1938-04-19 — Page 24

KING'S

TO-DAY ONLY

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

For her

HE CHALLENGED ALL JÁW....... DEFTING EVEN THE ELEMENTS !

Mighty drama of primitire propis.fancy qni Khan

from the novel by Ing the South Sea paradise...nt3 ise alom. broke, and the law dosed in

Nordhot and Haf, author of "Mutiny on the Bounty.”

SAMUEL GOLDWYR

PRESENTS

THE

HURRICANE

DOROTHY LAMOUR • KON FALL · MARY ASTOR

wilh

C AUBREY SMITHS - 7910S, JATTICHELL + RAYMOND

and many South Sea Decutive

MASSEY - JOHN CARRADINE - AROME COWAH

De by KSH FORD

ALSO LATEST WALT DISNEY'S CARTOON IN TECHNICOLOUR "MAGICIAN MICKEY"

"

TO MORROW "DARK JOURNEY

United Artists with CONRAD VEIDT - VIVIEN LEIGH

TAKE ART TRAI CIN TRAPPY VILLET BAN

ORIENTAL

THEATRE

BY

SPECIAL! FOR TO-DAY ONLY ! REQUEST

The most popular of all the old favourites

THE LAUGH HIT OF A CENTURY !.

MILLIONS HAVE SEEN IT

Gary COOPER "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town:

Jean ARTHUR

George Bancroft

Lionel Stander Douglass Dumbrillo · 11, B. Warner Screen play by Robert Riskin Story by Garynce Budington Kefland A FRANK CAPRA Production A Columbia' Plature

DAYS

CAPRA

great hit"}} liappone dice One Night1**

2ONLY TO-MORROW & THURSDAY

THRILL DRAMA OF DEVIL-MAY-CARE LINESMEN 1 A story of "trouble shooters" who risk their lives.

SLIM

THEY LOVE..

when they're lucky! AND DIE..

when they're

Motf...

K. Witam Water Massey migh

PAT O'BRIEN HENRY FONDA!

| MARGARET LINDSAY - STUART ERWIN

HAPPILLAN DENALO DA PUH!*

Cong Beynellis Fabryter Bow Wytun

占病自

• MATINEES: 20%-30% DEVENINGS: 20c.-30c./50c.-70c.

CENTRAL

QUEEN'S RD. CENTRAL: CAR PARK -- JERVOIS STREET Take Hus No. 4 or 5 going west, 3 min. from slop opposite Queen's

TO-DAY ONLY at 12.30, 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9,39 pan.

PRICES: 20 ota., 35 ela., 45 eta. à 55 ots.

42S

STREET

14. GREAT STARS!

Mola than 50 fextured performent

200 GLORIOUS GIRLSI

TO-MORROW:Joe E. Brown in “WHEN'S YOUR BIRTHDAY" THURSDAY:--"THE ROAD TO GLORY"

FRIDAY:—Laurel & Hardy in "OUR' RELATIONS"

Printed and Publiibid for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong

THE · HONGKONG

U.S. URGED TO BUILD NEW NAVY SWIFTLY

Country Vulnerable To Sea Attack

TELEGRAPH,

TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1938.

Soviet Still Detaining Japan Plane

Tokyo's Spokesman Gives Explanation For Incident

Tokyo, Apr. 19.

One of nine Japanese aeroplanes,

BRITAIN'S FINGER IN RUMANIA'S OIL PIE Aiding Government Exploitation.

Washington, April 18.

Bucharest, Apr. 18. The Humanlan five-year économie The Report of the Senato Naval Affairs Committee on the while dying over Tunning, near Sui-plan comes into operation to-morrow. United States $1,500,000,000 tenho, an eastern border town of under the direction of Dr. Militza Manchukuo, made a forced innding in Constantinescu, Minister of the new naval expansion programme stormy weather on April 4 at a point Department of National Economy, urges prompt passage of the two kilometres east of Tunning. This The plan includes a scheme for the measure through Congress. Is in Sovlet territory. This admis-exploitation of the huge Rumanian The Report gives warning that with sion was made by a Foreign Office joi! Netds, largest in Europe, whereby its present armaments, the United spokesman last night. States could be defeated or conquered without the necessity of military conquest.by an enemy.

"Without a navy capable of con- trolling the seas against an enemy, an effective blockade of our foreign

can

The landing, he explained, had been made because the plane's supply of gasolene had been exhausted."

The Japanese authorities, he went The Sovlet on, immediately asked

the be established and authorities to return

machine commerce

ined thousands of miles from which was now being detained by maintained our coasts, and well beyond the range them. of aircraft," states the Report.

"Our outlying possessions can be captured and used against us #dvance bases,

25

"There is nothing to prevent the stablishment of hostile bases on our overseas possessions,

"They could be used instead of ale- craft carriers to make repeated bomb- Ing raids

our highly indus-

trilised IATIONS

HUGE

Apr. 18.

The House of propriations Committee has favour- bly reported on the War and Civil Works Appropriations of U.S.$220.- 834,725, including President Roose- velt's request for appropriations totaling $37,000,000 for Flood

Con- trol.

Torrentatives Ap= |

The grant to Mr. Paul V. MeNu?), |

appropriation includes the

High Commissioner for the Philip pines. This totals $181,930, increase of $33.730 over last year, and, Includes $5,530 for 27. new clerks. messengers.

caretakers gardeners,

and chauffeurs. United Press.

