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goings-on in Such naughty New Orleans, Gayer than Mudi Gas...sod merry with Gordon
and Revel songs!
and
MAGIC
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"WESTERN
GRANDEUR"
TOMORROW
20th Century Fox
DAILY
AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
DON. AMECHE SIMONE SIMON. ROBERT YOUNG
JOSETTE
A 20th Century-fos Picture with
DEAT LAHA JOAN DAVIS
- ALSO-
TERRY-TOONS
"TRAILER.
SHIRLEY
LIFE"
TEMPLE in
"Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" with Randolph Scott - Gloria Stuart - Jack Holt
HANKOW ROAD KOWLOON
ISTARE
TO-DAY ONLY
The scraun's raign" 'Ing beauty in a wild pageant of barbaric plander
DIETRICH
TO. MORROW
& SHOWS ~DAILY——
2.30-620
720-9.30
Tu The
57795
SCARLET EMPRESS
A Poramount Picture presented by, Adolph Zulor with John Lodge, Sam Jaffe Louise Dresservi Directed by | JOSER."
STERNBERG
PAUL MUNI
* "STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR"
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
NATHAN ROAD KOWLOON"
TEL 57ZIZ
MATINEES: 20-30° EVENINGS; 20%-30c50e70) TO-DAY & TO-MORROW Hair-Raising Escapades. With Fiction's Most Daring Rogue !!!
OXCE
night,
Ray Int
Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March
1939.
World Flier
For Tokyo
Joins Germany's Diplomatic Corps
BERLIN, Mar. 8. HERR WOLFGANG VON GRONAU, who up to the present time has been President of the German Aero Club, has been appointed Air Attache at the German Embassy in Tokyo.! His name has been world-known alnce 1930, when he succeeded for the first time in crossing the Atlantic from east to west in a hydroplane. In 1931 he repeated this feat, and in 1032. mude a fight
the Bround world, covering 90,000 kilometres and ull the civilised visiting nearly countries of the globe. Trans-Ocean, Herr von Gronau flew around the world in a Dornier flying boat in 1932, arriving in Hongkong in the course of the flight in September that your.
ELECTRIC FITTINGS Stolen and Taken to Lower Lascar Row
neon-
Apparently taking advantage of his knowledge of electricity, Chan Choi yuen, 23, described us an electrician, stole n transformer from a light sign at Queen's Road Central, on February 2, and the following day removed n tinie-witch from another sign at Lockhart Road,
On information received, and by virtue of a warrant, a shop in Lower Lascar Row was reracked by the police and a transformer was found there. On Monday, Chan was ar rested at Lower Lasear Row by a Chinese detective, with the switch in his possession.
time-
At an identification parade held at the Central Police Station, a foki of the second-hund dealer recognised Chan as the man who sold the irans- former.
Chan admitted the theft of the articles before Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy yesterday, andd was sentenced to two months' bard labour on each charge. He was niso recommended for banishment. De- fendant had a previous conviction.
Five Italians Under Arrest
Djibouil, Mar. 8.
Five Italians, charged with espionage have been placed aboard the M. M. liner Athos, well-known in Hongkong.
They will be sent to France for trial-Reuter Special.
AQUARIUM SOCIETY
A General Meeling of the Hong- kung Aquarium Society .svill
be held on Tuesday, 14th March at 7.30 p.m.
The meeting will take place at the Bank of East Asia building, 3rd floor, Room 310, by kind courtesy of Miss O'Keefe,
LATE NEWS
K.F.C. Team For Police Game
210
Following will represent Kowloon Foolball Club against Polico Boundary Street grounds on Satur- day:
Hartley, Everset, Ulrich, Maxwell, Horniball. Eastman, W. Knox, Dell, G. White, V. White Rlertaen.
WHAT TUNNELLING DID
FOR BARCELONA
ie!!
