1940-06-24 — Page 2

IM VODO

SHOWING

TO-DAY KNOW

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRENI

AT 2.30, 5.10,

7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

THAT BOMB MIGHT Í HAVE GONE OFF..

BORIS

KARLOFF

MARGARET

LINDSAY

BRITISH INTELLIGENCE®

IF he had not gambled

on a woman's terror!

Directed by TERRY MORSE - AWARNER BROS. —First Nat'l Picture Screen Play by Lee Katz • Dased on a Play by Anthony Paul Kelly

NEXT CHANGE

United Artists.

Release

4 SHOWS DAILY 2.30-5.15 7.15-9.30

"RAFFLES"

Co-starring

DAVID NIVEN-OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

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ORIENTAL

THEATRE-

FLEMING ROAD WANCHA TEL 28473

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 24, 1940

MR. T. V. SOONG ON SPECIAL MISSION

TO

AMERICA

MR. T. V. SOONG, HEAD of the Bank of Canton and the Bank of China, is on his way to America, according to authoritative reports received by the "China Mail." The object of Mr. Soong's mission-he is not on a vacation

trip cannot be obtained from official sources.

The China Mail" learns, however, from usually reliable sources, that Mr. Soong has been entrusted with an im- portant task by the Chinese Govern- ment in Chungking.

It is believed his purpose is to ne- gotiate a third loan from the Ameri- can Government,

Mr. K. P. Chen, General Manager of the Shanghai Commercial and Sav- ings Bank, who negotiated the two previous loans left America and is said to be in Manila where he met Mr. Soong prior to the latter's depar- ture to America last week.

Reports over the week-end stating that Mr. Soong is to be appointed Ambassador to America cannot confirmed.

BELGIUM

OLAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY TO FIGHT

ROUSING ACTION PICTURE WITH 5000 PLAYERS! Where the fighting's fiercest, the thrills are thickest and the laughs are loudest, you'll find this fightin' Irish regiment-in-the midst of it

OK

COME AND

LAUS

JON!

TRULLS!

DES

GET IT JAMES

CAGNEY

PAT O'BRIEN

GED-BRENT

THE FIGHTING 69TH

Jaffray Lynn - Alan Nada - Frank Metter) • Bannis Morgan - Dick Førne - Witam Landligan - Sabia “Big Day' Willams « -

FOR TO-MORROW AND WEDNESDAY THE SCREEN'S MOST UNUSUAL RACING DRAMA !

GANTRY

THE BLIND HORSE

Racing Sensation of the Age!

PRIDE OF THE BLUEGRASS

› MATINEES: 20c-30c ● EVENINGS: "20c.÷30c.-50c.-70c.

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CATHAY

DAILY AT 2.30.5.18.7.20,89.30.P.M. MATINEEJ1–20cy 30%, 40%. -EVENINGS:—20¢. 30c, ED£4 79%, 80S.

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY 1940'S BIGGEST MUSICAL SPECTACLE !

·BALALAIKAR

TO.

MORROW

ONLY

' where there's wine, women and song?

STARRING

Nelson EDDY

ILONA MASSEY

Charlie

with

RUGGLES, MORGAN - ATWIEL C. Aubrey

Dalies SMITH. COMPTON • FRANTZA

At 2.00, 5.00, 7.30 & 9.45 p.m.

Norma Shearer

Tyrono Power

Meuro Goldwyn.

Mayer

PICTURE

"MARIE ANTOINETTE'

ON

London, To-day.

be

A denial of reports put abroad that the Belgian Gov- ernment now exiled in Portu- gal had decided to stop fight- ing was made by the Belgian Minister, M. Jaspar, in a Lon- don broadcast last night.

war

On the contrary, he said, the for the liberation of Belgium continu- ed and would continue. He had come to England to ensure that this would be so and he hoped that his colleagues would shortly be able to join him..

The place of Belgians, said M. Jaspar, was beside the British. "We shall bring them considerable resources which are still ours in

Should Gorman paratroops at- tempt to land in Lancashire they will be given a very hot reception, for Civil Defence units are shoot- ing on their own rifle range, si- tuated in the old Preston jail. Photo shows a Sergeant of the Preston police taking aim. (Copy- right, Fox).

GERMANS CLAIM

Europe and in the Congo where the 500,000

Belgian flag still flies."-Reuter.

ANDERSON

SHELTERS PROVED

London, To-day. Reports from technical experts show that the small steel shelters known as Anderson shelters, which have been supplied free in vast numbers, pro~| vided a striking degree of protection during the recent air raids.

Although many large bombs fell close to these shelters, no occupants were injured.

In one case the crater of a 500-lb. bomb was only 30 feet from such a shelter occupied by two adults and two children. Although the house was badly damaged the shelter stood

firm. Reuter.

ITALIAN BOMBER DOWNED AT MALTA

Malta, To-day, An Italian bomber was brought down in the air raid on Malta on Saturday. Two of the seven occupants were captured; the remainder perish-

ed.

There were no British casualties. — Reuter.

More Prisoners ·

Berbera, To-day.

PRISONERS

AN

BERLIN, TO-DAY. OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE STATES THAT THE BATTLE IN ALSACE-LORRAINE ENDED ON JUNE 22 WITH THE CAPITULATION OF THE FRENCH ARMIES WHICH WERE SURROUNDED, THIS VIC- TORY OVERPOWERED THE LAST FORCES OF THE FRENCH ARMY STILL FIGHTING.

"Over half a million prisoners were taken, including the commanders of the Third, Fifth and Eighth Armies.

"On the Atlantic Coast, our troops reached La Rochelle and captured the French naval base of St. Nazaire, the booty including many armoured cars,

"In the Rhone Valley, our troops forced a passage across the Rhone at the edge of the Savoy Alps, southe west of Geneva.”

The communique further claims that off the French coast, Ave mer- chant ships between 3,000 and 10,000 tons were damaged by bombs, that a 10,000-ton transport and another of. 4,000, tons were sunk and that a Ger- man submarine sank An "enemy. tanker of 16,000 tons which

was at- tached to a convoy."-Reuter.

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7TH FL,

QUEEN'S

A large Italian bomber made a forced landing near Zeila, most northerly port of British Somaliland.

The 'plane was intact and the crew BUILDING, was taken prisoner by a patrol of ROAD, C. Tel. 32752, native irregulars.--Reutor.

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