CENTRAL
THEATRE
FINAL SHOWINGS 'TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m. BROUGHT BACK AGAIN TO Popular demaND THE BIG CHINESE MUSICAL HIT 1-
"BLOSSOM TIME"
with WU DIP YING and SUN LAN CHOW
RELEASED THRU UNITED PHOTOPLAY SERVICE.,
NEXT CHANGE
UNITED PHOTOPLAY SERVICE-Presents "ORPHANS OF THE STORM"
A Chinese Picture With English Titles.
TO-MORROW
Cobra!
Cornered by the deadliest enemy of man.. he met the fanged destroyer single handed and unarmed brought it back alive!
and
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
GLOUCESTER ROAD
OBSTRUCTION
| EUROPEAN MOTORIST
CAUTIONED.
The unusual excuse that ho
TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1081.
ECONOMY SIR JOHN KELLY'S
AXE IN BULGARIA
parked in car in the middle of CABINET MINISTERS'
Gloucester Rond because when ho bad parked it on the correct side,) |elgarette-ends and other
were often thrown into it, was made by E. Greyer,
things
CUT SALARIES
of Mesare. DISTURBANCES
Sander, Wisler and Co., when summoned before Mr. Hamilton, at the Contral Magistracy this niorning, for having caused obstruction with his car'in Glou-i cester Road.
na
Traffic Inspector Nicol stated
APPOINTMENT
PRINCIPAL NAVAL"
A.D.C. TO KING
London, May 21. Admiral Sir John Kelly, the brother of Admiral Sir Howard Kelly, former C.-In-C. China Station, has been appointed First and Principal Naval A.D.C. to His Majesty the King, in succession to Admiral Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt. The appointment takes effect
Kelly is commander-in-chief of the Home Fleet at present.
IN MACEDONIA from July 31. Admiral Sir John
Sofia, May 21. Renter, Except in Bulgaria's
storm-centre, Macedonia. firmly enforced in Macedonia,
to have occurred, although there
that the car was parked in the mid- the Fascist coup d'etat ap-whore disturbances are reported dle of the road. The police would pears to have been accom-is ne confirmation. not object if defendant parked the panied by complete calm
ene in Marsh Street.
Mr. Hamilton cautioned defend- ant.
Jamong the general populace.
MACEDONIAN ARRESTS.
Sofia is rapidly returning to well-known normal conditions.
Marchisio Denedatto, of the IA Eastern Mercantile Company, was vigorously. cautioned on a summons for hav-| Ing overtaken a moving vehiclo in
the controlled aren in Whitfield.
Inspector Nicol said defendant passed a taxicab and another van.
Cheung Kit, a fireman. clinrged
with stealing jewellery to the valute of $450 from the occupants of 8 Clarence Terrace, made a second
It is also reported that the Macodonia lender, Mihailoff.. has been arrested.
A number of Macedonia leadera axe who were attending a party con- have been taken into custody and gross at Varnu are reported to to have been interned at Lon
The now Fascist government
wielding the economy Cabinet Ministers have received the most drastic cuts. They are to receive the equivalent of about |£180.per unaum, instead of £1,200 yearly under the old regime nud they are required further to dlu pense with private railway car ringes and official motorcars.
Similar but lesser economies are being imposed upon all Govern-
ment departments.
Reuter,
BORDER INCIDENT
MOSLEMS SHOT BY BULGAR GUARDS Four of a
group of eight Bulgarian Moslems, who attempted Greece, were shot and killed by to cross the Bulgarian border into Bulgarian frontier guards in the district of Kushukawak. A semi-
SOFIA CURFEW LIFTED. appearance before Mr. Hamilton in the curfew to be lifted and most Sofia is quite quiet, enabling the Central Police Court-this
mor of the police and military patrols Bing. The Jewellery consisted of,a gold chain and appendages, hair to be withdrawn. ornaments, gold rings, a bruceh, three The censorship of telegrams oficial communique states that the pieces of jade and three pearla, leaving the country has also Moslems were induced by. foreign Hearing was fixed for Friday at 2.30 ceased.
propagandiets to leave clandestine- Martial law is, however, being ir.
