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Too Many Girls
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HARRY E. EDINGTON, Execullys Prodzone." · "Scrom play,
EUCILLE BALLE RICHARD CARLSON
NN MILLER EDDIE BRACKEN
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GINGER ROGERS in "TOM, DICK and HARRY"
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TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW THE CHAN HIT THAT TOPS THEM ALL!
CHARLIE CHAN
AT THE
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Among ghostly figures of execu ted criminals Chan stalks an eerie kil- ler...in the picture the critics call "the best Chan it yet!”
SIDNEY TOLER
and SEN YUNG C. HENRY. GORDON MARC LAWRENCE JOAN VALERIE Marguerite CHAPMAN TED OSBORN Directed by Lynn Sharan Alsaciate Producers Walter Mereke, Belah Distric Original Scrap Pay by Juha Larkin Besed me the character "Charlie ChamTM crested by Lari De- Bigger
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¦ MARGARET LOCKWOOD and REX HARRISON
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The Biggest Laugh Show of Their Careers
Oliver
LAUREL HARDY
JEAN PARKER
THE
REGINALD GARDINER
MORA
FLYING DEUCES
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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 30, 1941.
ITALY BEGINNING TO FEEL THE PINCH
GROWING CONCERN at Italy's food and financial stringency is reflected in Italian newspaper editorials which are quoted in messages from Milan,
In an editorial on the food situation, the Turin poper "Stampa” invites the authorities to be more active in putting on fresh "turns of the screw.
NAZI OIL DEPOT WRECKED
The R.A.F.- attack on St. Nazaire on Sunday night is more fully des- Cribed by the Air Minis- try News Service.
The paper says the great. dàn- zer is that perpetual price changes nny create an atmosphere.
of infation and feeling of uncer- unty, which will ceriously harm the defence of the lira and public
aving.
Writing in the paper "Regime Fascista," Farinacci, former secretary-general of the Fascist
Party, denounces the "large num- ber of people in Italy who are hoping to save money to plunge into speculations.
"We have observed the mad race in order to buy immovable property, jewels and industrial shares from which hàn résulted serious disturbances in the mar- Ket and Tibe in prices sky.
Price Race
"Ordinary plots of land. increased in price by
LORRY CONVOY SURPRISED
It was teamed in. London yesterday that R.A.F. fighters attacked a convoy of lorries... near · Dieppe ̈ with cannon and machine-guns, - Five. lorries were set on fire.
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BOUND BY
NAZIS TO
RETICENCE
have Sir Lancelot Oliphant sixty and party,
mean-
Flying through intense flak and batteries of powerful searchlights on both banks of the River Loire, it is stated, Blenheim and Beau- thousand lire per hecta, fort aircraft of the Coastal Com- while the value of houses mand bombed and set on fire an increased fourfold within the absolute reticence, are important oil depot and the refin-period of a few months. eries at St Nazaire.
who have have undertaken to preserve
going to England at a "Gold is selling at 120 lire per very early date. Leading the way in, the Beau-gramme, diamonds at 5,000 lire forts located the target and start- ed a blaze with sticks of high ex- plosive and incendiary bombs dropped from low level.
"As the bomba fell among the tanks," sald the pilot of oha Beaufort, "our aircraft rocked with the force of the explosion. Then flames shot up and the fire spread and when we were miles on our way home we could see the tanks blazing..
Another Beaufort was intercept- ed by a Nazi night fighter but a few rounds by the Beaufort's rear gunner caused it to break away.
Following the Beauforts, the Blenheims bombed from a higher altitude.
Approaching the French coast, one aircraft saw the refinery 50 miles away burning fiercely.
"We crossed the target" said a pilot, "and saw the oil tanks clear ly outlined amid the blaze below ts. A wide area, was on fire and even at our height the air reeked of burning and what seemed to be chemical fumes."
Another pilot described the fire, which he could see 45 miles away, as a blood-red blaze. British Wireless.
INDIAN CAVALRY RELIEVED
The 18th Regiment of Indian Cavalry has just been quietly relieved at Tobruk after sharing the honour and burden of its defence for five months.
On their arrival at a rest camp in Egypt, they were visited by the commander-in-chief, General Auchinleck, who told them, in an address, how the world. had watched with admiration the un- flinching defence of Tobruk, which, when held by the Italians, had fallen to the Imperial Forces ufter only a few days.
per grain."
Farinacci- adds that an end must be put to this price race if Fascism does not want to reduce the poorer-classes to famine.
The financial editor of the pa-l per "Sera,” discussing the cent developments in the
re- Milan Stock Exchange, says that
un certainty and the public.
dominates exchange
Market Nervous
There are the first batch of people to be exchanged for Ger- mans delivered by the Spanish authorities to the Portuguese Gov-. ernment at the frontier.
All have been detained in Ger- many for more than a year.
Besides Sir Oliphant, they are Mr. Peter Scarlett, Secretary of the Embassy at Brussels, Mr. Mackenzie, Commercial Attachu at Brussels, Mr. Edmonds, Consul in Bergen, his wife, and two chil- 'dren, and nurse, Miss Athis, Mr. Whadrop, Vice-Consul ät Bergen, Mr. Tollemache and Mr. Baker, both, Vice-Consuls, and Mr. Ben- nett, Consular servant. Reuter.
"I observed recently a series of completely irregular meetings with numerous incomprehensible and unforseen changes in ket tendencies. A dragoniar PRESIDENT INEUNU'S measure must be taken in order to limit the rise in prices.
mar-
*The authorities must intervene
in the present abnormal situa tion. The nervousness in the Milan Stock Exchange, resulting from the war situation, Is related to the present pyschological con- |ditions-Reuter. i
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- BIRTHDAY
King George VI has sent a tele- gram of congratulations and good wishes to President Ineunu of Turkey, on his birthday, stated the Turkish Radio last night, Presi- dent Ineunu has thanked the King for this thought. Reuter.,
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