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Emperor Haile Selassie -(left), linent descendent of the Bibllesi Queen of Sheba, reviewing some of his troops before they leave his capital, Addis Ababu. These are among the comparatively few Abyssinian soldiers available for use in the threatened war with Italy who have uniforms. barefoot and fight in savage fashion.
NEW LIFE MOVEMENT FOREIGN FILMS
IN FOOCHOW
Regulating Public
Bath Houses
New Life Movement promoters in Foochow have been concentrating their energies on regulating public bath houses there.
These houses constitute one of the city. chief businesses. of the Formerly these places were common resorts of both men and women without proper restrictions and re- gulations.
The Sinwenpao reports that the reformers are desirous of regulating affairs in line with the tenets of the
Movement.
RICKSHAW PULLERS IN SHANGHAI Owners Punished For Overcharging
AND BUSINESS
TAX IN CANTON
AMERICAN FIRMS REMAIN FIRM
CINEMA THEATRES APPEAL TO MUNICIPALITY
From Our Own Correspondent] Canton, To-day.
All are
[MONEY FOR NOTHING Doctor's Signature Forged
Genius will out.. A man who went to jail in Nebraska (U.S.A.) was making a lot of money until the Warden noticed that quite n few healthy prisoners were on a luxury diet.
The warden made inquiries. He found that one of the prisoners
a first-class forger-had capled the algnature of the prison doctor and
·Foreign commercial circles here sold the passes of fellow-prisoners are laking a great interest in the who wanted "trimmings" with their | efforts of the Cinema Theatre meals.
Guild to induce the Film Board of He made about £7 before the Trade (China) to share a part of warden stopped his little game. the business tax. The Board is
composed of seven leading Ameri- SUGAR PRODUCTION can Olm-producing companies.
An official of the Guild stated In
an interview on Saturday that it has appealed to the Canton. Cham- ber of Commerce and the All-China Chamber of Commerce in Shang-
that for assistance. The Guild off-
cial explained that the film business
IN FUKIEN $200,000 Allocated To Help Industry
Foochow.
The Fukien Provincial Govern- fax, which is based on box-office ment has decided to appropriate a
At the Shanghal Municipal Coun-recélpta, is different from the or- sum of $200,000 to promote sugar business tax, payable production in Fukien and Hsienyu, cil meeting held recently, the Rick-dinary
in eastern Fukien, near the coast, shaw Board presented its report of according to registered capital. the situation, especial attention be- The Guild representativa denied the two largest sugar-cane produc- ing directed to the progress of the that it is making an unnecessary ing centres of the province.
It is believed that with this help! licensing of public pullers and to the fuss over, the matter or that local punishments lately meted out to theatres only show occasional Chin-the sugar merchants there will be owners found overcharging their ese pictures. He added that two able to produce cane and manufac- pullers.
of the first-run theatres have boen ture sugar on an extensive scale.-- The Board having expressed itself screening Chinese productions con- Chekiai Agency. as sutisfied with the present rate of tinuously for three weeks. (presentation of pullers the Council, Meanwhile foreign films are being ICE PLATEAU FOUND
approved of the measures taken ao shown here as usual. The Cinema far which have tended to produce Theatre. Guild will take no further; the change in the situation and give action, now that the matter is in
to the Board further discretionary the hands of the city government, powers to use towards owners if the progress in licensing falls to be maintained. "
"The Council further approved of the progress of the campaign against ownors who overcharge and [directed that it be continued.
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IN GREENLAND
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What is believed to be the highest ice platean in the world has been discovered in Greenland,
A Changsha report states that Mr. Martin Lindsay, one of the the provincial forces have cap-leaders of the British expedition tured Yungahun In North-western which visited that frozen land fast Hunan and that Haian Keh, the summer, put the altitude as 10,600 notorious Communist loader, was feet at a Royal Geographical So- The pride of Petrinja, in Yugo-killed on March 13. Most of the clety meeting in London recently. slavin is a pig weighing more than Reds have been driven out of This compares with 9,860 feet, the half a ton.
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