1940-10-23 — Page 4

SHOWING TO-DAY

PETER LORRE

DITIONEDE THEATRES

AT 2.30, 6.10,

7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

HIS VICTIMS

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 23; -1940:

America's Popular Ambassador Off

DEATH CRIES To Washington

WERE MUSIC

TO HIS EARS!

ISLAND OFDDOMED MEN

NEXT CHANGE

wish

ROCHELLE HUDSON ROBERT WILCOX

Original Screenplay by.. Robert D. Andrews, Directed by CHARLES BARTON,

"LILLIAN RUSSELL'’

20th Century Fox Super Prod.

ALICE FAYE

DON AMECHE

HENRY FONDA

4 SHOWS

DAILY

2.30-.8.20

720-9.30

MAJESTIC

·THEATRE

NATHAN ROAD KOWLOON

TELS7222

(MATINEES: 20%-30%.o EVENINGS: 20-30-50e70c

*

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

*

A Dynamic Drama of the North Woods, Full of Action and Thrills!!!

WHEN HE

YELLS TIMBER

KING

R

IT'S YOUR INVITATION TO ACTION, THRILLS, EXCITEMENT!

JOHN

LUMBER PAYNE

NACKS

DICKSON

STANLEY FIELDS

Directed by WILLIAM CLEMENS A WARNER BROS. First Nat'l Picture

„Vitograph, fat, Bersen Play by Crane Wilbur From a Story by Robert B: Kost,

* TO-MORROW AND FRIDAY

ROMANCE! ADVENTURE! THRILLS!

*

ค

MR. JOSEPH KENNEDY, United States Ambassador in London, left England yester. day for Lisbon where he is taking the Clipper for New York.

In a farewell message just as he was leay-

AUSTRALIA

TO HAVE ing the Embassy in London, Mr. Kennedy MIXED WAR

said: "I would like to tell them over there how it is here. I have been through it all and have the greatest admiration for Londoners."

One of the Ambassador's last] acts before leaving was to inspect parade of the local mounted branch of the Home Guard in his country house where he heartily cheered.

was

Another evidence that his ad- miration for the British is re- ciprocated is revealed in an ar- ticle by the well-known politi- cal writer, Beverley Baxter.

POLISH

PATRIOT

KILLED

COUNCIL

An important step for the realisation of party political unity in Austra- lia for the prosecution of the war was made by the conference of party man- agers yesterday when they accepted the Labour Maciej Rataj, distin- Party proposal for the when the Ambassador arrived guished Polish political formation of an Austra- with his charming wife and large leader and patriot, has lian War Council. family he captured the imagina- tion of the British public,

The latter, commenting on Mr. Kennedy's work on behalf of An- glo-American friendship, says that

been killed by the Gesta- Everything he said and did en- po, according to Polish

hanced the affection of those of

us who knew him and the esteem

of the whole nation.

A Great Ambassador

After the war began and Mr. Kennedy went home he did not play the role we had, perhaps

expected.. rather foolishly,

He steadfastly remained an American Ambassador instead of becoming a British one.

The result was that his popu larity underwent a slump .but to his eternal credit he did not

become embittered.

than

Now, for no other reason true recognition of his character, his popularity has come back.

It has nothing to do with his family, his golf or his smile. -It is more solid and enduring. He has earned the respect due to a great American Ambassador who never for a moment mistook the country to which he was-accre- dited for the country of his birth. -Reuter.

Cesar · ❝VIVA CISCO KID" AUSTRALIAN

Romero in

A 20th Century-Fox Picture

TAKE ANY TRÁM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS

EORIENTALE

62DAY TO DAY • TO MORROW-

Timely Picture Of Nazi Spies In England!

A daring exposure of the inner workings of

the German spy system, shows how they obtain secrets from British workers in munition plants. Daring German Secret Service Now Exposed!

