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CENTRAL
THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.
HEAR
A Thrill Picture such as you get once in a Lifetimė.
This picture gives a Bird's Eye view of Managua and surrounding country' which was destroyed ty Earthquake last week.
COLUMBIA PICTURES presents The Supreme ALL-TALKING
OF THE
DRAMA
AIR
FLIGHT
muth
Thrills
THE LOVE ROMANCE
JACK HOLT Romance
Adventure WILL REACH
RALPH GRAVES
sod LILA LEE
PRANK.CAPRA production
RIGHT INTO YOUR HEART
Romance, Adventure, Laughter, Tears, Suspense, and a Colourful Authentic Background..
COMING SOON
THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1931.
A 1931 ParamountSuper-Production.
At last! The talking screen has found a second GRETA GARBO in
MARLENE DIETRICH
The new German screen beauty who is the rage of
two continents in
GAMBLE ENDS IN FIGHT.
MAN STABBED WITH A- POCKET KNIFE.
KING GEORGE'S SICKNESS.
NO CAUSE FOR ALARM OR ANXIETY.
London. Apr. 7.
It was stated at Windsor Castle
ECHO OF 1925 STRIKE.
DESERTING CONSTABLE BROUGHT TO BOOK.
[to-day that His Majesty the King FINE OPTION GRANTED.
fs suffering from an attack of
le sub-acute bronchitis.
ix
Willinin Before Mr.
at the making slow but satisfactory pro-
this morn gress. The statement was in the Central Pollee Court form of a bulletin and bore noing, there was an echo of the 1925 constable strike, when a Chinese doctor's signature.
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CHEATING AT CARDS.
Following a quarrel during gambling game, two young Chinese engaged in a fight and both were subsequently removed to the Government Civil Hospital fur The King is not confined to bed, appeared before his Worship treatment of injuries. One of the but he remained to-day in histhe serious charge of desertion men struck the other cross the bedroom, where he transseted from the Hongkong Folles Force
official businesa,
after less than a year's service on hend with a clog while he himself
Sub-acute bronchitis in a mild five years contract. reveived a stab wound in his back. form of bronchitis and the term
Mr. L. H. V. Booth (Assistant The affair, which took place in might be applied to a cold on the Superintendent of Police) upeared Graham Street on March 31, and a chest. It gives no eanse for alarma for the prosecution.
The defendant pleaded guilty is sequel before Mr. Williams at the or anxiety.
[the charge. Central Police Court this morning Penn drove from London to see During the day. Lord Dawson of when charges of disorderly duct were brought against the twolls Majesty, and Sir Milsom tees, Booth said
laryngologist to the Roval House According to Detective Sergeantheid, also paid him a short visit.
-British Wireless, Naughton; the men had been play- ing cards and are accused the other of cheating. The second defen-
men.
con-
dant, who was the alleged defaulter, GREAT LOCKOUT IN
I tore up the cards which belonged to the Arst defendant. A fight ens11-
and The second defendant: Latruck The Girst across the head
with a choy, liti
return re-
·ceived a stab wound with a poe-' ket Buife from the first defendant,
NORWAY.
ALMOST EVERY INDUSTRY AFFECTED.
Oslo. Apr. 7. As the culmination of a long
Mr. In reply to his Worship.
who the defendant, joined the Police Force on August 13. 1024, deserted on July 3, 1925, that was at the beginning of the 1926 strike.
Ilia Worship:-Was he alone in deserting?
Mr. Bonth-I have not got the actual figures of those who desert- ed during the 1925 strike, but com- paratively few, I think 15 al- together, deserted. As a percen- tage there were very few deser tions.
Mr. Booth, in reply to another question, said he was asking for severe, sentence as a deterrent
His Worship remarked that the reond delendant was the aggres or but at the same time reprimand-drawn out whes dispute, a great to others. The defendant told the ed the first defendant for resort-ekout which has been threaten-polies that he had been in Hong- WoRing Norwegian industrial life for kong, since his desertion. for the 011 J rome tar past, apprars le past two years, carrying
1 business
Portland materialising
grocery
Yaunati. Street.
