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MISSING CLERK

COMEDY.

FORTUNE MADE OUT OF MME. HANAU.

lations.

to

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY.

NOVEMBER

25, 1930.

THE FIRE-EATING ADMIRAL.

A TALKIE LAWSUIT.

NAVAL

RIGHTS OF AUTHORS AND ADAPTERS.

BY

Second-Class Power.

made for taking the

But the Go carding the music.

He writes of the "humiliating position to which our Navy has now been reduced by the present Labour Government," and adds:

The recently concluded Navai Treats signed by Great Britain, the United States of America and Japan, but not by France and Italy, has in effect reduced second-class Power. It is now be-poing to new it, ing said on the Continent, quite

us to

||

the case

of

ARMED GUARD ON TRAVELLERS.

ENGLISH 'FAMILY'S RUSSIAN ORDEAL.

She said that although there was a white frost the train in which they were travelling was unheated and her children were wrapped in brown paper to keep

them warm.

BULL-FIGHTING ON DECLINE.

DISPLACED IN SPAIN

FOOTBALL.

A graphic story of her adven. Seville, the home of bull-fighting, tures in crossing Soviet Russia, had a rude shock recently when it woman woke up to the fact that whilst is is told by a Chichester who has just arrived in England monumental bull-ring was being de- from Persia with her three young mollahed, a huge stadium had been opened in the presence of thousands children.

of footbail enthusiasts who are hoping to see the city's favou team play through a successful season to the top of the league.

Even here, in ita traditional in bull-fight- home, public interest There was an armed guard on ing is waning, and the demolished the train to see that no one left ring, which was only opened in it at stopping places,

1918, has never had those crowded

which "Our troubles began when we audiences

the promoters reached Shepetowka, on the Polish anticipated when they began their frontier," he continued. "Woventure. Football is steadily got-

taken off the train at 2 n.m. ting Arm grip on Seville, as on! and ushered into a small room. all other parts of Spain, and more The door was shut and guarded. than once in the past few years and we were kept there until 8.30 newspapers have commented upon the following evening. There was the significance of the cancellation no washing accommodation, and of a boll-fight on an afternoon when taken the only fond we had was that a good league match had

place. which wo had brought with us.

"We were next taken before the Customa, and this orden! lasted for another two hours. All my private correspondence was taken away and examined by experts.

were

It is no uncommon thing for foot- of bull matches to draw crowds

whilst even the best 50,000,

cangut draw morc matulors

a good than 30,000, and should Fleague match full on the same date the attendance at the bull-fight would not be anything like as big.

ATTACK ON

TREATY.

Berlin, Oct. 23. The sum of £10,000 and "The Admiral Sir Reginald Hall, Jate Madame Hanau, the financier of

the two Gazette in Franc notoriety, has Director of Naval Intelligence, Beggar's Opera" are made the fortune of at least one who played a great part in track-prominent features in a literary man-net, the man himself using down war sptes, writes an in- action which is likely to prove a tons

to explain, by following troduction to a hook Just publish- test case for the world of film and

ed-"Steinbauer, the "Madame in Presidente's" financial

Kaiser's theatre in general. The talkie to, advice. The fortunate mortal is Master Spy," edited by S. T. Fel- be made from the German veraion 31. Langlois, the "greffier" or legal stend and published by John of "The Beggar's Opera" by the clark of M. Ghard, the examining Lane.

"Nero" and "Tobie" producing magistrate entrusted with the in- Admiral Hall goes out of his companies is to cost this sum, and vestigation of Mme. Hanau's specu-way to make an untimely and fire considerable

eating attack on the recent Naval already bee preparations have Treaty

pictures and On returning from his holldaya

adaptara M. Girdl at the end of August.

version," Bert Gay's "original was astonished not to find his clerk as usual waiting for him; M.

Brecht and Kurt Welll, now lodge restraining further Langlois had also been on u holl

petition action infringing their copyright. day, but should have returned some

For, such is their contention, the time before his chief.

At first I M. Langlois

public wants to see on the screer. Was

supposed that was ill. But when after a delay

the highly popular version of a week no news came from hini,

played in Berlin, and they are by a means sure that the publie is M. Glard bad a registered letter aent to M. Langlow address. The

On the other hand, the

pro- letter came linek murked "absent."

