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THE DEVIL WON THE GAME!
Higher and Higherl Faster and Faster!
She gave herself to the great god Speed, and tried to run away from the fires within herl
800 miles an hour Then the crashi
CHRISTOPHER STRONG
Screen play by Zoe Akins from the navel by Gilbert Fraskav. David O Selznick, executive producer
The personal story of a milion davahters
The girl who set the world allome in "A Bill of Divorcement" triumphs in
Katharine thing tole
HEPBURN
With COLIN CLIVE BILLIE BURKE RALPH FORBES, HELEN CHANDLER
TO-MORROW
HYOZZWELLS'
ISLAND OF LOST SOULS
Ignoring the god Who Made Them, They Stormed the Homs of Dr. Mor 'san, Secking the Cirl Who Was Allo' Human!...A Tale of Romance, Adven ture and Terror as Only H.G.Wells Can'
Tell Iter WITH
CHARLES LAUGHTON 2
BELA LUGOSI
BICHARD ARLEN
LEILA HYAMS
And the
PANTHER WOMAN
&
„A Garamount Picture"
More
Exciting, Mord Thrilling, Moro Amazing Than Anything You Have
Ever Soon!
MAJESTIC
หมูย
1933 MARCHES ON
to SCREEN GLORY
WSylvia Sidney
Brings Her Passionate Art to a Great Love Story!
"MADAME BUTTERFLY
STEVIA SIDNEY
CARY GRANT
CHARIT JOGGLES
J.P. SCHULBERO
TO-DAY to SATURDAY
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
A. LOVE STORY FIRED
WITH THE. PASSION OF
THE WEST AND THE EAST...A TALE LOVED BY
MILLIONS,
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Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PM FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8. Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria Hongkong.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1933.
JAPAN PREPARING FOR 1935
"EMERGENCY PERIOD"
Tokyo, Dec. 20. Five or six of the nine vacant seats in the Houss of Peers will be nied by the Government prior to the 66th Imperial. Diet senaton, opening on Saturday. Mr. Jen- Jiro Hörkkiri, Chlof Secretary of the Cabinet, and Mr. Shohel Fallinuma, Head of the Metropoli- · tan Police Board, are being con- sidered s eradidates for the nominated members of the House of Icers,
Mr. Kok! Hirota, Foreign Min-. inter, and Mr. Matsukdehi Koyama, Justice. Minister, are to be recom mended as candidates for the Im- perial nominees. Mr. Toisaburo Sokiya, former Vics-Minister of the Imperial Houschok! Department, In expected to be recommended as a possible nominated member of the House of Peers,
Ara
Sir John and Lady Simon, who Inaving on a Continental
holiday to-morrow.
ANOTHER ATTACK.
Harbin, Dec. 20..
PREMIER KEEPS
UP THE
HOLIDAY MYTH
SIMON. VISIT TO CONTINENT
NOT OFFICIAL
London, Dec. 20. The Prime Ministor stated in reply to a question in the Commons that it was not proposed that any British Minister should during the Parliamentary Recess visit official- ly European capitala in connection- with disarmament.
An, however, the Föreign Secre- tary, Sir John Simon, was taking a Christmas holiday in Italy, it was possible that he might. take any opportunities which arose of sceing members of the Govern ments through whose capitals he may pass
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According to present arrange- ments, Sir John Simon will losve PREPARING "1935,"
Five hundred bandits who in- for Paris to-morrow afternoon, With the 66th session of the vadod Zun, a Chiness Eastern Rail-after taking part in the debate on Imperial Japanese Diet to convene way station fifty miles north-west Foreign Affairs in the House of
Commona. in three daya, Government lenders of Harbin, succeeded in over- are working overtime to prepare a powering the Manchukuo guard at large number of bills for midnight last night.
troduction.
Important problems concerning diplomacy, nailonal defence, foreign relations, naval construction, ngri- cultural relief and other issues are accumulating with the approaching 1935 "emergency period."
He and Lady Simon will be the The bandits attacked the garri-guests of Lord Tyrrell at the British until British Embassy in Paris son of Manchukuo soldiers, many Saturday, when he will leave for of whom were overpowered. The Capel.British Wireless. romainder of the soldiers retreated.
The bandits withdrew from the station this morning, with Japan- ese troops in hot pursuit.-Reuter.
Having already approved the re-boghole and opposes Government cord-breaking budget of Yen 2,100,- expenditures for this purpose, 000,000, the Finance Minister, Mr. Korekiyo Takahashi is maintaining A negative attitude towards all measures that require additional expenditures. He insists that the depressed agricultural villages are able to pull themselves out of the
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fo
SEVEN PERISH IN THE
IN LA PLATA
La Plata. (Argentina). Dec. 18. Seven people were found dead after a fire in a petroleum depot at
Plata yesterday. The damage done is estimated at many million pinstres.-Havas.
KINGS
DEATH LURKING IN EVERY CLUE.
The most sinister murder that
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with
CHARLIE CHAN'S
greatest
CASE
WARNER OLAND HEATHER ANGEL
From a novel by Earl Derr Biggers
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FROM SUNDAY
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MONTGOMERY
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