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THE

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OR DEATH TO THE SCIEN-

TIST WHO -CREATED HIM

CARL LASMALE-

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KARLOFF

TO-DAY

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TO-MORROW

BLIERVERIAL PICTURE

THE

THE

Bride of FRANKENSTEIN

·

COLIN CLIVE ELIA LANCHESTER

VALERIE HOBION

· UNA O'CONNOR

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"Duck, California! Here They Come!"

They wrecked us with laughter...but they'll

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Adolph Zubor prazanis

WC.FIGEDS

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IT'S A GIET

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SELECTED SHORTS

T.O FOLLOW

"FURY of the

JUNGLE"

DONALD COOK

ALAN DINEHART

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TASE ANY THEM OR MAPPY VALLEY BUS

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1935.

J

Rail Magnates Challenged

MORGAN AUCTIONS BIG HOLDINGS

(Sygela) to "Talegraph")

fly Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Mes- angre Grdinaner, 1886. Received, Sop TÔET

23. } New York, Sept. 12.

It is reliably reported that Van Swaringan Broa, have completed arrangements with their Cleveland bankers with a view to retaining control of their far-tlung rabroad domain.

I

LEAGUE MUST BE STRONG

LLOYD GEORGE'S APPEAL

REBUKE TO MUSSOLINI

London, Sept.: 12. Mr. David Lloyd George, ancak ing at Plymouth to-night, and it la quite clear that Signor Mus- solini is not open to any argu- Musara, J. P. Morgan and Co., ment or any appeal. He is not hend of the banking syndicate even open to offers of reasonable

concessions noles of economic holding $18,000,000 in Van Sweringen's, were against a controlling interest in key hold- companies, pledged 413 ing collateral, and will auction of the collateral 9000, when Van Sweringen Bros, will appear na canh bidders.

The collateral behind theso notes comprise over 51 per cent. of the Allegheny stock, which in turn controls the Chelspeake, Erie, Missouri and other railronds, as well as, indirectly, other vast Van Sweringen properties, valued at some $275,000,000.

The value of the entire propert- les involved is estimated at Rome three billion dollars-Bruter Special.

INDIAN ELECTORAL

REFORM

COMMITTEE LEAVES

ENGLAND

London, Sept. 12. Sir Laurie Hammond, Chairman of the Committee appointed at the end of July to make recommenda- tions for the delimitation of con- stituencies in the future Indian Federal and Provincia Legisin- tures, left London tu-day for India, accompanied by the Secre- tary of the Committee, Mr. J. G. Laithwait. The two other mem- bors, who are in India, are Mr. Justice Rao, and Mr. Justice Din Muhammed.

The Committee will start its work at Simla on September 28 and will thereafter tour various provinces. Sir Laurie Hammond will also pay a special visit to Burma.

Bay,

which

might meet the legitimate re- He quirements of his country.

Mr. regretted to

Lloyd George added, that he had never doubted what Signor Mussolini had meant to do.

The League, he warned, must be determined in its attitude and action in the face of this con- templated act of shameless rapine, He was confident, declared the War-time Primo Minister, that the country as a whole, without

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DONOMİONUDATTURNOVERETORNÉRAILLINKINOTE

any distinction of party, would support the Government in any decision which it might reach to implement the League of Nations Covenant, provided that that action was effective.

He praised Sir Samuel Hoare's address at Gonova an an out- apoken, lucid and straight-forward declaration. He added that the Foreign Minister had risen to the heights of a very great occasion.

The Committee is expected to submit its report.at the beginning of next year. It is understood PEGGY SHANNON that a considerable amount of

DUDLEY DIGGES | preparatory work has already-Reuter

been carried out in India, which should much facilitate its task.- British Wireless.

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"AFTER OFFICE HOURS"

POLICE RAID BROTHELS

WIDOW ADMITS

GUILT

Wa Wah, a widow, pleaded guilty before Mr. Mucfadyen at the Central Magistracy this mor ning to keeping a brothel on the second floor of 33 Tung Street.

Sub-Inspector Thorpe stated that the premises were patronised by Chinese and at the time of the rald there were three girls and eleven men present. It was a rather large-scale brothel. The floor was raided on August 21. but the defendant was not the principal tenant at the time.

Failing to appear on a charge of keeping a brothel on the first floor, of 25, Graham Street, ani- other woman, Wong Fuk, for- feited $75 ball.

The usuni order against both houses was made by the Magis- trate.

SESSIONS LIST

EIGHT CASES TO

BE HEARD

L. G. APPROVES

German Eyes On Memel

MAY ASK POWERS TO INTERVENE

to

(Special to "Telegraph”)

Nuremberg, Sopt. 12. According

well-informed circles 'hore, the main subject, of the proclamation which the Reichstag will hear on Sunday evening will most likely be the Memel question.

