1936-03-02 — Page 12

KINGS

TWO DAYS

At 2.30, 5.10; 7.15, & 9.30 p.m.

DESPERATE! DARING!

She risked a ruthless vengeance to save the man she loved.

SAMUEL GOLDWYN

prosents

Barbary

MIRIAM

'with'

Coast

HOPKINS EDW. G. ROBINSON

JOEL MCCREA United Arkisto

in Montiful-

ALSO WALT DISNEY'S SILLY SYMPHONY COOKIE CARNIVAL" Technicolou

"FRECKLES”.

From WED. •

with Tom Brown-Virginia Weidler

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TO-DAY ONLY At 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30.

Gladys Swarthout,

star of opera and radio, makes a bril- liont screen debut.

ROSE

with

THE RANCHO

JOHN BOLES.

GLADYS

CHARLES BICKFORD

SWARTHOUT

'WILLIE HOWARD •HERB WILLIAMS Directed by Morion Gering

* aunt Pictu

To-morrow-Binnie Barnos in "ONE EXCITING ADVENTURE”-

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Taxe ahy TrANDR RAPPY VALLEY BUS

ORIENTAL

FLEMING

#OAD

WANGHAI

TEL. ESHITS

of

THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH MONDAY, MARCH

"FLYING PRIEST'

OF CANADA

Mecklenburg Terror

This man is called the "flying Priest Canada." He has flown mors than 60,000 miles during his work of preaching to poor Redskins and distributing food to them. Ile has also saved many human Ilves by carrying the Rick Indiane from the large forests to hospital.

Keen Rivalry In Tea. Markets

Shanghai, Jan. 25. China, famous for centuries as the home of fine tea, is facing in- creasing competition for the | world market.

The sale of tea, which has been [one of China's principal exporta since her ports were opened to foreign trade, has shown дл jalarming decline for the past several years, according to statis. ties published by the Ministry of Commerce.

Aside from the keen competition of India, Ceylon. Java, Sumatra and Japan for supremacy in the tea market of the world, China's largest customer, Soviet Rusala, is now becoming her competitor.

Not quite one pound of tea por year is consumed by cach of the Soviet Union's 147,013,600 dltizons, Until about ten years ago, China was the principal supplier of ten to Russia, but within the past decade, tea production has become an im portant part of the Soviet Union's agricultural plan and more and more tea plantations are being. established throughout that coun- try.

With the increase in Russia's tea production, China's salos have dropped proportionately and figures for ten exports in 1930 showed China taking sixth place among the various principal tea. producing countries of the world. -United Press.

London- Lisbon

2 DORE TO-DAY & TO-MORROW Airway

DAYS

A MOST STUPENDOUS SPECTACLE ! SEE THE CAIETY OF CAIRO IN HECTIC WAR DAYS.

The betrayal of spy by spy.

Arabia's desert of ́an unknown hell. Amazingly clover secret servico tricks. A jungle set aflame by savage tribes.

A PICTURE MIGHTIER THAN “BENGAL LANCERS."

"Grandest Adventuro Picture Ever Filmed!

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Paramount Pintura with (Cary Grant-Claude Rains Gertrude Michael Kathleen Burke

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TO-MORROW MAJESTIC

PORTUGAL AWAKES TO OPPORTUNITY

Lisbon, Feb, 2.

With the inauguration of the first regular air service between London and Lisbon by the Crilly Airways, Portugal looks ahead to even greater strides in the development of air services,

Hitherto Portugal has not pro- gressed vary fast in this form of transport, but 1935 was a year of awakening air consciousness.

A mass flight is planned by a group of Portuguese military avia- tors, to the colonies. A French mission, duly authorised by tho Portuguese Government, is now at the Azores, actually studying the beat way of making this archipelago a landing-stage for a future line between Lisbon and North Ameri- [ca.

This mission has made careful Investigations at Port Prin and Almoxarife Boach: an airplane is making survey-flights over different Islands and has repeatedly alighted on Furnas and the Sete Cidades Lakes, In St. Michaela Isle, on which attention appears to be. specially concentrated.

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By the Crilly regular daily uir- At 2.30, 5.20, service the present three days' Journey by fand from Lisbon to 7:20 & 9.20 p.m. London: la to be reduced. to nine hours. A service; between Lisbon and Oporto is also under considera- tion. The visit of the British Crilly bi-plane. "Dragon? to tho north of Portugal on a trial flight started this idea.

GREATEST COMEDY since CHAPLIN'S ““SHOULDER ARMS”

* Groucho - Chico-Harpo:

MARX BROS.

A Night the Opera CA KITTY CARLSE

SIR GJALLAN JONES

PICTURE:

MANHATTAN TOWER

MARY BRIAN; JAMES HALL

The north is the centre of Portu- gal's chief products and it is point- ed out that many perishable goods": could be exporbed by air, such as flowers, fruit and vegetables, which Pro especially abundant in northern Portugal. An order was already carried out this Christmas from n big-Lofidon firm för hundreds of t kilograma of 20391, lich were down to London.

1936.

OGRE OF SCHWERIN TO PAY PENALTY

Schwerin. A period of terror. for parent? 'throughout, the province of Mecklenburg and the neighbouring districts is being evoked by the trial of Adolf Seefeld, 65, before the jury here, charged with twelve. murders.

Seefeld is a vagrant with a heavy criminal record. He has fourteen previous convictions on his record, mostly for Immoral assault upon juveniles, He had spent 23 years of his life peni- tentiaries.

