WHAMPOA PORT
DEVELOPMENT
POSTPONEMENT
Money Being Sought
In Nanking
SLENDER HOPE OF RAISING $20,000,000
From Our Own Carrowpoadent] Canton, To-day- Despite considerable publicity about developing. Whampoa into aj first class for the project is soj expensive that the realisation, ofį this scheme will come only in the difiant future, it was learned yes- turday.
Me Lo Wen-kan, director, of the Whampen Port Development Ad- ministration, is seeking money in Nanking from the Ministry of Rail-
BRITISH FILL OF ROB ROY
TO BE MADE Brawny Highland Alletes To Be Enraged
Rob Roy is going to tread the heather for Gaumont-British this summer. Mr. Michael Balcon 27- nounced recently that his com- pany was going to make a film of the life of the Scottish free- booter.
A large-scale "Incation tripTM is to be made to the Enghlands and rominent clansmen, including -burly fellows who toss the esber. and wrestle at tire games, will de ' enlisted as extras..
Ex
"The script, which is now preparation, calls for big crowd SCENES.
Gamment-British have not yet found their Reb Eay.
ways and the British Boxer - NEW YORK STOCK
HONG KONG SPC
Dr. Kotewall Elected President
APPRECIATION OF WORK OF MR. G P DE MARTIN
day's Short Story
CARNIVAL IN PARIS
Stanley cksons
T5 o'clock in the afternoon his friend did not meet his eye.
A the little midinettes began a staccato gabble of talk and
TO-MORROW'S STORY.
A wam tribute to the services to grow impatient. At 5.30 laughter suddenly decided rendered by the retiring President they were becoming rude to "3% bien, mon vier," he said
"Let us witch - how Some plead-handedly. Mr. G. P. de Martin, was paid at their employers. the monthly meeting of the Exeed engagements, others pigs tango in the streetsTM entive Committee of the Society clapped on their cheeky toques. The manuscris for the Protection of Children;"A demain," they called from vanished with an acrity, which held on Monday.
the doorways and were gone belied the previous words of the The Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, The spirit of liberty, impatient two friends. the new President, who was in the land rebellions, trickled through. The streets were homming with chair, said that Mr. de Martin had each factory and workroom in good nature. It was the year of great Colonial Exhibition. been an ideal Chairman-cheerful Paris. It was Le Quatorre Juillet, the painstaking, Kympathetic and tact-140 years since the grim Bastille ful Besides rendering very had fallen. The cafes were går valuable services to the Society as with, bunting, and unemployed Chairman, he had always take a musicians had been engaged in deep personal interest in all cases hundreds for the night of revelry. brought before the Committee for
the journalist,” and Mourette, consideration As Chairman of Lenormand. the painter, sat in The and worked. the Finance Committee he had their attic done much to improve the finan-writer was chewing his pencil and; cial position of the Society: and his friend sat regarding a virginali if he (Dr. Katewall), as his suc-canvas with an air of intense ab
The cafes fished with uniforms Dribbles cessor, was able to do half
of melodr 2 sorption.
and white teeth February 19.
the Boulevard In
Raspail An engineer of the Kwangtung i
The following quotations from Lon-much, he would not be dissatisfied filtered through the amber moop- River Conservancy Board stated don were received last night between
Mr. J. T. Prior was elected the light. that no funds are ear-marked for 5.30 pm and 10.30 pa
Society's new Vice-President and "Ach!" said Mourette in dis Mourette found himself alone. the development of the Pearl NY. Cotton
in proposing him for the post Dz. gust. "The Quarter is impossible. The crowd was so dense, and the Kotewall remarked
It will be filled with spirit of carnival so contagious that Mr. to-night. River at Whampoa and that money! May.
that he forgot about Lenormand în tourist in the Prior
Society's first every tradesman and
The swaying of hips: an instant. Secretary and had acted in that Paris"
was irresistible. He seized a girl} capacity for several years with conspicuous success. Ever since sented his friend. "Can you not by the arm and danced. the establishment of the Society figure to yourself the Dome and Mr. Prior had shown great keen- Conpole?" His voice was tinged vocative and sensual. "Kiss me," cess on its work, and was, in fact, with irony.
demnity Fund
for developing Whampoa bat nothing is yet known of the result of his quest The construction cost is estimated
at $20,000,000.
