1937-04-12 — Page 24

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They're in the

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Warner Bros Preiant JOB EX

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In That famous Musical Stago Hit!

SONS O GUNS

With a Regiment of Roor Recruitsi

JOAN BLONDELL

BEVERLY ROBERTS

WINIFRED SHAW

ERIC BLORE

CRAIG REYNOLDS..

JOSEPH KING. ROBERT BARRAT

Directed by Lloyd Bacon.

KanCVR song Mittby Worran & Dubln,

ALSO

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COLOUR CARTOON

"COUNTRY MOUSE"

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United Artists

FRANCIS LEDERER in

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QUEENS

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Every Man to the Barricades! Romance! Revolt! Revenge!

A flag flying romance of the stormy days of Dublin's Easter Week Rebellion.

Barbara Stanwyck

ASIAN OCASEY'S

THE Plough

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with

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Theatre of Dublin

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MY AMERICAN WIFE

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SEE SHIRLEY dance the minuet, perform as à stroot-singer, do three now tap-dances with Bili Robinson, plead with the President for her daddy,

Her beat story? Her grandest role

Shirley TEMPLE

The

LITTLEST

REBEL JOHN BOLES

JACK HOLT

THE HONGKONG ⠀⠀ TELEGRAPH.

MADRID SEVERELY SHELLED

Government, Thrusts Said To Be Checked.

Insurgents Also Badly Pounded

Madrid, April 11 The old capital city of Spain this morning experienced some of the heaviest shelling it has suffered in

Indis explosives falling weeks, criminately in the main streets. A waller was killed and four customers, silling at a cafe window,

were wounded by one shell burst.

An- other shell burst two blocks away

from the Brush Embassy;

It is generally believed that the shelling is a reprisal for the heavy Government attack against various

around Madrid. rebel positions

Government arilllery replied to the bombardment, heavily shelling the Insurgent lines on the outskirts of the city, while planes bombed the surgent trenches in the Casa de

Government

Campment troops are also report- ed to have consolidated the new posi- tions they have taken to the west of the Muzzabares River. They are also old to have occupied several new Ilnes of trenches in the Casa de Campo sector.-Reuter.

FRIGHTFUL SCENES

Madrid. Apr. 12.

The rebel batteries in the Casa de Campo sector blasted away at Madrid yesterday In retaliation for the recent Loyalist offensives, and killed scores.

The streams of the trapped and wounded arose from the heaps of debris in the streets as the worst bombardment since November continued relen

relentlessly.

1

This correspondent took refuge in a basement and counted in less than half an hour 16 shells and three shrapnel bombs dropping at the in- tersection of Granvia and Callemayor streets.

saw and heard wounded meri, women and children, lying in heaps of brick, mortar and glass, arms and legs protruding here and there," says an eye-witness.

Rescue parties estimate the toll at 75 or 100, and even more..

TRAMCAR SHATTERED

At Salamanca n shell sinashed loaded tramcar.

Meanwhile, for the third successive day, Loyalists tried to storm Aguile hoping to reach the rebels' stronghold on Mount Garabitus. Five tri-motored planes bombed. Aguila

und then

southwards and

Lombed French ridge, hoping

to cut off the Insurgents' retreat from University Cliy.

"While I write," this correspondent goes on, "clouds of dust make. visi- bility in the street only one block. The muffled roar of falling walls is clearly- audible."—United Press,

CLAIM THRUST CHECKED

Salamanca, April 11, Insurgent headquarters hère claims the fresh Government attacks in the Madrid sectors have been repulsed with heavy losses to the militiamen. |--Reuter-

BASQUES ATTACK

Santander, April 11. Government forces are reported to have opened attacks on important ob- Jectives on the Basque froat, where General Moin's Insurgents are sweep- Ing towards 'Bilbao." It is still 100 carly to say what the result of these actions will be.-Reuter.

REBEL RAIDERS OUT

Valencia, April 11. Five civilians were killed and several injured in an Insurgent oir roid on the village of Sagunto, 18 miles from here.-Reuter.

Case Smacked Of Blackmail

Harbouring Charge Not Proved'

Miao Shao-chi, mess-boy on H.M.S, Delight, was dlicharged by Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magistracy this morning when the case against of harbouring a 14-year-old giti, Fung Fong, was concluded.

him

Mr. F. H. Loseby, defents; sub-

not

mitted that the charge could stand and mude the following that there was doubt as to wints;

the so-called mother of the girl, was really her mother; he submitted that there was so much conflict in their evidence as to leave reasonable room doubt; that on the evidence there was a strong suspicion there was conspiracy between mother daughter to levy blackmail on the accused.

