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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1930.

THE PUBLIC

COLONIAL

NMENT

GOVERN

AXATION

REVENUE

WILLIAM FOX

BIG TIME

ALL TALKING Fox Movietone Drama

with

LEE TRACY

a

(Garamount Fictur

HE best of the season's

Tmusical plays It's gay.

rollicking and tuneful."

says

The New York Telegram All·

New York raved about it. The screen's first original musical-

romance

MAURICE

CHEVALIER The Love Parade

AN ERNST

LUBITSCH

PRODUCTION

JEANETTE MACDONALD LUPINO LANE LILLIAN ROTH

A SUPER-PRODUCTION

AT POPULAR PRICES.

BY POPULAR REQUEST

SHOWING TO-DAY, SUNDAY, MONDAY & TUESDAY. at 2.15, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.

Bookings at Anderson Music Store and at the Theatre (Telephone 25720).

The judge said, "Fined afteen days," But he found a million dollars behind the bars of this fun packed prison!

D

See You injail

Jack

Mulhall

Alice Day and Mack Swain

TO-DAY ONLY

at2.50, 6 30, 7 20 & 3.20

AT THE

MAJESTIC

Nathan Road, Kowloon.

Showing for the FIRST TIME in Hongkong.

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria

Jongkong.

Government Nurse:-The blanket is a bit short so we'll have to cut a piece off the bottom

and sew it to the top.

NEW TERRITORIES

of

QUESTION.

LAND OFFICER'S POWERS DEFINED.

DOUBTS REMOVED,

Section

"LOVE PARADE.”

SEASON EXTENDED FOR

FOUR DAYS.

"The Love Parade," which hasi been showing to packed houses during its seven days run, has been extended for a further four!

REPARATIONS TO BRITAIN.

MEMORANDUM EXPLAINS THE TOTAL RECEIPTS.

days, as the management have THE EMPIRE'S SHARE. received many requests from

The Gazette contains the draft patrons asking for the showing to

London, June 20. an Ordinance to amend the be extended as they were unable A memorandum on the British New Territories Regulation Ordin- to book seats previously. There-recepts from German reparations ance, 1910.

fore all those who have not seen under the Hague Agreements is "The Love Parade” are advised to issued. The memorandum ex- It is explained that

book their seats early as this is plains that the total annual re- 20 of the New Territories Regula the last opportunity to see this ceipts of the United Kingdom com- tion Ordinance. 1910, Ordinancé

picture.

prise firstly the share which, the No. 34 of 1910, which gives thei

"The Love Parade" with the United Kingdom is entitled to re- Land Officer a general power to inimitable Maurice Chevalier and ceive out of the German annuities decide all questions regarding any the new Jeanette MacDonald sing-prescribed in the expert's repurt. land in the New Territories, pro-ing the Marche of the Grenadiers The plan did not Ax the exact vides that he shall not have power and Dream Lover will put a stop amount of the United Kingdom's to decide "any question or dispute to any adverse criticism of the share, and only fixed the annuities nayable to the British Empire as a in respect of any land. having a capital value exceeding five thou-stage from where she hails. sand dollars, or an annual value soldier who sang his way into the

The story is of a vagabond whole.

It was understood that the in- exceeding five hundred dollars, un-heart of a Queen. Chevalier is the tention of the experts was to pro- less with the written consent of soldier and Miss MacDonald is the ride for the United Kingdom, dur- the partics". Section 3 of the: Ordinance defires the term "land" Queen and what a charming pairing a period of fifty-six years,

they

make. Lilian Roth and precisely the annual amount re- in such a way that in some cases Lupino Lane furnish the comedy, quired to make up with our re- at least it may include rent.

Director Lubitsch conquers the ceipts from inter-Allied debts, for his first talkie our war debt payments to the The question arises whether the light opera

Cnited States Government, and lo has this meaning in the under Paramount direction.

provide an average sum of £2,600, 000 during a period of thirty- seven years for the rest of the British Empire, this sum repre wating approximately the full share which the rest of the Empire would have received on an aver- age if the German annuities, dur- ing the first thirty-seven years had been distributed in accordance with the existing percentage.

term

above passage, and that the Land Officer has jurisdiction to decide a claim for arrears of rent up to the total amount of five thousand dollars.

CHINA WAR.

TWO FOREIGN RESORTS CLOSED.

