1933-06-27 — Page 26

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JAN KIEPURA

TELL ME

VIOLET WONG

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RAYMOND KING

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

RIVER LEVELS

LOWER

WITH EXCEPTION OF

SHEKLUNG

According to the latest roport of the the River Conservancy for

Province Kwangtung

National Government, the West and North Rivers are still subsiding, but the East River level is slightly higher than on Sunday.

The comparative levels are given below:

June 25 June 20 West River at Shlu-

hing North River nt

Tsingyuen .... 16:

26.7..24.6

12.9 at Samshul 18.3 17 East River at Shek-

8.1 lung

8.7

STRANGE AFFAIR AT TSINGTAO

ATTEMPT ON ADMIRAL'S LIFE

Tsingtao, June 26. When Admiral Shon Hung-lich,

"OVER THE Mayor of Tsingtao, joined a naval

SEA"

A CHINESE SILENT FILM WITH MUSICAL ACCOM- PANIMENT,

PTO:NIGHT A BRILLIANTLY ENACTED.

SONNIE HALE & MAGDA SCHNEIDER

EDMUND GWENN - ATHENE”

L'AUMONT-BRO

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FRIDAY

TUESDAY, JUNE, 27.

THE ANGLO-SOVIET NEGOTIATIONS

POSITIONS MADE.

CLEAR.

London, Juna 26. A Foreign Office com- that an munique states exchange of views_took place at the Foreign Office between Monsieur Litvinoff Secretary for and tho Foreign Affairs in which they made clear to one another the position of their respective Covernments on the present obstacles to the renewal of the Anglo-Soviet trade negotiations, Colonel Colville of the Department of Overseas Trade was also. present, British Wireless,

1933.

PURCHASE OF 3 YEAR BOY

WOMAN'S STORY NOT SATISFACTORY

"I advlao you to think vory hard where you got' that child from" sald Mr. Wynne-Jones in the Con- tral Police Court this morning, when remanding a Chinose widow, Chan Sze, 43, for seven days, on tho a charge of taking part in transaction of a boy, aged threo years. Defendant maintained re- ticence regarding the place where she allegedly purchased the child.

Prosecuting, Det.-Insp. Elston, attached to the S.C.A. said do fendant was caught trying to dis- pose of the child to two bout wo- After men for $140, on June 24.

the some

women bargaining, offered $180 but defendant To- fused. Defendant's explanation

BETONNANCIALNUTRITIincence as to where she got the child was

HOPE FOR RUBBER RESTRICTIONS

DUTCH COMMITTEE MOVING

very poor and the S.C.A, thought

was unlawfully obtained.

The woman first stated she bought the child when it was very smail In Kwong Chow Wan, and then she changed her story and said he was given by a relative. The prosecution had little hopes

the of finding out where came from.

child

Iaunch at the harbour to carry out his weekly inspection of the war- ship Chenhal, Licut. Feng, com-

Amsterdam, June 20. manding the launch, created sus- The Dutch rubber-growers havo picion by carrying two pistola. appointed a committee of five

The Admiral's personal guards members who have been seriously SEVERE EARTHQUAKE.

at the saloon entrance observing discussing the situation in con- the Lieutenant drawing u pistol. nexion with the restriction of threw him overboard where he rubber-growing.

..

SIXTY-SEVEN KILLED IN

SUMATRA

Batavia, June 26.

opened fire on the lunch without. They are proposing to consult doing any damage. Later Lient. with the Dutch Government ro- Feng was arrested and taken to garding the execution of plane the warship where he is now under and it is thought here that there At least 67 people were killed in enquiry. No reason for his action is a good possibility of realising an earthquake at South. Bencoolen,

restriction.-Reuter. has yet been discovered.-Reuter,

Sumatra.-Router.

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MELVYN DOUGLAS

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VIENNESE NIGHTS

WERE MADE FOR LOVE

DETERIORATION,

professed an incradicable optimism of outlook, notwithstanding the fact that the world economically had gone back at least throu genera tions, while politically Europe had roverted to the autocratie loss of the 17th Century. it

LLOYD GEORGE SPEAKS ON WORLD AFFAIRS

London, Juno 20. The nations are again slamming Mr. Lloyd Georga completed their doors In each other's faces remarkable record of forty 'consecu and preparing to kill each other, but tivo attendances at the Mid-Summer the younger, generation has no Flower Service held at the Walsh reason to be discouraged. We shall Baptist Chapel in London to-day. {blunder through eventually."Reus

In the course of his address, heter Special: