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NEW N.Y.K. MOTOR SHIP IN PORT.

MAIDEN VOYAGE JAPAN.

TO EUROPE.

NEARLY 12,000 TONS.

NEW SWEEPSTAKE LEGISLATION.

BILL PASSES ITS FIRST

READING. NO!

Seven new Bills were read A first time in the Legislative Coun-

Yesterday afterhot which, on interesting being that which," on certain conditions, legalises sweep- stakes.

Yesterday evening saw the arrival of another new NY.K., motor vessel, this being the Yasukuni Maru, which is on her maiden voyage from Yokohama to Europe. She is the latest vessel to be placed into service by the The Nippon Yusen Kaisha in accord ance with their expansion pro- gramme and is a valuable addition to the NY.K. Europe-Orient service.

Under the cominand of Capt. Naoichi Segawa, a popular com- mander of the N.Y.K., the Yasu- kuni Binru left Yokohama on September 22 for Shanghai, from where she sailed for Hongkong She arrived on September 30. here yesterday evening bringing 147 tons of general cargo

tons for Hongkong and 5,995 through ports..

on

for

The Yasukuni Muru is a motor passenger ship of 11,800 tons gross and is a twin ship of the Terukuni Maru, which is already the Japan-Europe service. With a displacement of 19.150. tons, the new vessel is 505 feet long, 64 feet in breadth and 37 fect in depth. She has five decks and is fitted with the most up-to date navigation and safety appli-

anées.

No effort has been spared to provide the utmost comfort for passengers and the arrangements of the various passenger quarters on this vessel are the result of the long experience of the Com- pany and the careful study of the accommodation of some of the most recent liners,

LABOUR M.P. ON · RUBBER.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1930.

NOTORIOUS "RED" JOURNAL

SHANGHAI'S WORST PAPER LOCATED.

SEVENTEEN ARRESTS.

CRIPPLE WOMAN

CHARGED.

"DIVORCES” HAD

BY POST.

CASE WHICH SHOULD NOT ARTURO DEL TORO TRIES

HAVE BEEN BROUGHT.

An Indian constable brought a deformed woman, who was unable to stand on her feet, before Mr.

ENGLAND.

MEXICAN OFFER.

Williams at the Central Magistracy this morning and charged hor with committing a breach of the Senor Arturo del Toro, the conditions of her licence by selling self-styled "Divorce King whose plan for procuring postal fivorces. cigarettes. after 10 p.m.

The woman was" taken to the 'in Mexico for residents of Britain Station at 2 o'clock in the morn was exposed in the Daily Mail, is ing, and Inspector Dick explained "not at all displeased with the pub that if he had the case in the licity he has received. The offices were raided and seven-first instance he would not have teen persons wore detained and are charged the woman. It was, of being held for interrogation. All course, an offence to sell cigarettes moveable. printing equipment was after 10 p.m. according to the seized, including several newspaper conditions of her licence, but it formes already made up and ready was a single case and could well

have been overlooked the first; for the prosses.

time.

MONADERNANTENNIS ESTONIZARONNORUBARE

THE "TELEGRAPH" ART

SUPPLEMENT.

The woman told the Court that, unable to walk and with only a little girl to help her, she had stayed behind at her stall and fallen asleep where she was.. She was discharged with caution,

a

Shanghai, Sept. 27. In moving the first reading of

After weeks of searching for the this Bill, which amends the Gam- presses responsible for printing the Ordinance .of 1891, Communistie newspaper Red Flag. bling the Hon. Attorney General said: the Municipal Police discovered the object of this Bill plant early yesterday morning in the is to relax tde provisions of Wayside District. General said:-The object o this Bill is to relax the provisions of to permit that Ordinance so as club sweepstakes on horse and pony races, provided they are con- ducted with the approval of the Police. The Ordinance of 1891, like many prohibitive ordinances, The, discovery of the printing has been heroured more by the offices of the newspaper for which

