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IRCONDITIONED THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY

A 2.30, 5.10, 7,15 & 9.30 p.m. GRAND DOUBLE ATTRACTION!

ON THE SC EEN

LOVE! LAUGHTER! MELODY!

GEORGE M. COHAN'1.

SONG AND DANCE MAN

A FOX pletars with

CLAIRE TREVOR - PAUL KELLY

#

/ MICHAEL WHALEN

ON THE STAGE

AT ALL PERFORMANCES

An Entiro'y New Progammo

'THE VIENNA CABARET'

with

DUO ROSSILIANO

and

THE GRUBEL TROUPE

NEW JUGGLING TRICKS - BRILLIANT DANCES -XYLOPHONE SOLOS-.

MUSICAL SPECIALTIES

NEXT CHANGE ROBERT MONTGOMERY-ROSALIND RUSSELL

M. Picture in "TROUBLE FOR TWO

QUEEN

AIR CONDITIONED THEATRE

• TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

FOR TWO DAYS ONLY.

Living Each Love Moment As Though It Were Her Last

BETTE DAVIS

Shatters every expec tation of whatshe could do when her great role came along, in

DANGEROUS

The story of the kind of a girl that men røgreț.

FRANCHOT TONE

MARGARET LINDSAY + ALISON SKIPWORTH MOHN ELDREDGE DICK FORAN

• SUNDAY •

WILLIAM POWELL & JEAN ARTHUR "THE EX. MRS. BRADFORD"

TO-DAY &

TO-MORROW

MAJESTIC

WEETHEATREWYSAM

"You silly girl, you around the block for falling for a speech like

I oughta aleg

"I love you"

SUNDAY:-

Adolph

At 2.30, 5.20,

7.20 9.20 p.m.

Sylvia SIDNEY Herbert MARSHALL

Liccent quently"

"CAPTAIN BLOOD"

#

with ERROL FLYNN

The MING YUEN STUDIO has removed to the 3rd Floor of No. 6 Queen's Road Central.

JUST OPPOSITE the Dairy Farm's Soda Fountain.

THE HONGKONG

SIAM MAY WRECK ITS TIN MINES

UNLESS IT STANDS BY CONTROL OVER-LIBERAL. TREATMENT

London, Aug. 6.

TELEGRAPH.

If the question of the renewal of tin restriction were referred to tin miners, the, Sim Government would finet

an overwhelming majority in favour of necepting the International Committee's terins sooner than face the terrible consequences that would inevitably befall the Siamese ts mining industry if international con- trol is not renewed at the end of the year.

This was the opinion expressed by Mr. E. J. Byrne, member of the Coun- ell of the Tin Producers' Association, at the annust moeting to-dny.

Mr. Byrne decinred that Siam had over-liberally treated in the been past, and was now not playing the He asked whether Siam could game. alford to be unpopular-Reiter.

SHANGHAI AREA COMMANDER

ARRIVES ON WAY

TO POST

Among the passeniters who passed through the Colony on board the P. And, liner Rajputana was Brigadier A.PD. Telfer-Smollett, D.S.0., M.C., who is on hia way to relieve Briga- lier F. S. Thackeray, D.S.O., M.C., in command of the Shanghai area.

Irigadier Thackeray

leaving

for Itome on the termination of his an- pointment. His successor, who is 52 years of age, joined the Highland Light Infantry in 1994 and was pro- mated Liputerant in 1908 and Cap- fain in 1914. In France he was Staff Captain. Brigade Major, and G.S.O. 2 at various times, and after the war Deputy Assistant Adjutant General of the Scottish Command, Inter going to the War. Office as G.S.O. 2.

was

Brigadier Teller-Smollett saw fer- zice in France, Belgium and Russia, and was often mentioned in des- patches. He is the holder of the French War Cross, the 1914 Star, Fritil War Medal. and Victory Medal in addition to his other decora tions.

VICTORRY CLAIMS UNFOUNDED

(Continued from Page 1)

Tacticians For Front

100 hectares on which work has been aspended or abandoned.

Tive loyalist aircraft machine- mned and bombed the rebel posi-. Jons in Sommosierra for twelve nours to-day, přeparatory le dit te fantry altacit, and 500 additional recruits ure on their way from Madrid to the northern front.

General Jose Castello, Minister for War. bas been ordered to take supreme command in the south, In- dicating that the developments in that direction ore nol entirely favourable to the loyalists-United Press.

Conflicting Reports

London, Aug. 6. Pres mosazes renching London from Madrid and other areas under the control of the Government forces, show a marked increase in confluence and claim considerable successen both in the south and north against the insurgents. Directly contradictory reports, however, come from sources connected with the rebel arms and the truc position remains obscure.- British Wireless,

BANK NOTE CIRCULATION

NEW HIGH RECORD

AT HOME"

London, Aug. 0. The note circulation of £454,406,307, shown in this week's Bank of Engiami return, is a new high record.

Circulation at the same time last year the height of the holiday season was $411,835,041, and, after the autumn decline, ross at Christmas to £124,506,785. Recent IncreaSCR in circulation have been in part due to foreign domand on secount of hourd- ing, and have been associated with a riso in the last threo months of about £41,000,000 in the banks' holdings of gold-British Wireless,

ENGLISH WATER

RESOURCES

London, Aug, U. Following the summer droughts of 1939 and 1034, a committee was ap- pointed to enquire into better con- servation and organisation of the. country's water resources, in the middle of the wettest summer for many years.