It is stated that Herr Hitler de himself preparing the statement, which will probably be read by General Gooring, Prouident of the Reichstag, who made

a strong speech in East Prussia Inat Sun- dny, urging the Powers to intor vene in the coming elections in Memel, on the ground that the methods employed by the Lithuan- ian Government therein consti- tute 11 violation of Memel's Statute, to which Britain, France, Italy and Japan were signatories. ---Renter Special.

SHIP ENGINEERING

EXHIBITION.

REMARKABLE DISPLAY!

AT OLYMPIA

London, Sept. 12.

There are more than 350 ex- hibitors at the Shipping Engineer- ing and Machinery Exhibition, which

opened to-day

Olympia.

WIS

nt

The exhibits vary in size from machluss weighing 25 tons down to nuts and bolts, and include a full-sized ship's boiler nud a fold- ing press which will bend a sheat metal under a pressure of 75 tons, Excavations to make room for 08: une special exhibit have one firm £500. A prominent place. in the hall is taken by a scale model of the Cunard White Star Queen Mary, 22 feet long and tons. British welghing three Wireless.

MEXICAN WOMAN

AS VAGRANT

SENT TO HOUSE OF DETENTION

A Mexican

woman, Elise Armendo, 23, unemployed, pleaded guilty before Mr. Macfadyen in the Central Police Court this mor ning to a charge of being a vagrant.

London. Sept. 12. Speaking __ to-day at Plymouth Sub-Inspector Nolloth stated Mr. Lloyd George referred to the that defendant was before the Italo-Abyssinian dispute and the Court In June, when an expulsion Foreign Secretary's speech in the order was made and she was sent League Assembly. He said: "Into Macao. She got into difficul a crisis of this kind the Govern- ties there. And yesterday the ment that represents Britain and Macao police. sent her to Hong- the enuse of right is, for the long. moment at any rate, a Natonul Government in the real sense of the term. It speaks for the nation as a whole."

It was well all nations in Eu- rope should know that, he said.

He was confident the country,

without distinction of party, would be behind the Government in its League to support the decisan Covenant.

He welcomed also Sir Samuel Hoare's reference to the problem of control of primary materials. Of the speech as a whole he said: "It was outspoken, it was lucid, it straight-forward. It was

to the heights adroit. Ile rosa of a very great occasion."-British Wireless.

LEAGUE COSTS REDUCED

LAVAL ASKS FOR ANOTHER CUT

Was

On the Inspector's application, the woman was committed to the House of Detention pending ar- rangements for her repatriation | home,

CATHOLIC CHURCH

CONSECRATED

TOOK 53 YEARS TO BUILD

London, Sept. 12. The church at the Benedictine Monastery at Downfde Abbey, near Bath, which has taken 53 years to build, and the foundation- stone of which was laid in 1874- by Cardinal Manning, was con- secrated to-day by Cardinal Seredi, Prince Primate of Hungary, Specially commissioned by the Pope.

POLICE CHANGES

Monseigneur Hensley, Arch- bishop of Westminster, and Cardinal MaCroy, Primato of Genova, Sept. 12. Ireland, also took an important M. Pierre Laval, French Pre-part in the ceremonies, which Altogether eight cases, includ-mler, bas sent a message to the lasted seven hours.-British Wire- ing one of kidnapping, one of League of Nations asking for a leas. uttering forged notes and two of ten per cont. cut in all national counterfeiting, are down for trial contributions to the League in the at this month's Criminal Sessions 1930 Budget. which will be held on Wednesday M. Avenol, Secretary-General of next. The cases are:

the League, replying Et a meeting Leung Yeo, alias Leung Kwan, of the League. Budgetary -Com- 20, and Lau Sang, alias Ah Sum, mission this afternoon, said every- to 27, charged with kidnapping and thing possible would be done harbouring a 7-year old

ensure economy, but he pointed Taang Muk-chung, on August 5. out that, compared with 1932, the Li Yin, charged with uttering a national contributions in 1935 forged currency note.

were cut by over ton per cent., and, Chiu Man, 36, charged with despite the withdrawal of Ger importing counterfeit coins and many, it would be possible to make

in with being

possession of a further slight reduction in 1936. counterfeit Hongkong 10-cent Router. pieces.

Leung Chung, 37, charged with importing 996 counterfeit Hong- kong 10-cent piecos.

boy,

The following will be tried with breach of the Deportation Ordin- ance: Wong Kwok-fel, So Fuk, Wong Sang and Lo Kwal.

The body of an unknown Chinese woman, about 25 years of age, has been found by the police finting in the harbour near the China Light and Power Company, Taiwan. No Bus- picious circumstances surround her death,

LATEST LIST OF TRANSFERS

Fatest transfers in the local Police Force are as follows:

Serveant MacPherson from Regular Duty, Central to Criminal Investigaton Department, Con- tral,

Sergeant Baldwin from C. 1. D.. Central to C. 1. D. West Point, wire Sergeant Shepherd to C. 1. D. Centml."

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