago...

Washington

National League.

New York

Chicago Brooklyn

Pittsburgh Philadelphia Cincinnati Boston

LEAGUE TENNIS.

VICTORIES FOR CHINESE ILC.

AND INDIANS.

Two league tennis matches in the "B" Division were played off yester day, both resulting in victory for the home team.

enc.

At Sookunpoo, the Indians proved just too good for the South China A.A., winning by six sets to three; R. H. E. .58 1 The debate was adjourned sine while at Causeway Bay, the Chinese Recreation Club trounced the M.B.X 14 18 1 die.

second string by eight sets to 02 0 Eighty-two Conservatives, head-The scores were: 25ed by Rear Admiral Beamish, have 4 10 0 tabled notices of motion that the 6.7 0 House is of the opinion that Part Three of the London Navel Treaty, that dealing with light eraft, is contrary to the interests of the British Empire and ought not to be ratified.--Reuter.

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St. Louis

The League standings are now as under:

Chicago New York

Pittsburgh Brooklyn Cincinati St. Louis

L. Pet 0 1640

National League.

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831 11 g 11

11 11 500

Boston

Philadelphia

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American League.

T'hiladelphia

Washington

Cleveland New York Boston Chicago St. Louis Detroit

315

Premiers Speech.

C.R.C. v M.B.K.

Choa Man-ping and Lo Man-bin (C.R.C.) beat G. Nakamura and T. Ema 6-3; beat T. Fujimori and T. Edo 6-3; lost to T. Imura and K Matsuo 4-6.

Lau Fuk-ki and Cheung Wing-kui- beat Nakamura and Ema 6-1; beat Fujimori and Edo 6-3; beat Imura and Matsuo -1.

Chiu Chun-chiu and Hung Wal-chiu beat Nakamura and Ema 6-1; beat Fujimori and Ede 10-8; beat Imura and Matsuo 9-7..

London, May 15. The Premier to-day opened debate in the House of Commons on the London Naval Conference. already He said Britain was making a substantial contribution to the problem of general disarma- ment, but that she must bend her attention not merely to the sea bat

A. H. Rumjahn and O. Ismail to air and land as well. We had (LRC) lost to O. K. Lani and S. W.

note, continued

the Weng 6-1; beat C. S. Chan and Y. W. also to Premier, another very serious cir-Lec 6-4; beat Chan So. and Ng Sag- cumstance. Since the failure at kwan 6-1.

İ.R.C. v South Chỉnà AA.

A. H. Madar and S. A. Ismail lost to Lam and Wong 4-6; beat Chan and Lee 9-7; beat Chan So and Ng 6-4.

10 11476 Geneva in. 1927 a great deteriora- A. A. Rumjahn and S. H. Ismail tion in the peace spirit had taken beat Lam and Wong 6-2; beat Chan place. Although since the war and Lee-6-2; lost to Chan So nad Ng the League of Nations had been 4-6, created and arbitration and peace parts had been signed, when they came to close grips with the pro- blem of provision of arms they 7 .681 found that deplorably little value 8 .600 10 473 was placed upon those peace pacts 473 and those organisations in secure 8. 11 .421 peace. 9 13 .409 718 .280

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INTERPORT RIFLE MATCH.

SHANGHAI TO FIRE ON SUNDAY.

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Old Fears Revived.

Nations undoubtedly were full ing back into their old mentality. Old fears and old superstitions regarding security were returning and exactly the same kind of argument so familiar before 1914 was coming up unblushing and unashamed to-day.

not yet finished. It was still being continued and all he could say ut present was that by such speeches as that delivered by Signor Grand the other day he was encouraged to entertain hopes that these cou tinuing conversations would be

successful.

USC

Mr. MacDonald said there were various suggestions that we ought this opportunity either to to devise a new battleship or to re- He did not say these things induce the tonnage of battleships. order to strike a pessimistic note A battleship at the present time was from-quite the opposite-because the time was still with as when we could stop it by making spirited efforts to change that mentality, and we could still save Europe and the world from what was called the next war, They had those things in mind during the long days of the London Naval Confer

Word has been received Shanghai to the effect that Shanghai will fire in the Interport rifle match on Sunday, May 18. Hongkong has decided to fire on May 31, and Singa- pore will fire during the later period- October 15 to November 30.

deelded:

At Stonecutters range last Sunday the following league matches were Y.M.C.A. (N. & M.)

H.K. Police Res. 03rd (A. & S.)

