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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY,
ROOSEVELT
APRIL 9, 1938.
TO ASSIST STOP PRESS NEWS QUEENS & ALHAMBRA
-INDUSTRY
Millions For Public
Works Scheme
Washington, Apr. 1.
President F. D. Roosevelt at a
NAZIS PREPARE
FOR PLEBISCITE
Vienna, April 8.
Celebrations in connection with the presa conference to-day confirmed plebiscite open to-morrow, when Dr. the administration la discussing Joseph Goebbels will new public works programme sald to Involve $1,500,000,000.
procialin a
AGREEMENT DOES NOT MEAN NEW CREDIT FOR ITALY'..
London, Apr. 8. Captain Euan Wallace, Parliamen- national holiday shortly before noon. tary Secretary to the Board of Trade, There will be a two minutes silence referring to the revised clearing This development indicates the lat
1 noon, which will be broken by the Agreement with Italy, said the agree- administration is about to yield to sirens of every German factory, the ment did not mean granting credits the clamour for resumption of large-
roar of innumerable squadrons of air-
to Italy. scale Government spending with a craft overhead, and the pealing of all
Its net result would be to to reviving business.
church bells.
possible the financing of very sub- Hitherto the President has been Herr Adolf Hitler is due to arrive atantially increased exports of coal, very reluctant to take this step, at 11 o'clock, and he will be present and to establish Increased quotas for hoping for a natural business up in the Rathhous Municipally when been made for settlement within six other goods. Provision had also awing. However, with the outlook Dr. Goebbels makes his historie - months of old trade debts due from anything but promising, those ad- nuncement of Greater Germany.
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vocating a policy of "pump priming" Twenty five... thousand carrier Italy-Reuter Bulletin. seem to be definitely in the ascen-pigeons will be released from the
dancy.
Rathaus, with a message to all parts
Apart from the public works pro- of Germany-Reuter Special. gramme, the Government spending includes Increased relief appropria- tions from $1,000,000,000 to at least $1,500,000,000, and a broadening of the lending powers of the Reconstruc- tion Finance. Corporation which has avaliable, for loans a maximum of $1,500,000,000.-Reuter.
Macao Marks Anniversary Of Lys' Heroes
Macao, Apr. 9.
To commemorate the heroism of the Portuguese Army at the Baltic uf Lys in 1018, the twentieth an- Diversary will be observed to-day with a ceremony in the San Miguel Cemetery, when the newly-erected monument in memory of the Portu- guese soldiers who sacrifleed their lives in the Great War, will be un-
veiled.
A two-minute silence will also be observed at noon, prior to which a service will be conducted by H.E. the Bishop of Macau, Dr. J. da Costa. Nunes, in the cemetery chapel. A speech will be delivered by Capt. F. da Lara Reis, President of the Macno branch of the Portuguese Ex-Active Men's Association, and following recitation by Miss Mario Miguel, of the late Madame Barbosa's poem "The 9th of Aprif", a brief address will be made by Capt. M. Caseiro
Alves.
Present at the function will be H.E. the Governor of Macao, Dr. A. Tamagnini Barbosa, naval and mill- tary ofcers, members of the Con-
and sular, judicial, medical
civil} administrative bodies as well many local residents.-Special.
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HUGH SOJNERN - LOUISE CAMPBELL - EVELYN KEYES
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The report declares that the derail- ment was due to track distortion be- cause of the excessive speed of the ergine.
The report adds that the Govern- ment held the railway company was negligent, and liable to pay damages.
Peuter Bulletin,
NAVAL TALKS ON APRIL 19
London, Apr. 8. Discussions between Britain, France; and the United States to determine naval tonnage increases following the British and American decision to in- valke the escalator clause of the Lon- don Naval Treaty, are expected begin on April 19-Reuter Bulletin.
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Thundering from the mest thrilling pages of our blatory.......tinging with the clay of steel on stra) comer this mighly story of the life and loves of Jean Lafitte, the pirotal
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DR. JEKYLL OR MR. HYDE?
(Continued from Page 8.)
filled with other people's silver candlesticks.
Alcohol is often the magic drug that separates the two
lly knit for Hyde to get off by himself and do much damage.
But once you decide to separate the evil from the good in your, nature, to make the one not responsible for the other, what delirious possibilities are there!
halves of a divided personality, Woman's Ways though it does it without the SLOGGING, conscienti-
come
"racking pangs...grinding in
ous Jekyll will alter- the bones, deadly nausea, and nate with gloriously idle Hyde, ...horror of the spirit" that as- and nobody's conscience be a sailed poor Dr. Jekyll when he penn'orth the worse for his wast first made his sinister experi-ing of time and money! Mra ment alone in his laboratory, Jekyll, that kind-spoken crea- In the course of preparing ature, will give Mrs. Hyde a day blography of my father-in-law, out from time to time, to say nil the late Edgar Wallace, I have the spiteful things she has al- across two Jekyll-and-ways wanted to any to every- Hydo characters who deeply in- body. fluenced his early life, and for And our morals-oh,, what both of them drink was the couldn't we do with the moral pass-key to division of charac- code if we decided to be two in
dependent people! one, his foster-father, As for my own Hyde but Jekyll so out-weighed Hyde that there, I won't give the poor thing he remained harmless, if not in-away. She's a nasty creature, variably sober; but the other-but my own, and only I under outwardly a good husband, hard stand her.
ter.
In
worker, and strict, teetotaller- The one disadvantage. In the became, by the simple process of delightful programme of dual- going secretly on the drink, ari personality is that sooner or embezzler and libertino who later, given enough rope, Hyde ended up by stealing his wife's almost invariably hangs himself. savings to run away with an-And the embarrassing thing other woman.
about that, as the Recorder Fortunately, we are not all so pointed out, Is that when it gets extreme as that, and in most of to that stage of the game it has us Jekyll and Hyde are too close to be both of you.
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