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A love that moves. mountälan bog
RONALD COLMAND
STAHBRYZON
JAME WYATT JOHN HOWARD MARCO THOMAS MITCHELL. EDWARD EVERETT HORTON ISABEL JEWELL
M. 8. WARNER – ŠAM JAFFE
A COLUMBIA PICTURE
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THE THRILL IN A MILLIONT
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Stars! Songs! Spectacle Laughter! Romance! Novelty! Glamor! The wondor show of 19371
ne in a Million
TO - MORROW
FOR 1 DAY ONLY
introducing to the screen.
the lovely queen of the silvery skates
with
SONJA HENIE ADOLPHE MENJOU JEAN HERSHOLT
NED SPARKS DON AMECHE
RITZ BROTHERS ARLINE JUDGE
"UNDER TWO FLAGS"
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THE HONGKONG
Working Folk Will Attend Coronation
His Majesty Requests Presence At Abbey Representatives To Be Selected
London, April 5, His Majesty the King has express- the wish that worlding people should be represented at tlic Corona - tion Service in Westminster Abbey, The King's wishes have been conveyed to the industrial Welfare Society, which will select a man and woman, box and girl from the factories of the country to attend the ceremony.
The King and Queen are at present
TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY, APRIL (6,4% 1937.
CABLE AND Rebel Plot
WIRELESS COMPANY
Big Reconstruction Scheme Proposed
Now Funded Income Stock' Creation
London, Apr. 2.
In Madrid
Disclosed
"Substantial Group" Under Arrest
Stores Of Arms Discovered
Madrid, Apr. 5.
The Court of Directors of Cable and Wireless (Holding), Ltd., yesterday Follee here have announced the, unanimously approved, for submis-discovery of a plot to initiate up- |ston to stockholders, a scheme of reconstruction, the effect of which may be summarised us follows:
That the one-and-three
quar- ters years' arrears of dividend on the 51% per cent. Cum. Preference Stock to the 31st December, 1030, which will remain after payment out of the profils for 1930 of one year's dividend
Cum:
in residence at the Royal Lodile,in cash, be cancelled in consideration of the issue to the preference stock- Windsor Park, and yesterday, Decoin-holders of four per cent. panied by the Royal Princesses, they Funded Income Stock, to be created walked to the clumpel to attend divine by the Company to n nominal amount cqital to the net amount of the arrears after deducting income inx at 45. Od. In the pound,
service.
The Court will move to Windsor Castle some time this week, but the date has not been fixed.
a
Meanwhile, the Queen. Molher paid visit to Westminster Abbey ut noon to-day to inspect the Corona- tion arrangements. She was accom- panied by the, Earl Marshal of England and was shown over the Abbey by the Dean of Westminster,
Reuter Bulletin Service..
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Youth Extorts Money Schoolboy Scared By Threats
CAPITAL REDUCED
risings throughout the city, timed to coincide with a concerted rebel-drive on the capital.
It is reported that “a substantial group of rebels" has been arrested at their alleged headquarters in the market district..
The Insurgents, under the tender-
made preparations to commence of Senor Manual Ruiz Gonzalez, revelt simultaneously with the: insurgent attack from outside, it is stated.
It is charged the plotters stored arms and munitions in various build- ings in the market district and planned to launch a terrorist move- "(2) That the capital of the Comment to aid their allies to seize the
city, Reuter. pany be reduced by writing down the issued amount of the "A and "B" Ordinary Stocks to a total of £6,983,002 and wmalgamating those stocks into one class of Ordinary Stock to be held as follows: (a) Euch holder of "A" Ordinary
hold £30
Stock
NON-INTERVENTION
London, Apr. 6.
In
Committon
It is understood the Non-Interven- tion board is making satisfactory pro- Kress with the work of completing machinery for the
of the International
control nominal scheme
with the
ob- servers is largely completed and many are on their way to take up their duties, while several are already on the spot-British Wireless.
