1936-08-21 — Page 17

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

Sylvia Sydney. Fred MacMurray and Henry Foncia In Paramount's entire technicolour super-production, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine." showing at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres from to-morrow,

EXCHANGE

Selling

RAILWAY LOOP

LINE PARLEYS NOW IN PROGRESS

Canton, Aug 20, of de Canton-Kowloor Tanking; Padley with the Canton-Hankow

FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1936,

WOULD-BE Pilots Warned

-PILOTS

CRASH

WANTED TO FLY

TO SPAIN..

London, Aug. 20.

By Ministry

NO MORE. PLANES FOR SPAIN

London, Aug. 20. Unitateral action of the British Government, to make effective the essentials of in non-intervention pact The importance of the measures in the Spanish Civil War, in unticipa- the Government has taken to secure tion of a general agreement among the enforcement of prohibition on interested powers on proposals drawn export of aircraft to Spain, imposed up by the French Government, was yesterday, was underlined by an in-carried a stage further this afternoon cident which occurred at Portsmouth when the Air Ministry issued the Aerodrome, n few hours before the following announcement: Issut of the Air Ministry's warning to pilots. A statement made publie later by Airspeed, Limited, describes what occurred.

False)

"In view of the decision of the Government to prohibit export of aircraft to Spanish possessions and the Spanish zone of Morocce, any "Early to-day two wood-working pilot convicted of an offence against i employees of this cdippany went into the Air Navigation Order or Customs a hangar on the Portsinguth Aero-Acts by reason of having made a drome and took out a Courter aero-declaration to customs authorities in plane, the property of the company, respect of destination or other parti- Neither of the men was a plot, Inculars of aircraft, will come under this aeroplane they attempted to take off from the nerodrome but hit an obstruction on the boundary and crashed, Both men are seriously in- jured,

Subsequent to the accident one of the men said they took the machine with the intention of flying to Spain.

"We take this opportunity of slot- ng the act was entirely unauthorised by this company, which had Enowledge or cognisance of this foolhardy attempt.-British Wireless.

no*

TWO CANDIDATES FOR U.S. POST

19.00 Railway in Canton is being discussed MR. HSU MO MAY BE

.1/2.13/32 1/2.13/32 Planking between Afr. Chung, Kin-

· EXCHANGE RATES

Aug 19. Aug. 20.

}

Paris

Gent vic

Berlin..

70.29/04 15.44

.19.50%

52 10514

Athens,

520

76.27/64

15.4214

12.50*

520

Katz..

.63%

037

Oslo

10.81

Shanghai.

45) | New York 1501,

.6.03

.7,41

262.

1213.

40

110

1604 Hongkong

1/2,29/32

Bombay.

170%

+

Brue els

20.03

Montreal

5.03

1734%

382,

T.T

Demand

T.T. Shanghai

Singapore

T. Japan

T.T. India

T.T. U.S.A.

Manita

T.T.

T.T. Batavia TP Banke Tako

Saigon

Jar

TIT, France, P. Praes

T.T. Gernuty

T.T. Switzerland

T.T. Australia

Amsterdam.

48-11716) Viena.

25.Madrid

16 Foton

T.T. Lisbon

Buying

4 m/s. L/C. London

4 m/s. D/P.

o

4 m/s, L/C, U.S.A.

30 d/s. India

4 20/2, France

U.S. Cross rate in London.

1/3 Yokohama ..1/2.1/04

31. Suver (orward) 1994

5.00 Silver (Spot)....19%

War Loan.

53%

.5 C2

Minkter of Railways, and 5.03.1/16 mies,

oleiaks of the British Embassy. ( 7.11 | BO

Iwas levened to-day. 20% 1213

AMBASSADOR

Shuanghai, Aug. 21.

Kanebo

FOR

SMART

AND EXCLUSIVE

MATERIALS

"FROM MANUFACTURER

TO CONSUMER"

18, QUEEN'S ROAD, CENTRAL

consideration of the Secretary for Air ZAR SORÁZRA with a view to cancellation or sus peaston of his pilot's licence,

"All pilots arn waned that a scri- ous view with taken of any attempt tu deliver aircraft directly or indirect- ly to Spain or the above-mentioned territories in evasion of the Govern ment prohibition."-British Wireless.

UNEMPLOYED AGED RANGE

WHAT LATEST RETURNS SHOW

London, Aug. 20.

distribution of unemployed man and

BRITISH HEMP

INDUSTRY

NEW MACHINERY

INSTALLED

*London, Aug. 20.

MOTOR WIND SCREENS

MUST BE SAFETY GLASS

London. Aug. 20.

in January next. regulations

An important stoge in the revivad i of the British flax industre was Isated by the Ministry of Transport marked to-day by the starting up of will make compulsory the use of electrically-driven machinery of the safety glass wind screens on mator latest design in the de-seeding section |

of new

All vehicles manufactured after 11931 are fitted with windscreens of the safely type, but 'li is estimated

flox mills at i velleles. A half-yearly analysis of the age; Northamptödshire.

