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DONALD DUCK

BOY-OH-BOY! ME FOR A GOOD

MESS O CLAMS!

2,000

MEN NEEDED FOR OVERHAUL

Empress Of Japan In Kowloon Dock

One need not "go wash an elephant" if one wants to do some thing big. There is, for instance, the alternative of overhauling a Canadian Pacific liner. What this involves a glimpse at the work being done on the Empress of Japan, now in drydock nt Kowloon, may suggest.

Monday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 16, 1939.

By Walt Disney

Cope [hy Wake Biwory Enterpenes,

A Look Through

The Telegraph"

50 YEARS AGO

New British Note

DON'T FORGET ·

OUR-

WINTER SALE

COMMENCES

TO-DAY

BARGAINS

IN

ALL DEPARTMENTS

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

--RADIO-

Secks Interpretation Of In Town To-night' & Other Lady (Sandor). Magyari Imre &

Japan's Policy

Tokyo, Jan. 14.

London Relays

HUNGARIAN FANTASIA

|His Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra,

7.40 Reginald Foort at the Organ Medley Of Daly's Favourites; Keep {Smiling! (Reginald Foort's Signatur

Tune); Reminiscences Of Friml.

8.0 Time, Weather and Announce-

8.03 Variety with Murgatroyd and

A Royal Warrant ban bern issued, according to which the Commissarlať Department has heen re-named the Ariny Service Corps, and Omeers in It)

Str Robert Cruigle, British Am- will henceforth have ordinary Army bassador to Japan, to-day presented rank. The Warrant nisu regulates pro. Mr. Arita, Japanese Foreign Minis- ZBW on a Frequency of 845 ken

Radio Programme Broadcast by ments. motion and retirement,

ter, with a new British Note request- ing a more precise and detailed in- and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. Winterbottom, Eddie Prabody and

on 0.62 m.c's, ner! Elizabeth Welch.

The Chamber of Deputies in Paris) to-day by a vote of bib to 9 adopted the extraordinary budget for-1883, the eatintes Leing Axed at 18,500,000

feated.

News Stanley,

กล with three hundred

men,

reached Zanzibar, that arrived at Wadelni on the 20th January, in an exhausted condition.

25 YEARS ACO

(20

M. Maarel and M. Clemencemu fought; terpretation of Japan's

polley and and 8-11 p.m.

second. n duel to-day with swords, M. aims in China as outlined by the

Banjo Orch.-Shake Yo' Feet Clemenceau WIN wounded

the former in

Prime

H.K.T. Minister, Prince

(Morgan): Ha! Hal (Morgan)...... shoulder.

Konoye, and himself on November 2of Intercession from St. John's Cathie with Vocal Refrain; One-man Band- 12.0-12.20 p.m. Relay of a Service ....Fred Morgan's Bunjo Rhythmics and December 19 respectively.

It is understood thin! Great Britain

dral.

Many Happy Returns Of The Day: The Empress of Japan went into, this may not always be necessary,

reiterates her adherence to the prin- drydock on Thursday. She is now even after a year's storage.

12.30 Patricia Rossborough at the (Durke) Eddie Peabody playing hla Ench

ciple of the Open Door

Banjo, and equal Plano,

Guitar, Mandoline and stacked up with her bow close under boat also carries a case of condensed

opportunity and declines to agree to the big blut at the back of the nlik, which is renewed.

Hot Dog (Clair-Carter); "Queen Mando-Cello with Own Vocal Re- unilateral modification of the Nine Of Hearts" Selection "Broadway

frals and Piuno; Humorous-Winter Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Com- Men of a hundred trades are em- pany's works. Slung about her sides. ployed on the Empress, and a spot

Sports (Handley-Crick).....Murg Power Pact, though she is ready to Hostess"-Selection. consider constructive suggestions for elambering; with tar buckets up her for the signwriter in found in the

12.10 Primo Scala's

and Winterbottom Accordeon troyd rigging, or working within her are freshening up of the fire extinguisher

modification.--Reuter,

Band.

