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LOSSES OF FAMOUS ORCHESTRA.

REVELATIONS IN PROGRAMMES.

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Members of the audience at concert given last night at the Queen's Hall, W... by the London Symphony Orchestra, found in their prograramos a notice restal- ing the gravity of the crisis in the Snancial affairs of the archestra.

In the notice the directors of the orchestra. apologised for the non- appearance of Madans Schumann, tlio soprano, at the ongéeri, and also for the

non-appearance of Mr Moritz Rosenthal, he pianist, at the convert on February 20

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1932.

SEARCH FOR THE KOBENHAVN.

ROCKS MOVE DOWN:

THE ALPS.

[MISSING CADETS PARENTS SAFETY OF SEVERAL VILLA GES

FINANCING SCHEME.

ILL-FATED TRIP PROM BUENOS AIRES TO AUSTRALIA,

the naval sailing ship Kobenhavn, London, Marsh 31.-A search for which has been missing for two years, in about to be started it was lourned to-day, 2

The parents of 15 Danish cadeta who wore on board the ship are financing the search.

They still believe that there is a chance of in the South Atlantic. Anding their sons alive somewhere

The Kobenhavn was last heard of when she sent out Christmas biggest sailing ship in the world greetings in 1928. She was the and was bound on a trip from Buenos Aires to Australia when she disappeared.

The present. hopes that all on

ENDANGERED.

Paris, April 5.-Several villagee in the Fronuh Alps ars menaced by a wandering mpes of rock and mud moving down the mountain side at s speed of ten fest a day, mowing down trees and burying everything

be reached by the slide within this has already been evacuated and will ia its way. The village Argentine

week.

dammed up here, it will monaco the Unless the slide can be

bery, the capital of the Saver De village of Chatelard, near Cham partment: Tho authorities are already taking special precautions to guard Chambery where army gineers are engaged in building up the second defonces against the mud food.

THREAT TO DESTROY TOWN.

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GAS MASK FOR CHINESE TROOPS.

GENEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS FROM CHINESE BODIES.

Nanking April 6.-Generous con- tribations are being received here from various parts of the country for the purchase of gas masks for the Chinese troops at the front, As the Central Industrial Labora

masks, many donations have been has been successful in making gas tory of the Ministry of Industry

wholesale manufacturo. received to provide hinds for the of these Canton has remitted a articles. A wealthy merchant in

$10,000 The Choking Chamber of Commerce has also donated $10,000 and the Soochow Chamber 390,000.

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of

POSTAL RATES IN CHINA.

INCREASE EXPECTED SOON TO

COVER DEFICIT.

Nunking, April 7-The Minister of Communications has announced that increases in the domestic postal rates would go into effect shortly because of an expected defcit in the revenue of the postal administra tion.

"On January 14 the directors were informed by the triver and manager of the estate of the late Mr. Lionel Powej (the impresario) that would not be possible, for, the astats to incur any further liabili-| board, may still be alive are based | BANDITS' DEMAND FOR LARGE ties in connection with the concerts

on the belief that the crew may

SUM OF MONEY: remaining to be given under the or

have managed to reachd an island somewhere in the South Atlantic. chestra's contract with Mr. Powell The disappearance of the Koben- Harbin, April 7-Bandits buvo and, further, that the subscriptions is considered one of the sent a letter to the Chinese Cham- received from the public (for years.

greatest son mysteries of recent ber of Commerce at Yablenys, near She was a five-masted bar-Shihtowhotze, demanding a sum of

He added that the Government Queen's Hall Symphony Concert que, the largest and best equipped 300,000, otherwise they threaten to was contemplating the erection of 2882 net, aight international sub sailing vessel in the world." She raid and destroy the town.

a new powerful radio station in scription concerts Inset total light winds and calms and carried Chan Shan, who fought the Japan with any station in the world. Pru was fitted with a Diesel engine for It is reported that General Ma China capable of communicating of £1,830) could abs recovered from some 50 apprentices drawn from the css in North Manchuria lust year,parations for the erection of this the estate."

test Danish families, had a nucleus is making a trip of inspection in station, were already being made, ho $2,500 Lost.

the Paichuan district, whore the said." troopa refuse to acknowledge the now Manchurian Government.

According to Japanese reports. the town of Sansing was subjected to a heavy merial bombardment yos terday, with the result that many

The directors assumed responsi bility for the remaining converts. The sight in the provinces resulted in a urtons to the orelestin of

£100.

of trained men.

No News for Months.

