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A. Tragic Indictment Of War !

ROAD BALK

AA UNIVERSAL FICTURE

faring

JOHN KING, RICHARD CROMWELL SLIM LUM MERVILER, ANTIY DEVITE,

KARBARA, HEAD, LOUISE D FABENDA, NIIN, EMERY,

NOAH BLERY, JR., MAURICE MURPHY.

ETIENNE CIRARDOT,

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1937.

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:

"God's Country and The

Woman"

QUEEN'S:

"Road Back".

ORIENTAL:-

"Shall We Dance".

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA :---

"Road Back"

STAR:-

"Banjo On My Knee"

MAJESTIC:

"Marked Woman"

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The Mighty Sequel To

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WEDNESDAY

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Zrie Blore

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NEXT CHANGE

CHARLES LAUGHTON in “REMBRANDT

An United Artists' Release

KING'S:-

Coming

"I Promise To Pay" QUEEN'S —

"Successful Calamity"

ORIENTAL:-

"Stolen Holiday"

ALHAMBRA:-

"Range Feud

STAR:-

"Rembrandt

MAJESTIC:-

"Death Takes A Holiday".

GOD'S "COUNTRY AND

THE WOMAN

"God's Country

Wo- and the Warner man.

Bros.' brilliant pleturization of the James Oliver Curwood novel of the same name between -dealing with a feud lumber companies in the deep forests of the Great North West

to-day at.. the King's opens Theatre, with George Brent and Beverly Roberts in the leading roles.

The thrillingly dramatic ro" mance of the story is heightened

by the fact that the scenes- almost all of which are in the open-were photographed wholly in natural colours.

Brent and Miss Roberts have an excellent supporting cast includ- ing such outstanding favourites as Barton MacLane,, Robert Barrat, Allen Hale, El Brendel. Billy Bevan and Joseph King. Hundreds of réal lumberjacks appear in exciting scenes. Reuter.

MARKED WOMAN

-

the

When a racketeer. takes over a night-club for the purpose of "taking over" Its customers, he naturally wants the hostesses, to be "dressed up real nifty."

MOW

And that's how Come Bette Davis has eleven beautiful gowns designed to display in night club sequences of her newest First National film, "Marked Woman," which is

at the Majestic Theatre. Rosalind Marquis, also has eleven. Lola Lane and Isabel Jewell

each, "Mayo have ten Methot and Jane Bryan nine.

"Marked Woman" 15 tense melodrama, exposing the night club racket. Besides Miss Davis, and the other players mentioned, the cast includes Humphrey Bo- gart and Eduardo Clannelli. Floyd Bacon directed.

THE ROAD BACK Today marks the long awaited showing of Universal's "The Road Back" at the Queen's and Alham-

bra Theatres, to-day. The pic-

turization of Erich Maria Re-

Japanese Militarist.-

"Chinese have a saying "Easy as catching a frog in the

field."

"We say the conquest of China is easier than taking a potato from the field."

Chinese Farmer-

"But the potato can choke you!"

EYE-WITNESS STORIES OF

KILLING

SHELL CAME OVER AND BURST"

Shanghai, Oct. 30.

In eerie darkness outside Jess- teld Railway station, held by the Chinese with Japanese troops only 500 or 600 yards away, Reuter this morning obtained eye-witness ac- counts of the killing and wounding of Ulster Riflemen yesterday."

Corporal Frank Collins, from Belfast, said: "Howard and Mallon were standing outside Post 32, Just on the south side of the rail- way bridge, when a shell came over and burst.

"Mallon was hit in the back by and killed instantly, shrapnel

walle Howard was struck in the chest and died a few minutes afterwards.

One of the soldiers underwent a critical operation at 3 a.m., but medical men would not disclose what it was.

These two wounded are in the International Recreation Club, Bubbling Well Road, which has been converted

a - British military hospital.

into

Shanghal, it is believed, is en- tering into the most dangerous phase of the hostilities, with fight- ing surging around the Bettle- ment's western boundary which is manned by British troops. They are in constant danger.

