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CENTRAL

THEATRE

TO-DAY and TO-MORROW. Positively last Screening in Hongkong. DAILY at 2.15; 5.20, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.

a.

Garamount Picture

HE best of the season's

Tmusical plays! It's gay.

rolücking and tuneful," says The New York Telegram All New York raved about it. The screen's first original musical-

romance..

MAURICE

CHEVALIER The Love Parade

AN ERNST

LUBITSCH

PRODUCTION

JEANETTE MacDONALD LUPINO LANE ULLAN ROTH

Showing Wednesday, June 25th.

NOW YOU CAN HEAR FICTION'S GREATEST DETECTIVE

CLIVE BROOK

ia

"The Return of Sherlock Holmes

A Paramount all Talking Picture

Also MEI LAN FANG

IN A CHINESE PLAY

"FASCINATION OF

A GENERAL

PLAYED ON BROADWAY.

W.C

TWO OLD BOYS WITH

YOUNG IDEAS 1

Te-Day To-Morrow 2.80, 5,80, 7,20 & 9,20 Only/

Paramount Pictures

CHESTER

FIELDS CONKLIN

Two

WITH

Flaming Youths"

IMARY BRIAN JACK LUDEN

If you like to laugh TWO FLAMING YOUTHS is the picture for you! It starts with a laugh, ends with a laugh and sandwiches thousands of them in between !

AT MAJESTIC

THE

Nathan Road," Kowloon,

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FzDERICK PERCY FRANKIJN, st. 1 and 3. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria

MASAYDIM Hongkong.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1930.

RAIN STOPS BIG PARADE.

BOMBAY PROCESSION WASHED OUT.

COMPROMISE OVERTURES. TO' GANDHI.

FOUR TERMS GIVEN.

MANILA'S CIVIL SERVANTS.

PROPOSED 25 PER CENT. CUT IN SALARIES.

FINANCIAL CRISIS.

Manila, June 21. Prominent political leaders and members

Legislature of the executed a unique political gesture to remedy the financial crisis threatening the Government by advocating a general reduction of Bombay, June 22.

25 per cent. of the salaries of all Government officials, including To-day had been fixed for a monster procession of Gandhites members of the Legislature, in the in sympathy with the Garhwali 1931 Budget. sepoys who were recently court- Oficials of the Department of are considering the martialled on account of their Finance unsatisfactory behaviour during appeal made by the 36 government the rioting at Peshawar. The offices to reconsider the proposed reduction of the 1931 appropria- Congress "War Council," in de tions sorasnot to impair the fiance of the official ban, planned efficiency of their activities. all the details of the demonstra- tion.

The five bureaus under the Department of Commerce and The police took elaborate pre- Communications have submitted cautions and blocked all roads proposal to Miguel Unson, Secre- from the Congress headquarters.tary of Finance, promising to cut your provided A company of the East Lan-their expense this

saved be re- cashire Regiment was posted in that the money readinces, but then down came the asigned, under the 1931 budget. This proposal has the approval monsoon rain and everything was literally washed out. The situa- of Filemon Perez, Secretary of the Commerce and tion in Bombay continues quiet. Department of

Communications, The bureaus Reuter.

who have submitted this proposal are Posts. Public Works, Supply, Bri-Labour and Commerce and Indus-

try,

Parleys With Gandhi.

London, June 17. Efforts are being made by tish officials in India to make peace

The Bureau of Posts has agreed with imprisoned Mahatma M. K.

minimum their personnel this Gandhi, great Nationalist leader, to save PS2,000 by reducing to the

received according to dispatches here from Bombay by the Ex-year, provided that the allotment for 1931 will enable them to re- and place it change Telegraph Agency.

The messages to Exchange as-organize the bureau serted that Sir Parabhasaker Pat-in proper shape. tani, on behalf of the British Gov ernment in India, is conferring with Gandhi. Gandhi has been in jail for several weeks for violating the salt monopoly laws and defying British rule in India. Under the law he can be held in jail indefinite- ly without trial.

It is believed that Sir Parabhasa- ker is conferring with Gandhi in an effort to find a compromise on four points of the Indian independ ence movement.

Advices reaching London indi- cate that British authorities in In- dia are exerting every effort to re- solve the disturbed situation there,

BOSTOCK OFFERS

MENAGERIE.