Minds with not a single Thought) with Monte Crick the Piano; nen whose number varies daily from Taken from their scattered stands

Firm Language

Whoops We Go Again (Harvey) Plano Duets-Sweet Adeline Selec 1,000 to 2,000. They produce a cons- and lined up like soldiers, these are

London, Jun. 15. It The Old River Thames Were The lion (Kern, Hammerstein).... Arthur tant clatter which makes conversa-given a new suit of red paint, on

The Hongkong correspondent of the Danube (Robert-Butler); Six Dance Young and Reginald Forezythe with tion in certain parts of the ship in which their white lettering is neatly)

Nut for a long time hau Japan brenda e un festa 20th wore it; Intro; Hometown; The greatest Drums; Vocal-The Girl I Knew possibic.

picked out. They make a goodly visited by such a disaster on has be-art note is of some 2,000 words mistake of my life; Ten pretty girls: ("Clamorous Night"-Novello); Far Like a colony of woodpeckers, with company, being 84 strong,"

fallen her since Saturday. What is the ad lays down in firm language You're here, you're there; Let us be Away In A Shanty Town ("Glamor- steel chisels for beaks, men tap in-

total loss of life will not, of course, be finer perhaps than any Britain has sweethearts over again Horseyous Night"-Novello)....Elsabeth Jess serious than might appear from used since the China war-the British horsey: Six Filts Of The Day: Intro Welch accomp. by the Drury Lane cessantly at the plating of the Em-

New Swimming Tank

the serloun nature of the visitation, attitude to the policy deliberately Vieni Vieni; Whispers in the Dark, Theatre Orch. press, clearing away her rusted paint-

Apart from the work on the en-though to-day's telegrams are not re- pursued by Japan in closing China to Sympathy; Remember Me; Afraid to Prentice.

cond. by Charles ing. Taking a nake at a time, they ginen, which on this occasion involves uring One pleasing fact, at any all trade with the Western world, Dream; have to clean the

Gangway......with veenl space below the dismantling of three huge tur-ate in that the terrific eruption which equally Italian and German as well chorus,

8.30 Landon Itelay-The Royal Air thic waterline flotte

arenbines, perhaps the biggest single walie it destroyed the village, does not

took place on the island of Sakurajima, as British and American.

Force, of over 9,760 square yards verypiece of work being done on the Em-appear to have been attended by as

Reculling the recent utterances of

M.P., Parliamentary Private Secret- A talk by Sir Edward Campbell, much like cutting two acres of wheat press of Japan is the installation of great loss of life an might have been Prince Konoye and the dimeulties put a blade at a time.

Fary of State for Air. steel swimming tank for tourist feared. "Many people This estimate omits the work of class

have been

Fantasia passengers, The deafening killed" says Reuter bat "70,000 porsens scraping and tapping inside the ship, racket of pneumatic drills way aft love fled, the telegraph operalor alone on the superstructure and lifeboats, on B-deck indicates where this tank remaining." and on the thousand-and-une pieces is to be located. IL will give the of machinery which must be dis- Empress two pools, the Arst-class inantled, scraped, repainted, reassembled. Yet, in nine more days

and pool being deep amidships. the Empress of Japan will be ready to call for Vancouver, as fresh and clean as a new pin-and not nearly so prone to rust.

veyors

An

Checking the Lifeboats

Drills also produce a racket on the top deck where extensions are being made to give the ship's four mes senger boys more roomy, comfortable quarters,

clan.

•

10 Time and Weather. 1.03 Frances Langford (Vocal) and the New Mayfair Orchestra,

For

The

8.45 List Ilungarian For Plano And Orchestra,

Plano.

