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CENTRAL THEATRE

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SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.05, 7.20 & 9.35. Please note the change of time owing to the langth of the picture). THE MOST WONDERFUL AIR EPIC OF THE WAR “ACES" WITH MARVELLOUS SOUND & MUSICAL SYNCHRONIZATION.

A tragic Good offentl

Badly be fred round after round inth the Vitals of the ship of the air cost bara din insignia of the copy.

How he to know that the plot was the pal be believed dead-be very pal bad beets avenging

It's the most stirring climax the screen has Great And It's but one of a host of towering moments ta a mighty picture that will carry you over the clouds to a thousand thrills Ac Lustly filmed tažios high in the air.

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Is to won a rising value of praise expaterplace.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1932.

HARD LIFE OF MUI-TSAI

ASSAULTED FOR "NOT

SUICIDE EPIDEMIC

GETTING MOVE ON" FOUR ATTEMPTS MADE

A fine of $50 was imposed by Mr. Scholleld at the Central Police Court this morning on a

woman

named Wu Hau-tse, of 7, Chung Shing Street, on her appearance on

a charge of keeping an unregister- ed mui-traí.

On Wednesday last the girl, ne-

YESTERDAY

AN UNLICENSED MOTOR CAR

FINES IMPOSED ON TWO OFFENDERS

Mr. F. Varela, of Repulse Bay Hotel, appeared before Mr. Scho- feld at the Central Police Court this morning and was fined $5 for

to be used.

POIGNANT CASE allowing an unlicensed motor car

Two summonses against Mr. F. A suicide wave appears to Pondal were also brought in con- cording to Inspector H. W. Fraser, have passed over the Colony nexion with. the same incident, went to the Secretariat for Chinese yesterday. The attempts of a The defendant was alleged to have Affairs and reported that she had suicide of a leper were success-driven without a licence and with- been assaulted by a relative of her ful. Two youths of nineteen out attaching registration plates employer. She was presented to are in hospital as a result of self- to the car. the defendant by her natural mother poisoning incidents. through a relative, and $102 wk.

Mr. Varela explained that Mr. Pondal, his brother-in-law, had paid Rs "ginger and vinegar The poignant.cause of the leper is already left the Colony, but he money." The defendant obtained' reported from Shaukiwan, where admitted the offences on behalf of employment for the girl as a conservancy coolies working in the defendant. Mr. Varela sald waitress at different shops, and the dark lane giving off Tai Shek Street, the car had just been taken off wages paid to her were handed to, were horrified to find the body of the ship from Manila and #9 the defendant.

the man swinging from a rope lived at Repulse Buy he was taking slung over the wall. Death had pet there. curred, it is thought, an hour be fore

When not employed as a waitress, she was engaged in househol work, .She had made an application to her mistress for her release, but was told that she could regain ber liberty on payment of a sum of $200, plus interest.

The defendant, continued the officer, was struck in the eye by relative of the defendant "for not getting a move on.

SILVER AGAIN

DECLINES

1

SLIGHT DROP IN THE DOLLAR

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On the summons of not having an appropriate licence his Worship imposed a fine of $10 ngainst Mr. Pondal and n caution on the other

LEAP OVER VERANDAH. Known to have been mentally un-count. balanced for some, considerable time, Lum Shing, aged 54, yester- day fatally injured himself when he leaped over the second floor veran dah of his home at Woosung street, Yaumati. He was gravely injured and admitted to Hospital at 11.30, died forty minutes later.

N.Y.K. REDUCE RATES

ON H. K.-SHANGHAI SERVICE

Depression through unemploy. iment is advanced as the cause of Gobind Sigh, 18-year-old Sikh, liv- The N.Y.K. announces that its ing at 80 Queen's Road Central, local rates between Hongkong and attempting to take his life yester-Shanghai will be reduced, commenc- day. The swallowed a large dose of ing from the 3rd October. camphor. He was taken to the

The present rates between Hong- Government Civil Hospital, where kong and Shanghai ure:-G$40, 1st his condition is not now thought to class; G826 2nd class or Tourist class which are approximately.

The Hongkong dollar dropped 1/8th this morning to 19. 1d. There is very little doing on the be serious. local market, the undertone which is somewhat ensy.

of

Tang Hoi, and 19, was also ad- H$170 1st class, H$130 and H$110 mitted to the institution, yesterday, 2nd class and Tourist class. The In London, silver declined suffering from nitric acid polson- new rates will be Y90 1st class: 3/16ths, the decline being chieflying. The lose was self-administer-Y60 and Y50 2nd class and Tourist due to general selling. India and ed, it was stated. speculators bought at the decline, I and the market closed steady. After the oficial fixing, the market ruled dull, with America selling.

New. York reports a fall of quarter in silver prices.

L

Becatige

class; and Y20, third class (former steerage), which figures will be ap proximately $90. 1st class: H$60

of his good record, a and H$50 2nd class and Tourist motor lorry driver in the employ of class; and H$20 third class, as the the Shek O Club was fined only $2 by, exchange rate at present between Mr. Schofield at the Central Police the yen and Hongkong dollar is Court this morning for driving his atoul par. vehicle at speed of 10 an hour

The first N.Y.K. sailing coming Personal effects to the value of $BG in Main Street, were stolen by a thief who obtained The driver of a van under the above new rates in the bnission into the residence of Missing to the Dairy Farm Co. was fined new luxury motor ship Chichibu the Orient-California Bewley, at No. 352, The Peak, by $16 by his Worship for driving the Maru, of removing 4 pane of glass from vehicle at a speed of from 26 16 30 Line, which is to sail from Hong- verandah window.

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