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KING'S

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YOU CAN'T BLACKOUT TRUTH! UNCENSORED

THE

VERSION

ALL

QUIET

ON THE WESTERN FRONT

Universal's presentation of Erich Maria Remarque's Greatest Nors! Directed by Lewis Milestone A New Universal Picture

RICHARD GREENE in "HERE I AM A STRANGER”

- Brenda Joyce.

NEXT CHANGE

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A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Suspenseful Hit ! REVELRY... MUSIC..; ROMANCE... MURDER !

40 floors above Park Avenue ! Strangest of all mysterics... Until a society lawyer and a silken siren match hoarts

wito. for the thrilling solution.

SOCIETY

with

...and

WALTER PIDGEON VIRGINIA BRUCE LED CRAILRO [EGLAIDO CIAKHELI,

Les Do Directed By Edwin Morta Produced by SOHN W. CONSIDIKAN.

AWYER

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Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 17, 1940.

LAUNCH OVERTURNS

Stoward Of Prosidant Coolidge Believed Drowned

Shanghai, Jun. 10.

An American stewird from the President Coolidge and two Chinese boatmen are ralssing and are believed to have been drowned when a steam [lameh overturned in mid-stream on

the Whangoo this morning.

A messman on the President Coolidge, Jarnes D, Conroy, 20, steward on the accompanying the launch, wan rescued and taken

ashore. *

The Whangpoo steam launch Tor- toise in which the two men were re- turning after seeing Shanghal night upols at 5 a.m., was struck by a ver steamer and overturned after the motor broke down in mid-stream.

The messman, the steward and the Chinese boulmen were thrown over- board. The Chinese boatmen and the steward are believed have been drowned. Conroy was picked up by a Chinese junk.

Owing to the President Coolidge having 200 stewards on board, it was not possible to ascertain the name of the missing man. A roll call is being taken to learn the identity of the missing man-United Press,

Odd Coincidence?

KUPIGIT, PUNAT and Greer Garson in "Goodbye, Mr. Unips," watch is opening at the Queen's and Alhambra theatres shortly.

OCTOGENARIAN WOMAN REGAINS HER SIGHT

SALT LAKE CITY, (UP).-The world is brighter to-day and surely more wonderful than ever in the lifetime of Mrs. Ann C. Milne who proclaims she feels like starling life anew-at 91 years of age.

Patient Mrs. Milne, one of Utah's, ♦099604664- AMSTERDAM, Jan. 16 (Reuter)-early pioneers, an see to-day after An old coincidence is the subject of 15 years of total blindness. Sh:c much unofficial comment.

nds the world full of colours and During the last Lowland scare in familiar Salt Lake City sights are November, a Dutch ship, the now more exciting than ever to the Sucdrick, was sunk. Promptly on woman who first came here in 1859. the heels of the present tension, the Arendskerk has been torpedoed by Nazi U-boat.

Naxis Admit Sinking LONDON, Jan. 16 (Reuter)-The German wireless broadcast this after- of the noon news of the sinking Artndskerk.

The master of the Arendskerk, the Minuner said, had reported that his ship had been stopped and tur pedoed by a German submarine.

No comment was made.

An operation which is not often successful when a person has renel-

reinoved cd Mrs. Milne's age cotaract from her right eye and re- ! stared sight to both.

fl

Nurses and hospital attaches who attended the aged woman while she] was preparing for the operation said been me of their best she had patients. Success of the operation depended greatly upon her willing- ness to be motionless for six days. She never complained.

And when the operation was

LATE NEWS Onished and ate was given a new

pair of greeted

autumn..

glasses Mrs. outside the

Milne was, hospital. by

The world is filled with colours the prettiest in toy lifetime."

He Arrested Molotov- Worse Luck

THIRTY years ago when the Czar still ruled in Russia young student named Molotov was arrested, ac- cused

of revolutionary activities. Borrisov was the name of the policeman who made the arrest.

*

Soviet Prime Molotov is

Minister now. Borrisov has just been sent

to prison for ten years- charge not stated-accord- ing to the Moscow radio.

She expressed only one disappoint- ment. She wonted to see again the old Solt Lake Theatre, which her husband. the late David Milne, and his partner had painted when it was

During her the beauties of the new structure. use in the 60s, absence from the world of sight, the Mrs. Mline sees few familiar faces theatre had been demolished and but despite their absence she says, joy at seeing renlored by a modern business, "I can't express my Įbuilding- Regardless, she exclaimed again."

Roy

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ARE THEY THE MARKED WOMEN

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Directed by William McGann » Screen Play by Crane Wilbur

A First National Picture Presented by WARNER BROS.

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SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE'S GREATEST THRILLER ! "THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES” RICHARD GREENE - BASIL RATHBONE - WENDY BARRIE

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