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HONG KONG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1935

FLOOD MENACES IN

THE NORTH

EXTREME ANXIETY AT HSUCHOW

1.40 METRES RISE REGISTERED

Hsuchów, To-day.

at

CINEMA PICTURES IN CANTON

Dispute Over Fees For Censorship

NO HARDSHIP CAUSED

Canton, To-day- Canton "theatres do not suf-

SHANGHAI TO CANTON

PROPOSED FLIGHT INTERRUPTED

ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO MORROW

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Canton, To-day." A feeling of extreme anxiety)

The Canton-bound Donglas | again prevailed among the local fer from a lack of business as populace yesterday upon receipt a result of the non-supply of Dolphin monoplane left Shanghai of an urgent telegram from American films by the leading this morning for the South, Taining, in West Shantung, stat production companies, as sub-but had to turn back when nearing

Wenchow owing to bad weather. ing that the Hwangho flood waters stitutes have been found.

Forty-eight hours behind sche there have registered a rise of Several American and British 140 metres during the past three film companies are willing to pay dule, the plane should have reach-

seriously the censorship fees, hence their ed here on Friday afternoon. days, and zre ΠΟΥ

A strong northerly wind developed on threatenting the security of the pictures are exhibited here.

first run theatre is exhibiting that day, and the general incle- big flood prevention dyke

war picture produced by a second-mency of the weather prevented the Chukou

ate American studio, and every departure of the skyliner from

Shanghai. night the theatre is packed tol capacity limit.

It was learned here late yester- Other first rul theatres are day that this trip has been can showing Chinese films made celled, and that the next flight from Hong Kong. The Tin Yat Fin Company of Hong Kong has under Shanghai to Canton will start to- taken to release pictures in Can- tonese dialogne for local theatres ahead of theatres elsewhere,

REFUSE TO PAY

Hotseh. Chuyeh and Chiahsing in West Shantung, says the tele igram, were again visited by the floods, following a short period of quiet.

In view of the situation, Mr.

Shao Han-yuan, Special Adminis trator for Hauchow, it is learned wired to the magistrates of the Pi. Feng, Pei and other districts in North Kiangsu, instructing The eight American” film com- them immediately to close the panies have refused to pay the dyke breaches along the rivers or censorship fees, although according around the Weishan Lake there as to police regulations the payment a measure to prevent the further is to be made by the distributor and aggravation of the flood situation not the exhibitor. There is a in North Kiangau

morrow morning. Union Newa. -.. SEISMIC WAVES IN FOOCHOW

Crops Inundated In Two Districts

Foochow, To-day- Foochow communications have clause in the contract between the| BANDITS ACTIVE

theatres and the exhibitors that been totally interrupted as a rE- Added to the acute plight of morth Kiangsu a

number of payment of miscellaneous levies is sult of an occurrence of seismic

to be borne by the theatres, but the waves. bandit remnants, who have been latter maintain that that liability! The seismic

waves also sent driven out of the Weishan Lake begins when the films are supplied raging currents to overflow the district, are reported. to have

farmlands along the Min River. to them

CAST-INCLUDES WENDY BARRIE IN A MERRY ROLE! gain created no little disturbance The real sufferers from the pre Crops in Waian and Yuanping-

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in Tanghsien and Haihsien. The sent deadlock are not the theatres lhsien, districts near Min River, bandit menace has become more but the foreign community and were totally invadated. serious, it is stated, in view of the English-speaking Chinese who wish A major catastrophe fact that all the available police to see more foreign pictures. As avoided, however, as the rising forces in North Kiangan have the distributors are not materially waters gradually subsided.—Cen- been despatched to do dyke affected, they will continue to tral News Agency. strengthening work

screen foreign pictures other than

Fenghsien is now reported to those of the eight American com

be facing an inundation as a re- panies-Union News.

sult of an inrush of flood waters

from Weishan Lake, following a

break in the west dyke of the ANTI-JEW CAMPAIGN

lake..

The latest

information shows

that approximately 300,000 people

in Pibsien, at the junction" of Pulao River and the middle stream

IN GERMANY

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ANTI-COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN

Enveloping Attack Projected

Taiynen, To-day.

A force composed of four brig- ades, under General Sun Chu.

of Grand Canal, have been render of the first law says: "The colours will cross the Hwang-ho to-day

ed homeless. The whole district

of the Reich are black, white and en route to Shensi to launch an is now practically submerged

red, and the national flag is the enveloping attack on the Com- In view of the unprecedent

section of the neighbouring pro- magnitude of the flood disaster in Swastika fing, and it is also the munist bandits in the northern

The Chancellor

vince. North Kiangsa, a concrete, food commercial flag. relief programme has been work-will determine the future war and ed out by the local authorities-

Over 300 block-houses will be Reich services' fag for use by the erected in Lishih, Chungyang and army, navy, efc" This law comes Shibao, east of Hwang-ho west into force today.

Shansi, to guard against the Beds advance. Central News Agency

RELIEF MEASURES Besides raising large funds for flood relief and the erection of a STATE CITIZENSHIP

The second law says that a large number of sheds for the

citizen of the Reich will only be a shelter of the flood suffefers the state citizen if of German QT Hanchow Special Administrator's kindred blood, who by headquarters has asked the Lunghaviour has shown that he is nai railway authorities for the

his be

assignment of a train for the willing and suitable to serve the transportation of the flood victims German people and the Reich to places of safety.

MAJESTIC 220 pm al corps have been organised by

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Trooper John William Henry Reich citizenship shall be ac- Stark, of the Queen's Bays, the In order to prevent an outbreak of epidemics in the flood affected uired by the bestowal of a letter soldier who wanted to become a areas, a number of itinerant medi- of patent A Beich citizen is the sailor, was sentenced by an cal corps have been organised by sole bearer of fall political rights: Aldershot court-martial to 56

ANMIXED-MAREJAGES - days detention develo the Hsuchow headquarters here to The third law, in the preamble, At his trial Stark pleaded render medical aid to the sick. says that filled with the convic-guilty to deserting, and said According to information from tion that the purity of German that he applied twice to join the official circles here, a sum of blood is the basis of the future of Navy, but was refused He $20,000 was received yesterday by the German people, and filled with surrendered himself at his regi the flood relief workers here from an unyielding will to safeguard ment's barracks after being ab the Shanghai Food Belief Asso-the German nation for all the sent for six months. ciation-Central News Agency future, the Reichstag has un-

NEW AIR ROUTE- CONTEMPLATED

Trial Flight To Be Made

Shanghai, To-day. Leading resident in Shanghai have been invited by the Eurasia Aviation Corporation to take free rider on the:

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animously accepted the following law

NOVELIST PASSES

Article I Marriages between

(Continued from Page 1) Jews and citizens of the nation

cessfully, as a Liberal. of German or kindred blood are

He then turned his attention forbidden Mauriages solemnis: to the writing of novels, follow- ed despite this decree will be in ing in the footsteps of his valid, even if solemnised abroad brother Joseph Hocking, and pu- for the purpose of circumventing blished a large number of novels between 1878 and 1994, when his the law.

bà Soul. Intercon last work Gerry Storm WAS side the marriage covenant be-issued His works were never so

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