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SHOWING

TO-DAY TWEN

AIR-CONDITIONE DELARES

At 2.30, 5.10. 7:15 & 9.30 P.M.

The Love Story of Annapolis!

SOMETHING TO CHEER.....as Navy buddies of barracks and gridiron battle for the inside track to a girl's heart! It's Exciting! It's Spectacular! It's Fun! It's Swell!

AVY BLUE

KAYN

EXTRA!

4 SHOWS

DAILY

2.30-5.15

7.15-9.30

-with-

and GOLD

ROBERT. YOUNG JAMES STEWART

.LIONEL BARRYMORE FLORENCE RISE • BILLIE BURKE

TOH BROWN SAMUEL 8, HINDE

BARNETT PARKIR -

PAUL KELLY

Screen Play by Gong Broes A Bom Wood Production

ALSO AN EXCLUSIVE NEWsreel of thE HUGHES GLOBE FLIGHT RUSHED BY CLIPPER TO HONG KONG.

TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUG *

FLEMING

ORIENTAL

ROAD WANCHAI TEL 28473

2DAYS TO-DAY • TO-MORROW⚫

TRIPLED-POWER COMEDY WITH LAUGHS GALORE !

It's one big scream of laughter from start to finish.. M-G-M's STAR-STUDDED ROMANTIC REVEL!

FRI. SAT.

From Alp to Alp...

with this

threesome of romancers and rioters...it's the dizzı---

est joy-ride you over howled at!

Romance Three

MGM

FRANK

ROBERT

MORGAN - YOUNG

MARY

ASTOR

FLORENCE....

RICE

EDNA MAY

OLIVER

"REGINALD,

OWEN

HENRY HULL. HERMAN BING

“THE GARDEN OF ALLAH”

David Selznick's masterful production in Technicolour. MATINEES: 20c.-30c ✪ EVENINGS: 20c. 50c. 50c.-70c.

DAILY

AT

230

520

720

9-20

HANKON

STARE

TO-DAY ONLY

KOWLOON

57.795

SYLVIA SIDNEY

HER REIGN WAS SENSATIONALLY SHORT BUT SHE GOT A LOT DONEI

THIRTY-DAY PRINCESS"

CARY GRANT

SCHULBERG Production

الرطانة

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 17, 1938.

TWELVE ROYAL NAVY TORPEDO MOTOR-BOATS

London, To-day.

Orders for 12 additional motor-

DEATH OF

OFT FATHER HLINKA

Prague, To-day.

Father André Hlinka, Leader of the Slovak People's Party, and

torpedo boats have just been prominent figure in the minorities placed with the various ship-controversy, died last night.. building firms states an official communication of the British Ad- miralty.

A few hours before his death, a Slovak Choir visited him and sang With placing of these orders his favourite hymns and the Slovak Great Britain, exceeds her naval Anthem, during which, in spite of programme which provided for only his weakness, he raised his arm in

salute... seven of such boats.

the Born on September 27th, 1864, in "The Times" reports that new boats will all be comparative-Cernova, which is a suburb of Ro ly small vessels with a speed oflsenberg, Father. Hlinka has spent They are his entire life fighting for Slovak 50 sea miles per hour. fitted with machine guns and two rights.

During the period of the Austro- torpedo tubes, have a considerable radius of action and are said to Hungarian Empire, he was arrest- have shown a remarkable seawor-led repeatedly for agitating against the Monarchy and also prohibited thiness.

Several have made the journey from performing his duties as from England to the Mediterranean Priest. and proved their practical worth during Mediterranean naval man- oeuvres.

SHOOTING RECALLED

In 1907, Hungarian troops fired of Father Hlinka's al followers, who had refused to at-

The cost of such vessels is about £50,000. When the new orders are upon a group executed, England will possess

together 32 such vessels.Trang-tend church until their leader was

reinstated as Priest, and killed 17.

Ocean.

COMPUSORY O.T.C. IN EGYPT

Cairo, To-day

The publication of a decree of the Egyptian Government, requir- ing all students and public of the higher technical colleges to under go compulsory military training, is to be expected, according to statement from an authoritative quarter.

a

In 1913, he was elected Leader of the Slovak People's Party, which office he held until his death.

He favoured the original plan for formation of a Czechoslovak State but soon disagreed with the Pra

on a religious gue Government [question and began his fight for

Slovak autonomy.

He presented the Slovak demands at the Peace Conference, but was arrested and finally expelled from

France.

He and his followers have come to the fore during recent months when the Minority Question has 'be- come acute through demands of the

The Rector of Ahzar High Sudeten Germans. Trans-Ocean. School, Sheik El Maraghi, declared that he wished to see all those at- tending his own high school sub- jected to the

same

military training....

compulsory

REPUBLICAN

In this manner, an Egyptian SPAIN AND MEXICO

Reserve of Officers Corps would be

colleges

and

formed from the students of the higher technical members of the Ahzar High School.

-Trans-Ocean.

WHALE CAUGHT RIVER TRENT

2

IN

Paris, To-day.. Senor, Gondales Pena, who held the post of Minister of Justice in the Spanish Republican Govern- ment, which is reported as having resigned en bloc last evening, has arrived in Paris.

the

He plans to embark on "Queen Mary" for New York, to- day, with the object of proceeding and to Mexico to attend, as Chairman Democrat of the Spanish Social Party, the Trade Union Congress to be held in that city.

was near

London, To-day,. whale 80 feet in length nearly four tons in weight caught in the River Trent; Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, 50 miles from the sea, on Monday night.

The whale had swum upriver and was left stranded on a gandbank when the tide receded Trans- Ocean.

CENTRAL

THEATRE

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m. Price: 86 cts-45 cts.55 cis.

At the same time, he will repre- sent Republican Spain at cere- monies on the occasion of a cele- bration of Mexican independence.

Trans-Ocean.

KARIMATA BADLY DAMAGED

Amsterdam, To-day, The damage suffered on Monday by the dredger "Karlmata", which was. - endeavouring to salvage treasure of the “Lutine," off Ters- chelling, has turned out. on exam-

VIRGINS of nation to be more serious, than ́at

BALI

first supposed.

The dredger

was consequently.

towed on Tuesday into the port of Terschelling..

In the opinion o doubtful whether the be able to continu

Trans-Ocean.