10
KING'S
SHOWING TO-DAY
Molin Garfield
At 2.30, 5,10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
Daughters Courageous
THE "FOUR DAUGHTERS
Priscilla Lane Rosemary I
Lola Lane Cale I
with
Claude Raim Jeffrey Lynn Fay Bainter Donald Crisp May Robson Frank McHugh
Dick Foran
Dinoly MICHAEL CURTIZ
Presented by WARNER BROS.
Original Screen May by Jakes 3. and Prep & Epoken » Suggested by May by Dorothy Den besi İrsing White « khushi by Man Starters First Bradionat Picture
NEXT CHANGE
A Warner Bros. Picture
#
GOING PLACES
"
with Dick Powell, Anita Louise, Ronald Reagon
TAKE ANY TRAM or HAPPY VALLEY BUS. W
CATE
DAILY 'AT
2.30.5.15, 7.20,29.30.P.M.
MATINEES-JOL, 30%, 40% EVENINGS --- 20% 100, 800, You, O
SAZUIA, ED
* TO-DAY ONLY LAST FOUR SHOWS ! *
Return Showing of the Miracle of the Screen!
Sco It Again--the Wonder of the World!
WALT DISNEY'S
QW.D.
FIRST FULL LENGTH
PRODUCTION
Snow White
and the Saveza Dwarfs
All in Hulilplane TECHNICOLOR
Dited By BO,KADIO NCHSTES
"To-morrow and Wednesday, Two Days Only!
The Gayest Laugh Hit of the Season !
t's Go Thrills 11's Got Throbat jyselang
It's Gol Songs of Lovel
Listen Darling
• SHOWS
DAILY 220 - $20 720.030
-75000000
"Freddie BARTHOLOMEW.
JUDY GARLAND MARY ASTOR WALTER PIDGEON Alan Refe Stelty Beckett
Maury GayMayer man
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
NATHAN ROAD. KOWLOON
·TEL 87777
MATINEES. 20-30 EVENINGS 20-30-50470)
• SHOWING TO-DAY
THE WORLD'S GREATEST MASTER OF THE VIOLIN BRINGS TO YOU THE MOST GLORIOUS MUSIC YOU'VE EVER HEARD !
A SONG FOR THE MILLIONS WHO ARE HUNGRY FOR GREAT MUSIC!
SAMUEL GOLDWYN D
Jascha HEIFETZ
They Shall Have MUSIC!
with ANDREA LEEDS » JOEL MCCREA
GENE REYNOLDS-WALTER BRENNAN Directed by ARCHIE MATO
HELLASED EXES WRITED ARTISTS
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY Filmed From the Famous Comic Strip Road by Millions !
PENNY SINGLETON "BLONDIE"
ARTHUR LAKE
„
Columbia Picture
Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January 22, 1940.
ALL EUROPE
EUROPE WILL
--
INVOLVED IN
WAR MAY NO TROUSERS RESULT
IN NEW EUROPE
FOR HIM
DESPITE official assurances Scotsmen still fear that the cit la to be abolished in the British
Агнар de-
NEW YORK-Europe, spite the present war, is steadily tending toward greater unity through a growing realisation that the safety of one is the safely of all, and the final result will be a European organisation similar to that of the United States
America, in the of opinion of Alfred Duff Cooper, who resigned as First Lord of the British Admiralty a year' ngo in protest against the Bri tish appeasement policy.
Delivering his first Amerlenn lee- ture here last night, Mr. Duff Cooper the world had learned held that much from the mistakes of the past two decades and that Britain and now fighting merely France were for a Europe in which human beings may safely live and in which arms for defence, not for will be used aggression.
"I see Europe, tending toward a arealer unity," he said.
"Unity becomes much more press- mg as distance shrinks and we find that whatever happens anywhere is of importance to all the world. All must stand together in defence of what they believe in.
A New Order
"The time is coming with rapidity
Mr. James Gtichrist, on <- Glasgow Highlander, of Bella- hill, Lanarkshire, writes to the "Daily Herald:"
Teul- "Depriving Highland ments of the l is the Army chief's greatest mistake. I will re-enlist only on condition that
"the I can retain the kill on battlefeld."
