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TEMPESTUOUS ROMANCE
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ALICE FAYE
FRED
MACMURRAY
RICHARD
GREENE BRENDA JOYCE
ANDY DEVINE, HENRY STEPHENSON
FRITZ FELD
A Twentieth Century-tas Picture
"King of the Lumberjacks"
A Warner Bros.
Picture
John Payne
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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 17, 1940
NAVY MUST HAVE
COMMAND OF
THEIR
SEA IN GHOST SHIPS
AN ANALYSIS of the fantastic German- Italian claims and a statement on the true position was issued by the Admiralty yester- day. In all, the Germans and Italians claim
to have sunk or put out of action 269 British warships; the real total, including submar- ines, is 47.
In many cases, the Germans and Italians have sunk or destroyed in their official com- muniques more than twice as many ships of a certain class than the Royal Navy had at the beginning of the war!
For instance:—
KING MUST Battleships and heavy cruisers:
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Thrilling Action Packed Drama Of Espionage !
Encmy agents secretly an Englishman's home to
install
a
lightbeam in direct aerial warfare.
2
Edmund GWENN • Mary MAGUIRE
AN ENGLISHMAN'S HOME
BRITISH FILM WITH
PRESENT DAY, MÒRAL
PEI VOS KENIZED
GEOFFREY IDOM GERARD MALİY Produced by REVELLE E. KEVILLA
Muced By ALBERT de COORYALE
SERVANTS
Should an
air raid
We have lost one out of 15; Ger- man-Italian communiques claim to have sunk 32.
Aircraft carriers: Lost, 2 out of 7; enemy claims, 10.
Cruisers: Lost, 3
out of enemy claims, 83.
Destroyers: Lost, 28 out of 185
warning be received at the private A.R.P. post at enemy claims, 92. Palace, Buckingham
62:
Submarines: Lost, 13 out of 58
members of the staff who enemy claims, 52.
The Admiralty states that since. have been trained as war- dens and first-aid person- declared that British
enemy propaganda has repeatedly nel would go on duty-are unable to cope with the num- dockyards and the King and Queen ber of ships requiring repair.
BRITISH REPRESENTATIONS IN MADRID
It was learned. in London yesterday that the Spanish For- eign Minister has given Sir Samuel Hoare, our Ambassa- dor in Madrid, a cate- gorical repudiation of a charge by a Spanish newspaper that Britain was hold- ing up wheat and oil for Spain and the newspaper's insinua- tion that British .agents were respon- sible for a fire in the Alicante oil depots.-
Reuter.
would obey their instruc-ships claimed as seriously dam- SPY
tions implicitly.
aged are presumably out of action
The air-raid precautions at the in addition to those sunk. Only palace provide an example any claims. in official enemy com household can follow with pro-muniques have been included.
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KZJOHNS
PAYNE Kid Nightingale
JANE
WYMAN
Merchant Ship Losses
........
CAUGHT, SHOT
A
hand and reduced to the simplest and quickest organisation; and everybody, from the King and Enemy claims are even wider THE BATTLE WAS AT ITS Queen to the youngest pantry-off the mark as regards merchant- HEIGHT. THE FARMHOUSE |boy, knows exactly what to do in ship losses. The real loss in Bri- HEADQUARTERS - OF
an emergency.
Every day
FRENCH DIVISION: QUIVERED the deep
cellar tish, Allied and neutral ships UP TO THE STEADY DRUMMING shelter rooms are inspected and to August 4 was 2,514,199 tons,OF BARRAGES JUST AHEAD... made ready. Fresh water is stored including 1,340,000 tons of British The air was filled with the by the little stove for making hot
roar of aeroplane motors and the German-Italian official claim; heavy thud of bombs.
As the staff pored over-maps, total 5,078,000.-On July 12, the telephoned, sent dispatch riders Nazi High Command also clalm-out in the dawn, a sentry appear ed that over 300 ships had been ed and announced that a lieuten- put out of action for many ant from the adjoining division months to come.
has arrived.
■ MATINEES: 20c 30c EVENINGS: 200, 300-500 70 drinks, and there are tins of bis-merchant shipping.
