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CENTRAL

THEATRE

Reached by West Bound Queen's Road Bus. Tolephone No. 25720.-

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m. .

A ROMANTIC BRITISH PITURE WITH SPARKLING DIALOGUE AND COMEDY AND LILTING MELODES

WINIFRED SHOTTER & OWEN NARES

The Love Contract

THE ESCAPADES OF A LADY CHAUFFEUR

FROM THE SUCCESSFUL STAGE PLAY "CHAUFFEUR ANTOINETTE” HEAR THESE CATCHY TUNES "ANTOINETTE"

"THE AUTOMOBILE SONG"

BRITISH & DOMINIONS PRODUCTION.

SATURDAY

- JUST ONE LONG LAUGH AFTER ANOTHER!

ROBT

World's Greatest Clowns in their Greatest Laugh Spros..

WHEELER WOOLSEY

PEACH O'RENO

It has been officially announced

With those Two Madcap Charmers

DOROTHY

LEE

ZILMA

O'NEAL

JOSEPH CAWTHORN

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPIL THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 193

SHANHAIKWAN CARNAGE

HAND-TO-HAND

horoism

FIGHTING

when they attempted to enter the city, they were greeted with a hurricane of machine-gun fire and trench mortar explosions from the Chineko defenders of the city. Following several hours¦of, florce

Aghting, tho Japanees were re

pulnod.

EXTENSION FUND,

DONATIONS TO SAILORS AND

· SALDIENS' HOME

The Rov. E. C. H. Tribbock grato- fully acknowledges, on behalf of the There are now nine warablys Committee of the Sailors and Sold- between Shanhaikwan and Chin- lers Home, the following donations wangtao. According to the es- to the Extension Fund: timate of reliable quarters, there Mrs. E. It. Hallifax

ого

. The story of the day of terror ; spent by the civilian population is yet to be told, but many charred bodles are mute ovidence of yos torday's carnage,

Jacobs

$60,00

SHOWING TO-DAY af 2.30, 5310, 7.15 & 9:20.

.20,00

750.00

10.00

What Price?

10.00

She Her

Sold

Soul

Telegraphic communication with Shanhaikuan was restored to-day, Despatches paint a picture of

at present more than 5,000 The Rev. J. Courtenay on the part of the Chinese troops who clung to the Japanese troops within the Great, The Jengkong Land Invest

ment & Agency Co. Ltd. defences to face a torrifying and Wall participating in the offensive

LS. Greenhill, Esq. g demoralising bombardment from against the walled city.-Router.

Christmas Carol Party Col- sen, land and air.

Railway Suspended.

loction Tientsin, Jan. 4. Funds are urgently needed-all Apparently all WAB qufet gifts will be very welcome: they may during the day in the Shanhal- be sent either to the S. C. M. Port or kuan area. A single telegraph to the Saltors and Soldiers' Home,

22, Hennessy Road. line has been restored, between

All choques should be made pay- When the Japanese infantry Chinwangtao and Shanhalkuan, able to the Treasurer and crossed attacks swept over the half ruined but railway traffic is impossible "Extension Fund Account." elty, there was flerce hand to owing to the damago to a small hand fighting in the streets in bridge across the Tasheho. which 800 Chinese troops were

Bo far no confirmation of the killed defending the smashed negotiations for the restoration Bouth gate. Some estimates do- of peace and no movements of clare that at least 1,700 Chinese Chinese troops are reported. soldiers have been killed, the Reuter. majority in street fighting beforeļ the fall of the city,

Poking, Jan. 4.. Latest reports indicate that in Most reliable foreign sources The statement agaerts that fu- addition to the lines at in Chinwangtao deny as complete- turo developments depend antiro- Changli, the Chinese lines have ly unfounded the persistent rely on the Chinese attitude-Reuter, boon reformed within a few miles ports of the Japanese bombard- of Shanhalkuan on the north-ment of that city this morning," west side to cope with a possible and the attempt to land marines

· Japanese advance towards the under cover of the bombardment. upper Lwan River as a path into Johol-Reulor, i

·

Smoking Ruins.

Polping, Jan. 4. Authentic information has been received now throwing light on the

Chinwangtzo Alarm

moon issued a surprising state- mont to the presa declaring that the Shanhalkuan clash was the outcome of a declaion reached at Nanking to provoke Japan to fight, thereby compelling the League to act,"

Alleged Negotiations,

Tientsin, Jan, 4.

It is learned from a reliablo Chinwangtao remains quiet and foreign source, but up to the the rumours presumably were present unconfirmable, that Gen- given currency because three eral Ho Chu-kuo is negotiating Japanese destroyers there this with the Japanese in Chinwang- morning fired salutes to H.M.S. tao for a peaceful settlement of Folkestone when she arrived from the Shanhaikuan incident. Chefco-Reuter.

A Halt Called

Tientsin, Jan. 4.

