1937-04-06 — Page 24

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THE MIGHTEST MOTION PICTURE OF ALL TIME IS HERE!

A love that moves. mountälan bog

RONALD COLMAND

STAHBRYZON

JAME WYATT JOHN HOWARD MARCO THOMAS MITCHELL. EDWARD EVERETT HORTON ISABEL JEWELL

M. 8. WARNER – ŠAM JAFFE

A COLUMBIA PICTURE

Owing to the length of this programme, patrons are requested to note the alteration of times,

QUEENS

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THE THRILL IN A MILLIONT

...and if you live to be a million you'll never have another like it!

Stars! Songs! Spectacle Laughter! Romance! Novelty! Glamor! The wondor show of 19371

ne in a Million

TO - MORROW

FOR 1 DAY ONLY

introducing to the screen.

the lovely queen of the silvery skates

with

SONJA HENIE ADOLPHE MENJOU JEAN HERSHOLT

NED SPARKS DON AMECHE

RITZ BROTHERS ARLINE JUDGE

"UNDER TWO FLAGS"

cd

THE HONGKONG

Working Folk Will Attend Coronation

His Majesty Requests Presence At Abbey Representatives To Be Selected

London, April 5, His Majesty the King has express- the wish that worlding people should be represented at tlic Corona - tion Service in Westminster Abbey, The King's wishes have been conveyed to the industrial Welfare Society, which will select a man and woman, box and girl from the factories of the country to attend the ceremony.

The King and Queen are at present

TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, APRIL (6,4% 1937.

CABLE AND Rebel Plot

WIRELESS COMPANY

Big Reconstruction Scheme Proposed

Now Funded Income Stock' Creation

London, Apr. 2.

In Madrid

Disclosed

"Substantial Group" Under Arrest

Stores Of Arms Discovered

Madrid, Apr. 5.

The Court of Directors of Cable and Wireless (Holding), Ltd., yesterday Follee here have announced the, unanimously approved, for submis-discovery of a plot to initiate up- |ston to stockholders, a scheme of reconstruction, the effect of which may be summarised us follows:

That the one-and-three

quar- ters years' arrears of dividend on the 51% per cent. Cum. Preference Stock to the 31st December, 1030, which will remain after payment out of the profils for 1930 of one year's dividend

Cum:

in residence at the Royal Lodile,in cash, be cancelled in consideration of the issue to the preference stock- Windsor Park, and yesterday, Decoin-holders of four per cent. panied by the Royal Princesses, they Funded Income Stock, to be created walked to the clumpel to attend divine by the Company to n nominal amount cqital to the net amount of the arrears after deducting income inx at 45. Od. In the pound,

service.

The Court will move to Windsor Castle some time this week, but the date has not been fixed.

a

Meanwhile, the Queen. Molher paid visit to Westminster Abbey ut noon to-day to inspect the Corona- tion arrangements. She was accom- panied by the, Earl Marshal of England and was shown over the Abbey by the Dean of Westminster,

Reuter Bulletin Service..

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Youth Extorts Money Schoolboy Scared By Threats

CAPITAL REDUCED

risings throughout the city, timed to coincide with a concerted rebel-drive on the capital.

It is reported that “a substantial group of rebels" has been arrested at their alleged headquarters in the market district..

The Insurgents, under the tender-

made preparations to commence of Senor Manual Ruiz Gonzalez, revelt simultaneously with the: insurgent attack from outside, it is stated.

It is charged the plotters stored arms and munitions in various build- ings in the market district and planned to launch a terrorist move- "(2) That the capital of the Comment to aid their allies to seize the

city, Reuter. pany be reduced by writing down the issued amount of the "A and "B" Ordinary Stocks to a total of £6,983,002 and wmalgamating those stocks into one class of Ordinary Stock to be held as follows: (a) Euch holder of "A" Ordinary

hold £30

Stock

NON-INTERVENTION

London, Apr. 6.

In

Committon

It is understood the Non-Interven- tion board is making satisfactory pro- Kress with the work of completing machinery for the

of the International

control nominal scheme

with the

ob- servers is largely completed and many are on their way to take up their duties, while several are already on the spot-British Wireless.

Ordinary Stock in the reorganised Spanish Non-orcement. capital in respect of each L100 The allocation વ international

nominal of "A" Ordinary Stock now held; (b) each older of Ordinary

tock to hold £7. 10, 0 Stock nominal of

Ordinary Stock in reorganised

capital in respect of each £100 nominal of "B" Ordinary Stock

hele. The four now ccnt. Cum. Furded Income Slock will, ax regards both capital and Interest, be payable only out profits (except

winding-up)

a

Der

and will rank for interest at the rate of four per cent, per annum, and re-

Li Hung, an unemployed young man aged 17, was sent to prison for payment of capital on a winding-up five weeks by Mr. E. H, Williams at jin

priority to the Preference and will be re- the Central Magiisracy this morning Ordinary Stocks, und when he pleaded guilty, to demand-deemable by a cumulative Sinking

Fund of ing money with menaces from a

one per cent. (payable o schoolboy on April 3,

(of profits only) in priority to the Detective-Sergeant Allan sald Yau payment of any divider.ds on the

Battery Path Motoring

Local Resident Smashes

Lamp-Post

J. H. Potts, of Messrs. Benjamin and Potts, was fined $25 by Mr. K.

Kan-fung, the complainant, was play. Company's share capion of this Keen at the Central Magistrney this

Un

Except for the

Ing football with some friends on a vacant plece of ground off Gan Road Funded Income Stock and its issue to on Saturday when defendant came the Preference stockholders in satis up with two other men and tried to faction of one and threequarters take away the ball. He further cara' arrears of dividend, the rights aceused complainari of having attached to the Preference slock are

demanded com- assaulted him and

not to be altered in any way.

