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PARISIENNE
VONCHITA MONTENEGRO NEIL HAMILTON MAX DEARLY
A Magnificent Musical Plotute
Directed by ROBERT SIODMAK
H. G. WELLS' "THINGS TO COME"
MAJESTIC
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NATHAN ROAD
KOWLOON
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A THUNDEROUS
DRAMA !!!
REPLETE WITH
EMOTIONS,
ACTION, SUSPENSE !!!
BARTHELMESS Massacre
ANN DVORAK
TO-MORROW, SUNDAY, MONDAY
LAST OF THE
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THE MAGN
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LAUREL and HARDY in "LIVE GHOSTS" and M.G.M.'S NOVELTY: “AUDIOSCOPIKS"
CHINA FLEET CLUB THEATRE
THE HONG KONG SINGERS will give an All-Elgar Programme including
KING OLAF
SOLOISTS:—Mrs. Anderson Millar (Soprano), Mr. Edgar Warner
(Tenor) and Mr. A. V. Sanders (Baritone).
Also the "Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor" (Bach-Elgar) and unaccompanied Works.
TWO PERFORMANCES 'THURSDAY, October 15 at 9.15 p.m. SATURDAY, October 17 at 9.15 p.m. Conductor:-). ANDERSON MILLER.
NET PROCEEDS IN AID OF. THE T.B. CHILDREN AT ST. JOHN HOSPITAL, CHEUNG CHAU.
Tickets at $3, $2 and $1. Booking at ANDERSON MUSIC Co.
ENJOY GOOD MUSIC AND HELP A DESERVING CAUSE.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
CURRENCY JUGGLING EFFECTIVE
U.S. AND BRITAIN COLLABORATING
EUROPEAN POSITION
Washington, Oct. 8. Administration officials said to-day that Britain and the United States were co-operating according to plan in the tri- partite monetary accord, and that there was no threat of a split over the exchange ratio of the dollar and sterling.
They sald they were pleased at the working of the plan thus far and rapid believed was bringing a readjustment of world currencies, though a certain amount of jockey- ing could be expected before ex- chanic levels shook down to stabi lined ratios-United Press.
IL
CIANO FOR BERLIN
Rome, Oct. 8.
Is offeinlly announced that Minister for Count Ciano, the Foreign Affairs, is visiting Berlin to Germann exchange views with the Chancellor, Herr Adolf Hitler.
It is understood that the object of the visit is to reassure lerr Hitler that the devaluation of the Bra does not mean a change in the Italian polley of friendship and en-operation with Germany.--Reuter
FRENCH REVALUATION
Paris, Oct. 8. To-day's Bank of France return for the week ending October 2 vahes gold coin and ingots for the first time on the basis of 40 mill1- grammes of gold for one franc, com- pared to the 65.5 milligrammes pre- vious to devaluation.
Of the 17,000,000,000 francs paper profit thus obtained, only 7,000,000,- 000
franes
appear as un increase in gold coin and ingos, the remaining 10.1
,000,000,000 francs being taken for the establishment of an Exchange Equalisation Fund.
The proportion of gold reserve to sight liabilities has risen from 11.05 to 647 per cent.-Neuter, .
FURTHER DEVALUATION
Prague, Oct: 8.
has The Chamber of Deputies changed the Czecho-Slovakian De- valuation B, Bxing the new gold content of the crown at a minimum of 30.31 and maximum of 31.21 milli- grammes, entalling devaluation of between 18 and 19 per cent. instead of the Government's proposed 11 or 10 per cent.-
The final texl of the Devaluation Bill passed by the Chamber fixes devaluation at 10.3 per cent. minl- mm and 10.0 maximum.-Reuter,
BRITISH SEAMAN DROPS DEAD ··
APPARENTLY FROM NATURAL CAUSES
A distressing discovery was made at the China Fleet Club in the early hours of this morning, when Petty Officer A. C. Herod, of H.M.S. Cape town, was found dead in the lava- Lory on the second floor, following u collapse.
The deceased, who was about thirty years of age, was subject to 61s, and death is believed to have been due to natural causes. He was a native: of the Isle of Wight.
The funeral will probably take
place this afternoop.
A further naval death occurred last night when Ordnance Artificer L. F. Lindley, a native of Copnor, Portsmouth, passed away at the Itoyal Naval Hospital, following an
funeral takes Royal. The
place
at 5 p.m., to-day.
“CAVALCADE” BROADCAST TO-NIGHT
HONGKONG radio fisteners will
have an opportunity to-night of bearing a radio revival of Noel Coward's famous play "Cavalcade."
The play will be broadcast at 3.30 a. to-night by Daventry on Trans- mission IV,
The first broadenst of this famous play was given by Daventry in June this year.
The same artists who made it such a success will again be taking part. These include Mary O'Farrell, Mar- tin Lewis, Joyce Harbour, Ellot Makcham, and Cathleen Nesbitt.
