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BOOLOO
Firm in the Malay jungle by CLYDE ELLIOTT She made “Bring 'Em Sock Alive" and
"Devil Tiger" with COLIN TAPLEY
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"WHITE BANNERS" "PRIDE OF THE WEST"
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Today's Screenings
KING'S:
Hongkong
"Everybody Bing”
QUEEN'S
"Booloo"
ORIENTAL·
*Vogues Of 1938".
Kowloop
ALHAMBRA -
"Booloo"
STAR:"
"Saratoga"
MAJESTIC:
"Happy Landing"
KING'S:
Coming
"Beg-Borcow Or Steal"
QUEEN'S:
"White Banners" ORIENTAL:
"Little Miss Marker" "Fire Over England" ALHAMBRA :
"Pride Of The West"
STAR:
"San
Quentin"
"Wee Willie Winkee"
MAJESTIC:
"Rascals"
SAGA OF THE JUNGLE
Filmed in
MEDICAL
COMMITTEE
APPOINTED
£17,000 DEBTS AND
NO ASSETS
Sir B. Kemball-Cook¦
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Questioned
His Excellency the Governor has appointed the following members as the Medical Committee, Tung Wah Hospitals, to act as
Bir Basil Kemball-Cook, of HO- the executive authority in all matters street, Mayfair, who stated in the relating to the medical adminis. London Bankruptcy Court recently tration of the Tung Wah Hospi-that for several years his salary was £10.000 a year, agreed that at
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tals:-
The Hon. Director of Medical one time during that period he Services (Chairman
owed £22,800. ex-officio; Hon. Mr. M.K, Lo and Hon. Dr. Li
He attended before Mr. Deputy- Shu-fan (to hold once for three Registrar Mellor for his public years), Mr. Chau Shu-ng. Mr. Lo examination, when ranking liablil- Min-nung and Mr. Yeung Wing- ties of £17.186, and no avallabic hong ito hold office during their assets, were disclosed. terms of office as Directors of the
Tung Wah Hospital), the Visiting Medical Omeer, Chinese hospitals dispensaries. the Medical Superintendent, Tung With
and
Eastern Hospital, and the Medical
Replying to Mr. H H. Qaine. Official Receiver, Sir Basil said that from 1900 until 1919 he was a
civil servant. He was then second- ed to the Reparations Commission.
In January, 1927, he was ap-
Superintendent, Kwong Wah Hos-pointed managing director of a pital "Tex-ofBela),
UNWHOLESOME POULTRY
company at a salary, for the first, two years, of £8,000 a year, and afterwards at £10,000 a year.
He resigned the post in June. 1935, and became associated with other persons in a syndicate which
A warning against the purchase held exclusive permission to ex-
of poultry from other than well-plore for gold in British Gulana. known dealers was given at the Kowloon Court on Saturday when
a man and a woman were charged with possession of poultry not for human consumption,
Mr. E. Himsworth imposed a fine
GOLD VENTURES
Sir Bus attributed his failure to his inability to realise his ex- pectations from his gold ventures. The Oficial Receiver submitted
of $300 or four months' imprison-that the fallure was due to Sir ment on the man, and $100 or two
Basil having lived beyond his months' on the woman.
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Sanitary Inspector A.C. Sinton stated that it was believed the man and woman were members of a gang engaged in the trade of unwhole- some poultry. In a raid on a house in Reclamation Street, 182 be of unwholesome chicken and
the heart of the had been seized Malayan Jungle, about 400 miles north of Singapore, “Bouloo,12-siga
Tapley and Jayne Regan, now at
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duck
means.
Bir Basil agreed that he lost £550 over the purchase of a film called "The Outsider."
The debtor agreed that his de- clency account showed that since July, 1995, he had paid £2.120 in alimony; Interest on loans had ac- counted for £2,500; depreciation of Interest in gold mines, £9,900; and bad debts" amounted to £3,818.
of the jungle featuring Colin EVERYBODY SING Mr. the Queen's and Alhambra Thea- A musical that will appeal to ites, is exciting story of the ex-opera lovers opened at the King's periences of a young English ex-Theatre in "Everybody Sing."
Allan Jones and Judy Garland. plorer who enters the "green in- ferno" to redeem
father's as the singing chef and the swing- honour.
ing school girl, were outstanding in their singing, dancing and acting.
His
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His father. also, an explorer of No less enthusiastic was the au- note, has written a book about adience in appreciation of the white tiger, who is worshipped as comedy work of Fanny Brice, Re- a god by the superstitious natives. ginald Owen, Billie Burke, Re- When, his fellow-scientists de-ginald Gardiner and Lynne Carver, nounce him as a fraud for this One of the high spots of the story. Tapley leaves England for show will be appreciated by Miss the.. trackless Jungle "in" order to Brice's army of fans, when she capture the white tiger and prove does one of her burlesque songs his detractors that such anand dances to the tune of “Dainty, animal actually exists.,
JQuainty Me."
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trians at Aus- terlitz in 1805?
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AUCTIONS.-Crown Land. It Low at 60.37 and 11.25.
P.W.D. Onces, 3 pm. CINEMAB.--(Bee Column 3 of this
Page)..
