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ASCA
OF THE
10 GRANDE
ring, imatic
ince of
California
with Leo CARRILLO
Johnnie Mack BROWN Dorothy BURGESS
Slim Summerville,
Frank Campeau.
Presented by Carl Laemmle. Produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr. Directed by Edv. Laemmle.
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE
NEXT CHANGE
different picture he great multiple green drama of five bughboys who turned Eme back as
they
aught in the shadows
of death in the blaze of No Man's Land.
China
Lord Reading.
The
ESTABLISHED 1845.
HONG KONG, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1932.
Lord Reading is critically ill at Luxor.
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German Short-Term Credits.
on
The text of the "Standstill Agreement" was published yester- day. Detalle on page 1.
The Committee Germany's short term credits has agreed that the existing "atandstill agreement," which ends on February 29, shail be, prolonged for a year.
Kirin.
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A flare-up is reported between Old and New Government troops. The Old troops have had to retreat, but are now reported to be in pos- sesalon of Erhzentianze, the shops of which they have plundered.
Mill Workers Strike.
More than 70 mills in the Bom- bay district have closed in the last two days, and it is now estimated that 70,000 men are on strike.
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French Airmen.
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Robida, Paul Codos and Henri French airmen, arrived at Le Bour- get yesterday, after a record break- ing flight to Indo-China and back.
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Greek Finances.
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Sir Otto Niemeyer has been in vited to visit Greece and study and report on the monetary, financial and enconomic situation of the
countries.
INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING CONFERENCE.
French Suggestion Rejected.
BY GERMANY.
1
NEWS TABLOIDS AND
·OVERNIGHT CABLES SUMMARISED.
San Salvador. "Reds."
Jesuit Order,
President Zamora has signed a decree dissolving the Jesuit arder in Spain.
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Abolishing Slavery in Liberia
abolish Liberia to To force slavery, the United States, as prelude to the meeting of the of Nations Council at has instructed its Geneva to-day, Minister in Liberia, to refuse, in the future, to recognise President Barclay.
A Communist revolt, which start-League ed on Friday or Saturday, and which necessitated, for protective purposes, the despatch to this South American Republic of British and U.S. Naval forces, appears since to The have been got under control. revolutionaries have been routed with severe losses, and in the capital matrial law has been proclaimed.
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Right of Possession.
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with
Judgement for plaintiff, costs, and damages fixed at $250, and an order for the immediate re- turn of the document, was given by the Chief Justice in the Supreme Court this morning, in the case in which two Chinese disputed the right to possession of a fixed deposit receipt for $8,000 issued by the Bank of China n August 19301.
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Foreigner Killed.
Sir Wm. Jowitt Resigns.
Sir William Jowitt, K.C. has re- signed the Attorney Generalship.
Film Star Coming East.
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Mr. Richard Barthelmess, the film star, and his wife, are leaving Hollywood for Shanghai on Janu- ary 30, where they will join Mr. Ronald Colman.
Dartmoor Prison Riot.
A mutiny occurred in the prison The Prison on Sunday morning.
and Governor's office was burned down. warders Several prisoners were injured in the affray. No pri- soner escaped. All is now report- ed quiet.
Dr. Albert Porges, an Austrian,
A life-sentencer is reported to manager of the Shanghai office of the American Express Co., was shot 'have saved the life of the Assis near the tant Prison Commissioner when it dead by Chinese soldiers Lunghwa Pagoda, on Sunday morn seemed likely that a band of pri- Dr. Porges was motoring at soners was about to make a murder- ing.
ous assault on the Commissioner. the time.
went
the German
LONDON'S GREAT VALUE.
Impossible to Fix: No Opinions the Same.
same
"It would be interesting to know
on what basis the French valuers
The
ships, the former alone simply forced them to build new vessels which naturally were designed along the most, modern lines.
Glaessel In conclusioh Herr emphasises that the North Ger- its two crack man Lloyd built
"Any attempt to put a value on liners entirely out of its own re- London as a whole," said a leading sources, and that not a penny of West-end valuer to a representa- tive of The Daily Telegraph, "would Pro- any Government subsidy
be the wildest guesswork. Bremen, Jan. 18.
into them, either directly or in-bably no two opinions would be the French suggestions for an in- directly. Moreover, he declares, ternational shipping conference, the sums paid to with the abject of reducing the companies for carrying mails
have arrived at their total. present excess of international barely covered the costs and re- tonnage, were emphatically re.
presented but a fraction of the figure of the net annual value of the jected to-day by the managing auras disbursed to the French administrative County of London director of the North German lines by their Government for for 1931, as ascertained by Lloyd, Herr Glaessel, in an arti- the same purpose. "Unless the rating authorities, is £63,546,886. cle in the Bremen Weserzeitung. system of interference with free If that be capitalised at, say, twenty soon, the years' purchase, which, in fact, is So far from encouraging gov-competition is ended
too, will too high, the sum is £1,272,936,720 ernment interference with inter- German companies,
than the French national shipping, Herr Glaessel have to demand subsidies from 1-much lower
In this total no account is pleads that the present sub- the Reich," the article concludes. figure.
taken of valves of streets or of the sidies should be discontinued, Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
capitalised value of such undertak- restoring the free play of econo-
ings as the Underground Railways. mic forces in which alone lies
Perhaps, however, the French took salvation.
the total of the sums for which That of insured. property was London would be about £2,270,000,- 000,"
Herr
In this connection, Glaessel refutes the French alle- gations that by building the two mammoth liners, Europa and Bremen, the
German North Lloyd had started the competi tive building race, which had brought international shipping The con- to its present pass. atruction of the two new liners, Herr Glaessel contends, had be- come imperative after Germany had lost her entire merchant fleet under the provisions of the Versailles Treaty.
For over half a century there had been an express service be- tween Bremen and New York, he argues, and surely the North German Lloyd could not be re- proached for seeking to uphold this tradition. If somebody had to be blamed for that, France, he suggests, need not go far afield, because by depriving the Ger-
man
lines of all the sea-going:
Rainfall
Rainfall for 24 hours end- ed at 10 a.m. to-day →→→ Dil. Total since January 1~~~ ni! against ал average 0.68 inches-deficit 0.94 inch- deficit 0.94 inch.
Temperature.
of
The temperature at certain specified centres this morning at 8 o'clock was:-
Hong Kong Macao
61
59
Pratas Island Manila Foochow
67
74
58
56
36
4B
Amoy
Chefoo Shanghai
Don't let a Cough
BAYER
take
BAYER
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RESIVAL'
the
London valuers generally declined to attempt to put a price on national buildings. It would be easy enough, it was agreed, to value accurately! for commercial purposes the land) on which stands Westminster Abbey or St. James's Palace, for instance. But what of the sentimental valve of the buildings? Nobody dared even to guess.
An expert in the matter of City! Values pointed out that what might be termed "special values" would hardly have been considered by the Parisian authorities, and that such had a highly important bearing on London's worth. He quoted the case believed to be a record, of the
valuation by an arbitrator of a strip
of land opposite the Mansion House at a sum equivalent to £5,227,200)
ar ucre.
JAGAIN
西利克
BEYOND VICTORY
BILL BOYD JAMES GLEASON
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ARY CARR
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