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THE
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TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1937.
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Love Takes a Gamble
with romance, wealth and lifo itself the stakes A boau- tiful spitfire tries to outwit a cunning killor... and finds horgolf in the tightest spot of her young life! Plenty of excitement and surprise... a howl with every thrill
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A
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ERROL FLYNN - OLIVIA đc HAVILLAND
IN
BOSUN SAVES ALL ABOARD H.K. SHIP
Climbs to Cliff Edge From Wreck By Bridge Of Oars
(By A Staff Representative)
Survivors of the wrecked Indo-China Steam Navigation Company's steamer Hopsang, which was totally wrecked off the southern tip of Formosa, have arrived in Hongkong. They owe their lives to the Chinese bosun.
Early this morning they told me story of their remarkable escape from death. The Hopsang went ashore in a blinding rainstorm in
"THE CHARCE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE" When it grounded on jagged rocks, the bows of the ship
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EDWARD G. in "BULLETS or BALLOTS"
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CHIEF JUSTICE STATES CASE
States Supreme Court, has expressed a number of objections to President F. D. Roosevelt's proposed judicial reforms.
He declares that an increase in the number of Supreme Collet justices
OPPOSES ROOSEVELT would lessen the efficiency of the
REFORM SCHEME
bod
and scouts the President's cons tention that, the numbor' must bél? creused in order to keep abreast of Washington, Mar. 23,the work of the court-Reuter Chief Justice Hughes, of the United Bulletin Service
Commended
a Japanese prohibited area, about 15 miles from Koshun. Young Student were less than 15 feet from the wall of a towering mountainous précipice. But between the ship and safety was a white maelstrom of churning water, in which no-one could possibly have lived.
Heavy seas continually broke over the doomed vessel and it seemed likely that the entire crew of 72-including eight British officers and engineers-would have to remain aboard. But as the heavy seas continued to pound the vessel a des- perate plan was resolved upon. Several oars were Inshed to- gether to provide a bridge between the ship and a ledge on the precipice,
Along thi frall spar the Chinese busun volunteered 10 attempt the perilous climb shore- wards,
A thin wire was tied around his waist and, in blinding rain. with the crests of the angry waves engulfing him, he com- menced his desperate crawl.
After a nightmare journey the man renched anfety and allowing himself only sufficient ume to regain his breath, hauled in a hawser tled to the end of his wire.
obtain
Much of its cargo, including hun- dreds of cases of kerosene, is strewn a hundred miles from where the ship lies.
The Hopsang, which was built in Glasgow in 1901; was en route from Taitao to Keelung when she went ashore. She was carrying no pas- sengers.
Two Kings Talk At Buckingham
BELGIUM'S RULER
J
SEES EDEN
London, March 23,
LADY'S ASSAILANT GETS GAOL TERM
Regretting that the law did not permit him to inflet a caning, Mr. Eric Himsworth, senior Kowloon sentenced Fung Ping, 30,
sed, to two months' hard
labour for his cowardly attack on Miss Ethel Mudd, an Army school- mistress who was struck on the head while waiting for a bus on Monday evening.
Inspector A. Wright said that Miss Mudd was waiting by the bus stop near the railway bridge in Prince Edward Road when defendant ap- prouched on the right and hit her.
head with samt
Gharn on the object, probably 11 stone. Her screams brought Edward Lopes, a student of La Salle College, out of his house, and he chased defendont down Embankment Road, catching
· him near Boundery" "Street:
Recording his appreciation Lopes courageous act in tackling man bigger than himself, His Wor- ship commended the student and declared that this was the kind of public co-operation he liked to see.
SALARIES BILL INTRODUCED
London, Mar. 23,
of
a
The hawser was secured to the mountain-side and then, one by one, the crew of the wrecked Hopsung swung hand over hand to the shore.
When they had nii reached safely it was decided to try. und some provisions and a tarpaulin as shelter against the terrific, biting rain. Two men returned to the ship along the hawser and succeeded in rigging up a temporury breeches
In the House of Commons, Mr. buoy, along which they sent ashore:
King Leopold of Belgium dined Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, pre- the requirements of those ashore.
privately with Their Majesties the sented the Ministers of the Crown Bill, Early next morning" the stirvivors King--and--Queen-at-Buckingham-which-is-designed-to-regulate the the two salaries of the Prime Minister and walked overland to Koshun, Japanese Palace to-night, where. military officers and police meeting monarchs had a long talic together members of the Cabinet holding offices £5,000 per bringing in less than them before they arrived at the during the evening.
annum. city.
It is understood that Mr. Anthony
The Bill also provides for pensions Captain D. S. Pethick and the Eden, the Foreign Secretary, had two for former Prime Ministers-Reuter.
with King Chief Officer of the Hopsang sub- lengthy conversations sequently elected to return to their Leopold previously. vessel, where they have since re- mnined.
FORMER P.J. OFFICIAL DIES. The contacts are described as cordial in character and both the
Yosemite, Mar. 23. Belgian monarch and the British Colonel Charles G. Thomus, Yosc- statesman are confident they will lead malte Park Superintendent, and for- good results-Reuter Bulletin mer Director of Philippines Prisons,
died here to-day-United Press.
Ship Total Loss According to latest reports, how-to ever, the Hopsang is a total loss. Service.
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COMMENCING^ TO-DAY
Love's a funny thing... you never know where It's going to hit youl
"ALONG CAME LOVE
A:Faramount Pichina with Irene Hervey Charles Starrett Doris Kenyon H. B. Womer: Irene Franklin • RICHARD A. ROWLAND'S PIEvction » Original IcTION Play by Austin terras (Author of "KETEATH Hearan" Directed by Bert Sylo)!
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