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RUTH HUSSEY » GENE LOCKHART
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Diensted by MIL G. POTTER Prodused by JoÍEN W, CONSTOPHE, JE
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If You Are Too Busy To Write Home Don't. Just Post a Copy of the Overland China Mait which gives all the News there IS-
Both Local and Coastal
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 21, 1941.
LONDON TO-DAY MINIATURE
A
EUROPE
"WE HAVE HERE in London a miniature Eu- rope and we wish consequently to adjust the law of our country to meet the international character of our capital," declared Mr. R. A. Butler, Under- Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in moving the second reading of the Diplomatic Privileges Bill in the House of Commons yesterday.
The Bill proposes, said Mr. Butler, to confer a position corresponding to that of members of the Diplomatic Corps upon the members and senior of- ficials of the Allied Governments of Poland, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Pro- visional Czechoslovak Government, as well as lead- ers and senior officials of the Free French movement established in Britain.
The British and other Govern-1 ments will agree upon the names |
the of individuals affected and list will be published in The London Gazette.
Mr. Butler added that the protection accorded to diploma-
SUNDAY
CINEMAS
CONSCRIPTION INTRODUCED IN MALTA
Conscription was
. introduced in Malta The Gov-
yesterday.
ernor is empowered to call all males between the ages of 18 and 41 for military service.
Reuter
BRITISH INTERNEES
IN FRANCE
ANSWERING A QUESTION IN YESTERDAY THE COMMONS
tic envovs to the Court of St. James should be extended to THE PROVISION OF REGU- diplomats accredited to Allied, LAR CINEMA, MUSIC HALL Governments at present estab-AND THEATRE ENTERTAIN.
ished in Britain,
MENT ON SUNDAYS, WHERE Mr. Butler said London was THE NEEDS OF THE FIGHTING
THE FOREIGN UNDER-SECRE- the focus of resistance of a free' SERVICES AND INDUSTRIAL
SAID TARY
OFFICIAL IN- Europe and the Bill would make WORKERS WARRANT IT,
BEEN RE- Britain a real home of freedom EXPECTED AS RESULT OF
ALL BRITISH for those determined representa- CONSIDERATION GIVEN ΤΟ SUBJECTS, INCLUDING THOSE tives of national resistance.
THIS QUESTION BY THE HOME FROM THE BORDEAUX AND The Bill was passed on the s- SECRETARY, MR. HERBERT NANTES DISTRICTS AND FROM rond reading.—Reuter,
DISORDER IN PARIS MARKETS
MORRISON.
1
FORMATION HAD CEIVED THAT
AND BESAN-
DINARD AND DINAN, WHO Mr. Morrison stated, in reply ARE INTERNED IN OCCUPIED to a Commons question yesterday, FRANCE, ARE CONCENTRATED THREE LOCALITIES-ST. that it was proposed that Defence AT Regulation 42b, which empowers DENIS, DRACY local authorities to adopt a sim-, CON. plified procedure for authorising There is; however, one small. the Sunday opening of cinemas group of about 60 persons intern- where large numbers of troops are ed at St. Troyes, about whom fur-
to ther information is awaited.
subjects Many of the British who were interned have now been released. In general they fall into Discretion would similarly be
categories of children up to sixteen exercised regarding the opening of years, mothers of children up to theatres and music halls.
concentrated, to be amended cover the needs workers.
of industrial
sixteen years, women over sixty The House would have an op- years and elderly men. portunity to debate the regulation, ;
Requisitioning of food-British Wireless. stuffs by the Germans has
led to considerable dis- GOERING'S
order in large markets in
Paris, according to mes- GIFT TO
sages received by the In-]
dependent French Agency THE CAUSE
in London yesterday.
hours.
There are now no indications as to where those who are re- Icased may live, with the ex- ception of certain coastal areas. of Consequently the majority
percons released have returned to their former homes. Arrangements have now
been
made
in
to provide internees France with small sums of money the to purchase necessaries and United States authorities have been authorised to incur expen- diture on clothing, and medical supplies-British Wireless.
,
DR. CURRIE SOON LEAVING CHINA
These messages say that trouble OF THE MANY HUNDREDS at the central market was caused OF GERMAN AIRCRAFT WHICH uy the Germans making a clean HAVE CRASHED IN BRITAIN sweep of all potatoes after women SOME THIRTY HAVE BEEN had been waiting in queues for SALVED IN SUFFICIENTLY GOOD CONDITION TO BE USED As a collective punishment for FOR EXHIBITION PURPOSES,
ISPECIAL TỔ “CHINA MAIL") the disturbance, the message Altogether 115 such exhibitions Dr. Lauchlin Currie returned to adds, Parisians were deprived have been organised by the Minis-Chungking from Chengfu yester- of potatoes for 40 days.
try of Aircraft Production and day afternoon. He will be leav- Similar disorders occurred at £22,500 raised from admission ing for Hong Kong very soon. - the meat market at La Velette fees.
Our Own Correspondent. and again Paris as a whole Was Apart from this, the stimulus punished by a general withhold- supplied to local aircraft funds chines. ing of supplies.
t
has benefited them by at least The Luftwaffe has therefore It is stated that milk is die £50,000. In addition aluminium subscribed quite handsomely to tributed sparingly to invalide to the value of some £40,000 has the means for its own defeat.- and sick people, while coffee is been salved from wrecked ma-British Wireless. unobtainable.
Grocers' shops bear the follow-
ing legend: "The coffee we are roasting is not for sale. It is the German troops."--Reuter.
GIFT BY RAJAH OF PERLIS
for
It was announced in London yesterday that the Rajah of Perlis, Rmallest State in the Malay Pen- insula, has given £17,500 as a further contribution to the British government for war purposes, to- wards the cost of emergency, de- fence expenditure. In the State, this being the fourth contribution which the State Government has made for this purpose; British Wireless.
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Lionel Barrymore
Maureen O'Sullivan
An MGM Picture
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