This lumous play, which is a pan- oramic review of the period 1899- 1918, was produced by Noel Coward. at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, in 1931, where it ran for 405 per- formances.
The radio version, for which Felix, Felton and Val Gielgud ure respon- sible. necessitates the use of five studios In addition to the Concert Hall. The musical part of the pro- duction is provided by the BBC Theatre Orchestra and the Revue Chorus, conducted by Mark. H. Lubbock.
"CHEIRO" PASSES
New York, Oct. 8. The denih has occurred of the famous mystic, "Cheiro," at the age of seventy years. His real name was Count Louis Haraon.-Reuter.
FRIDAY,
FIRE ON DUTCH STEAMER
ON VOYAGE TO FAR EAST
QUENCHED
BY CREW
Nice, Orl. 3.
OCTOBER 9,
1936.
SEEKING TO MAKE CONFLICT
GERMAN ANSWER TO SOVIET CHARGES
ITALY CALLS. THEM "BLUFF"
•
Berlin, Oct. 8. Political quarters here regard The Dutch liner Marnix, with 300 Russia's note respecting the passengers from Southampton, bound alleged breaches of the Spanish for the Far East, put into Aneeleon-intervention pact as an at- to-day with fire in her hold.
The crew extinguished the blare The ship is now proceeding to Genoa to land 80 passengers for the Riviera, who were to have gone nahore at Ville Franche when the fire was discovered six hours steaming from the nearest land.
The vessel mode Ajaccio, at top speed and the passengers were never even aware of the trouble in the ship. --Reuter.
She Wanted
To See The China Seas
NOW SHE'S HAPPY
Six months ago a demure young Australian 'giri nained Shirley McLeod penned a fifty-word letter on "Why I Want, To Visit the China Seas."
This morning she reached Hory- kong on the first stage of a tour that was the prize offered for the best letter.
It took only fifty words to win the prize. But this morning, after catch- ing a glimpse of Hongkong Miss McLeod told what she really thought of the Far East-in a two-thousand word letter to her people in Australla.
tempt to provoke conflict and promote Bolshevisin in Europe,
However officials would not com- ment further, since it is considered that in a matter of such Importance Germany's attitude must be weighed carefully,-United Press.
JUST A "BLUFF"
Home, Oct. 8. Preliminary comments here, res- pecting the Russian threat of action In the Spanish crisis, label the Soviet, movements "bluff."
The Russian notes are halled as an admission that the Spunilah Gov. crament is losing the civil war, United Press.
▸
GENEVA NOT SURPRISED
Geneva, Oct. 0. Russin's threat to denounce the Non-Intervention "Paet daes not sur prise League of Nations officials, since M. Maxim Litvinoff, the Russian Foreign Commissar, has already cri- ticised the agreement in the Assem- bly-United Press.
LEAGUE SEAT FOR CHINA
VOTING ALMOST
UNANIMOUS
Geneva, Oct. A.
Chinn was elected by 51 votes out
.The election of China and Latvia, "It would be impossible to condense into fifty words all I have to tell them already embled, was to non-permanent about this beautiful place," she said. seats on the League Council for three
The Australian branch of Melro-years. Goldwyn-Mayer, in conjunction with the Australian Women's Weekly con of 52. ducted a China Seas Contest in which readers of the magazine were asked to write a fifty-word letter on "Why I Want to Visit the China Seas." This was Miss McLeod's prize-winnlag
lutter:
Three vacancies on the Hague Court of International Justice have been filled, the Assembly electing Mr. Hudson (America), M. Manley Hammarskaold (Sweden) and Dr. Cheng Tien-hsi (China). The inst- mentioned election necessitated 12
the
"My eyes ache over rows of second ballot, us although Dr. Cheng black Bgures on white paper. I was elected by the Assembly. close them. 1. see waving palms- Council first voted for the Turkish transparent trople
seas-glorious candidate.---Reuter. colours-sea flowers-sea creatures --birds of paradise-strange lanẦN --strange people.
"Aty eyes have stopped aching, I open them, to write again. But now may heart acties."
The competition was run in connec- tion with the M.G.M. Alm "Chine Seas" which, it will be recalled, was banned by the Censorship Board in Hongkong, but enjoyed a remarkably run of popularity in Australia,
Indicating the desire of Hongkong
PREMIER MUCH
BETTER RESUMING · DUTIES SHORTLY
London, Oct. B. In a message which the Prime
to foster friendly relations with Aug Minister has sent to the President all the Hongkong and Shanghai of the National Union of Conserva- live Association, thanking him for Hotels Ltd, Invited Miss McLeod to stay at the Peninsula Hotel as the assurances of confidence and support guest of the Management during hernys: "My health has greatly bene-
the from
Party Conference, he holiday in Hongkong.
The young Australian beauty will fitted by my rest, and I look forward remain in this Colony until the d-to playing my part with renewed parture of the Changle for Australia vigour when my holiday ends in a next week.
few days' time."--British Wireless.
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