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TO-DAY & TO-MORROW.

THRILLING DRAMA OF A GUARDSMAN OF THE PLAINS WHOSE BARKING GUNS WERE LAWS OF THE FRONTIER

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REVENGE WAS HIS GOAL- LOVE WAS HIS REWARD!

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JONES The Fighanger

COLUMBIA FICTURE

"CHAMPAGNE CHARLIE”

with Paul Cavanagh Helen Wood-Thomas Bech

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TO-DAY, ONE DAY ONLY!.

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TO-MORROW

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Errol Flynn in

ONE DAY CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE"

ONLY

GRAVE

PALESTINE INCIDENTS

Jerusalem, To-day.

Apparently in retaliation for an attack on a Jewish bus on Sunday. night, an Arab was shot dead yes- terday morning.

The shooting occurred in a crowd-

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GERMANY DENIES LOAN TO JAPAN

Berlin, To-day. Informed quarters here-state that the report published by Chinese news agency that Ger- many has declared herself willm to furnish a large loan to for the purchase of war mai in no way corresponds to the facts

It is added that Germany has no intention of taking any such step. Trans-Ocean.

ed street and the assailant escaped WAR TENSION

among the crowd.

Another murder was reported from Karkur, nor west of Jerusalem

Here two Jews were shot dead by Arabs

One Jew was found dead in field and the body of the other wa discovered at the tom of a well

These new acts of terror have

ATTACK

Chan Wah-nam,

the as Shun

were

and attacked yester by a owd in They were accused Led

seaman

STREETS OF PAOTING STRAFED BY JAPANESE AERIAL MACHINE GUNS

Pacting, To-day ces west of the Peiping-Hankow Paoting became the scene of hos Railway roadbed south of the Liang- tilities yesterday when four Japan-hsiang Fangshan sector, have confin- ese planes from Hsushui, about 40 led their activities to isolating and miles northeast on the Peiping-wiping out detachments of Japanese Hankow line, dived over the city land strafed its streets and houses

with machine-gun bullets.

300 TRAPPED

The planes soared to a high alti- At Makochuang, 300 Japanese tude before Chinese anti-aircraft were lured into a trap.

guns did any damage

Chinese

troops surrounded literally cut the Several Japanese planes dropped Japanese detachment to pieces bombs on Tsanghsien yesterday, Chinese claim the capture of two killing over 80 civilians in the town, field pieces and a large quantity of according to reports reaching here ammunition. to-day-

There are approxiately 4,000 Ja- Taking advantage of their superi-panese troops north of Panpitien ority in numbers, the Chinese for-taken up positions opposite the

CALEDONIA'S ROUND BRITAIN SHOW TOUR

London, To-day.

Chinese forces entrenched in that area, according to military informa tion. Central News

CHINGĦAT FIGHTING

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Fighting in the area south of Tientsin is still concentrated in the Chinghai area, approximately 35 miles southwest of Tientsin on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway line.

Between four and five thousand Great interest has been aroused Japanese infantry, supported by ar- in seaside resorts by the first of a tillery, attacked the Chinese posi- three days flight which the Empire tions in the area yesterday, and flyingboat, Caledonia which has re-fierce fighting was raging up to an cently crossed the Atlantic each early hour this way is making around the coasts News. of Britain

The Caledonia flew low over coast towns and the holiday crowds cheered as she passed.

She flew from Southampton to Hull and to-day resumes her jour nev up the East Coast and Edin- burgh across to Glasgow and down the west coast to Pembroke, Bri- tish Wireless.

New

Central

Typhoon Threat

The temperature at 10 o'clock this morning showed an increase of two degrees over yesterday's maximum,

MORE WARSHIPS AT the thermometer registering 85 de

WOOSUNG

With Heavy Japanese

Reinforcements

Shanghai, To-day.

grees in the shade. 78 per cent.

Humidity was

Minimum last night was 79.

grees.

Only 35 of an inch of rain was fallen in the last 24 hours.

The Royal Observatory reported this morning that pressure is high- That another big push is being lest over Japan and the Pacific. The organised by the Japanese, on a larg typhoon is situated to the east of r scale than ever before in the Woo the Balintang Channel, moving sung and Shanghai areas is indicat-north-west or west-north-west. ed by the fact that there are now Local forecast:

sembled fifty-three Japanese war winds, moderate fine generally. ships outside the Woosung Harbour and eleven in the Whampoo River. The newcomers of these warships are loaded with fresh troops from JapanHua Nan

to north

Murder Trial At Sessions

Leung Kan, 34, accused of the

Shanghai, To-day According to Japanese press re- ports an anti-Japanese boycott move- ment is growing among the Chinese communities in Malaya, Batavia and Philippines. Chinese water front murder of Ip Wah, 26, hawker, by workers at various in Nanyang have stabbing him at Po Toi on the refused to unload Japanese goods night of June 26, was in the box placing Japanese traders

for the greater part of this morn- dif

Ing ficult position Hua Nan.

West

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Chow

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Hospital, but was.

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