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'THE SCREEN'S BIGGEST
THRILL/
BUSTER CRABBE
TARZAN
THE FEARLESS
JACQUELINE WELLS. EDWARD WOODS
SARAY BELANGRIA, FRANK LADYIKÉM
NEXT CHANGE
EUROPE'S IDOL OF THE SCREEN IN HIS
LATEST AND GREATEST HIT !
EMIL JANNINGS
IN
"THE TEMPEST"
(STORMS OF PASSION)
with
ANNA STEN
An-UFA Picture..
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH ATURDAY, JAN
SAMMY SHIELDS
LONGEST "CHARTER” FLIGHT ENDS
DEAD
THE COMIC FOOT-
BALLER
Lord Apsley's Return
to England
London, Dec. 27. The longest "special charter air light on record ended yesterday, when the plane the Faithful City landed on the sands near Clacton, Essex.
WATER LIKE PARAFFIN
STRANGE COLOUR AND OFFENSIVE TASTE
An extraordinary situation arose at Sherborne, Dorsot, recently where the water supply of practi cally the whole population of about 7,000, has been contaminat- ed by a substance resembling oil. The water turned a strano colour, and smelt. so offensively
Mr. Alexander Young, known on the stage as Sammy Shielda, the music-hall comedian, died on Boxing Day in a nursing home at. Brixton. Ho had been ill for about a month at his home at Tulse Hill before his removal to the nursing home ten days before his death.
The machine left Lyons in Sammy Shields, who was about C2, was born in Glasgow and start-France early in the morning for that many people refused to use it. An official statement issued ed his career as A stockbroker's Heston, but bad visibility prevent- clerk. In his early days, he was ed the plot from locating his assures the inhabitants that, al- an amateur performer with the position. The actual landing was though the water was so flavour- Georgian Minstrels, and then went at St. Osyth, five miles from Clared, it was not injurious to health, on the stage, where he became ton, where a perfect landing was but that the condition was likely
to persist for several days. famous throughout the country for made, S
The Urban Council has arrange. his football sketch as goalkeeper. He also figured in a cricket sketch.
ed to take round supplies from an- Well known in all the musle-balls
other source. in the country, Mr. Shields had appeared in South Africa and Australia.
SHANGHAI FRAUD. BRITISH RESIDENT. UNDERN ARREST
The three flyers, Lord Apsley: Mr. Lynch-Blosse, the pilot, and Mr. E. W. Bishop, engineer, Both
The water engineer states that of Coves, were driven into Clacton by car, and stayed there the night, there is no external explanation of The Fat ful City was chartered the position, and the pollution is a ..by Captain W. P. Crawford Greene, mystery. Thousands of gallons of M.P.; and it has flown nearly 32,000 water. have been run to waste miles to Australia and back since in an endeavour to clear the October 9, when it left Worcester, supply, but the contamination Captain Crawford Groepe left persists. The water smells and the plane in India, but Lord tastes of naraffin. Apsley, who was with him on the flight, continued the journey in the Faithful City to England. Captain Crawford Greene is expected home early in the new year.
Shanghai Jan. 26. With the arrest of a British sub ject, A. C. Mack and the detention of six Russians and Chinese, the crime by which the Chartered Bank was defrauded of $136,000 fu bolfoved to be nearly solved.
Mack was arrested in his office this morning-and charged this afternoon in the British Supreme Court with conspiracy to defraud. Bail was not allowed-Reuter,
Dr. J. M. Gray, has been appointed to act as Medical Officer of Health during the absence on leave of Dr. G. W. Pope.
The name of Dr. Hui Luk-yip, The first case, it is stated, of small- Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery pox in the present cold season., was of the Hongkong University, has been reported yesterday from Yaumati, added to the list of medical practi-
the tioners. where a Chinese succumbed to disease. The romains were removed
to the Mortuary,
Following an assault by another Chiness at Chung On Street, yester- day, a woman, named Wong Wa, col- It is notified that Mr. D. W. Trat-lapsed, and died. At an autopsy per- It is notified that at the expiration man, C.M.G., has resumed duty as formed at the Mortuary, it was dis- of three months the Rainbow Neon Principal Assistant Colonial Secre covered that death was dus to cerebral light Co., Ltd., the Ka Ping Restau- Noclerk of Councils and Mshamorrhage. rant, Ltd., the Oriental Commercial R.A.G. North as Doputy Clerk of
Councils. Co., Ltd., the China Rattan Products Co., Ltd, and the Lee Yuen. Hong, Ltd, will, unless cause is shown to Mr. Thomas Megarry has been the contrary, bo struck off the re-appointed District Officer in the gister and the companies will be Northern District of the New Terri- dissolved.
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The police are inclined to a suicido theory in the case of an unidentified Chinese male, whose body, with the mark of a cut across the windpipe, was found floating at Causeway Bay yesterday.
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TO-MORROW
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JACK
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1934
QULLNS
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ARD G
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TIGER SHARK
SPECIALTY
"A Havana Cocktail "
with
RICHARD ARLEN ZITA JOHANN "'in'an ople of the wave, e
tossed jungles!
A First National Hit!
TO-MORROW
"Who'll Buy My Daughter"
Alice Brady,
who
scored wich success in "When Ladles Meet", triumphs
in
phs again this daring romance of a mother who made business of her daugh- tor's life and beauty.
σε
MOTHER
MAJESTIC
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DRAMATIZING Today's Headlines The MAD GAME
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SPENCER TRACY
CLAIRE TREVOR RALPH MORGAN Directed by Irving Commings Story by William Conselman
LORD 'REVELSTOKE DEAD
DIRECTOR OR BANK OF. ENGLAND
London, Jan. 26, The death has pocurred, here of Lord Revelstoke, third Baron, at the age of 69 years-Reuter.“
ministration the annual rental value of the Duchy had risen in a few years by several thousand pounda,
Lord Revelstoke was honoured with the friendship of the King and Queon, and has had the dis- tinction on several occasions of noting at host to their Majcation. His house in Carlton House-terrace is one of the most beautiul in London. The chier reception The late Lord Revelstoke was soloon contains many interesting educated at Eaton and Balliol, mementoes of his friendship with College, Oxford, where he gradu- the Royal Family in the shape of ated M.A. He has one son, his autographed photographs of the halt the Hon. Ruport Baring, and King and Queen, the Prince of
Wales, and other Royalties, two daughters.
Lord Revelstoke travelled wide. Lord Revelstoke was power In both, the nocial, and the financial ly, and was a member of the worlda He was a partner in the Travellers' Club he was a good great, banking firm of Baring linguist, speaking Franch and Brothers, and a director of the German fluently. An early riser, Bank of England. In 1908 he he was often seen in the season was appointed Receiver General having a gallop in the Park bo- of the Duchy of Cornwall, and ad fore breakfast, and on days when ministered the Royal arbatos with he had many public and social conspicuous ability and success. engagements to full ho frequent- It was atnted some little time ago ly got through a long morningʻa that under Lord Revolatoko's ad- work before breakfast:
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MADELEINE CARROLL CONRAD VEIDT HERBERT MARSHALL
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Algeria, and the United States. Those revolved from the United States and Hongkong were made through the Times Weekly Edition, It is estimated by the appeal, accrotary for Westminster Hospital that the fund for the rebuilding of! The worldwide appeal which the hospital has now reached, 268, Westminster Hospital makes is 000 The sum of £350,000 is nood- shown by the fact that gifts have ed in order to carry out the scheme been received from Hongkong, which the governors have in mlad. Federated Malay States, Tibet, Our Own Correspondent,
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