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CENTRAL

THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY ONLY.

at 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.

THE GRAND ARMADA OF JOY

STEAMS INTO PORT.

REVELRY SWEEPS the SEVEN SEAS!

Get happy

with the geb

tn ihis }broni"

Frivol

Tad kun and

Imper

MUSICAL WONDER SHOW of the FLEET!

A tale of masinaid yeste plywed amid ring magar. frententh day of plough

an

KADIO PAJA RES presents Vientian

musical 21:45Z

HIT THE

DECK

JACK OAKIE POLLY WALKER and a thousand other playeris dachers, age and beautiful

2UTER REED

PACHNICOLOR

(Theatre

Imprint)

Music, Colour, Comedy,

ALSO

,

4.

Karnival Kid a R.K.O. Cartoon Comedy.

TO-MORROW

20

EVELYN BRENT CLIVE BROOK Slightly Scarlet

CH

a Garamount Picture

Booking at Anderson's & The Theatre. Tel. 25720)

SEE

MAJENTIC

THEATRE

TO-DAY ONLY,

The Hand that Rocks the

HEAR

LITTLE ACCIDENT

Rocks the World with Laughter

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK FEROY FRANKIAN, at 1 and B. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1931.

LARCENY LAW TO NO FLOGGING" OF | RAID BY RUSSIAN

BE AMENDED.

NEW BANKRUPTCY ORDINANCE BEING DRAFTED.

NECESSARY CHANGE.

The Government Gazette contains the draft

Ordinance of an.

to amend further the law relat- ing to Larceny.

It is explained that Section 82 (6) (a),(b) and (c) of the Dankruptcy Ordinance,, 1891, Or- dinance No. 7 of 1891, create three offences, which were adopted from the Debtors Act, 1869, 32 and 3 Vict. c. 62, n. 13. Though these provisious appear in the Bankruptcy Ordinance, the of fences, unlike many other offences referred to in

Bankruptcy Ordinance, can be committed by persons who have neither been

djndicated bankrupt nor had receiving order made

against them.

the

¿

BANISHEES.

DEPORTATION LAW CHANGES.

IMPORTANT CHANGES IN

ORDINANCE. `

DRAFT BILL ISSUED.

TROOPS.

AMUSEMENTS,

LIVESTOCK SEIZED ON THE MONGOLIAN BORDER.

AT THE

MUKDEN PERPLEXED.

Mukden, Mar. 13. Quite a sensation was caused early this week by the unexpected and rather mysterions arrival of 3,000 Russian soldiers along the Inner and Outer Mongolian

where they seized much

Manchurian Government in

Extensive amendments of the law relating to deportation are contained in the draft of an perplexed over this sudden move-

ment

by the Soviet authorities but Ordinance, shortly to be intro refuses to comment on the eltun- duced in the Legislative Council, tion pending an official angulry. which appears in the current is balleved to be part of a Soviet issue of the Government Gazette, plot to occupy Chinese territories There are various changes made in Outer Mongolia, in procedure, while the flogging of returned banishees is to he abolished, as this punishment is not considered suitable.

under

Chinese shipping companter enaferred here yesterday and de- rided to take concerted action in presenting a strong protest to

Chinese Moh Teh-hul,

the plenipotentiary

attending on Conference, demanding that the Soviet authorities return all vessels commandeered from Chinese companies recently.

It will be recalled that many

The object of the Ordinance to A new Bankruptcy Ordlaaner, based on the English Bankruptcy to amend the principal Ordinanes Acts of 1914 and 1926, is in course (No. 25 of 1917) by reverting to of preparation, and the offences the arrangement adopted in the referred to in that Ordinance will case of the previous principal be confined to persons aoinst Ordinance (No. 9 of 1912), whom bankruptcy proceedings are which the provisions relating to

tarists turing the 1930 Soviet- It is therefore necessary / deportation arders against British, vessels were seized by Soviet mill-1 were dealt with in a

Flash, Manchurian

The shipping General that section separate from that which

suggest with the deportation of dealt allens and to introduce special Mob should sahmit a protest at safeguards in the case

taken.

to provide elsewhere for the con-

the tinantee of

general pe visions of section 82 659 407, by and rs) of the present Bankruptcy

Ordinance,

Britishi

This is done accordingly by the deportations. The Ordinance als repal of the mipinett paramends the procedure in certain detaila na the result of experience graph and by the insertion of a

(nesuired in practive, new selben in dipaner 1965.