According to the prosecution,

Jessie Matthews Seefeld, was responsible for a series

Not Going

of tragedies spreading anxiety. throughout the region. Many small boys, mostly about five years of age, had disappeared; it is no- sumed that they had been santilt-

To Hollywooded and then murdered with an un-

JESSIE MATTHEWS is not

going to Hollywood. She was to make one picture for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, but the arrangement is cancelled.

A condition of the arrangement {for the ""loan" of Miss Matthews was that Gaumont-British reserv ed the right of approving the story and other details of the produc tion assigned to Miss Matthews in Hollywood. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have made every effort to comply with this requirement, but it has not been found possible,

Saturday Was Big Day For Women

POPPING THE QUESTION

London, Feb. 29. To-day was the day of golden opportunity for 2,600,000 women of Great Britain when Leap Year gave them the legendary pre. rogative of "popping the ques- tion."

The only difficulty seemed to be. in finding a single, eligible man

known polson. It is stated that Scpfeld's presence was always signalled in the neighbourhood when the cases occurred.

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YEARS OF CRIME

Formal charges were brought forward against Socfeld" In con- nection with twelve murders, com- mitted between 1938 and 1935, b Potsdam, Wittenberge, Ludwigs- lust, Rostock, Oranienburg, Lue- beck, Neurappin and Schwerin. Many other similar casos, spread- ing over a period of forty-two years, and bringing the total up to 40, will also be discussed at the trial in view of the strong aus-; piclon that Soufeld might be in- volved in them, too, although formal Indictment has not been passed in: theso other cases,

The trial, which lasted for two months, was mostly conducted in secrecy In view of the character of Seefeld's alleged offences.

The German press, discussing the case, described it as containing ananswerable evidence in favour of the Hitlerito regime's cogenic legislation. Scofeld's criminal instincts driving him to sexual misconduct and murder are 48- cribed to heredity. It is said that the Nazi lanw "for the clmination of hereditarily unfit offspring" now is being applied in the case of families such as that of Seefeld.

TRAGIC FAMILY

His father was an alcoholic. Ruined by drink, he died in the hospital of Potsdam in 1903. Seefeld was married but he de

to propose to, for recently-tabu-serted his wife. They had nine lated government, figures showed a marked shortage of single mon. of marriageable age.

children. Two became habitual drunkarda; one is feeble-minded; ons committed suicido; and a son, born in 1893, was sent to prison The 20,993,000 women of Eng-for assault at the age of sixteen. land, Scotland and Wales repre-

The Nazi eugenic legislation, It sent a majority of 1,636,000 over

is maintained, tends to eliminate men and it was estimated that from society families such as this another million could be added to one, producing unadaptable, anti- this figure because of a prevail-social members in each generation. ing male reluctance to enter into matrimony until such incidentals as employment and wages have further improved.

Nevertheless, authorities were convinced that this year would be the "best leap year in Britain's history" from tho standpoint of marriages.

In 1982, when leap year last rolled around, there were 307,000 marriages. Last year there were 318,191, or about 16 for every 1,000 persons of population, and the added Incentive of Leap Year should boost the number still higher in 1936,

Up in Scotland, where legend has the founding of Leap Year, wary young Scotsmen were con- fronted with the question. of marrying a lossie who makes so bold us to propose, or pay a £1 fine for refusing her.

They found some solace, how.. aver, in recent statements of historians to the effect that a sup posed: statute signed by Queen Margaret of Scotland. In 1228 is nothing but A good-humoured fraud.

It had been generally thought that the statute was still in effect.

The historians said that "her maist blissit Megesto Margaret” mentioned in the 1228 statute war. NOT on the throne of Scotland in that year, for the country was ruled by Alexander IX from-1214° to 1249.

Nevertheless there is an ahclent barony in England to day enjoying a title brought into the family by a Shropshire girl of 22 who proposed to the first baronet on Leap Year day, 'In- voked the aid of the law, was uphold and subsequently mar rfed the son of the man to whom she proposed.

United Pross.

Jameson Raid Officer Dead

Another link with Cecil Rhodes | has been broken by the death In a London nursing home of Lieut.-| Colonel Sir Raleigh Grey, of Lor- bottle Hall, Northumberland.

He was 76.

A member of the band of pioneers who created the original Rhodesia, Sir Raleigh Grey knew

and worked with Ceell Rhodes and gave the best years of his life to Rhodesin.

He entered the army in 1881. Within four years he was a cap- tain; 1881 sat him serving in the Zulu War and five years later he was lieutenant-colonel command- ing the Bechuanaland Border Police.

„He took part in the famous Jameson expedition. During this service in the Sixth Dragoons, in tho

year of the South African War, he became a brevet: major, was mentioned twice in despat- ches, and awarded both the Le left the army in 1904. Queen's and the King's Medal.

British capital and—for senti- mental reasons-to-morrow morn: Ing's newspapera probably will an- nounco an unusually large mumber of engagements.

First Birthdays To-day, Incidentally, was the first birthday that several) eminent Britons have celebrated In four years." Among thèm is the Marquis of Hamliton, helr to the Duke of Abercorn. He was born on Leap Year day In 1904 and from the number of his birthdays—is only eight years old. Another is Sir Ernest Horlick, malted milk magnate, who la celebrating his 14th' Madee birthday at the age of 56–– ellos:cure?

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To-night in London, at the gayest hotels and night clubs, the women will order the cocktails, the dinner and wine, ask the mes to dance, pay the bills and tip the wafters. T

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Fred Kesting. Batty Grable Evelyn Brant Erik Rhodes *Mazia in Aly Foarf" by Derecho Plaide And Joer McHugh” Directed by George Stevené

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In a Fragrant Romance to Schubert's Enchanting Melodies ! ! ! "BLOSSOM TIME"

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