10
KING'S
SHOWING TO-DAY
Real
AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
ROMANCE
SAMUEL GOLDWYN presente siting
GARY COOPER
THE REAL GLORY
- DAVID NIVEN ANDREA LEEDS REGINALD OWEN
Travelogue Also Colour
NEXT CHANGE
A 20th CenturyTM
Fox Pictura
SHOWS
2.30-8.19
7.59-4.30
"ETERN. A L'
FIRE"
Alice Faye, Constance Bennett, Nancy Kelly in
"
TAIL SPIN
ZĀNI MENY TRAM 20 BLAMED VALLEY EJE
ORIENTAL
"1
FLEMING
404D WANG HIJ
TEL 2011
LAST 4 TIMES TO DAYO
YOU'LL LIKE THIS ACTION-PACKED COMEDY ! I's full of surprises, loads of laughter. execptional
stars that insures great enicclainment.
America's
La!! Hit
of the
Year!
flot Art...
But It's
Dain Good
Fun!
KID from KOKOMO
-in PAT O'BRIEN - WAYNE MORRIS · JOAN BLONDELL MAY ROBSON • JANI WYMAN - STANLEY FIELDS - MAXIL 101ENBLCOM SIDNEY TOLER • Directed by LEWIS SEILER Presented by WARNER BROS. They by Here Ward and Kehad maaday » Ipate on Delarmel Bay by Fales Inmar Named Picture
TWO DAYS ONLY !
TO-MORROW AND WEDNESDAY
A GREAT MAGICIAN IN A MATRIMONIAL COMEDY ! lle created a dream woman by magic, then married her.
Eternally Yours
Kobe the UNITED ARETR
LORETTA YOUNG DAVID NIVEN
• MATINEES: 20c-30c. EVENINGS: 20c.-30c.-50c.-70c.
• SHOWE
DAILY
2.30 x 8.20 720030
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
NATHAN ROAD KOWLOON TEL:7222
MATINEES, 20-30. • EVENINGS 20. *30*50 c70‹ B FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
THE BEST OF THE BADMEN RIDING THROUGH THE MOST EXCITING ADVENTURES ANY MAN HAS EVER LIVED!
CAGNEY RIDES....SHOOTS...KILLS!
ि
LO THERE.
Cagney ar you want him in the toughost cola of his two-gun caroori
James Cagney OKLAHOMA KID
A WARNER BROS.
„Diraced by KeyBaton
HUMPHREY BOQART- ROSEMARY LANE
DONALD CRISP FOR
TO-MORROW & WEDNESDAY
The Greatest Biltish Star in Her Best Pictura of The Season ! GRACIE FIELDS in ✅ KEEP SMILING“
Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH January 29, 1940.
Outposts Along The Western Front
STEADY
NERVES ARE
NECESSARY IN FRANCE
DOUBTS ABOUT RUSSIAN TROOPS
Fallen Officer's
Diary
STOCKHOLM.
It has been established that Russians in the Salla sector fired)
THOSE SHELLS
WERE LIVE where in Kent," was told at a Luton meeting by Colonel, Mary Patch, of the Salvation
Army,
A small boy evacuee. unused to fields or gardens, returned to his billet with a handkerchief full of mys- torious treasure. In answor to his hostess, he explained that, he had found some shells, and proceeded to un- tie his bundle.
Inside it were a number of snails, which he regarded with utter amazement,
"Lumme!" he said. "They've hatched.
on each other, and also that soo********* aeroplanes Ared on troops who
had strayed and who were evid-SPEED HAS
ently mistaken for Finns.
A message to the official Fin- nish News Agency maintain- ed that these were signs of mutiny as argumentative shout-
ing was heard amid the shots.
The following are extracts from a
SPOILED BOMBERS' AIM-
llen Russian officer's diary inspected! SPEED has killed precision by Foreign Correspondents at the herkuarters of General Wallenlus on the North Front:--
The political atawosphere is oppres sive. The soldings are against this war, and we don't understand why we felt other countries. I tell my men that it is necessary to strengthen nur frontiers, but they answer, "Fit- land can'i altack us."
