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HERE'S ANOTHER GREAT LAUGH-AND-THRILL HIT FROM THE AUTHOR OF "THE THIN HAN”I,
And what a great part ho's provided for Bettó as the most beautiful international orook who ever bumped a guy off between kisses!
Satan met a Lady
Screwzed by Warner Srat, - written by fumový Dachlen Hammelt—ployed być
BETTE DAVIS-Warren WILLIAM
ALISON SKIPWORTH
ARTHUR TREACHER
'Wini Show's Mario Wilson Portar Hall • Ofin Howland Directed by WILLIAM DIETERLE
TO-MORROW AT 5.10 P.M.
Under the distinguished patronage of H.E. THE GOVERNOR, and LADY COLDECOTT CHOREARTIUM BALLET
HE HONGKONGA TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1937:
May Extend ITALY ADMITS ALHAMBRA
Peace Pact
To Europe
CANADA PROVIDES
NATURAL BRIDGE
GOVERNOR SEES ROOSEVELT
There is a suggestion in Washington that President F. D. Roosevelt may sook to extend. the pan-American peace scheme farther afield, by way of Canada. It is believed he will discuss with the Canadian Governor-General, Lord Tweedsmuir, the Buenos Aires pact and the coming In- perial Conference.
Washington, Mar. 30,
A full state welcome was accorded Lord and Lady Tweedsmuir, Vice- Regal representatives in Canada, on the occasion of the first official visit ever paid by a Casadion Governor- General to an American President,
Marine Guards of Naval and Honour presented arms, while a bond
played the Canadian and American
national anthems, as the visitors were
greeted at the railway station by Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, and Mrs. Hul.
The party drove to the White House escorted by a troop of cavalry.
It is the opinion abroad that the
President and the Governor-General
MASSACRES
IN
ETHIOPIA
Indiscriminate Firing
By Troops Denied
BLOW STRUCK AT LARGE
BRITISH INTERESTS
Rome, Mar. 30.
The first official admission of massacres in Addis Ababa in February, following the attempt made on the life of Marshal Graziani, are made in an announcement refuting statements in the British press.
The announcement denies that Italian troops fired indiscriminately or that they set fire to native huts, except where ammunition was found. It is admitted that some foreign business houses were forced to close because It is pointed out that Canada, alone they carried on espionage activities against Italy.
to-night at the White House may discuss Mr. Roosevelt's pan-American peace programmg and the coming
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·Món · Couldn't Fool Hilm
He Was Bait For A Blondel
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But
JACK HOLT MAN against WOMAN"
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AND THE MOST BAFFLING OF ALL THE GREAT MYSTERIES!
LIONEL
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AND ON THE STAGE:
"THE GAETANO GIRLS"
among the American nations, remains outside the Buenos Aires agreements, and if President Roosevelt desires to extend his pence drive beyond. The
American nations, the natural bridge is provided by Canada.-Reuter,
SPY SUSPECT IN CUSTODY
JAPANESE HELD IN LOS ANGELES
Los Angeles, Mar, 30. Buichiro Abo, 39, a Japanese, has been taken into custody on a charge of assaulting a man named Tonishi, 40, with a deadly weapon.
But another charge may be laid. Polict, who searched-Abo's room as
matter of
report
they have
discovered out of gun emplace-
ments in Hawaii and a powerful Bending and receiving radio. They are checking up on Abo, suspecting he is engaged in espionage-United Preas.
TWO ARRESTED
Los Angeles, Mar, 30. Foreign espionage is believed to have been revealed by the arrest of two Japanese, following a knife fight here.
Police broke into a locked room in a boarding-house, the home of one of the
men, and are understood to have discovered wireless equipment, maps of Hawaiian-fortifications and plans of th Los Angeles water system.
Police believe at least one of the Japanese is conneted with a foreign spy organisation--Reuter.
CHURCH PARTY FOR SPAIN
TO STUDY STATE OF RELIGION
London, Mar. 30..
The Dean of Canterbury, who heads the British party, including two other representatives of the Anglican, two of the Roman Catholic and two of
the Non-Conformist
Virginio Gayda, writing in the Giornal d'Italia, reveals that the Mohamed Ali chain stores, which are established in most out-of-the-way places in Abyssinia, were closed, and all the Indian employees expelled because of espionage activities. He alleges that the tie between British policy of penetration and Indian organi- sation in these stores was such that in some districts the branch managers were British consular agents.-Reuter.
Strike Ends Important
Ship
Work
Glasgow, Mar. 30.
The strike of two thousand en- gluecrala Glasgow shipyards, which began during the week-end, was complete to-day, when not one worker turned up for duty. The men demand a`rise of a penny per hour in wages..
Five hundred labourers have also been thrown out of work. As the shipyards are at present working on an important Govern- ment contrast, it is expeeled that. the authorities will Intervene shortly in an endeavour to securo a settlemerit of the dispute.
Reuter Bulletin Servicc.
