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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY,
MARCH
KINGS ITALY OUSTS RACE TO
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m."
Love Takes a Gamble
with romance, wealth and lifo itself the stakes! A beau- Hiful spitfire tries to outwit a cunning killer... and finds horgolf in the tightest spot of her young life! Plenty of excitement and surprize... a howl with every thrill/
SINNER TAKE ALL
BRUCE CABOT Margaret Lindsay JOSEPH CALLEIA
TOMORROW Warner Bros.
4.Securs
BAILY
1.30-KE 7.18-0.70
Directed by Enrol Teggest
Produced by Lucien Hubbard and Samuel Marx
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Metro-Goldyn-Mayer nerunt
ERROL FLYNN - OLIVIA do RAVILLAND IN
"THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE"!
TAKE IT TRAM OR HAPPY VALET BAR
ORIENTA
THEATRE-
PLEMINO ROAD WÁNCHES
TEL. 20173
CLAST 4 TIMES TO DAYO
1000 GOBS LAND IN PANAMA CITY A gag-filled, rapid fire riotous laugh festival.
A Faromunt Picture
with LEW AYRES MARY CARLISLE Larry Crabbo Benny Baker-Grant Withers
DAYS
There's an epidemic
of love.. In Panama!
Adatok Zonne prosenti
LADY BE CAREFUL"
ONLY TO-MORROW
& SATURDAY
2 BIG SHOWS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE
GRAND VAUDEVILLE ENTERTAINMENT MAGNIFICENT SCREEN PRODUCTION
FAMOUS 5 GAETANO GIRLS
America's greatest whirl-wind dancers will appear on the stage at each performance in sensational dances."
A THRILLING OUT DOOR SPECTACLE
An unequaled screen performance with thousands in the cast.
GEORGE
OBRIEN
DAVEL RODNE
Wak
HEATHER ANGEL
MATINEES: 20e.-30c • EVENINGS: 20c,-30c.-50c,-70c.
CENTRAL
QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL CAR PARK
JERVOIS
STREET
Talco No. 4 or 5 Bus going west, 3 min, from stop opposite Queen's Theatre
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
AT SPECIAL TIMES: AN 2.30; 5.00, 7.15 & 9.20 P.M.
GREAT DOUBLE BILL
TWO FULL LENGTH PICTURES FOR THE PRICE OF ONE !
"SAVAGE GOLD"
SAV
"16 FATHOMS DEEP
Filated and Published for the Proprietors by BENJAM at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong
SPAIN FROM H.K. MARKETS
JAPAN DISPLACES U.K. AS MOST FAVOURED NATION Italy, which lost practically all its trade to Hongkong when sanctions were applied during the Abyssinian trouble, has regained favour again as one of the major exporters of goods to this Colony.
Figures issued yesterday afternoon by the Govern- ment Statistical Office disclose that Italy exported goods to the value of $218,360 to Hongkong during the month of February.
In February last year Hongkong's total imports from Italy were only $21,636, a figure that decreased to nothing two or three months later.
was
one
Italy is now reaping the harvest of 075,852, as compared with $2,268,055 trade fonnerly gathered by Spain. for the same period last year. Hong Tarn by civil wor Spain has bot kong purchases from the United been able to attend to her over-States, however, showed a decrease market and, during Febru- from $2,005,140 in February last year scas ary,
of the very few ❘ to $1,793,108 last month. countries to have no import trade from
this Colony. In the month Hongkong's total imports from Spain were only $7,255, representing an enormous drop compared with the average figures for each month.
Japan easily displaced Britain as Hongkong's most favoured customer during February this year. Imports from Japan totalled $4,773,821, compared with $3,001,852 for the cor- responding period last year. Imports from Britain In February this year were only $2,420,203, or approximate ty 50 per cent. of importa from Japan.
Britain Good Buyer'
While we bought twice as much from Japan Da from Britain, our Homeland, on the other hand, was almost as good a customer for Hong- kong goods as was the Far Eastern nation.
In February, Britain purchased goods from Hongkong to the value of $1,803,044 (representing an in- crease of almost $700,000 over the same period last year), white Japan's purchases amounted to $2,201,014,
Excluding China, the best cus- tomer in February for Hongkong goods was the United States which, despite the shipping strike, purchased Hongkong goods to the value of $3,-
HUNTING FLYING DUCHESS
MACHINES FROM 10
STATIONS HELP · ́ FRESH GROUND PARTIES OUT
London, Mar. 24.
One of the most extensive search flights ever organised by the Royal Air Force began to-day when ma
Australian Trade
The biggest increase in export to Hongkong was made by Australia, which leapt from $450,410 in Febru- nry last year to $1,200,000 last month, an increase of almost 300 per cent.
Honkong's trade last month showed Bubstantial increase over the figures for the same month in 1930. Total imports were valued at $39,308,028, compared
$35,003,170 in February, 1930, while exports were £33,132,851, compared with $31- 753,800.
with
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PREVENT FLOODS
1937.
BREAK IN OUSE ·
BANK FOUND. ARMY: HELPING
IN
FENS.
London, March 24. A severe crack in the bark of the River, Duse. was discovered this morning. The work of repair was
rose.
started immediately before the ide The Roods in the Fen country were discussed in the House of Commons today, when Mr. Lloyd George sold the flooding was the result of years of neglect by the Ministry of Agricul- "The Minister of Agriculture, reply-
turc.
ing, stated that the present floods partment had given every assistance
were unprecedented and that his De-
*
when asked. He added that the men in the fen district were the best people to combat these floods, and though the Government was making the waters, he asserted that the au- much responsibility,
a grant to assist in the fight against
thorities had
as
since it was a local matter.
