aero me, being on June Cinema Owners to Protest A pleasant atmosphere of informal strand friendliness contributed to the warmth of the beautiful Grieg Sonata, which commanded an immediate response to its professional perfectier Lierre, vota ate Satu at Se Pts June 17, 'A meeting was held yesterday by the executive committee of the Shang hai Motion Picture Theatre Asso-lation to discuss the Shanghai Power Company's intimation that "should become necessary power and light might be reduced to'25 per cent, of Jost year's per month consumption," sated a representative of one of the larger companies, He also stated that a protest wotid be died with the Skanghal Municipal Council, 'According {o this executive, cinema now were allowed 70 per cent, of last year's monthly supply, With' regard {0 the Shanghai Power Com-any's notification to the trade, "we observed. that the company had said that should the supply of coal drop below 100,000 tons, electricity to them might be'reduced' 10.25 per cent, on very short notice, His committee, he added, were drafting a communication. to the Council, in which they would protest the legality under the company's franchise, by which electric supply could be' reduced, They also were protesting discriminatory treatment, whereas others have preferential treatment, i,¢,, if all major users of power and light were cut a small proportion of their supply, cinema: included, could operate without em? barrassmient, Aside from this protest he pointed out that if the supply should be cut fo the Minimum, cinemas would able to cool and air-condition the premises for more than one performance each day. The distributors Would not ogece to rent pictures on sucha basis and, further, cinemas could not pay their labour, adver-rising and usual overhead expenses, Mr. C. C. Pan Arrests Extortioners Pan, the Western District Special Police, Mr, Comm'ssioner of June 14.
personally led several of his officers fo the Yung Kong Restaurant in his district and arrested three detectives attached to lis office, whom he 'Suspected to be trying' to extort a Dig sum of money under his name.
'Mr. Pan fold the "North-China Daily News" yesterday that the arrested officers had been dismissed and taken to the Nantao District Court for trial. No hearing had yet been held, he' said. Prior to their transference to the court, they were questioned by officers of the Criminal Branch.
After receiving a secret report, Mr. Pan made the arrests personally on Thursday. According. to.the report, sent to Mr. Pan, the three detect-ves were trying to extort, $50,000 from Chu. Ping-shan of 6A Singapore Road. The alleged extortioners said that Chu might be prosecuted in a kidnapping case and suggested that if the above mentioned "hush money" was forthcoming, they would not [press the case.
The alleged extortioners were said to have asked their intended victim to go to the restaurant where they were arrested to talk" over the matter. Mr. Pan became so enraged that he personally arrested them. The arrested men's names are Koo. Yun-suen. Koo Hung-liang and Chen Chin-hsiang, Turnips 0.10048 010
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