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Bouglas Fairbanks THIEF BAGDAD
Winging through the clouds on The Flying Horse to the Citadel, of the Moon...which rests at the top of the Flight of a Thousand Stairs...
From first scene to lust, this en- chanting picture is a succession of fanciful surprises . - -
A wonderful love story to set your pules going... a wealth of adven- turous incident that will stir you to a rousing pitch of excitement.
This production will positively not be abwn anywherethacinthis city, this year
"Happiness must be earned”
Thomas H.mce presents
Beau Revel
fourring Florence Vidor
To-morrow
at
THE
STAR
Usval Prices
a Paramount Picture
THE INCOMPARABLE PICTURE OF THE SEASON
KARENNE
DIANA
INTA
THE MARTYR QUEEN
Of femang elaborals alm repn ductions of the French Revolution which have been mutwitted to the public within recent rare, Laia production in the woot notable and the heat. The gorgeomaneas, riupendousness and shoor artistry in direction bifled dewstiption. Ita tenderant, besuty of thought and treatment, is tremendons coul-gripping theme and magnificent character
will stir spectators ne they have never been wored belore, portrayals
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The domination personality and Damatie Gonios of the beautifal Divas Kareena makes this torson Masterpisso a prodao on of unusual interst and attraction.
TO-DAY TILL SATURDAY, 5-15 & 9.15 46.3% DOUR GREAT SACRIFICE PICTURE
WITH SPECIAL MUSIC AT USUAL PRICES DON'T FAIL TO SEE LT
World Theatre...
page 2 in this issue. One is a view of the metal market; thei other deals with the increasing Chinese demand for woollens as sultings.
GENERAL
A cable from Washington, A Melbourne message strips states that the guns of the U.S.5 that the.P.&O..ss "Maloja was Texas sanke the hull of the expectedio sail at 8am.. yesterday She carried the malls and a full U.S.S. "Washington.".
list of passengers, but no cargo,
Members of the Chinese Britishy, M. C. A. are paying a visit of inspection to the "Empress of Australia" on Saturday.
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At the Children's Hour at 5.
Local Command Orders state Lo'clock to-morrow, at the Helena
May Institute, Mrs. J. R. Wood that officers, commanding units must have a consus taken of ali will. speak on "The Empire Ex-dogs belonging to troops under
their command. hibition at Wembley.".
For carrying vine passengers in excess of the number allowed In his licence, a fishing junk | master was fined $18 at the Murino
Court this morning.
The master of the s.s. "Kwah Cheng," Capt. B. H. Johnson, a quantity of goods were missing ports to the police that on Monday from the port side store room of the ship and are believed to have been stolen that day. The missing goods include tarpaulins, rope, wire and zinc and are valued at
of the During the voyage "Van Cloon," from Belawan Dell | $59. and Singapore to Hongkong, a lunatic jumped overboard and a deck passenger died,
*The Norwegian steamer "Hav," of Canton Merchants' Volunteer arms fame, is still in Hongkong, having just returned from Keelung with 1,700 tons of
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Lay Sun-cho, & merchant of 60 Kennedy Road, who had agreed to buy the property concerned for $56,000 was the chief witness at the Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon at the continued hearing of the case against two solicitor's clerks in the employ of Messrs. Hastings and Hastings, Dennys and Bowley, who are charged with conspiring to defraud a woman A Malta message states that complainant of her property by false representations. The witness the wa British blue-jackets, said he was given to understand ported missing from Alexandria, that the owner was in need of in yesterday's cables, have been, money and desired to sell her seen at Malta. They belong to property as soon as possible. The H.M.S. "Valiant" An order for hearing was adjourned. their arrest has been issued.
coal.
All who intend to be present at The Japanese coal Industry is Major Lewis' Concert on Monday said to have profited greatly as a December 1, should book their result of the civil war in China. seats as soon as possible. Most of which has hampered the move-the centre seats have gone, but ment of coal from the Railan and other mines. The Chikuho, Miike, and other Kyushu coals have made a great invasion of the Chinese
market.