The Kobenhavn sailed from Mon- tevideo bound to Melbourne on Documber 15, 1925. When nothing Jater was heard from her since the Christmas greetings a few days after she had sailed, she was puatori "It brenne evident that for the missing. Months passed without London concerts drastic economics any news and the curtain was fin would be necessary as the Orchestrally rung down on her career.

Then one year later, one of the;

Kirin troops who had fled there casualties were inflicted on the Old

from Fungcheng.

"IMPERATIVE NEED " FOR ACTION.

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FINANCIAL STRAITS OF

AUSTRIA....

FAMOUS VIOLINIST GETS

INTO DIFFICULTIES.

Vienna, Mar. 30-The Austrian crisis is forcing ever more promin ent personages into the bankruptcy, court.

After Prince Starhemborg,

MISS GLORIA SWANSON.

A NEW HOME IN MAYFAIR.

Miss Gloria, Swanson, the cinema star, and her husband, Mr. Michael Farmer, who are staying at the Dorchester, Park-lane, W., are to have a Mayfair home.

ק ...

They have taken a charming little furnished house in a wid mows in Farm-street, not far from Parklane, at present occupied by Viscountess Furness. They expect to take possessich next week. The place is called Manor House, and is a long-fronted, lended windowed building with a largo garago,

Miss Swanson has announced that a happy event is expected.

Mr. Farmer, Miss Gloria Swan- son's fourth husband, is a wealthy

young pertaman and has a home in Paris. He is an Irishman, but has stated that he may become an Ameri can citizen....

Miss Swanson has a ten-years-old daughter, Gloria, by her second hus band, Mr. Harbert Somborn, and has adopted. A little boy, Joseph. Her first husband was Mr. Wallace

Beory, the film, star, and her third husband was the Marquis de la

Falaise, now the husband of Miss Constanes Bonnett

EXPEDITION TO GREENLAND.

FRENCH POLAR STEAMER STARTS ON CRUISE.

was quite unable to hear the cost of missionaries of the lonely Tristan engaging those artists who had heenda Cunha island related that he booked by the late Lionel Powell, had a derelict sailing ahip, ap

In spite of the most einen Durently five-masted, drifting by GREECE ASKS FOR FINANCIAL day lodged a petition in bank under orders to shil for' Greenland,

the island showing only one wisp of sail down by the stern, and ap- Parently unmanned.,

arrangements and the very gener pas reduction of charges by ait con'. cerned, the six London concerts nobody has over ascertained, and Whether this was the Kobenhavn given up to date have resulted in she has to be classed with those my n further loss to the London Systery ships that seem to disappear phony Orchestra of"£930,"

completely in a new and undiscover ed world.

The concert on February ã, con-

dacted by Sir Hamilton Harty. GIRLS TAKING TO, PIPES.

which was by general consent one

of the finest orchestral concerts of

the season, showed a net less of

984.

RIVER DNEISTER OVERFLOWS.

THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE MAROONED ON HOUSETOPS.

Bucharest, April 8.-Tronstads of people are marooned on the house- tops in the town of Boroka, it was announced to-day. Their desperate plight is the result of the floods From the Ducister Maay houses have collapsed; and the floods are still spreading in all directions. Several villages have already been ..obliterated.

The foods show no sign of abate- ment.

· ROBBERS LOOT PEIPING TOMB.

VALUABLE JEWELS AND PEARLS TAKEN AWAY.

Peiping. April 7-Robbers loot ed the tomb of the ex-Emperor's mother to-day. She was the Prin- cess Talli, and her tomb is it ated in the western suburbs of Peiping The Princess was the wifo of the Regent before the fall of the Manchus, and in the last year

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BEACH VOGUE!

Brighton.Will the beach girls smoke pipes during the summer f

A girl was seen, recently on the Brighton front puffing contentedly at brier, and inquiries show that many other women and girls are smoking pipe in the privacy of their own homes,

A Shoreham-by-Sen tobacconist, who does a large business among county families, said:-

You would be surprised at the number of women pipe-amoters there are, and lately there has been à demand for specially-made light briars.

with brilliants and cost anyting up "Some of them are encrusted to 23 each.

One of my women enstomers smokes church-warden and an" other a clay pipe."

U.S. AND THE WORLD· COURT.

SECRETARY OF STATE'S RE-

PORT TO COMMITTEE.

Washington, April 6-Col. Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State, to day appeared before the Foreign Rolations Committee of the Senate and elaborate his view, that the Elihu Root formula for the adherence of the United States to the World

Court at the Hague would fully pro- tect the rights of the United States. Senator Borah, chairman of the Committee, said the prospect of a vote being taken in the Senate dur

ASSISTANCE.

