1939-04-22 — Page 4

Page

SHOWING TO-DAY

KING S

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

| IT'S MOTION PICTURES' GREATEST YEAR

...AND HERE'S ITS GREATEST PICTURE!

ERROL

FLYNN

THE SISTERS

MOYTË BETE

CMITEST PICTURES

BETTE

DAVIS

wish ANITA LOUIE » IAN HUNTER • BONALD CRISP • BEULAH BÓNDI • JANE BRYAN ALAN HALB • DICK POBBAN • HINRY TRAVERS • PATRIC KNOWLES Also * JUNGLE JITTERS'' (Colour Cartoon).

NEXT CHANGE

20th Century

•

Fox Picture

4 SHOWS DAILY 2.30-8.20 720.9.30

BARBARA STANWYCK-HERBERT MARSHALL în

ALWAYS GOODBYE”

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

NATHAN

ROAD KOWLOON TEL 57222

MATINEES: 20c.- 30..o EVENINGS. 20..-30‹:50«-70c

• TO-DAY, TO-MORROW, MONDAY

YEAR'S GREATEST ROMANTIC COMEDY !!! Laughing at Life.. Eager for Love.. Hungry for Happiness!

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 22, 1939.

BLAKE PIER INCIDENT

AN INDIAN CONSTABLE, NO. B310, ON-DUTY AT BLAKE PIER IS ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN

LEGISLATION TO CONTROL

PET SHOPS

The "Gazette" contains

the

STRUCK AND PUSHED INTO draft of an Ordinance to amend the Prevention of Cruelty to THE HARBOUR BY A EURO-Animals Ordinance, 1935. PEAN SHORTLY AFTER ONE In the Objects and Reasons it is O'CLOCK THIS MORNING.

stated that provision for the con- The constable

however, struction, licensing, and proper sani- rescued by fokis of a motor-launch|tary maintenance of places in which and brought ashore suffering from animals are kept in private

mises is made by section 4 (1) (xxi) shock.

of the Public Health (Sanitation)

was,

pre-

In connection with the incident, H.K. Muller, 29, of Hankow Road, Ordinance, but is given a restricted was charged at the Central Magis-meaning. Similar provision in the Public Health (Animals and Birds) tracy with assaulting B310, Nur Khan, at Blake Pier while in the Ordinance, is also given a restricted

meaning. due execution of his duty.

The object of this Bill is to make It was stated that Nur Khan is

ad-similar provision under the Preven- in hospital and the case was journed, bail of $250-being granted. tion of Cruelty to Animals Ordin-

OFFICER FOUND DEAD ABOARD HAICHING

ance, by the addition of appropriate words to section 8 thereof. Under section 2 "animal" is given a very wide interpretation so as to cover any bird, beast, fish, reptile or in- sect whether wild or tame.

It is intended, when the Bill is enacted, to make regulations for the licensing, construction and proper sanitary maintenance of the "pet- shops" where a miscellaneous collec- tion of dogs, cats, monkeys, reptiles and gold-fish are sometimes. kept COND OFFICER OF THE DOUG- for sale to the public under condi- LAS STEAMER "HAICHING,"tions against which the object of WAS FOUND

the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani-

MR. JOHN GROSSETT,

SE-

DEAD IN HIS

KATHARINE

*CARY

HEPBURN GRANT

HOLIDAY

DORIS

•

LEW

EDW.E.

HENRY

A COLUMBIA PICTURE

DINNIE

JEAN

NOLAN AYRES • HORTON • KOLKER • BARNES • DIXON Screen play by Donald Ogden Stewart & Sidney Budiman, From Eis stage play by Philip Bový produced by Arthur Hopkins Viracted by GEORGE CUKOR • Produces by Everett Riskin

TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY An Intensely Human Picture. That Everybody will be Happy to Have Seen !

KAY FRANCIS in "MY BILL"

A Warner Bros. Picture.

TO-NIGHT'S DINNER

1. Consomme a la Colbert

2. Boiled Fish & Hollandaise Sauce

8. Grilled Fillet Steak a la-Bearnaise

4. Lobster Pattle

5. Roast Chicken.

6. Tipsy Cake ::

7. Cheese & Biscuit

Tea or Coffee

Price 90 cts.

FRANCIS HOTEL

CABIN EARLY THIS MORNING. mals Ordinance is directed.

Mr. Grossett, who was a native of Dundee, Scotland, was' 48 years of age and had been employed by the Douglas Company for about months. He is believed to have been unmarried.

six

Discovery of the body is report- ed to have been made by Mr. Gros- sett's cabin-boy.

Mr. Grossett joined

L

OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS

The following official appoint- Butterfieldments etc. are gazetted:-

and Swire in 1921 and served with Lieut. G. C. Dudley has relin- them until 1934, when he had the quished his Commission in the rank of Captain.

Before joining the Douglas he served with Moller's Wheelock's.

-

H.K.N.V.F.

Co.

is recognised as Mr. C. Blaker and Honorary Consul for Sweden at

·H.K.

WANG CHING-WEI IN SHANGHAI?

Chungking, To-day. According to reports, Wang Ching-wei and many of his follow- erg have arrived in Shanghai, pre- in the paring for participation Nanking bogus government.

ол

the

Messrs. V. C. Branson, J. Red- man, P. H. Symons and A. Kurrik to be Analysts for the purpose of the Pharmacy and Poisons Ord.

Hon. Mr. Chau Tsun-nin to be a Member of the Medical Committee, Tung Wah Hospitals.

·

Sir V. M. Grayburn, Kt., and Mr. P. S. Cassidy nominated as Mem- |bers of the Court of the University -

of H.K. for a further period.

Mr. Li Tse-fong nominated as a Member of the Court of the Uni- further versity of H.K. for 3 period.

In a manifesto issued

Mr. W. H. Lock, nominated as a, occasion of the launching of the Member of the Court of the Uni- People's Mobilisation Movement, versity of H.K.

| Chinese press circles in Shanghai Mr. C. Champkin.to be a Member urged their compatriots to help to of the Urban Council. frustrate the activities of Wang

and his followers-Central News.

CHINA-BURMA

AIR ROUTE

POLISH SENTENCE ON GERMÁN

Danzig, To-day,

Kunming, To-day. A German citizen, Heinz Wudtke, Mr. Huang Pao-hsien, general was sentenced to eight months' im- manager of the China National prisonment for an insult to the Aviation Corporation, flew from Polish State by the Polish court at Chungking to. Rangoon on Thurs- Konitz.

day to further negotiate with the Wudtke, while travelling from Imperial Airways on the formal Berlin to Danzig, was taken from inauguration of the China-Burma the train at Konitz. in the Polish air service. He will stay in Ran- Corridor because he had insulted a goon for about three days before Polish railway official. The Court returning to Chungking. Centrali considered the offence as an insult

to the Polish State. Trans-Ocean, News.

11ાય