There is a serious threat of a Japanese landing in Pootung in an endeavour to envelop the Chinese.

They troops entranched there.. also seek to surround Nantao. It is belleved. The entry of Nantao may not only involve the destruc- "We others escaped because we ton of valuable British properties, were inside the post at this time."wharves and warehouses, but would

Chinese soldiers holding Jessfield render the Bund unsafe. Statiun anxiously asked Reuter what had happened.

When told that three British soldiers had been killed, they said:

We have lost our brothers,”

"McGuire and Delaney, who were also standing outside the post. were seriously injured.

Rifleman Alexander Steward, from Portrush, County Antrim, told Reuter the story of O'Toole's death

Similarly, the western district fighting, which is causing Chinese and foreigners in that area to move into the heart of the Settle- ment, threatens the destruction of numerous private homes of hun- dreds of Britons and Americans.

Shells have already pierced the walls of two British houses in this district. The inmates had already evacuated.

KILLED INSTANTLY "Between 7 and 7.30 last night Shanghat is bracing itself of a was on duty outside the post further ordeal- when a shell came over my head Reuter. and exploded about fifty yards away. Splinters went in the Honeyland Cafe and hit OToole a the head, killing him almost Instantly.

"Meanwhile, a Chinese man and woman were killed in the street where a milling crowd of Chinese refugees was, running as fast as they could from the scene.

"It was miraculous that no more were killed.

"People of all nationalities-

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RETURN OF AN "OLD FAVOURITE"! FREDRIC MARCH, EVELYN VENABLE in

"DEATH TAKES

A HOLIDAY”

A PARAMOUNT PICTURE

CANTON PROFESSORS

SEND CABLE TO

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CHINESE GARRISON

AT HOMOW

Rome, Oct. 31.

TAKE PRECAUTION It is expected that Count Luigi Aldrovandi and Signor Marescotti Canton, Oct. 30: The following Canton, Oct. 30; The Chinese will represent Italy at the Nine telegram was despatched by a garrison troops at Holhow, im- in north Hainan Power Conference. It is taken for group of Chinese university pro- | portant port granted that Count Clano will not fessors in Canton to the Nine Island, have been instructed by the chinese, English and Americango Marescotti, is a Foreign Office Power Conterence which convenes provincial milltary authorities to doubt for refuge, until the place Eastern Affairs and was the Ita among them-dashed into our re-official who specialised in Farat Brussels on Nov. 3:

take the strictest precautionary To the Chairman of tht Brussels measures against the presence of Han representative on the Lytton | Conference'

two. Japanese, warships anchored. "My pala here ran to help Chi-Committee on Manchukuo.-

outside the harbour. bese refugees to safety and were Reuter lucky to come out alive."

ouldn't hold any more.

marque's heart rousing novel about conditions in Germany after the war has been six years on the way. The perspective of time has added "new values to his story. which are brought into strong re- lief through the medium of the

aking part in the rescue be des Stewart were Riflemen John Camera.

William Morrison, from Belfast, of what he wrote in Because The Road Back" Remarque was

who is a veteran of the Great Wär, exiled from his

Alexander McDowell, from Coler- native land, so strongly did his book stir national aine, Londonderry, James Stephens, from Dublin, and Gerald Byrne, feeling. The author saw the' un- rest growing, saw the revolution from Plymouth.

Reuter: that followed food riots, saw re- CHINESE 'OCCUPY FORMER

turned soldiers facing the trap of JAPANESE DEFENCES.

starvation.

