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with VIOLET WONG
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COMING ATTRACTION!
FRAMED ! By the innocent act of the man she
loves.
what can save her from the fate the law.
decrees?
A big new, exciting drama of the times
the husband
secrets of a little-known side of big-city life laid bare I Revolv- ing around this thrilling story of a love that surpasses all love !
With
PAUL. LUKAS
KAY FRANCIS
"THE
VICE SQUAD
A Paramount Picture
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ESTABLISHED 1845.
HONG KONG, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1931.
THE AMERICAN PROPOSITION.
Relief of World's Economic Crisis.
Washington, Yesterday. new credit organisation broadening the facilities of the Federal Farm Board and liberali- sation of the re-discount provisions of the Federal Reserve Law were ¡among the provisions, proposed by President Hoover for the relief of the world economic crisis at the conclusion of the conference at midnight.
well-informed quarter states that the credit organisation will be known as the Emergency Credit Corporation with a capital of $500,000,000 and it will be authoris ed to loan at its discretion to any financial institution..
Mr. Hoover in a statement to the conference declared that he pro- posed to discuss with M. Laval the question of such further arrange ments as were imperative, during the period of depression, in respect of inter Government debts. Reuter's American Service.
Wall Street's Contribution.
New York, Yesterday. The most favourable reaction in Wall Street to President Hoover's proposals is reflected in the fact ihat members of the New York Clearing House have agreed to con- tribute $150,000,000 toward capi- talisation of the proposed $500,- 000,000 Credit Reuter.
Corporation.
PARLIAMENT STANDS PROROGUED.
(Continued from Page 1.)
win's willingness to stand by his side without disputing pride of place is an example to every one, and I call upon all whom I can in- fluence to take the same course and make common cause against a common danger." British Wireless Service. Curious and Confusing Election.
London, Yesterday. The coming election will be perhaps the most curious and confusing ever-fought in Britain,
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A FORTUNE-TELLER IN EVERY TEASHOP.
Teacup Craze Sweeps the World.
AMUSES MELBOURNE.
London, Aug. 20. There is a new way in which women make friends when introduced.
"My dear, you must come and share my life!"
"I should love to. What about Wednesday at four o'clock?"
That, at any rate, is what is happening in Melbourne.'
Nearly every teashop there employs a staff of expert teacup readers to tell the fortunes of customers.
You asked the waitress for China tea, pastries and a medium, please!
The craze for, teacup reading,'| or the art of fortune-telling from tea-leaves, has taken Mel- bourne by storm.
It has spread all over Austra- lia, and is now sweeping the North American continent.
Women flock to the cafes for a cup of tea and a neat descrip- tion of the dark man who is al- most certain to be lurking in the The teacup fortune- dregs. tellers have doubled the business of nearly every tea house in Mel-
bourne.
Hollywood Began It.
The craze is said to have start- ed in Hollywood. Many teacup- renders have come all the way from the States to supply the de- mand in Australian towns.
Melbourne women are having their fortunes told two or three days a week every time they visit a cafe, in fact.. An Eng- lishwoman just home again ex- plained it like this:-
GERMANY'S DILEMMA.
A Dictatorship on Socialism?
Berlin, Yesterday.
The German Cabinet has resign- ed.
If Dr. Bruening succeeds in form-1 Ing a Cabinet that will command a bare majority in the Reichstag, Germany will continue to be ruled by emergency decrees, which ac- tually means that the country will be under a dictatorship able to crush all opposition; but if he fails, Germany may, in desperation be compelled to try to get out of her present calamitous dilemma by put ting her fate in the hands of Hitler and Hugenberg-Reuter.
SEQUEL TO DEMAND FOR HOLIDAY PAY.
(Central Police Court).
re-
A telephone message was ceived last night at Wanchai," to the effect that a Rght was in progress at the new Jockey Club Stables, Wongnetchung. Sergeant Alexan- der, of the Emergency Unita st Wanchai, proceeded there at once only to find the disturbance had. It appears some quietened down. twenty Chinese workmen approach- ed their sub-contractor, a Shang- hai man, for "extra pay" for work to be done to-day which was Con- fucius Birthday, and a hollday. Their request was refused, the Shanghai man stating that he had not received 'more money from the
contractor, head
Hang Sang. Belloving the workmen might as suult him as a result of his re- fusal he armed himself with an Iron bar, which Sergt. Alexander! found later tucked away in his right trouser leg.
As a result the sub-contractor was charged before Mr. Schofield morning, with unlawful this possession of an iron bar, fit for an unlawful purpose. He pleaded has provocation.
"Teacup reading is the really main amusement in Melbourne. Though business is bad on the whole, the teacup craze tickled the fancy, of every Aus- tralian woman.
"Day after day the cafes are full. The idea may come to Eng land before long."
BELIEVED INSANE.
Missing Chinese Found.
In cautioning defendant, his Worship warned him that, in future, if he was afraid of assault by others the proper course to take
would be to summon the offenders to Court, where they would be bound over.
The sub-contractor was bound over in a personal bond of $50 to keep the peace for six months.
WORLD'S "LIGHTEST" CAKE
The fact that there will be no national "coupon" will cause difficulty in constituencies, and in many cases where there is no Labour candidate, Conservative and Liberal candidates both claiming to support the Govern ment may stand against each sident at the Ming Lee Boarding Declared to be the "lightest" other, but every effort will be house, 147, Connaught Road Cen- of its kind, in spite of its weight made to secure a straight fight tral, who was reported missing on of three tons, what was said to with the Government candidate October 5, was found yesterday be the world's largest cake, when a Labour candidate is wandering aimlessly on the fifth standing six feet high, was cut
standing.
Po Tai-sang, nged 50 years, a re-
The man is believed
to be in-
Certainly where the sitting Liberal is Protectionist, the Con- servatives will not oppose him-sane, and has been taken to the Government Civil Hospital for ob- servation,
Router.
SLAUGHTER OF PIGS.
Referring to the report, which appeared in yesterday's Issue of the China Mail, concerning a sense- less outrage on a certain sty of niga, believed to have been Japan- ese, enquiries since made by the Police reveal the fact that one plg was actually killed, and fifteen jothers slashed on the backs. Thess latter had to be sent to the Ma Tau Kok slaughter house to be killed.
floor of the Hong Kong Hotel here as a feature of the annual
Orleans County Fair. Building.
The cake, which for the first!
30-called time replaced the world's largest pie, baked here yearly, was the masterpiece of Herman Thornschmidt, Rochster baker. Special machinery and oven were necessary to place the three layers in position and bake the cake. The layers were eight feet in diameter.
FRENCH UNEMPLOYED REGISTER BUT 35,828.
Paris, Aug. 21. Only 35,828 men and women in all France are officially regis tered as unemployed and receiv- ing government aid. The total is 310 higher than on August 18. Last year at this time only 884 persons were registered.
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