1941-09-09 — Page 16

SHOWING TO-DAY.

Ar 2.30, 5.30, 7.45 ΜG 9.45 P.M.

FIREMAN SAVE

MY CHILD!

It's a 2 alarm laugh-clot, of fun and fireworks.... with America's No. 1 Baby and her flack of funsters?

SANDY GETS HER MAN

·Bierring

Baby SANDY

Stuart ERWIN · Una MERKEL Willem FRAWLEY - Edgar KENNEDY

A Universal Picture

Also Latest UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL

A Universal

'Picture

4 shows

1130

4.30

datly

7.30

"THE LONE WOLF KEEPS A DATE"

·with

WARREN WILLIAM - FRANCES RODINSON

TAKE AW THAN ON KƏPƏN VÁLLAT ÖVÉ

ORIENTAL

THEATRE

LAST FOUR TIMES TO-DAY

FLEMING ROAD

TEL 28472

THE GREATEST AND FUNNIEST LAUGH SHOW IN YEARS ! Here's a snappy comedy with swell songs and music, Abbott and Costello get you right from the start and keep you in continuous laughter until the finish.

ONE NIGHT THE TROPICS

Damn this diL STAR

ALL ENTERTAINICHT Con

ALLAN JONES NANCY KELLY

BUD and LOU

ABBOTT COSTELLO

ROBERT CUMMINGS

3

MELRY BOLAND * LED CARRILLO

AND

WHATTA SCOOP

BUD LOU

ART CONTIO

YOU'LL RHUMBA AND

The dies sanctions (ROMANCE TO:

"I'm boood boy

Tome..)

TO-MORROW AND THURSDAY

· TRIS ABOVE ALL IS BETTE'S BESTI

MAARJA A

DAVIS HOPKINS

BRENT

| DONALD ZRUP » JANE MITAR – LOCUR FAVERA « JAMES STIFTEMON « Sachin Cowan » ŠAL LEDDIGAN & CROILIA LOPING

Dirveted by KORUND COLLEETO « Bron That by Care Baton » Best at the Pubert Raha Thas been m

MATINEES: 30c, 40c.

4 SHOWS

DAILY 2.30-6.30 745-045

EVENINGS: 30c, 40c, 55c, 70c.

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

NATHAN ROAD KOWLOON TEL.57222

MATINEES:302~40c,° EVENINGS, 30%-40«60«:70)

SHOWING TO-DAY

A Spy-Thriller Full of Action and Excitement !

THE SPY HUNT IS ON!

G-men on the trail of America's

menace... tracking the traitors

who traffic in our aviation secrets!

ENEMY

AGENT

RICHARD CROMWELL HELEN VINSON ROBERT ARMSTRONG JACK LORUE

Original story by Sam Robins - Screenplay by SAM ROBINS, EDMUND L HARTMANN • Directed by LEW LANDERS Associate Producerí BEN PIVAR A NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE-

NEXT CHANGE

A-Stirring Human Drama, Great In Its Simplicity !

THE GREAT COMMANDMENT”

201

ok Picturs

This Morning's Inquiry Evidence

=>> FROM PAGE ONE

KONG TELEGRAPH

1040 the order for 10,000 such blocks. So the order was direct from him? Yes.

confirms that 10,000 blocks. more were required?--Yos.

BERLIN CAN'T ~ TAKE IT

FROM PAGE ONE

September 9 1941.

ENEMY CONVOY

ATTACKED

> FROM PAGE ONE

The attack on Berlin was carried nevere bombardment from aircraft of out by a very powerful force in the South African Air Force. brilliant moonlight. A great number "Sicily. In Stelly on Saturday of high explosive and Incendiary night, Fleet Air Arm aircraft attacked bombs were dropped, the attack last-Comiso nerodrome and raided Catani Thank you, Mr Blackmore, I thinking two hours,

and Gerbint odromes. Enemy air-" | that is áll we want, r

"Groat Ares sprong up in the city craft on

Iwero bombed and Mr. Tinson (to Mr Blackmore): and extensive damage Was dond, machine-gunned.”** The first letter from Wing Com- Four, enemy night fighters were de

