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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 28, 1940.

OOMPH GIRL AND BEWARE! THE

PAYA STRIKER

ARE IN LOVE

OOMPH GIRL Ann Sheridan, striking for more pay, found new love and may wed after a cruise on the Californian coast ends.

Ann get £1,000 a week, but cost of living is so high in Hollywood she just can't make ends meet. Ann gave her bosses, Warner Bros., the works with all the art she possesses.

But while oomph may send the college boys and girls ga-ga-they're Ann's most enthusiastic fans— those movie magnates didn't lose any sleep.

"No dice," they said, which is

the latest Americanese for "No." Ann huffed, fled on those tem- peramental tours so dear to the heart of glamour stars.

Warner Bros. sat they aren't interested until she returns.

tight,

in

кау Ann

"Stop the monkey business and we'll take you back," they say.

Ann knows the film Tsars, be- lieves she'll win if she holds out

long enough.

SHELTERS LIKE A MAZE

London boroughs will Now it's not just a question have to find many more

of extra cash.

She Knows There she met-quite by chance of course George Brent.

Of course, he's a film actor, too, She's been married before. Eddie Morris, actor, was the man. Ann divorced him-but why bring that up.

shelters now that the Gov- ernment have decided they must be equipped with bunks.

Obviously not nearly so many people can be accommodated, in bunk shelters

were as if they

From Ensenada Ann and George standing or sitting, as originally went for a cruise on the Cali-planned.

Wandsworth has decided on a fornian coast.

Though Warner Bros., very big high speed policy, utilising all business-like say they have taken existing shelters under shops and Ann off the payroll, won't take her back on her own terms, and ing reinforced refuse to see her until she's on ground made vacant by apologised, Ann has a trump card. bombs,

Ann, wity girl; knows that

she's a gold mine to any sim

company so long as sho

married.

College boys won't swoon in such large numbers if she has a husband.

Rumour has it that Ann will marry George after the cruise

over.

She's Worth It

is

Reality indicates otherwise. Ann, being a woman, will get her own way.

Oomph girls of Ann's aren't born every day.

calibre

Since every studio is trying to snatch this streamlined gold

mine, her bosses will eventually epare her a few more dimes. They can afford that easily out of the cash they've saved on un- limited free publicity created by the quarrel.

They'll probably do the apologising.

And, anyway, remembering how Ann's oomph has thrilled you, at the flicks, she's worth it, isn't she?

“DIGGING" AT 85

the

Sir Flinders Petrie, one of world's most learned Egyptolo- gists, has just arrived in Palestine with Lady Petrie "to continue excavating."

LEAFLETS HIDE GERMAN BOMBS

If you see a balloon with a bundle of lea flets attached come down, don't go`rush- ing to it to grab Q leaflet for a souvenir, say the London news- papers.

no

It's the Germans' latest booby trap. If you take a leaflet, o bomb inside the pack- age will explode and you will collect more souvenirs,

Keep away from the balloon, and if pos- sible leave someone on guard to keep others away while you tell the the police or military.

It's a thousand to one, anyway, that troops will have seen it and shot it down and will be hurrying to the spot.

SQUADRON BAG 113

factories for public use, and build IN MONTH

4

concrete.shelters

the

ONE LAF. FIGHTER 'SQUA- DOWN Intertwining Passages: DRON HAS BROUGHT

AT LEAST 113 ENEMY - WAR- Finsbury will use the spaces: PLANES IN A MONTH. A under buildings demolished by This was revealed with the announcement that its comman- enemy action, an official said.

"Every person in the borough der Squadron-Leader RAGI Kel- will be provided with sleepinglett, has been awarded the D.S.O.

He won the DEC. Inst month. shelter accommodation.

"Each shelter will have many; The official, account of his dc- reinforced concrete partitions tion- says that he has "built up experience has, taught us that} and trained his personnel to such "this lowers the number of cas fine fighting pitch that 173 enemy ualties, for even in cases of aircraft have been destroyed in direct hits, only that part of the one month with few. casualties to shelter to receive the bomb and the squadron." blast suffers.” The special shelters for per- sons suffering, from contagious diseases, such as measles and heavy colds will be bullt on the moze system.

Squadron-Leader Kellett's' home is at Tadcaster, Yorks.

so on from property damaged by enemy action.

Intertwining passages, with peo- Existing shelters will be healed ple sleeping in bunks, will pre- and ventilated and sanitation pro- vent diseases from spreading. vided. There will be regular ins- Both Finsbury and Wandsworth|pection by the local medical officer will use all serviceable bricks and I of health.

