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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1929.

P. I. GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN SHANGHAI,

SPECTACULAR SCENES I

UPROARIOUS COMEDY I

A Romantic love story and the most thrilling prize fight ever screened

A Riot of Laughs!

REGINALD

DENNY

in

The NIGHT BIRD

with

SAM HARDY............. BETSY LEE

alongong Pirhoneši, ma Farity fatlosn

AEREO NEWMİYER

ITS A UNIVERSAL

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Mr. Dwight F. Davis, new Governor-General, of the Philippine Islands, arrived in Shanghai last week en route to his new, post, and was warmly welcomed. Pictures show him inspecting a parade of Marines 'on the Bund foreshore, the Governor-General, in the

lower picture, being seen taking the salute.

FIRST VOTE IN THE NEW COMMONS.

(Continued from Page 1)

LOST SUBMARINE TRAGEDY.

(Continued from Page 1.)

Mr. Snowden proceeded to argue consequently was placed on the that the value of British trade in disposal list-British Wireless and India could be increased by Reuter.

| £87,000,000

compared with

Later.

ALLEGED PIRATES

ARRESTED.

FOUR MEN CAPTURED BY MACAO POLICE.

DENNY AT HIS BEST!

HERE'S a Denny film that will set your heart

·athumping – make you roar with laughter-and show you the prettiest romance you ever sawl :

THIS WEEK IS UNIVERSAL WEEK

AT THE

A revised. Hot shows twenty. NOW IN HONGKONG. QUEEN'S

£2,000,000. to Australia, If the purchasing power of the people of four casualties in the submarine the two countries was raised by, disaster.Reuter. Bay, six shillings per capita,'

Naval Action.

It is learned that the police have taken into custody four men who are to be charged with boing

Modernising India, at When the news of the disastrimplicated in the piracy of a trad- He contended that from this arrived at Portsmouth, two docking junk in Chinese waters en the the best opportunity of develop-yard tugs were hurriedly coalod 2nd instant. Ing Imperial trade lay. They and provisioned and equipped with could help India by lending her capital enabling the peasants to

steel instead of

Use

salvage gear.

The collision occurred twelve wooden miles north-west of St. David's ploughs, and also developing the lead, the depth of water being approximately forty-five fathoms. UNG of motor-tractors. They As a result of the disaster, a

The facts connected with the piracy were that a Hongkong- registered trading junk, carrying a cargo of fruit, valued at about $300, was on a trip form Sai Heung, in Chinese, territory, to Macao, when it was overhauled and boarded by pirates from another junk. The master of the trader jumped overboard, and drifted on a plank into Tal-O har- bour, where he was landed in a fisherman's not stretched from the shore.

might at some time be educated to

naval ball at Torbay this evening the point of using motor-cara.

has been cancelled, also all flect The present Government onlydances for the week.--Reuter, differed

the from the last on

The H47 was launched in the question of the method by which period 1918-19, was built by Imperial trade and development Beardmoro's, and was of the could be promoted.

single-hull type. This class of submarine is about 170 feet long, Several days had elapsed since was made bo with one 3-inch anti-aircraft gun the report

the Hongkong police, when and four torpedo tubes.

received The L12, of a type recently well-information was known on the China station, was the pirate vessel had ut completed in 1918, being, built by with the captured Junk at Macao. Vickers. She la. In reserve at Prompt action resulted in tho Portsmouth.]

arrest of four men. They have been turned over to the Hongkong pollee, by whom they will in due course be charged, before the Magistrate, with piracy and kid- napping,

The President of the Board of Trade, Mr. William Graham, said regarding the report of the safe guarding committee on the woollen and worsted Industry published yesterday, that the Government cid not hier it called for any action by them. If the House desired an

the report. He add-

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ed it would be very easy to prove that the great majority of the mem- bers of the Trade Unions in ther area concerned were against this proposal.

The Conservative safeguarding|· amendment was rejected by 340 votes to 220, a Labour majority of 120.-Reuter.