The War Office slates that the kili is retained for ordinary pur- poses
As the kit is unsuitable for warfare, however, mechanized
the Crumending Officer ta to de- ride then it shall be used in battle.
SHE HAS
CLOTHED
500 POLES
BUCHAREST.
when a new order will be founded BRITISH women in Rumania bated on the ideal dear to the two
fare exerting all their efforts to- western democracies--freedom speech, religion and press. Britain i wards relieving distress among and France are closer than they, Polish soldiers and other re- have ever been before, and will con- fugees from Poland. tinue their ea-operation after the war and will succeed in their alms for a belter Europe."
One British widow of the last ward! earned the thunks of 500 Polish) troops.
At her own expence she provided them with their irst change of cloth ing since their arrival.
men
Mr. Duff Cooper prefaced his nd- dreg with the declaration that he had not come to this country as an rimissary
sary of the British Government,
I watched her getting the and that London would undoubtedly! have other
spokesmen of whom it their new shirts, sods and shoes, mys
a Correspondent. for more.
And I watched other women of mare making that he had resigned as the British colony. of the appeasement" den clothes for Polish mothers and tables.
D
at Munich. Mr. Dust Cooper em-| They cut and rewed with the same phatically denied that Mr. Chamber- spirit as if it were for their own boyn ala had given in to Herr Hitler: either through fear of German mili; at the front. nry might or through apprehension over the spread of Communism in Europe
Horror, Not Fear
were
"Make no mistake about the no- tives behind appeasement," he said. not of fear. "Those motives bul of horror of war, of a belief in the ultimate good sense of heininity: It was felt that the dictators who bad done so much for their nations could not possibly plunge them into war. But allowance was not made
able br
Steadily the physical needs of the refugees are being provided.
But thele broken spirits remain un- mended and a challenge to the wel- fare workers.
·Road Laid Out --In-Queensland-
Inland Defence
DRISBANE.-An Inland defence
BE
WAR
-General Gough
BEFORE the Allies win the war, and crush the Nazi regime, all Europe will be in arms. That is the opinion of General Sir Hubert | Gough, Commander of the | Fifth Army in the last war.
Britain must promise supporti to small nations in the struggle against totalitarianism, and must implement promises by the previous expansion and or- ganisation of British forces,
"An opportunity for giving a great moral lend ta Europe and the world has been suddenly offered us by the ruthless Invasion of Finland by Russia," anya Sir Hubert in article in The English Speaking World."
1139
Laughabló
JU
"If we fail to stand up to Russia, then we thall lose the most import- jant asset wo possess the moral
leadership of Europe."
Germany, says General Gough, been trying to frighten Britain out of a wor with the Soviet by suggesting the threat of a Justan invaston of Iraq and then ladla. "Such a threat Adds.
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
DE HONG KONG
AT 2·30-5-15-7-20-9:30PM,
KOWLOON
AT 2:30.5-20-720-930 PM..
TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW VOTED THE GREATEST PICTURE ! "GOODBYE MR. CHIPS" Is Your Picturo
Because it is You !
ROBERT
DONAT Goodbye Mr. Chips
GREER GARSON Maro
■ SAM WOOD Production
Beteen
Produced by
R. C. beril
CladdinEachwili
BAVILLE
Mayer
Wednesday At the QUEEN'S |Wednesday. At the ALHAMBRA ¿
"SOME LIKE IT HOT" Bob Hope & Shirley Ross
DAILY AT
2.30
is laughable," he
5.20
"Russia is n Colossus with feet of
7.20
day.
9-20
Rusala, ads Sir Hubert, could do very litle against Britain. A sinni
to squadron went the Arctic sea would crush the Russian armies and blockade Murmansk-cluring port
of refuge for German raiders as ··· well as striking a blow at Russia hersell.
It might also be necessary to sup- port Turkish fotila In the Black Sea, This would be done from our Mediterranean Fleet without strain- ing our Naval resources.
