THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 18, 1940.
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TYRONE
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BRENDA JOYC · NIGEL BRUCE · MARIA OUSPENSKA YA 1038PH SCHILDKRAUT · MARY NASH - JANE DARWELL MARJORIE RAMBƐAU - HENRY TRAVERS · H. B WARNER
CLARENCE BROWN
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"ALLYN JOBLYM. JOHN MELARN BERKARD MEDELA. » MARY BETI Produced by Frederick Stephani
Directed by Busby Berkeley
William Powell -- Jean Arthur.
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“Spoils Of Conquest"
with- Lupa Velox Merch of Time
VICHY HOPING FOR
A SEPARATE PEACE
THOUGH INTERNAL policy is believed HUSBAND
to be the chief cause of the dismissal of Pierre
Laval, reports from Vichy. fail entirely to SHOT BY
clarify the reasons.
ACCIDENT
"I was messing about with fire-arm, threatening to comunit.
not intend to harm him. I was so
It is probable, however, that Laval's efforts to make Marshal Petain a pliant tool for his pro-German policy encountered creasingly stubborn resistance which was tified by the changed situation in the Medi- ment attributed at a Southend in-
terranean.
It as reported that Laval Jast wek land far-reaching proposida
the reterm before
internal Vichy Cabinet, together with a 1 HOW Gammon peace offer, both of
which were rejected
Marshal Petain is reported to i have summoned Pierre-Etienne
ABETZ
suicide, when it want off. I did in-fond of him. What should I do for-
TALK WITH- PETAIN
A NEW YORK MESSAGE Plandin after this. This latter is 6AYS THAT HERR ABETZ, THE held to be anxious to adopt a NAZI AMBASSADOR TO PARIS,
HAD
TALK dignified po.icy than
WITH MARSHAL PETAIN IN Laval and it is thought FIC VICHY
AND consent to placing' LATER LUNCHED WITH THE
ילנו
would never
القمر
THREE-HOUR
YESTERDAY
French colonial bases at the VICHY CABINET. cisposal of Germany,
Reports from Vichy emphasise
¦ the important results expected in Nevertheless Britain's Mediter- some quarters to toflow the visit. Talent sucresses have revived;
It thought that in his three- Thour talk with Marshal Pelain,
without him." .
These were passages in a state-
quest to Mrs. Edith Harrison. Leigh Road. Canvey Island. Es- sex, whose husband, Harold Hugh Lionel Harrison, forty-eight, clerk died to Canvey Urban Couner", from a gunshot wound .11 the stomach.
Harrison was going on duty as Home Guard and had asked his wife to fetch his gun. In a dy- ing statement, he said. "It was au accident".
A verd;et of Death from mud- venture was recorded.
BABIES ATE HER EXTRA SUGAR
Another of nine children, Mrs. Florenc: Towersey, of Cumber-
hopes among the group of which Abet: sought in enlist Vichy'sland Road. Ellistown, was fined
Admnal Darlan is leader that support against Britain, now that 10s. at Coalville, Leicestershire, separate peace between France Italy is so serious a liability and Germany may be concluded.
Berin
Reuter.
DAILY WAR BILL
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Grounds For Hope Grounds for the hopes are that Italy has been so greatly weak- ened that Germany may now
BRITAIN'S DAILY WAR EX- able to persuade her to renounce PENDITURE LAST WEEK WAS most of her claims against France. | £11,400,000.
be!
previous Reuter.
The rock on which the earlier This was a drop of more than
over the Franco -
German negotiations £4,000,000
week's expenditure. came to grief might thus
removed.
be
Owing to the complete failure
of Laval's policy, Flandin is bound 10 move cautiously in the direc- tion of such a policy.
Nazis Not Satisfied
The fact that Oito Abetz, the Nazi Ambassador to France, has gone to Vichy suggests that Ger- many is not entirely satisfied with Flandin's nomination and indeed it is rumoured that Germany may feel obliged to send troops to ock cupy Lyons,
in-
Reports from Italy show creasing confusion and uneasi- ness concerning the war situa- Lion.
Example is the rumour current
in Italy that Marshal Badoglio and. other generals. have been execut- ed for treachery.-Reuter..
10S. FINE RETURNED
IN TOLL CASE
"That's good news," said Home Guard Frank Morgan, of Penarth, South Wales. after the magisTM trates' clerk had phoned · saying he had returned the 10s, which; an anonymous friend paid to save Morgan from prison. :i
"Now what will they do?” he said: "I am waiting to see what the magistrates will decide at the weekly, court, to-day "s
Two weeks. ago Morgan elec'ed to serve seven days! Imprisonment rather than: Day 102 fine for re fusing to pay a shilling at a toll gate while on dutasinya sa ak
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for using for other purposes 221b. of sugar which she obtained for join.
A food officer said that the wo- man admitted that she had made no jàm and she thought the sugar would do for the babies: She had 5lb. left and was using it for air- dinary purposes.
Mrs Towersey wrote that five of her children were under seven. Mr. Edward Orton, a magistrate, said he was not surprised at what
she bud done.
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