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AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 and 9.30 P.M.
THE MOST TERRIFYING SUSPENSE YOUR HEART EVER FELT!
MAN AFRAID &
CINEMASCOPE
GEORGE HADER PHYLLIS THAXTER - TIM HOVEY
HARDED I STONE EDUARD FRANE-RETA SAW A UNIVERSAL INTERNASIONAL PICTURE
★ GRAND OPENING TO-MORROW ★
a story of Love...for Loversi
JUNE ALLYSON ROSSANO BRAZZI
BOARD)
Interlude
CUREMASCOPE TEGENICOLOR
MARIANNE COOK- FRANCOISE ROSAY - METTH ANDES 2015 TIRANES MORGEN 16 LAME WIKI
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TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW -
At 12.30 p.m. STAR:
FOX TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS
METROPOLE: At 12.30 p.m. "LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME"
Starring: ORIS DAY
JAMES CAGNEY
An MGN. CinemaRrope Picture In Color
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METROPOLE
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS
SPECIAL MORNING SHOWS
Thursday, 26th Doc. At 12.30 p.m. 20th Century-Fox presents
In CinemaScope & Color
"THE LIEUTENANT WORE SKIRTS" Starring: Tom EWELL Shored NORTH
•
Friday, 27th Doc. At 12.30 p.m.
Stewart CRANGER in
Grace KELLY
•
"GREEN FIRE"
An M-GM Picture
Saturday, 28th Dec., At 12.30 p.m. 20th Century-Fox presents in CinemaScope "SEVEN CIties of GOLD" Starring: Richard EGAN • Anthony QUINN At Reduced Prices
A British Crossword Puzzle
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ACROSS
3 Spury on (4).
16
20
MAG 22
7 10-foot Europeans! (5).
8 Great desire (4),
# Approached senility (4).
10 Hades (7),
12 Miss Lanchester
(4).
29
15 Square, perhaps, in maths
(5).
18 Pop on a chessboard (4).
19 Netinue on raits (5).
21 Creature wbich has a good
time? (0).
22 "Hiawatha," for example
(4).
23 Frolicsomo fiers (5).
25 Defile (4).
29 Was most indignant (7).
30 Posibly fair reporter's work
(4).
51 It weakens one's spirits (4).
32 Some lions (5),
.38 Ladies in retirement (4).
DOWN
1 Be rude! (5).
2 Common soldier? Surely not!
(7).
4 American soldier
muttón (5).
5 Swagger team? (4).
# Performances (4).
got some
The bashful author (4).
il The "business" and of a spar.
'(5).
13 Groundsmen may use it (4).
14 She makes little money either
way (4).
18 Keep the fire going in Staffs
+5).
17 P..W's return in
(4).
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1957.
S'PORE'S 1ST MAYOR-ELECT RELEASED
BY POLICE
Singapore, Dec. 23.
Ong Eng-guan, a Chinese politician whose detention by police today nearly robbed him of his chance of becoming Singa- pore's first mayor, will be given another
chance for election tomorrow.
Mr Ong, 32, a member of the far-left Peoples Action Party, was arrested with four other City Councillors after students had demon- strated with fireworks in front of the City Hall.
When police tried to break up the demonstration in support of a "clean up the city council" campaign the
Mayor-dieet First German
shouted that he, as a Councillor, bad given permission for 11.
Scuffing started, and the Ave Councillors were detained with
14 students and taken to
the
Central Police Station,
One hour later, after other
Postwar Rocket
Bromon, Dec. 23:
Luxury's Lap JUNGLE REDS
Now York, Dec. 28. For the last-minute Christmas shopper who want to put bla love in the lap of luxury, a New York furniture store day offered Д
mink. upholstered chair-3098.
United Press.
BRITISH
to-
NUCLEAR
WARHEADS
tecting a nuclear
he
SURRENDER
IN MALAYA
Kuala Lumpur, Dec. 23. The Malayan Government today reported further successes against Com- munist terrorists and action takon against Chinese school students and teachers.
In a series of cominuniques, the Government said that a branch of the Malayon Com- munist Party in Johore Btate, Southern Johore, had surren- dered.
ARMS
n
The mesuge said that ter- rorists in the branch, lod by London, Dec, 23.
their commander, Goh Penri- British scientists arc per-
to a wothead for kong, had surrendered the American millies which police offfeer after negotiating A to be delivered next year, by letter for surrender.
Daliy Express reported today.
They brought with them carbine, a sub-machine gun and three rides.
'The to
statement government make Britain Independent of said: "These six surrenders will the Communist ter- American
government on disrupt
ergonisation in Labis- the matter of raisslie warheads, rorist
Congress refused to modify Bekok area.”
News of the surrender had the MacMahon Law, the paper been withheld since November
New nudear teals would be held at Christmas Island, prob-
in order ably in February,
the
sidid.
18 for security reasons.
Another message from the
The MacMahon Law forbids the
three Ualted Suites to share Government said that nuckar weapons ог Informa- more terrorists had surrenderoti tion with other countries. In Johore Sale,which borders on the British Crown Colony of Singapure-on December 11.
PAP Councillors had flocked to The first German postwar | France-Presse,
the station to protect, ull 19 detainees were released after their names and addresses had been taken.