Except for having been warned breach than by, observance by the Municipal, French and Chinese on a previous occasion to keep off many people who are otherwise police have been searching for certain streets, the woman had a

clean record. considered law-abiding. As long as those sweeps were small there was no reason why the Govern ment should interfere, but in re- cent years they have reached such proportions that, in fairness both to the clubs themselves and to the Government, it has become neces

take action. clubs, such as the Shanghai Race Club, the sale of tickets has been altogether abolished. This Or- dinance does not go so far as that, but permits the sale of tickets on the course to people who attend race meetings, thus giving atten- ders of race meetings a privilege which otherwise would be fined to the membership of the club organising the sweepstake. But, generally speaking, the sale of tickets is to be discouraged.. It must be within the recollection of; members that there have been many cases, both in this Colony and elsewhere, where there have. been rivat claimants for a winning ticket and there has been at least one case in which there was no claimant at all for the winning ticket, so that the club got the benefit both of its percentage and what would otherwise have been distributed among the subscrib- ers. I beg to move the first read-

sary to

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before prices would be in a post-ing. tion to act as governor to stimu- late production, they would have to go up a great deal.

"I dislike all this talk about economic laws. Does anybody suppose that in the period of re- laws were striction economic asleep? If we artifically raisei prices we artificially stimulate production. Economic laws were far from being asleep during the perlod of restriction; they were very wide awake.

Economic War.

"The line of argument contain- ed in the pronouncement is that economic laws must be allowed to take their course in the hope that stabilisation of rubber prices will be realised. I agree entirely that that must be our policy. Rubber prices must be regulated by com- petition as no other way is avail- able. If it had been possible by social action that would have been infinitely better.

In some

con-

The Colonial Secretary second- ed and the Bill was read a first time..

LADIES' NIGHT AT Y.M.C.A.

OPENING FUNCTION A BIG

SUCCESS.

The European Y.M.C.A. enjoyed a stimulating send-off for its big winter programme of social events yesterday, when the first of the "Ladies' Nights" was held.

Topical Selection of Pictures.

Many pictures of topical in- terest will appear in to- morrow' site of the Tele- graph Art Supplement.

There will be photographs taken in connexion with the wedding of Mr. A. Prismall and Miss Jessie Harris Walker, and of Mr. J. H. Rogers and Miss E. A. Roberts: groups of the St. Joseph's College Bos Scouts and Ambulance Brigade detachment: a picture of the. members of the Wasps Con- cert Party; and another of Pipe-Major Mackle, of Hong- kong, at Banff, Canada, where he took part in the Highland Gathering.

Last Saturday's Races

will

be illustrated. and there will also be a picture of the winning crew, from the s.s. Mausang, of the Trevessa Trophy.

Other photos will include portraits of 2nd. Lieut. J. H. Lawrence, of the Defence. Corps, and of the two young sona of the Governor of Macao.

OCTRINARIK ALANINTENTIARA ANALIZENZU KANTORAN

many weeks, was made by accident early yesterday morning just as the paper was ready for printing.

CINEMA NOTES.

"STREET GIRL” AT THE CENTRAL.

Local audiences lust night saw tart drama, rollicking comedy and gay music successfully combined in "Street Girl," Radio Pictures' enjoyable musical drama at the Central Theatre.

He was unperturbed even when I showed him the following com- the munication received from Mexican Legation by the Daily Mail, writes a special correspon- dent of that paper.

"The Mexican Legation wishes 'to state that according to Mexican law, residence in the country is required in its of divorce, and that consequently, postal divorces, such as are suggested from some quarters, are out of the question."

Senor del Toro laughed lightly when he read this. "Of course, I don't want to quarrel with my friends at the Legation," he said, "but this is not right. I put 'the measure on the statue book-my- self, and I have been thanked for my services by leading legal men all over the world."

There was one thing, however, which he could not explain-the position of a client wishing to "remarry" after having obtained one of his postal divorces at a cost of £700.