EXCHANGE
Latest Quotations
¡N.T. Rabber is badly needed to dredge the
March
River near Canton, which is 30 Chicago Wheat shallow a low tide that river
་
steamers - from Hong Kong and Chicago Com Macao are often stranded. Such
dredging. he said, would cost!" $4,000,000; and how to raise this! amount remains to be seen."
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May STOCKS:
61
60%
Anaconda Copper
33
55
34
Electric Bond &
Share
18
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General Motors 55%
18 59% 59
35
38
37
39
60
61
Montgomery
|5.30 pm and 10.30 pm.
Silver Forward
3844
$84
671
lone of its most enthusiastic mem-
bers.
101 New Cases -
Case reports for January were
cases,
+
"You are right, Gaston,"__ 25-
To-morrow's story will be * Eccentric Miss Flodyer by Herbert Jarmayne.
3
Her moist red mouth was pro-|
she pleaded as they sat at a crowd- ed bar She kissed with a certain Mou- "Bohemia for a night!”
"These vulgar gusto. rette laughed derisively. pot-bellied pigs will be rooting all over the Quartier until dawn."
They started to woo the Mass
.towards
A heavy blonde with metallic hair and hectic cheeks approached and whispered into his partner's
ea
She tinkled a little langh and began to stroke his hair.
*Allons done" muttered Mor- rette dîsdainfully. "Do you take me for a provincial?”
"Saloud," breathed the blonde,
his
Whampoa can accommodate a coasting steamers but is not deep enough for ocean-going vessels. Ward The development project calls for NY. Central not only the deepening of the US Steel
A piano accordion began to River but the construction of The following quotations from Los laid before the meeting, these again. wharves, warehouses and a raildon were received last night between showing that 101 new cases had
been dealt with during the month wheedle the soul out of the streets. way line from Whampoa to Sai Silver Spot 19-15/16 (last close). at the end of which the number The jogging of feet eszme to their The shrill chatter of C2S- Chuen here for the purpose of 19-15/16 Cast received),
of cases under supervision
was ears. 739. maintaining a direct link with the (change).
-19-11/16 (last
Hawkers' licences or stock tanets shattered the air.
Lenormand glanced Canton-Hankow Railway.
Mourette began to carve close); 15-13/16-(last received), had been supplied in 16 up (change).
milk or other food provided in 72 Mourette. "Gaston," he murmur-pitting between her teeth. Silver Report: Offerings small cases, and medical treatment obed guiltily, "It is a lovely even-
way through the crowd of howman Little Indian buying Market steady tained in 15 cases.
Liverpool Cotton-Jaly 5.7 last
Mourette looked up quickly, but beetles which had crawled from every cranny in Paris. The inter- close), 5.76 (last received), .02 (change).
medley of a dozen orchestras was desfening and the heat oppressive.
Luckily a small cafe in a side:
Fere- street was not too fall.
The gretted leaving his attic. place was thick with cigarette smoke. His eyes smarted -pain- fully. A sailor and a wolken, "werS lolling obscenely in a corner. The lilt of a tango alternated with the frenzied hooting of a car
The Kwangtung Provincisi Gos ernment is unable to appropriate any funds for the port project, as some of its own industrial schemes have had to be put off owing to the Jack of money.
BRITISH TRADE AGREEMENTS Questions In House
Of Commons
Of the cases dealt with, the {average income per head per Liverpool Wheat--March 5/11% month was $1.72, one of the lowest (last close), 5/30% (last received), in the history of the Society id down (change).
London Rubber April-June (last close), 7-7/16 (last received), 1/16 down (change). COMMODITY PRICES
The following onotations have been received by Beuter.
-Prev. Yesterday
The financial statement showed
expenditure during January total- ling $1,761.06, which was $457.26 more than income, but it was ex-
plained that a sum of $2,500 had
ing."
Cinema Notes
(Continued from Page
"THE MURDER MAN- ORIENTÁL THEATRE
since been received from the Women's Aniliary of the Society, for which thanks were expressed.
Others may get more glory, but Various matters came before the the most romantic job on earth is Closing Closing Committee, including report on that of a newspaper reporter in
the proposed concert to be given a great city. by the Hong Kong Choral Group
This is positively proven in the (under Maestro Gualdi)
at the new feature picture, "The Murder Peninsula Hotel on Thursday. Man", with Spencer Tracy March 5, at 9 pm, details of Virginia Brace. which will be announced later.
