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THE CHINA, MAIL, MAY 21, 1937.

TO-DAY ONLY

SPECIAL NEWSREEL

Of The

HINDENBURG DISASTER

Received Direct from USA. by the HONG

GEORGI

At 2.30, 5.10,

7:15 & 9.30 p.m.

NG CLIPPER

ARLISS

THE KING'S VACATION"

A Warner Bros., Picture with

PATRICIA ELLIS

DICK POWELL

TO-MORROW

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'3 MEN ON A HORSE” First National with JOAN BLONDELL

FRANK McHUGH

4-SHOWS

HANY

2

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TAKE ANY TRIM ORDAPPY VALLEY BUG'

ORIENTAL

DAYS TO-DAY

ONLY

FLIÈREING

ROAD WANCHAR

TEL. 19473

TO-MORROW•

MYSTERY THAT'S NOVEL AND FUNNY!

INSTEAD OF A SCREAM- YOU GET A LAUGH!

A triple murder mystery... played for fun and laughs and thrills! Bob Young and Florence Rice take care of the romance--

-and how about Ted Healy for howls!

SUN. MON

"༈ * *

GHT

with

ROBERT YOUNG FLORENCE RICE

TED HEALY - JULIE HAYDON CATHARINE DOUCET

“THREE CHEERS FOR LOVE”

A swing musical comedy with speed dancing, also POPEYE în "SINBAD THE SAILOR

EVENINGS: 20c.-30c.-50c.-70c.

© MATINEES: 20c.-30c

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BRITISH INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY

Board Of Trade's Figures

London, Yesterday.

The Board of Trade ‘îndex 'num- ber of industrial production for the March quarter was 0.27 per cent.

Fatal Fall Of Maharajah Of Alwar

London, To-day.

The Maharjah of Alwar has died as the résult of a fall.

He had lived outside his State since 1933 at the request of the Government of India, owing to agrarian troubles.-Reuter.

less than in the fourth quarter of...................................................IRABILERAUTTERLUD last year but 7.1 per cent. greater

than in the corresponding period FORTY-FOUR

of 1936.

Production of iron and steel EXECUTED IN

goods and the activity în industries

covered by the engineering and SIBERIA

shipbuilding groups constituted a record.-British Wireless.

KENILWORTH FOR NATION

Sir J. Siddley's

Gift

Sabotage Charges

Moscow, To-day... Forty-four prisonera, including one woman, were immediately ex- jecuted yesterday after a military tribunal at Svobodný, Siberia, had found them guilty of espionage and wrecking the railways on behalf of the German and Japanese “intelli-

-Reuter.

Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, gence services. one of the most famous medieval strongholds in England, is to be- come the property of the nation.

Sir John Siddeley, head of Arm- has strong-Siddeley Motors Ltd.,

the Earl of purchased it from Clarendon, The whole estate is to be handed over to the Office Works.

of

YAGODA'S NAME TO BE ABOLISHED

Moscow, Yesterday.

been

an

Revenue from the estate will be utilised for maintenance and re- The name of Yagoda has pairs. In addition, Sir John, who abolished in the Soviet, says lives at Crackley Hall, Kenilworth, official decree issued yesterday. have placed a substantial sum at M. Yagoda, it will be remember- the immediate disposal of the Of-ed was the deposed Commissar for Communications. One of Stalin's fice of Works for urgent repairs.

Kenilworth Castle is best known closest friends, he was removed from to the public from its associations office on a charge of Trotskyist ac- with Queen Elizabeth, Robert Dud-tivities.

names.

Trans-

ley, Earl of Leicester, and Amy RO- A bridge and a youth organisa- baart, Dudley's ill-fated wife. Sir tion named after M. Yagoda are to Walter Scott in his novel "Kenil-be given fresh worth" assigned to the murder, al-Ocean. though in fact she never stayed there.

SOUTH AFRICANS IN

PARIS TENNIS

Davis Cup Doubles Pair Win Easily

Paris, Yesterday.

EDWARD EVERETT

HORTON

Car Plunges Over 300 Ft. Cliff

Mr. Edward Everett Horton, the film actor, and his screen collea gues, Mr. Lucien Littlefield and Kirby and Farquarson, the South Miss Ether Dale, were badly cut African doubles pair, won their and bruised when their car skidded match in the French Tennis Cham-in frozen snow and plunged over the pionships here yesterday when they edge of a 300ft precipice at Lake defeated Cavriant and Deasaix Arrowhead. (France) by 6-1, 6-4, 6-2,

A tree 40ft below stopped the

Another South African doubles fall of the car, but the three oc- pair, Eades and Fannin, eliminated cupants were thrown out. Gallepe and Weiss (France) but

Mr. Littlefield, at the age of 41,

were beaten in the next round by is a veteran of the films. He began Quintavalle and Taroni (Italy) 8-6, 6-1 and 6-1—Trans-Ocean.

Soviet Birth Rate

Moscow, Yesterday.

by

to act in moving pictures in 1913.. His latest films include “Magnifi- cent Obsession” and “Rose Marie.” Miss Dale appeared last year in "Timothy's Quest”"" and ""The Farm- er in the Dell.”

The Soviet birth rate for the first PAN-ARABIAN PACT quarter of 1937 shows an increase

of 30 per cent. às compared with

the first quarter of last year.

Jerusalem, Yesterday.

The provisions of the pact of am- The greatest încrease was report- ¡ity between Iraq, Saudi Arabia and ed from the Ukraine.----Trans- the Yemen will be published next Ocean.

Mr. E. I. Keeling, M.P., Parliamen- tary Private Secretary to Mr. Ernest Brown, Minister of Labour, gave a les« ture in Berlin, under the auspices of the Anglo-German Fellowship, on ""The House of Commons as an Instrument of Government.”

month, according to the Arab press, simultaneously in Baghdad, Riad and Sana.

"The pact is regarded in Arab quarters as creating a basis for a Pan-Arabian Union-Trans-Ocean.

A “man "alleged to have been work- Princess Marie of Savoy, second ing for the German Intelligence ser- daughter of the King of Italy, has ar- vice has been arrested in Eupen, Ton rived in Sofia to visit her sister: Queen charges of having furnished : Informa- Joanna of Bulgaria, who is expecting fion concerning German refugees in a child at the end of May.

Belgium.