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DON'T EVER FORGET you belong to me!

GEORGE RAFT

HI gave up all other women for you. Play the game my way and we'll go to the top of the world together". She went with him, while he fought his way up-to the most dramatieˇ{ilmast of the scroon:yaarl-

JOAN BENNETT

The HOUSE ACROSS the BAY

with LLOYD NOLANG GLADYS GEORGE and WALTER PIDGEON

NEXT CHANGE

A Warner Bros.

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PAUL MUNI in

"WE ARE NOT ALONE"

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Cost $2,000,000! Two Years to Makel Two Great Stars and Cast of Thousands!

Clark Gable and the native girl he found in the South Seas" lovers Paradise!

Mutiny Bounty

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ON THE

Charles

LAUGHTON

A tyrant Captain drove his men to mutiny. They dis- cover a Paradise of love in a South Sea Garden of

Clark GABLEE

with

FRANCHOT TONE

HERBERT MUNDIN - EDDIE QUILLAN DUDLEY DIGGES, · DONALD. CRISF

A Frank Lloyd Production........

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Albert Lewin

Goldwy

COMMENCING TO-MORROW!

The Greatest Historical Drama Of The Year!

THE QUELN WHO

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DETTE ERROL

DAVIS FLYNN

The Private Lives of

ELIZABETH DESSEX

DONALD CRIYALAN HALE VINCENT PRICO-ŽENKY STEPUENION

OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND ARER BROS: Pletare + Diresied by MICHAUL, CURTIZ

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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 9, 1940.

COWARDLY EVASIONS THE RUMANIANS

BY

SOME OF THE circumstances attending HENRY IS

the new development in Rumania are a mat-

ter of direct concern to Great Britain, declar- OUR- ed the London "Times" in an editorial yester SECRET day on the entry of German troops into that country.

During the past fortnight several leading British businessmen have been arrested and no regular judicial proceedings instituted against them; the protests of the British Minister have been met by the Rumanian eign Minister with cowardly evasions.

Unhappily the evidence avail-

able shows that some or all were

WEAPON

During a night raid warning Mr. Bob Pratt carefully, carried a round object on a long-handled. fire shovel from his flat in South-West town.

a

For-help nm extinguish the "bomb

Patrolling wardens dashed, to

subjected to physical violence in S.O.S. FOR

order to extort confessions of sabotage in the oil fields.

The

GLASS

Glaziers are having a busy time.

they were amazed to-see him. shake it off into some bushes. Then they saw a prickly: object crawl slowly away into the un- dergrowth.

IIt was the second time that Henry the Hedgehog had been of mistaken for a memento German hatë.

ob- alleged revelations tained by this process is one of the pretexta of the Nazi action. It need hardly be said that the

Warden. Jill Wyatt let out an charges are a hollow sham. Throughout the earlier part of on the south-east coast. They are unguarded shriek when she fell the war, Rumania was bound by working from down to dusk re-over Henry on her night patrol ties of alliance with France and placing windows shattered! during several days ago.

air raids windows in Britain. Nazi tactics of sudden

shops, and provoked attacks on neutral houses and hotels.

Nearly all the broken win countries had become familiar

dows are those which had not and it would have been criminal

been treated with anti-blast-ma- negligence on the part of the Rumanian Government not to

terial or strips of adhesive tape. have made plans to prevent suched are often cracked so badly that Even those that have been treat- an attack for the destruction of

wells and other objects of they are in danger of falling in

and have to be replaced..

oil military value.

Revolting Hypocrisy

In drawing up such plans the British and French managers of the oil fields and engineers might well have been consulted.

Whether any of thăm

are

now under arrest for taking

1

into.

He Sought Shelter

So great was her relief at dis- covering his identity that she gave him a home in her garden.

but Henry was hiding close at The following day she lost him, hand.

During the night rald Warden Wyatt's neighboür, --Mrs. Pratt, heard a scratching at the back door. Her husband went to in-. vestigate. He opened the door and in rolled Henry,

But there are no flying aplin ters from them, and local 'A.R.P. officers are urging a greater use of counter-blast material, Whenever our guns go action against enemy 'planes or bombs are dropped, the glaziers stand by waiting for the hundreds

Since he was not an easy com- of urgent calls which come direct-panion at close quarters, Henry ly the batteries cease fire.

was escorted out again on the fire

One glazier told the press that shovel. after a fierce strafing of enainy

planes the other day, his men put · And now everyone is wonder- 164 punės of glass in house wining If he will turn up again in a raid. The suggestion is that if he does he should be adopted as a mascot by the L.D.V. to provide a prickly landing for a parachutist.

nart in such consultations is Impossible to say but the Ru- manian authorities are gulity of the most revolting hypocrisy when they make such projects the pretext for the brutal mal- i̇dows. treatment of British, subjects. One housewife said that all the The methods adopted are, un-windows in her house had been fortunately, too like those em-shattered and replaced three times. ployed recently against British subjects in Japan to leave any question as to the ultimate source of their inspiration.

But it would be a grave mis- take for those who 'perpetrate at and condone such outrages. the instigation of Berlin to sup- pose they are doing themselves or their country any good.

Day Of Reckoning

These things will be remem bered on the day of reckoning. The latest movement doesn't seem likely to produce any mark--| ed effect on the situation in south-east Europe or counteract or influence the almost undisputed control exercised by the British Fleet and once more illustrated the by the recent operations in eastern Mediterranean.-Reuter..

COMMITTEE TO SPEED SALVAGE

Whitehall is to take its share in the new Salvage Chmpaign.'| An Inter-Departmental Com- mittee has been set up to secure greater liaison between the salvage. activities of the Ministry of Sup ply, which is responsible for the campaign, and other services and departments.

Mr. R. C. Morrison, Labour and Cooperative M.P: for Tottenham, is to be chairman of the com mittee, on which will be represent- ed the Admiralty, War Onice, and other Ministries...

Mr. Herbert Morrison has sug- gested that the Committee should exchange information on salvage work and methods of departments concerned, recommend new action when desirable, and, circulate datn.

Tottenham Borough Council, which has a modern and efficient salvage service, is putting in a now plant for processing-pig-food which will trable its capacity.

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Only Two More Days—To-day & To-morrow You Stop This Juggernaut Of Destruction ! Desperate! Frantic! convicted, of a crime he did not commit, he took a potent drug that made him invisable but it drove him mad.

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The INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS

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