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BORN TO DANCE
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Eleanor Powell
(Your Broadway Melody Git) JAMES STEWART VIRGINIA BRUCE Una Market. Sid Silvazi Francus Langford • Raymand Walburn Alan Dineharto, buddy: Ihson
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY
1937.
SHIPPING SEA AND AIR ALHAMBRA
SUBSIDY DECISION
BRITAIN HOPES TO
END IT IN 1937
CO-OPERATION IN INDUSTRY
London, Feb. 1. Moving a financial resolution in the House of Commons, authorising the continuance of the tramp shipping subsidy, which expired on December 31, Dr. Edward
Burgin, Financial Secretary to the Board of Trade, ex- plained that shipowners had
had been informed that they must make their plans on the assumption that the subsidy will cease finally at the
end of 1837. The Industry is expected to reorganise teelfast been the re- to continue the co-operation which has been
last
sult of the subsidy, he saldaring the
Dr. Burgin state
six months of 1930, there was a remarkable increase in freight rates,
of British ships commoned at the end of the year had increased by 70 per cent,
and the
or 285,000 tons,“ - but
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"ATTACK" ON SINGAPORE
DEFENDERS CONVINCED
BASE IMPREGNABLE
Singapore, Feb. 2.
The elaborate manoeuvres which are testing Singapore's £10,000,000 fortress, continued throughout yesterday and last night, and go on to-day. The land forces are defending the great base against a combined attack from air and sea.
The manoeuvres commenced yesterday morning, since then there when aircraft patrols roared away to seek approaching enemy warships and transports carrying an invading army.
had been a widespread and most
pronounced set-backs.
subsidy, said Dr. Burgin, would be continued below £2,000,- 090, and if the avern
freight rates average rose to 22 per cent. above the level of 1920, no subsidy would be paid.
Dr. Burgin added that the 'Govern- ment did not propose to make any
payment on account until the end of
the year, and it was hoped that con- ditions during 1037 would make It unnecessary to pay any subsidy.- Reuter.
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BROADCAST OF 1937".
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LEOPOLD STOKOWSKS and his
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Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street in the City of Victorie Hongkong
To Quit Strike- Bound Ports
The first American vessel to feave the Unlied States for the Far East since the shipping strike commenced three months ago is en route to Hongkong.
She is the motor vessel Ward, a freighter of the American Pioneer Line; and she is coming here, via Shanghai and Manila, with a full cargo of American goods.
The ship, for which the States Steamship Line are agents, is Government-owned, and it is ex.. tremely unlikely that she s manned by strike-breakers.
~The vessel. is due here on March 7,
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Little, Commander-in- Chief of the China Station, aboard H.M.S. Cumberland, commands the attacking force. Major-General Dobbie, G.O.C. Malaya, commands the defenders.
The total of personnel involved is approximately 8,000, comprising naval ratings and detachments of the Army and Air Force, and troops from Johore.
The attacking force had to be 250: miles frora Singapore at the beginning
of the exercises, so it was assumed AMBASSADOR TO
that the first blow at the fortress will be from the air. Planes from H.M.S. Hermes will probably strike at Singa- pore some time during the night.
In addition to testing the vulner- obliity of the fortress to surprise at- tacks, the mobility of its defence will also be examined. Landing parties will attempt to break through the posts which guard the benchon. They will face barbed wire and machine- guns.
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"NEW SPAIN"
Rome, Feb. 1. Italy has nominated
Signor Roberto Cantalupo, at present Am- bassador in Rio de Janeiro, as first Ambassador to Ceneral Francisco Franco's Government In Spain.
Sigmor Vicenzo Lojacono, Ambas sudor to China, who la stationed in) Shanghal, will replace Signor Can- Defenders. believe that the fortress talupo, while Signor Juliano, former
impregnable.--Reuter Bulletin Ambassador to Chile, will go
Shanghal-Reuter.
Service
to
United States To Hongkong
Air Mail Rates Fixed
Washington, Feb. 1.
Russia Claims Parley, to-day announced that the first flight of the new through Anglo-French
The United States Postmaster General, Mr. James F. airmail service from the United States to China would depart from San Francisco on March 24, or soon after that date.
Policies Weak
Moscow, Feb. I. British and French weakness
I blamed in the first Soviet reac- tion to Herr Hitler's Reichstar speech.
The Izvestia deplots England and France
Impotently stretching out towards Germany hands which are hanging in the air. The journal says Hitler will only abandon aggression if he sees it will meet with a united and crushing rebuff--Reuter.
Fast Railway Service From H.K. To S'hai
Railway traffic between Hongkong and Shanghai will be near realisa- tion before the end of the year according to Mr. Chow Tsung- chi, Director of the Canton-Hankow Railway Administration.
The only break in the service will be in
In Canton itself, where it will be necessary for passengers from Hong- kong to transfer from the Kowloon- Canton
Railway to the Canton-Han- kow service.
Mr. Chow predicts that when the service materialises it will take leas than 60 hours to travel from Hong- kong to Shanghai, as compared with the 3 days by steamer.
Regular through traffic between
Canton and Hankow, linking up with the trans-Siberian service to Europe; will come into operation as soon, as new rolling stock arrives from Eng- land,
CANTON CINEMAS STRIKE
Canton, Feb. 2. Cinertias and other theatres throughout the elty are st
present
on strike as a protest against the new tax which was recently Imposed.
Proprietors of dipemas are appeal- ing to Nanking for the abolition of the tax.
Many thousands of Chinions, and also a number of foreigners, found the cinema doors barred yesterday Reuter
Simultaneously he announced the ounce and from Hawall to Macao and new-schedule-for-the-trans-Pacific Hongkong, 50 cents per1⁄2 ounce. airmail rates:
United States to Hawali, 20 cents Philippines postal authorities had not He also said that the British and. United States to Guam, reported the rates to be cunce:
charged ounce; United States from Monlia to China
per.
40
cents
per to Phillipines, 50 cents per ounce He announced the issuance of two U.S. to Hongkong and Macao 70 cents
ner
ounce, or approximately $2.10 now altmall stamps of 20 and 50 Hongkong money
cents denomination-United Press.
These rates will become effective It was learned from Mr. E. I, with the extension of the route from Wynne-Jones. Postmaster-General, Manila to Macao and Hongkong. this morning that the rates have been The rates from Howall to the prepared but have not yet been op- Philippines will be 30 cents per proved by the Governor-in-Council.
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RAYMOND HATTON
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ELISSA LANDI. PAUL CAVANAGH • KENT TAYLOR FRANCES DRAKE..... A Paramount Picture
Based upon the play "Interlerance" by Roland Pertwee und Harald Dearden
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AT 12.30, 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 p.m. CHINESE NEWsreel progRAMME A splendid record of the Safe Arrival of Marshal Chiang Kai Shck from Sian,
Vivid glimpses of the Sui Yan Front, etc. etc,
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Tuesday and Wednesday
2ND. Gʻ3RD. FEBRUARY 1937,
·DAILY AT 2,305.30 Tanso PAL
20 "THE WORLD MOVES ON
With Madeleino Carroll, Franchot Tone
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