TO-MORROW
Dance Church
23. Rises 23. Always 27. What Ger-
man river is the confluence of the Fulda and Werra?⠀
by 28. Japanese
| AUCTIONS.—Miscellaneous Goods. at Lammert Bros, Sales Room, No. 2, Connaught Road Central, Ground Floor, 2.30 p.m. DANCES.A
Given Captain C. Moody, RN, and the Wardroom Officers, on Board, the HM.S. "Eagle." in the Evening. ENTERTAINMENTS. Garrison In-
fants' School Christmas Con cert in the School Hall, 10,30 am. Helena May Institute Pan- tom me, "The Three Bears," 5.30 | 32.
·MAILS.--(88e Page 18), MEETINGS.-YMC.A. Women's Section Committee Meeting, 10 am: St. Andrew's Medical Relief Working Party, 10 am. Annual, of Hongkong Hor- ticultural Society, at the Offices of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., 5.15 pm. MISCELLANEOUS. — Mr. Luis Chan's Fourth One-Man Exhibi- tion of Oll Paintings and Water- Colours, at St. John's Cathedral Hall, 11 am to 1pm.: Hong-MEETINGS-St. Andrew's Church
(kong Jockey Club Draw of Ponles, 5 pan; 8. Andrew's Church Teachers' Preparation Class. 7 p.m. MOON-X Moon, 28th, Day. REHEARSALS-AD.C." Rehearsal.
st YM, CA, 8:30 pm, SOCIAL-Hongkong Football Re- ferees' Association Annual Din ner, in Hotel Cecil, & p.m.; Club de Recreio Tombola Drive, 6 to 8 pm: Cheero Club Christmas Party. p.m. SPORTS—(8ée : Page 3). · BUNRISE.-6.66 'BM,
5.42 p.m.
BUNEST,
D.EL.
29. Place 30.
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vada
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M. Bouth Ame-
rican wood sorrel
51 River of cen-
tral Europe
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measure
31.
Unit of elec- / trical capacity Record of a
2.
ship's pro-
Kress
Upon
33.
The first wife of Zeus Mothers' Union, 3 p.m.; Brownie 34 who wrote Pack, 3.30 p.m. MISCELLANEOUS.
The Magic Mountain?
Mr. Luis Chan's Fourth One-Man Exhibi- | 35.. Bea-cow tion of Oil Paintings and Water- 37 Locomotor Colours, at St. John's, Cathedral abazia Hall, 10 am. to 7 pm; Loloma 38 Roman road Kindergarten Christmas Festival, 39. Military RS- 3.45 p.m.; Congregation at the sistant University, 5 p.m.; Retreat by 40. Target the 2nd Bn. The Royal Scots, on Hongkong Cricket Club Ground, 42 Who was the
5 p.m.
MOON-X-Moon, 29th Day. RELIGIOUS.—St. Andrew's Church' Boys' Choir Practice, 8.30 p.m.
most famous knight of the Round Table?
3. What wLS
Juliet's fam-
ly name?
4. One who runs of with a
lover
6 'Pleces cut
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6. Constellation
7. What is an-
other name for the art bat- tle of Bull Run?
8. American
vice-president
9. What was an-
other, name for Troy?
10. A duct SOLUTION TO-MORROW
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11. Sooner than 16. Small boy
20. Frozen
21. Broom
22
Genus of grasses
23. Nest of a
bird of prey 24. Speak mono-"
tonously
25, Auguries- 27. What acties..
of military en- gagements end- ed the Hun- cred days?
30. Festivai
31. Tagged 33. Twined to- gether*
34. Who was pre-
sident of Mex- ico, 1911-13? / 36. Baltpetre 37. Involuntary
twitching
39. Bpecies of
pier
47. Exclamation 41. Rubber trea 43. Part of a
curved line 44. Unit 45: Jagged cliff
Gaine When you were ecrtain managing director of a company you had over £81,000 in 81 years?-More than that.
Yet in 1932 and in 1933 you were and in going to money-lenders, 1935 you had liabilities of £22.600?
→→Yes,
The examination was closed.
REGULATION ABROGATED
It is notified that informa- tion has been received from His Imperial Japanese Ma- jesty's Consul-General, Hong- kong, to the effect that the regulations which designated Hongkong as an epidemic dis- trict of cholera have been abrogated.
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WAH TAK SCHOOL CEREMONY
The Wah Tak School of Com- merce, Kowloon, which was esta- |blished last year, held its first an- nual Prize-giving Day at the Maj- astic Theatre yesterday morning.
A large number of students and their friends were present at the function, and were entertained with many musical items,
The prizes were distributed to the winners by Mr. Lo Man-ho,
FIREWORKS ON NEW
YEAR'S EVE
It is notified that His Excellency the Governor has given permission for fireworks to be let off in a lawful manner within the Colony between 11.45 p.m. on December 31, 1938, and 12.15 am, on January 1; 1939,
KIDNAPPED BY JAPANESE?
A strange ineldent near Lam Tim. | Island, was reported on Saturday by Kwok Tim-kam, master of ‹ a Hongkong-licensed fishing junk, who related that His Junk had been boarded by a party from a Japanese destroyer.
His licence was taken away and his son ordered to follow the de- atroyer in a simpan. Both the destroyer and the sampan ever. |tually disappeared from sight, but
the son has not since returned,
No attempt was made to damage or weck the junk.
Solution No. 186
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