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TWO WOMEN AND A FAMOUS MAN
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LESLIE HOWARD
In
INTERMEZZO
A Love Story
Introdyting
INGRID BERGMAN -
Produced by DAVID O. SEIZNICK Diracted by Gregory Zotalt Associate Producer losie Haword
Paleched the UNITED ARTISTS
Also SPECial britisH NEWSREEL
SPECIALLY BROUGHT OUT BY BRITISH MINISTRY OF
INFORMATION, HONGKONG
Consists of:--
Discription of Hitler's mistake
British Air-force
Moroca---French H.Q, and Ceremony Parade
Soldiers sent to Norway
English and Welsh Soccer Match
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
May 6, 1940...
BRITISH NAVY IN ACTION AT NARVIK
When the British navy went into action at Narvik it prov d to be a sorry 'day for the Nazi Fleet. Seven destroyers were sunk within a few hours, and here we see one of them on fire near the harbour whither it had been driven after action with the British naval units. This picture
· was received from London by air mail this morning.
BRITISH TROOPS Coming And
KEEP WATCH
> FROM PAGE ONE
Going
waters in an attempt to block the Passengers For Manila passage. Against all such pos-
By Two Liners sibilities rubórate precautions have! been taken.
ESCAPE OF INTERNEE
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AT THE VERY DOOR OF DEATH SCIENCE BATTLES LOVE FOR HIS LIFE!
Fastloyd C. Douglas' great novel botomes the your's most heart"
shillling love drampl
DISPUTED PASSAGE
A Promoval Plours with
„DOROTHY LAMOUR · AKIM TAMIROFF-- JOHN HOWARD
JUDITH BARRETT • WILLIAM COLLIER, S«. » BHAY COOK
A PLÁNK BOG'ASÍ berduction. Birosted by PRANK SORTAGS » Based on the Heval by Shei © Dongles
Wednesday at QUEEN'S
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LAST 4 TIMES TODAY
A Chinese soldier who has been Interned in Hongkong since the Sino- YOU'LL
Japanese hostilities on the border 18 months ago succeeded in effecting bis
cape shortly after dawn to-day.
The soldier, who complained of feeling ill two days ago, was remověd Mr. T, B. Wilson, General Agent to the Laichikek Hospital. Vessels Escorted
of American
He escaped at 8.30am. President Lines ini
When lust seen, the man Whis Even for a danger that can never Hongkong, was a passenger aboard be more than a fantasy the military an American liner when she sailed dressed in hospital uniform. authorities are prepared: the danger, on Saturday to complete her voyage of a neutral country suddenly declar-from San Francisco to Manilt. He ing war while one of its troopships will remain with the ship, going on
was passing down the canat.
from here to the Stutes on leave, Even now any neutral ship of Mr. W. .F. Arndt will have charge of which the authorities may feet sus the office in his absence. pilons is esenricd through the canal! in so claborate a manner as to pre vent any mischief.
Armed Guard
Others who sailed were. Mr. and Mrs, A. Bustamante, Mrs. D. Cooke and son, Mr. B. Despabiladerns, Mr. Martin Dino, Mr. and Mrs. E. non,
Mr. F. Elliot,
R.
Mr. P. S. Easy
and
LATE NEWS
Just before the end of the Finnish Miss D. Ezekiel, Mr. H. BOUT OF BOUNDS" War, when everyone was jittery, Howicing, Miss M. Laya, Mr. Russian ship filed with Concrete Mrs. O. Lagman, Miss P. Ledesina, REGULATIONS
CAUSE TROUBLE children, Miss R. Locsin, Mrs.
passed from the north through the
and
sinnt. Just beyond Suez it was re- A. B. Marcuida and daughters, Mr. by the Soviet Government. F. Puigjaner, Mr. Lula A. Pujalle. called
Just in case, it was escorted back Mra, I. C. Ritchie, Mr. P. Tan, Misses C, and M. Tan, Mr. and Mrs. S.
to the Mediterranena.