Intagraph

10: 1 section is derived froja sertion 6 of the Bankruptcy (Amendment) Act, 1926: bus is not Hatid, nst 1ft weekint is, to the vase sons who have been adjudred. bankrapt or in respect of whese estales receiving orders have been made

FRENCH BUDGET

ADOPTED.

Hogicality Itemoved.

Sertion 2f the Ordinance repeal sections 3 and 4 of the principal Ordinance and sub stitutes new sections 3, BA, 4, 4A. 4B and C. Of these the new section (8) authorises the issue of summary orders against

en banishees from other parts of the Empire.

"ohibit.

Sections 8, 9, 10 and 12 (3) of the principal Ordinance, ed the residence here of banishees from the Straits Settlements, and Malay States and Borneo, and dealt with the penalties to be imposed and the evidence to be

owners

The Conference,

General Mob is returning to Russia to continue with the dis- assion on the settlement of the CER, dispute, learne Harbin on Saturdays next week.

RAN THROUGH

£250,000.

ENGLISHMAN DIES IN

POVERTY.

Paris. Feb. 16.

In connexion with the death at toyan hotel of the former English Godfrey Herbert airman, Mr. Mundy, caused by an overdose of a narcotic it is reported that the hotel bill had been handed to Mr. Munday the day before his death occurred, but was not paid.

RUMARKABLE MAJORITY FOR addiced if they were found here. It is presumed that he had come

GOVERNMENT.

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For sume

years it has been to the end of the fortune left to found impracticable to impose him by his grandfather.

Paris. Mor. 13.

thesp

penalties.

moreover It is

A person who saw him shortly illogical to limit the exclusion of before his death said Mr. Mundy The hamber, by 460 votes to

alien deporters to those deported has been much depressed because 120 adopted the Budget s A

he would not marry the woman he whole, after the Government had only from the places named.

113 therefore desirable

"I loved. | been defeated by 325 to 245 votes abolish altogether the automatic on an amendment to the Budget exclusion and to make provision for improving, the conditions of for the issue of local summary promotion of school teachers, cost orders if and whenever it is con- ing 200,000,000 francs, but the sidered desirable to get rid of the Premier did not make it a ques-alien deportees from other parts tion of confidence.--Renter..

of the Empire.

Aerial Cu's. Position.

Detention Provisions.

BR

Five years ago, at the age of 21. Mr Mundy inherited a fortune of 260,000 from his grandfather, and two years later he appeared in the Bankruptcy Court

He would have been buried in a pauper's grave but for the inter- vention of his father, who inform- Paris, Mar. 13. The new section 3A extends the ed the authorities that the expensas A combines attack on the Goy-ting authorised by the Detention of the funeral would be paid. Mr. Mandy spent £50,000 ou presents ernment in connexion with ita Bill Warrant to fourteen days.

for actresses, and gave parties in for reorganisation of the Aero- The

Rection ness Postale Company which co-authorises detention where neces-London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna and dacts nir services to West Africa sary in eases where the summury Monte Carlo. In less than two and South America and has been procedure is adoptent. The new years his money had gone and he in difeulties owing to the suspen-section 31 (2) is derived from the moved from his Mayfair flat to a sion of a group of banks connect-old spelion (4 (9) and authorises bed-sittingroom in Pimlico.

Majur Mundy arranged to allow ed with it) has failed. A Sociallat the further detention of persona : amendment amounting to a vote of adrendy in custody for periods of his son sufficient money to live, but pon-confidence in the Government seven days at a time where such the young man would not touch the was rejected by the Chamber by detention is necessary to complete allowance.

The

For

a little

while he was n 0 to 215 votes at the end of an the inquiry or proceedings.

hitherto builder's labourer in Brittany. all-night sitting,

period of four

Nothing more was heard of him until a former servant of Major Mundy, who lives at Roynn, tele- graphed the news of the tragedy.

days

The attack centred in the posi-authorised has been found insufli- tion of M. Flandin. the Minister cient,

of Fhance. who in reply denied! that he had participated in the

+

Judge to Report.

ffairs of the Acro-Postale Com- Sub-sections (2) and (3) of the pany or had had dealings with one new section 4 Insist on lung pro- of the suspended banks which fin- cedure in the presence of a judge anced the air line.-Reuter.

in chambers and a report from the TAJMAHAL SILK STORE. judge as to whether or not the allegations are in his opinion well founded in the case of the depor GERMAN EX-GENERALS| tation of British subjects.

