THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 16, 1940.
GIRL, 16, FOUND SHOT ON FARM
Police are making inquiries about the death of Ira Gwillam, aged six- teen, of Henllyn Farm, Cwmyoy, near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, · who has died in hospital from gunshot] wounds.
The girl, it is stated, was feeling ill, and went with her sister to see doctor.
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Later she was walking through meadow towards the farmhouse. Her brother, who had been working in the field found her sitting on a stone in the garden of the house.
She was wounded and in a very dis- tressed condition. About sixty yards away from her was found a single- barrel shot-gun.
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The girl was attended by a doctor and afterwards taken to hospital. She was the daughter of a known farmer, who has lived in the district many years.
MAKES OWN MOUNTAIN
New York, May 3. Mahomet had to go to the mountain, but in Hollywood the all-powerful producer, Cecil B. De Mille, has made а mountain come to him.
De Mille, who always does things in a big way, sat on his mountain 'to- day among 1,150 pine trees planted in
s earth and paper-mache, soil,
Deciding that it was too much trouble to move to a distant mountain for the filming of "North-West Mount- ed Police," De Mille spent more than £60,000 building his mountain in the studio grounds.
It is the biggest set ever constructed in Hollywood, rivalling a private oc- can built several weeks ago.
Realising that all the best moun- tains have trees, De Mille engaged an army of lumbermen to cut down 1,150 trees from the nearby coun try-side and transport them to his mountain.
LIKE FLOWERS IN POT These have been planted like flowers in a pot, and some are forty feet high. After ten days the trees will wilt, as they are without roots, so the
SITUATION AT SEA
London, To-day. Denying German claims of successes at sea, the Admiralty state no British warship has been sunk, set on fire or seriously damaged since the German invasion of the Low Countries, with the exception of the submarine Seal,
German claims of losses or serious damage by air attack to transports and merchant ships are equally untrue.
No mishap has befallen any Bri- tish, transport or supply ship during the Netherlands campaign.-Reuter.
AN
HIGH
TIME
MISTER
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That's Roland Young, coming through with a big hand for his co-stars, Pat O'Brien and Olympe Bradna, in the course of "The Night. of Nights". Paramount's drama of heartbreak and glory on Broadway, which is now playing at the Queen's Theatre.
BLOWING UP NEW YORK
Nazi Youth's Story
BUFFALO, N.Y., MAY 6.
GRAF SPEE OFFICERS ESCAPE
Officers of the Graf Spee
are to
be interned on the island of Martin Garcia by the Argentine Government, it was announced in Buenos Aires.
The officers refused to give their words of honour not to leave a 31- mile radius of the capital without permission.
The crew will remain at their pre- sent locations until they are gradually absorbed into the provinces.
IN DISGUISE
The Argentine Government's action follows the escape of one captain and two lieutenants of the Graf Spee.
They dressed in civilian clothes, walked out of the marine arsenal, last the immigration offices, and disappeared. On the same day two sailors obtained leave, and they have not returned yet.
Those affected by the Government's decision include Captain Walter Kay, second in command of the Graf Spee, 32 officers, and 210 warrant officers. There are also 400 sailors.
The Ministry of the Interior reports that it has received information from Santos, Brazil, that the captain of the liner Neptunia has handed to the authorities two Graf Spee stowaways found on his ship.
A report from Sante Fe, says that two of the group of Graf Spee sailors recently sent there have also disap- peared.
WAR HAS RUFFLED WOMEN'S HAIR-CONSCIOUSNESS
A 16-YEAR, OLD GERMAN BOY, IDENTIFIED AS HENRY VOIGT, OF LAHE, GERMANY, WHO DESERTED THE SCUTTLED GERMAN LINER COLUMBUS, AND WHO 18 QUOTED AS SAYING THATʼHE HAD HELPED A GERMAN SPY FRIEND TO PHQ- TOGRAPH "EVERYTHING WORTH BLOWING UP" IN NEW YORK CITY, IS BEING HELD BY IMMIGRATION | Owing to the war. AUTHORITIES HERE ON A DE- PORTATION WARRANT.
A detective characterized the youth's spy story as fantastic,
adding that the "Federal Bureau of Investigation agents must have thought so too, or they wouldn't have turned him over to the immigration department," F.B.I. agents admitted turning the Ger- man over to the immigration authori- ties after questioning him, but de- clined further comment.
The lad said he did not know the name of his spy friend, and that he had come to Buffalo to keep a ren- dezvous with a Nazi spy. He presum- ably referred to the same person- Reuter.
Women don't care what happens to their hair these days and it's all
That is what Mrs. Edith Western, a women's hairdresser, of Myddelton- square, London, E.C., told Mr. Regis- Court. trar Friend at Clerkenwell County
"Before the war I had two busi- nesses; now I have only one, I am and some running it single-handed, days: I take only 2s. 6d. or 3s. 6d." said Mrs, Western.
The Registrar: But hair grows and has to be cut.
OPENS
TO-DAY
AT THE
KING'S
ОННА
The infantry, the infantry, with the dirt behind their ears; The Infantry, the Infantry, that wins the nation's theers.
The cavalry, the artillery and the
bloomin' engineers,
Oh, they couldn't lick the Infantry In a hundred thousand years!
and HERE
THEY ARE!
PAT
O'BRIEN
as Father Duffy
GEORGE
* BRENT
as "Wild Bi" Donovan
THE
JAMES
CAGNEY
as Private Plunkett
FIGHTING
ALAN
HALE
IDFREY
LYNN
Directed by
WILLIAM KEIGHLEY
AWARNERBROS.-
Peat Malonel Pictore
69TH
• A picture as
unrivalled, as unbeatable, as the regiment
whose name it
proodly bearat
FILAME
McHUQD-
* DELHIS MORGAN » 17:CK FORAN » Wilfons Landigar - Dalan Wig Dog' Warangal Screen Pray by Karmar Rally Rates, fruditing, À, A DUAN TARRAG
filming is proceeding at top speed. Mrs. Western: Women who have
While De Mille sat on his mountain not been evacuated have so much to-day, 476 Hollywood "savages" and to pay for their children who have nearly 200 gone away that they are letting their danced and screamed hair grow or having it cut at home. cameras.
genuine Red
Indians before the
Dieting Dot says if her income, would add up the way her weight dosa she'd soon be relieved of all finanolal. worry.
FOLLOW THE CROWD TO-
OLYMPIC GRAND CIRCUS
Located at Mongkok -Opp. Fire Station. NIGHTLY AT 9.15 P.M.
New Thrills!
New Attractions !
New Sensations!
MATINEES-WEDNESDAYS, SATURDAYS
AND. SUNDAYS AT 8 P.M..
SEE the Jungle King in a single handed battle with the
most ferocious brutes alive
thrill old and young alike.
a spectacle that will
SEE the herd of performing elephants and one of the smallest Shetland ponies alive in one gigantic act. OUR clowns are the world's most merrieat Jesters.. they will make you laugh till your sides ache."
Children half prides to
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