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SHOWINGS, TO-DAY

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win?

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PARADE

Paramount Release

A WM. BEAUDINE

PRODUCTION

With Evelyn Brent, Irane Rich Late Fized, Lilyan Tashman Mireline Day, Peltzi Biegowy

The Mid Parade

THE

1.

is The Big Parade all quiet on the western front of women, roiled into one! A -story of feminine hourts, hobailed into submission;

of high hopes onitteraus.

Whale Leaked of a swift bayonet thrust!

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, APRIL 26,

1932.

A LOCAL SOCIAL BRITISH PREMIER The

PROBLEM

SEAFARERS OUT OF WORK

UP AGAINST IT

HAS REST

Beachcomber

GOES TO MOUNTAIN Nuisance

RESORT

London, Apr. 25. Owing to the temporary ad- journment of the Disarmamont Conference, which is awaiting re- The problem of unemployed sea-ports by experts, goveral states- men is causing great anxiety to the Hongkong Sailors' Home andmoa havo returned to their respec- the Missions to Seamen, according tive capitals.

OFFICIAL ACTION

NEEDED

ahameless

Pointed remarks on cadging by professional beach- combers are contained in the annual to the annual report just issued. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald to-day report of the Sailors' Home and As is well-known, says the re-met his son Malcolm, who arrived Missions to Seamen. Hongkong.

After stating that it would port, there are thousands of un- employed seafarers of the best type at Geneva by air, and the Premier seem advisable for the authorities alt over the world, and possibly afterwards proceeded for n short to amend the local ordinances Hongkong is better, in this respect rest to a resort in the Jura Moun-dealing with the discharge of sen→ than most ports of similar im-tains-British Wireless. portance. Nevertheless there are asveral officers and engineers who either owing to ill-health, old age, or the laying up of their vesseln" have been out of work for a con- siderable period and are now practi- cally penniless.

Nor does there seem to be any chance of finding employment for them. Such money as they have been able to save has long been spent. in the case of married mon families at Ilome and elsewhere having taken anything that could be sent, and often to send these men Home simply means moving them to an even worse state of de stitution than here. We cannot keep them for an indefinite period on the chance of their being able aome time to pay off their debts especially as many of them already owe considerable sums elsewhere.

NO LOCAL FUND.

There is no fund in the Colony or any Home of Rest for these men i and we seriously put forward this problem as one which calls for enreful consideration and action,

NEWFOUNDLAND TROUBLES

SIR JOHN SQUIRES STUBBORN

men and casos of ship-desertion, the roport states:

There are many professional beachcombers who work their way from port in the East following the warm or cool weather according to taste, and exist on the charity of the men of the Merchant Service and Navy, whom incidentally they are of local rently disgracing, and organizations. More often than not the officers of the ships con- cerned are glad to see the last of them and nothing is therefore sald to the Authorities.

CONTINUOUS PESTS.

London, Apr. 25. According to a message from St. Johns, Newfoundland, Sir John Squires has decided, despite the serious demonstrations against his Their Consuls will have nothing government recently, to continue to do with them, so long as they to lead the government forces. have even so little as a single dollar in their pockets they can

He will, however, be supported

cases have been known of such by only three members of his form- not be arrested for vagrancy, and or Cabinet, six of the other having men, when arrested and placed in announced their intention to re-the House of Detention, returning sign.-Reuter.

HOME FOOTBALL

not only by the Guilds and Com-ARSENAL DRAW WITH panics but also by the powere that

be.

THE VILLA

It has been suggested that there

London, Apr. 25. should be permanent accommoda-

At Villa Park to-day, in the tion for such fu the new Home and Institute, but for very many rea-First Division. English League, sons this is quite of the question. Aston Villa drew with the Arsenal, It may be as well to say that even ench side netting once, If such were given passages Home! it would be no real solution and in i some cases practically a death sen- tence. The future for them would be at best parish relief or the work- hottse.

SINO-JAPANESE DEADLOCK

REASONS EXPLAINED IN COMMONS

The league leaders follow:

P. W. D. L. F. A. Pts. 30 25 3 11 11563 63 Everton

39 10 10 10 70 47 48 Arsenal Aston Villa .. Wednesday.. 40 21 8 18 93 78 48 40 19 8 13 102 67 40 Huddersfield 30 18 10 11 76 67 40

41 20 West Brom

6 16 72 49 40 Sheffield U... 40 20 A 14 79 69 40

-Reutter.

The Scharider Trio gave another

successful very

concert in the Auditorium of the Young Men's Christian Association on Saturday. The hall was packed, and the artistes madrreat Impression on the large Chinese audience.

at the end of the four hours' freedom allowed them daily in order to look for work with five or ten dollars in their pocket.

This sum having secured their release and served its purpose is returned to the benchcomber's

friends from whom it was borrow. ed and the man continues to be a pest until somehow means are found to ship him away or he con- siders it as well to move on else. where. Such men hang about the vicinity of the Institute. Naval Canteen, Sailora' and Soldiers' Home and similar places, with pitiful and quite untrue stories of endless misfortune, and give trouble to those responsible for

running these Institutions as well ns to the men from whom they so shamelessly cadge.

U.S. BASEBALL.

VISITING NINES SUCCEED

New York, Apr. 25. Only three baseball games were London, Apr. 25.

played to-day, the results being: Aaked the reasons for the dead-

National League, lock in the Sino-Japanese negotia- tions at Shanghai, the Foreign second stage of withdrawal of the Cincinnati

Interna- Boston Secretary, Sir John Simon, in the Japanese troops to the House of Commons to-day, said the tional Settlement and certain muni- main difficulty arose over the ques- cipally-controlled roads adjacent to St. Louis tio of a fixed time-limit for the it.—British Wireless.

LAST TWO DAYS

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.

KING'S

THEY TURNED THE PARTY INTO A PANIC!

Three gay old chorus girls... hippy.but happy... stage a comedy of errors in high society...while you laugh your cares away...

STEPPING SISTERS

with

Louisa Dreiser

Minna Gombell Jobyna Howland

William Collier, St.

Directed by Seymour Falin

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