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GINGER ROGERS & FRED ASTAIRE

in

"FOLLOW THE FLEET"

NEXT CHANGE

First run in Hongkong.

CONRAD NAGEL & FLORENCE RICE

Tin

"DEATH FLIES EAST"

A Columbia Picture.

NEW TRAINS ON

UNDERGROUND

STREAM-LINED TYPE

London, Nov. 17..

A new stream-lined train, the first

EMPIRE SETTLEMENT

London, Nov. 17. The Government's decision to ex- tend the period of the duration of the Empire Settlement Act, 18922, duc to expire on May 31 next, with cer- tuin modifications in its provisions, was announced in the Commons by the Dominions Secretary, Mr. Mal- cola MacDonald. A Bill for the pur

will

posc

shortly be introduced.

of four to be run experimentally on Legislation, he added, was necessary the London underground service, was if the Government were to be able run to-day on the Plecadilly line. Its to continuó making contributions to- acceleration is said to be the highest wards such excellent schemes us the ever achieved on the underground Fairbridge Farm School scheme. rallway, namely, two miles per hour British. Wireless, per second, instead of 1.25 p.m.li. per second formerly.

four motors, the horse-power being

The

ì improvement will permit of in.increased from 980 to 1,058. A new troducing additional trains to meet experimental system of forced venti- traffic demands at peak periods. The Intion is introduced-British Wire- train is drivço by twelve instead of less.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,

SERIOUS LEBANON

DISORDER

SIX KILLED, 100 INJURED

MARTIAL LAW THREAT

RED CROSS

WORKERS- IN COLONY

VISITING FROM

CANTON

Members of the Canton Branch off the Red Cross Society arrived dní) Hongkong by train this morning for: a three-day visit 'the Hongkong St. John Ambulance Brigade,

missioner,

NOVEMBER 18, 1936.

HELP FOR DISTRESS DISTRICTS

GOVERNMENT

STATES ITS PROGRAMME

BIG SUMS TO BE SPENT

London, Nov. 17. On the eve of His Majesty's

Beirut, Nov. 17, The Chamber of Deputies of The party comprised 43 men and this formerly mandated territory women headed by Mr. Wu Chat-man, this evening ratified the Franco-Teng Tam-pul, Assistant

head of the Society in Canton, Mr." Lebanon Trenty, within a few

Com- Mr. Wong Lam-wing. visit to the depressed areas of days, of the granting of the in--District Commissioner and Mrs. South Wales, to-morrow, Mr. dependence of the new republic Wong Man-ying, in charge of the Neville Chamberlain, the Chan- by France.

cellor of the Exchequer, intimat- The Hon. Mr. W. J. Carrie,fed in the House of Commons Secretary of Chinese Affairs, met to-night that the Government the train and with Mr. Ho Kom-tong hat accepted in principle the inspected the visiting party as they

WBS

The Parliament building strongly guarded owing to the pre- valence of disorders, during which shops were looted and six persons killed and 100 injured.

Troops and armoured ears are now patrolling the streets.

It is stated that martial law will be proclaimed if the present grave situation contigues-Reuter.

Nursing Section

Ping

were drawn up on the platform. Me suggestion of the Commissioner A. Morris, Commissioner of the St. for Special Areas that new John Ambulance Brigade, Mrs. Industries should be induced to Langley, Secretary, Mr. J. Ralston,

Funk Mr.

operate in the distressed regions, Mr. J. B. Trevor and Dr. Dovey were Government proposed to give fan, Dr. J. E. Dovey,

Mr. Chamberlain added that the among those who greeted the visitors Commissioner the necessary powers at the Railway Station. The party to implement his proposals. was then taken across the harbour

FOURTEEN CASES launch Britannia,

FOR SESSIONS

TRIALS TO BEGIN

ON MONDAY

Fourteen enses are down for trial at this month's Criminal Sessions which commence on Monday next. They are:

Harchand Singh. Inilan constable B554, charged with having given a bribe of $220 to Lance-Sergeant Gough on September 15 with a view to influencing his conduct as a public servant;

Mok Kiu, woman, charged with raving

maliciously and unlawfully applied corrosive fuld with a syringe on Tong Tak-shing, her husband, on the first Boor of 168 Johnston Road, on October 0;

Ng Ping, ab, charged with uttering a forged $10 banknoto of the Hong- kong and Shanghai- Banking Corpora tion on September 27, and a forget $5 note of the Chartered Bank of india, Australia and China October 5, at a shipbreakers' shop in Boundary Street;

Li Lin-fang, 47, unemployed, charged with robbery with violence of $30 from Tam Yer, 4-year old widow, nt Wes: Point on September 39:

Sze Hok-chuen,, 30, unemployed nason, and Wong Mingesang, 30, odd- jub coolie, charged with entering the apartment of a Shing Mun contractor, a robbing the inmates of money and jewellery to the approximate vaine of $1,000;

LI Wong und Li Ping-song, alias La Yuen-tau, charged with robbery by two or more:

Ng Wong, 32, unemployed, charged with possession of. 64,466 heroin pills at 183 Hennessy Road;

the

by the Star Ferry while some of the A considerable body of Conservá- officials were escurted across on the tive members had joined the Labour and Liberal Opposition groups in demanding that something more The visitors were the uests. of should be done for thesp distressed Mr. Ho Kom-tong for tifin at the

The feeling in the House was noreas. King's Restaurant and, after wit-so strong in this matter that the nessing the Fire Brigade de Government had decided to make a monstration this afternoon, will be entertained

statement of policy earlier than # by Mr. Fung Ping-fan intended. at tea. There will be an exhibition

Red

of Ambulance work at headquarters Mr. Chamberinin pointed out that in for the benefit of the

Cross addition to armament orders worth Society and the party will have £9,000,000 which had been ear- dinner at the Ceell Hotel, as the marked for special areas, orders for

guests of Mr. Aw Boon-how.

