CENTRAL
THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.15, & 9.30'P.M.
LO MING YAU presents
LILY YUEN
IN HER LATEST STARRING VEHICLE
“THE COMEBACK”
with
KAO CHAN FEI—M. NIKITINA-LEE KENG
A UNITED PHOTOPLAY SERVICE PICTURE.
Based on Pierre Louy's Famous Novel,
Beautiful
Music !
Laugh
Settings ! Gorgeous
Girls I
in
Coming Attraction
THE MERRY
MONARCH"
Sidney Fox
EUROPE'S IROL OF THE SCREEN IN HIS FIRST ENGLISH TALKING
PICTURE.
A UFA SPECIAL.
MAJESTIC
TOM TYLER
UNGLE MYSTERY
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
Wild Animals!...Mysterious "APE MAN". Bloodthirsty Natives ! Outlaw. “White Mon!.. A cyclone of thrilis that will amaze you!",
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY,
BUDGET SURPLUS
ORDERED OUT
DISPOSAL PRESENTS A ̧ ̧
PROBLEM
INSULL MUST LEAVE GREECE
MARCH 12, 1934.
TIMOR ISLAND
BRITAIN PLANNING-FOR
PURCHASE
London, Mar. 11. Athens, Mar. 11 London, Mar. 10.
According to tho M.
Sunday Prime Minister, The prospect of a substantial Tho surplus buing realised at the end Panayoti Tanidaris, has decided. Despatch, Britain is considering of the financial year, which that Samuel Insul, wanted in buying Timor Island, the Inst halt closes on March 31, has given Chicago In connection with the on the air route to Australia. rino to much conjecture regarding failure of the Utilities Trust he The purchase price in said to be the proposals of the Budget,controlled, must leave Greece next between £5,000,000 and £10,000,-
000. which will be opened in the House weck.
The polico have notiñed Insull The paper adds that Holland of Commona next month.
The restoration of the cuts that he must leave within five and Portugal are the joint owners mado in the unemployment benefit days, otherwise he will be arrest-of Timor and are apparently will- scheme and the salaries of civilled and embarked on the first linering to neli-Router servants, and a reduction in the bound for New York-United taxation imposed to meat tho 1031 crisia, aro the principal objects, to which, it is suggested,
Press.
The repert Rocalla recent rumours of Anglo-Dutch dofones agreements, Viscount Allenby's mystory visit to Java, and an al-
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, wisdom in coming to a final con-leged Japaneso offer to buy Timor. Mr. Neville Chamberlain, should cluston until it was certain that devate his attention.
A surplus existed, and if so, the
distribution of some part of such any conclusions.
Mr. Chamberlain proceeded to
Amsterdam Surprised.
Amsterdam, Mar. 11. In a speech last night at extent of the surplus.
Government circles here are He said that the distribution of Chamberlalu Birmingham, Mr. referred to the subject, remarking "some part of such a hypotheticni surprised at the Toport that Bri- that any prudent occupant of his surplus" was a weighty problem tain in contemplating the pur- stated that no approach has been office must give careful considera-into which many considerations chase of Timor Island, as it is tion to the various objects, which entered. might present themselves for a He had, at present, not come to made by Great Britain regarding
such a schomo.
Discussions are going forward n hypothetical surplus, in a way best
fitted to advance the in-refer to the movement headed by with Britain. however, with a terests of the country with due the Archbishop of York for view to the construction of an
ties announce.--Reuter. regard to the conflicting claims ensuring that the restoration of nerodrome there, Dutch authori- and to the relief of the various the cute in unemployment relief classes in the whole community. would be given first consideration. The problem, he said, was a There was nobody who did not weighty and complicated one into share the Archbishop's sympathy THREAT TO STRIKERS. which many considerations, some with the unemployed, he said, but of which were not yet even known when he read the letter which the to him, entered; and he had not. Archbishop wrote to the press, up to present, come to any do-Jurging those who agreed with him finite conclusions.-British Wire-to write to their members ICRA.
Parliament, he thought it a pity
"Hypothetical" Surplus
of
MUST RETURN TO WORK.
Havang, March 10. Ports workers have rejected that the Archbishop should seem the Presidential order to call off to imply that the members requir-the strike, despite the Govern
strike London, March 10. ed a reminder of humanitarian | ment's threat to sponsor
breakers. The Chancellor of the Exche-feelings.
Interviewed on the subject, quer, Mr. Novilla Chamberlain, "I regret also that he should has not yet decided how to dispose have suggested that members are President Carlos Mendlets aald: of the expected Budget surplus. largely to be guided by the hum-"I am not secking blood, but the This was made clear in his ber of letters they receiya rather Republic is above all things. If speech at Birmingham, last night, than by their own judgment," Mr. they (the strikers) want a clash. they shall have it."-United Press. when he warned that there was no Chamberlain added. Reuter.
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5.10, 7.15 &
9.30 p.m.
KINGS
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RIO With Dolores Del Rig
GENE RAYMOND RAUL ROULIEN
HEAR THE TANTALIZING, JĮYPNOTIZING "CARIOCA” also
"MUSIC MAKES ME" "ORCHIDS IN THE MOONLIGHT" “FLYING DOWN TO RIO".
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EL BRENDEL
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"OLSEN'S BIG MOMENT"
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TALKING PICTURE in Cantonate Language
'Life's Struggle'
HOLYK
TERROR Miss CHAN YUK MIN
GEORGE O'BRIEN
SALLY EILERS
WITH
in the leading role.
STARTING.THURSDAY MOONLIGHT & PRETZELS'
QULLA'S
To-day & To-morrow at 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 8.80
A SENSATIONAL
Joan
MUSICAL HIT!
CRAWFORD Clark GABLE
Never such an entertainment in all screen history! Songs that thrill and throb! Hundreds of dimpled darlings in scenes: of: dazzling magic! Screendom's Dancing Daughter-as you desire. horl
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DANCING
LADY
MAE WEST
"I'm No Angel"
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KIDNAPPERS CAUGHT been summoned to Berlin on urgent
business. {STORM TROOPERS OUTWITTED He astutely signed the telegram with his surname. His wife con- BY ASTUTE JEW......
cluded that something was wrong Berlin, Mar. 11. and telephoned to friends in Berlin, Seven Nazi storm troopers have who informed the police. been sentenced to from three to Schlesinger telephoned a frie Bix years penal servitude a and asked him to stand, with the charge of kidnapping a wealthy ransom of acveral thousand marks,, Jowish manufacturer of Chemnitz outside the Zoo Station. and attempting to extort ransom. The Nazis drove up with The victim, Otto Schlesinger, was Schlesinger, received an envelope held up while motoring near Chem-containing the ransom and released nitz and forced at revolver point to their victim. As they drove off, enter a Nazi car and was driven to they were pursued by a polios car Berlin. He was allowed to send a and captured, after an exchange of tologram to his wife saying he had shots with the police. Reuterate
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