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THE
A 1931 PARAMOUNT SENSATION A picture you'll have lots to talk about when seen. SEE THE THRILLING TRUTH OF A LIVING RECORD OF. A DYING RACE
THE
Another
Paramount
Sensation
The Daring Differ- en't Amazingly Real Production
SILENT ENEMY
a Paramount Picture
Two years of fighting courage beyond civiliza. tion creating this wild, primeval romance!
NEXT CHANGE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1931.
DRASTIC DISEASE
AND REMEDY.
DESTRUCTION OF US. COTTON.
Washington, Aug. 12. The destruction of one-third of the present cotton crop has been suggested by the Federal Farm Board to the Governors of four- teen cotton-producing States.
Jit the States concur, the
withhold Government will
from the market for another year,
CHILE CONTEMPLATING
DEFAULT.
SUSPENDING DEBT
.INTEREST.
BRITISH TRADE
FAIR
PROMISE OF A BIG SUCCESS.
London, Aug. 12.
A great publicity campaign in connexion with the British Indus. noxt New York, Aug, 12. trica Fair. to be held Messages from Santiago de February in London and Birming- Chile reveal that a recommenda- ham, is about to be launched. tion has been made by the at the fact that, despite the trade The organisers are very pleased. [Chilean Cabinet to Congress
HR present holdings of cotton that the partial muratorium pro-depression,220,000 square feat
1———--have---- already
Servier.
If
claimed in the middle of July to 0/2 300,000
feet.
available at beon
will
The scheme will mean a reduc-protect the gold exchange stan-booked. tion in the total supply of cotton dard, should be completed by At White City, where the entire by at least 4,000,000 bales and the the suspension of the service on British Textile Industry will be withholding from this year's foreign loans.
represented, the exhibits market of 3,000,000 bales more. The Cubinet recommends, in cover some 100,000 square feet, while in Birmingham heavy induя- It will become effective the view of the shortage of funds, 'a tries will cover 260,000" square: ten largest production States ac-discontinuance of the payment of tent cept it.-Renter's American Servite. interest on foreign debts amount- In London, the furniture section ing to thirteen million dollars for is already 25% larger that at the the balance of the present year,
The Cabinet alan suggests a sus last Fair, and the toys and games section also is Increasing.! pension of payment of the Interest
British Wireissa, on the laternal debt and on short- American term notes-Reuter's Service.
·
MR. LLOYD GEORGE.
EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD RECOVERY.
London. Aug. 12.
Mr. Lloyd George hua made an exceptionally good recovery from ls iness and operation, and it is hoped to move him into the coun- try within a fortnight, –
No further bulletins regarding the Liberal leader nie to be issued,
fcater.
SILVER FUTURES.
THE LATEST
CABLED
QUOTATIONS. Messrs. Pentreath and Co. have been advised by enble of the fol- lowing quotations for New York ailver futures as at the close of the market yesterday:
October 1931 27.46 up .15 December 1931 27.60 up .10. May' 1932 27.80 up 20
DEATH OF CAPT. A. J. SCOTT.
WELL-KNOWN ON CHINA
COAST.
CABINET & ECONOMY.
Continued from Page 1.j
than Mr. Snowden's conversion scheme.
in regard to the latter, the re-
The many friends whom the late Captain Alfred Jumes Scott had made in Hongkong during his 25 years' of service on the China Const, were deeply shocked by the new of his death at Dunder, which reached here by cable yesterday. A he left the Colony only three years ago, there are still many people
Ping on an uneasy pillow.
ported split within the Cabinet and the openly professed grasping views
here who remember the genial and cheery Scotsman who was one of the most popular of the masters sailing on the China Navigation Company's feet.
way
many stalwarts among the Government supporters, have given birth to the bogey of compulsory conversion and though the idea in aughed out of court in responsible elreles, there is many a rentier rest
The rumour was sufficiently striking in the City yesterday to depress British Funds. The Five Per Cent. War Loan was especially affected, declining to the lowest point for several years,
Sanctity of Contracts.
11
Scott came to Hongkong in 1903 As a young man, the late Capt. and joined the China Navigation Co., serving as a junior officer. He attached to several vessels be- fore he was ultimately appointed It is the general view that the master of the Kalgan in 1916, Government can hardly launch Capt. Scott Was perhaps best scheme for voluntary conversion known in command of that vessel, without a cut-and-dried programme and for many years travelled be of economy, and that compulsory tween the Colony and Bangkok. He conversion, apart from damaging also ant service on the Kingsuan Britain's reputation for maintain- and was master of the Kwangtung Ing the sanctity of contrasis, would PROBABLY RUN OVER when he retired on ension after be manifestly unfair to native hold-
AGED MAN FOUND INJURED.
BY CAR.
25 years nasociation with the Comers of bonds, whose Interests would pany. He returned to his family be whittled down while foreign Mr. C. S. Rosselet. Secretary of at Dundee, and when last heard of holders would continue to fatten on the Hongkong. Amusements, Ltd.,, was in the best of health.
five per cent. interest.
The banks and the big insurance was proceeding up Stubba Road, near Shui Fai Terrace, yesterday, man was removed to the Govern- companies, who have promised the when he found an aged coolie lying ment Civil Hospital, where he was Government their hearty co-opera- Injured in the middle of the road. Sater identified na So Kan, aged tion, can safely be trusted to insist The man was suffering from in- 70
upon the proper course. Their in- juries to his hend and a fracture The coolie. was unable to say fluence can be guaged from the fact of the right arm.
how he had come by his injuries, that their holdings of Government The police from No. 2 Station but is presumed that he was securities approximate to £500,000,- were cilled to the scene, and the knocked down by a motor-cat. 000,-Reuter,
years.
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A PICTURE EVERYONE SHOULD SEE-
A STORY OF EVERYDAY LIFE-
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AP THE
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DW.GRIFFITH'S
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"Abraham Lincoln
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STAR
From Tolstol's stirring denmen/
"The
LITINK
Carpis
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with
JOHN GILBERT RENCE ADOREE CONRAD NAGEL
LUPE The VELEZ
in
STORM
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Yes gentlemen, you have seen the 'name on the bottle, but by its ex- cellent taste you would know it was
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MODERN-COOL-COMFORTABLE
SHOWING TO-DAY
A Breathless
drama of Love and adventure
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.
The dramatic
movistone
Edmund Lowa
with Joan Bennett
in
SCOTLAND
FOXE
PICTURE:
YARD
NEXT CHANGE. SUNDAY, 16th August.
If One Kiss
COSTS $10,000-
who can afford LOVE?
DON'T BET ON WOMEN
with
Edmund LOWE
"Feanétie. MacDONALD
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE.
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"THE GIRL FROM HAVANA"
Fox production
Daily Performance::
As usual.
LOLA LANE AND PAUL PAGE,
and others.
An Absorbing Drama of Tropical Love and Tropical
thrills.
A bend of suciety crooks,. suspected of a Jewellery theft are pursued and finally cap. tu ed in Havana after a 5,000 miles Chase
by a lady detective who finde Cuba a port of ROMANCE, Added Attractions :--
1. Stopping out Comedy
2 Hearst Motrajono News
B. Geo Dowey Washington News
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