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LITTLE OLD NEW YORK
ALICE FAYE
FRED
MACMURRAY
RICHARD
GREENE
BRENDA JOYCE
ANDY DEVINE HENRY STEPHENSON
FRITZ FELD
A Twentieth Century-Pex Picture
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 20, 1940
*
TO-MORROW
A Warner Bros.
Picture
4 SHOWS
DAILY 2.30 - 5,20
7.20 -9.30
"King of the Lumberjacks
With
* John Payne
Gloria Dickson
MAJESTICE
THEATRE
An enemy tanker ablaze to the water line in the Channel off the French Coast, Ministry Official Photograph),
(Air
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An Exciting Mystery-Drama Full Of Suspence !
THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T TALK
Our
happiness your life ... de-
pend on it!
TALK!"-
The star witness against him
his silence!
.with
· LLOYD NOLAN • JEAN ROGERS RICHARD CLARKE • ERIC BLORE ONSLOW STEVENS
Added Attraction : LATEST MOVIETONE NEWS ·
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ERROR FLYNN in " DODGE CITY
A Warner Bros. Super-Production
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STAR THEATRE
Penetrating The Goebbels Bombast Smokescreen
ACROSS THE
BLUE MOUNTAINS
AMERICAN NEWS commentators who have been sending daily broadcasts back to the United States about the recent Nazi air raids on Britain have effectively replied to German claims of tremendous successes and TRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCE widespread damage.
Discussing Sunday's raids, one commen- tator said that Londoners were surprised to read in their papers that the German radio hud reported a dark pall of smoke over the British capital..
From a high point in the centre; of London, said the commentator, no such pall of smoke seen in any direction.
can
be
"Nine-tenths of the people
ARTILLERY FROM
NEWFOUNDLAND
THE 4,000 MEN OF THE. AUS-
[WHO ARE MARCHING 100 MILES ACROSS THE BLUE
MOUNTAINS Το BATHURST
ARE NOW. STRUNG. OUT ALONG THE ROUTE AND ARE GREAT WEL-
RECEIVING A
COME FROM PEOPLE ALL
ALONG THE WAY.
On Sunday, the Governor-Gen- eral motored from Sydney to in- spect them and thousands of motorists spent the week-end in the mountains in order to see
The first batch are expected to
Friday-
saw no more and heard no more The fifth contingent of artillery them. of the raids than you did in the arrived in Britain yesterday from United States!", he continued. Newfoundland. The men were "They had to tune in. their ra-welcomed by the Newfoundland reach Bathurst on dios or go out and buy a paper, Trade Commissioner-Reuter. to discover what had hap- pened!"
Another commentator described; a motor tour he made through strategic coast towns in the south- east and south, in search of the "devastated areas."
It was like "looking for ant- hills in the Grand Canyon!" He was genuinely surprised to see what little damage had been] lone "to military objectives. Не went unescorted and without guide, and went directly to the points where so much damage was supposed to have been done.
A third commentator, discuss- ing German, claims that Croydon
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was at Croydon aerodrome an [hour after the raid and foundi neither flames nor smoke.-Reuter,
An American Test
The German Wireless claimed on August 186 that German 'planes In unprecedented nunibers have been for many hours over London. In the opinion of foreigners liv- ing in London it. wus, the greatest air offensive the world has ever witnessed.".
Yetan, American broadcaster
Réuter.
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from London; said: "American A GREAT NEW SCREEN, DETECTIVE ARRIVES !
correspondents in Fleet Street neither saw. nor heard any. Ger- mai.. 'planes."'
Again,, the Germans said that they had closed one of Britain's biggest ports. An American broadcaster who went to inventi- gate said on August 16: "!A, 'tho-' rough and unrestricted inspection of the vast docks showed ships from all parts of the world un-
TO-MORROW... Basil Rathbone * Victor McLaglen loading cargoes of all kinds, wheat
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from Canada; oil from the United States, meat from Australia, minerals from South America.' Reuter
His first Thrilling screen appearance!
NICK CARTER
· AT LAST ON THE SCREEN
fo a thriller
of
today!
MASTER DETECTIVE
Meuro
Within
Mou
Walter PIDGEON Rita JOHNSON
HENRY HULL STAKLEY C. RIDGES
DONALD MEEK » ADDISON RICHARDS
Directed by Jacques Tourneur Produced by Lucien HubbarÉ