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Is Your Husband's Secretary Like This?

Many a wile, particularly if she's jealous-minded, has ad 'exaɣgurated idea of the charma of her husband's secretary. Sometimes this looms sp a3 10 important that the wife pops into his offtes at an unexpected moment to see for herself. Occasionally she sees a brunette vision of loveliness like the young lady abova poixad with stenographie pad and pencil.

Bui cheer up, ladies. Most ascretaries are plain and no reason for Friend' Husband's mind to wander from businesi.

The exception above is the secretary of Wickland Snell, the famous 'hews- paper writer. And, truth to tell, abe is just as dangerous as she looks. Already ths has played baroc with Suail himself and is said also to have involved the rood looking young husband of Soll's daughter. But see and hear for your- self this sensatioand all-taiking motion picture.

GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS'

jeaturing:

Walter Huston & Katherine Francis Also-PARAMOUNT SOUND COMEDIES.

‚ NEXT CHANGE, THURSDAY, Sept. 4..

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Hal Skelly & Nacey Carroll in

THE DANCE OF LIFE"

From the stage.hit · BURLESQUE "! A Paramount. Super-Production.

Booking ai Anderson's and the Theatre (Telephone 26720).

Oh, What a Teacher!

ADOLPH ZUKORIESSE LLAGAY PORN

ESTHER

STHER RALSTON LA CANDER

"Love and Learn

A FRANK TUTTLE PRODUCTION --- A Paramount Picture

The most entertaining bit of joyousness you ever. B&W, That's Esther Ralston in her latest screen scream. A clever story.........plenty of romantic interest.........a touch of tears-and -laughs for the entire family.

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Printed and Published for the Proprietors by, FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1930.

BAHAI MOVEMENT “RED” TERRORISM

LECTURER.

MISS ROOT: AGAIN ON VISIT TO COLONY.

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SPEAKS TO-MORROW.

An interesting visitor to Hong- kong is Miss Martha L. Root, a New York journalist and an in- ternational lecturer on the Bahei

IN KIANGSI.

600 BUTCHERED IN ONE TOWN.

CATHOLIC MISSION BADLY LOOTED.

Movement. She is staying at the WHOLESALE PLUNDER.

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DRASTIC ACTION

IN PERU.

MINISTERS' RESIGNATIONS

ACCEPTED.

PRESIDENTS' HOARD,

New York, Aug. 31. According to travellers from Peru one of the reasons for the |revolutionaries detaining Le Gula

is the report that he has £25,500,-

St. Francis Hotel. She will give

000 in sterling in London banks.

The Peruvian indignation a public lecture at six o'clock on

An eye-witness who has been against Le Guia and others who Tuesday evening in the Theosoph- ical Hall, 7, Queen's Road Cen- through some bitter experiences enriched themselves under his tral, on the subject: "Progress of in the bandit-ridden province, of regime is shown by the mob sack- Bahai Movement in Five Contin- Kiangsi, writing to the Shanghai ing Le Guia's residence at Lima ents." All interested arc CorTimes, gives some details of how and burning the expensive furni dially invited; the lecture is free the "Reds" are seizing many ture in the street after setting

Miss Root is a distant relative of the American statesman, Mr. towns and cities. At Yukiang, fire to the house-Reuter's Ameri

New York, Aug. 31. Elimu Root. On this present trip the invaders thoroughly looted can Service,

A message received from Lima alone she has been travelling and the Catholic Mission, and put to writing for more than eight years: death some 600 refugees and in-states that the new Government is She is on her way back to the habitants of the city.

shaking up the Peruvian diploma. United States now, going by way There are very few towns of any tic, service. The new Govern- of China and Japan.

size, says the correspondent, that ment has accepted the resignations Ministers to Speaking to our representative have not been taken by the "Reds."of the Peruvian

in her hotel yesterday this. Ameri-At last reports, Nanchang, Kan-Great Britain. Spain, Vienna and can journalist said: "Your news-chow, Kian and Kiokiang, together Brussels.

The Minister and Consul Gen- paper, the Hongkong Telegraph with the little inland lake town of wrote very concisely about the Poyang, are about the only places eral to France have been super- been taken. On seded and the former has been Bahai Movement when I lectured that, bave not

Defenders Bolt.

in Hongkong University six years August 11, Yukiang (Anjen) was ordered to return to Lima for an ago. And now I can give you acaptured by the "Reds" of that investigation of his conduct.-- surprise too," she added as she pro- section,

Reuter's American Service.