Venel Left Sinking ---- mander Steele-Perkins was on Sep-stroyed by our bombers in the course LONDON," "Sept. 8 (Reuter) ----The tember 3, is that right?—Yes,

of these operations.

convoy mentioned in the Middle And after that you had interviews Twenty of our bombers are East R.A.F. communique was attack- with Wing Commander Steele, anissing,

jed in the 'narrow gop between Perkins, as the result of which your

"Aircraft of the Fighter Command Pantellarin and Sleily, says the Air. quotation was lowered from 67 cents attacked a number of enemy aero Ministry. to 63 cents and from 23 to 20 cents dromes in occupied territory during A 6,000-ton veseci was left listing Yes,

the night. One of these aircraft is heavily and sinking with a destroyer Before Mr Carman was re-examin- missing.”

standing by while other destroyers "Crash Over Sweden

slowly shepherded the two remaining ed, Mr Davidson polated out to the Commission, relative to questions STOCKHOLM, Sept. 8 (Reuter)ships, one bring badly damaged. concerning the Concrete Products A British warpinne crashed in This was a 8,000-ton. tanker. Corporation at yesterday's session, Scania, southern Sweden, early thi The attack which caused grent that Messrs Marsman did take over morning after engine failure. The confusion was led by a Lieutenant who torpedoed a destroyer off Tripoli a little over half the shares of the plane was burnt out. Corporation, so that the Corporation

few nights ago and also took part in a recent attack on convoy off in wor

fact, a subsidiary of Mars man's.

Cape Spartivento.

The crew of five baled out. Four were found to be safe. One of them was hurt and was taken to hospital. The Afth occupant of the plane has arrived at Malmoe by train.

The

injured man had broken

Only Specialista The Chairman, (to Mr Carman): In your evidence previously, you said that one of the reasons yourja log, company was given the work on the The warplane was returning from tunnels was that your company was a rald on Germany, in fact the only one here specialising

In this type of work?--Yes, I remem-

|ber saying something of that nature.

Is that a fact? We are the only

company of its kind doing mining. tunnelling and such work for outside account

Wasn't there a gentleman by the nome of Faber who also undertook such work?-He was only a consult-

ing engineer, and not a company.

Did he do any tunnelling work for | the, A.R.P.?—I believe he did. The

contract

act was let to the Hongkong Engineering Company for one of the tunnel sites.

Did he in fact do any tunnelling work?—I believe the contract went to the Hongkong Engineering Com-

Back For More About the same time, other Fleet Air Arm aircraft crews were com- pleting a brisk night's work. Aftor starting for Sicily, the machine of one plane developed enging trouble, so the crow unloaded their bombs on Comiso, returned to the base, stepped Sicily where they dive-bombed and machine-gunned "three "enemy air- craft. They repeated the perform- ance at Gerbino where they also dropped bombs and started fres before flying home to bed.

Fewer Cars To Be into another machine and returned to

Made In Canada

OTTAWA, Sept. 8 (Reuter)-The production of passenger motor cars for sale in Canada in 1942 is to be curtailed to approximately 44 per cent, of that in 1940, according to on

Order in Council announced by the Eye-Witness Stories

Of Berlin Raid

Minister of Munitions, Mr C, D. Howe.

Production in 1040 was approxi- mately 0,500 cars.

The Order reserves to. Govern- ment the right to restrict or entirely prohibit motor car production.

FROM PAGE ONE

pony for some work in Blake Gar- Japanese Leave India he said. "It was on its way back.

dens,

Kowloon Work

of

Were any tunnels made on the indin have solled for Japan by the searchlights from the darkness out-

Kowloon side?—Yes.

And the work was done by Kin Lee? Yes, but at the time I didn't consider any Chinese contractor was

to do the work properly.

able to

So in fact Maraman's were given the contract to do tunnelling work

in Hongkong, and Kin Lee and others

on the Kowloon side? Yes.

All on the basis of coat plus ten per cent7I've heard it was on the same arrangement, though I have no definite knowledge,

Mr Carman was asked by the Chairman to make inquiries, and supply the information.