"We do not advise our clients to remarry in the country of their reluctantly, "but you can take it original marriage," he admitted from me that none of our divorces has ever been questioned in this country."

"Street Girl" will appeal to al- most any type of audience, It has

Senor del Toro is so ingenuous everything that goes to make up in his ignorance of British law the perfect entertainment. Betty that it is really surprising he cau Compson capably plays the lead as convince even the ordinary lay- an appealing little violinist and enman, tertainer in a New York East Side Cafe. She really plays the violin

and does it most satisfactorily.

One of the high spots of the show is the comedy furnished by probably the best combination of comics ever presented in a picture, Jack Oakie, Ned Sparks and Joseph Cawthorn, all familiar to musical comedy and motion picture au- diences, got every laugh possible from Jane Murfin's sparkling dia- logue.

Compson's violin numbers; “Lov- able and Sweet": "Prince of Good Fellows" and "Broken Up Tune, featured by a faststepping chorus

He, however, claims to be doing business, and so it cannot be too plainly stated that the elementary rule of divorce law in this and most civilised countries is that jurisdiction in divorce is based on domicile, and domicile may be taken as

meaning the country which a person regarde as his per-

manent home.,

· LORRY DROPS INTO PADDY FIELD.

A person who remarries in this country after obtaining one of the senor's "decrees" renders himself "Street Girl" presents four of liable to seven years' penal ser- the most intriguing musical num-vitude for bigamy. bers which, have come to town this The Red Flag is regarded as of year. "My Dream Memory," a be- the worst type of Communist news-witching waltz featured in Miss paper distributed in Shanglaj. It is of a highly revolutionary nature and opposed to the Government in every form. From time to time the police have seized copies on sale in the night club sequences, are DRIVER AND ONE PASSENGER in the streets, but those responsible marked as instantaneous, hits.

INJURED. for their publication and the place It is a sincerely, told little story

In trying to avoid two where the papers were printed they that Wesley Raggles directed con- were unable to discover. It is ex-cerning the struggles of a little pedestrians, the driver of a motor arranged by Mr. and Mrs. J. Jpected that with the finding of the band of musicians to climb to pro-lorry suddenly swerved and ran Cornelius, and contributed to by plant, yesterday morning, further minence out of a small cafe. Love off the Shataukok Road, yesterday, information relative to the people interest is appealingly furnished by the vehicle dropping into the several leading local artistes.

behind the paper will be obtainable. Miss Compson and John Harron. paddy fields. Nobody, for- "Paramount on Parade." Eighteen

This ever-popular function was again marked with success, a large gathering enjoying to the full a

musical splendid

programme,

Mr. G. W. E. True, whose syn- espated tamperings with the piano have placed him amongst the best local exponents of modern rythm, was in excellent form, and vastly entertained the audience with some characteristic arrangements of current popular numbers.

"The process of competition is nothing short of economic war and when one is undertaking war опе should make clear in one's own mind what is one's ob- jective.. In our economic war there

Mrs. Doris Bielby's rich soprano are one or two factors of which we are not aware. We do not know singing was quite a feature of the what price is needed to remove the evening, her rendition of "My native producer or reduce the plan- Hero" "classing her as an accom- tation product to any given amount.plished artiste. the war is being fought to find out. Mrs, J. J. Cornelius sang "The "I believe that most of us who Handyman" with pleasing effect, have studied this problem think and together with Mr. Cornelias that the size of our objective would gave the duet "Love is Meant to be fairly indicated by seeing that

25 per cent. of production is cut for

a period of a year and restriction of production is continued for some time how long I leave to wiser prophets to say. But I will make one prophecy.

A Prophecy.

Although the discovery was made under fortuitous ciscumstances, it is nevertheless regarded as one of the greatest importance by police officials.

