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CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S NEW
FILM ON DICTATORS
The same kind of secrecy with which Europe's dictators hide their moves has been thrown about Charlie Chaplin's new movie, a travesty on one-man government. Charlie's monstache made it man- datory that he take the Hitler role himself.
Jack Oakle reportedly portrays -Duce under the name Berzins. Napoleon!, and Billy Gilbert is suld to play Herman Goerbrg. Chaplin has allowed no pictures to leak out, but any resemblance to characters living in Europe is entirely intentional!
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DOUBTS DISPELLED Charlie Chaplin very recently dispelled any doubt that he plans to release his movie" burlesque on European dictators by signing Meredith Willsop to compose the prchestration, and score for the production.
The picture, yet to be named and tentatively titled Production No. 6, has been nearly completed. for several weeks,
but
rapid
GENERAL
DUTCH EAST INDIES ARE BETTER
DEFENDED THAN IS GENERALLY THOUGHT
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, AUG. 27.—THE NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES ARE PROBABLY IN A MUCH STRONGER POSITION FOR
LONDON CAN TAKE IT!
SELF-DEFENCE FROM FOREIGN ATTACK AND INVASION THAN Months To Demolish
IS GENERALLY THOUGHT, according to a survey recently complet- ed by the finstitute of Pacife Relations,
dies are
been
Dock Area Alone
-
While offelsi figures on the strength of the Indies defenses
-LONDON, Sept. 12 (Reuter) have been veiled in secrecy since. 1935, unofacial sources place the
Neutral
correspondents I press strength of her naval defense at one battleship, three cruisers, eight
agree that London can take far destroyers, 18 submarines and 42 torpeds boats, the survey reported,
worse bombing and still hold its NAVAL AUTHORITIES have long safety of certain harbours for both head up. Whether or not the Ger- regarded the submarine as the warships and the country's cotù-man raids have reached their best means of naval defense for mercial vessels; the installation of climax it must not be supposed that small countries which cannot in-coastal lookout posts with two- London is in a state of depress- dulge in large navies and the way radio apparatus; and
lon or terror, says the London number which the Netherlands In-Jelaborate system for contacting correspondent of
the Swedish now known to possess merchant ships at sea should hos-:
paper Dagens Nyteter. would, undoubtedly play an im-tilities break out,
A wounded giant bleeds Я portant role not only against any
also Measures have
ttle but he is far from · gravely! naval attack' on the Islands bat
taken for the laying of mines, injured, reports the corresponTM especially against transports try-
the use of torpedoes, the con- dent of the Swedish paper Tid: ing to land military expeditions.
veying of merchant ships and
nighen who says that the damage LIMITED PORTS
gas protection,
caused to the docks were small As the islands have only a
"Measures for the mobilization compared with their total area.. mited number of ports at which of the country's economic re- It would take months of bomb- such debarkation could take place, sources and the resultant trans-tag at the present scale to de- the potential striking power of the formation-in-the-country's econo-troy the dock area—alone, he Indies submarine fleet is greater my, have put the Netherlands zaya thah might otherwise be the case. Indies in a position to put up a
An unusual feature of the In- stout defense against dies destroyers and minelayers; the vader" the survey concluded. survey found, is that they are equipped to carry planes.
any in-
A plentiful supply of aviation LONDON MAYORS
fuel has been assured by the con- struction of two high-octane avia- tion gasoline plants.
WELL EQUIPPED
MEET
LIGHT BOMBS USED
LONDON, Sept. 12 (Reuter)- In their recent raids on London, the Germans have been chiefly using light bombs weighing just over 100 lb., although some of 250
Relief Of Air Raid 1. have also been dropped.
Victims Discussed
A
The Netherlands Indies are well equipped from the stand- point of aerial defense and for
few weighing 1,000 lb. were drop- the bombing of attacking
ped in the docks area; but this ships, the survey reported.
LONDON, Sept. 12 (Reuter-was an exception. The air force includes Martin The various Mayors of London The general impression is that bombers, Koolhovens, Fokkers, and met at Mansion House on Wed-the German planes are dropping" German Dorniers. Several excel-nesday to discuss with the Lord the smaller type of which they lent military bases and numerous Mayor the fund he is opening to can carry more-in order to cause secret airfields have been built in relieve people who have suffered as much inconvenience and fright the jungles of the archipelago. worst in the recent raids.
as possible to civilians and indus- Ground defense. crews are equip- ped." with Vickers anti-aircraft' guns.
The survey also found that, while during the early years of the Netherlands East Indies effort to build up her defenses, a large
The Lord Mayor of Melbourne trial workers. has opened a similar fund and Australians are contributing more freely than they have ever done before.
BTA
says 8
If there is any need fOT CISN part of her airplanes were pur- or additional supplies they chased in European centers, the available. Immediately, Indles-government has moré recablegram just received from Mr. cently been making increased Norman Davis, Chairman of the purchases from the United States. American Red GröSS,
In 1933, out of a total of 104 planes imported into the Indjes, 66 came from the United States.
ADDITIONAL PLANES
The American Red Cross has cabled money for 98 mobile can- teens and has offered to send large quantities of hospital beds and other equipment,
The Volksraad (People's Coun- cll) recently voted to purchase an
VICEROY'S GIFT additional 250 bombing planes. SIMLA, Sept. 12 (Reuter)—The Prior to the invasion of the Viceroy has cabled £35,500 from mother country, the Netherlands his War Purposes Fund to the Indies, army numbered 50,000. Lord Mayor of London for the re- Since then, steady recruiting has fef of London air raid victima, - been under way.
