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its sadness
There Welc Lears for
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WATERLOO BRIDGE
From the Robert E. Sherwood Stage play. with MAE CLARKE, Kent Douglass, Doris Loyd, Enid Bennett, Bette Davis. Ethel Griffies, Frederic Kerr. Directed by JAMES WHALE.
Presented by Carl Laemmle.
Produced by Carl
Laemmle, Jr.
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE
COMING ATTRACTION!
TIFFANÝ
PRESENTS
the COMMAND PERFORMANCE
Can the Social Scandards Attained by Royalty Restrain the Emotional Love of a Commonplace Actor and an Aristocratic Princess? A most Romantic Plature Piercing the Inner Sanctum of Royal Love which is es Simple and Pure as that Hetween an Office Girl and a Clerk!
NEIL HAMILTON UNA MERKEL HELEN WARE * ALBERT GRAN Directed by WALTER Lang
JAMES CRUZE PRODUCTION
COMING SHORTLY!
BILLIE DOVE
“THE AGE FOR LOVE"
A 1982 UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE.
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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1932.
INDIAN GENTLEMAN'S BRAVERY RECOGNISED
Knighthood for Vice- Chancellor of Calcutta University.
SAVED GOVERNOR'S LIFE.
Rugby, Yesterday.
IMPORT DUTIES BILL.
Motion for Rejection Defeated.
London, Yesterday.
AUTHORITIES IN A QUANDARY.
The Dartmoor Mutiny Trial.
WHERE TO HOLD IT IN SAFETY.
(Reuter's Special Service.)
London, Yesterday.
In the House of Commons to-day, the Opposition Labour motion for rejection of the Import Duties Bill was defeated by 451 votes to 73,
Steel docks and a body of arm. The Bill subsequently pusaed Itsed warders have been suggested second reading.-Reuter.
us a precaution at the public trial of the fifty convicts who are con- cerned In the Dartmoor mutiny.
One of the difficulties of the nu-
His Majesty the King has been pleased to approve of the confer ment of a Knighthood on Lieu- Another Shell Kills Two Chinese tenant-General Hassan Suhra wardy,
Shanghai, To-day. Vice-Chancellor of Cakutta Uni- During last night's bombardment, versity, who was largely instru-shells also fell in the International thorities now is the Anding of a mental in saving the life of Sir Settlement, behind the American court where it will be safe to take Stanley Jackson, Governor of lines, killing two
Chinese and these men. Bengal, when an attempt on his life wounding several others. was recently made by a girl student. -British Wireless Service.
SOVIET MILITARY REVIVAL CAMPAIGN.
Riga, Yesterday,
The Home Office is now confer-
Cable Interruption Repair. ring with the police regarding the During the shelling of the Woo-advisability of conducting the sung area, the Great Northern Tele- trial within prison walls, but, graph Company's cable was severed, again, one of the difficulties is the presumably by a shell-burst, and, finding of a building large enough for two hours, Shanghai was with- at Dartmoor to accommodate all out cable communication with the the prisoners and the court.
A great military revival cam- outside world, as the cables of both paign, which is being organised the Eastern and Commercial Pacific by the Soviet, in connection with Companies had been severed daring the celebrations of the four-the shelling of the Woosung Forts teenth anniversary of the Red some days ago, and had not yet been The Great Northern Army, is to begin on February repaired.
Telegraph Company, however, got} | 20.
The official programme, issued emergency lines working by reason made by in connection with the festivi- of special arrangements vities, dwells on the dangers of the Company in anticipation of the Far East and expresses in- such interruption, and the service tention to prepare to defend So this morning was working normally. viet territory against aggression. Reuter's Pacific Service.
PREMIER'S RECOVERY.
To Leave Nursing Home
To-morrow.
Rugby, Yesterday.
PRINCE AT ALDERSHOT.
Rugby, Yesterday.
THE POPE AND
MUSSOLINI'S DAUGHTER.
Telegrams Exchanged.
(Reuter's Special Service.)
Rome, Yesterday.
The Pope to-day received a tele-i gram from Primo Mussolini's daughter, Edda, and her husband, Signor Ciano, the Italian Consul- General at Shanghai.
The telegram is a sequel to a special enquiry by the Pope for
The Prince of Wales to-day flew news of Edda during the recent The Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsey to Bordon Camp, Aldershot, on a
Audience he gave to Primo Mus- MacDonald, will probably leave the farewell visit to the First Batta-solini when he assured the Duce nursing home, to-morrow, having lion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, of his daily prayers on her behalf. made good recovery from his recent of which he is Colonel-in-Chief. operation.
He may attend.
the The Battalion leaves for Palestine NO DOLE FOR U.S. UNEMPLOYED Jusual Wednesday Cabinet meeting next week.-British Wireless Ser- Fund will remain in London for
few days before leaving to take tha three weeks rest ordered by his
doctors. British Wireless Service.
avice.
THAMES STRIKE TO United States. The Senate has re-
END!
Washington, Yesterday. There is to be, no "Dole" in the
jected a bill for unemployment re- lof, providing for an appropriation of twenty-five million sterling this
STOP PRESS | Lightermen & Tugmen Winter, and fifty million next fiscal
Tokyo, To-day. Following Mr. Shigama- tsu's intimation that hope of persuading the Chinese troops to voluntarily with- draw, the Japanese Govern- ment has authorised the presentation of .an ultima- tum warning the Chinese 19th Route Army, that the Japanese will have to use force, if they do not with- draw twenty kilometers to the North-West of the Inter- national Settlement of Shanghai within a specified time. It is authoritatively stated that the ultimatum applies only to the 19th Army and not to Chiang Kaishek's troops.~Reuter,
The two Able Seamen of who were H.M.S. Suffolk, wounded this morning by shrapnel, while on guard at Hongkew Wharf, are now stat- ed to be in a critical condition. Their names are A.B. A.Ç. Prior, and A.B. H.A. Francis.
To Return to Work on
Thursday.
Rugby: Yesterday.
The strike of Thames lightermen and tugmen is expected to end, as ja result of negotiations, at present and em- proceeding, between men ployers, and work will in all pro- bability be resumed on Thursday morning-British Wireless Service.
THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
At the Ordinary Yearly Meeting to be held on Wednesday, March 23, at 11 a.m. the Directors will (subject to audit) recommend that the balance available for distribu- tlon be disposed of as follows:- To pay a dividend of $2.50 per share on 450,000 shares
To appropriate a sum to write off Nos. 3 and 4 Turbo Bets
To place to reserve To carry forward to next
account
.$1,125,000,00
year.
Unemployed are now said to total nine milkon.-Reuter'a Service.
FAIR.
American
The Royal Observatory's re-
issued port
this morning state::--
The anticyclone, central over N.E. China, has strengthened further.
Forecast:-E. winds, strong;
fair.
Rainfall. Ralufail for 24 houra cud.
ed at 10 a.m. to-day 0.01 inch. Total since January 1-1.78 inches against an average of 2.41 luches-deficit .63 inch.
Temperature.
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