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SHE'S GOT TOPPER CRAZY AGAIN!
Remember how much trouble she caused Toppie at home in their first blues-chasing picture? Now see her tag along while Topper Takes A Trip, blazing a new and brighter trail of laughs to Paris
and the Riviera.. and back again!
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HAL ROACH
TOPPER TAKES A TRIP
CONSTANCE BENNETT ROLAND YOUNG
BILLIE BURKE
VERRES TEAKDALE FRANKLIN BANANARN ALLKANDIR DANGY ***
CORINNE LUCHAIRE in
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WATCH OUT! THEY'RE ON THE LOOSE AGAIN! It's a private fight, but you're invited to a ring side seat to see the funniest of romances.
with
WILLIAM
POWELL
Maro-
Mayer
MOTURE
DOUBLE FUN! DOUBLE ROMANCE!
That "Thin Man" couple's on the loose again! ff's Rowdy! Riof- jous! Swell!
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'FLORENCE RICE • JOHN BEAL
EDGAR KENNEDY⚫ JESSIE RALPH
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MORROW
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 12, 1939
BUILDING A NEW CHINA
1
WITHIN CHINA
London, To-day.
MR. Quo Tai-chi, the Chinese Ambassador, speak- ing at the annual dinner of the School of Orien- tal and African Studies last night, said:
FOREIGNERS STILL HELD IN TOKYO
The world is recogniṣing that my country, by her determined resis- tance to aggression at the price of sacrifice and suffering unparalleled in history, is supplying a focus and inspiration for re-asserting and re- building the rule of reason and good faith by all nations..
CHINA WITHIN CHINA
From the national standpoint,. Mr. Quo stated, China is building. Tokyo, To-day. "a China within China", by de- Both Baron Marcel Baeyens and veloping the South-West provinces Father Raphael Collard, both Bel-with outlets by way of Burma, In- gian subjects, are held in deten-[do-China and Russia. tion by the Tokyo Police on charges to do with "currency matters."
"These developments will bring China into more direct neighbourly
It is revealed that Father Collard relations with the rest of Asia than. was arrested on April 18 and Ba-probably would have been the case. ron Bayens was taken into cus-for generations."-Reuter, tody on April 20.
Baron Bayens ..had from a trip to Shanghai,
returned arriving
at Yokohama by the Empress of Canada. Several days later, his
CHINESE STILL
apprehension by the Tokyo police ATTACKING
became known when the Belgian 'Charge d'Affaires', M. Pierre
Forthomme, was notified. AT NANCHANG
Since then, Baron Baeyens has been held in the Akasaka Police
Changsha, To-day. Station, where a secretary of the Chinese troops are still concen- · Belgian Embassy has been permit-trating attacks on Nanchang, ted to see him. He reports that he The Chinese are active on a wide found the Baron in poor health. area around the city stretching to Baron Baeyens, who is close on 70 Hsiangtang to the south, Wanshou- years of age, has been in failing kung and Tacheng to the southwest, health for a number of years.
Wanchiafow and Changkungtu to· the northwest and along the Kan River to the east.
FATHER OF DIPLOMAT
A bitter engagement took place. He came to Japan four years ago yesterday near Lohwa, nine miles to visit his son, Baron James Bae-north of Nanchang on the Nan-· yens, then secretary in the French (chang-Kiukiang Railway. Chinese Embassy here and now Second Se-vanguards... driving toward · Lohwa cretary of the French Embassy in encountered a combined Japanese... Washington.
infantry and cavalry unit.
In response to inquiries to the Fighting has also been going on : police and Foreign Office, M. For-at Anyi, about 20 miles northwest thomme was informed that Baron of Nanchang, Japanese reinforce- Baeyens is being held on a "cur-ments have been rushed there while rency matter.'
the Chinese are firmly entrenched
No indication has been given by at Tiger Hill outside the city.- the authorities as to how long he Central News will be kept under examinatio what course of action will
en.
י.
Father Collard has been engaged in missionary work in the Japanese Empire for six years. He resides. in Tokyo. He is 37 years old and is connected with the Society of Missionaries in Paris.-Reuter.
GAVE HIMSELF UP
FASCISTS AND *CONCORDAT
Rome, To-day.
"The measures for protection of the Italian race, and for defence of the Italian people in the biological, religious and political spheres, have not seriously disturbed the agree- ment between Church and State," declared the Home Minister yester-
AFTER ATTACK ON day
The Concordat therefore remains
|Church policy:-Trans-Ocean,
WIFE'S LOVER as before the basis, of Italian -
An alleged jealousy chopper attack in Yaumati on Wednesday night had a sequel this morning: before Mr. Q: A. A. Macfadyen, when Yim Chun-mau; 87, was charged with wounding Ng Wai- sang, in Austin- Road.
+
Det.-Sgt. J. Johnston asked for
a 72-hour remand as complain-
ant, was still in hospital.
OCTOGENARIAN ARMY OFFICER: PASSES
-London, To-day.
Major-General J: C. Swann, late
The incident was alleged to have Indian Army, died to-day at the: occurred as a result of the age of 89...
complainant having taken away. He served in China during the defendant's. wife. After the inci- Boxer Rising in 1900, being men- »dent, the defendant voluntarily tioned, in despatches and receiving. gave himself up at Yaumati Police the Boxer Medal with clasps, Station.
Reuter.