The Red Cross Society for China, which hes its headquarters in Shanghai, has been urged by wise to send a batch of Red Cross workers to Pengpu as fighting is expected to take place there at any A number of workers moment, will be sent to the north in a few days' time, says the "N. C. Daily News" of Saturday last.
Marshal Chang Tsodio has decided 10 enforce bls ant squeeze rules. He has, with the hearty approval of Marshal Tuan Chi-jul, notified the Departments of Finance and Communicatiors that serious offenders will be executed and that light offenders, will be imprisoned and deprived of their civil rights.
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there are still numbers of good seats left. This concert has been arranged so that entirely constrast. ing turns follow each other. It has, been timed to finish by about 11.30. The show will suit every "palate and every "packet." The Band of the East Surrey Regiment will, play during the evening. "Three Little Maids," "Valse Triste," and an extravaganza entitled, "To afraid to go home in the Dark." Each one of these items alone is worth hearing.
A report has been made to the police by Mr. S B. 8 McElderry, MC., of the Colonial, Secretary's Office, that on Tuesday night a valuable mantelpiece clock was. stolen from his residence. No. 404, the Peak
The Chinese press in Shang- hai states that some local Kiangsu, residents have issued.a manifesto
strongly denouncing the Tuchun, Marshal Chi Heish-yuan, for the recent Kiangen- Choking war and, "for other causing crimes" and urging their fellow provincials to arise and drive hims from the province.
Further national honours,,says the "Japan Times," are to be shown to the memory of the "Un- known Patriot," who sacrificed-his life in ceremonial barakiri close to the, grounds of the American Embassy at Tokyo some months
& protest against the ago 19 excluding Japanese as immigrants. enactment of the American law The War Office has just given its sanction to the reburial of the remains of the Unknown Patdot In
wherein rest many of the bodies. the Military Cemetery, Aoyama, of Japan's great dead. The Un- known Patriot, whose identity has in accordance with the ancient never been learned, killed himself rites in the grounds of 'Viscount Inouye, believing himself to be He defti American Embassy. letters explaining his deed ad- dressed to the American Ambas sador and others.
October 16, 1924, was the cestenary of the evacuation of Chinsurah by the Dutch, under the terms of the Treaty of London. which exchanged the Dutch settle ments on the mainland of India for certain cessions by Great Britain in Sumatra and elsewhere. The result of this Treaty was the recognition by Holland of the
dominion
of Great complete Britain in India, the abandonmest of two centuries of gallant strugglo against it, and the disappearance. of the territorial rule of Holland from the sub-continent. Chinsurah, on the Hughly, 24 miles above Calcutta, was the site of a Dutch factory as early as the year 1645, and became the Dutch headquarters: in Bengal, though afterwards. subordinate to the settlement at Batavis, in Java. The Governor's salary was small, but his perquisites were enormous, and the annual expense of his household amounted One of the 10, 36,000 rupees. Ditch Governors of Chinsurah is said to have been the first inventor of punkahs, about the year 1799. But the principal survival of Dutch tule there is the octagonal Dutch church containing escutcheons of the successive Governors and
From being the coolest place in Hongkong in the summer, the Coronet Thestre reasonably be- comes the warmest in winter, for the place is essentially cosy. Red lights have been introduced of a suficient softness to create the atmosphere of a library jo a woll- appointed house. All this, with of picture provided, the class tends to a pleasant state of mind. The picture showing to-night and on Friday is "The Reckless Age" a little outside the ordinary run of pictures, with an original turn I had one of the shocks of my in it, and a humour that raises life in Paris the other day (writes spontaneous laughter. On Satur- "The Showman" in "The Passing day the eagerly expected "Thief Show") I was at some social of Bagdad" with the ever restless gathering when in walked a rather Douglas Fairbanks is to be pre-other memorials. The last Dutch farmer-like gentleman of, say, sly summers. But the striking feature about him was his clothes. He wore a frock coat, yellow tie, bluish trousers white spats, and brown boots! later I was intro- duced to hin-and early fell through the floor. He was the great Italian composer, Puccini.
sented...
