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THE

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DAILY

1.20-25

7.19-8.30

a

ELSA MAXWELL'S

"HOTEL FOR WOMEN"

with Linda Darnell - James Ellison - Ann Sothern

HANNES VAKE AMI TRAM ON MAPPY VALLEY BUB

ORIENTAL

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FLEMING ROAD

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OUR CAVALCADE OF FAMOUS PICTURES OF THE PAST ! SPECIAL FOR TO-DAY ONLY

THE WORLD'S, MOST. PRETENTIOUS MUSICAL SHOW

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Ginger Rogers - Dick Powell - Joan

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Ruby Keeler, Ned Sparks, Warren Williams, Robert Agnew, world's most beautiful giris, hundreds of older and the

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That's saying a lot- -but Warner Bros, have done it again—in this siar-studded extravaganza that was two years in the making! 300 GORGEOUS GIRLS. 13 STARSI, 100 SURPRISES!

S 1933

ANOTHER BIG SPECIAL FOR TO-MORROW

THE SCREEN'S MOST SENSATIONAL ADVENTURE STORY !

MONDAY

CAPTAIN FURY

Bunet ******* INTER

AHERNE MCLAGLEN

June..LANG - John CARAADINE

Alexander Korda's Mightiest Spectacio

27 "THE FOUR FEATHERS"

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ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE

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TO-DAY & TO-MORROW ALSO WEDNESDAY AT 3 P.M.

- CHANGE OF PROGRAMME

NEW THRILLS and SENSATIONS

SEE the Jungle Klag with 'Tigers and Lions, defying death!

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b to the Bandgement!

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.

Saturday,

HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH -»

May 25, 1940.

LATE NEWS

Short Shrift For These Men

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

U.S. May Aid Allies

(Continued from Page' 1.) compared with $182,000,000 (£11,-

Revolutionary Bill 200,000) in the corresponding period of 1830. Exports for this year's first In U.S. Senate four months amounted to $211,200,- 000 (13,000,000) as compared with

WASHINGTON, May 24 (Router). Fifth Columnists 170,100,000 £10,500,000)

-Declaring that Germany had viols- As a result, imports for that period tod the Rellore-Briand Fact, Senator Increased Rounded Up

by 48.1 per cent in terms of Claude Pepper Introduced a resolu« locat currency and by 49.1 per cent. tlon in the Senate to-day to authoriso in terms of sterling. Exports in- President Roovescia "to give nid short creased by 24.2 per cent. and 23.8 of war to the Allies,” PARIS, May 28 (UP)-German per cent. respectively.

Buch aid, sald Senator Pepper. attempts to, repeat the fifth column

Since April, 1930, monthly values would include the male of United tactics employed in Norway, Den- of import of merchandise Into States aircraft, ships, artillery soc mark, Holland and Belgium appear Hongkong fluctuated from low other war supplies to Britain, France, to-day to have completely talled.

value of $39,900,000 in September Austria, Czecho-Niovakia, Poland, Throughout France, fifth columnists, Inst year to a high of $75,700,000 in Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium Including the largo number of March

this year. Exports values and such other countries as may be parachute troops who landed early fluctuated from a low of $30,000,000 the subject of unprovoked military the campaign, have been completely suppressed without the aid of any in November of 1930 to French troops from the main armies, $81,900,000 in January of this year. which are devoting their entire forec

to closing the pocket around the main German armies, ea

On the roads leading to Paris from Normandy, down which refugees continued their flight from the war areas to-day, numerous small groups of Bfth columnists in civilian clothes were being marched off by French soldiers with bayonets fixed to their rifics.

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The fate of these German agents was fixed a long time ago by M. Daladier's decree providing a firing squad for any columnists or parachu- Tists dropped in civilian clothes or in uniforms other than German

far

more

Fifth columnists have been less numerous in France than in the Lowlands or Scandinavia because! French restrictions were far stringent in the first nine months of |the war, during which there has been.

for a relentless and endless hunt spics.

French. communists and Belgian and Dutch traitors comprise the bulk of the fifth column encountered In France. The columnists apparently had a rendezvous with the Panzer (motorised) divisions, but the rapid- Ity with which the French authorities acted prevented them from keeping

1.

One of the aclivities of the atth column was to mark the main objec~) tives for German bombers. This was done by surreptitiously releasing balloons above the objectives as the German bombers were passing over- hend.

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her arms!

TOWER of LONDON

Afstein

BASIL RATHBONE

with

BORIS KARLOFF. BARBARA O'NEIL JAN HUNTER VINCENT PRICE

NAN GREY

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THE MAN

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Starring

LOUIS HAYWARD. JOAN BENNETT with Warren William A United Artists Release

.TO-MORROW, FOR ONE DAY ONLY

Walt Disney's 1940 Short Feature Programme in Technicolour.

"BEACH PICNIC”. "SEA SCOUTS": "THE POINTER** "PLUMB CRAZY".

HOCKSHOP.BLUES"! "DONALD'S COUSIN GUS” E TAKE ANY TRAM or HAPPY VALLEY BUS.

"GOOFY AND WILBUR”. "SOCIETY DOG, SHOW" "THE PRACTICAL PIC". "THE HOCKEY CHAMP" "THE UGLY DUCKLING".

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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

THE MOST TIMELY, RE-ISSUE OF M-G-M'S TRIUMPH I: A Spectacular Film Showing the Horrors of Modern Warfare! Made Possible Only Through the Co-Operation of the United States Navy! Crammed with Romance! Rich with Humor! Packed with Tramendous Thrills!

HELL BELOW

with t

ROBERT, MONTGOMERY Madge Evan-Walter Houston, Directed by Jack Conway

TO-MORROW-MONDAY-TUESDAY.

The Hardy family's most, hilarious, heart-warming adventure!

HARDYS

RIDE

HIGH

ROYAL COMOY #32*** STORES LA PERLA DEL ORI

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TO-NIGHT

Directed by George B.

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