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CONFLICT! woman of fire against a man of steel...sharing dan- ger and love with- out thought for the dawn they could not. postpone! Alexander Korda presents
Marlene DIETRICH GOBERT DONAT
in
knight without armor
From the novel by
* JAMES HILTON •
Auther of "Lost Horizan”.
TO-MORROW
United Artists
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Directed by
JACQUES FEYDER
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CHARLIE CHAN MEETS MATCH IN NEW THRILL HIT ! This wily Chinese sleuth faces the most dangerous opponent of his career when he meets. Boris Karloff.
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BORIS
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KARLOFF
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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 17, 1938.
OVER
HELL LET LOOSE OVER HUIHOW AND KIUNGCHOW: DRAMATIC BOMBING STORY
HOIHOW, JANUARY 12.
WHEN THE FOG LIFTED FROM THE STRAITS AT ABOUT 7.30 THIS MORNING, THE INHABITANTS OF HOIHOW WERE ALARMED TO FIND THAT TWO JAPANESE WARSHIPS HAD CREPT IN DURING THE NIGHT AND WERE ANCHORED JUST OUTSIDE OF THE HARBOUR LIMITS.
Anxious
the! watchers kept invaders under observation, but for well over an hour no unto- ward move could be discerned from the shore. Finally, at about 8.45, two large sea-planes left the vicinity of the vessels and circled over Hoihow, appar- ently conducting observations.
for 15 They then disappeared minutes and later returned followed after by three other machines, which hell was let loose over Hoi- how and the city of Kiungchow, which is in the near vicinity.
MATERNITY HOSPITAL
HIT
on
Two bombs scored direct hits o the Kiungchow City Maternity Hospital, which was mercifully al- most empty at the time and,
al-
CHINESE AMBASSADORS' CONFERENCE
Brussels, To-day.
The Chinese Ambassadors and Ministers who have been meet- ing in Amsterdam, where they had assembled to greet Mr. Son Fo, · on
special mission to Europe, left yesterday on their return to the capitals to which they are accredited.
Results of the Amsterdam deli- berations are still being kept a close secret. Reuter.
Gave £200 'Tips' To
though the buildings were razed to Dance Girls,
the ground, there were no casual- ties here.
Court
One bomb hit the High Prison, 4 prisoners being killed and
5 others wounded.
Waiters
Harold Russell Ryder, Wall- Two bombs landed in the crowd- street playboy, who a few years. ed slum area of the North Gate, ago was spending $200,000 a month, demolishing two houses, but the has died penniless in Sing Sing occupants had already taken cover jail.
begun a five-year sentence for fleecing investors with Nine bombs landed on-open fraudulent stocks. ground in the vicinity of the City:
in safer quarters and fortunately He had just nobody was killed.
SOCONY OFFICE ESCAPE
Ryder began as a runner for brokerage firm, entered big specu- lation just after the war, and by hhe time he was thirty was worth The Socony Office had an extreme- a million pounds. Eight months a bomb before the 1929 crash which ruined ly narrow escape, when landed directly on the building next him he had a bank balance of three door. This was blown to pieces millions.
dinner every
and one young man was killed and In those days his two children seriously injured, night cost him £200, he gave chorus
8 £200
notes because he liked while a maid-servant, who has been girls since missing, is believed to have the way they danced, gave a simi- lar tip to a head waiter because he been buried in the debris.
One bomb landed in a paddyfield, enjoyed his dinner, and showered where an old woman on her way to pearls on night club hostesses. work was literally blasted into shreds.
The raiders, in addition, ma- chine-gunned the streets and build- ings, but the inhabitants were all under cover, so that this last piece of pleasantness had little effect,
Finally, at 11.45, the 'planes re-
In seven months he spent near- ly £1,500,000. More than £200, 000 of it went on clothes.
"come Twice he attempted a back, but the law did not like his methods. His first effort in 1930 ended in a three-year sentence.
turned to the warships, which £62,567 LEFT BY LORD
at
weighed anchor and departed about 1.30 p.m. to the intense re- lief of all residents in this vicinity.
Reuter.
FILM AT UNIVERSITY
KYLSANT
Will Of 14 Lines
Lord Kylsant, former chairman of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., who died in June, left gross estate of £62,567 with net person- ality of £31,643.
The will
Dr. Heide, the well-known Ger- man professor who is head of the
By the terms of his will, of 14 Bacteriological and Hygienic De- lines only, he bequeathed the whole partment of the Military Medical of his estate to his wife absolutely.
been Academy in Canton, has
was made in 1994, two specially invited to show a unique
10 film he has made, at the Hong Kong years after his release from Worm-
wood Scrubbs, after serving University at 8 o'clock this evening. The film, which deals with micros- months of a sentence of 12 months, copic work, is the first film of its imposed on him at the Old Bailey on. A charge of publishing a kind made in China and the first to
prospectus with intent to deceive be shown in China.
shareholders.
--Lady Kylsant was the daughter The P and 0.8.8. "Carthage" and a heiress of the late Thomas left Singapore on the 15th instant Morris, of Coomb, Camarthenshire. and is due here on the 19th instant Lord Kylsant died without a son at about 4 p.m.
to inherit.