The mills, which will oc women, made by the Labour Minis- try, shows that while there was operation by September 7, are part that some 800,000 private and bout 200,000 commercial vehicles at pre-

reduction

Tuli

between May, 1935, and of a new Industrial venture assocèded last May in the numbers unemploy with a carefully-planned agricultori With the Ambassador to the Uniteded in nearly every age group, the re-experiment in the same county. Six on the road have ordinary glass States, Mr. Alfred Sze, due to re-duction was greater proportionally

hundred neres have been sown with the will be continued on the road turn to China in the autumn on long among persons under 35 years.

screens ant that probably 500,000.of.

but

Later on the nolemtiations may, b- to Coton, as the Mayor, 40 Terug Vang-m 14 former

Viges 1101% Stambo of Railways, and under. Kurlough, probably leading to his ro Men under 35 were 440 per cent. pedigrée seed, and, despite adverse

It is not nebestrement, it is learned that Mr. Isu of all unemployed men in May, 1935, weather, a crop of exceptionally good by their owners, who will have to 1/2.29/32 sands the situation.

Mo is likely candidate 176 rary to wait for the arrival of Sir

for the

ths May the percentage, quolity Ins been harvested.have new windscreens fitted before Washington past as well as Dr. C. T. 29.8214 Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, the news

had fallen to 41.8---British Wireless, 3 British Wireless,

the end of the year.-British Wireless. 5.031 British amhasander, Before the Weng

38 negotiations start.

Mr. Hsu,is at present Vice-Minister 238.1-lt

Chinese of Foreign Affairs. He received his Boomerang atong ma 2hreiben have agreed in principle M A. at George Washington Univer- that the two railways should be consity in 1912 was formerly an attache must bent, but the of the Chinese Legation in Washing- project fell throughs eight months are ten and was Secretary of the Chinese wing to the opposition of General Delegation to the Washington Dis-

armament Conference.

172.1/84

.1007

1916 10% 108 -British Wireless.

Aster 1

Flaming Action! Tender Romance! Filmed Outdoors in Natural Color

Adelph Zukor presanti

Fred

While 'neighbor fights neighbor in ruthless family feud...a baauti- ful mountain girl moots the man who opens her hean to love.

The whole pageant of Kentucky mountain life brought to the seroon in all its breath- taking beauty!

Henry Sylvia SIDNEY MACMURRAY FONDA

THE TRAIL OF THE

LONESOME PINE", in Color!

SHOWING TO-MORROW

AT THE

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

HONGKONG

"OWLOON

Meanwhile, the Soviet he op-1 proved the selection of Dr. Chiong Ting-fu to sucered Mr. W. W. Yen at Mowow and this appointment will' be gazetted shortly-ijnited Press.

JAPAN LIKELY TO PRESS FOR CONCESSIONS

(Continued from Paye 1.)

not in refer economie questions to)

Nanking.

Smuggling Curable

Mr. Kawagoe admitted the smug- gling in North China; but added that it was curable through the revision of "improper" tarilla,

Meanwhile, from Kuling, where the Executive Yuan is meeting, word of exemption from the new Chinese in- come tax by farnign diplomatie om einls and foreign nationals of less than one year's residence, whose in- game does not originate in China, has been received. However, these ex- ptions apply only to diplomata nationala of countries extending the sanre treatment to Chinese

abroad.

The Executive Yuan also voted to collect income tax on salaries and other remunerations of public fune- tinnaries and on the interest derived from various Government bonds and sayings-depass, effective October 1. Other collections start January 1987.--United Prena.

ZINOVIEFF EXPOSES

PLOTTERS

(Continued from Page 1) regarding the speeding up of roristic action against Stalin.

Replying to the Attorney-General, Kamenetf confirmed his leading role in the organisation of the assassina tion of M. Kirolf in Petrograd. The Attempt to kill Stalin was to be inade last May Day, during the demonstra- tions in the Red Square.

to

be

STUDENTS INVOLVED According to the testimony of Oldberg, another of the accusesi, simultaneous 'attempts were made on the lives of other Soviet leaders in Leningrad (Petrograd) and Kleff. Ile had prepared a bomb and had arranged with student supportera of Trotsky to throw it when they were marching past Stalin in Red Square. A last-minute arrest pre- vented the plot being carried out. -

The Attorney-General produced what he described as મ Trotsky document, containing the words,

Stalin must be destroyed."

The prosecution is making, deter- mined efforts to prove there is a link between Nazi Germany and the nl- leged Trotsky-Zinovie plot.-Router,

U.S. VETERAN PASSES

San Antonio, Aug, 20.

Col. Millard F. Waltz, 70, Chief of Staff of the expedition to Cuba and who served in the Philippines 'com- paign, dioi to-day--United Press.

Grand Concert

Under the Auspices of The St. John Ambulance Association

IN AID OF DISTRESSED VICTIMS

OF THE TYPHOON:

Under The Patronage Of

His Excellency The Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott, Kt., C.M.G., C.B.E., and Lady Caldecott

AT THE

HONGKONG HOTEL ROOF GARDEN

TO-DAY, AUGUST 21st. AT 5-30 P.M.

PROGRAMME Arranged BY MR. GERALD SYDNEY.

ARTISTS: Doris, Blair (soprano), Mrs. Matheson (contralto), Mrs. Portallion (contralto), Miss Dixie Davis (comedienne), Miss Daisy O'Keefe (dancer), Mr. G. Frost (tenor), Mr. Li Chor-chi (tenor), Mr. Simpson (comedian) and Mr. Gerald Sydney (at the piano).

HONGKONG HOTEL ORCHESTRA

TICKETS: $5, $3, $2, $1.