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A. FASTER. AND

THE GLORIOUSLY GAY YOUNG STARS OF FOUR DAUGH- TERS" RETURN TO THE SCREEN. WITH

FUNNIER HIT THAN THEIR LAST ONE!

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PRISCILLA LANE

JEFFREY LYNN

Yes,

my darling

ROLAND YOUNG -FAY

BAINTER

·MAY: ROBSON

daughter

GENEVIEVE TOBIN - IAN HUNTER • Directed by WILLIAM KE1OHLAY

Baboon Pay by Cossy Babinves » From the Enga Play by BARR R200 » A Prat Mor1⁄2 Plate » Protonded by WABOGOR BROS.

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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 4, 1939.

'ION THE WESTERN FRONT

IMPRESSIVE WORK BY R-A-F.

Paris, To-day. FRENCH OBSERVERS are much impressed with the efficiency of the R.A.F., and predict much greater air battles van the lull brought about ́by Hitler's peace ma....oeuvres has ended. The French and British General Staffs have been studying, the results of the week-end air fighting, and observers state that mass encounters in the air are probable, in contrast to the more indi- vidual combats of the Great War. Though the German air force seems

at present to be stronger in numbers, the French and British airmen have at all times maintained the initiative, and all aerial battles were fought-well inside the German lines.

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thousand area of German torri- tory and a large part of the out-

posta of the Slegfried. Line are - now in Franch hands."

Between the present. front and the Maginot Line there is a band of ter- Meanwhile, on land, French Sap-ritory several kilometres wide, acting pers are strenuously turning the aban- as a bulwark to the. Magihot · Line doned and shattered. German fortifi- | against the action of German artillery, cations, captured by the French in- by compelling it to lengthen its fantry, into French strongholds before | range. the German artillery on the other side of the Saar valley counter-attacks.

Liaison has already been esta. blished between these advanced

· posts and the rear. Much of the fighting on the western front is being done by raiding par-

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DOING NOTHING -

At present the German guns. are doing nothing to the Maginot de- fences.

Speediest planes of the latest type will be seen in this air-thriller, of ties, who seek to take German prison-then, even assuming the French forces

FRI.

SAT.

flying policemen and air bandits.

PIRATES OF SKIES

KENT TAYLOR Rochelle HUDSON

Furious fighting!... Tapped tip-offs!... Looted love! It's a

| thrill-bristling jolt of

exciting drama!

"EAST SIDE OF HEAVEN"

ers for obtaining military information. -Reuter.

RAIDS REPULSED

The

states

I Should a large-scale offensive be attempted, the enemy would first come against his förmer positions, and

retreat, the enemy would have 10 take the blockhouses recently estab- lished.

Paris, To-day. He would have to face an un- latest French communique imaginable barrage of machine-gun that enemy raids have been fire and for him it would be another repulsed to the east of the Moselle | Verdun.-Reuter. and the Saar. Artillery was active on both sides in the same region. Reuter.

STRATEGIC GAINS

Paris, To-day.

The strategic importance of the territorial gains, achieved by General Gamelin on the Western Front are summed up by a military expert in "Petit Parisien."

He says that the French have occupied approximately a hundred

COLONIAL AFFAIRS PROJECT DROPPED

London, To-day. The Prime Minister announced in the House of Commons yesterday that it was not at present possible to establish a Parliamentary, standing committee to consider colonial affairs.

-Reuter.

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