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NANCY CARROLL

The Devil's Holiday

EDMUTU 1,5H PEMU

The wife "THE IN."

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HOBAR) DONKORTR

JAMES SESTA KOLI

Jurament Glaum

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EVERY GIRL IN LOVE-EVERY LOVE LORN YOUTH EVERY MAN AND WOMAN

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY,

WORKMEN FIGHT | RECEIVING · ORDER

ON PEAK.

HAMMER & BRICKS USED

· IN MELEE

GAMBLING QUARREL.

A fight between members of the firm of building contractors engag-| ed in the construction of the new War Memorial Hospital on the Peak. was described before Mr. Schofield at the Central Police Court this morning, when three workmen were charged with be having in a disorderly manner) near the Peak Tram Station.

ISSUED

AGAINST GAMAGES.

FAMOUS STORE FACES MANY WRITS.

BANK APPLICATION.

APRIL 20, 1931.

U.S. EMBASSY IN BERLIN GUTTED.

HEAVY DAMAGE TO FORMER BLUECHER PALACE.

Berlin, April 15. A conflagration gutted the United States Embassy housed in one of the capital's oldest private palaces which once belonged to Marshal Bluecher who with Wellington de- feated Napoleon I at Waterloo.

It is situated next to the famous

London. Apr. 15. On the application of Barclay's

toda, Mr. Justice Farwell Brandenburger Tor on the ri the Chancery Division granted Square, its other front facing the leave to serve notice of motion for Tiergarten, Berlin's finest purk. the appointment of a receiver for The palace was only recently pur chased by the United States Gov- Gamages (West End) Limited.

Counsel stated that eight or ten ernment and only part of the Em- welts had been issued against the bussy's chancellery had so far been The defendants all admitted company and there was also a transferred there so that no im

documenta were having been involved in the fight, petition for compulsory winding portant whleli was over a debt due to the jan.

However, the damage done by the Arst defendunt. by the third.

Gamages (West End) Limited, fire is very great as much valuable Sergeant Kelly said the fight consists of great new stores at furniture, tapestries and many his.

The Marble Arch which were opened torical pictures were burned. defendants were engaged an work lust September iR the largest It is feared that the bollding it- at the Memorial Hospital where the women's fashion house in London, self is beyond repair which would fight first commented at about 7 It has Bvc acres of floor space also be a great lose to the city as o'clock last night. It finished up and its construction cost nearly a in it simplfeity and noble forms at the Pral

The Billion sterling.

it was regarded as a fine example rivals of of the architecture of its time. Selfridges, the great third defendant was struck neroNA

The origin of the fire in still a the head with a hamster and af, Gamages, had built on the north

asserting in the abdomen with a ruler. Inside of Oxford Street which con-mystery, the watchmen self-defence, he picked up twtains all the most important shops that it was preveded by an explo bricks, which he threw at the other Gammages built on the south side ion but nothing definité can so far as to whether it was ♫ defendants. Int neither hit where there is not a single import-be said

ense of incendiarism, edy. The injuries to the third ant shop for half a mile. defendant, however, were not seri-;

was over a gumbling debt.

Tram Station.

His Worship:--To whom does the hammer belong?

Sergeant Kelly:-To the third defendant; used in his ovenpation as a stone breaker.

Soon after their new building' was completel Gamages ran into rouble when the Courts forbade the operation of a huge eletric SKILL OR KNOWLEDGE. Isirn, the biggest ever seen in Lon

dozi, The owners of small shops on the north side of the street complained that the crowds stond His Worship: They took his watching the sign, impeding traili own hammer to hammer him with and interfering with their busi

The first and second defendants TOMAAN, were each ordered to pay the thirdi

in

WHICH SHOULD BE AIM OF EDUCATION?

Loniton, Apr. 11. address on ifleats in

The new Gamages shop alucation at Oxford Dr. L. P.

defendant $ compensation, while suffered heavily

through

all there defendants were ordered netivities of shop-lifters. to sign bonds of $50 each to be of

good behaviour for a period of one year.

www.

CONTINENTAL RUGGER.

FRANCE EASHLY BEATS GERMANY.

An

CHINA AVIATION CONFERENCE.

OPENED AT NANKING THIS MORNING.

the Jacks the editor of the Hibbert

Journal, said the work of teachers hit become the greatest adventure and romance of the age.

The leadership of mankind was passing from the politician to the educator.

rather

Criticising the present system as an attempt to graft an Al cul- Nanking. Apr. 20. ture un to people in C3 conditions All-Chios Aviation Gon-he said a change was needed and ference will be formally opened skill

than knowledge, this morning by Marshal Chiang should be the ultimate objet. Kai-shek, who will deliver; the in- Skill meant the excellent doing augural speech,—Renghe.

of anything from sweeping a room Peking, Apr. 20. to governing a state.

human *L rugger match between!

In connexion with the establish- The displacement France and Germany to-day, the ment of the Peking-Berlin Aerfal labour by machinery had created a visitors were overwhelmingly de-Service, a plane left Peking for problem of leisure of which he be- feated, France scoring 34 points to Manchuli on a test flight yester-lieved education for skill was the n-Reater.

only solution.

Paris, Apr. 19.

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singe play by Ow.. WILLIAM ANTHONY MEGUIRE

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LIONEL BELMORE-LAWRENCE GRANT

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The Affairs of a Master Lover.

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HIS 13 DIVORCE PETITIONS.

AND STILL HE FORGAVE HER.

creature than 13 times.

Berlin. Mar. 20. Oscar, a quief-looking than of 40, has instituted divorce proceedings against his wife, a pretty little no fewer enlled Anna,

Oscar is the sort of man whose idea of a happy evening is to alt at home reading a serious book in the pleasant companionship of a wife who darns stockings, but Anna's idea of a happy evening is to dance and flirt with a nice bay. Some of the boys who took her out were not quite so nier as they might have been, and when, only three weeks after the wedding, Oscar found her in the arms of one of thom he declared that he would get a divorce.

Anna burst into tears and seemed so penitent that OSC&T Baid he would give her another chance.

Two months later another boy came between him and his Anna,

and he really "instituted proceed ings for divorce. On the day when the vase was to be heard Anna was again in tears and displayed anch sorrow that Oscar withdrew his charge against her.

"Poor Little Thing!" These episodes have been repent- tnt intervals of about two months luring the last two years,

and twelve times the appearance of a nice boy has been followed by the institution of divorce proceedings tears, hysterics, fainting fits, and reconciliation.

To-day it seemed that the thir teenth episode would have à dif- Oscar actually got ferent ending. into the court with his counsel, and his face had a stern look us the catalogue of Auna's delinquencies was read out.

Just as counsel for the plaintiff) was about to address the court Anna auddenly threw herself into her husband's arms, and her tears fell in a torrent on his coat.

"Poor little thing!" said Oscar. And in spite of the protests of his counsel and the laughter of the public he announced that he with-i drew the case against his wife and led her out of court.

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