1938-01-10 — Page 6

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RD. HOWLOOST-DAILY AT:2,3

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY-

THE KING OF COMIC IN HIS LATEST LAUGH ROLE!

Swords clash! Women scream! Horses die laughing!

DAVID L. LOEW

presents

JOE E. BROWN

An Edward Sedgwick

production. Distributed

by RKO-Radio :Pictures

TO-MORROW

A Warner Bros.

Picture

in a Royal Rave!

FIT FOR AKING

HELEN MACK PAUL KELLY

“DRAEGERMAN COURAGE”

Jean Muir Barton MacLane

G. FALCONER & CO. (HONG KONG LTD.) WATCHMAKERS, & JEWELLERS, DIAMOND MERCHANTS,

UNION BUILDING (opposite G.P.O.)

Agents for:—ADMIRALTY CHARTS, ROSS BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, ENGLISH SILVERWARE Direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery.

WEDNESDAY

AT THE

QUEEN'S

GRAND DOUBLE ATTRACTION

ON THE SCREEN

Sweet romance resounds with song and rings with boisterous laughter!

JOHN

BOLES JACK OAKIE

FIGHT YOUR

WIE

LADY

DA LUPINO

✅ MARGOT GRAHAME Gordon Jones, Bilk Bhodi

Billy Glibert, Paul.

Gullfoyle

Diracfad by Ban Stoloff. Produced by Albert Lewis 60% Sarein play by Brest Pagano, Harry Legal und Harold Kusai: RKO-FADIO FICTURE

ON THE STAGE

THE INTERNATIONALLY FAMOUS

CHINESE DANCERS

EVELYN

AND

TED CHEN

Presenting

THEIR WORLD FAMOUS REPERTOIRE OF EASTERN & WESTERN DANCES

All Performances

and

At Usual Prices

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 10, 1938.

STRANGE STORY OF SAGHALIEN DISAPPEARANCE OF TWO JAPANESE

Tokyo, To-day.

Lifting the shroud of mystery veiling the disap- pearance of the screen actor-producer, Yoshida Okada, and the famed dramatic producer, Yoshi- masa Yoshida, in the snowbound border area in Saghalien, Mr. Bunishiro Tanaka, Japanese Con- sul-General at Alexandrovsk, has reported to the Japanese Foreign Office that the couple are in Soviet custody:

The official said he was in- formed by the Soviet Commis- sioner for Foreign Affairs that the couple are now "under the protection of Soviet border guards, and will undergo a for- mal examination.

The Foreign Office immediately instructed Mr. Tanaka to seek im- mediate release of the pair and to take them into custody when they are freed.

RAN OVER BO

the two

Official reports said actors arrived in South Saghalien on December 30, and the following day left for Shikika, a town close to the Soviet-Japanese border.

On January 2, two travellers ar- rived at another border town and asked permission to view the boun- dary, asssertedly for the purpose of reproducing frontier conditions in a prospective film.

Accompanied by two guards, the couple proceeded to the border line. The couple, according to Japanese reports, dashed across the line into Soviet territory and disappeared from the sight of the two dazed policemen

Reuter.

ITALY'S NEW BATTLESHIPS

-Paris, To-day-

NEW SOVIET NAVAL YARD

Moscow, To-day.

An official announcement · re- veals that construction of a new naval shipbuilding yard has now been completed at Murmansk.

The new yard is destined main- ly for accelerated - building_of minelayers, minesweepers,

and

submarines-Trans-Ocean.

BATTLESHIPS

FOR FAR EAST RUMOURS AGAIN REVIVED

London, To-day. Political circles here believe that measures which have been

in pre- paration since the beginning of December for strengthening British forces in the Far East will now be carried out, following the latest Anglo-Japanese incidents in Shang- hai, which have again increased tension in the relations between

The new Italian naval building the two countries.

programme, which includes con- A new British Note of protest is struction of two 35,000-ton battle-expected to be handed in at Tokyo ships, has occasioned considerable early this week, and it is consider-

ed probable comment in the French news-

that part of the Medi- terranean Fleet will sail for papers.

Singapore, and possibly Hong. Most of the press analyses the Kong, in the course of the present decision in its relation to the pro- month,

blem of the status quo in the The air forces at Singapore and Mediterranean or its effect on Hong Kong will, it is reliably stated, other powers who are reluctantly also be increased, but the despatch engaged in the armaments race. of reinforcements s for the British The Italian decision represents, Army is not contemplated for the according to the Right Wing "Le time being. Trans-Ocean. Jour," Italy's answer to Britain

and the United States, where con- struction of more giant battleships equipped with 16-inch guns, being discussed.— Trans-Ocean..

U.S. EMBASSY FOR CHUNGKING?

Mr. Nelson

Shanghai, To-day.

REPATRIATION OF REFUGEES IN SHANGHAI

Shanghai, To-day.

More than 10,000 refugees

to

left the Jacquinot Zone recently Johnson, the enter relief centres opened by the United States Ambassador, is con-Japanese in Nantao, have been re- sidering removal of the U.S. Empatriated in the past few days, bassy from Hankow to Chungking, according to Chinese circles. Lin view of imminent extension of Each refugee was given a pass. hostilities to the Wuhan area along to facilitate return to their home- the Lunghai and Peiping-Hankow stead which in most instances

Railways, according to Chinese re-are located in the vicinity

Shangha Reuter

perts.