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CENTRAL

QUEEN'S RD. CENTRAL: CAR PARK JERVOIS STRE Take Bus No. 4 or 5 going west, 3 min. from stup opposite Queen

TO-DAY ONLY

-At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 p.m. SPECIAL CHINESE NEWSREEL PROGRAMME A splendid record of the Safe Arrival of Marshal Chiang Kai Shek from Sian Vivid glimpses of the Sui Yan Front, etc., etc.

TO-MORROW

RONALD COLMAN

in

"TALE OF TWO CITIES"

Matinees: 20c,"SUC: Evenings: 20e, 35c, 55¢, '80c: Servicemen 40c.

KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION HOUSEHOLD COAL

ANNOUNCING NEW PRICES

effective 9th November, 1936.

Peak District

$20.00

Bowen Road & lower level

$19.00

Pokfulum

$20.00

Repulse Bay

$25.00

Kowloon

$17.00

Shek-O & Stanley

$25.00

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION

Head Office: TIENTSIN

DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents, Hong Kong

WILHELMSTRASSE AND GERMANS ABROAD

SUPERVISORY SYSTEM UNDER A SPECIAL DEPARTMENT

Berlin, To-day.

A special department of the Foreign Office has been established for supervising German living abroad

DOW

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 3, 1937.

ACCIDENT OFF!

BOCCA FORT

CUSTOMS MAN DROWNED

NAVY OFFICER TO MERCANTILE OFFERS

Commissions In New Vessels

London, To-day.

An offer to British Merchant Marine officers of commissions as One more member of the first or second lieutenants in the Chinese Customs has met with Navy or the Fleet air arm has a tragic death while in the exe been made by the Admiralty. cution of his duty.

Following the

The action follows the need för shocking shoot-personnel owing to the British re ing of Capt. Campbell a short armament programme. Trans- while ago, Mr. Chan U. Kun, As- Ocean sistant Tide Surveyor at Canton, was drowned on Monday morning while carrying out a routine in- spection of the China Merchants S.S. Hai Li

SHIPYARDS A HIVE OF INDUSTRY

Three New Clyde Contracts

London, To-day. February has started well for

COM-

It appears that a party of Cus toms officers put out in a small gig off the Bocca Tigris Forts and while manoeuvring into position preparatory to boarding, the small craft was capsised in the swift- running current and all the occu-Clyde shipyards with the an- pants were precipitated. Into the nouncement of three new water.

tracts, cl The crew of the Hai Li lowered

Denny Brothers of Dumbarton a boat-without any delay and suc-

have been commissioned to build ceeded in rescuing all but the un-

two 4,000-tons cargo liners for the fortunate Tide Surveyor, who dis-Henderson Line of Glasgow and appeared rapidly and was washed the Mourse Line have instructed

Connel, of Scotstoun, to build

away

2

Up to a late hour last night, the motor liner of 9,203 tons dead- body had not been recovered.

weight.

Six months ago, the Scotstoun yard was without a keel a position which had obtained for over six years, but work on five vessels is now being commenced. Wireless.

POLL TAX FOR

ARMAMENTS

Turkish Government Decree

Ankara, To-day.

British

NON-INTERVENTION COMMITTEE

London, To-day.

A tax of fourpence a month on The twenty-fourth meeting of the every Turkish citizen is envisaged chairman's sub-committee of the in an effort to help Turkey in her International Non-intervention air re-arming campaign.

Committee was held at the Foreign It is estimated that such a tax Office yesterday.. would amount to: 90,000 ↑ Turkish) The sub-committee considered a pounds a month, which would en-number of questions which would able the buying of ten or twelve require to be settled by the parti- aeroplanes each year. Trans-Ocean Jeipating Governments immediately

ALLEGED

SOVIET SPIES ARRESTED

Helsinki (Finland), To-day.

Two arrests have been made here recently on charges of espionage on behalf of the Soviet.

One of the men, Karl Teimann, which formerly applied only to Nazi Party members abroad, will who is said to be an Estonian, was e applied to every German seized when he was about to cross subject living in a foreign coun-the frontier into Russia after hav- ing erected a short-wave wireless

The head of the foreign or

again emphasised in Berlin transmitter in Viborg.

The other man is believed to be fundamental laws pro- ganisation of the Nazi Party. has been appointed head of the scribed by the organisation for all a Red Army officer. He was arrest- new department and will work Germans abroad require them to ed in Tornea and has been charged

that

directly under the Foreign ain, free of any interference in with conducting espionage work in

Minister.

He will also par

the political affairs of the country Finland Trans-Ocean.-***

are living

Fifty fitters employed by the Salfor Transport Dept. started the first în” i̇strike in the Manchester which lasted one day,

they agreed to adopt the proposed scheme for supervision of the land and sea frontiers of Spain and the Spanish dependencies in order to bring that scheme into immediate operation.

A further meeting of the.com mittee will be held shortly-Bri itish Wireless.

MOSCOW PAYS ITS GENEVA DUES

At Least The First Instalment

Moscow, To-day. The Soviet Government has for-

warded the sum of 500,000 gold roubles to the League of Nations Secretariat as the first instalment on its membership fee. The final instalment is to be paid in July

Ocean.

binet meetings tions concerning are deliberated, Trans-Ocean

post will be fille

gional leader Bohle, and sta cal relations abroad will out through

representatives.

FIELD OF INT

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GETTING MEN FIT FOR ARMY

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