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Under Your Spell

WENDY BARRIE. GREGORY RATOFF ARTHUR TREACHER

Claudette Colbert. Fred MacMurray in “MAID OF SALEM”

Political observers in the Japan, Map," showing China's three alleg- ese capital during the last several ed lines of defence and the situa- days have been stunned by a flood tion of her important air bases. of bellicose reports unleashed

Mission To Britain

by leading papers concerning Sino- Not to be outdone in sensation- Japanese relations, giving rise tolalism, the Tokyo Nichi Nichi re- suspicions of the existence of an ported that the Mission of Dr. H. inspired press campaign.

H. Kung, Special Ambassador to These reports, which were print- the London Coronation, was to in- ed on first pages with large head- duce Great Britain and the Unit- a junction and lines, have occasioned the keen in-led States to form terest of the Japanese people and to effect a blockade against Japan The same report caused no little painful surprise on in case of war. the part of `some.

also stated Gen. Chang Chun, for- mer Minister of Foreign Affairs, will have a similar mission in his forthcoming trip abroad.

China was 'openly described as for preparing war against Japan by the Tokyo Yomiuri in a sen- sational report.

Many of the evening papers car- ried similar report, and a few of them even went so far as to issue

The next day there followed an- other front-page story alleging that extensive plots were being com- extras. pleted by the Chinese Government All the reports were said to be to instigate Manchurians, Mongo-special despatches from the papers' lians and Koreans to launch inde- correspondents in Shanghai. pendence movements against Japan. In another headliner, the Nichi To support its claims, the Yomi-Nichi continued to report the exis- uri also printed in its pages a "Wartence of ulterior motives in China's

Coronation Delegation to London.

GIRL TURNS

INTO

A MAN

Ellen Is Now Alan

of

China, it reported, will urge a collective security pact between herself, Great Britain, the United States, and several other coun- tries having interest on the Paci- fic to guarantee the peace of the Far East

·Would Menace Japan Such a system, the Nichi Nichi After living sixteen years as a further alleged, would be a menace girl, Ellen Caldwell,

Martin-to. the very existence of the Japan- street, Crewe, has grown to man-ese Empire, and must be fought by hood--and become Alan. At birth Japan to the last ditch. Ellen was registered as a girl, Many papers are now openly attended St. Mary's Roman hostile to the Foreign Minister, Mr. Catholic School and later worked Naotake Sato, whose utterances in on a milk round, in a bakery, in a the Diet a month ago were held to wire works and as a barmaid. be responsible for China's allegedly Last December Ellen found her-defiant attitude. In several of these, self growing a beard, became wor-the war cry of “Punish China and ried, consulted a doctor. An opera Down with the Sato Policy" was tion was performed at the Man-publicly advocated.

chester Royal Infirmary, and Ellen,

no longer a girl, changed her name. Alan is at the Cheese Hall Hotel.

Crewe, working as a barman where 12-YEAR-OLD a short time ago he was a bar-BECOMES A

maid.

“I'm Glad It's Over”

"I am glad it is all over," said Alan, "and I know just what I am. I shall stay on at the hotel.

"GRANDMOTHER”

Marries Man Of 57

"When I was a girl I used to play Martha Nell North, of Manatee, football, but I have given up that Florida, has married and become a now, although I shall go on playing«,

"grandmother" at the age of cricket."

twelve.

"As soon as Alan knew he was With the blessing of her parents a boy he wanted to come navvying she has become the bride of thrice- with me, but I would not allow

married fifty-seven-year-old Chand- that," his father said.

ler Revell, father of several child- Stalwart ex-soldier Harold, ren much older than herself and Alan's brother, said: "Even as a grandfather of seven of her play- girl he was stronger than I

and mates. could always manage me in tussle."..

a

Mr. Clark said "As a girl Alan was one of the best servants I ever had."

Lynch Threat Exiles Groom

Lynch

Hazel-eyed Martha, peeved because her teacher will not grant her leave . from school for a honeymoon, sat on the schoolhouse steps. after les sons telling of her romance..

I have loved Chandy eight years," she said, solemnly. "I have known him longer because when was a tiny baby he used to nurse mẹ. When he proposed, of course threatening Klu-Klux- I said, "Yes," and ma and pa gladly Klansmen, infuriated by the mar- consented. riage of a fifty-seven-year-old mill "So off we went to the Judge's foreman and a schoolgirl of twelve, office for the wedding: exiled the bridegroom from his home town for ever.

“Chandy - and I are living with my parenta tintil I am old enough Chandler Revell, of Manatee, to leave school.** Florida, cowered with his child Martha's father, Lemuel North, bride behind locked doors at their said that the elderly Revell "walt- newly furnished home when the ed two years for his bride, and Klansmen wearing civilian clothes, right glad we were to give her forced their way in with the ulti-him. He is a real good fellow.” matum:

Deputy Judge Samuel Murphy, "Get out of Florida, stay out. who married the couple, said “I had Come back-you'll be strung up." no choice but to issue the licence. Snatching his few belongings, The law permits it when the par- Revell, an ex-Klansman, fled.

ents give consent.”