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QULLA'
Final Showings Today at 2.80, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30
STAN
Directed by
CHESTER X. FRANKLIN
Produced by
SOHN W. CONSIDİNE, JR.
NOTHING SINCE "TRADER HORN" to equal the thrills of this mighty romance!· GIRL Goddess of Nature! A mountain lion and e dear...leaders of the wild forest herden! Two years to bring you the screen's greatest adventure.
A
EQUOIA Jean Parker
OLIVER
LAUREL HARDY in "Them Thár Hiliz”
QUEEN'S
PRONOUNCED "SIL.QUO.YAH
Goldwyn.
Mayer
FRIDAY
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IT WILL BE..
Charles Dickens'
THE BEST-LOVED
PICTURE OF 1935!
DAVID COPPERFIELD
With a star cast of 63 playors featuring:
W. C. FIELDS MAUREENO'SULLIVAN
MADGE EVANS EDNA MAY OLIVER FRANK LAWTON ELIZABETH ALLAN LIONEL BARRYMORE FREDDIE
BARTHOLOMEW
LEWIS STONE ROLAND YOUNG
A mighty scTORA production of an imperishable love story! Your tear. dimmed oyes, your thrilled heart will tell you how WOD- derful, bow excit- lag, how moving it in!
Mauro
Directed by GEORGE CUKOR whose previous liimi succeer w Produced by David O. Selznick, filwyn-
Mayt
PICTURE
MAJESTIC
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None too old and none too young to enjoy this gay romance!
STAN
LAUREL HARDY
OLIVER
BABES TOYLAND
THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
KWANGTUNG NAVY
· REORGANISATION UNDER GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
Canton, April 28
TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1935.
PETROL PRICES
COMPANIES' REPLY TO
ECONOMIC COMMISSION
MADALAH MASSON
ANOTHER RECITAL TO BE
-GIVEN NEXT WEEK Some interesting data relating to
The Colony is fortunate to have. The two flotillas, the Canion the price of patrol in Hongkong, River Flotilla and the Kwangtung in other large elties in the Far East, racital by Madame Madalah Mas- compared with the prices obtaining the chance of hearing a second Coast Defence Squadron, which is contained in the report of the son before she leaves. form the Canton Naval Force, Economic Commission. under Instructions from General There are dimeullies, the report The second recital will be at Chan Chal-tong are to be' organie-points out, compiling a table of 9.15 p.m. on Tuesday, April 30, at od into one combined fleet under comparative prices, owing to the the Holona May Institute, and the the General Headquarters of the number of inconstant factors which programme is a most interesting 1st. Group Army.
determine the selling, price of the one. It Includes Bach's Italian At present the two flotillas have change rates, variations in Customs "Prelude, Chorale and Fugue." commodity. Fluctuations of ex- Concerto and Cesar Franck's two different organisations. The and Excise duties, and mail errors Those works are, of their own. river flotilla is under Admiral In the reduction of different measures Chang Chi-ying, while the Kwang-of capacity to A common selling period and style. amongst the tung Coast Defence Squadron is unit, mest all be taken into account greatest of all piano corapositions. under Admiral Klang Hal-yuan: in considering the figures which the Then follow the charming Kinder- The order is interpreted na a de- Commission has compiled,,
Scenen of Schumann, two Inter- sire to save expense, and increase:
After converting the prices to their mazzi (Ops. 117 and 119) of facilities of control.
equivalent in Hongkong currency, Brahms, and a fine group of however, and American Fallons into Chopin, the G. Major Nocturne, was arrived at by the Commission: Imperial gallons, the following table the Impromptu in A flat major,
Shanghai: .... Dalten .England:
Dow
Canton:
Hongkong:
61 cents per gall, and the Andante Spinato and
Polonaise In E flat,
"
H
45 06.7" ES
before December 25, 1994, and "76 conta per gallon since that date.
Companies Explain
Such a programme, played by Madame Masson, cannot but be a noteworthy event in local musical activities.
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According to naval official! circles ft. is understood that a ro trenchment scheme will be appiled to the local naval force. A cor- tain number of officers are likely to be effected as less porsonel Is required according to the kchenie-Wah Kiu Yat Po.