The committee's report has just been Been Issued. It recommends the establishment of a central Advisory Water Board to collect and marshal

available information about e country's wilter resources and re- quirements, and to advise as to any schemes for improving the water. supplica.-British Wircles.

FRIDAY, AUGUST

FEARFUL TOLL IN COLLIERY

DISASTER

21 KNOWN DEAD:

7, 1936.

ST. LOUIS DRIVING AHEAD

AGAIN:DEFEATS CHICAGO

MANY STILL MISSING | TIGERS. BLANK

ONLY RESCUED · MAN DIES

London, Aug. 7. An official statement gives the number of missing in the Wharncliffe Woodmoor Colliery, fifty- Barnsley, Yorkshire, as seven,

including twenty-one

known dead.

After feverish efforts, from early morning, rescuers have now penetra. td the timber and rock which blocked the shaft following the ex- plosion, and have found numbers of bodies..

Some of the men had obviously beru killed by the violence of the explosion, while the attitudes of others suggest

EVEREST CAN BE SCALED

Mr. Hugh Ruttledge

London, Aug. 0. Mr. Hugh Rutledge, leader of the 1930 Mount Everest Expedition, arrived in London to-day,

Interviewed. Mr. Rutledge stated that he would not lead any further expedition, but he was confident thnt Mount Everest could be sented, given favourable weather conditions.

Mr. Rutledge added thunt this year's expedition was beset by bad weather, the monsoon breaking carlier than was expected.-Reuter Special.

army had been autrecated: A number of the bodies were badly manglek

The whole of the workings has not yet been explored, but hitherto no trace of fire has been found. The case of the explosion is at present unknown.

The miner ned Brown, the only Inan rescued last night, has since died

FIRST SHOWINGS IN KOWLOON

CLEVELAND

από

Now York, Aug, 0. St. Louis, leading the National League again, went further ahead of the Chicago Cubs by beating this, their nearest rival club, three to two ho-day. Chicago's

put them within reach of the thrusting Now York Giants, in third pince, and there will be a struggle for the upper berths now between these three teams, and possibly Pittsburgh, only a few steps behind

St. Louis and Chicago each hit ten times to-day, but the Cardinals' hard- hitting Mize lifted the ball out of the park and brought in the extra and de- eiding run.

All other games were postponed on account of rain.

In the American League Chiengo bont St. Louis, nine to nix, though outhit by the Browns. Hayes gave the White Sox a home run and Bell and West homered for the Browns, who had eleven hits to the winners' nine.

Detroit's Wade blanked Cleveland, allowing seven hits but not tally. Tigers scored nine on sixteen hits, Goslin and Owen getting homers.

Other games were postponed on ne- count of rain.-Renter.

TYPHOON WARNING

The Manila Observatory, reporting at 8.20 a.m. to-day, states that there is a typhoon in about Long, 141, Lat. 00, moving W.N.W.

of the burns he sustained. He was brought out by a gallant engine-driver. -Router Bulletin Service,

ONLY SLIM HOPE

London, Aug. 6. The death roll of the serious colliery disaster in Yorkshire already nuni- bers twenty-one and only slight hope exists for thirty-six others who are missing.

the

The cause of the accident is still unknown, but it is reported that a serious explosion occurred in early hours of this morning in the Wood- workings of the Wharncliffe moer mine, near Barnsley.

has

been One injured man who brought to the surface, but is too seriously hurt to give an account of what happened, was found three quarters of a mile from where the explosion occurred and his injuries indicate its terrific force,

One of doctor's assisting Tescue parties which have been cutting their roof in way through falls of the erder to get into the affected area, on returning surface, this afternoon sal many bodies found were terribly mangie and these men must have been killed by the violence of the explosion. Attitudes of others sug gested suffocation by gas.

Captain Crookshank, Secretary for Mines, arrived during the afternoon. at the pithead, where all day a crowd of over two thousand has waited an- xiously for news from below. ficar of the parish conducted pray-

ers.

The

This evening the Prime Minister telegraphed a message of sympathy to the Famílies und friends of those who have a tragically lost lives." British Wireless.

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FINAL SHOWINGS, TO-DAY

THREE WISE GUYS AND A GIRL

Remember "Little Miss Marker"? Here's another hit from

· DAMON RUNYONI

ROBERT

with

BETTY

YOUNG FURNESS

•

RAYYAOND THUASTON BRUCE

WALDURN HALL CABOT

•

Dased on Damon Runyon's Story Directed by George B. Seitz "Produced by Harry RADI

Aberą Gallıyn Hayz nerve

who outsmarted them plenty!: The breeziest romance in months!

THREE

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JOAN BLONDELL & GLENDA FARRELL

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A famous mystery thriller of the stage Is on tho screen with a thousand

shocks and

shivers!

SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE

・with

GENE RAYMOND Margaret Callahan Eric Siere

Erin O'Brian-Moare Maron! Olemm Grant Mitzball

Ray Mayar...

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8th-AUGUST ·

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JAN HUNTER • PAUL LUKAS • SYBIL JASON

BARTON MacLANE • EDDIE- ACUFF

SUNDAY, Monday, tueSDAY ·

"ANYTHING GOES"

with BING CROSBY, ETHEL MERMAN, CHARLIE RUGGLES

A Paramount Picture.

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