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HONG KONG BLACK-OUT

"The Geisha" Banned As Morbid

Ankara, To-day.

The inhabitants of Turkey will no longer be entertained by Sidney Jones' famous operetta, "The Geisha.".

The reason is that the operet- ta is a "product of the morbid European mind.”

This is according to an official announcement banning the play. -Trans-Ocean.

Anti-Air Raid Practice

On March 21

Hong Kong is to be blacked out on the night of March 20-21.

Official notification in the "Government ...........................Gazette" intimates that the special regulations ap-

GUN MISHAP

ON

RAMILLIES

Gibraltar, To-day.

Labour Increase Majority In L.C.C.

London, To-day.

The final result of yesterday's elections to the London County Council is an increase of the Labour Party's majority - from 14 to 26.

Labour holds 75 out of 124 "seats, the other 49 being held

by the Municipal Reformer British Wireless.

pended are by way of practice for occasions of Depreciation

emergency or public danger."

· TEMPORARY REGULATIONS

Įtains, etc. that no more than a dull

1. These regulations shall be in subdued fight is visible from any force during the whole period be-direction outside the premises. tween the hours of 2 am and 4 a.m on Sunday, the 21st day of March, 1937.

MOTOR CAR LIGHTS

5. The following restrictions on the use of lights on vehicles shall be observed:

Not Devaluation

FALL IN FRANC

Paris, To-day. After the close of the exchange market at 6 pm. yesterday, francs. (a) The use on motor vehicles of were quoted here at 107, as against headlights of all descriptions is 105 on Thursday... prohibited.

2. All lights, whether public or Three bluejackets and a stoker private, which, if unobscured, would were injured by the accidental be visible from the air, from the firing of a gun loaded with star harbour or from the sea or from

It is apparently intended to leave shell on board the battleship ay navigable waters, must be ex-

(b) Not more than tinguished, or, in the case of in-

two lamps the franc to find its own level be- Ramillies yesterday.

door lights, obscured so as to be showing a light to the front may be fore the issue of Monday's defence invisible from outside and all other used on any vehicle. -

loan, but it is emphasised here that

tion and not devaluation. Reuter.

This was learned when the battleship, which had been out on manoeuvres and was carrying out gun practice, returned to Gibraltar unexpectedly to land the injured men. Reater and Trans-Ocean.

Five

The Next

Years' Group

London, To-day.

lights in the neighbourhood of any (c) No light whatever shall be this movement is one of deprecia- water front must be so masked as

prevent, as far as practicable, the reflection of their light upon the

water:

shown from any stationary vehicle 6. All instructions given by any police officer for the purpose of en- forcing these regulations must be observed.

The Boyal Observatory forecasts weather conditions in Hong Kong as follows:

Provided that this regulation shall 7. These regulations shall not

East and South-East winds. Mo- not apply to lights on vehicles or to apply to the New Territories other derate and cloudy generally, with

indispensable navigation, railway or than New Kowloon,

dock lights, or to any light which

military authority.

is approved by a competent naval or

ALL LIGHTS COVERED

Nomination of candidates for the 3. Save as elsewhere provided by by-election in eight combined Eng-these regulations, all external lamps, lish Universities took place to-day flares and fixed lights of all descrip- The candidates are Sir Francis tions (including sky signs, illumin- Lindley, former British Ambas-ated fascias, illuminated lettering sador in Tokyo (National Conser-and outside lights of all descriptions vative), Sir Henry Brackenbury, used for advertising or for the illu- former Chairman of the British mination of shop fronts) and all Medical Association (Independent aggregations of lights, whether pub- Conservative), and Mr. T. E. Harlic or private, must be extinguish- vey, who is standing as an Indeed, except such public lamps as in pendent on a programine of the the opinion of the Inspector General "next five years group," a an all of Police are necessary for safety party organisation, which pub-and any other lights approved by fished two years ago an agreed him. platform of progressive measures in domestic and foreign policy. British Wireless.

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INVISIBLE FROM ABOVE

All lights which are not extin- guished must be reduced to the minimum intensity consistent with

safety and shaded or obscured so a

to render them invisible from above and to cut off direct light in all Page directions above the horizontal.

Ir factories, shops, hotels, in- stitutions, dwelling houses, build- lings and premises of all descrip- o shad- tions inside lights must be so ed or reduced or the windows, sky- lights and glass doors so screened by shutters or dark blinds or cur

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