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KING'S

SHOWING

TO-DAY

DAILY AT 2.30. 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30

NO INCREASE IN PRICES

PAUL

MUNI

Honey's Fleriest Dọn Lửe Agam..... In A Picture That Will Live Vorvert.

ZRIBE KENNYA

DAVIS JUAREZ

Oj me pad vie del vanter » af

Brian Aberne

CLAUDE RAINS LỐIỂN CỦA XPIRED. DONALD, CAINE

That Balam (Dure) (mm).

LIAM SVETRELÉ

Also Colour Cartoon "CINDERELLA MEETS A FELLA” GALA PERFORMANCE, TO-MORROW at. 11 a.m. Only

P.M.

In Aid of the International Poace Hospital for wounded soldiers

& SHOWE

DAILY

2.30 -6 20 720-930

[MAJESTICI

THEATRE

NATHAN

ROAD KOWLOON

TEL $3312

(MATINEES: 20c-30c EVENINGS: 20-30:50:70.

• SHOWING TO-DAY

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THUNDERS WITH THRILLS ! BLAZES WITH EXCITEMENT!

ROARS WITH ADVENTURE !

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West of Chicago,There's No Law-West of Dodge City..No God!

EXPLODES WITH ACTION!

ERROL FLYNN DODGE CITY

OLIVIA D HAVILLAND ANN SHERIDAN

ALL IN TECHNICOLOR

BRUCE CABOT FRANKŒ¿UUGH »ALAN HALE JOHN LITEL-HENRY TRAVERS VICTOR JORY WILLIAM LUNDIGAN » Original Screen Play by Robert Buckner • Music by Max Steiner Directed by MICHAEL CURTIZ A WARNER BROS. Picture

To-morrow, Friday, Saturday & Sunday Daily at 12.00 Noon

SPECIAL MORNING PERFORMANCES PROGRAMMES OF COLOUR CARTOONS

Complete Change of Programme on Saturday

Admission Prices: Dress Circlo—30 ete., Stalls—~20 'cts.

• NEXT CHANGE`

A GREAT WAR-PICTURE THAT ONLY NOW CAN BE SHOWN I

LESLIE HOWARD

DOUG. FAIRBANKS, Jr. in ^.

CAPTURED

A Warner Bros. Dramatic Sensation I

More Land Ploughed

(Reuter).

In N. Ireland

0

First Investiture

Of The War

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LONDON, Fob.

LONDON, Feb. 6 (Reuter)His Northern Ireland's contribution to Majesty the King held the first in war food problems was the subjectivestilure to take place during the

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

A Look Through The "Telegraph"

50 YEARS AGO

Feb., 1800, "Let the dead past bury ste dend“ may

be applied to the final disappearan

from these waters of the abwatele type of which vassals left for England a few

gunboats of which the Kapoty and Merlin weeks ago were the last representatives We cannot, however, let the departure

trom amongst us of a type of vesti which has done so much towards the opening up of the great neighbouring. Empire pars Without a word of remark and expirasion of regret. In a retrospect, however healy, the great changes wrought in this part of the world since the first appearance in Bongkong WATCTE of this gunboat #quadron, mately convoyed trom Englanti by the late Admiral Snecard Osborn, then commending HMS Furious, must be Apparent, it is not too much to say that their arrival marked an eventiul sta in the history of China, rendering the open- ing up of the Empire a practicable, if not à comparatively easy teak. The arrival of the Mosquito fleet was wei- ramed by the colony an affording not only a security for the advantageous commer- elal development of the port, but also a much-needed protection to trade with the adjoining Empiro, The pirates in- festing adjacent waters, auct the e um Was Augion, quickly began to learn they 'nin formildable enemy to usu wang DE A very different calibre to what they had been accustomed in the past with its for chas and cutters, in most instances, Ine ferior in salling qualities to themselves. The authorities, at Canton alio quickly recognized the hoplemaness of compoling. with the means al their disposal, wat these gtit-draught, heavily armed (for those days) Jitta riearners. The taking of Cantan itself was a matter of bui Jittle labour and cost, chiefly through the cap- abilities of these small craft in fung exucily tha exigencies of the situation. After the fail of Conton, and the uadat 27 of the British operations in the north, the gunboat squadron was distributed along the const up to the Gulf of Pechill. and did invaluable service in clearing the seon of marauders; protecting the trade of the intermediate parts, and in farm- frist the van-guard of the operations in the north. The service they rendered in the morable but disastrous attack on the Pelho, on the 25th of June, 1050, cannot be forgotten: mud the ribs and trucks 'of the Plover, Lee and Cormorant, could be seen "In evidenze" on the muddy banks of that river until recently. It was in this op- gagement that the American Cominodoro (Tatnall witnessing from 2112 Flagship

that "to..

outside the bar, the terrible straits of the British attacking force (in which 40 aut of a total force of 1,200 were either kliled or wounded) made use of that be forgotten expression,

1 thicker than water"—he could not be a lent spectator to Englishmen being practically masacred and sulting the setion to the word ordered out his boats

and personally towed in the Retish re-

lefs to cover the retreat, In which action his own coxswain was killed at his sido by a cannon shot, Towards bringing to a successful issue the campaign of 1000 ra- suiting in the capture of Peking, the

BALKAN AMITY

February 7, 1940.

