1940-01-05 — Page 19

Friday,

NANCY

SAY!--- WHAT'S ALL THAT

RUMPUS IN

THERE?

I'M TRYIN' TO BATHE THE CAT

BUT SHE WON'T LET ME!

OH, YOU CAN'T DO THẤT - DON'T YOU KNOW THAT CATS' ALWAYS WASH

THEMSELVES!

A scene from "Springtluse Buite” which will be presented by the George Goneharuff School of Dance at the King's Theatre next Wednesday, and Thursday.

FURTHER ADVICE

GIVEN TO LUNG

SUFFERERS

(Continued from Page 5.) that the time had come when it would be profitable to train a group of medical officers in the early diagnosis of Tuberculosis so that they might be posted ns Tuberculosis officers to the various Health Centres which it was desired to establish in all portions of the urban and rural areas.

Duties of Officers

These officers would! not

only examine patients sent to them under suspicion, but would also be region- sible for getting into touch with contacts. They would also keep a lookout for signs of early infection, 50 as to be in a position to advise remedial measures at a time when they might be calculated to effective.

Such Health Centres would also act indirectly in attacking the disease by providing services for exportant mothers, new-born bables, toddlers, school children and those suffering from other so-called social diseases. Simple health talks and demonstra- tlons, cinemas und "talkies," pictorial

noud propaganda

museums

allns would also be arranged nt there centres This dream is not so far off

Carmarked

STOCK MARKET

REPORT

Hongkong Stock Exchange Official Summary issued yesterday says:

Trading continues on a broad scate. The price for Docks has shown some slight recession after touching $21

sust the demand is not yet satisfied. Electrics, Telephones & Wharves have also been in some demand. Hong- kong Banks have come to business tip $1,300 with further enquiries for

scrip.

Buyers

Union Ins. $430 Hotels $5.15 Trainways $17.10 Yaunati Ferries $234 Electrics $534 Telephones (Old) $24 Ropes $5.00 Watsons $9.13a Entertainments $0% Constructions (Old) $1

Sales

H.K. Bank $1,300

Union Ins. $400 Wharves s102

Ducks $21.30/2/60/34/70 Providents $1.65 Hotels $

Electrics $33%

Telephones (Old) $24 Telephones (New) $0.30 Cements $174

.elther, for Government bas given leave for certain urbaOR and rural sites to be provisionally and has provided a taken sum in the Estimates-for-1920-41-amounting-to-(b) Nutrition-Research Committee

$100,000 for clinics.

Other Government-sponsored nett- vities which are likely to have a pro- found influence on the Tuberculosis question include the following:

(a) hygienic camps for upwards of 12,000 homeless persons;

to advise on malnutrition and

economic dicturies;

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

REALLY ???

By. Ernie

January 5, 1940.

Bushmiller

GOODNESS-*

I CAN HARDLY BELIEVE

IT!

Astronomical Expenditure By Belligerents

CASH COST OF WAR NOW £20,000,000 A DAY

Look Through The Telegraph"

50 YEARS AGO

Jan. 7, 1800. Victoria English Schools will repen ron Wednesday next, the 8th fastint The teaching staff in the Boys' Depart-| ment has been increased by the arrival

Mr. Arthur A. Watts, CM, off

Mix S. Cheltenham Tinining College.

Taylor, C.M.. has been engaged to superintend the Girlk' Department, which wili, in future, be enrrled en l

separate bulking at 21. Elgin Street. In addition to the ordinary English sub- Jeets there will be cinsnes for Prouch. Latin, Chinese, Drawing and Singing.

25 YEARS AGO

Jan, 5, 1915. The dining at Hartlepool is eatinted at £150,00, Recruiting in the Riding is particularly active.

10 YEARS AGO

Jun. 6, 1930. The British Nury will have its full camplemant of nine aircraft carriers in service when H.M.S. Glorious is put into commission at Devonport en Tuurday.

