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Greta GARBO
LOVES
Robert TAYLOR
Camille
Directed by
GEORGE
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LIONEL BARRYMORE
ELIZABETH ALLAN • JESSIE RALPH HENRY DANIELL • LENORE ULRIC LAURA HOPE CREWS
Based on Play and Maval”in Dama nur”
Comettos" (Lady of the Camellos)
by Alexandre Dumas
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"BENGAL TIGER”
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TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
the Picture Everyone
is Talking About.
“DAMAGED
LIVES
It tears
false modesty |
from one of humanity's
most, serious (menaces."
A RINGING WARNING to those parents who keep their
sons and daughters in ignorance
of the most vital facts in life
A Medical Educational Picturo-
THE HONGKONG
FRESH STAMP ISSUE.
HONGKONG'S FIFTH IN TWO YEARS
CORONATION SERIES
TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1937.
AMBULANCE. WORKERS
PRAISED
(Continued from Page 1). ambulance service, Since this step was taken the sarvido has saved £10,000 a year in compensation and sick leave.
"FINANCIAL SIDE
TEST GAS ALARM SIGNALS
STROMBOS SIRENS TO
BE PURCHASED
For over an hour yesterday, Hongkong echoed and re-echoed with the screeching of an instrument designed to give the populace warn- ing of gas attacks.
"The public as a general rule is in- clined the disregard or fail to see the financial side of the service. A mo- ment's thought, however, will show that if accidents are treated rapidly and
the patient enters the experlly hands of a doctor or hospital with less loss of blood and less shock than other
would be the case and this re- The instrument is a Strombos The portraits of both King George sulis in a more rapid discharge than sircu, an adaption of the type used otherwise would be the case, with a on the Western Front and In London
during the Great War. Baving."
For
come time past it has" been
with
on the roof of and Exports Department has been removed to Police Headquarters, where it was tried out yesterday.
pear on special Corenation stamps for
VI und Queen Elizabeth are to apressionel Sleemay last visited Hong- Hongkong, and the rest of the British kong, In 1029 and said to-day that importa¬
colonics.
The Coronation issue, which will consist of three denominations in one common design, will be on sale in Hongkong from May 12, the day of the Coronation, until the end of the year.
The new permanent Issue for Hongkong will not now be ready unil early in 1936. It was previously pro- posed in issue a few denominations of stamps in a standard King's head design at about the date of the Cononation, which would have formed purt of the new permanent issue.
of St.
the
building. Now
is no mistaking the noise of
away as Lycrmoon
The Ed. Its screeches have;
OR
far
observers have been detailed distant paris of the Colony
ALHAMBRA
NATHAN AD, HOWLOON DAILY
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
THE LAUGH-LADEN SAGA OF A WELL SPOILED GIRL WHO DROVE HER UNSUSPECTING POPPER INTO
LOVE & TROUBLE !"
Anne
Herbert MSHIRLEY MARSHALL
MAKE WAY FOR A LADY
lie la glad to be able to return not only because of the Colony's charm but also because the members of the Brigade here have done so well dur- ing the several and severe testa of ambulance emelency which have the folien to their lot during
recent been yearn.
Order The
and Shamshulpo, John possesses the very deepest admiration for the noble part which 82 of its to members played during the Sino-to detect the noise of the siren, and Japanese fighting at Shanghai in their reports are understood to have 1932 when, efficient and instantly disclosed a rather amazing range.
However, the local authorities will ready for sudden emergency, they re- sponded to an appeal for humani- not content themselves with one tarian service, and staffed n tem- siren. If it is finally decided to
adopt the Su porary Hospital of 600 beds, for over a dozen will be purchased by the SATURDAY
the Strombos siren, more than two months. As a
consequence these
thesour very splendid ambulance men and Government. They will be erected women saved the lives of hundreds on the Peak, in Kowloon, and at
other of wounded Chinese and treated the various parts of the Colony-- injurics
thousands. It probably one to each police station. of
Although the siren has been tested should be made clear that this was in the nature of a special emergency more than a dozen times since being call: normally our Brigade exists installed in Hongkong, there are thousands of people who apparently bulance needs of those within the Crown. Orb, Sword of State and British Empire.