This Jusiness Work is in cense in the iron amat since gone bankrupt. The feel industry, the engineering)
im to such a dangerous na knife.
The Best defendant was fitted and the second $10, while both wer tound over to be of good behaviour for the perind of one year,
OIL PROSPECTORS HAMPERED.
BIG COMPANIES TO STOP
DEVELOPMENT.
New York. Apr. 7.
and mining industries, the textile Police had not been able in ascer tain how long he had been in the and building industries and everal other industries, includColony, but knew he had been her ng the plating departments of for at least a few months. ||rovincial newspapers from to-
His Worship imposed sentence of two months hard labour. morrow night,
The defendant applied for the The fockout will involve nt option of a fine and in granting least 41,000 workers immediately the request his Worship remarked While the employers have given that it was an extraordinary time notice of a lockout in certain when he had deserted and there nther industries as from April 15,
might have been some. influence affecting a further 25,000 men.brought to bear on him. I was Reuter.
also such a long time ago.
The option of a fine of $120 was allowed.
the
It is reported from Rogota, the [capital of Colombia, that
large American oil companies, the regulations. Texas Petroleum Company and The regulations impose, restric-|
The rainfall registered at the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Cor-tions which make it impossible for poration have announced their prospectors to continue and the Observatory for the 24 hours ended nt 10a.m. to-day was 1.42 Inches, inability to continue development geologists of these companies are. This makes
the year's total 5.77 work in the nilfields of Columbia it is stated, being withdrawn. inches, against an Average of 7.99 in the Face of the new Government | Reuter's American Service.
inches.
KINGS THEATRE
HONCKONC'S FINEST CINEMA
SHOWING · TO-DAY.
REX BEACH'S
WORLD-FAMOUS
AT THE
HE
QUEEN'S
Final Showings To-day At 2.30, 6.10, 7.15 & 9.20 BROADWAY RESOUNDS WITH THE SONG HITS JOLSON HAS CREATED
Prison Bars Cannot Restrain The Mag- netic Force · Of. Daddy's Love For His Wife And Child
WARNER BROS present
Al Jolson
IN
SAY IT WITH SONGS
WITH
Davey Lee
Marian Nixon Holmes Herbert Kenneth Thompson Fred Kohler
Directed
by LLOYD
BACON
TO-MORROW
OUTDOOR DRAMA
WHIGH? Fale flings into bez aries a 18an who offers every. thing a woesat reases. tut. ant of the Legion comes a love er was afters wothing lau Lave. Which dues site choose? Wealth and protection, or a love that wil make her an enters amid the mud Splen dor of
WITH
Gary Cooper Marlene Dietrich Adolphe Menjou
MOROCCO
A Garamount Picture
A thingly magnificent ples tare? Bringing to the screen a new personality that will fea
in lights across the nation, Alar
lene Dietrich Revealing the
amazing things a woman wiit
do for love!
A JOJE TON STEENBERG XMLODUCTION
Booking at Anderson's & The Theatre. (Tel. 25720)
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong.
REX BEACH'S
"The Spoilers"
with
GARY COOPER
Kay Johnson
Betty Compson.
Gold-Mad Men, Love-Mad
Women, in Lawleas Unciv-
ilized Alaska.
THE SPOILERS
PRICES
Loge Seats
Draus Circle Back Stalls Front Stails
$2.20
EDWIN CAREWE
PRODUCTION.
WITH
$1.70 Gary Cooper
Daily at 2.30,
5.10, 7.15
& 9.30 p.m.
$ 1.10 50
a Paramount Picture
Including Tax
Booking at the Theatre only..
Tel. 25313 & 25330,
TÄLKING
THE
She danced into the bearts of men,. this passion flower of the Bouth Bea!
For her favours Inen risked their lives against monsters of the deep, and fought to the death against sach other.
EA BAT
with Charlos Bickfo