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SHOWING

TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.10

KINGS 7.15 & 9.30 p.m

THEY LIVED The StränĠEST STORY IN ALL HISTORY!

PAUL

MUNI

BETTE

DAVIS

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BRIAN AHERNE.CLAUDE RAINS • JOHN GARFIELD • DONALD CRISP

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Also Colour CARTOON “CINDERELLA MEETS AFELLA" GALA PERFORMANCE, TO-MORROW AT 11.30 A.M.

In Aid of the International Peace Hospital for wounded soldiers.

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1939

MOST:

EXCITING

SCREEN EVENT!

A Warner Bros. super-production with

LESLIE HOWARD DOUG. FAIRBANKS..

PAUL LUKAS

MARGARET LINDSAY

A story only the screen could tell-told as the screen has never told a story before! Too BIG for the pages of liistory! Too daring for any generation but this! . Too thrilling to belleve until you see it spread before your very eyes!

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FILMED EXACTLY AS RELATED BY SIR PHILIP GIBBS WORLD FAMOUS REPORTER.

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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 7, 1940

"WE KILL THEM ONE BY ONE," SAYS CHIEF OF GHOST PATROL

With The Finnish Northern Army.

From the leader of a Finnish "ghost patrol" I heard to-day details of the daring tactics they use in attacking the Russians.

The man, Aarne Valkama, was for- mer ski-shooting champion of the world. He led in the forests of Salla Finnish one of those white-cloaked patrols which, almost invisible, attack again and again.

He lay to-day against the pillows of а field hospital bed, wounded through the ribs and the right hand by Russian machine-gun bullets.

This is his story: "Ever since 1924 our instincts told us to prepare with all our might for a conflict with Rus- sin. We studied in the army and the civil guard every possible ruse of this northern warfare.

"We especially studied the art of shooting from skis at speed. We trained ourselves to unsling our rifles. lean them against our left arm where they are held in position by a small leather band, and shoot as we move down hill at full speed.

"We trained at potting targets set low in the snow and small floating balloons."

Margaret Dumont and Groucho Marx in "Marx Brothers at the Circus," which starts its Hong Kong run at the Queen's and Al- hambra Theatres to-day.

front. Two Russian tanks moving up Valkama, a house painter by trade, the road drove off part of the patrol holds the rank of a corporal.

He told me these ghost patrols are composed of the same men, who al- ways work together. They come to know each other's strengths and

weaknesses.

They go out in the evening and ski through the forests till dawn watching Russian movements,

Valkama was wounded on a trip to blow up-a-bridge-behind the Salla

from their ammunition sledge.

Valkama and the others advanced Russlan in- to recapture the sledge.

to fantrymen hiding in a ditch tried stop them, but, said ply: "We killed them-one by one every time they showed above the ditch. Soon only two or three were left alive.

Valkama sim-

But five more tanks came up, and a burst from one of the machine guns wounded Valkama.

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