LEE THEATRE
TEL 20802
TO-DAY, THURSDAY
19th March, 1936.
Daily at 2,30, 5.30, 7.30,.& 9.30 p.m.
CARL 'LAEMMLE presents A UNIVERSAL PICTURE
JACK
Nolt
x
STORM
OVER THE
ANDES
MODERATE PRICES
Dress Circlo
40 cts.
Children
20 cts.
Back Stall,
30 cts.
Front Stalls
20 cts.
To Dress Circle
and
Callery
10 cts.
Back Stalls
(Including Tax)
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1936.
H.K. CIVIL SERVICE BURDEN
(Continued from Page 7) Secretary, in his Budget speech of the 12th September, 1935, clearly foresaw the possibility of an un- balanced 'Budget. (See Hansard 1935, at page 158).
FEARFUL FLOOD TOLL IN U.S.
CHINESE ART TREASURES ·
NAVAL ESCORT TO FAR EAST
(Continued from Page 1) likely to break at any moment: This would be a horrar of the worst description for it would allow millions of gallons of water to rush into the
London, Mur, 18%. valley lands and add to the weight Admiralty, Lord Stanley, in the Com
The Parliamentary Secretary to the of the flood:
We hope that the Government is not going to shelter itself behind the
The Susquehanna River is in spate mons at question-time, sald he hoped plea that it could not fix sterling ex- and thousands of people are leaving the ship conveying back to China the change forward because it had some their homes in the Binghampton area art treasures on loan from the Chinese foreknowledge of the possibility of after fruitless efforts to stom the Government for the recent exhibition measures banged to rising tide with sandings. Men are of Chinese art at Burlington House. estudering Tenure still working along the river, thou-would be escorted by ships from the such a plen, it is neces-sands of them trying to barricade British Navy for most of the voyage. sary to remember that the Gavern their homes against the water works firitish Wiretean. ment are trustees for the taxpayers
of this Colony, whose interestait sing feverishly without intermission the Government's duty to protect by in a hopeless endeavour to save their
properties. every means in its power.
Ordered To Leave Everyone has been ordered to leave: Farmington
Connecticut Valley,
food where the danger of the
rowing more pressing,
RAW RUBBER
LATEST SINGAPORE
PRICES
re-
Many localities are isolated in
Messrs. Benjamin and Potts Vermont and the Connecticut Riverceived the following Straits currency Is transformed into a raging torrent quotations (buyers) from Shugapore and is still rising. A huge lee floe to-day for raw rubber. is jammed against the Vermont Dam Spot giving rise to the fear that it may Äpi/June Inurst-Neuter.
20 ets. down et; 20% CIM.
Xct: July/Sept: 201 cle.
1⁄4 cl: Oct/Deer: 90% cts.
et:
14
**
Market:-Stendy.
It is also necessary to remember that the other party to any such exchange transaction by the Govern ment would be n Bank, which would at once protect itself against loan by entering into a covering contract, When the Unolicials ask for protec tion for the tax-payers" money, their wishes should be met and the onus for the action lald on them. In the present instance the Government were In the extraordinarily fortunate pasi. tion of the Unofficial Members of this Council unanimously volunteering to take upon their own shouldera he responsibility for the Government fix- Waters Receding ing sterling exchange forward.
"We regret being obliged to em.
Johnstown, Mar. 18, phasise this point of fixing exchange The first good news from the flood forward. Our reason for doing so sarea comes from Johnstown, where that it has been suggested by persons the water are reported to be recoding. | outsle of this Council (in ignorance Two are known to be dead and other. of the true facts) that the Unofficial bodies are expected to be discovered Messrs. Benjamin and Potts have Members were to blame for omit later.
received the following buying and; Ling 19 advise" the Government tu. Damage is uncficially estimated selling quotations from, their Manila adopt the business-like precaution of at $35,000,000.
Agents this morning: fixing sterilog exchange forward. Pioneers said the flood is worse Benguet Consolidateda
And, Instly, the Unofficial Members than that of 1880 and that it is lucky! desire me lo express our sympathy the inhabitants were warned in time to Antamoks with Your Excellency in having, go to the high lands in the residential Paracoles soon after your arrival here, to deal district, otherwise the death roll San Mauricios with an unbalanced Budget, and also would have been counted in hundreds. 1. X. L' cuts in Civil Servants' salaries which control and relief gangs are you have, se promptly, brought into organised.—United Press.
PHILIPPINE GOLD MINING SHARES
✪ NEXT CHANGE A KING'S bring the chief sufferer from those over 2000 are homeless. Sanitary Mashates
"YOU'RE A MAN NOW
...and...well...there
ara a certain class
of women.I mean
girls like that one"
and fols of them,
are pretty...ond.,
WILDERNESS!
