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"WITH BYRD
AT THE
SOUTH POLE
a Paramount Picture The Amazing Foats of a Valiant Band of Men Led
by Admiral Byrd.
WITH THE ACTUAL FLIGHT OVER THE POLE VIVIDLY DESCRIBED BY FLOYD GIBBONS NEXT CHANGE
CHARLES BUDDY
ROGERS
Safety in Numbers
a Guramount Picture —
Booking at Anderson's 8′ The Theatre. Tel. 25720)
To-day to Thursday.
at 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20-
Booking at Moutrios and at Theatro.
He surpasses More dashing, more romantic than ever. even his brilliant portrayals in The. Shopworn Angel" and "The Virginian" Swag- gering in the kilts of the
Canadian Black watch"
Sir James
M. Barrios's
famous drams.
GARY COOPÉR
IN
"SEVEN DAYS'
LEAVE”
FIRST FLIGHT TO CANTON.
FLYING OFFICER HARVEY TAKES OFF ON TRIP.
AN HOUR'S JOURNEY.
SECOND ROUND OF F.A. CUP.
VITAL STATISTICS COMPARISON.
LAST BEFORE BIG CLUBS COME IN.
ENCOURAGING REPORT FROM| ENGLAND.
THE NORTH IN LUCK.
London, Dec. 1.
For the first time in the history of the Colony, an airman to-day set out on a flight to Canton from Hongkong. Flying Ocer A. V. Harvey, demonstration pilot to the Far East Aviation Company Limited, flying the Cam- Gainsborough T. pany's Avro-Avian V.R.-H.A.D., Brentford took off from Kal Tak shortly be Accrington Gillingham fore one o'clock to-day and expect. ed to land at Tai Shi Tao in less than an hour.
The draw for the Second Round (Competition Proper) of the F.A. Cup was made to-day and resulted and tests follows:
Fulham r
Wimbledon Nolson Tranmere or
Gateshend
Watford
Crewe Doncaster Scarborough Newark Town Bristol R Wahall
Although the trip was made for the purpose of taking the machine: to Canion for demonstration, the light is an incident which brings home the fact that aviation has be: come definitely established here and ane which serves to bring home the immense saving of time which air will enable lines of the future
The journey by people to make. air cuts off no less than three | Wellington or hours from the quickest route yet available to residents both of Hongkong and Canten wol the future gives promise of bringing to the Far East the benefits of aviation which have already been Amecien ast given to Europe. other parts of the world.
During he stay in Canlan, My
will 'demon+ − ing Officer Harvey strate the maschine to the Canton All Force, showing its capabili ties such as ordinary dying, vari-
Wombwell Carlisle Exeter
v. Southport, v. Norwich C. v. Torquay U v. Aldershot or
Peterboro Halifax or
Mannfield,
V.
v. York City,
v. Folkestone.
v. Luton Town or
Clapton 0.
v. Q. P. Rangera,
v. Notts County.
v. Lincoln City.
v. Crystal Pal.
v. Stockport C.
v. Dulwich Hamlet
or Newport.
v. Wrexham.
v. Tunbridge W. R. v. Coventry.
Matches are to be played on December 13-Reuter.
The winners of the seventeen matches enumerated above will go Into the hat with the forty-seven excused clubs, including the whole of the First and Second Divt dons and the Corinthians, for the Third Round of the Cap, when the real strangle really begins
The North appears to have bura in the Second Round draw. Only six matches are to be played in the South, and in four of these the position is als provided by ribs in the South.
extraordinarily lucky
outs manoeuvres, lifting capacity folding wings, short tako, slow landing speed, etc. It is expected that the return fight to Hongkong will be made on Thursday, when Mr. B. Lander Lewis, chairman of the Company, will be a passagem p
Torquay, Folkestone,
and Tunbridge The Canton Air Force ntreads Crystal Painer.
Wells Rangers fot the Kent have in use wooden Avians, power-
ngines,League) are required to make long Cirrus with
[1]
for train-Journeys, which
Notts County ant! Coventry, who ing
tasted are
bat V.R.-ILA.D. purposes.
Q.P.R..
ALARM IN FRANCE.
