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SEE and HEAR "The Studio

""

Murder Mystery"

SUNDAY, JULY 20th The Greatest Outdoor Talking Picture Ever Made!

WEN WISTER'S IMMORTAL LOVE STORY The American Classic Humor-Pathos-Romance Thrills Aplenty

THE VIRGINIAN

with

GARY COOPER WALTER HUSTON RICHARD AÁLEN MARY BRIAN

A Garment Picture-

Booking at A: derson's & The Theatre. Telephone 25720,

TO-DAY ONLY. at 2.30, 5.30, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

THE

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LADIES OF THE MOB

a Paramount Picture MAJESTIC

NATHAN ROAD,

KOWLOON.

Sh. wing for the FIRST TIME in Hongkong.

An

The

'THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1930.

STREET BATTLE IN ADELAIDE.

ESCAPED CONVICTS CLASH WITH POLICE.

TWO FATALLY SHOT.

Adelaide, July 18.

A fierce street battle between convicts and the police occurred here to-day,

four The clash was between long-term convicts, who had es. caped from Yatala Labour Prison, and the police, and it ended in two of the convicts being killed and the wounding of two police con- stables and a lorry-driver.

The convicts, in an accomplice's motor-car, sped through the city, firing revolvers, and were pur- sued in another car by the police, who were armed with rifles.

Eventually, both cars were dis- fight continued abled and the afoot.

Was

Police reinforcements soon ar- rived on the scene, and one of the convicts was captured.. Another captured escaped, but he later disguised as a woman.

The other two convicts, after Giring into private houses and a school, comniandeered a lorry, but of posse they encountered pollee, who shot them dead. It was during this incident that, the larry-driver

wounded Renter.

CHINESE COLONEL'S

ARREST.

MAY BE COURT-MARTIALLED IN CANTON,

Canton, July 18. Several months ago, General Chang. Fat-kwei, Commander of the fronsides, sent an envoy to Wuchow to interview General Chan Chai-tong, al that time Commander-in-Chief of the in Route Army, who had his head-; quarters at Wuchow.

TEST PLAYERS IN FORM.

GERMAN PLANS IN INDIA.

VEN-IN-ONE WILLIAM FOX presents”

URING TAC

STAR

¿Cualinded from Pega 1.

npaid with tig-ban á mill

Mathants v. Beca

Rain prevented' three full days' play Northants made the very useful- total of 458 in their tirst innings which, was marked by a batting display by Liddell.. He made 120 before his wicket fell. The game ended with Essex having made 172 for five wickets.

BIG TRADE CO-OPERAT

PROJECT AFOOT.

HUGE UNDERTAKING.

Bombay, July 18. The "Export Dienst. (India), Limited," n German concern with an ambitious programme for ex- port and import trade between India, and Germany, in co-opera- tion with an Indian organisation called the Indo-German Products Co-Operation, has started tivities here.

ac-

Worcester v. Leicester. Having made 222, Worcester, skittled out Leicester for, the paltry score of 68, Perks taking seven wickets for only twenty The Indian counterpart, which as a selling agency runs. Leicester were forced to will act

at the follow on but they could not avoid throughout India, aims an innings defeat and were all out ultimate import Into India of manufactures worth for 152. Brook, took six for 37 German In the Worcester innings Astill £100,000 annually and the export

to Germany of Indian raw took four for 57.-Reuter.

duets worth £800,000 annually..

It is understood that the Indo- German Product Co-Operation is assured of strong Indian financial net- backing and is planning a work of factories throughout manufacture of Indin for the daily necessaries wifich India is at present importing from various countries.

To-day's Matches. The following matches are start- ing to-day:

Middlesex v. Notts, at Lord's. Surrey v. Lancashire at the Oval.

at

Kent v. Gloucester at Maidstone. Sussex v. Essex at Brighton. Yorkshire Derbyshire T Chesterfield.

Warwickshire v. Hampshire at Coventry.

Leicestershire v. Somerset Leicester.

Northants Petersborough.

West of Scotland, Australians at Glasgow (two days).

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at

1. Glamorgan at

ATTEMPT TO KILL OFFICIAL.

(Continued from Page 1.)

san's information bureau announ- ced the occupation of Kuçitch city; and south of the Lunghat railway the

Northerners had occupied Chihsien, Talkang, Teur- chow and Yungcheng,, and were new pushing towards Tanshan in Kiangsu,

pro-

The Export Dienst has been formed by over four hundred German manufacturers headed by Herr Theodore Fickor, who visited the study India in January to Indian markets. He then decided to collaborate with Indian busi- nessmen who are striving to de velop Indian industries.-Reuter.

