1940-02-21 — Page 2

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SHOWING

TO-DAY

KINGS

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30

IT'S A BATTLE OF THE CHARM CHAMPS!

and it's

Naughty

ANN SHERIDAN

Directed by

Rey Earight

but

Nice

Warner Bros. Killer-Diller Laff Hit!

DICK POWELL · GALE PAGE · HELEN BRODERICK RONALD REAGAN-ALLEN JENKINS-ZASU PITTS MAXIE ROSENBLOOM and The National JitterbugChampions

Original Serena Play by Richard Mavouley and Jarry Wald • Music and Lyring by Barry Wareno and Jubany Mawar with wakaowledgown w Richard Wagner, Fromm Ldost, Wollpang Minart, Juhommes Sokastian Back

p.m.

Also Cartoon "PARKY'S SUPER SERVICE“

Friday

Universal'

Picture

HIL NODDE

"RIO "

with

Basil Rathbone, Victor McLaglen, Sigrid Gurle

TAKE ANY TRAM or HAPPY VALLEY BUS.

CATHAY

DAILY AT 2.30. 5.15, 7.20,& 9.30.P.M.| MATINKES – 20eu 306, 106. EVENINGS1–20%. 30s, 60s, TOL BOL

* TO-DAY & TO-MORROW—2 DAYS ONLY! *

TIMELY!

*

With the Powerful Thrilling of

To-day's Startling Headlines!

PARIS!

CHARLIE CHANT

BLACKOUT!

CITY IN DARKNESS

with

SIDNEY TOLER

LYNN BARI RICHARD CLANCÉ HAROLD HUBER PEDRO de CORDOBA DOROTHY TREE

C. HENRY GORDON

DOUGLAS DUMBRILLE NOEL MADISON

FRIDAY, ONE DAY ONLY!

Gracie Fields at her best in a story gay as its title

DAILY AT 2.50 5.20

7.20

9.20.

"KEEP SMILING”

A 20th Century-Fox Production

STAR:

HANKOW ROAD KOWLOON TEL. 57795

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

You've never thrilled to anyti Mikk-It!''. Love .'.

CHESTER MORRIS

Stark!

FIVE CAME BACK

REO RADIO

FRIDAY

LUCILLE BALL WENDY BARRIE JOHN CARRABINE ALLEN JENKINS JOSEPH CALLEIA C. AUBREY SMITH KENT-TAYLOR

PATRIC KNOWLES ELISABETH RISSON

"SOCIETY LAWYER"

MGM Picture VIRGINIA BRUCE * WALTER PIDGEON|

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 21, 1940

HOW FRENCH TROOPS FELL INTO AMBUSH

Paris, To-day.

FURTHER DETAILS OF the ambushing of French troops shows that it occurred when two lorries packed with troops to relieve others in the front line drove by mistake right across No-Man's Land Into the German line.

The German outposts commanding the road raked the lorries with machine-gun fire and threw hand-gren- ades at them.

Meanwhile a great thaw has now

were sometimes later seen cycling

set in at the front, reducing every-happily between the lines, under the thing to mud and water.

impression they were far from the

Reuter. front.

Hence operations are few and the sectors generally are calm with the exception of the Rhine sector, where there is a sporadic exchange of fire between casemates.

Two Germanı raids in other sec- tors which were made without trench mortar or artillery preparation were

Reuter. repulsed with ease.

OFFICIAL STATEMENT

IMPOSSIBLE POSITION

J

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

London, To-day.

standpoint Refuting Norway's new that the Altmark was a warship and could not be visited, observers stat- ed that the warship should not have been allowed to seek shelter by sail. ing down the Norwegian coast her way to the Reich.

PARIS, TO-DAY. THE OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE YESTERDAY REPORTED THAT 20 MEN KILLED IN A GERMAN RAID THE DAY BEFORE (REPORTED If such action was condoned | YESTERDAY) WERE IN TWO LORRIES BOUND FOR AN AD- VANCED OUTPOST IN THE FRONT LINE.

By mistake, they went through the line into German territory, where they were ambushed.

on

no-

thing could prevent the entire Ger man Fleet from engaging in operation In complete safety.

German warships would only have to seeking become commercial raiders refuge In Norwegian waters each time British they are challenged by the Such a mistake, it is pointed out navy which itself would be prevented entering here, is not difficult to make. In the by International law from last war, messengers sent to the rear} Norwegian waters-Havas.

4 SHOWS

DAILY

2.30 -8.20

720-9.30

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

NATHAN

ROAD KOWLOON

TEL: 57222

MATINEES: 20c.-30... EVENINGS, 201.-30c:50‹-70.)

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

A Rising Star .

In a Great Role :

Giving a Great Performance .-In A Great Dramatic Picture !

RICHARD GREENE

in his first great starring role

giving a great perform- once in a great picture

Here I am

a Stranger

RICHARD DIX

scoring another dramatic conquest

BRENDA JOYCE

„sensational discovery of "The Raini Come"

·BOLAND YOUNG - GLADYS GEORGE Katharine Aldridge · Russell Glassan George Lucco · Edward Norrie · Henry Kolka A 20th Century-Fax Picture

Added Attractions :

2 LATEST MOVIETONE WAR NEWSREEL ! Directly after showing at the King's Theatre.

FRIDAY, ONE DAY ONLY !. tefurn Showing By Popular Démand LESTJE HOWARD in BERNARD SHA

PYGMALION”

A Metro-Goldwyn

Ploture