FAMOUS SHOW WHICH MAY BE CLOSED.

GLASGOW INTEREST.

Bostock's famous travelling menagerie, which has roamed the British Isles for the last 125 years, is likely to to come to an end.

Gandhi's Terms, Gandhi's terms, given from his

A suggestion has been made cell in the Central Yervada Jail to that the City of Glasgow should George Slocombe, special corres- pondent of the Daily Herald, are purchase the animals to form the nucleus of a municipal zoo simil- as follows:

"(1) terms of reference of thear to that at Edinburgh.

It is a scheme Mr. Bostock has Round Table Conference to include the framing of a long favoured. So long ago as constitution giving India a 1897 he offered Glasgow all the *substance of independ-assistance in his power to form a corporation. 200, and said he "(2) satisfaction to be granted would sell them all or part of his

to Mr. Gandhi's demands stock, for repeal of salt tax, pro- hibition, of liquor and ban on foreign cloth; "(3) amnesty to prisoners con- victed of political offences to coincide with the end of the civil disobedience cam- paign;

ence:*

He also offered manager of the zoo.

to become

The scheme did not materialise ago Mr. Bostock and 33 years opened his own "Scottish Zoo" in the New City-road at Glasgow.

He now writes:~~

decide to seven points "If the corporation raised in Mr. Gandhi'e let proceed with this zoo scheme and ter to the Viceroy to be left want my stock forming the mena for future discussion." gerie, after its exhibition at the Over and above amnesty to poli- next carnival, I will let them have tical prisoners and the discussion it at a price that will surprise

"(4) remaining

at the round table conference, everybody, and for two reasons. Gandhi. desires that his demands with respect to the repeal of the salt tax, the prohibition of liquor and the ban on foreign cloth shall first be met.

Two Charges by Police.

Bombay, June 21. Five hundred police made

dense charge with cudgels on masses of volunteers who congre- gated on the Maidan esplanade in defiance of the official prohibtion of such gatherings.

remem-

"One is that I have always been a Zoological desirous of seeing Garden in Glasgow.

"The public will also ber how I offered the zoo collection to the corporation in April 1909, which I really believe they regret having turned down.

"The other reason is that I am anxious to be relieved of the travelling menagerie, as the lease at my brother-in-law, Mr. Frank Bostock, expires at the end of this year, and failing health preventa him from carrying it on any longer.

AMERICAN TARIEF EFFECTS.

NOT TO RETARD THE FOREIGN TRADE.

SMALLER PURCHASES FROM

UNITED KINGDOM.

NEW BILL DEFENDED.

Washington, June 22.

In a speech here to-day Mr. Robert Lamont, the Secretary for Commerce, said that the new Tariff Bill, recently signed by President Hoover, would not retard the amazing growth of American foreign trade. After the tariff in 1922 there were us many protests from foreign countries as received during the present year, and in the seven years since the last tariff was enforced America's total exports had increased by 41 per cent.

He

In the period from 1922 to 1929 imports of manufactures from the Europe rose 45 per cent. significantly that stated United Kingdom was the only im- portant European country from which the United States had pur- chased less in 1929 than in 1922. due to changes in American duty This decline, however, was not

rates.

During the same period the exports of manufactured goods dred per cent. annually.-Reuter's increased by practically a hun- American Service.

Retaliatory Measures.

New York, June 18. As the new American tariff law became effective to-day inter- national reaction to it was reflect- ed in retaliation in kind by one government, in the consideration of retaliatory measures by two. others and in condemnation from the press of practically every European nation.

Automatically with the effective- ness of the new rate schedule a countervailing schedule went into effect in Canada, placing higher duties on dozens of commodities imported from the United States.

The two countries to take the matter of reprisals under con- sideration were Spain and Bel- gium.

The Spanish Government began a study of requests that it break the existing modus vivendi with the United States, while the Bel-

should await con- gian cabinet decided that any retaliation ferences with the other European countries..

In Czecho-Slovakia the Indus- trialists Association protested to the American ministery, asserting that the new rates would strangle Czecho-Slovakian exports to the United States.

Newspaper condemnation of the new schedule concurred in prac tically every country of Europe.

Spanish Protest.

Madrid, June 18. The Government is studying re- break the existing quests to modus vivendi with the United States as a protest against the American tariff.

However, officials said that hasty and ill-advised action would not be taken.