Conditions are at present quiet on the Fens, but Army units are arriving and Aldershot, in preparation for next at Ely from Colchester, Canterbury Sunday, which is the danger day, owing to the spring tides-Reuter
Bulletin Service,
COMING WEDDINGS
The following forthcoming_wed- dings are announced: Mr. Robert Arthur James Simpson, Civil ser- vant, residing at 2 Pau Chung Street, ground floor, and Miss Elleen Hilda Aslett, teacher, of 153 Tam Kung Road; Mr. Thomas Campbell Fair- burn, omical measurer, of 54 B.C., Shameen, and Miss Mary Constance Reeves Bonnell, secretary, residing at Helena May Institute.
EASTER EVE
DINNER DANCE
SATURDAY
ALHAMBRA
NATHAN AD KOWLOON-DƏ
TO-DAY AND to-morrow
Love's a funny thing... you never know where It's going to hit yout
Ada Zden
ALONG CAME LOVE"
・A Paramount Picines with Irene Hervey Charles Starret Doris Kenyon H. B. Wamer Irena Franklin • RICHARD A; ROWLAND'S Preactions + Crigland Beroun ... Play By Awarens (Author of "Bevosh Naavan")• Directed by Bart Lyrali
ADDED COLOUR SPECIALTY ---
His first ALL-COLOR adventure!
Adelgh Zuber Bergenij
POPEYE
THE SAILOR Mecta
SATURDAY. ·
20th Century-
Fox Picture
SINDBAD THE SAILOR
A Max Fleischer Cartoon
A Paramount Picture
Phy arrangement with King Featurri lyndlišta, tan, and Sugar
"LLOYDS OF LONDON"
with Freddie Bartholomew - Madeleine Carroll
QUEEN'S
DAILY AT 8:30-515-7·20 8,9:30 TEL 31453 TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
Those "Pixilated" Sisters Get the Drop on Eddie!
KZaku pirmas
"LET'S MAKE A MILLION"
& Palemavit Putare wph
EDWARD EVERETT HORTON
Charlotte Wynters Porter Hall „Borted by Jay Milerry
"LOVER'S PARADISE" in Technicolour
ADDED ATTRACTIONS
BETTY BOOP in "YOU'RE NOT BUILT THAT WAY”
S-A-T_U_R_D_A_Y..
THE ONE PICTURE YOU CAN NEVER FORGET I "LLOYDS of LONDON"
DAILY
AT
230.
5.20
27th
720
920
MARCH
chines from ten stations left to search THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.
for the missing Duchess of Bedford.
At day-break, the aged Duchess had been missing for forly hours.
Fresh parties of searchers also be gan work to-day. in_different.points
the sea where the over might have come down.-Router.`
Duchess
Consumption Outrunning Production
SUGAR_SITUATION NEEDS REMEDY
London, Mar, 24. While Empire sugar producers who are meeting at the Colonial Office aro · busily engaged preparing the powder and shot for the International
Sugar Conference, delegates from
Cuba,
Czecho-Slovakia, Germany, Belgium, Peru, Hungary, Yugo- Slavia and Poland have assembled here with an identical purpose. The proceedings of both Conferences are being held in private.
It is pointed out that the problem: facing the world conference has considerably changed sinco the World Economic Conference, decided on the desirability of international
regulation. The Bugar
past two ars have witnessed consumption | yeara out running production and the dis- posing of part of the huge surplus stocks.
The prospects of further expansion and demand in the wake of world- wide prosperity suggest that the world conference will meet, under the most favourable auspices. The only Immediate problem is lo pre Wat vant any further accumulation of
largo surplus stocks. Reuter.
4 SHOWS
DAILY
2.30.5 20 720-9.30
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
NATHAN
ROAD KOWLOON
TEL. 57222
MATINEES: 20«» 30«° EVENINGS: 20«.~30«:50c:70x TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW .THE STORY OF THE G-MEN'S NEW JOB! THE SCREEN'S SENSATIONAL NEW HIT!
EDW.G.ROBINSON
"Little Caesar""Blasts His
Way Back To The Dictator-
ship of Modern Gangdom BULLETS BALLOTS
with
JOAN BLONDELL BARTON MacLANE HUMPHREY BOGART FRANK MCHUGH
& feral National Pisture Direted by Wm Keighley
• COMMENCING SATURDAYA. M-G-M's DAZZLING SUCCESSOR TO “THE GREAT·· ZIEGFELD"; THE MELODY-PACKED WONDER SHOW OF ALL TIME!
BORNE DANCE
SMAR
Elianor
DOWELLY
JAMES STEWART • VIOWA BAJCE
A 20th Century Fox
Picture
STAR
: LAST TIMES TO-DAY.
With
HANKOW ROAD KOWLOON TEL
57795
Crime doesn't pay in this man's town!
Fred STONE
GRAND JURY
Owen Davis, Jr.
Louise Latimer
in
RKO-SADIO PICTURE
Katharine Hepburn Herbert Marshall
Directed by Albert S. Rogell) TOMORROW
RKO Picturo
in “A WOMAN REBELS”.
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