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When 'Mama's Boy'
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SUMMERVILLE
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ZASU PITTS In
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With Laura Hops Crows, Shizley Grey, Alexarider Cam, Mas Buch. Btory by Tim Whelan, Breen- play by William Anthony McGuire. Produced by Carl Laemmle, Fr. Directed by Ham Tay- lór. Presented by Cal Liemmia.
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THE FIRST CANTONESE TALKIE' PRODUCED IN HONGKONG.
LEW MUNG KOK & WÔNG PUI YING
in
"A STUPID BRIDEGROOM"
AN ALL-TALKING & ALL-SINGING
MUSICAL COMEDY
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NEGRI...incarnation of drama
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All the Radiance
of Her Beauty.......
Sweep of Her Emotion .... Fire of Her Artistry..
THE NEW
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NEGRI
in drama of romance and spectacle
A WOMAN COMMANDS
BASIL RATHBONE 'Sin Takes Holiday ROLAND YOUNG The Guardsman H.B.WARNER Five Star Final".
STEINE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
TRUNK MURDER
DISMEMBERED BODY OF CANTONESE GIRL
·Shanghai, Aug. 12. The trunk murder mystery has been solved if the report circulated by a certain Japanese nows agency turns out to be correct.
MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1933.
rather peculiar manner, to "Mr. Q. H. M. A. N."
The body was clad only in underclothing and the hands woro bound with ropo. The Japanese police learned that the trunk was shipped by a foreigner about 35 years old destined for Yokohama,
Warrant Refused.
Shanghai, Aug. 18,
CORONER CHEATED.
CHINESE BELIEVED DEAD
RECOVERS IN TIME··
A number of offelala of a cer tain Chinese hospital in Klangwan and of the Buronu of Public Safety at Shanghai had an apparently. There have been further reve-, dead man return to life on their The caso centres On A grue. aome discovery on the arrival at lations in the "trunk murder hands just as the inquent was tó Kobe of the Japanese Uner Shang-mystery including the alleged be opened. bal Maru from
Identification of a man who quar- Shanghai on relled with the slain girl, Mary Au unidentified, middle-aged unconscious August 7, of a black trunk con Chur, on the night of August 4. Chinese collapsed taining the dismembered body of 鑫
near the Kinngwan, Railway Sta- Chinese woman.
A Chinese landlady of a Hong- tion, suffering from some summer kow rooming-house, according to amiction. Safety Bureau „police- The news agency describes her as report, has identified the photo- men took him to the hospital in having been a beautiful Cantonese graph of a man named Patrick the locality. girl, aged 23 years, who during Remedios as orie who had a the Sino-Japanese hostilities in violent quarrel with Mary Chun Shanghai, last year, served with on the night of August 4. the Women's Volunteer Corps, and
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alleges that her lover, 'who is des- Mary Chun, it is disclosed, was cribed as man of mixed a graduate of a Canton middle Portuguese and Japanese descent, school. killed her on the night of August
4, in a fit of jealousy,
In the hope that he would re- cover doctors and nurses gavo him every attention for days; but ho was given up, as dead. The chief medical officer of the hospital was informed of the "death," which was reported. also to the Remedios in now staying in a Chinese police. The Nantao Dis- small room in a house in a Hong-trict Court was requested to send The "discovery" of the supposedkew alleyway, where he is spend-in judge to the hospital to hold an slayer's identity is attributed bying the time playing cards with the agency to "untiring efforts on his brother and a friend. Ho is the part of the Japanese Consular 23 years of age and believed to A little before the judge was Police."
Be a Portuguese subject.
due to arrivo several portera cor- ried the "corpse" to the hospital Police are keeping a watch upon the house and a crowd arriving there to hear it groan." vigilant mortuary, and were astonished on of two or three hundred sonsa-With eyes staring from their soc. tlon-sookers is always to be found kets, they saw the supposedly dead at the scene, anticipating develop-man regain life and alt up looking ments.
vacantly around.
It is significant, however, that no one has so far been arrested, and nothing else las transpired to confirm what is given by the agency us a fact, Router.
The trunk was taken aboard the Hiner about half an hour before her departure from Shanghal by a Japanese man, having been brought by truck from an address in the Central District.
Pending the production of more concrete evidence, the Portuguese Consul General fs reported to have refused to sign a warrant for the arrest of Remedios; on a charge The trunk was addressed in ajof murder-ftenter.
¡AST 1WO
DAYS
At 2.30, 6.10, 7.15 8 9.30 p.m.
inquest.
The inquest was called off.
A full report on the occurrence has been ordered by Colonel Wen Hung-an, Commissioner of the Bureau of Public Safety.
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The Greeks Had A Yen For It
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WARRIOR'S HUSBAND
with
ELISSA LANDI Marjorie Rambeau David Manners Ernest Truex
From the play by Julian Thompson
Directed by Walter Lang
FOX
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Romance in the midst
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