Our troops are beaten breuise ofr lugher Command is unfamiliar with the terrain. The troops prefer return home to fighting.
The march into Poland was popu
r. but not so now when we
อนเ
33758
GʻRUSIAN AUKANTI TO CUT RAILWAY WHICH CARRIES SUPPLIES FROM SWEDEN
fatmes
Pilkaranas
to
against Finland. The only things to cheers are Moloto's spreches.
To-day we all awoke sick. I have slept in a barn severid days. Com- rades are restlers.
bombing.
To bomb with accuracy you must fly on even keel. You cannot regulate your bombing instru- ment if you bank. But if you turn your machine without hanking you fall into a side slip, which is an air skid. In either event your aimed bomb goes astray.
绺
If you could get down close on top of your objective, it would help, of course. alreraft guns and the baloon barrage are designed to keep you high.
on
THE TROOPS the Western Front are far from having an easy time of it, declared the military corres pondent of The Times. Lon- don, in a weekly review of the war broadcast by the B.B.C.
In the first place. he said, they have been engaged in constant- work on the defences which can never be made too strong.
When war broke out, he explained, the French defences on the Bulgins frontier were not nearly no powerful in the os the fuglent Line proper. Just four moutes, the Allies have been i strengthening these fmineations end) building many hundreds of fresh can- crete birekhnusea.
Trying Winter
The winter with its heavy rabi, snow, fog and bitter cold, has been trying beyond the average for the troops in the field.
Dealing with the work of the out- pet and patrols, the correspondent | declared
that
in this war it is easder, for each side to surprise each other far more because the troops are mobil: and therefore can be kept muca further back out of sight until) the last possible move.
"So far as we know," he went on, "Germany has the means la faunch an altsek with practically none of which give Those preparations things away, at almost any moment they choose,
"Thrus, everybody has to be on the alert and quick to pick up the small- eat indications of the enemy's inten- tlons. The responsibilities carried not! only by those who bring in the infor motion but also by those who sift it. are very heavy.
"Eye That Never Shuts" "Every observatiom post is the eye which never shuts thourth sometimes! it is blinded by fag, and thus demummas | on other sources of information' be- come ever more Insistent.
Trains, for example, are carefully But anti-watched, and every movement whigh| is visible- might also say, every sound which is audibile-is noticed, and a reason has to be found for every scrap of information if possible.
Even in the Spanish war, where the Nationalists held decisive - air superiority for most of the time, their precision bombing was far from precise.
In the last resort, however, it is the patrol which is relied upon, continued the correspondeat, to spot the enemy's intentions and his habits and the nature of the work he is carrying out,
It is also their duty to see that the enemy does not get the same kind of information from un
In the Vosges-tangled, wooded General Franco's flyers never blind country, Ideal for arabushes and hit the sky-scraper telephone trap there has been little but con- building in Madrid or the elec-stant putrol activity, especially during tric power plant in Barcelona, the night.
French patrols, generally consisting though they tried continually. af picked groups of volunteers num- Yet the telephone building was bering 50 or 60 men, are constanty Mudrid's biggest landmark and out in the wooded area between the The Barcelona power, plant oc- Taginot and Siegfried Lines. cupied an entire city block.
..
E
Most massive target of all was the munition plant in Sagunta, north of Valencia. It had close on 40 brick chimney stacks; it employed thousands of peo ple; it was just one hour's light from Franco's bombing base at Majorca.
Altogether 5,551 bombs were About Finland we know nothing launched against the Sagunta The soldiers have started interpreting dreams and soothsaying from cards. All we have is infested by vermin. Headache, no sleep, coughs, smoke. The finus don't yield. 1 have been without sleep or food the lust two days.
us all the The enemy harasses time.
We have had large losses. Many are afraid.
The campaign is more difficult than Poland. We had been told to liberale the Finns, but see no population. Not even the officers are joyful about the war. We ore, told that on Decem- ber 21, Stalin's birthday, the war will be ended.
The last entry in die diary on December 13 was "Alt terribly tired," The officer then tell.
munition works. There were only 21 recorded hits. The plant never stopped working until the Republican resistance completely folded up.
