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NINETIETH YEAR OF PUBLICATION.
HONG KONG, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1934.
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Yesterday a prim, thy
school
teacher! Today an
untamed
beauty, free and
graceful
whose skins
as the animat.
she wore!
overnight by
that made
gentlemen
Transformed
the jungle,
ladies and
male and female!
CIL B. De MILLE'S
FOUR FRIGHTENED PEOPLE
Paramount
Picture
with
CLAUDETTE COLBERT-HERBERT MARSHALL
FROM SATURDAY
* SHOWS
DAILY
7.11-4.00
MARY BOLAND-WILLIAM GARGAN
SYLVIA SIDNEY-FREDRIC MARCH
44
IN
GOOD DAME"
TAKE-AMY THAN ON MAPPY VALLEY SUB-
ORIENTAL
LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY
ZOE AKINS GREAT COMEDY STAGE PLAY NOW THE
--FUNNIEST OF ALL
SCREEN PRODUCTIONS.
HERES TO OUR MEN! LONG MAY THEY GIVE!
Whatarot how!.
la tiels fast-moving.
story of iron giriki
who vene to Brand-|
way to have thold"
GREEKS HAD AWORD THEM
INA CLAIRE
JOAN BLONDELL MADS1 TVANS LOWELL SHERMAN
DAVID MANNERS AND ARTIKEL, LUCHAR
Paramount
Picture,
BOAS
WANDHAI
TIL 20472
TOMORROW
& SATURDAY
AN EXPOSURE
OF
HOLLYWOOD
A CONTINOUS
SCREAM
OF LAUGHTER.
A GREAT SHOW!
JEAN
HARLOW TRACY
CHELL
́FRANK MORGAN, FRÁN. CHOT TOKE, PAT O'BRIEN, UNA MERKEL, TID HEALT
A
VICTOR FLEMING
Production
MAJESTIC
TO-DAY ONLY. ·AT 2.30, 6.20, 7:20 & 9.20 P.M.
OUT OF A WORLD OF FORGOTTEN GIRLS...
she came to make or mar the careers of "im» portant people" even though it put her own happiness in the balance.
NO HOPE FOR INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION
CLOSER EMPIRE LINK
London, To-day,
THREE DROWNED IN
JUNK WRECK
Chinese Trapped While Sleeping.
CRAFT CAPSIZES IN GALE
r
Three lives were lost when fishing boat No. 4473, cap- sized of Cheung Chau Island while on its way ta Aberdeen during the heavy gale which swept over the Colony early yesterday
morning.
but six of them swam to Cheung:]
Mr. Stanley Baldwin's recent assurance of the Government's determination to secure parity in the air with any country within striking dis- tance of Great Britain, was repeated by the Air Nine people were in the boat. Minister, Lord Londonderry, in the House of chau Island. The others, includ Lords, yesterday, in reply to a speech made by ing wife, brother and sister of Lord Mottistone, urging the remedying of the Leung Tai-yau, the master of the inadequacy of the air defences of the United On reaching the island the police Kingdom.
junk, were drowned.
were notified. A launch from the
Lord Londonderry added that as it could no longer be hoped Water Polles were despatched to the that an international convention could solve problems of Europe.scene.
the Government had decided that it could no longer delay the The three bodies, Lo Sze, 20-year- steps necessary to provide adequately for the air defence of the old female, Leung Tai-hi, 14-year- United Kingdom.
old male, and Leung Kin, 9-year-old
board IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE AT PRESENT, HE SAID, TO GIVE THE DE- female, were discovered on FINITE NATURE OF THE CONTEMPLATED EXPANSION OF THE the junk, apparently drowned in AIR FORCE OR THE LINES ON WHICH IT WOULD PROCEED, BUT their sleep when the hot turned THERE WAS NO NEED FOR APPREHENSIONS THAT THE PLANS
jover. AND ARRANGEMENTS WERE NOT FULLY UNDER WAY.
The bodies were taken to the Public Mortuary by the Police.
