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SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m. The Sensational Record-Smashing. All Authentic Jungle Thrill Spectacle ! LIKE COILED LIGHTNING THE PYTHON STRUCK! 30feet
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One of the great thrills in
FRANK BUCK'S
Amazing Sound-Film Record of His Greatest Adventure
BRING EM BACK ALIVE
Go with Frank Buck,
Lord of the Jungle, into the trackless wastos where savage beasts hold sway! Hero to millioni, his picture is
a thousand times more thrilling than the book
that held the nation
spellboundi
REORADIO Picture Produced
by the Van Buren Corporation
Directed by Clyde't. Ele Actually filmed in the
Malayan jungia country!
COMING SOON
A Special Picture for the whole Family- A Picture Everyone will Enjoy-Bring the Kiddies to See Little Mickey Rooney (As the Ten Year Old Boy "King").
TOM
with
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1932.
ECONOMY AXE IN
TESTS FOR
FRANCE
EXPLORERS
ANTAGONISM AROUSED ON MOUNT EVEREST. AND
ALL SIDES.
THE ARCTIC Problems of the Himalayna and the Arctle are being worked out towards a solution in England.
EUROPE'S, MONETARY
PROBLEMS
LEAGUE EXPERTS, AND FUND SCHEME.
'The report of the Committee of Experts appointed by the Lenguo Council to examine the monetary normalisation fund scheme mon- tloned in the resolution of the In a quiet laboratory in South Strean Conference has been com- London the first battle in the pro-municated to the States members fected conquest of Mount Everest of the League of Nations.
As generally expected the Gov- ornment economy plan, is criticis ed on all siden. While the Con- servatives complain that the re- duction of expenditure is insuf flelent, the Socialists have alrendy' rejected the plan en bloc as im pening too great a sacrifice on the poorer classes. They are prepar ing a counter-project in which re-j is being fought, duction of military expenses will At Cambridge, scientists work figure largely.
The object of this acheme is to provide funds to enable the States of Central and Eastern Europe to
At the same time both the civiling In Arctic conditions are study-find, when the occasion arises, servants and the ex-service mon ing the effects of low temperatura financial assistance such as will are organising through their on living substatices. respective syndicates and federa tions a stubborn resistance to all the proposed measures of economy which affect them,
Financial circles on the other hand are discontented with the mensures affecting the collection
enable them definitely to streng- then or realore their monetary Experts who are making in-situation. The handling of such a
behalf, of
the fund would be entrusted to the vestigations on Everest Expedition are subjecting Bank for International Settlements
at Buale, the lightest oxygen cylinders yet mute to a series of severe tosts In The experts do not contemplate order to entisfy themselves that the immediate operation of the of income tax, which includes they are sumclently strong to fund, but emphasise the necessity obligatory declaration, giving withstand the difficult conditions on the part of the countries con- dividend receipta, deposit accounts of Himalayan transport and climb-cerned of fulfilling certain essen- And the contents of anfen,
Ing.
restoration
tial conditions, such as the rond- By trying not to displease any- body too much in fact, the Govern
The new equipment is not only lustment of the balance of pay- ments, the re-establishment on a ment it appears has succeeded in considerably lighter than that sound basis of their entire national
the anal antagonising everybody.
used on the 1924 expedition, but
economy, The one good thing that is said in other gespecta has given satis-of monetary equilibrium, and the for the project in that it does re-factory results ju the tests so far adjustment as far as necessary of present an attempt to reduce the conducted. expenditure of the State, the total budgeted for being only £600,000,- 000 sterling, which is nearly €3.500,000 less than the figure for 1932.
STEEPLECHASE WON BARE-BACKED
JOCKEY'S FEAT AFTER SADDLE SLIPPED
AGER
W. Speck, the Jockey, won the Becher Steeplechase at Liverpool on Thomond II., riding bare-back- ed, without the assistance of iron, and with the saddle flapping on the horse's flanks.