And

from

in the way of British trade, the note "Hide And Seek"-Selection (Hoff- is stated to repent in a most formal man & Ellis)....New Mayfair Or manner the British Government's ad- chestra cond. by Ronnie Munro: It's

Jacques Dupont (Piano) and the herence to the policy of the open door Like Reaching

Moon Orchestre Symphonique (of Paris) laid down in the Nine-Power Treaty (Sherman-Margusec); Long Ago And conducted by F. Ruhlmann. 10 YEARS AGO

and firmly and unconditonally re- Far Away, (film 'Three Cheers For

by 9.01 Sonra Jussi Bjorling worst in local history, occurred

An appalling disaster, probably the jects uallateral revision of treaties Love')....Frances Langford (Vocal) (Tenor). Werten

off but leaves the door open for revision with Victor Young and His Orches- "La Gloconda" - Heaven Lighthouse, the China Mer by negotiation.

tra; The Gay chunts. Hain Wah, striking a rock

Nineties-Waltz Ocean! (Ponchiclll) "L'Africana*---Oli The correspondent declares that the Medley....New Mayfair Orchestra Paradise! (Meyerbeer)....with Or- to inking within a both the result is to align British policy with with Vocal Refrain: Sweet Hicurtache chestra conducted by Nils Grevillius. Ion, it is feared, of nearly 400 lives.

One of the finest of the China Mer note of October 27. He adds that the (Olm The Hit Parado').

that enunciated in the United States (Aim The Hit Parade'); Was It Rain 0.10 Tchaikovsky-Theme And One item of renovation that defies chants feet, the Hain Wah was coming British note is in no wise identical Langford (Vocal) with Victor Young

..Frances Variations From Suite No. 5 In G. computation is the re-caulking of the Into harbour round three o'clock in the

London Symphony Orchestra con- The lifeboats alono are a formidable deck seams, Along miles and miles teeth of a gale and heavy seas. The With the American, but the principles & His Orchestra; Globe Trotting With ducted by Sir London Ronald. Itent of overhaul. There are 26 of of planking Chinese boys aquat, Wagian light-keeper sighted her to the animating the two are the same, The Tiger (urr. Phil Green)....New

9.30 London Relay---The Nown. them, capable of accommodating moving along inch by inch an they eastward, and observed that she wan There is no passage that can be Mayfair Orchestra cond. by Ph 0.50 Turner Layton (Vocal) at the 1,882 passengers, or 101 more than pick out the old oakum, after which taking a course which would bring her Implied us a threat of retaliatory Green. the skip 15 certifled to

fresh filling is poured into the open to close to the Northern end of Wu action; nevertheless it would be a entry

1.30 Reuter & Rugby Press, Wen- A Waltz Was Born In Vienna Twenty-one rafts can carry 1,330 cracks celts to be meticulously The skipper of the s.s. Hain Wah was blity of such action which has been

mistake to rule out entirely the possi-ther and Announcements, 1,084 febelts in- Captain M. P. Jussen, well-known on the subject of, departmental survey, Varlety,

(Crocker and Loewe); It's Great To more. These are thoroughly inspect-

1.40 A Programma of Latest Be In Love Again (McHugh); A ed

by Lloyds and Government sur spected.

the China Const and he and three

Beautiful Lady In Blue (Coot3), and

any repairs or renewals At sea the Empress of Japan's other European officere, are belleved to, although nothing so drastle appears Orch. Wild Violets Selection 10.0 London Relay-In Town To- ordered are effected. Each lifeboat passengers and crew consume, on an have lost their lives in the disaster. to be contemplated in the immediate (Stolz-Dostal)....Eugen Wolf & night". and ruft has Wien to be

future-Reuter. tons of water a day. seruped, average, 250

His Orchestra; Vocal-Winter Draws Introducing personalities papered, and re-varnished.

Since, however, the ship can pack: The threat of opposition to the rati

On (Harper); We've Got To Keep Up every walk of life in interviews with The only lifeboat which escapes this away 3,800 tons in the tanks in her fention of the Kellogg Pact did not

With The Joneses (Elliott)....Gracie Lianci Camlin, flashes from the new treatment is lifeboat No. 13-for the double bottom, this is a matter of no eventuale. The necessary leglatation £ S. D. OF COLOUR Fields with Orchestra; Orch. Let of the werk, and Standing on

the U.S. Senute, the At overhaul time whatever passed through good reason that i does not exist. concern.

