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RONALD REAGAN DICK PORAN • ANN SHERIDAN • JOHNWIE DA VIS Directed by LLOYD BACON • A COSNOPOLITAN PRODUCTION A WARNER BROS. PICTURE
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TO-MORROW
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 11, 1989
Nearly Four Inches
Of Rain During Night
FOLLOWING SLIGHT DRIZZLES WHICH BEGAN BETWEEN 11·
P.M. AND MIDNIGHT, HEAVY RAIN FELL BETWEEN 1 A.M. AND 3:A.M. TO-DAY, AND AGAIN BETWEEN 7 A.M. AND 9 A.M., BRINGING RAINFALL FIGURES FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDED AT 10 A.M. TO 3.76 INCHES AND IN- CREASING THE TOTAL SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE 'YEAR TO 24.39 INCHES AGAINST AN AVERAGE OF 14.04
INCHES.
Between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m., 1.88 inches were recorded at the Royal Observatory, and 1.22 inches be- tween 7 a.m. and 9 a.m.
This
The temperature took a sudden drop last night from the day's reading of 82 degrees to 73. morning the thermometer recorded 175 degrees, while humidity was 95
per cent.
The Royal Observatory reported anti- this morning that a weak
.
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the south-east of Japan.
JEWISH
SETTLEMENT IN
PHILIPPINES?
London, To-day.
The Jewish refugee problem was touched upon in the House of Com-
A depression is moving north- eastward over the eastern part of mons yesterday when the Conser- the Yellow Sea. A trough of low vative member, M. J. Hepworth
from Siam extends
to (Bradford) inquired whether a
pressure southeast China,
Local forecast: moderate south. plan to settle 300,000 Hungarian erly or variable winds; overcast, Jews in Palestine, was being devis- rain and mist,
Jed by the Government.
GIRL'S NIGHTS ASHORE TO EVADE WEDDING
Mr. Butler replied that the Gov- ernment was not aware that this number of Jews had been or was. to be expelled from Hungary.
He then referred to the work of the Committee of Investigation.. composed of representatives of Britain, America and Holland, and said the group was considering at present the possibility of settling Jewish refugees in British Guiana How a 19-year-old boat girl spent and the Philippine Islands. three successive nights ashore Trans-Ocean.
dis-
owing to her mother's attempts to force her to marry her aunt's adopt- ed son against her will, was closed by Inspector A. Wright at Kowloon this morning before Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen, when she and her aunt were charged with orderly conduct...
dis-
Inspector Wright told the Court that he saw them struggling op- posite the Yaumati Police Station. The aunt pulled the girl's hair but they were separated.
Later they were hair-pulling in a side lane behind the Kwong Ming Theatre, attracting a crowd.
Was
According to the aunt, she instructed by the girl's mother to fetch her back.
POLAND AND
LITHUANIA ON
BETTER TERMS
WARSAW, TO-DAY. THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE LITHUANIAN ARMY, RASTIKIS, NOW GENERAL VISITING · WARSAW, EXPLAIN--- ED LITHUANIAN POLICY TO- WARSAW PRESS REPRESENTA-- TIVES.
The resurrected Lithuania, the General said, must, in view of its geographical and strategic situa-
They were bound over Magistrate, who ordered
the by
In- the
spector to bring the affair to the tion, nursue a policy of neutrality.
attention of the S.C.A.
A DISCREET ARREST
Lithuania was, however, mined to defend her independence - under all circumstances.
deter-
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General Rastikis expressed grati- fication that in Warsaw he had found complete understanding of Lithuania's position.
The Warsaw papers report that General Rastikis expressed satis-- Fearing to catch hold of the thief. faction at the progress made in because of the number of friends normalisation of Polish-Lithuanian: he had nearby, Wong Ying Lung, relations. 25, printer, followed the trail of
General Rastikis yesterday in- Armaments fac-
his watch which was in the pocket spected - Polish
of Lo Kang Chuen, 30, unemployed, tories. Later he called upon the until he saw a police reservist who Polish Premier. General Rastikis upon hearing the story, arrested will leave Warsaw for Kaunas on
Thursday. Trans-Ocean. the defendant.
SOVIET'S NEW AMBASSADOR
Inspector Rogers, prosecuting, told Mr. E. Himsworth that the complainant was watching an olive hawker at the junction of Prince Edward Road and Boundary Street last night. Defendant, who standing beside him, suddenly took his pocket watch, valued at $6.
M. Constantine Unmansky has from his pocket, breaking the watch been appointed Soviet Ambassador chain as he did so. Complainant to the United States.
Was
Moscow, To-day.
had followed him until his subse-It had previously been rumour- quent arrest.
Defendant was sentenced months' hard labour.
ed that the former Foreign Com-
to 4 misser, M. Maxim Litvinoff, would!
be appointed. Reuter.