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CENTRAL
THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY
at 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.
THE GRAND ARMADA OF JOY STEAMS INTO PORT,
HEARCHE
REVELRY SWEEPS the SEVEN SEAS!
Gel happy
wice the gobe
In this joyous
festival
of son; and
konce
MUSICAL WONDER SHOW of the FLEET'
A tale of melangit inmeNE
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RADIO PICTURES persents Vincent Youmans'
tusical actions
HIT THE
DECK
JACK OAKIE POLLY WALKER
and a thamand other players, dances, singest and beautiful
girls
Electr! by LUTHER REED
Lent Sunet in
TUVINICOLOR
(Theatre
Imprint)
Music, Colour, Comedy.
ALSO
"Karnival Kid" a R.K.). Cartoon Comedy.
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EVELYN BRENT CLIVE BROOK
ง
Slightly Scarlet
A Paramount Picture
Booking at Anderson's & The Theatre.
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Paramount
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
TO-DAY to SATURDAY
The Hand that Rocks the
LITTLE ACCIDENT
Rocks the World withLaughter
Printed, and
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Proofletors
PREDELION PIROT 8. Wyndham Street, in the City of Viatoria
THE HONGKONG
to
THURSDAY, MARCH 12 1931
TELEGRAPH.
LIMERICK GAME ILLEGAL.
LEEDS UN. HOPES
DWINDLING.
CIGARETTES OFFERED AS PRIZES.
INTERESTING CASE.
the person
JUBILEE STREET
MURDER.
AGAIN DEFEATED ON THEIR MANY ALLEGED "REDS" NOW
OWN GROUND.
ARSENAL'S SUCCESS.
IN CUSTODY.
VICTIM'S CAREER, '
London, Mar. 11.
After two days' activities, the A form of, Limerick competition,
Leeds United, who were promot- Police have taken into custody a with prizes of cigarettes awarded
who successfullyed from the Second Division in large number of suspects in con- Aupplies the missing character In 1923-24, dropped back again, to be nexion with the murder of Yau a sentence, was held to come within promoted once more in 1927-28. Tok-yan, the Cantonese detective, the meaning of the definition of appear destined to spend another who was shot down in broad day- gambling when three men appeared sario in the Second Division. light on Tuesday by a gang of before Mr. Williams at the Central Their spectators were again dis- alleged Communists in Jubilee Police Court this morning, the appointed to-day when at Elland Street. first and second charged with keep Road, Leeds, they again suffered ing a common gaming house and Jefent, the third with gambling.
The police accepted the plea of the second defendant that he was merely an assistant, and he was dia- charged.
while
The investigations und arrests the Arsonal have been motivated by the belief the victim of Communists, who are strengthened their grip on the that the murdered man was championship.
known to have sworn a vendetta against Yau, whose special know- ledge of their organization and
has constituted personnel serious menace to them since be joined the Chinese Government 2 service.
the
Four frat-class soccer matches were played to-day, with following results:
McDonald Detective Sergeant bold his Worship that the police raited 148, Hollywood Roud last night and found the horse-racing Leeds Us. game of Escalado and the "missing word poem" game, which was the subject of the present charges, in Wolves progress.
Detective Inspector Shannon ex plained the principle of the gamo Hibernians to his Worship, producing a batch Kilmarnock
of papers on which were sentences!
First Division.
1 Arsenal
3
Second Division.
Port Vale
Brottish League.
7 Falkirk
Queen's Park
in
The leading position
X
6
1
A yeur-and-a-half ago, Yuu was welcomed into police circles at 0 Canton as very valuable acquiai- tlon in the work against the Com munists. He was then placed in 2 the special organization under the 1 noted Leung Tac-kwong, himnolf thea terror to the Reds, and it wns
step was demonstrated.
with one character missing. The English League. First Division not long before the value of this idea was to 11 in the missing follow:
32 21
3 103 46 RU character, the person successfully Arseno! .....
33 19
8.0 104 62 46 finding the correct character being Aston Vila
Wednesday 34 17
82 02 40 awarded a prize of cigarettes.
Derby County 1 16 78 62 37 The officer remarked that some
the In the Second Division, of the sentences
extracta
leaders are: in the from the classics, but
Everton were majority of cases they
the Tottenham composition of the keeper.
West Brom Im-Port Vale In many instances it was possible to win, ne
were
the solution Wolves
given by the keeper neither rhymed nor gave the sentence any meaning whatsoever.
