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THE
HONGKONG
Scientists In Conference
FROM ALL PARTS
OF EMPIRE
London, Sept. 21.
TELEGRAPH.
The British Commonwealth Scienti- fle Conference, attended by re- presentatives appointed
by
the
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22,
1936.
TRACKING Stock Market ALHAMBRA
"BOOTLEG"
COTTON
HONGKONG USED FOR TRANSHIPMENTS
Irregular
STRENGTH IN N.Y. UTILITY ISSUES
New York, Sept. 21.. Prices were irregularly higher on the New York Market to-day.
The market was featured by the
Governments of the United Kingdom, GOODS BOUND strength and activity of utility issues.
of all the Dominions, of India and of the Colonies, was opened in London
of Agricul to-day by the Minister
ture, Mr. Walter Elliot, who referred to the valuable co-perative work in through agricultural science effected
the Executive Council of the Imperial
FOR P. I.
Washington, Sept. 21,
The Department of Commerce re-
Traders continue to be generally optimistic due to sleel production reaching the highest level alnce 1930, The strength of foreign markets and the increase in cigarette produc- tion were also favourable factors.
The Bund Market and issues on
Agricultural Bureau-g body constat. † Poris that arrivals of Japanese cotton the.Curb Exchünge were also higher. ]
pire
of representatives of all the Em-piece goods in the Philippine Isla
for the year ending July 31, 1936.1
of
totalled 52,075,000 square metres.
one
and Governments Imperially Bnanced. A review the work of this Council forms of the main objects of the present Conference.
DOW JONES AVERAGES
Sept. 19. Sept. 21. Chunge
168.03
58.36
188,90 Or .03 36.36 Unchdg.
13,070,000 square Q! this total
trom Industrials metres were Imported direct Japan and 8,000,000 square metres Rails
Viimaties
34.50 31.38 OIT .12 from Hongking.
Bonds...
104.72 104.75 Up.03 Volume: 1,770,000 shares.-United Press.
The report Buys that apparently the
The Conference will also make four of inspecting bureaux and centres information which deal with, my-totals exceed the voluntary mita- tlon maximum by 3,175,000 metres. time calugy, zoll selenec, anfinal health,
Further it said that of the animal nutrition and genetics, plant
and when voluntary limitation of cation production.
genetics, fruit agricultural parasitology.
Sir Charles Howell Thames, Chairman of the Executive Counci of the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux, was elected Chairman of the Con- ference. British Wireless.
Buffalo Gores Cattleman
ATTACKS WORKER AT SLAUGHTER-HOUSE
Wong Tu, aged 27 years, a cattle- inan at the Kennedy Town cattle market, was severely gored in the right thigh by an enraged buffalo,at the Kennedy Town slaughter house yesterday morning, and is lying in the Government Civil Hospital in serious condition.
и
The Incident occurred at about 8 aan. yesterday, when the buffaloes were being given a drink of water in an open space at the slaughter house. The water was contained in buckets.
was The injured man
and a cloth superintending the which he earried a became entangled in the horns of one of the bufilers. The animal the became enraged and turned on the man, who was not quick enough to get out of its way, and gored him severely in the right thigh. One of the animal's horns plerced the man's leg.
The Injured man was removed to hospital by Sanitary
Inspector Strange.
SOCIALISTS' VICTORY
CONTROL SWEDISH LOWER HOUSE
AWAITS LEAGUE
DECISION
Baron Alvisi, head of the Italian Geneva, diplomatic delegation to watts in Rome for word that the League has banished the Ethiopian delegates from the Assembly, and will not go to Geneva mutil this step
taken.
exports was instituted, the amount shipped via Hongkong was negligible, but that since January, 1936, these shipments had become an important factor in the trade.
"It is understood the Department of State has been informed that it is the plan of the Association of Japanese Exporters of Cotton goods to the Philippines to include long- kong in the scope of their control affecting transhipments in order to reduce the difficulties-and uncertain les arising from transhipments."
POLITICAL EFFECTS
Washington; Sept. 21.
The political campaign is the pre- | sent dominating factor. The liminary returns uf The Literary
pre-
Digest poll are practically meaning less, but these figures can be followed seriously in about three weeks from
now,
Prevailing adds are about to 5 for President Roosevelt-Stan, Cu!- i bertson and Fritz.
