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Oh Boy! OH JOHNNY How You Can Love

TOM BROWN - PEGGY MORAN Allen JENKINS · Donald MEEK Betty Jane RHODES - Isabał JEWELL

Hear Betty Rhodes Sing The Song Sensation “Oh, Johnny Oh:”.

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ROWDY, ROUGHNECK RIVALS

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BILLY HALOP and HUNTZ HALL-

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LITTLE TOUGH GUYS

Call a MESSENGER

Mary CARLISLE • Larry CRABBE El BRENDEL - Anne NAGEL Victor JORY » Robert ARMSTRONG.

Screenplay by ARTHUR 1 HORMAN »Balad an anginal story bý, Sally Sandlin and Michal Kruike

2B Directed by ARTHUR LUBIN • Associate Producer: KEN GOLDSMITH

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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 8, 1940, --

NIGHT OUT WITH THE

NAVY: ON NIGHT RAID INTELLIGENCE PATROL

A BRANCH OF THE NAVY'S war effort about which little is known was last night exposed for the first time to civilian inspection, says Reuter's special. correspondent with the Home Fleet.,

TO BE IN WAR

CABINET?

"My first assignment. as correspondent with Prime Minister will be ask- the Home Fleet was to sail in one of the ships which ed by Mr. E. Granville (L. Nat., | Eye, Suffolk) if the voluntary carry out intelligence and anti-aeroplane work in Press censorship and administra the narrow waters over which German bombers fly Lion of Defence Regulation No. 3. by the Ministry of Information, in nightly attack on London and the South-Eastern instead of the Service departments, now represents the considered policy of the War Cabinet; and whether the. Minister of Informa¬ tion will be made a member of that body instead of merely at- tending their meetings..

area.

The vessel used was formerly aircraft, but none appeared and a favourite excursion ship, but the vessel returned to harbour." to-day she bristles with guns and Reuter, searchlights and is 'manned by reservists representing all callings from farm labourers to a London stage manager. [

"We left a South-Eastern port in the late afternoon, passing Dutch, French and British · war- ships, and a great mass of mer- chant ships which still chug un- der convoy through the · Straits

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of Dover like fast freight trains. OF FAMOUS PRODUCTIONS OF BY-GONE DAYS!

"Half an hour out came

warning: 'Hostile aircraft pronching."

"The gun crews

jumped to it.

the

ap-

immediately

"A Heinkel passed over t about 10,000 feet, but it seem- ed more eager to try and get at one of the great R.A.F. aero- dromes that dot the share-line than to try conclusions with the chip's pom-pom gunc for which, sald the Captain, “Ger man airmen have a marked distaste.

Raid On French Coast

"A little further out, we passed a concentration of British de-* stroyers which, I was told, - were robably preparing to raid the French coast-a not infrequent operation nowadays by British Teht forces, who like to singe Hitler's wings now and then, much as Drake used to harry the Spanish coast 350 years ago,

"Sturprise approach and the shelling of German-occupied const -those are the tactics these light forces employ.

"It was dark, with a faint- Iv glimmering moon when the distant humming proclaimed the approach of hostile air- craft.

"Eight thousand red seventy- eight yelled, the spotter, mean- ing that the raiders were 8,000 yards away on the port bow.

"The warning was echoed from: the bridge all through the ship. ordered Action

COLOURFUL! STIRRING! IN TECHNICOLOUR! Tationspiel gun crews trained

"SWANEE RIVER"

DON AMECHE · ANDREA LEEDS — AL JOLSON A 20th Century-Fox Picture

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three courageous. ALICE, CONSTANCE-

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TAIL SPIN

JOAN DAVIS, CHARLES FARRELL JANE WYMAN

TO-MORROW "THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK

their weapons, while pattering. feet over the deck told that every man was running to stand by. Searchlight Cuts Sky

"The drone of the raiders was' now quite close and searchlights. suddenly cut through the night sky. They must have taken the raiders completely by surprise.

I could see one with the naked eye, acudding against + moon's wrack and the searchlights held him ·aohs shot across our stern. Our pom-poms Morashed out In deafening (chorus, lighting, "up the whole ship with the flash of blue and white explosions: "We did not hit him, but maybe we nuted the part of benters för another, sportsman, for, within a few minutes another 'plane ap- proached the from the direction in, which the raider, had just dis- appeared and dropped-recognition flares: that showed, lis way Bri- tish.

Stalking His Prey

"Even as the ship was firing, the British plane had been stalk- ing its prey across the opon 'sca aided perhaps by the flashes of our guns.

**The remainder of the night. pagesd without action, other Gorman“ aircraft etäying very. high, out of rango,

"A tpɛcini watch was kept de ulways for enoniy, mino-laying

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