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ABBOTT COSTELLO
The
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with ALAN CURTIS
RITA JOHNSON HENRY TRAVERS
LOIS COLLIER JOE SAWYER
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE
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"DIAMOND HORSESHOE.” Betty GRABLE - Dick HAYMES
A 2011, Century-Fex Pictur, IN TECHNICOLOR
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1947.
RUSSIA WORRIED OVER China ANGLO-U.S. AGREEMENT Claims
Moscow, Jan, 19.
Government
news
A
paper Izvestia_yesterday in discussion on Britain's role int the Far East and differences between the two countries over Japan.
that the
Brewing apprehension was noticeable here this week over a supposed trend towards militar- ism in the United States and the existence of a Secret agreement between the General Staffs of Britain and the United States. Some observers held that Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery's efforts to explain away Anglo- American cooperation had merely added to that apprehension.
that the m-ed in the Others held easiness which found expression in the newspapers might netual- ly be in the interests of closer cooperation between Britain and the Soviet Union.
The official Communist Party
took organ Pravda
ocension this week to remind the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, that Britain still had a ract with Russia and stated flatly that he had repadiated this. This was taken in some garters to mean that Russia
the was anxious that
pact should be lived up to and that its possibilities leading to closer cooperation should be explored
Several times during the past week commentators referred to Britain's dependency 071 the United States. likewise citing reports of a secret agreement between the Chiefs of Staff.
"Subservient"
on
More Russian opinion Britain's alleged subservience to the United States was express-
The commentator said
recognition of British United States-dominating-roje | in the Far East was an expres. sion of a foreign policy line by a tendency characterised
an I alliance with towards America for "dividing the world and achieving. Anglo-American domination."
BREAD RATIONED
IN EIRE
Dublin, Jon, 18. Bread rationiity began in Eire today. Each person will be allowed either six pounds of bread or fans meet a half. pounds of which the for the next 26
be revised.. position witioning in Britein
Prese
and Northern Trefanit began lant July and the individual weekly basic ration is three- pouads fifteen ounces-Ren-
107,
MORE SOVIET CHARGES
Paracels
Paris, Jan. 18. China today officially claimed the Paracel Is- lands in the South China Sea,
east of Annam,
AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES.
SAILINGS
SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES
55 "President. McKinley
SS "President Grant"
SS President Jefferson"
!anitary
.20
January
21
January
31
HONOLULU AND SAN FRANCISCO VIA
which were recently oc- $5 "General Meigs" cupied by Chinese troops and which the French Government claims
part of Indo-China.
as
The claim was made in a.state.
MANILA
-February
13
NEW YORK AND BOSTON VIA SAN FRANCISCO AND- LOS ANGELES
February SS "Butland Victory"......
NEW YORK AND HAVANA VIA SINGAPORE COLOMBO, COCHIN, BOMBAY, SUEZ" AND MEDITERRANEAN PORTS, V
ment issued by the Chinese Em- bassy here which sail that the islands have been under Chinese the remotest sovereignty from past and have always been ad- ministered as part of the Chinese, SS "President Polk" SS "Will Vickery" Kwangtung. province of
statement added that the SS "Scutt E. Land" Chinese and French Governments exchanged notes on the status of the islands between 1932 and 1938 and that the Chinese Gov- ernment never ceased to claim absolute right to the islands.
"China never consented to the! occupation of the islands by France in the name of the E-
Moscow, Jan. 18. The New Times magazine, in a leading article today, said the British and Americans were "directly interfering" in Poland's internal affairs, in an effort to re- draw Poland's western frontier.
The article said: "It well re bemembered that the Soviet Union considers the western frontiers of Poland permanent. The Poush
statement said.Reuter. people know who are its enemies of Anam, in 1838," and ils friend." It said the accusa lions of unfair elections were at justified and "it is characteristic that the new American nole dides not mention a single fact or a concrete example which could confirm them, United Press.
Speaking on differences over Japan and British criticism of the United States, the writer said that "contradictions tween Britain and the United of all States are a reflection the complications and contradic tions in the post-war position of Britain which is fighting for a decent place under the sun but which is simultaneously subordinating its policy more and more to the interests of the United States and the will of its leaders."-Associated Press.
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*BILLY the KID'
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'MADAME LOUISE"
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Retained By Public Demand
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SDESPERADOES
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Evelyn Keyes Edgar Buchanan,
COLUMBA PICTOPE
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