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Monday,
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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY INGLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR!
Twentieth Century-Fox presents
DARRYL F.ZANUCK'S Production of
THE STORY OF
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
DON
LORETTA
HENRY
AMECHE YOUNG · FONDA Charles Coburn • Gene Lockbare • Spring Byingtos
Also
SPECIAL FOX WAR NEWSREEL
TOMORROW
A Warner Bros.
Picturo
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2.50
5.20
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“NAUGHTY BUT NICE"
with Ann Sheridan, Dick Powell, Cato Page
HANKOW
STARE
TO-DAY ONLY
Thrills shower the screen as this strangest of adventure mysteries is told!
LELL NO
TALES DOUGLAS
TO - MORROW
United Artists
Picture
An MGM Picturo
KOWLOON
57795
"ETERNALLY YOURS"
Loretta Young - David Niven
PLEKINO
ORIENTALE
TEL. BRITS
BERNOMAI
SEARCHING FOR MINES German soldiers prod ground with sticks and scour country-
side for dreaded land mines in abandoned territory. Soldier pulls small cart that carries re covered "rainen" (mines). Dangerous duty this, if a mine should happen to explode.
"Bomb Berlin!" Says THE CASH
Wells-Nazis Rage
MR. H. G. WELLS joins the ranks of Public Enemies of Nazidom. In an article in an American magazine he urged that the Allies should subject Berlin to "Intense aerial Bom- bardment."
The Germans' answer is a howl of fury.
Mr. Wells Replies
PRICE OF SOVIET'S BATTLE
And this was the reply to Berlin £300,000 a Day
given by Mr. Welis:
"Of one thing Mr. Wells and the men behind him may be sure,” they! "It is perfectly correct that I wrote
THE Red Army's great said: "any attempt to bomb Germon that article," he said.
"Obviously this German statement offensive is continuing, but towns would be answered by our Air is evidence of weakness and a screnin Force with measures such as British of terror. The Germans did not
the attacks have lost apostles of hatred have perhaps not hesitate to bomb Warsaw ruthlessly momentum and the drive yet conceived.
and brutally. They would have
"For every tomb dropped on Ber-done exactly the same to London in appears now to be near an
September Inst, had 'they dared. [end. lin ten would be dropped on London.' "I am quite sure that we in Lon-
During the battle 200,000 "Moreover, after the experience don could stand up to anything they already gathered by them off the could send us, and give them more Soviet troops-fresh and well German coast, British airmen know than adequate punishment. better than does the agitator Wells at his desk what any such attempt would mean for them"
This was repeated on the German Intervals throughout the
endio al
night..
equipped-have been hurtled must come to. I would rather bumb
This is wor, and this is what it against the Finnish defences,
the Germans than starve them. In the end it will be quicker, and it will leave the Germans, it may be, in a healthier state of mind."
Heavy artillery has pounded the Finnish line. In one district 15,000 shells have fallen in an area of one square mile. The cost in ammuni- tion is estimated at about £300,000 a day.
The Cost In Lives
Leg Broken, Crawled
To Save Messmates
The cost to the Red Army in men and, material is unknown, but
Unofficial sources in Helsingfors place the losses at 5,000 killed and 15,000 wounded;
Three of four "lost" divisions, of about 70,000 men, are cut off round Kitels.. They were isolated by sulelde patrols which cut their communications.
A MAN with a broken leg dragged himself along the deck of the sinking destroyer Grenville and saved the lives of many of her crew struggling in the water, it was disclosed recently.
He crawled twenty feet to "It thrilled us to see him going 100 bombs were dropped on towns in
During a week-end more than
LAST 4 TIMES TODAY turn the safety switch control- along the deck. We knew what his North Finland. One man was killed:
YOUR LAST CHANCE
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A PICTURE YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO MISS!
HORRORS
IN THE
GERMAN PRISON CAMPS!
Captured
chy of son donned bree
Here's the most exciting screen event
of 1999 & Blazing fast story.......Toen from the welter of world upheaval, a Staged with lavish grandeur...Played by a host of ss1 Cast of thousanda
LESLIE. HOWARD DOUG. FAIRBANKS... PAUL LUKAS
MARGARET LINDSAY
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bravery
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and quick thinking two machines were shot down. This brings the total of boinbers destroyed
Able Seaman W. Pit, one of the Pitt, who is nineteen, and lives In to 250. destroyer's 118 survivors, sald: "The Pretoria-rond, Eastriggs, Dumfries charges might have exploded. They shire, was
by a would have killed many of us.
swept overboard "I don't know the man's name. wave, and floundered in the sea for twenty-five minutes before he was He was a seaman.
