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"MYSTERY FROM THE PEN OF RUFUS KING LETTERS CLUTCHED from a GHOSTLY WORLD !
SATURDAY
A Paramount
Picture
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Frank Lloyd's Latest Screen Achievement.
"MAID OF SALEM”
with Claudette Colbert. Fred MacMurray.
STARE
TO-DAY, ONE DAY ONLY!
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BENNY
BURNS
ALLEN
BURNS
MARIKA
RAYE
SHIRLEY FOSS
BAY VILLAND
TRANA FOREST
BENNY
and his
Orchestra
THE BIG
BROADCAST GOODMAN
OF 1937′′
· Paramount Picture directed by. Mitchell
Plus sprocities
BINKY
FIELDS
LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI
Symphory
by many
TO-MORROW AND SATURDAY
· LAWRENCE TIBBETT in "UNDER YOUR SPELL”
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GOOD THING PASS YOU BY ?
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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 22, 1937.
Princess Elizabeth's Birthday
London, To-day. --
Princess Elizabeth celebrated her eleventh birthday yesterday with her parents, the King and Queen, her sister and members of the Royal Family.
Among the numerous presents she received, was one from the Duke of Windsor, in Austria.- Trans-Ocean.:
The King and Queen gave her a snow-white pony and saddle and bridle with her initials an birthday present. British Wireless.
GRESFORD DISASTER PROSECUTION
London, To-day.
The summons against the owners
Quota Hitch At Sugar Conference
London, To-day.
The negotiating committee of the International Sugar Conference saw a number of delegations yesterday and is seeing more to-day.'"
It is understood that all but four countries have accepted the alloca- four tions in principle, but these are demanding quotas which will bring the total to nearly ten per cent. above the estimated require- ments of a free market.
Their demands have been reduced five per cent. on those made earlier in the week.
The committee encountered con- siderable difficulty in obtaining this reduction and it is uncertain whe- claims ther they will modify the further or whether the others will yield part of their quotas.
Hence particular interest is attach-
and officials of the Gresford Colliery, ed to to-day's meeting-Reuter. where 265 miners were killed in the
1935 disaster, continued to be heard BRITISH CABINET
yesterday.
The Solicitor-General, Sir Donald Somervell, stated that at the time of the disaster conditions in the colliery were appallingly bad, while ventilation at the pit-heads was so faulty that safety lamps were not used:
Sir Donald added that he Was bringing evidence to show
MEETING Demarche On Belgian Neutrality
London, To-day.
The draft of the joint Franco- that British demarche on the question of there was much short-firing in the Belgian neutrality, which has been mine the day before the disaster prepared by experts in the British occurred.-Reuter.
DIVINE WIND'S
PILOTS
Honoured By French
Aero Club
Paris, To-day.
and French Foreign Offices, was discussed at yesterday's meeting of the Cabinet, kéts
The meeting also considered the situation on the Basque coast, as it presents itself in the light of latest messages from Spain-Trans- Ocean.
COMMONS QUESTION
The Foreign Secretary told the Commons that he hoped to make a A large reception was held ves-statement at a very early date on terday evening at the Aero Club the position of Belgium in relation de France in honour of the Japanese to her provisional Locarno obliga- airmen who set up a record by their tions of March 19, 1936. The ques fine flight from Paris to Tokyo in tion was still under discussion with the Belgian Government.-British the Divine Wind.
Wireless.
The club was decorated in the Japanese and French colours, while the President presented the fliers with the club's silver medal in re- cognition of their magnificent achievement.
The Japanese charge d'affaires expressed a wish that co-operation between France and Japan might become closer.-Trans-Ocean.
VIENNA NAZIS WARNED Sequel To Birthday Demonstrations
Vienna, To-day.
What appears to be a hint of
trouble ahead for the Austrian
Nazis was given yesterday by the Mayor of Vienna.
SPANISH STEAMER
ASHORE
Beached Escaping From
Rebel Cruiser --
Paris, To-day.
steamer.
"Mar
The Spanish Caribe," which ran aground off the Algerian coast recently while run- ning from an insurgent cruiser, is still fast on the rocks.
un-
Efforts to refloat the steamer hay- ing failed, she is now being loaded, and will probably be towed off after removal of the cargo has lightened the ship.--Trans-Ocean.
Goering Visiting
On Sunday
Berlin, To-day.
Referring to the minor disorders It has now been definitely learn-
which occurred in the capital oned that General Goering will confer
the occasion of Herr Hitler's birth-with Signor Mussolini in Rome on day, he charged the Nazis with the April 25...
intention of stirring up disorder, The Prussian Premier, together
although doing lip
Government.
The Mayor who
the with his wife, left Berlin by special
plane yesterday for Naples, where
י
of the Frau Goering will spend several the Nazi weeks to recuperate after her recent Party în Austria, declared that they illness.
bitterest opponents of
"will now not be left in peace but General Goering will interrupt will be given an unpleasant time." his return journey at Rome to visit
the Duce-Trans-Ocean. Frans-Ocean.