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HARBOUR VIEW

PRIVATE HOTEL

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THE SEA FRONT

Chatham Road, Kowloon,

Phone: 56734

Proprietress

Mrs. M. Gardiner

THE ARLINGTON

PRIVATE HOTEL

Mody Road, Kowloon, Phone: 50126

Proprietress

Mrs. M. Gardiner

NOTICE

The Annual General Meeting will be held in Messrs. Jardine, Matheson's Board Room on Friday, March 5th, at 12 noon.

Sir William Hornell, CIE, has kindly consented to take the Chair.

HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

THE HONG KONG & KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD.

THE

NOTKE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

FIFTIETH ORDINARY MEETING OF ANNUAL SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Office of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., on „FRIDAY,

Coronation Gift To Unemployed

London, To-day.

A special Coronation payment of 2/5 and one skilling for each dependent child to all drawing unemployment pay will be made during the week ending May 8 or the succeeding week.

This was announced by the Minister of Labour, Mr. Ernest Brown, in the House of Com- mons, yesterday--Beuter.

the 12th March, 1937, At 11 am,538 41142827674932421289551||ØBELLZELEN DEIGLTER

for the purpose of receiving the

Report of the Directors and the ITALY AND

Statement of Accounts for the year

ended 31st December, 1936."

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the

HAPSBURG

COMPANY will be CLOSED from RESTORATION

FRIDAY, the 5th March, 1937, to FRIDAY, the 12th March, 1937, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors, F. H. CRAPNELL,

Secretary. Hong Kong, 26th February, 1937.

OASIS FLIGHT

Cairo, To da

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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 26, 1937.

BLACK DESPAIR IN DURHAM

HARROWING REPORT BY SPECIAL AREAS COMMISSIONER

WHOLE REGION DOOMED

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL”)

LONDON, TO-DAY. THE SERIOUS STATE OF AFFAIES IN SOUTH-EAST DUR HAM IS DISCUSSED AT LENGTH IN A REPORT ISSUED BY THE COMMISSIONER FOR THE DISTRESSED. AREAS AND PUBLISHED IN THE LONDON “MORNING POST”.

THE REPORT STATES THAT 42 PER CENT. OF THE PO- PULATION IN THE DISTRICT ARE WITHOUT EMPLOYMENT.

Most of the coal mines are shat!£££918144225221)

down and about 13,000,000 tons of coal are lying unused in swamped and abandoned mines.

The Report comes to the conclu- sion that it would be impossible to re-industrialise this area, at least on a large scale," and that the only solution of its economic and social problems is a return to agriculture.

CUT OFF

Many small towns and villages in the district are completely cut off from the outside world.

Their continued existence would be an absurdity, the Report states.

Congress Party

Win Madras

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Madras, To-day. Madras is the fifth State in which the Congress Party have secured a "clear majority in the elections for the Assembly.

The party has hitherto won results 116 seats out of 160 declared. There are 215 seats in the House-Beuter.

These places, therefore, should ABYSSINIAN be destroyed and the population MASSACRE

settled elsewhere.

As things are, the population DENIED

lives in a completely hopeless state.

CABINET SCHEME

A scheme for relief of the popu lation of the distressed areas was finally accepted by the British Ca- binet on Wednesday, and will be placed before the House of Commons next Monday-Trans-Ocean.

Viceroy's Condition Improving

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL"): London, To-day...

US. NEUTRALITYmarily executed in

BILL

Passes Committee In Congress

some

Reports appearing in several European newspapers that 1,700 Abyssinians have been sum- Ababa following the attempted assassina- tion of the Viceroy, Marshal Graziani, have led to energetic de nials in Rome, though it is admitted that a number of suspects have been shot.

-The actual figures of the number Washington, To-day. of suspects who have faced the fir

Affairs Committeeling squad are withheld.

The Foreign A

shal

of the House of Representatives Meanwhile further reports have yesterday formally approved the been published stating that Mar- Neutrality Bill

Graziani, who was wounded by Known as the "Cash and Carry" splinters from the hand-grenades Bill, the measure provides, firstly, thrown by the would-be assassing, that loans and exports of munitions is now suffering from blood poison- to belligerents in international or ing

civil war is forbidden; secondly, Official quarters in Rome, how- that other commodities cannot be ever, yesterday denied this and until stated that the Viceroy's condition exported to ownership is transferred from is improving-Trans-Ocean. Americans to foreign purchasers;=

belligerents

thirdly, that American merchant

vessels must not be armed, and SIR BHUPENDRA that citizens must not, travel on MITRA PASSES

ships belonging to belligerents. Reuter

ITALY ALSO DECLINES

Will Not Attend Geneva Conferences

Leading Figure In India

Calcutta, To-day.

The death took place here yes- terday of Sir Bhupendra Mitra, wi was High Commissioner for in the United Kingdom from 1931 to 1936.

Vern-

ROME, TO-DAY. ITALY IS AT PRESENT OPPOSED TO A HAPSBURG RESTORATION IN AUSTRIA, IT IS STATED IN AUTHORI- TATIVE CIRCLES. HERE

Rome, To-day. He was 62 years of age and had Signor Gayda, writing in the "Giornale d'Italia says that res Not only Germany but Italy as been connected Itoration is inopportune because no-well has refused to participate in ment of India,

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He became the need for a change in the preference st Genera sent political regime.

An announcement to this effect in the Finance

Controller of War It would also be dangerous for was made yesterday. might provo

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