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SHOULD SHE PROTECT
Society's most Sensational Thief?
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SAMUEL GOLDWYN presents
RAFFLES
DAVID
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NIVEN de HAVILLAND
·
WA DAME MAY WHITTY · PUDLEY BIGGES/ Based upan the culebrates adventures of "The Amotour Cracksman" by E. Vi Hornung · #glamand for WM110 ATTITL Directed by SAM NOOD
AIR ACE IS PRISONER
DORAN WRITES
HOME
SQUADRON
LEADER K. C. Doran, D.F.C., leader of the Inmous fest rald on Kiel, now a prisoner in was shot Germany, tells how he down at Stavanger. Norway, in n letter to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. Doran, of Mill Hill, N.W. The letter addressed from Dulog Luft, Germany:
says:
"Well, the worst has happened, As you can see I am now a guest of the Deutsch. I hope you have a ready beard.
was shot down at Stavanger on April 30 and rescued from a watery grave by a German flying-boal. Un- fortunately the rest of the crew were either killed or drowned. wus then flown to Berlin and then by train to here,
"We are really irented very well, but I have practically no clothes. I at em wearing Norwegian trousers the moment, so could you please send me some clothes, spare uniform socks, shirts, underclothes, shoes, and any- thing you can think of. You will be able to collect them from the R.A.F.
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"I will send a letter later. Don't
NEXT CHANGE "THE INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS” worry, I am all right."
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AIRPLANES, horses, and bloodhounds are being used in a search for John Gregory Col beck, sixteen-yeur-old schoolboy artist.
OF CAMPS.
DISPROVED
CHARGES of malpractice in contracts for Militiamien's camps, made by Mr. Stokes (Soc., Ipswich), were holly denied in the House of Com. mons by Sir Edward Grigg, Financial Secretary to the War Office.
Sir Edward and that these allega- LEAFLETS ndvertising Ger man propaganda talks from the ticns had been examined at great so-called "New British Broad-trouble, and had all been disproved, casting Station" have been dis.except for one case of allowances for jemployees' messes, which the. Wur tribuled at the gates of a North Ofice auditors would themselves have
Idisallowed. London aircraft factory.
He was last seen wolking from the
cliff near Land's End towards bus stop.
He carried a rucksack on his back and a roll of canvas under his arm,
His father and his sister Dlina deovt-through the lanes of West Cornwall from carly morning until dusk, asking people: "Have ?" They boy you seen have been doing tant almost every
day,
John's mother sakl:-
"While we have been in Cornwall, John often went off for the day painting. He loved it and was quite
good.
Not: Adventurous "He took just enough money for the day and some sandwiches in his rucksack.
Ita
"One cannot go on examining allegations ad infinitum when every case they are proved inaccu- rate," he added.
Mr. Stokes persisted with ques- tions, and Sir Edward exclaimed: "Apparently Mr. Stokes is going on until he finds not in this world but in the next, some one whose credulity will match his own." Mr. Stokes and other M.P.'s made charges of waste and extravagance based on the form of contract by which the Government pays a per- entage addition to the contractors' Prime costs.
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They argued that this system ch- courages contractors to push up their costs and to increase their pay rolls unnecessarily; in order "He is not an emotional type of higher percentage, boy. I know he wouldn't do any- Sir Edward Grigg tranltly agreed At this afternoon's meeting of the thing like running off to Join the that he greatly diallikes this system the adventurous of contracts, but said that no other Legislative Council, the Director of Army. He's not
system has been possible to get the Public Works will move a resolution sort.
"I have been out every day help-work done quickly. that the approval of the Governor
Ing to look for him, but we canno! He argued that it is a real economy
bullt speedily find a sout who saw him after 5.30. to get camps in Council of perialssion to the Hong- kong Tramways, Limited, to construct Two airplanes flew over the cliffs summer, so as to avoid the extra
track. in round Land's End for hours, menibers charges which would urise Que additional crossover
connect the east-of local hunt went out on horse-building during the black-out in the bound with the west-bound tramway back, and fishermen have searched winter,
He appealed to M.P.'s not to con- the shore from their boats, but not track between Quarry Bay Macine a trace of him has been found. We tinue making a flow of allegations, Lot No. 4 and Quarry Bay Inland have even had blondhounds searching but to take them direct to the Select
the cliff-tops.'
Committee on War Expenditures
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