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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY,

Hongkong Is Being Flooded

NOVEMBER 7, 1986.

With

Crime And Pornographic Books

APPALLING MENACE OF CHEAP IMPORTED SEX LITERATURE

THE

GOVERNMENT MUST STOP THIS SERIOUS INCREASE IN FILTH AND CRIME MAGAZINES

"Telegraph" wishes to draw the attention of the authorities to the flood of obscene and lurid American periodicals now entering this Colony.

Regularly, by American boats, thousands of these "penny dreadfuls" and sex magazines are pouring into Hongkong and, through this Colony, into Kwangtung, to be eagerly bought up by morbid youth.

The "Telegraph" has witnessed bundles of these magazines being taken across the border by smugglers, who thus evade the Chinese customs duty and, possibly, morality restrictions.

This week, two "Telegraph" representatives visited a minent bookstall largely patronised by people who .CTDSA harbour.

pro- the

Crime magazines were on sale openly, and as so as two or three were purchased, the attendant furtively brought several sex magazines from auder the counter and offered them to the press-

mun.

The articles and iliustrations in advertisements. the sex magazines are, to say the graphie least, licentious and disgusting.

One magazine, published by the

are equally permis

LURID "DREADFULS"

Apart from the Althy sex mugis

Detiner Publishing Company art zines, the Telegraph" believes that Wilmington, Delaware, is liberally authorities should take เอกม interspersed with photographs of steps to control

ande white girls.

intercourse,

the sale of crime. Unemployment, 1-01- ansgazine, vironment. inotion pletures

re

ape devoted al- blamed alternately for the spread of The short stories most entirely to one subject, sexdal erine In Bonglong, but the Tele- Rough" believes that in the Jurid magazine "dreadfuls" there is an equally semi- are the advertisements, which offer mts cause for complaint.

Equally frank

alt s

"untural Besh coloured photos", "photos of men and women in in- teresting poses," "photos of poundes"; " "beautiful girls to show everything artoons to the best advantage": showing a ductor's experience with

and his pretty patients".

est.

Other advertisements, offering drugs and sex appliances, appeal to nothing hat the baser Instincts,

The Bood of this cheap and vite! type of literature Is, despite one recent poller elenn-up, undoubted- ly on the Increase. This Colony 1. In effect, belag swamped with the type of literature that America herself is doing her best to stamp 011.

The

stortes contained an

these are often based on ira- i

"EXOTIC D

Myster Adventure

L. Heitmann Priis

AUCY

Movi

LATTLE LALES

25¢

OCTOBER, 1976

TA

DR.YEN

THE INVISIB

These are some of the reproducible'samples taken from magazines purchased locally. cency would not allow reproduction of many of the Illustrations,

CHEAP JAPANESE

WIN

TEXTILES HONGKONG MARKET

BRITISH TRADE WIPED OUT

"Telegraph" Correspondent,

Yet another pornographic maga-periorheals.

When it is possible for those who patronise Chinese tailors' zine purchased on the bookstall in jeldents which have happened in real

Movie life, but which have been so wril-shops to buy a woollen suit for $20, or to add five such suits to.one's question is published by

up 5s to surround the eripes wardrobe for less than $100, it is appropriate to consider the new Digest Inc., of New York.

this thus they portray with a gomone that situation brought about by an unprecedented influx of cheap Apparently, if tales in gazine are to be believed, roost of should never be there

Japanese textiles into the Colony, Hollywood's actresses spend their time completely disrobin

before

Far too many of the tales in these lond magazine? portray the Chinese

Jascivious directors and agents. by chameter in its most radish farm. the goods sold at European stores. None the less, patrons of

Another magazine, published

INSULT TO CHINESE

•An OLD

FAVOURITE

Behind every familiar bottle of Bechive Brandy is a more than 80-years-old reputation for quality.

It's an old favourite with all those particular people who look for the same sterling qualities in a brandy as in the friends they choose and who find in the round, rich mellowness of Beehive Brandy the qualities sa essential to their own well-being and happiness.

