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A MODERN STORY OF A MODERN GIRL IN A DISTINCTLY HODERN SITUATION.

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Beautiful Girls, Good Love Story, Great Direction.

"You'll never have the chance to doubt me...

or trust me a

again!"

Barbara Stanwyck TEN CENTS A DANCE"

LIONEL BARRYMORE. PRODUCTION

with

RICARDO CORTEZ MONROE OWSLEY

SALLY BLANE,

A

COLUMBIA

PICTURE

Pictüre

based upon the popular song "Ten Cents a Dance"

with Added Attraction

Screen Snapshots No. 1

Cannibal Capers.

The Castaway.

-NEXT CHANGE-

"THE VIRGINIAN" SURPASSES HIMSELF!

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY

FEBRUARY 2, 1832.

HARMSTON'S CIRCUS. THE BIBLE UNION OF NARROW ESCAPE

BIG AUDIENCE ENJOYS

NEW PROGRAMMEL

CHINA.

LOCAL BRANCH INAU- GURATED BY DR. CLIFT.

Speaking at a meeting held last night at 246c, Nathan Road, in-

FOR THE WORLD.

CRASH OF THE GIANT METEOR.

Afler a week of unusual thrills and first rate entertainment, Hong- kong turned out again in good

An aceldent in the solar system force lust night for the change of augurating the Hongkong Branch programme presented by Harm of the Bible Union of China, Dr.of the type which may опо ton's Circus, which is playing. Lechmore Clift, Corresponding day bring about the end of this nightly at Kowloon, and a crowd Secretary to Hwangtung and Hong.world-is thought to be the cauno ed tent enjoyed a pot-pourri of kong, ataled; in part:

of the giant meteor. which, was

pense.

loughtor. excitement. and BUJ- Several years ago an Association recently eden over Lieben.

The meteor, which passed over was formed. among missionaries i

#1 rear like an Enally the cleverest acrobats in Chinn, to preserve the Old Faith the town with Been in Hongkong for many years, and to take n stand on the full express train and it ap the coun

[try for miles around, is belloved the Palomar quartette again pro-| inspiration of Holy Scriptura.

to have fallen in the Atlantic. vided the finest turn of the even-

The object of the mosting this ing and this talented famky of evening is to start a Branch of be three times the size of the It is described as appearing to performers were given an ovation this Union hi Hongkong.

¡moon aa seon in the sky. which was thoroughly moribed.

Jesus said: "No man putteth

British astronomers, who are The trick riding by Miss Wil- now wine Into eid boltles". (St. Hams and Jack Williams, who is Luke V. 97). This was an illustra from scientists in Portugal, say awaiting official observationa known as the "bounding jockey," tion of a Divine principle. We with greatly appreciated and their could not expect the truth of the that the meteor belonged to no amazing fents on horses as they Holy Spirit therefore to be en- canterla round the ring. were shrined in heathen myth, or mixed breathtaking but exhllirating.

The "Dare Devil" Moscowitches the Psalmist says (CXIX, 160): tem," said Dr. Whipple, auper-

up with unreliable History: an had the audience spellbound with "The sum of Thy Word is Truth" intendent of the Kew Observa- extraordinary, displays of teeth-We do not believe the Bible to be tory. suspending, while equally enter- tafning, and no less thrilling, wasPartly inspired and partly untrue.meteors are lumps off the sun or

In the Mame way God nover the cycle trick-riding of Delroy, teada, the "old man" of sh. Ife from some other solar system Kitty, Millie and Charlie Frank.

known meteor stream,

dents which happen in the solar. "It may be one of those acel

"One

bellef 14 that

lunt

which have boch travelling

Miss Palomar contributed one, makes him a new ercetign belare through space for thousands of

pouring lu His Holy Spirit.

of the outstanding performances of the evening with some extremely elever tight-wire walking and dancing, and of course, Delroy

was again to the fore with some nent juggling.

Criticism Not New.

years, until finally they happen to hit our earth.

"It is quite possible that one Biblical criticism is not new.!

theday a really enormous one may Two thousand years เน Sadducees accepted the books of his the earth. It would be no Moser but rejected those of the laughing matter, for it would be Chocolate the -Irrepressible

"Some indication that this is clown held the floor from the Prophets. This method led them the end of the world for us. opening overture of the orchestra inevitably to a limiting of Revela- to the final bow of the ilon-tamur, and his antics and drollery kept the audience higlily amured.

After the impression he created during Inst week, the appearance, of Little Peter was eagerly ant cipated, and his clever fooling sapplied one of the "hits" of the

evening.

rc-

the body.

tion, and they ended by denying a very real peril was given when the possibility of a Resurrection of the largest meteor ever known fell in Siberia in 1908, destroying Jesus said that even the limited miles of forent." Scriptures which they accepted Dr. ·A. C. D. Crommelin, disproved their theories; and he formerly president of the Royal declared that their unbelief was Astronomical Society, said that the result of Ignorance of the Word despite the apparent closeness of of God and doubts of Ifis Fower the meteor to Lisbon was prob Mr. W. Harmaton again

(St. Mark XII, 18-27).

jably 50 to 80 miles above the vealed how well he had trained Our Lord accepted all the Old town as it hurtled towards the his animals to understand and Testament Scriptures. He quoted Atlantle. obey his orders and the demon- on

the book of one occasion

An Astronomical Correspon- strations by the horses

three times when dent writes: und Deuteronomy elephants were thoroughly ap- confronted by the Templer (St.

These very large meteors dcca- preciated.

Matt. IV, 1-10). He said that if men would not hear Moses and the sionally reach the earth's surface Prophet (.e. the Old Testament before they are dissipated into Scripture), neither would they vapour by the friction of our More frequently be persunded if one rose from the atmosphere. dend" (St. Luke XVI, 31).

they are completely burat up

DARTMOOR PRISON.

THE FEARS OF FURTHER TROUBLE UNFOUNDED.

London, Feb. 1.

A recrudescence of the trouble

at Dartmoor Prison was "expected

St. Peter says (in St. Peter III. before coming within 50 miles of 15-10) that St. Paul was inspired the ground.

In all his Epistles; and that it was When the rent meteor fell in ignoranco weleh made men cav Siberia in 1908, the heat of the at these "and the other Scriptures," explosion fired the country around The Bible Union of China is not fand laid waste hundreds of square

Vast herds of animals were

on Sunday when all the prisoners a Society to attack others, but to miles of forest land. were paraded together for the bind together nli Evangelist first time since the trouble for Christians who contend earnestly destroyed, but fortunately the dis- church parade, which, however, for the faith once for all delivered triet was not inhabited by human passed off without incident. to the Sainta" (St. Jude, 3).

One wonders what might | beings. The soldiers have been -with- There was a very satisfactory

similar visitation drawn from the Dartmoor area, attendance at the meeting, includ-happen if but there are still heavy police ing the Rev. Mr. W. Stott, from occurred in England. patrols in the district. These Nanning, who spoke of the work are stopping all motorists in the of the Union in Kwangsi. neighbourhood of the prison. The organizers look forward to: An Indian watchman, named Aser As a precautionary measure, a long period of useful activity and Singh, was drowned in the harbour Lewis gun and crew have been re gratified by the support recely-yesterday, his body being later re- left in the prison-Renter's ed and the addition of new mem-covered near the s.s. Venezia, aboard

which he had been employed. Special Service,

bers of the Union.

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