MEETINGS nepention Complainant refused andFull particulars of

LATER of the the men crowded round him

proposals threatened to strike him. The buy

bay will be

to stockholders as forwarded was frightened and gave him live soon as possible, and it is hoped to cents. Defendast demanded more, hold the necessary separate meetings and complainant borrowed another of the holders of the three classes of five cents from one of his friends stock, and the extraordinary general mecting of the Company, on Monday, the 24in

1037, the usual date for the general meeting of

and gave it to him.

cents

Before leaving, defendant instruct- ed the boy to be at the same spot at a certain time, and to bring 50 with him, threatening violence other i wise. Complainant reported to the police, a Chinese delective kept the appointment with him and when the defendant came he was arrested.

Italy Raises Status Of Dublin Consul

Dublin, April 5.

The

Company

This 15 the second step towards tellating capital, as in 1935 approx- Imately one-third of Preference Stock was repald.

in

The scheme has been well received and favourably commenter on Londen and the provinces.---Our Qwi Correspondent,

morning for driving up Battery Path, which is n rond closed to traille, on March 23.

Trafic-Inspector Saunders asked for a serious view to be tüken of the offence as it was well-known that no motor traffle was allowed on that zond, and there is a sign at the bot tom tom saying so. Defendant smashed a lamp-pest about half-way up. The Truftic Department had written him on March 10 asking that he drive with more care and caution 25 there had been recent complaints from private individuals regarding his driving. Ile had clear record. otherwise.

П

For disobeying a trafic signal at the Star Ferry whart at 9 a.m. on March 19, W. Stoker, of the Hong- kong Electric Co., Ltd., was fined $5 by Mr. K. Keen at the Countral Magistracy this morning.

Traile-Sergeant Bethell sald he saw defendant driving his car across the road as the ferry was emplying.

SEEKS TO ENLIST 300,000 WORKLESS Wife's Health

The

Keeps Wu In Shanghai

Washington, April 5. The creation of B permanent Civilian Conservation Corps of 300,000 It was officially announced to-day members has been recommended in that the Italian Consulate in Dublin a message to Congress by President had been raised to Legation status, Roosevelt. and Signor Lodife, the new Consul-

functions of the existing Corps, General, has been appointed Minister.under the present law, expire on June The Free State is to appoint a 30, and in making the new proposal Minister to Rome, it is stated. President Roosevelt states that they Mr. Wu Teh-chen, former Mayor of still need to provide useful employ- Greater Shanghai, is not sallling en ment for a large number of youths, route to Canton, to notwithstanding

Civil Governorship of Kwangtung, the great strides made towards national recovery by the Empress of Japan to-day, as

originally arranged.

Reuter,

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MUST BORROW AGAIN

Washington, Apr. 5. Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury, sold to-day that new borrowing would be necessary before the end of June, but he did not ex- plain, as it is generally believed, that

with RONALD COLMAN. -. CLAUDETTE COLBERT] the shortage is due to the failure of

CENTRAL

QUEEN'S

ROAD-CENTRAL CAR PARK

Reuter,

COAL MINE CONDITIONS

London, Apr. 5. An agreement which will govern the conditions of employment in the South Wales coalfield as from to-day tax receipts to reach expectations. until the end of March, 1942, was Details await publication of the signed this afternoon by owners' and Budget estimates in the week of miners' representatives. British April 14-United Press.

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THURSDAY

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There's an epidemic of love

In Panama!

· Adelph Zukor prpiente g

LADY BE CAREFUL"

WILLIAM POWELL - CAROLE LOMBARD

“MY MAN GODFREY”

Shanghal, Apr. 6. Owing to the illness of his wife,

assume the

Mr. Wu is now expected to depart aboard the B.3. President Coolidge on April 9-Reuter.

NO ASSISTANCE

NEEDED

BETTER WEATHER FOR AMBASSADOR

H.M.S. Danac has reached Foochow and has wirelessed that the weather has so improved that the British Am- bassador to China, H.E. Sir Hughe M. Knatchbull-Hugesseri, has decided to remain on H.M.S. Falmouth for the rest of his journey to Shanghol.

The Danae will, therefore, make calls at ports before proceeding to Shanghai..

TEN CASES OF

·DIPHTHERIA

REVEALED IN LAST WEEK'S REPORT Last week's return. of notifiable diseases shows ten cases of diphtheriu (alx deaths), eight of dysentery (six deaths), six of small-pox (three deaths), six of cerebro-spinal fever (four deaths), three of typhoid (three dentha), three non-fatal cases of chicken-pox, and one nos-fatni of measles.

case

One of the small-pox cases and one chicken-pox were imported. were 65 deaths from

of

Thero

luberculosis,

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Two-gun, two-fisted

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KEN

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Avenging Waters

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Spencer Cindon

"THE LUCKIEST GIRL in the WORLD"

with JANE WYATT - LOUIS HAYWARD

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LOVE IN A JUNGLE EDEN!

2 YEARS TO MAKE, It's NEW! It' DIFFERENT! Never before on any screen! What girl would be afraid of 1,000 jungle, terrors with the great arms of

Tarzan to protect her...to love her?-

WEISSMULLER

JOHNNY

TARZAN ESCAPES

Mam with MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN

Spoken

Nyer

Based upon the characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs

· Directed by RICHARD THORPE

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THE WORKING MAN”

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