EUGENE O'NEILL'S great drama of youth's first temptations now a screen masterpiece of CLARENCE BROWN
PICTURE
"You've
he
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slarring.
Wallace Beery Lionel Barrymore
ALINE MacMAHON ERIC LINDEN-CECILIA PARKER SPRING BYINGTON Directed by CLARENCE BROWN
right to put me on Trial!"
G
"Inoverknow Don was a murderer Hofaid loved me, and I thought I loved him. Can't you see I couldn't love a murderer!""
Adolph Zukor presents
Join
SYLVIA SIDNEY Mary Burns, FUGITIVE
A Paramount Picture with MELVYN DOUGLAS ALAN BAXTER Port
Kolion. waTRA
on • Wallace Ford Directed by William K. Howard. A Walter Wanger Production
QUEEN'S THEATRE
SATURDAY
Force.
CABINET MEETS
London, Mar. 18.
being Demonstrations
Big Wedges
No buyers 1190
1.25 1.30
81 No sellers
.58
59
.80
.83
41.
.424
3610
36
16.
is suspended and theatres are closed. At noon the river stage was forty- three feel compared to the normal eighteen feet, and flood level
Pittsburgh Inundated
Pittsburgh, Mnr. 18. Fifty downtown business blocks The ordinary weekly meeting of the are inundated by the flood from the Cabinet was held to-day, but the Ohio, Monongahela and Alleghany twenty-five feet. The previous re- Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Rivers. The Golden Triangle here, cord was thirty-seven feet. Eden, was unable to attend. Later where these three rivers converge, វិទ The plant and press of he was in consultation with. Cabinet | eighteen feet under water.
Post Gazette wore flooded. The plant colleagues, during which time his
published three newspapers.--United | place at the League Council table
Prean. was taken by Lord Cranborne,—— Brittah Wireless.
Business is paralysed and damage estimates run as high as $100,000,000. Two dangerous fires have finally been controlled. The stock exchange
DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF
A MAN WOULD DO WELL TO CARRY AJ Dr. D. J. Valentine will give the PENCIL IN HIS POCKET, AND WRITE next lecture In First Aid at St. John DOWN THE THOUGHTS OF THE MOMENT. | Ambulance Hendquarters on Friday,! THOSE THAT COME UNBOUGHT for. Ane March 20, at 5.30 ̊ p.m. COMMONLY THE MOST, VALUABLE, AND SHOULD BE SUURED BECAUSE THEY SELDOM RETURN.-Bucon,
Steel Plants Flooded
the
Pittsburgh, Mar. 18. This famouUR steel manufacturing centre is seriously affected by the floods, which have raised the food heights of the Alleghany waters to twenty-seven feet.
Hundreds of houses are isolated and many are on fire.
Oil tanks at the Waverly Ol ed, and the flaming oil has sot fire Works in Lawrenceville have explad- i to the Pittsburgh Spring Steel Conf- Phe swollens waters of the Potomac
buildings.
River cover Hancock, Maryland, to a depth of nearly five feet. The river is still rising three feet hourly, and; there is no fight.
Arrived on the P. and O. liner Nallera this morning was Mr. Wunz Two months' hard labour without he is returning to Shanghai
King, Chinese Ambassador to Hol the option of fite was inflicted by
on leave, Mr. Balfour at. the Central Magix- Lency this morning on Lau Yan, un- employed, when he admitted keeping The 8. Victoria is due from Euro. a lodging house for prostitutes at 2 pean, Indian and Straita ports at Fuk Sau Lane; West Point district. 8.30 p.m. to-night, and will berth at Sub-Inspector B. Thorpe prosecuted, the Kowloon wharf, sailing for Ithaca, in New York State, is isolated,
The theft of a water tap from u
Shanghai at 11 a.m. to-morrow,
A wireless message states that
Telophones and telegraph services have been broken down by the foods and dozens of buildings have been
vacant floor at 64 Des Voeux. Road The forthcoming wedding is an-swept away at New Hartford, Con- Central, was admitted-by-Lau-Hung,nounced of Mr Charles Percy Archer, necticut, by the-collapse-of-a-dam--| 49, coolie, when he was brought be of 70a, Wong Nei Chong Rond, top Reuter Special. fore Mr. Balfour at the Central floor, and Miss Valentina Maria Magistracy this morning. Sentence Castilho, residing at 75n, Wong Neij of one month's hard labour was in Chong Road, top, floor. posed. Sub-Impector L recuted.
bilst pro.
Forty Dead?
Washington, Mar. 18.
