The Archive · 1939

Photograph Exhibition In Hongkong

Shanghai Enthusiasts Invited (o Enter

An "interesting exhibition,' consisting of some of the best' photography that is being produced i China today, will be held in Hongkong during the early part of In order to make this exhibition as representative as possible, entries are being invited from. all over China, Both: professional and ara. tour workers, of whatever nationality are eligible, the. only restriction being that all photographs must have been taken in China.

After the exhibition in Hongkong, the fifty best prints will be sent to London, where they will be exhibited "at the Royal Photographic Society, Afterwards ' they will go on tour to camera clubs throughout. Great. Britain. Shanghai, with her many fine photographers, will undoubtedly be well represented in this, select group.

Entry forms for this exhibition, which must be received in Hongkong by November 25, may. be obtained - on. application {o the Photographic. Society. of Hongkong, G.P.O. Box 1245, Hongkong. corpse, has also appealed against her sentence.

The First Special District Court which passed the sentences has now made public in detail the reasons for passing heavy sentences against the youths, who were arrested: early this inolith while they were engaged 7 the very act of dismembering ihe body of their 50-year old father whom they electrocuted while ne was in bed in their home in Avenue Haig.

According to the statement, the court finds it, hard to agree that the youths have killed their father only for the reason that their ill-treated mother may live. It is stated that after the murder the youths stole their father's pass book "arid also cash, which fact indicates that they murdered their father for other reasons, too. The two brothers are inexcusable, the court says, and according to law they must receive death sentences since they were so cruel as to dismember the body after committing the murder' of their own father.

It has also been. found. hard to excuse their mother because wher her husband was being electrocuted she could not say that she was entirely ignorant of the affair, since her husband shouted out, the statement asserts. But because she said that she really did not know it and that the court has found out that the murder was discussed by the two sons only in a French Concession park, she has been pardoned in connection with the murder but e not in the dismemberment of the corpse, it is stated.

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