Sixth Sense Aids Guessers
NEW YORK (UP),~A sixth sense-extrasensory perception}
governs to a certain degree the accuracy of guesswork, tests conducted by Columbia Univer- sity psychologists indicate.
The research workers, after ducting a series of 1,000 tests with hidden card, said even the average had some sart of man or woman
lended to mental prompting which bring forth higher thun - chance Ruerawork on the part of some of the subjects.
L'un
"Something other than chance is at work," the psychologists said, hul offered no opinion as to what the extra-chance factor might be..
Quarter of Mils Away
In every test the cards were shuffled and set out of range of sight and hearing, and in about half For the tests the subjects-were a-quan-
ter of a mile away,
The records Indiente, contrary to chance expectation, that there is a definile relation between the scorea on one of the sets of cards." Prof.
Gardner Murphy Bald. of Queensland
for the mentality of Hitler nor was highway from Brisbane to Towns any knowledge shown of his book."
Mr. Duff Cooper said Hitler's main ville, a distance of more than 150 objective had always been to crush miles, will he part
fa rule contribution to the Australian Gov- France s os lo Europe, and that appeasement, like crament large-scale defence plans.
The highway will cost £160,000. the treatles of Veraallies and Lo-
to spend the Slate Intends and earno, hart failed because they had £100,000 this year. All the chief been brought up against men who Queensland coastal towns 'will con-
nect with the road.
believed in force.
The Queensinnd State Government jalo is acting as the
Spies in Their authority for Commonwealth Gov-
Courses
TWO women, two men, a man and a
woman, and two um- brellas (they can't keep out of the news) form the dramatis person of this morning'a spy stories, which come from France, Belgium and Holland,
Let's take them in that order." (1) France and the Security Police of the R.A.F., into whose ken arrived two beautiful women driving a smart coupe and wearing leopard-
emment works on airdromnes, ronds. £204,600, to and railways to cost
will contribute which the Sinle
£134,600.
LATE NEWS
CHINESE MOB A SOLDIER
How several unknown Chinese at- + conts. They spoke to airmen,
and asked some pretty pertinent tacked a British soldier in Waterloo. questions. Rumour had it that they Road on Saturday is described in a
True, they police report. were German spies. travelled for a wine merchant--but Sapper J. II. Cunningham of_the
"Control series ind statistical analysts suggests that something other than chance la al work, Ja There are several phases of the dis- which are tribullons of the deta
dimeult to interpret and it is con sidered wise to continue the experl- men!, using new subjects as well as continuing with the old."
Scotland's New. Grand Master
Viscount
Trapprain was elected Grand Master Mason of Scotland.nl of the a quarterly communication Grand Lodge of Scotland, held in the Freemasons Hell, George Street, Edinburgh, recently.
The following other offee-bearera for the ensuing year were also ap- pointed:
Senior Grand Werden-The Ear! of Galloway.
Junior Grand Warden-The Eart of Lauderdale.
Senior Grand Chaplain-The Rev. James Campbell, Provincial Grand Master of Dumfriesshire,
Junior Grand Chaplain-The Rev. W. J. Baxter.
Senior Grand Deacon-Sir Alexan
he was a local man, cot Ribbentrop Royal Engineers, Wellington Bar- der B. Swan, Provincial Grand Mas- Their papers were in order, and they racks, has reported that as he walked ter af Glagow
were, French.
near the harbour at the bottom end
Ayrshire.
TO- MORROW
#SHOWS DAILY $30-$.18 7.48+0.30
"CASSIDY OF BAR 20"
with William Bord
STAR
• TO-DAY ONLY.
HAŃKOW ROAD KOWLOON TEL. $7795
RAMONOVARRO
VELY
LAYE
GHTS
YOUNE
"OUR FIGHTING NAVY"
Tõen Ader Taum Sa Manni VaR HVÍ
ORIENTAL
FLEMING
BROAD NANOHAR
VEL 10473
AST 4 TIMES TODAY.
YOU'LL THRILL TO THIS SOUL STIRRING PICTURE! A great bunian drama that strips the veneer from society and bares the life siòry of an ex-chirap,
HE TOOK NO LIP FROM ANYONEI
...And talked best with his hands!
