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LOUISE DRESSER · MINNA GOMBELL JOBYNA HOWLAND-William COLLIER,Su
A FOX PICTURE
THE STRIFE
OF THE PARTY!
Three thundering
blundering
retired
four-
chorus 'giris flush the four hun-
dred laugh
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Gloma Stoo
ED SEAMEN QUESTION
DIFFICULTIES TO BE. FACED
RESULTS OF SHIPPING SLUMP
The slump in shipping, with its even worse state of destitution than attendant train of destitute seamen, here. We cannot keep them for an is a problem the world over, and is indefinite period, on the chance of creating a difficulty that has to be their being able some time to pay faced in Hong Kong.
off their debts especially as many of Although the Colony, is not so them already owe considerable suma badly placed in regard to the ques- elsewhere. tion as a great many other ports throughout the world, there is still a great number of unemployed sea- men here who are practically in a vtate` of destitution.
It is a' problem that calls for careful consideration and action, states the following extract of the 1937 Report and Statement of Ac- counts for the Sailors' Home and Mission to Seamen in Hong Kong.
The extract reads:-
"The question of expenses brings us to mention a problem which is causing us great anxiety. AB is well-known, there are thousands of unemployed seafarers of the best type all over the World, and
TEDDY BERG WINS
Chinese Boxer Loses
In New York.
New York, Yesterday, Teddy Berg, brother of the famous British boxer, Kid Berg, beat Lou Sing-qu # Chinese boxer, on points in a six round conteat.-Reuter's American Service.
not
1
DIES.
Wrote Under Two Names.
RETAINED DRESS OF THE '80'S. Victorian Whims
(Reuter's Special Service.)
London, Yesterday,
- Miss Everet Green, the famous novelist who for twenty-three years wrote very successfully under the name of "Cecil Adair," has died at Madeira with the secret of her dual authorship well kept.
Under the name of Adair she achieved big successes, one being "Gabriel's Garden," the sales of which reached 150,000 copies. She averaged three books an- nually, and in thirteen years produced thirty-five novels..
She retained her Victorian characteristics, condemning mo- dern fashions, herself wearing the trailing skirts and high col- lars of the eighties. She used to give her publishers instructions that the heroines depicted on the covera of her books must be "adequately and modestly dress- ed."
SIR MILES LAMPSON'S PROPOSAL.
Japan's Attitude Hopeful.
SHANGHAI CONFERENCE PROBABLE.
"There is no fund in the Colony possibly Hong Kong is better placed or any Home of Rest for these men in this respect than most ports of and we seriously put forward this similar importance. Nevertheless problem as one which calls for care- there are several officers and en-ful consideration and action, gineera who either owing to ill-only by the Guilds and Companies health, old age, or the laying up of but also by the Powers-that-be. It, their vessel have been out of work has been suggested that there for a considerable period and are should be permanent accommodation new practically penniless. Nor for such in the new
Tokyo, To-day. does there seem to be any chance of stitute, but for very many reasons receive favourable consideration if|
Home and In-: Sir Miles Lampson's proposal will Anding employment for them. this is quite out of the question. It introduce in the negotiations at
"Such money as they have been may be as well to say that even if Shanghai, but not able to save has long been spent, in such were given passages. Home it clared a Foreign Office spokesman at Genova, de- the case of married men, families would be no real solution and in to-day, emphasising at liome and elsewhere having taken some cases practically a death sen- insists on adhering to the procedure that Japan anything that could be sent, and tence. The future for them would under the League's resolution often to send these macn Home be at best parish relief or the work- March 4, and upon is unable to simply means moving them to an house."
MENINGITIS PATIENT STILL AT LARGE.
Escaper in Semi- Delirious State.
POLICE SEARCH.
FIT OF DESPONDENCY.
Chinese Clerk's Suicide At Yaumati,
JUMP FROM WINDOW.
Police enquiries this morning In a fit of despondency, Tam illicited the information that the King-po, aged 27 years, employed Chinese patient who escaped from as a clerk in the Chiu Yee Sub- contractors guild, 64 Wosung Street,
of
admit the legal status of the Com- mmittee of 19 formed under the re- solution of March 11.
As Nanking is reported to have! agreed to Bir Miles Lampson's formula the Japanese Government fis hopeful of resuming negotiations the truce agreement without more Jat Shanghai shortly, thus concluding
ado.--Reuter.
SUPPRESSION OF COMMUNISTS.
Canton, Yesterday. It is understood, that the dis- reinforcements for
the Isolation Hospital, at Kennedy Yaumati, at midday weaterday, patch of Town, in the early hours of Sunday threw himself from a back window Changchow and Amoy, is being morning, was suffering from into the yard, falling a height of delayed by the Canton milltary meningitis, and, at the time of his about 70 feet, rendering himself un-authorities on escape, was in a semi-delirious conscious. He was removed to the stringent financial condition of account of the condition, having high fever. Kowloon Hospital, where he died at the Government,
The patient was a male, Chun3 p.m. without regaining conscious- The fact that the Communist Sam, aged 26 years, and was wear-ness. ing hospital clothing. First intima- According to a Police
bandits are well armied and that report, there are: tion of his getaway-was-indicated Tam, it is alleged on or about March banda in various part of the pro- other independent in a message from the matron of 19 this year, absconded with over vince, makes the task of sup- the institution to the West Point $300, belonging to the guild. A pressing them simultaneously, a Police Station.
warrant for his arrest was sub-difficult one.
He has not been apprehended assequently issued, and it transpires The Kwangsi Provincial Gov- yet, although a careful search for that he returned to the guild several ernment has also been asked to him is being made by the Police days ago, but the Police were not assist in the forthcoming sup- authorities.
'informed of this..
pression of Communists.
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