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The haunting sorrow of this girl whore leva was too great to keep her bruised and buttered heart from bursting..... HELD THE FULL HOUSE BREATHLESS WITH SUSPENSE... The soul conquering love of the bewildered boy.. in the midst of death, disolation and destruction...... GRIPTED THEM WITH PROFOUND EMOTION.

Thore woro tears

for its sadness... singing honets for ils courage, and joy in its power to entertain:

SEE IF AND BE GLAD!

THE

WATERLOO BRIDGE

From

thn Hobel & Sherwood Stage play. with MAE CLARKE, Kent Dongians, Doris Bad Beet. Jard

1tte vis, Eulani Geel- 1. Fradecie Kers

Et ghost

by

JAME4

WHAGE Praented by Counts Produced by Uud Lempair, dr.

COMING

A UNIVERSAL PICTURE,

SOON!

TIFFANY

PRESENTA

"The COMMAND PERFORMANCE

Kings May Command!

The Destinies of Kingdoms May Hang on a Matrimonial Alliance-

But Love Obeys Only One Command!

Commanded to Woo and Win a Princess For Anether, or else Die, an Actor. Wins Her for Himself in Spite of Every Intrigue.

NEIL HAMILTON

UNA MERKEL

HELEN WARE ALBERT GRAN

From the Play by

C. STAFFORD Dicrane

Directed by

Walter Lang

A JAMES CRUZE PRODUCTION

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICH PAROY BRANKLIN, at 1 and 8. Wyndham Street, In the City of Victoria

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1932.

18 HOURS ADRIFT CRANE'S LOAD OF

IN A GALE.

LIFEBOAT MISSED BY

100 YARDS.

London, Jan. 13. After a terrible all-night ordeal in a disabled motor-bont during a gale off the Pembrokeshire coast, iwo mon handed safely in St. Bride's Bay yesterday.

They had had an 18-hour battle with the gale.

The two men were Major Walter Sturt, of Skomer Island, and John Edwards, a fisherman.

JEWELS.

LOWERED FROM A

WINDOW.

ROAD SECTIONS FOR WALKERS.

M.P.'S WAY TO GREATER SAFETY.

Dr. Lindsay, the Master of An astonished knot of people gathered at the corner of Curzon Balliol College, Oxford, took the street and Chesteräeld-gardens, W.,chair at a meeting held in Oxford with the object of making the recently and gazed upwards at a roads of the city safer for those huge stoel safe which was being who walk. lowered by a crane fruta a top-fluor "The most sinister fact is the

window in Chesterfield House.

number of people killed on the foot-

With meticulous care the half-paths during the year," he said. dozen workmen engaged on the Job "No one can say that their deaths moved the safe bit by bit through were caused by their carelessness." the window on to a steel platform It had become dangerous for old and fastened it to the crane.

people to be in the streets to do Major Sturt and his wife are the

Slowly it ran along the platform their shopping, be continued. " only residents in Skomer Laland, on greased rollers and then swung have heard many working people which is two miles off the West clear into mid-air-and-a-quat-speak of the difference that it has Coast of Pembrokeshire the ter tons of enne-hardened steel; made to their lives that they can- south end of St. Bride's Bay. The burglar-proof, fireproof and big not allow their chlidren to go about

the City as formerly. Major set out to return to his la enough to hold half-a-dozen men. land home about three o'clock on Monday afternoon in a motor-buat, with Edwards as bin mole com- panion.

at

When about half-way across Jack Sound the motor in the boat failed and the two men had then to re- vert to sail and ours,

In the gale and the heavy seas their little craft was soon driven out to sea.

and

What is it? asked the spectatore

All over the country parents' are concerned, in a way they have hever been before-whether they back will nee their children come again safely when they go out.

Where does it came from? The News Chronicle revealed that the crane was installed in the garden at Chesterfield House, the "Compare the discussion which former house of the Princess Royal taken place at an inquiry into a and Lord Harewood, for the -railway accident," he said "with moval of benvy articles of furni-that which takes place at inqucats ture and marble statues.

Secret Combinattun.

Their plight was seen from thes The anfe in the Princess Royal's headland, and the St. Davida lifespersonal property ant is being re- boat went out. For neveral hours; the lifebol searched, while allowed from her own bedroom at Chesterfield Howe to h: r new town through the night willing watchers me in Cireen-steel. kept visit along the coastline.

on the victims of 'motoring acci- dents. The discussion at the in- quest is generally almost worth-

Captain R. C. Bourne, M. P. for Oxford, advocated a uniform read Sa code throughout the country. long as by-laws differed from town I town, accidents would continue, Only the Peinees knows the said. There should be portions the road where the pedestrlau hersall apers and shuts it every | had an absolute right and upon time the jewels and plate, worth which the motorist would encroach thousands of postuls, are på cred in at his posit.

The 1w men in the boat never: despaired. At last they got to the combination of the lock. far ahe leward of same racks.

ROS Signals,

the A sail was rigged up, but wind tore it to ribbons. An old cansas was lighted with petrol to act as a distress signal, but this was soon Imrnt out.

Throughout the nicht the

for nun rowed backwards and

two

wards in the shelter of the rocks,

At break

it.

When Princess Mary moved inter Chesterfield House she decided that the only secure place for the safe was in her bedroom, so it was fitted rooni and into a corner of the palated pale yellow to match the decorations.

The task of

removing it to of day, deciding to Green-street kept six men employed make for land, they rowed about for four days.

for some time in the mist and rain.)

Then from the shore they were discovered off Little Haven, & amall

village in St. Bride's Bay, and the RUSSIA. AND GENEVA,

boat was attached to moorings,

Major Sturt mentioned that the St. Davids lifeboat passed within a bundred yards of them, but they failed to attract the attention of The crow.

he

During the night, he said, and Edwards lighted matches and tried in other ways to give signais, but with no success,

PESSIMISM ‘OYER DISARMA- MENT CONFERENCE.

"I motor along some of these main roads, often with miles of Toolpath alongside, and I am bound to say that I see most pedestrians on the road." he said.

Countess Bathurst said: "I look" upon the speed mania as a kind of disease. Hundreds and thousands of little cars rush about the couR- try for no

1 reason whatever. nover travel faster than 25 miles an hour, and I think that is the proper speed for private cars."

antagonisms Geneva may witness a united front against the Soviet Union, commenting "such a united front is a synonym for a united Extreme pessimism prevailing front in a future anti-Soviet war in Moscow regarding the pros-just as all imperialistie so-called for pecla of the Disarmament Confer disarmament is n

Hynonym ence is shown by the lending ar-feverish preparation for war." tile in the Army newspaper, the] Quite possibly the Soviet delega- Red Star which predicts a "united tion to the Disarmament Confer Ankh-French front against any enee will concentrate its main Throughout the night Mrs. rent limitation of armaments, and efforts on advocating partial dis Sturt, alone on Skomer Island, against the Soviet proposals fur armament plans and so obtain the awaited the return of her husband. complete or, at least, radical jar-support of Germany, Italy, and There is no communication be-tial disarmament." The Red Star, Turkey, instead of pressing the tween the mainland and the island, ruumerating the yarious unta original suggestion of total dis

obviously and she would be without news of gonizme which it alleges exist be armament which is 90 her husband's safety ti a boat tween the Powers, expresses the unrealisable under present condi

fear that. notwithstanding these lians.

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