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CENTRAL

THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.

HEAR

A Thrill Picture such as you get once in a Lifetimė.

This picture gives a Bird's Eye view of Managua and surrounding country' which was destroyed ty Earthquake last week.

COLUMBIA PICTURES presents The Supreme ALL-TALKING

OF THE

DRAMA

AIR

FLIGHT

muth

Thrills

THE LOVE ROMANCE

JACK HOLT Romance

Adventure WILL REACH

RALPH GRAVES

sod LILA LEE

PRANK.CAPRA production

RIGHT INTO YOUR HEART

Romance, Adventure, Laughter, Tears, Suspense, and a Colourful Authentic Background..

COMING SOON

THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1931.

A 1931 ParamountSuper-Production.

At last! The talking screen has found a second GRETA GARBO in

MARLENE DIETRICH

The new German screen beauty who is the rage of

two continents in

GAMBLE ENDS IN FIGHT.

MAN STABBED WITH A- POCKET KNIFE.

KING GEORGE'S SICKNESS.

NO CAUSE FOR ALARM OR ANXIETY.

London. Apr. 7.

It was stated at Windsor Castle

ECHO OF 1925 STRIKE.

DESERTING CONSTABLE BROUGHT TO BOOK.

[to-day that His Majesty the King FINE OPTION GRANTED.

fs suffering from an attack of

le sub-acute bronchitis.

ix

Willinin Before Mr.

at the making slow but satisfactory pro-

this morn gress. The statement was in the Central Pollee Court form of a bulletin and bore noing, there was an echo of the 1925 constable strike, when a Chinese doctor's signature.

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CHEATING AT CARDS.

Following a quarrel during gambling game, two young Chinese engaged in a fight and both were subsequently removed to the Government Civil Hospital fur The King is not confined to bed, appeared before his Worship treatment of injuries. One of the but he remained to-day in histhe serious charge of desertion men struck the other cross the bedroom, where he transseted from the Hongkong Folles Force

official businesa,

after less than a year's service on hend with a clog while he himself

Sub-acute bronchitis in a mild five years contract. reveived a stab wound in his back. form of bronchitis and the term

Mr. L. H. V. Booth (Assistant The affair, which took place in might be applied to a cold on the Superintendent of Police) upeared Graham Street on March 31, and a chest. It gives no eanse for alarma for the prosecution.

The defendant pleaded guilty is sequel before Mr. Williams at the or anxiety.

[the charge. Central Police Court this morning Penn drove from London to see During the day. Lord Dawson of when charges of disorderly duct were brought against the twolls Majesty, and Sir Milsom tees, Booth said

laryngologist to the Roval House According to Detective Sergeantheid, also paid him a short visit.

-British Wireless, Naughton; the men had been play- ing cards and are accused the other of cheating. The second defen-

men.

con-

dant, who was the alleged defaulter, GREAT LOCKOUT IN

I tore up the cards which belonged to the Arst defendant. A fight ens11-

and The second defendant: Latruck The Girst across the head

with a choy, liti

return re-

·ceived a stab wound with a poe-' ket Buife from the first defendant,

NORWAY.

ALMOST EVERY INDUSTRY AFFECTED.

Oslo. Apr. 7. As the culmination of a long

Mr. In reply to his Worship.

who the defendant, joined the Police Force on August 13. 1024, deserted on July 3, 1925, that was at the beginning of the 1926 strike.

Ilia Worship:-Was he alone in deserting?

Mr. Bonth-I have not got the actual figures of those who desert- ed during the 1925 strike, but com- paratively few, I think 15 al- together, deserted. As a percen- tage there were very few deser tions.

Mr. Booth, in reply to another question, said he was asking for severe, sentence as a deterrent

His Worship remarked that the reond delendant was the aggres or but at the same time reprimand-drawn out whes dispute, a great to others. The defendant told the ed the first defendant for resort-ekout which has been threaten-polies that he had been in Hong- WoRing Norwegian industrial life for kong, since his desertion. for the 011 J rome tar past, apprars le past two years, carrying

1 business

Portland materialising

grocery

Yaunati. Street.

