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SHOWING

TO-DAY KINGS

At 2.00, 4.30, 7.10 & 9.40 P.M.

An adventurous beauty recklessly seeks romance! A daring page torn from guarded secrets! Two and a half hours of unbelievable thrills!

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The new Sound Version of the Motion Picture

HUMANITY

by the Christian Films, Ltd., Hong Kong.

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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 25, 1939.

JAPANESE PLANS FOR HAINAN ISLAND

Kwellin, To-day.

There is growing evidence of Japanese Intentions to build up Hainan Island as a naval and air base.

HALF MILLION MARK PASSED IN DERBY SWEEP

The number of tickets sold on the Derby Sweep at 9.30 a.m. to-day had already ex-

Besides laying out a big air-ceeded the 500,000 mark, field, an unceasing shipment of military, supplies has been sent to the Island. This includes guns, tanks, bombs and shells of vari- ous descriptions, as well as 300 cases of airplane parts and other

arms.

A big armada of war vessels is concentrated there. Among them are three aircraft-carriers, three cruisers, 13 destroyers and 22 gunboats.

Fighting continues in many

and prospects now are that the first prize will be in the vicinity of $250,000.

The third prize is likely to be about $72,000 and the third prize about $36,000.

The ticket numbers have already reached 535,000.

parts of the Island. In spite of NAZI ARTIFICIAL

the Japanese occupation of Kiungchow and Hoihow, Chinese troops cling to their

the hilly regions in the outskirts RUBBER WORKS

and are still harassing the in- vaders.

Six Japanese planes raided the highway between Szewui and Tsingyuan in Kwangtung yester-

BLAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY day afternoon.

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MILLION-VOLT DRAMA WITH A MILLION-DOLLAR CAST! You'll thrill at the daring expose of this vicious crime-trust that

defled a nation. THEIR ENTIRE RACKET EXPOSED ON THE SCREEN!

RACKET

BOGART BRENT

BUSTERS

GLORIA DICKS ALLEN JENKINS WALTER ABEL

Directed by LLOYD BACON, A COSMOPOLITAN PRODUCTION - A WARNER BROS, PICTURE

EXTRA ADDED STAGE ATTRACTION FAREWELL PERFORMANCES OF THESE ARTISTS.

THE FAMOUS

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NOTHING SO DARING

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BERLIN, TO-DAY. Bombs were IT IS STATED THAT CON dropped at Sungkong and Shang-STRUCTION OF THE BUNA lam, where about ten civilians (ARTIFICIAL" RUBBER were killed and wounded.

WORKS NEAR ~ MERSEBURG

A Japanese artillery unit IS SO FAR ADVANCED THAT mounted guns at Mahow, south of THE PRODUCTION OF SYN- Samshui, on the West River, and THETIC RUBBER ON A LARGE shelled Kamlee, opposite the SCALE WILL BEGIN SHORT-

LY

River

Central News.

CHINA-BURMA AIR SERVICE SURVEY

Kunming, To-day.

Paving the way for the formal

The company recently increas ed its share capital from 30,000,- 000 to 50,000,000 marks.

Other factories are.

to be erect

ed and Germany plans to equip all motorcars with buna tyres in the course of this year.

HE'S ANTIQUE EXPERT AT 8

Kenneth Beckett, aged eight, of Edmonton,

inauguration of the air service be Steeplestone-close, tween China and Burma on Febru- London, N., scorns toys, would ary 28, a survey flight between rather have an ancient piece of Chungking and Rangoon has been Roman, pottery given to him as a made by a C.N.A.C. plane with present than a toy train. satisfactory results, it is announced

For Kenneth is no ordinary boy hero to-day.

he is one of the youngest col-

!

Starting from Chungking at lectors of antiques. 6.40 o'clock on the morning of

For three, and a half years he Feb. 22, the surveying machine, has saved up all his pennies for carrying one bag of mail matter, antiques, coins and stamps, and arrived here at 9.80 o'clock the spends all his time studying his same morning. After one hour's collection. stay, it resumed its journey to Burma

After a brief stopover at Lashio where its engines were examined, the plane arrived at Rangoon 5 o'clock in the afternoon.

The plane is expected to return here on its way back to Chungking to-day-Central News.

Regularly he visits stalls at the Caledonian Market for new "finds," and exchanges confiden- ces with connoisseurs..:

He knows stamps at a glance, is an expert on pottery marks and dates of coins.

“Playroom” in his home means museum, marked "Private." No one but Kenneth is allowed » handle or even touch any article In his collection............

TIENMEN LOST Says his mother: "I've never

Ichang, To-day,

Tiemmen, in central Hupch; has been lost to the Japanese,

After the capture of Tionmen, a Japaneso column from Kingshan, | 90 miles north west of Hanltow, in alad trying to push westward They era encountering stif Chin- Les resistance at Walipu în the

Auburbs Kingshan.

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