MAJESTIC
TO-DAY ONLY at 2,30, 5.20, 7.20 8' 9.20 p.m..
GEORGE SIDNEY, CHARLIE MURRAY
The
in
Cohens and Kellys in Trouble
All British
RONE Equipment.
RUND
STEEL FURNITURE
THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY, ¦ JUNE 20, 1934.
THE ALBANY JAPANESE PLANS INFLATION
SOLD
FETCHES PRICE. OF $187,000
AN OLD HISTORIC BUILDING
FOR CHINA
Finance Corporation Scheme
IN CANADA?
AUTHORISING BILL INTRODUCED
Shanghai, June 20, Local Japanese. financlar and businessmen hold a meeting inst!
EXPANSION OF evening to discuss the develop-
GOLD COVER |ment of Japanese economie ontor- A property deal involving one prison in China. It was resolved
Ottawa, June 19. of the first buildings to be that a corporation be catnblished erected in the Colony after the with a capital of $15,000,000, A substantial increase in British occupation has been con- tablished at Shanghal, and branch.
The headquarters will bo os the Canadian fiduciary issue cluded by the sale of the block offers at Hankow, Tiontalt, Can- is apparently contemplated known as The Albany, altunte ton and other trading ports in by the Bennett Government, on the mid-levels.
China. The corporation will be
BANKER FOUND GUILTY
P
of
The Government has tabled Bill in the House of Commons, which authorises the issue notes up to a total of $120,000,000, with a twenty-five per cent. gold
The property has been disposed Jointly financeit by the Japanese leading to expectations of of by the agents for the owners, Government and individual Japan. the development of an in- Messrs. Linstead and Davla, the ase.-Central New
flationary policy. price fetched being $187,776. It was acquired as far back as 1862 by Mr. Charles May, on his retire- ment as Captaîn Superintendent of Police, a post which he held from 1844. Ever since, it has ro mained in the family, having pass- ed to Mr. Mny's son and then to his two grandsons, both of whom ated in 1931. It has now been sold in connection with the wind Ing up of the local estate.
Mr. May, it is interesting to note, was the Colony's first Chief of Police, and he brought out from Home the first European contingent for the Force.
BUILT IN 40'S
MISAPPLYING FUNDS AND FALSIFYING
coverage.
tho
Any neten put into circulation in excess of this sum must be co- |véred dollar for dollar with gold.
New York, June 19. Until now, only $50,000,000 has Mr. J. W. Harriman, former been statutorily, covered by President of .the' Harriman 25 per (nt. margin which the National Bank and Trust Com-World Economic Conference do- pany, was found guilty to-day by cided was ample coverage for n Federal Court jury on charges domestic purposes. of falsifying the records and mis- applying the funds of the bank.
Mr. K. H. Bennett. the Prime A. M. Austin, former Vice-
Minister, explained that if the Government President of the bank, was
Issued $50,000,000 acquitted on similar charges. worth of notes beyond the present circulation of money, they would still have a gold coverage of 31 per cent.-Renter
ANNA
re-
The Albany, which is still re, identially occupied, was named after the Duké Albany. It was built in the late forties by the military authorities, along with Reuter. other military establishments, and was for many years known as "Albany Barracka,” being used as | Government, The property officers' quarters.
mained in Government hands until The property later passed to the 1862, when it was purchased by Government, and in 1858-59 one Mr. May, of the Government offiéinis occupy- The names
the new paire ing No. 1 house was the Trade) chasers have not beeri disclosed, Commissioner. In 1860, the twu nor the purpose to which the It was stated to-day that Tyne central houses, Nos. 2 and 3, were property will now be put, but it coul shipments have increased by used as a Chhose girls school, in reported that a block of fats nearly 750,000 tons
over last no rent being charged by the may be erected on the site.
year's total.—British Wireless.
TO-DAY
ONLY
DAILY AT
2.30, 5,10, 7.15
and
9.30 P.M.
•
KINET
THEATRE
AIR-CONDITIONED
· TYNE COAL EXPORTS
London, June 19,
BOOKING
AT THE
THEATRE TEL. 25313, G 25332.