NATHAM RD, HOWLDON DAILY AT 2 50+
℗ TO-DAY & TO-MORROW » HE LOVED TO ANSWER THE CALL TO ARMS!
PRIDE
Fighting champ' of the corps... until a bluto- orod blonde landed and took the linalon
well in hand!
MARINES
CHARLES
BICKFORD Florence Rico Billy Burrad Robert Allen Directed by
D. Ross Lederman
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NEXT CHANCE: The Magic Voice of GRACE MOORE Will Again Thrill All Of You in
Joe Louis Is "THE KING STEPS OUT"
Favourite
MEETS ETTORE IN PHILADELPHIA
Philadelphia, Sept. 21.
Joe Louis of Detroit, the coloured sensation, is a four-to-one avourite
to defeat the Italian, Ettorc, one of
A Columbia Picture.
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the most rugged fighters of the day. Last Times To-day at 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.
The men meet here to-night and
the wise money says, the battle will not go the full fifteen rounds, and give odds of eight to five to burk their argument.
Louts will weigh 202 pounds and Ettore 192,
The Italian beat Jim Braddock, the present world's champion, two years before Jim took the title.-- United Press.
A remarkable interview with. El- tare, who thinks Louis is a coward, and says so, appears on Page 9 of this issue.
HUNTING FOR BOMBERS
HAVANA ROUND-UP OF RADICALS
Havana, Sept. 21. Police rounded up segres
of Stockholm, Sept. 21.
anarchists and other radicals to-day Socialists won a working majority
in an effort to fix the responsibility in the Lower Chamber of Parliament
for the explosion of a truckload of yesterday
dynamite outside a newspaper office in the general elections
yesterday, which resulted in the and incomplete returns indicated that
The Department of Commerce un-death of three, the injuring Conservatives lost nine seats to the
of the
scare and the wrecking of the press People's Party and Farmers' Party.derstands that members United Press.
CABINET QUITTING
Stockholm, Sept. 21. The Prime Minister announced to- day that the Cabinet would resign Wednesday.Renter.
RAILWAY CRASH IN FRANCE
Marselles. Sept. 21. Ten
28 persons are dead and serlusty Injured following a col Ilsion between a local train and motor coach near Chateau Neuf-les- Martiques.-Renter.
R.A.F. FLYING-BOATS DUE
Japanese Exporters Association them-plant. sees have not engaged in tranship- nents via Hongkong-United Presa.
FORMER M. P. PASSES
London, Sept. 21.
Mr. Frank Hornby, former Mem- her of Parliament for a Liverpool constituency. died there to-day following at operation, in his 74th
year.
Further arrests are expected,
of in
It is suspected in some quarters thol sympathisers with the Spanish Leftists are responsible for the pulrage, since the newspaper Involved Was " Nightist organ.-
United Press.
OUT AFTER RECORDS
Bonneville, Sept. 21. A. B. Jenkins, the Anicrican-speed driver who was ahead of many of Mr. Hornby was the inventor of Capt. George Eyston's records for Meccano toys and Hornby toy trains, long distance racing when his cor and from a small workshop with one broke down a week ago, started this afternoon, speed run assistant he built up a business of another
world-wide reputation with factories but it is not known if he will try covering five acres and employing for records on a 24-hour and 48-hour 1.500.-British Wireless.
grind.-United Press.
The two R. A. F. Singapore flying boats are due to arrive here at ap- proximately 3.40 p.m. to-day. They will bring Air-Commodore Sydney. Smith, the Air Officer Commanding the Far East, and the object of the visit it to inspect the RAF station ot Kai Tok
ROOSEVELT PARTY
Hyde Park, Sept. 21. President F. D. Roosevelt arrived here to-day to join in the celebra- tion of his mother's 82nd birthday,
comment on and would not
the
charges of Mr. W Randolph Hearst.. the publisher, that he was "the official candidate of the Comintern." United Press.
CHURCHILL IN NY.
New York, Sept. 21.
son Mr. Randal Churchill,
Mr. the ramous British stalesman, Winston Church!, arrived here to- day. United Press,
The forthcoming wedding is on- nounced of Mr. John Kenneth Leg-. horn, engineer, of 7-Leighton Hill Road, and Miss Helena Katherine Legge-Willis, nursing sister, Matilda Hospital.
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