THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 7, 1938
LINFENG
BATTLE
CONTINUES
Shanghai, To-day.
The battle between Chinese and the Japanese troops which start- ed on Saturday near Linfeng is still continuing.
Both sides have suffered heavy losses, it is stated-Our Own Correspondent.
ST. ANDREW'S AND MUI TSAI BETRAYAL
CARNEGIE TRUST'S WORK FOR MEN OF BLACK AREAS
London, To-day.
Lord Elgin, Chairman of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, referred yesterday at the annual meeting to the success of land settlement of the unemployed.
He said that in the Trust Budget for 1936 to 1940, an allocation of £150,000 was made for land settle- ment and till the end of last year £68,000 had been paid in grants. The whole of the latter sum had been credited to the Land Settle- a body creat- ment Association
Says "The Andrian": "It now looks as though, taking advantage of the temporarily abnormal co-ed in 1934 to test the practicability ditions in the Colony, that nothing
of creating employment. through more for a long time is going to be 'done by the Government about the tilling the soil and breeding stock for the men of the "Special Areas." Mui-Tsai problem.
The Association now controlled estates comprising
or
"The majority report has been twenty-five adopted, which means that the pre-11,000 acres and providing for the sent iniquitous state of affairs is establishment on smallholdings of
about 1,400 families
about to continue...
7,000 persons, all of whom had been taken from specially depress- ed areas.
"Little children can still be bought and sold and suffer untold cruelty even under the British flag!
3
EXPERIMENT WORTH WHILE
While it was not yet possible to "The Society for the Protection estimate the experiment's economic of of Children can scarcely be con- success, the general happiness. gratulated on the part it has play-the settlers and the success on the ed in the whole affair. Its policy social side has encouraged the belief worth experiment was has been marked by hesitancy and that the a definite lack of courage.
while and would make an appreci-
"We can
only hope that ourable contribution to a betterment in magistrates will, by the punish-the lives of many facing the adver- ments they mete out to Mui-tsai sities of unemployment.
Lord Elgin also announced that offenders, try to reduce the cruel- ties inherent in a system which as a special contribution the Trust has become notorious the world had allocated a sum up to a maxi- mum of £10,000 to pay for an in- over."
quiry into the connection between the economic and social factors of physical welfare, which has been undertaken by Sir John Orr, well- nutrition known for his work on problems.British Wireless.
BRIGHTER EMPLOYMENT OUTLOOK
-London, To-day.
The anemployment return for February will be published to-day. Expectation of some
reversal
of
LOWER DECK MAY QUALIFY FOR AIR PILOTS
A
London, To-day.
the tendency of the returns for De- The Admiralty announce in con- cember and January has been arous-nection with the Fleet Air Arm ed by the hint of the Labour Minis-that the opportunity to qualify as ter in a speech in which he said air pilot which has long been open that though he could not divulge the to non-commissioned officers of the figures they would be more satis- Royal Air Force is now to be give factory than those for January: en to the Lower Deck-British British Wireless.
TO
MORBOWA
Wireless.
HANKOW
STARE
•TO-DAY ONLY EXCLUSIVE STORY
FRONCHOT TONE
& MADGE EVANS
BY POPULAR DEMAND
57795.
UNGUARDED HOUR
QUEENS & ALHAMBRA
HONGNG
KOWLOON
AT 2:30:515 7-20-930 PM AT 230 520 72
LAST TWO DAYS FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
A MILLION DOLLAR WORTH OF FUN AND ENTERTAINMENT IN SWINGTIME HISTORY!
Now she's a DANCING Alice!
Alice FAYE
YOU'RE A SWEETHEART
A NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE
WEDNESDAY
AT THE QUEEN'S Marion Davies, R., Montgomery
GEORGE MURPHY KEN MURRAY MALD CHARLES WINNINGER ANDY DEVINE WILLIAM BARGAN
TO-MORROW.
At The ALHAMBRA J. Hutchinson. Geo. Brent
"EVER SINCE EVE" "MOUNTAIN JUSTICE"
SHOWS DAILY- 2.30-5:20 720-9.30-
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
STILAN ORD EKOWLOON -TEL 57222
MATINEES 20-30% EVENINGS. 20.-30-50c-70%)
SHOWING TO-DAY •
THE YEAR'S GREATEST NEWS FROM THE
HILARITY FRONT!⠀ ⠀⠀⠀
THE HIP-HIP- HOOROARINGEST. SURPRISE HIT
EVER!
Eddie CANTOR
mally goes to town in his first picture for hit- making 20th Century-Fox!
I PARA GOES TO
Mari
20
with all these · meny-making antarktiners TONY MARTIN ROLAND YOUNG JUNE LANG LOUISE HOVICK JOHN CARKADINE ·
DEVIRGINIA PO*** ALAN DINEHART RAYMOND SCOFT Quintet
Lyrics by Made Gordon and Harry fi
•NEXT CHANGE, FOR ONE DAY ONLY!
MYRNA LOY
SPENCER TRACY în
"WHIPSAW"
AN "OLD FAVOURITE" FROM M-G-M!
IF YOU ARE TOO BUSY TO WRITE HOME DON'T.
Just Post a Copy of the
Oberland China Mail
which
the News ther