*

WASHINGTON.-Europe's war is costing the bel- ligerents possibly £20,000,000 a day in current cash outlay alone. Additional costs in losses of property, arms, and commercial revenue cannot be computed now.

The £20,000,000 is an estimate 008,000 teaving a defeit of £750.000,- made from the best information 1000 to be met by borrowing. available here.

British Dominions and

Canada A budget of £139,100,000

In a speech before the InstitColonies: ilus of Production Engineers, Lexile Burgin, Minister of Supply, sald that his department alone had spent about £2.300.000 a day since the was voted in September, to include outbreak of war, an amount which an additional war appropriation of

or £20,000,000. Defence does not Include purchases planes, ships, and other equipment or the cast of maintenance of the $10 or expeditionary force

Navy France.

expenditures for 1939-48, before the declaration of war, had been budgeted at £11,000,- 000, giving Canuda a total of £30,- 000,000 for war.

for

Australia: The current budget in- Available_datu indicates that Ger- cludes £21,038,400 for the war, but many, heading the list, may have additional defence expenditures, as spent £2,500,000,000 for war by the yet undisclosed, will be necessary.

New Zealand: The budget end of its firent year next March Great Britain, its Dominions and 1938-40 was increased by £1,200,000 colonies, at least £1,050,000,000 and over the previous year, mainly for France, using a calendar year scal defence purposes. The Government period, at least £438,000,000 by the also planned to borrow £12,000,000 end of 1939.

for a public works programme, which

The £20,000,000 figure was com-probably could be altered tu confonn Puted on the basis that by the end to defence needs. Additional expen of March, Germany and the British ditures for war purposes have not

been disclosed here. Empire supposedly will have spent!

India and South Africa: No figures

The Yer San Fat building standing £3,462,000,000 for a war that began on Queen's Bad Ceatest and having 211 days earlier on Sept. 2, or £16,-available. of France: frontages ato to Aguilar Street nad 800.000 a day. By the end Wyndham Street is to be demolished December, 120 days after the start of Almunt immediately 13413 modern hostillies, France spent £438,750,081 If the French wor costs were any- cinema theatre and block of office pru- perty erected on the site thus elnured, or £3,010,000 a day.

This is the King'.-Ed.)

5 YEARS AGO

Jan. 5, 1935.

thing like the £1,000,000,000 appro-

That figure does not take into priated by the British, the German account the billions that were snentgure would not seem extraordinary. in years prior to the German-British The total Allied expenditures then better, the would be £2,000,000,000 or Ascal period of 1039-4D and

The Drocess of arriving at intermediary, Condon, paid $0,000 - £20,000,000 figure is as follows:

on for the return of the kid- spped. Lindbergh baby.

Germany:"

the

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There were arnanliona ut the ron- tinted trial of Iruno Hauptmann, and French year of 1939 for arms and agniast £2,500,000,000 for Germany. the crowded court was breathless when ammunition now being expended on

A French Embassy spokesman said, figure Colonel Charles Lindbergh identised, the Western Front,

however, that the British would be the greater of the two. the necusell as the man to whom s

search for more detailed Information brought a reply, from ong olleial that "a complete blackout" had fallen on Probably no one outside Reichs-French budget figures. Another said no information intelligible to Ameri- knows fuhrer Hitler's inner circle

cans ever was available. exactly what Germany is spending

Budget proposals for 1939 included for the war. However. Herr Hit-

for national defence £125,685,000 under the Ministry of the Interior, more than a third of the budget total. Separate Arny, and Navy proposals did

not appear in outlines available

The abolition of the Sanitary Board and

Urban its replacement by n Council is provided for in an Ordin-

(c) Town Planning Board to devise schemes for zoning, lawn- planning, slum clearance, ele, ancy.

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THE FOOTWEAR EVENT OF THE YEAR

ler has said that war expenditures for the past six years would totul £7,000,000,000. That makes £1,200

000,000 a year.

