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IMPROVED SITUATION
IN SPAIN
Ex-Premier Azana Tracked Down In Barcelona
(Special to "Hong Kong
Daily Press")
Eg Telegraph, Copyright, Tele graphic Hessages Ordinance. 1894. Received, October in, judu p.m.)
Madrid Oct. 10... The mystery surrounding the whereabouts of ex-Premier Azana who during the Catalan upris ing had been named President of the planned "Federated Republie of Spain"-has been repeatedly reported and denied. It is now an- nounced semi-officially that Aza- na, together with the Syndicalist leader; Angel Pestana, and the Catalan Army Captain, has been arrested in Barcelona and will be brought to Madridı
troops occupying Oviedo have been driven out by rebels. The national arms factory in Trubia is still in. † the hands of the insurgents. Fifty- two, soldiers proceeding to Trubla in lottles as reinforcements were blown into the air by a dynamite mine, A meeting of the Cortes
on Tuesday afternoon was held and lasted barely an hour but it developed into a great proclama- tich of confidence in Lerroux and his Cabinet. Lerroux replied that he
regarded it as his duty to repress the rebelllon with all means at his disposal.
The Cortes passed a motion un animously that the death sentence be re-introduced as a penalty for of the explosive law, violations armed attacks on buman lives and cases of robbery with violence. Parliament then adjourned "until the return of normal conditions in Spain."— in
The latest reports appear to in- dicate that the general situation has taken a decided turn for the better throughout the whole of Spain! Although armed strikers are still offering resistance many of the smaller towns, es- pecially in the North. Government forces are slowly but surely ex- tinguishing the last embers of the. revolt and the Lerroux Cabinet may now be the complete master of the situation.
Transocean Kuo Min.
GUERILLA WARFARE (Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright.}]
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Transocean. Ķuo Min,
LERROUX CHEERYD
Madrid. Oct. 9.
The Cortes opened this after- noon, surrounded by a cordon of troops and police. Monarchists thunderously cheered the Premier, Senor Lerroux.
No Left Wing Deputies were is understood that present. It they were excluded because the Government intends to outlaw the Madrid, Oct. S. Socialist Party. Although Premier Lerroux told i Senor Lerroux the Press on Tuesday that he had received reassuring reports from all parts of Spain except Bilbao, messages from independent sour- ces state that desperate guerilla warfare is still going on in the provinces while even Madrid itself is in a state of confusion. Since, then It has been ascertained that
dr his speech, emphasised his determination to maintain order and 'unity in the motherland. It is understood that a law will be passed to provide a death sentence for people illegal- ly carrying arms.
Spasmodic rioting continues the provinces. but it is officially announced that the general situa-
約
DEATH PENALTY
The Cortes passed a law prescrib- ing penal servitude or the death penalty for illegal
use
of arms.
the heavy firing heard on Monday tion throughout Spain has im- night, was directed at the palace | proved. where the cabinet was in session.. The Marine. Transport and Public Works Ministries have ilkewise been" attacked by the insurgents who were repulsed with heavy losses. The provisioning of the city is an acute The death penalty will be applied problem because the arrival of food in cases where the use of arms trains are rare while motor 'trans-is attended with fatal results. port is sabotaged by strikers, the
The Cortes also voted an increase
lorries being insufficiently protect of forty six million pesetas for ed, The Government has despat- | pólice services.
ched strong detachments of troops Left Wing Republicans and to Bilbao,
Socialists were voluntarily absent Asturias is from the meeting.- in causing grave anxiety because the Reuter.
The situation
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DEAN INGE'S FAREWELL
Orders Against Any Asquith offered him the deanery
Memoir
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, Sept. 22. "Retrospect for me is a com-
mesa.
of St. Paul's. He was then 50.
I had no thought of another uprooting, and looked forward to. the cloistered life of a scholar in congenial surroundings. It never entered my head that I was likely to be thought of for" promotion In the Church. It was therefore
2 staggering surprise when. in
pound of shame and thankful-1911, Mr. Asquith, who was then "I see too clearly now miser-Prime Minister, wrote to say that
he had nominated
to the ably unworthy I have been of
Crown for the Deanery of St. all the blessings which God has
Paul's. given me, and for this reason I have given strict orders that membir" of me shall he published after my death." Dr. W. R. Inge. the retiring
no
I was much disposed to decline. knowing that no power on earth could turn me into an ecclesiastic, and being rather afraid of what I had been told of the tone of the
Dean of St. Paul's, writes thus inChapter at that time.
a slim volume, "Vale," published
to-day (Longmans, 38 @d), He
Why He Resigned
few months,
never
adds that he wishes to be rememi- After the first hered outside his family circle "which were not made very plea- only by his books, "inte which I sant for me." the dean have put what I wanted to say to regretted his decision. He had one the public."