His Worship fined the first de fendant $75 for keeping the gam- ing house and on a charge of re- ting cigarettes without a licens he itaposed a further fine of $15.
A large quantity of cigarettes and $39.72 in money, which were seized, were confiscated. The third defendant, charged with gambling, was fined $3.
BOMBAY MARKET NOT CLOSING.
WOMEN NOW PUT ON AS PICKETS.
Bombay, Mar 2
It is officially stated thu th Malijetha Market, the big foreign be "piece-gandu market, will mat
entirely closed for the nes! week! as first reporteil.
Only a few of the shops were [riosed yesterday, and the Market remains open with a view to dia- posing of the existing stock foreign cloth.
of
Lady Congress volunteers have replared all the male pleketers.— Reuter.
AMERICAN TOBACCO
EARNINGS.
REMARKABLE INCREASE IN 19830 REPORTED.
New York, Mar. 11.
The American Tobacco Company" has announced that its met eurn- ings for the 1930 financial year]
some
In the course of his compara- Lively short period of Govern- ment service, it is estimated that Yau Tak-ynn was responsible for she capture of nearly a hundred
ot whom Communists, 31 24 4 3 104 16 52 thirty were sentenced to death 31 18 3 10 72 40 39 and shot. 31 16 7 8 62 37 39
The Anti-Red squad under the 32 17 3 12 81 63 7 32 18 0 14 09 64 36 direction of Liang Tse-kwong, is the offletal medium of contact with the Hongkong Criminai Investiga tion Department, and Its members come into a considerable degree of co-operation with local officers in the work of keeping this Colony free of the Red cancus.
CANTON CENTRAL
BANK.
NANKING ORDERS THAT
BE RENAMED.
If
After several narrow escapes from death, walking into traps set for him by Canton Communists. Yau Tak-yan, whose position may free Nanking, Mar. 11.
be compared to that of Among other important Lusi-
dealt with by the Central lanes. found it convenient to cunie down to Hongkong. He took up Political Council this morning his quarters nt Yaumati, and Government decision that while on the trail of a noted Coin- the Central Bank at Canton should munist whom he personally knew, henceforth be named the Kwangmaintained unofficial contact with tung Provincial Bank.
the local Criminal Investigation
Hess
WAN B
to
Thie believed to have been or-¡Department. dered to prevent the Bank being it was while proceeding confused with the Central. Bank Police Headquarters on Tuesday
Shanghai, which is directly that he was shot down. under Nanking management.
GERMANY'S POCKET
BATTLESHIPS.
ANOTHER ONE TO BE COMMENCED.
Berlin, Mar. 11. The Budget Committee of the Reichstag to-day adopted the Naval Budget for 1931, which includes provision for the first instalment towards the construction of a new "pocket-battleship."
His nasailant is believed to bu a member of the Kwangtung
Party. Youth Communist organization more directly under the supervision of the. Third Intor-! nationale than any other "Red"" body in China:
WAITRESS BADLY INJURED.
RESULT OF SQUADBLE IN RESTAURANT.
An altercation in a restaurant jat No. 188, Queen's Road Central, The Minister of Defence said he last night resulted in two people was determined to carry out the being admitted to the Government naval construction programme.Civil Hospital. Chan Lau, aged 26, Reuter.
a waitress at the establishment, Is in a serlous condition, auffering from wounds in the head, alleged Leung to have been inflicted by Yao.
Leung was taken to the charge The Royal Observatory reports room, and was found to be suffering
WEATHER REPORT.
amount to over $48,250,000. that the depression has deepened from a bullet wound in the left
This is the largest skruing in and moved to the N.E.
of Japan. shoulder. He told the police that the history of the Company and re- A modernte anticyclone is central, he had been injured in November presents an increase of no less over the Yangtsze Valley, moderate last when robbere raided his village, than forty-three per cent. over monsoon along the S.E. coast of Since then he had lost the use of the nel caruing for 1920.--Reuter's China and over the North Chinn his left arm. The police are in- American Service.
Sea,
vestigating the report.
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Super specialist in the merry method of laugh production
WILL ROGERS
In
George M. Cohan's Internationalsuccess
written for Fox Movietone
by Owan Davis,
Sr.
He's aided and abetted ty
IRENE RICH FRANK ALBERTSON MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN LUMSDEN HARE BRAMWELL FLETCHER
SO THIS IS
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Directed by John Blystone
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JANET GAYNOR
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CHARLES FARRELL
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