A Song Go Out Of My Heart-Stow- Comer (Michael Standing interviews FILMS Nor is there a No. 13, a No. 13, a remains of her water supply has to renty being ratified by 85 votes to

Fox-Trot; Cinderella Sweetheart-the man in the street'); Edited and No. 213, or a No. 313 cabin; in fact, by pumped out: her tanka are

Waltz...

Oscar Rabin & His Romany produced by C. F. Mechan. double

(Continued from Page 5.) Concession

Band; Vocal-Come Back To Erin to popular superstition cleaned and given a fresh

10.30 Darico Music. bas

Eyes (Claribel); When Irish

Are made the evil's number in any cont of cement,

Fox-Trek Avalon; Quickstep combination absolutely taboo

One of the remarkable piracies for foot. That makes the spool you Smiling (Olcott Ball), Phil Margio....Harry Roy and His Or- board all the C.P.S. ships.

Chain of 1,000 Links

nome considerable time-remarkable for bought the other day for 1s. 3d. Regan with Orchestra; Dance Orchchestra; Swing-step Clownerio Overhaul extends from the bed of the drydock

Colled beside the Empress in the the length of time the ship was in pirate rather unimportant, doesn't it? Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride Fox-Trot: Swing; Rumba-Rumba Acrobatique

ure her two bands and the length of the Journey boatst

Partners--Fox-Trol Our sample prints, day by day, will Change

(film outs gear to their food

provisions.

......Azerola (Piano); Fox-Trots Over 11⁄2 tons of "hard tack" has to be anchor chains, with anchors attached, travelled before the

Billy Cotton & His Bye, Bye, Baby: Unui To-day. cost.

us 1s. 4d. n foot, but we shall Carefree*), removed from 84 air-tight brandwoodpeckers." Each chain has over and Tsingtao.

Here a tedious task awaits the Poo An travelling between

leased--was carried out aboard the not print all nur 120.000ft. Our Band with Vocal Refrain; "Conversa- Ambrose and His Orchestra with it

director may photograph a scene tion Piece" Nevermore

(Noel Vocal Refrain; Quick-step-Get Hot .Gloria Grafton sidered destrable, replaced. Hard 1,000 massive links and could almost The Pon An is one of the biggest six times before he is satisfied. He Coward)

(So-Slow Fox-Trot-Makin' A Fool Of tack being wellnigh indestructible be wound around the street block and fastest vessels in the China Mer-may order only two of these to be prano) with Carroll Gibbons & His Myself...Nat Gonella and

printed. Let us say we have 30,000 Boy Friends. (and, so

some claim, Indigestible) bounded by Connaught and Chater chants fleet.

Georgians with Vocal Refrain; Fox- Ronds and Ice House and Pedder

from Dias Bay appear ft. of prints.

2.15 Close down.

Trots-Lost My Rhythm, Lost My Streets. At the end of each a 7 ion to have been responsible. They com- It does mount up. I reckon we 0.0 For The Children.

Music, Lost My Man (alm 'Soft lights: 5 cwt anchor is waiting to be cleaned. Pelled her Austrian master Captain have already spent £10,000-not all Nursery Rhymes; Intro; Hush-a- and sweet musle; I'm All In (files The ship's propellers have also been the other her mouth and at tile of it extra, but we shall come to that bye: Hot Cross Burg; Dame get up: Seft ights and sweet music....Am

velled, down the count nt practically removed. The shaft casing, com- full speek

later.