Sleepers Purchased

Mr Carman was then questioned regarding a purchase of 5,000 pieces

of sleepers in April 1941.

The Chairman: What tunnels were Those used in?-I'm afraid I answer that.

can't

Were they used in the tunnel by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banks? I think not, as by April that tunnel was practically completed,

Do you know from whom you pur- chased this 5,000?-It appears that they came from Kin Lee, but I can't give any definite information on that point.

And the price? Yes, they were from Kin Lee, at $5.20.

Do you know whether this 6,000 was available in September 10407 There is no way of knowing.

I take it they also belonged to the Chinese Government?-I believe all sleepers of the time had been bought by or for the Chinese Government.

Which member of your firm con- ducted the negotiations for the pur- chose of this timber?-Mr Brockert..

de

was he?-Ho was our chief negotiations were conducted

through him?-He worked most of our quolations and discussed the matter with Mr Campbell and was authorised by Mr Campbell to make the purchase,

You said yesterday that whether you put in concrete beams or not, It was absolutely necessary to use timber? That is right.

Estimates Made

and a German fighter. "We spotted the bomber caught in searchlights,"

LONDON, Sept. 8

its saw the (Reuter). Then we

fighter and Sixty-two Japanese residents tracer bullets going into the cone of side, Then the fighter dived down in flames. We saw it hit the ground The last we saw of and blow up. the bomber It was going on with one engine on fire flying straight and level, hope the crew made it,"

Intense Barrage'

Hokone Maru, the Raj having per mitted them to depart.

The ship carried 20,500 bales of cotton.

LATE NEWS

That was your opinion and that of the P.W.D. In September 1040. There were, considerable stocks of sleepers available in Hongkong at that date. Do you knew why those sleepers were not purchased?-As I have stated before, we began the work on an experimental basis and were only to do 3,000 feet of tunnel, made whereby Government could re- Government did not do that?-No.

Nothing Done

"We flew right over the city," said an observer. The flak was intense but we have been shot at worse in other places. One of the new high explosive bombs went off

off as we were going and another as

as we were coming out. Both of them went off

a terrific red flash which

with a

in

to hang in the air for a few seemed

A navigator said

said that when his own new bomb went off, "everything went up. After that we came out calmly and peacefully. Nobody took any notice of us at all."

very

Many

crews naked whether the Russions were over Berlin as well. "We

should like to meet them there," said one pilot. "I went in from the cast, so the

the Germans may have thought I was Russian. I

hope they did. Anyway Berlin was under such a heavy fire that the Germons may well have thought that there were two air forces going for them."

Alexander Platz

QUEEN'S & ALF

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW RETA

-plus

Screen Play by JACK MCGOWAN

Directed by NORMAN TAUROG

Produced by Arthur Fréd

Litva NELLIE KELL Judy GARLAND

George MURPHY Charles WINNINGER An M-G-M Picture

NEXT CHANGE! "LAS VEGAS NIGHTS

MIDNIGHT PREMIERE ON SATURDAY: “FLIGHT COMMAND" with Robert Taylor

4 SHOWS

DAILY 230-6.30 7.46-9.45

STOR

THIATI

MATINELS4005AM EVENINGE ADA

TO-DAY ONLY

A GREAT LOVE-

STORY

SIMONE SIMON JAMES STEWART

SEVENTH

HEAVEN

HANKOW

ROAD KOWLOON

·TEL57795

TO - MORROW

A Laugh-Spilled, Song-Thrilled Troat for AÏÏ

"THERE'S MAGIC

Allon JONES

IN MUSIC" with Susanna

Magaret

FOSTER LINDSAY

A Paramount Picture

TAKE ANY TRAM or HAPPY VALLEY BUS. W

CATHAY

:

DAILY AT 2.30, 330 7 30. & 9.30 PM.

· Mstineri-304,,A01. Reiningu-302,406,336,70€

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

More Thrills.. Mora Action . More Stunt than before !

