SHOWING
TODAY
QUEEN'S
At 9,89; 4.18:
7.18 & 9:15 pm.
THE SCREEN'S MIGHTY DRAMATIC
Walter
SENSATION!
*
Maureen
PIDGEON O'HARA
IN
RICHARD LLEWELLYN'S
HOW GREEN
WAS MY VALLEY
Dirild Amna Roddy
Sura
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1947.
BRITISH ARMY ALERT FOR ANY EMERGENCY
London, Mar. 13. Britain intends to keep her army in a state of pre- paredness to meet any contingency which can be foreseen, Mr. John Bellenger, War Minis- ter, told the House of Commons today when introducing the estimates for the Army,
He said: "It would be a very bold man who would
Soviet
M.Ps. In
assert that there is peace today and that, Britain
therefore, we can demobilise armies not only in this country, but in those other countries where very large military forces are still re- tained."
Speaking of the "shape of, things to come." Mr. Bellenger ndried: "We have no guarantee of peace terms. Many of the pence trenties have not been signed, in spite of Mr. Bevin's valiant efforts, and I consider it my duty to keep the Army as far as I can iti a-state of preparedness to meet any con-, Lingency which can be fore- Ace."
The War Minister warned the House of Commons that the estimates did not include: provision for new or more
CRISP LEE MCDOWALL LODER ALLGOOD modern equipment and that the
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RED SKELTON
'SHIP AHOY"
M-G-ITS SMASH MUS ICAL COMEDY HIT!
with Bert LAJIR Virginia O'BRIEN
AH
M-G-M
PICTURE
TO-MORROW
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WALLACE
bubug. A the recall MARGARET
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BAD BASCOMB
Army was living at the moment very largely on its war alocks. This could not continue in- definitely.
EXACTLY WHO
WAS NUTS?
Oxford, Mar. 13. Twenty-two-year-old Direk Roosevelt, grandson of Theo- dore Roosevelt, and two other Oxford undergraduates were fined £25 today for making hogun telephone calls, apparently as a prank to ace if they couldprt ambulance driverá out looking for a friend whom they represent- ed as mud.--United Press.
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