1932-12-28 — Page 12

CENTRAL

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SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m. The Sensational Record-Smashing. All Authentic Jungle Thrill Spectacle ! LIKE COILED LIGHTNING THE PYTHON STRUCK! 30feet

of lashing fury hurled against the giant cat! While monkeys screamed in every tree they settled a grudge that started in the morning of the world!

One of the great thrills in

FRANK BUCK'S

Amazing Sound-Film Record of His Greatest Adventure

BRING EM BACK ALIVE

Go with Frank Buck,

Lord of the Jungle, into the trackless wastos where savage beasts hold sway! Hero to millioni, his picture is

a thousand times more thrilling than the book

that held the nation

spellboundi

REORADIO Picture Produced

by the Van Buren Corporation

Directed by Clyde't. Ele Actually filmed in the

Malayan jungia country!

COMING SOON

A Special Picture for the whole Family- A Picture Everyone will Enjoy-Bring the Kiddies to See Little Mickey Rooney (As the Ten Year Old Boy "King").

TOM

with

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1932.

ECONOMY AXE IN

TESTS FOR

FRANCE

EXPLORERS

ANTAGONISM AROUSED ON MOUNT EVEREST. AND

ALL SIDES.

THE ARCTIC Problems of the Himalayna and the Arctle are being worked out towards a solution in England.

EUROPE'S, MONETARY

PROBLEMS

LEAGUE EXPERTS, AND FUND SCHEME.

'The report of the Committee of Experts appointed by the Lenguo Council to examine the monetary normalisation fund scheme mon- tloned in the resolution of the In a quiet laboratory in South Strean Conference has been com- London the first battle in the pro-municated to the States members fected conquest of Mount Everest of the League of Nations.

As generally expected the Gov- ornment economy plan, is criticis ed on all siden. While the Con- servatives complain that the re- duction of expenditure is insuf flelent, the Socialists have alrendy' rejected the plan en bloc as im pening too great a sacrifice on the poorer classes. They are prepar ing a counter-project in which re-j is being fought, duction of military expenses will At Cambridge, scientists work figure largely.

The object of this acheme is to provide funds to enable the States of Central and Eastern Europe to

At the same time both the civiling In Arctic conditions are study-find, when the occasion arises, servants and the ex-service mon ing the effects of low temperatura financial assistance such as will are organising through their on living substatices. respective syndicates and federa tions a stubborn resistance to all the proposed measures of economy which affect them,

Financial circles on the other hand are discontented with the mensures affecting the collection

enable them definitely to streng- then or realore their monetary Experts who are making in-situation. The handling of such a

behalf, of

the fund would be entrusted to the vestigations on Everest Expedition are subjecting Bank for International Settlements

at Buale, the lightest oxygen cylinders yet mute to a series of severe tosts In The experts do not contemplate order to entisfy themselves that the immediate operation of the of income tax, which includes they are sumclently strong to fund, but emphasise the necessity obligatory declaration, giving withstand the difficult conditions on the part of the countries con- dividend receipta, deposit accounts of Himalayan transport and climb-cerned of fulfilling certain essen- And the contents of anfen,

Ing.

restoration

tial conditions, such as the rond- By trying not to displease any- body too much in fact, the Govern

The new equipment is not only lustment of the balance of pay- ments, the re-establishment on a ment it appears has succeeded in considerably lighter than that sound basis of their entire national

the anal antagonising everybody.

used on the 1924 expedition, but

economy, The one good thing that is said in other gespecta has given satis-of monetary equilibrium, and the for the project in that it does re-factory results ju the tests so far adjustment as far as necessary of present an attempt to reduce the conducted. expenditure of the State, the total budgeted for being only £600,000,- 000 sterling, which is nearly €3.500,000 less than the figure for 1932.

STEEPLECHASE WON BARE-BACKED

JOCKEY'S FEAT AFTER SADDLE SLIPPED

AGER

W. Speck, the Jockey, won the Becher Steeplechase at Liverpool on Thomond II., riding bare-back- ed, without the assistance of iron, and with the saddle flapping on the horse's flanks.

