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WARNER BROS. FIRST BIG MUSICAL ÎN A YEAR!
Hundreds of Girls
3 New Song Hint
SILEE
With
ALL THESE STARS
DICK POWELL-RUBY KEELER - JOAN BLONDELL JACK DAKIE-HUGH HERBERT-LOUISE FAZENDA
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"BOULDER DAM"
LAST
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A GRAND DOUBLE ATTRACTION !
VAK KORNET THEATREN
ON THE SCREEN
EDWARD ARNOLD
in
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
A COLUMBIA PICTURE
with Peter Lorre-Marian Marsh
ON THE STAGE
AT ALL PERFORMANCES Complete Change of Programme
“TOMMY'S
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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1936
BRITISH OFFICERS
DETAINED
ITALIANS HOLD PAPERS NOT IN ORDER
FRENCH JOURNAL SEES THREE ALTERNATIVES FOR POWERS
London, To-day.
BRITISH NAVAL
PROGRAMME
SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES
£10,300,000 ASKED FOR
London, To-day. In the debate on the supple- mentary estimate of £10,300,000 for the new
programme of naval construction in the House of Commons last evening Lord' Stanley, Parliamentary Secre
It is officially confirmed that two officers of tary to the Admiralty, said he the British Red Cross unit have been detained at shared the Opposition's regret at the necessity for this very They are considerable increase in naval Diredawa by the Italian authorities. not imprisoned but cannot leave the town owing expenditure and at the fact that to the alleged fact that their papers are not in the incessant efforts made by every British Government since order. Reuter's Bulletin Service.
the war to get an agreed limita-
-
armaments had not! London: Definite assurances that Italy has no aggressive tion of designs on British interests in the Near East or elsewhere are been more successful.
On the question of battleships understood to have been conveyed to Mr. Anthony Eden, For- eign Secretary, by Signor Grandi, Italian Ambassador in Lon-Lord Stanley said he could only were not don, at the Foreign Office. Signor Grandi also expressed the repeat that they
single strong desire of Italy for better relations with Britain, but it is building against any believed that he emphasised that if sanctions are continued Italy country, but it had been proved cannot take any political initiative with regard to a Mediterranean by the mere fact that Germany, agreement and will have urgently to consider the question of re- France and Italy were all build- jing battleships, that the day of maining in the League. Reuter.
Paris: An interview given battleships was not over, and it the was essential to start as early by Signor Mussolini to "Daily Telegraph" correspon- as possible in replacing the dent has aroused considerable rapidly ageing British battle attention here. In a leader, fleets. --- British Wireless Ser- "Le Temps" says that it is an vice open question whether Signor Mussolini's statements are cal- culated to clear up the atmos- phere. but they deserve in any case to be closely considered, since they reveal the main lines of the Italian policy as well as the wish to pacify British pub- lic opinion.
POLITICS IN SPAIN
FASCIST LEADER
SENTENCED
SPECTATORS DEMONSTRATE IN COURT
~CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Madrid. To-day.
The Spanish Fascist leader,
QUESTION OF NOTICE Manager's Claim Fails
Mr. Caesar Marchesi, restaur-]
In the opinion of the "Temps"
allows onlyant manager of Gloucester-rd.. Senor Primo de Rivera, son of the the present situation late dictator under the reign of three alternatives towards Italy-Regent's Park. 3.W, claimed £40
be in-jat Westminster County-court lastį King Alfonso XIII, was once again Either the sanctions can
inevitably month, a month's wages in lieu of jon trial yesterday charged with creased, which would
in illegal possession of bring war sooner or later; or the notice, fram Neliot Enterprises, being The State Prosecutor de-application of sanctions in the Ltd., Charing Cross-rd., W.C.
27715.
