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Love Takes a Gamble
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BRUCE CABOT Margaret Lindsay JOSEPH CALLEIA
Directed by Errol Taggart
Produced by Laolen Hubbard and Samuel Mar
Metro-Goldwyn Mayer FICTURE
ERROL FLYNN - OLIVIA de HAVILLAND IN
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TAKE ANY TRAN onÏliver VallEY MUS
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The NAVY takes the girls of Panama by stormi
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LADY
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THE 5 GAETANO GIRLS
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THE STORY OF G-MEN'S NEW JOB I
EDWARD G. in "BULLETS or BALLOTS"
ROBINSON
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THE HONGKONG" TELEGRAPH.
FREIGHTER REMAINS AGROUND
TAIKOO TUG IS STANDING BY
WEDNESDAY, MARCH - 24,
Two Kings Talk At Buckingham
BELGIUM'S RULER SÉES EDEN
(Wo
Attempts by the Taikoo tug lost
London, March 23. night
refloat the Japanese freighter, Jinkal. Maru, which went King Leopold of Belgium dined aground at the north-eastern corner privately with Their Majesties the of Waglan Island yesterday after King and Queen at Buckingham noon, proved unsuccessful, according Palace to-night, where the to information obtained from the Mitsul Bussan Kaisha, local agents of monarchs had a long talk together the steamer, this morning,
during the evening. The ship,
is however,
not in danger, and
another attempt to dis- It is understood that Mr. Anthony lodge her
will be made this morning. Eden, the Foreign Secretary, had two conversations with King The vessel, which is commanded lengthy by Capt. R. Koga and has a lonnage Leopold previously. of 3,835, was on her way from Milke The contacts to Hongkong with a cargo of coal.
described Bre
as
when she ran aground in heavy fog. cordial in character, and both the She carries a crew of 30, but no Delgian monarch and the British casualties have been reported.
statesman are confident they will lend Lo
Bulletin good results-Reuter Service,
HONGKONG MAY-
BE VULNERABLE TO AIR RAIDS
(Continued from Page 1)
of aeroplanes, and a new harbour at the southern tip of the island.
From
Much of the intensive military, naval and aerial development is taking place on the southern tip of
island,
the writer states. the this extremity of Formosa to Hong- It is less than two hours by air kong and
12 hours by sen. The new harbour and aerodromes, details of which are said to be "secret," are numbered amongst the biggest development schemes under- taken in Formosa for many years.
No Comparison
CHIEF JUSTICE STATES CASE
OPPOSES ROOSEVELT REFORM SCHEME
Washington, Mur. 23. Chief Justice Hughes, of the United States Supreme Court, has expressed a number of objections to President F. D. Roosevelt's proposed judicial reforms.
BRITISH
PENSION
SCHEME
SMALL SALARIED FOLK BENEFIT
(Special to "Telegraph")
1937.
London, Mar. 23. Ministers of religion, owners of small businesses, farmers, market gardeners, clerks, teachers and others
incomes in receipt of med
will bencflt under the Government's In- surance Bill, the text of which was issued to-night.
The advantages conferred under the Hill will be open to all such who are willing to contribute to the schemie, the income limits of which are £400 01 for men and £250 for women, which 200 in the case of men and £125 in the case of women may be ungarned.
These limits are only applicable at the time of entry into, the Insurance scheme, and those insured must have lived in Britain for at least ten years. The benefits payable, if the requisite contributions have been made, are:
Widaws:-A pension of ten shillings weekly, plus allowances for children; Orphans-Pensions of 75. Od. week-
for each;
Old age pensions. Ten shillings weekly for both sexes at the age 05 years; also for wives of pensioners at the same age.
men
The age-imit for admission will be 40 years at the date of application, but during the first year of the scheme qualified applicants will be admitted I under 35 years when the scheme
He declares that an increase in the is introduced. number of Supreme Court Justices | During the first year of the scheme, would lessen the efficiency of the men can insure for all benefits at 1s. Mr. Wood quotes as his authority/ody, and scouts the President's cond. weekly, while women will pay
tention that the number must be in ad. a week for old, the Institute of Pacife Relations for creased in order to keep abreast of Married men under 55 years will be
a further allegation that Formosa is the work of the court.-Reuter eligible.
to have a military garrison of 25,000 Bulletin Service.
men and a naval strength equal to
that
of the Second and Third
Japanese fleets. It is interesting to
note that Hongkong has a garrison of approximately 4,000 men and a fleet
HEROIC CHINESE
H.K. SHIP
age pensions,
The benelts are estimated to total
£1,200,000.-
trom £1,000,000
Reuter. Special.
to
of less than 25 ships, only six of which BOSUN SAVES ALL ON ITALY "IMPERILS ALL
are cruiseTS.
"The economie and military centre
of Formosa is now being shifted, It
has been found, from the north to. the southern end of the island," the writer states.
.
(i aðra tosi panujmoɔ)
EUROPE"
(Continued from Page 1.)
When they had all reached safety Signor Benito Mussolint to-day "In other words, Japanese might I was decided to try und obtain celebrated the eighteenth anniversary In the China Seas is being shifted to the closest possible point to Hong-provisions and a tarpaulins of Fascism by sharply rebuking shelter against the terrific. biting newspapers which sought to make from kong and the southern provinces of rain. Two men returned to the ship a mystery out of his return China."
along the hawser and succeeded in Libya ona day earlier than was cx- Not Against Hongkong rigging up o temporary breeches pected. He also answered his Church The writer, however, does not buoy, along which they sent ashore critics in Britain in some trenchant
the requirements of those ashore. belleve that Japan's "southward
phrases.
"This inundation of turgid ink can drive" is being directed against. Early next morning Ule survivors logically be connected with the Hongkong.
walked overland to Koshun, Japanese hysterical, hypocritical oratory of "It is being made with the object military officers and police meeting certain of gaining possession of Chinese them before they territory of special strategle value," city.
and continues that Fukien,
he
preachers who are always arrived at the ready to see the mote in other peo- ple's eyes, while their own eyes aro hengy Captain D. S. Pethick and the crushed by centuries-old, first objectives.
Chief Omeer of the Hopsang sub- beams." Britain's position In Hongkong sequently elected to return to their
Kind Kwangtung are the
would probably become untenable if vessel, where they have since re- Besiegers Bested
Japan were to seize either of these mained. provinces.
A
Many quarters believe that gentleman's agreement exists be tween Britain, Japan and France regarding "spheres of influence" in China, he suggests finally,
SCULPTOR DIES
New York, Mar. 23.
Ship Total Loss
11 Duce referred to the nine- months of economie sloge which had ended in the Burrender of Italy's According to latest reports, how- bestegers.
declared, Nevertheless, he
that ever, the Hopsang is a total loss. Much of its cargo, including hun- slege revealed pacifists.us.real and dreds of cases of kerosene, is strewn dangerous enemies of peace.
"He who says the Italian people a hundred miles
to forget makes a mistake," ship lies.
from
where the
are
The eccent. The Italians had wait-
The Hopsang, which was built in ed 40 years to avenge Adown, he re- Mr. Frederick MacMonnies, 74, Glasgow in 1901, was as route from minded heremember, and pre- one of the best-known sculptors of Takao to Keelung when she went "Blackshirts, his time, died here to-day. He was ashore. She was carrying no pas-pare yourselves, This is the warning a native of Brooklyn.-Reuter.
sengers.
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