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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,
DECEMBER 17, · 1937.
KING'S
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NOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE
CRIME WAR
Will they write another bloody page in the Annals of Crime?
Can they ever find love
and happiness.'.. with ... a past like theirs?.
WIDOWS?
Those wires of the gangsters.fread forever from ther mebiter mates by the guns of the Mend
PUBLIC ENEMY'S
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O'BRIEN LINDSAY
WIFE
'See the tregte aftromath of the Maran Crane, trase the prai
"PUBLIC ENEMY
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A Paramount Picture
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A Screenful Of Laughs ! A Roughhouse Romance
BARBARA STANWYCK HERBERT MARSHALL in “BREAKFAST FOR TWO"
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An RKO-Radio Picture
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Cop vs. Hiller! The Law v.. The Lawless!į
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The GREAT OMALLEY
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COMMENCING SUNDAY
CLARK GADLE JEAN HARLOW in
"SARATOGA"
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
COUNT THE TELEGRAPH.S.”
EVERYWHERE
"HULLO HONGKONG": REVUE
"Hullo Hongkong" is the title of a revue to he staged by local amateur players at the China Flest Club on Wednesday next. This picture shows members of the cast'during a rehearsal this work. (Photo:
Ming Yuen).
BRITAIN MAY SEND CUBA TO
WARSHIPS TO EAST
(Continued from Page 1) :
GIVE LAND
bombing, concerning which official TO POOR
anter is steadily growing.
Havana, Dec. 18.
three-year
ALHAMBRA
NATHAN IR HOLL DONE DAILY PYT
• FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY THE WAY AS TO HOW TO CHEER UP AND LAUGH AT "HARD TIMES"
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CREATEST OF ALL .ARLISS PICTURES !
George
ABLISS
"A SUCCESSFUL CALAMITY
with
MARY ASTOR
EVALYN KNAPP
A Warner Bros. Picture.
TO-MORROW
DEANNA DURBIN in
100. MEN & A GIRL ”
with LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI & HIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA A Now Universal Picture
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FRENCH WORKERS ACCEPT LONGER
HOURS OF
LABOUR
•
Paris, Dec. 16.
Exceptional extensions of the 40- hour week system in trades and in- dustries working for national de- Kence with a view to overcoming de- 1473- delivery. have been lays in animously agreed to by employers and workers delegations--Reuter.
FRENCH VISITOR
It is believed that official sarb- stantiation Di the eye-witnesses The Cuban Government has decided alleged report that Japariese nuval to distribute unoccupied Government craft joined in attacking the. Panny and to 80,000 poor familles, each of will result in an even stiffer attitude. which will be given 33 acres. Onicials have indicated privately This is part of that they are inclined to accept on economie plan and will nuke an ac-
The French sloop Dumont d'Urville fake value the Tokyo civil govern- |ceptable Christmas present to the
arrived in harbour this morning and nient's pleas that the affair was an poor, as they will be allowed to nesaluted the Admiral's flag. MS. arcident. blunder and
forth. eupy the land immediately-Reuter. || Cumberland replying. However, they frankly saspect that the intention of the Japanese military and naval authorities in China was something different.-United Press.
فا
Situation Becomes More Serious
Ometal
that
Washington, Dec. 15.
confirmed
reports have Japanese vessels machine- gunned the U.S.S. Panay after she had been bombed by Japanese adir- men, announced Mr. Cordeil ult. the Secretary for Slate, to-day,
STOP PRESS NEWS
AMBASSADOR RECALLED ··
Rome, Dec. 17.
He added that this information, which made the incident more serinus: thon at first appeared, would 10 The Chinese Ambassador, Mr. Liu transmitted to the Japanese coreign Wan-tao has left for Chinn at the
Office in the form of representations ; to supplement the facts already set out in the formal note of protest against the bombing.
State Department ofleials further assert that it is contrmed that while the Panay survivors were escaping in small boats, Japanese aeroplanes dived and machine-gunned them from low altitudes, wounding two of them. Also that before the Panay the sanit, some Japanese boarded vessel for five minutes, although the United States colours were flying and -were easily discernible.- Reuter.
