10%
KING'S
SHOWING TO-DAY
2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
HAVE THEY STILL GOT A CHANCE?
Those incorrigible “Dend End" Kids. get a chance to go straight in this, thenie, swollyst hit. Will they lakn. It des or will they go straight to the chair
Thursday,
HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH
March 28, 1940.
EVEN BIRDS CANNOT ESCAPE THE WAR
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SHOWING TO-DAY
THE EMPRESS DOWAGER
STARRING
TAM LAN HING
HELL'S KITCHEN
THE
DEAD END KIDS
NEXT CHANGE
A Warner Bros. Picturo
**
MARGARET LINDSAY
RONALD REAGAN
STANLEY FIELDS
Directed by Lewis Setter and K. A. Uspent
A WARNER BROS. Picture
BETTE DAVIS & MIRIAM HOPKINS in
THE OLD MAID"
BÁNG MÁTT FY236 (30) Mampy VALLEY DUŠ
ORIENTAL
PETHEATRE ESSA
PLEKING
WANDHRA
TEL 04TH
Outside a blockhouse of the Maginot Line. The birds in the cage are more than pets. They act
as gas detectors. If gas is used, they will be the first victims. But the men will have been wanted.
Goebbels' Propaganda Plan For Increased Rations Abandoned
ZURICH.
GERMAN rations cannot be increased as the Government had intended, accord- |ing to an unimpeachable source in Berlin.
At the outbreak of war the rations were fixed at the lowest possible rates, not
LAST 4 TIMES TODAY only because of the urgent necessity for saving, but also as propaganda.
EXOTIC DANCES, SONG HITS, TROPICAL SWING MUSIC I
Hundreds of Hawaii's famous hula-hula dancers in spectacular revue in a show of oriental splendor.
Johnny DOWNS
Mary CARLISLE
Constance MOORE Eddie QUILLAN Matly MALNECK and his Orchestra
Sol HOOPII Hawaiian Band
Hawaiian Nights
Etienne GIRARDOT - Samuel S. HINDSE "Princess LUANA - Prince LEILENIS
A NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE
TO-MORROW AND SATURDAY SEASON'S BEST AND FUNNIEST DOMESTIC COMEDY !
HOUSEKEEPER'S DAUGHTER
JOAN BENNETT ADOLPHE MENJOU
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A Entirely Now Copy of the Most Timely Re-Issue ! THE MIGHTIEST EPIC OF THE AIR-FORCE EVER PRODUCED ! ! !
Brought Back Becauso No Other Saga of the Air Has Been Made To Equal It!
Clark GABLE
Wallace BEERY HELL DIVERS
MI
Mayb
· COMMENCING
TO-MORROW
THIS YEAR'S GREAT GOLDWYN PICTURE !
BAMUEL GOLDWIN
prazaniz
Gary COOPER
REAL GLORY
DAVID HIVEN • ANDRIA LIEDE PORN REGINALD OWIN
VONTES ARTITts
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Inside Gormany
Hotel Meal
Costs 30s.
In B-r-r-rlin
HOTELS without warmth be- cause of acute coal shortage, and meals at 30s. -a head these are among conditions re-
It was Goebbels' suggestion :*** that the fixed rations should be low enough to allow an increase within a certain time, giving him an opportunity to start a propaganda campaign to de- monstrate the growing success of the counter-measures against the British blockade.
Nazi
Frost Damaged Storas
A recent meeting of the Ministry of Food learned that the provision of butter, fats, margprine and oils was becoming increasingly difficult. Although the consumption had been reduced to a minimum, only 50 per cent, of this
vealed in letters recently re-covered by home poilue amount was
ceived from Germany.
From one, sent by a neutral re sident, it appears that the weather is still bitterly cold and hot water is
rationed.
"There is no heat in most apart- † ment houses and hotels, und no water," writes this neutral. "My hotel, one of the best in Berlin, has hot or rather warmish water from 6 to 11 am, and a little heat it you! are not too particular and keep your Just and coat on.
"At a few
ew places where you can! eat anywhere near the style to which you are accustomed, a meal costs from £1 to 30s, at the ordinary rate of exchange. There is no whisky, and beer is I per cent, alcohol,"
An exhibition named
Warmonger England," opened in Hanover, shows exhibits from the last war, "eflects
produce.
The production of margarine was which, as it was openly confirmed decreasing because of the blockade,
the German whale shipping trade. in this meeting" hud put an end to
Shortage of unrationed products such as potatoes, fruit, vegetables is cousing further complications. Ля investigation into all storages proved damage by cold and frost estimated at several million marks.
Recruits In Africa
But mourning
is not rationed.
THE Reich Garment Bureau in Berlin announced that wo -men may buy mourning without aration coupon. Batile cloth cannot be taken home; the shop must send to a dressmaker to be made up.
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NELSON EDDY - ILONA MASSEY - An MGM Picture
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THE RITZ BROTHERS
LYNN.BARI Joseph SCHILDKRAUT STANLEY FIELDS PRITZ LIIDER LIONEL ROYCE
Lestamentaista baina, Wateet
A 20th Century Fox Picture
To-morrow: "THERE'S ALWAYS A WOMAN”
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MARTIN STUART
Henry Armetta - Slim Summerville Kane Richmond
A 20th Century-fox Picture
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Preparations For the Defence of Hong Kong
London, Mar. 27.
It is announced in London that re-
SATURDAY
the
M-G-M Picturo
of hunger blockade, espionagecruiting in South Africa after six methods and atrocity propaganda. months of war has not slackened.
Pictures show "the effects of the The Botha regiment, named after Treaty of Versailles and British the Union's first Prime Minister, has war aims and activities of our "secret brought two battalions to war
up to service" are depicted. Trophies of strength since September and a third this war shown include the airscrew battalion is being forthed. of a British plane said to have been shot down last October,
CAIRO, Mar. 27 (Reuter)-The combined manoeuvres of British, Egyptian and Indian troops began to-
day in the desert south of Calre.
the most popular Johannesburg re- The Imperial Light Horse, one of
giments, also had a start with a third battalion.
The 8,000 South Africans actually serving with His Majesty's forces are divided fairly equally between the Navy, Army and · Air Force.-- Reuter.
Hurry, folks, to the Big Show ! "MARX BROS. AT THE CIRCUS”
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HEROISM OF
THE SEA
EUROPEAN · INJURED
With his fingers crushed, Mr. Jac Henry Bjerkan, a Norwegian, 23, of the motor ship Canton was taken to the Kowloon Hospital yesterday by Mr. Paul Wikibort of the same ves- A wonderful piece of scarianship sel. He was detained and his candi- which enabled a small Maltese sali-¡tion was reported to be good.
Malta, Mar. 27.
ing ship to rescue six sallors from Mr. Bjerkan sustained the Injuries a wrecked British airliner in Decem- when he was cut by a wheel on his ber was commemorated, to-day by the ship about D.m presentation, by the Governor,. Gen-
eral Sir Charles Bonham-Cartery of The rescue occurred in darkness a gold watch to Captain Romand, on a stormy son. oft Bielly and has Italian master of the ship Giuseppe been described as the achievement Padre,
of an almost impossible, act,--Reuter,
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.
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