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Eddie
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The
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in
Palmy Days
CHARLOTTE GREENWOOD
On Edward Sutherland Production
UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE
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ESTABLISHED 1845.
HONG KONG, MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1932.
DECREE GRANTED.
To English Wife of Indian.
Calcutta,
An Englishwoman who was mar- ried to an Indian at the Register Office in Hastings, Sussex, Un August 16, 1928, has just been. granted a divorce in A Calcutta Court.
THE MODERN BANDIT CARES NOT FOR SIZE.
Anything from a Church to a Rail Engine.
AUSTRALIAN MENACE.
Sydney (N.S.W.). Size does not deter the modern
Mr. J. C. Sett, appearing for the Australian bandit. Here are some woman, Mrs. Muriel Frances Ghosh, examples of his work:
said she married Anil Nath Ghosh, of Old Post Office Street, at Hest- ings. They lived in England for nine months, then came out to Calcutta.
Mrs. Ghosh, he said, was given to understand in England that she
At Moscheto Island, near Newcastle, men were arrested for pulling down part of a church. They wanted to sell the fittings.
Twenty railway engines
were
ROBOT DANCER.
Hollywood's Latest Partner.
Hollywood.
A robot dancing partner, with a motion picture camera for a head, is being used for dance-hall scenes! in a new "talkie.".
The automaton, electrically driven, is rigged up to do a fancy fox-trot, giving members of the au- dience the impression that they are dancing with the heroine.
The camera is mounted on a cast- iron base, in which are various rub- ber-tyred wheels on cam shafts, These can be adjusted for a waltz, fox-trot, tango, or for straight walking.
the
would live in India in European left in a line at a Homebush sid One wooden arm encircles style. Some time after the arrival ing. When officials visited the heroine's waist, while she holds on in Calcutta the husband began to be siding recently to inspect their to another projecting, from the side indifferent to his wife.
rolling-stock they found all that of the camera. She lets the robot In July 1929, a sun
was born. was left of the engines were the lead her like any human dancing After this event the husband's frames.
treatment of the wife became worse. It was alleged that he had commit- ted misconduct and had treated his wife cruelly..
In a neighbouring suburb a brick wall, 30 ft. long and 6 ft. high, was taken away. Gas-stoves, wash coppers, brass nozzles from fire hoses, lead cap- pings from roofs-all things, mov- Mrs. Ghosh was granted a decreeable and everything that can be nisi and given the custody of the screwed or hacked from its fitting child. British United Press.
-go into the lorries of these heavy-weight thieves.-British United Press.
Mr. Ghosh did not contest the suit.
TRADE FLYING.
German Seaplane on World Tour.
Cologne,
C.I.M. MEETING,
Direct Providential Guidance.
GROWTH OF CONVERSIONS.
partner.
60 GAMES AT ONCE.
Dr.
Alekhine Wins 37
and Loses 6.
Paris.
Dr. Alexander Alekhine, chess champion of the world, played simultaneously 300 good chess play- ers at 60 tables. Five players act- ed together at each table.
Dr. Alekhine won 37 of the matches, drew 17 and lost six.
Play lasted for ten hours, during which time Dr. Alekhine walked more than ten miles. Sometimes he drank hot black coffee and munched sandwiches, and always smoked
In the presence of thousands of spectators the German · airman Flight-captain Bertram, with a second pilot, a mechanic and 'film The annual meeting of the cigarettes. operator, took off from the Rhine China Inland Mission was held ati À match
French
in which five at Cologne in the seaplane Atlantia Houldsworth Hall, Manchester, the girls played against the champion | on a flight to the Far East.
Rev. W. H. Aldis presiding. resulted in a draw, as did that which
The flight is undertaken mainly At the evening meeting the Rev. Dr. Alekhine played against several for the purpose of commercial pro- W. H. Warren mentioned that the of the best players of the British paganda-as Captain Bertram said, original site for the mission in Chess Club of Paris-British Unit- "To demonstrate in Asia that even Shanghol had been taken 40 years ed Press.. under the present catastrophic con- ago, and by 1930 the premises and ditions German capacity for work is equipment were worn out. Mean
time the value of the site had in-
not paralysed."
The projected route is by way of creased, and it was decided to sell Frederickshafen, Greece, Bagdad, it and remove elsewhere. A price Bombay, Colombo, Calcutta, Ran-was decided upon by a committee goon, Singapore, Java, the North of missionaries, including the Australian coast, New Guines, and speaker.
IN DISGUISE,
Bandit Chief As An "Old Lady."
With the money
THE BARBER TOLD!
The Baron's Secret to Lady's Maid.
Paris.
A bald and sensitive baron, his sweetheart, her mald, and an in- discreet hairdresser are the char-
back to Borneo and China.
They were advised by experts to The Atlantis is a similar 'plane accept a smaller price. Against to the Bremen, in which Kohl, this advice they held out for the scters in a comedy which is to Hunefeld and Fitzmaurice cross-original figure and eventually
come before the law courts. ed the North Atlantic-Exchange. secured it.
gained they were able to buy a hairdresser as the baron. In con- The lady's maid goes to the same new site and to build and equip versation with him she learned new station without having re that the baron wore three wigs- course to the general funds of the one long, one moderately short, mission.
and the third very short resem The speaker believed this, to be bling the natural stages of the an example of direct providential growth of real hair. She mention- guidance which was the more won-ed this to her mistress, who, derful as the old site at the pre- though not particularly concerned, sent time was in the heart of the joked about it to the, baron. present hostilities, and, apart from The baron, very annoyed at the being thus dangerously situated, betrayal of his secret, has decid- could not be bought or sold at all. ed to sue the hairdresser on the Spada, it is stated, who has been Miss C F Tippet, of North ground that he disclosed profes- sought by the police in Corsica since China, gavo a number of instances sional secrete.-Central News. the French sent their punitive ex- of the growth of conversions
An
Nice.
unconfirmed story about Andre Spada, the most elusive and daring of Corsica's hunted bandits, and an English girl, is being told
in Nice.
pedition there last November, is among the Chinese.
being harboured by the English
girl, who is said' to live on a farm not far from Calvi, in the north of the island.
WAR BOMBS EXPLODE.
Paria.
A dump of bombs collected from
This is how. Mrs. Mary
roadside near Arras, exploded sud- Ann denly.
"The world is very wicked and the battle-fields and stored at the noisy."
The girl is said to be living with two old ladies," one of whom is Buxton, of the Wimbledon Alms- In the tremendous blast two men suspected of being the Corsican houses, Wimbledon Common, sum-walking along the 'road were chief in disguise.-British United med up her impressions of life on blown to pieces. A wall 50 yards Press.
her 101st birthday.
distant collapsed-Central News.
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