1940-01-05 — Page 9

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

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 THAT --- DON'T YOU KNOW THAT CATS

ALWAYS WASH

THEMSELVES!

REALLY ???

Cor. 1919 by United Prgtare

A scene from "Springtime Suite" which will be presented by the George Goncharoff School of Dance at the King's Theatre next Wednesday and Thursday,

FURTHER ADVICE

GIVEN TO LUNG

SUFFERERS

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

Duties of Officers,

only These ofeers would not examine patients sent to them under suspicion, but would also be respon-

touch sible for getting into

with contacts. They would also keep a lookout for signs of carly infection, so as to be in a position to advise remedial measures at a time when they might be calculated to be effective.

Such Health Centres would also act Aridirectly in attacking the disease by Providing servieca for expectant mothers, new, born babies, toddlers, school children and those suffering from other so-called social diseases. Simple health talks and demonstra- tions, cinemas and "talkles," pictorial films. museums and propaganda

would also be arranged at these centres This dream is not far off either, for Government has given leave for certain urban and rural sites to be provisionally carmarked and has provided a taken sum in the Estimates for 1040-41 amounting to $100,000 for clinics..

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

STOCK MARKET REPORT

Hongkong Stock Exchange Official Summary issued yesterday says:

Trading continues on a broad scale. The price for Docks has shown some slight recession after touching $214 but the demand is not yet satisfied. Electrics, Telephones & Wharves have also been in some demand. Hong- kong Banks have come to business $1,300

enquiries for| with further scrip

Buyers Union Ins. $430 Hotels $5.15

Tramways $17.10 Yaumati Ferries $231 Electrics $5354

Telephones (Old) $2434° Rupes $5.00 Watsons $9.10 Entertainments 5844 Constructions (Old) $1%)

Bales

H.K. Bank $1,380 Union Ins. $430 Wharves $102

Docks $21.30/%/00/34/70 Providenta $4.55

Hotels $64

Electrics $5374 Telephones (Old) $24 Telephones (New) $0.10 Cements $174

(a) hygienle camps for upwards of

12,000 homeless persons;

(b) Nutrition Research Committee

to advise on malnutrition

economie dictaries;

By

Ernie

January 5, 1940.

GOODNESS--

I CAN HARDLY BELIEVE

IT!

Bushmiller

-EN-

Astronomical Expenditure By Belligerents CASH COST OF WAR NOW £20,000,000 A DAY

A Look Through The Telegraph”":

50 YEARS AGO

Jan. 4, 1890. Vetoria English. Schools will re-open) on Wednesday next, the ath ratsut. The teaching sinit in the Bays Depart ment has been increased by the arrival of Mr. Arthar A. Watts, C.M., of Cheltenham Training College S E. Tuyler, C.M., has been engaged to Kuperintend the Girls Department. which wilt In future, be carried on in a separate building at 21, Elgin Street. In addition to the ordinary Engilsh sub- jeets there will be classes for French,! Lai, Chinese, Drawing and Singing

25 YEARS AGO

Jan. 6, 1915. The damage at Hurtlepeal is estimated the West at £150,000. Recruiting in Riding in particularly active.

10 YEARS AGO

Jan. 5, 1930.

The British Navy will have its full complement of nine aircraft carriers in) service whe .31.8. Glorious in put into commission at Devonport on Tuesday.

*

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 000,000 leaving a deficit of £750,000,- made from the best information1000 to be met by borrowing. available here.

British Dominions and

does

135 France.

..........

In a speech before the Inalt-Colonica: tion of Production Engineers. Leslie! Burgin, Minister of Supply, said

Canada-A budget of £139,100,000 that his department alone had spent *bout £2.000.000 a day since the was voted in September, to include cutbreak of war, an amount which an additional war appropriation of not laclude purchases of £20,000,000. Defence expenditures plates, slips, and ather equipment for 1939-40, before the declaration of ur the cast of maintenance of the war, Imd been budgeted at £11,000,- or expeditionary force in000, giving Canada a total of 299,-

000,000 for war.

Australia: The current budget in- Available data indicates that Ger- cludes £21,030,400 for the war, but many, heading the list, may have additional defence expenditures, ps spent £2,500,000,000 for war by the

Zealand: The budget New Zealand and Dominions end of its scal year next tiarchyet undisclosed, will be necessary.

was Increased by £1,200,000 1039-40 Great Britain, its colonies, ni least £1,050,000,000; and over the previous year, mainly for France, using a calendar year iscal defence purposes. The Government period, at least £438,000,000 by the also planned to borrow £12,000,000 end of 1039.

for a public works programme, which

for

The £20,000,000 figure was com-probably could be altered to conform puted on the basis that by the end 19 defence needs. Additional expen- of March, Germany and the British ditures for war purposes have not Empire supposedly will have spent been disclosed here.

Indh and South Africa: No figures available. The Yee Sang Fat buliding standing £3,402,000,000 for a war that began on Quees's End Central and having 211 days earlier on Sept. 2, or £16- froatnged wine to D'Aguilar Street and 800,000 Wyndham Street in to

and modern: hostilities, France spent £438,758,081 If the French war costs were any- almont immediately cinema theatre and block of office pro- perly erected on the site thus cleared,, or £3,040,000 a day. (This is the King's-Ed.)

a day. By the end of France:

Le demolished December, 120 days after the start of

Jan. 1936.

thing like the £1,000,000,000 appra That figure does not

into priated by the British, the German ticcount the billons that were spent figure would not seem extraordinary.

take

at The process of arriving £20,000,000 agure is as follows: Germany:

the

better.

