1940-10-24 — Page 4

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PETER LORRE

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HIS VICTIMS DEATH CRIES WERE MUSIC

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ISLAND OF ONOMED MEN

TO-MORROW

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ROCHELLE HUDSON ROBERT WILCOX

Original Screenplay by. Robert D. Andrews .

Directed by CHARLES BARTON,

"LILLIAN RUSSELL'

ALICE FAYE

DON AMECHE

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HENRY FONDA

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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 24,-1040

SPECULATION ON THE INTRIGUES OF M. LAVAL

THE OFFICIAL GERMAN news agency says that M. Laval, the Vichy Vice-Premier, is now on his way back to Paris from Vichy fol- lowing his report to Marshal Petain.

ATHENS

HOARDERS SENTENCED

Twenty out of 40 persons arrested in Athens for hoarding

the purpose of pro- fiteering have been sentenced to deporta- tion on one of the Aegean Islands for a year.

The news agency points out that no Ger-sugar and coffee for man statement has yet been issued to explain the nature or extent of the discussions. Havas, the French agency, is more out-spoken when it says that all Frenchmen will under- stand that the meeting concerns the future of their nation, and calls it the "most important event since the armistice."

According to the Swiss press. | for settlement making France a it is fairly certain that the terms collaborator with the Axis Powers up in the future prosecution of the France giving would mean Alsace-Lorraine to Germany and war.

Well formed' London circles Nice and Tunis to Italy. For the

OLAST 4 TIMES TO DAYO rest, it is thought the terms would warn against any assumption that

Nazis Attempt To Steal Admiralty Secrets!

This is Briton's answer to "Confessions of a Nazi Spy," the picture shows how ord'nary men and wo- men, street hawkers, domestic servants are in the pay of Nazi secret agents.

The Most Sensational Exposure Ever Screened !

CABOT

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ALTO!

"with

MARTA LABARR TAMARI DESNI

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BABY SANDY IN A BIG RIOT OF LAUGHTER !

HUGH HERBERT

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LAUREL & HARDY

COMEDY PROGRAMME

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Travelogue, Colour Cartoons, Comedies, Specialties.

Etc., etc., etc.

Richard Dix, Chester Morris in

"" THE MARINES FLY HIGH

mean that the French Empire is he whole of Govern- dissolved between the Axis and ent will support the intrigues of its satellites, and that the French M. Laval. Reuter.' navy and air force are to be used against Britain.

Vichy Repeated denials from have done little to throw doubt on re- the general lenor of these ports.

Swiss reports state that neutral observers are of the opinion that the fate of France depends on the outcome of the struggle inside the Vichy Government.

Some say that Marshal Petain and General Weygand will re- fuse any settlement calling for: French arms to be used against Britain. Laval and Company apparently: have no qualms about this, "except possibly. a doubt as to how many French- men would be willing to serve against Britain.

According to Rome reports, Hit- ler has sounded Laval on a plan

TOO EARLY TO ASSUME VICHY'S SUBMISSION

By Reuter's Diplomatic Correspondent

The most surprising thing about the Hitler- Laval meeting is that i should have occurred at all.

That four months after 'France's' downfall, Germany, should come to realise that there is something still to be made out of the des- pondent and defeated remnants of a great empire is a confession not Rof the lateat strength of France, but of the desperate need of Ger-

many,

1

It seems unlikely that Ger-:

many would press France for a declaration of war as she would be expected to lose more than they would again..

The would certainly find the French army a most unreliable comrade in arms. He would -not: be a willing partner against his former friends

Humiliating Conditions

What is more likely is that cer- tain fresh concessions were 'dis- cussed at the meeting in ex- change, for improvement of com munications and supplies and less rigid supervisión.

The most likely concession would be the surrender of the remainder of the French Navy and possibly French aeroplanes.

It is too early to assume, how- ever, that the Vichy Government would submit to such humiliat- Ing conditions.-Reuter.,

NEW CHAIRMAN OF T.U.C.

General

Sentence has still to be passed on the remaining 20. Those arrested include the proprietor of one of largest local hotels, several bank- ers and three-welt known Greek journa- lists. Reuter.

the

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HIMMLER LEAVES

MADRID

Mr. George Gibson, Secretary of the Mental Hospital and Institutional Workers Union, has been unanimously chosen Herr Himmler, Nazi Gestapo chairman of the General Council, chief,, left Madrid by air yester- for Barcelona. - Trades Union Congress, for the day morning

British Wireless. Reuter.

coming year.

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Whistling bullets fan

his sido-burns! Flirting Senoritas nearly got him

THRILLS!

CARAMBA!...

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toughest hombres leave him for dead!

Viva CISCO KID

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dashing, romantic caballerol

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