1940-08-12 — Page 4

SHOWING

TO-DAY

MAM

Hal Roach peasants

THORNE OPP. SMITH'S MOST HILARIOUS NOVEL

ITCHED THEATRES

AT 2.30, 5.10,

7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

The picture with gogs-and gals- and stars galore. The roll-in-the- aisle comedy that made even the consors laugh! So hilarious that only the author and producer of

the famous "Topper" pictures, could give it to you!

TURNABOUT

Adolphe MENJOU Carole LANDIS John HUBBARD

WILLIAME

NEXT CHANGE

A 20th. Century ·

Fox Picture

LETEASDALE MARY ASTORE SPON, RANK JEPANGHORN JOYCE COMPIONS

SHIPYARD SALLY starring Gracie FIELDS * Sydney HOWARD TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS. W

CATHAY

From the. Jous

opert .**

Diavolo,"

by Amber,

DAILY AT 2.30, 5.15. 7.20 & 9.30 ́P.M. MATINEES:-20, 30% EVENINGS:-20, 30c 50c, 70c

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

| A Metro Golluyn Mayer aerona

The Longest-

Most Ambitious-

And Funniest

Laurel And Hardy

Comedy Of Many

Years!

"FRA

DIAVOLO"

STAN

OLIVER

LAUREL-HARDY

DENNIS KING

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 12, 1940.

FRANCE PLUNDERED

TO INCREASE GERMANY'S RATIONS

REPORTS FROM America show that the R. A. F. CUT Germans are trying to place the responsibility OUT DELAY

on Britain and the blockade if there is any

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famine in German-occupied countries this IN TRAINING

winter. The Americans are not taken in by this, however, as they remember recent boast- ing claims by the German radio.

Until a week ago, the Nazis were trying to convince everyone that they had lots of food tucked away without having to touch their neighbours, whose supplies would, ac- cordingly, be available for their own use.

The Bremen radio spoke of large supplies of butter and of in- ereases in butter and sugar ra- tions.

Hitler told the Reichstag that food supplies were assured no matter how long the war lasted.

There was no hint in all this that this meant a shortage for the rest of Europe. Yet only a few Jays ago, the German radio an- nounced that Germany was not going to feel hungry but that it would be asking too much for her; to make arrangements for those countries "used for attacks. on Germany,"

RAVAGES OF

WAR PASS

¡CATHEDRALS

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

Historical monuments in France, such as

Volunteers for air-crew duties

in the R.A.F. no longer have to

wait months for admission. Can- didates accepted can now go straight into the R.A.F. and do ground defence duties during the "kicking their heels" waiting to weeks they would normally be begin air training.

This does away with the un- satisfactory system under which the volunteer had to go back to months until he was called fot for training. Such men have in his

civil job for about three some cases lost their jobs owing to their impending service in the R.A.F.

**Immediate service," as the new scheme is called, does not mean that the waiting period will be any longer. The men will be do- ing work which would be very useful in an invasion.

CHANCE FOR BEST MEN

Another innovation in R.A.F. recruiting is "special entry," for candidates of exceptional abil. ity.

These candidates, who up to Rationing has now been intro-churches and castles, suf-now have been taken in the ot

der in which their names were juced in German-occupied France. fered but slightly from the sent in fall into two categories.

Bread and butter rations for Ger-

man children between the ages of war, a high official of the and 12 have been increased, al-Education Ministry told hough before the ration was call-the press in Vichy yester-

ed "quite adequate."

day.

Men with suitable previous experience, men with superior qualities_of_leadership_and_men of high Intellectual standard will be admitted to begin train- ing Immediately..

This has been made possible; The 'famous cathedrals of The second category comprises by plunder from France. There Amiens and Rouen are safe, as men who want their call-up de- should be lots of food In France, well as Chartres Cathedral, con-layed to enable them to complete as she has tried for years to sidered the most perfect master-la course of training at a Univer- make herself self-supporting piece of Gothic architecture|sity or other school.

rationed.

is

and has imported little. But existent. On the other hand, his- They will begin training as soon German-occupied France lo now toric landmarks in the Calais and as their educational course

Dunkirk area suffered heavily. complete.

The famous Royal Castle at - The German bread ration is half Amboise, on the Loire, was dam- as much again as that in Belgium, aged. Chuches in southern Nor- Harvesting in Holland is almost mpossible, because the Nazis re-mandy also suffered as did the

cathedral of Troyes. fuse to allow the tractors any fuel, while war materials are give pride of place before food supplies.

If there is a famine in Europu this winter-and everything sug- gests that there will be one-it is Germany and Germany alone that must bear the blame.-Reuter,

PRODUCED HAL ROACH PEER IN

BY

TO. MURROW •

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Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan in

ONLY

CALAIS

'TARZAN FINDS A SON!" EPIC IS

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The fun show of the year!

The slap-hoppiast Harold Lloyd howler

of 'em all!

TO-MORROW RKO Picture

HAROLD

LLOYD

LLOYD

BEWARE

PROFESSOR

Phyllis Welch Raymond Walburn

Lionel Stähden

Willisin Frawley! Thurston Hall

Carole Lombard * Brian Aherne

"VIGIL IN THE NIGHT”

MISSING

Lord Cromwell, the fifth Baron.. of Misterton Hall, Leicestershire,

as been posted as missing.

He is a major in the King's. Royal Rifle Corps, and is believed to have been in the eple defence of Calais, when 4,000 "fought to the last."

men

Lord Cromwell, who is forty-

in seven, was farming Canada when the last war began and joined a cavalry regiment as a trooper.

He once told a British Legion gathering that when it was learned that the unit was to be dismount- ed "every warrant officer and

www.

Havas.

BITTEN BY CAT

STOLE £300 CIGARETTES

Thieves who broke into a shop in Lillie Road, Fulham, S.W., by Playing with his cat in Hum-'torcing the door carried off £300 phreys Building on August 10 worth of cigarettes. Mr. Petherick was bitten on the It is believed that three men

ndex finger. He

treated took part in the raid and that privately and the animal sent to they carried the cigarettes in Mataukok for observation,

sacks to a waiting, car,

4 SHOWS

DAILY 2,30-5.18

7.19-9.30

was

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ORIENTAL

CHEATREID,

FLEMING

ROAD

WANGHAI

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OLAST 4 TIMES TODAY

THE COMEDY SMASH HIT OF ALL TIME !

Here's the nicest guy a girl never married; Every time she was about to be his bride

he'd be solving .Some cockeyed homicide.:

A BRIDE WHO ALWAYS JUST MISSES BEING MRS.!

*AMELİYA

DOUGLAS BLONDELL

The AMAZING

MR.WILLIAMS

- Ditecíad by ALEXANDER HALL Associate Prodecse EVERETT RISKIN

N.C.O. with one exception, Special For To-morrow

promptly deserted and joined up with Strathcona's Horse with which he came to England.

"Thus," he added, "I am a de- serter from the British Columbia Horse and have never received a pardon-for-that offence..

His son and heir is, the Hon. David Geoffrey Bewicke-Copley, aged eleven.

at

'COLUMBIA'S GRAND NEW COMEDY HIT!

Return Engagement

HAL ROACH presents.

LAUREL & HARDY

ACHUMP AT OXFORD

RELEASED THRU UNITED ARTISTS

Antney Park, Cirencester with MATINEES 206306" EVENINGS: 100-306-56c 270c3

Lady Cromwell is staying

|

her two children, Phillippa, aged

fourteen and 'David.