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LOCAL SHIPYARD EXTENSION

BIG IMPROVEMENTS "AT BAILEY'S-

Work of considerable mingnitude in the extension of Messrs. W. S. Balley and Company's shipyard has just bean competed by the Netherlands Harbour Works Co., transforming this establishment into one of the most modern in

the East

Besides reclaiming the foreshore of the property a further 200 feet senwards, a new and

most

modern slipway has been constract ed: capable accommodating

of

Vessels up to 340 ft. keel and 4,000 lacking. the Christmas gogae in. tons deadweight.

To meet the requirements of the programme, extensive underwater work was necessary, a large part of which, due to its special nature had to be carried out in the "Dry." For this purpose multiple Larsson con- sheet piled conerdams were

Вед bed structed, exposing the where the concrete capping to the pile work could be safely and efficiently done.

FIRST IN HONGKONG. Apart from its Importance this system has a special interest, the scheme of cofferdams being unique in the history of the Colony, and the first of its kind executed in Hongkong Harbour.

Some 700 reinforced concrete plies, averaging 50 feet long and 20 inches are are driven below the rails for a distance of 620 feet of their length. This work was accomplished by means of an 8 Lon steam hammer. The alip way carriage la an all-steel struc- turo, detachable in three equal parts of each 100 ft. and therefore available either for one. largo vessel or for two or more shorter bouts at a time. The bilge arms Bre adjustable and for extensive but tom repairs may be temporarily withdrawn.

Three mooring and centring "B" class buoys are anchored at suit- ab.e positions, and inshore dolphin erected for safe handling of vessels whilo' being slipped.

An

HAULING GEAR.

At the head of the large slipway is a powerful electrically operated hauling engine. with gearing driven by two 130 B.H.P. motors which with all electrical and mechanical services are controll- ed from a raised platform giv- ing a clear view of all the bauling. machinery and of the whole length of this slipway.

The weight of this hauling gear is 275 tons, of its foundations 1,600 tons, and overall length of the slip- way ralla 850 foot..

While work on the large slipway has progressed, Messrs. Bailey have entirely renewed their small er 400 ton slipway, which operated by a new electric driven hauling engine.

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CINEMA SCREENINGS-

NOTES SUPPLIED BY

THE THEATRES

Warner Baxter, who plays a leading rcle in Arthir Sanwrs Roche's "Pent- house," ilse Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cosmopolitan production which is en Sunday to the Queen's coming Theatre, spires to write. Not the Great American Navel, nor a Pulitzer Prize Pay. nor an origi motion leturn story, nor scientific treatises on the habits of the extinct What-Not. He aspires to write a fan letter-to styrna Loy, Buster an a lawyer, and Misa 1. y, appear together in the Arthur Somers emotional Ilfe a-top New York's sky. scrapers, "What I want to know,” bo **Is

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nid to Miss Loy between scenes, to what do you attribute your success ! When I Inst, now you, you were રી woman I wouldn't care to meet twice evil-eyed, plotting denth and making life miserable for every other char actor in the play. And now the transformation is unbelievable. cannot fathem tho phenomenal change that has taken place in your work. In your acting there is a

finesse, a charm and an inspiring something nover noticeable before. I cannot tell in faltering words the pleasure I have had in being permitted to play.j same picture with you. It can only bu told in a fan letter--the kind we re- ceive that everflows with enthusiasm, praise and beautiful words, I have never written a fan letter in my life with Mr. Baxter's permission--I shall write my first-fan letter to you." And he did! Others in the Arthur Somers Ruchn's "Penthouse" production, dil- reeted by W. S, Van Dyke, are Phillips Holmes, Mae Clarke, C. Henry Gordon. Martha Sleeper, Charles Butterworth, Nat Pendleton, George E. Stonu and Robert Emn.eti O'Connor,

the

cures

"One Man's Journey” Remarkable instances of effected by obscure healers in caseS riven up by science had a parallel in a dramatic situation of "One Man's Journey" RKO-Radio Pictures

The electric hauling machinery of the 4,000 tons and of the 400 ton slipways, and including the ateel carriage-of-the-former, were con- structed by Mesara. Cowans, Shel- don & Co. Ltd. of Carlisle, and are fine examples of modern engineer-drop ing practice.

By the side of the 4,000 tons slipway is a third and smaller slipway for the lighter class of vessel from launches up to bonis 200 tons deadweight. This unit is operated by steam winch which is available also for yard haulage and transport work and for land- ing of heavy timber, logs; etc.