The saddle began to slip early in the race before Becher's Brook and Speck later had to get out of it Two fences from home is mount blundered badly and came down almost on ita knees, allow ing Colliery Band to get several lengths in front.

foreign debts by means of nego- The present decision will be the flatlons with the creditors.

The experts came to the cohelu- climax to a long controversy be-

anti-oxygension it is. for the moment Impos and tween oxygen elimbers. In the Arst expedition sible to undertake the detalled pre- In 1922, this difference of opinion paration of the scheme from a WAS exemplified in the rival technical point of view, and that achlovoments of Norton and a large number of problems must Mallory, who climbed to 26.985ft. be dealt with by the economic and without oxygen, and of Finch and monetary conference in London. J. G. Bruce, who with oxygen It la proponed, however, reached a height of 27,300ft. The adjourn the work, but rather to bonefit of oxygen appeared to be proceed to n.decision on the malu draft monetary most notably felt by the latter outlines of a climbers in their return journey. normalisation fund,

ac-

not to

It is not only the final climb, but the whole tactics of the ex-

edition which are affected. If low temperature on living sub- oxygen is used in climbing, lens stances.

At the Cambridge Low Tem- time will be necessary for climatisation, and this in turn is perature Research Station, he of de-said, were about thirty chambers, linked with the process terioration which, according some authorities, takes place high altitudes.

to

oach of which had round the walls ata coiled wire through which the electric current flowed. This cur rent regulated the temperature, which, in some of the chambers, was reduced to the equivalent of frost. "It is, however, a trying

Microscopic Work In Frost

Hardy, in his on Sir William

Spack, however, riding magni- ficently, forced Thomond. II. and won by half a length, Fifty Hurter Memorial Lecture befora yards after passing the post, the the Liverpool Section of the experience, as I have myself found, saddle slipped to the ground, and Society of Chemical Industry dis- to do accurate microscopic work It was with diffeulty that the closed how scientists work, amid in even ten to twenty degrees of horso was pulled up.

Arctic cold, to study the affects of frost."

TO-DAY ONLY

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HONCKONG'S FINEST CINEMA

FROM THE LIPS OF ONE MAN TO THE ARMS OF ANOTHERI

Marlene

MIX Dietrich

and.

his

Pony TONY

MY PAL the KING

Imagine wildfire TOM MIX as the star' of a Wild West show touring Europe) . He gets mixed' up with the boy king of a smoll country. Is hurled WOW! into a local political plot..

THRILLS - ACTION — LAUGHS!

With Mickey Rooney Stuart Holmes, Noel Francis. Produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr., from the story by Richard Schaver Directed by Kurt Neumann.

UNIVERSAL PICTURE

presented by

·Ceri Laemmio-

"BLONDE VENUS

Before the Antono's klises had faded from ... her lipa, the longed for the other's embrace ...because she loved them both. What could she do but fiee from love

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JOSEF VON STERNBERG HERBERT MARSHALL • CARY GRANT

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SHOWING TO-DAY at 2,30, 5.10, 7,15 & 9,20 -

THE LATEST BRITISH MUSICAL BETTER THAN 'Sunecine Susio1

Adapted from

THREE OF A KIND by "SAPPER"

LOVE ON

THE SPOT

-with; RICARD DOLMANTM ROSEMARY AMES

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BUSTER

KEATON

JIMMY

DURANTE

the funniest team'in filme

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Thelma's

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Jimmy's

"Bchnozzle'

put them

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Directed by

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The ITALIAN GRAND OPERA CO. presents "CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA” and “PAGLIACCI”

MAJESTIC

THE LOST SQUADRON

starring

RICHARD DIX

MARY ASTOR....JOEL M:CREA

ROBERT ARMSTRONG BRICH VON ̃STROHEIM

Directed GEOROB ARCHAINDAUD. BARKO RADIO

PICTURE

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a loser by the actions taken by our Government in connexion with the dispute with the Irish Free State does not prove that the

netions of our Governmont are not right and propor, but it does sug- Mr. R. D. Holt, at a meeting of gest that when duties are imposed Mersey Dock Board, stated for the purpose of keeping traffic that it was unfortunate that the out of the country, some portione tariff war with the Free State was of the revenue collected should praventing the development of the be handed over to the harbour eroes-Cliannel trade.

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