London, Dec. 1. More babies and fewer deaths, coupled with the lowest infantile mortality ever recorded, have been responsible for a large Increase in the population of England and Walch.
This is the featue of the Report of the Registrar-General for the three months ended September 30.
The donths were 349 lesa, and the live births 1,991 more than the same period last year, while the Infantile mortality rate at 45 per thousand was 14 per thousand below the average for ten years,
-Router..
Paris, Dec. 1.
"France threatened with death." This the hending given in one of the newspapers this morning to vital statistica for France show- ing that for the Arst time since 1911 the deaths exceeded the births, by 12,564.
A fall in the natural population 1s occurring la practically all Pro. vinces with the exception of Nor- many. Brittany, a few Northern Departments, and Alsace-Lorraine.
-Reuter.
CHARABANC BAN IN WEST END.
MINISTER SETS UP A COMMITTEE.
Motor coaches may be banned from the West End of London.
Mr. Herbert Morrison, Minister of Transport, has appointed a Committee of five, Including re- presentatives of Scotland Yard and the Home Office, to investigate the problem of motor-conches in
should that recommendations the London area, and has aaked
is the latest production of the obtained capital wins on foreign Avro works and is fitted with the soil on Saturday, are again drawn made before Dec. 81, if possible.
latest Cirrus
Hermes I engine.
The plans itself is of metal con- struction, a modern departure. from wood construction, which is! being increasingly used. and its superior speed and general per formance are impressive.
reven
n
HOWAY.
Correct Results of Saturday's Matches.
London, Dec. 1.
bo
The special task of the commit- tee will be to inquire into the use by motor-conches of roads within a mile and է half of Charing Cross
Saturday's First Roumi Cup tie and to consider if it would be in
matches resulted as follow:
Wellington Rochdale Halifax
Tranniere
Wrexham
Nelson Hartlepools. Accrington Scarborough .York
It is fitted with long distance tanks which enable it to By con- Linuously, without re-fuelling. for
and a half hours, at
It average spoed of 100 m.pch. bromes air borne after a run of unly 50 or 60 yards. This machine is easy to handle and gives a large margin of safety standard Avro fentures-but although superior to earlier models in every respect. the greatest impravenots are arabodied "in the engine which in Carliak...
ted with a new type of var-) burettor.. Top speed is 120 mph, which is per crecleure machine of this type.
Chesterfield Newark Gainsborough Crewe Lincein
0 Wombwell.
1 Doncaster
2 Mansfield
4 Gateshead
'Wigan
* Workington
2 Stockport
3 Gresley
1 Jarrow Barrow
£
3 Lancaster
6 Rhyl
I Notts County
2
Rotherham
1
1 Scunthorpe.
0
U
New Brighton
1
Southport Walsidi
1 Barlington
1 Bournemouth.
0
Altershot
4 Peterborough
Folkestone Norwich
5 Sittingbourne
14:27
Flying Officer Harvey teak with Walthanatow him a letter from H.E. Sir William Northfleet Peel to H.E. General Chan Ming-Dulwich shu, Civli Governor of Kwangtany, Crystal Palace
LADY ILLUSIONIST.
BRIGHT ENTERTAINMENT AT THE STAR,
numerous
Interspersed with musical and dancing numbers, the illusions of Madame Dauphin-Des- monde and her company, made an enjoyable and varied programme at
Tunbridge Wells Fulham
Iford Northampton GIRinghan Iiristul It Queen's Park Southend
* Swindon
Clapton Orient
1 Watford
Exeter
2 Newport
6 Taunton
3 Kingstonians
1 Wimbledon
1 Brentford
J Coventry
7 Guildford
4 Merthyr
& Thames ◊ Torquay
CHINA COAST GUILD PROTEST.
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the public interest, from the points
of view of travel convenience and the relief of street congestion, to prohibit the entry of auch vehicles into a defined area.
it fa understood that Scotland Yard and the Home Office are of action on strongly in favour these lines and that they have con- vinced the Minister of the need of drastle regulations.