Keep a bottle handy--ask for it at the club.

BEEHIVE BRANDY

Sole Agents:-GILMAN & CO., LTD..

Gloucester Arcade.

Tel. 30986.

DEPENDABLE USED CARS

Model

Description

Mileage

Price

1931

AUSTIN "12" TOURER

27,795

HK$ .350

1931

De-

1933

NASH STRAIGHT EIGHT SEDAN 28,456 STANDARD SIXTEEN" SALOON 14,769

900

1,400

1934

CHEVROLET MASTER SEDAN

14,669

1,500

1935

WILLYS "77" SEDAN

7,659

1,400

1935

CHEVROLET MASTER SEDAN

4.294

2,250

1936 CHEVROLET MASTER SEDAN

831

2,850

RADIO BROADCAST

Dance Music from The

Hongkong Hotel

RECORDED

12.30 p.ni.

Orchestra.

MUSIC

liermon Finck und is

1 p.m. Time and Weather.

A Variety Concert. 1.03 p.m. 1.30 p.m. Reuter Press, Rugby Press, Weather. Time and Announce- ments.

1.40 p.m. Dance Music. z.15 p.m. Close Down.

4-7 p.m.

L

Not, of course, that these suits compare in quality or style with

Chinese shops are able to find therein a variety of patterns, in de sign and texture, as closely copying British ideas, and bearing Music Opening oue at random, the reader marks as such, which create a false impression until it is dispelled and is introduced "the terrible Dr. by the almost ridiculously low prices asked.

Woo Fan and the Land of thr

the II. M. Publishing Co. of New York, bas an "Art Supplement de voted to photographs of me semi-nude W7171 Its tale

Lay

WIFE TO STAND BY BIGAMOUS AIRMAN

By A Special Correspondent "TELL my husband I will stand by him. Tell him

to come back as soon as he can."

Sariety of the Red Circle, whirl used An idea is thus gained of the ex- sinun tu. zel svietinis." The tent to which Japanese textiles have Philippines are the scene of yet captured the Hongkong and China another mystery society stary, "Code markets, the complete preparedness for the Cobra". The Bloodcurdling hus evinced by Japanese importers stories are decorated with sinister for the approaching cold season, and drawings

of Chinese saint-men and the weeful fact which all this de- thugs

notes of a complete decline of British

The Seventh Sleeping Brother" business in a line that until only a is a tale of Chinese tong warfare, few years ago, had constituted one berally interspersed with flowing of the leading items of British ex- blood and murders,

ports.

TEXTILE

IMPORTS FROM EUROPE

Cotton Pleeegoods

Cases

1931

1

British

1934

22,000 1932 8,000/9,000 1933 2,508/3,000

2.700

1935

-100/450

"Mystery Adventure Magazine" To ascertain the precise facts as-

situation. describes itself as "Exotic! Dynamte sociated with

the Exciting!", and gives the front cover interviewed yesterday a of a September issue over ti,

representative- ¿manufacturYS" Chinese grinning fiendishly at a semi-man who had been closely identified) made white girl about to he struck with the business-and- bis uncom- leaves no by a cubra.

promising reply, which ten-cent mystery novel, "Dr.room for doubt as to the gravity of Yen Sin" outlines the career of the situation, was; villabrous Chinese who discovers a!

"You can say the textile goods (secret power which turns is vie business, so far as Hongkong and

Hms into munnies!

the Far East is concerned. is for ever lost to England.

A

L

It is no pleasant task to narrate

漆

had

to be toned

better than

Woollen Piecegoods

Laser 10.000

5,000/6,000 3,300 1,800/2.000 -100/500

Chinese Programme. A Programme of French Songs-Toujours Content de Mei; Si vous voyez celle que j'aime (Bos and Billaut) ... ... ... ... ... ....