MINESWEEPER

WASHED ASHORE

Bulgaria Friendly. With terday, has been washed athore and

Neighbours

LONDON, Feb. 6 (Reuter)--The mineswerper, Sphinx, mentioned yes- now ites upside down on the bench,

Four bodies are visible inside, but: so far have not been recovered.

-SOFIA, Feb, 0 (Reuter)-M. Shukri Sarajoglu, the Turkish la favour of every effort being made Foreign Minister, spent some to promoto Balkan trade.

In an interview with n Greek hours to-day in Sofia as guest of paper, the Rumanian Foreign Minister the Bulgarian Prime Minister.

said that the Balkan Entente was now He is on his way back from the concerned, not just with Balkan Zalkan Entente Conference and, questions, but aiso with Euro- turing the morning, he was received pelin questions. by King Boris of Vulgaria.

Extol Visit

0

(Reuter).M.

These renewed discussions have

SOFIA, Feb. sroused great interest, and the Bulgo-Sarafoglu was given a cordial send-off inn Prens gives much space to the when he left after an eight-hour visit. riendly relations exlating between he two countrica.

The importance of his meetings A fresh sign of the harmonious re-ed as a factor consolidating peace in with M. Kioraselvanoff are emphasis- atlons between Bulgaria and other the Balkans. Balkan countries la scen in the report | Til

extola Press warmly

M.

nt the Yugo-Slav Minister of Com-Soratorlu's visit. "Sieve" writes that merce is to visit Bulgaria to try to one practical result of the Belgrade

imulate trndo.

conference la closer friendship between Promoting Balkan Trado Turken zed Rumanło which, crester This, it is felt, can be taken as the the possibility of real Balkan col- tout eten towards carrying out the laboration for the preservation of provisions of tho Entente Conference pence,

DAILY AT 2-50 5.20 7.20 9-20

HANKOW

STARE

• TO-DAY ONLY ✪

KOWLOON

57795

See the "fazide story" behind his flight in this flaming per

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Wrong

Wan

CORRIGAN

DOUGLAS

RADIO

sonal history of the youngster i. who twisted the tall of Fats and fired to laugh!...IT'S SWELLI

FLYING IRISHMAN

PAUL KELLY ROBERT ARMSTRONG GENE REYNOLDS DONALD MacBRIDE EDDIE QUILLAN

Also Showing "THE WARNING”

squadron continued to render invaluable To-morrow: "Cat And The Canary"

service, fzellitating the occupation. the puppression of the rebellion, and the open- ing of the Yangtze, But as times itavo

progressed, the old class have had to yield Fri & Sat.: “Good-bye, Mr. Chips”

in turn to larger and more suitable craft in keeping with the advancement of science. In welcoming the new class of gun vesel, of which we may taka ike Plover as type, it would seem as 12-18 would be impossible, during tha Boxi cycle, to improve much upon this ciDAS la regard to, speed and cepavilities. but If they can show in good a record at the end of the next thirty years that their predecessors have dune in the past, they will deserve the inurets we now place on the bler of the departed "pulera.“

4 SHOWS

DAILY

1.19--8.20

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Paramount Picturo

MGM Picture

ORIENTALE

ROAD

WANCHLI

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ANOTHER BARGAIN IN SUPER ENTERTAINMENT !

TO-DAY, TO-MORROW, FRIDAY & SATURDAY

In conclusion, we note there is some IMPORTANT FIRST RUN, PRODUCTION AT POPULAR PRICES!

stamina lell in the old vessels yet, for we sea the old Merlin,, Lleut, Comiatander Yonge reached Singapore homeward bound from this in about six days, beat- ing her colleague the Espoir and Cock- chaler by a day, and it was thought that the crews of these vessels might yet have to handle the handip)ke" on the court, or Eastern Africa, and show that the tradi- tons of the grit and pluck of their pre- decessors in the old puffers ike tha Plover. Algerine, Stounch, Starling. Opo sum, Kralrel, Woodcock, etc., etc., are as conspicuously to the fore as of yore.

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The Papal stables, which used to have forly horses in Plus IX's day, hava bern cut down to eight horses, and instead of | a dozen carriages dicy huyu only four,

Sir Oscar Jeunings, the noted Farland physician, says that quinine and anti- pyrine will. cure the influestza. "The quinine kills the microbe and the anti- pyrine destroys the pain. He calls In strippe "ustard pulmonary Theuni

"

The apparatus for the execution of condemned criminals by electrielly han been tested in New York in the prison with a bullock, the result being that the animal was killed instantly.

25 YEARS AGO

Feb. 6, 1015.

A despatch received from Reuter's cor- respondent at Melbourne reports that the second Australian Contingent has arrived in Egypt.