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MONDAY,

APRIL 12, 1937.

Waziristan Casualties Announced

Indian Regiment Loses Maj. H. W. D. Palmer

Severe Losses In Frontier Fight

New Delhi, Apr. 11. The casualties among British troops during the recent battle with raklers in South Waziristan are now given as seven British officers killed, together with two British non-commissioned officers and 20 Indians of other ranks,

British Five British officers; one non-commissioned officer, two Indian officers and 37 other ranks wounded.

The casualty ist is as follows:

KILLED Major H.W.D. Palmer, Panjab Regiment;

Capt MLB. Courtney, 3/16th Punjab Regimenti

+

were

3/10th

Capt. N.M. Durrani. Indian

Medical Service;

Lleat. E.C.L. Hinde, Royal Bom- bay Sappers:

Licul. M. Earle, Royal Artillery;

BEAUTY QUEEN IN MYSTERY

MYSTERY — Muriel – Oxford, English beauty queen chosen Miss Great Britain of 1938, hostess at the champagne party aboard the liner Pazia from which Frank Vosper, 37, British playwright and actor, mysteri ously disappeared. It was be- leved he walked through a veranda window and fell over- board. The ship was en route to England.

Licut 1.5.K. France-Rajput Regiment;

Second Lieut. G.L. Scott, Froniler

Force Regiment.

that two It is now confirmed British non-commiss{aned officers and twenty Indian troops of other ranks were killed in, the action.

WOUNDED Majas T.Z. Waters, Royal Indian Army Service Corps:

Capt. 8.D. Wilcock, 1/16th Pan Jah Rement;

FAMOUS MUSICIAN MOURNED

A.B.L. Ashton Had Two Strange Hobbies "The Corrector Of

The Press"

London, Apr. 11. Mr. Algernon Ashton, the musician, died to-day-Reuter.

Algernon Bennet Langton Astiton was even better known to the general public by his innumerable leiters to the papers and his interest in tombs. ile was born at Durham in 1859, but In 1803 his father, who had been prin- cipal tenor at the Cathedral

there. wen: to live at Leipzig where The boy's musical talent enlisted the terest of Moscheles. Entering the Conservatoire at the age of 16, he studied under Reinecke, Jadassohn and E. . Richter, and won the Helbig prize for composition. Later he be came a pupil et Joachim Kaff at Frankfurt.

were

In-

Some of his chamber music and at Leipzig published songs where his work had a vogue which i

He has never attained, in England. was a composer of serious aims and 'some of his pieces have fine qualities, In 1881 he settled in London and four years later was appointed professor of

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THE DIONNE QUINTUPLETS

the piano at the Royal College of TOMORROW Music, holding the post 1 1910. He gave a number of concerts in London New Universal ● and elsewhere. In 1894 he toured Picture with Ben Davies and Tivadar de Nachez,

Music, however, did not monopolise his energies. He spent much time in seeking out and keeping in repair the graves of distinguished persons, and was the means of restoring many noteworthy resting places. In connec- tlon with this curious hobby and en many other subjects he wrote count- less letters to the newspapers and. earned for himself the nickname of "Corrector

ctor of the Fress."

In 1005 he published a

a collection of of these and in 1908 ጎ sccond.

525

series of 050. Some years ago he announced that he intended to leave the newspapers to their fate, but he his found it impossible to restrain pen and the flow of lefters began again, Ashton's name is included in the Marquis de Ru

Ravigny's Plantagenet Roll as a descendant of Edward

11.

Among his compositions ure plans trlas, 24 plano sonatas, live violin and five cello sonatas, two plano quartcis, two string quartets, two plano quintels, songs, organ picces, overtures and Ave symphonies.

Drug Traffic Hearings

Numerous Cases In

Sessions Calendar

Fourteen cases, the majority of which concern, the drug trafic, are down for trial at this month's Cri- mina! Sessions, which commence on Monday next. The cases are:

Chan Chun, 34-year-old old jon rged with the man- carpenter, charged

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| slaughter of his own daughter;

Li Sin, 69, Pang Sang, 38, and 2 Yan-ting, 23, charged with armed WED.