The survey found that while the
Netherlands Indies in the past Charlie Chaplin as Adolf Hitler.counted largely on the mother country for defense, it had in ̈re-
changes in the international CAIRO COMMUNIQUE cent years followed a policy of be-
scene as a result of Adolf Hitler's successes bad given rise to reports Chaplin would not releasе
_travesty,
PRIVATE SHOWING
i
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ITALY DETAINS
PRINCE
ing largely self-dependent, and
LONDON, Sept. 12 (Reuter)- (Reuter) CAIRO, Sept. 12
complete organisation has been
agency, The Stefan!
denying Mersa Matrub the Yesterday
in effected to that end.
American reports of the arrest of Egypt, was raided by enemy air- SHIPPING REGULATION.. craft, causing one casualty and Measures taken fnclude the crea a large number of Italian person- tion of a state mobilization counalities, says that the Italian- Willson, nationally prominent no damage.
In the Sudan, Khartoum was cl: a department of economic Prince Filippo Borla Pamphili has composer and conducter, will at
the nombed tend a private showing of
casualties. film and start work at once on orchestrations and scores. estimated they would require ap- proximately six weeks.
He
A few months ago, prior to the conquest of France and the Low- lands, Chaplin was reported to be seeking seriously, his friends said -a private preview for the pro- duction, with an audience consist- ing only of Herr Hitler!
MASSACRE IN TEL-A-VIV
55 Children Among Casualties
with no
damage
affairs which will regulate ship ping in case of war and insure the
GROWING DISCONTENT.
IN SYRIA
ITALIAN COLONEL IS MOBBED
LONDON, Sept. 12 (Heater)
been interned and another Prince Allesandro Torlonia has been in- terrogated by the Police but not detained.
The interned Prince is described Bnd as a "well-known defeatist
| chance to avoid occupation by anti-Fascist."
the Axis Powers,
hel
Commission, The Italian says, is trying to use pressure to French Air Force taken away which would immedi utely lay the territory open
have the
to
air attacks from Dodecanese and
Moslem opinion against the Axis an invasion by land forces.
Concluding, he said the Italians is growing, another straw on the
camel's back being the banning want occupation of all aerodromes,
Brave Speech By Churchill
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (Reu- ter)-Mr. Churchill's brave fighting patch last night is warmly wel-
in Syria and Lebanon of the total demobilization of the Armycomed here, where many hearts Egyptian press which the peoples and repatriation of all men.
of those countries depend for
have gone out across the ocean in ympathy with the people of London on the ordeal they are
their interpretation of news. BERLIN RAIDER enduring
It is understood that "the" French authorities in Syria. and Lebanon banned the papers at
LONDON, Sept. 13 (Reuter There are no military objectivese request of the Italian Armis
for miles around Tel-a-viv, it is Tearned. Italian aircraft bombed
tice Commission which is now thère.
re-
growing discontent with
IN SEA
CREW RESCUED BY LAUNCH
it on Monday. killing 111 persons The Calro paper All Misri and Injuring 151 more. Among ports
the Italian Armistice Commission LONDON, Sept. 12 (Reuter) - them were 55 children.
Since Abyssinia fell, Mussolini Syria and Lebanon and says After spending 12 hours in a sea has been
unremitting in his that an Italian Colonel, who is a so rough that the rescue launch efforts to woo the Arabs away from member of the Commission, was missed them at 50 yards, the of crew of an RAF heavy bomber, the British His present use of attacked by a crowd in one
which had taken part in a raid Nazi methods on 'Araos and Jews the main squares of Beyrout.
The populace is alarmed by the ori Berlin, was finally spotted by alike will hardly be Ikely to cause the Arabs to change their minds, actions of the Commission, ac-a ying-boat which, by repeated especially since Rome Radio has tions which suggest that the diving, gulded the launch to claimed that Jaffa and not. Tei-Italiana would attempt to occupy the rescue. aviv, was bombed...
LONDON Sept. 12 (Beuter, "We can promise the enemy something to go on with if he tries to come across in Kur- face craft," said Mr. A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty. In a London speech yesterday,AN
While nobody here expesta the British morale to crack, many who listened to Mr. Churchill were glad to hear his level tones. His words
correspondents have been tele underlined all that American graphing about how Britons Syria by force after the French The bomber had been damaged
are carrying bones have been demobilised,
when diving through heavy anti- DOM CASUALTY LIST
Mr. Churchill's confident: asser“, aircraft fire and ran out of petrol LONDON Sept, 13 (Renter) APPEAL FOR SUPPORT
General De Larrainat General before it could reach its home to that Kazi tyranny will be The casualty list for Monday's raid
burned out of Europe' is taken as on Tel-a-viv isklled, 104 Jews, De Gaulle's representative in base. and seven Arabs injured. four Africa, has appealed to the French The crew of four took to the an indication that the RAF vill are all be increasingly active hver Ger- British, 145 Jews and two Arabs in Syria to align themselves with rubber dinghy and they
inany In Kenya all is quiet
De Gaulle as being their only unhurt.
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