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THEATRE HEAR
SEE
SHOWING TO-DAY
at 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1931.
A Brand New Paramount Outdoor Picture of the "COVERED WAGON" Type
Gary Cooper
Lily Demits. Exest Torrence
Fred Koblet. Tully Marshall
Zane Grey's
Mike room in your heart for the greatest Euimau event screedorn how ever recorded
Fighting Catrans," the history-making clame of the pioneer Weal
Here drama, comedy, pathies, thrill after thrill. Bringing tenz and cheers!
a Giramoun! Gieture
FIGHTING CARAVANS
ES
COMING ATTRACTIONS
TABU"
A rare production about the Loveliest Daughter of the South Seas.
LITY:
COMMUNISTS SACK
SHAOWU.
SEVEN HUNDRED PEOPLE
CARRIED OFF.
HOUSES BURNED.
(Our Own Correspondent.)
Foochow, June 16.
POSEIDON RELIEF | WAR ON CANTON
FUND.
EXPECTED.
TOTAL 'NOW EXCEEDS
•
MARSHAL CHIANG LEAVES FOR FRONT.
$33,000.
AT THE
THE LATEST LİST.
NORTHERN TENSION.
Shanghai, June 21.
Since 110011 on Saturday, 1 Reliable sources believe that a further sum of $683 has been declaration of war by Nanking A telegram from the magistrate received on behalf of the Navy against the Canton Government is Inevitable consequent, on the de- of Kienyang informs the Provin-League Poseidon Disaster Fun parture of Marshal Chiang cial Government that the Combringing the total to $33,028.34.shak for the Klangs front. The
who entered
the hit the absence of The details are as follows:
any tronus to defend it, have sineo Hongkong Football Club
owing to quietly evacuated It,
to John. 1. Thornycroft & Co. their fear of a counter-attack by Lkl. the Government troops. It of the
Collected M.D.B. appears that after occupation of Shaowu and Kuang Mr. M. K. Lo teh by the Communists had come Mr. M. W. Lo
Yu- to hand, Generals Chleng
news
kuang and Lin Ping-chow made a. 3. S. determined attack upon them and K. A. succented in reoccupying the two LL-Col. and cities without much difficulty. Matthews
Mro.
D.
The magistrates of the two cities
who had fled to Kienyang with Capt. A. II. Stewart their menis of offter have now Mr. O. C. Dalziel
eturned and resumed their duties. Mr. N. Lang
17 | Mr. W. Dryden
It le said that during their occupation of Shaowu, they burn-
women
ed 40 large houses, and later Wee Gelf-Additional
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Lambert eurried off 200 men sect 600
Anonymous Servicenian us prisoners, and forced Mr. M. M., Affannsse the people to give them $8,000,000. Mr. R. Ellefsen
Klenning-hsien is still in the Mr. G. S. Edmondren hunds of the Communists, but Mr. Wni. G. Miller General Lin Ho-ting and the other Mr. W. Small commanders in that region have G., S. determined, as soon as reinforce-H. M. Swatow ments and supplies reach thein, Annon that the Communiste will b entirely eliminated.
comeM
from; strange story Ingting, actly further south. It hits bera ocenpled by Communists) for some time, but now dissension has broken out
"Leninism"
holding to mong them, soine
Already acknowledged
$250.00
Kal-
Generalissimo taking with him
35,600,000 to pay off the Divisions under Generals Chan Ming-shu, Chu. Shao-liang, Sun Lin-chung, 100.00 and Ho Ying-ching in Kinngs and Hunan. A big military conference 40.00
of Divisional Commandera has been; 25.00 arranged at Nanchang. 25.00
Vice-Admiral · Chen
Shao-kunn 25.00 has returned after n
conference 10.00, with Marshal Chiang at Nanking. The Vico-Admiral is making pre- 10.00 parations for the dispatch of gun- boats to Nanchang to assist the 10.00 Nationalist armies in the attack in 10.00 Canton. 10.50
10.00
The latest developments are be ing keenly watched by Northern militarists and in this connexion 10.00 the Chairman of the Shansi Mili- 10.00
tary Council, Gen. Shang Chen, to- gether with General Hau Yuan 00huan, interviewed General Chang 3.00 Hsuch-liang at the Rockefeller
Peking Go Hospital in
during the week-end. The Manchurian ruler 5,00 500 has promised to pay off the Sbansi 115 he leaves 2.00 division 1,00) bosiplin).