Despite a hectle ruce back to the City Hall, the Councillors were too late for the format meeting that Was tu have Installed the Mayor.
rocket will be launched
next spring, it was closed hora today.
dia-
The rocket will be nunched as part of experiments during the International Geophysical Year.
The German rocket will have Oppositions Conservat lves, n single stage three metres long Liberals
had and aims at renching a height Socialists and
gone, and the meeting had been declared postponed for want
A quorum,
Upheld
of
Mr Ong shouted: "No power ob earth will stop this meeting from being held," but the post- posement
upheld by
the
Bible For
Governor
Another terrorist was killed und Д second wounded in Peruk State, Northern Malaya, by д patrol of the First Battalion, the Royal Lincoln. shire Regiment.
The action took place on the night of December 22.-Reuler,
His Excellency the Governo, THEY STAND BY
Sir Alexander Granthum, is to
of 60 kilometres to obtain in-be presented with a Bible by formation un the stratosphere the British and Foreign Bible Soclety. Hongkong Auxiliary, this afternoon.
Fronce-Presse.
A CHAT WITH ST. NICK
Hull, Dec. 23.
The speelully bound and Inscribed bilingual volume the New Testament will be presented by Leut-Col F. E. Jewkes, President of the Auxiliary. Col Jewkes will be accompanied to Government House by the Secretary, Mr 1. R, A MacCallum, and the Treasurer,, Mr G. Pudgett.
Minister for Local Government, Telephone subscribers here Inche Abdul Hamld Bin Haji can talk to Bents Claus by Jumat. Another meeting will diating Hull Central 211. be held tomorrow.
Engineers worked through the weekend setting up a 300- inc exchange
to handle the This noon Sir Alexantior will 30,000
expocted trom receive a farewell presentation children all over Erliain in the from the Cotton Spinners' next two days-United Press. Association,
The AF had * sweeping victory in the counell elections kst weekend.
A
government press state ment issued tonight said; "Immediately before the time of the inaugural meeting of the City Council this afternoon, a number of people were creating n disturbance by firing crackers on the city hall steps in full view of the police,
Ата
The polles intervened tried to stop the disturbance, as those firing erackers dkl not have the necessary permit.
Intervention
"After the police hod begun to record the names and ad- dresses of those fring the crackers, two City Councillors intervened. They claimed au- thority to grant permission for the firing of crackers, and force. fully demanded that the police should desiat from further action,
The behaviour of the council- lora obliged the police to inke the Councillors and those being questioned to a police station.
They left immediately after | names and addresses had been takon,"
"Those being questioned" in the police statement, included two Councillors, bringing the total to four.-Reuter.
exchange
;
18 Battle after Preston (4).
20 Make good (7).
2? A victim naturally (4).
24 Poplar tree (8).
•
25 Uses one's loaty (8).
27 Only the freased run it ¿®).
28 Count fort (*).
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عالمي
British Borneo, Dec, 23, British technicians employed by the Shell Oil Company in British Borneo have been alerted to go to Indenesla to replace Dutch Shell technicians should the need arise,
Thirty-five technicians in Borneo are believed to have been told to stand by-Reuter,
Ripe Old Age
Charleston, Virginia, Dec. 23. Mrs Sarah M. Paul has died here aged 110, leaving 09 direct descendants. Her husband died six years ago nged 105-China Mail Special.
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ASTOR THEATRE, Nathan Road, Kowloon,
Lee Astor
Tol. 7243
Tol. 67777
GRAND OPENING
TO-NIGHT AT 7.30 & 9,30 P.M.
5 SHOWS TO-MORROW AT 12.30, 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
THIS LITTLE
OLD
WORLD WOULDN'T
BE THE SAME WITHOUT
THE EXTRA SPECIAL
FUN
OF
The
Pajama Game
BROADWAY'S TERRIFIC
BOY-LOVES-PAJAHA-GIRL SENSATION II ON THE SCREEN!
WARNERCOLOR1200 WARNER BROS.
Doris Day
ma "Babe'» - and the wondanit cast of the Broadway play↑
John Raftt-Carol Haney-Eddie Foy,JEV
Gertie Heto Son - Barbera Nichols - Sccas Phy by CEORCE ABBOTT 268 MODURO PASSELL”
Producul and Directed by GEORGE ABBOTT 996 STANLEY DONEN -
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LEE: $1.20, $1.70, $2.00, $2.40, $3.50 ASTOR: $1.20, $1.70, $2.40, $9.00, $9.50 MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 11.00 AM, LEE: RKO-Disney's Tochnicolor Cartoona ASTOR: Technicolor Cartoons from Fox AT REDUCED PRICES!
LEVE Theatre
2 SHOWS TO-DAY ONLY
AT 2.30 & 5.80 P.M.
BRILLIANTLY FILMES in all its magnifieert spectacle and celeir
|| The Rask Organwadian prevents
A PAUL GEINKER-L K. MAXWELL PRODUCTION
THE
"Bolshoi
BALLET
MFS 44 BUST HAM COLONÉ
GALINA ULANOVA
RAISA STRUCKKÓVA NIKOLAI PADETICHEN.
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TU UNCHECÍA, De wink antaa orina dejsť cevajer sanda
· PAUL CİNERLE
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