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thrill in the Northwest heeämes
a laugh when you meet the
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DANGEROUS
Hear Her Crown "I'm Dangerous Nan"
10
VICTOR MOORE
the famous stage comic
and
JAMES HALL
dashing Northwest
mountie
and
STUART ERWIN
dumb-ndorer of "Sweetie."
NAN
MCGREW
WITH
Helen Kane
A Paramount Picture
SHOWING SATURDAY
BRENT SCORES
Straight into the
heart of gangland goes this slinging search for the true story behind law- lessness. . for the inside dope on the boys who shoot
in the back-and found
are out!
never
AGAIN!
FRAMED
EVELYN
BRENT
REGIS TOOMEY
Revealing as never before the insidious plota
of
gangland... the dark secrets of the nights. A stirring expose of war to the death between the long arm of the law.
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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1931.
PLAN TO CONTROL TROUBLE IN JAPAN.
SALE OF DRUGS.
To Be Limited to World's
Medical Needs.
LEGITIMATE PRODUCTION.
Rugby. Yesterday.
AGITATION AGAINST SALARY CUT.
DRAMATE COLLAPSE.
Almost without
SHIP TO EXPLORE ARCTIC SEA.
I
Uncharted Waters to Be Surveyed.
LAUNCHING ON MONDAY,
Rugby. Yesterday. On the recommendation of the Committee of Civil Research, the oll driven vessel of 1,400 tons, the
Challenger, which will have cruising range of 10000 miles, is being built at Chatham Dockyard and will be launched next Mon- day. Early next year she will be put in commission for four years to carry out important survey and
Tokyo, Yesterday, With unexpected and almost dramatic sudiennes, agitation against the proposed salary cat, which twenty-four hours ago was The International Convention opened at Geneva to-day in connecthreatening to develop to serious lon with the efforts of the League proportions, appears virtually to
have subsided. of Nations to secure a strict
exception the limitation of manufacture of nar- coties to the world's medical and officials who were preparing to re- scientific needs. The League has sigg have cancelled their intention spent many years in the prelimin- and expressed regret at causing an unnecessary sensation. Even mem- ary work of collecting informa- tion on the subject. By last yearers of the judiclary, whose con- sufficient statistics had been col-tention that they are legally guar-research work in the Arctic. leeted to justify beginning an at-anteed against any reduction of tempt to estimate the total amount of trade done in opium and its derivatives and in cocaine, to dis- criminate between legitimate and iljelt and to take practical steps towards controlling the world's output.
The preliminary Conference was held in London in the Autumn to
salaries resulted in the Government exempting them temporarily, are row discussing the question of mak- g voluntary subscriptions to the
State funds.
Thanks to prompt action by the police in arresting 34 agitators, thereby forestalling the Radicals' efforts to
exploit the situation, determine the amount of cocaine plans to start a railway strike and opium derivatives which each have been frustrated, and appre- manufacturing country right hension has been removed. legitimately produce. A provi- With the promulgation of an Im- sional quota scheme was drawn upperial ordinance this afternoon in the form of a draft convention sanctioning the salary cut, the and this convention is now to be whale trouble has apparently been considered by the plenary Confer-brought to a conclusion-Reuter. ence in Geneva-British Wireless [It was reported from Tokyo an Service.
May 22 that the Cabinet had de- cided to cut oficial salaries, a slid- ing scale being brought into opera- tion on June 1 The maximum re- duction will be 20 per cent, The Premier estimates that the reduc- tions will result in a saving of seven million yen in the present fiscal year.]
FATAL COLLISION.
CRASH INTO STATIONARY TRAIN IN NORFOLK.
PASSENGER KILLED.
EMPIRE'S DEAD.
be-TABLET UNVEILED IN YPRES
CATHEDRAL.
Rugby, Yesterday. One passenger was killed and 11 injured in a collision to-day tween N London North-Eastern train from Dereham with a train standing at a platform in the sta- tion at Fakerham, Norfolk,--Bri- tish Wireless Service.
WAR MEMORIAL.