ZORRO RIDES AGAIN

PART II

JOHN CARROLE

HELEN CHRISTIAN

ADAN BELRY

Reports from many other stations THURSDAY "ANNE OF WINDY POPULARS”

give a more general pleture of the success of the attack. There was an immense Are near Alexander Platz, smoke from which stretched for miles to the east. Bombs were seen to hit buildings, factories, warehouses and railway yards. One crew reported groups of 50 small fires sending up n column of smoke several thousand feet high.

Another crew reported three large Bres which they saw for 25 minutes after leaving the city and even then they were only lost sight of because of cloud.

There were fires in all parts of the city in the industrial suburbs as well os in the centre. Some idea of the defences of Berlin and what” some British crews had to face is given by the story of a Manchester, whose crew avalded five enemy fighters, on the way to Berlin,

Received A Hit

"Then we were hit by flak," said the pilot. "But I went on and bombed. I found that the port en- gine was rapidly getting hotter and

to prevent "It" seizing I stopped the engine, There seemed little chance of making the long. home, but we set course and

At the time we were arranging for quisition supplies for the tunnel job.nt and had to pass through

supplies and tried to estimate the re- quirements and did so. We

pointed

for tho

best. Over much of the enemy coun

we were flying at about 3,000 large bell of scare lights. Later we had out that the cost of timber would be it the P.W.D. to whom you com

When you speak of Government, Eventually after the drew had jet-

to come down even lower." approximately so much. The re-

tisoned bomber and hit possible, after crossing the English coost... with very little petrol to

The bomber was pierced with shrapne holes and the dinghy was shot away.

the

at the first aerodrome

spare.

Wellington Bomber B

was approximately so municated this opinion and warned mich. I personally discussed with them that they should purchase tim Mr Campbell that we should protect ber at once told Mr Campbell ourselves to secure sufficient material and Mr Pearce, for the

se job.

In spite of that warning, they did What month was that?--September not act on your advice? In so far and October.

as nothing was

was done, I presume they Right at the start of the fob? did not. Yes. I was so concerned that I sug-

Would it be correct to say that

had Ecsted that Government should re- they done so, the total cost of tim-bomber, who has been on 42 raids gulate

ber subsequently purchased would You gave that opinion to Mr { be much lower?---Undoubtedly. Campbell? What was his reaction?

I believe he suggested to Govern- have been affected on the cost of the Considerably everything would

ment that somo Brrangement be job7-Undoubtedly.

the price of timber,

Passport Photos Executed Promptly

MEE CHEUNG

PHOTOGRAPHERS

15, 23, Ice House Street,

The observer of a Wellington

had a very different story to tell, describing it as "one of the best

and we had no trouble with Bghters. nights I have ever had." He added, "You could see everything perfectly

We went straight, in, found what we were looking for and came

straight fout. You could not ask for!

better than that."

ask for anything Another Wellington came home with 12 holes in the fuselage, and [wings. The rear turret controls were' cut by flak, one turret door was shot off and the rear-gunner's' parachute harness,:llie-gaving ́ault, túnie and short were torn by shell splinters.

U.S. To Produce Synthetic Rubber

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHY MAUGATUCK-Coun. Sept. 8 (UP) Near the small shop where Charles Goodrich discovered the vul- canizing process 102 years ago, the United States Rubber Company to day broke ground for a plant costing $275,000-four times larger than ori ginally planned to produce as thetic

-FRIDAY

Anno Shirley - James Ellison'

LEE THEATRE

DAILY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30, 8.30 F.NL.

SHOWING TO-DAY

薇野

A CHINESE DRAMA IN MANDARIN

PRIVATE HOTEL. Tol. 58921-

Baron's Court. 23-25. Nathan Rd., Kowloon,

RESIDENTIAL HOTEL QUIET LOCALITY-THREE MINUTES TO FERRY GOOD FOOD-DAILY and/or MONTHLY RATES SPECIAL · RATES TO FAMILY — PUBLIC DINING ROOM AND LOUNGE,

Special Tiffin

VICTORY DRE up for

dosis

Under. European Supervision.

$1.20

BTS)