THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 30, 1939
BANK FAILURE HITS
ALHAMBRA QUEEN WILHELMINA
THAN ED, KOWLOON DAILY AT 2,30°S,30.720 € 9,30 •TEL, 4 0 6 56
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
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TWO CAMERA DAREDEVILS .
ON THEIR FIRST EXCITING ASSIGNMENT !
READY ON A MOMENT'S NOTICE TO TAKE THEIR LIVES IN THEIR HANDS
... or maybe a girl in their arms! The Camera Daredevils
TO-MORROW
Paramount
Picture
DAILY
SHARPSHOOTERS
BRIAN
with LYNN
WALLY
DONLEVY BARI - VERNON
JOHN KING · DOUGLAS DUMBRILLE C.HENRY GORDON - SIDNEY BLACKMER
Introducing the Sensational
New Star, PATRICIA MORISON in. "PERSONS IN HIDING
HANKOW ROAD KOWLOON
1STARE
720
EKO RADIO Picture
TO-DAY ONLY
57795
SWEPT OFF THEIR FEET by a love so great they could not ovade it!
Ravishingly robad Terry McKay = Rock- lessly bold Michat Marnay, Sabler Wogainst kizze hoorts against life!
TO-
MORROW
I NONOG
Screen Ploy by Dalmar Davesk
and Donald Qoden Stewart
IRENE CHARLES DUNNE BOYER
Love Affair
MARIA OUSPENSKAYA
LEE BOWMAN • ASTRID ALLWYN MAURICE MOSCOVICH Produced and Directed by LEO McCARET
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"LOVE PARADE"
A Paramount Picture
BAZUIA, ZO
TRADING FIRM 'INVOLVED
TO TUNE OF £4,000,000'
Amsterdam, August 16.
The Dutch Royal Family, it became known to-day, are among those hit by the crash of Mendelssohn's Bank, whose head, fifty-three-year-old Fritz | Mannheimer, died in France last week.
Queen Wilhelmina is one of the largest shareholders in the Dutch Trading Company, who are said to be involved to the extent of nearly
£4,000,000.
The Mendelssohn collapse brought business on the Amsterdam Exchange to a standstill to-day. One group of
OCEAN FLIGHTS TO SEE
SICK WIVES
Two men, strangers to each other, Dutch bankers asked the Government have flown the Atlantic together on to intervene with foreign Governments the same mission-to be at the bed- to prevent a rush of calls on their re-side of their wives, who are serious- ly ill, one in Scotland and the other in Paris.
sources.
CRUISE PUT OFF
Dr. Colijn, ex-Premier of Holland and a close friend of Queen Wil- helmina, is another large shareholder in the Dutch Trading Company. He was in touch with the Finance Minis- ter to-day, and is expected to post- pone the world cruise on which he planned to leave.next week.
Dutch bankers feel that, given time and Government support, they can straighten things out, but It is pointed out that the value of Mendelssohn and Company's assets in foreign countries depends largely on the ups and downs of the International situation.
If affairs' in Europe deteriorate, it is likely that the Mendelssohn crash will be followed by others.
"If the Government refuse their support," one banker said to me this evening, "and if the international situation grows worse, we may have a Kreuger affair in Holland."
SECRETS CHARGE AT EDINBURGH
They are Mr. William Paton Mon- crieff, a building contractor, of Rum- M. Edouard son, New Jersey, and Cournand, a French business man.
They were among the 25 passengers who disembarked from the Pan- American Airways Yankee Clipper at Southampton on her arrival from the United States. She was several hours late, having been held up by bad weather in Newfoundland.
Mr. Moncrieff received a cable stating that his wife, who, with a seven-year-old daughter, is on a holi- day visit to her mother, Mrs. S. Cam- eron, of Hepburn-street, Dundee, was seriously ill following an operation.
LAST-MINUTE SEAT
He was able to secure a seat in the Clipper five minutes before she took, off from Port Washington. He left Southampton for London by train
to
charter a 'plane at Croydon for Dundee.
M. Cournard flew from Southamp- ton to Paris. He intends to take his wife to New York for specialist treat- ment. He will join the Queen Mary with her at Cherbourg.
Two other passengers, Mr. H. L.
A charge under the Official Secrets Stuart, a Chicago investment banker, Act was brought at Edinburgh against and his sister, Miss Harriet Stuart, aré James Davidson, alias Jack Chapman the first passengers to make the round
the Stewart, believed to be a private in trip on
Transatlantic service. an Army unit. His address was given They will leave again in the Clipper. as Edinburgh Castle.
It was stated that the alleged offen-
ces were beyond the jurisdiction of
the police court, and to allow time fortaining the utmost reticence regard- inquiry it was necessary that à war-ing the arrest. It is understod that a rant should be granted to detain Dav-C.I.D. officer visited the headquarters idson in custody. The magistrates] of the Scottish Command in Edin- granted an application for a remand. burgh, where he consulted Army off-
Police and court officials are main- 'cials.
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Irene Dunne Charles Boyer Latest 'lanue March of Time.
Alluring Patricia' Morison, as the lady who builds a petty crook Into, a national -terror, takes the rap from J. Edgar Hoover In his new orimo" drama, ""Persona: In Hiding." Her partner in the plature, which opene to-morrow at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres, is J, Carroll. Nalah.