Mr. Marchesi said that on Feb. manded 13 months' imprisonment, present form can be maintained,
whereby the international tension 6 he was engaged as restaurant but the Court sentenced the ac
Swould be further increased; or,
manager and head waiter at a cused only to 'five months. Great excitement broke out among the lastly the situation can be accepted club in Charing Cross-rd., run by! spectators on hearing the verdict, as it is, since it cannot be altered the defendant company, of which | Victor, McLaglen-Freddie Bartholomew in -20th CENTURY the crowds protesting violently and the further application
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HE WAS SO YOUNG
A CLARENCE
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Youth in the wild) erness of first love and temptation. in the screen. drama that you'll cherish as a glow- ing memory!!
Th Wilderness!
EUGENE O'NEILL'S
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LIONEL
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ALINE
BARRYMORE MacMAHON szilitan
ERIC LINDEN
CECILIA PARKER SPRING BYINGTON
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SPERRY MASON New King of Crime Hunters -
"THE CASE OF THE.
CURIOUS BRIDE
WARREN WILLIAM
MARGARET LINDSAY - ALLEN JENKINS
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The police immediately arrested! everybody in court.
sanctions abandoned.
of
Then maybe an attempt could thus jbe made, on the new basis Food Supplies Affected The food supplies here are now created, to secure Italy's co-oper- tation in the organisation of peace, beginning to be seriously affect-without which there is no rescue! ed by the strike of the ice-factory for Europe. Trans-Ocean Service. workers, which has been going on for some days. About 125 tons of
fish in the Central Market Hall are now going bad in consequence of the lack of ice-Trans-Ocear Service.
MONTE CARLO CHANGES
Casino's £56,000 Loss
DIVIDEND PASSED AGAIN
WINDFALL FOR
TREASURY
Lord Lansdowne Leaves £1,400,000
Capt. the Hon. Arthur Eliot was manager, and his wife, the Hon Mrs. Arthur Lliot, one of the dir- ectors.
Capt. Eliot agree? to engage ¡him at £10 a week, subject to sat- isfactory references, and next day
wrote that the directors could not see their way to appoint him.
Post Given Up
In view of his agreement with Capt. Eliot to start work on Feb.) 10 he had given up a similar post| at the Cossack Restaurant at 7
a week and commission. He was five weeks unemployed.
Judge Dumas: Were you able The first large sum to be ob- tained by the Treasury from death to leave at a day's notice?-Yes, daties during the present financial waiters are engaged at a minute's year, which began on April 1, has notice.
Judge Dumas said the phrase recently been paid by the execu»! tors of the will of the Marquess"subject to references" was vague, and Capt. Eliot had the right to of Lansdowne, who
[refer to anyone. Capt. Eliot March 5.
could also rely on the fact that
died on
•
notice.
Monte Carlo-A loss of nearly He left £1,404,132, on which es M. Marchesi came from a job aa-tate duty of £581,667 has already that required only 2 minute's £56,000 for the year was
Lord Lansdowne's, nounced at the annual meeting of been paid. shareholders of the Monte Casino father, the fifth Marquess, who
"Clubs occasionally have trou- last month. No dividend was died in 1927, left £1,044,613.
ble and are momentarily closed! declared.
A few years after his father's
down; is it likely that, in such The death of King George and death Lord Lansdowne sold the circumstances, a club proprietor the strained: international situa-famous family residence, Lans would engage such a man on
stated month's tion was declared to be the cause downe House, at
of a heavy falling off in British then to be in the neighbourhood Dumas.
visitors.
of £750,000. The contents, valued hundred thousand several Commandant Delpierre was re-st elected president and managing pounds, had been a gift from his director for 3 further three father long before the latter's
of Prince death. election
years
The
Faucigny-Lucinge, M. de Castro Taking death duty on the fifth account, and M. Le Roux as directors was Marquess's estate into confirmed.
the value of the estate increased by almost the exact amount rea- At an extraordinary meeting lised by the sale of the house.
followed, which.
important changes in the Articles of Asso-
ciation proved.
