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BOOKING PLANS FOR 1939
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to secure, accommodation desired.'
Air-conditioned equipment on C.P.R. Trans-Continental Trains, Frequent Canadian Pacific Atlantic sailings to European ports.
TO MANILA
Empress of Japan on Friday, December 30th.
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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 29, 1988-
LOCAL SHARE FRANCE'S
MARKET
Following is the list of changes and enquiries in local share quotations this morning:-
BANKS
Hong Kong Bank $1400 b.
INSURANCES
China Underwriters 70 cts. s.
SHIPPING
Douglases $62 b. DOCKS, WHARVES, GODOWNS, ETC.
H. K. und K. Wharves $116 b. H. K. Docks (Old) $18% b. H. K. Docks (New)`$171⁄2 b. Providents (Old) $6.35 b. Providents (New) $6.15 b., $6.16 sa.
MINING
Antamoks Pa. Ex. div. .52 sa. Atoks Ps. .27 sa.
Benguet Consol. Ps. 14.30 sa. Coco Grove Ps. .51.sa. Consolidated Mines Ps. .003 sa. Demonstrations Ps. .28 sa. San Mauricio Ps. 1.80 sa. Suyoc Consol. Pa. Ex. div. ',20 sa. United Paracales Pa. .61 sa.
LANDS, HOTELS & BLDGS. H. K. and S. Hotels $6,70 b., $6.85 9.,
$6.70 sa.
H. K. Lands, $36 b.
Humphreys $9.8.
H. K. Realties $5 b.
PUBLIC UTILITIES
H. K. Tramways $17% b.
Yaumati Ferries (Old) $221⁄4s.
China Lights $9% b. China Lights Rights $3 H. K. Electrics $57% s. Sandakan Lights $10,60 9,
INDUSTRIALS Cements: $15% s.
STORES, &C. Dairy Farms $24, Watsons $71⁄44 b. Lane, Crawfords $8 s.
MISCELLANEOUS Entertainments. $6,90 b. Constructions $1% s. Vibro Piling $81⁄2 b.
b., $% sa.
H. K. Govt. 4% Loan 6% pm. b.
FOOT WORK NOW A PROFESSION
Chiropodists are on their feet at last.
own
Officially recognised by the Bri- tish Medical Association, they have been admitted to the Register of Medical Auxiliaries, with apothe- caries, masseurs, radiographers and dispensing opticians
The change in professional sta- tus will affect 1,200 members of the Incorporated Society of Chiropo- dists and the British Association |of Chiropodists-the two recognis-
ed bodies in the profession."
FINANCIAL PROBLEMS
Paris, To-day.
The need for rehabilitation of France's financial and economic position was stressed by M. Paul Reynaud, "the Minister of Fin- ance, in his address to the Senate on the budget estimate for
1939.
France, he declared, had been brought to the verge of ruin by an economic and financial crisis last- ing over a period of seven years, and was now faced with the neces- sity of having to increase its Army estimates for the coming year to 41 milliard francs
In efforts to find money to pay for the big public work of St. Hemes and for subsidising various branches of industry, he was con- fronted with the fact that there: existed a considerable discrepancy in the financial requirements of the State and income.
The State, he said, had become a banker and a labour exchange bureau but had failed. to energise industrial production while its policy of price control had led to the closing of many undertakings.
France had consequently been augmenting its national debt by 18 milliards yearly. Where in 1931, the value of gold and foreign ex- change holdings the Bank of France amounted to 220 milliard francs, this had by November, 1988, sunk to 80 milliard francs.
France had rejected the proposal' of introducing currency and for- |eign exchange control as this was felt to be incompatible with the policy of the Government.-Trans- Ocean.
SINGER SENTENCED FOR KIDNAP
Before recognised chiropodists
PARIS, DEC: 15. are qualified, they must undergo two years' intensive training in
SOBBING “MY ONLY FAULT IS anatomy, physiology, surgery and MY LOVE FOR MY HUSBAND," medicine..
NADEJDA PLEVITSKAIA, FAM In future, these foot doctors OUS. RUSSIAN SINGER, HEARD must maintain the same strict pro-THE JUDGE IN A PARIS COURT fessional standards as other doc-TO-DAY SENTENCE · HER TO tora.
TWENTY YEARS' IMPRISON--
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If a chiropodist is caught play-MENT, TO BE FOLLOWED BY ing "this little pig went to market" TEN ́YEARS' BANISHMENT with his patient's toes, he may be FROM FRANCE. struck off the register like a doctor Plevitskaia, rage of the Moscow found guilty of an illicit love af- Opera House in the Czarist days, fair.
was found guilty of complicity in Members of the two recognised the kidnapping of General de societies are out to fight the quack. Miller, seventy-year-old, head of the "It is impossible to overestimate White Russian organisation in the menace to public safety arising
France. from the activities of so-called foot experts whose whole training in the subject may be confined to a few months' course," I was told by
He vanished on the night of Sep-- Mr. John H. Hanby, president of tember 22, 1937, leaving a note on the Incorporated Society of Chiro- his desk, "I am going to see General
Skoblin podists.
It may be an am-
*MAY BE AMBUSH'
More than 80 per cent. of the bush." people in Great Britain suffer from Even this trial has failed to clear foot trouble of some kind. Chiro-up the mystery. Plevitskaia, now podists aim at extending foot wel-aged about fifty, is the wife of Gen- [fare, work in factories and at eral Skoblin. Throughout the week's
elementary schools.
trial, conducted in an atmosphere
Bad shoes and badly fitting socks of obscure political hatred, she has are the cause of children's trou- steadily refused to implicate her |bles, and socks, it has been found, husband or explain why he, too, has Jare responsible for more suffering been missing since the beginning of than shoes
last winter.