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Lionel Barrymore at the King's Theatre on Sunday. One of the tense moments of the film is reached when a hospital, Dorothy Jordan lies in a

an apparently slowly dying after

ccessful operation The moat skilled. surgeons and physicians have done their best for her, and are baffled by case. Then seemingly hopeless Barrymore, in the: role of an obscure country physician, steps in. braught the girl into the world, saw her through a tragic crisis in her life, and he understands the human heart. failed, love, sympathy Where science

win. Without a and understanding drop fanedicine. ructure to a airacle of surgery, he saves her by arousing her will to live by promoting penitence upon the part of her erring husband. This is hut one of the many dramatic situations rife in what is said to be Barrymore's greatest picture. In addition to Miss Jordan, Llonel Barrymore's supporting cast includes May Robson, Joel McCrea, Frances Dre, James Bush and othern. John

directed "One Robertson Journey."

there

Man's

"Emergency Call" NEW WHARF & JETTY.

Racketeering "necident victims" who Alongside the large slipway is extort milling of dollars annually from -autumobile owners, private spacious jetty reaching out 200

citizens, property owners and insur ft. to the new boundary of the property. The jolty is 65 feature companies are revealed in all wide with flat concrete surface, their efnisus operations In "Emer- gency Call" RKO-Radio action film t and served by the yard rail trans- the Central Theatre -day with Bill port line.

At that side of the Royd, Wm. Gargan and Wynne Gibson., Jetty opposite the slipway the sea Insurance companies suffer vastly by bed is dredged out, forming a camber of basin 100 feet wide and 16 ft. deep below ordinance datum. At the end of the jetty on the camber alde is a lattice frame shcor legs of 30 tons capacity. with telescople back log, all mechanically operated. On the Jetty (which is served with electric current and with water and cam- pressed alr supplies) are also two other cranes of five and ten tons capacity.

Facing the camber are three lofty covered-in boat building shoda where wooden vessels are built and launched Into the camber, these sheds being of galvanized iron obviating the fire risks of the usual matsheds.

Shipbuilding bertha' occupy son frontage of some 550 feet, and no fawor than 21 vessels of various sizes have been simultane.. ously building on the properly,

Vessels up to 250 feet can be built at the yard.

Passengers who loft by the Em- press of Asia yesterday included Dr. and Mrs. A. C. Bryson, Mr. and Mrs. 9, J. Hicks, Mina F. Tuxford, Mr. B. T. Willisrason, Mr. P. A. Cox, Mr. L. J. Davies and Bir. A. S Loraso,

fraudulent claims. According to nu article in the New York firrald. Tribune, $14,000,000 is juid out an rally on false cinims. Doctors sonic- time werk hand in hand with "victim" ard an injurer," collect the Insurance claims, and then split three ways with their clients. "Emergency Call" presets these ambulanco chun-

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rusketeers in all their criminal

glory, Bill Boyd, as a young surgeon, and William Gargas as a driver in the hospital ambulance service, and wynne Gibson as his sweetheart-nurse.

"The Great Decision" The Great Decision" rises to ki gangsters in KO-Itadio Pictures" gripping drama which will be seen nt The Oriental Theatre to-dny and- Saturday, Burdened with $50,000 in thesand dollar bills, red-hot proceeds fn bank: robbery, the gangsters hide out near a small Western community." fearing to spend their bloodstained currency, they prey upon the small town. Action becomes fast, furious and frightfully thrilling when a young settler, a World War veteran, played by Bill Boyd, la blamed for the crimes and the grandfather of his aweetheart lends an avenging posse against him. In this, his starring role, Boyd gives an exceptionally good performance, as does Dorothy Wilson as the sweet- heart. The Great Decialon" is much brinder and more convincing than former outdoor stories, and features excellent characterizations by. Charles (Chle). Bale, Henry Armelte, Thorens,

THE HONGKONGZ

NAVAL DICTATORSHIP, MUST CEASE

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secbllar to ourselves, for in the ime that wohava 12, capital ships ansing over the age limit Ameri-

a lias only seven'and Japan alx.