JAPANESE TRY TO PLACATE AMERICA
(Continued from Pape 1.)
behest of the Chinese Government,
It is understood his recall is for, "informative purposes," and is with ut political significance.-Reuter.
MACHINE-GUN ATTACKS ON PANAY DENIED
Shanghai, Dec. 17. The Japanese military and naval! authorities emphatically deny as in- consistent with facts the reports that before the Panay sank she was ma- chine-gunned by Japanese in two motor-boats. The survivors of the Panny report that the Japanese, before boarded the vessels shortly she went down.
The Japanese maintain there were no Japanese naval or military craft near the Panny when she was bomb- ed-Reuter.
FRANCE
WITH
PLEASED
NOTE
Paris, Dec. 16.
The tone of the British Note to Tokyo has pleased observers here who are glad to find it more ener- ing of the U.S.S. Panay, the Jupangelie than they expected.
It is felt the tone esc Navy has recalled Rear-Admiral
of the Note Teizo Mitsunami, chief of the aerial gannot fall to Impress the Japanese operations says a seini-official that they should be careful not to Japanese statement, which adds that try the British patience too far. the officer will be relleved of his Router, post-Reuter.
REPLY MUST DE AWAITED
London, Dec. 16.
FLIGHT ENDS ·
ABRUPTLY
Rome, Dec. 18. The recalling of Vice-Admiral
The Italian airman; Marlo Stop- Teizo Mitsunom), and the semi-
pani, lett Sardinia
non-stop oficial announcement that he is to be relieved of his post as Japanese naval light to Buonos Aires, this being the first of a series of lights Signor commander on the Yangtse, is Mussolini has ordered in view of the garded in London as a hopeful sign institution of an air service between in the right direction, anys Reuter's Italy and Latin America-Reuter. diplomatic correspondent.
At the same time it is not possible Bad Weather Stops Flight
to say how for this action will go; towards meeting the British demands. The reply to the British Note as a whole inust be awaited.--Renter.
SHIPS IN WIRELESS
COMMUNICATION
The following ships are expected to be in wireless communication with Hongkong radio-Willandra, Hellos, Kitano Moru, Bokuyo Maru, Tiscun- hong, Bebar, Empress of Canada, Cornias City, Minoo Maru, Shinkyo Maru, President Pierce, Ferncastle, President Hoover, Tasman, Kwang- tung, Szechuen, President McKinley and Anshun.
made
A
the
Morseilles, Dec. 10. Mario Stoppani, the Italian aviator,
forced landing off Algerian coast at 3.30 p.m. to-day owing to bad weather according to a wireless message from Casablanca. Reuter,
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SEVERN RIVER MAY BE BRIDGED
London, Dec. 16.
A deputation, representing 21 local authorities, has presented a petition
The following communique was to the Minister for Transport for the lasued recently at New Delhi: "Ow-construction of a bridge across the
with a $0 foot
ing to failing health and advancing River Severn, years Lieutenant Raja Shrimunt Sir
The plan for the bridge submitted, Malojirao Venkatarao Raje Ghor- pade, alias Nanasalick, Itaja of Mud-contains 60 spans, hol (Deccan States Agency) has ex-railway track and motor road, and pressed his desire to be relieved of two six-foot footpaths. The bridge would have a 120 foot clearance and the burdens of his office.
affe has, therefore, with the apon the circular route from Gardiff to its construction would save 52 miles proval of His Excellency the Crown Bristol-Reuter. representative been permitted to ab- diente in favour of his only son and helr Shrimant Bhairavsingh. Ils Majesty has approved of the retention invested with ruling powers in 1004. by the ox-Raja of a salute of nine His only son and heir is 18 years old. guns, as a personal distinction," Mudhol State has an Drea of 300 The ex-Raja of Mudhol is 63 years square miles, a population 82,880 and old. He succeeded to the "gadi" in an annual revenue of about Its. 3.00.- 1000 when he was a minor. He was|090,
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