Practically no-one, appears to have Sceptres.
"In other words such special ser-heard it in the vicinity of the busiest intersection Podder Stroet and at Hongkong as our Brigade
Queen's Road. gave upon this occasion was only dictated by common humanity and because no other ambulance body then in readiness to respond to was then the call.
The new Coronation stamps will be of the same shape and size as the 1935 King George V Jubilee issue, and will be printed in single colours by the recess process.
The design of the stamps includes portraits of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth In a setting of
many
corqnalion emblems, including they and simply to supply the a have failed to hear it.
The date of the Coronation is in- scribed at the top of the design and the words "Hongkong" appear at the base of the stamps, with duty labels in the lower corners.
The issue of the special Coronation stamps and the new ones of standard design will mean that stamps of five different types will have been on sale in Hongkong within about two years. In addition, there is every possibility that Hongkong will have a special issue of stamps for its Centenary less than four years hence.
In addition to Hongkong, the special Coronation issue will apply to the
| following territories:
vico"
GASOMETER EXPLOSION
TRIBUTES PAID TO VETERAN
(Continued from Page 1.)
Then we have the case of the tragic explosion of a gasometer in 1934 when all members of the Hong-ciples and outspoken in debate, but a kong St. John Ambulance Brigade, generous opponent. relied were among the first to at-whe had known Sir Austen through- well-equipped and public- Mr. Lloyd George; as the only man spirited rive to render help. These are but out his parliamentary career, said two of many examples of the need his sudden death was a blow to the for such efficient ambulance or-heart. Millions were sorry because gantsations," he said.
a man who gave them confidence in "Space forbids.
rbids my mentioning the the working of democratic institutions many who have contributed to this hud gune.
result; but the Hong- mag Ascension, the kong Aden... Antiguu,
Mr. James Maxton paid the late owes its existence chiefly | Sir Austen a tribute on behalf of the Bahamas, Barbados, Basutoland,
to the capable and zealous example Independent. Labour Party.-Reuter Bechuanaland Protectorate, Bermuda, and leadership of its Director of Am- Special. British Guiana, British Honduras, bulance....
Alfred Morris.
THE FUNÉRAL British Solomon Islands Protectorate,
must be a great satisfaction to
London, Mar. 17.. the Cayman Islands, Ceylon Cyprus, all to know that through their undar The funeral of the late Ste-Austen- end
encouragement Chamberlain, will take place on Fri-
Ellice Islands,
Grenada,
word
the
many
human
Dominica, the Falkland Islands, Fiji, į standing even have already been day at St. Margaret's, Westminster, Gambia, Gibraltar, the Gilbert ved and that to-day a Corps of after which He deceased's remains
and Gold the
Coast, Kenya, Jamaica,
Uganda over 500 trained ambulance men and will be cremated-Reuter Bulletin and Tanganyika Territory, the Lee-women stands ever ready to help to Service.
Islands, Malta, Mauritius, saye human life and to lessen pain Montserrat, Nigeria, Northern Rhode- and
suffering,"
" he added. sla, Nyasaland, St. Christopher and Nevis, St. Helens, St. Lucia, St. Vin- Colonel Sleeman, c.n., C.M.O., C.D.E., Seychelles Sierra Lens pry Dutch is at present on ill mailland Protectorate. Straits Set- tlements, Swaziland, Trinidad and Tobago, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and the Virgin Islands. Similar ar- rangements are also being made for Newfoundland.
NOTABLE CAREER ASKS REMOVAL OF
TIN QUOTAS-
London, Mar. 17.
tour of the establish- ments of the Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem The removal of tin restrictions was In the British Realm in South suggested by a questioner in the House Africa, Rhodesia, Australie. New of Commons to-day. Zealand, Indio, Burmah, Ceylon and Mr. W. G. Ormsby-Gore, Secretary Singapore. Representing the Grand of State for the Colonies, replied that
-of-his-Order, H.R. The he thought the recer
-recent-increase-in-the Duke of Connaught, K.G.. Colonel quota had helped the situation. He Sleeman served in both the South added that the abolition of the quota Africans and Great Wars and was alone, it would involve legislation in altogether did not concern Britain responsible for the
experiments which resulted in the introduction many countries.-Reuter, and adoption of the entrenching tool into the British army..