VICTOR
McLAGLEN EX-CHAMP
·with
TOM BROWN NAN GREY.
TWO DAYS ONLY! TO-MORROW AND WEDNESDAY GAY-ISLAND ESCAPADES AND GLORIOUS GLAMOUR!
MATINEES: 20c.-30c.
HINGS OVER HONOLULU
WENDY BARRIE RAY MILLAND CLeading Man WWThong Smart Güls""}
EVENINGS: 20c-30c-50c.-70c.
MORE Babies Live,
FEWER Mothers Die
THE people of Kurland and Wales, born, and was the lowest rate on
record.g are enjoying better health."
There are more births and fewer deaths. Infant mortality has gone down.
Mothers who died in childbirth in 1938 numbered 1,017, against 1,988 Im 1937. This rate is the lowest ainee 1011.
Junior Grand Deacon-Mr. James of Waterloo Road, he was assaulted, E. Shaw, Provincial Grand Master of Grand Architect-Mr. Peter Mac- (2) Belgium-and the two um-by a crowd of Chinese, brellos. To a cafe in a small town As a result of the scuffle he lost Auslan, Provincial Grand Master of none Brussels came a woman. With his cap and his pay book, which fell Lanarkshire Upper Word.
Grand Jeweller--Mr. John Inglis her she had two umbrellas, one into the harbour,
The maternal mortality is lower, man's, the other a woman's. The
Grand Bible-Bearer-Mr. John B. Sapper Cunningham also sustained
There were 30.745 fewer deaths in Pelco, C.A.
and there has been 'n drop in the cafe proprietor recognised her as the alight cut to his right hand.
Grand Director of Ceremonies--Dr. number of nollЛablo infectious 1938 than in 1037, when 500,374 per- woman who three days ago had been
jsona died. seca measuring a strategie bridge. Y
Douglas L. G. Redlord.
Grand Bard-Mr. Peter Ferguson." Ilo told the police. An offer
These encouraging
Tuberculosis is declining. Deathe Grand Sword-Benter Lieut- arrived. He saw the two umbrellas
Colonel Philip G. M. Skene, Provin- brought out by Sir Arthur MacNally.in 1938 numbered 20,176-the fewest and decided to wait for the man. 10
clal: Grand Master of Fife and Kin-Chief Medical Officer of the Ministry recorded-compared with 28.029 in
1937 walted for an hour, then arrested
of Health, in his report for 1938. both. The man was a German.
Grand Director of Music Mr.
There were 621.204 births last year.
*
*
1 Dead, 5 Injured
In Lorry Smash
* Foss.
diseases.
facts are
A moler jorry 'which crashed Into
Sir Arthurve the decline may be. (3) Holland--and the salutes that role verandah pillar in Cheung-Peter Flitcroft
shawan Rock at 8.30 p.m. yesterday Grand Organist Mr. W. Martin 10.047 more than in 1937. This gives attributable, in part, at least to the should not have been given. Two was responsible for the death of one Holkirk.
Cancer was, however, A rate of 10.1, the highest since 1932. grent Improvement in ORLAND PA Grand Piper-Mr. James Robert deaths of infants under one for more deaths than informer. man, In Dutch naval uniforms, and serious injury to five others smuggled. themselves:into the dock-11 of whom were passengers,
Bon, The five injured (men have boeri yard at the naval bam of The Helder.
Grand Marshal-Mr. Campbell year numbered 32,724, almost half years, the total being 68.609.
the total of, 20 year ago..........
Low, takes the second highest Miller. The comnianding officer mustered the admitted to hospital.com akarata. garrison, but the Intruders could "not! This only neten to carane unsestli
Grand Immer GuardMr. John D.
This was 63 per 1,000 children position among the killing be found. He then told his men that od, apparently, was the driver. He is Ted Provincial Grand Master of
Midlothian. the next day they must not salute sileged to lura abarondad."
their superior officers.
.....
Two did. They were
arrested.
They were the wanted men.
..
Grand Tyler-Mr, Alexander all-
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongk
Page 10Page 11
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.