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Foreign trade interests have petitioned the Government "to immediately denounce the modris vivendi of 1906 with the United States because its new tariff is a prohibitive measure against most Spanish exports to the United States."

Numerous spectators were mix- ed up with the demonstrators who had foregathered in the expeeta tion of exciting scenes at the re-

"At my age I am not disposed view of the so-called Nationalist Militia Volunteer Force by Motilal to look for another manager, so that after 125 years of peram- As a result of the police charge, balating the country, it is likely thirty-five persons were taken to to be brought to a close.

"What more fitting finish could hospital. The police later with- teers and spectatora flocking back housed in the city of my adop-reduced other exports to the drew, the fifty thousand volun- the old collection have than to be

tion?

Nehru.

The petition added that n |vious tarif policies of the United addition to the new tariff, the pre- States had greatly damaged Spain's foreign trade and that the diploma- tic status of 1906 was obsolete.

The exporters said that probi- bition barred Spanish wines; the campaign against. the Mediter oranges, the tariff prevented or ranean fruit fly barred Spanish

United States, causing an "It will be realised that senti- favourable trade balance between Later, however, the volunteers attempted to carry out their proment plays rather an important Spain and the United States of 250,000 and 300,000; between gramme again and the police made part in this case. However, if

Altogether the corporation want the collec pesetas a year. further charge.

Officials said that the Govern- over two hundred people were tion as a nucleus for a perman- sent to hospital with injuries. ent zoo, they can have it, and ifment's policy would be to study the Motilal Nehru remained on the they do not I will find other ways situation thoroughly before decid- ing upon the course to be followed. spot throughout and only left of disposal." when the crowd had dispersed.-

Commission Gets Plen, Reuter.

to Maidan.

£

PRINCE DAMRONG.

HAS LUNCH WITH KING AND QUEEN.

London, June '21.

LATEST FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.

un-

The protest of Spanish business men against the new American tariff was referred by the Council of Ministers to a'commission ap- pointed by the Ministry of Economics.

TWO AIRMEN ARRIVE AT MARSEILLES.

The commission has been in- structed, to study steps to protect Marseilles, June 21.

former Spanish interests and to report Jimmy Matthews, The Siamese Prince Damrong mechanic to Bert Hinkier and a to the Council for a final decision,

England who is at present in

on exporters, fearing that the new sampling many aspects of British wealthy young man named Hook, Many Spanish producers and

who left Lympne secretly life, saw the races at Ascot from Thursday morning to attempt a American tariff rates would be

asked for reprisals." the Royal box to-day and lunched record fight to Australia, have arruinous to their business, have with the King and Queen-Reu rived here from Lyona. Reuter.

Words of theme song obtainable on request at Ticket office.

His Inspiration!

Lois Moran, as the South's most haughty hoirass who passed love by rather than take the man of her heart from another woman.

an intriguing siren. But Lois' eyes were open and her cars were filled with beautiful music which that man (Joe Wagstaff) dedi- cated in her honor.

A`musical Movietone

A SONG

OF KENTUCKY

HEAR THE MODERN Jazz Rhapsody

COMEDY

CHARLIE CHASE

IN

"Stepping Out"

AT THE

with

LOIS MORAN JOSEPH WAGSTAFE DOROTHY BURGESS Directed by LEWIS SEILER-

NEWSREEL

Movietone

Eswall. finds tesl Strange liner reaches New York. Sultan of Morocco rides in state. Experts demonstrate fancy skating.

QUEEN'S

TO-DAY TO WEDNESDAY ▲t 2,80, 5.10, 7.16 & 9.20

REGINALD

DENNY

in

"CLEAR THE DECKS"

A LOVE-SICK,||SEA-SICK HERO.

A ROLLICKING, RIB-TICKLING PARCE

AT THE

THAT WILL MAKE YOU LAUGH-SICK.

WORLD

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

-5.16 & 9.20

At 2.30 8 7.15

CHINESE PICTURE

REMINISCENCE OF PEKING”

TWO ARABIAN

KNIGHTS

WM BOYD MARY ASTOR

GME LOUIS WOLHEIM • Two doughboys lost in abaren But did the harem, scare'i See the greatest Soldier Comedy ever filmed. Here's love, Knight life and a laugh for each and every bean in the army. Laughs by the Carload Get your share i

THE

STAR

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

At 5.30 89.20.