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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 7, 1940.
JAPANESE EXPERT SEES ODDS FAVOUR BRITAIN
DECLARING THAT air forces alone cannot conquer an open city, Hanji Kinoshita, an eminent Japanese authority on international politics, ex- presses the view in an article in the current issue of "Thoroughfare of Politics," that war between Ger- many and Britain will be long.
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"Without the use of ships, whe-| ther large and heavily armed, or small and unarmed, even single German soldier cannot be transported from the shores of the Continent to England.
Taking advantages of speed and superiority of numbers, Chancel- lor Hitler may send men across
SWEDISH
WARNING TO NAZI 'PLANE
The Swedish de- fence authorities an- nounce that a Ger- man multi-motored aircraft passed low over the Riff of Fal- sterbo, in southern Scania, on Saturday afternoon. --Warning shots were fired and the aircraft disappeared. Reuter.
NOTE ISSUE sterbo,
IN JAPAN
the Channel like a storm of grass-fBPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") hoppers, but the power of the Bri-
"THE HOUSE ACROSS THE BAY" arch of the German U-boats
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Thousands of living actors in a sensation un- matched since "Snow White!" Song hits galore! Gorgeous girls! Dazzling spectacle! Laughs!.' Filmed in glorious Technicolor! Two years.. to bring you two hours of- magic entertainment!
MAGIC ADVENTUREI The Cyclone that whisks a girl to the Land of Oz">
Meeting with the Tin Woodman, the'. Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion!
The Munchkins
Emerald City!.
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Wondrous apple trees that talk and
Monkeys in the Haunted Forest!-- with the Winged
Sights to soot A story to thrill your.. heart
LILTING SONG HITS!
By Harold Arlen; and Tip ('Stormy. Weather Harbarg
Judy Garland staging and swinging?" OVER THE RAINBOW THE WITCH IS DEAD
MERRY OLD LAND OF OZ mony, many more!
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BURKE HAMILTON GRAPEWIN AND THE MUNCHKINS”
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Hyarwon and Edgir Alan Woolf ***, Directed by
Produced by MERVIN LAIN
SIR W. CITRINE VISITING U.S..
tish fleet of small-sized vessels, THE AVERAGE NOTE ISSUE which has been reinforced greatly OF THE BANK OF JAPAN by the fifty destroyers sold by the DROPPED SLIGHTLY DURING United States, would stop the SEPTEMBER, DUE TO THE DEFLATION U-boats GOVERNMENT'S lialfway across the sea.
POLICY, THE TOKYO "ASAHI" Beeldes, America may parti-REPORTS: cipate in the war on the side After reaching a record peak of Sir Walter Citrine, general sec- of Britain next Spring, mak- Yen 3,329,000,000 in August, the retary of the T.U.C. and president ing the situation more favour-figure dropped to. Yen 3,303,000,- of the IFT.U, is leaving for the able for Britain."-Reuter.
000 in September. It would seem that Mr.
United States soon at the invita- Kinoshita wrote his article before are the Government's policy of of Labour.
Two main factors for the droption of the American Federation' the Tripartite Tokyo-Axis Part.
cutting down expenditure and the He will attend the annual con- new taxation system, which is vention of the A.FL. and hopes„ collecting money from the people to meet members of the various more rapidly than in the past-European trade unions who have Havas:
I taken refuge in America. Reuter.
SHANGHAI'S LITTLE ARMY IN FETTLE
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") "All members of the British China volunteers contingent which left Shanghai on September 22 are in excellent health and spirits," writes one of the volunteers, R. G. Woodhead, son of the well-known editor of "Or- iental Affairs."
"Travelling in one of the crack liners of the British Mercantile Marine, and making use of taci- Ilties for getting into really good training, we use the swimming bath every day and a physical training class- is held before breakfast on the sports deck when one of the volunteers puts the men through their paces.
"B.B.C. broadcasts are close- ly followed. All are anxious to get into uniform and down to serious training.
"We have work to do and in- tend to do it to the best of our ability; one of the things cheer- ing us up no end is the 'certainty hat we have the backing of all Britons in China,"
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The letter was published the Shanghal "Evening Post and Mercury" yesterday.. Woodhead
was formerly Reuter's correspon- dent in Peiping:-Havns.
NEW MASTER OF
TRINITY
Trinity, the fanious Cambridge, University College will have an il- lustrious historian and · man· of. letters as its now muster in Pro- fessor G. M. Trevelyan, O.M., Regius, Professor of Modern His- tory
at Cambridge since 1927. Many of Trevelyan's historical books are standard works. He is Trustee of the British Museum and the National Portrait Gallery
Appointment; is. In succession to the Inte Sir J. J. Thomson, Q.M.
British Wireless.
RUMANIA-IN NAME ONLY
German-Rumanian. ment has been signed which gives Germans In Runania the same position as Rumanians,
A
agree-
Germans guilty of military offe ences are to be amnestled.—Reu-
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