Important Changes
were unanimously ap-
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CRIME
JOSEF
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VON STERNBERG "Columbia Pictière
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A GRIPPING DRAMA OF LOVE AND COURAGE IN THE DAYS OF THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES!
Margaret Sullavan
"SO RED THE ROSE" with WALTER CONNOLLY Randolph Scott
Elizabeth Potterson
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HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY,
Daily Press Bldg., Ice House Street
The action was dismissed with costs.
FATAL FALL FROM TAXI
Tragedy Follows Celebration
Easter
COAL MINES BILL
Re-Drafting Decided
By Government
London, To-day.
INDIA ACT IN COMMONS
DRAFT ORDERS IN
COUNCIL
London, To-day.
An announcement arising out; The newspapers, commenting on A tragic ending to an
of the decision of the Government the draft Orders-in-Council under Monday celebration was described last Monday week not to go to a the Government of India Act
o at an inquest at Camberwell last division on the second reading of issued Wednesday, express greater part of liner Queen Mary yesterday re-month on George Lancaster, aged de Coal Mines Bill, after opposi-satisfaction that it has been pos
35, a street trader, of Saltonn- road, Brixton, S.W.
The company will in future be relieved of the
MAIDEN TRIP FAVOURED BY
FINE WEATHER
the cost of public services which cord that the run of 326 miles
tion developed on both sides of sible to fix April 1, 1937, as the have recent involved an annual from Cherbourg was accomplished loss of about £134,000. In com-jat an average speed of 28.73 knots.
Mr. A. Douglas Cowburn, the the House of the amendments date for the setting up of the pensations the Government will The passengers are unanimous in
coroner, said that on Easter Mon-which the Government indicated system of provincial autonomy in receive an extra percentage of all declaring her a marvellously coday Lancaster won two first prizes it would introduce in the com-11 British Indian proieces, and receipts above a certain figure. fortable ship. They say there is with two animals at the Regent's mittee stage, was made by the for the separation of Burma. This almost complete absence of vibra-Park horse show. It the evening Prime Minister in the House of decision has been facilitated by the Government's adoption of the tion, and out of sight of the sea
wives Commons last evening. -
report of Sir Otto Niemeyer, on itself it is hard to believe that he, his brother and their
celebrated the successes.
Mr. Baldwin said that the Gov-the allocation of certain revenues jone is aboard a ship.
Thomas Lancaster, of Dalberg- School-children all over Great
the Bill, but had decided that it cial Governments. The draft or- (Continued from Page 1)
Britain will listen in this after road, Brixton, said that after the rament held by the principles of between the Central and Provin
celebration they hired a taxi London; later Beuter's corres-noon to a descriptive broadcast go home. On the way his brother must be postponed till the autumn, der's will be considered by Parlia pondent aboard the Queen Mary from the liner in mid-ocean, stood up as to direct the driver. as sufficient time was not avail- ment shortly after the Whitesun states that the liner is ploughing specially arranged for the schools. Suddenly the door flew open and able after the recess in the heavy tide recess-British Wireless Ser ahead with a marked increase in Sir Edgar Britten, the commander, he fell out. He declined medical Parliamentary time table.
Government would make use of - aid and walked home. speed. It is anticipated that to- and Mr. Llewellyn Roberts, Chief to the micro- day's average velocity will be sub-Engineer, will go
The next morning, he was ad- the interval to re-draft. the Bill Hong Kong rainfall for the 24 announced in the debate on the 0.07 inch. The total since January stantially higher. The weather is phone and themselves tell the chil-mitted to Dulwich Hospital, where which would include the changes hours.ending at 10 am, to-day was fair, with a moderate sea-en-dren something of their work and he died the same day from [ter.
responsibilities-British Wireless fractured skull. A verdict of c-second reading-British Wireless has been 18.79 inches, against an
Service.
average of 21:54 Inches, cidental death was returned. (Cont. at Foot of Next Col) Service
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