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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY,

MARCH

KINGS ITALY OUSTS RACE TO

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m."

Love Takes a Gamble

with romance, wealth and lifo itself the stakes! A beau- Hiful spitfire tries to outwit a cunning killer... and finds horgolf in the tightest spot of her young life! Plenty of excitement and surprize... a howl with every thrill/

SINNER TAKE ALL

BRUCE CABOT Margaret Lindsay JOSEPH CALLEIA

TOMORROW Warner Bros.

4.Securs

BAILY

1.30-KE 7.18-0.70

Directed by Enrol Teggest

Produced by Lucien Hubbard and Samuel Marx

=

Metro-Goldyn-Mayer nerunt

ERROL FLYNN - OLIVIA do RAVILLAND IN

"THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE"!

TAKE IT TRAM OR HAPPY VALET BAR

ORIENTA

THEATRE-

PLEMINO ROAD WÁNCHES

TEL. 20173

CLAST 4 TIMES TO DAYO

1000 GOBS LAND IN PANAMA CITY A gag-filled, rapid fire riotous laugh festival.

A Faromunt Picture

with LEW AYRES MARY CARLISLE Larry Crabbo Benny Baker-Grant Withers

DAYS

There's an epidemic

of love.. In Panama!

Adatok Zonne prosenti

LADY BE CAREFUL"

ONLY TO-MORROW

& SATURDAY

2 BIG SHOWS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE

GRAND VAUDEVILLE ENTERTAINMENT MAGNIFICENT SCREEN PRODUCTION

FAMOUS 5 GAETANO GIRLS

America's greatest whirl-wind dancers will appear on the stage at each performance in sensational dances."

A THRILLING OUT DOOR SPECTACLE

An unequaled screen performance with thousands in the cast.

GEORGE

OBRIEN

DAVEL RODNE

Wak

HEATHER ANGEL

MATINEES: 20e.-30c • EVENINGS: 20c,-30c.-50c,-70c.

CENTRAL

QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL CAR PARK

JERVOIS

STREET

Talco No. 4 or 5 Bus going west, 3 min, from stop opposite Queen's Theatre

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

AT SPECIAL TIMES: AN 2.30; 5.00, 7.15 & 9.20 P.M.

GREAT DOUBLE BILL

TWO FULL LENGTH PICTURES FOR THE PRICE OF ONE !

"SAVAGE GOLD"

SAV

"16 FATHOMS DEEP

Filated and Published for the Proprietors by BENJAM at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong

SPAIN FROM H.K. MARKETS

JAPAN DISPLACES U.K. AS MOST FAVOURED NATION Italy, which lost practically all its trade to Hongkong when sanctions were applied during the Abyssinian trouble, has regained favour again as one of the major exporters of goods to this Colony.

Figures issued yesterday afternoon by the Govern- ment Statistical Office disclose that Italy exported goods to the value of $218,360 to Hongkong during the month of February.

In February last year Hongkong's total imports from Italy were only $21,636, a figure that decreased to nothing two or three months later.

was

one

Italy is now reaping the harvest of 075,852, as compared with $2,268,055 trade fonnerly gathered by Spain. for the same period last year. Hong Tarn by civil wor Spain has bot kong purchases from the United been able to attend to her over-States, however, showed a decrease market and, during Febru- from $2,005,140 in February last year scas ary,

of the very few ❘ to $1,793,108 last month. countries to have no import trade from

this Colony. In the month Hongkong's total imports from Spain were only $7,255, representing an enormous drop compared with the average figures for each month.

Japan easily displaced Britain as Hongkong's most favoured customer during February this year. Imports from Japan totalled $4,773,821, compared with $3,001,852 for the cor- responding period last year. Imports from Britain In February this year were only $2,420,203, or approximate ty 50 per cent. of importa from Japan.

Britain Good Buyer'

While we bought twice as much from Japan Da from Britain, our Homeland, on the other hand, was almost as good a customer for Hong- kong goods as was the Far Eastern nation.

In February, Britain purchased goods from Hongkong to the value of $1,803,044 (representing an in- crease of almost $700,000 over the same period last year), white Japan's purchases amounted to $2,201,014,

Excluding China, the best cus- tomer in February for Hongkong goods was the United States which, despite the shipping strike, purchased Hongkong goods to the value of $3,-

HUNTING FLYING DUCHESS

MACHINES FROM 10

STATIONS HELP · ́ FRESH GROUND PARTIES OUT

London, Mar. 24.

One of the most extensive search flights ever organised by the Royal Air Force began to-day when ma

Australian Trade

The biggest increase in export to Hongkong was made by Australia, which leapt from $450,410 in Febru- nry last year to $1,200,000 last month, an increase of almost 300 per cent.

Honkong's trade last month showed Bubstantial increase over the figures for the same month in 1930. Total imports were valued at $39,308,028, compared

$35,003,170 in February, 1930, while exports were £33,132,851, compared with $31- 753,800.

with

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Reservations

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PREVENT FLOODS

1937.

BREAK IN OUSE ·

BANK FOUND. ARMY: HELPING

IN

FENS.