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The incident was later reported to the police by the driver, Lau the most enjoyable entertain Man, employed by the Nam Hung ments ever to show in Hongkong. Eus Company of Sheung Shui, who Patrous who attend the Central stated that whilst he was driving. Theatre next week, to see "Para- motor lorry No. 2458 on the Sha- mount on Parade," will be literally taukok Road near Kwanti village, Ruests at a great big Hollywood he had to swerve suddenly, toj

(avoid two Chinese men. Jurty

The film frolic was in production The lorry ran over the embank- for several months. All possiblement and dropped into the paddy As a result of the numerous re-varieties of entertainment are in-fields, the driver receiving minor THE SEVEN STAGES. THE MODERN USE OF make us Glad" by special request. parents and guardians for assis-ing, dancing and romance.

quests received

every year from cluded, comedy, drama, music, sing-injuries to his hand and face Mr. Cornelius also contributed a tanee in selecting schools for their ly every star and featured player was sitting on

Near while a passenger, Lam Mui, who song later inthe evening.

Two monologues by Mr. S. M. charges. Thos. Cook & Son have on the Paramount roster is seen in lorry, also received injuries to his West were thoroughly enjoyed. This Department will deal with More than eleven directors, all hit-

organised a Scholastic department.some intimate and enjoyable bit. hand and face.

The two men were treated by and Dick Barty again exploited such requests, which come from all makers, collaborated in making this Dr. Luk of Taipo without having his versatility at the plano and parts of the world, through infor-world of entertainment,

to be sent to hospital. mation obtained at first-hand-by the

headmasters, etc.

as a raconteur.

A competition during

Intimacy is the keynote of the Elsie Janis, famous slage star and director, who super- Thus the Department will be invised the production, describes the a position to inform parents whe picture "as a party of the stars. are unable to undertake such a task She endeavoured to make it a per- themselves, of the particularsonal, face-to-face enjoyment- merits of schools, and to give un-special in which the audiences could biassed advice as to which best join the screen favourites in mak- fits the child's requirements.

ing whoopee. This service is rendered entirely free of charge. It is carried on by personal interview or by post from Cook's Head Office in Berkeley Street. Enquiries may be forward ed through any of their Far East ern Offices,

the interval, which taxed the invisits to the schools, interviews with entire show. I believe that in 1934 potential production of rubber is genuity of the competitors, assist likely to amount to at least twice ed in making the evening go with the consumption of 1930. Twice 3 swing, and there was a general this year's consumption could be regret when the programme came produced this year, in fact, if to a conclusion.

The arrangements were again made your price governor

it worth while. But what I have pre in the hands of the Y.M.C.A. Committee and were dicted indicates that for a long Social period your price governor is like-eminently satisfactory, and the ly to be a depressing rather than success of this, opening night, a stimulating factor, which in it- augurs well for the future events self indicates the magnitude of the connected with the "Y.M.". War,"

the rear of the

21 YEARS AGO.

SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE

TELEGRAPH". FILES.”

The following extracts are from the the Hongkong Telegraph for week ended October 2nd, 1909.

IN DRINK.

LEISURE.

PROFESSOR'S DINNER TABLE] DR. JACKS ON PLEASURES OF

ANALYSIS.

CREATIVE SKILL.

An analysis of what might be "The leisure of the idle rich is described as "the Seven Stages of one thing; the leisure of the idle Drunkenness"--though there need poor is another. I know not which not be seven-was given recently of the two is the more dangerous by Professor A. E. Heath. Pro- to society and the more demoralis fessor of Philosophy at the Uni-ing to its possessor." So said Dr. versity of Wales

L. P. Jacks in an address on What is it that you lose first if "Leisure, delivered In London you begin the experiment of tak last month. ing a glass of wine?" he asked, "If you ask what kind of ready- in a lecture at the British Social made pleasures are most sought Hygiene Council's Summer School after to relieve boredom and at Welwyn. Then he proceeded stimulate tired senses, there are to enumerate the things that go" four which cover most of the in the following order:

ground-sex enticement, gambling

"The Drag.Net."

devil detective lieutenant gets on George Bancroft, the big dare- the trail of crooks in "The Drag

Lord Kitchener, on his way to First Stage. Self-Criticism. A in one or other of its innumerable Net" the thrilling Paramount pic-Manoeuvres, visited Hongkong and ness with which we hold ourselves seeing. The most promising line

Japan to attend the Army

glass of wine removes the tight- ferma, outward display, and sight- If Rubber Were Free.