On inqntry at M. Langinis ad-openly by responsible statesmen, ducers claim that, when they ask dress it was learn that he was that we have list our naval supre- ed Herr Brecht to supply a manus- eript he could only give Vague believed to have gone for his holi-, mary. day to flordeaux or Marseilles, but "Other Powers are at liberty to suggestions, and displayed not the when registered letters sent

build up to the maximum laid faintest notion of what the film of yarious postal addresses in these down in the Treaty, hut we, the world wanted. In

be towns were all returned with the Mistress of the Seas, the nation Herr Weill, whose music will

Vouchers Repudiated, existence depended used, the trouble is that he fear M. same official note, Langlois whose very was forthwith truck off the Hat

superior anval strength, it may not be used at the right

"My voucers for the journey on now and ourselves condemned to moments, but interpointed here of clerks of the Law Courts.

Lo London were repudiated, al-

Concession to Tourists, see our ships grow obsolete and and there, na is the fancy of those Mysterious ramours began in

though I had the receipts signed Langlois, the

autelassed, because we have led who make talkies. Not money but Ret about that M.

by Soviet Government agent.

Seville still retains her old ring, artistic

of the conscience clerk charged with the conduct of ourselves to a Treaty which does the

to replace ob-authore is the question at stake.

Through one of the German pas-with accommodation for 13,000 the Investigation of the affairs not even allow

I gleaned that nengers,

on no spectators-one of the oldest and Indeed, Berr Brecht has refused Hanna." had disappeared. Fan-lete tonnage.

the vouchers be most historic homes of the Lastle stories began to be

the sum of £1,200 as fold.

settlement account could

tional aport,

where King out of court.

accepted. He wishes to "pro- The police were informed, and M.

"booked second-class tickets to undo

a school founded traret to Mornero.

feet the public." Langlois was

ago-but with buil-fighting centuries I was discovered that he had ent

Berlin and arrived about £1.

even this school of some of the barked for Casablanen at the very

"A German who hat heard of country's past idols in only filled beginning of his holidays.

may plight from the other pansen-during the Spring Cattle Fair. gers offered to fonn me £10 to cover which draws people from all over the expense of the remainder of large numbers of foreign tourists. Although the young men of the their "1

the bull-fighting security, but he refused to take It. acendency in Eventually gave him a cheque on world, they are none the less un- show their northern Barclays Bank at Chichester, butxious to

their for all he knew it might have been rivals that they can hold

own in modern sports, and foot- worthless. Such generosity was

dash and in striking contrast to the treat bull is played with a

sometimes brilliance which

up- ment I received in Russia,"

sets the steadier northerners. Writing upon this aspect

of Spanish sport, a Madrid journalist recentlyanid that notwithstand- ing the decline of bull-fighting it would never die out, as the Gov- ernment would be obliged to insist upon its continuance for the benc flt of the American visitors who flock to Seville every year for the Spring Fair, and would consider they themselves chegled unless could sco

a bull-ight-a refer- tatora diminish every year Americans increase.

Sought Sunshine.

Hut enimuiry being made at Casablanca, it was found that no mystery existed, for M. Langlais was living openty in that town. where he had brought a shop and was carrying it on with the aid of a niece who hat necompanied hav from Paris,

The News Chronicle cuniment-

Brecht-Weill

on the German stage to-day implies the highest degree of modernity, quc satire verges

there

the journe an emerald ring as city are anxious to retain

SOVIET ESPIONAGE

UNEARTHED.

SECRET BROADCASTING

na-

Fer-

of

"And, be it remembered that Great Britain has already maste the largest reduction in fighting ship-far larger than any other

The ease has gained in Interest Never before in all our owing to the Bim version of George Power. history

have we been placed in Kaizer's "Two Tles," a light, if such a position, and so long as bitter, satire on the stage, having we abide by this iniquitous Treaty proved a failure such as even Bor we are helpless either to protect in, home of severe and unabashed The auros perial interestsor afriticism, does not after dee.