..Albert Prejeon. (Tenor); Chansons Enfantines-(a) Le Petit Bassu; (b) Mon Pere_m'a donne un Mari: (e) Jean de in Luc Checurs d'Enfants: Song-Elegie (Massenet) Georges Thill. (Tenor); Sungs-Parlez-moi d'amour, (Jean Lenoir); Dans la fumee (Jane Bos).

Mile. Lucienne Boyer. (Soprano); Songs-Signorina; Pour qui tant de folies (Boyer, Jurmann and Kaper)..

..Albert. Prejean. (Tenor).

Hongkong Exchange

7.30 p.m. Market Report.

7.35 p.m.

Len

Hobo

Debroy Somers Band, Theatre Memories. (No. 1-"The Galety"); Overture, "1914"-A War Memory; Northern and to speak of Japanese goods as being March

imitations.

Soulhern Memories. For, to

and An- my cheap cheaper production costs, the Japan- p.m. Time, Weather,

much nouncements, se producers trave added

8.03 A Variety Concert, improved and constantly improving

Pianoforte. Melodies...... quality, both as regards a fluished workmanship and dyes.

Green: Song-Got to dance my way Heaven.....Jessic Matthews. The young English wife of all these details, and the reproduce As figures speak

While Japanese exporters are en-1 to

Big Broadcast of 1938. South African airman of 33. tion on this page of parts of the words, he showed me statistics com- auled by their geographie:1 position (Soprano); Piano-Accordion--Selec-

Hnt"

George Capt. lan Raymond, who was a time of the mines piled en behalf of the manufacturers to transmit cargo over a very much top

down for

shorter distance, British loral whom he had represented.

marufne Selection-

Vocal-Yodelling Scott-Wood; sentenced at Capetowa recently public runsumption for reasons of These show, that, in 1931, Hong furers on the other hand have to The Hill Billies; Instrumental to three months' imprisonment dreeney, Even the Rovers on some kong imported from Europe 22,000 bear an additional item of expendier for bigamy, asked me to send of the American magazines are most enses of cotton piece goods and 10, ture saved to their competitors, and Poor Butterfly The Bixie

Song--Thirty Thirsty

Throats... this message to her husband. It objectionable to good taste.

It is a crime, if not legally, men /000 of woollen piece goods. The which is involved by the necesale | Anom Winn; Orchestra-Romance!

both

pures had of tin-lining the cases in which the was stated in court that Capt. jably.

that these stories should be dropped, sharply, to between 3,000 noods are packed, to prevent wilful Moonlight; Song-To-day I am hap- Lilian Harvey (Soprano); Raymond had bigamously mar-allowed be published, mure and 2,000 for cotion and to between breakage and pilfering-an item of y... Lil

especially

Bond--Stars over Broadway--Selec and 8,000 for woollen. 5,000

Do small

I account when the additional ried Miss Edna Harper, whom

tion; Rise and Shine-Selection; Song In 1934, the figures further des freight over the longer distance Iso he met in the liner which took true. It

Things might have been so diff'rent elined to 2,700 and 2.000 respec also considered.

Gracle Fields: Orchestra-Drink- him from England to South against wood taste and publle inter-

tively, whilst last year they both

COSTS AT MINIMUM Africa.

Jest that these magazines should "Le

stood

at under 500.

It seems hopeless to expect that ing Songs.

The Music of Johann admitted to Hongkong.

for the current year are British production costs will be lesser

but it is safe to assume

Japanese production costs will be Strauss.

Perpetuum Mobile; Thousand and lower than they are. The Japanese

Mrs. Raymond, whose home is in Phylis-avenue, Motspur Park, Sur-3 rey, is 30, and the mother of a baby son, She was married al Bingley, Yorkshire last winter, and she and her husband moved to their home in Motspur Park in June.

"I WILL BE BRAVE"

She is still being attended by ai

nurse and was deeply grieved wisen'

to

as the stories contained the magazines are labeled as crime, buth is a greater

following

The entry these magazines Into Hongkong should be stopped.nat

Your,

or

In

If the Hongkong Government ean- they are smaller than ever, although

stop their entry, it should indications are penalise their sale to such an ex- | goods may have cotton plece worker, despite his much lower wage one nights Waltz: Wine, Women and

nol

possession.