*Rugby, Yesterday, Members of Parliament repre- CATAPULT DEVICE.sentative of the three parties in ON DISPLAY AT HENDON
MONTH.
the House, who spent Whitsun- NEXTide visiting the British war ceme-
Rugby, Yesterday. The remarkable catapult device demonstrated a few days ago at Farnborough, when nine-ton aeroplane was hurled into the air al 60 miles an hour in three seconds, will be seen in operation by the public at the annual Air Force display at Hendon on June 127.
teries and memorials in France and Belgium, were present at |Ypres Cathedral yesterday, when General Sir Charles Harington, formerly Chief of Staff to Field Marshal Lord Plumer, unveiled a tablet to the memory of one mil- on dead of the British Empire who fell in the Great War.
Underneath the table are the arms of the United Kingdom and Dominions finaly sculptured.-Bri- tish Wireless Service.
SIR E. IRONSIDE.
LIEUTENANT OF TOWER OF LONDON.
For the purpose of survey the
Admiralty and Minister of Agri-
culture and Fisheries are working in collaboration. The construction of the vessel was undertaken after
examination by the Committee of
Evidence tendered by the Ashing rounds in uncharted northern During the next four the work of a years it will be stuff of 70 to be carried by the
waters.
Challenger to explore the great
bell of the Arctic Sen from the east coast of Greenland to the Is- Land of Novaya Zemlya. She will be under the command of an off- cer in the Hydrographic Branch of the Royal Navy.-British Wireless Service.
AUSTRIAN BANK.
OUTSIDE FINANCIERS TO ASSIST.
Rugby, Yeaterday. Means of assisting the great Austrian bank, the Credit Anstalt of Vienna, are engaging the atten- tion of financial circles in many capitals,
It is announced in London that, In agreement with the Governor of the Bank of England, and at the suggestion of the Oesterrei- chische Credit Anstalt, a commit- tee has been informally and tem porarily established, consisting of
chair- Mr. Lionel Rothschild na man, with Mr. Charles Whigham, Sir Robert Kindersley and His Ex- cellency Peter Bark. The commit- tee has stated, "We will concern ourselves particularly with policy to be adopted in the near future."--British Wireless Service.
"STRICT" BRITAIN.
the
"In this country they demand a stricter form of behaviour than in America," said William Berman, aged twenty-six, of Manchester, who was sentenced at Folkestone Quarter Sessions, to nine months' imprisonment for doing grievous bodily harm.
Berman called at a cafe late at night and, when the door was open- ed by the son of the proprietress, he savagely attacked him and rendered him unconscious.
Experts consider it has tremen- dous possibilities in extending the use of aeroplanea over difficult country, where adequate aero- drome space is not available. A forward run of only 100 feet is required for the kind of aircraft usually requiring about 1,000 feet
Rugby, Yesterday. to take off. Although passengers The War Office announce that are not likely to submit to the Lieutenant-General Sir Edmund Berman had been deported from terrific acceleration of the cata- Ironside has -been appointed the United States because of Illegal pult launch, it is considered that Lieutenant of the Tower of Lon-entry. He had shown violent ten- small planse could be used in this don, in succession to Lieutenant dencies on a number of occasions way, while the device may consider-General Sir Herbert Uniacke. since he returned to Britain. ably alter the existing aerial co- General Ironside has com- operation in mobile war operations.manded the Meerut District of
The chief constable stated that
An Industrial survey covering
The compressed air motors of India since 1928. At the end of every single feature in connection the apparatus can produce 8,000 the war he was Commander-in- with Brandon and its adjacent ter- harsepower in B few seconds. Chief of the Allied troops at Secure anchorage is naturally re- Archangel. British Wireless quired for it, but the entire de- Service. vice is completely mobile.-British Wireless Service.
M. BRIAND.
Paris, Yesterday, M. Briand has withdrawn his resignation from the post of For eign Minister-Reuter.
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In order to cope with the heavy demand for first viewing and to afford patrons the opportunity of seeing M.-G.-M.ʼs miracle picture at their convenience, TRADER HORN will be screened
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QUEEN'S-STAR-WORLD
SHE HAD ONCE ORDERED
HIM KILLED?
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The cruelest woman in all Africa white God- dess of the savage Iorgi! She ordered him sacri. ficed in wild “juju” rites and then the strangest romance in the world sweeps through this pic ture of 1000 new thrills!
ctro-
Goodwyn-
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PICTURE
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by
W. S. VAN DYKK
TRADER HORN
Such Jungle Fights as Have Never Before Reen Filmed!
Such Romance as Will Grip Your Heart!
Such Drama as Will Make You Gasp!
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