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The Story of
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Sydney Howard in It's a King
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THE "HUMOURESQUE” OF THE TALKIES.
THE CITY!... Crucible of Dreams and Glory From its Turbulent Soul Rises a Human Story! Life's Laughter Life's Hopes Written Into an Imperishable Rhapsody of Love
TOLD_BY FANNIE HURST
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PHON
RKO BADIO
A Story
the Greatest Test Love
Ever Faced)) In the Genius
Wo Honda Laxi
Life of the Woman He Loved]
PICTURE IRENE DUNNE
RICARDO CORTEZ
ANINA APRILL OREGORY RATOFE
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"Uncle Ansel, Why Do
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DUNN MALLORY
EGGEL, BRENDEL
HANDLE WITH CARE
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Hongkongjulju Can E
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7
1933.
SENTIMENTALITY | KEEP THE EMPIRE FIVE DAYS ADRIFT
ABOUT CRIME
DIFFICULTY. IN DEAL- ING WITH WOMEN
It takes a clover a man to under- stand one-tenth part of a woman's character in a long life.
ment.
FOR BRITONS.
THE BISHOP OF LONDON'S APPEAL
The Bishop of London, speaking "Tho
IN ARCTIC
CAPTAIN SHOOTS
HIMSELF
Oslo, May 8, at a Leeds luncheon on
How they, drifted for five days Church and the Empire," denied This was the view expressed by that the expansion of the Empire in a lifeboat in Arctic waters, with Sir Ernest Wild, K.C., Recorder of had been made at the cost of the the temperature at four degrees London, when discusing the conti- original Inhabitants. The Maoria below zero (Fahrenheit), is told mentality, prevalent in some were amongst the richest people in-by-the-three-survivors of the ship- and the wealthiest wrecked Soviet salvage, steamer! people, about crime and punish-New Zealand,
persons in Ceylon were the Cinga-
Rouslan (300 tons). The occasion was the meeting of lose.
They were lying the Middlesex branch of the Hollo- Justice had been carried with the way Discharged Prisoners' Aid flag. Emigration in many Society, at Middlesex, Guildhall. stances in the past had been con- apparently dead, when they were All would agree, he said, that ducted on the wrong lines. The picked up by the Norwegian seal- the maximum punishment that deal was to send with the people ing vessel Ringesnel, which has
landed thenf at Tromsoe. could be inflicted for various the Church to look after them." crime were disproportionate.
SEX OFFENCES.
cent date had interfered, and one
in-
In the bont,
Britain had just cause to bo proud of her Empire. For the The three men, First Ofcer future it was worth everything to Datachoff and Seamen Popoff and In regard to indecencies and populate it with British-born sub- Bekasoff, are the only known aur- matters of that kind, Acts of lects, instead of leaving it open forvivors of the ship's crew of 23. Parliament of comparatively re- | foreigners.
After sketching his tour round It is believed that some of the was not allowed to give what he the world, the Bishop reminded his crew may have escaped from the audience that if Japan had not considered sufficient punishment been on our side in the war, Japan Rouslan when it sank in u gale for such crimes.
could have taken Sydney and Mel-off South Cape, Spitzbergen, and Then came the sox dimculty.bourne in five minutes.
may now be on the Spitzbergon The real dificulty came in sentenc Speaking of Britain's action shore. ing women, because every woman with regard to the recent trial in was a complex problem.
Moscow of British subjects, 'the
The three men found in the Bishop snid they had to remember lifeboat are all suffering from that three British sailors had been frostbite in the legs, and it is may be taken by Chinese pirates, and were feared that amputation still in their captors' hands. necessary.
"You get some horrible murder," he continued, "and it is always the murderer or murderess who is con- aldered; nobody seems to think of Mr. Jones or Mrs. Robinson, or to
They have told how, rather than mind in the least that they have been sent to eternity suddenly. jadded, "that you are not dealing face à death, of slow freezing, the "We must not get the stupid with good women, but, bad women, captain of the Roualan committed notion that, just as every dog is and when a woman is bad she is suicide. He was with them in the entitled to his first bite, so every bad, and when she is bad shellfeboat, and advised them to end prisoner is to be entitled to com- would drag you down to hell their lives with him, but they mit his or her first crime.
There is no haif-and-half about refused. He shot himself with a
rifle and fell into the sen. "You have to remember," he women."
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