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CENTRAL

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A CHINESE PICTURE

UNIQUE FILM CO.

PRESENTS

MISS CHAN YUI MOY

IN

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21; 1933.

ARSON CONSPIRACY.

MANY ARRESTS

ECHO OF NOTABLE TRIAL IN POLICE COURT

London, Nov. 20,

RESULT OF JAPAN'S COMMUNIST WAR

Tokyo, Nov. 20.

DOUBLE SLAYING :

MAN KILLS WIFE AND TAKES OWN LIFE

A house in Laichal Garden, Koh- Captain Brynmoor Eric Miles, The strict censorship has at last loon City, was the scene of a ghantly Chief Officer of the London Salvage been raised in connexion with the tragedy at about 8 p.m. yesterday Corps, was remanded at the Bow Japanese police round-up of sua- when a man killed his wife with a Streat Pollon Court this afternoon pected Communist plottors, which chopper during a quarrol and then on the charge of conspiring with commenced last February. Infor committed suicide by cutting his Leopold Harris and others to pormation was given out this after-own throat. vert the due course of Justice. He soon from official sources.

The man was Lai Fan and the has been allowed ball £5,000

There have been wholesalo ar-

wifo-LaCheong-shi, both between After a sensational trial, which reste, it appears, since February 2 was estimated to have cost £50,000, The campaign started with a raid 35 and 40 years of age.

the headquarters of the

revealed Leopold Harris, a fire Insurance upon

Polico investigations loft wore Zenkyo,

wing Labour 16 others

that the married life of the deceas Assessor,

ር ቴ ed had not been a happy one. sentenced to terms of imprison-organisation.

Altogether, it is learned 1,698 They had been in the habit of quar ment for arson, ranging to 14 years penal servitude, at Old persons have been arrested, includ-relling violently recently, and it was ing 68 women and 928 Koreans.in the heat of one of these quar- Balloy last August.

Of these 146 have been indicted. preserved during the whole of the

The strictest secrecy has been rela that the tragedy occurred....

The Police state that no other police operation, and the censor's people are involved. They are still Dan has been complete.--Router.

pursuing investigations.

and

Harris, who was the ring-leader, received the full term of 14 years, the maximum penalty for arson under the English Criminal Code.

There were no less than 141 counts found against the defen- dants, who were partice to a huge

surance Companies by starting fires in insured property-Reuter.

"LIFE IN THE STRUGGLE" conspiracy to defraud Fire In-

An All-Talking Picture in Cantonese

ew

Dialogue.

`TO-MORROW

AYRES

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GINGER ROGERS

In

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ITALY AND THE LEAGUE

REVIEW OF GENEVA RELATIONS

Italy's

Milan, Nov. 20. relations with

FIRE ON SHIP.

SMALL. OUTBREAK on the SILVERWALNUT

Fire broke out in one of the holds of the M. V. Silverwalnut yesterday:

FIGHTING SPIRIT.

ANTI-WAR FILMS TO BE

BANNED.

Shanghai, Nov. 20. Further showing of anti-war

Afternoon while she was lying at Kow-pletures in the theatres of Shang- loon Docks undergoing repairs.

at once

hal, will be banned by the censors,

The Fire Brigade was notified, and two fire-flants were im- It is announced.

mediately sent to the

scene. The

The decision is a result of re-

Dockyard staff was already combating presentations made by the Shang- the the flames by the time the fire-floats hai branch of the Kuomintang to League of Nations will be examin- arrived, and when the hoses from the Nanking that anti-war films, such ed at a meeting of the Fascist fire-appliances were brought into full ns "Cavalcade," which stress human Grand Council on December 12. play, the outbreak was quickly sub- according to the semi-oficial dued. Gazetta Popolo of Turin.

The paper declares that thie efficiency of the League following the exit of Germany and Japan and the absence from it of the United States and Russia, will be discussed. Reuter

TO-DAY

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At 2.50, 5.10, 7.15 8 9.30 p.m.

MARY

It is understood that little damage was done to the ship itself.

suffering and a alde of war tending

to the reduction of morale, are hurtful to China at a time when she needs the cultivation, rather, of a fighting public spirit.

The Chineso Board of Censors

the Silver Line, for which Mossrs. The Silverwalnut, which belongs to Furness (Far East) Limited are the

cal agents, arrived in Ilongkong informed the cinema Interests to from New York via Shanghai, last thin effect to-day-Our Own Cor Thursday.

respondent.

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Thirteen different people had thirteen different reasons for wanting her out of the way. Any one of them could. have been convicted of the murder.

AKO-Rodi

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Who killed

Jenny Wren 2

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FAR EASTERN TRADE. TRAWLER WRECKED.

SOUTH AFRICA APPOINTS COMMISSIONER:

EIGHTEEN PERSONS SAVED'

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London, Nov. 20, The Icelandla trawler Gazairre 68 was wrecked this morning on Torness Point, Orkney,

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