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To-day to Tuesday. Daily at 215, 5.10, 7.15 and 8.20 p.m.

THE WILD PARTY"

A Paramount TALKING Picture

Starring CLARAC

BOW

Let's go! Clara talks and how! Hand-pick-

W BOOPEE!

n

ed beauties doing cute The "It" girl trickal

carload of uncorks "kicks" Clara goes to

she's college, gets a lot of knowledge and

passing it on! Get in on the "know" for the bey- You've boy whoopee!

HEAR &

never heard or seen any. thing like it!

NEXT CHANGE

BALLANOVA NANCY CARROLL PAUL LUKAS

COMING

George

Bancroft

"THE WOLF OF WALL STREET" a manusunt Picture

NOUN

WITH BYRD

AT THE

SOUTH POLE"

Garamount Picture

THE

Bocking at Anderson's & The Theatre. Tel. 25720)

TO-DAY

at 2,30, 5.30, 7.20

& 9.20 p.m.

Billie

Dove

Rod La

Rocque

SEE!

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the

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY,

ARMED ROBBERY IN HARBOUR.

MEN GET AWAY WITH HAUL OF $1,000.

JUNK FOLK GAGGED,

DANGER OF WAR.

EUROPE'S FRAYED NERVES.

Europe, undoubtedly, is suffer- ing rather badly from nerves. Not for years has there been sai universal a feeling of vague dis- quiet, amounting in some quarters

NOVEMBER 22,

1930.

MORE U.S. BANKING

FAILURES..

ELEVEN BANKS CLOSE TO SWELL LIST.

to definito apprehension, that seta HEAVY WITHDRAWALS. mon of sober judgment discussing in all seriousness the danger of war, says II, Wilson Harris in the News-Chronicle.

Armed robbers who boarded a sampan in the harbour early this morning made the substantial haul of $1,000 in notes and

Does that danger really exlat? escaped before information reach-If it does, the best thing is to face ed the police,

it at once and take whatever steps may be possible in time. Or is it merely an attack of nervos seizing a good many people in different countries at once?

Detectives who were called in to investigate found the craft, a fair-sized vessel of 70 picula capa- city, lying moored at the eastern entrance of the Yaumati typhoon ahelter. They were told-that at About 2.30 n.m. three ren had aur prised the occupants in their Kleep, and. with show of weapons, had forced them into revealing the whereabouts of a housand dollars left in their keeping by a money-changer the day before.

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between

New York, Nov. 21.

fallures in the southern States to-day, possibly due reported to reactions one upon another.

Altogether the closing of eleven banka, in five States of the South and the lower Middle West, was announced.

Another succession of bank

Banks in English, Leavenworth, Corydon and Corydon Junction all small communities have been taken over by the States Banking Department.

Other failures have occurred at Paris, Tennessee, Donippan and Edina, Missouri, and Crestwood, which is a suburb of Louisville. Madisonville, Kentucky, Asheville, North Carolina, and the Negro Bank at Nashville, Tennessee.

A caso can be made for either assumption. No one who sets out to look for danger-spots in Europe will be loft groping very long. There is the disturbing antagonist between France and Italy, deriving from causes it would take too long to analyse here. There is the traditional opposition Apparently young boatman, France and Germany, sharpened

The Asheville faltare is report- who was sleeping in the hold, considerably in the last few wooka above the place where the money by the roault of the German glee-ed to be the ninth in North Caro-

lina in two days. was kept in a compartment, with tions. There is the sustained re-

The Missouri closinga are at- other articles treasured by the funal of Germany to recogniae hor

tributed to heavy withdrawals, accupants, was the first to be eastern frontiers as anal, and the aroused on the arrival of the persistent concentration of atten- the many failures having caused robbers. He found a man stand-tion on the Polish Corridor. There grent apprehension among de ing over him with a knife.

are Italy and Jugo-Slavlu glower-positors.

Three men were engaged in the robbery, and as they left the boat after obtaining the money, the elosed the batek cover on the victims.