D.m.
DAYS
LAST TWO
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.
KINGSA
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THURSDAY
QULLA'S
To day&To-morrow at 2.39, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 A Crook Film Made At Elstree. Packed With Thrilis, ButWithout Frills. Has The Slickness And Easy Movement of The American Drama of This Character, While Retaining English Characterisation And Atmosphere,
MANO
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WITH
BERNARD NEDELL
JOYCE KENNEDY. ALBERT WHELANN and DODO WAT IS WALKER SUPERETE
A--BASTIEN. INTERNATIONAL PICTURE
Sea film fight the hood. bed tèrror ...in this liv. ing camera record of the strangest trade a man „has ever worked ati
FRANK BUCK'S WILD CARGO
MAJESTIC
TO-DAY ONLY at 2.30, 5,20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
BERT WHEELER
ROBT WOOLSEY
THE BEAUTY CROP IS RIPE FOR PICKING!
The Cuckoos rise to new heights! olhoosy while the nation cheers!
HIPS, HIPS HOURM
RK ON
RADIO ¡Picture
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2.30-5.15 7.15-9.30
Peaches... in pairs... perfect girls and men... showing you how to live... and love.., in a hilarious romance of Back to Nature...on a luxury Health Farm!.
SEARCH BEAUTY
30 International "Search for Beauty "Contest Winners...and Larry Bustor" Crabbe Ida Lupina. Robert Armstrong James Gleason Roscoe Karns and Toby Wing
Poramount Picture
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"No matter what you are or what you'vo dona-our love will orase the past."
SLEEPERS EAST
with
Wynne Gibson Preston Foster Mona Barrie Harvey Stephens Directed by Kenneth MacKenna
From the novel by Frederich Nobel
Screen play by Lestar CeleĜi
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The Prize Picture
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Played
by the Biggest Cast of Stara Ever Seen
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MARIE DRESSLER John BARRYMORE WALLACE BEERY JEAN HARLOW Honol BARRYMORE LEE TRACY EDMUND LOWE ★ BILLIE BURKE ✯ Makge Kynně – des Karma Marley * Jaan Northets
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"Extremely good melodramatic entertainment, with a well told-story, quick action, and genuine thrilla.
"Stage" Critic.
NEXT CHANGE
20,000 YEARS IN SING SING
ALHAMBRA
THEATRE
To-day & To-morrow at 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20. CHINA'S GREATEST picture
"TWO SISTERS"
starring BUTTERFLY WU
A Chinese Talking-Singing Romance that ran
60 days at the STRAND Theatre-Shanghai.
TO-DAY and
TO-MORROW
At 2.30 5.20,
STAR 7.20 89.20
An Outdoor Musical Romance
"LOVE on SKIS"
with
JOAN AUSTIN JACK LESTER A British Lion Release.
TILLING THE DESERT
ITALY'S ACHIEVEMENT IN NORTH AFRICA
ly arid sands of Tripoll, hear the sea, comprise an area of about half a million acres, of which nearly one-third hirvo already
ber: brought under cultivation by the Itallan coloniats,
The latest statistics show that tho concessions under cultivation. already have more than a million General Italo Balbo, Governor of forest trees, some 20,000,000 vinos, Tripolitania, has made his first 08,000 Truit trees, chiefly peachta, report on the Italian North African 68,000 mulberries for the cultiva coinny since taking over his now tion of the silk worm, 2,200,000 duties a few months ago.
almond trees, and. nearly The report reveals that the million olive trees.
two Italian colonist, who formerly There are 2,600 model farm- proved one of the best labourers houses, more than 2,000 artifelat when, as an omigrant, he landed on wells, fourteen electric power sta foreign soll, is now showing his tions with a vast network of wire quality of enduranco in Africa and distributing the current all over un territory over which his own the colony, and some 200,000 acres national flag is flying. The former of land rec imed for en
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