THIS DIAGRAM graphically illustrates how the hillsides round Barcelona were utilised to provide absolute security from bombs, and is peculiarly interesting to Hongkong in view of the similarity of the terrain in this Colony.
Advantage was taken of the nearby hills to construct deep shelters, this type of shelter providing accommodation for 1.500 people.
Ventilation was by natural nicans, The holes bored when build- the galleries were Ing the shelter for removing soll excavated from utilised for ventilation purposes.
and
The ventilation shafts led to small ventilation galleries with right- angle turns, so that should a bomb drop directly down a shaft explode, the turn would protect people in the gallery against the blast.
Emergency lighting was provided.
The whole of the galleries were of concrete, lined with brickwork and they totalled 2,700 feet in length and were provided with hospital, first-aid post and lavatories, these last connected with wherever possible.
main sewers
As is shown in the section plan, all the galleries were constructed lo slope downwards towards their entrance.-Illustrated London New8.
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CATHAY
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MICHAEL STROGOFF
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TO-MORROW
Dolores Del Rio. in “LANCER SPY"
sintelas
FRANGES
LEDERER :.. FRANCES
DRAKE
with
Walter Kingslerd Leona Maricle.
A COLUMBIA
PICTURE
TRIE
LONE WOLF
Varis
SATURDAY, SUNDAY, MONDAY
The Latest and the Greatest of Judge Hardy's
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Love finds Andy Hardy
„TDu Mont Blery of Juden Marky's Family -- with LEWIS STOKE, MICKEY ROONEY JUDY GARLAND • CECILA PARKER FAY HOLDEN Horses aydar hade kanaa
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Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN. 1-and-3,-Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.
Could you wear a more delightful model with
your costume that this Navy Blue Suede Tic from Fifth Avenue.
Others equally as attractive in Brown or Black If you prefer it.
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MEET BONANZA. BILL BARKER... WHO BROUGHT JUSTICE TO THE BADLAND WITH HIS GUNT
fighting man in a land of dangar.
..back when the West was
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The LAW WEST TOMBSTONE
OF
Lotte HARRY CAREY
TIM BOLT EVELYN, BRENT FERN RETVEROL ● CERXENCE KILB KO RADIO Par
Produced by CUF) 4110, Diemcted by GLENN TITON, ferson Play by John Tuhi and Chatanie Upson Young.
SATURDAY
CLAUDETTE COLBERT im "ZAZA"
A Paramount Picture with Herbert Marshall
QUEEN'S
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TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
THE FUNNIEST COMEDY TEAM IN A PICTURE TEEMING WITH LAUGHS
"TAKE THE GENTS' BAGS TO CELL 141"
They sat out to reform the town and wind up in a nice, clean failhouse coll
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PARTNERS IN CRIME”
Lynne Overman Roscoe Karns Muriel Hutchison - Anthony Quinn Inez Courtney · Lúcien Littlefield
Directed by ALPI MURPHE
• SATURDAY
CLAUDETTE COLBERT in 'ZAZA”
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A Paramount Picture with Herbert Marshall
ORIENTAL
FLEMING
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LAST 4 TIMES TO DAY.
A TRUE STORY THAT'S JUST ABLAZE WITH THRILLS I
A story of a typleal small-town family discouraged by depression, how they weather fils and get a new start in life wili go straight to your heart.
ARE YOU DISCOURAGED?
THIS MAN WAS!...
Until he learned how to turn white flags of defeat into while benners of victory TWO DAYS ONLY !
Directed by Edmund Caulding ACOSMOPOLITAN PRODUCTION Presented by WARNER BROS.
WHITE BANNERS
From LLOYD C. DOUBLAY Česmopolitan Magazine Bertell, with
CLAUDE RAINS FAY BAINTER JACKIE COOPER BONITA GRANVILLE
HIKRY O'NEILL - KAY JOHNSON JAMES STEPHENSON
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A sensational expose of what happens when yesterday's
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