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HUSH falls over the gay
chattering groups as she
glides down the great staircase with
cool, unhurried steps. She holds the
centre of the stage and she knows it.
Only the confidence born of a very slender lissom figure could stand up to ordeal by stairway on an "Orders and Decorations" occasion like tonight. She takes no chances with that willowy figure of hers. If, through some rare oversight, her host fails to see that there is gin and Rose's Lime Juice then she just sighs faintly and drinks nothing. He is a lucky host who sees her a second time at his parties after making such a gaffe. There are many, many parties, but only one Rose's.
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JAPANESE DRIVE AGAINS CHANGSHA: AN OFFENSI WITHOUT MILITARY VALL
PROBLEMS OF THE MINISTRY
London, To-day.
The fact that the Ministry of In- formation does not originate news was
Chungking, THE CHINESE AUTHORITIES and mili no anxiety regarding the most recen ments on the Hunan Front where the are making a determined drive towär sha, capital of Hunan.
They point out that from a military poi Changsha has little or no importance
emphasised by Lord MacMillan in the The Japanese drive is purely for politic
House of Lords in reviewing the Ministry's functions.
He declared that it was a miscon- ception that the Ministry was a mine of information on every subject.
and designed to make an impressioni of the establishment of the new Gove Nanking under Wang Ching-wei.
The Chinese forces, it is pointed
Actually it had no means of ob- taining news as newspapers do and
FALL INF The traveller expr was dependent upon other Govern-out here, twice before announced their ment departments for its information. intention of abandoning Changsha im- that the recent fall -Reuter,
mediately after the fall of Hankow, the Sintslang River: and again after the fall of Nanchang, Japanese crossing.
Reuter news despatches from the When he passed th Hunan Front, filled almost a year ago, City, it was practicanj quoted Chinese high commanders as conditions were much Intimating their intention of abandon- they were after, the ing Changsha and fighting a decisive Fall-Reuter. battle with the Japanese in the hills
NO SKIN FOR SAUSAGES
London, To-day. The following story is told by the Contraband Control.
Ten hogsheads of Chinese sausage skin have been seized by the Control and are now in a British port.
The hogsheads contained a surpris- ing number of skins, and an expert places the length at 900,000 feet, or 170 miles.
Put in another way, this means that the skin would stretch half the length of the Siegfried Line!-Reuter.
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to the west of Hunan between Heng- yang and Paoching.
ATTEMPT PREDICTED The same opinion was expressed only recently by Generals Li Tsung jen and Chen Cheng, who predicted a possible Japanese attempt to capture Changsha..
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Reviewing Chinese military spok drive on Changsha t
The Japanese force on the city in three main body is strickl They stressed that the fall of along the Canton-H Changsha would not affect the out- The second column, come of the Chinese war of resistance:
the south-eastern sh as the Chinese were preparing to Lake is moving to the wage a decisive battle against the tening the Chinese Japanese in the areas where the Ja-column is pushing t panese would be unable to znake use along the main hig of the railways, highways, waterways or level plains.
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The Chinese military authori. ties emphasise that this by means Indicates that the Chinese Army will not put up strong re- sistance, at Changsha,
HELD UP ONE YEAR They point out that the Chinese have held up the Japanese, for one year across the Sintslang River.
They also draw attention to recent Chinese attacks in the vicinity of Tungchen almed at strengthening Chinese defences along the Canton Hankow Railway,
A recent arrival In Chungking from the Sintalang River front states that there; have been several amusing Incidents there during the Chinese and Japanese forcesB another facing one
across the
river. The river is so narrow, he declares, that soldiers often wrote messages on pieces of paper, wrapped them over stones and then tossed them across the river.
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Some messages enquired as to food and the general living conditions soldiers on the other side.
FRENCH ACT TO COL
M. Charles Boyer, actor of Hollywood f serving his country: front, It was announ
Most of France's: actors are fighting 1 among them being M who is in the air Fresnay, who holds: tain: M. Jean Gabir the Marine Corps;-1 char, Raymond C and Jean-Pierre Au
Miss Lawrence, re Shan Road, has rep money and crocker from her residence 2 a.m. Entrance was window.
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