Surrenders

German Nationality

Berlin, Nov. 17. The Princess Prince Bernard of Lippe, is being Jullana's Baner, ceremoniously released from German nationality before his departure for; Holland.

another £1,500,000 in goods lind been placed by the railways.

Three Government factories in

connection with the arms programme will be built In Scotland and another in South Wales, suld the Chancellor. He emphasised thint the restricting Influence of quotas was felt in the coal trade and added that the Gov- ernment Was doing everything possible to remove such international restrictions-Reuter Special.

ALLEGED THEFT OF STORES

FROM DESTROYER DELIGHT

The ceremony In the Reich Chun- cellery, before Herr Adolf Hitler, it is believed, will be the first instance! of Der Fuehrer releasing a German Mino Fung-shui, 30, a mess boy function.-Reuter Bulleth Service. citizen from nationality in a full state on ILMS. Delight, WAS charged before Mr. W. Schofield, at the Central Magistracy this morning. with the theft of provinlons, to wit sugar, butter and ten in the value of $3, from the Delight, and Lai Shi- mui, married woman, was charged with receiving,

KING'S THOUGHT FOR KIDDIES

CORONATION PROCESSION SEATS

of London be

London, Nov. 17.

not

Both defendants, pleaded guilty, the woman stating that a European had given her the pro- vislais.

second

Sergeant MacDonald said that at Yu Yin, 49, unemployed, charged

about 7.15 a.m. yesterday Sergeant with possession of 32,500 heroin pills

Long, of the Royal Naval Yard and 60 ozs, of a pink mass sufficient

In a letter from the King's Private provisions out through a porthole of

Police, say

saw first defendant pass some to make another 6,000 pills at 1 Secretary to the

Education Com-L.M.S. Haven Street;

mittee of the London County Coun-defendant who was in

Delight to the Lau Ch

Chun.

charged with possession, His Majesty has expressed a wish lying alongside the Delight. The a sampan of 15,000 heroin pills at 40 Queen's that a special outing for the children Sergeant boarded the Delight but Road, third floor:

Wong

Hau-yo

in connec was delayed from going to arrest Lo Man and Liution with the Cheung, charged with possession of a The letter added that the

the defendant owing to the colours King being hoisted. He then searched for mixture thought the outing should take the defendant, but failed to find him. heroin pill suficient to manufacture 31,675 pills form of a reservation for the sole On making a search of the sampan, ut 1 Woosung Street, top floor;

use of children, and those in charge Sergeant Long found the provisions Li Chan, 28, charged with posses-

of them, of a space along the route there and arrested the woman. First sion of 20,200 heroin pills and

110 for

the Coronation proccasion, in defendant was arrested later. Ser- uzs. of a pink mass admixture used order that they might be among the geant Long recognised for the preparation of heroin pills at first to greet him after he has been defendant when he put his head the first Po Yee Street;

crowned-British Wireless.

through the porthole,

quantity

of

LI Fuk, alfes Wong Hing. Hiu Sung and Liu Hing, all separately charged with breach of the Deportation Ordinance.

NEW BRITISH LOAN PLAN..

£100,000,000 NEEDED

BY GOVERNMENT

London, Nov. 17. The Government is issuing a new medium-term loan of $100,000,000 in the form of 2 per cent Fund- ing Loan reaeemable between 1v52 and 1957. The issue price

0842 The money will be used partly to finance the redemption ec 30,000,-- 000, bunas maturing on February ‘1, 1937, and party to fund the Float ing Deot-center.

IMPERIAL SHIPPING

London, Nov. 17.

Committe

The President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Waiter Kunciman, in reply to a Commons question, said action on matters dealt with ́ in the of the Imperial Shipping which had been presented to His Majesty's Governments in the United Kingdom,

Canada, Australia and New Zealand, was a question for the Joint consideration and decision by the British Governments concerned. The Government in the United King- dom would do all in their power to bring the necessary discussions to a speedy conclusionBritish Wireless...

FINE WEATHER

The anticyclone is moving eastward across Japan and another is develop ing over China. Pressure is relative- ly. low between the Visayas and the Western Carolines. Locaì forecast:-

N. E. winds, moderate; fine generally,

PRIEST IS SAFE

Peiping, Nov. 18.

Father Clarence Burns, an Ameri- can Catholic missionary, a captive

Mr. Schofield fixed hearing of the case for 11,30 a.m. on November 26, Axing ball in $100 each.

CHIANG'S SON ABROAD

son,

Berlin, Nov. 17. in an almost impregnable bandit Marshal Chiang Kal-shck'n hide-away since last February 2. Mr. W. K. Chiang, has arrived here. was safely delivered by Japanese is staying at the home of an army gendarmes at Tunghua yesterday, captain, and wiit shortly-begin study- United Press.

ng at a military aendemy--Reuter,

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