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HENRY ARMETTA GEORGE HOUSTON VIVIENNE OSKORRE
WEDNESDAY
HENRY, FONDA & PAT PATERSON
IN "SPEND THRIFT"
CAILT
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THE CHINA MAHL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1936
CHEUNG CHAU.
FIRE
Extensive Damage Done To Village
CONSIDERABLE REBUILDING WILL BE NECESSARY
Cheung Chau, To-day.
at
MOORISH REVOLT
· {Continued from Page 1)
An officer of General Franco's!
MARIA WENDT CASE
declared that the exriy re DR. STEY BELIEVED
hot:
POISONED
UNCONSCIOUS ON ROADSIDE
ports of the "complete destruction" jot Alcazar” by dynamite are believed by those who are acquaint- ed with the famous fortress, since the entire city would have to be
Shanghai, To-day. demolished to accomplish this end.
Dr. Albert Siey, the French- The officer expressed the convic The village has suffered one of tion that the officers will be able man wanted by the authorities in the worst aisasters in its history to repaise the attacks of the Reds connection with the sensation? Los Angeles cope case, in which by the fire which broke out at until the Nationalist troops
girl named Maria about midnight on Saturday in steadily advancing, come to their Eurasian
Wendt is being held by the Los!· the main street. Twenty-three rescue. houses were completely burnt out, WHOLESALE NAVAL DEFECTION Angeles police, died in hospital the fire raging through the street Reports that a part of the here 24 hours after he was found to the waterfront and on both sides Spanish Navy which until now has unconscious on
HOW
to
the roadside in of the cross-street leading to the fought on the side of the Govern-the French Consession. Eis death power station. The main thoroughment intends to join forces with is believed to have been due to an A Freach fare to the hill road was also the Nationalists, "gain credence in overdose of veronal. affected.
view of the latest statement from Passport and $10 were found in Some of the finest places on the Lisbon and Tetuan. It is confirm-jhis breast-pocket.
His death recalls a remark be island were fuel for the fire, in-led that the Cruiser Jaime I and
Malaga made to a friend before his dis cluding the three-storeyed business four other warships left club. The fire float from Hong and are now on their way to Oran appearance on September 9: "A
deman of my age does not gu Kong was some time in reaching in French Algiers. Before the scene owing to the telephone parting the crews frankly announc-¡Court."-Reuter-
to A message received on Satur- connection with Hong Kong be-led that they would proceed ing out of order since the typhoon. Oran in order to begin regotia-day last stated that the trial of The main street is quite imtions with the Nationalists with a Maria Wendt had been postponed, las she was suffering from in- passable and some walls are in view to joining their side.
The rules are The Nationalist broadcasting fluenza. Dr. Stey, who was suppos- | dangerous state still smouldering in some paces station in Tetuan announced the jed to have facilitated her escape. from the was dismissed from the director- It is not known how much of the receipt of a telegram loss is covered by insurance, but Jaime I which officially confirms ship of the Paulin Hospital in the destruction is considerable the news that the crew intend to Shanghai about 10 days ago, and large section of the village will surrender. The Nationalists as was being sought by the
en police on a warrant. have to be rebuilt. As far as cansert that the warships now
be ascertained there was no loss route for Oran comprise the en-
French
of life. None of those living on tire Government fleet in the Medi- ANTI-BOLSHEVIK
the hill knew anything about the terranean. fire till it was all over.
CONDITIONS IN MADRID Food supplies in Madrid are About 15 years ago there was another serious fire, when a large being rationed, trenches dug in
section of the village near the mar-the streets and houses turned into 2MORE TO-DAY • TO-MORROW⚫ket was burnt out, the fire being fortresses, according to reports
DAYS
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MAY ROBSON
JAMES STEWART
GEORGE BARBIER
HOBART CAVANAUGH
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JAMES DUNN
CLAIRE DODD in
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WARNER BROS. THRILLING DRAMA.
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Catholic Organisation In Czechoslovakia
"CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Prague, To-day.
The Anarchist observed by the Chief of Police from that city.
handed the Premier, from the Peak and help sent over. group has
Caballero, Largo Senor NEW MISSION CHURCH The work on the Peniel Mission ultimatum, demanding that the
A resolution passed by the Church goes steadily on, and it is Government be immediately trans Czechoslovakian Catholic Peo
3 "Committee hoped to hold the formal opening formed into
ple's Party announces the would formation
2 of "National and consecration of the building Public Leagues," which
All interested socialise all banks, confiscate all League Against Bolshevism.” on Monday next. friends of the Mission will be wel-private property and make mili-The resolution asks the Czecho- comed on that occasion. A service tary service compulsory for all slovakian people to join the new will be held in the Assembly Hall men between 17 and 75 years of League, and warns the Govern- ment to take steps to fight at 3 p.m., and it may be the last of age.