In his concluding remarks Mr.

ture now showing at the Majestic Canton. He was warmly welcomed in. We are, therefore,. probably of attack on the problem of leisure. After suggesting that a market Denman emphasised that war did

Theatre. Kowloon. Straight to to the Colony and made a large better partners at dinner than if especially as connected with sex the strongholds of the crooks Ban- a substantial reduction but that 3d. hardship and real individual and Arriving here from Yokohama croft carries his war in this melo-number of purchases of Chinese we cit gloomily hearing all and is not the line of moral exhorta price of 4d. might not bring about entail sacrifice. "There will be

porcelain. the master of the drama of the law's finish battle

saying nowt." ~

tion. might be effective, the speaker con-personal distress," he said. "I feel and Sekito,

Second Stage.—Criticism of tinued:

suré London will take its part in O.S.K. vessel Havre Maru has re- with organised forces of the un-

saerifice indeed, ported to the Harbour Office that derworld.

At the annual meeting of the others. That is why you can listen "If I had to write a motto over. "I am no gloomy individual, but the commen I do want to face the facts and en- should be ashamed of London if during the voyage to Hongkong, In "The Drag Net Bancroft Hongkong Cricket Club, Mr. F. to the most extraordinary non- the portals of leisure I should do ter into a realisation of what theit did not but you will see its the Chief Officer, the name of has much the same type of role Maitland was re-elected President. sense in the way of after-dinner it in three words skill, recres

speeches. immediate effects whom was not given, died sudden-which brought him to sensational

tion, beauty and I would call the issues are. There are optimists outward and

Third Stage--Various faculties whole house the house of joy. I who talk of the enormously in more rapidly than those of us inly of heart-failure..

fame, and stardom in "Under-

The lowest tender received by the begin to go.

would make it clear and sedulous- creased uses to which rubber could London."

world." Only instead of being an "I hope that the spirit that unites be put. That is very cheerful, of

Mr. W. L Handyside M.A, B. Sc. Underworld leader he takes the Hongkong Government for the Fourth Stage. One could still by instil into the young that the course, but rubber is, generally you in Rotary will be displayed will deliver a lecture to the Edaca part of the nemesis of the gangs Opium Monopoly was $91,000, and see and move, but was rather pleasures which result from ex-

the highest $98,750,-

doubtful about where one's glass terual excitement are far inferior speaking, in the unfortunate posi: throughout the industry

so that tion Society on "If Teachers were ters in this picture. He is ably

to those which result from crea tion of being a mere component in there will be a common feeling and Kings" on Monday, October 6, supported by Evelyn Brent, Fred

Fifth Stage. The co-ordinating tive skill, and that bought plea- an article in which its price plays a desire to help the more unfortunate 1980, at 5 p.m. in. The Union As Kohler, and William Powell. Major General Broadwood, in an

sures are hardly worth having In very small part. I doubt If, on the people over the stile. I hope there sembly Room of the University. This picture far surpasses that of interview, expressed the opinion movements of the eyes went.

Sixth Stage One "saw double,” comparison to those which arise asumption that rubber became free, will be a self-reliant determination The lecture is open to the public, the "Underworld," his former pic that the greatest drawback to the

Seventh Stage Que was in the exercise of the creative the consumption of motor-care in the whole Industry to do its best and all interested are cordially ture depicting the life of a gangs- efficiency of the Chinese Army was

for all its members." (Applause.) I welcome.

faculty" "blind."" would increase by two per cent.

the quality of the officers..

ter:

was.