5 YEARS AGO

in years prior to the German-British The total Allled expenditures then There were sensations at the con- fiscal period of 1930-40 and the would be £2,000,000,000 or tinued trial of Bruno laupimons, and French year of 1939 for arms and against £2,500,000,000 for Germany. A French Embassy spokesman said, the crowded court was breathless when ammunition now being expended on

however,

figure that the British Colonel, Charlen Lindbergh identid the Western Front.

would be the greater of the two. A the need na the man to whom his intermediary, Condon, paid $50,000 -

search for more detailed Information brought reply from one offcial that som money for the return of the kid-

"a complete blackout had fallen on andnapped Lindbergh baby.

Probably no one outside Reichs-French budget figures. Another sald (c) Town Planning Board to device and ita replacement by

Council is provided for in an Ortin- fuhrer Hiler's inner circle lows no information intelligible to Ameri-

exactly what Germany is spending cans ever was available.

Budget proposals for 1939 included for the war, ILowever, Herr Hit- ler has said that war expenditures £125,385,000 for national defence for the past six years would total under the Ministry of the Interior, £7,000,000,000. That makes £1.200,-more than a third of the budget total. Separate Army and Navy proposals | 000,000 a year.

not appear in outlines available

The abolition of the Sanitary Board Urban

schemes for zoning, town- planning, stum clearance, etc.

nace.

GORDON'S

SHOE

SALE

COMMENCES

MONDAY, JANUARY 8th

THE FOOTWEAR EVENT OF THE YEAR

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

31. That makes on aggregate of The two figures above give the £2,400,000,000 being currently spent £430,758,000 total used here, a total Some observers say that figure that seems alight for a Nation at war ridiculous. But no figure could give when American statesmen are talk- the whole picture for Germany, ing of

asmuch as its entire economy has approp000 for 1940 defence

been geared to its military airns for

опа

When France vetes more money years. Cash outlay is merely for 1940, its total will draw nearer the British figure, which covers three

cost factor.

In order to meet the war's costs, months in 1940, as well as nine in Germany not only increased axes, 1939, reduced nonmilitary expenditures by

60 per cent and undertook short- term borrowing, but according to lowered information here, it also wages and prices, thereby reducing the cost of war supplies to the Gov- ersinent.

OUR GUIDE TO

THE CINEMAS

*Rulers of the Sea" (Alhambra): A tale of sailing ships versus the first Main tax increases were: A 60 ship to cross the North Atlantic under steam. Will Fyfe, Scots comedian, per cent rise in the rate on incomes dominates the fim with his Charac lover £192, a 20 per cent surtex on terisation of the bibulous old

Scots tobacco, beer, liquor, and champagne, mechanic who (according to this story) and a 15 per cent levy on the shares invented a marine engine in his back- of atates and communes in national yard and faced fears and grievous dis

appointment on its account a little over revenues.

The press estimated that the now taxes would yield 2400,000,000-a year, giving total revenues for 1930- 40 of £1,700,000,000, 红纱 against £1,372,000,000 last year.

A hundred years ago, Douglas Falt. banks, Junappears is the rebellious mate of a sailing ship who accompanies Will Frie home one night with fateful reaulis. Director Frank Lloyd's storm scones are magnificent

"The Cat and the Canary" (Queen's); the silent Those estimates, If accurate, do not A Paramount re-make of lend credence to the enormous sits thriller in which Laura La Plante "starred, several years ago. Dob Hope of Germany's reported war expend makes a good job of the nervous hero. tures, unless the Government whilst Paulette Goddard reveals genuine blithely incurring deficits of enorm-acting ability. ous proportions. Great Britain:

"Conat Guard" (Hajentic): Dramalle atory of Indy-killing aerial constguard "ace" who marries bis friend's girl, falls to pieces when she leaves him "and Britain publishes understandable redeems himself by saving same friend's

life. Starring Randolph Scott, Frances| budgets. She estimated in April Dee, and Ralph Bellamy. that she would need £1,052,776,000 on Probation" (Oriental) i for the 1930:40 year beginning April Tragic-stdry: oi. prison probationeTY 1, nearly half of it for defence, kayatem'a part in saving a young giți. persistently and wrongly accused, who By the time the war got under finally asalata the law against the real way, the estimates had been boosted offenders. Excellent performance by. to £1,340,304,000, including 2009-Jane Bryan in leading role. 010,000 for the war all less than half the estimated German total. The budget then was nearly double 1938- 20 expenditures. -

OLD SCREENS WANTED

The Emergency First Aid Post re- Incorne rales were raised to 35 per quire donations of old screens and There should be cent, with 37 in prospect for 1946-screw-top bottles.

41. A new excess profits lovy te sent to the Women's Air Raid Pre- placed the national defence and cautions Office, Colonial Secretariat. armament, inx, and other lovies, The Bardaging Class at the Helena especially on luxuries, were boosted, May Institute will re-open on Janu-

Revenue estimates rose to £700-ary 10 from 9.30 am.

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THE HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN.

The Society asks for

$35,000

In 1940 to meet the increasing needs of ick and destitute children in Hong Kong. A copy of the Annual Report for 1930 may be obtained fromt.

Mr. A. McKELLAR, CA.

c/o Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co.j

P. & O. Building.

Mr. KWOK CHAN,

c/o The Banque de L'Indo-Chine,

Hong Kong. Hon. Treasurers.

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