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TEALING DOWN THE FIELD FOR

SHOCKING CAMPUS CUTIES FOR A COCK-STID GOALI

INKOWNO MAN MOUNTAI DEANOR A TOTAL LOSS

A HUNDRED LAUGH GAINE

LOEW

JOE E BROWN GLADIATOR

TOMORROW

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GARY COOPER & MERLE OBERON in "THE COWBOY and THE LADY"

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The Adventure and Romance of Mark Twain's

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FEATURETTES

TOM SAWYER DETECTIVE

A Pentasan Penang ank

DONALD O'CONNOR-BILLY COOK

PORTER KAEL-BARET KALDO · RAYMOND KATTOR

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FINAL PERFORMANCE

of

"DEBUTANTE GOES TO TOWN" Prices: $10.00, $5.50, $4.40, $3.30, $2.20 G $1.10

TO-MORROW

A Now Masterpiece from the MGM Studio ! THE GREAT WALTZ "

LUISE RAINER - FERNAND GRAVET - MILIZA KORJUS

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ORIENTALE

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2DAYS TO-DAY TO-MORROW

HARDY FAMILY IN THEIR NEW AND BEST ADVENTURE! Mickey gets girls in his system and ands that

he has no system for girls, he's in love with three.

ADD Judy Garland's joy. Sous singing to the Hardy family fun...and you have tho nowor...and grandes! ...adventure of the picture Borios the whole world has taken to its heart!

Hesto Efimens

MATT

Love FINDS

ANDY HARDY

Mr. The Pław Diary of Judge Hardy's Family with LEWIS STONE - MICKEY ROONEY JUDY GARLAND • CECILIA PARKER FAY HOLDEN Boreaney by William Ludwig

Directed by George B. Ball

STARTING SUNDAY

PARAMOUNT'S MILLION DOLLAR SCREEN SPECTACLE ! Far superior to any productien seen in years.

A LOVE STORY arms on foaring Areše Sana!

OF

"SPAWN NORTH

THE

A Freenet Pires gives GEORGE RAFT"

HENRY FONDA - DOROTHY LAMOUR

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Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

INSURANCE VOLUNTEER FIREMEN

CLAIM

China Underwriters Sued By Fire Victims

March. 3, 1939.

REFUGEE CAMP

Extension of Local Air New Settlement at Fan

Raid Precautions

Uk Ling Ready The additional refugee camp which In extension of the Air Raid Pre- caution work in the Colony, it is pre-Government has been compelled by posed to augment the Are service by the further refugee influx to establish inviting volunteers to form an "Aunt Fan Uk Ling, between Sheung Volunteers Shul and the border, has been rushed xillary Fire Service," Hearing of the $30,000 insurance will be supplied with one cult of drill to completion and is filling rapidly.

Work on the sheds began on Satur- claim against China Underwriters, unform and one suit of serge uniform, Lid. was resumed before the Chief top boots and accoutrements, and will day and was completed on Wednes Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, in the rarry distinctive badges and numbers day night. Before the place was Supreme Court yesterday, after an of the "Auxillary Fire Service," The ready people were already entering, adjournment of nearly a month.

aim is to bave 100 trained men be-though there was no food for them. Plaintifa are the Cheong Shing fore the end of this year, and more Food provision commenced with the Hong firm, and the claim arose out may be trained in the following year, formal opening yesterday. of a fire in their godown in January,

By lust night there were 600 people 1938.

The Chief Officer, Fire Brigade, They clain $30,906.23 from the de- wishes to chilst 60 men forthwith, the camp and the number is ex- These refugees have been bivouack- fendants, being the rateable propor-twenty-five of whom will be trained Pected to reach 2,000 very quickly.

ed along the border, Some have tion to be borne by them for the loss on the Hongkong Island side and the Kowloon,

and the of a quantity of sea-food through remaining twenty-five in

is proposed to hold their cattle with them During training

authorities are trying to persunde the fire.

