12
CENTRAL
THEATRE
TO-DAY ONLY
At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m. BRITISH FILMS LIMITED Presents The Great National Motion Picture
"THE DEEDS MEN DO”
A Synchronised Version of
THE FAMOUS BATTLES of CORONEL and FALKLAND ISLANDS Made with the Co-operation of the British Admiralty and with the assistanco of the Navy League.
TO-MORROW
Thank Goodness. For
Her Business Training!
If it hadn't been for the touch system learned at her mother's knee this story might never have been written!
Gay Lones
and scan. clesi
Giels and glacies!
Desuty and Bedlam!
WHEELER
and
WOOLSEY
BERT and ROBERT
(The well known hoets) They rise to new heights of hooey while the nation cheers...
HIPS HIPS HOORAY
A...music-drenched. drama of beauty for safe at cut prices
with Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd, Dorothy Lee
Munte, lyrica aral screen play by Harry Ruby
and Bert Kalmar. Directed by Mark Sandrich.
AMAJESTIC
TO-DAY ONLY at 2.30, 5,20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
George O'Brien at His Best in A
Zane Gray's Action Romance
The
LAST TRAIL
CLAIRE TREVOR
EL SZENGEL -LUICELLE LA VERKE Biruted by Jasons Thuling
Thay change so fast, there should be
a new picture at least once a year, for photographs of the children never grow up.
Make an appointment to-day, THE MING YUEN STUDIO 17, Queen's Road Central (First Floor) (Between the H.K. Hotel and Dalry
Farm Store, Queen's Road C.)
Tel. No. 24310.
Printed and Published for the Proprictors by FREDERICK PEROY FRANKLIN, at 1 and J, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria Hongkong.
THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MAY 14, 1934.
FAUNA EXTINCTION
THOUGHTLESS MOTORISTS CAUSE DEFREDATIONS
SALE OF STAMPS
WHY POST OFFICE IS A PAYING PROPOSITION
JAPAN BLUFFING?
DIPLOMATS SURPRISED BY WARNING TO CHINA
Depredations by thoughtlessl According to the annual report
Pelping, May 12. motorists and lkers, who are no of the General Post Ollico no less less blameworthy than-plant.hawthan
The Kwantung Army's warning, and kers and medicinal herb collac-48,500 post cards aud envelopes breaches of the Tangku Truce, 14,084,588 stamps,
accusing . China of frequent tors, are threatening many of the bearing postage stamps, were sold uncommon flowering plants in to the general public during the has around surprise In Chineat and foreign circles here owhig to Hongkong with extinction.
year. "The total value Was According to the annual report
the complete absence of Sino- Japanese tension fo Chiun, apart of the Botanical and Forestry De- $1,172,780. partment, the excessive develop. Five cent atamps, which are from the belief that the Japanese ment of outlying areas of land is used mostly for letters destined insist on an early settlement of another cause of the graduni ex- for Chinn, were easily the most outstanding problems. tinction of rare fauna and terns, popular, no less than 4,919,040 of Asplenium Nidine, which was, until these being sold. Over 15,000 $10 a few years ago, numerous on stamps and 15,812 $5 stamps worn rocka in many nullaha, has now also sold. almost entirely disappeared." During the year the Chinese the Japanese reports of Chinose
In order to prevent
the threaten- Delivery Section handled 7,472,549 firing on Japanese troops front ed destruction, a commencement ordinary letters, 412,033 other Malanyu lack conviction. has been made with the schema articles, and 10,861 postal Hong Despite the warning, the Japan-
The Chinese authorities point out that no Chinese troops remain in the demilitarized aroa and that
of removal. Nearly 400 plants of packets, while 5,671 registered eso appear to have made no pra the terrestial orchid Plantanthorn letters were dealt with.
parations for any action, and the Susannae, Lindi, and G86 of Iris A total of 0,877 ateamora general bellef here is that the apeculatrix, Hance, have been re- carried 10,440 receptacles to warning is part of the general planted in suitable spots in Mt. Hongkong, while 200,365 re-Japanese policy of impressing the Collinson prohibited aroa, where, coptacles were dealt with in tran- need for expediting the settle- It is hoped, they will be allowed to remain undisturbed,
Reafforestation.
Reafforestation is being vigor. ously pursued by the Department,
and increased acres of pino tres plantations word Bown In 1933. The number of sowinga in situ of Pinus Massoniana amounted to 331,668, an increase of 72,000 over the previous year, the areas dealt with being Taipo Kau forestry re- serve, Mt. Collinson prohibited ren, Stanley, Kowloon and Skep Li Pul catchment areas, Rod III (Stanley), Mt. Cameron and Sai Kung Road.
sit by the local authorities. It ment of the remaining problems in took 14,844 mail receptacles to North China-Reuter. dont with mall for His Majesty's Ships on the China Station, while foreign warships accounted for JAMAICA'S GOVERNOR.
another 1,280,
poor
Outward bound, 6,801 steamers took away 10,650 receptacles of Hongkong mail.
