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QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

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KOWLOON

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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

The Shock-Studded Story Of A Super-racketeer! Akim Tamiroff Tops His Performance In "The Buccaneer” !

AKIM TAMIROFF tops Ne smash performances in. "The Buccoser" and "The General Died at Dawn1"

THIS MAN HOLDS A WHOLE CITY IN HIS

EVIL GRIP BECAUSE-

HE'S.....

DANGEROUS TO KNOW

TO-MORROW

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I am told that groups of five per- sons are being formed here by the Chinese women to watch each other to see that the other's dress more use Japanese To-day, the Territorial Army-modestly and do not

goods: if they do, they are at once its value proved in war-has to

called down by the other members. shoulder an even wider responsi- The Chinese people are looking to bility. That its importance to the the world for sympathy and support, nation is fully appreciated by our material and otherwise. But how can fellow countrymen is shown by the they expect to get support if they do not help themselves? They must cut fine recruiting figures of the recent out dancing, gambling and elaborate months. They have been particu- entertainment." The women, as well HAILED AS THE BEST BRITISH PICTURE OF THE YEAR larly good in this district and Tas the men, must be more economical. am glad to see the West Lancashire How can the Chinese women of Hong Division heads all others in Eng-Kong have the heart to doll themselves up as they are doing when the Chin- land and has a strength of nearly ese soldiers are suffering and dying 97% of its establishment." ·

for them and when thousands of re- The ceremony attracted great fugees are homeless and starving? crowds and Their Majesties were economical. They must wear plainer received with the greatest enthu clothes, or, better still, adopt uniforms *siasm. They next visited Bootle like their sisters in the interior. They and then returned to Knowsley must be proud of an economical dress. where they stayed again last night. It is not a disgrace to put these on. -British Wireless.

VALUABLE NEW

DISCOVERIES IN EGYPT

The Chinese women must be more

ANGEL.

SIR FREDERICK WHYTE'S NEW POST

London, To-day.

It is announced that Sir Fred- erick Whyte, who was President of Cairo, To-day. Indian Legislature Assembly from Selim Hassan, Professor of 1920 to 1925, and Political Advisor the National Government of Egyptian History at the University to of Cairo, charged by the Egyptian China from 1929 to 1932, will be Government with conducting ex- the Chairman of the Films Council cavations on the River Nile an-to be appointed under the nounces the discovery of a subter-Cinematograph Films Act.-British ranean passage the walls of which Wireless.

are covered with hundreds of in- scriptions and painted frescoes of scenes of ancient Egypt,. un- doubtedly the greatest collection of Egyptian inscriptions ever found hitherto.

The passage stretches from the Valley of the Temple to the Tomb of King Unas in Skhara, 20 miles down the Nile and has a width of about 18 metres.

OVERWHELMING MAJORITY

new

Capetown, To-day. The results of the South African Moreover, a Royal Mausoleum Union Parliamentary elections made has been also discovered contain-known up till now show that the ing thousands of mummies. Trans-Ocean.

THE

PREMIER

London, To-day.

United Party, that is the present Government, has secured a sweep- Ing majority over all other parties taken together, having won 77 seats while the remaining four parties have so far only secured 14 seats altogether.

Mr. Neville Chamberlain, who Among the re-elected is General had been suffering from a mild Smuts, who in his constituency: in attack of gout, was stated to be Transvaal polled 75 per cent of the British total number of the votes. Trans- much better yesterday.. Wireless,

Ocean.

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BRIDE QUEEN MARTYR all in nine days

Cedric HARDWICKE Nova PILBEAM

Nine Days a Queen

A Production

COMMENCING SUNDAY

A SINGING, SWINGING MUSICAL COMEDY !

RUBY KEELER, LEE DIXON, LOUISE FAZÉNDA in "READY, WILLING AND ABLE"

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