"Router's edrrespondent in Washington telegraphs that Mr. Bryan.. Secretary of State, replying to the German protest that the sale of American seaplanes to the belligerents is an unneutral net, diizents from the German view that seaplanes are war vessels

10 YEARS AGO

Feb, 6, 1030, Hongkong, Shanghai and Manila Inter- port golfers gathered at Mestre, Lone. Crawford's restaurant last night when the Royal Hongkong Golf Club · entertained their visitors to dinner. Mr. 0. 8, Arch- bull captain of the R.HK, Golf Club, i presided over the gathering....

5 YEARS AGO

R. 1978, The aerint mutual nexistance pact, mooted by Great Britain and France for the protection of the paw rs of westerns Europe gainst any possibio aggressioni is regarded as the most important feature of the Franco-British accord.

~The American view of the recent dis« „plosures from the London_conversations between the French and British minis- tars, is that they mean that _Delisin ta apprehensive at the growing German air. atrength.

Because of this apprehensiveness, Bri- tain finally has been forced to abandon definitely her policy of avoiding all post- ble European entanglements, the Ameri can opinion holda,

For the first time since the War, Britains has agreed to France's demand for tangible guarantee of practical assistanço in time of conflict. For the Brat time in Afteen years Britain has wayered from her isolationist polley, This, in the Amirican view, ir ilgnificant,

New Medical Head In S.W. China

of a broadcast given by the Premier, War at Buckingham Palace to-day. medical Bervice

Mr. Neville Chamberlain.

Li

CHUNGKING," Feb, 0 (UP),--Dr. Woo Lan-sun, until recently chief of the Chinese army's medical service, has been appointed chief of

department of and non-commissioned the South-west Highway Administra- He said that 250,000 additional ofcors of the three fighting forces tion. He is. Icaving Kunming acres were being ploughed and that and a number of skippers of trawlers Immediately to mobilise health and Northern Ireland intended to increase were among those to receive decora- || medical work along all the trunk and

A don' tis output of flax...................

Отсега

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by Frederick Pency FRANKLIN land 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.

branch lines in south-west China, with 1.000.000 yuan nppropriated by the Government as expense for operation in the first year.

POSITIVELY THE GREATEST WAR PICTURE OF ANY AGE 1

All other war drama's are Pigmles in comparison to this mighty.speciacio showing the horrors and brutality of war and what happens to captured British and French soldiers brhind the Nazi front and those incarcerated in the German prison camps. THOUSANDS IMPRISONED BEHIND MILES OF BARBED WIRE!

1939 MOST

EXCITING

SCREEN EVENT!

A Warner Bros. sper-production with, LESLIE HOWARD, DOUG. FAIRBANKS... PAUL LUKAS MARGARET LINDSAY

A story only the screen could tell-cold as the screen has never told a story before! Too BIG for the pages of history! ....... Too daring for any generation but this!... Too thrilling to believe until you ass. It sprend before your very spa!

FILMED EXACTLY ‘AS RELATED BY

SIR PHILIP CIBOS WORLD ·FAMOUS REPORTER MATINEES: 20¢.-30c. * EVENINGS: 206.-30c-50c.-70c.

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QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

HONG KONG

KOWLOON

AT 8:30-515 7:20:950 PM AT 2:30 - 520-720 & 9:30 PM

SHOWING TO-DAY

Grouchi Chico

THE

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BAKER RICE

ARDEN MARGARET DUMONT NAT PENDLETON

A METRO GOLDWYN - MAYER PICTURE

Důrated by LaWARD,10ZZELL

MERVEN LORGY PRODUCTION

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Leom the "Wizard of Oz" compose! Hours "Lydia the Talooed Lady" "Two Kind Loves" ***rizgal*

“Stand Up and Take a Bow"

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It's A Comedy Riot! Harold Lloyd Gives' You. His Grandest Laugh' Hit'!·

LLOYDER

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HAROLD

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TO-MORROW

FRIDAY - SATURDAY *.

BIG CAST! SONG HITS! SHOW OF SHOWS!

M-G-M's BIG FUN-AND-MUSIC SHOW!

Mickey ROONEY Judy GARLAND BABES. in ARMS

Charles VINNINGER Gay KIDBEE

Dimeled by BUSKY BERKKLEY

↑ card Gommini liver, noiling

CHINESE Sports CIRCUS

YOUR SWEET HOTS!

TO-NIGHT

TO-NIGHT

AT HENNESSY RD. (opp. Lee Gardens)

Show Starts at 8.30 p.m. A COME and see our selected, talented. Shanghai actors and actresses. SEE Ms Tan Siew Eng, the ONLY wild animal: GIRL TRAINER in the East perform unarmed with fierce tigers.

MATINEES on Feb. 8, 9, 10&11

1 p.m. to 3 p.m. 4 p.m. to 6 pim.. Parental Bring your children to this show and give- them an enjoyable afternoon's entertainment,

·Box (8 persons)

Single Box

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1st Class Seat

2nd Class Bef

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