DOMINIONS TO BE CONSULTED New York Cotton:-
March
London, To-day. May
Trade agreements were the July subject of a number of questions Dctober in the House of Commons yes- December
11:35 11.33 10.97 10.93
and
Tracy is depicted as the star re-
Donation Acknowledged porter of a powerful New York A letter was read from the daily newspaper. He is known as "The Murder Man because of his Director of Ambulance. St. John
success in solving crimes of rio- 15-438 Ambulance, Brigade, thanking
lence. Miss Bruce is the paper's 15:59 the Society for its gift of $100 sob-sister who can give advice
towards the hospital for tubercular
to the lovelorn through her children at Cheung Chau
The Committee also considered columns--but cannot control her the situation arising from the re-own heart.
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10:27 10.21
terday afternoon. The Domin- January
ions Secretary, Mr. Malcolm Spot
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MacDonald, stated that in ac-1
cordance with the usual prac-New York Rubber:-
tice the United Kingdom Goy- March
ernment had informed the Do May
minion Governments of their July
intentions to conduct trade nego- September
tiations with Denmark, so as to December
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15.78
15.92
give those Governments
an
opportunity of expressing their Chicago Wheat:-
views if they thought their in- May
97%
terests were affected. The same July
procedure. would be followed in September
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connection with any negotia-
tions which might take place Chicago Cour
for the revision of the Anglo- May
612
Argentine Convention.
July
61%
€1% 61%
of M-health.
The same assurance was given
by the President of the Board of Winnipeg Wheet:
Trade, Mr. Walter Enncimaz, in May
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observing there were a number of July
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commercial agreements with October foreign Governments which could New York Si
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be terminated by either party dur- ing the present year. He added May
March
that it was not yet known which, any, would in fact come to an end and necessitate negotiations. Mr. Runciman also announced! that the negotiations for a trade. agreement with Pern. had reached san advanced stage and would, hej hoped, be concluded shortly- British Wireless Service”.
July
63
1.73. 17041 1711⁄2-169. t 1.68 1.65
BRITISH REVENUE RETURNS
Large Increases
Shown
Landon,
RAW RUBBER PRICES The Exchequer returne
that the total - ordinary
om excluding self-balancing
Latest Quotations From
amounts to 5617,757,85 led with £593,878,820 (responding date, of last
Messrs H. Baroseph & Co., Receipts from have received the folowing źre“ 4308,144,000, quotations from Singapore in 620,000 in the same -Straits Currency for Ear Bubber. Jast financial year Spot 25% b..nown 1⁄4 25% 4. from Customos April-June 26 b. Down 3⁄41⁄2 261⁄2 2266,107,000, against
The total
b., Down 34 2265
signation of Mr. S. V. Bozer, Supporting the star is a large Joint Hon. Director, who is pro-cast that includes Lioral Atwill, ceeding Home on leave in March, Harvey Stephens, Robert Barrat, and also of Mr. M. A. Cooper, who James Stewart, William Coller, is resigning the Secretaryship of St. Louise Henry and the Western district on grounds others.
On behalf of the Society the
President expressed
grateful
thanks to Mr. Bozer and Me
"FRONT PAGE WOMAN-
QUEEN'S THEATZE
Cooper for their splendid services. This picture is one of the most He said Mr. Barer had been unrealistic and exciting of "-news- tiring in his efforts on behalf of paper screen dramas, with: Bette the Society, and expressed the Davis and George Brent in the hope that on his return he would stellar roles.
continue to give them his assis- It is entirely dinerent from any tance. The President expressed other newspaper play and deals regret at the cause of Mr. Cooper's with the bitter rivalry of two re- resignation, which was largely due parters, a woman and a man, on to over work on behalf of the opposition papers who are really Society, and wished him a speedy in love with each other but out to and complete recovery. Reference do their best to "scoop" Yeach
lether. was, also made to Mr. Cooper work as Secretary of the W district and formerly in them
post of Teint
Įtor.
The Com
items,
Bette Davis plays the the female reporter, while George Brent is the other reporter who in love with ber but who, her ability, which
him at his own
Others in
Walter Walk
Dorothy Dare, Jane"
ker George Renay
The lat
nly thanked
SHARE MARKET
REICHISMARK QUOTATIONS
He was suddenly conscious of dark lasted hazel eyes and short dark chestnut hair less thr yard away.
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