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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

KOWLOON

KINGS MATTERS

TO-DAY and TO-MORROW

AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

IT'S A RIOT WHEN THEY MEET THEIR TWIN - BROTHERS-LA

They hadn't'saen auch other in years?. Then the going (wim foal threshies of the landlubber, home-loving truset. The evele of Kilarity as myver and sweethearts settle the merry confusion in their own fashiont

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HARDY OUR RELATIONS

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parked de mante arčom be A STAN LAURAL production

Cicely Courtneidge in

Things Are Looking Up”,

TANI ANCY TRám on Happy VALLEY BOI

ORIENTALE

MORE

DAYS TO-DAY::

DISCUSSED

MANY QUESTIONS

BEFORE K.R.A.:

The monthly meeting of the Gen- eral Committee of the Kowloon Ro-. sidents' Association took place on the December 21, evening of Monday, in the Vicarage, St. Andrew's Church. Kowloon.

-Those present were: Mr. B. Wylle (President), Mr. F. Mow Fung (Vice► President), Mr. R. Baldwin (Hon. Secretary), Messrs. A. Cheung, W. C. Felshaw, Lam`-Ming-fan, and LI

for Chor-chi. Apologies

absence were received from Mrs, E. W, Cardi- ner and the Rev. J. R. Higgs.

In response to a request from Gov- crnment to nominate a representative to serve on the Committco in conpec- Hon with the arrangements for the Coronation of H. M. The King, it was agreed that Mr. F. Mow Fung should serve in that capacity.

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A letter from the Superintendent- of Police, Kowloon, enclosing sugges- tions by the Kowloon, Motor 1 Co. regarding the alteration of certain routes was read. The Bus-Service Sub-Committee reported having con- sidered the proposed alterations Thoroughly, and advised that the Association recommend their adopt- ion. It was agreed that the police should be notified to this effect

GUIDE BOOK

▪

A letter was read from the Hong- 'kong Travel Association suggesting that the K.R:A. proposed Guide Book should be issued under the auspices of that Association and that the KRA, should co-operate with the Travel Association in the produc- tion of the book. It was agreed to refer this mutter to the next meeting

TO-MORROW of the General Committee.

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Stan

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THE

Bohemian Girl

`ANTONIO MORENO - JACQUELINE WELLS;

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Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PET FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3 Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria

In view of further complaints re- garding the presence of mosquitoes In the Kowloon City area, as men- tloned in the Association's letter to Government of August 13, it was decided to write Government agoln on the matter, at the same time asking

MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1936.

NOTED GERMAN GENERAL DEAD

General Hana van Seeckt, re- constructor of Germany's 'port war Army, whose death is report- ed from Berlin.

FAMOUS GENERAL PASSES

REBUILT GERMAN ARMY AFTER WAR

ONCE ADVISER

· TO NANKING

Berlin, Dec. 27.

FIERCE

BERLIN

BLAZE

UNDERGROUND RAIL- WAY BURNS

Berlin, Dec. 27.

Arc- Excavators to-day aided Oghters, tearing up the roadway of the Potsdamerplatz to enable firemen to rench a big fire raging in a tunnel of an underground callway, at pre- tent under construction.

Baulks, sleepera and tar barrels fed the flames, and a dense, smoke prevented firemen approaching the blaze through the entrance of the tunnel.

General Herman Goering and Dr. Josef Goebbels, Minister for Air and Propaganda respectively, Joined the huge crowd which watched the fight against the fames-Reuter.

UNDER CONTROL

Berlin, Laler, It is understood the fire is practic- ally extinguished, at 1a.m.

The firemen only gained control after 17 brigades had been in opern- tion for some hours, directed by the bend of the fire fighting force speak- ing through a loud-speaker connec- tion in a specially equipped motor

car.

Many underground workshops, most of the tunnel's electric wiring and wooden panelling were destroy-- ed-British Wireless,

COMPULSORY ARBITRATION

FRENCH - SENATE

PASSES BILL

Paris, Dec. 28. The Senate, by n vote of 170 to BD, adopted the Bill providing for com- The death has occurred of pulsory arbitration of labour dis General Hans von Seeckt, the putes, with only a few modifientions

for a reply to the last paragraph of that letter, which referred to the de-reconstructor of the post-war of the text as passed by the Chamber sirability of an enquiry into the case German Army, who in 1934 | of Deputies.-Reuter, of a drowning fatality.

came to the Far East as chief

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SPOILERS

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Buck Jones in

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Berth Marion

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AS STIRRING A FIGHT FOR LOVE AS YOU WILL EVER WITNESS ON STAGE OR SCREEN. OR READ ABOUT !

army

They matot one- ly, unwanted...and they believed in Åre,

The Sanitation, Sub-Committee re- ported that. It was still considering the letter from Government on the subject of leprosy, in Kowloon and that it would draft a letter in the Germany owing to ill-health, members of the Hohenzollern family near future for the consideration of | Reuter, the General Committee,

military adviser to Marshal Wilhelm, st regulor Chiang Kai-shek's, Nanking manoeuvres, The Versallics Treaty forces but later returned to explickly forbade the enrolment of

It was agreed to donate the sum of $50 to St. Andrew's Church In appreciation of the use of the Church Hall for the Association's meetings,

Liner Freed After 60

Hours Ashore

London, Dec. 27.