WAKE ISLD. HARBOUR

The Civil Works appropriations in- clude $1,041,000 for the improvement of Welles Harbour at Midway Island, stop-over for Pan American Airways' trans-Pacific service to Hongkong.

The appropriation is required in order to improve the harbour for commercial seaplanes.-United Press.

PIRATES STRIKE AGAIN IN HONGKONG AREA

piracy In the

Another daring vicinity of Hongkong waters has been reported to the Water Police.

A Hongkong registered Junk owned by Tam Wing-yip was boarded by five armed men of Ching Chau, in Chinese waters, on the morning of April 16.

The pirates were armed with rifles, revolvers and daggers.

When one of the crew of the junk, Wong Tai, refused to obey pirate orders to go into the hold he was stabbed in the arm.

The Junk was ransacked, the pirates decamping in their smaller and speedier vessel in the direction of Tao Lim.

Wong Tai, the wounded man, has been admitted to Queen Mary Hospital. His condition is not serious.

EUROPEAN WOMAN AWAKES TO SEE BURGLAR ESCAPING

Awakened by the sound of crash- ing glass, Mrs. Harrison, of 14 Duke Rood, has an unenviable experience In the early hours of this morning, when the witnessed an actual burglary of her bedroom,

The

burglar, who was in the act of rifling a wardrobe when he accident- ally knocked over some glassware. hurriedly escaped through a window when Mrs, Harrison awoke,

He took with him two handbags. containing money and Jewellery to the value of $272.

In his hurry he dropped one of the handbags, and it was recovered this morning. Jewellery to. the value of $85 was still intact in the bag.

The spokesman explained that the Soviet had protested to the Japanesa Government on April 13 regarding the incident, but the case was stiff

unsettled, he added.-Reuter,

In commission, including representa- tives of British capital and oil com- pantes established under royal decree, will co-operate with the Government in efforts to increase the crude oil output and discover new sources of supply.-Reuter.

OIL LUCK SIX YEARS LATE

Magnolin, Ark.-Six years to the day passed between the time oll prospectors gave up in despale on the Rhen-Klichen-Fullenwider No. 1

i| weil and when the Barnett No. produced"pil here,

STOP PRESS NEWS

You can tell the

the difference

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

HONG KONG

KOWLOON

AT 2-30-515 7·90-930PM AT 230-520-7:30 # 9:30. PM/

LAST TIMES TO-DAY

Here comes the show from Rhythm Row.. with all those stars of radio and screen!

BOB BURNS* JACK OAKIE KENNY BAKER* ANN MILLER

RADIO CITY REVELS

With VICTOR MOORE

MILTON SERLE Helen Broderick, Jana Preman, Barter Waste Melison MaION, Hal Kemp and Grahnetra IKO-RADIO PICTURE

Oracted by Ben Stofol, Produced by Edward Kantoon. Screen play by Matt Brooks, Andorr Velllar Eddie Davis, Morilskor Olinat,

TOMORROW

At The QUEEN'S

At The ALHAMBRA Claudo Rains - Gloria Dickson Anna May Wong - Charles Bickford "THEY WON'T FORGET" "DAUGHTER of SHANCHA!"

A Warner Bros. Picturo.

DAILY

AT

230

520

720

920

By Popular Domand

HANKOW

KOWLOON

STARE

LAST TIMES TO-DAY

TO - MORROW

Warner Bros. Picture

4 SHOWS

DAILY 1.30 -6 20 720 930

•

#

57795

She sucked him in the sys bezquse zhaj loved him? What a yell of a romanset BARBARA

HERBERT

STANWYCK MARSHALL

Breakfast for TWO

WIA GLENDA FARRELL - ERIC BLORE Etienne Girardot • Directed by Allred Sanieit

Produced by Edward Kaufman. Screen play by Charles Kaufman. Pout Tawits, Vista Brothers Säure

Josephine Hutchinson

Ceorge Brent

'MOUNTAIN JUSTICE“

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

NATHAN ROAD

KOWLOON

TEL 57277

|{MATINEES:20c-3C £.• EVENINGS: 20%.-3050270) FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

THE GREATEST OF ALL THE "BROADWAY MELODIES" !

ROBERT

TAYLOR

ELEANOR

POWEL

Droadway Melody 1938

writte

GEORGE MURPHY, SINNIE BARNES BUDDY KREEM SOPHIE TUCKER JUDY GARLAND CHARLES LOGOR GORIN *** RAYMOND WALBURN

ROBERT BUNCHLEY WILLIK HOWARD

CHARLEY GRAPEWIN' ROBERT WILDHACK Barsam Play by Jack Stołowas, Directed by Ray Dal Bath Predwned by Jack Cumming,

There is a vast difference in

GORDON'S Shoes

A pair on your feet will con- vince you of their extreme comfort-have you tried them?

NEXT CHANGE, TO-MORROW A GRAND DOUBLE ATTRACTION! On The Stage: THE BEST VAUDEVILLE ENTERTAINMENT, IN YEARS !

KYRA, ROBY AND HARRY

Sensational Acrobatic and Comedy Dancers. On The Screen:

RETURN OF AN “OLD FAVOURITE" [

Eldic Cantor

STRIKE ME

PINK

GORDON'S LTD.