Pointed allusions were made bying at each other across the Adria- the robber to the lurge sum stowed, fie. And always there is the loom DKRY The intruder was not to being menace of Soviet Russia..

onvinced when the boatman told Why Na. War. him that the money had been taken

Even that is not quite all the away the previous day. By the

The economic outlook la story. of the use of threats, the wife

as bad as the political, or worse, boatman was at length induced to

and an economic breakdown 'n reveal the treasure.

this country or that may easily have serious political reperctin- sions. Germany, for example, is to be loaded with fresh taxes to meet the Young Plan payments. when her unemployed total runs to somewhere near three millions. Suppose the Government cannot get the taxes paid. Suppose the them by the attempt to carry extra-Parliamentary methet pro- vided by Article 48 of the Con- stitution is challenged, by the

it very well tlerites, as

or suppose action, or imagined threat of netian, by Germany's creditors in the event of her default turned

Julien population into an angry and der fiant one.

Ten minutes later. freed pf their bonde and gags, by another occupant of the boat, the victims went short: the Yaumati Polier Station where they reported the affair. The money. they aid, belonged to a money-changer who had left it with thein for the pur- pose of buying copper cents from people on ships arriving in har- hour,

THE WORLD SUGAR PROBLEM.

CHIEF CUBAN DELEGATE OPTIMISTIC.

mas

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The Governor of Tennessee has promised à full and complete in- vestigation of all the State's Government Departments in con- sequence of financial difficulties. -Renter's American Service.

PRACTICAL SIDE OF CONFERENCE.

Continued from Page 13

the foundation of a new constitu- tion.

he

Flexible Federation. "We want for Indio." declared, " federation which is flexible, which meets India's historical inheritance, which enables mergings to take place and embodies in itself the authority of the State and the Bberty of the individual."

The questions to be answered concerned the nature of the com- Well, that kind of supposition ponent units to be fitted into the must be faced, But Europe need scheme of federation, the nature not lot its nerves run away with of the central coordinating struc- it. The forces making for peace ture, the relations of this structure deserve study as much as those with the Provinces, its relations to making for war. The first place the States, the provisions necessary New York, Nov. 2.

among the factors for peace is the to secure the willing cooperation Virinto Gutierrez, the Caban fact that, the quite incontestable of the minorities, and the special Senator, head of the Committee fact, that the countries most pre-interests and subjects with which representing the Cuban sugar pared for war are the countries the central structure would deat; in general, its powera, (unctions growers at the forthcoming world that least want war.

and responsibilities. conference, before leaving for

They will not attack anyone It Europe to-day expressed an op-themselves because they have no he

no amali task. hoped that temptation to, and no one is very of the work of the committees, an He thought the international likely to attack them because they agreement would be registered en- sugar conference—which meets

are too formidable as opponents. abling them to return to India. 1- un December at Brussels

happy and powerful men, strength- would evolve a definite plan which That assertion hardly needs de-ening the friendship of Britain and would align production and confending. The broad division in India enormously and amplifying sumption and he expressed the opin-Europe to-day

the their desire to co-operate.-Renter on that the participation of the countries

peace and British Wireless, Dutch geowers, who hitherto had heht aloof from such conferences, was a good augury for sucess | Reuters eterican Serviet,

timistic view.

RENT OF PIERS.

is between that want the

treaties altered-Germany and Hungary, and to a much lesser extent Austria and Bulgaria--and the countries that want them. maintained-France and Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Jugo-Slavin and Rumania. And armed action is not to be looked for from Hungary, with the Little Entente Stater holding her at their mercy, from a Germany which knows well that whlio the Locarno agree The Gazette contains the draftments stand aggressive action by of an Ordinace to amene further her will bring into the field France at Poland's side, and Britain most the Piers Ordinance, 1899.

LOCAL ORDINANCE BEING AMENDED.

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was

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but

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DEATH OF "BELOVED PHYSICIAN."

DAME MARY SCHARLIEB PASSES AWAY.

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London, Nov. 21. Dame Mary Scharlieb, one of the first women doctors and a lifelonK champion of the cause of women's freedom, died to-day, aged S yonra. She was 33 when she first studied medicine in Madras, In It is explained that the provi- probably at France's.

order to organise skilled relief to sions of Section a (4) of the Piers But what about Italy? Or Rus- Indian women sufferers, and Ordinance, 1899, which permit thesia? Italy could not attack Jugo having qualified, she came Lo Governer in Council to remit the Slavia without bringing in France, London to complete her studies, whole or any portion of the rent and in any case the declaration graduating in 1882 with n gold f a pler is limited in terms to Signor Mussolint has more than medal for proficiency in obstetric "temporary" piers. This

once made privately, that the de- surgery. proved an embarrassink jy in the preclude all thought of war, still broke down and she began ploneer |

mands of internal reconstruction On returning India, her health in certain cases, New Territories, and is contrary holds good. In Russia's caso work in England for the recogul. to the spirit of the Crown Fees

of

Sho doctors. women Ordinance, 1870 under which the everything is being staked on the ton

realisation of the Five Years' was known 4.8 The Beloved Governor in Council is given n general discretionary power tolan, and a war would be fatal to Phyaleton-British Wirclean. reduce fees.

of

Imitation

EXCHANGE RATES.

