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AjThrill Picture such as you get once in a Lifetime.

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

COLUMBIA PICTURES presents The Supreme ALL-TALKING

DRAMA

OP THE

AIR

FLIGHT

moth

Thrills

JACK HOLT Romance

RALPH GRAVES

LILA LEP

PRANK &

GRA

Adventure

THE LOVE ROMANCE WILL REACH RIGHT INTO YOUR HEART

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

Starting Sunday

A 1931 ParamountSuper-Production.

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

MARLENE DIETRICH

The new German screen beauty who is the rage of

two continents in

WHICH Fate floga into her ertos a man who offers every thing woman.craves. But,

out of the Legion comes a lov

er who offer nothing but love. Which does she choose?

Wealth and prolection, or love that will make her an outcast amid the mad aplen dor of

WITH

Gary Cooper

Marlene Dietrich Adolphe Menjou

MOROCCO

A Paramount Picture

A thelilingly magnificent pics torel Bringing to the screen new personally that with dish

in fights acrom the nation, Hạn

fean Dietrich Revealing, the

amazing things a woman will

do for lavet

& Josur ven draconic Projection

Booking at Anderson's & The Theatre. '(Tel. 86720)

Primbed and Published for the Proprietorá by FRIDRATOK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 5. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1931.

THIS VOLUNTEER RACKET.

DECIDED VIEWS OF A CORRESPONDENT.

SUGGESTION MADE.

PRINCE BIBESCO PROGRESSES.

REACHES ROME ON FLIGHT TO SAIGON.

EUROPEAN PEACE.

with Institutions liko the Volunteer Corps, he will still have

course of to undergo training (qulie rightly) before of he in

in command Dut mon of his own. I maintain, therefore, that our Volunteer Leer Corpu, as it is constituted to-day.

Rome, Apr. 9. serves no useful purpose. We are told that in the event of a military

Prince George Bibesco, who left emergency, the training one has Earls at 0.25 this morning on a received here would be of invalu- night to Saigon, has arrived here. able to which I venture to re- He is accompanied on his flight| We have received the following ply

"Bosh!"

In five days, any by two Rumanian pilots and a letter on the usefulness or other normal sorgenut-major can knock British mechanic-Router. wine of the H. K. Volunteer as much into the average man's Defence Corps, from a correspon-head as the Volunteer Corps could dent:

in five years! The conclusion is Sir-The annual inspection of obvious, therefore, and it is that the Volunteers hus, I see, brought until the local Volunteers are or- forth the perennial grouse against ganised more as an Officers' Cadot the "alackers" of the Colony, Corps, rather than as a regimen.

FRIENDSHIP. although the G.0.C. struck a new tal unit, the Corps la not fulfilling

* line of thought when he indicated its real duty. To my way of think-

Tokyo, Apr. 10. which had recent- that the censu provide in-be able to get out in front and drill | onting, every man in the Corps should

Editorially welcoming the report formation making it possible to his own Company, and at least of the forthcoming visit of Herr arrive at the number of those who sixty per cent. of the Corps should Bruening and Herr Curtius are evading their obligations to be able to put the entire Corps London and the British naval visit the British Empire." Just what through battalion drill.

Every to Germany, the Asahi expressch the General is going to do about it man should be instructed in the delight at the increasing signs of when he gets this information, he rudiments of military history, and Anglo-German friendship, which it does not say, but it is a nice idea in the elements of tactics and strn-belleves will greatly assist the anyway.

tegy, with particular reference to cause of peace in Europe.----Reuter. Now, an one who has not yet the newer forms of warfare- graduated Into the Methuselah mechanical, aerial, bacteriological, class, but who has nevertheless no etc.

ly been

in

intention of, becoming a Volunteer Another thing puzzles me in this Colony. I would beg the theso "Volunteer" arguments, favour of your space to explain and It is that reference is always

rengous for roy attitude.

made to "military" emergencies.

my

JAPAN & ANGLO-GERMAN

WEATHER REPORT.

to

The Royal Observatory reports

I will preface my remarks by The life-blend of the Empire is its that the anticyclone is central be- stating that for Young

men in trade after all, but

what would tween 9. W. Japan and the Bonins. Monsoon over the their early twenties, I consider valunteering an excellent form of happen in the event of a "civil" Moderating

emergency similar to the military North China Sea. spurt, and with a crowd of decent fellows, really good fun. What ones always so much feared? Sup objest to, however, is the current posing an epidemic, by some strange undergo such instruction is infin- military point of view towards freak of nature, were to lay low

Volunteers non-Volunteers in volunteering, in its relation to the the majority of the business mowitely smaller than the percentage of of Hongkong; could the Army step this Colony, Likewise, they get citizens of this Colony,

of com-leave of absence from their normal The lafe lamented holocaust in and keep the wheels

for us? revolving

Good

duties for such courses, which is that swept over Europe brought to fellows though they

Bre I doubt

more than the unfortunate-or en- flight one very strong fact, and it. I would give much

thusiastic, as you will-Volunteer kets for his parades.

No.

merce

to

over n

Its that "cannon fodder" can beleutenant Dash dering just

manufactured at remarkably short Bill of Lading, or notice.

to

in the beribboned majors, and bright

this

Sir! When I see muchly- It may not be very good material. in the light of strict what magic was involved

young subalterns, pouring over efficiency, but it was willing, and entering and clearing of even the it was good enough for its sur-meanest tramp that sails the High their books on Commercial Arith-

Seas! Even more would I enjoy metic at Night Schools in роде This being so. I fall to seeing Colonel Pom-Pom struggling Colony, then I shall be prepared why presumably intelligent human with the intricacies of "double en to reconsider by views regarding helngs should spend years of tin try". At the moment, he probably Volunteering. Until then. how- life-and of their spare time--in

ever-Nothing Doing! learning to form fours, hit bull's-imagines it has something to yes, and so forth.

with this new contract bridge, and I am afraid that this is a lengthy The type of man we have in he sleeps none the worse of nights epistle, Mr. Editor, but I think it

for his belief!

blew up this someone is time the Volunteers--the type of man I am aware that a certain few bogey. Enclosing my card, who is expected to become £ Volunteer is just the man who officers spend part of their time at Yours, etc.

was told in the late war that it was his duty to take commissioned rank. He will be told the same thing in the next war, and in suite of any service he may have had

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places like the London School of Economies, where they are initiat-

AMDGEMENTS

QUEEN'S

Maro

"LAI TEE."

be

TALKING PLOTURE

P. S-May 1, in passing, ed Into the mysteries of interna- allowed to congratulate the Corps tional law, economic science, etc. on its really excellent show last But the percentage of officers who night?

HONCKONC'S FINEST CINEMA

The "Peach of a Pair!" in a perfect- play! Love, Laugha, Song hits.

FOLLOW THRU

The Sparkling show that made America

Conscious.

Golf-

CHARLES

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PRODUCTION

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THE

She danced into the hearts of men, this passion flower of the. Bouth Seal

For her favours men risked their lives against monsters of the deep, and fought to the death against each other,

EA BAT

roith

Charles Blokford

Nis Asther Raquel Torren George F. Marion

A

Wesley Buggles Production,

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