No details are available except that it is alleged by the informant that the Japanese terms includo

Router.

exact situation at Shanhaikwan, It is revealed that after being re- pulsed twice, the Japanese troops launched a third attack yesterday Despite their promise to issue a the demilitarisation of the zone afternoon, as a result of which further statement locally concern-between Shanhalkunn and Changli. they captured the city.

ing the Shanhafkwan situation, Shanhaikwan is now declared to the Japanese authorities have be nothing but smoking ruins in made no announcement-Router. which 500 Chinese troops wore British Minister' Calls, wiped out by the Japanese troops employing tanks during two hours' of very flerco street fighting. Almost the entire apath wall of the city has been flattened by shell-

fire.

Terribly as the Chinese troops suffered, it is

• Foreigners' Safety

Peking, Jan. 4. Tokyo, Jan. 4. The British gunboats Bridge- Tho British Minister, Sir water and Folkestone have been Francis Lindley, visited the ordered to Chinwangtao to safe- Foreign Office this morning and guard British Interests.-Router. had a conversation with Count

No Sign of Panic. Uchida.

Peking, Jan. 4. There is no sign of panle in the Poking area. The atmosphere re-

It is reported that the visit was atated that the for the purpose of learning the civilian population suffered worge Japanese Government's intentions and casualties cannot be properly and attitude regarding the Shan-mains colm, as it has been in the estimated yet, but must be enor hatkwan affair-Reuter.

mous,

The Japanese attackers succoed-

ed in breaching the city wall at Shanhaikwan,

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.10,

Surprising Statement.

Tokyo, Jan. 3. on Tuesday, but The Japanese Omice this after

7.15 8 9.30 p.m.

past few weeks. The general bo- Hier is that the Japanese are not likely at present to come further south now that Shanhalkwan is in their hands-Router.

HONCKONG'S FINEST CNEMA

HER FINGERPRINTS

are on the hearts of four husbands

-and her An- geriaro in the pockets of 100 other victims!

You'll roar at the funny way

she makes each "'honey" payi

Madame Racketeer

with

ALISON SKIPWORTH- RICHARD' BENNETT OFORGE RAFT

a Guramount Picture

IVALYN. KNAPP

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313

25532

NEXT CHANGE SUNDAY, 8th JANUARY

KNIFE HURLED AT

MURDER WITNESS

Opening Session of Vivienne Ware Trial Ends in Wild Confusion

Akute hurled by the band or en kukoown masthani zase nijih arveles Wild confusion in the optartrozen dugu tog twe tried at Viriens Wax. 10

The Radio Drama

That Electrified The Air!

The TRIAL of VIVIENNE WARE

JOAN BENNETT

Donald COOK

Richard "Skoots” GALLAGHER

mad a big supporting emot FOX PICTURE

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Constance

BENNETT

the peerless

BOUGHT

with

BEN LYON

FROM SUNDAY

Beautiful women will swoon, strong men will grow weak, children will shout with gloo.

Tho: whole town will go wild with joy !

AT THE

CHIEF

JOEE.

He'll

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you!

KDOWN

STAR

in his firo-alarm comedy riot

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MAJESTIC

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Doomed Battalion

GIFT OF KILLARNEY TO IRLAND

FAMOUS ESTATE TO BE A NATIONAL PARK

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DIRECTED BY WILLIAM SOTER [RK_O_RADIO, PICTURE.

THEATRE IN A LINER

IMPROVEMENTS TO AQUITANIA

́Five hundred mon are employed

in Dublin that the famous estate on a six-weeks' overhaul of the

at Muckross, Killarney, consisting Canard liner Aquitania, now in of 10,000 acres and comprising the Southampton Docks,

The scheme includes the con- colobrated lakes, has been pro- sented to the Irish Free State for struction of a cinema theatre which will be the largest in any the purpose of a National Park.

The gift, which the Government British ship, and will accom- has accepted, was assured through, modate 250 persons. There will the generosity of Mr. William also be green rooms and a stago, Bowers Bourn, who originally for dancing and stage plays..

To conteruet the theatre the bought the property from the late Lord Ardilaun and settled it on greater part of what was original- his son-in-law. The gift in Inly the second-class dining saloon memory of Mrs. Arthur Vincoat, will be used, as second-class who died some years ago.

| travel, so far as the North Atlantic

Legislation necessary for the fa concerned, is almost dead. taking over of the property will be introduced in the Dall

Buckross is a", peninsula be tween the Middle and Lower Lakes of Killarney. Upon it are the rules of Muckross Abboy

The theatre will be used; inter- changeably, by first, tourist, and third-class passengers.

The reconstruction scheme also involves 80 new state rooms, each with private bath-rooms.

New Year

ORIENTAL

Samuel Goldwyn

presents

EDDIE CANTOR Palmy Days'

→ CHARLOTTE M

Loaded

with Laughter

and

Packed

with Feminine Charm

Ho was an affeciency export, but he couldn't get out of tight places. You get more laught then you got in." Whoopso.........., with more gorgeous girls to gazo upon..............and mora spectacular scor es to leave you awed!

The Picture Terrific!

·with

TALA BIRELL, LUIS TRINKER, VICTOR VARCONI,

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