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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 30, 1938:
ILORD RUNCIMAN AIR DANGER
7.15 & 9.30 PM. LEAVING FOR LEAVING FOR PRAGUE SOON
"WE'LL TRAP YOU THROUGH THE WOMAN YOU LOVE ! The call of danger lures back the most daring adventurer that ever lived !
·LONDON FILMS brèsènt
AS ALEXANDER KORDA
PRODUCTION
BARRY K. BARNES
The RETURN of the SCARLET PIMPERNEL
SOPHIE STEWART
MARGARETTA SCOTT
JAMES MASON -*
From the Stare By BARONESS ORCZY
Prind de ALEXANDER KORDA sad ARNOLD PRESSBURGER
Directed by ANS LCHWARTZ
ALSO LATEST WALT DISNEY'S CARTOON IN TECHNICOLOUR
MOOSE HUNTERS
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SCREEN'S MOST EXCITING SWEETHEARTS REUNITED !
TYRONE POWER and LORETTA YOUNG Their love is news again?
Second Honeymoon
STUART ERWIN
CLAIRE TREVOR
MARJORIE WEAVER
LYLE TALBOT
J. Edward BROMBERG
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TO-MORROW, MONDAY, TUESDAY CONSTANCE BENNETT in "MERRILY WE LIVE
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GOOD EVENING. HOLLYWOOD BOILE! MEANS A GOOD EVENING FOR YOU!
HOLLYWOOD HOTEL
DICK POWELL ROSEMARY LANE HUGH HERBERT
LOUELLA PARSONS OUTAM
AND HIS SWING-BAND
London, To-day.
TO CHARTRES CATHEDRAL
Paris, To-day.
Lord Runciman goes to Prague The text of a national patition on August 2, accompanied by his to the French Government to re-‚ -- wife and the former Member of move to another site the military“ the House of Commons, Mr. aerodrome at Chartres, southwest of. Geoffrey Peto.
Paris, is published by “Epoque.”.
The party will be preceded by The request is prompted by the Lord Runciman's private secre- fact that the aerodrome is only 600 tary, Mr. R. J. Stopford, Mr. F. metres from Chartres Cathredal T. G. Ashton and Mr. G. Watkin. and it is pointed out that in
the event of war, this magnificent build- ing would almost certainly be de molished as a result of the bomb- ing of this improtant base.
The later has been seconded from the Foreign Office at Lord Runci- man's request for the duration of the mission, but will have no com- munications with the Foreign Office Considering that the costs of re- moval, would be very high they during Lord Runciman's mission.
would bear no comparison to Mr. Stopford was private secrethe value of the Cathedral steeples tary to Sir John Simon when the that are a menace to planes land- latter was Chairman of the Indian ing. It is requested that the Goy- Statutory Committee.Reuter.
ernment take necessary as soon as possible. Trans-Ocean.
NEW GOVERNOR OF MALTA
London, To-day..
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measures
"MIRACLE BOX"
It Cost Him £30,000
London,. (By Air Mail). - Babbling excitedly in broken
Mr. John Adams Hunter of the Colonial Administrative Service in Malaya has been appointed Lieu- English, a millionaire Frenchman tenant-Governor of Malta in succes- sion to Sir Harry Charles C.M.G.-Reuter.
£800 JEWEL CARRIED AS "RUBBISH"
burst
into Bow Street Police Luke, Station exclaiming: "Diable, I
have been robber of £30,000.”
What Down-And-Out Found
With the aid of an interpreter,” the Police Officer got the man's story The Parisian had been la victim of the “Miracle
the oldest "con, trick” world.'
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the
In Paris he had struck up an acquaintance with smooth- tongued Brazilian.· They be- came friendly, and the South American promised to let him- in" on an invention that would make millions.
From his wallet he took an English Treasury note.
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Never Came Back
London (By Air Mail) For two days an elderly “down- and-out," who earns a few cop- pers by helping a news-vendor in Covent Garden and by calling taxi-cabs for Opera-goers, carried in his pocket an emerald and dia- With wide eyes the Frenchman mond pendant worth £800. saw his new-found friend place One night, after the perfor- the note in the slot of a small box mance of "The Meistersingers" and turn a handle. Out came.
two English-Treasury notes. at the Opera House, he saw something glittering among rub- Inside the box, he was told, bish in the gutter near the door the note was first soaked in a lath- of the entrance hall.
ery soap, which had the effect of In this He picked it up, put it in his thickening the paper. pocket and carried on trying to condition it was easily split in earn enough to get him a bed. two by a razor-edged blade. in.
He did not know it, but he had the machine. found a masive, square-cut em-
erald, surrounded by diamonds,
The couple came to London,
which belonged to the Countess where the Frenchman withdrew of Munster. To him it was just £30,000 in English notes from his
bank. "rubbish."
It Lay Forgotten
At their hotel they got every- thing ready to make the £30,000 into £60,000. "It will take us twelve hours to get this big job done," the Brazilian explained.
During the meal the South American was called to the telep- thorough search of the Opera hone, He never came back, House was--being made.
He went to the lodging- and the pendant lay forgotte his pocket.
Meanwhile
frantic
Becoming suspicious⠀ the
Two days later the finder, who Frenchman ran up to his room to is nearing his 70th birthday, and that his £30,000 had gone showed it to the news-vendor with the Brazilian:
who employed him during the
day.
It was not until a notice ap- peared in the newspapers that
realised its value. The finder then at once
During the week ending at 8 am. on Saturday last there were alto- took gether 77 traffic accidents in the Co- police lony as the result of which one per Con was killed and 24 persons were