Ordinary Stock in the reorganised Spanish Non-orcement. capital in respect of each L100 The allocation વ international
nominal of "A" Ordinary Stock now held; (b) each older of Ordinary
tock to hold £7. 10, 0 Stock nominal of
Ordinary Stock in reorganised
capital in respect of each £100 nominal of "B" Ordinary Stock
hele. The four now ccnt. Cum. Furded Income Slock will, ax regards both capital and Interest, be payable only out profits (except
winding-up)
a
Der
and will rank for interest at the rate of four per cent, per annum, and re-
Li Hung, an unemployed young man aged 17, was sent to prison for payment of capital on a winding-up five weeks by Mr. E. H, Williams at jin
priority to the Preference and will be re- the Central Magiisracy this morning Ordinary Stocks, und when he pleaded guilty, to demand-deemable by a cumulative Sinking
Fund of ing money with menaces from a
one per cent. (payable o schoolboy on April 3,
(of profits only) in priority to the Detective-Sergeant Allan sald Yau payment of any divider.ds on the
Battery Path Motoring
Local Resident Smashes
Lamp-Post
J. H. Potts, of Messrs. Benjamin and Potts, was fined $25 by Mr. K.
Kan-fung, the complainant, was play. Company's share capion of this Keen at the Central Magistrney this
Un
Except for the
Ing football with some friends on a vacant plece of ground off Gan Road Funded Income Stock and its issue to on Saturday when defendant came the Preference stockholders in satis up with two other men and tried to faction of one and threequarters take away the ball. He further cara' arrears of dividend, the rights aceused complainari of having attached to the Preference slock are
demanded com- assaulted him and
not to be altered in any way.
MEETINGS nepention Complainant refused andFull particulars of
LATER of the the men crowded round him
proposals threatened to strike him. The buy
bay will be
to stockholders as forwarded was frightened and gave him live soon as possible, and it is hoped to cents. Defendast demanded more, hold the necessary separate meetings and complainant borrowed another of the holders of the three classes of five cents from one of his friends stock, and the extraordinary general mecting of the Company, on Monday, the 24in
1037, the usual date for the general meeting of
and gave it to him.
cents
Before leaving, defendant instruct- ed the boy to be at the same spot at a certain time, and to bring 50 with him, threatening violence other i wise. Complainant reported to the police, a Chinese delective kept the appointment with him and when the defendant came he was arrested.
Italy Raises Status Of Dublin Consul
Dublin, April 5.
The
Company
This 15 the second step towards tellating capital, as in 1935 approx- Imately one-third of Preference Stock was repald.
in
The scheme has been well received and favourably commenter on Londen and the provinces.---Our Qwi Correspondent,
morning for driving up Battery Path, which is n rond closed to traille, on March 23.
Trafic-Inspector Saunders asked for a serious view to be tüken of the offence as it was well-known that no motor traffle was allowed on that zond, and there is a sign at the bot tom tom saying so. Defendant smashed a lamp-pest about half-way up. The Truftic Department had written him on March 10 asking that he drive with more care and caution 25 there had been recent complaints from private individuals regarding his driving. Ile had clear record. otherwise.
П
For disobeying a trafic signal at the Star Ferry whart at 9 a.m. on March 19, W. Stoker, of the Hong- kong Electric Co., Ltd., was fined $5 by Mr. K. Keen at the Countral Magistracy this morning.
Traile-Sergeant Bethell sald he saw defendant driving his car across the road as the ferry was emplying.