"SURGING SPIRIT" OF

LONDON TOLD IN FILM

BY OUR FILM CORRESPONDENT

AN ELOQUENT tribute to the people of London is paid by Quentin Reynolds, London war correspon- dent of the American journal, Collier's Weekly, in a short film called "Britain Can Take It.".. Many people consider. It odd To appreciate its force one must which rains down constantly. that in times like the present there visualise an accompaniment of Brokers, clerks, pedlars, merchants are men who can "think of no- children sleeping, searchlights by day they are heroes by night. thing better than digging up and guns in action, n bomb burst-The clear signal shakes ruins." Sir Flinders would replying thunderously.

don raises her head,

man.

goes ontuAG

that when one has spent a life-These are not Hollywood sound the debris of the night. time delving into past ages, the effects," says Mr. Reynolds in his from her hair and takes events, of a particular year or two commentary. This is the music stock of the damage done. The are seen in a perspective greatly they play every night in London sign of a great Bghter in the different from that of the ordinary the symphony of war." He ring is: Can he get up from the

floor after being knocked down?" In spite of his age he is nearly any of the people at whom 83Sir Flinders still follows the routine he has observed since his students diys. It is to live in lonely places, dig up the past and reconstruct the way of life as it was lived four thousand years ago.

you are looking now are mem bers of the greatest. civilian armý ever assembled.

Nightly Siege “Soon the nightly battle

e's Army of V

Writing In The Desert London will be on us. The Pegs

Since 1874 he has published

almost yearly, a series of books on

the most obscure and erudite pro-

the ones wh 'this war.

blems of pre-cléssical, antiquity, the air-raid: wardens, His fame among scholars, is justly unice d fabulous.

And

has

He was once asked how he man- banshee. -ared without a ref

When he was wri

the wall

rightly sle gun, No ha: people: Bombs have

Morale Higher

“London does this every mori -ing

"To-day the morals at the peo ple

every before.

thousands:

stand up. hanakheel

nd::ot..

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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 28, 1940.

RAID CHAOS WIDESPREAD IN REICH HER LIFE

CHAOS CREATED IN GERMANY BY R.A.F. RAIDS, NOW TOLD IN FULL FOR THE FIRST TIME, IS WIDESPREAD IN BERLIN AND EVERY TOWN WHERE THERE ARE MILITARY OBJEC- TIVES. DELAYS IN RAIL TRAVEL ARE LONG. ONE-DAY JOURNEYS NOW TAKE THREE DAYS. CANAL TRANSPORT IS SIMILARLY DISLOCAT- ED.

Grain, oil and food ships have been hit. Fires started by the R.A.F. have burnt for hours. Neutral observers, on leaving Germany, express admiration for the accuracy of British pilots' aim.

"From these reports and others now received," it was stated in London, it is clear that the Fuch- rer, by expressing a wish that all signs of bombing should be moved as quickly as possible has set workmen a difficult task,

"It is unlikely to be carried out to his full satisfaction."

War Works Hit

In Berlin several war factorles were partially wrecked.

Fire almost destroyed the General Post Office.

Some of the city's main works are badly damaged.

gas

The blaze started by R.A.F bombers in aut attack on the Lehrter railway station and goods yards burned for many hours.

Damage done at the Portsdamer and Anhalter stations combined with that inflicted on other im- portant lines. of communication outside the city, seriously affect- ed the German transport system.

One traveller setting out from Berlin for a town in the Rhine- land had to spend three days in- slead of twelve hours.

Canals Damaged

Traffic on the Mittelland Canaf was interrupted for five days after the destruction of two sluice gates

On the Dortmund-Emis Canal the cast wall immediately north of the old aqueduct has been brok- en; there are two fresh bomb crat- erg on the east embankinent; barges and harbour and loading installations damaged.

Damage done to the petrol and synthetic oil plants at Politz, near Stettin, has been confirmed.

On the night of October 2 a large ship fully loaded with grain received a direct hit, caught fire and was still burn- ing two days later.

At Hamburg five ships were sunk in the harbour.

Great industrial plants over a wide area, of Germany have been severely punished.

The large aluminium works at Bitterfeld, it is stated, were closed for some weeks after a heavy raid.

Observers report, too of the value of the R.A.F.'s determined attacks on the invasion ports,

One report states that on Sep- tember 16 many German troops were embarked, but were later taken off the ships.

Invasion. plans were not adopt- ed because of the sustained of- fensive by the R.A.F:

BOY KING INSULTED BY IRON GUARDS

TRAVELLERS FROM BUCH-

· AREST, "RUMANIA, DESCRIBED HOW THE YOUNG KING MI- CHAEL HAD HIS FIRST BRUSH WITH LEGIONARIES OF THE IRONT GUARD THE NAZI-

· INSPIRED FABCIST ANET ANTIC: JEWISH I

WHIL

visiting the mountafri arywa

SAVING BOMBED

FURNITURE

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore (C. Ayr Burghs) is to ask the Minister of Health if a per- son whose house has been ruined as a result of enemy action, and who sees his furniture amongst the debris, is entitled to salvage pieces.

He says that "much of this fur- niture, when salvaged by a de- molition squad, remains on the pa-

BEGAN

AT 70

Life began at 70 for Adeline Reynolds, of San Francisco. At that age she graduated at the Uni- versity of California.

She is a widow and had worked hard to educate her four children. Then she thought it was time to educate, herself.

Now on her 80th birthday, after completing a course in dramatics, she has become a film star.

She has signed a film contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at salary of £125 a week in a pic- ture with Hedy Lamarr and James

Stewart.

Mrs. Reynolds has not yet de- cided what she will do next.

vement for days and seriously de- teriorates." He asks the Minister to make better arrangements.

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