"After he had turned on the safety picked up. switch he slid over the side into the Eight men in the Grenville were killed when she was mined or tor- water.
"He was picked up almost immedi-pedoed, and seventy-three are miss-
ling.
ately.
TAKE ANY TRAM or HAPPY VALLEY BUS.
[Preliminary bombardment,
third Battle of Ypres (July 17-30, 1917), cost £22,211,309 144. 4d. Rounds fired 4,283, 550. Arras (March 25- April 8, 1917), £13.102,089 13s. 8d.; 2,087,000 rounds: Messines Ridge (May 26-June 6, 1917), 17,505,- 18. Od 3,561,530 rounds. Mazimum expenditure in one day wits £3,871,000 (on September 28- 20, 1018) when 043,847 rounds were fired.)
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Asemő Presenti
PETER I
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Directed by Vladimir Petrov
Manon in D de
FULL ENGLISH DIALOGUE TITLES TO-MORROW, ONE DAY ONLY!
PICTURE
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a
When life's a lark and all the world is full of bappy song)
The New Universal presents DEANNA DURBIN in 100 MEN
GIRL
LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI. ADOLPHE MENJOU • ALICE BRADY
EUGENE PALLETTE-MISCHA AVER
WED. THU.
“CITY IN DARKNESS". BIDNEY TOLER
LYNN·BARI--
LT. PARKINSON COMMITTED
When Licut. Thomas Parkinson of, the Hongkong. Volunteer Defence Corps, again appeared before Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy this morning charged with the man- slaughter of a boy in Bonham Road on December 23, he was committed) for trial at the March criminal sea- sions.
BEAR JUDY SING: Over the Rainbow Ding, Dong. The Witch Is Dead
many other biayan ilove!
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PRZYG
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JACK
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med The MUNCRKINS
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YOUR
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“HERE I AM A STRANGER”
A 20th Century-Fox Picture
70,000 STRASBOURGERS
MOVE TO ONE CITY
THE ANCIENT city of Perigueux, 300 miles south
Lieut. Parkinson is alleged to have of Paris, could well be renamed Strasbourg.
knocked down a boy while driving!
his car in Bonham Road.
Before committing accused, Mr.
The life of the Alsatian capital, with a large pro- Edwards asked Mr. E. H. Williams portion of its population, has been transferred from the
the Crown Prosecutor, at what preciso
point in the Crown's case was it al- banks of the River Ill, which flows through the heart of |leged that accused was driving in such
|ne-ligence.
a manner as, to constitute criminal Strasbourg parallel with the Rhine, to those of the River Mr. Williams replied that Lieut. Isle, which flows through the heart of Perigueux. Parkinson passed a bus and speeded
without keeping any lookout what-
[up
Lever
Of Strasbourg's normal population Marx is looking after the spiritual of 300,000, some 70,000 people needs of the Strasbourg Jewish com-- Awn Mr. Edwards said that he was satis- evacuated from their home town have munity. fled that there was sufficient evidence settled in Perigueux "far the dura to go before a jury, and committed
tion," Lieut. Parkinson accordingly.
The town hall of Strasbourg and
Chamber of Commerce aro altuated They have their maternity hospital, for the time being in Ferigueux born Chamber of Commerce building. The He asked Mr. Leo D'Almada, Jun., in which a tiny Strasbourger
every day, Strasbourg's Prefect of the Bas-Rhin Department who la defending accused, whether nearly
cautioned
he wished his client to give evidence, maternity hospital was transferred and his staff also have their offices
Than been
accommodated by but Mr. D'Almada replied that their here with doctors, nurses and full hero, and the Strasbourg lux collector
stant: defence would be reserved.
Mgr. Douvier, coadjutor to the Perigueux colleague: The Magistrate then
The Bank of Strasbourg is in the ngcused and naked. If he wished to Bishop of Strasbourg and Vicar- make a statement. Parkinson Indi-General of Strasbourg, is installed in main street of Ferigueux, and the ented that he would reserve his de- the Byzantine catedral of Perigueux leading Strasbourg newspaper,.- Dere Instead of the Gothic cathedral of nieres Nouvelles de Strasbourg, a read everywhere. Alsatian delicates- Strasbourg.
Pastor. Ortlieb, head of the Prosen shops abound, and the school. testant faith in Strasbourg, officiates children begin their lessons by zing- In a Protestant church, and Rabbi ing Alsatian poligs.
fence.
Printed and Published for. the Proprietora by FREDERICH PERCY FRANKLIN,
at 1 and 3 Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.
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