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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 24, 1939.
SOVIET SHIP IN SINGAPORE ALHAMBRA
TO PURCHASE RUBBER
Only Able To Load Just Over
Half Of 1,200-Ton Order
Britain Holds Czech Assets
No Release Until Obligations Met
LONDON, May 23.
¡A QUESTION concerning the release of Czech assets held in England was again raised in the House of Commois, when Sir John Simon said there would be no general release until the financial obligations due from Czecho -Slovakia to British holders had been satisfactorily arranged.
Sir John Simon emphasised that the assets of the Bank of Interna- tional Settlements were Immune from every form of international restriction.-Reuter.
Rising Sun Lowered
War Affects Japanese Shipping In Pacific
nervous
Although the Singapore rubber market has been recently and values have declined progressively, purchasers have
been unable to obtain their requirements of rubber for immediate
delivery.
The Soviet steamer Dekabrist arrived at Singapore recently with orders for 1,200, tons of No, 1 Grade rubber, but has been able to secure only 700 tons,
She is the first Soviet ship to load, sumed to be saving the freight which rubber at Singapore. Past deliveries would otherwise have been payable of rubber to the U.S.S.R. Government In London, since the Dekabrist-like have been
made in London. The all Soviet vessels-is Government- Dekabrist-is
also the first Soviet shlp|owned, open her hatches in this
part. Loading of this consignment, which in bound for Odessa, in the Black Sen, took place at the Empire Dock, where the steamer was moored.
to
Her master, Captain Dorotinsky. told a Straits Times reporter: "When we left Vlakivostok I had orders to load anything from 500 to 2,000 tons of rubber at Singapore, but we could thin not get more than 700 tons of
The Dekabrlat has a gross tonage of 7,300. Grade,"
HALF MILLION ORDER The consignment, supplied Ly Harrisons, Barker and Co., Ltd. amounts in
to nearly half a
It is understood payment is being million dollars,
The U.S.S.R. Government is pre-made through London.
value
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The Adventures of
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Etro FLYNN
OLIVIA D© HAVILLAND
Mighty adventure che thrilled the agus •••
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BASIL RATHBONE
CLAUDE RAINS - Patric Koowicà • Dugene Palletta -'Alas Halo - Melville Cooper. Ian Hunter Una O'Connor Presmand by WARNER BROS. • Directed by KUHAIL CURTEZ 26J WIE EKIG11EY • Dviglasi Servon May by Norman Bally Maino und Bryon 5. Millar Based upon Anzivas Robin Hood Legends • Music by Krich Wolígina Komasid's A Pics National Fiçınen
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Story of the Dil Rush' Days! "WILDCATTER"
with SCOTT COLTON - JEAN ROGERS
NURSE PUTS OFFUEENS
HER WEDDING
After Illness Claim
Miss Margaret Savage, twenty-consumptive word, I feel that until six-year-old nurse, tore up recently tuberculosis is made #scheduled the plans she had made for Whitsun disease under the Workmen's Com- wedding.
pensation Act, it would not be right Her flance. Mr. J. W. Hartnett, for me to find that there was, in these accident arising of circumstances, an twenty-eight-year-old
clerk, Edgware, N.W., was with her, and be from her employment.
"To my great, regret the fails."
said:
you are well again."
LONDON, May 23. IN THE House of Commons to-day, Mr. Oliver Stanley said he had no precise information "Never mind, we can wait until available, when naked what pro-
Miss Savage is ... and earlier portion of trade between Japan in the day, at Shoreditch County and India, and between Japan Court, she had lost her claim against and Australia was carried under the London County Counell, the Japanese flag.
JUDGE IS SORRY
Mr. Stanley added that so for s She claimed compensation under he could make out, owing to the the Workmen's Compensation Act be-i circumstances of the Sino-Japanese cause, she alleged, she contracted war, Japanese competition had tend-tuberculosis five months after she had· ed to decrease, but that must not be attended a wominn patient in the counted on as à permanent considera- tuberculosis ward at Bethnal Green |tion.-Reuter,
Hospital, E.
League Drafts Reply To Koo
GENEVA, May 23.--The com-
Judge Lilley, dismissing her claim said:--
claim
It was said that Nurse Savage would consider an appeal,
Recently, in her, lodgings at Mill HI, NW, Nurso Savage, pretty and Irish, sald:-
"My savings have gone. I have to have special food-salads, milk that costs Bd. a pint, ond other expensive diet-and I cannot work. When I have tried to get jobs I have failed because I cannot get a reference of good health."
An L.C.C. official sald: "Nurse Savage's case will probably be con- aldered by the Hospital and Medical Services Committee. I have no doubt "Although I feel great sympathy in that favourable consideration will be this case and that Nurse Savage given to the judge's suggestion that would never have contracted this the council re-employ her in some discase if she had not gone, to the light occupation."
mittee given the task of drafting MIDSHIPMEN
the text-of--the-resolution-in
answer to Dr. Wellington Koo's TO PLAY AT
appeal to the Council yesterday, met to-day.
The resolution will re-ufrm the recommendation of the League to Member States to give what Basis-
tance is practicable to China. in her
struggle.
Britain, France, Russian Latvia are among the countries represented on the committee.-Reuter.
STOCK MARKET REPORT
Hongkong Stock Exchange official summary issued yesterday says:
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WIMBLEDON
INTERNATIONAL BARTER TAKES A NEW TWIST
E..
Annapolis, May 10.
Rio de Janeiro, May 18. Midshipmen J. Hunt and David International barter took a new A. Marks, of Memphis, have been twist to-day with the report that named by the United States Naval Italy and Brazil are about Academy to compete at Wimbledon. negotiate a deal Involving a football which opens on June 20.
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Hunt, who is Number Five. in the The president of a Brazilian athle- national rankings, is the better the club said he was attempting to known of the two players. He sign a player now under contract to reached the fifth round of last year's a football club of Genoa, Italy. American championships at Forest cald the Italians were ready to release Hills, before being beaten by the the man, but wanted a certain Australlan, John Bromwich, by 6-1. amount of coffee to boot.--United D-11, 6-3, 6-4.
Marks is Number One of the Navy Universities'
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Germans Leave Spain
BERLIN, May 23. The German
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O
WIN FOR ARSENAL
Copenhagen, May 23. Arsenal defeated a Danish national football team to-day by three goals
to nil-Reuter Bulletin.
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ADVENTURES
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Baby Falls From King Arthur's Castle stretcher.
Tintagel (Cornwall).
They were brought 'up the cliff faco by means of roped and....a The tide prevented rescuers from reaching them along the chore.
A girl and a twenty-month-old Margaret was dead. Gwendolino- baby, play ng among the ruins of was hurried by ambulance to Prince King Arthur's Castle, Tintagel, of Wales Hospital, Plymouth, where cently,, fell 150 feet to the rocky she was said to be critically ill.
beach,
The baby, Margaret Puge. Agon- Margaret, was the adopted daugh-. bar, was killed; her twelve-year-old ler of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Pige step-sister, Gwendoline Page, was Agonbar, who live at Castle Keep, Beriously injured.
near the castle ruins.
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