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THE CARAVAN

JUST RECEIVED

NEW CONSIGNMENT

OF

FETTE PEKING RUGS

NOW ON VIEW AT

ARCADE

PENINSULA HOTEL, KOWLOON.

CENTRAL

SEE

THEATRE

HEAR

SHOWING TO-DAY

AT

2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.

Spoiled by his father's coddling hand he found love and self respect in the

simple rugged life of the North woods.

A sparkling comedy drama of youth

and its yearnings.

with

THOMAS

HARDIE

MEIGHAN

ALBRIGHT Dorothy Jordan

Directed by John Slystone

NEXT CHANGE

from the stage play

COMMENCING SUNDAY, 15th NOV.

30

THIS IS PARADISE

PART 11.

Another all-talking, singing and dancing Chinese picture

Starring

BUTTERFLY WU

Queen of Chinese Screenland

with

Shaw Pei Chen

Directed by S. C.

Chung

Recorded by Pathe Orient Co., Produced by Mass Co., Shanghai.

COMING VERY SHORTLY

ANN HARDING

IN "HOLIDAY"

The Greatest Picture of the Year !

A'RYO-PATHE Super Special.

The

China Mail.

ESTABLISHED 1845.

HONG KONG, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1931.

FIRST DIVISION IN THE HOUSE.

A

COMPLETE GOVERNMENT

VICTORY.

London, Yesterday,

. In the House of Commons the first division challenged by ex- treme Labourites,, who objected to devotion of the whole time of Parliament to Government busi- ness till Christmas, resulted in an overwhelming Government vic- tory by 378 votes to. 9. Official Labourites did not vote.-Reu- ter.

LOCAL SHARE MÄRKET.

No Important Change To-day.

AWAITING DEVELOPMENTS.

The official summary issued by the Stock Exchange to-day states:

SPECULATION AND THRILLS AT There is no change of import-

GENEVA.

(Continued from Page 1.)

bitrate. Conform to the behests of the League of Nations of which [you ATC both members. Fulfil your obligations to the Kellogg Pact to renounce war. That I be- lieve is the voice of public opinion throughout the civilised world."

AN INSIGNIFICANT PLOT.

LATE SPANISH DICTATOR'S SON ARRESTED.

Madrid, Yesterday. Jose Antonio Primo Rivera, 80D of the late Dictator, has been ar rested following the discovery of what the police believe to be Royalist plot.

Other arrested persons include Major Francisco Rosales and a prominent Catholic dignitary.

Soveral prominent Army officers are expected to be arrested shortly. Members of the Government re- fuse to take a serious view of the ance to report this morning.plot declaring a Monarchist revolu- Uperators appear to be waiting tion is impossible at the present

time, for further developments in ex change.

Banks, after being put through at $1,495 and $1,500, closed with buyers at $1,475.

Indo-Chinas (Deferred) ad- vanced to $43 buyers.

Kailan Minings were to be ob tained at 30/-.

Providents (old) were in de mand at $5, with sellers asking

The new

shares were $5.20. wanted at $2.80.

Hotels were in the market at $144.

¿

H.K. Lands were in request at $791%.

$.

The affair is likely to prove of the very slightest importance.- Router.

AN ABUSIVE CHAIR COOLIE.

Mr. Williams this morning fined a chair coolfe $5 for demanding from Mr. N. G. Nata, more than It was stated that the legal fare.

chair complainant engaged the from the bottom of Wyndham Street to the top, and at the end of the journey tendered twenty cents. Defendant demanded cumshaw, and when refused used most obscene language.

Labourite Uneasiness. Labourite uneasiness leat tho League should lose caste' over the Manchurian dispute was voiced by Mr. Herbert Morrison in a speech insisting that the "danger is the real powers of darkness never sleep, and asserting that though

Chinese Estates were in de the League had made friendly efforts to terminate the Sino-mand at $95,' Japanese hostilities, yet certain Ewos were reported sales at HOUSE BURGLARS SENTENCED. powerful British newspapers had condemned the League's action. He asked the British Government to dissociate itself from those viewa and hoped Government would in no way discourage Gen- eva's work for the prevention of

war.

Liberal Denounces Warlike Polley, "The most serious altuation in Manchuria" was interposed in the course of the debate on the Ad. dress by the Liberal, Mr. Mander, a war-like policy who donounced and pleaded that the Kollogg Pact should be upheld. He hoped that if the League's moral force were insufficient to "get Japan to adopt a proper attitude," they should adopt a boycott in respect of her and bring economic pressure to bear on her.

"That's war," Conservatives,

chorussed the

First Duty of League. Miniatorial utterance in favour of the League and moderation came from Mr. Ormsby Gore in a speech at Croydon to-day." He said the first duty of the League na regards Manchuria was to do Jeverything to stop bloodshed. The next to get the dispute settled without recourse to force.-Reuter.