The German-liner Pretoria has... left Southampton for Capetown after being aground on a mud- bank In Southampton Waters for sixty hours.

The captain states that he ex- pects to arrive at Capetown, for which port the vessel was bound, according to schedule, as he will emit the calls At Lisbon Casablanca-Reuter,

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In the German army.

HIS CAREER Known as the man who started

General von Sceckt was born in Germany along the road to military

on April 22, 1800, and recovery after the Great War, author Schleswig of several authoritative books on entering on a military career at an milltary strategy, and on the future of Germany's armed forces, General von Secckt was universally regarded as one of the outstanding soldiers of his time.

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curly age, showed such brilliance that he was posted to the General Staff in the German Army in 1807. Of his war services it is suficient to say that, starting as a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1914 and Chief of the General MODERNISED ARMIES Staff of the Third (Brandenburg)

Army, which formed part When the Versailles Treaty imposed General von Kluck's First Army at restrictions on the German post-war Mons and Villers Coleret, he rose to army, it was General von Seeckt who be Chief of the General Staff of Field adroitly made Germany's military Marshal von Mackensen and, later, forces the most efficient of their size In the world. His ex-enemies had to the Turkish Army in the field. successfully insisted that universal Under Mackensen he was responsible conscription be abolished in Germany for the plans wilch broke the Russian and that the German army be limited at Przemysl Ivangorod, Lemberg front at Gorlice and led to the fall to 100,000, including officers. General Warsaw and Brest Lilovek. For that von Secckt thereupon trained an

Не then army of 100,000 specialists, the frome he was promoted General.

proceeded with Mackensen to overrun work of a potential large military Serbin with the Bulgarian Army as establishment in years to come:

allics. Again he was called open to deal with Russia when, as Chief of the General Staff to the Archduke

(afterwards Emperor) Karl to the participation of the German Austria, he brought Brusstoff's offen-

Prines's ex-Crown

ridest son, sive to a halt,

On October 5, 1928, General von Seeckt resigned the chief command of his country's armed forces, owing

ام

German Air CHURCH CALLS

Crew Saved

By Frenchmen

Dakar, Deo. 27.

The crew of a German South Atlantic air liner were drama- tically saved by, a fast motor catter belongior ta A rival French line, it was learned here do-day when the men bad come safely to shore.

The cutter was near at hand when the big German machine landed in the sea after having lost her propellor. The transferred to the cutter, but the. plane had to be abandoned owing to the heavy sejś...---Réuter.

crew

MOBILE GUARD CALLED OUT

Villefranche-sur-Mer, Dec. 27. Mobile Guards were called from Nice to disperse Communists who had taken possession of the Town Hali here to-day after the Radical Socialist Mayor had resigned as a result of his refusal to listen to de- mands for enforcement of the Com- munists' labour relief programme- United Press.

PORTUGUESE XI' VISITS H.K.

A Portuguese Artillery football eleven is visiting Hongkong and will play a team of Royal Engineers at p.m. at Scokuhipoo to-day and the Small Units at 2.18 p.m. to-morrow,

TO NATION

Of

Archbishop Warns

Slackening Morality

London, Dec. 27.

"Just as there was no room for Christ in the inn on the first Christmas Day, so to-day there is no room for Him in the noise and bustle of the hostelry of modern life," declared the Archbishop of Canterbury broadcasting to the nation this evening.

His oratory was a solemn "recall to religion."

He commented on the slackening and scorning of the old standards of morality, visible in the loosening of the ties of marriage and of the restraint upon the impulse of

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However, he was convinced that there was an instinct of religion and sound morality in the common heart. God, was not so much denied as "crowded out.".

"God knows how needful pleasures | national life. are as a means of escaping from the strain of life or the monotony of work. See that they are wholesüme,” be urged.

In our national history the past year can never be forgotten. But its most recent and vivid memories had better now be kept in silence.

"Within five months the King will be consecrated to his high offee," the Archbishop went on, The august ceremony will not benefit or have full through its King, consecrates itself meaning unless the nation, with and to the services of God,

"I pray God it may murk nut only the beginning of a how reign, but a now loyalty as to the King, and, above new return of the nation to God, a all, to the King of Kings Reuter

to the future, and look upon all that "Let us: return from the past and as happened as a call to re-establish and re-settle the foundations of our Special,

They said she wasn't the kind of woman to look after these two kids!

VALIANT IS THE WORD FOR CARRIE“

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