Lima, Aug. 30. duced a copy of a monthly maga- zine in Rangoon, called "The.

The ex-Dictator Leguiá has Dawn," in which there is a recent The soldiers of Chang Kai-wo been imprisoned on San Lorenzo article about the Bahai Teachings, were there to protect the town. Island, where he will await his and in which was quoted what The "Reds" came up to the city trial. It is the same prison in the editorial writer of the Hong-1 walls about 3.30 in the morning; which Legula, when in power, shut king Telegraph said. This was as firing ceased at four. They were, up his political "enemies.Reuter's follows:-"At a time when there is of different sorts of would-be American Service. so much antagonism among

500. the soldiers in the city, about

New York, Aug. 30. nations of the world, the princi-There was practically no fight A message from Lima atates that an American Naval Reserve ples of the Bahai Movement as ex- made. pounded by Miss Root, in a lecture- Chang Kai-wo's soldiers did as offieer, H. B. Grow, who acted as at Hongkong University, makes in- they had done three years ago-ran head of the Peruviar. Flying teresting reading, and apart from away as fast as they could. Lu Corps under the Leguin regime. mere interest in the beauty of Ti-ping could not put these same has been imprisoned and is await- thought which dominates the en-soldiers out of the mission property ing court martial on the orders of tire theme of this new attempt to in Yukiang. He could not, or. it the new Dictator, Sanchez Cerro, realise the brotherhood of man, might be, he would ot. Well, it we are presented with a Movement did not take the "Reds" long to do -which does not seek to win con- what this very able Governor could

verts to a new religion, but to

New York, Aug. 31. form a link that shall bind the

Vandalism And Carnage."

Further messages from Lima followers of all creeds in one

state that in order to facilitate universal belief, the peaceful de- The Catholic Mission in Yukiang action against officials charged' stiny of mankind. Perhaps was thoroughly looted. What the with offences committed under the Bahaism is a substitute for that Reds could not carry off, they Legula regime, Sanchez Cerro has combination of all the best in each broke or otherwise destroyed. suspended the articles of the Con- religion which philosophers have There were about 600 refugees stitution dealing with public dreamed of, for good-will towards and inhabitants of the town killed rights. othera is the fundamental prinelor butchered,' as you chose to call ple of all the greatest creeds. it. Not onewas shot. All had their throats out or were stabbed Creed of Fraternity.

and hacked to death.

.

not do.

who alleged that Grow, acting on Leguia's orders, intended to bomb Arequipa from the air-Reuter's American Service.

The Government-announces that one of its main objectives will be the reform of the civil service.

"In its advocacy of world peace the Bahai Movement strives to bring about through the hearts of the people what Governments are daily being proved incapable of accomplishing. When we observe the world as it is to-day and as it Nationalist Government on promises to be to-morrow, we can-way now to recapture the town.

The famous porcelain town of "Do not think that if your girls not feel hopeful of the great suc

was powder their noses and varnish cess of the apostles of this creed Kinteching in this province

same way last their finger nails, they are on the of fraternity, but we can all the recaptured the

path." and downward

said Lady more readily admire the effort to month. The bandits How the good seed; and however carried away somewhere between Raglan, to parents at Pontypool six and seven hundred thousand Girls College prize-giving, adding: much might fall on stony ground, dollars in loot.. After the bandits "It is a perfectly natural pheno- some is sure to find fertile soil in had left, the soldiers were rushed menou which shows they are

Later to recapture the town.

in growing up." the month, Changshu, on the Ken

It is reported that an American One foreign priest who was in engineer, working on an irrigation the city at the time of the at scheme, has been arrested while tack was fortunate in finding

attempting to leave Lima by air hiding place that the "Reds" did and has been Imprisoned. on a charge of mismanagement of not discover.

There are soldiers of the funds-Reuter's American Service.

their

which to take root.”

came

was the Nanking Government,

Miss Root said she was astonish- ed to see this Hongkong editorial River was recaptured the same Government continue the same as in a magazine from Burma and way. In this last place, however, it has been for the last three had found it quite by chance two the bandits had left only one or years. It is strictly forbidden by Dawn.. This magazine, *The

two days so the recapture Dawn," stated that the editorial really a feat of valour.. was also printed in a Washington monthly magazine called "Star of the West." "So your editorial writer" said Miss Root, "is like the Latin philospher, because he can sit in his editorial chair and, with his pen as à lever, he can move the world!"