H.K. Police Res.

614

ence.

604

542

642

League Table.

F. W. L

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Stonecutters E. 1st Somerset LI. Taikoo ..... (N. & M.) Y.M.C.A. H. M. Dockyard R.A.F. (Kai Tak) 93rd Legt. Hong Kong Police H.K. Police Reserve H.V.D.C.

WINNING BRITISH GOLFERS.

· PASSING OF AN OLD INDUSTRY.

HORSE-HAIR WEAVING ON HAND LOOMS.

Lavenham possesses one of the few remaining factories in England horse-hair cloths are woven on hand looms,, but owing to foreign competition this old in dustry is in jeopardy, and the business is up for sale.

where

Left, Cyril Tolley;' above, Roger Wethered. They were the only British pair who succeeded in the Walker Cup foursomes.

RIDDLE OF A DAZED "BOT.

POLICE INVESTIGATING. STORY OF DRUGS. Hastings police are investigating the case of a 10-year-old schoolboy, Jack Gorringe, of Gordon-road, Hastings who was found in a dazed condition in a road adjoining Al- exandra Park.

"Jack would not tell us anything The horse-hair cloth industry is of what had happened to him," said flourishing in America as a result his father, "but he told the doctor of the tariff on this article having that he was picked up by some man been raised a few years. age from in a car, taken to a house, and then 16 to 60 per cent. It is also hold let go because he was not the boy ing up its hend successfully in they wanted.

"Ho had the appearance of having The making of the dull black been drugged when we found him, horse-hair cloth, which was and he is still suffering from loss favourite covering for Victorian of memory, though he has im- sofas, has practically died out.

Germany.

GOLF STARS IN SHANGHAL

"We are doing our best to keep proved a good deal," this old craft going," Mr. Agnew, of thirty-five thousand tons and it a director of the firm, said, "but it was suggested that we might put is an uphill fight. At the end of a ten thousand ton battleship at sea the' war we were employing 360 instead of thirty-five thousand tons. people; to-day we have only 60 Out of 360 hand-looms They could not get any. Fowers to hands. agree to any sort of reduction in only 30 are running. Three other battleships. If they began to tam-factories have recently gone out per with battleships they did not of the business, and we are one know where they were going to of two or three remaining eid.

ENJOYABLE TRIP. UP FROM HONGKONG.

Shanghai, May 16. "Until America put up her tariff Walter Hagch and Kirkwood,, ar- she was our biggest customer. In rived at the Customs. Jetty at 215 Britain and America.

Battleship Question. Germany the workmen put in 54 this afternoon, and, during the course hours a week for our 48 hours, of an interview, stated they had bad most enjoyable journey. They are There was a general view, said Instead of having a programme

leaving Shanghai on Sunday, and to Mr. Macdonald, that very little of a small type of battleship of ten and at about half the wages.”

A hand-loom worker weaves the, morrow, in the words could be done by anyone for thousand tons the chances. were Pts.| advancing naval disarmament that their naval designers would cloth at the rate of four yards a "will knock a ball around-

day. Only the tail hair of the Hagen and Kirkwood were met by until the United States and our provide a new type of fighting horse is used. It is a curious fact Mr. A. R. Blinko, Mr. Kenneth 14. selves had come to an agreement. vessel and they would have to put that since cinemas and the B.B.C. and Mr. T. Beesley, of the Riverview

Cumming

the Hudgins Golf Club, He thought that view was sound. a fleet, or a section of a fleet, of have popularised music in Eng-Golf Club. Hagen and Kirkwood are The Government's predecessors this smaller type on the seas to

land, horse-hair has soared in staying at the Cathay Hotel. They had said quite candidly that they compete with competition.

price. It is required for violin plan to spend over two weeks playing were perfectly willing that the

bows. United States should build to

in Japan parity:

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FANLING GOLF.

STARTING TIMES FOR

SUNDAY.

9.16 a.m.-K. S. Morrison and R.

Young.. 9.20.m. Comdr. Priestley and 3.

Stuart.

9.24 8.m-W. M. Pittendrigh and

G. W. Reeve.

9.28 a.m.-L. C. Parker Rees and

E. Newhouse. 9,32_.m.-N. K. Littlejohn and

T. Low.

9.36 a.m.-I. H. 'Geare and A. E.

Lissaman.

9.40 a.m.-A. Leach and De Forbes, 9.44.0.m. Dr. Dovey

J. S.

Dykes. 9.48 a.mA. C. L. Bowker and G.

