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30

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OF

JOY and LAUCHTER

ON THE SCREEN

FIRST SHOWING IN THE COLONY

An Adventure Melodrama-A Delightful Comedy-Thrilling and Romantic!

VICTOR MLAGLEN

in

the

who The star

was Iwarded

GOLD STATUETTE of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts, and Sciences for the best Sperformance for 1935.

"LAUGHING AT LIFE,

WITH

CONCHITA MONTENEGRO ji

WILLIAM BOYD

LOIS WILSON

HENRY O. WALTHALL

REGIS TOOMEY:

RUTH HALL

IVAN LEBEDEFF

NOAH DEEHY

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THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1936.

KILLED BY BACILLUS HE

WORLD'S 22,000,000 HELPED TO DISCOVER

WORKLESS

Nearly 22,000,000 people, more than 10 per cent. of the world's poptation, are out of work in the 21 leading indus trial countries, according to figures issued by the Inter- national Labour Once pt Geneva.

This total does not includo 2,500,000 in German Labour. Camps.

The figure represents a drop in unemployment of 4 per cent, over the corresponding period of last year, and is largely accounted for by n decline of 432,000 in the United States and 265,000 in

· Great Britain.

Unemployment Increased in Denmark, Switzerland, Rumania and the Irish Free State:

U.S. ARMS AT RECORD RATE

Washington, May 10. The 19th Anniversary of America's entrance into the "war to end wars" found the nation arming at a rate never before ap- proached in peace-time history..

are

While other nations, prompted by post-war politicat bitterness sending armed men to A dozen potential battlefields, an unprecedent- ed movement for American neutrality in the "next war" is growing here.

It was on April 6, 1917 that Con- gress, moved by President Wilson'R decision that America had reached the limit of its patience in dealing with German submarine warfare, declared that a state of war existed. with the Imperial German govern- ment. It was the end of a period of diplomatle note-writing by which America for 30 months endeavoured to keep neutral.

The 10 months of war that follow- ed cost Amerlea more than $20,000,- 000,000 the lives of 50,510 soldiers, 2,457 marines and 871 sailors. Besides nearly 200,000 men were wounded.

The United) States entered the world war as a second rate power and emerged the strongest nation on earth

It was able to throw into the con-- flict immediately a standing army of only 75,000 men and a navy which had progressed but little since Spanish American wor days.

137,947 highly trained men in setive To-tlay the U. S. Army numbers

service. Behind them stand_208,131

reserves. Thus there is a ready fight

Ing force of 430,078 men.

BIG NAVY

On the seas the United States has more fighting ships than any navy in the world, although a large pro- portion of them have passed their oge of maximum usefulness. New strength is rapidly being injected into the navy, however, by a current building programme of 86 modern vessels.

WIDOW GIVES

DOCTOR'S

BODY FOR STUDY

New York May 1.

DR. Harlow Brooks has died in

New York from gas gangrene a victim of the bacillus which he helped the late Dr. William Welch to discover.

He had dedicated his life to medical' science, and to-day his widow decided that his death also should be of service to humanity.

Mrs. Brooks first met her husband when she worked as an assistant in hla laboratory Sho han consented to hand over his body to his colleagues. for further research into the diseas that caused his death.

would have wished 1," she "I shall be happy if this post-

sheds any more light on this

disease"

Gas gangrene may occur when wounds aro infected with soll from highly-cultivated fields. One form of it is caused by the Bacillus Welchii (so named after its joint-discoverer, Dr. Welch).

Bacilli of this kind grow with great in a wound and the gas rapidity spreads along, the spaces in the muscles and connective tissue. Speedy amputation is ofton necessary, but anti-toxins have been found to be of service.

Physicians who attended Dr. Brooks in his last liness explained to-lay that the bacillus is present in healthy, persons, and it may become virulent when A person becomes "run down." For a long time Dr. Brooks had over- worked, and he first became ill with influenza and an affection of the liver,

Dr. Brooks

born on Min- nesota Indian reservation, and always Look Д great Interest in the culture of the Indians, studying them in his travels in British Columbia and niso in South America.

TYRT

"Indian medicine men," he Anit?, "were Intelligent and did a lot of good."

He was an opponent of prohibition and declared: "Alcohol reduces emotional tension, prolongs life and increnses happiness."

Equally strongly ho opposed slint- ming.

Dr. Brooks was a young 'pathologist at Belle Vue. the world's largest hospital, when the Bacillus Welchil

was discovered.

He served in the Spanish-American War and the European War, and he will be given a military funeral,

British

Academy

In Rome Closed

After 114 Years

Rome, May 1. Financial difficulties which could not be overcome and the disturbing change in Italo- Admiral William II. Standley, chief British relations have led to n of naval operations, recently propused a new programme of two battleships complete suspension of the acti- and 12 light cruisers. With Congress vities of the British Academy.

“building mood,” the navy hoped_of_Arts_in_Rome._____ that the new construction would be withorized.

in a

Д

This country at present is spending more money on its army and navy than ever before in time of peace. The current army appropriation bill has reached the record agures of $011,000,000, while the navy is asking Congress for $540,000,000, more than it ever received when the guns were not thundering at sea.

