1940-05-07 — Page 30

KING'S

SHOWING TO-DAY- AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

TWO LITTLE PEOPLE AGAINST

A BIG GUY!

VICTOR

JACKIE

McLAGLEN COOPER THE BIG GUY

Ona MUNSON - Poggy MORAN - Edward BROPHY

NEXT CHANGE

.COLUMBIA

Picture

-

A New Universal Picture

WE

BOAT 29

with

Conrad Veidi - Valerle Hobson - Sebastian Shaw

TAKE ANY TRAM or HAPPY VALLEY BUS.

CATHAY

ņ

DAILY AT 2.30.5.15, 7.20.&9.30.P.M. MATINKES 1–10%, 30%, 40% EVENINGS1-10c. 20ây BC YOK BER

TO-DAY, ONE DAY ONLY! *

THE MIGHTIEST ADVENTURE ROMANCE EVER FILMED! Paramount's roating story of the pirate who saved a nation

PVC:PC TaiLM POPLENTY

A Cecil B. DeMille PRODUCTION FREDRIC MARCH

"THE BUCCANEER

FRANCISKA GAAL

FAMIROTE Margot GRAHAME Walter DRENNAN Drected by CECIL, B. DeMILE

A Paramount Picture

* TO-MORROW Only * * THURSDAY ONLY! *

Louisa May Alcott's

History's Greatest Romance

'LITTLE WOMEN''Mary of Scotland' starring Katherine Hepburn K. Hepburn - Fredric March

DAILY 230.6 20 720.9.30

MAJESTIC)

THEATRE

'NATHAN

ROAD KOWLOON TEL. $7222

(MATINEES: 208-30%.° EVENINGS, 20%.-30.50«:70)) ***

TO-DAY, ONE DAY ONLY! ©

Return of an "Old Favourito" !

CLAUDETTE

COLBERT

CHARLES

in Paris

BOYER

in Love

Together in the Year's Swellest Comedyl

TOVARICH

The first of 1930's Ten Best Pictures?

whi

BASIL RATHBONE ANITA LOUISE MELVILLE COOPER-ISABEL JEANS Morris Carnovsky.Victor Killan AN ANATOLE LITVAK PROD'N A WARNER BROS. PICTURE

Steven Play by Casey Robusson • Adapted from the Play by Jacques Deval English Version by Itobvis E. Sherwood • Mundo by Man Stelor

TO-MORROW & THURSDAY

A Gay Musical Comedy, Full Of Rhythm and Fun!

TONY MARTIN`··· RITA HAYWORTH in “MUSIC IN MY HEART"

A Columbla Picture;

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 7, 1940.

Naval Tug To EXTENSIVE Blown Up By

Be Sold

1

40-Year-Old Cherub

Will End Carcor

AIR RAIDS

OPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHY KWEILIN, May 6 (UP). -Japanese planes to-day

British Mines ALHAMBRA THEATRE

Nazi Ship, Swedish Trawler Are Sunk Built in 1900 by the Hongkong and carried out extensive bomb- STOCKHOLM, May 6 (Reu- Whampoa Dock Co., HM. Lug Cherubing raids on six cities on the ter)-A German steamer and a how lying in the highway northeast and west have been blown up to-day off Swedish trawler are reported to

la being offered for sale,

The vessel is Camber, Royal Naval Yard, Kowloon, and all material on board will be sold of Nanning.

together with her with the exception Thirty people are said to have Gothenburg, when 12 Swedish of chain cable, anchors and gear.been killed at Linchow.

which whi be lent to the purender

tor navigational kafely within port of Hongkong.

the

Tenders must. reach the Naval Store OMeer, H.M. Dockyard, not later than noon on May 20.

been naval

With

displacement of 400 tons. understood the tug hos used as a water-bont by the authorities.

LATE NEWS

(Continued from Page 1)

DEVELOPMENT

OF COLONIES

LONDON, May 6 (Reuter)The

text has been issued of the Colonial

Development and Welfare Bill which was Introduced by Mr. Malcolm MacDonald in the House of Commons last week.

Vinga, outside the port of

trawlers. and the steamer suddenly found themselves among a shoal of floating mines.

The trawler's crew of four were lost but the crow of the German isteamer, totalling 35, reached the

Swedish const unfoly.

COMMUNISTS ARE CONDEMNED

LONDON, May 6 (Reuter)-A Com-

It provides the machinery to carry resolution condemning the out the Government's colonial de-munist Party has been passed by the velopment policy and also provides National Union of Distributive Ailled for the remission, wholly or partially, Workers,

the

of loans to the colonics and depen- The resolution urges the executive dencles totalling £11,204,000,

council of the Union and the Labour for beyond the imunediate subject

This Includes advances to Party to keep a close watch on any matter of his statement itself. From

Bechuanaland, Basutoland and attempts 10 divide

working purposes parties. Communist influence' must the strictly military standpaint the setback in Norway is no major disa-Swaziland for the various ster of the kind likely to imperil our such as combating soll erosion, the be checked wherever found, ultimate victory. Its reni significance construction of ronda and bridges, is its relation to the energy, fore. It will be remitted only in part.

It also includes loons to the sight and efliciency with which the war as a whole is being conducted, Uganda Rallway. We want to be sure we are really gathering our strengths for a deci- sive ultimate altack.

"More than that, we must be able to convince the outside world no less than ourselves, for the attitude of the neutrals, so vital to our diplomacy, is dependent much more on our strength and prospects than on our morals,

A tensely expectant world wet study the nation reaction to the Government's ease as carefully as the case itself."

