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Presents
“OVER THE BILLOWS”
with
LAI CHEUK CHEUK and WOO AI SING
A CHINESE PICTURE,
DIRECTED BY MOON KWANG Produced in Hongkong
COMMENCING TO-MORROW
DO THE DEAD STILL LIVE?
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1934.
EUROPEANS BERWICK LANDS THE INDIAN
KILLED IN QUAKE
SEVERE SHOCKS IN INDIA
LATEST DETAILS
London, Jan. 15.
MARINES
FIRING ROUND
FOOCHOW
EVACUATION NOT COMPLETE
QUAKE
STRONG RECORD IN HONGKONG
A VERY SEVERE SHOCK
Enquiries mado' this morning show that the Indian "earth-
A severe earthquake shock, H.M.S. Berwick has land- 'quake was well recorded at causing some loss of life, was ed marines at Nantai Island the Royal Observatory. experienced over a large part į
at Foochow, as a precau-'graphs indicato that the contre of The readings of the solamo- of India to-day.
In Calcutta, the tremors lasted tionary measure, The Japan the shock, was about 1,600 miles threo minutes, but although some alarm was caused and a number ese have landed about two West-by-north of Hongkong. This places the epicentro in the -foot- of buildings were damaged, no-one hundred blue jackets,.
hills of the Himalaya Mountaina was seriously Injured.
It is now learned that the XIXth in the northern part of Eastern Route Army have not entirely Bengal..
The first earth-waves word re- evacuated the Foochow area. An attempt was made to withdraw corded 4h. 48 m. 62 Hongkong the south, but Nanking noroplanes standard time. The shock, there- submitted their lines of retirefore, took place at 2h. 43m. East ment to heavy bombing and the Indian time.
The amplitude of the recorded troops returned.
It is believed that nine people were killed at Gaya, In Bihar, and alght at Patna, while at the Jamal pur-Bengal station the buildings collapsed, killing the wife, and children of the European Manager of the Railway Workshop and the wife of the local Medical Omcor.
Several buildings also collapsed Some heavy firing was heard in waves, nearly 100 millimetres, the suburbs but the cause is not shows that the shock was very known, although it is understood severe, being comparable with the
acuto that a state of
tension | Japanese earthquake that did so exists between the XIXth Army much damage at Yokohama and and the Nanking Marines landed Tokyo on September 1, 1923. by Admiral Chen.
Damage reported as occurring at
at Benares, Lucknow and at towns in the United Provinces.. The tremors, were only slightly felt at Bombay,
1
It is believed that India cacaped the centre of the disturbance, which was recorded on aoismo- graphs in Great Britain as one of exceptional sovority-British Wireless.
WORST SINCE 1857,
Bombay, Jan. 15. So far, it is reported that 25 were killed and at least 200 in- jured In the earthquake, which was the most general experienced is now seeking a compromise with Joint drive towards Changchow ainco 1897.
The commander-in-chief of the Shueng-Ya-Wol, a city on the East rebels, Teal Ting-kai remained at River at p.m. on January 15, the front until the last minute. could not have been caused by the He flew from Foochow to Chuan-Indian earthquake, but the Hong- chow on Sunday, accompanied by kong records give no indication of Generals Chan Ming-shu and Lian earlier local shock. Chai-sum,
The area affected was from Gujerat to East Bengal and from Madras Presidency to the Hima- layna and Punjab,
The centre of the disturbance appears to have been about a thousand miles east of Bombay and a hundred miles north-west of Calcutta. Router,
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TO-DAY
ONLY
At 2.30.
5.10, 7.15 8 9.30 p.m.
Thoro are rumours that Nanking
the rebels.
and Chuanchow.
Other Chineso sources stato JOINT DRIVE)
that the Nineteenth, Route Army commanders, after a conference at According to a Central News Channchow, are preparing for Agency mensage, the Nanking joperations with a view to securing forces are now hoping to effect a control of Amoy. conjunction with the Cantonces. It is claimed that the Nineteenth. troops which have entered South- Route Army extricated itself from ern Fukten, with the object of a Foochow practically intact.
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in
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CARY GRANT
A Paramount Pictura, Directed by WESLEY RUGGLES
SUPERNATURAL
WITH
(BY THE PRODUCERS OF 'WHITS ZOMBIE') RANDOLPH SCOTT, VIVIENŇE (
CAROLE
LOMBARD
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OSBORNE
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LESLIE HOWARD HEATHER
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SAMARANG
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A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
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Lilian Harvey
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JOHN BOLES EL BRENDEL Directed by John Elystosi from the play "Der Kamal” by Akita Orbek !
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