SEEKS TO ENLIST 300,000 WORKLESS Wife's Health
The
Keeps Wu In Shanghai
Washington, April 5. The creation of B permanent Civilian Conservation Corps of 300,000 It was officially announced to-day members has been recommended in that the Italian Consulate in Dublin a message to Congress by President had been raised to Legation status, Roosevelt. and Signor Lodife, the new Consul-
functions of the existing Corps, General, has been appointed Minister.under the present law, expire on June The Free State is to appoint a 30, and in making the new proposal Minister to Rome, it is stated. President Roosevelt states that they Mr. Wu Teh-chen, former Mayor of still need to provide useful employ- Greater Shanghai, is not sallling en ment for a large number of youths, route to Canton, to notwithstanding
Civil Governorship of Kwangtung, the great strides made towards national recovery by the Empress of Japan to-day, as
originally arranged.
Reuter,
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MUST BORROW AGAIN
Washington, Apr. 5. Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury, sold to-day that new borrowing would be necessary before the end of June, but he did not ex- plain, as it is generally believed, that
with RONALD COLMAN. -. CLAUDETTE COLBERT] the shortage is due to the failure of
CENTRAL
QUEEN'S
ROAD-CENTRAL CAR PARK
Reuter,
COAL MINE CONDITIONS
London, Apr. 5. An agreement which will govern the conditions of employment in the South Wales coalfield as from to-day tax receipts to reach expectations. until the end of March, 1942, was Details await publication of the signed this afternoon by owners' and Budget estimates in the week of miners' representatives. British April 14-United Press.
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THURSDAY
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There's an epidemic of love
In Panama!
· Adelph Zukor prpiente g
LADY BE CAREFUL"
WILLIAM POWELL - CAROLE LOMBARD
“MY MAN GODFREY”
Shanghal, Apr. 6. Owing to the illness of his wife,
assume the
Mr. Wu is now expected to depart aboard the B.3. President Coolidge on April 9-Reuter.
NO ASSISTANCE
NEEDED
BETTER WEATHER FOR AMBASSADOR
H.M.S. Danac has reached Foochow and has wirelessed that the weather has so improved that the British Am- bassador to China, H.E. Sir Hughe M. Knatchbull-Hugesseri, has decided to remain on H.M.S. Falmouth for the rest of his journey to Shanghol.
The Danae will, therefore, make calls at ports before proceeding to Shanghai..
TEN CASES OF
·DIPHTHERIA
REVEALED IN LAST WEEK'S REPORT Last week's return. of notifiable diseases shows ten cases of diphtheriu (alx deaths), eight of dysentery (six deaths), six of small-pox (three deaths), six of cerebro-spinal fever (four deaths), three of typhoid (three dentha), three non-fatal cases of chicken-pox, and one nos-fatni of measles.
case
One of the small-pox cases and one chicken-pox were imported. were 65 deaths from
of
Thero
luberculosis,
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20. 1930+TEUN 04 83
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW FIGHTING FURY!
Two-gun, two-fisted
action with Ken!
KEN
MAYNARD
Avenging Waters
THURSDAY
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-Directed by.
Bennet
Spencer Cindon
"THE LUCKIEST GIRL in the WORLD"
with JANE WYATT - LOUIS HAYWARD
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LAST 4 TIMES TO DAY.
THE MOST THRILLING and |SPECTACULAR of all TARAN PRODUCTIONS!
LOVE IN A JUNGLE EDEN!
2 YEARS TO MAKE, It's NEW! It' DIFFERENT! Never before on any screen! What girl would be afraid of 1,000 jungle, terrors with the great arms of
Tarzan to protect her...to love her?-
WEISSMULLER
JOHNNY
TARZAN ESCAPES
Mam with MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN
Spoken
Nyer
Based upon the characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs
· Directed by RICHARD THORPE
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ONLY'
THE BEST NEWSPAPER. STORY EVER
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It's all laughter and excifomont from start to finish. MEOWI WOOF! P-F-F-TI WHAT A FIGHTI
The GIRL on the FRONT PAGE
EDMUND LOWE GLORIA STUART
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POWELL FRANCIS "ONE WAY PASSAGE"
A Warner Bros. Dramatic Sensation !
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MASTER ACTORIESS
GEORGE ARLISS
THE WORKING MAN”
Warner Bros. Comedy Hit