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INGRID BERGMAN

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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 15, 1940

BRITAIN BUYS BASES

IN

EIRE

BRITAIN HAS PAID EIRE £50,000,000 for the right to take over camps, fortresses and air and sea bases formerly held by Britain. They include those given up when the | Free State was first formed and those handed over last year.

This time Britain has got her blow

in first. Any plans which Germany JAPANESE

may have made for an attack through Eire have been checkmated. And Eire has also given assurances 'that any would-be Quislings will receive short shrift.

Virtually without means of self- defence, Eire has long been regarded as the weak link in Britain's safety, and given great concern to our mili- tary chiefs.

This wook the two countries con- sidered the matter under the mask of negotiations for the development of food supplies.

Mr. de Valera has given his assur- ance that anti-Government activities financed by Germany will be sternly repressed. It is no secret that the growth of I.R.A. atrocities backed by foreign support have caused the Eire Government considerable anxiety.

CHECK GERMANS

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PAY WAR DAMAGES

Shanghai, June 7. Settlement of the long-pending claim of the American-owned Shanghai Uni- versity against the Japanese armed forces here for war damages was an- nounced to-day as Japanese naval au- thorities paid the school. authorities Mex. $1,060,000.

The settlement constituted but 26 per cent. of the university's original claims against the Japanese but due to the difficulty of proving the balance of the claims the Americans accepted the payment.

Eire has realised that the prospects Shanghai University is the property of a continued independent existence of the American Baptist Foreign Mis- unless she comes within the Britishsion Society with headquarters in New defensive system are almost nil.

Britain's new move will strike a blow at the energetic, even Impu- dent, activities of German nationals living under the cloak of the Lega- tion in Dublin.

Already Britain has large concentra- tions of troops in Northern Ireland ready to move in any direction from which danger, threatens,

'OUR BERT' IS FIRST LORD

The nation may call the First Lord of the Admiralty Mr. A. V. Alexander, but in Barton Hill, Bristol, he is just Our Bert.

He lost his father when he was a baby. Later he went to Barton Hill elementary school, where he won local fame as a footballer.

Mr. William Sibley, of Richmond- street, one of his.. schoolboy friends, said "I was one of a group that went with Bert to discussions at Barton

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York. It is located on the outskirts of Shanghai. The university suffered damages with the outbreak of Sino- Japanese hostilities here in August 1937, after which Japanese forces oc- cupied the property and were alleged to have looted the building of valuable furnishings including scientific equip- ment.

The property now has been returned to the American control without any strings attached. They are hopeful of reopening the university for Chinese students within a reasonable time.

The settlement was the climax of two years of negotiations. It con- stitutes payment of one of the out-` standing American claims against the Japanese forces in China.-Associated

Press.

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·EDNAʼMAY OLIVER - GEORGE SANDERS MAY ROSSON + ZASH,PITTS 8. WARNER « SOPIIK STEWART MANY HOWARD » MOSERT. QUOTE

RONALD COLMAN

"THE LIGHT THAT FAILED"

at 8.30.

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"We were not allowed to smoke on the premises, so we used to meet in the boiler house..

"Bert always said that, those boller house discussions formed the views which he still holds to-day. Mr. Alexander's mother, Mrs. E. J. Alexander, still has a corset business at the Triangle, Clifton, and his sister, Miss Dora Alexander, is head mistress of a Bristol 'school.

When she arrived in New York after a harrowing trip from Stockholm, Mrs. Ole Hagen, wife of the U.S. Naval At- tache in Stockholm, told how she guarded a diplomatic "mail pouch" which officials gave her as she left Sweden.

She had to travel home through Germany and Italy. She knew noth- ing of the contents of the pouch, but was simply told to deliver it safely to

BOY MOUNTAIN CLIMBER officials at the American Embassy in

Denver.

Berlin.

All the way Mrs. Hagen knew that she was being watched.

"in the train going to Berlin two German officers in my compartment eyed the pouch and- watched me until I could scarcely sit still," she said.

Such words, as Ixtaccihuatl, Popo- catepetl and d Orizaba aren't just tongue-twisters to young Bobby Mel- zer-they're more mountains to climb. Bobby, who last summer "washed up" the job of climbing all peaks

On arriving in Berlin, she handed higher than 14,000 feet in the United the pouch to the American Embassy States 64 of them-is going to try to officials and only then learned that scala -Mexico's highest seven peaks she had, been carrying the ashes of this summer, Orizaba, the highest, Captain Robert Losey, U.S. Air Attache rises 18,314 feet, topping Pikes Peak in Norway, who was killed by a bomb by 4,214 feet.”

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