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MR. AMERY OPTIMISTIC
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 1, 1940
MENTY SPETAGE OF A FLAMING EN Supreme Momentin
MIGHTY A ERA!
THE MAD EMPRESS
Starring MEDEA NOVARA
LIONEL ATWILL · CONRAD NAGEL*
Screen Play and Dialogue by Jean Bart, Jerry Chodorov and Miguel C. Torta 6 VITAGRAPH RELEASE
PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY MIGUEL C. TORRES. TO-MORROW
A New Universal
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Marlene DIETRICH
James STEWART In
"DESTRY RIDES AGAIN”
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TO-DAY- - TO-MORROW — SATURDAY The Most Beloved Musical Show In History!
Delightful songs, music that will live forever, presented in the world's greatest technicolour motion picture.
now
In
Britain's Life Next Few Weeks
GERMANY
GOING ALL OUT
A statement combating
SPEAKING AT DUDLEY last night Mr. L. M. S. Amery, Secretary of State for India de- clared: "There is not a corner of the Empire, |however remote, which has not made its con- tribution in men, money or effort to the com- [mon cause.”
:
Men from the outer Empire had already any idea that the "War played their part in every theatre of war. At against England is being this moment contingents from every Domin- waged only half-hearted-
ly" was issued in Berlin ion and India were here ready to do their duty last night by the official in guarding the heart of the Empire and in the German news agency, background with us in thought and feeling which says:—
but not directly engaged in the conflict, stood "Germany is waging war America.
against England with just as much determination and certainty
of victory as she did against We did not ask her to fight our Poland and France.
battle, even if we might think "The burden of the effort now that in a sense it was her battle More Elaborate Than Anything You've Ever Seen! rests on the shoulders of a few too,
THE MUSICAL
SENSATION THAT GAVE THE
WORLD ITS MOST POPULAR TUNES! →
GILBERT & SULLIVAN'S
MIKADO
IN TECHNICOLOR
The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring + Willow, Tit-Willow⚫ A Wandering Minstrel,t« Behold the Lord High Executionere Three Little Malds From School • To Make the Punishabent fit the Crime -
"CAPT. AND
thousand men only-the crews of the submarines and motor we were to pay the price our speed-boats and 'planes.
own way but we knew that "The war against England is America, if not belligerent, was necessarily waged on different something more than a cold, dis- lines from the war against interested spectator. France, where an army of A While we were growing in million men was employed. strength from month to month our enemy had already passed the peak of his power and resources.
If blood be the price of victory MRS.
Well, Well!
WOOD" TO SAIL
His very successes had added to THE DUKE AND DUCHESS "The method now used against his difficulties and every country OF WINDSOR APPEAR IN THE England admits of the use of a that he had conquered had to be PASSENGER LIST OF THE limited number of men only." held down by force.
Nazis Will Be Sorry at
Replying to the question "When is Germany going last to strike?" the statement
says!-
AMERICAN LINER EXCALIBUR AS "CAPTAIN AND MRS. WOOD." THE LINER IS DUE TO SAIL FROM LISBON AT 6
take
In every direction his armies O'CLOCK THIS EVENING. "For five weeks since the ar-were being swallowed up in the It is believed that only the mistice Germany has been strik-task of holding down peoples who Duke's secretary, Major
Gray ing daily, hourly.
were only waiting for the mo-Philips, will accompany the Duke "Every day German submarines 'ment when they could rise
in and
Duchess. They will and fighter planes are
winning revolt.
Over 1,000 miles of sea their meals, separately. fresh successes!"-Reuter.
hast. he had to keep incessant The Excalibur, reached Lisbon but it is learned watch on an adversary who held, ve days ago, control of the sea and who would that the departure of the Duke soon command the air as well: and Duchess was only definitely
When that day came the enemy decided on yesterday. would be sorry for the victories The list of passengers includes which had brought them so much Mr. A. D. Biddle, U.S. Ambas- closer within our reach. The sador to Poland, and Mr. William next few weeks might well be Philips, U.S. Ambassador to Italy. Chinhai was heavily shelled the supreme moment in the life Most of the passengers are re- MATINEES 203 303 REVENINGS #20cm 50c50c270 reports received in Shanghai last out, as she would, the
yesterday morning according to of the nation. If England held fugees of all nationalities.
SUN.
VICTOR McLAGLEN
MON "RIO" BASIL RATHBONE
CHINHAI SHELLED
night.
whole Reuter,“
world would breathe again. Details are not available, but Reuter. it is reported that early yester- day morning several Japanese
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UPROARIOUS
Victor McLAGLEN
Freddie
BARTHOLOMEW
in
PROFESSIONAL
200
with
GLORIA STUART
Constance Collie Michael Whalar
C. Henry Gordon
SOLDIER
MORROW "A STAR IS BORN".
ONLY
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FOR
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In TECHNICOLOUR
"HIS AFFAIR"
:"LITTLE PRINCESS!
Janet Gaynor Fredric March
and coinmenced shelling the port. Conditions in Ningpo are said to be normal.-Our Own Cor- respondent.
WANTED MEN
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(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
IMPERIALS PILOTS
IN CANADA
AUSTRALIA CALL-UP
up
Three Imperial Airways pilots
Captain Wilcockson, chief of Australia yesterday called Imperial Airways trans-Atlantic all men of 20, 22, 23 and 24 years service: Captain. D. C. Bennett: of age for service, in the defence and Wing Commander Griffith forces. Service within Australia. Powell-arrived-at-an-Eustern is now compulsory-and-training- Canada port yesterday on board will start next week.
It is understood that the "Shang-a British liner, reportedly to It is expected that about 76,000 hai Special Municipality" has or-supervise the flights of American men will be affected in addition dered the local Chinese police to boinbers across the Atlantic. to the 19,000 of 21 years of age
help the Nanking regime arrest Reuter.
87 Chinese black-listed by the
new regime, which charges them with "hindering the progress of the peace movement.”
It is also learned that several among the black-listed persons were not in Shanghai when the order for their arrest was pub-. lished.
Some of them left for outports
already in training-Reuter.
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immediately on publication of the HANKOW RD KOWLOON DAILY AT 230 5 20 720-920 TEL 5779
order, notably Tao Lo-ching, gen- eral sccretary of the Chinese Rate- payers' Association in the Inter- national Settlement;
Those connected with a Chinese daily widely known for its anti- Wong Ching-wei attitude working and sleeping in heavily guarded newspaper plant.
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Shirley Temple
Richard Green
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Mr. Thurston, the American Charge. D'Affaires
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The agreement, which was signed in 1937, has been renewed every year since.-Reuter,
· (SPECIAL TO "CHINA, MAIL" Sir Archibald Kerr Clark Kerr, British Ambassador to China, has gone to Welhaiwel for “one 'week's holiday. He is joining Lady Kerr there. Havas.
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ROBERT
Dietrich Donal
Knight Without Armor
From the novel by JAMES HILTON, Author of 'Lost Horizon".'Goodbye Mr. Chips!!
KG Directed by JACQUES FEYOGR
Released thig United Artists A London Film
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