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WALTER CATLETT-ED DROPHY • Directed by GEORGS AMY-A WARNER BROS. Picture Screen May by Charles Beides and Sayiland Schrock « From a Story by ivo Ksiz,
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A Tremendous Historical Spectacle With Thousands in The Cast!
THE TERROR OF MIDDLE AGES
HARRY BAUR
The GOLEM
CHILDREN
TO LEAVE SOUTH COAST
The Ministry of Health announced in London yesterday that schoolchildren evacuated from Lon- don at the beginning of the war to Brighton, Hove, Port Slade, Southwick and Shore- ham are being moved further inland on Sun- day. They number 8,000.
The Government has decided to declare that Eastbourne, Hastings, Bexhill, Rye and the urban dis- tricts of Newhaven and Seaford be evacuation areas.
MORE HEROES OF DUNKIRK DECORATED
FOUR PERSONS GO OUT OF THEIR MINDS
FOUR PEOPLE WENT OUT of their minds with the horrors and strain of the 20-day journey of two cargo ships carrying 1,300, British men and women to safety from southern France to England, states Mr. Somerset Maugham, the famous author (who was one of their number) yesterday. They were all told to be on the quay at Cannes on the morning of June 17, he says, and were instructed to bring only one suitcase, a blanket and three days' provisions. They were of all classes, some so ill they came on stretchers; others had lived there all their lives.
They were put on board two very kind, and so were all the colliers, still thick and grimy with people on "The Rock," Mr. Maug- coal-dust, and their "cabins" were ham said.. below the hatches.
They set sail again three days At Marseilles, they joined a afterwards and at long last reach- French 'convoy.
ed England, after a journey of 20 Water could be drawn only at days during which hardly any of certain times, owing to the short-them had their clothes off- Jage, and there was little available Reuter.
for washing. Most of the men managed to shave somehow, and the women kept clean with the juse of creams and lotions they had
brought..
Food was scarce and they had: The to queue for their rations. two main meals of the day con- sisted of bully-beef and biscuits.
One day, a submarine was re- ported and the escorting destroy- er was busy all around them dropping depth charges.
Strain Too Much
ARREST OF
GENERAL
ANTONESCU
In connection with the arrest of General Antonescu, the Rumanian "Iron Guard" leader, a statement issued by the Rumanian Ministry
In recognition of mili- tary services in Belgium, As time went on, the strain on of Propaganda states that he was Dunkirk and elsewhere in them all grew greater and great-arrested because of his unfriendly jer, and four of them went out of attitude towards the present re- France during the recent their minds.
gime. and decorations. They proceeded to Oran Earlier reports had it that he thence to Gibraltar, where they was arrested because he had tried have been given to ¡were allowed to go ashore in to re-constitute the "Iron Guards". numerous members of the batches of 50 for two hours. against King Carol's B.E.F. in a new War Of The Governor of Gibraltar was Reuter. fice list.
FRANKENSTEIN OF JEWISH GHETTO campaign,
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SIDNEY TOLER Casor: Romero Faulow Moorn • Sen Yung Douglas Fowley, June Gole Bauglas Dumbrille⚫ Sally Blana Gillie Soward - Wally Vernon Donald MacBride
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The six recipients of the D.S.O. include Major P. H. Newman, F.R.C.S., R.A.M.C., whose skill as a surgeon was equalled only by his unremitting keenness.
accepted a ballot whereby he was left at Dunkirk in charge of the wounded who could not be evacuated. '
cheerfully
The 14 M.C.'s include one to Rev. J. E. G. Quinn, who acted battalion chaplain to a throughout
аб
the operations Belgium and France and
in
was
outstanding for the cool manner;
In which he tended the wound-
ed without a thought to
own safety.
hiG
On several occasions owing to medical officers becoming casual- ties, he took charge of the regi- mental aid post.
Eleven D.C.M.'s and 23 M.M.'s were also awarded.-Reuter.
ARMS DRIVE IN AUSTRALIA
Mr. Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister, yesterday an- nounced an extension of the Com- monwealth's munition industry at an outlay of several millions: 0: pounds. Sites have been chosen.
In South Australia, factories will fill explosives; Victoria, car- tridge cases and fuses will be made; Western Australia, shells and primers; Queensland, fuses
and shells.
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Leslie Howard-Doug. Fairbanks Jr.-Paul Lukas-Margaret Lindsey
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This will all be additional to the
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New South Wales.-Reuter.....
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