Mavis Bennett (Soprano); The Bat-You and You....(Der Fledermaus).

recovered somewhut. and his relatively lower standard of Song.. tent that it will become unpraßta- The decline, in any event, is at such living, is to-day represented ng a ble for a retaller to be found with o rate that almost complete extinc sailsfied worker, contented by being

9.25 p.m. London--News and An- one of the magazines even in his tion in these two European lines may well cared for, working and living

In sanitary surroundings and notnouncements. be expected at any moment

9.45 p.m. A Recital by Alfred Engiand exported all of the cotton without the amenities which it is piece goods sel out in the above possible to accord to him: under Picenver (Tenor).

Roses of Picardy (laydn. Wood); gures, and about 75 per cent. of modern requirements.

Beauty's Eyes French and Belgium serges are in-l factories are occupied with the Trees (Rasbach); cluded in the remaining 25 per cent. textile business, and of these a sur- (Tost!): Love sends a litle gift of

she heard of the sentence. She said STALIN STARTS

10

me: "I know my husband is greatly devoted to me, but he is on Impulsive iman.

"Last August 1 told him that it would be good for him to go back to South Africa on a visit to resume some of his old business connections and to get into touch with his family again, but I never thought that this could happen.

"All I can do now is to be brave

and wait unul he has finished his punishment, and then, if he wants to, he can come back to me and all will be forgotten."

Captain Raymond told the court that his wife knew nothing of the charge. On the morning that he went through the second "marriage" 'he was very drunk.

BEAUTY SALONS

Moscow, Oct. 30.

STALIN has decided that the girls

the woollen piece goods shown. In Hongkong, quite a large number Thank God for a Garden (Del Riego);

For these three countries, the loss, is vey I have made has shown at least roses (Openshaw). all but complete in its application to cleven, at Mongkok and Yaumali Hongkong.

with capital totaling over a mil- JAPANESE GAINS

lion dollars, which are daily turning of Russia must be the most

textile European out thousands of finished Against this loss of beautiful in the world.

trade, is shown a steady gain by articles made from Japanese import- "slik" shirts The Soviet Government has order- Japanese imports.

ed material. When ed a State Institute of Cosmetics to The factors that have accounted from these factories are being sold b established in Moscow.

ascendancy are for this Japanese

ns they are at under 80 cents aplece, Grants have been made from contended not to be all of Japan's with other articles of wear at corrES- public funds to defray the cost, and making, as it is pointed out that, pondingly cheap prices, it is easy to manufac- the Institute will be opened in after the war, Manchester and Brad- understand how British

ford, comfortably assured of their turers cannot be anything but pessi November.

Staff will be professors skilled in then lending position, neglected to mistic regarding their chances of re- the science of producing cosmetics renew their machinery when the capturing a once profitable market. Japanese producers were steadily Im- and the art of using thent.

"Any person," says the decree proving theirs. To such a high pitch establishing the institute, "may con- has this Japanese improvement and suit the professors for advice on emclency been brought to-day, that it beauty treatment."

is not always possible as in the past

10 p.m. London-Big Ben.. Dance Music from the Hongkong Hotel Grill-Room.

12 midnight Close Down SUNDAY'S BROADCAST

Concert From The Studio To-night

RECORDED PROGRAMME

10.30-11.30 31.03. Morning Servico "It is no use crying Japanese from the Union Church.

am.-12.15

Morning competition' Bald my informant in pulling the whole case in a nut-Service from the Hop Yet Church. shell. "There is simply no answer (Chinese).

12.15 p.m. "Symphony No. to it." he added.

11.30

p.m...

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12.40 p.m. Choral Music

Venus on Earth (Lincke); Unre- quited Lovo (Licbo); Mystic Woods (Turner); Crown of Life (Turner);) John Peel (Traditional).

1 p.m. Time and Weather. 1.03 p.m. Military Band Musle,

(Continued on Pape 4.)

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