The saddle began to slip early in the race before Becher's Brook and Speck later had to get out of it Two fences from home is mount blundered badly and came down almost on ita knees, allow ing Colliery Band to get several lengths in front.
foreign debts by means of nego- The present decision will be the flatlons with the creditors.
The experts came to the cohelu- climax to a long controversy be-
anti-oxygension it is. for the moment Impos and tween oxygen elimbers. In the Arst expedition sible to undertake the detalled pre- In 1922, this difference of opinion paration of the scheme from a WAS exemplified in the rival technical point of view, and that achlovoments of Norton and a large number of problems must Mallory, who climbed to 26.985ft. be dealt with by the economic and without oxygen, and of Finch and monetary conference in London. J. G. Bruce, who with oxygen It la proponed, however, reached a height of 27,300ft. The adjourn the work, but rather to bonefit of oxygen appeared to be proceed to n.decision on the malu draft monetary most notably felt by the latter outlines of a climbers in their return journey. normalisation fund,
ac-
not to
It is not only the final climb, but the whole tactics of the ex-
edition which are affected. If low temperature on living sub- oxygen is used in climbing, lens stances.
At the Cambridge Low Tem- time will be necessary for climatisation, and this in turn is perature Research Station, he of de-said, were about thirty chambers, linked with the process terioration which, according some authorities, takes place high altitudes.
to
oach of which had round the walls ata coiled wire through which the electric current flowed. This cur rent regulated the temperature, which, in some of the chambers, was reduced to the equivalent of frost. "It is, however, a trying
Microscopic Work In Frost
Hardy, in his on Sir William
Spack, however, riding magni- ficently, forced Thomond. II. and won by half a length, Fifty Hurter Memorial Lecture befora yards after passing the post, the the Liverpool Section of the experience, as I have myself found, saddle slipped to the ground, and Society of Chemical Industry dis- to do accurate microscopic work It was with diffeulty that the closed how scientists work, amid in even ten to twenty degrees of horso was pulled up.
Arctic cold, to study the affects of frost."
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FROM THE LIPS OF ONE MAN TO THE ARMS OF ANOTHERI
Marlene
MIX Dietrich
and.
his
Pony TONY
MY PAL the KING
Imagine wildfire TOM MIX as the star' of a Wild West show touring Europe) . He gets mixed' up with the boy king of a smoll country. Is hurled WOW! into a local political plot..
THRILLS - ACTION — LAUGHS!
With Mickey Rooney Stuart Holmes, Noel Francis. Produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr., from the story by Richard Schaver Directed by Kurt Neumann.
UNIVERSAL PICTURE
presented by
·Ceri Laemmio-
"BLONDE VENUS
Before the Antono's klises had faded from ... her lipa, the longed for the other's embrace ...because she loved them both. What could she do but fiee from love
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THE LATEST BRITISH MUSICAL BETTER THAN 'Sunecine Susio1
Adapted from
THREE OF A KIND by "SAPPER"
LOVE ON
THE SPOT
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BUSTER
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JIMMY
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the funniest team'in filme
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Jimmy's
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The ITALIAN GRAND OPERA CO. presents "CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA” and “PAGLIACCI”
MAJESTIC
THE LOST SQUADRON
starring
RICHARD DIX
MARY ASTOR....JOEL M:CREA
ROBERT ARMSTRONG BRICH VON ̃STROHEIM
Directed GEOROB ARCHAINDAUD. BARKO RADIO
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a loser by the actions taken by our Government in connexion with the dispute with the Irish Free State does not prove that the
netions of our Governmont are not right and propor, but it does sug- Mr. R. D. Holt, at a meeting of gest that when duties are imposed Mersey Dock Board, stated for the purpose of keeping traffic that it was unfortunate that the out of the country, some portione tariff war with the Free State was of the revenue collected should praventing the development of the be handed over to the harbour eroes-Cliannel trade.
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