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SHOWING TO-DAY
at 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.
HEAR (
Hear Them on the Screen --Funnier than Ever.
Radio's Big Laugh-
Makers. The Smash-Hit Laugh Sensation. Girls! Catchy Music!
THE TWO BLACK CROWS MORAN & MACK
in
"Why Bring That Up ?"
EVELYN BRENT HARRY
a Paramount Picture
GREEN
Laughs alore--Girls by the Score.
NEXT CHANGE
REVELRY SWEEPS the SEVEN SEAS!
Get happy
with the gobs
in bir joyous
Serial
of and
dance
MUSICAL WONDER
SHOW of the FLEET!
A tale of watented inMORIE pizmed amid Weggering mega- kxemcn an ihm desks of a plough.
Ing tumulomer an
KADIO PICTURES present Vincent Youmans'
musical sensation
HIT THE
DECK
JACK OAKIE
POLLY. WALKER
and thousand biker players, dancers, singers and beautiful
girls
Directed by
LUTHER REED
Lasish Scenes in
TECHNICOLOR
(Theatre
Imprint)
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1931.
GREAT GALE GIVES CABLE SITUATION | LABOUR SLUMP AT
RETURN VISIT.
TREMENDOUS NEW DAMAGE IN MAURITIUS.
RAILWAY BLOCKED.
Port Louis, Mar. 8.
A seventy-malle an hour gale, de- companied by torrential rain, the worst hurrienne for a period of twenty years, swept over Mauritius on Thursday last week and return- ed in full blast yesterday,
visitation.
The denth-roll revealed up to the present is only ten, but thousands have been rendered homeleær.
Huts end trees were
CLEARED UP.
FOREIGN COMPANIES
IN CONTROL.
NO QUESTION OF HAVING BEEN OUSTED.
AGREEMENT REACHED]
EAST SYDNEY,
"HERALD" FORCECASTS END OF INFLUENCE.
WAR DEBT QUESTIÓN.
Sydney, Mar. B.
Enst The Anal figures in the
by-election were an- Sydney nounced this evening, as follows:
Ward (Labour) Courtenay (Nut.) Mountjoy (Communist)
Labour Maj.
19,075
10,333
011
3,642
Mr.
The situation in regard to the cables at Amoy and Foochow is It came back with extreme vio-cleared up by an announcement lence and wrecked hundreds of made in Shanghai that the Great
The falling off in the Labour homes that had survived the first Northern Telegraph Co and the poll was, therefore, even worso Eastern Extension Telegraph than the early estimates. The Co. have resumed control of the majority compares with one of offices there. Operations on the 18,000 at the last election, and coastal Hines from these ollices 10,000 were cut away in spite of
fact that every one of were suspended on February 12 the swept by the foreign companies at the Lang'a cabinet addressed the con- Inway. Sagar-cane plantations request of the Chinese Tele-stituent où Mr. Ward's behalf.
graph Administration, which The Herald, in an editorial com- (everywhere were beaten down, made a similar request just over menting upon the resuit, points at
#4 harvesting in many
East Sydney a year ago when, for a while, the [well; be extremely difficult. Some
nt:སa8 From Shanghai to Labour stronghold for the last The fall of the of the crope linys been completely Hongkong, via Amoy and Footwenty
chow-and V104 Versa-were Labour majority to 3,600 means transmitted over the Chines that “a foly more such victories Telegraphs and telephones are land lines.
and Labour, Federal and State. Interrupted. The railway is block-
[will be well-nigh destroyed.” The Shanghai Sunday Times, fed by the flonds and landstides.fupes making inquires into
ruśneri.
Reuter,"
CANDA
* AUSTRALIAN SENT
TO PRISON.
•Continued from Page 1
the accused lind cleareti the Colony.
"A SIBy Whim.”
out
the
yours,
IN
been
AMUSEMENTS
AT TH
OF HONGKONG,
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
QUEEN'S At 2.30. 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20.
· SPECIAL FEATURE ITE-
UNITED ARTISTS' SPECIA‹E TE
"GLORIOUS VAMPS”
ROUGH ROMANCE
Referring to the Federal Gov- fart of the change over at Amayernment's plans for dealing with and Ponchow two weeks prvi ie country's Anances, the Herald's, ys was informed in feint que Canberra correspondent says it ters that part of the foreira cus. muy be stated that there is no reens was nie a tenquiry and possibility of the cancellation of dot to Grent ure and that when cocain matters Australia's war
Heltuin, but it is understood that ind been desider itputs the servi
would revert to the Great North the Contrawealth Government is hopeful of obtaining refier by era and Entera Extention
of a molineation of the panies.
terms
imament.
OR
had tires of the Eastern Extension,
Max present
STABILISATION OF SILVER UNLIKELY.
Continued from Page 11
Request complied with. Following a series of conversa- j tions between officials of the Mini In making an explanation, the istry of Communications at Nan- accused said the whole thing was king anal Capt. J. J. Bahnson, Gen- purely the outcome of a row hederal Manager in the Far East of bad with Mr. Whitta. He had the Great Northern Telegraph no intention of clearing out of Co., Ltd., as well as representa- | the Colony and though he booked his gaassage and left. LeAustralasia and China Telegraphi was intending to return.
It was Cu.. Lid.. the foreign companies ounces, while France put ut lensi only when he got to Manila that
were anked to cease operations 1 23,000,000 into the market.
