12
CENTRAL
THEATRE
Reached by West Bound Queen's Road Bus,
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.
The Devil's Hour Had Struck !!
The man she loved
was among the soldiers on that
mountain top..
enemy sappers mined underneath them, plantingtons of dynamite..* she could only wait for that awful explosion!
TheDOOMED BATTALION
THE PICTURE TERRIFICI
With TALA BIRELL, LUIS TRENKER VICTOR VARCONI, Albert Conti, Henry Armetta, Guslar von Seyfertite. A Marcel Vandal end Charles Delac Production. Directed by Cyril Gardner. Produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr. Associate, Paul Kohnar. A UNIVERSAL PICTURE Presented by CARL LAEMMLE
Starting Friday
Britain's Great Star in an Outstanding
$
British Production.
JACK BUCHANAN
IN
GOOD NIGHT VIENNA
EXQUISITE MUSICAL ROMANCE—STIRNING MARCHING SONGS
AND CHARMING WALTIES.
A British Dominions Picture.
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1932.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE RIOT PICTURES
WOMEN'S PUBLISHED CHEAPER
FRANCHISE
INDIAN PARLEY
PROBLEM
RATIO TO MEN
London, Nov. 22.
The Indian Round Table Con ference completed to-day its dia-
IN U.S.
BRITISH MINISTER'S PROTEST
ILLNESS PHOTOS
cussion on the women's franchise FLAGRANT ATTEMPT AT
question.
At present, women electors are
in a ratio of one woman to 21 men.!
The Lothian Committee consider-
MISREPRESENTATION
· London, Nov. 22.
RAILWAYS
OIL-ELECTRIC ACTION
BIG MOBILE POWER HOUSES
London, Nov. 22.
An oil-electric locomotive and three mobile power houses the largest yet produced in Europe -were inspected yesterday by Mr. Walter Runciman, President Lord Hailsham, Secretary for of the Board of Trade, at the ed this insufficient and made vari-War, speaking at the Anglo-Newcastle works of the
Arm- ous suggestions considerably in. American Pilgrims Club in Lan- strong,. Whitworth company. creasing the number of women don to-day, called
They will be shipped to Buenos vatern. Literacy
qualification, news pictures which had appeared Airea for the Great Southern plus property qualification, pro-in certain American newspapers had each a brake horse power of Railway. The units demonstrated duced a ratio of one woman to 12 purporting to show unemployed 1,700. men voters, and the Conference on creating riots outside Bucking- the whole seemed to favour abam Palace.. literacy test In preference to primary standard test..since it KAVO larger number of women
voters.
attention to
The locomotive is the Recond largest in the world and weighs He said that those pictures were
148 tons. It is geared for both not taken in 1932 but in 1928, and harvest season and for fast pas heavy freight trains in the instead of representing a riotous, senger work with a speed of 70 Some difficulty was encountered Buckingham Palace in their effort
starving mob attempting to enter mules an hour. regarding the wives' and widows' to make protests to their Sovereign, 130 tons each and are for use with The mobile power-houses weigh class, numbering 4,300,000, the in-they represented in fact, the anxic 8 coaches of 80 feet with a seating clusion of which would increase ty of the many thousands of Brit: capacity for 1,000 passengers. the ratio of women voters to one isl woman to 4.4 men.
citizens who gathered nt Buckingham Palace when
The units supply electric current the
on the bogies of the carriages. to motors on their own axles and
Several objections were ad-health of the King was in danger
vanced to this qualification and it was agreed that the matter should this flagrant attempt to misrepre Lord Hailsham protested against Ge further examined. It suggested a separate section might be secured by giving powers to various provinces for dealing with these questions.
FEDERAL ASSEMBLY.
Ho said there had never been a
should
RUNNING COSTS.
was
a warm tribute to the was aent conditions in Britain and paid Mr. Runciman, in a speech, sald Consul-General in London for gly-adaptation of power which could
American that oil-electric action ing a faithful account of British be put to use not only by the events and sentiment.
great railways but also by great manufacturers. A Diesel-Electric Regarding the method of elec- time when it was more important conch had recently completed six tion to the British Indian seats in that Britain and America
months running on the London the Federal Assembly, the Con-understand one another. As the North-Eastern service. It had ference favoured direct election, two nations during the war had covered 25,000 miles without a but as this question is not uncon-protected civilisation from violent hitch. The cost of fuel, lubricat- nected with that of the size of the death they had now to protect the ing oil and running maintenance Federal Assembly, it was decided economic world from equally cer-worked out at less than one penny that acquiescence in direct elec-tain disaster.-British Wireltse.
per coach mile and this was far cheaper than anything A0 for known-British Wireless.
tion should be without prejudice
to a later decision regarding the size of the House.
Injuries which were said to have
Mr. John H. Hunt, Socretary of the It was generally agreed that by another man caused Lai Yau, aged Y's Men's Club tiffin to-morrow, been inflicted with a shovel wielded European Y.M.C.A., will speak at the qualificationA for the Legislative Councils would be suit Civil Hospita! yesterday. The in-ford's Restaurant. The subject of Mr. present 32, to be removed to the Government November 24, at Messrs. Lane, Craw able for the new assembly-furles, to the back and left elbow, Hunt's speech will be "By Way of British Wireless.
were not of a serious nature.
Understanding."
TO-DAY
ONLY
At 2.30, 5.10.
7.15 89.30 p.m
IT HAS MADE MILLIONS HAPPIER This story of love that is tender and protecting...honest and courageous... that sometimes falters but never fails.
REBECCA of SUNNYBROOK,
FARM
Marian NIXON Ralph BILLAMY
Mar Manh, Louien loomi File flood ca
duction dom Kay, Doyglas ain's Charlowe Thompson May..
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CHARLES FARRELL
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