French polar ship Pourquoipaa Paris, April 6.-The- famous the Homeguard leader who yester which is now lying in Le Havre is ruptcy, to-day's victimh was Janit was announced here to-day. The Kabelik, the violinist whose per vessel will serve as the base of un formance have enchanted thousands expedition headed by the famous need for swift action, if Greece is

Athens, April 8-The imperative of audiences throughout the world.

Herr Kabelik attributes his fall will engage in a scientific survey Freach explorer M. Charcot which to be saved from a financial catas the purchase, some years ago, of of Greenland. trophe was emphasised to-day in large estate which now he cannot two identical notes addressed by either keep up or sell. His liabili Premier Venizelos to the British ties are estimated at 900,000 Aus and French Governments. After trian shillings and his assets at expounding Greece's dangerous 500,000 shillings. Hats offering an economic position, M. Venizelos initial payment of 35 per cent, to ges the two governments to bring all his creditors if they will allow all possible pressure to bear upon him time to straighten his affairs the League of Nations to hasten himself. measures for Greece now under con templatiori.

Speed now is the most import- apt consideration," the note ends.

In the course of the note, M. Venizelos denied the persistent rumours that the Greek Govern ment intended to go off the gold standard.

DISAPPOINTMENT

TO M.P.'S.

FREE SHOW OF ACROBATIC

DANCING FAILS.

ADDITIONAL BUDGET

REJECTED.

DECISION BY THE JAPANESE FINANCE MINISTER.

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Tokyo, April 1.--As a result of yesterday's conference with Finance Office authorities, Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahaai has decided to Yen 70,000,000 submitted by various reject the additional budges for state departments, it was disclosed to-day,

London, April 0.-Stuid members the Government during the current Public loans to be floated by of the House of Commons almost year total more than Yen 440,000,000, witnessed a free "leg show" to-including those for Manchuria and day. They bastily forsook the pro: Shanghai military expenditure, and saie discussions of the Wheat Bill it is felt that flotation of

a public

to crowd into the Committee room lean for a higher figure is im to-night in high anticipation of possible. This inspired Mr. Taka- lighter entertainment such as acro-shi's decision, it was explained. batic dancing and high kicking.

SPEED" KING'S WOOING.

The entertainment way to be pro vided by a bevy of leading Variety artists, contortionists and girl dan cers, who accompanied a deputation which is seeking to demonstrate the oppressiveness of some of the pro-cently established the world moter Sir Malcolm "Campbell, who re visions in the Government's Child- ren and Young Perenna Bill, espéci spred record of 254 miles an hour ally against the law which forbids the guest of the Aldwych Club at at Daytona Beach, Florida, was children under twelve to be trained luncheon when. Major Whittall, manees. as contortionists for public perforir Malcolm's father-in-law, in The supporters of the Bill con proposing a vote of thanks, said of young girls is hound to be detri- king "bagged my daughter " tend that such training in the cas

that the way in which the spand mental to their future motherhood. typical of the man.

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of the Manch regime committeding the present session on the ques-undressing when to the disappoint don't you?"

suicide by swallowing a gold ring,

Priceless pearls and other jewele were some of the loot which the robbers took away with them. The police have arrested two suspects.

HELP TO BRITISH WHEAT GROWERS.

COMMONS' PASS THIRD READ- ING OF THE BILL.

tion of American accession to the Hague Court was reasonably good."

PROMOTION OF AIR SERVICES.

AMERICAN DIRECTOR ARRIVES IN BRITAIN,

London, April 8-Another step was taken to-day in the proposed trans-Atlantic air service by the London, April -The essential arrival of Mr. J. T. Trippe, Director part of the Government's scheme to of Pan-American airways. Mr. relieve the depressed agricultural Trippe said he has..come to Great industry was carried through to Britain to discuss matters with the night when the House of Commons, Imperial Airways to exchange data by 308 votes to 58, passed the third about it lines, and also to make reading of the Wheat Bill.

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We were changing for tennis at inocuousness of their profession aid, 'By the way, Bill, you know my place one day, when Malcolm some of the performers were already Dolly and I are getting married, meat of many M.P.a it was decided that a practical display,.was necessary.

DRIVE AGAINST THE KURD TRIBE.

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FORMER AUSTRAIN MINIS- TER'S BANKRUPTCY PÉTITION..

bankruptcy was lodged to day by Viana, March 29.-A petition in Prince Starhemborg, chief of the somifasciat Homeguards and form er Home Minister. It was stated that the liabilities of the state ex coed 4,000,000. Austrian shillings, while the assets are said to be amall.

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