1936-04-06 — Page 24

THE HONGKONG

Silver Market

KINGS Improves

LAST TWO DAYS

FROM WED.

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15, & 9.30 p.m. "Thrill to the greatest climax over flashed upon the screan...the maddest"

chase that Eddie ever took part in!

SAMUEL GOLDWYN. Presents

StrikeMePink

with

ETHEL MERMAN - SALLY EILERS PARKYAKARKUS and the QORQIOUS GOLDWYN GIRLS Released thru UNITED ARTISTS

Also Walt Disney's Silly Symphony in 1echnicolour "WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN?"

"PADDY O'DAY" with JANE WITHERS-PINKY TOMLIN

ULLA'S

SHOWING TO-DAY

།

LOVE SENT A GIFT OF ROSES... But She Thought She Wanted Orchide!

A Vina Delmar story of a girl whos -mind was mode up to marry money ..'til her heart double-crossed her!

Adolph Zukce presents

Carole LOMBARD

FOX

Picture

At 2.30, 5.15, 1.20 & 9.30.

Fred

AMACMURRAY.

"HANDS ACROSS THE TABLE

Paramount Picture

Directed by Mitchell Laisan NEXT CHANGE

GLAMOROUS DOLORES DEL

RIO

and CHARMING EVERETT MARSHALL in "I LIVE for loVE".

4 SHOWS

DAILY

6.4-8.15

7.41-8.20

MORE

TAKE ANY TEAM OR HAPPY VA LEY BUB

ORIENTAL

THEATRE

FLEMING

ROLD

ФАНЮНА!

TEL: 2847S

•2 TO-DAY • TO-MORROW.

IT'S ONLY ONCE IN A LIFETIME YOU'LL SEE A PICTURE LIKE THIS

YOU MUST SEE IT

A mighty screen spectacle

that mado motion picture history. EVERY THROBBING MOMENT OF IT IS TRUE!

BIGGEST IN 10 YEARS!

Suit the seas of adventure with Loughton, Gable and the rest of that marvelous cast of thousands that bring you your mightiest screen entertain- ment! Nothing like it in talkle history! $2,000,000 to produce! Two years

to film it!

MUTINY

on the

BOUNTY

The language of love was all they knew in this South Sea Paradicel

O MATINEES: ZOC.-30c

starring

CHARLES

LAUGHTON GABLE

with

CLARK

FRANCHOT TONE.

HERBERT MUNDIN. EDDIE QUILLAN DUDLEY DIOGES. DONALD CRISP A Frank Lloyd· Productions

A Metro Goldwyn-Mayer nenur

• EVENINGS: 20c,-30c,-50c.-70c.

Printed and Pablished for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PEROT- FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria Hongkong.

STEADY UNDERTONE PERCEPTIBLE

Bombay, April, 5. Messrs. Merwanjee and Sons, in their silver review for the week ending Friday, write:-

TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,

Wia

SMALL CHILD' KIDNAPPED

WIDOW SENT TO PRISON

1936..

Loan Cotton To Be Sold

GOVERNMENT FIXES BOTTOM PRICE

Lau Bam, alias Lau Loung, 40, widow, appeared on remand before Mr. Macfadyen at thu Kowloon Magistracy this morning, charged (Special To "Telegraph") with having 8-year-old village and the defendant was sentencbo released by the Commodity Cont

from Pak Tin girl named Tang

Washington, Apr. 5. After evidence on March

A million bales of loan cotton will Defendant the hard labour.

Corporation to producers who borrow- pleaded she was aed money on it.

that

Thus all such cotton mostly as Indian demand in London' Pig-wash CarTiOs and know a woman will flow back into regular marketi

named Chan Po. The woman asked channels. defendant to car

The producers or their carry the child to the

agents

the railway station and promised to pay amount equal to a quarter of

раз ao. Defendant agreed less than the market price, at which and also

Trading during the course in spite past week has been narrow. In of the fall in the up-country off- take of an average of 150 bars daily, a steady undertone

is perceptible, is satisfiable only at a progressively higher level.

ei to

will

A cent

Bazaar opinion has also reflected her for do companied the woman and figure middling seven-eighths stole

the improvement in sentiment and

had tended to the view that a steady off-take at even this lower level, is sufflelent to insure agalest any op preciable fall,

demand up-country

has

And about 150 bara of silver a

day.