KWANGTUNG FINANCE

MATTERS.

COMMISSIONER TO VISIT

NANKING.

Canton, July 18. Mr. Fan kee-mo, Commissioner of Finance to the. Kwangtung Provincial Government,, is leaving for Nanking via Hongkong and Shanghai, to consult with Mr. According to General Chang

Colonel On the Tientsin-Pukow railway T. V. Soong, Minister of Finanes Fat-kwei, this envoy, Szeto Fee, was sent with proposals front the Northerners had taken of the Nationalist Government, on of peace to General Chan Chai- Chufu, and were now attacking certain matters relating to the It is understood that Mr. Fan tong: but according to the latter. Yenchow from Chufu and Tsining financial situation of Kwangtung.

On the Peking-Hankow line, the the Colonel only came to request General Chan Chai-tong and his Northerners, were south of Yen-Kee-mo will discuss with Mr. T. V. Soong, amongst other things, the armies to unite with the Ironsides cheng.

Chu declared that Feng Yu- redemption of public loans and and march northwards, together!

bonds and Central Bank notes; shortly take the to assist the Kuominchun-Shansi hsiang would allies in their campaign against offensive, and might be expected military expenditure in Kwang the Nationalists at Nanking. to occupy Wuhan in view of the lung, which has lately been In any case, General Chan Chai- transfer of Chiang Kai-shek's main absorbing pracatically the whole of the Province's revenue; the aboli tong ordered the arrest of Colonel forces to the Tientsin-Pukow front tion of likin and the consequential

Dealing with the situation along Szeto Fee, and the Colonel has

the financial situation of been kept a prisoner for several the Kinotsi railway, he stated that increase in Customs duties; and

It is now the Shansi

forces were now at Kwangsi-Our Own Correspon-' months in Wuchow.

Generals Liu reported that he has been brought Chingehow, and to Canton under escort and will Chen-nien and Kno Kwei-tzu were appear before. a Court Martial attacking Han Fu-chu's rear. A here. Our Own Correspondent. proposal that Han's forces should withdraw to Halchow had proved unacceptable, and fighting was now proceeding, simultaneously with further negotiations.-Reuter.

FAMOUS PICTURES

AUCTIONED.

HIGH PRICES FETCHED AT CHRISTIE'S.

London, July 18.

at

CONTROLLING NOISE IN KOWLOON,

dent.

MELBOURNE RADIO EXHIBITION.

OPENED BY PRESSING BUTTON IN LONDONI

London. July 18. Sir William Waterlow, Lord- Mayor of London, by pressing a button in Mansion. House: at -6.27

Af a

great art sale which PROHIBITED AREAS CLEARLY this morning, opened the Melbourne

Radio Exhibition. DEFINED. realised nearly £100,000

Direct communication had been the Mansion Christie's Auction Room, London,

famous works, including The current issue of the Gov- obtained between some

on the several from the collections of the crument Gazette contains amend-House and the operator late Lords Curzon and Balfour ments to various regulations in re-stage of Melbourne City Hall, and and the Earl of Feversham, spect of hawkers' street cries in at a given signal the Lord-Mayor. whereupon, in the brought high prices.

specified districts. The regulations tapped a key, are amended so as to specially de- Exhibition 11,000 miles away, a fine the districts in Kowloon where sign in lights was displayed an- bawkers are not permitted to use nouncing that the show was open. cries for the purpose of attracting to their wares. The

Sixteen thousand guineas were paid for a superb Hobbema landscape which was the property of the Earl of Feversham,

One of the most celebrated of atttention the old masters among thirty-two boundaries are fully set out in the Curzon heirlooms; which in all amended regulations and roughly realised 40,000 guineas, was a mark the limits of the residential Rembrandt portrait of "Old Man" areas.

In addition the, regulations re- which fetched 19,000 guineas.

Other high prices for portraits gard Summary Offences are amend by Reynolds were 4,000 guineas, ed in order to prohibit the uttering by Fainsbourough 4,000 guineas, of shouts or cries during the play- and by Hoppner 2,200 guineas. ing of the game called Chai-mui Of twelve pictures from the between the hours of 10 p.r. and Balfour estate the highest price 6 p.m. The districts where cries paid was 2,600 guineas for Janvan cannot be made during these hours Goyen's view of Dordreck River-hours are set out in the Gazette, British Wireless.

