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Ladies an' Gentz what a show!

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COMING ATTRACTION!

LONELY WIVES

"Marriage is a gamble'

and not many get » system to bṣat it!"

Created by

RUSSELL, MADE

MAĞIMA JE MODDE

A PATE PRONA

HE STEPPED

OUT AND

STEPPED IN -----

wh

EDWARD EVERETT

HORTON

ESTHER RALSTON LAURA LA PLANTE PATSY RUTA MIZŁER

..

A Belt-Bursting

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to a Lot of Trouble!

When the clock struck eight he heard the call of the Whooped Bird, and stepped out with abandon. Ho thought "Mr. Zero", his double, could fool mother In-law, but he didn't count on wifle returning una- pectedly --and that was when the fun began!

COMING SHORTLY!

"THE AGE FOR LOVE"

with

BILLIE DOVE, CHARLES STARRETT, LOIS WILSON, MARY. DUNCAN, EDWARD EVERETT BORTON,

A 1932 UNITED ARTISTS, PICTURE,

The

China Mail

ESTABLISHED 1845.

HONG KONG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1932.

BRITONS CONVERTING U.S. AND MEXICO

GOLD.

UNDERSTANDING.

Bullion Dealers

Overwhelmed.

AMAZING RESPONSE TO RECENT

APPEAL.

London, Yesterday. Leading ballion dealers are amazed at the response to their offer, made, a few days ago, to purchase sovereigns at 27/6 upiece. So great has been the rush, that, even senior partners, are assisting counter-clerks to cope with the many clients, who are queuing up all day long seeking to convert gold, in all forms, mostly sovereigns, but in- cluding foreign coins and jewel-; lery also-Reuter.

NATIONAL SAVINGS.

Small Investor's Share in Post-War Increase.

Sir Kingsley Wood, Postmaster- General, speaking on the wireless on the subject of the Post Office? Savings Bank, said that the first provision for the acceptance of small savings by the Post Office was made seventy years ago, when Hir. Glad stone founded the Post Office Say- ings Bank.

Since then the deposits in the Post Office Savings Bank have grown to £290,000,000 owned by 10,000,000 depositors, and with Gov. ernment Stock and National Savings Certificates a total of nearly £1,000,-| 000,000 is held by small gavera through the Post Office, represent- ing about one-twentieth of the ac cumulated wealth of the country.

The growth in national savinga mado through small invest- ment media is 2 remark- able Ieature of post-War fin- Before the War the amount saved through small investment Ichannels was not much more than £20,000,000 a year. It has now in- creased tu about £100,000,000 μ

year.

Jince

Report Denied by. State Department.

Washington, Yesterday.

HOUSE COOLIE SENTENCED.

Lapse After Twelve Years' Service.

PEAK THEFT.

The existence of an understand- ing, between the United States and Ip Chu, employed as house coolie. Mexico, linking up their national by Mr. and Mrs. R. E. H. Oliver, interests in the ovent of further 457 The Park, for the past twelva was brought before Mr. complications in the Far Eastern years, situation, is disclosed to-day in Schofield, at the Central Police Court, this morning, charged with authoritative quarters.

The State Department, however, stealing two tins of dog biscuits, a denies this report. Reuter's tin of Jeyes fluid, a tin of Brasso,

and A tin of Johnson's American Service,

wax, all valued at $22.75, the property of SARAVANAGSASALAMASAMAANSs įhis employers. Defendant pleaded

GENERALLY CLOUDY.

The Royal Observatory's re- port issued this morning states:

The anti-cyclone is central over S.E. Korea, moving E.N.E. Another is forming over S.E. Mongolia.

Forecast: N.E. winds, fresh; generally cloudy.

Rainfall,

Rainfall Tor 24 hours and ed at 10 a.m. to-day nil Total since January 1-1.78 inches against an average of 2.14 inches-defcit .30 inch.

Temperature,

Hong Kong MACRO

57

50

Pratas Island

70

Manila

70

Foochow

52

Amoy Chefoo Shanghai

52

36

41

guilty.

Sub-Inspector Chester-Woods said the property had been stolen during the past two months, and had not been missed. Yesterday afternoon,! Mrs. Oliver had occasion to go to the basement, and in a dark pasange she tripped over a bundle, which was found to contain the property.; The Police made enquiries and the defendant was arrested.

A fine of $75 or six weeks' jall, Ir default, was imposed.

ALAIN GERBAULT NEARLY DROWNED.

Fate's Irony Is Seen at Work.

FATAL ACCIDENT. between

Cyclist Killed in Nathan Road.

NEAR MARKET STREET.

Toulon.

Alain Gerbault, the ex-tennis champion who has spent most of the last 10 years in sailing around the world alone, almost became a victim of fate's Irony by being drowned in sight of land in a storm! Marseilles and St.! Raphael.

The yacht Sygeol, whose owner had invited Alain Gerbault on

left board,

Marseilles for St. |Raphael and had practically reach-i ed its destination when a sudden

gale sprang up.

A motor accident, resulting in the death of a young Chinese and cyclist, occurred in Kowloon yes- terday:

Sygeol became unmanageable

was manifestly in danger Security of Deposits.

when her plight was seen from the Those who have deposited their

shore. A naval scout boat put! The youth, Li Kin (17), a shop from St. Raphael to her aid escort- money with the State through the coolie of 312, Nathan Road. Was agency of the Post Office, Sir

ing the famous sea-rover and his riding 2 bleycle along Nathan Kingsley said, need have no fear for Road. When near the intersection

friend to the shore. The yacht: its security, for its repayment is of Market Street, just past the was lost. guaranteed by the whole financial)

new Alhambra Theatre site, he resources of the Government.

| collided with a public motor car. Some 200,000 accounts are opened

Li, who was seriously injured, in the Post Office Savings Bank each was taken to the Kwong Wah Hog year for children. All the Royal!

pital in an unconscious condition, Princes have held accounts as small and died soon after admission. boys, and both Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose have! been started on the course of saving with a savings account and a home safe.

The sales of home safes have shown a phenomenal increase since

REPARATIONS CONFERENCE IN JUNE?

Gerbault earned a new fame for! himself by his solitary voyage around the world in his 30-ft. Firecrest, a sailing yacht with auxiliary motor.

Firecrest sank when being towed) to Brest to be placed in the naval, | school there, but a new cutter, Son of the Sun, was launched at Sar- trouville, near Paris, last year and the explorer announced his inten- Rugby, Yesterday. tion of setting off for the South Conversations upon Reparations seas early this year. He has

the introduction of the pocket-book have been proceeding for sometime bought an island there, and will! pattern, over 100,000 having been between the British and French probably abandon civilization for issued at post-offices during 1991. Governments, and, it is probable, ever.

John Morley has related (the that the Foreign Secretary, Sir He is staying in the south of Postmaster-General sald in conclu-John Simon, will, in Geneva, con- France with the object of trying sion) that Mr. Gladstone, at the end sult representatives of the Powers his new craft out before leaving. of his career, placed among his concerned upon the possibility of thres finest achievements the pass-holding a Reparations Conference ing of the Post Office Savings Bank in June.

It is not the young people who

Bill. In terms of the well-being of If other Governments concur, an have taken the bit between their the people all the results which have announcement, regarding the pro-teeth but the middle-aged and old sprung from

that Act appear to posed Conference and its scope, who have dropped the reing and have more than justified Mr. Glad will be issued in the near future. refused to guide.--Canon Peter stone's estimate.

-British Wireless Servico.

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