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WALTER CONNOLLY - ROSCOE KAFNS' From the Cosmopolitan Magazine story by Samuel Napkins Adams Screen viur by ROBERT RISKIN A FRANK CAPRA Production)
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INGRID BERGMAN and WARNER BAXTER
"ADAM HAD FOUR SONS"
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ZASU PITTS EVE ARDEN TAMARA • BILLY GILBERT • STUART ROBERTSON
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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST. 19, 1941.
ROOSEVELT MEETS KEY MEN AT WHITE
HOUSE TALK
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT yesterday sum- moned to the White House, key men in Con- gress connected with foreign affairs to give them a full account of the international situation.
Those who assembled in the President's study included the Vice-President Henry Wallace, Senators Barkley, Connally, George and the Speaker of the House of Representa- tives, Mr. Sol Bloom.
They were expected in their turn to explain to President Roosevelt the latest developments in the legislative situation.
President Roosevelt gave his Congressional lieutenants a pleture of the dramatic Churchill-Roose- vell talks and also discussed fur- ther Lease and Lend appropriation, Senator Barkley, leaving after 90 minutes, told reporters that the meeting was "very interesting" bul confidentia. He discloseti that the question of further Lease
and Lend arropriation was dis- cussed and the Japanese situation mentioned only casually.
GERMAN SHIPS SUNK
Three German patrol| vessels were bombed and sunk off the Dutch coast by Royal Air Force Blen- heim bombers yesterday afternoon, according to an complete outline of his talks Air Ministry communi-
Position Unaltered
President Roosevelt gave a
que.
with Mr. Churchill, said Senator Connally after the meeting.
He said: * 1 do not believe "Two attacks on objectives in any commitments were made northern France were made by which would in any way alter other Blenheims which were ac- our position towards the war." Senator Connally expressed the opinion that further Lease and Lend appropriation would be about $4,000,000,000 but declared "by far the greater part of the original $7,000,000,000 has not yet been expended."-Reuter.
"SABOTAGE" CRASHES DISCOUNTED
The Air Ministry bos issued a state- men t discounting sabotage theories in connection with the coincidental crashes of two "ferry 'planes" causing the death of 44 persons.
It is believed that the crashes in both cases were caused by the heavy weight of fuel at the take-off. ---International News Service.
ROOSEVELT
AND HULL
CONFER
President Roosevelt and companied by strong fighter es- Mr. Cordell Hull are corts," continues the communique officially believed to have
"An industrial plant at Lille and other targets were bombed. mapped out a programme Fighter escorts destroyed three for the dispatch of aid to enemy fighters, while other fight- ers carried out a sweep over the Moscow and canvassed coast of northern Brittany and the Far East crisis and
attacked the aerodrome and enemy |
gun fire.
to
The major problem of the tripartite front against the Ger mans is believed to be the dis- re-
AIR RAID DISTRESS tribution of American war
sources between Britain and Rus- sia.
Even Chance In troops with cannon and machine- the problems created for American security by the Far East
"From these operations three aircraft all fighters are miss-Vichy capitulation Russia has a real chance of holding." Reuter.
Berlin. ing out indefinitely against the i Nazis. That is one of the impres- sions Congressional leaders re- ported they gained from their con- ference with President Roosevelt. Other impressions were firstly, Russian resistance has forestalled
faced President Roosevelt is any German attempt to invade
with pressing domestic problems Great Britain this year. Secondly,
including the strike at the Feder- the British believe that any Ger-
al Ship-building Co., New Jersey, man attempt to invade Britain
In a broadcast appear last night where US. $493,000,000 worth of will be delayed at least until the on behalf of the Lord Mayor's Na- naval and merchant shipbuilding Spring.
tional Air Raid Distress Fund, he been blocked. Defence cffi- THIRDLY, THE CHANCES the Lord Mayor of London stated cials expected President Roose- APPEARED EVEN THAT JAPAN that, since the Fund started last velt to order the Navy Yards to WOULD TAKE, NEW STEPS OF September well over 100,000 fam- take over f AGGRESSION,DE
FUND
ilies had received help and more High American officials said President Roos velt appeared than a million and a ball pounds that President Roosevelt and Mr. cheerful and confident as the re- been spent in grants of cash and Winston Churchill drank chani- sult of his talks with me. Winston in providing food, clothing, furni-pagne toasts and ate English Churchil One Congressman said ture, removal expenses and many grouse aboard the Prince of the British were convinced that other purposes. To-day, a na Wales' saloon, a tew feet from in order to defeat Germany, Bri- tion-wide flag day on behalf of the the gaping holes the Bismark; in- tain must invade the continent. It Fund is being "held. British flicted.. was indicated, however, that no Wireless. such step was contemplated present. Reuter.
PETROL RATIONING
IN AFGHANISTAN
at
Premier To Broadcast
has Mr. Winston Churchill' will are rive in London this morning. The Prime Minister is expected to broadcast to the enlion short-
The Afghan Government Introduced petrol rátioning it was learned in Peshawar terday.
The most private conferences were held in the President's cabin aboard the cruiser Augusta. International News Service.
FRENCH CONSUL
RESIGNS
The French Consul at Santiago Ede Chile has resigned, s
that he could not represent, a Government which is now under German domination ... — Beuter,
The move has been taken owingly find give more details of his SWEEPER LOST
historic meeting - with Presiden!". Roosevelt
The Admiralty, has announce The broadcast will probably be that. HM. minesweepe on Sunday. — Reuter;
has been sunk. — British
to the reduction in imports by over 30 per cent, caused by, the war
The country is dependent upon Imports. Although -- oll, deposits are known to exist in Afghanis- tan they remain untapped. Reuter
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