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AjThrill Picture such as you get once in a Lifetime.
This picture gives a Bird's Eye view of Managua' and surrounding country which was destroyed by Earthquake last week.
COLUMBIA PICTURES presents The Supreme ALL-TALKING
DRAMA
OP THE
AIR
FLIGHT
moth
Thrills
JACK HOLT Romance
RALPH GRAVES
LILA LEP
PRANK &
GRA
Adventure
THE LOVE ROMANCE WILL REACH RIGHT INTO YOUR HEART
Romance, Adventure, Laughter, Tears, Suspense, and a Colourful Authentic Background.
Starting Sunday
A 1931 ParamountSuper-Production.
At last! The talking screen has found a second GRETA GAEBO in
MARLENE DIETRICH
The new German screen beauty who is the rage of
two continents in
WHICH Fate floga into her ertos a man who offers every thing woman.craves. But,
out of the Legion comes a lov
er who offer nothing but love. Which does she choose?
Wealth and prolection, or love that will make her an outcast amid the mad aplen dor of
WITH
Gary Cooper
Marlene Dietrich Adolphe Menjou
MOROCCO
A Paramount Picture
A thelilingly magnificent pics torel Bringing to the screen new personally that with dish
in fights acrom the nation, Hạn
fean Dietrich Revealing, the
amazing things a woman will
do for lavet
& Josur ven draconic Projection
Booking at Anderson's & The Theatre. '(Tel. 86720)
Primbed and Published for the Proprietorá by FRIDRATOK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 5. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1931.
THIS VOLUNTEER RACKET.
DECIDED VIEWS OF A CORRESPONDENT.
SUGGESTION MADE.
PRINCE BIBESCO PROGRESSES.
REACHES ROME ON FLIGHT TO SAIGON.
EUROPEAN PEACE.
with Institutions liko the Volunteer Corps, he will still have
course of to undergo training (qulie rightly) before of he in
in command Dut mon of his own. I maintain, therefore, that our Volunteer Leer Corpu, as it is constituted to-day.
Rome, Apr. 9. serves no useful purpose. We are told that in the event of a military
Prince George Bibesco, who left emergency, the training one has Earls at 0.25 this morning on a received here would be of invalu- night to Saigon, has arrived here. able to which I venture to re- He is accompanied on his flight| We have received the following ply
"Bosh!"
In five days, any by two Rumanian pilots and a letter on the usefulness or other normal sorgenut-major can knock British mechanic-Router. wine of the H. K. Volunteer as much into the average man's Defence Corps, from a correspon-head as the Volunteer Corps could dent:
in five years! The conclusion is Sir-The annual inspection of obvious, therefore, and it is that the Volunteers hus, I see, brought until the local Volunteers are or- forth the perennial grouse against ganised more as an Officers' Cadot the "alackers" of the Colony, Corps, rather than as a regimen.
FRIENDSHIP. although the G.0.C. struck a new tal unit, the Corps la not fulfilling
* line of thought when he indicated its real duty. To my way of think-
Tokyo, Apr. 10. which had recent- that the censu provide in-be able to get out in front and drill | onting, every man in the Corps should
Editorially welcoming the report formation making it possible to his own Company, and at least of the forthcoming visit of Herr arrive at the number of those who sixty per cent. of the Corps should Bruening and Herr Curtius are evading their obligations to be able to put the entire Corps London and the British naval visit the British Empire." Just what through battalion drill.
Every to Germany, the Asahi expressch the General is going to do about it man should be instructed in the delight at the increasing signs of when he gets this information, he rudiments of military history, and Anglo-German friendship, which it does not say, but it is a nice idea in the elements of tactics and strn-belleves will greatly assist the anyway.
tegy, with particular reference to cause of peace in Europe.----Reuter. Now, an one who has not yet the newer forms of warfare- graduated Into the Methuselah mechanical, aerial, bacteriological, class, but who has nevertheless no etc.
ly been
in
intention of, becoming a Volunteer Another thing puzzles me in this Colony. I would beg the theso "Volunteer" arguments, favour of your space to explain and It is that reference is always
rengous for roy attitude.
made to "military" emergencies.
my
JAPAN & ANGLO-GERMAN
WEATHER REPORT.
to
The Royal Observatory reports
I will preface my remarks by The life-blend of the Empire is its that the anticyclone is central be- stating that for Young
men in trade after all, but
what would tween 9. W. Japan and the Bonins. Monsoon over the their early twenties, I consider valunteering an excellent form of happen in the event of a "civil" Moderating
emergency similar to the military North China Sea. spurt, and with a crowd of decent fellows, really good fun. What ones always so much feared? Sup objest to, however, is the current posing an epidemic, by some strange undergo such instruction is infin- military point of view towards freak of nature, were to lay low
Volunteers non-Volunteers in volunteering, in its relation to the the majority of the business mowitely smaller than the percentage of of Hongkong; could the Army step this Colony, Likewise, they get citizens of this Colony,
of com-leave of absence from their normal The lafe lamented holocaust in and keep the wheels
for us? revolving
Good
duties for such courses, which is that swept over Europe brought to fellows though they
Bre I doubt
more than the unfortunate-or en- flight one very strong fact, and it. I would give much
thusiastic, as you will-Volunteer kets for his parades.
No.
merce
to
over n
Its that "cannon fodder" can beleutenant Dash dering just
manufactured at remarkably short Bill of Lading, or notice.
to
in the beribboned majors, and bright
this
Sir! When I see muchly- It may not be very good material. in the light of strict what magic was involved
young subalterns, pouring over efficiency, but it was willing, and entering and clearing of even the it was good enough for its sur-meanest tramp that sails the High their books on Commercial Arith-
Seas! Even more would I enjoy metic at Night Schools in роде This being so. I fall to seeing Colonel Pom-Pom struggling Colony, then I shall be prepared why presumably intelligent human with the intricacies of "double en to reconsider by views regarding helngs should spend years of tin try". At the moment, he probably Volunteering. Until then. how- life-and of their spare time--in
ever-Nothing Doing! learning to form fours, hit bull's-imagines it has something to yes, and so forth.
with this new contract bridge, and I am afraid that this is a lengthy The type of man we have in he sleeps none the worse of nights epistle, Mr. Editor, but I think it
for his belief!
blew up this someone is time the Volunteers--the type of man I am aware that a certain few bogey. Enclosing my card, who is expected to become £ Volunteer is just the man who officers spend part of their time at Yours, etc.
was told in the late war that it was his duty to take commissioned rank. He will be told the same thing in the next war, and in suite of any service he may have had
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places like the London School of Economies, where they are initiat-
AMDGEMENTS
QUEEN'S
Maro
"LAI TEE."
be
TALKING PLOTURE
P. S-May 1, in passing, ed Into the mysteries of interna- allowed to congratulate the Corps tional law, economic science, etc. on its really excellent show last But the percentage of officers who night?
HONCKONC'S FINEST CINEMA
The "Peach of a Pair!" in a perfect- play! Love, Laugha, Song hits.
FOLLOW THRU
The Sparkling show that made America
Conscious.
Golf-
CHARLES
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THE
She danced into the hearts of men, this passion flower of the. Bouth Seal
For her favours men risked their lives against monsters of the deep, and fought to the death against each other,
EA BAT
roith
Charles Blokford
Nis Asther Raquel Torren George F. Marion
A
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