Assistance to our

the troubles appeared to lie with ford proper friends.

large-size close-ups of a very much "Serap of Paper,”

heloved but porily opera singer, "Such Things as Steinhauer

Michael Bohnen. who utlered narrates cannot happen again. We sentiments of tenderness now have a "Treaty, under which yearning which might provoke M. Langlois ont fault it fault

we are all to live in prяCE und

hilarity in top-sugary pletures of there was--lay a not having an nounced his project to his superi-happiness. Let us hope, however, a pretty seventeen-year-old girl.

that none of the signatories to this But the shoute, enl-enlls, ors. He explained that during the inventivation of the case of the previous document will look upon whistles which greeted the film

as nothing more than a serap of what had been A had been

successful Gazette du Franc, it his business to deliver

of paper," as Germany did to the stage play are a warning to till tains" of copies of documents to Treaty that guaranteed the new-who imagine talkies are certain of

a good reception provided

bix lawyers, litignuts, creditors, andtrality of Belgium."

names are behind them. ather interested persons, ant for

The conjunction this work the parties in questioning. says:What Admiral Hall has

STATIONS. had, not to put too fine a point to say has nothing to do with spy on it, remunerated M. Langlois The Admiral, who was for

in which grotesc detest aenti. merly Director of Naval Intelli-

Berlin, Oct. 19. with very handsome tips.

gence, devotes

Following the cryptic announce- practically all One fine day M. Langlois woke

denouncing the "Ini-savagery. They to the fact that be had 150,000 space to

ment. Herr Brecht's argument rent by the Rumanian nuthori- franes in the bank. So he said to iquitous" Naval Trenty recently con- that the way in which ideas are ties that an espionage organisa, ence to the fact that Spanish spec-|

luded. He anserts with consider.

tlon working for the Soviet had himself, "Why should 1

arkable audacity that it has reduced clothed is all that matters in

dangerous one. The young son of been unearthed, details are now seribbling at my dusic in a dark. us to a secund-class Power and one of Germany's most famous published which indicate

offee? No 10re gloomy, dusty

he even hints that the other signa- men of letters has interpolated markable Soviet system of 09- office tool for me! No more of

this "precious docament,"

several pages of a modern French pionage extending not only these incomprehensible scrawlsti turies of

may dish ua by sever

central am for the fresh air and thus he calls it,

treating the agreement scrapel in his new book, because it Rumanin but having its beauty of Southern skies, so let's paper in a finality that- the 1986 oxxetly. In the esoteric ciratie in Bucharest and thirty-

Further, he

pleased him and suited his purbury in Vienna. points

So far sixty-seven arrests have TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS. find both and where I can make | Germans looked upon the British Sles of such young German literary heen :

In provincial towns in

The following is the list of local profit out of my capital without as their "must formidable lights the word "collectivisra" is five

The ased instead of the older and much Transylvania,

Rumanian share quotations issued to-day: going to financiers, And so off I obstacle. The former went with my niece. And here we

of Naval Intelligence should be less attractive one of "plagiarism." authorities, who had been keeping

In the case

of "The Beggar's look out on the capionage organi are?"

"Doubtless, Madame Hanau will aware, in the first place, that Durra" it is clear that the average sation for about a year,

we had been a foolish as not to audience does not know that Eng-their first arrests as a group of be delighted to hour of M. Landinis success, but it is perhaps come to an agreement with Ameri-land provided the original mate agents were driving to a military hardly an examole that will be of come if not a second-class Power,/ia), and, indeed Brecht claims ground to attend the army autumn

ca we should assuredly have be rial. much comfort to her over-trusting bad second to America in naval work, and even desire to film it

that since people came to sen his manoeuvres.

The key to the organisation's strength. As for the Germaná,

WAS Instead of the English version, it activity found when the even Admiral Hal! must know

is Indeed the child of his very own

Rumanian counter-espionage ser- that their navy is still for the

vice succeeded in intercepting a imagination. most part at the bottom of the

letter written with prepared ink addressed by the Bucharest branch to the central burent in Vienna. From this letter the authorities were able to work out the spy or- ganisation's secret codo.

up to

ון

be off to Morocco; where I

creditors,

at with an air

NCIL,

+

Director

MR. GREENWOOD ON NEW SLUMS.

AMERICA'S "GAY 90%" IN BRITISH EYES.

And the short practical res ply to his mischievous talk about scraps of paper is that his own (Contimed from Page 6.) opinion of British naval Intelli- the period announced his campaign once must be much lower than if he imagines that by a bonfire in front of St. George's our

America or Japan could build Innover Square?" Mr.

