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CENTRAL
THEATRE
TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5,15, 7.15 & 9.30.
JIM TULLY'S SMASHING CHAIN-GANG EXPOSE!
TERRIFIC THUNDERBOLT DRAMA.
"There's a Woman Back Of Every Crime!"
LAUGHTER IN HELL
JIM TULCI'S sonsational novel brought to quivering life on tho screen..The story of a hunted manhoso soul was seared in
"Rames of siren kisses and healed in the arms of true lovel
With PAT O'BRIEN, MERNA KENNEDY, BERTON CHURCHILL, GLORIA STUART, TOM BROWN. Produced.by.Curl Laemmle; Jr. Directed by Edward Cahn. Presented by Carl Laemmía. A UNIVERSAL PICTURE.
NEXT CHANGE.
ANOTHER TRIUMPH ! GAUMONT BRITISH presents
A CAST OF GREAT BRITISH STARS IN A
HAPPY MUSICAL--ROMANCE.
HVAR AT THE QURAN
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1933.
MAIDENS FESTIVAL
BONFIRES
COSTS THREE MEN $15 EACH
Three Chinese who colebrated the Maidens Festival by lighting bonfires in the street wore chargod before Mr. Schofield, at the Cen- | tra] Magistracy this morning, and
fined $15 each.
The defendants were,, Wong Ngo-thi. Chan Chin and Hà Shing. Sub-Inspector Rogers and that the first defendant had lit a big bondre outside No. 18, Shaukiwań View Road, opposite the Bay police station. A motor carnc- tually had to pines through the fire, while a tram car also passed. close to it. It was a very dnn- gerous thing to do, and although there was a festival on, he did not think they should be per: mitted to light these bonfires. The second and third defendants had their bonfires in Whitfield Gpposite two dwelling houses,
FIRST TIME FOR 18 YEARS
GERMAN BLUEJACKETS IN HONGKONG
Passing through the Colony on the .s. Coblenz to-day are four) German bluejackets, members of the crew of the German cruiser Koln, proceeding to Sumatra to rejoin their ship. The men were laid up in Hospital when the Koln left Shanghai,
BRITISH FINANCE
Encouraging Returns By Treasury
London, Aug. 29. Latest Treasury returns show
ordinary that the revenue in the current financial year up to August 26th amounted to £232,- 205,529. At the corres- ponding date of last year, the amount stood £225,630,621.
at
year
Ordinary expenditure to. date for the current totalled £268,976,158, which is about £34 million. less than the total ordinary expenditure at the corres- Donding date of last year.— British Wireless.
JAMAICA GALE HAVOC
LOSS ON BANANA PLANTATIONS
London, Aug. 29.
. The Governor of Jamaica, fe- porting to the Colonial Office, states that the loss to the banana crop caused by the storm on 16th August, le estimated at three- quarters of a million stems, which would have matured within six
FOREMAN PLACED
IN PREDICAMENT
-
ILLEGAL BLASTING
OPERATIONS
Hu Shum, foreman of the Cheung Hing Company, summon- od before Mr. Schofield, at the Central Magistracy this morning for blasting during prohibited hours, was fined $5.
Mr. F. C. Rondall appeared for the defendant, and pleaded guilty, but in mitigation said that the company was a firm of contractors erecting a large house at Stanley for the Maryknoll Mireion, and they were also doing other work for the Government, P.W.D. and the Army authorities in various parts of the Colony.
They had only a permit to re- move dangerous goods from their. magazine at North. Point to Stanley, and had no permit to sture explosives on the situ. It was their custom to use only two sticks of dynamite ench day, and on the afternoon of August 20, the defendant was placed. In predicament. The Toki, whose job it
to WAS
transfer the dynamite, did not turn up, and the defendant had either to send the dynamite back to North Point or to explode it, which course he took.
GERMAN ARRESTED AT GIBRALTAR.
