Five Men Get $16,000 from Shop One of the largest and neatest armed robberies in the Settlement in recent years took place on July. 25 in the Central District, $1 000 in cash changing hands) leas than five minutes.
Five men, all armed, gained a pittance to 521 Nanking Road, premises occupied by Messrs, ung-fong, a Chinese firm of sharebrokers and exchange agents, shortly after 8.30 p.m.
Four employees. who were engaged in counting the money were intimidated in the usual" way. They handed over the cash without a struggle and the gangsters re-showing at the Nanking Theatre treated as they had come—through the main entrance—without mak-ug use of their pistols, No effort was made "to search the premises, and by this rined robbers, $94,000 was avoided. In a safe in the room in which the employees were counting the money that was lost was a further sum of $80,000, and in an upstairs room was $14,000 in bills of small carried Uy the Eurasia No. 2 which have been detained by the Mongol auth. orities since July 2 when the "plane was fired at and brought down whilst flying over Outer Mongolia on its way to Manchuli were some important documents sent by Mr. Hulusi Foot-Tugay until recently Turkish Charge @'Affaires in China, to Angora, including a copy of the new Sino-'Turkish Commercial Treaty, says the Chinese press. Since this im. portant document has fallen into the hands of Mongol authorities, the signing of the Treaty has of necessity had fo be postponed, the when the studios seem, for ithe moment, to have lost their' cun-Jning, reliance on an old favourite justified, The ways of producers have been made easier since "The Desert Song" was first filmed for the talking screen by Messrs. Warner. So it is interesting to observe the marks of inexperience of those distant days of 1928. The syn-Jehronization, for example, is weak Jon occasions. Yet the haunting Imelody of the theme song, the beauty of the desert scenes, the magnificence of the men's voices, worthily supporting Mr. John Boles fine baritone and Mr. Robert E. Guzman's gorgeous tenor, combine ito make a musical entertainment which is attracting large crowds to jthe theatre. Compared with' the stage play this film version has its defects. To begin with the acting Jof Miss Carlotto King, is not comparable with her singing. The Jcomic relief is so hurriedly introduced in spasmodic bursts. that Mr, Arthur and. Miss Fazenda can rightly complain of a lack of opportunity. Thus they tend. to bore the audience as much as the very jerade and unimaginative. "oriental dances." is Myrna Loy deserves Jsympathy too; her part is of the stage stagey—and the fifth-rate stage at that. Those are defects which: matter little; the play carries them off with the irresistible. appeal fof its colour, movement and har-
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