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THE FEMALE of the species
IS MORE DEADLY
THAN THE MALE.....!
Mary MORRIS
as the vicious, aristocratic Victoria Van Brett in
DOUBLE DOOR"
Sunt Pictura
FIRST
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KOWLOON
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FORTUNATE FOOL
With
HUGH WAKEFIELD JOAN WYNDHAM ARTHUR CHESNEY BOBBIE COMBER SARA ALLGOOD.
Directed by NORMAN WALKER
WHAT SHE FOUND IN A MAYFAIR FLAT/
TO-MORROW
JOAN CRAWFORD IN "RAIN”
UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE
Travel Chats
"You are due Timbuktu on June 5th?
Where did you get the itinerary?"
:..
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THURSDAY,
SILVER TRADING CHANGES
Tribute To
Germany's
Coloniser
WEEKLY SETTLEMENT BISMARCK'S NAME
IN LONDON
THREE-MONTH TRIAL
London, April 24, It's officially announced that all dealings in silver on the London Metal Exchange, between members, will be subject to weekly settle ments for three-month trial period.
not
HONOURED
VETERANS
PARADE
(Special to "Telegraph")
|23, 220 mm.)
APRIL 25, 1935.
CHIANG TIGHTENS CORDON
ENVELOPING RED FORCES
FURIOUS FIGHTING
Hankow, April 25. General Ho Chen-chun, Pacifica- fly Telegraph, Copyright. Telegraphistion Commissioner of Hupeh, assis Ordinance, 1874 Restived, pra turned here to-day by air from Chungking after participating in Berlin, April 24.
the anti-Red operations in Kwal The fifty-first anniversary of the chow and Szechuen.- A Committee of the Exchange foundation of Germany's pro-Warj Ife informed newspapermen that has been organised to facilitate colonial possessions was cole Chengtu, long threatened by a theno special settlements.
brated to-day.
desperate army of Red soldiers, The weekly auttlement price The Refch Colonists League and, was out-of-danger entirely. I32 will be fixed on Wednesdays at the the Colonial Veterans League, addition to troopa under General closs of the first session, payments their members wearing their old Yang Son, two further brigades of being made the following Friday, uniforms, placed wreaths In Government Infantry had been Special settlements will be memory of "the founder of the despatched to Changtu. called on Saturdays.
German Colonial Empire" at the The Communists are fleeing to Members are required to make foot of Bismarck's memorial. the north-west and General Chiang similar conditions. with their It was on April 24, 1884, that Kai-shek is still at Kwelyang cilenta,
Bismarck placed the land owned putting the finishing touches to Herr the anti-Red campaign in that The first weekly settlement price by the Bremen trader, will be fixed on May 8. Daily Eduard Luedwritz, in South-west area. settlements and clearing will be Africa, under the protection of the
Reich. carried out in identically the same nanner as copper and tin, that is, "prompts" falling duo on Saturday will be settled and cleared the day previous, and "prompts" falling due. Sunday on the following Mon- day.
General ¡Ho declared that General Chiang was going on to Szechuen as soon as the new provincial Government under Wu Chung-hsin was formally. In- augurated.--Reiter.
LONG STRUGGLE
To-night, the former German colonists of South-west Africa will meet to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the appointment of Dr. Heinrich Goering as "the Im perial German Reich's Com-
Kwelyang, April 25. Members must arrange with their missioner for the South-west Furious fighting is proceeding clients in order that the Exchange African Protectorate."
between Rods and Government may be protected for weekly sottle- The African colony was lost units on the Kwaichow-Yunnan ments, either by the same arrange during the war and has been under border, where Government troops, ment with their clients or by main-British mandato since. It was assisted by aircraft, set upon a tenance of a ton per cent. minimum recently announced that the coa concentration of Communists the deposit.-Reuter.
stitution would
be materially dny before yesterday and have changed, but whether that would been engaged over alnce, imply a closer union with the
The Communists are attempting British African possessions was to break through the Government not indicated.-Reuter Special.
BRITISH POSTAL
TRAFFIC
STEADY INCREASE
REPORT
London, Apl. 24.
NICKEL FOR COPPER
SUBSIDIARY · COINS TO BE REPLACED.
cordon which is steadily drawing tighter about their position.
уда
A large party, which included a number of Red leaders, pursued by aircraft into the moun- tains and, in a narrow defle, was annihilated.--Router.
A Shantung cloth peddiar was The average dally receipts of
Boriously Injured when he alighted British postal trafic have been
from a moving tram at North Point. higher than In the corresponding
Shanghai, April 25.
at 9.30 this morning, being sub- month of the year, earlier, ever; While considerable disturbanconsequently removed with a fractured akull to the Government Civil aince the end of 1932,
are being caused by the further
Hospital. The average amount of money rise in the aliver price, the Cur- received dally Inst month was rency Committee of the Chinese however, will be determined £195,033, which represents an in-Ministry of Finance has quietly maintain the silver standard with- crease of 1.2 per cent, on the corent Itself to the work of formulat-out any intention of resorting to responding figure for March, 1934. ing a scheme for replacing the inflation. -British Wireless.
to
existing irregular subsidiary coins The problem how, to withdraw in circulation in various provinces the existing irregular copper coins by n standardised systom of sub-in eirculation in various provinces put the Colony by the Empress of Russia.sidiary coins, made of nickel before this scheme can be
instead of copper.
into force is a dificult one re-
Mr. H. C. Macnamara returned to
Mr. O. E. C. Marton was a passenger by the same boat, as also was Mrs. T. J. Draper.
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A Caumont-British Picture
It Happened One Night **
On a Park Bench!
When a girl who had plenty met a guy with nothing in his pockets but a bag of popcorn ...and nothing on his mind but löyal Adolph. Zukor prasente
Claudette COLBERT The Gilded Lily
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A Parombunt Picture wild FRED MacMURRAY RAY MILLAND C. AUBREY SMITH EDWARD CRAVEN
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Lajos Zilahy's brilliant stage success of two continents "THE FIREBIRD"
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CONRAD VEIDT
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JEW SÜSS"
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In introducing this reformatory quiring close study by the Com-At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
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Another great heart throb for the mil-
ileas whe
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Anne of
GREEN GABLES
With Anne Shirley as "Anne“
Tom Brown, O. P. Haggle
Helen Westley
Directed, by
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