or two opportunities of returning Dr. Inge discloses that as alto academical work at Oxford-he man he suffered the was offered the Principalship of forment of deep-seated mental | Hertford College-but" he did not. depression. a contributory cause wish to move...
younger
of which was, he considers, over-. work at school and university,
"My miseries," he says, "began
when I was 7 years old
Of his decision to resign, the dcan says:
I did not think it fair that 1 should continue to hold the
but I could say with Tennyson, Deanery of St. Paul's to which I
'From the time of my marriage
The peace of God descended upon
had been appointed solely as a minor prophet, after, in my own
my life, and I have no doubt that judgment, I had given my mess- when a man suffers from these age, as well as I could, to my. troubles, and the "acedia" to generation.. which they lead,,, the blessed rea- !
..
When once I had made up my
lisation that he foves and is loved mind that this was the right thing
Is the best of all remedies."
The Dean returns to the subject
to do I was not troubled by doubts
or regreta. I loved my beautiful official residence, and I loved my.
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of his domestic happiness in his final paragraphs: "The blessings circle of friends, in whom I was which God has given me in my very fotunate. wife and children are in & The dean says that he has never different class from all other had a day's serious illness, in his sources of happiness and pleasure life, but he does not consider that that have come to medy old age is the best time of life: Dr. Inge had been for three "Still less can I agree with the years Lady Margaret Professor of Greek poets who prayed that they Divinity at Cambridge when I might die at 60,"
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1934.
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT
2.30.5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREY
They'll be harè eft.
soons, these two un- killable crockport
BERT clept
WHEELER
ROBT
WOOLSEY
With merrie moidens and wenches faire
to looks uponl
..RADIO
Egadi Egad! 'Tir o toyle
of olde tyme chivalrie that doth make the bellie shaket ..
COCKEYED CAVALIERS”
THE SCOTS LEGION
With
THELMA TODD DOROTHY LEE Directed by MARK SANDRICH." Pandro S. Berman, executive pro- "ducer Music and lyrics by Wil imon and Val Burton,
Sir Ian Hamilton's Suggestion
(Special Air Mail Services
Edinburgh, Sept. 22.
NEW DEAL IN AMERICA
Saved The Country From Revolution
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE
TL No. 2313 25332
COMING SOON
BACK ABAIN ON A NEW MAN HUNT I
CHARLIE CHANS COURAGE
A FOX Picture with
WARNER
OLAND
DRUE LEYTON
•
DONALD WOODS
AT THE KING'S
“Cockeyed Cavaliers”
Chicago, October 9. The claim that the New Deal had saved the United States from An advanced technique in the revolution was made to-day by production and direction of Dr. Donald R. Richberg, President musical motion picture and which Roosevelt's chief policy adviser, in has gained recognition from, the a speech delivered here.
Motion Picture, Academy of Arts He declared that had the and Sciences. is demonstrated in Government yielded to "destruc- }" Cockeyed Cavallers," Bert General Sir Ian Hamilton, pre-tive political clamours for im Wheeler and Robert Woolsey's sident of the British Legion formedlate balancing of the budget,' new starring comedy, showing to- Scotland, has been looking at the the country would have been day at the King's Theatre. position of ex-Service men in Scot-plunged into a national disaster. land, and Ands that it is not
The method Thanks
was devised the
by to
constructive Well,"
Mark Sandrich, who Won the measures which had helped to revive private businesses, Federal Academy award with his "So This reller this winter should be far Is Harris" In directing "Cockeyed less than last year, he said. Cavallers." Sandrich piloted the Reuter.
musical comedy according to his original screen standards. rather than stage dicta. He keeps the film continuity unir terrupted through his device of Incorpora- tloning the dances songs and vocalizations and
music accom- !paniment itself Rs part of the story. The lyrics are of integral importance to the flm story. although they could be sung in- dependently.
He spoke of it when he opened new headquarters at Hamilton, on Saturday.
"Still they sit there looking on in hundreds of thousands, watch- ing our comparatively tiny body of Legionaries sweating thetr guts out for them, and for the widows and orphans of their dead com- rades," he said.
"If anyone has to go and wran- gle with departments of Gavern- ment for their wound pensions. allowances, and all rest of it, we have to go.
No Organisation "If a bad Government came in and swept away all the pledges. ex-Service men of Scotland
the
would be utterly helpless. They have no organisation. They could only sit down and pray.
"All this will be recognised 50 years hence, when our movements get their proper historial settings. But that is chilly comfort.
"I got an idea during an attack
should Scottish Legionaries not be of 'nu I enjoyed two days ago. Why
allowed to anticipate the honour History will. I am sure, be inclin. ed to give them?
"Why should not our National Executive Council in Edinburg aut- horise the relatives of any man who, during the last three years
SHOWING
fi
TO-DAY
of his life, has been a member of the British Legion (and paid his subscription) to have carved on the top of his tombstone a small thistle?