Curly Locks; Tom, Tom; I saw three brose and His Orchestra with Vocal posed of hard woud, inevitably sulters Throughout the voyage, the Captain Now we have to think of our ships; There was a frog; What have Refrain. some wear, and the ports affected was kept on the brige under close prints, the copies that arc run you Rot; etc.....Uncle George's 11.0 Close down. have to be replaced. The shafts are ruuri, à pistol being kept at his head to through the profectors of your Party with Orchestra; An Animat drawn back into the ship to permit persuade him to carry out the pirates' cinemas, this work to be done.

bidding. The Poo An Anally came to

on

tanks, inspected, and, it is con-

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Shanghai

A halt, undar Instructions, at a small The overhaul of the Empress of bay near Swatow, where the gang dfi-]

ofl nino passengers for

Mr.

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SATURDAY'S BRIDE

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Mr

the

Alphabet (A Guessing Game For Tiny Tots); Noah's Ark (Containing People Like Them

The Names Of The Animals Heard WE assume we have a pic-In An Animal Alphabet)....George 11. G. Donald, Superintendent of ing. They carried

ture good enough to be Baker (Vocul) with Orchestra; Stu- Engineering with the C.P.S., has wealthier

rupom. shown round the world. We make dio Serial; Little Man. You've Had Mr. J. N. Wilkinson Weds The Foo A is now headed for Shang-it 9,000ft. long and we order

Miss Teresa Lam charge of the engineering section,, and hat and is due to-morrow.

200 A Busy Day (Hoffman & Wayne).. copies. Multiply 9,000 by 200 and Les Allen with Mrn. Allen and Captain A. J. Holland, the Company's Marine Superintendent, has charge of;

the answer in any language IsNorman; Sidney Torch at the Organ, The wedding 'took place on Satur

6.30 Closing local Stock Quotations. day at St. Joseph's Church, Garden Wu Teh-chen, political vlee. 1,800,000ft.-at 4d, a foot, the deck department, the touching up minister, and former Mayor of Shang-I think that makes £31,875; in the

6.32-Carroll Gibbons & Ills Boy Road, of Mr. Joseph Nelson Wilkin- of anoroximately 350 cabins being an hat announced that General Chleng) item on his st

you Frenils. Kai-shek in returning to Nanking be ordinary black-and-white

Hitting A New High-Flim Selec-on to Mias Teresa Lam. There is plenty of work to do on fore January 20. He will be met there could get those 200 copies for about Hon; Breakin' In A Polr Of Shoes The bride, who was born in Macao,

£6,000. the Empress, but some of the boys by Marshal Chung Hauch-liang are not above mixing pleasure with Mr. T. V. Soong, former Finance Add that £31,675 to our £10,000 (Stept); Sugar Rose (Waller); Now is the daughter of Mr. and

We might as That You're Gone (Kahn & Fiorito): Leonidus Carles Lam. She wore a business, Thus two of them on Minister, is also leaving for Nanking and we have £41,875. Saturday found the deck quoit lines before the week-end.

well make it round £42,000. Can't We Talk It Over (Washington wedding dress of white satin trimmed Irresistible and look time off for a

What's an odd £125 at this stage? Young); Double Or Nothing-Film with sliver, featuring an upstanding quick game of pitch penny.

Press reports sileging that Chancell Now some of that £42,000 would be Selection: Mr. Dodd Takes The Air Elizabethan collar. The skirt ended In a long train at the back. Sho Jor Hitler of Germany had, separately! naid out, anyhow, whether we were-Film Selection. approached various members of the filming in colour or bluck-and-white, 7.0 A Light Spanish ProgramIDO, carried a bouquet of white chrysan- Little Entente with tempting offers", But how much?

