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KING'S

SHOWING TO-DAY

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

Irving Berlin's ALEXANDERS RAGTIME BAND

TYRONE ALICE

DON

POWER FAYE AMECHE

ond

ETHEL MERMAN • JACK HALEY

JEAN HERSHOLT: HELEN WESTLEY JOHN CARRADINE PAUL HURST WALLY VERNON

NOTE

RUTH TERRY

A

20th Century-for Picture

The Admission Prices of the 2.30 show during the showing of "Alexander's Ragtime Band" will be increased to same as the evening.

SPECIAL MORNING PERFORMANCES TO-DAY AT 12 O'CLOCK NOON ONLY "THE AUTOCRAT OF CH'O DYNASTY”

A Chinese Picture with Superimposed English Subtilies Admission Prices:-D. Circle $1.00. B. Stalin 70c., F. Stalls 40c.

+ SHOWS

DAILY

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DRUMS

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DESMOND TESTER

ROGER LIVESEY

VALERIE HOBSON

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JOAN BLONDELL - MELVYN DOUGLAS in "THERE'S ALWAYS. A WOMAN' A Columbia Comedy-Hit !

Needed Urgently

MEN'S, WOMEN'S & CHILDREN'S

Winter Clothing

Hongkong Benevolent Society

11. Ice House Sticet,

MONDAY

THURSDAY

10 a.m. to 12 Noon.

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FOEDERICK PERCY FRANKLIK at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. February 21, 1939.

Family Bible Tells Girl's Age

TN Hempion, tiny Norfolk village,.

IN

they keep their family recorda

on the fly-leaf of the Bible.

They prefer such records to birth certificates.

Horatio Wright and his wife, Edith Sophie, produced their family Bible

in the Fakenham police court recent-

ly.

NEW YORK FEARS QUEENS & ALHAMBRA

ANTI-NAZI RIOTS

NEW YORK, Feb. 20. EXTRAORDINARY POLICE precautions

They believed that their daughter are being taken to-night to deal with expected was 10, they rald, because the Bible: disorders in connection with the big rally of the

entry maid she was born on March

25, 1022.

And that was why they signed pro-Nazi "German-j

The police spent the night combing the Garden, following

consent to her marriage, which look American Bund," which an anonymous warning that

place last May.

They were summoned for knowing-

ly and wilfully signing a false de- is being held in Madison bomba had been planted there.

Nothing was found.-Reuter.

claration.

OFFERED EXTRACT

The Rev. G. Smallpelee, vicur of Hempton, paid that Mrs. Wright

asked banns.

Square Garden.

No less than 1,500 police Servant Gives him to publish her daughter's have been assigned to the

Later he remembered that the girl Garden neighbourhood, Children Party

was only 15, and after making la- where 60,000 demonstrators quiries, he told Mrs. Wright that her

are expected to act as pic- daughter could not be married.

or otherwise show registrar, kets, Alex E. Kerrison, the said that when Mrs. Wright, her

Mrs. Balls, mother their disapproval of daughter, and o of the man the girl wished to marry, Bund's activities. called at his office, no one said that Mr. Smallpelce had been seen.

Mrs.

Wright

the

SITTINGBOURNE, Kent. CHILDREN of the little vllinge of

Bobbing, near here, have a fairy god- mother.

Miss Esther She 18, 30-year-old Russell, a domestic servant working

at Herne Bay, who travels 18 milca

to

his sing every Sunday to take a

Herr Fritz Kuhn, the Bund the leader, fold him that

announced has could not produce the birth certi- intention to have 3,000 of his Beate to confirm her daughter's age,,

but offered to bring an extract from uniformed

storm-troopers

at

the family Bible. The parents sign-hand to deal with any distur- ed a consent form.

OLD ALTERATION

bances inside the Garden.

Five police lorries, loaded with Mr. G. R. Webb, defending sollei- tor,, showed Mr. Kerrison two pages tear gas bombs, will be standing of the Blule, and he agreed that an by, while reserve police, armed alteration in the entry of the year with rifles, will be stationed in of the birth of the girl was an old the basement of the Garden.

one.

Mrs. Wright said she told the vicari her daughter was 15 and that if he could not marry her she would and someone who would.

her

The alteration in the record book was in the handwriting of husband's mother, who died about six years ago.

4 SHOWS DAILY 2.30-6.19 7.15-0.30

school class.

something But the children have more for which to thank her.

Every week Misa Russell puls her wages into the post-office bank.

And now she has just drawn the money out and given a party for the vilinge schoolchildren.

something by from

And what a party. There were sweets, toys and fruit--ali bought by Miss Russell.

ORIENTAL

THEATREA,

FLEMING ROAD WANCHAN

TEL 20473

OLAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY.

The Chairman, Mr. H. G, Johnson, said the magistrates had deelded that MOST SENSATIONAL BARGAIN IN THEATRICAL HISTORY !

the couple knew their doughter was not 16.

Both were aned two guineas and ordered to pay costs.

Tied And United

San Francisco.

In December, 1934, Edna Edwards. publle relations counsel for the deaf, served us a "sign interpreter" for thei marriage of Esther and Arthur R. Gage. Almost to the day, four years later, she served in the same capacity for their divorce.

LATE NEWS

Pitiful Scenes At Hospitals

Pluiful scenes were witnessed this; afternoon at the Kowloon Hospital as the stream of wounded civilians were brought in from the border by umbulances.

The most pitiful eases were those of old and young women, their limbs shattered and their clothes blood- stained. During the early rush, two or three student doctors were called in to cope with the influx of cases. Operations are being performed on three wounded civilians, it is under- stood.

Owing to lack of accommodation only serious cases are being admitted other to Kowloon Hospital, The cases are being sent to the Kwong Wah and Lalchikok hospitals as soon is they receive first uld.

Most of the casualties so far re- celved at Kowloon Hospital sustain- ed their wounds from bullets, con- firming the fact that the Japanese extensively machine-gunned populace as well as bombing clly.

the the

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DICK PURCELL KATHLEEN LOCKHART GENE LOCKHART

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ON THE STAGE

AT ALL PERFORMANCES THE FAMOUS

Woman Dies With NOVAC DUO

Bullet Wounds

An unknown Chinese woman who was wounded during the border rald died in Kowloon Hospital shortly

after admission,

In addition to sustaining a frac-i tured leg, the woman was the victim of machine-gunning, at least two bullets lodging in her stomach.

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HERE THEY COME!

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