THEATRE
TO-MORROW
TWICE DAILY 5.15 p.m. & 9.30 p.m.
LAST TIMES TO-DAY
BROADWAY MERRY-GO-ROUND
SOON TO SAY GOOD-BYE!
Greater
MARCUS
SHOW
COMPANY
SEVENTY
OF LEON MILLER · BEN MɑATTEE
SIX BOUNDING' ALI BABAS KARELS ADAGIO FOUR ALL NEW OPENING TO MORROW
fantasies
of 1934
ACE OF THE MARCUS REPERTOIRE Matinees 50 cts. $1.00 $2.00 & $8.00 Nights 60cts. $1.00 $2.00 $3.00&$4 00
TO-DAY and
TO-MORROW
STAR
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 8 9.20
Sho mado a business of hor daughter's beauty!-
66 STAGE. MOTHERS
Motro's Daring Drama
with
ALICE BRADY
Maureen O'Sullivan'
Hankow Rd. Kowloon
STAR
Phone
57795
ALHAMBRA
THENTRE
-To-day to Saturday at 2,30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20′′
NEIGHBOR
LOVE THY ··
Tong_to_the_ fovaly neighbor,
CALL AT OUR SHOWROOM & INSPECT RONEO'S COMPLETE RANGE OF STEEL OFFICE EQUIPMENT. DESKS - TABLES - FILING CABINETS — STORAGE CUPBOARDS- CARD INDEX —— ETC.
DODWELL & CO., LTD.
OFFICE EQUIPMENT DEPT. Queen's Building.
GEORGE RAFI
..He rose
to fame on an ladder of dancing ladics.
Bolero
COMING KING'S
AT THE
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PEROY ~FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria
Hongkong.
LET'S BE RITZY
Starring LEW AYRES
"Keeping Up With The Joneses" started them on the road to ruin, but finally brought them to their highest spot of happiness. See this up-to-the-minuto romance of a $30 a wosk dark whose wife had million-dollar ideas!
With Patricia Ellis, Frank McHugh, Isabel Jewell. From e play by Willam Anthony McGuire. Directed by Edward Ludwig. Presented by Cari Laemmin.
4 SHOWS
DAILY
2,30-5.15
*7.15-8.30
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE.
TAKE ANY Tram or HaprY VALLEY BUS
WILL
ROGERS
in
DAVID HARUM
with
LOUISE DRESSER EVELYN VENABLE KENT TAYLOR
STEPIN FETCHIT A. FOX Picture
ORIENTAL
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
ONLY.
THE MOST NOVEL
PICTURE YOU EVER SAW !"
AGAIN THE BEST SHOW IN TOWN !
20 directors selected 20 authors
to write this story for 20 great stars, togather they produced” tha greatest picture of the year.
AN ECCENTRIC MILLIONAIRE gives to ton persont unknown to him one million dollars pach; to spend da they' please.
COME AND SEE HOW THEY
SPEND IT...
IF I HAD
A MILLION
with
GARY COOPER GEORGE RAFT Wynne GIBSON CHARLES LAUGHTON JACK OAKIE FRANCES CHARGE RUGGLES
DEE
ALISON SKIPWOATH W. C. FIELDS --MARY BOLAND
ROSCOE KARNS. MAY ROBSON GERE RAYMOND,
FLEMING
ROAD WANGHAI
TEL. 26473
WE'RE NOT DRESSING
Other hit songs
Bing introduct
• Sandy
Bing Crosby
introducing the sang bits of 1934
CAROLE. LOMBARD "Osorg» BURNS & Orade ALLEN
A Paramount Picture i CHARLIE RUGGLES
Also selected Sports—Don't miss the “TIN TYPE" of the Royal Family with the late King Edward VII.
They change so fast, there should be
a new picture at least once a year, for photographs of the children never grow up.
Make an appointment to-day. THE MING YUEN STUDIO 17, Queen's Road Central (First Floor) (Batweon the H.K. Hotol and Dairy Farm Store, Queen's Road C.)