Thomson

9.52 a.m.-V, R. Gordon and J. R.

Hinton.

9.56 a.m.-G. E. Ellams and C. B.

Brown. 10.00 am.-W. C. Shields and

Mycock,

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"I think," said Mr. MacDonald, the view we took was a sound one

of

a certain There was school which expressed the view and that in the matter of tamper- that it was unnecessary to pursue ing with battleships we should stop building them until an agreement agreements any further as never could imagine a conflict could be reached, and then by 1936

there will have been plenty with America and why should we time to consider what is the func worry about force?

America was building cruisers; tion of a battleship in naval whether eight-inch cruisers or six strategy, what is the size of

battleship and what is the use of cruisers, whatever they

ย large cared to build was no, concern of What would please me far better

type of

war, vessel

oura. That view was a

is to see whether we can't come to attractive one, but it

the conclusion that the battleship unsound.

had better be regarded as obsolete altogether."

inch

very was very

If the whole world occupied with, America the same relations

which we had it would be a sound

view, but unfortunately that was not the case and whether we took notice of what was being done on the other side of the Atlantic or not, other nations would, and it was with those other nations we were concerned.

Foundation of Security,

1

Concluding his speech in the Naval debate in the House of Com- mons, the Premier said the Admir- alty had agreed to fifty cruisers for a strictly limited period, provided that other Powers met this stan- dard and there was a proper pro- portion of new construction suitable for extended operations.- Reuter and British Wireless.

:

Was

He had come to the conclusion,

U.S. Admiral's Protest. after careful consideration; that the foundation of real security and

Washington, May 15. international understanding relat

The first official protest against ing to naval building must be an the London Naval Treaty agreement between America and voiced by Rear-Admiral Hilary ourselves such as they had been Jones, when he told the Foreign able to effect at the London Naval Relations Committee of the Senato Conference. That piece of works that he not only disagreed with had been done.. There were two many of the decisions of the Con- other prominent objects, continu- ference, but thought that a differ- ed Mr. MacDonald, that the Naval ent settlement would have been LAWN BOWLS LEAGUE. Conference had to try and achieve, quite possible.

10.04 a.m.-A. D. Humphreys and

0. Enger. 10.08 a.m.-Hutton and J. B. Lan

yon.

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HONGKONG ELECTRIC TEAM.

The following have been selected to represent the Hongkong Electric Recreation Club against the Kowloon

0.0.:

S. J. Clarke, D. S. Hill, J. F. Lunny, W. H. B. Muskett (Skip).

W. Stoker, G. T. Padgett, F. F. Duckworth, H. Hatch (Skip).

A. Tarbuck E. Thompson, L. de Rome, A. F. Paul (Skip).

Reserves: V. Sorby and H. S. Jones.

A

The first was this. What was He disclosed that when he was sound concerning peace was not al in London; he consistently opposed ways the size of the fleets but the dividing of the cruisers into the growing competition in the eight-inchers and six-inchers, as building of fleets. Competition in being contrary to all previous policy building was worth a great sacri-of the United States. He also op- fice. They had succeeded as reposed the limiting of America's #prds three Powers at any rate in eight-inch cruisers to a total of stopping that competition, and 180,000 tons, arguing that the they had also succeeded in getting United States should be entitled to from two other Powers, which for use the tonnage in the class re- várious reasons were unable.

to quired. .subscribe to that part of the Treaty, a declaration which they found themselves with a decisive determination to accommodate their Fear for the fate of her husband building in the future to the atan caused the sudden end of Mire. dard that had been put in Fart Charles Cannon, who collpsed and Three. of: the London Agreement died in London-road, St. Leonards. That was a very great achieve Mr. and Mrs...Cannon, who are well-known street traders, were crossing the road, when Mrs. Cannon looked back and saw her The second point was that re-the Navy's General Board was lating to reductions. So far as re- never consulted regarding the Trea- ductions were concerned they had ty, either before or during the only been able to get three Powers, negotiations in London Reuter's to agree to it, but the story was American Service.

husband in danger of being, run over by a bus. She cried out and fell. to the ground. Her husband escaped.

ment.

*Reductions in Fléels.

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"Fight it out." Replying to a suggestion that he should compare the British and American: Fleets, with the Bix- inch and eight-inch cruisers equally divided, Rear-Admiral Jones said:

If you just lineup the Fleets and say "Fight it out. I have, no doubt that we would win."

Admiral Pratt said he believed

of

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