EMPIRE FESTIVAL OF REMEMBRANCE.

KING AND QUEEN PRESENT.

Rugby, Yesterday. To-night the King and Queen at- tended the Empire Festival of Re- membrance at the Royal Albert Hall organised by the British Legion. The Prince of Wales was ago present.

In spite of a cold wind and inter- mittent rain there were crowds all afternoon in Whitehall and round Westminster Abbey, and till a late hour a file of mourners passed by the Cenotaph and the grave of the Unknown Warior bringing tributes of flowers-British Wireless Ser

VICE.

Tls. 15.30.

Trams could have been had at $20.70.

China Lights, after being done at $26.35, closed in request at $26.

Dairy Farms were done at $28, closing in demand at $284.

In the Central Police Court this morning, Mr. Williams passed son- tence of eight months' hard labour on a Chinese who pleaded gulity to two charges of burglary, at 77 Wing Electrics were wanted at $75. Lok Street and 14, Lyndhurat Ter- Cements (combined) were put race, on October. 24 and 28, re- Two other Chinese, through at $18%, closing in despectively. demand at $18, with sellers also connected in the thefts, were sentenced to four months' hard asking $19.

labour cach. Det.-Sergeant Fitches, who prosecuted, remarked that all three defendants were well-known to the Police here. They gained! admittance to the premises by climbing on to one another's backs, and then inserting a hand to open a bar. The properties were re- covered from thirteen pawnshops in all. His Worship, in addition to the sentenced passed on defen- dants, ordered them to be kept under Police. surveillance for a

year.

Watsons were sellers at $16. Sinceres were to be obtained at $16.

1.

Government Loan was in de mand at $2 per cent. premium.

RAIN.

The Royal Observatory's, re- port issued this morning says: The typhoon Alled up last evening to the N.E, of Hong Kong.

The anti-cyclone is centrod over the Sea of Japan, and is moving Eastward.

Forecast:-N.W. or variable winds, moderate; fair at first, rain later.

Rainfall

Rainfall for 24 houra eud- ed at 10 a.m. to-day 0.43 inch. Total since January 1-75,81′ Inches against an average of 81.15 Inches -deficit 5.94 inches.

Temperature.

The temperature at certain apecified centres this morning at 6 o'clock was:—-

Hong Kong

69

Macao

88

Pratas Island Foochow

71

Amoy

Chefoo Shanghai Manila

74

44

68 74

B A BAYER

Don't let a Cough Torture you take

RESIVAL

BAD TEA.

Chung Pingkwang, 0: 1 Wu Nam Street, Aberdeen,

store,

Mr. for

a grocery before was summoned Grantham this morning selling tea which was unfit for human

tion.

man.

.

consump

Defendant said the tea was not their property and had been entrusted to them by another He admitted possession and the fact that it was being sold.

Mr. E. R. Dovey, Government Analyst, stated that a sample of the tea leaves that he examined were mouldy, infested with insects, and largely composed of exhausted leaves. In reply to Mr. Grantham, witness said the ea was not poi- sonous, and could not hurt. A fine of $10 was inflicted.

A CABINET MEETING.

Rugby. Yesterday.

A meeting of the Cabinet was beld to-day after Ministers had at- tended the ceremony ..at the Cenotaph. British Wireless Ser- vice.

RESIVAL

Printed and published far the Proprietors, The Newspaper Enterprise Limited, by DAVID CHRISTIAN

WILSON, Business Manager, at Sa Wyndham Street, Hong Kong.

DENTALINE

(Concentrated Antiseptic)

Is more than a mouth-wash

-it actually

KILLS GERMS

Dentaline is an Antiseptic Germicide and Astringent. Properly diluted it is delightful to taste and

refreshing to use."

THE PHARMACY

Tel. 20343

Asiatic Building."-

Queen's Road

AMUSEMENTS:

AT THE

QUEEN'S

FINAL SHOWINGS

TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20.

ON

WITH THE SHOW

TO-MORROW

THE ARISTOCRAT OF THE STAGE

AND SCREEN!

GEORGE ARLISS

DISRAELL

AT STAR

THE

Ar

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY

· FAST STEPPINO DANE- ING TALKING: SINOSNO- SPECTACLE WITH THE DYNAMIC FAVORITE ATHIS MERRIEST HARRY

of GAY BROADWAY

Richman

FUTTIN RITZ

AT 2.30, 6.20, 7.20 & 9.20.

LIN

JOAN

BENNETT

JAMES GIRASON-AILEENS PRINGLE È LILYAN TASHMAN MULCERVING BERLIN

directed by EDWARD HSLOWU