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THE STRANGE CASE OF MAGIC MURDER AT THE PLAYGROUND ON THE PACIFICI
CHARLIE CHAN at TREASURE ISLAND
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Cesar Romera. Pauline Moove Sen Yung - Douglas Fowlay · Juna Gole Douglas Dumbrille · Solly Blone Billie Seward Wolly Veinon · Donald MacBride
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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 7, 1939
NAVY SATISFIED U-BOAT CAMPAIGN IS SCOTCHED
London, To-day.
IN AUTHORITATIVE naval circles the frequently 'threatened intensified underwater campaign against mercantile shipping causes no anxiety, and the belief is general that the U-boat offen- sive has been scotched.
Figures of losses of merchant shipping since the first fortnight of war, when conditions were most favourable for such activities, have shown a rapid diminution, and figures revealed yesterday show a position which is regarded as offering a promising prospect.
British ships sunk in September early months has failed to produce attack upon British numbered 37 and tonnage totalled the heavy afr
135,636.
shipping that might have been ex-
In October, 18 British ships of pected, and those efforts which the 83,159 tons were sunk.
In November, so far, no ship has been sunk.
British
Other Allied ships sunk in this period were: September, one of 2,660
six ships tons: October,
of 45,275 tons; November nil.
Neutral ships sunk by U-boats were:-September, 15 of 37,284 tons; October, 17 of 44,038 tons; November, two
neutral ships totalling 12,450 tons.
During the whole period, there- fore, 55 British ships of 238,795 tons and seven other Allied ships totalling 47,935 and 34 neutral ships of 93,817 tons were sunk.
AIR ARM'S PART As for the German air arm's part in the naval war the history of these
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Germans have made have been en- tirely fruitless and at the same time expensive.
No British ship, naval or mercan- tile, has been even temporarily dis- abled from the air except the de- militarised Tron Duke, while the Ger- man attacking forces have experi- losses amounting to roughly enced
British Wireless. thirty per cent.
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Private McBain has reported while driving along Island Road yes- terday he accidentally knocked down an eight-year-old Chinese boy, Hui Pun, who sustained multiple face in- juries and had to be admitted to the Queen Mary Hospital.
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