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AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN

SHOWING TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 5.10, 7:15 & 9.30P.M.

Javide MicDONALD Nelson EDDY Jeanette

When mannbold.and a maman's Hips are willing who site but the seren's most thrilling unging surebears can bring you auch uríorgettable tomANCT aupsing "Rose Z-taste” and “Flaughty Marietta"... throbbing to the magic of Sigmund Romberg's finest love songs!

SONGS

OLORIOUS AND SAYI

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Cary Ale Boch in Old?"--poo' "Virginia Veu met Eja“

MAYTIME

AND A CAST OP IM, INCLUDING

ALSO LATEST NEWS JOHN BARRYMORE

OF THE DAY

NEXT CHANGE M.G.M. Picturo

DAILY

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HERMAN BING •

TOM BROWN

A ROBERT Z LEONARD Pædaction

ESPIONAGE

"

with EDMUND LOWE - MADGE EVANS

ISTAR

720

920

LAST TIMES TO-DAY

Forty witnesses saw this killing... but not one could pick the killer!

MURDER WITH PICTURES

TO - MORROW

Tom Walls

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One Day Only

Ralph Lynn in

HANKOW

ROAD KOWLOON TEL 57795

With LEW AYRES GAIL PATRICK Paul Kelly Banny Baker · AParamount Picture Directed

by Charles Barton.

"FIGHTING STOCK"

PERSONAL SCALES

ARE

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HEALTH

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BY PURIFYING THE BLOOD.

Clarke's Blood, Mixture is the surest way to health as it removes the CAUSE of the complaint from the blood and restores vigour and vitality.

CLARKE'S BLOOD MIXTURE

SÜLDOG PYRITTEN MENEINE

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

RECLUSE'S SECRETS DISCLOSED

Called "Blackmailer" By

Trial judge

FRIDAY, MAY.

Hindenburg Made First Trip In '36

Nearly Twice As Big. As Graf Zoppolin Features Of Giant |

Lived in Hongkong

As Young Girl. |Ship'sConstruction

An English woman born in Shang- hal in 1880 and resident in Hongkong with her parents for several years afterwards died recently after an astonishing career,

It was revealed at the Inquest, which followed the finding of her body in a house at Hove, Sussex, that the woman was a recluse who had been sentenced in May, 1922, to four years' penni servitude for con- spiring to obtain money.....

She had been known locally s Mrs. Laura Cook, and was found unconscious at Clarendon Villas, Hove, three hours before she died. She was 60.

When she appeared at the Old Bailey in 1022 her name was "Mar- garet Cornwalls, and she was, sent to prison for "conspiring to obtain money from the executors of Alger non A. de L. Strickland, ព bank director, by falso pretences." Pany ing sentence, the late Mr. Justice McCardle said:

"I have no doubt that you have been a blackmailer for many years, and have been living to a large extent on the proceeds of money you have exlorted from different men.

"You are a woman of merelles will, you are criminally cruel and dangerous."

At the Inquest it was shown that the woman had died from heart fallure following negleet. A verdict of death from natural causes, was returned.

In a statement read by the coroner It was mentioned that the woman was the widow of Dr. Charles James Cook, a former British Consul in Petrograd, who died in Brighton in

Evidence showed that since Octo- ber last, Mrs. Cook had been receiv- ing 10s per week outdoor rellet,

The woman's maiden nante was disclosed as Minnie Guy. She mar« ried at the age of 20 Mr. John St. Aubyn, an architect, who in 1000 obtained न divorce. In 1893 she married at Brighton Mr. Norman Brown, who the next year obtained a decree nisi on the ground of her misconduct with three people,

Eight years later she became the wife of Free

Frederick Timothy, common- ly known as Donald Cornwallts, She filed. a petition for divorce against him in 1005, alleging, crucity and adultery, but the King's Proctor Intervened, and the decree nisi was rescinded.

Continued Fighting In Barcelona

the

Anarchists Report 400 Dead, 2,000 Wounded

Perpignan, May. 8. Trouble continues in Barcelona, Judging from an anarchist broadcast stating that 400 are dead and 2,000 wounded in the elty.

They continue their Appeals for calm every few minutes, stating that enough blood has been shed.-Reu- ter.

EARLIER REPORT

Barcelona, May 0 Practically no fighting has occurred here since last night and the general situation is clearer. Two Spanish, warships with troops aboard have arrived from Valencia.-Reuter Bul- letin Service.

