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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 28, 1937.

Mexican OiRAMSAY

ALHAMBRA Industry

NSTÜRK NO MONUNOK

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

PRIVATE SLEUTH

PHONEY GIRL

MILE-A-MINUTE CROOKS TOUR OF EXCITEMENT !

TO-MORROW

New Universal Picture

DAILY

COUNTERFEIT LADY

RALPH BELLAMY JOAN PERRY Douglass OUMBRILLE Directed by 3. Roco Lederman

COLUMBIA PICTURE

The Biggest Musical Film Of All Time

"TOP OF THE TOWN

with Doris Nolan

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A

Geo. Murphy & Others

HANKOW ROAD KOWLOON

1STARE

• TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

SUNDAY RKO Picture

57795

A PICKFORD-LASKY production

NC

LEDERER

ONE RAINY AFTERNOON

with IDALUPINO

"WINTERSET"

CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.

BURNS-PHILP LINE

From MELBOURNE, SYDNEY, SALAMAUA, RABAUL,

CEBU & MANILA.

The Steamship

“NEPTUNA-”

Consignees of Cargo are hereby in- formed that all Goods are being landed

Burgess Meredith Margo

PIPPERMINT

GET

always

delicious

W with

at their risk into the hazardous and/or crushed ice

extra hazardous Godowns of The Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 3rd JUNE will be subject to rent.

All claims against the steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 17th JUNE or they will not be recognized.”

To comply with the General Bonded Warehouse Regulations- consignees must have a Revenue Officer in atten- dance when

are examined, aged dutiable goods

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 2nd JUNE at 10 a.m., by Messrs. Goddard and Douglas.

No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersign- ed by,

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO. LTD.

Agents. Hong

1937

or

iced water

GET FRERES REVEL (HGaronne) FRANCE

VLASONABLE

PRICES.

Job Printing

Newspap Enterprise Ltd.

Chino Mail Bldg.- 3a Wyndham St.

Paralysed

FOREIGN FIRMS

AFFECTED

MAO:

DECLINES EARLDOM

London, To-day.. When the Lord Pre- Mexico City, To-day.sident of the Council, Mr.

A general strike which will

paralyse the entire petroleum in- Ramsay Macdonald, dustry of Mexico has been pro-visited the King at Buck- ingham Palace yester-

claimed and will come into effect at midnight.

The strike follows the failure of day, he did not hand negotiations which have been con- over his seal of office,

Mr. MacDonald's visit

was

tinuing for six months between owners and workers, mainly over questions of collective bargaining more in the nature of a farewell and an increase of upwards of 50 audience with His Majesty. per cent. in wages.

The President and the Ministry of Labour are attempting to reach a solution of the problems, which are the gravest in the history of the Mexician oil fields.

It is understood that the ex- Premier, who, in view of his services to the State, had been pressed to accept a high here ditary honour, asked permis- sion to be allowed to decline, and the King reluctantly agreed.

One-object-of the negotiations has been to obtain a collective la

The honour offered Mr. Macdon- bour contract and to place same onald is understood to have been an the Statute Book for the purpose Earldom.-Reuter.

of terminating the series of claims by labour against foreign oil in- terests.

Approximately half the foreign investments in this £100,000,000 in-” dustry are British.-Reuter.

PRESS HELP FOR GOVERNMENTS

Mr. Lyons On Need Of Co-operation

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£500,000 FOR THE DEAD

37-YEAR-OLD WILL

Most of the legatees under a will made thirty-seven years ago and now published, died in the lifetime of the testator, leaving three per- sous to share a fortune of more than $500,000.

The need for closer co-operation between Governments and the

Mr. Clarence Chesney Wilson, of Press was stressed by the Prime Avenue-road, Regent's Park, Lon- Minister of Australia, Mr. J. A.don. N.W., formerly of Ercildoune, Lyons, at the annual dinner of the Victoria, Australia, son of the late Newspaper Society, now in ita Sir Samuel Wilson, M.P., made his

will in February, 1900. 101st year, at Grosvenor House.

"I have often taken the Press into my confidence on important occa- sions, when discretion was neces- sary, and that confidence has never been betrayed,” he said;

It

He died last December leaving with net personalty £503,887, $498,324.

Publication of the will revealed that the executors, residuary lega-

was impossible to carry out tees and most of the members of any positive campaign or movement his family to whom he had made be- without co-operation between Gov-quests had died in his lifetime.

Letters of administration, with ernment and Press.

the will annexed, have been grant- Mr. Lyons was following Mr. Samuel Storey, M.P., who had saided to his sisters, Maud Margaret, it would be much better if states-Countess of Huntingdom, of Burton men, instead of putting forth half-Hall, Loughborough, Leics, and Miss Florence Mabel Wilson, of truth, were frankly to place their cards on

the table and take the Upper Berkeley-street, W., and his Press into their confidence.

nephew, Captain Randolph Gordon Golders The Prime Minister of Northern Wilson, of Brook Lodge, Ireland, Viscount Craigavon, said: Green, N.W., the only persons en-

titled to the estate. "My experience is that the news- papers know more of what is going£5,000 to his brother-in-law,

There was also a bequest of the on than do the Governments.”

Earl of, Huntingdon. Mr. James Henderson, of Belfast, president of the society, said that the unwarranted intrusion- înto pri- vate affairs which Parliament had discussed was committed by only a small fraction of the Press.

NEW SECRETARY FOR Z.B.W.

FATAL FALL FROM MOVING

· TRAMCAR

A 22-year-old Chinese was fatal- ly injured in Des Voex Road West last night when he attempted

to Lalight from a moving tramcar and was heavily thrown on the back of Among the passengers who ar-his head. The accident occurred. rived in the Colony this morning at about 9.45 p.m. and the victim. in the 8.s. Rawalpindi was Mr. Ar- died of a fractured skull at 2:40 thur T. Lay, formerly of Messrs. a.m. to-day. Reiss, Bradley and Company, M

Lay, who is a well-known Hong) Three months' hard labour for Kong sportsman, travelled out from stealing five pairs of trousers was England via Siberia to take up the imposed on a cat burglar at the appointment of Secretary of ZBW. Central Police Court this morning. He undertook a short special course The trousers were stolen from-the at the B.B.C. studios before leaving verandahs of Nos. 2 and

Street during the night.

(England.

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