"Earlier, when replying to LordĮ ANGLO-AMERICAN__MEETING Elibank, Lord Londonderry en-i
London, To-day. phasised that the Dominions and In connection with the bilateral, the Government, felt it incom-conversations initiated by the BH RETAIL TRADE SALE patible with the self-Government tish Government between the chief of each, and, in the interests of naval powers for preliminary ex- all, that any attempt should be changes of views in preparation. for
Prime of
IN BRITAIN,
London, To-day.
HONG KONG $ DIRECTORY NOW ON SALE
HONGKONG $ DIRECTORY CO. 3A, Wyndham Street.
QUELA'S
TO • DAY TO SATURDAY At 2.80, 5-10, 7.20 & 9.30.
made to establish a central de- next year's Naval Conference, a full Money Value Increase. fence force for the Empire, but meeting was held at the every effort was being made to Minister's room in the House link the Air Force of the Empire Commons between Britisk and The money value of the retail as closely as possible. — Reuter. United States representatives yes trade sales in Great Britain last TO-DAY
terday.
month was 7.7 per cent. greater Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the than in May, 1933. For the first Prime Minister, was accompanied four months of the trading year, by Mr. Stanley Baldwin, Sir John the total sales were 3.3 per cent.
THREE PARTNERS. Industry, Government And Agriculture,
TUGWELL'S OPTIMISM
Simon. Sir Bolton Eyres Mongell, above those for the corresponding Vice Admiral Little, and Mr. R. L. period of 1983. Craigie. The United States repres
Stocks at the end of last month sentatives were Ambassador Robert' Bingham, Mr. Norman Davis, Rear were 2.2 per cent. higher and em- Admiral Leigh, and Mr. R. Ather-ployment was 8.1 per cent, greater than at the end of May, last year. A further meeting will be held.-British Wireless Service,
ton.
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL. (By_Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra- phie Mensagee Ordinance, 189, Re- but the date for the continuation of
the discussions was not fixed. ceived June 28, 9.81 am)
NO INFORMATION
Des Moines, To-day.
Professor R. G. Tugwell, Under- Mr. Stanley Baldwin, replying toj Secretary of the Department of the request in the Commons for a Agriculture, in opening a mission-statement on the general position, Jary campaign to re-sell the "New auld that he was not prepared to Deal", addressed the Iowa Bankers' give any information has to the which Association and described a future course of the discussions, in which industry, Government, and were confidential. agriculture will all be partners in He said that the Governments of also the same firm through social man-France, Japan and Italy had agement.-United Press, per 5. E. agreed to participate in the bilateral Levy and Company,
conversations, and added that na decision had yet been taken as to where the 1935 conference would be held.
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TREASURY SECRETARY'S VOCATION ON RANCH
A question was also asked whe- ther definite demanda for parity hed been put forward by the Japanese
SPECIAL TO CHINA-MAIL.. (By Telegraph Copyright, Telegra phic Messages Ordinance, 1814, Re-Government, and Mr. Baldwin re-
ceived June 28, 19.58 p.m.)
plied that no such demand had been Washington, Today. | received-British Wireless Service
The United States Treasury
| Secretary, Mr. Heary Morgenthau, accompanied by his wife and chil-
Upon the 1.8. Takada's arrival herei dren, are departing at the week-end yesterday, Pang Slu-fat, a passenger, for an undisclosed "dude" ranch in was admitted to the Kowloon Hospital, Montans, for a month's relaxation, suffering from severe head injuries, -United Press, per S. E. Lery and said to have been infileted by another passenger during the ship's ́ voyage] Company.
from Singapore to Hong Kong,
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Vatren, englisch Nix. 16
SLEEPERS EAST Prevention is better than cure!
.... with
Wynne Gibson
Preston Foster
Mona Barrie
Harvey Stephens
Directed by Kenneth MacKenna
From the novel by Fondurich Hobuć Strong play by:
Against Dysentery
and intestinal affections
"VATREN' 105
Beware of mitutions!
A CHALLENGE 10 VIRU MAN IN DOWNI
hatterton
EMALE
RICHARD
DIX
in his most power-
, ful role in
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THRILLING AS BEING WAKENED BY A KISSE Come when you're finding it hardest to be happy.Sic and letthis glorious romance ripple through your heart!
BAR
Stanwyck
EVER IN MY HEART
OTTO KRUGER RALPH BELI