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To-day at 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m. A SENSATIONAL ROMANCE AMONG THE COLONIAL TROOPS STATIONED IN AFRICA.
TIFFANY presents
MAMBA
Forbidden love, fierce hate, savage passions in a drama of romance and adventure in the jungle-Produced entirely in Sound and Technicolor. Jean Hersholt - Eleanor Boardman - Ralph Forbes
Directed by Al Rogall
ESTABLISHED
1845
大英元月十七號
禮拜二 中華民國庚午年拾二月初九
HONG KONG, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1931.
SOVIET SNUB FOR THE ADDING WATER TO STEAMER KOCHOW
GOVERNMENT.
Forced Labour in the Timber Camps.
SOLELY THEIR AFFAIR.
London, Yesterday.
MILK.
Boy Pleads Guilty to
Adulteration.
A QUEER RULING.
STILL AGROUND.
No Immediate Danger of Breaking Up.
UNLOADING OF CARGO.
News of the s.s. Kochow received
here last night is that she is still ground near Campbell Island, in the West River, about five miles be- low Shamshui."
When charged at the Kowloon In the House of Commons to-Magistracy this morning with hav- day, replying to Sir Williams for sale a can of milk which Davison, Dr. Hugh Dalton said as unfit for human consumption, that M. Litvinoff had informed ui Siu-cheung, delivery boy, em- Sir Esmond
The position of the ship is report- Ovey that the loved by the Tung To Dairy, Soviet could not consider the Bri-piended guilty, and ignorance of ed to be safe and she is in na im-
law. tish request for investigation in
mediate danger of breaking up. A constable deposed that he saw The attempt made at 5 o'clock regard to the alleged forced In-| bour and general conditions in the defendant filling the milk can with yesterday morning to get her off water at u street fountain in failed because she was too heavily Russian timber camps, any more than the British Government ghem at about 10 am. on Sun-laden. similarly would. The Soviet, like day and arrested him. other countries, employed con- victs, but solely for road making and that solely concerned ¡Soviet.
with
This was realised after tro at. Boy Confesses.
tempts had been made to shift her, Defendant said he was deliver and the work of removing her thing the milk to Whitfield Barracks, cargo was undertaken. This is a and when in Hunghem, he fell rather difficult job in view of the Sir Esmond Ovey was also in-of milk. Fearing the anger of his vicinity
from his cycle, spilling. a quantity shallowness of the water in the of the spot where she formed that neither prison labout nor generally forced labour were master he refilled the can
grounded, and the work of unload. ing had to be done with great care, employed for the export of tim-water.
Mr. Butters, in discharging the only small lots of cargo being taken her industry.
Replying to a suggestion by defendant, said that he did not off at a time in small boats and Commander Locker Lampson, Dr. appear to have committed a breach transferred to cargo junks lying in
adulteration of milk re-deeper water. Dalton said that there was no pre- or the cedent for asking the League of Pulation by adding pure water, as
The result was that the ship was Nations to approach the Soviet could be scarcely injurious tout completely unloaded by night and offer to undertake an amination of the allegations.-i Reuter.
ex-health.
NEW BARRISTER.
GERMAN WAGE CUT. ADMISSION OF MR. TUNG-FAN
SCHEME TO REDUCE COSTS OF
PRODUCTION..
REJECTED BY UNIONS.
Berlin, Yesterday.
LO.
A BRILLIANT CAREER.
87-
fall yesterday and the work was suspended until this morning. As aoon 13 the unloading of the Kochow is completed to-day, other attempt will be made to take her off, and it is confidently be Heved that the lightened ship will be reflaated.
The ship's company have remain. A new barrister in the person of ed on board ever since the strand- Mr. Tung-fan Lo was admitted and ing and officers and crew are report- enrolled by the Acting Chief ed to be cheerful, although it is: cold сп the river, the i Justice, (Mr. J. R. Wood) in the very Supreme Court this morning.
Alabaster, O.B.E., K.C., made the
| barometer having dropped since the
The German Steel Trust pro- The Attorney-General, Mr. C. C. time the ship went aground. poses to cut wages in their work- shops at Essen by 20 per cent., and reduce the number of work ing daye this month.
application, stating that Mr. Lo had the President of China and Govern.
been called to the bar by the Hon- ment of Canton Scholarships win- ourable · Society of Grays Iun on ner. He graduated as a B.A, in
Law,
If necessary, the Trust is pre. July 2 last year. He had a dis- 1927. Upon his arrival in London pared under these conditions to tinguished career, having com- the same year he was at once'admit- re-employ 4,500 out of 7,000 menced his education at Saiying-ted to the Faculty of workers who received notice, pun Government School, now King's University College, and the Honour- The Trade Unions concerned will College, and then been promoted to able Society of Grays Inn. reject the proposals, declaring Queen'e College as the first holder In July, 1930, he gained the LL.B. that acceptance will lead to chaos. of the Allan Morris Memorial of the University of London, with
The Chancellor, Herr Bruening, Scholarship..'
honours, and passed the Bar final
in a speech at Cologne yesterday, Later, he won the Ho Fook, Ho examination. said that it was impossible to re- Tung, and Senior Morrison Scholar- His Lordship, admitting Mr. Lo, duce production of costs by mere-ships, and matriculated with hon-said that it gave him much plea- ly reducing wages, as some em-jours in 1922. He then went sure. He wished him every success ployers seemed to think.-Reuter. to the University of Hong Kong as in hla future practice.
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AMUSEMENTS
AT THE
QUEEN'S
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SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20.
RAMON
NOVARRO
agalu brings his Golden
Voice,
his
201
dashing love- making to
unforget- table romance!
You
ou toved Navarro inu Goy
Madrid"; you'll
rave about him now in avoiber inle of young Old iD love Spain. Again, his light-hearted lovemak iny blande with his tragic despair, but when he sings "Pagliacci" you'll cheer as the whole world will soon be cherring!
CALL OF
Ichth DOROTHY JORDAN
RENER
ADOREE
NANCE
O'NEIL
ERNEST TORRENCE
directed by
CHANTYS BRAWIN
Svery kp Boge
Thy Furman
THE FLESH
*Metro Godtwyn MEYVELL
TALKING
RICTURE
Hearst Metrotone Newsreel
NEXT CHANGE
She Had Every- thing in the : World Except Love!
Garbo the
gorgeouis, Garbo the magnificent now brings to you unforgettable
'at
romance of love and heartbreak greater even
than "Anna
Christie."
all music all sound
all dialog
TIFFANY PRODUCTION.
NEXT CHANGE
GEORGE
BANCROFT
A Tense Drama of Life
and Love Outside, the Law
THUNDERBOLT
“a Paramount Picture
Booking at Anderson and the Theatre (26720).
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MAJESTIC THEATRE
TO-DAY ONLY
WILLIAM BOYD
IN
HIS FIRST COMMAND
TALKIN
GRETA
GARBO
in Her Talking Successor to "Anna Christie"
ROMANCE
CLARENCE BROWN'S
production with LEWIS STONE