Along with this

recrudescence of, milltary might, however, is running a strong tide of determination, both in the administration and in the public mind, to keep the United States out of Europe's and Asia's fights.

Congress

passed recently neutrality bill which would prevent Anterican

bankers from Ioaning money to nations at war. It also pro- hibits the sale of war materials to

It would combatants.

withdraw government support, in some cases, from ship

carrying goods in deflance to this ruling.

This partial breakdown In America's doctrine of "freedom of the seas" should, many observers belleve, be an important safeguard against war.

At least two of this country's wars--that of 1812 and the world war-resulted directly from the United States' determination that its ships should all the sens at will.

Thus, while the United States is arming on land and sea, the political trend is toward peace. United Press.

SALESMAN 'SAM·

The premises of the institution, situated in the heart of the artists' quarter of the Italian capital, the celebrated Vin Margutta, have been evacuated. All the equipment of the Iamous school, furniture, studio dispersed in storage. gear, casts and archives have been.

Thus this historie and representa tive centre of art which has been identified with the greatust indi- tlons of British art has been allowed to close down after 114 years of in-

activity interrupted

FUND CIVEN IN 1797

The academy traced' its origin to the second half of the eighteenth century when a group of young British artists bänded themselves together as school of art. The founder of the academy may be sald

William to be Sir

Hamilton,

of

British Ambassador at Naples, who gave a donation of 100 gulness in 1707 toward its first development.

In its early years the names

Lawrence and Raeburn, Romney

the enterprise, were assoclated with In 1022 King George IV of England gave his sanction to the foundation scheme of the institution and proved its lille of "British Academy of Arts in Rome." Some years later Queen Victoria sent £300 is a mark of the interest which Her Majesty took in the welfare of the Institu tion."

op-

GUESS. WHERE?:

Not Holland, but New York! A Dutch flower seller in the street in tho Rockefeller City, New York during a recent festival.

BEACONS

ON EMPIRE FLYING ROUTES

In connection with the lighting of the Empire air routes for regu-- lar night flying, some remarkable new beacons, of an automatic 'type, are now being installed at various points.

These beacons, which are of the "Aga" type, not only serye na or- dinary aerial lighthouses but, by n special arrangement of the ashes which

vary emitand which

in character according to the point from which they are observed-they can be made to indicate to a pilot whe ther or not he is flying on his right course.

Electric beacons of this naturé are now being installed between Karachi and Calcutta to the order of the Government of India. With a lamp of 1,000 walis capacity, the light in- tensity developed through each panel of the lens reaches 1,800,000 standard enndles.

The operation of these beacons is completely automatic, the lighting-up nu extinguishing being controlled by time-clncke; while the supply of elec- tricity is obtained from an automatic The beacon is even

•platit.

of changing its own lamps, should any one of them that is in Frvice fall suddenly, Beacons of this automatic type function, in fact, without any attention at all save for the fact that once a month mechanics visit them just to replenish the tanks and carry out any small piece of maintenance work that may be ru quired.

Shah Ends Customi

of Self-Wounding

Istanbul, May 1,

ONE of the most ancient cus-

toms of the Persians has been ended by the Shah by the issue of an edict.

The Iranian Consul-general in Istanbul has received orders from Teheran to prohibit all Persians from indulging in the practice of macera- tenth tion on the occasion of the Muslim month of Muharrem, now shortly due.

for

Hitherto it has been the custom at least a million followers of the prophet to mourn during this month the assassination of the prophet's re- latives, Hassan and Hussein, who were put to death in the fighting which ensued for the

mantle of Mohammed.

During the principal day of tho Muharrem, the streets of Teheran especially have been thronged by continuous processions of dirge- chanting men, the majority of whom red fluid in the were covered with BUTIFU semblance of blood. The more fana- tical-many

thousands of them-- would lash themselves with whips and gash themselves with swords, in Imitation of the marlyrdom of Hassan and Hussein.

This self-mutilation is now to ecase, In last year's processions through the Persian capital, thero wero thousands of cases of mutilation.

Oh, Hum!

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Mnd artistic effort

9 One person, at least, who knows

who is sound at heart

10 There's a capital side to this war 11 This may come at the end of a

sentenco

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least provocation!

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this settlement

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nourishing

5 The oldest pursuit in' the world

Said, perhaps dramatically 7 Empty-headkal

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that a Soviet aeroplane landed in Manchurian territory eight miles southward of Manchull. The crow surveyed the country and took a number of pictures,United Preat.. Onelal Report

The Kwanthangchun, May 14.

Army has issued a Isinking, May 14. communiquo stating that twenty Twenty Soviet hornemen crossed Soviet cavalrymen crossed tho the castern border on Wednesday in eastern border of Manchukuo in the the Hungchun area. When Man- Goshiko District yesterday afternoon. churian troops fired on them the They were repulsed by. a joint. Russians returned to Hinking. for Japanese and Manchukuo forge, but.. reinforcements,

returned reinforced. The skirmish- Kwantung Army officials revealing is still progressing-Reuter.

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STORY TA MAKE HIM

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AN I'M JEST HOPIN' HE'LL YAWN!