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BASIL RATHBONE
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BORIS KARLOFF BARBARA O'NEIL
IAN HUNTER VINCENT PRICE - NAN GREY
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THE CLEVEREST COMEDY MYSTERY PICTURE OF 1940
A film which offers
an
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of mirth-provoking quips and spine-tingling stunts. IT'S THE SEASONS BEST DETECTIVE NOVELTY PICTURE!
THEY'VE GOT MORE CLUES
THAN A DOG HAS FLEAS!
Paramount presents
"DEATH OF A CHAMPION"
with
LYNNE OVERMAN VIRGINIA DALE JOSEPH ALLEN, JR. DONALD O'CONNOR
Directed by Robert Forsy
A Paramount Picture
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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 8, 1940
ANOTHER SHOCKING U-BOAT OUTRAGE
ON
SATURDAY
London, To-day.
FROM FEBRUARY 21ST to April 6th in any year is not a long time, but long enough it seems for Nazi Admirals to break their word.
"Norwegian vessels on a voyage from Britain with coal or other similar cargo will not be attacked by German naval forces unless in convoy, but may be examined!”
This was one promise made by Vice-Admiral Schmlewindt to Mr. M. T Halvorsen, who visited Ger- many on behalf of the Norwegian Shipowners' Association
21st February, 1940, and who was au- thorised by the Admiral to acquaint the Norwegian. Minister in with the promise.
on
Berlin
on
an
In the early hours of April 6, Satur-
Norwegian day last, the
steamer, Navarra, carrying coal from Swansea her to Oslo, illuminated and with nationality marks painted large the sides, sailing alone and on.. ordinary, course, was torpedoed with out warning by a German submarine.
She sank in two minutes. All the officers and nine of the crew were killed.
The UBoat stood by watching the men from one lifeboat strug- gling in the water after the boat but had capsized in launching made no effort to render any as- sistance.
BRITISH AID
a
OC-
VOLUNTEER
UNITS LEAVE
FOR SWEDEN
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL").
HELSINKI, TO-DAY.
OF HAVE THE RINGING
THE TWO BATTALIONS SWEDISH VOLUNTEERS.
WITH HOME, LEFT FOR THANKS OF FINLAND
IN THEIR EARS, TOgether wITH THE WORDS OF AN OFFICIAL SPOKESMAN WHO • REMINDED THE DANGER TO THEM THAT
EUROPE HAD IN.
THAN RATHER
NORTHERN
CREASED
CREASED.
DE-
that if
not
hope He expressed the trouble does come it will find
The remaining lifeboat was left only the volunteers for Finland but many miles from land and the
also many others who were prepar- cupants rescued by Finnish Led to fight for liberty. steamer which was gulded to the life- boat by British patrolling aircraft the which had, fortunately, sighted distressed Norwegians.
Apart from the barbarity of sink- Ing the neutral vessel in the face of the the promise, the conduct of officers and crew of the U-boat must be regarded with horrified amaze. ment by seafaring men of all coun tries.
One can only hope for the sake of the tradition of future German sall- ors that the reason for the U-boats. of- ficers' conduct can be explained in the words of the German Captain of the Columbus, who said of the scuttling. of his fine vessel, "But-Orders are Orders."--British Wireless.
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Many of the volunteers are helping to re-build devasted Finland.
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THAT MAP BUSINESS
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Stockholm, To-day: Commenting on the so-called Sum- ner Welles "Map in M. Reynaud's office. showing Allied war aims" to-do, the newspaper "Dagens Nyheter," points out that in the map in question, no boundary line was drawn between Denmark and Germany-and no sane person could suggest that one of the war. aims of the Allies was the turn- ing over of Denmark to Germany!
Even the German press 'saw this, and the Nazis shaded in the bound- ary line before publishing a reproduc- tion of the picture in the French ma- gazine "L'Illustration" which started the storm in the tea kettle Havas.
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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
A Delightful Assortment of Disney Short Features
WALT DISNEY'S NEW 1934 RELEASES Every One in Glorious Technicolour!
~THE PRACTICAL PIG". "The Society Dog" Show" "GOOFY and WILBUR“
"THE POINTER” “SEA SCOUTS"
'ROCKEY CHAMP":"BEACH PIONIC" "DONALD'S COUSIN GUST
.
"THE UGLY DUCKLING
All in Technicolor with
·3 LITTLE PIGS, MICKEY
MOUSE, DONALD
* DUCK. ETC.
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