His Scottish Birth
calls are belended into the film in novel fashion.
"In the course of the centuries it would then surely come to pass that the descendants of a soldier who had fought, not only in the
Sandrich strikes 254 original war, but afterwards, for the
note in musical move production widows and orphans of his com-
by synchronizing ̋ all ́ ́ Incidental rades, would have the right to think themselves better bred than sounds with the action. Swishing horse tails, grunting animals the descendants even of a V.C. creaking coach wheels, postillons who, after gaining his decoration.cries, clanging bells and hunters' had thought only of himself for the remaining days of his life."
Sir Ian said that his birth had. been extremely Scottish, and there was accordingly no question of his eligibility to act as president of the Scottish Section of the Legion. It had perhaps not taken place on Scottish sol, but it had taken place at Corfu, when the Gordon Highlanders were stationed. there, and he had been told that the regiment had received an extra large drink that day. (Laughter.)
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
KING'S:—
HONG KONG
***Cockeyed Cavaliers”
QUEEN'S:-
"Viva Villa”
ORIENTAL:-
"Footlight Parade" ``
KOWLOON
ALHAMBRA:-
"Tenderfoot"
MAJESTIC:-
"The Invisible Man"
KING'S
Coming
"Jungle Trop" "Thirty-Day Princess"
Father When a Boy
Willie was doing penance in the corner. Presently. he aloud pensively.
thought
"I can't help it if I'm not pers fect," he sighed. "I never heard of but one perfect boy, anyway."
"Who was that?"* asked bia mother, thinking to point a moral. "Papa" came the silencing re- ply, when he was little."
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FOOTLIGHT PARADE
MANDALAY
Opening On Saturday
"Mandalay," the First National picture which will open at the Al- hambra Theatre on Saturday, is. enacted by an unusually large and talented cast with four players in the stellar roles
او
Perfect Job
He had managed to get a job as a collector for a gas company,
"Take this master key and go round and empty; all the meters," said the manager.
He was gone for three weeks. Then he walked into the office.
The ultra-modern technique.
comedy, convulsing
eye-filling
Cau I have another key?" he asked. "I've lost the other one.". pulchritude and four new tuneful melodies are set against a story
"Certainly," said the manager, Kay Francis, recently seen in whose setting Is 2 random The House on 58th Street." "I "but where have you been all this European locale during the Mid-Loved
time 1 "Mary a Woman" and
The cashier has stopped die Ages Wheeler, and Woolsey Stevens, M.D." heads the featured late every Friday night, expecting play the title roles in "Cockeyed players while Lyle Talbot plays you to come in for your wages.” Cavallers" sa vagabond knights opposite Miss Francis as the man "What "exclaimed the startled around whose adventures the in whom she finally finds romance. collector. "Do I get film's hilarity is built,
QUEEN'S
Magnificent warrior . . . Advcatkre „eeding, roogbahod ... Ruthless u want. Vol
Villa, the magnificent,
canic in 100
recaptures the world's in ⚫ganan in the greate
epic of úctional adventure
since. "The Big Parade"!,,
Picture
AT 2.30, 5.10
7.20 ̈& 9.30
WALLACE
BEERY
(the outstanding role of his cars
He will be remembered for such well," pictures as "College Coach,” and "Havana. Widows," na well as hav- ing played with Miss Francis · in "Mary Stevens, M.D."
Ricardo Cortez and Warner Oland are the two other principals both in the roles of villains. Cortez
as well as Talbot has appeared with Mias Francis before, having had the villan role in "The House on 56th Street." He also appeared recently in "The Big 'Shakedown," | "Big_Executive," and "The Torch,
Singer.*
Warner Oland's most recent ple- tures include "As Husbands Go,” "The Death Watch" and "Charlie | Chan's Greatest Case.” In the supporting cast will be found Buch talented' players as Ruth Donnell, Reginald Owen," "Hobart Cavanaugh, David Torrence, Rafaela Ottiano, Halliwell Hebbes. Etienne Girardot, Lucien Littlefield, ·· Bodil Rosing, Herman Bing and Harry G. Brad-
The picture is a tale of romance. and thrilling adventure set in the colourful background of · Burma, and concerns a beautiful Russiar exile who is sold Into virtual · alo- very to a night club, resort keeper by the man she lovea. Her flight and pursuit forins an exciting, por Hon of the drama that is filled with thrills.
Michael Curtiz directed the pic ture from the screen play by Aus- tir Parker and Charles Kenyon. bised on the story by Paul Hervey
wages
ALHAMBRA
THENTRE-
TO-DAY & TO MORHOW First National's Comedy Cyclone
JOE E.
BROWN
"The"
TENDERFOOT
GINGER ROGERS
HEL LEW CODES
MICKEY MOUSE CARTOON
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