1934-05-21 — Page 12

CENTRAL

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SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m. DROUGHT BACK AGAIN TO POPULAR DEMAND

THE BIG, CHINESE MUSICAL HIT!

"BLOSSOM TIME"

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UNITED PHOTOPLAY SERVICE—Prosonts "ORPHANS OF THE STORM"

A Chinoso Picture With English Titles,

COMING

Cobra!

Cornered by the deadliest enemy of man...he met the fanged destroyer single handed and unarmed... and brought it back alive!

THE

HONGKONG

Y. M. C. A. PALMS STOLEN

POTS CHANGED BY

RECEIVER

MONDAY, MAY 21, 1934.

TELEGRAPH.

CHICAGO FIRE

the Central

DISASTER

(Continued from Pago 1.)

thousand persons have been ren- dered homeless.

and eattle

STREET COOLIES'

FIGHT

CHOPPER USED · IN- QUARREL

LI. Hon pleaded guilty before

A fight between two street Mr. Macfadyen. In

The blaze devoured the stock-coolics, in which a wood chopper Magistracy this morning, to steal-yard buildings, pens ing two pots of palma from out-leaving a smoking scene of desola.was used on one man's head, had side the entrance of the Chinese tien resembling a Flanders battle-sequel in the Central Police Court this morning, when At Y.M.C.A. in Bridges Street. Fung field.

Sung. 26, кая charged with Ili, a stall-holder in Cleverloy Street, was charged with receiv

The fire is believed to have been assaulting Au Wal, who is at pre- ing the plants.

started by a cigarette carelessly sent in the Government Civil

Hospital, thrown into a hayburn.

Det-Sergi. McRobble said both SEEN 100 MILES AWAY.

men were known to each other. clansmen. They had a fight beits The outbreak gutted two fire-in Pottinger Street yesterday engines, three stockyards, two afternoon, over a debt, and the halls, two banks, together with defendant struck the complainant hotel, a brewery, a railway officejover the head with a chopper. and the Lelophone exchange. The doctor was unable to say whe

was fractured, ther the skull and an X-ray examination is bo- ing carried out.

Defendant was remanded for 48 hours.

Det-Sergt. Fowllo stated that the second defendant changed the palms from their original cement pota to earthenware pots within an hour of the theft on Friday after

noon.

A fine of $30-or three weeks' hard labour was imposed on each defendant.

POLICE RESERVE ORDERS FOR CURRENT

WEEK

Orders by the Hon. Mr. T. H. King,). Inspector General of Police, state:

Chinese Company. Training Course: l'art II-All re- cruite of the Chinese Company will attend at the Chinese Company Ifend quarters on Tuesday, May 22nd, at 17.30 houra for instruction.

The flames were so high that an airman a hundred miles away in Indland saw them.

The authorities are now con- fronted with the problem of main-

taining the homeless and hungry victims of the disaster.

MILITIA READY. Thousands of police reserves; have been called out and the Governor of Illinois is holding the militia In readiness in case of trouble.

WATER LEVELS

FOR WEST, NORTH AND

EAST RIVERS

The River Conservancy Com- mission for Kwangtung Province notifies that the height of water The damage is at present esti-In English feet in the West, North Inspection Parade. All ranks of mated at bolween $10,000,000 and and East Rivers is as follows: the Indian Company will parade, at | $25,000,000. Central Police Station on Wednesday,

Indian Company.

May 23rd. at 17.30 hours under Sub

May 19. May 20,

Later. Went River at

Shiuhing Six blocks of stores and seventy-

cottages

River North workmen's

Tsingyueu North River

4.4

4,0

were

0.8

7.6

Samshut East River Sheklung

it

4.5. 3.0

Inspector R. J. Hust for a general Inspection of equipment etc., by the five Company Commander. DressWhite among the premises engulfed by Uniform, Cap with White Cover, Belt the flames. with Brace Armlet with Badge, "Pocket Pollernian" and tote-book to be carried.

Flying Squad.

1,500 TREATED.

Fifteen hundred persons have Instructional Patrol. The next in-been treated for injuries, includ-. structional patrol for members of the ing four hundred firemen suffering Hongkong Section will take place on from bad burns, Friday, May 25th. Members will fall in at Central Police Station at 17.30 hours sharp. All members wHl attend Droas-White Uniform and Cap with White Cover,

C. CHAMPKIN, Acting, D. S. P. (R)

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2,30,

5.10, 7.15 &

9.30 p.m.

A charge of kidnapplage brought against Chan Fo-tai was withdrawn by the police when the defendant appear.

The equipment of five fire cota-ed on remand before Mr. Macfadyen in the Contrai Magistracy this morn Fanlos perished in the flames.

ing. It was atates that the kidnapped Sporadic outbreaks continue and boy, son of Leung Yau, a boatman, sixty-eight dire engines are still who was thought to be in Kongmoon, coping with the flames.-Renter. could not be traced,

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