Completed at End of Month
Canton, Apr. 22. Following the decision of the Authorities to amalgamate the Kwangtung Squadron, consisting of three northern cruisera Haichi, Halsen, and Shaoho, which sur rendered to Canton following the mutiny of 1933, and the Canton Fleet, which is directly attached to the First Group Army under General Chan Chal-tong, the pre- peration commenced to-day for handing over the warships to the direct control of the MIlitary an extensivo mórkeling organisation, reduction of prices, the Report Headquarters, also abolishing the are in a position to market their continues la open competition; and Squadron Headquarters.
products at prices which are unre it must be admitted that, so far an Admiral Klang Hai-yuan sum-munerative so far as the Major com- this Colony is concerned, this factor Is almost non-existent. While not, at moned a meeting of the cruisers pants are concerned.
H. The charges in Hongkong do the present time, advocating any officers, instructing them that the not represent more than a reasonable measures which might tend to reduce arrangements for the transfer return for the money expended by prices to uneconomic levels, it in should be completed before the end the companies and should not be com-dieult to credit that the larger oil of the month.
pared with the prices in areas where companies aro selling at a loser in cut-throat competition has forced the above mentioned places where prices down to an unremunerative prices are so much lower than in Lovel.
Hongkong, and, if this is indeed the C. Physical conditions in Hong case, it is still more difficult to kong necessitate a certain amount of bellove that Hongkong såles could duplication of plant and equipment offset those forses. without bringing a corresponding "We would remind
those com-
Tickets at prices from $1 are Three major all companies were requested to give their views on the obtainable at the Anderson Music Colony, reports the Commission, and apparently excessive charges in the Co. the replies, summarized briefly, were as follows:
Report, must tend to render working "A. Owing to over-production the costs higher and profits Sea. How prices of petroleum products have ever, the Commission is not entirely been forced down to unremunerativo satisfied that in the existing circum- eyes, and as a result the major distances longkang is not being mado tributing companies have been face to shoulder some of the burden Im- with competition from smaller proposed an oil companies by competi- ducers and sellers who, not having ten in other areas. incurred the expenditure of creating
It is understood that a number of the officers ara being appointed to serve at the new headquarters.
-Reuter
BOMB OUTRAGE
CANTON INCIDENT CAUSES
PANIC
The most potent factor in the
| return in the shape of increased | panles," the Commission states in its
salos.
D. The monthly trade in petrol in the virtual monopoly carries with it a report, "that the possession of a Calony averages about 310,000 Ameri- duty to the community which should can gallons compared with 1,000,000 not be overlooked; and that it is in American gallons in Shanghai, The their own interests to ensure, by distribution Canton, April 22.
facilities hero are charging reasonable prices that the Another bomb outrage occurred designed to cater for a much larger puhile of Hongkong will not welcome at 8.15 to-night at the Hopkee lume of trade. Renta, rates, and with enthusiasm the advent of fresh
labour a more expensive than in competitora. Restaurant in Sap Pat-pa Road, as most of the areas mentioned above, a result of which one person was and the provision of special and "In particular," concludes the ro seriously injured.
expensive fire-fighting appliances sport on petrol prices, "we would urge The victim was one of the strictly enforced,
the propriety of passing on to the waiters of the restaurant, whose E. The figures given in
least possiblo the consumer, with the arm was blown of. He was at report represent the approximate delay, the benefits received from an onco rushed to hospital.
From returns to the Companies and appreciated currency. In view of the Following the
not the nett returns. No allowances fact that the Hongkong dollar has. have been made for dealers' discounts been steadily rising during the last was panic in
the district and and rebates to important customers. six months we do not feel that the martial law was enforced for half It has been estimated that the nett recent (len centa) reduction per return to the Oil Companies Galton should be regarded as more Two suspects were arreated in cents per Imperial gallon, an opposed than a step in the right direction; connection with the bombing, to the gross relurn of 85 centa
and, though daily fluctuations aro which is believed to be the work
noither practicable nor desirable, a somewhat less conservativo. polley of bandits who have been black- The geographical condition' and the might be pursued with advantage in mailing the restaurant.---Renter. restricted gallonage, points out the the light of a rising exchange."
an hour.
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