This Jusiness Work is in cense in the iron amat since gone bankrupt. The feel industry, the engineering)

im to such a dangerous na knife.

The Best defendant was fitted and the second $10, while both wer tound over to be of good behaviour for the perind of one year,

OIL PROSPECTORS HAMPERED.

BIG COMPANIES TO STOP

DEVELOPMENT.

New York. Apr. 7.

and mining industries, the textile Police had not been able in ascer tain how long he had been in the and building industries and everal other industries, includColony, but knew he had been her ng the plating departments of for at least a few months. ||rovincial newspapers from to-

His Worship imposed sentence of two months hard labour. morrow night,

The defendant applied for the The fockout will involve nt option of a fine and in granting least 41,000 workers immediately the request his Worship remarked While the employers have given that it was an extraordinary time notice of a lockout in certain when he had deserted and there nther industries as from April 15,

might have been some. influence affecting a further 25,000 men.brought to bear on him. I was Reuter.

also such a long time ago.

The option of a fine of $120 was allowed.

the

It is reported from Rogota, the [capital of Colombia, that

large American oil companies, the regulations. Texas Petroleum Company and The regulations impose, restric-|

The rainfall registered at the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Cor-tions which make it impossible for poration have announced their prospectors to continue and the Observatory for the 24 hours ended nt 10a.m. to-day was 1.42 Inches, inability to continue development geologists of these companies are. This makes

the year's total 5.77 work in the nilfields of Columbia it is stated, being withdrawn. inches, against an Average of 7.99 in the Face of the new Government | Reuter's American Service.

inches.

KINGS THEATRE

HONCKONC'S FINEST CINEMA

SHOWING · TO-DAY.

REX BEACH'S

WORLD-FAMOUS

AT THE

HE

QUEEN'S

Final Showings To-day At 2.30, 6.10, 7.15 & 9.20 BROADWAY RESOUNDS WITH THE SONG HITS JOLSON HAS CREATED

Prison Bars Cannot Restrain The Mag- netic Force · Of. Daddy's Love For His Wife And Child

WARNER BROS present

Al Jolson

IN

SAY IT WITH SONGS

WITH

Davey Lee

Marian Nixon Holmes Herbert Kenneth Thompson Fred Kohler

Directed

by LLOYD

BACON

TO-MORROW

OUTDOOR DRAMA

WHIGH? Fale flings into bez aries a 18an who offers every. thing a woesat reases. tut. ant of the Legion comes a love er was afters wothing lau Lave. Which dues site choose? Wealth and protection, or a love that wil make her an enters amid the mud Splen dor of

WITH

Gary Cooper Marlene Dietrich Adolphe Menjou

MOROCCO

A Garamount Picture

A thingly magnificent ples tare? Bringing to the screen a new personality that will fea

in lights across the nation, Alar

lene Dietrich Revealing the

amazing things a woman wiit

do for love!

A JOJE TON STEENBERG XMLODUCTION

Booking at Anderson's & The Theatre. (Tel. 25720)

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong.

REX BEACH'S

"The Spoilers"

with

GARY COOPER

Kay Johnson

Betty Compson.

Gold-Mad Men, Love-Mad

Women, in Lawleas Unciv-

ilized Alaska.

THE SPOILERS

PRICES

Loge Seats

Draus Circle Back Stalls Front Stails

$2.20

EDWIN CAREWE

PRODUCTION.

WITH

$1.70 Gary Cooper

Daily at 2.30,

5.10, 7.15

& 9.30 p.m.

$ 1.10 50

a Paramount Picture

Including Tax

Booking at the Theatre only..

Tel. 25313 & 25330,

TÄLKING

THE

She danced into the bearts of men,. this passion flower of the Bouth Bea!

For her favours Inen risked their lives against monsters of the deep, and fought to the death against sach other.

EA BAT

with Charlos Bickfo