The "Times" says: "It is not fully realised that the Nazi party and general staffs of the German armed forces ure one. To strike a tremen- dous blow behind a dense smoke- screen of deception, feints, propagan

and sabotage was ever the ideal of

the German general staff, but It required the Nazi doctrine and philo- sophy to perfect the process. This is based on treachery and complete lack of scruple, but marked by vigour," imagination and boldness. We can- not imitate treachery, but we prevent our minds from running in ruts, and reanimate our intellects to incet conditions of total war.

beat

can

be

The "Daily Mail" declares: "The debate will widen. People want to to be done to know what is going to

must Germany, There radical changes in the Government." says: "So The "News-Chronicle" far we have only been waging half a We have been fighting it in our spare time with our spare re- must end that sources. Now, we perilous folly and start to wage total war,"

war.

The "Daily Herald" expresses

doubts about Mr. Chamberlain's fitness to govern.

ACQUITTED

Wan Chun-ing, charged with the murder of Yuen Yuet in a ten house at Fanting, was this afternoon found not guilty by the jury at the Criminal Session, and the man was discharged by the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl Mac Gregor.

In the course of his evidence, Wani denied that he stabbed Yeung, and he also alleged that prisoners in Stanley Gaol had taught him what to say in the Magistracy, which statenient he now denied as being true,

The proposer of the resolution said. that the tinie hnd come to get rid of the silly symphonies the Communist Party plays.

TAKE KIT VAAN DE HAPPY VALLEY BUG.

EORIENTALE

2.30-5.15

DAYS

28473

TO-DAY • TO-MORROW.

DOUBLE ENTERTAINMENT!

SPECIAL VAUDEVILLE AND SCREEN SHOW ALL FOR THE ONE PRICE OF ADMISSION

BIG THEATRICAL

DAVEt

BARGAIN!

FAMOUS

HARVEY YER SISTERS

ON THE STAGE

AT ALL

PERFORMANCES

THE

BEST AND FUNNIEST

VAUDEVILLE ACT

EVER SEEN IN

HONG KONG

SPECIAL SCREEN ATTRACTION!

THE YEAR'S MOST THRILLING ADVENTURE STORY !

Terrific storms, shipwrecks, Isolated from nil laws among fierce tribes.

MADGE EVANS JOHN BOLES

SINNERS in

PARADISE

Mr. Percy Chen defended Wan, • MATINEES: 20c-306, EVENINGS: 20c.-30c,-50c.-70c.

while Mr. G. P. Murphy prosecuted.

મ

For HUMIDORS

Vadu by JAMES STEWART and FRANK MORGAN, in

M-G-M's wittily wicked romance entitled:

"THE SHOP' AROUND. THE CORNER"

TO KEEP YOUR CIGARS FRESH and DAMP-PROOF

DURING THE HOT, HUMID WEATHER

COME TO

C. INGENOHL'S CIGAR STORES

"La Perla" del Oriente" Quality Morchandise at Fair Prices!

"

NATHAN RO. KOWLOON DAILYAT 230-5-20-720-930. TEL. 56856

TO-DAY, FOR ONE DAY ONLY PARAMOUNT VARIETY PROGRAMME including

Twice As Long.....Twice As Funny.......and in Color!

Paramount přetendi

in

THE

POPEYE SALON "ALADDIN and his WONDERFUL LAMP

A double-length -Max-fierscher Cõitsen in

TECHNICOLORE

By ertungsment with King Features Syndicnia, Inc, and Sagat

BOBBY BREEN, KENT TAYLOR in

TO-MORROW

“ESCAPE TO PARADISE”

An RKO-Radio Picture

QUEENS THEATRE

HONGKONG DAILY AT 230-515-7:20-9:30 PM TEL 31453

• FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY @

AT THE VERY DOOR OF DEATH SCIENCE BATTLES LOVE FOR HIS LIFEI

becomes the

DISPUTED PASSAGE

À Paremment Pichere with

DOROTHY LAMOUR · AKIM TAMIROFF-· JOHN HOWARD

JUDITH BARRETT • WILLIAM COLLIER, fr. • BILLY COOK

A FRANK BOKTABR Portreten. Shochd by FLANK BORRAN • Boved as the Novel by Keyd S. Beaglen

TOMORROW

An R.K.O. Radio Picture

0

"ESCAPE TO PARADISE"

with BOBBY BREEN

STAR THEATRE

HANKOW RO KOWLOON DAILY AT 230-520-720-920 TEL57795

• TO-DAY ONLY

TOMORROW

20th C. Fox Picture

Grace MOORE

king tops fut

THANCHOT TUNE

A COLUMBIA PICTURE

"KING OF THE DAMNED" with CONRAD VEIDT - HELEN VINSON

CENTRAL

DAILY AT 12.30, 2.30, 0.15 7.20 and 9.30 pm. PRICES: 45 ets, 55 cta., 80 disl

QUEEN'S RD. CENTRAL: CAR PARK -- JERVOIS STREET Take Bus No. 4 or 5 going west, 3 min, from stop opposite Queen's

COMMENCING TO-MORROW

"PETER I”

A Historical Film That Makos Screen History.!

with

A Distinguished

Russian Coat!

With Full English Subtitles

Dine, Wine & Dance

at

CHANTECLER

.176-179 Nathan Road, Kowloon.

Tol. 50021.

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by Frederick PERCY FRANKLIN at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong,