1931-12-28 — Page 12

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QUEEN HIGH

a Paramount Picture

The

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And laugh! Bee why? funniest thing Broadway saw! Now on the screen!

SCHWAB & MANDEL Production.

SPECIAL ADDED MUSICAL ATTRACTION !' DICK LEUTERIO & HIS CAPITOLIANS (A - Paramount Picture Orchestra in Hollywood) Play another New Music Programme.

1. FOUR WHEELS BREAK.

2. SWAMP GHOST (LATEST HIT FROM BROADWAY).

3. I'M ALONE BECAUSE I LOVE YOU (INCIDENTAL

SINGING).

4. NOW YOU ARE IN MY ARMS.

6. ME.

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Note: Music programme, completely changes with the

change of picture.

COMMENCING TO-MORROW

You'll live every rapturons

moment of this radiant

A Murnau Flaherty

Production,

Directed by

F. W. Marga

The first real (romance cof

the South, Seks-Portrayed by na ALL-NATIVE cast!

China

The

Mail.

ESTABLISHED 1845.

HONG KONG, MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1931.

JUDGE AND CONVICT THE BEST OF FRIENDS.

But Death Parts Them.

"I WANT TO THANK HIM.”

An Old Bailey judge's wreath was on the coffin, of an old convict, a man who spent 34 years of his fe in.gaol for thefts which totalled £14-when he was laid to rent in Kensal Green Cemetery.

Judge and convict met for the first time in the Recorder's Court of the Old Bailey, where Sir Ernest Wild, after listening to the heart rending drama of a man who never had a chance to go straight held out a helping hand to the grey-haired old man of 70 in the dock.

The old convict walked out of the dock to freedom, and a job-ȧ humble job of selling newspapers on a pitch outside a London tube station. He pledged his word to go straight... and he did.. He never turned the corner fter that day, and he might have in on his pitch still, earning an honest though meagre Hving but he developed cancer and died in a London hos- pital.

Sir Ernest Wild used to sit by the bedside of the man he had saved. It was wonderful to see them to gether, judge and convict talking about the cathedral city which both knew in their school days. And every time the Old Bailey judge went to see the old convict he brought a bunch of flowers to per-

fume his alck-room.

. Every nosegay which the City Fathers placed on Sir Ernest Wild's table in court went to the old con- vict with a kindly message from the judge who was his friend.

The old convict's last thoughts were of the judge, and he breathed hta name

In his death agony, a message to Sir Ernest Wild," he whispered "I want to thank him before I go." But it was too late, and he passed away without utter- ing his thanks.

FREE PRESENTS FOR FRIENDS.

Judge Zung in Firat District Court, Shanghai, on December 14 sent Zee Pau-ning to jail for a term of four months when the latter was convicted on a charge of attempting to steni $1,729 worth of books from

NEWS TABLOIDS

AND

OVERNIGHT CABLES

SUMMARISED.

Japan's notification regarding Chinchow

in is interpreted America as a frank confirmation that she intends completing the conquest of Manchuria.

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If the wholesale importation of cheap tea is allowed to con tinue, many Empire tea com ruined is em- panics will e

Mincing Lane phasised by a

share firm, of rubber, and tea brokers.

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As the result of a fire 1,100 men are idle in Pennsylvania.

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Dr. Forgan, Vice-Chairman of

National the

Bank of the Republic, has died in Evanston, Illinois.

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U.S. naval and air forces are to engage in manoeuvres off Hawail from February 6 to 11.

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Nineteen Cardinals attended Papal Mass in St. Peter's, Vati- can City, yesterday,

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The little god, Eros, has been unveiled in its old position in Piccadilly Circus, London.

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Christmastide brought 200| deaths in the United States, 130 of which were the results of car smashes, and nine due to poison liquor.

Accidents and assaults in South Africa resulted in 26 lives being lost.

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A young man belonging to one of the best families in Belgrade shot his father and mother dead, seriously wounded a brother, and then committed, suicide.

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In what is believed to have been a revolt against the Chilean Government, 12" Communists were klBed at Santiago.

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FISH WITH A HEAD- LIGHT.

Liner's "Catch" for

London Zoo.

GREEN EYED PRAWNS.

Ocellated fish with eyes that ahine In the darkness like

motor head- lights were among u consignment for the Zoo Aquarium which arrived at Southampton in the Union Castle liner Winchester Castle.

They were in a big sea water tank, which also contained:

Prawns that emit a fascinating green light from their eyes in the

dark;

Sea urchins with poison-tipped spikes on their spines;

Representatives of the octopus family, and

Many varieties of brightly-hued

fish.

The Zoo oficial spent an hour fishing them out with a net before they were transported to London.

The occllated 'fish was perhaps the most spectacular inhabitant of It la brownishʼred, with rings of a farthing all over it, As the tank.

its life is spent in almost perpetual] darkness, nature has provided it with a means of emitting its own light.

"This specimen," added the Zoo official," will a welcome arrival at} the squarium, as we have none there at present."

TEARS FAIL TO IMPRESS A JUDGE,

Protestations of deep religious} convictions and regrets failed to savo weeping George H. Warner, 36, from paying the penalty for worthless choques,

City Detective H. E. Warren of the police bad cheque detail sold Warner was arrested after trying: to pass a worthless $5 cheque on a downtown store and had issued several other worthless cheques. Warner was charged with petty) Jarceny.

Zeebrugge Customs officials were concerned in a thrilling Warner took the stand and wept capture of a rum-running "mys-as he told his story. He said he tory" yacht during Christmas.

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So far 188 Red Shirts ave been arrested in the five frontier

the Chinese American Publishing | districts of India, Company, sys the China Press.

Detect Sergeant Bolahenko said that, from investigations mode he found that accused who was em ployed by.complainants, was

first suspected when he was found sleep- ing inside the store by a boy who was cleaning up the rooma.

The boy reported this to Mr. Montiner who searched the desk of accused and found number of books. Ho

A

PALESTINE CENSUS.

was helping take care of the widow of a former assistant pastor to a prominent Seattle minister and had brought her north from Los An- geles when they were unable to get work there. They ran out of money in Seattle and Warner said he finally resorted to worthless cheques, but the widow did not know of it.

Jerusalem, Dec. 8. According to the complete re- turns of the recent census publish. "She thought we could live on "She has faith," Warner sobbed.

ed to-day the population of Fales- prayer but I didn't see it that way. tine hos just passed the million If you haven't got the groceries] mark, which representa an in-

you can't live, that's my idea. since the crease of 35 per cent.

"I've

real never been in any trouble before. I was arrested

also found that the accused had jest census in 1922. Of the total of 1,019,000 inhabitants of the

transferred a great number of books mandated territory approximately fonce in Los Angeles, yes, and fined

upstairs where he could remove them from the premises at his leisure.

175,000 ard Jewa. Transocean Kuomin.

Zee admitted the allegations, pleading that he wanted to give the | SKIM MILE EXTINGUISHES FIRE. books awny to his friends at Christmas.

FACE MONEY.

$7 for walking across a street against a traffic light, but that's the only time I ever broke a law.

"But as God is my judge, I didn't realize what I was doing when I aed those cheques. I knew some- Two truckloads of skim milk thing was wrong while I was doing! were pressed into requisition on it, but it was too late then," December 1 by firemen at Brent- Warner faltered on. "I guess a ford, Ont, who wore endeavouring man can't be religious and be a As much as $1,500 a year has to extinguish a fire threatening the hypocrite, and I've been a hypocrite been found to be the expenditure total destruction of farm build--no honour to me, you might say.”] of many London women in beauty ings, the water supply had given Judge Magill agreed and gave parlours to keep their faces and out and the milk finally quenched him 90 days in the county fail, figures attractive.

the flames.

subject to suspension.

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