Onlo

Previous Day.

Paris.

129.645

Geneva

.26.055

Berlin

.20.38

HEAR!

New York. Amsterdam ...

Stockholm ...

Vienna....

.18.15% Helsingfors 103 Athens

.375 Buenos Aires..38% Shanghai .1/7%

-4.85.29/32 .12.07*4 18.001 .34.49

42,00

Madrid...

Bucharest.

Montevideo

.818

Hongkong .1/3.5/10

Brussels. Milan

.39

.84.BI

.02.765

183 .108.25 .43% .1/5%

The Man

and

Moment

Elibor Glyn's torrid tale of a loveless contract

marriage, made in a moment of madness, broken

· in a moment of love.

MAJESTIC

· Nathan Rand.: Kowloon, Phona BYBES.

Copenhagen....18.10

Prague. Lisbon.

and Published for

at 17and: B.;

Praphisters by: FREDIBLOK -PROY Street, in the City of Victoria

Rio.....

Bombay

that.

The Other Side.

ARSON CASE AGAIN ON COURT. FOUR ACCUSED REMANDED THIS MORNING.|

There may be other reasoria than these for belteving Europe is not threatened with imminent war, I think there are: the League Yesterday Covenant and the Kellogg Pact are

123.015

26.056 more than paper. But these are

20.38 the most obvious and in some ways Li Sui-ping, owner of a Chinese 18.16% the most convincing. But that drug store at 77, Winglok Street, 193 only micans that an armed poace and three others who are charged 376 will continue, and t we got with conspiracy and arson in reas 38.7/16 disarmed peace the war menace

1/7% will continue to impond..

4.85% 12.074

· 18.00%)

Meanwhile there is at any rate

a respite, and everything hangs

pect of

recent fire which occurred the premises, to-day appeared

further remand. before-Mr. Lindsell for the purpose

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It was explained by Chief Detec

34.50% on how it is to be used. The dantive Inspector Reynolds that the

42.70

918 ger is realleod, and all over the police had no further information

89 Continent, groups of States are regarding the possibility of other 1/3.5/10 trying to draw together.

arrests.

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The hearing will be resumed on 34.88 We are in for a raco balween 02.765 two tendencies, the tendency to- Monday.

18.10 wards disintegration and, the ten-

·AT THE

Final Showings To-day At 2,30, 8.10, 7.15 & 8.20

QUEEN'S RAMON NOVARRO

108

"Officials of the Chinese Gold and dency towards a new solidarity. 108.95

If immediate apprehensions are Silver Exchange met on Thursday 4.18/10

1/5% groundless, anxiety for the future and decided to make Saturdays a 22/0.17/82 is well founded. Europe has still half holiday, when no quotations 10.6/8 time to pull herself together, but will be given out in the afternoon. (forward) 10.0/10

10% she cannot afford to drift: much Native banks, however, will conduct --British -Wirsises. -- - further first.

usual transactions on that day|

Yokohama .2/0.17/02

Bitvor (spot). .10.11/16

IN A MUSICAL ROMANCE

DEVIL-

MAY-

with MARION HARRIS DOROTHY JORDAN

CARE

The Golden Voice of the Silver Screen. A greater Novarro in his first All-Talking- and-Singing picture.

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ALL TALKING PICTURE

NEXT

CHANGE

WILLIAM

HA

Metro

Godtyn

MET

TALKING

"PLÖTURE

itt

Something to

fire a salute about - Bill Haines' Grat talking pic

ture!

Girls, goba and gag g tore --- more laughs! more

thrills! mero romance than you're seen in

months of pic

ture-going]

NAVY BLUES

CLARENCE BROWN

with

production

ANITA PAGE

KARL DANE J. C. NUGENT

the

Laughs! Cuties! Gobs! thrills and romance of the des

troyer fleet!

STAR

MAY MCAVOY

in

LION and the MOUSE”

wich LIONEL BARRYMORE. ALEC, FRANCIS-Wa. 10 LITE

FINAL SHOWINGE