Mission Occupied. Occupation of mission property by the soldiers of the National (Continued on Next Column.)

The American visitor said she mothers and the first educators of

the next generation, does everything she can to pro- (9) Equal opportunities for de- mote the principles of Baha'u'llah because they offer the most prac-velopment and equal rights and

privileges for both sexes. tical plan to realise world peace.

(10) Work for all, no idle rich, They give a new solution of the

is a plan based upon co-operation.

and severe punishment is threatened any

his officer who. quarters coldiers in mission property, but the soldiers understand the Go- vernment and they continue to oc- cupy as they please, and no one has ever heard, in these parts, of a single case of punishment,

The "Reds" have the same anti- foreign and anti-religious slogans that are taught, propagated and drilled in to the people.

More Looting.

economic problem by which every no idle poor. "Work in the spirit

China Inland Mission in Yukiang was looted, too... What destruction child in every country can have of service is worship."

(11) Abolition of extremes of was done cannot be learned at this education and the poor live in more comfort. It is the opposite of poverty and wealth: care for the time.

The "Reds" are said to have Bolshevism, Communism,

but it needy.

(12) Recognition of the unity eashed some Kinteching cheques in There are nine ways in which of God and obedience to His Re-Shanghai.

vealed Commands, as revealed money is raised for education. Baha'u'llah also urged that all through His Divine teachers receive higher salaries tions. and that there be an interchange of students from one country to another, and he gave the way to do it!

Twelve Points. The principles of the Movement as outlined by Root are:

"Not only

"Red" soldiers are paid regularly. Manifesta. The soldiers of Chang Kai-wo's army stationed in Yukiang had second are the principles received no pay since the given," Miss Root said, "but moon of this year.

The people in Yukiang were Baha'u'llah in his teachings shows how to bring them into reality. more afraid of Chang Kai-wo' and The forerunber of the Bahai his horde of misfits than they were Movement was the Bab, the Found- of the bandits. There was an ever Bahaier. was Baha'u'llah and the Inter- present fear that these soldiers Miss preter and Centre of the Covenant would betray the town. Chang was 'Abdu'l Baha. Abdu'l Bahe exacted from the people just what (1) Unfettered cearch after was knighted by the British Gov- he wished. One merchant, who truth, and the abandonment of all ernment for his work toward had, with the permission of the superstition and prejudice. universal peace. Since the pass- Magistrate, purchased a gun, was (2) The Oneness of Mankind:ing of Abdu'l Baha in 1921, his fined by Chang $1,000, because he all are "leaves of one tree, flow-grandson, Shoghi Effendi, who had ammunition for the gun.

lives in Haifa, Palestine, is the ers of one garden."

:

Who's to Blame?

(8) Religion must be cause of Guardan of the work." love and harmony, else it is no re-

a few days next week after the the ordinary Chinese to distinguish ligion.

(4) All religions are one in Tuesday lecture and return on Sun-between the Government and the their fundamental principles. day or Monday. She expects to "Red as long as they both import (5) Religion must go hand-in-sall the second week of September their slogans from Soviet Russia. There has been no outrage In hand with science. Faith and rea-for Shanghai.

A book called the "Bahai World" China. In the last three years that son must be in full accord.

(6) Universal peace: the es- has been presented to the Hong-cannot in some way be traced to tablishment of a Universal Lea-kong University Library by this these imported slogans. And as gue of Nations, of International visitor. It shows the progress of long as the Government continues Arbitration and an International the Bahal Movement in all coun- to about these slogans as loudly, Parliament.

tries during the past two years. for more loudly, than the "Reds" it (7) The adoption of a univer-This book is in nearly all the zeems unfair and hypocritical to University libraries of the United blame every mad outrage against sal, auxiliary language.

(8) Compulsory education, es States and Germany, Miss Root foreign life and property on the

"Reds." pecially for girls, who will be the said.

Miss Root will go to Canton for It is and will continue hard' for

ALL BAD BOYS WITH THE GIRLS

Solomon

Don Juan Casanova Henry VIII Louis XV

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SUCH MEN ARE DANGEROUS

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how to handle him.

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CATHERINE DALE OWEN HEDDA HOPPER - ALBERT CONTI

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