KENYA RAID REPULSED.

· BEWITCHED BY CAR

MASCOTI

MAGISTRATE PRESCRIBES A,

REMEDY.

Charged before Mr. Ifamilton this morning with stocking a miss- cot from a car outalde the City) Hall, a Chineso said he was bewitched by the figure, which was that of a woman, and stole it whilst under the spell!

The Magistrate:The only way KING'S'AFRICAN RIFLES AGAIN to get rid of your bewitchment is

IN ACTION..

to stay with Major Wilson (As sistant Superintendent of Prisons) In Victoria Gaol for two months,

OCCASIONAL RAIN.

The Royal Observatory reports

́MATSHED THEATRE

DANGERS.

FINE FOR GANGWAYS OBSTRUCTION,

that in

Teeng San-chau and two others, one of them a kaifong, were sum- moned before Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg at the Central Magistracy this morning for permitting an ob struction of the gangways during a performance at a matshed theatre on the foreshore at Shau kiwan, and for allowing drume and gongs to be beaten at prohi bited hours..

A plea of guilty was returned

Nairobi, June 7. A further skirmish between Bri- Ush troops and raiding Merrille tribesmen is reported from the region of the Sudan border, A raiding force of Abyssinians was "gallantly repulsed from the north that pressure is highest over by Mr. Hin-shing Lo, who address- ern frontier by a small force of Japan. The typhoon exists as ed the Court on certain points In the King's African Rifles as recent-continental depression over extenuation of the defence. ly as April of this year, though Klangst. The forecast till noon- Mr. Hazlerigg said a serious not before the raiders had killed to-morrow ist--S,W, winds; dresi view had to lie takon of the crao about 49 natives..

aqually; cloudy; occasional rain, in view of the danger of fire to a #building susceptible to such risks,

On the present occasion a patrol of the King's African Rifles under

B Captain Marindin received reports The experimental twelve months lie would, however, take into con- of a raiding party and sont word of marketing goods by the rail-sideration the charitable nature to Lieutenant Allen at Lokuta, who postal C.O.D. scheme have now of the performance, and imposed. Immediately made a forced march ended, and the results show that a fine of $50.

Defendants were cautioned on through the mountain pass accom.progress has been steady, if some- panied by Mr. Remington, the Ad- what slow; In May, 1928, the the other summons,.......... ministrative Officer for the dis- total number of consignments by

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the rail-post system was 2,211, and Manchester University has re- The party succeeded in cutting the returns for the succeeding; cejved notice of a bequest of £10,- off the raiders and on their return | quarters, wora: Soptember-11,-1.000 under the will of Lady (Edith an action took place, as a result | 915, "of which 10,545 wore by pas Jane) Durning Lawrence. The of which eighteen raiders were senger train; December 12,346, bequest will establish a "John killed and an unknown number of which 10,334 were by passen- Benjamin Smith Fund,” Lady wounded. One lance-corporal of ger rain; and March, 1929 Durning Lawrence was a daughter. the King's African Rifles was 14,417, of which 12,058 were by of the late Mr. John Benjamin wounded.

passenger train.

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Smith 2170,

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.83, 5.13, 7.15 & 9.20.

LON CHANEY

In a powerful drams of love and rebellion!

The stirring times of the Russian Revolution form the setting of a Chaney triumph which will add now laurels to the career of "The Man of a Thousand Faces"!

MOCKERY

AT THE

WORLD FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

At 5.15 & 9.20 only.

-----2.30 and 7,15 -----

Chin: Ee Picture, "Mathematica of Fate', Part 2,

THE ROMANTIC ADVENTURES OF A WOMAN WITH TOO MANY LOVERS!

Wih EDYTH YORKE and gra

WILFRED NORTH

Showing for the first fime in Hongkong.

AT THE

Presenting Betty

Compson in

of her most brilliant

one

characterisations!

BETTY COMPSON

IN

The Belle

Broadway

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