Washington, Feb. 9. The Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, to-day flatly denied Professor Murray's report that an agreement Rioting Breaks Out in Belfast Belfast, Feb. 10.
Nationalists, Labour and Republican adherents engaged in a fierce melee last night after the polls had closed in the Ulster elections in which adherents of a separate Northern Ireland state were apparently easily victorious over the supporters of Mr. Eamon of Valera who appealed for a merger of Eire and Northern Ireland.
Five persons were injured and the windows of at least twenty shops were smashed when police charged the rioters in Slate 1f the advance of technicolour, as exemplified in "Vogues of 1038," which had its Shanghai premiere last evening at the Metropol Thent: e, is as rapid in the next your as it has been in the past twelve months then, in the opinion of the reviewer, the ordinary black and white film will be consigned forever to the limbo. Previously, producers, following the advice of their technicians, bad to be content with portraying three or four solid colours against comparatively neutral backgrounds, bad to be careful to prevent refraction and to allow, for distorted reflections.—In "Voges" all this is changed: primary and secondary colours, all shades, tints. and combinations apparently are produced at will and without distortion, they being the more particularly striking inasmuch as they are utilized in the main in delineating the merits of women's dresses. It is suggested to those who see this picture, that they pay particular attention to the Harlem cabaret scene, done on a glass floor, with lighting effects coming through from below as well as above—it is here that the diffusion of light is registered in the most striking manner since colour photography has been brought to this stage of excellence.
Little, need be said of the plot, but it must be pointed out that whereas in other coloured cinemas, action has been at a slower pace than in the black and white, it did not seem yesterday that the pace was greatly handicapped. To date, Miss Joan Bennet: has been the most beautifully photographed in various shadings and dresses Her pertness contrasted with the stolidity of Mr. Warner Baxter, while to Mis: Helen Vinson great credit goes for her portrayal of a selfish, ambitious and stage-struck - wife. "Mr, Alan Mowbray as the villain, jilted at the altar, had a splendid role in which to display his histrionic ability and amply to demonstrate his vibrant voice. For comedy, Mr. Mischa Auer again will bring joy to his legion of admirers, Of the remainder of the cast Miss Hedda Hopper, Miss Alma Kruger, Miss Marjorie Gateson and Miss Dorothy McNulty had the bette parts, doing them justice. And last, but not least, New York's most famous models will entrance women seeking new ideas to confine to their tailors, while smart specialty act enlivened proceedings.—F.t.".
Hankow, Feb, 10.
Almost complete quiet prevailed in the southern section of the Tientsin Pukow railway yesterday, according to reports reaching here. Appem ances suggest that both Japanese and Chinese are now making preparations for large scale operations. Chinese irregulars are taking advantage of the suspension of fighting to conduct various smaller attacks on the rear guard of the Japanese army.
Yesterday evening it was a nounced from a Chinese official qua ter that under pressure of Chinese activity the Japanese troops hil again been forced to retreat across the hotly contested Hwai river where fighting has been fierce for several days past. General Li Tsung-jen. Chinese commander-in-chief of the Hsuchow front, declared yesterda: to a party of correspondents inspec Ing the front, that despite the loss Pengpu he believed he would be able to hold the railway junction of Hsuchow, possession of which assures the control of the Tientsin-Pukow and Lunghai railways lines, because—according to General Li—Chinese. irregulars, operating behind the railway lines and along their length, cause the Japanese serious difficulties.
General Li stated further that the Jepanese in the northern section of the Tientsin-Pukow railway were making no attempt to advance from the North against Hsuchow but instead of that Japanese troops were trying to press forward along the Peking-Hankow railway southwards in order, after the capture of Chengchow, to cross the western section of the Lunghai railway to outflank the Chinese troops fighting at Hsuchow.
Reports in some Hankow Chinese newspapers yesterday, were to the effect that the town of Wuhu has been recaptured are declared oficially to be premature. It is stated, however, that small Chinese troop detachments have already reached an aerodrome eight kilometres from Wuhu. In view of the reinforcements sent to this section of the front, the capture of Wuhu by the Chinese appears—Chinese quarters Opine—to be merely a question of time.—Trans-Ocean.
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