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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 27, 1939.

COLDSTREAM GUARDS IN

BATTLE OF BROADWAY

Sixty men of the Coldstream Guards—a regi- ment whose glorious deeds fill pages of British military history-fled in disorder on New York's Broadway recently.

They fought a gallant but hopless battle against an army of adoring women of all ages.

They rushed to their rooms high They were besieged later behind

the hotel and barricaded barricades high up in the Hotel up in Taft. They are the band of Cold-themselves in. stream Guards, which landed from the Aquitania,

P.S. The police may have to send for the U.S. Marines to safe-

The band is to play at New guard the Guards at the World's

Fair. York's World's Fair.

In full dress uniform the men marched from the quayside through crowded streets.

They swung along. Martial music rang in the canyons between the skyscrapers.

They progressed through the city followed by a mob of admiring girls which grew larger every

minute.

Girls, ogling the marching Guard- smen, so handsome in their scarlet tunies and bearskins, shouted such warcries. as:

"Oh! Aren't they just too cute!” "Buy me that, momma!"

""Too, too devine!"

"I guess they're genuine Bengal Lancers!"

Playing "The Stars and Stripes Forever," the brave Guardsmen marched on to Broadway's Hotel Taft,

Perhaps that call to America's patriotism is to blame for the Bat- tle of Broadway, 1989.

The adoring girls converged on

the Guardsmen and charged.

Step by step the gallant soldiers retreated.

Then, completely overwhelmed, they fled in disorder up countless steps.

RUMANIA CONCERNED AT JEWISH IMMIGRATION

Bucharest, May 20,

The Rumanian Government is very much concerned by the con- tinual exodus of Jewish refugees from Austria and Czechoslovakia through Rumania. One hundred and fifty Austrians who arrived in Constanza three months ago, still there at present.

are

Five Hungarian vessels filled with refugees are anchored at: Sulina, a small port at the mouth of the Danube, pending a decision as to what is to become of the em- igrants.

A fraudulent entry into Pales- time is practically impossible at. present, and the authorities are having a difficult time in wrestling with the many humanitarian pro blems resulting from the increasing number of Jewish refugees in this country-Havās,

A Full Course of lectures in Air Raid Precautions will be given St. Andrew's Church Hall, Kowloo on Fridays and Tuesdays at 6 p. commencing on Friday, 2nd · 1989 Instead of 801 previously announc

John Payne, who plays the ro

lead mantic

opposite Margaret Lindsay in "Garden of the Moon,' at the King's Theatre to-day.

BRITISH AND FRENCH BANK HEADS CONFER

London, May 20.

British and French. determination to co-operate in financial and econo, mic domains in order to supplement their military solidarity is seen the unexpected visit hereof. M. the Pierre Fournier, Governor of Bank of France.

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M. Pierre Fournier arrived here this evening upon an urgent invita- tion of Mr. Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England. The two will proceed to a thorough examination of both Central Banks. M. Fournier will be back in Paris by Wednesday.-Havas.

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