LATE NEWS
BIG HAUL BY PIRATES
A LARGE Hongkong-registered pern-going junk is the latest victim of Chinese pirates.
Cargo valued at over $6,000 was) lakten form the vessel, which was en! route from Swutow to Hongkong.
The incident occurred east of Som Nine Army Divisions
Mun Customs Station, when two large Russian pressure on the Isthmus junks approached and forced the persists. There are at least ning
Man-Lamg, to heave to. divisions of the Red Army on this master of the Hongkong junk, Lam narrow strip. When the Russiana According to a report to the police. succeeded in crossing frozen Lake about forty men were involved in the
withi Suvanto they were only thrown back piracy. Eleven-ave utter severe hand-in-hand fighting, in files and six with revolvers-board- which not only the Russions, but alsoed the junk and locked the crew-and
Finns suffered serious less passengers below for 48 hours. There is no doubt that the Finnish
After the cargo was transferred the positions here are stronger than any hitates decamped. where cles along the front, but thanks
the
to their shorter lines of communica-i
armed
"Steady"Nerver-Necessary-
"It is difficult work and dangerous enough," said the speaker, "but even more trying than dungous for the work calls for steady
initiative.
nerves
110 lack of
"The Germans show ability, but the superior training of the French troops gives them a cer- "The British troops have only just tain advantage in their encounters. begun, but the recent decorations! bestowed on an omeer and an N.C.o. show that the British are alho-ranging" deg in their patrol work for it was mentioned that the objectives of the patrols in which these two partici- pated were 1,200 yards from their lines, so that when we sit in our com- fortable chairs at home rending In our newspapers or bearing on the radio that nothing of importance isis occur red on the Western Front during the past 24 hours, let us remember that there is much that is happening.”
STOCK MARKET
REPORT
Hongkong Stock Exchange Offeinl Summary Issued on Saturday says:
Nothing of any particular import- ance occurred during the morning.
Hayers
HK. Flank $1.383 Canton Ins. 1503 H.K. Fires Ins, $170 Douglases $50 Providents $1.35 fateis 13.16 Lands $33.00 Yaumati Ferries $2414 Electries $5514 Entertainments $0.99
Setjera
Docks $21.20 Heleis $3.40
Telephones (New) $0.60 Dairy Farm (Old) $22.00 1.K. Govt, 4% Loan 103 HK, Govt, 311% Loan $20
Balen 311, Zank $1,505/06 Docks $21 Tramways 2173% Macao Electrics #30TM
tion and to the fact that their rear GERMAN WOMAN Telephones (10) 124
Is beiter: protected; the Russians are
more canly able to send up freak IN H.K. COURT ||
troopa to relieve, the fighting line."
-་ ' ", ,,
A GERMAN woman whose hú
It is reported that the Finng use band is slated to be distantly con- taking the Red Cross marks of their nocted with
The
tomout: German
ມ
EL
feld fiospitals, as they have found House of Rothschild appeared in that Itussian airmen consistently longkong Court this morning on choose them as targets.
charge of entering the Colony 'with- Some famost-athletes are among out availd passport. the Finnish casualties. The Marathon
The woman was Freu Foony Rot- runner Tamila has been killed, and child. Her address was given as the second Best Javelin thrower in Koln, Germany,
Mur-
-that
her
the world Autonen has been shot She arrived by plane from through the left arm in a skirmish, seiller on January 28, stating In which the Finns, took to sub- she was attempting to re-join machine-guns after destroying an husband in Shanghai, ta onemy unit to the last man. Ife in The Ziagistrate, Mr. J.T: Houston,
made an order for her expulslan, ja now the testtttttt
Manis Gold Shared Aloka Pa 206 b Antamos Pa. 195k m
gulo Gold P. 2311⁄2 b Tatong Buhay Ps. 015 Jig Weago · P. 320 Coca Grom Pu, 143, # Con, "Miey PH, _0040 # Demonstration Pa 2334- ∙12 (109)
Ilogan Min, TA 20 m Manbulan Con. P. 2010 Masbate Con. Pa. 11. 6. Mind. Motherlode ] [091) Mine Operation Pa;-)) North Camarines P. 334 Paracala Quùmmaus P, 1233| | **San Maurielo. Pw
Burigao · Cor: PL-15 Sayoe Can, Ps. 1131k Byndicate. Inv. 132. Oft United Paraca & ÉS, 2015" Denguet Cori. Pa: 630-
bil-K
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
HONG KONG KT_250:515_7·20-9-30 PA
KOWLOON
·AT:250-520-780-2 9:30 PM
SHOWING TO-DAY
Deanna's in Love!
