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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY Sparkling Comedy Romantle Love! "LOVE IN A BUNGALOW."

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A New Universut Picture

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'THE LAST TRAIN FROM MADRID" Dorothy Lamour Low Ayres

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A Warmer Bron, hit with the ravishing the outs of "Corsicade"

MARGARET LINDSAY

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EDDIE CANTOR in

PALMY DAYS"

WHEELER & WOOLSEY in COCKEYED CAVALIERS"

LAUREL & HARDY in "SONGS OF THE DESERT” HAROLD LLOYD in MOVIE CRAZY".

4 MARX BROTHERS in DUCK SOUP"

JOR E. BROWN & GINGER ROGERS in SEPTEMBER "YOU SAID A MOUTHFUL" FOR ALL THE SCHEEN'S ▸ UNNIEST COMEDIES in SATURDAY

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EURASIA AVIATION

CORPORATION

Blan, Aug. 28.-The Eurasia Aviation Corporation has moved

FALLANGIST YOUTH

FOR GERMANY

Valladolid, Aug. 25.

National Spanish

Groups of its nead office from Shanghai to Fallangist Youth, left for Lishon, Slan and is shortly planning to to embark there for Germany. expand the service in the north- It is understood that the young western provinces. Preparations | Fallangists were invited by the are now being made to resume the German Government, and will Sinklang China Proper service stay which was suspended owing to weeks- trouble in the northwest province. Fraunpeenn News Server

Mr. Li Ching-chung, managing

director of the Eurasia Aviation.

in

Germany

about

Corporation who arrived here to- by way of Turkey and northern day, explained that the removal to sinklang. Blan was due to the hostilities in Shanghai.

Another four-motor plane is due to reach here on August 27. Fol- The new giant tri-motor plane lowing test flights it will be put ordered from Lufthansa in Ger- on the service in the northwest.- many arrived here this afternoon Central Newss

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, AUGUST. 27, 1937.

TO-DAY AT THE

! CINEMA

JAPANESE WARSHIP SINKS

KING'S:

Hong Kong

Special Showings QUEEN'S:

"Love In A Bungalow" ORIENTAL:-

"Clive of India"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA-

"Parole Racket"

STAR:-

"The Guvnor" MAJESTIC:-

"Stage Struck"

QUEEN'S

Coming

"The Last Traih From

"Madrid"

ALHAMBRA:--

STAR

"The Last Train From

Madrid"

"Sea Devils"

MAJESTIC:-

"The Devil Doll"

DIARY OF LOCAL

EVENTS

FRIDAY, AUGUST 27 Anniversarles and Holidays.- Shanghal, August 26: Foreign James Thomson' died, 1748. · Str travellers who arrived here yester-Rowland Hill died, 1879. Chinese day from Vancouver aboard the National Holiday. Birthday of Empress of Canada, confirth the Confucius. (Sheng-tan-chieh). report of the sinking of a Japanese warship off Woosung. They told Interviewers here that they saw one vessel submerged and another crulser seriously damaged by shell of the Yangtse delta.- Central News

ANOTHER AIR RAID ON

a

Auctions.-Crown Land, at Dis- trist Office. South, Queen's Bldg.. 2nd floor, 11 3.18.; Household Furatture. at Lammert's Hon Kong Sales Room, 2.30 p.m. Cinemas.--(See Page 5). Lectures-Anti-Oas, at St. John Ambulance Hqrs., Tal Hang Road, 7.30 pm.

Mails (See Page 16). Meetings.Kowloon Chess Club, at St. Andrew Hall, 5.30 p.m.; HK. Rifle Assen. Council. In Jaco- bean Room, Hong Kong Hotel."

Miscellaneous.—Claims against

NANKING. FRUSTRATED Nanking, Aug. 25: Another at- tempted air

rald By Japanese bombers on Nanking last night the eighth since the opening of hostilities on Aug. 13-WRs frus- trated at 8.16 p... when a fleet the Estate of Chang Yin Tan of Chinese purault planes inter-due; Art Exhibition at Chinese cepted the invaders over Yang- chow and drove them away.

Coming from the north-east, the Japanese bombers were sighted, be- .fore they reached Yangchow and an alarm was immediately flashed to the capital. The invading ma- chines flew away without dropping any bombs. Central Nawa

"IRREGULARS"

Y.W.CA.. 88C. Bonham Road, 10 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.;' Majestic Amateur. Photo Service Exhibition, China Bldg. 10 am to 9 p.m.

Social-Cheero Club Duplicate and Contract Bridge, p.m.; Whist Drive and Tombola in Sergeants' Mess of Royal Welch Fusillers. Shamshulpo, 8.30 p.m.

Sports. (See Page 10), « Moon-VII Moon, 22nd, Day. Sunrise.-6.04 a.m. Sunset.--6.45

Pacting. Aug. 20: The serious setback met by the Mongol-p.m. Manchukuo "irregulars" in north- Tides. High at 00.11 and 13.04; LOVE IN A BUNGALOW | eastern Chahar last week has Low at 08.37 and 18.25.

Combining comedy with careful production and spectacularly beautiful sets, "Universal's "Love in a Bungalow," a gay story « of the adventures of the hostess of a model home, is showing at the Queen's Theatre to-day.

Nan Grey portrays the hostess and, opposite her, Kent Taylor enacts the role of an unemployed super salesman who usurps the best bedroom of Nan's model

house. Other plcture's cast include Richard Carle, Margaret McWade, Hobart Cavanaugh, Jack Smart, Mineva Urecal and Louise Beavers.

members of the

༔4 STAGE STRUCK

Dick Powell sings two catchy new songs written by E. Y. Har- burg and Harold Arlen in the First National musical, "Stage the Struch," which opened at Majestic Theatre yesterday.