BOMBER'S SUCCESS

The huge airship, Marshal von Hindenburg, made. her maiden trip to the United States early lost year, being known as 'Zeppelin L. Z. 120 during construction. Although not many feet longer than her immediate predecessor, the Graf Zeppelin, she had nearly twice the diameter."

The frame of the Hindenburg was maze of telangular girders of duraluminium, lightest and strongest metal known. It was eight hundred and seven feet long. Over it was stretched the outer envelope-linen below, where It was subjected to wear, fine medium weight cotton above,

* Inside Π similar envelope lay against the frame to protect the dozen "gas cells," arranged compartment- wise along the length of the ship. Ten coats of, alumimum-coloured airplane.

plane, dope were appiled on the in a single day to get an even silver outer cover each cont done by hand

efect. Actually the Zeppelin could fly without this outer envelope; its importance lay in passing the wind smoothly over the frame.

HUGE DIAMETER

135 feet; the weight, empty, 100 tons. The diameter of tlie airship was Passengers, crew, water ballast, mall. and freight brought the total nying weight to 200 tons. Four single pro- pelior engines on opposite sides under the centre and after part of the ship made

possible to drive it at a top speed of eighty-five miles an hour, a cruising speed of eighty miles refuelling. an hour, and for 9,000 miles without

The only parts breaking the line of the bag were the steering gear aft the, gondolas of the four engines, and the control cabin forward. All crew and passenger accommodation was inside--a new feature.

Their quarters were as luxurious as experience and money could make them. From easy chairs they could watch the clouds swirl by, or, lean- ing on the rail, look at land and sea- scopes far below. No noise dis- turbed them, for they were third of the way back from the bow, a hun- dred and thirty feet ahead of the forward engnes,

On the port side of the main deck was the dining-room-separated by a

railing from the promenade; a space about sitty feet by twenty. Оп the opposite side the same space was divided into lounge, with divans and starboard

bridge tables, combined bar and

promenade, smoking-room.

The

Here, for the first time in a diri- gible, passengers could smoke. bar was cut off from the rest of the ship by two turnstiles, vacuum type, half revolving doors.

AIR-CONDITIONED

In the centre and on the deck be- low were the twenty-five window- less two-berth cabins: Lightness and compactness ruled here as everywhere in the ship. Celluloid basins with

1937.

SUGAR TREATY SIGNED

Export Quota Scheme Finally Approved Permanent Council Established

•

London, May 0 The international sugar negotiations have been successfully concluded by the signing of an agreement in Lon- don this afternoon, providing a scheme of export quotas and the establishment of

permanent International Council to study all aspects of the world sugar industry. οι the iwenty-two countries involved, the following are the principal basic tonnages permitted in exports:

Holland and Colonies, 1,050,000

tons;

Cuba, 940,000 tons;

British Colonies, 905,000 tons; Australia. 400,000 tons; Peru, 330,000 tons; Dominica, 400,000 tons; Soviet Russia, 230,000 tons; South Africa, 200,000 tons,

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HONG KONG

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WINGS MORNING

NEXT CHANGE

at the QUEEN'S

The United States will be per- mitted to continue to import from the free market at least as much ay borne expalle Briain will mit at present. Indla will prohibit een-A Chinese Picture with Engllah. Tidies

elsewhere than to

"SONG OF CHINA" Burma..

The greatest motion picture over domestic production to 10,000 tons. The China Council is empowered.

made in the Orient to vary the quotas by uniform figure when necessary, provided the Governments concerned unanimously agree thereto.--Reuter,

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Coronation Curiosities

By Harold B. Corbin

ENGLAND'S WEDDING RING

MONG other intricacies of the coronation, court jewelers have been making King George's coro- nation ring, or "regall ring," as the old manuscripts called it. This ring also has been known since the eleventh century as the "Wedding Ring of England,"

A new ring is made for cach sovereign, which becomes his per- sonal property. But each ring is

Queen_Victoria's_Ring, which. was made too small

be upped a hot and cold water could reproduction of all the many pre-

vlous rings worn since Edward the out of the way when not in use. Confessor (1041-1008), King George's There was a deep curtained ward-ring, like most of the others, will robe for clothes and luggage, and a be a plain gold band bearing a writing wall.

shelf that let down from the large violet-coloured ruby surround- ed by twenty-six diamonds. Former- The whole of the passengers' quar- ly the gem was a table ruby, but ters were air-conditioned. All walls later this

was engraved with the were of cotton or silk meticulously cross of St. George. sewn into place by hand. On them, in the public rooms, were oll paint- ings depleting men's conquest of the

air.