REPROVED.

THREAT FROM REICHSWEHR | CHIEF.

Berlin. Feb. 15.

The new section 40 authorises courts and magistrates to recom- mend aliens for. banishment.

NEW PREMISES OPENING ON MONDAY. Another event of interest to the Indies of Hongkong is the opening of the new premises taken by the Taimahal Silk Store, in the King's Police Custody.

Theatre Building, which Section 8 of his Ordinance nounced for Monday.

It is not much more than a year UN the the condition amends

is all-

A circular letter from the Com-recognizance of bail so as to pro- that this firm opened a small store in China Building, moving a low mander-in-Chief of the Reichs-vide for surrender into police cus- wehr to all officers, active and re- tady instead of surrender at the weeks later to larger premises in of Detention. 12 also Wyndham Street. The growth of tired. of General's rank, has come House to light through the Indiscretion amends the method of completing the business soon found these pre- of the Fascist Deutsche Zeitung. the period which is to clapsemises insufficiently large, while the a deportee must leave the location was not quite suitable. The The Commander-in-Chief, Gen-before

new site was therefore chosen, and eral von Hummerstein, points out Colony.

Section 10 of the Ordinance Hongkong provided with another that a number retired tive pilleiser of the general resection sub-section of section on up-to-date pik store. and Reichswehr Ministry in print of the Magistrales Ordinance, on the basis of rumours and 1890, which authorised the flog- allegations which could have been ging of returned hanishees, as this disposed of by reference to the punishment is not considered suit-

able. Miniatry itself.

Such action, he writes, natural- ly causes the public to accuse the Henerals in question of disloyalty and supports the assertion that highly-placed officers only wait the moment of leaving the Ser- vice to turn against the Republic.

Hammerstein in- General von sists that it JA the duty of high officers to maintain a

a decent ro serve in such matters, even when

FISHING JUNK WRECKED.

FIVE SURVIVORS IN HONGKONG.

A report of a fishing Junk having retired, and goes so far 28 to been wrecked in a squall on threaten that he will have to do Thursday off Tung Wan was price retired generals offending brought to the Colony by the In this matter of the right to wear

the uniform in order to make clear crew, comprising, three men and that they do not speak on behalf two women, who were rescued by of the Reichswehr.

another Ashing funk. This letter is. Norcaly criticised

One of them is in hospital

by the Deutsche Zeitung as a suffering from after-effects. The for public-spirited men, but funk, after aluking in six fathoms is welcomed by all Republican of water, was raised with the

assistance of the passing junk.

papers,

'IM AND ME.

'im and me, we neems to be Fair content so long au We Are left alone, just "Im and me. 'im and me, we spends our days Climbing tracks and lonely ways, Just im and ma's enough, we anys. Me and im ain't in the swim Of social life, not mie and 'Im; Boren us stiff, both me and. 'Im. We don't like Parson, me and 'im: He says as dogs, not even int, Can't go to 'eaven, same as 'im. Well, we don't care, not "im and mo: We'll go to hell, so long to we Can be together, im and me.

If God is what He's s'posed to be, He won't part us, mand me: He'll understand both 'im and me,

So we ain't worried, me and 'Im; He'd never socate d'dog like Tim. We knows for certain, me and im

OF HONGKONG.,

QUEEN'S

Final Showings To-day At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9,20,

International Fun

with that.

Super specialist In the merry method of laugh production

WILL ROGERS

In

George M. Cohan's International success

written for Fox. Movietone

by Qwan Davis,

Sr.

He's alded and abetted by

IRENE RICH FRANK ALBERTSON MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN LUMSDEN HARE BRAMWELL FLETCHER

SO THIS IS

Directed by John Blystone

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AT

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KENTUCKY

JUBILEE SINGERS

FOX NEWSREEL

TO-MORROW

HIGH SOCIETY B

JANET GAYNOR

and

CHARLES FARRELL

So Charming

a Picture

You'll Never

Forget It!

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are still the talking screen's finest lovers and this lyric laden movietone romance, was made by the direc tor of "Sunny Side Up," DAVID BUTLER

CLARA BOW

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"IT"

from Elinor Glynn's Sensational Novel

WIMM STAR

FINAL