No. 4 Kwan Ylek Stret robbery at

THUR. West point on February 7;

Wong Yat-pong, charged with armed robbery and with causing grievous bodily harm;

Chin Po, 20. charged with unlawful possession of 181,740 heroin pills and four packets .of. heroin sufficient to 350,000 on the ground make another of 49

Road: Wong

Yuk, 55-year old widow, Second Lieut. L.R.AL Parsons with unlawful possession

Probyn's Horse},

Cap Battery: Lieut. Hyderabad Regiment,

A. Fatou, Second Mountain

F.D.

Robertson,

19th

It is now confirmed that one British non-commissioned officer, two Indian omcers and 37 other ranks were wounded in the engagement- Reuter.

N.C.O. CASUALTIES

New Delhi, Apr. 12. It is new learned that both the non-commissioned officers kliled

27,300 heroin pills at 173 Thomson Road,

ad, third floor;

Chun You, 38, and Tsol Wing, 26; charged with unlawful possession of 53,400 pills and 220 ounces of pink mass containing heroin at 11 Ewo Hill Road, third floor;

Cheung Fong, charged with unlaw ful possession of 10,512 heroin pills, 15 ounces of heroin sufficient to mako 375,000 pills and a pink mass capable of making 500 pliis ut 472 Lockhart Road, third floor;

Leung

g

the, Waziristan fighting were men of Wong 22 year okl widow, and

28, unemployed, charged the Royal Corps of Signals. They with unlawful possession of 88,397 are: Sergeant N. Davies and Cor-

heroin

and half, an, ounce of pills poral E. C. Turner-Reuter,

crude heroin at 12 Morrison Hill Road,

third floor; Si Chi, 33, unemployed, charged with unlawful possession of 30,335 heroin pills at a house in Tal Pak Terrace, West Point;

-PREPARE

WELCOME

For Mr. Wu Teh-chen, Kwangtung Governor

Ho Man, 28, Chan Kam, 32, charged with unlawful posacasion of 7 ounces of heroin, 29,330 pills and 163 ounces of pink mass containing heroin:

Kwan Iu, 32, unemployed, charged with unlawful possession of 57,010 heroin pilis and 28 ounces of pink mass at 47 Yick Yam Street, second floor;

Big preparations are being made in

Tung On and You Fat charged with Hongkong to welcome Mr. Wu Tch-

unlawful possession of arms at Talpo; and chen, the newly-appointed Chairman and Yan Lot and Chan Shing.

of the Kwangtung Provincial Govern- ment, who is arriving here this after separately charged with breach of the

Déportation Ordinapee. aboard His Worship: There are serious noon

the ... President De discrepancies in the evidence of the Coolidge en route to Canton to prosecution and from what Mr. Lose assume his new post. by has said there is too much resemblance in this case to a black mail plot. Defendant discharged..

VISITING FINLAND' AND

BALTIC STATES 2.

London, Apr. 11.

Mr. Wu, who has been for several years Mayor of Greater Shanghal, Is no stranger to Cantoff; where he formerly held various offices, and ho is extremely popular both there' and in Hongkong.

To-morrow morning, at 10 o'clock, the Chinese community will give a welcome party to Mr. Wu in the The Earl of Plymouth, Parliamen-Hongkong Hotel. This event is being tary of State for Foreign Affairs, will, organised by over seventy Chinese at the invitation of the Governments | organisations, and the welcome speech concerned pay an official visit to will be delivered by the Hon. Mr. R. Finland towards the end of May and | H. Khitewell, c.m.o., on behalf of the to the Battle States on his reture pected that there will be fully three

whole Chinese community. It is ox Journey in the early part of June,; Lord Plymouth will be away about a hundred people, present at the func fortnight-British Wireless

tion.

NAVAL MOVEMENTS U.S. SHIPS DUE TO-MORROW

HLM.S. Falmouth has returned from Shanghai, having

convoyed H.M. Ambassador, Sir Hughe Knatchbull- Hugessen, from this Colony

after a recent visit:

H.M.S. Adventure sails to-morrow. for Manila, ADMİNSA

The U.S.S. Isabel" returns- from Admiral aboard. The U.S.S, Canopus, Canton to-morrow with the American aix submarines and the U.S.S. Pidgeon are also due to-morrow.

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