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TO-DAY

COMET OVER BROADWAY

Minna Gombel

Pronted by

WARNER BROS.

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She Hose To| the Heights- and Broadway Cheered. Then Like a Comet- She Disappeared!

KAY FRANCIS

IAN HUNTER-

JOHN LITEL DONALD CRISP

Directed by BUSBY BERKELEY Screen Play by Mark Hellinger and Baber! Duckner » From a Cosmopolitan Magazine Biory by Faith Baldwin • A Flest National Picture

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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 18, 1940

JAPANESE PRO-NAZI DIPLOMAT URGES PEACE WITH SOVIET

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL")

Tokyo, To-day. TOSHIDO SHIRATORI, FORMER Japanese Ambassador in Rome and an ardent advocate of Japanese co-operation with Germany, writes in the political review “Sozo,” "The Soviet Union is a country worthy of trust. "Has not Germany, after appraising it for more than a

year, come to place full confidence in its sincerity?”

THAT JAP. BATTLESHIP "SCARE”

WASHINGTON, TO-DAY. THE VINSON BILL, PROVIDING FOR AN 11 PER CENT. INCREASE IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY,

OF SEEMS CERTAIN

SECURING RECOMMENDATION TO THE SEN- ATE BY THE NAVAL COMMITTEE. the It is understood the drop in projected Increase from 25 per cent.. to 11 per cent is due entirely to the inability of ordnance factories to make for more than a 11 per cent. increase. guns within the Vinson Bill period Reports from Japan that super-battle- ships are being built there, will doubt-

G-GIRL TRAPS KILLER IN SENSATIONAL PICTURE! less assist in securing the passage

JACK HOLT

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Henry Fonda, Alice Brady in

YOUNG MR. LINCOLN "

through Congress of legislation for a bigger navy, but at the same time informed it is difficult to find any source which belleves Japan will be pro- able to accomplish the naval gramme she is rumoured to have un- dertaken.-Reuter.

MINING OF THE CLYDE

LONDON, TO-DAY.

Undiscouraged by the fact that the Soviets are building a Red Maginot border, Line along the Manchukuo Mr. Shiratori urges a gradual im-. provement in relations with Russia.

of

He proposes the withdrawat troops from the Soviet-Manchukuo border;

A request to Moscow not to assist General Chiang Kai-shek; and

More definite demarcation of Soviet-Manchukuo border.

the

In- He concludes. It is historically evitable that Japan should co-operato with Germany and Italy because it would accelerate China war-Havas.

solution of the

AUSTRALIAN WAR POLICY

Canberra, To-day. Australia's war policy was reviewed yesterday by Lord Gowrie, the Governor-Gen- eral, at the opening of the new session of the. Australian Parliament.

ALL VESSELS WISHING TO EN-

From the beginning, he said, the TER. OR LEAVE THE CLYDE MUST Royal Australian Navy had been co-

INSTRUCTIONS OR GET

SAFE operating with the Royal Navy in the THE BRITISH protection of trade routes, the expedi- PASSAGE · FROM NAVY.OR CONSULAR AUTHORItion of an Army Corps was in pro-

BE- TIES AT HOME OR ABROAD

gress, and thousands of airmen would FORE SAILING, ANNOUNCES THE be trained under the Empire training ADMIRALTY,

The River Clyde. has mined between lines joining

scheme.

now been Dun- and

nighn Point to Cralganie Point Rhuad Point to Bennane Head.

As an interim measure, patrols will

be stationed to the south of the min-

All this must be paid for and it was the principal object of_the_pró-

the sont session to finance effort....

war

They rejected the evils of monetary

ed area, and these will give instruc-inflation and would apply their atten- tions for-safe passage to those vessels tion to further taxation measures and which have sailed from, port before the authorisation of war loans.

Reuter. the issuing of this notice, Reuter.

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