1931-06-19 — Page 12

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A GAUMOUNT BRITISH PRODUCTION

BALACLAVA

The Immortal CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE

A Picture Any MAN Should See

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Following this British super-production there will follow a list of latest productions.

It con-

TABU!--A Paramount super-production just released. It's a picture of exquisite tropical beauty, the last work of that master of the screen, Murnau, director of "The Last Laugh," introducing a atory of. The South Sens. made with a native cast. cludes with a veritable screen poem of tragedy. PHANTOM of the OPERA:-A Universal 1931 Special. A mysterious "Talkie" with every player in full dialogue, except the loading It's the last of the mun of a

man....

.LON CHANEY.

thousand faces in filmdom.

THE CAT CREEPS: Universal's new production from John

Willard's famous play "The Cat and the Canary.” SOCIAL LION:-A 1931 Paramount comedy starring Jack Oakie and

Mary Brian.

RESURRECTION:-A Universal 1931 all dialogue superproduction.

It better the silent film of the past.

DRACULA:—Another. Univerani super-production. Superstition of yesterday may be a fact of the world of science of to-day is ex- plained in this picture. It is mysterious all through.

NIGHT TO LOVE-A 1931 Paramount super-production starring the

sweet Miss Ruth Chatterton.

FIGHTING CARAVANS:--A "Covered Wagon" type of picture of

Paramount's starring Cary Cooper and Lily Damita.

STOLEN HEAVEN:-Nancy Carroll's best of the season. QUEEN NIGH:-Another 1931 Paramount production,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1931.

FILIPINO SENT FOR British Loan

TRIAL.

JAPANESE "ENEMIES" ON BOARD.

"I STARTED TO STAB.”

To Austria.

Motive of Bank of England.

HAPPY RESULTS.

BISHOP HUNTED IN SPAIN,

SERIOUS DISTURBANCES AT ALACUAS.

CROWD FIRED ON.

The Police Court trial of

Madrid, June 13. Graciano Bilas, charged with the murder of Chan King-yue, chief

Hundreds of police and Civil Chinese carpenter of the Empress

Guards are searching the vicinity of Canada, In connexion with an

London, June 18. of Pampeluna in Navarra, The news that the Bank of Northern Spain, for the Bishop Tray which occurred recently on board while the liner was between England had made an interim Honolulu and Yokohama, and in advance of one hundred and tty (Magica, who was recently ex- of Victorin, Monseigneur Metco

to

which another Chinese was killed million shillings to the Austrian and 20 others persons injured. National Bank, pending the compelled from Spain on suspicion of was concluded before Mr. WiHams

piction of negotiations for an organizing a counter-revolutionary this morning.

International loan to the Austrian movement, but who is believed to Dr. P. F. Court, giving evidence Government to provide the neces-have returned secretly. regarding a post-mortem examinary funda

guarantee the Motor cars are being stopped. tion he made of the embalmed reliabilities of the Credit Anstalt, and searched an the result of a mains of the dead man at the Kow-has been received in Vienna with report that the Bishop has crossed loan Morgue.described the position an expression of keen antisfaction, the Spanish frontier near Valerio or the stab wound, which he said, The promptitude of the Bank of in order to attend a mass meeting had penetrated the heart, and caus-England's

action

warmly at Pampeluna to-day at which the

is.

ell death. The wound, half-on-approved in financial circles here. Catholic Party's election com- Inch wide, could have been caused The City Editor of the Erening paign will be initiated.

by the larger of the two bindes in News says that aince the war the Serious disturbances occurred the knife exhibited in Court, Bank of England has consistently at Alacuna to-day following a After formal evidence had been pursued a policy designed to pro- monarchist meeting. Angered by given by Detective Sub-Inspector mote general world stability under

cheers for King Alfonso, the Eaton and by Sergeant Kellett with the conviction that world mone villagers replied with boor, hlases regard to identification of the re-tary conditions are now, Ɖo bound maine and the disposition of the up together that every industrial cat-calla, whereupon Home of the monarchist supporters drew body, the accused was cautioned and country depends for prosperity on revolvers and Bred on the crowd.

Its entry into the present Aue-!

asked if he had any statement to the measure of general stability. A free fight ensued

make before being committed.

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the Bilas made a statement as fol- trint complications after appeals result of which the monarchists Lo take lawn: "I was passenger and those by the Austrian authorities, is ac-were eventually driven

refuge in a house, from which they Japanese threatened to throw me inated by this motive. overboard.

had to be rescued by the Civil I understood they were!

Reaction in Germany. talking against me I understood

The City Editor of the Evening ing to

Guards. Two nolor ears belong- that when we reached Yokohama, Standard, commenting on the more streets by the infuriated villagers, them were burnt in the they would tie me up with a piece assured feeling in the markets, re- of rope and throw me overboard, ported from German financial clr- I had no knife of my own, since the cles, of which the features of one i had given to a Japanese boy promise are that some money has when I left Honolulu, Al the time.airendy returned to Germany and the Japanese were trying to at-that the Reichsmark has been tack me. A Filipino friend gave stendier, says: "The most im- ne a knife and I started to stab portant factor leading to greater them all."

WEATHER' REPORT.

BRITISH RUNNING

RECORD.

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confidence in Germany is the help] R. H. THOMAS REDUCES TIME Bilas W then committed to which the Bank of England is

FOR 4-MILE. stand his trial at the next Sessions.giving to Austria. The credit.

granted to Austria should be tho

Landon, June 18. means of restoring stability in A new British three-quarter that country and increasing mille running record was made by The Royal Observatory reports confidence throughout Central the mile champion, R. H. Thomas, that the anticyclone over Nurth Europe."

at Stamford Bridge to-day is Japan has strengthened slightly.) The feature of the foreign time was 3 min. 05 sec., beating The depressions to the west of money market in London to-day by four-fiftlis of a second the re- Shanghai and to the N.W. of was a sharp recovery In German cord established by A. G. Hills in Hanoi appear to be stationary. Bonds.British Wircleng

1921.

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