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An underworld czar becomes a Lord of England! A gangs. ter with a passion for silk and a horror of guns defies. Scotland Yard in an amazing crime! It's startling! It's strange! It's fascinating!
WHOSE LEGS ARE THEY?
You never see her! You only see her beautiful lege, Sbe plays a strange role is thin dars ing, different, dramatic motion picture thriller!
Robert MONTGOMERY
cuits and sweets, periodically, re- placed. Once a week the rooms are thoroughly warmed through, to prevent any accumulating damp- ness which might cause chills.
Queen's Knitting
That, says the Admiralty, is an The visitor was shown in im- even wilder exaggeration than mediately. There are chairs, a table and a anything else. The total British covered with dust and breathless. He was unshaven, desk with a telephone extension mercantile tonnage at the begin-A little too breathless. in the shelter, which the King and ning of the war was 21,000,000 Queen and the Royal Family use tons, of which 18,500,000 tons was have been hard hit and our posi- "We are cut off," he said. “We The Queen keeps a piece of knit-
sea-going.
tion is hopeless. We understand ting there, and a portable battery, We now have more British mer-there is an order for a general.
Both the King and the Queenning of the war, as losses have through to the Army H.Q. for de-
chant tonnage than, at the begin-withdrawal, but cannot
.get have warm clothes, and their been made up by captures, new finite orders. gas masks laid on a chair near building and flag transfers. their bads every night.
does not include 'Danish French shipping.-Reuter.
radio set.
BULLET
The PASSED
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Earl Chicago
ARNOLD
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TWO MEN
STOP SUGAR CAKES M.P.
This I managed to reach here. Can and you put me in touch with the army
jat once."
There was no reason to sus- pect the visiting officer. He had .given the correct number of the adjoining division and In the "grand meine"!, it was possible that a division had been-cut off. But the officers. in the farm- house demanded his papers. be- [fore saying a word. The visitor The amount of sugar used on reached in his pocket. A look of cakes shocks Mr. Robert Boothby,
consternation spread across his Parliamentary Secretary to the [face. Ministry of Food-and it has got to stop, he says.
A bullet: fired by a parashot at a motor-cyclist, went through the body of the billion rider and then "I have taken, the opportunity of killed the driver. The pillion rider inspecting the confectioners' shops is still alive. ·
'n Princes Street, Edinburgh," Mr. Boothby (said."
..
Suspicion Aroused.
"I've lost my papers," he [claimed.
The driver was Peter, McKellar,
The others, at once suspicious, figed" thirty-four, of Fairlie, near "The number and the variety of began shooting questions. The Largs, Ayrshire, and he died cakes, either containing sugar or visitor saw the game was up, his shortly afterwards.
covered with sugar, and sweet-hand moved for his pistol.. The pillion passenger, whose meats consisting almost entirely identity has not yet been estab- of sugar was altogether excessive. lished, was taken to Greenock In- This will certainly have to {firmary seriously wounded.
be put a stop to, and is going
to be put a stop to because it
But a young captain was quicker, he fired first and the clever and extremely bold spy dropped dead."
-git--is alleged that McKellar -falled to stop when signalled to
do so at the parashot post. The "I um going to see what can belone of many strange, incidents in parashot fired, and the bullet, done to make further ration of which Fifth Column sples took after, piercing the stomach of sugar available to those, house-part, On being asked how these. ...the pillion rider, passed through wives who want to make their agents got in, "Some hud managed
McKellar's chest,
own jam."
to slip in and hide long before The bullet fell from his body! Urging wider distribution of the invasion“ began," he said. when the front of his shirt was foodstuffs, Mr. Boothby advised "They came out of their holes in opened.
retailers to stock up their shows their stolen uniforms when the McKellar was unmarried and to capacity, housewives to get in battle was well under way. was employed as a woodcutter. Hela week's supply of essential foods "Others managed to come in Iwas the eldest son of a family of--though there was no need for among Belgian refugees or were
four.
thom to hoard,
dropped by: parachute at night.";
An officer, who had been, pre- is quite an Impossible situation. sent told this story. It was just