1940-08-09 — Page 16

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

August 9, 1940.

SHOWING TO-DAY

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

DARING! DYNAMIC!

DIFFERENT!

Watch enemy splen at work! So the

lor of "Wuther-

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LAURENCE OLIVIER

gives you the greatest role of his career in

Clouds Over Europe

NEXT

RALPH

RICHARDSON

VALERIE HOBSON Screep play, by Ian Dalrymple Directed by TIM WHELAN

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BRITAIN WATCHES FOR THE BLITZKRIEG

BUFS

WATCHING FOR NAZIS-Giant rangò finder British are using in watch for Nazi blitzkrieg warplanes. This scono was taken somewhere an English coast, whore Hitler

has threatened invasion.

Parashooters FARMERS TO For Chungking BUILD

Thought Japanese May BARRIERS

Copy The Nazis

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

CHUNGKING, Aug. 8 (UP) IN FIELDS

-Chungking has instituted a

parashot corps and other local asked farmers to co-operate in MILITARY authorities have defences against the menace of)

home defence work by making parachutists.

all their fields useless to the enemy is landing grounds.

are

2DAYS TO-DAY • TO-MORROW. BY NIGHT A MONSTER! BY DAY A MAN!important intersections and A monster in human form who holds nine lives within his evil grip and ruled with terror.

LUSTIEST ROARING THRILL DRAMA OF THE YEAR!

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HE PLANTED THE BOMB that almost changed History

The Story Of The Most Amazing Man-Hunt The World Has Ever Seen...

Starring BORIS

KARLOFF

LINDSAY

MARGARET

BRITISH INTELLIGENCE®

(England's fearless

Directed by TERRY MORSE

A WAHNCH BROS.-Fırat Nat'l PictURE.

Borom Play by Ban Kota + Dové va a Play by Anthony Pod Kolly

spy-hunters)

SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY `.

The Greatest Novel Of Our Time Comes To The Screen !

"THE GRAPES OF WRATH” by JOHN STEINBECK

A 20th Century-Fox Sensational Drama I

Printed and Published for the Froprietors by FREDERICK FANCY. FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victorin, Hongkong.

being

Japanese parachutists trained on a large scale at several Japanese air buses in Chinn, nutably

Schemes suggested by farmers in at Boeen Turis near Hongkong,

clude building small heaps of stones, The Chungking Air Defence Head-driving posts into the ground and quarters started to-day to sandbag at leaving carts and farm implements in

cross-upen Belda, hoads inside the walled city and in Army mithorliics say that farmers the suburbs and barbed-wire en-cm give real assistance by placing tanglements are appearing throughout bay, corn, beet and potatoes in a number of small stacks-not more Some interest was occasioned in 2011. apart-stuffered about Hongkong recently at the fact that the fields instead of in stockyards or

Japanese in the border zone were the corners of fields. practising parachute landings. It is} reported that twa Japanese para- chutists were killed us a result 0 faulty landings near Shum Chun ¡e- cently.

Manila To Take U.S. "Goods For China

PÉNERGIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

NEW YORK, Aug. 8 (Domei).—| Pending the re-opening of the Burma highway and clarification of the situation in French Indo China, all American goods consigned to China

will be landed ashes:

The "New York

a despatch from Munila, revealing that an American ship which reached there on Wednesday landed 04 war- planes and about 1,000 tons of arms

and ammunition.

The report states that these war materials were destined for Chung King via Rangooi.

NAZI RAIDERS.

JAPANESE

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SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Aug. 0 (UP).The Germans, In their attacks on convoys in the Channel, are respecters of neither persons nor ships.

Among these killed yesterday was} a Japanese sailor, who was struck by a machine-gun bullet in an attack on

a convoy of the south-east coast.

STOCK MARKET

REPORT

Hongkong Stock Exchange Oficial Summary issued yesterday says:

The market continues to drift idly.

Buyers

Hotels $3.20 Electrics (Old) $30.75

Sclera

Lands $31.50

Sates

Hotels $3.20 · Trams $15.50 Electrics (Old) $37 Electrics (New) $35.75

Ingenohl's

Evening Of Variety

Wellington Barracks was the scene last night of a hearty evening when

he Fortress Engineers presented "An) Evening of Variety" before latte iudience. in which entertaining items were given by members of the Royal Engineers and civilian artistes.

Comedy was the keynote of the items, with a balanced interpolation | of músical numbers.

4

Dodgers Beat Giants In 12-Innings Game

NEW YORK, Aug. 8 (UP) Brooklyn Dodgers continued higher In the National Baseball League to- (day, beating the New York Giants 6-3 In a twelve-inuings_game. In the American League, Cleveland Indians beat the St. Louis Browns 7-4.

Scores were:

Boston Philadelphia

National League

R.

Brooklyn

0 10 Battery: C. Davis, Flower, Peips New York

........ 12 2 Enttery: Lehrman, Dauning.

Twelve inntogs were played),

.+

0 9

Battery: Telšia; Masi.

Battery. Mulcahy, Beck, Atwood.

Chleagu

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Battery: Freneti. Todd. cincinnati

Battery: Walters, Lombardi,

+

0

2

American League

Cleveland

7 13

0

Battery: Feller. Hemsley, St. Louis

♣ 10

0

Battery: Kennedy, Mills, Coffman. Swift, Susce

Philadelpisin

ย & 1 Hattery: Caster, Dickman, Wagner, Washington

4 10 2 Battery: McPherson, Monteagudo, Cura-

Ferrell. raquel, New York

Q 0 Battery: Murphy, Ifadley, Gooner, Rosar. Boston

G 13 Battery: Dickman, Foxx.

39 KILLED IN

0

EXPLOSION One of the most popular numbers;

was the turn by Marvino and Jumino, whose fents of legerdemain were repeated many times after sustained applause, and Ernest Perry, with his guitar, was ogain popular.

Other artists mere David Kossick, Sprs. Thorn (mouth organ). Graff, Boddy, Iley, Richmond, Jackson, Sin- clair, Harrison and Richmond.

LATE NEWS

Grand Corona

SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPHI HOME Aug (UP)-IL is om- that 39 workmen cially announced were killed in on explosion in the of the shell loading department arsenal at Piacenza to-day.

Hundreds of people were injured in the explosion, the cause of which] is not announced.

Jews Arrested In

Bratislava

LONDON, Aug. 8 (Reuter)~~A~ carding to reports to the German news agency, from Bratislava, the Police have made a number of ar- rests, including many Jews, follow- in the discovery of an illegal "anti- Slovakion propaganda centre" in a Slovakian town.

New R.A.F. Bureau

More than 1,000 men and women called at the new I.A.F. recruiting Inquiry bureau in the City of London on its first day open.

The bureau will be open dally from 9 nm. to 7 p.m.

Y.M.C.A. DISCUSSION GROUP Mr. Rewi Alley will speak on the Chinese Industrial Co-operatives at the discussion group of the European Y.M.C.A. on Sunday at 9 p.m.

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