London, March 24. A severe crack in the bark of the River, Duse. was discovered this morning. The work of repair was

rose.

started immediately before the ide The Roods in the Fen country were discussed in the House of Commons today, when Mr. Lloyd George sold the flooding was the result of years of neglect by the Ministry of Agricul- "The Minister of Agriculture, reply-

turc.

ing, stated that the present floods partment had given every assistance

were unprecedented and that his De-

*

when asked. He added that the men in the fen district were the best people to combat these floods, and though the Government was making the waters, he asserted that the au- much responsibility,

a grant to assist in the fight against

thorities had

as

since it was a local matter.

Conditions are at present quiet on the Fens, but Army units are arriving and Aldershot, in preparation for next at Ely from Colchester, Canterbury Sunday, which is the danger day, owing to the spring tides-Reuter

Bulletin Service,

COMING WEDDINGS

The following forthcoming_wed- dings are announced: Mr. Robert Arthur James Simpson, Civil ser- vant, residing at 2 Pau Chung Street, ground floor, and Miss Elleen Hilda Aslett, teacher, of 153 Tam Kung Road; Mr. Thomas Campbell Fair- burn, omical measurer, of 54 B.C., Shameen, and Miss Mary Constance Reeves Bonnell, secretary, residing at Helena May Institute.

EASTER EVE

DINNER DANCE

SATURDAY

ALHAMBRA

NATHAN AD KOWLOON-DƏ

TO-DAY AND to-morrow

Love's a funny thing... you never know where It's going to hit yout

Ada Zden

ALONG CAME LOVE"

・A Paramount Picines with Irene Hervey Charles Starret Doris Kenyon H. B. Wamer Irena Franklin • RICHARD A; ROWLAND'S Preactions + Crigland Beroun ... Play By Awarens (Author of "Bevosh Naavan")• Directed by Bart Lyrali

ADDED COLOUR SPECIALTY ---

His first ALL-COLOR adventure!

Adelgh Zuber Bergenij

POPEYE

THE SAILOR Mecta

SATURDAY. ·

20th Century-

Fox Picture

SINDBAD THE SAILOR

A Max Fleischer Cartoon

A Paramount Picture

Phy arrangement with King Featurri lyndlišta, tan, and Sugar

"LLOYDS OF LONDON"

with Freddie Bartholomew - Madeleine Carroll

QUEEN'S

DAILY AT 8:30-515-7·20 8,9:30 TEL 31453 TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

Those "Pixilated" Sisters Get the Drop on Eddie!

KZaku pirmas

"LET'S MAKE A MILLION"

& Palemavit Putare wph

EDWARD EVERETT HORTON

Charlotte Wynters Porter Hall „Borted by Jay Milerry

"LOVER'S PARADISE" in Technicolour

ADDED ATTRACTIONS

BETTY BOOP in "YOU'RE NOT BUILT THAT WAY”

S-A-T_U_R_D_A_Y..

THE ONE PICTURE YOU CAN NEVER FORGET I "LLOYDS of LONDON"

DAILY

AT

230.

5.20

27th

720

920

MARCH

chines from ten stations left to search THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.

for the missing Duchess of Bedford.

At day-break, the aged Duchess had been missing for forly hours.

Fresh parties of searchers also be gan work to-day. in_different.points

the sea where the over might have come down.-Router.`

Duchess

Consumption Outrunning Production

SUGAR_SITUATION NEEDS REMEDY

London, Mar, 24. While Empire sugar producers who are meeting at the Colonial Office aro · busily engaged preparing the powder and shot for the International

Sugar Conference, delegates from

Cuba,

Czecho-Slovakia, Germany, Belgium, Peru, Hungary, Yugo- Slavia and Poland have assembled here with an identical purpose. The proceedings of both Conferences are being held in private.

It is pointed out that the problem: facing the world conference has considerably changed sinco the World Economic Conference, decided on the desirability of international

regulation. The Bugar

past two ars have witnessed consumption | yeara out running production and the dis- posing of part of the huge surplus stocks.

The prospects of further expansion and demand in the wake of world- wide prosperity suggest that the world conference will meet, under the most favourable auspices. The only Immediate problem is lo pre Wat vant any further accumulation of

largo surplus stocks. Reuter.

4 SHOWS

DAILY

2.30.5 20 720-9.30

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

NATHAN

ROAD KOWLOON

TEL. 57222

MATINEES: 20«» 30«° EVENINGS: 20«.~30«:50c:70x TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW .THE STORY OF THE G-MEN'S NEW JOB! THE SCREEN'S SENSATIONAL NEW HIT!

EDW.G.ROBINSON

"Little Caesar""Blasts His

Way Back To The Dictator-

ship of Modern Gangdom BULLETS BALLOTS

with

JOAN BLONDELL BARTON MacLANE HUMPHREY BOGART FRANK MCHUGH

& feral National Pisture Direted by Wm Keighley

• COMMENCING SATURDAYA. M-G-M's DAZZLING SUCCESSOR TO “THE GREAT·· ZIEGFELD"; THE MELODY-PACKED WONDER SHOW OF ALL TIME!

BORNE DANCE

SMAR

Elianor

DOWELLY

JAMES STEWART • VIOWA BAJCE

A 20th Century Fox

Picture

STAR

: LAST TIMES TO-DAY.

With

HANKOW ROAD KOWLOON TEL

57795

Crime doesn't pay in this man's town!

Fred STONE

GRAND JURY

Owen Davis, Jr.

Louise Latimer

in

RKO-SADIO PICTURE

Katharine Hepburn Herbert Marshall

Directed by Albert S. Rogell) TOMORROW

RKO Picturo

in “A WOMAN REBELS”.

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