A forecast on the surplus of silver bars after the Apeli settlement is not possible at the present juncture. Shipments of silver afloat from London to Bombay at this week-end

total £8,000.

The incoming mail steamer is bringing silver to the value £40,000 from London to Bombay-Router.

BANISHEE'S WISH GRANTED

WANTED TO GO TO GAOL

the child in a train and was brought daughter-in-law. Defendant did not back to Hongkong by Chan Po' know that the child did not belong to Chan Po.

for

The plan is announced by the C.C.C. the cotton la claimed by the producer. cotton will stand on the day before

with the approval of the Secretary

Agriculture, Mr. Henry, Detective-Sergeant Goodwin stated Wallace, and Jesse Jones, that the defendant and the girl's The cotton affected by the order mother, Kan Yay, lived at Pek Tin is that held under the twelve cent village, Shamsulpo, within a few loan.of 1934. A million balce, "or so

thereof as doors of each other. The girl was muc

sold prior to in the habit of playing in front of

1. act us the houses, and on March 23, about

8 am, the girl went out as usual to

play and at 10 a.m. complainant went to look for her to come home for breakfast but could not find her.

AN ADMISSION

Complainant went to defendant's house to see if the girl was there, but found the door of the hut was locked. She went back to the hut several times that day but on each occasion the door was still locked.

A report was made to the police, and when she returned that evening about 8

She 8 p.m. she was arrested. told the police, when questioned as to where she had been that she had been to visit some friends at Kowloon City. She was then taken to Kow loon City, but half way she said to the | detective that it was no use going to Kowloon City, and admitted that she took the girl to the railway station where she had met Chan Po by arran

Wong Chuen, aged 62 years, un- employed, when charged before Mr. W. Schofield, at the Central Magis- tracy this morning, with having re- turned from banishment before the expiration of his sentence of five years, said that he came back because

he wanted to go into gaol. Mr.

Schofield sentenced defendant to six months hard labour."

sidered himself at the

On

20, defendant was sent to Canton by the police, and there she took the Canton police and com- plainant to Tam Shul to look for Chan Po.

The woman was not found and finally defendant took the police to Ha Chung village, near Canton, into half of $10 reword by an where the girl was recovered by a village elder. The woman, Chan Po. managed to escupe.

Hourihan sald defendant West Point Police Station, stating that on a previous

hind occasion he

been

Wu Tai-mul, married woman, aged 47 years,

was also charged with having returned from banishment and was remanded for 48 hours. Defendant is under a life sentence. She stated she had returned as her mother-in-law had died. She ad- mitted a a conviction for harbouring a young girl, and also for returning from banishment on two previous occasions.

Mr. Schofield directed Sergeant W. T. Surgent to get instructions ns to whether the case should be dealt with summarily or not,

on

OPIUM ADDICT SENTENCED

PORTUGUESE WHO WAS

ONCE WEALTHY

Anthony Rangel, 43, Portuguese, born in Shanghai, appeared before Mr. S. F. Balfour at the Central Police Court this morning and pleaded guilty to the possession of 72 tacks of raw oplum.

Twolve months' hard labour was imposed by Mr. Balfour at the Con- tral Polica Court, this morning Fung Wah, 27, unemployed, whom ho admitted returning to

the Colony after being banished in December last

Revenue Officer A. W. Grimmitt year. Sub-Inspector L. Mist pro-stated that accused was arrested en Saturday morning near the Western Market with the opium concealed

his waist. He was taken toj

socuted.

POLICE RESERVE

ORDERS FOR CURRENT WEEK

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

Chinese Company Training Course: Part II-All re- cruits of the Chinese Company who have not yet passed Part II of Train- Ing Course will attend at the Chinese Company Headquarters on Tuesday, April 7th at 17.30 hours for instruc- tion.

rounorts and Exports Ofee where

the

September 1st, the amount to be released. The Co poration has specified that "no cotton will be released for less than 12.26 cents per pound under the twolve cent loan and none for less than 10.20 cents per

Joan. Where under the eleven cent the cotton has to be reconcentrated, handling charges will be added to the release Prominent borrowers will sell through price. their regular channels."