Hon exported defendant coins re- he realized the enormity of the Amoy and Poochow respectively. terine and agreed to waive exten-
The request was immediately presenting 18,000,000 fine ounces, lition proceedings.
complied with, and from that date!
Hongkong Purchases, messages passing between i Accused added that he had three points were dealt with by Hongkong absorbed approximate-, clear record så far and had never the Chinese Telegraph Adminis- ly 25,000,000 ounces during got into trouble at any sort, Hetration which, in addition to its rear, about 10,000,000 being pur- had served in the Army. Haskan lines, has radio facilities
ed that a lenient view be taken as the transmission of messages. all the gonds, which were of
value to him, had been recovered, He had previously made arrange-? ments with Mr. Whitta to go to] New Zealand on business.
Sni-
the
chased in London and Bombay for mintage In the first four months of the year, while a direct purchase of New Rates Announced, 15,000,000 ounces from the Gov ernment of India was made in The foreign
la companies,
August, the news causing bear sell- announcing the
of resumption
from India and from activities, state that telegranes ing both for Amoy and Amey and Fooch China. exchanges can now be aceeplec The slump in the price from for transmission over direct cable 212d. 16 January to 14. in De- at 15 cents per word plain Chiners cember is the subject of a month and 30 cents per word foreign and to month commentary, and the gen. Chinese code; Telegrams for eval conclusion is that the demorali. Swatow and other inland places nation of the Shanghai market con- Mr. Schoßeld-Was Mr. White accepted for transmission vitributed largely to the collapse. aware of the defendant's inten-Amy and Foochow dry cable at the
"It was purely and simply silly whim exccuted under the influence of considerable drink and to get my own back on Mr.
Whitta.
Deliberately Done.
tion to leave the Colony?
Mr. Whitta:-Yes. I was.
Mr. Schofield:—I am afraid
| have to take a serious view,
LX
jold rates, viz.-20 cents per word for plain Chinese and 40 cents per word for foreign aud Chinose cote,
Not Ousted.
official of AR
Indian Government Selling.
Quotations are made from a speech by Sir George Schuster, giv.
that the
Indian ing assurantes Government, while holding stocka there seems to have been too
that should be realised in the pub- much deliberation about the whole
Interest, will the lic
not go to the matter. I am glad that the pro- foreign companies, when in-market unless they are advised perly has been recovered, and interviewed by П representa-that, as in the past, the market will view of that fact I am going to tive of the Shanghai Sunday not be appreciably affected by their impose a smaller sentence than Times, emphasized that there was operations. would otherwise have done. Six no question of the Chinese Tele- 'weeks' hard labour.
One
graph Administration Busting either the Great Northern or the inform the public that in defor Eastern Extension companies. ence to the Chinese Telegraph Miss Wong-Taz-ha, who recently This, he said, was made evident in authorities' wishes, it has been arrived in England, is a graduate of the official notice posted at the obliged for the time being to close Hongkeng University, a journalist of Amoy office when the Chinese its handing-in and delivery offices three years experience in the East, organization took over the whole | at Amoy and Kulangau." A and a speaker of fluent English Infof the eable activities.
notice couched in similar terms, it
an article in the Daily Exprean she The notice read as follows:- was stated, was posted nt, the exprusses warm admiration of English "The Company regrets to have to other company's Foochow office. girls.
THE OPENING OF
Lane, Crawford's
NEW CAKE SHOP
King's Theatre Building.
THURSDAY,
MARCH 12th.
on
ali talking movietone drama of the snow- lands
↓
Willlom Fox
1
Two two-fid Northwoodsmen, ast on the draw and just as fast at love making ·
featuring
GEORGE O'BRIEN HELEN CHANDLER ANTONIO MORENO NOEL FRANCIS directed by
A. F. ERICKSON
ADDED AT RAČIJUNS
LARK and McCULLOUGH
ia
"HIRED and FIRED"
NEXT CHANGE
International Funster
but real American. in everything h says and don
WILL ROGERS
GEORGE AL COHANSI
International Beccass
SO THIS 'S
LONDON
Booking al Anderson's & The Theatre.
DEATH OF MR. A. BELLAMY BROWN.
Tel. 25720)
in journalism in Japan, .coming la- ter to Hongkong, which he left in 1911 to take up the editorship of the Malay Mail in Kuala Lumpur. His wife, who was a sister of Mr. J. A. Plummer, of Messra. Bradley PASSING OF FORMER
and Co., Hongkong, passed away HONGKONG EDITIOR.
little time prior to Mr. Many of the older residents of the some Colony will learn with doop regret Brown's departure from the Co- of the death in England of Mr. Alony. After some years in Malaya, Bellamy Brown, a former editor of Mr. Brown received a position with the China Mail. He passed away the Hudson Bay Company in Lon- al Edingthorpe, Norfolk, in his don, and had resided in England
ever since. 61st year, ou January 24th Inst.
The late Mr. Bellamy Brown, who He leaves two sons and a daugh- was a man of marked. literary tater, with whom the utmost sym- lonta, was for many years engaged pathy will be felt.
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:
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WILL BE BISCUITS, CHOCOLATES, ETC DISPLAYED. IN FACT, THE FINEST VARIETY
EVER SEEN IN HONGKONG..
We Extend & Cordial Invitation to Inspect
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