Shanghai, Oct. 30. Remarque saw the wives whose

Doctors are fighting to save the Shanghal, Oct. 30:. It is official-husbands nover came back; saw Shanghai, Oct. 30: Mr. Y. M.ly reported that the Chinese forces the sweethearts who did not wait lives of Riflemen Jack McGuire, Chien, general-manager of the which withdrew south-west from for the retum of the men they Strabane County Tyrone, and Robert Delaney, Belfast, two of the Joint Savings Soclety which owns Chapel and Klangwan earlier in had promised to marry. He saw the godown in Chapel in which the the week are now in occupation of turmall, human drama being lived Royal Ulaters who were wounded 800 Chinese soldiers are now: bar- the former Japanese defences near every day. He put into his story, by shell-fire yesterday afternoon ricaded, declared that the heroic the Japanese-owned Foong Then The Road Back," everything that when on duty at an International Cotton and Spinning Millsouth of he saw. He described the Settlement advance post. Both Boochow Creek.

emotions

men were alive at an. to-day. of vibrant flesh-and- Last night the Japanese opened blood people. The characters were a barrage on this line with trench ready to step out of the book and mortars, starting a number of fires into a movie set.

BANKER TO HONOUR” “DOOMED BATTALION"

stand of these men will undoubt edly torm the most glorious page

in the final chapter of the Chapel

War.

He added that a memorial tablet

will be erected at the godown following the war in honour of thebe soldiers-v Central News S

CRITICAL OPERATION

?

The conference is seeking the restoration of peace in East Asia. Sounding parties were sent out To make a true peace justice must yesterday by the warhips to sur- underline every particular item. vey the sea around the harbour- The University Professors of | Central Fews Canton protest against any sur-

?

GALLANT FIGHT

AT CHINMEN ISLAND Foochow, Oct. 30; · A-gallant resistance was put up by 100 Chinese militiamen at Chinmen Island outside the Amoy harbour. upon the forced landing of the Japanest marines recently, a de layed report tata.

"WHAT WE DESERVE”

London. Oct. 30. render of right to a passing ex- | MILITIAMEN- PUT UP Lord Nuffield in a speech last pediency.

The Nine-Power Treaty honestly night said that nothing irritates him more than when the present aimed at a righteous peace. It prosperity in Britain is described should be enforced in full on all

parties. as a boom.

We believe that the first re "It la prosperity that we deser- ye." he said. "We have taught quirement of a lasting, peace a most riations of the world how to the Far East is the re-establish manufacture, but seem to have ment of China's sovereign rights

prior to September 18, 1931. forgotten the way ourselves."...____

The invading armies and the Reuter's Bulletin Service.

naval aircraft guilty of such out- rageous attacks on our universities crowded cities and humble villages KUNMING WOMEN TO MAKE

must be withdrawn from both SHOES FOR SOLDIERS

niainland and islands, « Kunming, Oct. 30, Local wo- We urge with all possible en lerated by the united Chinese

Powers which people for whom we speak. will be busily plying their phasis that the

Signed Professors of National needle-work for the next couple believe in justice and humanity of days as the Kunming Women's apply concerted pressure on the sun Taken University, Kwongtung

Provincial Shiang-Chyn. Unive and destroying part of the defence The cast includes Barbara Read. Etienne Girardot, Lionel Atwill, Association has passed a resolu aggressor to this end.

No violation of: China's integrity, afty Lingnan University, Kuo- works. However, the Chinese John King. Richard Cromwell, Henry Hunter, Larry Blake, Gene tion to make 10,000 pairs of clothe

for the Chinese soldiers or compromise of her indepen- Min Unteralty, Canton Univer forces have repaired the defences Slim Summerville, Andy Devine, Garrick, Greta Gynte, Spring'shoes

dance will be accepted by Y Mity- Hope Crews, fighting at the front- to-day.

Louise Fazenda, Noah Berry, Jr., Byington, Laura. Central News.

Maurice Murphy, John Emery, Frank Relcher and Jean Rouverol. Central News

mec

Outnumbered by the Japanese, they were all disarmed and then khot down Central News

brave defenders in arms or "to"""""Central New.

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