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JAN KIEPURA
TELL ME
VIOLET WONG
G
RAYMOND KING
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
RIVER LEVELS
LOWER
WITH EXCEPTION OF
SHEKLUNG
According to the latest roport of the the River Conservancy for
Province Kwangtung
National Government, the West and North Rivers are still subsiding, but the East River level is slightly higher than on Sunday.
The comparative levels are given below:
June 25 June 20 West River at Shlu-
hing North River nt
Tsingyuen .... 16:
26.7..24.6
12.9 at Samshul 18.3 17 East River at Shek-
8.1 lung
8.7
STRANGE AFFAIR AT TSINGTAO
ATTEMPT ON ADMIRAL'S LIFE
Tsingtao, June 26. When Admiral Shon Hung-lich,
"OVER THE Mayor of Tsingtao, joined a naval
SEA"
A CHINESE SILENT FILM WITH MUSICAL ACCOM- PANIMENT,
PTO:NIGHT A BRILLIANTLY ENACTED.
SONNIE HALE & MAGDA SCHNEIDER
EDMUND GWENN - ATHENE”
L'AUMONT-BRO
DRAMA OF LOVE VERSUS FRIENDSHIP.
IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN “TELL ME TO-NICHT." HERE'S YOUR OPPORTUNITY AGAIN! DON'T MISS IT!
FRIDAY
TUESDAY, JUNE, 27.
THE ANGLO-SOVIET NEGOTIATIONS
POSITIONS MADE.
CLEAR.
London, Juna 26. A Foreign Office com- that an munique states exchange of views_took place at the Foreign Office between Monsieur Litvinoff Secretary for and tho Foreign Affairs in which they made clear to one another the position of their respective Covernments on the present obstacles to the renewal of the Anglo-Soviet trade negotiations, Colonel Colville of the Department of Overseas Trade was also. present, British Wireless,
1933.
PURCHASE OF 3 YEAR BOY
WOMAN'S STORY NOT SATISFACTORY
"I advlao you to think vory hard where you got' that child from" sald Mr. Wynne-Jones in the Con- tral Police Court this morning, when remanding a Chinose widow, Chan Sze, 43, for seven days, on tho a charge of taking part in transaction of a boy, aged threo years. Defendant maintained re- ticence regarding the place where she allegedly purchased the child.
Prosecuting, Det.-Insp. Elston, attached to the S.C.A. said do fendant was caught trying to dis- pose of the child to two bout wo- After men for $140, on June 24.
the some
women bargaining, offered $180 but defendant To- fused. Defendant's explanation
BETONNANCIALNUTRITIincence as to where she got the child was
HOPE FOR RUBBER RESTRICTIONS
DUTCH COMMITTEE MOVING
very poor and the S.C.A, thought
was unlawfully obtained.
The woman first stated she bought the child when it was very smail In Kwong Chow Wan, and then she changed her story and said he was given by a relative. The prosecution had little hopes
the of finding out where came from.
child
Iaunch at the harbour to carry out his weekly inspection of the war- ship Chenhal, Licut. Feng, com-
Amsterdam, June 20. manding the launch, created sus- The Dutch rubber-growers havo picion by carrying two pistola. appointed a committee of five
The Admiral's personal guards members who have been seriously SEVERE EARTHQUAKE.
at the saloon entrance observing discussing the situation in con- the Lieutenant drawing u pistol. nexion with the restriction of threw him overboard where he rubber-growing.
..
SIXTY-SEVEN KILLED IN
SUMATRA
Batavia, June 26.
opened fire on the lunch without. They are proposing to consult doing any damage. Later Lient. with the Dutch Government ro- Feng was arrested and taken to garding the execution of plane the warship where he is now under and it is thought here that there At least 67 people were killed in enquiry. No reason for his action is a good possibility of realising an earthquake at South. Bencoolen,
restriction.-Reuter. has yet been discovered.-Reuter,
Sumatra.-Router.
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Lovers may kiss...
and swear their fidelity.. But can love stand up under the smashing blows of FATE?. Here's drama challenging the stronghold of romance.
THE
WISEN SEX
A Paramount Picture
with
Claudette Colbert
MELVYN DOUGLAS
Lilyan Tashman and William Boyd
TO-MORROW
MADAME RACKETEER IS BACK THIS TIME HER LARCENY IS GRAND!
•
Muscling in, on Love, Hi-Jacking Romance, Grab- bing Laughs, as She Plays Cupid to a Beautiful Blondel.
-DUST-FROM- THE WING OF A FLY!
It was all that the French Police needed to thwart a daring scheme of intrigue and murder... and bringtojustice aczim. inalwho almost won s princess and a throne!
"SECRETS OF THE
FRENCH POLICE"
Based on the actual memoire of II. Ashton- Wolfe, published in American Weekly. with
GWILI ANDRE GREGORY RATOFF PRANK MORGAN David O. Selmsick, mevcutio profuter. Directed by Edw
Baharlared
AN RKO RADIO PICTURE
What!
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ROARS!
Oh, Boy!
It's a
scream
whoopee!
ROARS
Two Hours of
METRO'S TIP-TOP · COMEDY & BURLESQUE
NEXT SUNDAY at the
QUEEN'S THEATRE
Ha
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Belly
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Ho
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Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong.
CONRAD VEIDT
[Sauve, yet incredibly cruel and re. morseless, Conrad Veidt's character- isation of Zurta the master criminal, [is only typical of the superb acting by the super cast in the super film ..
ROME EXPRESS
A GAUMONT-BRITISH PICTURE Directed by WALTER FORDE
with
ESTHER RALSTON, HAROLD HUTH, JOAN BARRY. See this film, because it must be ranked as the boat British film yet Screened in Hongkong.
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5
Préviewer."8. G. Mornina Pont."
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Thrills, drams, excellent
pure reproduction of English, and clever dialogue. One of the most entertaining 'pic- tures we have offered.
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NIXON
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Beauty.. by Maritzal
A Lady's
Profession
with
ALISON SKIPWORTH ROLAND YOUNG
·SARI MARITZA
RENT TAYLOR ROSCOE KALNS»WARAEN HYMER, WANAN HELFÖR •» • MIA WALLDJE
a Guramount Gicture
(STAR)
The Greatest
Love Story Ever Told
By Bigovend Romberg and Queer
At 2.30 5.20,
7.20 € 9.20
VIENNESE NIGHTS
WERE MADE FOR LOVE
DETERIORATION,
professed an incradicable optimism of outlook, notwithstanding the fact that the world economically had gone back at least throu genera tions, while politically Europe had roverted to the autocratie loss of the 17th Century. it
LLOYD GEORGE SPEAKS ON WORLD AFFAIRS
London, Juno 20. The nations are again slamming Mr. Lloyd Georga completed their doors In each other's faces remarkable record of forty 'consecu and preparing to kill each other, but tivo attendances at the Mid-Summer the younger, generation has no Flower Service held at the Walsh reason to be discouraged. We shall Baptist Chapel in London to-day. {blunder through eventually."Reus
In the course of his address, heter Special: