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CENTRAL

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WELLS

ISLAND OF LOST SOULS

“Ignoring the god

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Who Made Thess, They Stormed 'the' Home of Dr. Mor 'san, Seaking the Chỉ Who Was All-

Human!...A Tale of

Romance, Adven.

tore and Terror as Only H.O.Wells Can

Tell ...

WITH

CHARLES LAUGHTONÍČE BELA LUGOSI RICHARD ARLEN LEILA HYAMS

and the

PANTHER WOMAN

A Guramerina Mature"

More Thrilling, Moro Amaxing Than Anything You Have Evor Soon!"

Exciting Maro

TO-MORROW

THOUSANDS EXPECT IT TO HAPPENI

EARTH

DOOMED!

SELUGE

Our world toid waste! Only a handful survive to "*start over"

ONE WOMAN FOR TEN MEN. AND NO LAW. BUT DESIRE!

RKO-RADIO Picture

Samuel Bischoff, asso. producer

Raw passion rules the naked land in this astounding imagi native spectacle!

War

PEGGY SHANNON LOIS WILSON SIDNEY BLACKMER Matt Moore, Ralf Haroldo Edward Van Sloan, Semi- vel Hinds. Directed By Falia E. Frist from the book by S. Fowler Wright, HAILED IN ENGLAND AS ONE OF THE GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN

PICTURES!

MAJESTIC

THER

TO-DAY ONLY at 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

Daughter of an aristocrat, she forsook her family for an outlaw love. It's Terrific!

LUIS TRENKER

The

VILMA BANKY

REBEL

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1933.

FATE OF OUR Brush Empire.

on the part of the delegates of the not only to down British Sca-power

SEA POWER

Navy Has Been

Surrendered

and hold it down for alx and a half

The size of ships was not re years, but to create such a situa-

duced, and it was the American tion that, even if the Treaty should

standard which wha accepted lapse altogether, it would take very throughout and made law. More-¡ many years for us to make up the over, the old two-power standard, leeway which it Imposes by pre which we had found barely` suf-¡ cluding the replacement felent for our needs, was not obsolete ships during the term of modified, but thrown bodily aside the Trenty. in favour of parity, Irrespective of This will leave the British CAMPARISON

WITH commitments in no way com-Empire with such a mass of ton-

parable.

nago either definitely obsolete or GERMANY'S "LOSS", Then came the London Naval just passing the age limit that it Conference, and whereas in the will be almost a financial im- Fifteen years ago the German Washington Treaty the British possibility for us to make it up High Sea Fleet surrendered to Empire was referred to as the for a very long time, Admiral Earl Beatty of the British Empire, in the

London Even if we are prepared to abide Firth of Forth. The fleet was in-Treaty it was known is the by 60 cruisera 'to do the whole terned at Scapa Flow, where it was "British Commonwealth of Na-work of the Empire and its trade scuttled on Juno 21, 1919.

tions."

| routes, we shall have fifteen ob- This, then, was the end of the The London Naval Tronty of solete cruisers to replace. Imperial German Navy. The 1930 carried our capitulation

Cost of the Leeway Vanquished were destroyed. But several "singes further. Parity Moreover, no fewer than clover what of the victors?

with the United States wis still of our fifteen capital ships will be It was inevitable that, after more supposed to be adhered to, but the passing the age limit within a than four years of struggle, the terms of the Treaty made it very year or two. And on top of this British Navy should be swollen clear that the United States and there will be a large number of beyond the needs of pence-time not Great Britain were in future destroyers, submarines, sloops, and security. This was particularly to be the greatest Naval Power in other craft in urgent need of re- the ease in so far as amali craft the world.

placement. were concerned.

In November, 1918, we had near-

If the standards of size at

persist, it means that the cost of present imposed upon the world replacement of each battleship, would be £7,000,000, and of each cruiser, £2,000,000.

Other Powers Excepted ly 2,500 auxiliaries employed in the lotion at the London Conference is The real measure of our capitu- anti-submarine service alone. that, whereas our suggestions for These ewollen numbers were the limiting of the size of ships rapidly reduced by an energetic were not accepted, the numerical process of paying off, scrapping. limitations proposed by, others and demobilising.

Thus, neglecting altogether the This frat post-war reduction left

wero imposed upon us.

cost of replacements in the smaller with

Thus, the Admiralty had to ac- categories, the British Empire will Navy of suficient cept a maximum of 60 cruisers to have a leeway of at least £107,000,- strength to form a guarantee of do the work of an "irreducible 000 worth of replacement tonnage security for the Empire and its minimum" of 70. Moreover, our to make up before it can again trade routes under the conditions delegates countenanced the provalling and

in claim the sea-power which is vital any conditions clusion of a special clause to the to its very existence. which could then be foreseen.. effect that the British Empire) Such then, is the measure of the

Surrender of Victors

might not replace all her cruisers surrender of the British Navy-an Three years and three months as they became obsolete.

immeasurably greater surrender after the surrender of the naval This clause applies to no other than that of the German Fleet forces of the vanquished came the Power, and its effect is that dur-fifteen years ago. As against the firat great step in the surrender of Ing the run of the Treaty we can sixteen capital ships surrendered the naval forces of the victors-the have no more than 36 effective by Germany, we have scrapped or Washington Naval Treaty. This cruisers-still to do the work of otherwise rendered impotent no was as much 29 surrender to our "irreducible minimum" of 70, fewer than 44-and another four political and diplomatic interests The London Naval Treaty will, which were building at the end of as that of the Gorman Fleet. unless extended in a modified the War.

The convening of a Conference form, expire on December 31, 1930. Against the eight cruisers sur- with the object of setting some But that does not, unfortunately, rendered by Germany we have Hmit to the ever-growing size and mean that we shall then be freed surrendered 78. in destroyers cost of warships was in itself ad-, of its shackles. mirable. The resulting Treaty,

Germany surrendered 50, while we There can be no doubt that the have surrendered 266 destroyers however, is eloquent of surrender London Naval Treaty was framed, and 94 torpedo boats.

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KING KONG IS LOOSE

HEAVEN HELP US ALLI

Perched atop the tallest building, n trembling girl In one hairy hand, he reaches into the sky and grasps a zooming battle plane in his enormous paw, he crushes it' like a paper top and sent it burling in flames into the street below.

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TO START YOU OFF RIGHT!

STAN

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**THE COUNTY HOSPITAL

ROBERT

A STORY THAT BEGINS AFTER THE

HONEY MOQN.

HELEN

HAYES

MONTGOMERY

as the lovers on troubled seas

of matrimony

Another

Language

From the play by Roso Frankon

'It ran a year Broadway, and now

it reaches the screen with all

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Disected by E. H. GRIFFITH

SEND THE KIDDIES TO THE MORNING SHWO

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LEE TRACY

IN THE FUNNIEST COMEDY IN YEARS

This man's dream will give you your life's laugh!

He dreamed he was back in 1910 yet he knew he had lived in 1933!

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