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THE "IT" GIRL'S, FIRST MUSICAL ROMANCE

Panimount

Starley Smith

Drag Sheets Gallagher

Mitzi Green

ar Clara's

Mister

You thrill when

you see

CLARA

Stuart Erwin

BOW

Love Among the Millionaires

a Paramount Picture

Coming Soon

Boys! Girls!

Could Your Father Lick

A TIGER?

-BIN'S Father

Can

Mers and DOES!

And you can see him do it!

Bin is 12... Planty of tigers and leopard's and orong-utangs prowl under his bedroom window eager to get in... He never really feared tigers... until the morning he was hunting in the black jungle and the biggest tiger of them all started after him... and what do you suppose saved him from those steely claws--but

RANGO

A Paramount Picture

Recorded in Sumatra

by ERNEST SCHOEDSACK

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

RUBBER PROBLEM.·

SIR E. GEDDES ON. BOGEY OF RESTRICTION.

Despite crushing taxation,, they wore still able to produce at com- petitive costs.

Sir Eric Geddus said the pro- tracted, Intermittent discussions regarding the possibility of rub London, Muy 8. bor restriction had provided "We felt, in its full severity,

factor of uncertainty which was the force of the economic and most adversely affecting the con political blizzard which over-

pany. The Board were unanim whelmed the world." declaredously and wholeheartedly ngalnat Sir Eric Goddes, presiding at the any proposal to reimpose restriz- annual meeting of the Dunlop tion, elthor voluntarily or by Rubber Company in London.

Government Intervention. The

Ho declared that the depression bust hope for the plantation in- was unprecedentedly deep and dustry was the speedy elimina- long, and indications were that tion of inefficient and expensive recovery would be long and pain-plantations.

ful. The Dunlop Company's pro- In the view of the Board, the fits had failon by about 40 por sooner the bogey. of restriction cant, but they were still sub was finally laid the sooner would atantial, thanks to persistent the rubber plantation industry

-return to prosperity-Reuter.

economy.—

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

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 9,-. 1931.

25,000 HEROIN PILLS.

CONSTABLES CHARGED WITH POSSESSION.

PRISON SENTENCES.

Detalls of how he had discovered 25,000 heroin pils in the posses- alon of two Shantung constables, Liang Pel-yin and Liang Pao- halang. Were related to "Mr. Scho- field nt the Central Magistracy this morning by Inspector. Booker.

Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, C.IE, |who prosecutor, asked that the charges be amended to read that stofendanta had possessed pills con- laining heroin. The Ordinance did not require the exact amount of the drug to be stated. It was alleged that Liang Pel-yin had been found with 20,000 and Llang Pro-balang with 5,000. The first defendant admitted the possession but de- clared that he did not know the pills were heroin, while the second defendant denied. possession.

PARATHYROID SERUM FOR CANCER.

LONDON SCIENTIST'S

DISCOVERY.

SCHNEIDER RACE TRAINING.

TEAM SENT TO CALSHOT FOR NEW COURSE.

400 M.P.H. MACHINES.

London, May 8. The High Speed of the Royal Air Force which has been training, at Felixstowe for the Schneider Trophy Race, was transferred this week to Calshot, on Southampton Water, and a new course of training for the race will begin them on Monday.

HOSPITAL TESTS.

Landon, May 8, Widespread interest has been roused in experiments which hre being conducted on cancer cases nt three London hospitals, with a new serum, discovered by

Dr. Thompson, who is Lecturer on

They will practice over the course Physiology at King's College, Lin the Spithead to the East and don, and a research worker at the

North-east of the Isle of Wight. Royal College of Surgeons.

but for the present the team will Scientists and surgeons in clone not have available for practice Bie ouch with the tests emphasise sunplanes of the Supermarine Rolls- that these are still in the experi-Royce S6 type on which the inte mental stage. The patients under Flight Lieutenant Waghorn wou the treatment being carefully Trophy Race in 1929. observed.

although it in The existing craft of this type believed some benefit has resulted, are undergolog modifications and

struction.

it is too early to say what, per-new machines are still under con- manent value there is in the treat- ment, which consists in injecting

preparation made from the parathyroid gland, in order to remedy a deficiency in the com- ponents of blood which is believed to be the enuse of cancer,

inspector Booker and he inter cented the two men on the Hing Kee wharf on May 6. The first!" defendant was in plain clothes and the second in uniform. They were ench carrying parcels wrapped in paper and tied with strings, and had apparently just landes from a ARMIRANI. He asked them what the marcels contained, the first defen- dant replying that his was medicin and the scend declaring that he lund eigarettes. The Inspector said

ogieties both parcels and found They contained ins filled with pink pills.

acrorapanied

A The two men him to his offices, Tospertor Booker said, the second' defendant handed hiepureed to his Companion and jumped on a passing tram in Con. sucht Roul He Inter gave him- self up to the police,

After an analysis bad been made. the first defendant said that he had come down Shanghai that day a friend there had given him .52 to bring the parcel down to a friend in Hongkong.

Both men were convicted. For possession of, the drug, ench was fined $500, or four months' hard Inbour. For misconduct as police others, they were further 011- tenced to one month's hard Jabour.

Sir Arthur Keith, Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons,

stated

that to-day although the discovery has yield- ed results that are promising, it must not at present be regarded as more That marking an inferuat- ing stage - in 'the resontel work which fil

10. continued. British Wireless,

SIX MILLION OUT OF WORK.

LATEST FIGURES FOR THE UNITED STATES.

Washington, May 2. Nearly 6,000,000 persons are till unemployed in the United States, the American Federation of Labour announced to-day,

The statement of the labour organization WITH bused on the return from its monthly survey.

For the next few weeks, train-1 ing will be carried on with other high speed planes. These include the

20-

Napier Gloster 4, the Napler Gloster 5, with which the Schneider Race was won in 1927, the Napler Gloster 6, and three somewhat slower machines. They have been transported to Calshot by road.

Secrecy le being observed garding the plates to be used in the Trophy Race on September, 12. but they will be modifications of the winning plane of two years ago and are expected to prove expable of 400 m.p.h. In straight light, and 600 m.p.h. « alive. British Wire- ise.

it ly notified in the Gazette for general information that the Rerea- jon Grounds Committee consists of the following:---The Chairman (Hiree. tor of Public Works), the Colonial Secretary, the Director of Edavation. representatives of the Royal Naval Recreation Club, South Chinn Com- mand Sports Board, Hongkong Foot- ball Association. Hongkong Jockey Club, Hongkong Football Club, Hong- kong Cricket Club, Kowloon Cricket Club, Hongkong Hockey Club, Royal Hongkong Gulf Club, Hongkong Polu Clab, Club de Reercio, Hongkong. Chiness Recreation Club, Indlan Re creation Club, Y.M.C.A.

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"Playboy of Paris

`a Paramount Picture

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Commencing Sunday, 10th May.

**FAST AND LOOSE“

with Miriam Hopkins-Charles Sturrett.

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AT THE

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KAY FRANCIS' CHAS. BICKFORD

Kathleen Norris*

KAY JOHNSON, LEWIS STONE ZASU PITTS

A

William ne Mille, Production

A

Metro Goldwyn- Mayer

ALL

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PASSION FLOWER

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M.G-M'S

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TO-MORROW

"He robbed mo

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SAM WOOD

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JOAN

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Marie Prevost