THEATRE
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
Daily at 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20 p.m.
Come and see why
"LADIES LOVE BRUTES".
Ladies Thrill to his love making
GEORGE BANCROFT 'Ladies Love Brutes
L
MARY ASTON, FREDRIC MARCH
a Garmount reture
Two-Fisted
win betica women! Bancroft
hot
Paramount
Pictorial
into a woman's heart and break
again. You can't judge El man by the clothes he wears or aan's heart by his manners, See, why! And get a bigger thrill than you got in
**The Mighty."
Next Change
and "Pulling a
Boat" Comedy
The "IT" Girl's First Musical Romance
Stanley Smith
Skeets Gallagher
Stuart Erwin
THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1931.
CHIANG CALLS ON HU HAN-MIN.
ALSO VISITED BY MUKDEN LEADER.
Nanking. May 6. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek visited Mr. Hu Han-min yesterday and asked him to attend the National | Convention, which opened its Arst
session this morning.
General Chang Hauch-Bang and | Messrs. Tal Chi-two and Wu Tze- hui, members of the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee, also called on Mr. Ha Han-min yester- (day. Subsequently, the officials
stated that politics were not dix. feusand at the. Interview with the
ex-Chairman of the Legislative Counell.
The Minister of Communlea- tions, Mr. Wang Fah-chin, told Chinese newspaper correspondents in Shanghai that owing to ladis- position he was unable to attend The Convention, Rensho,
DUMPING PLACE FOR STOWAWAYS.
MAGISTRATE'S REMARK AT
KOWLOON.
Were
Six stowawave, who were found on board the sis. Tjikarany on her intul in Hongkong From Java
yesterday,
brought before Mr. Hamilton the Kowlo
al this Police fourt
Bucking #11141 feach sentenend to ix weeks ar41
Jaboner.
py 10 his Worship, offers of the ship sand it was in- pessible for a seared to be made prior te the ship's departure. | Stowaways usually secreted them- selves 4711 board immediately before the vessel sailed.
SMOKELESS FUEL RESEARCH,
PULVERISED COAL FOR MARINE PURPOSES;
OFFICIAL INTEREST. London, May 5.
YOUNG ANNAMITE
AT THE
SENTENCED.
QUITE RESIGNED TO THE GUILLOTINE.
Saigon. April 26. Sald to be the youngest member! of the Communist-Revolutionary | Party of Indo-China, the 19-year- old Annumatic who shot and killed Inspector Legrand during a demonstration in this city, has been sentenced to death by the Political Tribunal.
At the age of 17, he secretly left Saigon to attend a sceret Congress of all revolutionary parties in China which was the
In the House of Commons, in re- Mines ply to n question, the Secretary, Mr. Skinwell, said he had consulted with the Depart- Industrial ment of Scientific and Research on the best way in which the Government could assist in the development of low temperature carbonisation and other process.prelude to the short-lived, revolt es for the scientific treatineat of in February of last year, culminat- ing in the execution of the lenders toni.
at Yen Bay.
Substantial progress had been made in the last four years, and certain processes were being operat- ed on a commercial scale.
Effective help would be given by the Government, Srat in experi ments for the purpose of improv inst, by refining, the value of tar oll. a by-product of low tempera- lure carbonisation: areondly, by inducing wider use in the Govern ment service of smokeless fuel.
He was considering what could be done to increase the use of pul verised fuel, especially for mariae purposes. Important research ind been carried out at the Turd re search station and would continue
British Wireless,
SHIPPING PARLEY
IN INDIA.
HONGKONG DELEGATES LEAVE FOR CONFERENCE.
Asked by the President of the Court how he viewed being sent to the guillotine, the youthfull rebel declared he had expected that fate and was resigned to the inevitable.
TENSE FEELING IN CANTON.
AN AIR OF EXPECTANCY PREVAILING.
Canton, May 5. To-day being the National Peo- ple's Convention Day # holiday. and while everything is quiet and orderly in the city, there is a teel- is expecting ing that everybody ¦, something to happen.
Feverish activity is apparent in 21st about Government Depart- ments, while an amsund number of men of the Peare Maintenance Corps are in evidence averywhere, holding up motor-buses and search- Among the passengers Win' lofting passengers, meeting all trains for India 1) The B.I. Mtentmen Takada this morning were the on, Cominis, ti, P. Hole, B.S., the Harbour Master of Hongkong. and Mesara, W, O. Lambert and G. Swan, both at the Government Surveyor's Office,
His Worship remarked that everybody göemed to dump their stownways in Hongkong and asked what would be done to men foumi slawing away on British altis toing the delegation from Hongkon Java: would they be sent back to Hongkong?
The Beer replied that they would be handed over to the nuthorities at Java in the same
WAY.
The Hon. Comdr, Hole is brad.
and passenger beats arriving, and generally displaying alertness and active supervision of all public wer- vices.--Uur Owțe Correspondent,
REFEREES MEETING,
The monthly menting of the
Football to the Round-Table Suipping Con- Hongkong
Referees' ference to be held at Simla this Association will be held at 5,30 month. This Conference will be p.m. to-morrow in the UL.K.F.A. attended by delegations from all [ offices, Ice House Street. All re- important ports in the Near East | Terees and others interested are and Far East.
welcome.
Final Showings To-day`
QUEEN'S At 3.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.70
You've heard beautiful voices on the screen before
BUT
Wait till
Lawrence
directed by JACK CONWAY
Never two
such
marvelous voices in
one
picture!
TIBBETT
Grace
MOORE
sing "Lover Come Back to Me” lu' the Ro- mantic Drama from the
Broadway SmashTM Hit-
4 Metro-
KINCS THEATRE NEW MOON
HONCKONC'S FINEST CINEMA
SHOWING TO-DAY
at 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.
He's the Beau
Who rings the
Belles!
M
with
ADOLPHE”
Goldwyn
Mayer TALKING
MENJOU Roland Young PICTURE ADDED ATTRACTION STAN LAUREL and OLIVER HARDY"
in ANGORA LOVE” TO-MORROW
Muzi Green
as Clare's
sistor
You thrill when
yuu kan
CLARA
BOW
Love Among the Millionaires
a Paramount Picture
Coming Soon
Paramount's adventure film of wild animals “RANGO"
Taken in Sumatra by Ernest G. Schoedsack the maker of “CHANG "",
Booking at Anderson's and the Theatre, (Tel. 25720.)
· Printed and Published for-the Proprietora by Fammick Panor FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8. Wyndham Street. In the City of Victoria Hongkong.
MAURICE
CHEVALIER
IN
"Playboy of Paris"
A Paramount Picture
Booking at the Theatre.
Telephone 25313 ✯ 26330.
BACK OF THE HEADLINES !
--the true love story of an heiress and her chauffeur!
They defod Society to
marry, but then the bus- band falls under the spell of an exotle "passion Blower."
Kathleen Norris'
with
KAY FRANCIS' CITAS. BICKFORD
KAY JOHNSON LEWIS STONE
ZASU PITTS
A
Wullam fe Mille
Production
~ Metro- Goldwyn. Mayer
TALKING
FICTURE
PASSION FLOWER
1
2'