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HE WAS ON THE TRACK OF CRIME TILL A CUTE TRICK SIDE-TRACKED HIM!
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PRESCRIPTION FOR ROMANCE
WENDY BARRIE KENT TAYLOR MISCHA AVER DOROTHEA KENT
ETO-NIGHT AT 9.15 P.M. GALA PREMIERE OF
The true story of Bery Prince Albert and the youthful Queen
VICTORIA
THE GREAT
ARIA
NEAGLE
ANTON
WALBROOK
F. B. Warner » Walter Ala
drated by
HERBERT WILCOX
Victorial
With many sconeria TECHNICOLOR #XC-RADIO PICTURE
Screen Play by Miles Malleren and Charles De Grandcourt.
With the Full Military Band of the 1st Bn. Seaforth Highlanders
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,
Double Slaying SOLDIER'S
In Amoy GALLANTRY
REWARDED
Joalous Husband Kills- Policeman And Wifo
Amoy, Feb. 21. (Dy Mall)
Saved Comrades. In Cafe From Bomb By Quick Action
London, Feb. 24.
FEBRUARY 25, 1938.
New Palestine Port Opened
Passengers Can Land At Telaviv
The
Jerusalem, Feb. 24. new £260,000 port for passenger ships at Telaviv was in- augurated to-day.
In
A double killing occurred here during the week-end. A policeman of the city, thirty years of age, and
Owing to the heavy de, ne- a woman twenty-seven years old
companied by rain, the landing af were the victims. The policeman had Mott of the 1st, Battalion Essex monies had to be cancelled.
The gallant action of Private . E. passengers and other outside cere been a soldier in the north until com Regiment, in picking up a live bomb paratively recently. He is a native of which had been thrown into a crowd-handling goods, such us
Hitherto the port has only been Honar and leaves a mother and a ed cafe in Haifn on Christmas Day, fruits, but the
citrus
and younger brother. The woman had and throwing it into the street where Palestine has now panelloned passen-|
Government been married twice. Her first hus-It exploded, has been rewarded. band died four years ago. He was
#er landings and embarkation. The War Once announces the King Reuter Bulletin. manager of a loent ten after his death she married one of of the British Empire (military divi
Arm, and has approved the award of the medal the assistants of the same firm. sion) for gallantry.
Dismissed from this employment, The announcement states that the her husband fell into poor circum- Jordania Cafe in Halfa was crowded stances and became a hawker. He with soldiers and elvillana when a opened 0 small shop to sell the goods bomb was thrown among them. which he gathered and the little busi-Bott, who was rented at a table with mess was looked after by the wife some other men of the battalion, during his absence while he scoured picked up the bomb and hurled it the town and country, buying dle through the window into the street, carded house-hold rubbish to make where it exploded with great vio- a meagre livelihood by selling these lence. Private Mott's highly courage- goods in the shop. The policeman ous act undoubtedly saved several was on duty almost opposite the shop lives, and injuries to many of his door and he made the acquaintance companions, adds the statement-the Japanese authorities at Tangku The Telegraph understands that of the young wife.
have released the two Chinese girl aludents of the Peiping Union seized Medical College who were aboard the D. & S. steamer Yochow at that port.
The policeman, to deepen the inti-| macy, cultivated the nequaintance of the husband-hawker and soon the
association between the policeman
British Wireless.
and the lady ripened into something STOP PRESS
more than friendship: At length the polleeman removed his trunk from the police station to a room: above the shop, and all his off-time} he spent in her company. When not on night-duty, he slept at his friend's home and the husband was accom- | modated with a sleeping place in thei shop below.
On Saturday morning the police- man falled to appear at the station) for duty. He was sent for, but the: men who had been dispatched to) rouse him found the shop-door barr- ed and neither shouting nor hom- mering on the door could rouse the inmates. At length one man scrum- bled through a back window, enter- ed the bedroom, and found the poller- man and the woman lying dead in bed. An axe and a knife, over a foot long, were lying on the floor near the bed. Bolli bodies were hacked and gashed with many wounds.
Enquiries from neighbours elicited that on the previous evening the hus- band had purchased wine and food and the three had passed a merry time before retiring.
The husband has been arrested.
Invention Will Pierce Fog
Baird's "Magic Eye" Developed
London, Feb. 24.
the
liner he
The "Magle Eye," whereby a ship's pilot will be enabled to see through fog for a distance of 30 miles, is the Intest invention of Mr. John L. Baird, television--pioneer, who, before leaving London aboard Strathaird Australia, sald Intended to carry out experiments during the voyage.
He added that he had already made experiments in an acroplane with television set for use in Eumbing air- craft. The set enabled the crew.
to 10
a bomber to see on a ground-glass screen, a town 50 to 100 miles away -Reuter Special.
GEN. HAN FU-CHU'S RELATIVES SLAIN
Hsuchow, Feb, 23.
By Kind Permission of Lt. Col. R. A. Wolfe-Murray, D.S.O., M.C., | General Han Fu-chu, former Chair-
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TO-MORROW, ONE DAY ONLY ✪ RETURN SHOWING BY SPECIAL REQUEST ! WILLIAM POWELL, JOAN CRAWFORD, ROBERT MONTGOMERY în “THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY” A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Comedy-Hit !
More than 70 relatives of the late
man of the Shantung Provincia!! Government, at his native village Hanchintsun in Pashlen, Hopei, were
by recently ruthlessly slaughtered irregulars under the notorious bandit chieftain Liu Kwej-tang, allegedly in the employ of Japanese.
Gen. Hon's mother and wife, who had left for Lanchow, luckily escaped i the carnage.-Central News.
INGENOHL'S
GRAND
Girl Prisoners Released
After British Consul Intervones
The girls, Misses Sia and Liu, were passengers aboard the ship when it was searched by Japanese gendarmes. They were detained because, it is alleged, they were in possession of Hterature to which the Japanese took exception.
Relense has been effected, it is I stated, upon representation by the
British consul in Chefeo.
JAPANESE DETAIN PASSENGERS IN BRITISH SHIP
Moji, Feb. 26. The British and other passengers aboard the steumer Kalser-I-Hind, here from Hongkong, have been detained in quarantine.
It will be necessary for the ship to- be fumigated, and the passengers also, because one of the crew, A. P. Andrews, has smallpox. It is be Beved he contracted the disense in Hongkong.
There are 14 British aboard.-United Press.
passengers
PREMIER WILL ANSWER
FOREIGN OFFICE QUERIES
London, Feb. 24.
The Prime Minister, answerin Mr. Clement Attlee in the House of Commons, who wished to know who would answer Foreign Office ques- tions until the new Foreign Secretary had been appointed, sald_he_would.
Foreign Omee suggest
questions should be addressed to him as the Prime Minister. British Wireless.
CLAIMS BATTLESHIPS VULNERABLE TO ATTACK FROM AIR
Washington, Feb. 24. Despite denials by the army and navy authorities, a high, Government official, who insisted upon remain- ing anonymous, informed United Press that the war and navy de- partments possess highly confidential reports of the aeroplane and battle- 'ships manoeuvres off the Pacifie coast which indicate that dread- naughts were vulnerable to bombard- ment.
This was proved by the fact that a thousand pound bomb exploding within 50 yards of a battleship would scriously injure Its Internal machinery, while cruisers were even Imore vulnerable.--United Press.
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