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ADVENTURE
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Samuel Goldwyn presents
Street Scene
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Wm. Collier, 3r. and Estelle Taylor
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The
China Mail.
EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION.
HONG KONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1933.
Vast Cotton Fields For The Soviet MEMORIAL TABLET
Arid Desert To Be Irrigated.
300,000 ACRES FOR PLANTING
excavators, hundreds of drilling machines and tons of explosive
FOR LORD OXFORD
King Gladly Accepts Premier's Suggestion.
Over 200,000 cubic metres of rock will, in all, have to be blown up,
London, To-day. pebbled soil to the extent of 2,000,-
Messages were received by the Moscow.
000 cubic metres extracted and One hundred thousand acres of 25,000,000 cubic metres of soil dug House of Commons yesterday after- noon from the King stating that he waterless desert in Tadjikistan, the out and re-utilised. Soviet Republic which lies on the As soon as the irrigation works would gladly give directions for bordera of Afghanistan, will be are completed, work on another carrying into effect the Houses' pro- brought under irrigation this Spring great hydro-electric power scheme, posal to do honour to the memory with the completion of the first sec- utilising the waters of the Vakhsh, of Earl Asquith tion of the Vakhsh Irrigation canal. will be initiated, with a view to the It will be planted with Egyptian eventual exploitation of the valuable cotton, for which the soil and ellma-deposits of ore which are available tic conditions are peculiarly well in this district.--Reuter. adapted.
When the entire work is finished
His Majesty said, "I honour a statesman and a devoted servant of his country."
The Earl of Oxford and Asquith in to have a memorial tablet in Westminster Abbey.
On Tuesday Mr. RamsayTM Mac-
no less than 300,000 acres will be BRITISH SEARCH FOR PIRATES Donald moved an address to his
brought under irrigation and it is
expected that the district will: develop into one of the most import- ant cotton growing centres in the world.
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Regarding the four British Mer-
Majesty the King praying that a memorial tablet be erected by the House of Commons in Westminster Abbey to the memory of the late, statesman.-British Wireless Ber- vice.
The magnitude of the work in hand surpasses even the construc-jchant Marine officers captured by tion of the now famous Dnieper pirates on the 8.8. Nanchang, Cap-tated that the captives had not been Hydro-electric Power station. The
waters of the river Vakhar, which ain Anthony Eden, Under-Secretary bound or ill-treated and had been are fed from the glaciers of the for Foreign Affairs, stated, that one kept in a junk in the Panchan area highest Pamir Mountains, will be of the officers, Mr. F. L. Pears since their capture.
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conducted into a main canal, which, jarrived at Newchwang on April 3 Local authorities who had been!
when completed, will be 50 miles in.
vigorously prosecuting a search, had with a letter from the chief of the been informed of Mr. Pears' release length, running along the Kurgan- Tiubin Valley, and thence by thou-brigands, demanding, as ransom, a and had been requested to take no sands of irrigation channels into the considerable sum of money and a independent action without first fielda.
Over 5,000 persons are engaged in large quantity of arms and ammuni- consulting the British Vice-Consul at Newchwang-Router and British the work, aided by 24 powerful tion. Captain Eden said that it was Wireless Service.
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LANDI
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