Mr. Greenwood, Minister on costly ships beyond their Treaty wanders about New election night, receiving the final obligations unknown to Great Bri-Health, was among the speakers

What is really at fault. itat a tain. returns with Theodore Roosevelt

Steevenst

York

the up

demonstrative of all the peoples

+

of

the

earth

A hundred

thousand men are going to vote

for McKinley. That is nothing.

own

"NONSENSE," SAYS THE

OWNER

The mummified hawk which

Baden-

A CALL TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES.

of

representative conference

tion to the slum problem.

wood, "while

મંદિ

ปี rc-

Over

made

The authorities took the precau- tion of enlisting the provincial number of of police to search houses, from which a quantity compromising material was COB- Bacated. The organisation, which

a number of

only then will be begin, to appreciateer and collector of antiquities, of that are not decent on stud have been arrested, and also an

'the fnet.

"But I do not think the American Cullompton, Devonshire."

sense

Cm-

in the Police Commissioner's office. seems to us, is the naval intelll-held at Manchester to call atten-

In his concluding chapter therence of Admiral Hall.

"I cannot rest," said Mr. Green-was

was adequately financed. had even British journalist SUMA

secret as are people who American character as it impressed HAWK THAT BLEEDS-good as we are living in cottages leasting stations in Bucharest.

with rotten floor boards, with

Va spy departments which were him. "The Americans are the most

staircases that are a peril, with discovered in the capital had been ave o carefully organised that none rooms that are damp and have

knew

of the existence of the pecting walls with rain coming in, people in houses that are ridden others.

Most of the arrested persons are Put them down in Broadway Fo drips "blood" during times of war with bugs and rats, and God knows

foreigners, but some are State that we can see them marching fare described by Lord

In conditions officials. A number of Womek and hear them shouting; then and Powell, is the property of Mr. W. what; people frightfully over-

3. A. Grant, un 80-year-old travel crowded and living

farm. I do not care how bad the engineer from the acroplane works

at Kroustadt and several is materialistic: in the avaricious The hawk, which comes from people are, it is not right."

As time passed there was

aplovers in the mapping department. And if he is less dog-Egypt, in reputed to be 4,000 years deterioration of housing, condi- of the Bucharest Army authorities. gedly resolute and persevering than old.

creation of the Englishman, he is proportion- "It was not long before the battions which meant the

slums. The Greenwood Act and in-tle of Omdurman, when I was Bew irresistible ately more

was an attempt to deal with the genious in devising possible means helping I came into poses two problems, to give new powers

Assiout, that to attain any impossible end."

sion of the hawk," Mr. Grant told and opportunities to local authori

ties to deal with areas which had The American's "devoted chivalry a reporter.

"I do not believe in the thing been condemned, and with arcas MORE COMPREHENSIVE ONE

which makes a deep im- to his women'

medical officera in pression upon the Briton. They myself, and attribute, this so-call-

The question of changing the toil that their women may live in cd blood' to the oozing out of the years' time warn gaing to condemn, and embalming substance inside the The semi-slum was a new problem luxury and become socially

bird, caused by changes in tem- to which public attention had King's title was, It is understood. raised by Mr. McGilligan, head of Intellectually superior to

never been directed. selves, and they do it without even porature.

"I am entitled to ask that local the Irish delegation to the Im- "But it does seem strange.that

dis- WAR an idea that there is any self-

the cussed by the Drafting Committee. sacrifice in it. Whether it is good the bird has been quite dry ever authorities shall see that all their perial Conference, and

of the Great citizens are provided with

Mr. McGilligan is of opinion for the women may be doubted, but since the end

tence. know the difficulties of Inertia, treaties and similar official docu- and I believe in pubile pressure. Iments-his Britannic Majesty-18 have got my teeth into this ques-too restrictive for a Kine who in tion and, as a Yorkshireman, I will Also King of all the Dominions. both separately and collectively, never let go.

them-

five

mean to get that. T

THE KING'S TITLE. -

SUGGESTED.

It is unspeakably noble and honour- War, and I trust it will remain so. elements for living a decent exis that the title.given to the King iu! ing to the men. Tho age of Some day it may remain dry when chivalry is not gone; until America there is a war-just to prove what it never camo.” And this was thirty-five years ago, mark you.

nonsense it all la."

And finally: "The American may you differ he is essentially the man make his mind easy about his with whom you are always want- country. It is a credit to himing to shake hands." and ha la a credit to it, You may M. T. G. in. Christian Science

while afoneter. differ from him, but even

A resolution was passed urging and savours too strongly of Great the need for large-scale building Britain alone.

Some more comprehensive titlo programmes under the Wheatley

in suggested and Groonwood Housing Acts

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