If I Could Forget Your Eyes (Al- themums. APPOINTMENTS to induce them to join the "German, bire" and that he had offered Jugosla-

I asked a famous producer to tell beniz)....leniamino Gigli (Tenor)

with Orchestra; Sevilla (Albeniz); Miss Rosa Lam, the bride's younger via the Austrian province of Carinthia e what he reckoned was the extra Navarra (Albeniz)..........Arthur Rubin-sister, acted as bridesmaid, and wore

Jugoslavia would support

the re- cost of using colour. He replied: "I union of Germany

nud Austria, are estimate £10,000 on the making of stein (Plano): Un Barberillo Alegre a pretty frock in sky-blue satin, fea- oMelally dented in Berlin.

the nlm and £25,000 on 200 coples." (Villa-Prado)....Conchita Supervia turing puffed sleeves and very full | (Mezzo-sopráno) with Oreliestm; skirt. She also carried white "chry- Colour negative is about four times Sixty per cent. evaluation of the the price of ordinary film. It will Pastora (Murillo-Miranda); La Zin- santhemums. It is noticed that is Excellency { American dollar as the upper limit, very soon be much less expensivo. Korella (Paisiello)....Conchita Su-

The bridegroom is the son of Mrs, with Or- the Governor has appointed Dr. Government title to and ownership of but for the present

pervia (Mezzo-soprano) seems my pro-

W. J. Wilkinson, a well-known and J. B. Mockle

La to be Malariologist, all monetary gold in the United States, ducer friend is not for out.

chestra; Carnaval (Lucena); Habanera Medical Department, with effect from and the creation.

(Lucena)......Cordoba popular resident of the Colony, and of an Exchensa) Is it worth it? My answer is, January 4.

Equalisation Fund of $2,000,000,000 Yes and how!" People like colour Cantero: Cello Solo by Jose Pabloa.

Philharmonie Orchestra cond, by the late Mr. Wilkinson. Misa Ada Martha Harrington has were the principal proposals in real- especially women, who study it more

Mr. Lam gave his daughter away dant Rosevelt's engerly-awaited Mes-closely than men in everyday life in Hungarian Folk Songs.

7.30 Magyari Imre & His Orchestra in marriage, and Messrs. W. R. WII- been appointed a Nursing Sister.

Mr. H. A. Mills is to het as Postage to Congress.

kinson and ft. J. Wilkinson undertook and whose eyes are more" sensitive

You Are The Fellow, Friend the dulles of best men. master General until further notice.

to it Mr. A. M. 3. Wright has been ap-

But to satisfy the trained feminine Tykody; My Little Velvet Hat: Ohi pointed an Architect, Public Works

Later a reception was held at the jeye it must be good. So we come

How Long It Seems: Hungarian Department.

(Boka home of the bridgegroom, 26 Johnston Csardas Of George Nagy back to the old truth that, within Katoly)....Magyart Imre & Road, and in the evening a Chinese reason, the best is never too dent.

You day no more to sco

Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra: Blue!dinner party was held at the Ying A. E. Redick thought he saw just films, but more of you see them, sot Az Orn (Frono Frigyes); Leanyok,!

Cornflower (Kadas): Tik Tak Tik Tak King restaurant. Mr. W. H. Hillyer has been ap- another log in a dry creek bed or ist the producer of a good colour Legenyek (Recsey Gyula)....Kalmar moon, which is being spent at Mud When Mrs. Lam left for the honey-| pointed Deputy Shipping Master,

til showed its teeth. The "os" film can get his money back with pance, by Magyar Imre & she wore Captain Frank Sale, Army Educa- was on escaped four-foot

alligator interest.

a lovely dress in blua tional Corps, is to be a Member of which a neighbour had brought from

SETON MARGRAVE w Rose; I love You Beautiful Lowess.

Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra: Pale chiffon velvet embossed with white the Board of Education.

Florida.

Officers in New Posts And Promotions

Mr. P. V. Revoley is to be Assistant į ¡Wireless Engineer, General Post

Office.

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Findlay, O.

If

I had done

as was told-

I wouldn't have

this nasty cold!

Give me

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ADVENTURE!

CASSIDY ISN'T LAUGHING NOWI

Ha's worn-o death-feud on #his brother's

murderers?...

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OF THE

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Justering. WILLIAM BOYD

A Paramount Picture with.

GEORGE HAYES STEPHEN MORRIS RUSSELL HAYDEN JOHN BEACH BERNADENE HAYES A Harry Sherman Freductior

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