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Mother's MILLIONS
The Strangest story and Greatest Acting
the screen has ever known!
A Human story of a woman against the world-beating her enemics at their game-fighting her children for their happiness-hiding a heart of gold behind a mask
of flinty hardness!
With
MAY ROBSON,
Francis Dade, James Hall, Lawrence Gray, Edmund Breese.
Directed by
James Flood from the play by Howard McKent Barnes. NEXT CHANGE
F
THE SECRET WOMAN
IN A GREAT MAN'S LIFE!
Look for the womon
-- when a celebrated
artist succeeds! This
girl bought fame for
her lover and paid with her own happiness. You've seen her in the foreground of his master- pieces. But do you know why he kept her in the background of his private life?
ЯКО РАТНИ
Constance BENNETT THE COMMON LAW
& Charles B. Bajors Production-from the soral by Rabers W. Chambejs Her greatest role, sinca, "COMMON CLAY”I
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDRICK PEROY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong.
HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1932.
DEATH OF M. ANDRE MAGINOT.
FRENCH * MINISTER FOR. WAR.
CHAMPION OF THE
·BRITISH AIRCRAFT GROSS CRUELTY TO
LEADERSHIP.
GIRL.
BRAZIL'S ORDER FOR MOTH PLANES.
BADLY BURNED WITH JOSS STICKS.
London, Jan. 6.
PRISON SENTENCE.
Fifteen Moth training neroplanex have recently been ordered by Brazil. They will be the frut Just punishmen was meted out EX-SERVICE MAN, British maeftines placed by ctor middle-aged woman of a tract In the Brazilian Army Air village in the Sheung Shut Dis- Paris, Jan. 7. Service.
[triet by Mr. T. Megarry, ́Dis- French ex-Service men have! The order was awarded after atriet Ofleer of the Now Terr!- lost their best champion by the comparison of the Moth with tories, yesterday, when sentence death early this morning of the seven competitive types of nuckle of four months' hard labour without War Minister, M.
constructors the option of a fine was imposed Andre put forward by the
for an act of gross cruelty to a Maginot, at the age of fifty-four. of four nations.
Wireless gear, night and blind girl about nine years of age. He was taken ill with typhoid
It was revented to the Court that fever a little more than a fort-ring Instruments, bombs, electric
camera, and rocke! algnalling some three weeks ago, Mr.L.H.C. night ago.
Apparatus are fueluded in the Chithrop. (Assistant Superinten In his earlier days a civil ser- qquipment_of_these touring mudent of Police) was on his way vant, he acted at one time as diree-chlues, of which the maximum from Takuling to Sheung Shul tor of the interior In the Govern-apeed in well over 100 milen no when he met the defendant trying ment of Algeria, ile was first hour.
te entch the girl in order to ad- elected to the Chamber in 1910 an Similar craft have been supplied minister chastisement for deputy for the Mouse Department recently for flying training to the
Is the Doumergue Cabinet of 1913 he was Under-Secretary Governments of Portugal, Sweden, Egypt.-British Miniatry, One of his tasks China, Ink and WOM to pilot the years' service Wiratcnu. law through the Chamber, but after the war he became an ad- vocate of the reduction of the period, to 18 months. He had fought at the front as an amcer. hurt after being rendered unfit for service by serious wounds he was made president of the Army Commission and Minister for the Colonies in the Ribot Cabinet.
the
in
In the Millerand Govt. of 1928, he was Minister of Penatona
he retained in the Legues, Briand and Poincare Cabinets, as he bad won the confidence of ex- Service men.
Under Poluenre, Maginot also took the portfolio of War Depart ment, thus relleving the Minister of his duties and enabling him to art in a double empreity.
He directed the operations of the French troops during the nero-; pation of the Ruhr.
On the Cabinet reconstruction in March 1924, he retained his posi- tion, laut in June the Government fell
was succeeded by a Her rist Cabinet. He did not hold office in the orginal Ministry of National Union formed by Poin- eary in July, 1926, as his strongly Nationalistic attitude would have been rejignant to the Ministers representing the parties of the Left. But when the four Radien)- Socialists resigned from the Govt. in Nov. 1928, and it WIR recon- structed, Marinot was appointed Colonial Minister.
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minor offence. The Superinten dent stopped and ordered an Indian sergeant on partrol to take both to the Shoung Shui Police Station for Investigations. The party of three accordingly walked to the Station and, after interrogation, the police were satisfied and sent the girl and the woman home again.
On reaching home, a distance of about three miles from the Pollee Station, the woman scolded the girl for having made her walk to and from the Poller Station. The de With the exception of a strong defendant. it was alleged, stripped mand for Wharves, Hotein and Trams the girl and, using a joss stick. the rest of the market was somewhat severely burned her in different quiet this morning.
Halex.
Trams, $22,40. Unions, $410. Steamboats, $21.
Hotel (New}, $14.90/$15, Powells. $3.
Ruyers.
Wharves, $151, Douglases, $24. Chinese Estaluk, $95. Singapore Tractions, 3. HI.K. Ropes, $18.
Lane. Crawfords (old), $0.40. Contructions (new), $1.80. Hotels (O), $15.35. Hotels (New), $14.85. Providents (old), $6.36. Providents (new), $2.40. Trams, $22.40,
Coments (old), $124..
Dutry Farms, $20.
Powelin, 23.
parts of her body. She was in Sterrible curdition when sire was later found by the pollen and sent to the Kwong Wah Hos- pital, where she was detained for being about three weeks before able to attend Court.
It is understood that the xirt will be handled over to the Secre tariat for Chinese, AlFairs.
MURDER ON THE TAIPO ROAD.
ROBBERY
SUGGESTED
AS MOTIVE.
Very meagre detuila
H.K. Govt, Loan, $25% premium present available regarding the
Kellers.
Info-Chinas (Prot.) $45. Indo-Chinas (Def.), $32. Raubs, $30.
Entertainments '(old), 310%.
In the spring of 1929 he made a long tour across the Sahara 1 French West Africa to investigatej its development. As a result he decided to rains a loan of £12,000,- 900 for the harnessing of the Republican League. He protested Niger and other achenies. He against the evacuation of the retained his post in the Briand Rhineland Government formed on Poineare's manded the rexiguation in July, 1929.
life at
murder of a stono-breaker in the New Territories on the Taipo Road Hometime between yesterday even- ing and this morning.
The victim was found dead this morning at the Kam Tak Sheung watchmen's matshed on the Taipo
Hond, near the Three Miles Stone. He was apparently strangled with and in June, 1927, de-a plece of rope.
rupture of relations between France and the Soviet.
At the end of Jan. 1927, on the resignation of Millerand, Maginot. Devoted to the cause of dianbled who had founded the "Groupe soldiers, he was in 1926, appointed d'Action Democratique et Sociale", chairman of the Office National des became president of the National Mutiles.Reuter and 1.B.S.
Deceased was a native of Sapi Door Chuk Village and was em
stone-breaker. ployed as
The motive is believed to have been robbery but whether anything was taken a unknown.
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