ADMIRALTY CONTRACTS
Anzacs To Play Hosts On Friday
COLOURFUL BALL AT PENINSULA HOTEL·
PRIZES FOR COSTUMES
Hongkong's biggest Fancy Dress Bull In many years is scheduled to lake place at the Peninsula Hotel on | Friday, when the Australian and New Zealand Association's annual func- lion takes place......
Branching out into an entirely new line in social activities, the Assocta- tion 'decided to make its annual dance an optional plain or fancy dress affair this year.
London, Mar, 30, Valued at something like £10,-
If the function meets with the 000,000, twenty-ono' new contracts, success indiented by the large demand the majority for the Admiralty, for tickets, fancy dress is likely to were booked by Clyde shipbuilding become a permanent part of the frns during March-British 'Wire- less.
Packed Mine
Church, arrived with two organisers Cage
en route to Spain to-day. The party will investigate the religious condi tion in Government territory.
to
The British Government declined io issua visas, with view discouraging visits to Spain for pro- pagandist purposes. The party nevertheless left London yesterday and has now received French visas for Spain, but not for Spanish Morocco-Reuter Special..
THIS MORNING'S WEDDING
Falls
And Kills 35
Johannesburg, Mar. 30.
One Kuropean and thirty-foor natives were killed as the result of a two-docker cago crashing Avo thousand feet to the bottom of a slaufé in Durban Desy Mine as a consequence of overwinding. The cage eventually came to rest in thirty feet of water.... Reuter Bulletin Service,
annual dance.
Prizes for best dressed ladies and gentlemen, and for most original costumes, ard on a particularly lavish scale. For the past three weeks they have been on view in Messrs. Sennel, Freres' window in Gloucester Arende, Prizes are additionally being given for several between-dance novelty events, and for four novelty dances.
The dance musle is being provided by the Dance Band of the 1st Bn., The Seaforth Highlanders.
Masques will be worn until mid- night, these being provided at the Main Entrance to the Peninsula Hotel as guests arrive. Admission will be by ticket only.
Tickets, which cost $3, may be
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AN INNOCENT MAN FACES THE TERROR OF LYNCH LAW.. NO JURY COULD FREE HIM FROM THE BURNING HATE OF ONE WOMAN HE LOVED!
Sho Tumad a Frenzied Mob en the Man She Loved!
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PORTUGUESE FAMILIES BIGGEST SHIP
UNITED
Miss T. Maria de Lourdes Soares and Mr. Edwardo M.. Alves were married this morning at St. Teresa's Church, Prince Edward Road.
5 DANCING, SINGING BEAUTIES 5 Tower" Stubbs Road, Hongkong.
IN THE SNAPPIEST, GAYEST VAUDEVILLE PROGRAMME EVER TO BE PRESENTED
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ON THE
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AND ON THE VL STAGE
"THE GAETANO GIRLS”
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by BENJAMIN WYŻIH at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. L. Goares of "Temple The
bridegroom
the Chevalier and Mrs. J. M. Alves, of "Valverde," Prince Edward Road, Kowloon.
of
The bride was given away by her father. Messrs. Emilio Bontein de Rosa and C. C. Blake were best men. A reception was held at the home the bridegroom's parents. The honeymoon is being spent in Shang- hal and Japan.
of
BIGGEST SHIP TO ENTER HONGKONG DUE IN 1938
Concurrently with the departure of the N.D.L. round the world liner Reliance, the local agents for Raymond-Whitcomb Cruises Inc. announce plans for the 1988 season.
These includo visits to Hongkong of two Hapag liners, one of them the 51,656 ton trans-Atlantic liner Bremen.
The Bremen will be the largest Bremen will stay in Hongkong longer vessel ever to enter Hongkong Har- than in any other port on her swift bour. Her tonnage exceeds that of cruise, 215 days being set aside for the Canadian Pacific Liner Empress of passengers to tour this Colony, The Britain by nearly 10,000 tons, Itinerary from New York is Barbados, Rio de Janeiro, South Africa, India, Ceylon, Singapore, Dutch East Indies, Hongkong, Shanghai,
Japan Honolulu, San Francisco, and to New York via the Panama Canal. The ship ไ scheduled to arrive in Hongkong on April 14, 1938,
The Reliance, which left Hongkong
at 6 pm, yesterday, is also to make a 1538 cruise. She will leave New York on January 9, returning on May 24. Two days (in April, 1938) will be spent in Hongkong.
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The Bremen is scheduled to leave In order to keep to her announced London, Mar. 30. New York on February 2, and will schedule of 90 days around the world, Dame Laura, who attended a complete the trip around the world it will be necessary for the Bremen meeting of the Selection Committee in 30 days. She will curry approxt-to break all existing trans-Pacific from the Royal Academy show to mately 1,000 passengers, the largest records. The record from Hongkong TOMORROW
Shanghal and Japan to Honolulu and With the exception of Japan, the the Canadian Pacific Line.
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