Governor of the colony was Daniel Anthony Overbeek, to whom on Dr. A. Neville Whymant, in a October 16, 1824, on his departure two-column article in the "Japan for Batavia, the inhabitants of Chin- Times," tells the Imperial Japanese surah presented a massive silver Fost Office precisely what he cup. The inscription on the cup, thinks of it. His criticisms must in the Dutch language, testifies to affection in unfortunately be admitted to be the respect and
only too well deserved. In the which he was held. The cup.. first place he wants to know with cover and salver weighs over Readers are reminded that whether Japan considers herself so 70 oz. troy; It has been offered by during this week, and on the 1st far superior to other nations in the its present possessor as a gift to and 2nd December, from 8.30 a.m. Postal Union as to be in a position the museum of the Royal United to 7 p.m. daily, there is a Sale of to make special rates for her Service Institution. A romantic Other countries story-conceming the legendary Work at the French Covent foreign mails.
an estate in Orphanage, Causeway Bay. send letters abroad for the equiva-"Overbeek curse, Visitors will have an opportunity lent of 10 sen; Japan alone taxes Dorsetshire, and-the-establishment] of securing at reasonable prices foreign letters 20, and in spite of at ruinous expense of a leading] all kinds of lizen articles, all the protests made by Japanese case in English, law, attaches to une the coming of the cup to England.) embroidery, woollen knitted art and foreign merchants this cles, and toys for the children's justifiable extortion" has gone,on Governor Overbeek had no son Christmas, As nearly 600 orphan uninterruptedly for several years, and his eldest daughter married a The short-sighted Government young surgeon in the Bengal children are maintained in this institution, visitors patronising has gained a few sen and lost Ammy, Rice Davies Knight, Into this Sale will have the pleasure of millions of yen in foreign trade as whose family the cup ultimately assisting a most deserving charity, a result."
ا الاستمالة الضمي
SOCIAL AND
passed
PERSONAL.
Brevet Lieutenant-Col. G. R. V. The forthcoming wedding is Mr. O. H Hulme, P. O. Góm Steward CBE, DSO, Royal announced of Mr. Vobn Agner missioner in Hankow, arrived fo Shanghai, with Mrs. Halme, last lanfakliling Fusiliers, is the new Jens Jorgensen Rasmussen, of Saturday and is staying at the
Era Sorine Astor House»? Military Attache, Peking, vice Nanning, to Miss Colonel H. B. H. Orpon-Palmer, Margrethe Simonsen, en, route
from Deamark by the C.M.G., D.5.O.
Malaya"
5.6.
The appolotment of Lieut. Come mander W. J. Persse to H.M.S. Weymouth has been cancelled and he bas been, appointed to Mgs. D. A. Weaver passed. Mr. Sung Han-chang, manager H.M.S. "Locia." Licut.Comdr through by the President Cleve of the Bank of China and former H. R. Gordon Cumming is appoint land" to join "Commdi" Weaver Chairman of the Chinese Generaled to HMS Weymouth. Lient. of the U.SS. Canopus" at Mana Chamber of Commerce, has (ender-R. Henderson joins the same
ship. Gonerul D. A and Mrs. Utter were ed his resignation as a member of
a lep passengers for the same port, the executive committee of the His many friends In China will Chamber of the grounds of illness team: with regret of the death fo England, on November 5; of hi 1 returning by thes.s.
Among those who left Maullo Rev. Divid S. Murrays Mr. Murray arrive on the "Makinies were Mr M. soetit stine 30 years of his life in include Mr. and Mrs. Lord, magiger of the Hawaiian Chios for 10 years as Sub-Agent Suger Asociation, mon visit to of the Britka and Höreign Bible Hongkong Mr J. C Rockwell, vice- Society In Shaoghal, rad subser president of the Manila, Blectric quoutly as a Missionary of the Railtay Company and M. and London Missionary Society in Mr. Pazder for Shanghai,
Mr. and Mr. HF Sc
omari and Mrs RRS
North. China.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1924.
GTHSMIGO KA MAW
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"THE GOLDEN SNARE"
Scene from: The Golden Snare
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TALE OF LOVE ROMANCE STRANDE ADVENTURE.
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