FIGHT ON NÁVAL TREATY.

cablegram was handed to the Lord- Within a quarter of an hour a Mayor from Melbourne, announc- ing the complete success of the de monstration.

Later in the day, additional lights were switched on in Melbourne by!

and Mayors of Montreal (Canada), Wellington (New Zealand) from Fiji-British Wirelcas.

CHINA AVIATION SERVICES.

LINE FROM CANTON TO HANKOW.

The section of the Summary Offences Urdinance dealing with disturbance of public tranquility is also amended by specifying. various districts in Kowloon, and

Canton, July 13, similar provisions are made re- Several new af lines are to be garding playing music in the opened up in China within streets and in exploding fireworks. | next few months. One of

SONGS AND DANCES.

the the

first to be brought into operation will be the line from Canton to Hankow, Other lines will be from Nanking to. Peking and from Shanghai to Chengtu

The Caaton-Hankow will be particularly useful in view of the impossibility of reaching Hankow at present except by a long and via "Hongkong, tedious journey and the Yangtze, or a most un- comfortable

(Continued from Page 1.). olution in its revised form was Lisbon was panic-stricken dur passed by a vote of 53 to 3. Even Audacions robbery Was carried out on board the steamer ing a violent storm accompanied some of the treaty's opponents.

LATEST HITS COMING TO Blarritz, of the Folkestone-Bou- by torrents of rain when streets, among them Senators Copeland,

THE QUEEN'S. logne service, while it was lying shops, and houses were flooded Black, George and Harris, joined However, others at Boulogne. The thief penetrat-and many buildings were struck by in urging the passagement of the

amendinent. royal former

Something unusual in the way of ed to the cabin of the command-lightning.

among them, Senator Johnson of ing officer, Captain Scrivens, and residence, the Palace das Necesida California, opposed the change to entertainment is promised at the Queen's Theatre shortly when taking the key of a drawer from des, now the Foreign Ministry the fast. the pockets of his clothes,, stole was also struck by lightning, and

Indications are that the Senate some well-known artists comprising £32 in ten-shilling notes besides the Ministry of the Interior and will get few if any of the debated the "Montmatre Follles" will be which takes from five to ten days, With the establishement of a about £5 in French money. Al- the Mint were among the buildings papers. The resolution puts it giving performances in conjunction by rail, car and terry boat.

line from Canton to Hankow it though a light sleeper, Captain flooded. A thunderbolt which struck up, to President Hoover to decide with the regular programme Lea-

First Com-whether it would be compatible ture. Scrivens was not disturbed. The church during a

The company has just been en- will be possible to connect in French police are making an active munion service caused a penic with public interest to make the

documents public. The executive gaged and will be due in Hong- Hankow for Nanking and Shang- search for the man..

among the children.

previously held that it would not kong as soon as their season in hai, and from there for Peking, be compatible, when he declined Shanghai is completed. Further, thereby bringing Teking within

a later date.

Correspondent. to give the papers to the Foreign particulars will be made known at three days of Canton Our Own 'Relations Committee..

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FasoZRICK PERCY FRANBIAN, at 1 and 9Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong.

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overland journey

with

TONE

INPIRICES

The Star of Stars

Paul Muni playing in

who plays 7 characters Marguerite Churchill Lester Lonergan

And Berthold Viertel

NEWSREEL.

the most outstanding, novel picture ever brought to the screen public.

SPAIN welcomes new' U B. AMBASSADOR NIPPON GIRLS drill Western Style" RADIO'S YOUNGEST · STARS

MUSICAL.

TITTA RUFFO

AT THE

QUEEN'S

BROADCASTING,

SINGS.

Final Showings To-day. At 2,80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20

D.W.GRIFFITHS

"Lady Pavements

with

WILLIAM DOYD JETTA GOUDAL LUPE VELEZ

GEORGE FAWCETT

And

ALBERT

CONTI"

AT THE

WORLD

Final Showings To-day. At 2.30 & 7.16 Interpreter At 5:16 & 9,20 Orchestra

JOLSON RE-LIVES HIS OWN LIFE I

AL

JOLSON

IN

"THE JAZZ SINGER

DRAMA OF LOVE

AT THE

STAR

Final Showings To-day, At.2.30, 5,30 & 9.20)