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NOW PLAYING
At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
SEE NEW YORK SWEPT BY TIDAL WAVES AND EARTHQUAKES ! THE MOST ASTOUNDING. PRO- DUCTION SINCE "TALKIES,”.
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE EXPECT. ITI
What if it should happen tomorrow!
RK O RADIO Picture
GRIPPING SPECTACLE OF THE AGESI
Our Modern World Destroyed Before Your Eyes!
Only half a hundred men and half a dozen women survive in the naked earth! One wonian for ten men ...and no law except, desire!
An astounding imaginative -romance-staged in the vas
waste of civilizationi.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1933.
SUCCESSOR TO
COL. WATSON
COL. J. H. MORRIS
DUE SOON
Col. J. H. Morris, D.S.O., 0.B.E., who has been appointed Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport to the Chinn Command in place of the Into Col. A. H Kinnaird Watson, is expected to arrive here on January 11th aboard the .. Ranpura.
AIR SERVICE • DEPORTEE DIES
TO EAST
ANGLO-CHINESE
PARLEY
Imperial Airways officially an-
·nounce that passengers can now
IN GAOL
INQUEST HELD THIS MORNING
An inquest into the death of a malo deportes, Chan Hol, 52, who died in Victoria Gaol yesterday
be accepted from London to afternoon, was held at the Contral Singapore or vice-versa.as' re- Polico Court this morning, Mr.
·ports covering the flight between Hamilton sitting Ds Coroner, Karachi and Singapore indicate assisted by the following jury- that all ground arrangements, are ready.
Col. Morris joined the regulara from the Mllitin and from 1903' un- til 1905 was 2nd Lieut. in the Army Service Corps, being promoted to the rank of Lieut. In March of the Iatter year. Ho recolved the ap-1 pointment of Captain in Novem bor, 1911, and three years later was transferred to tho R.A.SC. with the rank of Major. In January, 1919, he received the brevet of Llout. Colonel, the np for London at 12.30 p.m. on Do morning he reported sick and was pointment being substantiated in 31 and will bo piloted by Captain Immediately sent to the gaol
Prendergast.
hospital where he died at 3.26 p.m.
Mesars, W. H. B. Muskett (fore- man), C. A. Goldenburg and M. W.
This means that, contrary to earlier expectations, the first Barton..
land to reach Singapore on the
Chief Warder Buchanan said commencement of the service, the Astraca, which landed at deconsed was admitted to prison Seletar on December 19th, may on December 23 by virtue of 'a' take passengers back with her warrant issued under the De- on the first homeward flight. [portation Ordinance. Yesterday The Astraca leaves Singapore
1929.
he
Col. Morris has hold many posta At the outset the fare from Sin-On admission to prison he made with the Army, boing Deputy gapore to London will be the same no complaint. He was being ne Assistant Director of Supplies and an that by the Dutch air mail, L.e.,commodated until his deportation, Transport of the Mediterranėnų £180. A return ticket costs £334. and was not an ordinary prisoner. Expeditionary Force, Egypt, and
this At the conclusion of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force,
ROUTE TO CHINA. boing appointed Assistant Direc
evidence, the Coroner and jury tor in 1916. This post he held until sion in London for the extension mortuary, and on their return, Dr. Commenting on a recent discus-viewed the body in the prison 1919 when he returned to England of the Imperial Airways service to G. V. A. Griffith, medical, officer From 1923 until February, 1027, China, Capt. A. C. Bernard, organis- of the gaol, gave evidence. Ilo he was Deputy Assistant Director ing superintendent for I.A. In Sin-stated of Supplies to the War Office.
saw the deceased at gapore states: For service in the South African
10.30 a.m. yesterday and he was "Negotiations between the au- then in a very collapsed state. He War he was awarded the Queen'a
thorities at home and in China complained of oplum deprivation | South African Meda) with tho
with this in view have been go- and pains in the stomach, Both Cape Colony, Transvaal, South
Ing on for some time and there his lungs were tuberculous. He Afrlen (1901) and South Africa
are Indications that the outlook was treated for his pains and (1902) Clasps.
In promising.
collapse, and showed slight im- Col. Morris saw Borvico in
"It is fairly certain that any provement, but died at 3.25 p.m. France and Belgium during the such extension will be in the Great War from October, 1914, to
form of a trunk line from Bang- The post-mortem examination October, 1915, in the latter year
kak"
revealed
п dogenerated going to Egypt with the Egyptian
Capt. Bernard has not been nak-diseased heart, both lungs were Expeditionary Force. He was ed to survey the route yet but he tuberculous, and there Was mentioned in despatches on three believes the connection is already chronic intestinal obstruction. Occasions and holds the British possible. The French line, at pre-Death was due to heart failure. War Medal, the Victory Medal and sent operating as far as Saigon, is
The jury returned a verdict of the D.8.0.
death from natural causes. anxious tó extond to Hongkong.
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331
TRACY
IN THE FUNNIEST COMEDY IN YEARS
This man's dream will give you your life's laugh!
He dreamed he was back in 1910 -yet he knew he' had lived in 1933!
A Moto Godligi Mayer
MITUNG
Turn Back Clock
with
MAE CLARKE, OTTOKRUGER GEORGE BARBIER
directed by
EDGAR SELWYN
FROM SUNDAY
With PEGGY SHANNON LOIS WILSON SIDNEY BLACKMER Matt Moore, Edward Van Sloan, Ralf Harolde, Samuel Hinds Directed by Felix E. Feist from the book by $. Fowler Wright, Samuel Bischoff, asso, producer
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"NANCY BROWN ́HARBY WEICHMAN` BETTY STOCKFELD
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Me and My Gal
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Spencer TRACY Jean BENNETT
Marion Murmá
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