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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Film Industry Says New
THE C
Tax Means Ruin
HE cinema industry, protesting against the Budget tax on film, has been urgently trying to circum- vent a blow which, it was declared, would place the whole industry in jeopardy.
Following a meeting in London of all sections of the industry a statement was issued declaring that the new tax, among other things-
Would increase the cost of film by more than 100 per cent; Might mean the immedinte extinction of some British film companies;
Would curtail the importation of American films and have serious cffect on exhibitors.
Drastic Steps In Bohemia Sequel To Killinger.
Of A German
|
June, 9, 1939.
2,000 Attend Garden Party
Government House
Reception
At Government House yesterday morning Consular representatives pad formal respects to the King, through the Governor,
and in the
alternoon the House and gardens became the scene of a colourful garden parly, the day's chief social cension and one of the most pleasant Vice-Hegal functions of the year.
Invliations issued numbered 2,338 and most of these were
accepted. The Governor, Sir Geoftry Northcote, Mr. David E. Grimhs, president pleasantly received and made every of the Kinematograph Renters So-one Immediately welcome, spending ciety, who presided at the meeting the whole afternoon among his guests pointed out that such a burden as after the business of formal reception the 100 per cent. Increased cost was was over. Tables arranged on the
cach decorated with a lawn..
fern one impossible for the industry to carry.
pol, accommodated the guests, con- The industry is trying to arrange ditions being made more pleasant by an early Interview with the Chan- the fact that the sun. was mostly veiled by cloud, though no rain fell. Mr. Grimths said that In view of
Afternoon tea was served at the the urgency of the situation it was tubles and in the ballroom, and drinks from a matshed hoped to see Sir John Simon within were dispensed n day or two. Their request had pavillon draped with flugs at one already been acknowledged, PRAGUE, June 8,
side of the lawn. A The German Minister here The National News Theatre As-obtrusive music was provided by the sociation of Great Brilain and Middlesex Regiment Band and the hay issued a proclamation Nottern Ireland has sent a letter to Royal Scots Pipers.
Ho The Instituting drastic measures at the Chancellor
absence "In declaring: "If the
Shanghal of the Justice, Sir Atholl Macgregor, Kindno where a German police-proposal comes into force we can Chief
Macgregor man was killed last night, see before us the complete ruin of prevented he or Lady
Lady Noble® was present, but the Bir
brought back the
Cor-in-Chief,
Sir Percy Nobic, too late in the afternoon for him to attend. One notable guest H. F. Dyott, Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce at Tientsin, vio Agured in sensational
February episode in when he was the cuptive of Chinese bandits for 17 days. His wife was also present.
United Press.
Mayor Deposed
PRAGUE, June 8.-Drastic mea-i aures have been ordered by the Reich) Protector for Bohemin, following the alleged murder of an official of the German police In Kladno, an impor tant industrial centre in north-west! Czecho-Slovakin.
The measures include the deposi- llon of the Mayor and the Municipal Council at Klidno from office, dis- arming of the Czech police, and pro- hibition of open-ale meetings.
if the murderer is not identified and taken prisoner by B p.m.
measures morrow, other taken.
to-
WID
be
Czech police were dishrmed in the main square In Kladno without in- cident.-Reuter Specialy
Ambush Sequel: Men Charged
THERE was a Court sequel this morning to the police ambush near the 3-mile post on Taipo Road on Wednesday, when two men appeared before Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy on charges of being in possession of arms and am- munition,
The two men were Lam Kay, 23, and Wong Wai, 25, both unemployed. A third man, against whom charges will also be preferred, is in hospital with a smashed ankle,
Det. Sergt. C. Pope, who led the police ambush, prosecuted, and usked for a formal remand of 72 hours.
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Shameen, June 0. The British community to-day cast away its cores and worries in cele- brating His Majesty's official birth- day.
A review of the combined police and navn forces was held at 0.30 a. in Queen's Garden when Mr. A. P. Blunt, the Consul-General took the salute,
A reception was held at the Con- sulate-General from
11.30 a.m. to 12.15 p.m. at which the Consular body and representatives of the foreign communities were present. The health of His Majesty was proposed at noon. -Renter.
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Street shooling affair, was stated yes- terday to be still in a critical condi- tlon.
The operation performed on him at the Queen Mary Hospital has been | highly successful and his good con- stitution may help him to pull through.
"He is holding on very well and there is every chance of a recovery," sald a police officer.
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