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James CAGNEY
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The OKLAHOMA KID
HUMPHREY BOGART ROSEMARY LANE • Donald Crisp
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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
A Riot of Laughter, Excitement and Suspense !
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ENOBIA
OLIVER HARDY HARRY LANGDON BILLIE BURKE ALICE BRADY
Released thru Balted Artists
TO-MORROW AND WEDNESDAY The Most Ingenious and Thrilling Mystery-Romance
MELVYN DOUGLAS
LOUISE PLATT IN
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"TELL NO TALES"
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture.
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THE
SUN NEVER SETS
Starring DOUGLAS.
FAIRBANKS.J
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VIRGINIA FIELD LIONEL ATWILL
BARBARA O'NEIL-
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ADDED! "LATEST UNIVERSAL WAR NEWS"
TO-MORROW
THE RETURN OF SCARLET PIMPERNEL “ with Barry K. Barnes
A United Artists Release
THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 11, 1939
NAVY'S HUNT FOR THE POCKET BATTLESHIPS
London, To-day.
IN A REVIEW OF THE WAR at sea, the BBC Naval Obser- ver said yesterday that when Germany built her three pocket battleships, she designed them as commerce raiders which could beat off a cruiser and run away from a battleship. They can steam 20,000 miles with- out refueling almost right around the world. Discussing the difficulties of finding these ships, he asked how many ships were actually seen on, say, a trip from Britain to New Zealand?
A ship at sea was almost blind, he caught. The ships of the British and, said. On a clear day, the horizon | French navies are after them night was only 10 miles away, so that a and day. ship could see for little more than 200 miles around. At night, visibil- ity was only a couple of miles-for raiders travel without lights,
MAGNETIC MINES
Turning to mines, the Naval Ob- server said that at first the Nazis had a certain amount of success with their magnetic mines, Yet the blockade is more frightful than effec- tive. British ports are still open and the mine-sweeping fleet has been strengthened and re-organized to meet the menace.
A ship in those circumstances was rather like a man wandering in 冠 thick mist on the Yorkshire Moors. A ship had only to be on the other side of the horizon to be invisible.
In the North Atlantic, where the Rawalpindi met her doom, the posi- tion was even worse. Gales were almost a daily occurrence, there was counter-measures to make the seas only about 3 hours of daylight, and for good measure there were fogs, mists, rain-storms and snow-storms. In such weather, one's quarry could be invisible although she was only a mile or so away.
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It will take a little time for the
safe, but at present,. at any rate, the menace is held in check.
These minesweeping boats are chiefly manned by volunteers and fishermen, and as an instance of the remarkable qualities . of these men, he told the story of a peace- ful fishing trawler which was shelled at close range by a U-boat.
RAIDER'S PROBLEM
Nevertheless, the raider
The trawler crew launched their have it all its own way. It must boat while shells whizzed all around eventually feed its crew and refuel.] them, The U-boat, after seeing the·
It must get supplies. As soon as it small trawler sink, left the crew to captured a ship, it run the risk of their fate in the North Sea. giving away its position.
Recently, several Getman ships had left neutral ports, probably in- tending to supply the raiders. That did not matter now-they had been either captured or scuttled.
Sooner or later, too, the raider's speed and steaming performance suf- fer, particularly in tropical waters, where marine growths are prolific. Machinery, too, develops defects in time which eventually need handl- ing in a dockyard.
BLOCKED BY FOOT
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While it was being launched, ship's boat had a hole knocked its side, and it was in danger of sinkinig. The enigirleer, However, promptly stuck his
the foot into hole and the other members of the crew plastered it into place with tallow and grease.
For 22-hours, he kept his foot in one position, for the lives of all Hunting the raiders may take depended on him. They all got time, but sooner or later, they get ashore. safe.-Reuter.
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