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Whiteaways

If we allow this Dictatorship to persist, probably the best we can to as rogorda capital ship replace inent is to lay down one ship a year from 1937 onwards. But ven if this is done we shall have ships in our battle fleet 30 years old before they are replaced- nearly double the agreed age limit,

Perhaps the most glaring exam- plo of Naval Dictatorship is the alteration in the 1933 building programme recently forced upon the British Admiralty. This pro- gramma originally provided for the construction of four cruisera, the largest of which were to be of 7,000 tons, mounting eight G lach xuns. This is, in the opinion of the British Admiralty, a ship of quita

power sufficient size and

for cruiser work. But other nations are building 6 inch gun cruisera of 10,000 tons mounting 12 and even 16 guns. Since we cannot accept inferiority in ships when the number of ships in each class is limited to parity, larger cruisera were dictuted to us. And this name Dictatorship, by forcing us to build larger cruisers, further cuta down our insuffelent num- bers, since the total tonnage allow. ed is also limited.

The Naval Treaties come up for revision in 1935. It is time, there. fore, that a strong policy was Inid down, that it was made clear that it would be maintained, irrespec- tive of the dictates of those who profess to know more of our needs in-Imperial-defence than we do ourselves. There is only one way in which this Naval Dictatorship can be broken. That is to have lone with parity and numerical limitation. Then we shall again be able to build the smaller ships which we need, secure in that any ship for ship inferiority will be more than balanced by greater numbers. Nearly three centurica."

foreign, admiral holsted a broom at his masthead, and boast- ed that he had swept the English A similar boast from the seas. could almost be made to-day, though a pen would be a more suitable token than a broom.

Maxwell Conover. Fred Lindstrom, Alfonse Ethier, F. Lyman, Eugene Strong and other artists,

It is great entertainment-eleua and

fed with homely bum:ur, už are all pictures with Chic Sale In the cast,.

"Beauty for Sale"

With. an impressive, all-star cast, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's new feature, "Beauty for Sale," was presented last night at the Queen's as an adaptation of Faith Baldwin's sensational magn- zine novel, "Beauty". The picture, directed by

by Richard Boleslavsky, is n swift, rney, modern story of three follow different Kiria whi

paths to desired Happiness They nil-suri in the sante beauty salon where intimate boudoir secrets are revealed, within its perfumed walk. It is here many The hilarious situations develop, drama in which the triangular love nisode is featured is enacted by Madge Evans, Alice Brady and Otto Kruger. Una Merkel plays a gold- digging role and Phillips Himes is cast a youthful philanderer. May Robson achieves Another notable mather characterization, Others in Hedda Hopper, Florine McKinney, Isobel Jewell, Louise Carter, soun Carat Charles Grapewin. The preductioni abounda with lavish rettings, especially in the beauty salon, which is the last word in elegance of this kind.

and east die Sturant.

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**The Mad Game" Opening to-ny t the King's Thentre is Fex Film's latest release,

The Mad Game." The story braces what right be called America's most menacing crime, kidnapping, "The Mad Gnune" is said to give Spencer Tracy a remarkably on- ortunity to display the acting ability he so ally manifested in his role an Killer Mears in "The Last Mile" After a wide search for the girl ta play opposite Tracy, Claire Trevor, who was last seen in "The Last Trial" with George O'Brien, was selected for Others in the cast, notable the part. for its careful selection, are Ralph Morgan, Howard Lally, J, Carroll Mellugh, Naiah, John Miljan, Malt Kathleen Burke, Mary Mason. Willard Robertson, John Davidson, Paul Fix and Jerry Devine.

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JANUARY

CLEARANCE

SALE!

THE SALE that IS a SALE.

Commences On

MONDAY, January

8th.

This Particular Sale is always a popular event in Hongkong and the Bargains offered this year are more attractive than usual.

Practically the whole stock will be offered at Roduced Prices, and all Damag. ed and Excess Stock will be sold at

COST PRICE OR LESS

In connection with this Sale we have just received a cable from our London Office as follows:-

“DIRECTORS AUTHORISE YOU TO, MAKE LIBERAL REDUCTIONS ON THE WHOLE STOCK DURING THE JANUARY SALE AND TO OFFER THE PUBLIC BIGGER BARGAINS THÁN-USUAL IN ORDER TO MAKE THIS SALE A RECORD EVENT."

Acting under these instructions we have marked our Sale prices accordingly. PRICES LOWER THAN EVER

Do

Not Miss

THIS GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY

To replenish your Personal and Household Wants.

AT

ROCK BOTTOM PRICES

REMEMBER, SHOP EARLY

BEST COLOURS,

£40,000

BEST SIZES,

GO FIRST.

BEST BARGAINS.

Worth of Stock at Sale Prices.

Ltd.

Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co.,