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OLAST 4 TIMES TO DAYO Ship Racketeers Terrorize The Cornish Coast!

A cutthroat crew shatter the hulls of tall ships

deathladen rocks to rob against

and kill.

FROM THE NOVEL THAT THRILLED MILLIONS!

MONSTER IN HUMAN FORM

reach out to trap nine lives!

is tenta

Charles Laughton “JAMAICA INN

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BRITISH INTELLIGENCE

IF

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--Dironted by TERRY MORSE«« Á WARKER DROS»/lent Nati Fatafa

Screen Play by Las Katz • Gased on a Play, by Anthony Paul Kelly

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"THE GRAPES OF WRATH

'by'

JOHN STEINBECK

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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 10, 1940

CUDAHY REPRIMANDED

FOR INTERVIEW ON BELGIUM'S PLIGHT

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has ordered Mr.; John Cudahy, former United States Ambassador to Belgium, to return to the United States for consulta- tion.

Mr. Cudahy has been publicly reprimanded by the State Department for his interview in London, in which he described conditions in Belgium and supported King Leopold's decision to surrender.

SUNER AT BRITISH EMBASSY

Senor Serrano Suner, Spanish Minister of Interior, who is Gen- eral Franco's brother- in-law, attended a re- ception given in Mo- drid yesterday by the British Ambassador, Sir Samuel Hoare. It was the first occasion

Mr. Sumner Welles, Under- Secretary of State, announcing] the recall of Mr. Cudahy yester- day, read a formal statement in which he said the London inter- view had been given “in violation'

instructions of standing

of the State Department, and certain of the views expressed by the Am- bassador are not to be construed ļas representing the Government's

views."

The statement added that the incident illustrates again the im- portance which must be attribut- ed by American representatives abroad to the Department's in- structions to refrain at this criti- cal time from making public statements other than those, made in accordance with the instruc- tions of the State Department. Reuter.

Senor Suner was pre- FIRST TERRIER 'LOST'

sent at the British Embassy.-Reuter.

BLACK-OUT SNATCHER

IS ALIVE

Squadron-Leader Roger Bushell, twenty-nine, who was believed to have been the first member of al Territorial squadron lost by the R.A.F. in the war, has now been | eported by the International Red

Vivien Leigh and Leslie Howard in "Gone With The master- Wind," the M.G.M. plece which will probably be released in Hong Kong next month. "Gone With The Wind" enjoyed unprecedented success in Shanghai where it recently completed a pheno- menal run of 43 days and pil- ed up a prodiguous gross of $246,885.50, an all-time re- 1 cord.

SHOPS IN SCHOOL

"I have to protect people in the Cross to be a prisoner in Germany, Intensive training of women as black-out from things of this The news has been confirmed. shop assistants and the conver- kind." said Mr. Ronald Powell, Bushell, a South African, wassion of old hats into slippers for Westminster Magistrate, in sen- previously reported "missing, be-wounded soldiers form the latest tencing Sidney Davy (25), waiter.lieved- killed."

examples of how the country is

of Worcester Street, S.W., to a In civilian life a barrister, he really "getting down" to the war. -month's imprisonment for stealing was one of the wealthy young

a handbag from Mrs. Helen Heas- man, of Tachbrook Street, S.W. shortly before midnight.

lubmen who formed a territorial Model shops. are being used at squadron as the result of a sug-South-East Essex Technical. Col- gestion at a West End dinner. lege, Barking, to train women to Bushell was in the British ski take the place of shop assistants heam at St. Moritz, and was re-called up for national service.

garded there as one of the most!

Mrs. Heasman said she was walking past accused when spoke to her. She said, "I be; your pardon," whereupon earless of sportsmen. snatched her handbag, exclaiming. "Got it." She called out and hear her bag fall on the pavement The man afterwards fell down and was taken to hospital.

He

After six months training, these Another R.A.F. officer, pre-women, many of whom have hus- viously listed "missing, believed bands in the Army, will be ready killed," but now known to be to go behind the counter, prisoner of war, is Flying-Officer Husbands in Dukinfield and ichn Arthur Gillies, twenty-seven, other Cheshire towns are liable to. Davy said he mistook Mrs. on of Sir Harold Gillies, the fa- come home nowadays to find their Heasman for his wife, who left nous plastic surgeon.

favourite old hats sacrificed to him in April. He had been

their wives sewing parties-and- searching for her, and heard she GREENLAND SEEKS converted into slippers for wound-. was in the Victoria district.

ed soldiers. said, "I have got you now. Ethel." FOOD SUPPLY IN U.S.

Even feminine headwear Then he collapsed, and woke up

couple of seasons' in hospital.

As a result of the interruption fashionable a The Magistrate said he could of communication between Den-Jago is in some cases, starting

commis- new life as a comfort to the tired not see how Davy could possibly mark and Greenland a nave mistaken Mrs. Heasman forsion has left Greenland for Wash-feet of Servicemen, his wife. If he had used

women's sewing Started any ngton to discuss the possibility of

by violence the sentence would have ensuring American food supplies guilds in Cheshire, the idea of been a much heavier one.

o Greenland, says a Copenhagen turning old hats into slippers has. elegram to the Stefani agency in Lound favour with the Red Cross Rome yesterday.—Reuter.

lorganisation in the county.-.

L

PERSPECTIVE IN

TRAWLER LOSSES

:

It was learned authoritatively ir

London yesterday that losses of

British minesweepers hitherto to-

tal 39, compared with 254 during

a

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the fact they now have to deat

with magnetic as well as moored Imines and air attacks.

* Great majority lost were trawl- ers and drifters and part were fost.during the evacuation of Dun- kirk when they were carrying troops-Reuter.

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