On Maiden Voyage
Ko
A large number of casual coolle
TROUBLE is brewing on the An armed British gourd of some Uson, Mrs. C. Vincent, Mr. E. Robert Hongkong waterfront as a result of strength was on the bridge and a de Vos, Misa F. Yaplinchay, Mrs. R. Government's decision to declare the British bombing plone flew above it P. de Yuseco and chlidren, and Mr.Kowloon wharves and godowns a the whole length of the canal. On T. Carmona,
| prohibited area under the Emergency the road at the side military curriers
Regulations, kept pace with it, their Bren guns trained on its bridge.
A number of people took advan-workers, variously estimated at be- The many British troops who per- tage of the visit of a Japanese liner Iween 1,500 aud 2,250, have been form this ceaseless guard duty live on her muiden voyage to to excluded from the wharves us a re- lives every bit as hard as that which Manila on Saturday. They Included, sult of the decision, the B.E.F. in France has endured Mr. G. A, Wilkinson, Miss N. J. Police precautions were taken this since last September.
Kolung, Mrs. P. G. Connne and morning in view of With the exception of those daughter, Mrs. A. S. Delgalo, Mr, and there misht be a breach of the peace stationed in this town, where they Mrs. E. Comba, Mr. N. B. Buoyles, in Canton Street, where the coolics are wonderfully looked after, the Mr. and Mrs. B. Foust, and Mr. K. congregated. canal guards
"Telegraph" understands that amenities that can make their lonely Takasaki, and E. de Chaffoy bouked to eat
Messrs. Y. Yazima, Y. Tamara, M.) the casual workers are threatening lives tolerable. They need wireless from hete-for-the-round trip to are mado-whereby-they-can-obam a sirike unless arrangements
access to the wharves in order to find emuloyment.
without
sits and above all-boots.
Kawamura,
mony
Plan To Decoy
Rich Woman
Police Frustrate Bold Crime
Manila.
EYE-WITNESS
The
the fact that
It is stated that the crews of sam pans and Junks which normally act as transports between the gunwus In mid-harbour lave de- and ships in
tinue operations, pending clarification of the situation
TELLS OF ENTRY cided, for the time being, not to con-
FROM PAGE ONE
It is stated that there is no ques- tion of the permanent whart labourers being affected sich you
or sledge over particularly noun-O Kowloon detectives recently round-tinous and tracklesa forests,
ed up three men who were alleged to live conspired together to rub a wealthy Chinese woman who was to
Huns And Vandals
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
No chips were alongside the wharves this afternoon, and the company's officials Liate that they anticipate un trouble from their permanent em playees when ships berth to-morrow.
be décoyed from Hongkong to Kow-¦ LONDON, May 6 (UP)-Ina) A deputation, representing the loon and there set upon.
broadenst Norwegian, through the new casual whorf-labourers, visited The men, Leung Tsat-man, 28. B.B.C. to-day, M. Koht, the Norweg- the Labour Officer, Mr. Hawkins, this Leung
Fat, 41, and Li Hak-ming. 28, an Foreign Minister, likened the Nazi afternoon for a conference. appeared on rentand before Mr. Invasion to the depredations of the Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magis-uns and Vanda
tracy this morning charged with con- They have laid Our towns and spiracy to. rob and were each sen-villages in ashts," he said. tenced to six months' hard labour, "The German Government's Me-
Det. Sergeant Fraser prosecuted morandum at the beginning of the! and said that Leung Tsat-mun was invasion clearly showed that Ger- the prime-mover in the matter, hav-thany intended to force Norway into. Ing said he would attempt to take war against the Alles, nwealthy woman he knew from "Germany talked about saving Hongkong to Kowloon to look at Norway from war. But sho sunk some Jand. There, the other two Norwegian ships and cold-bloodediy men were to appear and rub the murdered hundreds of Norwegian woman's Jewellery.
scamen."
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY Franklan, | Buffish Alaisas photographed as thele home depot on their return from a raid on Norway, where they
bombed German cruisers and destroyers off Bergen-By Air Mail, Copyright, at i and 3, Wyndham Street In the City of Victorio, Hongkong.
THRILL TO
TAMIROFF THE TERRIFIC I
He climaxes his amazing career with the most startling impersonations ever conceived.
THE MOST SENSATIONAL PICTURE OF TO-DAY I
magnificent in his greatest
TAMIROFF...olo... the role an actor
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