5.00
283.00 #2,145,34
soon
Uneasiness in the North is evid- enced by the many telegrams sent Lo Peking by General Shih Yu-shan denying strong rumours of his kav-| $33.028.34 ing thrown in his lot with the Can-
tol Government. Independent re- ports from Shantung say that Gen- eral Shih is moving his tropps long the Peking-Hankow Railway,
Ambulance Brigade begs to acknow The Hon. Treasurer of the St. John ledge with grateful thanks the receipt of the following donations towards the
while the others prefer to call students went in and bought some themselves "Social Democrats." of the suspected literature. When Serious conflicts have occurred they had satisfied themselves that between the two factions and it was as had been reported, they many lives have been lost on both searched the place and found sides.
large quantity of books and pam The police received information phlets calculated to poison the a few days ago that a certain shop minds of young people with Com- Brigade Funds:-Part proceeds of the in South Street, Foochow, was munistic and immoral ideas. The Mei Lan Fan theatrical performance selling Communistic literature, so whole place has now been put in at the Lee Theatre, $1,211.83; Mr. Eu a raid was made upon it. At charge of guards pending further Tong-sen, $200; Mr. Wong Kwong-tin, first, some detectives disguised as Jaction.
$30.
The CAT CREEPS KING'S THEATRE
Booking at Anderson's & The Theatre. (Tel 25720)
"CHURCHILL AND CO."
"PAID OFF." SAYS MR. LANSBURY.
London, May 26, fr. Geurge Lansbury, First Com. missioner of Works, addressing the Ca-operative Conference at Bourne mouth on Saturday, said that "Churchill and Co." were angry be cause they realised their power was slipping away from them.
NEW SPORTS ARENA.
BEST ATHLETIC FACILITIES
IN LONDON.
London, May 28. Lord Beauchamp, Chancellor of J
the University, opened the London University's new sports ground at Motspur Park yesterday when the finals of the Inter-College sports were decided.
The ground covers an area of 28 "What is worrying, them," he acres, and includes one Rugby pitch, added. "in the knowledge that the one for Soccer, one for hockey, two people ITU becoming educated for cricket and seven lawn tennis They know perfectly well that the courts. A mansion on the site has days of the fighting Marborough been adapted to a club-house, with large dressing-room and are finished. We do not fight now four with guns; we fight with words and shewer haths and, in addition, voles.
pavilion is to be built later. "Parliament is what you like to Encircling the Rugby pitch is a make it. The only thing these gen-eindor track with a wire straight, tlemen have to complain about in one side. 150 yards in length, that men like Alfred Barnes and allowing for a 120 yards' hurdles A. V. Alexander sit on the benches race on cinders, with a good pull in front of them--un benches which
A small stand. for 200 specta- 1283.
Knocked Out."
they think they were born to-octors, has been erected along one cupy.
straight, and a large one is to be ft up along the other, where at present is a banked terrace with room for 2,000 spectators.
"That is what is the matter with modern politics: The right people, they think, are not there.. Chur- chill has been paid off.
"Lord Eastner Percy-he talles to us as pompously as a Percy should Lalk-is convinced that the Government is all wrong.
The high jump pit, with cinder run-up in the form of an are, long jump and pole jump pits (the latter with two boxes and both with two cinder surfaeed runs-up), and pro- vision for discus-throwing and "They say we are the victims of weight-putting, are all of the most bad system. Well, it has done up-to-date pattern, and the ground very well for them and now we are will be the best. equipped for going to do our best to use it not athletics in or near the Metropolis. for any particular class interest but
1
for the interest of the nation as a
whole.
F
The old system had abjectly.fail- These "born rulers" found them-ed. It was only when they moved selven knocked out of Government away from the competitive spirit jobs and now they were being to co-operative practice that they kuocked out in the management of got any sort of amelioration. businoss, because it was the order They were building up a new of progress and development. human society which would replace The human race was struggling the "beggar my neighbour" bus!- to-day for the realisation of the hens which plunged the world into fact that co-operation was the law war. They were living through one of life and competition was the of the greatest revolutions in the
history of mankind.' law of death.
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MARY BRIAN
HENRIETTA CROSMAN Based on Edna Ferbor's and George Kaufman's Stage Hit
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MARIE POLLY
扒飯
Anita Page
Lucien LITTLEFIELD directed by CHARLES F. RIESNER
(he man who mara
"Caught Short "
Mauro Goldwyn May
ALL TALKING NOTURK
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THE
DOG COMEDY
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Marion Davies
Crashes through
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THE
BACHELOR
with
Ralph Forbes
C. Aubrey Smith directed by ROBERT Z LEONARD
The
Belasco
Stage
Triumph
-Now a talkie
rint!
FATHER
She won her way
into her daddy's heart!
MERRY
MARION'S
HAPPIEST
HIT!
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Charlie CHAPLIN. CITY LIGHTS
· WRITTEN, DIRECTIO (AND PRODUCER
CHARLES CHAPLIN!
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