The foreign correspondent of Bolshevist agitation and to pre- the season.
Oeuvre states that the Spanish vent the conditions in which League delegate will make the Czechoslovakia may, with justi
that an international fication, be called a "Commun- proposal committee be placed on the Portulist casis" abroad. Above all — guese frontier, in order to pre-lso the resolution demands
A start has been made on a new residence near No. 2, where the Rev. Mr. Burnside has purchased a lot-Our Own Correspondeat.
U.S. ACTRESS TO vent the export of arms to Spain effective measures should be
LEAVE STAGE
Ethel Barrymore's Retirement
PREFERS COUNTRY HOME
TO THEATRE
New York.
Should this not be accepted, he taken to
prevent Bolshevist
will make a second proposal, to agitation in schools. Trans- the effect that the embargo on the Ocean Service. exportation of arms to Spain be
extended to Portugal
NEARING TOLEDO
Lisbon: The Nationalist troops
ACROSS U.S. BY
are now within 16 km. of Toledo, MOTOR-COACH
according to the special corres- pondent of the Seculo. It is rei ¡ported that Lt-Col Mella, coni-] manding the advance on Toledo, showed to press representatives Ethel Barrymore, who came of Soviet Russian money that had a family rich in the traditions of been found in the possession of the drama, but who attained fame dead or wounded Red Militiames. in her own right on the stage and
A group of Red Militiamen, so the screen, looked forward last month commander stated, was under the to a life of retirement in the coun-command of a Russian, and an- other group under the command
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New York-Long and short distance travel by motor-coach has increased remarkably in the United States this summer. I have made up my mind that of a Frenchman.
In spite of the efforts of the rail- I'm never going to appear in an- The Nationalist General Dellano other play again," she said during announced in the evening broadways to attract more passengers introducing faster trains, a radio broadcast,
cast from Seville yesterday that by
and luxuri- The ously furnished within, and The actress is a sister of John General further reported heavy the increasing use of planes, more and Lionel Barrymore of the street-fighting in Alicante and and more people who do not own movies. She has a home at subur Malaga, as well as mutinous dis-motor-cars seem to be yielding to order. When sailors refused to the call of the road-and of lower return to their warships, they and still lower bus fares.
The stir and bustle of coaching
"I live in the country and I an independent Republic had been streamlined without
never want to live anywhere else." announced
ban Mamoroneck,
To Retain Stage Link
in Santander.
ot
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MAE WEST in “KLONDIKE ANNIEZ"
with VICTOR McLAGLEN
A PARAMOUNT PICTURE.
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
GERTRUDE MICHAEL
Although she is. putting behind jointly with 500 discontented!
ated days is recalled at the coach" WOMAN TRAP" with GEORGE MURPHY.
her years of rich experience in act-Militiamen tried to occupy ing, which she once described as barracks.
stations in cities large and small.
"the most vital thing in the world The position in Bilbao, which At every hour of the day and next to my children," Miss Barry-is crowded by 37,000 fugitives night brightly painted vehicles of more will retain a connection with from San Sebastian, is practical- enormous size arrive and depart
Many of the coaches travel! the stage.
ly hopeless, in view of the short- It will be in the guise of adviser age of provisions and the panic great distances, and engineers to those seeking to climb the lad-caused by the daily bombard- have developed "sleepers." These der to fame in dramatics.
ment. The General concluded are so comfortable that it is pos-
"I hope," she said, that any that a Nationalist destroyer had sible to contemplate the trans and all people who want help or succeed in sining another Red continental journey of three days encouragement in the line of submarine Trans-Ocean Service. speech, dramatics, radio or public} presentation will call upor me, because I'll be so happy to help. them."
Famous Theatre Family
WEATHER REPORT
The anti-cyclone is situated in the Pacific to the north-east of
22 hours to Los Angeles without undue qualms. A year or two ago the journey took seven days. Coach A Minute Leaves New York, of course, is the Miss Barrymore is 2 daughter Hokkaido, and pressure is rela: rest eastern terminal for coach travel Coaches leave the city at of Maurice and Georgie Drew tively low in a trough extending the rate of nearly one a minute, Barrymore, a nice of John Drew, from Indo-China across the Philip and every 24 hours they carry and granddaughter of Mrs. John pines to the Carolines. A depressway 20,000 people on roads that Drew Sr., all famous names of the sion appears to be moving east-lead to every corner of North stage.
ward across Manchuria. The fore America. Her uncle, John Drew, obtained cast for to-day, as issued by the
Some typical "drives" that can for her her first Broadway part, Boyal Observatory this morning be undertaken in these coaches that of a 35-year-old woman in was; North-east winds, moderate; from New York 276: {"The Bauble Shop” when she was fine generally,
HONG KONG S DIRECTORY 15. It was after she met the
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