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The Funniest Play Ever Produced

Becomes the Most Hilarious Picture Ever Screenedi

JACK OAKIE, SIDNEY FOX,

Alles MacMahon, Rusiali Hopton, Louien Fatanda, Gregory Rotoff, Zasa Pirts, Onslow Stärens. Freduced

by Carl Laemmte, Jr., from the play by Mosa Hart and George Kauf. tas, Directed by Zsuali Mack, Presented by Carf

Lavenda. A UNIVERSAL PISTACK.

IT'S COLOSSAL!

ONCE IN LIFETIME

TO-MORROW....

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1933.

SOLDIERS WITH PREMIER'S

OPIUM

TEN RECRRUITS IN THE DOCK

VISIT TO

AMERICA

One explanation why soldiering

FATAL CYCLE ACCIDENT

SECOND REPORTED IN

TWO DAYS

is so popular in China is said to INVITATION ACCEPTEDvolving the rider of a push bicycle.

have been furnished, when eigät Chinese who claimed to be re- veruits joining the Second Inde- pendent Division in the Canton- ese Army, were fined $100 or six weeks' by Mr. Schofield for the possession of some 80 taeis of The raw opium between them. case against two other soldiers, who denied the charge, was held

aver.

WITH ALACRITY®

SAILING NEXT WEEK

London, Apr. 5. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald will said for the United States of April 15, according to present ar-

It was stated that these men were on their way from Pakkal rangements.

another fatal accident, in-

occurred yesterday, when a Chi- nese was killed as the result of a. collision with a lorry,

According to a police report, Wong Chuen, of 156, Hennessy Road, Wanchai, was riding a bicycle, along Island Road when he collided with motor-lorry No. 679. The rider was thrown heavily to the road, receiving severe injuries to his head and thigh. He was removed to the Government Civil Hospital, but, despite all medical aid, ho, died at 7.30 last night.

Three minor accidents were also reported at Police Headquarters of which this morning, in one Sanitary Inspector G. H Miles was involved. The Inspector has reported to the police he was Ishbel MacDonald and by a num-driving his car in Canton Road ber of Treasury experts.

when he knocked down a woman, who received head injuries and was removed to the Kwong Wah Hospital for treatment.

The Prime Minister is paying personal this special visit for a talk with President Roosevelt en the World Economic Conference, the British war" debt to America and other matters.

to Swatow, and came under police' attention when boarding a Dou- glas boat yesterday. Although a number of them had what appear ed to be military equipment, the police were sceptical regarding their soldiering intentions 13 others of their type wearing the He will be accompanied by Miss more elaborate

uniform of an officer or cadet had been arrested before them, coming in by train

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald is go or on New Territories buses, and It had then transpired that theying in response to a personal in vitation from President Roosevelt were also opium" smugglers.

and it is anticinted in some quar- On the other hand, the ten men

ters that informal conversations now before the Court had only a contemplated will be produr- $1.50 between them, and the

tive of valuable results both as opium found on them alternative- ly is thought to have been dis-to the trend of the discussion at tributed in lieu of military pay. the World Economic Conference The poppy crops in the Chiuchow and as to the solution of the war

debt problem.--Reuter. districts are reported to have failed this season, in consequence of which there has been quite a Pakkai and other Kwangsi dis was taken to big demand there for opium from tricts.

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HONCKONC'S FINEST

Conan Doyle's Greatest Sherlock Holmes Adventure

THE SIGN OF FOUR

N

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CLEMENCE DANE'S SENSATIONAL ENGLISH STAGE SUCCESS.

Every Woman's Blood will Beatl Strong Men's Eyes will Fill with Tears!

Barrymore pours his burn- ing genius into one of the most stirring human docu ments the stage has ever given to the screen!

"...

While driving a private-owned motor car near the Dairy Farm, a Chinese driver knocked down Shui Kun-Shuf, of Connaught Road The injured man was West. removed to hospita!.

mau,

Knocked down by a public hire car in Pokfulam Road a Tse Yau, suffered abrasions "and the Government Civil Hospital.

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MARIAN

MARSH TRILBY

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Estelle

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