It is estimated that 40 are dend, 20 Adjutant (Miss) D. Brazier, who is of then in Johnstown, in the floods, Dr. C. T. Wang, Judge at the llague Home for Women and Girls, is a thousands of square miles,
In charge of the Salvation Army which have spread devastation over International Court, who arrived in Hongkong from Europe nearly a fort patient at the Matilde Hospital, On Rivers have overflowed, automobiles night age and has sings visited Cantonenquiry yesterday it was learned that are stalled, bridges are closed and re- where he discussed the possibility of ter condition showed slight improve-sidents have fled from the lowlanda in his returning north with Mr. Hu an.ment. mig, will leave Hongkong for Shang-
hai to-morrow on the Lloyd Triestino The Central Fire Brigade received liner Victoria.
ļa call at 937 this morning to a small fire which had broken out in a box Leung Tong, 38, houseboy, pleadedroom at "Alberose" on the Pokfulam guilty before Mr. Balfour at the Cen-Road, near the Dairy Farm. The tral Police Court this morning to the outbreak was coon subdued without theft, by servant, of a leather suit any great damage being caused..` case and clothing from 2, Queen's
Street. second Heor. Detective
For returning from banishment
Sergeant Allen stated that defendant before her term of deportation had had pawned the clothing for - $13. Asked if he could raise the money nui, 23, was sentenced to two months' been completed, a woman, Li Fung- 24 hours as amends to the
1 hard labour by Mr. Balfour at thej Complainant, defendant told the Magistrate that he probably could i Sul-Inspector L. Mat prosecuted,
Central Magistracy, this morning. he sold his child. One month's hardi labour was imposed.
The China Emporium Ball Room
WHITEAWAY'S SPRING SALE
60
NOW PROCEEDING
ONLY "VELVET INTERLOCK SPORTS SHIRTS COLOURS, WHITE, SKY, LEMON, WINE, ETC.
25
SALE PRICE $2. EACH
6 DOZEN WASHABLE "NON-CREASE" OPEN
END TIES ASSORTED CHECKS, SPOTS.
SALE PRICE 80CTS.
EACH
18 ONLY MEN'S SPORTS JACKETS
COLOURS: LT. GREY AND FAWN CHECK.
SALE PRICE $16.50
.
24 ONLY MEN'S LT. GREY CASHMERE
TROUSERS ENGLISH CUT AND FINISH.
SALE PRICE $12.50
20 ONLY MEN'S WHITE WOOL SWEATERS
ROLL OR V SHAPE COLLARS
SALE PRICE $6.50
... EACH
36 ONLY MEN'S PYJAMA SUITS
TWILL FLANNEL AND POPLIN STRIPES.
SALE PRICE $3.00 $5.00
AND
50 PAIRS MEN'S BLACK AND TAN WILLOW
SHOES. ENGLISH MADE
· SALE PRICE $7,50
PAIR
Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.
ginin, West Virginia and the Now Far East Flying Training School
Pennsylvanin, Maryland,
England states.
Hundreds are marooned at North | KAI TAK AIRPORT Adams, Mass.
At Worcester, Man, the Leesville dam broke spreading another six to sixteen feet of water over an already deeply covered area,
It is expected that the Potomaa Valley lowlanders will have 10 vnconté.—United Press.
Kill Kidney
Trouble Quick
Thouantida
et Baltezera from
Kidney
Mr. Porey Vickars who has bets offers a special nitmetion to patrons resident of the Colony for the past for tonight in the form of entertain- fourteen years, and who has been onnent by La Valeska, well-known trouble and Budder weakness have stopped danseuse, and Barbara Taylor Kjerulf, Getting Up Nights, Lea Paine, Nervances, the staff of MexsTB Lee Yu Kee, sanitary engineers, for the last four harpist and Mistress of Ceremonies. | Theumatism, Dizziness, Lumbryo, Durning, years, has resigned his position
Dancing will be from. 8 p.m. to 1 a.m.Itching, Bmarting. H
Acuity and Loss of order to take up an appointment in
Viror by Doctor's new sliecoraty called England. is colleagues entertain- At the annual meeting of share. Crates(latex), Gently another, Loner, ed him at a farewell dinner inst night holders of the Chartered Benk the lean, and heda, raw soro, kidness. In 18 at the China Emporium Restaurant, Directors will recommend a final minutes Ontex starts purifying your blond, and presented, blai with a handsome dividerd at the rate of 14 per cent. Brings new health, youth and vitality in 40 set of carved Ivory balls as a token per annum subject to: Income Tax. hours. Guaranteed to end your troubles ins of their esteem. Mr. and Mr. £50,000 added to Pension Fund, day or mober back. Get Cyster at Vickars #nil for Home by the Ajax£25,000 written off Promises Account, chemists, next Wednesday,
£181,037.10/1d. carried forward
OLYMPIC GAMES
BERLIN 1936.
Special parties being arranged from the Far East.
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