Gibraltar, Aug. 25. A German student. Karl Wup- permann, who, on Monday last, was arrested here whilst making sketches and taking photos in the forbidden area on the Upper Rock,
Young men of robust build and pleasing appearance, they attract ou much attention when sight-months. seeing in the streets to-day, it being noted that this WAS tho The loss is restricted almost en-has been released with a warning, first time in eighteen years that tirely to the big planters. The an investigation having shown the Colony has received a visit effect on shipments is, however, that the charge of espionage could from representatives of the Ger- unlikely to be serious-British not be substantiated. Trans- man Navy.
Wireless.
Ocean Kuo Min.
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At 2.30,
5.10, 7.15 8-
9.30 p.m.
CAIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE
WHO ACCUSED HIM?
Was it his conscience? Was it his wifet
Or was it his mistress ves
from out of the past?
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Commencing Sunday, 3rd, September.
ON THE SCREEN
They Kissed
While
Their
Fathers-
Cussed
Fox Film Presents
BEST OF
ENEMIES
`tra Milarious-
with
Buddy Rogeri Marian Hixen
Frank Mergu
Joseph Cawthern
· Grata MissON:
ON THE 87 OS
The Sensational MACKEY (WINS
with their EDUCATED" FEET "
3
COOLCONTROLLED COMFORT
QUEENS
AIR CONDITIONED THEATRE
Final Showings To-day at 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20
""LET ME BE YOUR LOVER TONIGHT!”.
"Let me hold you in my
arms...close to my heart... let tonight belong to us!”
Noel Coward's Linashamed Lave Story. With the Stars of "Sign of the Cross
Special
Grantland Rice's Sports Thrills
Fredric MARCH Claudette COLBERT
NOEL COWARD'S
TONIGHT IS OURS
ALISON SKIPWORTH ARTHUR BYRON A Paramount Picture
TO-MORROW
ITS SIREN SCREAMS DEFIANCEI-
A. Juggernaut, of." Steel_and Rubber Touring Losis at Sixty. "Miles an Hour... with a Dead Man of the Whaat
DEVIL IS
DRIVING
EDMUND LOWE WYNNE GIBSON:
JAMES GLEASON LOIS WELSON DICKIE MOORE and AZLAN ́DINERART
Paramount Picture
Sonnie Hale Lilian Harvey Jack Hulbert
Happy Ever After
FASCINATING ROMANCE IN A COMEDY THAT IS DIFFERENT.
with _DELIGHTFUL SONG-HITS
INCLUDING
"In a Year, in a Day.”. “Truly Rural Gentlemen.'
M.G.M.'s SUCCESS for the QUEEN'S.
RONALD COLMAN
The SAMUEL GOLDWYN, Production of
cynara
UNITED ARTIST. S PICTURES
Directed by KING VIDOR
with
KAY FRANCIS
Warm possions surge through a lide of tender, emotion... so real, so trus, youß say, as you wipe your tears away, "I have lived with all these people! What on experience it was!”
→ALSO ADDED ATTRACTION
MICKEY MOUSE prevente "MICKEY'S GOOD DEED"
and
"BIRDS IN THE SPRING
A Silly Symphony in Technicolour. 3 MICKEY ASCENS
SHOWS
DAILY
2.30-5.15
7.15-8.30
The greatest coloured dancers ever to Appear in Hongkong, fresh from successes in america.
Music by PENINSULA HOTEL ORGMESTRA:
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Sally EILERS
MADE ON
BROADWAY
と
SKYSCRAPER
Now, Idol of the Sareen" SOULS
MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN:
GREGORY RATOFF
ANITA PAGE 2
KREI
FOSTI
OFT
Reaching Halfway to Heaven
and
IN HIS
WEB OF STEEL
HF SNARED YOUTH. HUNGBY FOR LOVE
AFD SILKEN LUXU
TO-DAY ONLY
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BETTY BOOP
CARTOON
STAR
Get Down Off Your High Horse
At 2.50 5.20,
1.20 89.20
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