A decree of Sept. 22 provided an here. A total of £314,000,000 hus additional £1,200,000,000 for the been voted in war credits since hos- 1930-40 Ascal period ending Murch titties started.

31. That makes an aggregate of

The two figures above give the £2,400,000,000 being currently spent £438,750,000 total used here, a total Some observers say that figure is that seems slight for a Nation at war ridiculous. But no figure could give when American statesmen are talk the whole picture for Germany. in ing of £400,000,000 for 1910 defence asmuch as its entire economy hes been geared to its military alms for

appropriations. years. Cash outlay is merely សរុស cost factor.

tu

In order to meet the war's costs, Germany not only increased taxes, reduced nonmilitary expenditures by 50 per cent and underlook short- temi borrowing, but according information here, it also lowered wages and prices, thereby reducing the cost of war supplies to the Gov- ernmerit.

When France votes more money for 1040, Its total will draw nearer the British figure, which covers three months in 1940, as well as nine In 1038,

OUR GUIDE TO THE CINEMAS

"Ruler of the Ben" (Alhambra): Aj enlo of sailing ships verius the int Molh tax Increases were: A 50 ship to cross the North Atlantic under Scath comedian, per cent rise in the rate on incomes; team. Will Fyfe,

dom unter the film with his charse lover £102, 20 per cent surtax on teration of the bibulous old Scots tobucco, beer, liquor, and champagne, mechanic who (according to this story) and 15 per cent levy on the shures Invented a marine engine in his back- of states and communes in national yard and faced jects and grievous die- appointment on its account a tle over hundred years ago, Dougins Fale- banks, Jun... appears n the rebellious imate of a sailing ship who accompanira Will File home one night with fatofal resalia, Director Frank Lloyd's storm acones are magntheent.

revenues.

The press estimated that the new taxes would yield £400,000,000 a year, giving total revenues for 1932- 40 of £1,700,000,000, as against

£1,372,000,000 last year,

"The Cat and the Canary" (Queen's); Those estimates, if accurate, do not A Paramount re-make of the silont

Chriller in lend credence to the enormous starred several years ago. Hab Hope which Laura in Planto: of Germany's reported war expend makes a good job of the Harvous hero tures,

unless the Government is whilst Paulette Goddard raveals genuine blithely Incurring deftits of enorm-¦ actig ability, ous proportions. Great Britain:

Britain publishes understandable budgets. She estimated In April that she would need £1,052,770,000 for the 1030-40 year beginning April 1, nearly half of it for defence,

"Count Guard" (Majestic): Dramatle story of Indy-killing aerial coastguard "are" who marries his frland's girl, falls to places whon she leaves him and redeems bimself by saving same friend's Starting Randolph Scott, Fences

Dend Ralph Bellanty.

"tri оп

Tragle story of prison

Probation" (Oriental): probationary aystent's part In-saving a young giri, perelatertly and wrongly necused, whe

By the time the war got under Anally nasists the law against the real Iway, the estimates had been boosted offenders. Excellens performance by

to £1,540,384,000, including 2000,- Jana Bryan In-Fonding role. |016,000 for the war still less than half).

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the estimated German total. The OLD SCREENS. WANTED budget then was nearly double 1938- 30 expenditures,

The Emergency First Ald Post re- Income rates were raised to 35 per quire donations of old screens and cent, with 371⁄2 in prospect for 1940- screw-top bottles. These should, be 41. A new excess profits levy, re- sent to the Women's Air Raid Pro- pinced the national defence and cautions Omeo, Colonint Secretariat armainent tax, and other levies, The Bandaging Class at the Hojenu especinily on luxuries, Word) boosted, į May Institute will re-open on Janu-

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The Society asks for

$35,000

in 1940 to meet the increasing needs of sick and destitute children in Hong Kong. A copy of the Annual Report for 1030 may be obtained from:

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