The statement adds, however, that the Corporation reserves the right to require that a reasonable amount of loan cotton be sold in the market, which would absorb it.

Ocials stated that the Government lose about ten million stands to dollars on the release of a million balos.-Better Special.

Escapes Death

ALHAMBRA

NATHAN RD, KOWLOON DRKY AT

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

BASED ON

THE FINEST STORY EVER FILMED FACT... THE FAMOUS BLACK CHAMBER OF WORLD WAR FAME !

WHEN YOU MAKE A DATE WITH BILL!

Thrills rub shoulders with laughter and romance as "Thin Man”. Powell gally solves a mystery that threatens 3,000 lives-and wins a bride all in 48 exciting hourst

WILLIAM

POWELL

Rendezvous

with. ROSALIND

RUSSELL

BINNIE

BARNES

LIONEE, ATWILL CESAR ROMERO SAMUEL 5; HINDS

And Prison ESTARE

LAMPSON WILL WRITE ON NEEDED REFORMS

San Jose, Cal. April 5. David A Lamson, free after three years' imprisonment when the state dismissed murder charges against him after four trials had falled to secure a valid conviction, Indicated to-day he plans to continue a professional writing career, begun when he was in San Quentin prison awaiting execution on

on charges of murdering. his wile, Allene.

He then wrote the book, "We Who Are About to Dle."

The supreme court reversed his death sentence and three subsequent trials ended without a verdict.

Lamson indicated he may write a book on needed prison reform.--- United Press.

COMPLETE VICTORY

IN SIGHT

(Continued from Page 1.)

he offered quite a lot of information. He was one of the very subordinate carriers. On information supplied by they did not come to anything. the accused, enquiries were made, but

The defendant is an

absolute addict," said Mr. Grimmitt "At

time he one

was Very wealthy anniversary of the founding of the but has fallen down on evil circum-junior Fascist organisation. stances. He has been seen by a doctor. A term of imprisonment will do him the world of good as he will receive proper treatment. He is an educated man and is no fool."

Asked if the drug was for his own consumption, Rangel replied that as he was out of employment he had to take to being a carrier to earn a little money.

"I took the chance," he

Indian Company Training Course: Part II-All re- cruits of the Indian Company who A fine of $2,000 or, in default, ten have not yet passed Part II of Train-months imprisonment was imposed. ing Course will attend at the Indian The oplum was confiscated. Company Headquarters on Tuesday, 7th at 17.30 hours for instruction.

Training Course: Part 1-Members who

are detailed will attend Indian Company Headquarters on Wednes- day, April 8th at 17.30 hours for Sqund

Drill. Inspection Parade. All ranks of the Indian Company will parade at Central Police Station on Wednesday,

Dressed in their grey-green unl- forms, with their gas-masks hung upon their chests, they marched along the Via del Imperio and afterwards listened while Ji Duce spoke to them from

the balcony of the Palazzo Venezia.

He told them that their organisa- tion, comprising 3,000,000 song af Italy, was fortunate because its an- niversary was coincident with days of redolent glory for the fatherland, at a moment when their big brothers were grasping victory in their healthy Asts-Reuter Special.

LEAGUE TO ACT Geneva,

Death For Two League of Nations leaders have

Embezzlers

TO END CRIME

April 15th at 17.30 hours under Sub RUSSIA TAKES STEPS Inspector R. J. Hunt for a general Inspection of equipment etc., by the Company Commander. Dress Blua Uniform, Cap with White Cover, Belt with Brace, Truncheon, "Pocke Policeman" and note-book to be carried. The Equipment Officer will make a point of being present.

D. L. KING,

D. S. P. (R)

RED INVADERS SUFFERING

SHANSI SITUATION

LESS TENSE

Peiping, April 8. Evidence that tho Red situation in Shanat is being Uquidated in contain od in despatches from Taiyuanfu, | which say that traffic on Taiyuan- Pachow railway is expected to be resumed shortly.

A Government plano has bombert is

- Moscow, April 5. Death sentences have been imposed on two ringleaders of a band found guilty of embezzling £20,000 from the Eastern Siberian Trading Offlee nt Irkutsk.

Seven others were sentenced to varying terms of imprisonment up to ten years.

The severity of the punishment is due to the efforts being made to stamp out crimes of, this nature, which have been Increasing in Russia recently:-Reuter Special.

