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Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 11, 1939.
Army Only Has Time To Dream of "Blighty”
KING'S HOUSE OF
SHOWING TO-DAY CAT 2.30, 5.10, 7,15 & 9.30 P.M.
SECRETS
CAGNEY RIDES..SHOOTS..KILLS! ON WESTERN FRONT
THE
Cagney as
you want him in the toughest rolo of his two-gun caroor!
James Cagney OKLAHOMA
KID
with
A WARNER BROS.
Pictur
Directed by Lloyd Boon
HUMPHREY BOGART ROSEMARY LANE
DONALD CRISP
ALSO Broadway Brovitics in Technicolour "SWING - TIME IN THE MOVIES"
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TEMPLE JEAN HERSHOLT
HEIDI
ARTHUR TREACHER
HELEN WESTLEY-
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MARY NASH » SIDNEY BLACKMER
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A Riot of Laughter, Excitement and Suspense !
Yes, bus
ZENOBIA
WHO is she?
WHAT'S she got?
HAL ROACH PATE
ZENOBIA
OLIVER
NARRE
HARDY LANGDON
INGATA
ALICE
BURKE · BRADY
ELISON PARKER - LANG - TETCHIT
The Hat Johrion Chait
TO-MORROW & WEDNESDAY
The Most Ingonious and Thrilling Mystery-Romanco of 1939.!
MELVYN DOUGLAS “TELL. NO TALES”
LOUISE PLATT in
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
TROOPS NOT LEAVING
Rumours that two battalions of British troops are leaving the Hong- kong Garrison for England at the end) of this month and that they will be replaced by Australian troops were denied by the Army spoitesman this) morning.
"We have no news of British troops leaving Hongkong as yet," he] said,
American Mail Liner Re-named
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BAS-RHIN
From PHILIP JORDAN
FRANCE.
HOME leave is now expected even earlier than was at first anticipated. The first batch of men will. It is hoped, be home in time for Christmas.
In the meantime, the Army, as kept always on Its toes, is too busy to do more than dream of leave in its few leisure moments. The "cavalry" have been out prae- tising with their anti-tank gun and their machine-gunɛ.
(ALSALE),
Haavelly
No Papal Appeal
For Armistice
Not for from this place, they mount their funks and carriers and sweep pross the plains, ench machine-gun Aring at the rate of several hundred rounds every muute
Accurato Firing
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEONAPH“
Despite The novelty of their armour-plated substitutes for horses, Deci SEATTLE.
10 (UP) The
and despite also the speed at which steamer President Quezon, formerly VATICAN CITY, Dec. 3 (UP)hose substitutes travel over level the American Mail Line's President Authoritative quarters deny that the ground, the men are firing with re- Madiun, under the command of Holy See had asked for a Christmas markable accuracy, us your corres- Captain J. C. Onrubin, is enroute to nemistice on fighting.
pondent has just had occasion to Vancouver, Portland, San Francisco,
observe. Los Angeles, Hongkong and Manila; with general cargo,
They point out that such a request Both tanks and curcler, runnlag on 1s not urgent in view of the relative a rapid zig-zag course not dissimilar calm on the western front, while it to that which they will almost cer- This is the vessel's maiden voyage would be meaningless at sen because tainly have to adopt in battle, to-day for the Philippines' 'Mail Line. lof floating mines,
Pilot
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pumped out a broadside that ripped
to pieces the ground immediately be- hind their targets.
Artificial faults kod been in- troduced into the magazines of the machine-guns so that the men might brcome Tully expert at correcting jamming while on the move. Most of them proved superior to these defects in their armament.
Room Of Maps
Beyond this Improvised range there Is an innocent looking house.
If you can get into this house, they will show you room whose walls are lined with great maps, upon which are painted cabbalistic signs that would encan nothing to an un- authorised intruder.
Yet these maps tell the instructed all that we know about the enemy- and a great deal more besides.
In this department, as in others, the Army is up-to-date. It uses pic- torial statistics (which were invented Lo jand perfected by an Austrian)
convey information rapidly to the authorised visitor.
Here, too, they keep a £le of all photographs taken from the air. Even those taken from great heights are amazingly clear and accurate. You can almost count the sleepers on the railway lines!
Each photograph is so simply cross- indexed that you can find its exact location on a forge scule mup with- out the slightest trouble.
Once more I was deeply impressed by the thoroughness with which the Army does a job of work. This manlined room is a reassuring sight once You
whnt know
nil the hieroglyphics really mean.
No! No!-Nanette- Dress Rehearsal
The first dress rehearsal for the Hongkong Philharmonic Society's production of "No! No! Nanette" took place at the Queen's Theatre on Saturday night." The rehearsal aug- urs weil for a successful season open- ing on Wednesday night at the some theatre and continuing each night until Saturday.
Booking for performances is very satisfactory and His Excellency, "the Governor, Sir Geoffry Northcote has taken seats for Thursday night's showing. Concessions to men of the | fighting_services will be made for Wednesday and Thursday's perform- ances,
The organisers of the British War Organisation Fund hope that the Hongkong pubile will support the show in order to allow a liberal dona- tion to be handed over to the fund.
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Recorded by the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Adopted Condorned and Produced by GEOFFREY TOYS Directed by VICTOR SCHERTZINGER
"Supremacy...!" WALTER WHCJELL-MELY J (WA) cvete a sensation /” paperOM TALKER-MY MAN *Catant thing in Technicolor sinen "“Snow What'!*
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ANOTHER UNIVERSAL' EUROPEAN WAR NEWS SPECIAL SHOWN FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HONG KONG Russian columns riding rough-shod over Poland. German U-Boala' desperate attempt to destroy British shipping. The Duke of Windsor to do his bil in the war. Innocent sufferers in Nazi's campaign against Britain. Plane carrier Cour- accous torpedoed and sunk. The Duchess of Kent doing hospital work, eto, eta, PLUS THE BIGGEST LAUGH HIT OF THE CENTURY ! Most famous fansters in Bim history in a great novelly picture that's a riot of laughter,
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S.P.C. MEETING
Ills Excellency the Governor and Lady Northcote will be present: ht the Annual General Moating of the CHUNGKING, Dec. 11 (Central). Society for the Protection of Children, -A Shanghal-bound Japanese which taken place at the Helena May freight train was wrecked when Institute at 5.30 p.m. this evening. struck a Chineso mine at Chowching-
The meeting is open to the public. hang, near Wush on the Nanking-l... Shanghai Railway, on Saturday, "se- rushing to the scene were attacked cording to Shanghat report.
aid. thrown back by Chinese Japanese troops in the vicinity, mueriiin.
Printed and Published for the Froprietors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.
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