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August 21, 1940.
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KING OFTHE LUMBERJACKS
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GLORIA
PAYNE - DICKSON
STANLEY FIELDS Directed by WILLIAM CLEMENS
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NICK CARTER
MASTER DETECTIVE
WALTER PIDGEON\
RITA JOHNSON
Booty HULL » Kontey G. RIDGES
Donate MEEX - Ashton RICHARDS
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Nancy KELLY "HE MARRIED HIS WIFE"
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THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T TALK
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TALKI"
The star witness against him.
his silence!
LLOYD NOLAN JEAN ROGERS
· RICHARD, CLARKE . ERIC BLORE -ONSLOW STEVENS .
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FAILURE OF NAZI Exchange At
AIR BLITZKRIEG
LONDON, Aug. 20 (Reuter)-In an editorial entitled “The Royal Air Force," the "New York Times" to-day declares:
"The extraordinary feature of this titanic air battle is that it falled to demonstrate the overwhelming superiority of the Luftwaffe that everybody took for granted.
"Although the Axis officials con- tinue to mialiniso the effects of the British raids, the order forbidding letters from the Ruhr district to be sent to other parts of, Germany strongly suggest that grave damage may have been inflicted in that great industrial valley, the forge of the Nazi war machine.
"During these crucial days the quality of the R.A.F. has been writ- ten in great legend, this time not on earth or water but in the sky."
BIG NAZI AIR RAIDS
EXPECTED
-Churchill
Nazis' Uncertainty The New York "Herald-Tribune"!
LONDON, Aug. 20 (UP).— commenting on the week's air battle: says: "It is strilting that after a week Britain has offered America alr of Intensive pounding British cables and naval bases in Newfound. are all speaking in a tone of con land and the West Indies said ndence
even elation, wh and
while there is exaggeration and contusion in the the Prime Minister (Mr. Chur- febrile propaganda given out by the chill) in his survey of the war Commons to- Nazis which might possibly imply un-to the House of certainty over what to do next.
"Between the two sets of statistics
ns to plane losses it is impossible not
day.
There will be no transfer of
te feel much greater confidence in the British clains if only because the sovereignty but the bases will Germans arc obylously claiming be held by the United States on too much. For a defender on ha 99-years lease.
suffer Ove times own ground to the casualties sustained by the offen- He warned Britain that Nazi ait sive planes is against all reason. raids must be expected on an even heavler scale than those last week. Hitler, sald Mr. Churchill, could not allow his ralds to dwindle away after the wild elahna Nazis had made for them.
“A week of lightning war has pro- duced no lightning results," says the paper. "Hitler's war machine has run, for the first time, Into opposition that is laugh and strung. A citadel which is not to be taken by treachery, "We sul maintain a strict block- which cannot be overrun by tanks ade of every country which has and which can trade blow for blow fullen into German hands," in the air is something new to Hifler." Churchill ecntinized."
Italian Bases Again Bombed
R. AF. Keeps It Up
CAIRO, Aug. 20 (Reuter).-
Mr.
We must refuse to allow food to pass through the blockade but we will build up stocks which can be sent to any part of the enslaved areas the moment they become free."
Sketching Britain's position after almost a year of war, Mr. Churchill said:
Miracle Of Dunkirk
"We have seen in a quarter of a year the trustful Dutch overwhelmed,
A communique issued to-day Belgium invaded and beaten down, states that during the night of our fine Expeditionary Force estap. August 18-19. Our
as it seemed only by a miracle. bombers Ally, France, is out. Italy I attacked Derna.
France
in the against us. All A salve of bombs was sein to full power of the enemy and all its near the harbour jetty and shippingsenals дис convertable 10 the Bombs were dropped on a camp enemy's use. A puppet Government and a petroleum dump at Bir el is set up at Vichy which may at any Gobbi (in Libya).
Europe Al el Gobbin satellite aerodrome moment become our foc.
from the North Cape to
to the Spanish was also allocked (ef Cobbi is the frontier is in German hands. aerodrome of Tobruk).
EXPANDING OUR EXPORT TRADE
"Few could believe we could sur- vive, none would have believed that we should to-day not only feel stronger be actually stronger than we have ever been before.
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STOCK MARKET
REPORT
Hongkong; Stock Exchange Official Summary issued yesterday says:
Trudlug to-day was on a more generous seale and embraced a better spread.
Buyers
Union Insurances $345 ILK. Fire Insurances $136 Docks (Old) $15.25 Providents $3.00 Hotels $3.45 Trams $15.10
Yaumati Ferries $21.25 China Lights (Old) $0.40 Chinn Lights (New) $3.25 Telephones (Old) $21.75 Cements $14.00
Dairy Farms $17.50 Watsons $8.30
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Lands $31/30.00
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China Lights (Old) $6,50 Electrics (Old) $37
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Outburst By Quezon
Denies That New Bridge Is Waste Of Money.
Mania, Aug. 20. American circles comment widely on President Quezon's anti-American outburst, during his speech at opening of the Quezon Bridge across the Pasig to-day.
the
"It would have seemed incredible in May that we should now stund erect, sure of ourselves, masters, of LONDON, Aug. 20 (Reuter),-In our fate, and with the conviction of the House of Commons to-day, Mr. Anal victory burning unquenchable, Referring to the charges that he G. A. Isaacs asked whether special in our hearts.
had wasted public funds, the Pres- steps were being taken to facilitate "We will face whatever is coining ident said that an American business- the holding of stocks In South to us. We are sure of ourselves and
man had had the nerve to criticise America with the view to expanding our cause. Britain
him, so he had told the President of can fight
tell the man to export trade to those South American alone, if necessary, for years.
the Rotary Club countries from which Britain was "We have re-a-med and rebuilt our get out of the country if he did not drawing essential supplies.
armies. The whole British army is
like what he had done. Sir Andrew Duncan, President of at home. More than 2,000,000 deter- Sr. Quezon claimed that the Com- the Board of Trade, replied: "Yea, the mined men have rifles and boyanets monwealth had finished more public. Export Council have the matter under in their hands-to-night-We-have-works-in-five-years-than-in-any-20 close consideration and steps are bu-never had ormlea like this in our
yeurs
of previous American adminis- ing taken to enable large stocks of Island in times of
whole
trations. war. The British goods to be carried into these Island bristles against invaders from markets"
the sea or from the air."
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REBELLION IN
ALBANIA
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
Evacuated Troops
Reach Safety
CAIRO, Aug. 120 (Reuter)-To- LONDON, Aug. 20 (UP)-In the day's communique stated that the House of Commons to-day, Mr. R. A whole of the British force which Butler, the Under-Secretary of State was evacuated from Berbera has now for Foreign Affairs, sald the Govora reached Aden with the bulk of its ment had received reports of an equipment and material. uprising on a "considerable scale” in Albania in early August:
He said, "ghting was reported re sulting in casualties to the Italians and Albanians.”
A small portion left behind was destroyed before departure. Men
On the westem desert there is no change. On other fronts there is nothing to report.
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