CADOGAN WILL SEE HIROTA”.

AMBASSADOR ON WAY TO ENGLAND

Shanghai, Apr., 5.

Ambassador

concentration of Reds endeavouring Bir Alexander Cadogan, until

British

to cross the Huangho and many are recently believed to have been killed or. drown- China, loft for England by the od-Router.

Empress of Canada yesterday.

Bir Alexander hopes to confer in Tokyo with Mr. Koki Hirota, Prima Miniator, on Anglo-Japanese relations.

-Renter

CHINA'S AMBASSADOR

Tokyo, April 6. The Chinese Ambassador, Mr. Hau Shih-ying presented his credentials

"Emperor this morning, Reuter

the

rofused an Italian request for delay, and to-day decided to convoke a meet- ing of the Committee of Thirteen for next Wednesday or

to neck

a peaceful means of

(gaurday of the

opian war.:

discuss

The meeting may also Italy's failure to answer » League question as to whether her troops were using poison gas in Ethiopia, in viola- tion of the 1925 Gonova convention. United Press.

RUTHLESS ADVANCE

Asmara, Apr..5. It is authoritatively stated that Quorum is new completely occupied by the Italians, who are ruthlessly mopping up the remnants of the Negus armies in the vicinity.

Meanwhile, Italian planes are par- suing the main body of the Ethio- who are. Being in disorder

d.

It is stated that during yesterday's battle the Italian Air Force dropped aixty-four tons of explosives and fred many thousands of machine-gun rounds-Reuter.

PHILIPPINE GOLD MINING SHARES

to Messrs. Benjamin & Potts received

the following buying and selling quo tations

from their Manila Agente this! morning:-

Con. Benguet Antamaks United Paracala San Mauricios

No buyers 11.70

1.30

1.35

.06

..09

L. X. L'o.

1,00

1.05

| Masbates

-.40

1404

од

Demonstrationa

.80

.40

Big Wedges....

1030)

One caso of Small-pox was reported to the local Homith authorities Friday.

Metro Gondurgr Mayer

PICTURE

4 SHOWS DAILY At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. TO-DAY ONLY.

VICTOR HUGO'S SOUL-STABBING STORY FLAMES ANEW... WITH THE SCREEN'S GREATEST ACTORS :

CONTRIBUTING THEIR MIGHTIEST ROLES ! COUT OF ONE MASTERPIECE... ANOTHER HAS BEEN CREATED

VICTOR

HUGO'S

MISERABLES

Les M

FREDRIC

MARCH LAUGHTON

CHARLES

CEDRIC HARDWICKE DARRYL FANUCK

-production—

Jeannied by zocarN AL SCURNICE)

„View UNITED_AŠTISTS

20%

Added Attraction:

"WATER BABIES" SILLY SYMPHONY IN COLOUR..

TO-MORROW, ONE DAY ONLY !... "TRANSATLANTIC MERRY-GO-ROUND"

A 15 STAR MUSICAL-COMEDY-ROMANCE-MYSTERY ! with JACK BENNY, NANCY CARROLL, GENE RAYMOND. A United Artists Picture.

CENTRAL

QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL: CAR PARK—JERVOIS ST. Take Bus No. 4 or 5 going west, 3 min, from stop opposite Queen's

TO-DAY ONLY - LAST 4 SHOWS at 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.20. P.M.

ANOTHER GREAT DOUBLE ATTRACTION AT THE MOST POPULAR FIRST RUN 'PRICES! ON THE STAGE

GERMAN VARIETY SHOW

Famous European Artists w

Ramona in acts of light vision of 1,000 colours L. G. Hatfor: world famous Comic Cyclist. Little Mary: the girl without bones in Acrobatic dancos, 30 MINUTES OF THRILLS AND LAUGHS ! ON THE SCREEN

(First Showing in the Colony)

THEY MADE HIM CAPTAIN . .... OF A DEATH.SHIP I'

JREK Holt DANGEROUS WATERS

A MUPLESAL, PICTURE

PRICES: DRESS CIRCLE: 80c.. 50c.: STALLS: 40C. BOCA

SERVICEMEN: 40c, to DRESS CIRCLE.

TO-MORROW

"HOLLYWOOD PARTY