In the talks that preceded the appointment of the Committee Mr, Morrison pointed out that in little more than a year the number of motor-coaches using road sites in London for embarking passengers had grown from 600 lo more than 1,500, and that about 5,000 motor- coaches were entering London daily.
AMATEUR DRAMATICS AT Y.M.C.A.
A THRILLER" BEING PRODUCED ON THURSDAY.
A most interesting "Ladies' Night" is promised for Thursday at --Renter- the European Y.M.C.A., Kowloon when the "Y's A.D.C. will make to bo their first offering. This is W. W. Jacob's "The Monkey's Paw" the only thriller written by this well-known author. The play is being produced by the players themselves, and a pleasant sur- prise
ls said to await the audience. The play will be preceded by a "The Government and the China concert to which Mrs. Womack, Mr.
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the Star Theatre last night. In the THE GOVERNMENT DECLINES usual way of magieluns, Madame Desmonde made fally grown people
vanish into thin air, escaped from
padlocked chains and
TO COMMENT.
rabbits from a hat. Her exhie Const. Omeers' Guild are discuss-Annlss, Mr. "Dick" Barty, and Mrs.
of clairvoyancy in naming articles ing the whole question," said the Baleau, Mrs. Arnhold and Mrs. Aus- which her assistant gathered from Colonial Secretary to a Telegraph tin will contribute.
the audience was most illuminat-representative this morning, when
ing.
The entertainment starts at 9 asked for an official view on the P. in the Lounge, and should Madame Desmonde was assisted protest lodred by the Guild yes prove to be one of the best offer
the new anti-ings of the season. fresh obligations on shipmastera. He would
no further than this,
by G. Nicholas and de Costa, who tordny regaon, which places!
also performed several sleight-of-piracy hand tricks themselves.
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CLEARER WEATHER.
·
The chorus of local girls gave indicating that the Government several dancing and vocal numbers intended to follow Its usual policy | The Royal Observatory reports and the Florodora Quartette play-of refrz from comment on a that the anticyclone, central to td popular jazz numbers,
MOTOR SPEEDSTER
FINED.
of
contravbject this the north' of the Lower Yangtaze nature:
Valley spreading, eastwarri Our representative sought to Strang monsoon long the S.E. ascertain the Government view on cast of China and over the North the points ralacd by Captain China Sen. The local forecast is: Laurenson in an interview with.E, winds, strong; overenst at
yesterday, especially the- SAMPAN PEOPLE'S NARROW been ignored, but the Colonini.
Secretary replied that the Govern
these Summoning a Chinese youth, ment desired to make no comment over by a new syndicate and re-
regarding Kwok Hai-man, for dangerous matter was being discussed by the motor driving on the main road at Government and the Guild, he Aberdeen, Acting Sub-Inspector said, and he had nothing to add to Cunningham told the Magistrate that.
them that the Guild had rst; improving Inter.
ESCAPE.
Lindsell) this morning that
he
was walking along when the
The Hotel Savoy has been taken
The
The aned the Hotel Cecil.
Managing Director is Mr. Lau Kit nin, manager of the Castle Penk Ceramic Co., whilst Mr. Chan Wal- chuch has been appointed man- ager of the hotel.
defendant daslied past at spood Mr. W. W. Hornell, C.I.E., will
an hour.
Amongst the passengers who ar- he estimated was about 35 miles lecture on "The Roots of Conven-rived by the Empress of Asin to
疆 He shouted
warnink
tion in Poetry in the Cathedral day word Mr. and Mrs. Bowes- and then blow his whistle, but the Hall today, at 5.30 pm. This Smith, Mr. C. B. Johnson, Mr. P. F. defendant did not stop. Thore lecture fa hold under the auspices Lefevre, Mr. M. M. Mass, Mr. and
Mire.
T. S. Morrison, Mr. M. J. were one or two sampan people of the Hongkong Branch of the crossing the road at the time to English Association. Printed book- Quist, Mr. K. M. Fetterley, Mr. got water, and there was danger lets of Inst year's lectures are now and Mrs. Farrell, Mr. and Mrs. V. to them.
ready and copies will be distributed. Lanning, and Mr. and Mrs. S. A.
Seth Defendant was fined $15. Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK FOT
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