Deanna DURBIN FIRST LOVE
Helon PARRISH, Robert STACK:
Lewis, HOWAR Lugand PALL
Wednesday At the QUEEN'S "$1,000 A TOUCHDOWN"
DAILY
AT
2.50
5.20
7.20
9.20
A NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE
To-morrow At the ALHAMBRA
"NEWSBOYS' HOME"
STAR
TO-DAY ONLY"
RED PEPPERRIOTIOne-woman revolution In lavo! Niss "UMPH" of Mexico against "ad" mat's madness!llystoricalhlinks!
LUDE VELEZ GIRL MEXICO
DONALD WOODS-LEON ERROL LINDA VAYES DONALD MacBRIDE
TO-MORROW
HANKOW ROAD KOWLOON
TEL.
57795
RKO
MADIO
LAWRENCE TIBBETT METROPOLITAN”
VIRGINIA
BRUCE
in
TAKE ANY TRAM or HAPPY VALLEY BUS
CATHAY
DAILY AT 2.30, 5,15, 7.20, &
MATINEEJIße, 39, 40% EVENINGS-20% 50% 20% 10%, BOE
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY ACTION! THRILLS ROMANCE!
$
FRONTIER MARSHAL
RANDOLPH SCOTT-NANCY KELLY CESAR ROMERO - BINNIE BARNES JOHN CARRADINE
*To-morrow and Wednesday, Two Days Only!
REDPEPPERRIOTIOne-woman revolution
in lofel Miss "UMPH" of Mexico against "ad"man's madness! Hysterical hijinks!,
LUPE VELEZ The GIRL/rom MEXICO
DONALD WOODS-LEON ERROL LINDA HAYES - DONALD MacBRIDE
GRIPPS ENTERTAINERS HAD BUSY AFTERNOON
WHEN WAR was declared in September, Mimi and Jose, famous Mexican dancers, were working in Paris.
When the night-life of the gay not be fullled na Mimi and Joss French capital. becamo quieter and were only able to rehearse the three the large hotels closed down on their numbers for which they were billed lavish entertaining. Mimi and Jose during the short time they were at. decided to go back to America-but the Hotel after their landing. not across the Atlantic.
They arrived in Hongkong on Saturday afternoon, en route to New York.
They were expected originally on Thursday, and arrangements were mado for them to stop-over in this Colony in order to appear for a brief season at the Hongkong Hotel
Though their liner was delayed, the two Mexican entertainers were able to make their bow at the Gripps us originally scheduled.
But they had to come ashore in their rehearsal costumes to com nence rehearsals, külf-an-hour after their ship tied up, with Nick Korin's Orchestra.
Their acts consist of Spanish and Mexican duscing and songs.
Mimi's wardrobe, incidentally, in cludes some of the latest creations from Paris.
NEWS ITEM WAS
TEN YEARS OLD I
A news stary published in the "Telegraph" on Saturday, was, on in- vestigation; found to be ten YEDEK old
It related to the forthcomiti arrival in longkong of alx Officers for the China Squadron, and, was The entertainment provided by the intended for the "A Look Through Mexican stars gave patrons of the the
1. The sub-editor.
Grips a genuine thrill on Saturday graph" Zealuro night, and it was necessary to clear the floor on each of their throa opit passed belloved it to be the pearances by starling up the dance of recent isle Domande for encore, could | cording
Printed and Pubility /at:1 and 35 Wyrdhattı.
ecent news and edited
Page 10Page 11