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SHOWING TO-DAY

EVERYTHING YOU WANT

The Big Screen Show! Music am

but the laughs never stop, for anything!

AT 2.30, 5.10.

NTERTAIN

It's a riot

Patry KEY. Lode ROBERTI

with

A HAL ROACH Fortura!

LYNNE OVERMAN ROBERT ARMSTRONG

FRIDAY

JANET GAYNOR FREDRIC MARCH "A STAR IS BORN"

THE FIRST PICTURE IN TECHNICOLOUR.

United Artists Picture.

4. SHOWS

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GEORGE. SIDNEY

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 6, 1937.

FRANCO-GERMAN INTERVENTION

AIR TALKS

Paris, To-day.

The German Secretary of State for Air, General Milch, who is visit- ing Paris at the invitation of the French Government, was received yesterday afternoon by the French Air Minister, M. Pierre Cot

In welcoming General Milch, M. Cot referred to the close co-opera tion between French and German civil aviation.

OF ARABIAN KINGS URGED

Beirut, To-day.

The Syrian Committee for De fence of Palestine" has despatched telegrams to the Kings of Egypt, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, as well as to the Iman of Yemen, in which their intervention on behalf of Arabs in Palestine is requested...

At the same time, telegrams- M..Cot said that whereas in peace time, aviation was a means for protesting against the action of the mandatory government and the drawing nations closer to each other, in wartime aviation was a "unjust treatment of the Arab terrible instrument of destruction. Population" were sent to the Bri

tish Secretary for the Colonies, the It was to be hoped that the peaceful tasks incumbent on air-High Commissioner for Palestine and the League Secretariat at men would remain in the fore-

Geneva Trans-Ocean Iground.

General Milch expressed hearty thanks for the welcome extended him and also stressed the close Franco-German co-operation in civil aviation, which, he said, would bear more fruit later in the organ- isation of a common. North Atlan- tic air service-Trans-Ocean.

A NEW HIGH BELGA RUMOUR

IN HILARITY... when the year's premiere fun-cast goes to town!

GOOD OLD SOAK

REFUTED

1

WINTER RELIEF FUND AGAIN

Berlin, To-day.

An exhortation to Germans to re- new during the coming Winter their voluntary contributions and acts of. self-denial for the Winter Relief Fund, described as the “biggest social crusade of all time,” was made by Herr Hitler and thẻ Pro-.. paganda Minister, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, in speeches at the Den- tschland Halle yesterday.

Brussels, To-day. Rumours of imminent devalua- Herr Hitler said that the reason tion of the belga, as a logical the State did not take over Winter consequence of the recent col-Relief was that if it did, the work lapse of the French franc. are would be in the hands of a bureau- declared in authoritative circles cracy, and there would as a result here to be utterly unfounded. be nothing personal in the collec-.. It is pointed out that the belga is tion and distribution of relief." not affected by the slump in the Trans-Ocean. French franc, while the heavy gold |

stocks held by Belgium enable the

Government to defend the belga IL DUCE'S HEALTH

against all attacks from foreign speculators.

The fact that the Premier, M. Paul van Zeeland, leaves to-day for a month's holiday in Italy, shows clearly, it is stated, that no im-

RUMOUR DENIED

Rome, To-day. Official Italian circles yesterday

“THE CAPTAIN'S KID" portant developments in Belgium, denied another rumour appearing

Guy Kibbe Sybil Jason May Robson-Dick Purcell.

MATINEES: 20c-30c

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

HONG KONG CRICKET CLÜB

NOTICE

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

SPANISH ENVOY AT QUAI D'ORSAY

Paris, To-day.

either in connection with currency in the foreign press, this time in or anything else, are expected in connection with the health of Signor the near future.-Trans-Ocean.

SUBMARINE HUNT ABANDONED

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London, To-day.

Mussolini.

The report had it that the Duce was ill and that as a consequence the meeting of the Fascist Grand Council, scheduled for October 8, had been postponed

Official circles in Rome brand the report as a "malicious invention." Trans-Ocean.

ON FRIDAY

Over 700 tickets have been sold

A communique issued by the Admiralty states that the search by seven British destroyers and two CHARITY BALL The Spanish Ambassador in Paris seaplanes for the pirate submarine yesterday called on the French For-

which attacked the destroyer eign Minister, M. Yvon Delbos, and HMS. Basilisk has yielded no re- conferred with him for over an hour.

sults and has been abandoned. for the charity ball which the Hong It is believed that non-interven- tion and the repatriation of Spanish

The communique adds that all Kong Ladies. Relief Association is refugees to Spain were among the British warships in the Mediter-organising on behalf of the wound- ranean have now resumed their topics discussed.

M. Delbos held another important normal anti-piracy patrol service.

French Ambassador to Britain, ML conference yesterday, with the-Trans-Ocean.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Monday, the 25th October, 1937, a drawing for the redemption of thirty (30) Debentures will be held in the Pavilion at 6.00 p.m.

The numbers of the Debentures drawn will be published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette Charles Corbin, who flex from Lon- and the local Newspapers, and don to Paris-Trans-Ocean. holders of drawn Debentures may,

upon giving notice to the Trea-

surers waiving the six months no-

tice to which they are entitled, Queen Wilhelmina

apply on the 31st October, 1957, to

the

Treasurers, Messrs. Percy

Smith, Seth & Fleming, for payment of the principal and interest to the 31st October, 1937.

By Order of the Committee.

A. K. MACKENZIE,

Hon. Secr Kong, 5th October 1937.

Indisposed

ed and destitute în North China.

The ball is being held at the Hong Kong Hotel on Friday night and tickets cost $5 each.

Well-known

SUDDEN WEDDING insand

CANCELLATION

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Chinese musi film stars are taking part. Mr. Li Chor-chi, the well-known tenor, will play a pro- minent part, the Chu sisters will give their famous Mexican and

wedding arranged to take Spanish dances, and Mr. Kong San-

place at St. John's Cathedral sin and Miss Soo Chow-lai, of Chin- this morning. between Missese screen fame, have consented to

Sylvia Naomi Isabel Mears, 18-sing.

The Hague, To-day. year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. With the cooperation of the Tung- Queen Wilhelmina of the Nether-Mears, of Melbourne, Australia,koon Commercial Association, the lands, says an official announcement, and Lieutenant Arnold Holbrook Hong Kong Ladies Relief Associa lis confined to:

with a Green, of the Royal Australian Navy.tion will sell flowers on Saturday. enza. Tra attached to H.M.S: Daring, did not The proceeds will be divided

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