The ship bristed with new fea- tures. Among them were landing wheels instead of cushioned gondo- los. But the great secret was the power

plant.

For the first time the engines of an alrship burned oil. They were Diesels, 1,100 horse-power each, their sixteen cylinders lighter than

conceived anything hitherto Valencia, Moy ·6.

for A Government plane from Huesca

their delivered power. bombed and destroyed the railway

Dr. Hugo Eckener, who built a bridge over the Gallego River near

hundred Zeppelins, was the inspira- Zucrul, 30 miles north of Saragossa,

tion behind the glant airship. to-day. Reuter.

CONSULATE RAIDED

St. Jean de Luz, May 6. The authorities raided General Francisco Franco's unofficial Con- sulate here to-day.

It is believed the chief subject of investigation was the alleged fabrica-

PRICE OF FOOD IN

tion of false passports for foreigners H.K. SOARS

entering Spain. Router Bulletin Ser- vice.

EXCHANGE

Selling

Demand T.T. Shanghai Singapore TT, Japan India

U.S.A. TUTU Manila

Batavia Bangkok Saigon France Germany T.T. Switzerland T.T. Australia.

Kaying

4 m/s.L/C London 4 m/s. D/F do

'4 m/s. L/C, U.S.A;

À NO HA; India

U.S. Cross rate in London

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by BENJAMIN WYLIE, 4 m/s. France at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street. In the City of Victoria, Hongkong.

Onions Up 150 Per Cent. In Two Years; And Sugar Bill Double

2.27/32 .13. 2.27/32

With few exceptions, the price of .102

foodstuffa in Hongkong are higher .52% to-day than they have been since the

100

beginning of 1031. 814

Since the beginning of last year, .3011⁄2 the prices of foodstuffs have in- .00% creased by over 25 per cent, Tex-. ,6526 | tiles, metais and other articles have 149% increased proportionately.

073%

Stallstics of wholesale prices, issued. 6.70 by the Statistical Office of the Im- 75% ports and Exports Department, are .132.-based on the figures for 1920. 1/6

1/3.1/32

1/3 Beef, which cost an average of 3010 $1.13 carly In 1935, costa $2,13 for .7.07 the same quantly to-day. The index 83% "number for eggs has risen from 72 4.93% to 97, meaning that the quantity of

To-day, it costs. $138 to buy the quantity of beans purchased for $1 in 1922. Two years ago, the same beans cost only 87 cents.

The original ring was supposed to have had a miraculous beginning. The legend runs that Edward the Confessor gave a beggar a valuable ring he wore. Soon afterwards an old man gave the ring to two. Eng- lish pilgrims in Palestine, saying he was St. John the Evangelist, and bade them return it to their King. They did, and this was the first "Wedding Ring of England,"

Emblem of a bishop and of a doctor, the ring is a symbol of the faith which the King or Queen em- braces and teaches to other nations. Tradition rules that the ring must be placed on the sovereign's tourth Anger.

the

right, or sceptre hand, counting the thumb as the finger. Jewelers who made. Queen Victoria's ring did not count correctly and fitted

little It to her Anger, for- the pro

Pormation rule of mistake put a and stammering

ring.

furiously blushnterbury

Archbishop of

first

on the

spot, at the moment the ring was to be placed on her Majesty's hand. But Queen Victoria set her teeth and the ring was crammed on the right the legend that the tighter the ring finger. Perhaps she took solace In

the more the would be beloved and the longer would be her reign.

Truly the prophesy seemed ful- Пlled in her case.

oggs obtainable for 72 cents in 1935 now costs 97 cents.

Flour has risen by over 100 per cent. The index number in the first quarter of the current year is 130, compared with 65 for the same period in 1935. Fresh fruits have also risen in cost, the Index number for 1035 being 103: compared with 215 for to- day.

The cost of the homely onion has risen by over 180 per cent. in the onions.obtainable to-dny for $1.29 past two years. The quantity of

1835. Sugar has risen in cost by could be obtained for 64 cents in

period. exactly 100 per cent. in the same

A SHOWS

DAILY 11.30-5.13

Presenting

THE WORLD-FAMOUS TENOR

JOHN MCCORMACK

Directed by Harald Schurtar Produced by Robert T. Kone A 10th Century-Fox Release

NEXT CHANCE

at the ALHAMBRA JOHN WAYNE - JEAN ROGERS

in "CONFLICT"

Jack London's "Abysmal Brute."

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