British anilors proved correspondents, for, while it took 14,844 receptacles to bring their mail out from Home, it required: only 3,814 receptacles to carry their correspondence away,
caterpillars were destroyed by this method.
SIR ALEXANDER SLATER'S RESIGNATION
London, May 12, Sir Alexander Ransford Slater has tendered his resignation of the Governorship of Jamaica on the grounds of ill-health.
The King Ная accepted his Pine Tree caterpillars appeared
resignation and has approved the In the Pine plantations at Fasting
appointment In his place as In January last year, but very, for- Firty-eight fires occurred in the Captain-General and Governor-in- tunately only in small numbers. plantations in 1938, as compared Chief of Jamaica, of Sir Edward Collection and burial, the only with 71 In 1982. In one of the Brundis Denham, at present effective method of saving the fires 2,500 young plants were de- Governor and Commander-in- trees, was commenced in February, stroyed on a young plantation be-Chief of British Guians-British and a total of 480 lbs. of the low Shok-O Road.
Wireless,
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"Y,b Pt,,,,, 2x ༡ ཡ་FLNe"ཡཎྜརཱམ།
2.9 KINGS ?
2.30.
5.10. 7.15 &
9.30 p.m.
EYES LIKE BALLS OF FIRE..
ASIA'S FIERGEST JUNGLE BEASTS CLASH IN MORTAL COMBAT!!!
Claws like temperci steel...fangs as sharp as ice-picks... burn- ing with hate for everything living ..
he stalked the three lane kumans who invaded his domala...ever-crafty, ever-watching to crush
and kill and claim. them
as his victims.
DEVIL TIGER
SEE
murderous Jungle beasts In desperate struggles for life.
HEAR
their blood-chilling cries, striking ter- For in your heart.
4 SHOWS
DAILY
2.30-5.15
7.15-0.30
Directed by *CLYDE, E. ELLIOTT director of
**BRING 'EM BACK ALIVE" Story by James 0: Spearing. 41214 by Truman Taficy
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313, & 25332.
-TO-MORROW.
HOW TO D SLAP FATE IN THE FACE!
team in ena dalicious lesson from the liva. fantastic Rimpiegara! They're nelly bul nical
Claudette COLBERT
Richard ARLEN
Mary BOLAND
in
"THREE- CORNERED
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PRODUCTION
ORIENTAL
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2 MORE DAYS—TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
THE WHOLE WORLD -RAVED-ABOUT-THIS-MARVELOUS
SCREEN PRODUCTION,
Charles LAUGHTON
in The Private Life of HENRY VII
Roland Ave UNITED ARTISTS
FLEMING ROAD WANGH
TEL. 28473
HENRY VIII
WHAT A MAN HE WASI
He took their hands in marriage— and their heads in divorce.
A forgiving soul-always ready to bury the hatchet-in his wife's neck. Live and let Hre, was his motto- but not too long!
Women lost their heads over him. He never raised his hand to a woman-he, Just chopped off their heade
He wielded the axe in politics--and in love!
Every woman got it in the neck- eventually i
Henry was always a gentleman- he never chopped off his wives', heads without first removing his hat!
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The event of the year- Glorious Garbo's retum in
Her Most Glamorous Rolel
with
John Gilbert Jan Kolth - Lowls Stone Elizabeth Young
A Nostra Manuaalinu i̇radinetiosa
A METRO-GOLDWYN MAYER PICTURE
THE ONE AND ONLY
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STANLEY LUPINO
The Irrisistible in
"FACING the MUSIC"
DIRECTOR CHARGED.
ALLEGED FORGERY OF BANK OF EAST ASIA SCRIPT
Wong Yun-tong, a director of the Bank of East Asia, appeared before Mr. Hamilton, at the Con- tral Magistracy on Baturday morn-
with
JOSE COLLINS
tween May 15, 1919, and February 22, 1983.
with having alded and abelted. Wong Wal-pak was also charged
Wong Yun-tong.
Mr. II. L. Donnys appeared for for both accused, the prosecution, and Mr. M. K. Lo
Mr. Dennys said that the valua
ing, charged with having felonious of the property was about $8,000. Both defoudants were really rola- ly forged, with intent to defraud, tives of the complainant, the first the algnature of Wong Shut-on to defondant being his brother.
a deed of transfer of 50 shares.
Ball in onch cano was fixed at numbered from 15425 to 16474 of | $4,000 and the honring was nđ- the Bank of East Asia, Ltd., be-1 journed until 2,00 p.m. on May 18,