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DRAMA OF A
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ERAWFORD Spencer TRACY
Mannequin
ALAN CURTIS-RALPH MORGAN
A Frank Borzage Production » Directed by Frank Borrage Froduced by Joseph L. Mackiewicz
Jeanette MacDonald
Nelson Eddy in
"The GIRL of the GOLDEN WEST"
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A YANKatOXFORD
LIONEL BARRYMORE
MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN VIVIEN LEIGH
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"VIVA VILLA'S GREAT STAR RIDES AGAIN!
THE
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'WALLACE
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featuring VIRGINIA BRUCE
DENNIS O'KEEFE
JOSEPH CALLEJA. LEWIS STONE QUY KIBEIT
A Mate-Goldwyn-Mayer Rictaro
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JEAN ARTHUR In
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 18, 1988.
Doctor Denounces
Cubicle Dwellings
VIVID DESCRIPTION OF OVERCROWDING
'ALL
Singapore QUEENS & ALHAMBRA
Boat Chased By
FOR
Shark
FOR more than two miles a huge "mankilter shark chased a feh- Ing boat recently of the const of Enddell, Argyletico.
of Mr.
The boal was in charge Colin Campbell, who was Ashing
66 ALMOST INHUMAN" is the description given
with a hand line. by Dr. P. S. Hunter, Singapore's Municipal
Health Officer, to the conditions under which a large part of the city's cubicle dwellers have to exist. In his annual report he vividly pictures the overcrowd- ing in cubicles and calls for "drastic, very drastic," amendments of the Municipal Ordinance to deal with the problem.
Suddenly on enim sea he and his companions suw the huge sal-like An of the shark approaching the bont.
Remembering the tragedy of last year in Carradale Bay, four miles away, when a shark attacked a boat and caused the loss of three lives, be made a dash for shore.
The shark pursued as far as the jolty.
A shariding cruiser is now pairol-
area, searching for the l
In Chinatown, says Dr. Hunter, the cubicle tenant has liter-ung the ally no privacy. Crowded tenements are usually so inadequate monster. that families have to take their meals at the street hawker stalls
or in eating houses.
"In my reports in the past 1, have made frequent reference to cubicles and cubicle dwellers," says Dr. Hunter. "It may not be out of place if I elaborate the [real significance of these terme far as Singapore is con- [cerned.
50
ventilating on to them except those on the top floor, they are usually obstructed by clothes hanging out to dry.
"It
It is only the other day that I minuted with regard to a plan for a projected new tenement block.
into
cxist- should be impossible for such a rabbit warren to come ence, Actually 1he plan was not
"Our cubicle has not got the dic. tommy meaning, c. a bedroom or a In one sleeps. whleh
ance H
Singapore, in nine cases out of ten anai certainly in the congested areas, a cubele is a house.
fa
passed, but for a reason that had nothing to do with my objections, the and,
amended technical objections, and to be ac- cepted.
An
be
Overcome
LOST SENSES OF
SMELL, TASTE £1,300 Damages For Typist
OSS of the senses of smell and
inste, following a motor accident at Warrington last year has brought
£1,200 agreed damages to Miss Mar- garet Cardus, 30-year-old Liverpool "Drastle and very drasile amend-ex-typist, Judgment was entered af ments of the Municipal Ordinance Liverpool Assizes.
"The money can never quite com- are necessary to prevent the pers petuation of this almost inhuman pensate for the loss of sense of taste atul smell," Miss Curdus told the type of housing.
Imitations News Chronicle, airwell and 11s
"For more than a year I have been must
specifically defined. should be no longer possible to give unable to taste any food and have 1 to cuhteles, Sheen able to smell garden flowers. up a wh
"Eating is merely a ritual. Fruit mieli of it must be left as the com- mon property of all tenants, which and vegetables alike taste as water." Mis Cardus was knocked down sublet. Othwise alli connot ༥.་ houses let in this munner should be last year at a Belisha crossing, made to come under the category of | Spreialists have told her that the no rights anywhere on the crowd-common lodging houses ant treated senses of taste and smell are irre vd floor other than in fils cubirte, as such." except perhaps in the kitchen,
"It is all that a man, his wife am his family occupy for all the ordinary purposes and activities of It houses all their domestic e. belongings, including their food, Children are born in them and spend most of the first year of their Ilves in them. People die in them while the ordinary activities around them. of the family go on In crowded Chinatown the cubicle tenant has iterally no privaes, and
"SORDID PICTURE"
The doctor continues:
"By the bycławs
a cubicle must
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have a ninimum superletal area of 130 square feet (some years ago 100) and an opening to the external
Many very alr. in
practice much smaller in area and many have BO window or direct lighing of any kind and though they could be de- molished they are rebuilt in the same place or elsewhere within 24 hours- because it is literally the case that un the I whole families would be
streets otherwise.
parably lost
STOP PRESS
PRESS NEWS
CHINESE
COUNTER- ATTACK
"This sordid picture refers more to older existing property, but it is nevertheless true that it is still pos- sible for an nechitect, by a clever arrangement of airwells to erect now Considerable gains were scored by buildings showing conditions little Chinese troops on the Yangtse front better than those
yesterday when hey launched scribed.
counter-attack On Pengisch
Just dei I have
Tuchong, Klangst, July 18.
+1 #ch
"With the exception of the ustalarte ensualties were inflicted on
crecled.
to a
Much attenunted by repeated at-
kitchen, bathroom and lavatory nc- commodation and the necessary pas- the Japanese, who have withdrawn sageways, every single inch of floor from their original positions space can be given up to cubicles, point northwest of Meilang, where Are being every one of which may be let as strong defence works above to a whole family.
There need be no living, common or dining rooms, no rooms for chii-tacks of the Chinese air force, the dren, no provision Lor
main force of the Japanese navy washing or drying clothes, in short accommoda- has so far not ventured to cross the! tron falling far short of what must Matang boom. be provided in the lowest class of lodging house: The whole question hinges on the fact that an airwell, no matter how small, is ruled to be an opening to the external air,
"These airwells have got to be scen to be believed. Quilo apart from the fact that the sun can only poncirate, into thicin for B short time at midday and direct sunlight can never reach any room
Chinese forces al Tawangmino and Sinklang engaged several Japanese yesterday. Broadside after vessels broadside was fred from the enemy ships on the Chinese positions.-- Central Neon.
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JAPANESE LAUNCHES
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dozen 1
Kiuklung, July 18.
Japanese sleam CPV Imunetes were seen near Mashan, a small isle in the Poyang Lake, Jerusing yesterday.
Later the banchies Hubuw-Central News.
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THE
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