"The defence is that out of the 137 two drills n werk, each drill to last the men to take their cattle back to items set out in the clum, 17 ore not more than one hour. The course their homes across the border and fraudulent, and benefits under the of training will include escape drill,

resume work, leaving their_women forfeited. extension ladder drill, pump drill, and children on this side. To meet olicies are, therefore,

'cure of hose, the reluctance shown it has been that some of trailer pump They further allege the goods had been charged higher methods of dealing with incendiary suggested that the men night return than the market price and that the bombs, and anti-gas precautions to Hongkong territory cach night to weight and price book been Full truining will take about four sleep with their families, but so far

there has been Hitle response. months. altered.

had

drill,

Mr. Eldon Potter, K.c.. and Mr. H. C. Macnamara appear for the plain- Applicants will be required to give T firm on the instructions of Mr. their services without remuneration. E. Davidson, of. Hastings and Co. When the first 50 men have been The defendants are represented by trained, training of the second 50 the Hon. Mr. Leo D'Almada, Jnr., will be started; hence it may be that and Mr. D. J. N. Anderson, Instructed an applicant may not be elected by Mr. O. E. C. Marton of Deacons. amongst the first 50 but he may be

Wong Yun-ton, inanaging partner selected in the second 60. of plaintiff Brin, was cross-examined by Mr. D'Almada on a number of lems in the weight and price book, which the defence alleged had been altered, He admitted there were alterations in some but denied that the changes were made for the pur- pose of putting up the price and weight.

Numerous Entries

HONGKONG STUDENTS

Swatow, Mar, 2. The Hongkong Students' Relief Service Corps, numbering twenty- four members, arrived at Kityang, 35 miles north-west of this city sume

They left on February 25. Hongkong a week ago. A warm re- ception was accorded them by the secretary of the district Kuomintang eftice at the district middle school.

Wah Kiu Yat Po.

CHINESE ENGINEERS

Applicants must be between 25 and 45 years of age, minimum height 6 ft.

in, and of good physique. Appl conts will be required to under with charge, medical examination Preference will before enlistment. be given to British subjects, but other nationals resident in Hongkong may apply. Applicants must be able to read and write English. Witness expressed disagreement!

Appilcations cannot be entertained) when told by Counsel that the from members of either of the Volun- description of goods, shipment num-teer Services or from those who have bers and other particulars, apart already volunteered for

service as from prices and weights, were com-Air Raid Wardens, under the Air Raid paratively tree from alterations. Precautions Scheme; nor can appli-1

Counsel: I put it to you there are cations be entertained from men who Fineer and proprietor and general roughly 1,500 to 2,000 entries begin have already been carmarked for

total special

"Essential Services in an

emergency.

The Hongkong branch of the Chi- nese Engineers' Society was formally meeting of leading organised at a Chinese engineers here at the St. Francis Hotel on Wednesday.

Mr. Wa Yun-chu, well-known en- manager of the Tien Chu Seasoning on page 24; that erasures did not

Powder Factory, Shanghal, and Mr. Huo Pao-shu, former Acting Com- begin 1 page 20: that the

missioner of Iteconstruction of the number of weight erasures is 34, of

Government, which 24 are claim Reins; and that

Forms of application for enlistment Cheklang Provincial

Chairman and vice- the total price erasures are 96, 77 of which relate to the claim items? can be obtained at any Fire Brigade were elected

Station When completed, they Chairman of the Society respectively. Although I have not counted them should be returned to the Superin- Mr. Chang Yen-slang was named one by one. I do not believe there

tendent, Fire Brigade Central Fire secretary and Mr. Wu Ta-moh rea-

surer,Central News. are so many.

{Station,

Witness was then questioned on items relating to various kinds of sea-food, after which he was asked to explain why the altered entries showed prices above the average,

wns

Ife said that this was because of the quality being superior, and the fact that the market price higher at the time. He admitted there were no side notes in the Į weigd and price book showing the: different qualities, but said they mentioned the godown book, which had been destroyed by the fire.

were

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BREEN BREAKING the ICE

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VICTORIA GREAT

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ANNA NEAGLE ANTON WALBROOK

H. B. WARNER

WALTER RILLA

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IDIMMIE DAVIS. PENNY SINGLETON - Directed by Dusty Veckuley « A Warner Bros. Picture.

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A High-Spirited, Thoroughbred Comedy in the Mad, Merry Manner of "The Awful Truth"! JOAN

BLONDELL

Living sappily ever after... in the gayest

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MELVYN

DOUGLAS

HERE'S ALWAYS

Woman

MARY ASTOR

FRANCES

JEROME

DRAKE 1. COWAN From the popular American Mogasine story by Wilson Coillion » Sczasu play by Gladys Laman = Benclad by Alexander Itali « Pradmad by Willam Perfhere • A Columbia Fichera

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LITTLE MISS

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GEORGE MURPHY PHYLLIS BROOKS JIMMY DURANTE

EDNA MAE OLIVER

A 20th Century-Fex

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Sie groot songs by Bullock and Spine!

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