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with REGINALD OWEN, ALAN MARSHAL, HENRY STEPHENSON, LEIF ERIKSON, DAME MAY WHITTY, G. HENRY GORDON, VLADIMIR SOKOLOFF

DANIELLE DARRIEUX

London, To-day.

IDELIGHTFUL

FIRST PERFORMANCE

It was a triumphant success. Al-

Last night Hong Kong had the unique opportunity of at- Replying to arguments of the tending the first performance Opposition that the Munich agree-ever given in English of the fam- ment has not been carried out as ed classical Chinese play "The the inhabitants of the affected Romance of the Western Cham-

ber." areas in Czecho-Slovakia were not given the chance to apt for one though the show provided formalis- country or the other, Mr. Cham-ed Chinese acting throughout, even berlain pointed out that the Ger- the large foreign section of man-Czech commission which had audience found the working out of

the poetical drama gripping in been formed to deal with this most baffling way. question had not yet sent in its report to the international commis-

sion.

the

1.

To discuss it in the familiar lan- guage of the European stage would be as though a musical critic were sent to discuss in a technical way With reference to the ten mil-the. Last Trump. The texture of

to Czecho- lion pounds loan Slovakia, it was primarily in- the Chinese drama is so completely tended, declared the Prime Minis-different that it is difficult to grasp ter, for providing homes for fugi-the point of its appeal to foreign tives was an international pro- ear and eye, but that the appeal

was there was undeniable. blem since Britain alone

The wit of Mrs. Elsie Lee Soong's unable to cope with the matter. He hoped that in time an inter-performance of the part of Hung national solution would be found. Niang, Ying Ying's maid, was pro- As regards the British guar-bably the key to its immediate suc- antee for Czecho-Slovakia, it cess, but Mr. Herbert Tong

outstanding was a problem which would not Chang Kung gave an be clarified until a final settle-performance, and Miss Mei Ying- ment of the minorities in Czecho-

ung, as Ying Ying, could Slovakia had been reached.

have been bettered.

GERMANY IN BALKANS

Was

The British Prince Minister also attitude adopted objected to the

by Mr. Attlee in attempting to make the House believe that Ger- in sinister intentions many had South-Eastern Europe.

These countries,

he declared,

would be able to supply Germany

as

hardly

Further performances are to given to-night and to-morrow.

THEFT OF DETONATORS

be

Cheung Sung, aged 27, watchman with foodstuffs in exchange for in- of the Kin Lee contractor, at No. dustrial products. Britain had no

6 Dynamite Magazine, reported desire to exclude Germany from that at about 3 a. m. this morning

FRI❝THE RAGE OF PARIS DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS JR. these countries. To be sure Bri-five unknown Chinese entered the

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Lionel Barrymore

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tain has there certain trade inter-watchman's hut, armed with four ests of its own and intended to revolvers and dressed in black cot- maintain them, whereby it was able ton clothing, and took away 350 to count on the goodwill of these detonators. countries.

MAN UNDER BED

For although their neutral mar- ket is mainly in Germany, they did not desire to be restricted to a bar- ter system of trade but wanted to be still in the position to purchase

Chung Ki, 36, was sentenced to raw materials on the world mar- kets. There was no need for a 10 weeks' imprisonment when he trade war between Germany and pleaded guilty to being in a dwell- Britain, declared the Prime Minis-ing for an unlawful purpose. ter and he repeated his contention Inspector Baker said defendant that an improvement in trade be- was found under a bed at No. 147, tween Germany and South-Eastern Wanchai Road. He was trying to Europe would have definite advan- steal a blanket when he disturbed tages for the British trade. Trans- the complainant. Ocean.

REFUGEES FROM MACAO

!

GAMING SCHOOL

At the Kowloon Magistracy this morning; Kwok Kwong 22, coolie, Refugees are pouring into Hong was fined $25 by Mr. K. M. A. Bar- Kong from Macao, where accom nett for keeping a common gaming modation is even more severely school at No. 190, Cheung, Shawan taxed than in Hong Kong.

Road, yesterday, Authoritative figures reveal thạt? over 16,000 have come in during Ten other coolies were fined $1 the last ten days. None of them for gambling on the premises. The

are not destitutes.

To-morrow: “SERVANTS ENTRANCE have been sent to Kam Tin, as they table money, $1.50, was donated to

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Li Yui-Shing, 17, unemployed, was this morning sentenced to six months hard labour and twelve Mise C. Ton, nurse of the Queen strokes when found guilty of steal- Mary Hospital, reported, that her ing an earring from Lam Yee-koo, quarter was entered, and a sum · a married woman, in Wing Lok of $60 stolen from her suit case, Street yesterday-afternoon,

some time last night,