Later Colonel Sleeman was ap-end possesses the Sacred Treasure of a visit to the British Naval Station pointed Director of Military Train-Japan, having been a liason officer to at Singapore and British newspapers ing, Officer in Charge, Air Services units of the Imperial Japanese Navy
to H.E.
Admiral Viscount during the war.
BRITAIN AND US. DRAW CLOSER
(Continued from Page 1.)
in the Straits Settlements reported | Staff
and ls Knight of Justice of the Order
with enthusiasm that Admiral Yarnell Jellicoe when the latter was On his arrival here this morning" had declared that visits back and Governor-General of New Zealand. on the Cathay Colonel Sleeman was forth between the British and Ameri- The Ambulance Chief is the grand-met by Mr. A. Morris, the local can flects would be much more son of General Sir William Sleeman director of ambulance. frequent in the future than they have been in the past.
WARM HOSPITALITY
"A further incldent which added to this speculation took-place when
a British flying squadron, under the
Smith, paid what was described as
6. Snows
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nn unofficial call in the Philippines. They were received, however, with great enthusiasm
asm by both the British and the American
in community Manila, and were warm in their praise of the
the hospitality which was accorded them.....The Briush Alr Ministry transmitted to Washington its of
official thanics for the courtesies which had been extended to Air Com- modore Smith and his associates. So far as is known in Manila this is the first time that · London has officially come into contact with Washington on the strength of an exchange of courtesies in the Philippines.
"It has long been recognised thai the defence of the South China Sea from a naval standpoint is based upon a triangle. Its three points are Hongkong in the north. "Manila to the east, and Singapore fis Ure south. This is regarded by the British' as an essential part of the entire naval defence of Australia. The strategic position of Manila in this plan is recognised,
coast
-
"It was recently stated privately and unofficially by high ranking British naval officers that the presence of the American Asiatic Fleat. in
to Manila added over 50 per cent, the effectiveness of the British naval defences of Hongkong, ;-)
both on
the "British newspapers
and in the Straits Settle China have
been critical af the American withdrawal from the Phillppines. At the present -Ume, however, there
to be grow ing
criticisin and, to
community of Interest
the
two countries. The exchange:
bo of courtesies The tween the two countries is therefore
ments
to
this
A picture overyone must seo ! Interpreted in some circles, as the
outward manifestation of a growing recognition of the need for close co-
lshod for the Proprietors by BENJAMIN / WYLIE operation between the two govern- Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.
ments in the Far East.
NIGHT-CLUB QUEEN'S NEW 'SMART MONEY' KACKET I The most sonsational exposure over screened. BEATS ALL PREVIOUS GANGSTER DEDEODMANCES !
"Little Caesar' Blasts His
Way Back To The Dictator
EDW.G.ROBINSON
ship of Modem Gangdon BULLETS BALLOTS
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JOAN BLONDELL BARTON MucLANE HUMPHREY BOGART FRANK MHUGH
TO-MORROW & SATURDAY
NOVEL COMEDY WITH MUSIC STARS !
A phony Count shows you how to tame an heiress in this hilarious mad romantic comedy
High-tension romance, with
3 new song hilaf
ANN W
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RAYMOND SOTHERN
GENE
WALKING ON AIR
HENRY
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Gertrude Michael' Margot Grahame.
Twa weanen in a finish fight for a man who wasn't
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Cecil B. Do Mille's Grandest Achievement !
'THE PLAINSMAN “
with GARY COOPER JEAN ARTHUR
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Greek Meets Greek in a Hug of War !
Gene RAYMOND
Ann SOTHERN
Smartest Yorl
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The love story off a fakhtors widzi.
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Why won't this boy talk
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Arduigh Zukem pomerania
I'd Give My Life
A
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