The star has one solo number in

the picture, "Fancy Meeting You," sung in an impressing number re presenting the New York Aqua- rium. with his new leading wo man, Jeanne Madden, a recruit from the concert stage, he sings the duet. "In You Own Quiet Way."

Busby Berkeley directed the pic- ture from the screen play by Tom Buckingham and Pat C. Flick. baser on a story by Robert Lord:

4.

PAROLE RACKET

Timely, thrilling and entertain- ing. "Parole Racket," Columbia's screen drama of the parole evil, is showing at the Alhambra Theatre to-day.

New

"Parole Racket" scores another bulis-eye" of popular appeal. Cleverly written, presented and acted, the picture is a stirring expose of a racket to release con victed criminals from prison to continue their murderous exploits under the direction of underworld fords.

"Parole Racket" is an original story by Harold Shumate and was adapted for the screen by the

author and Owen Francis.

prompted the Japanese to rush the 11th Division from Chaoyang to Dolonor to reinforce the garraion at the Chahar provincial capital.

Other Japanese relḥforcements are now on the way from Pelping to Kupeikow and Lungkwan.

It is reported that the Japanese. are making a final effort to check the advancing Chinese armies from Sulyuan and to drive them out of north-eastern Chahar.- Central News

NOCTURNAL HOSTILITIES · Paoting. Aug. 26: Fighting be- tween Japanese and Chinese in the Lianghalang-Fangshan area in the Pelping-Hankow Railway zone, south-west of Pelping, is spreading out over many small sectors in Hopel province.

Launch

SATURDAY, AUGUST 28. Cinemas~(See Pago 5). Malls.--(See Page 16). Miscellaneous—YM.C.A. Picnic. Launch leaves the Police

Sports. (See Page 10). Moon.-VII Moon. 23rd. Day. Sunrise 6:03 am Sunset.-8.48 p.m.

Pier at 3 p.m.

Tides. High at 12.03. Low at 05,40 and 17.57.

FURTHERANCE OF WORLD PEACE

Paris, Aug. 25. While two wars are raging the 1 62nd Peace Conference opened

A division of Chinese reached the here to-day, attended by repre- outskirts of Yangliuching yester- day. and are planning in attacksentatives of Feace Associations on the Japanese at the station at thoughout the world and a large Chenkuantun.

number of ex-servicemen. Japanese forces launched a night attack on the Chinese outposts in the hills at

Fängshan last night, precipitating

an all-night battle which ended

early this morning with 100 Japan- ese killed. The Chinese continue to hold their positions, but lost a number of men in the nocturnal hostilities.

MARAUDING BANDS

The agenda of the conference includes plans for propaganda and other practical steps for the fur-

therance of world peace.-- Reuter.

GERMAN PRESS ALIGNMENT

The Chinese are reported. to be

Berlin, Aug. 25. deploying more extensively, and The German Press alignment Japanese have ordered all kaoliang with the Japanese viewpoint, in fields and bushes along the road- the Far East conflict. од the bed of the Tientsin-Pukow Railwaygrounds that Japan is combatting from Tientsin to Yangiuching to the encroachment of Bolshevism, be cut down. This order is saldassamed a stronger tone to-night. to be prompted by tears on the The Press makes general allega- part of the Japanese, of marauding tions that Moscow is "Intervening" bands of Chinese soldiers who in Chica by delivering arms to the make a specialty of fighting under Chinese. such conditioris and in such aur- roundings.

It will be remembered that the Japanese troops in the North- eastern provinces in 1931-2 were continually harrassed by small bands of Chinese soldiers as long as the kaoliang crops lasted.

Reuter..

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RED LEADERS ARRESTED

Bilbao, Aug. 25.

That hostilities in North China

A National Spanish coast-guard will be even more extensive than ship has caught a small Red at present is shown by the report | Spanish steamer off the coast of that Japanese forces are digging | Cartagena. The steamer carried entrenchments on line from Red leaders on their flight to France. They were arrested and put in jail, and will be stand trial. before a court martial-m

Transocean New SermCA,

Tangshan to Kupelkou in a wide curve through Yutien and Suhslen.

THRILLS AND CHILLS ON THE MAJESTIC THEATRE SCREEN

Frank Lawton, Maureen O'Sullivan, Lionel Barrymore in. "The Devil Doll"

Halled as the most astonishing motion picture plot ever to reach the screen, "The Devil Doll," directed by that master of shockers, Tod Browning, comes to the Majestic Theatre this week to make local flmgoers at on the edge of their state as one spine-ting- ling thrill after another is unfolded before them. And believe it scene or not, the ominłus-looking grey-haired woman in the above is none other than Lionel Barrymore in the most unique and amazing role he has ever played.

ATLANTIC SURVEY

FLIGHTS

London, Aug. 25. The Pan-American Airways fir- Ing-boat-Clipper III, which has been on a survey flight from New York via the Azores, arrived at Bouthampton from Marseilles this afternoon. The Clipper will re- main at Southampton for several days before returning to New York by the same route- British Wireless,

NEUTRALITY BILL

Boston, Aug. 25. "The Neutrality Bill will un- doubtedly have to be revised and amended at the next session of Congress," declared Senator Burke in an interview here to-day.

He asserted that the present legislation amounts to no more than a joke because of modern un- declared warfare- Reuter

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