CABOT

IN A THRILLING, STORY OF NAZI -SPIES

TRAITOR

Lurth MARTA LABARR TAMARA DESNI:

FRI.

BAT.

D'MATINEES; 206-30c

"LITTLE ACCIDENT”

HUGH HERBERT BABY SANDY

EVENINGS: 20c-30c-502.1706.-

LABOUR PARTY DEMANDS

A complete overhaul of the Australian war and home defence administra- tions and an increase in soldiers' pay are among demands being made by the official Labour Party.

They are contained in a letter handed to the Premier, Mr. R. G. Menzies, by Mr. Curtin, Labour Leader, at the conference of party managers yesterday which is dis- cussing the proposal for a na- tional government.

The conference held a secret session in the morning and there was another meeting later. to Mr., Menzies' reply to Labour's demands.-Reuter.

KENYA SKIRMISH

LA-SUCCESSFUL · · · ATTACK AGAINST AN · ENEMY " POST NEAR THE KENYA FRONTIER WAS ANNOUNCED IN A COM- MUNIQUE ISSUED IN NAIROBI YESTERDAY,

The communique says one of our ground patrols attacked an chemy post at Dukana, hear the Kenya border, 70 miles from Lake Rudolf.

The enemy withdrew, leaving five dead as well as camels, and equipment. Our casualt'es were one killed and one wounded. – Reuter.

circles in London yester- day..

He is stated to have been mur- dered five months ago but the news has only just become

Κποινή.

The official German version is that he died from heart failure but according to Polish circles in London he died after third degree torture.

Rataj For many years

was Speaker of the Polish Parliament and leader of the biggest poli- tical party, the Radical Peasants Party-Reuter.

ITALY

DECLINES TO

APOLOGISE

"In bombing oil proper- ties on Bahrein Island, Italy was exercising the right of war."

4

Labour members of the Coun-"

cil will comprise three from the official Labour Party and one from

the Non-Communist Labour Party. The Council, over which the Premier will preside, will be cs- tablished without delay,

The Premier revealed in a press interview that he had offered the combined Labour parties 40. per- Cent. of the portfolios in the Na- tional Government a week ago but this matter had not been discussed further.-Reuter.

Historic Decision

Mr. Curtin, the Labour leader, stated that the decision to set up- the Council was "a historic one- and significant of the united de- termination of the Australian peo- ple and political parties to do their utmost in the war in which their very existence is at stake."

The Council will comprise four members representing the Government and four of the op- position." Its task will be to assist and advise in the Com- monwealth's war effort.

The Labour Party has agreed to. place the services of its indivi- dual members at the disposal of Ministers for the prosecution of the war. Reuter.

This was the comment made in authorised Rome circles yesterday on the protest filled with the Unit- ed States State Department by the a British protectorate, companies California Standard Oil Company exploiting oil there are juridically and the Texas on Company British; and, secondly, "England, against the alleged bombing of thanks to the treaty concluded American owned oil properties with the local Emir, has political The Italian view is said to be, and economic supremacy on the that, firstly, Bahrein Island being island." -Reuter.

TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS.

CATHAY

DAILY AT 2.30. 5.15. 7,20 & 9,30.P.M.

MATINEES:-20., 30c EVENINGS:-20c 30c, 50c, 70c

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

✡

JIATM KO

A Century Old Mummy Holds The Secret Of The Most Brazen Of Modern Crimes! It's all New!

HIS SHADOW STALKS THE NIGHT-and feaves a trail of murdered men!

The Saints DOUBLE TROUBLE

TO.

with GEORGE SANDERS and MELENE WHITNEY-JONATHAN HALE-BELA LUBOSI-DONALD MADRIDE-JOHN F. HAMILTON Saine" Stumpe RKO RADIO Picture

Science

All New! Never Played Before!

"LAUREL AND HARDY"

FR THE MARINES FLY HIGH

Comedy

"Programme"

·Richard: DIX.

Chester Marrie