Shanghai, June 20. It is reported that the Ministry for Foreign Affairs has sent a

1 the term "land" in the above passage does not include "rent", then the Land Officer has no jurisdiction to decide a claim for. arrears of rent if either (a) the physical land has a capital value exceeding five thousand dollars or letter to the foreign Consulates British Empire share shail be stating that Kuling and Chikung- divided between the United King- shan are closed to foreign dom-and the rest of the Empire nationals in view of military on this basis. The resulting operations.-Reuter.

(b) the annual rent exceeds five hundred dollars.

If the Land Officer has jurisdie- tion the jurisdiction of the Supre- me Court is ousted by section 24 of the Ordinance. Different opinions have been expressed as to whether the term "land" does or does not include rent in the

above passage.

Mukden Attitude.

Mukden, June 20. Chang Haueh-liang has put the quietus on continual reports that he is participating in the present

civil war.

It has been agreed that the

an-

nuities payable to the United King- dom have been communicated to the Bank for International Settle- ments.

These receipts represent only

payments specifically provided for in the expert's report. Interviewed, the young Marshal Accordingly, a landlord may be

Secondly the United Kingdom in doubt as to his proper remedy, denied the report. that he had will receive a cash payment of and in case of difference of opinion telegraphed to Yen Hsi-shan and 102,000,000 reichsmarks, or five between the two jurisdictions he Feng Yu-hsiang urging a peace million pounds, transferred by

stated that may be left without any remedy parley. He

the other creditor Governments, in

at all. In the case of New Kow-neutrality of Manchuria was being order to cover the payment of the loon this position is of less im-scrupulously maintained, despite British debt to the United States portance, because a landlord has the constant pressure both of in 1929/30. how a remedy in New Kowloon Nanking and the Northerners.- under the Distress for Rent Or-Reuter. dinance, 1880, as amended by the Distress for Rent Amedment Or- dinance, 1928. In the New Ter- ritories other than New Kowloon, however, there is no machinery for distraint.

This Ordinance is intended to resolve the above. doubt: The effect of paragraph (b) of the proviso to be inserted by section

FUTURE STATUS OF

INDO-CHINA. ·

REFORMS ADVOCATED BY

FORMER GOVERNOR. "

Paris, June 20,

Thirdly, there are annuities payable for thirty-seven years to the United Kingdom by France, Belgium and Italy under the Hague Protocol of August 31, 1929,

These aunuities were offered by other creditor Governments as a partial means of compensating A this country for any difference be- tween the receipts to which we were entitled under the new plan and the amount which we should have received if the total German

2 of this Ordinance is that the During a debate in the Chamber Land Officer will clearly have on the recent events in Indo- payments had been distributed in power to decide claims to arrears China, M. Varenie, a member of accordance with the percentages of rent so long as the monthly the Left Opposition and a former previously in forec.-British Wire- value of the rent does not exceed Governor of Indo-China, urged the less. $500 and so long as the total appointment of a Commission to claim does not exceed $1,500..--

CORONATION OF THE “

KING.

ANNIVERSARY FALLS DUE

study the necessary measures to be taken in the Colony similarly as England had done in India.

He concluded by advocating for Indo-China an extensive system of reform tending to autonomy under the aegis of France. He declared that the independence of the Colony was at present disastrous.

Reuter.

FAIR TO SHOWERY.

.REDISCOUNT RATE DOWN.

Chicago, June 20.

The Federal Reserve Bank has reduced the re-discount rate from four to three and a half par cent.Reuter's American Service.

TO-MORROW.

To-morrow being the anniver- sary of H.M. the King's Coronation,

It is notified that the Hung H.M. Ships in, port will be dressed The Royal Observatory forecast Yuen IIotel Co., Ltd., the Hung Tak overall from 8 a.m. to sunset. until noon to-morrow is:-South Lan Co., Ltd., and the Hol On The Royal Salute will be fired winds, moderate; fair to showery, Steamship Co., Ltd., will within by HMS. Tamar at noon on' Mon-

three months be struck off the re- day. H.M. ships will be dressed

Mrs. Ware, wife of Dr. Ware is gister and the companies dissolved with flags only while the salute is lying seriously ill in Victoria unless cause to the contrary is being fired.

Hospital.

shown within three months.

MAE CLARKE-JOSEPHINE DUNN.

MUSICAL

SONGS

by Mas. Kurenco,

•Shadow Song"! "Song of India''

AT THE

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THE

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NEWBREIL

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