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THEY'LL SCUTTLE YOUR BLUES TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA!

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Hal Roach

STAN

OLIVER

LAUREL & HARDY SAPS AT SEA

Directed by GORDON DOUGLAS • Released thru UNITED ARTISTS

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THE CHINA MAIL DECEMBER 30, 1940.

Western Desert

Encounter

Air

TWO ITALIAN AIRCRAFT were brought down and five others damaged during an en- counter between R.A.F. fighters and a large formation of enemy bombers escorted by fighters.

Announcing this, R.A.F. headquarters in the Middle East yesterday also said that dur- ing an R.A.F. raid on Tobruk on the night of December 26 fires were started but the full extent of damage could not be observed.

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CHUNGKING

FURTHER

The enemy bombed Sollum but only slight damage was caused.

The successful bombing of Va- lona, on the foreshore of southern Albania, is also reported.

One heavy bomb was seen to explode 50 yards from a large ship but the effect of the other bombs could not be observed. owing to extremely bad ther.

WOR-

All British aircraft returned TO sate y to base.--Reuter.

MEASURES PREVENT HOARDING OF FOODSTUFFS AND OTHER DAILY NECESSITIES FOR THE PURPOSE OF SPECULATION, HAVE BEEN PROMULGATED BY GENERALISSIMO CHIANG

KAI-SHEK.

Shops or individuals hoarding

foodstuffs must sell them prior to January 26. (Chinese New Year

Eve).

If stocks cannot be fully sold out before that date, they must je registered with the government and can continue to be sold after that date.

ATTEMPT TO RAM HEAD-ON

A Junkers B8 pilot became so

GIFT 'PLANE

FROM LOCKHEED FACTORY

A Hudson Bomber named "Spirit of Lockheed and Vego" has just arrived in Bri- tain. It has come from America.

This machine was presented by man- agers and employees of the Lockheed Air- craft Company and -the Vega Aeroplane Company and is o gift to the British na- tion.--British Wire-

less.

viously opened fire and damaged the bomber.

When last seen the bomber was

out.

PEAK THEFTS

desperate after a Blenheim fighter flying slowly, with oil pouring had chased him for over 50 miles that he attempted to ram his pur- suer head-on. Suddenly turning at the end of the chase, he drove his Junkers straight at the Blen- heim. He nearly succeeded, the bomber passing only ten underneath the fighter. will

The Blenheim

Possession of large stocks which have not been registered, after that date, be considered as hearding. Stocks will be confis- cated and the owners court-mar-

ialled,

Government will protect legiti- mate profits for owners who sell or register their stocks. — Centrál News.

B.W.O.F. DONATIONS

Following is the latest list of subscriptions received to date for credit of the British War Organi- sation Fu.id, Hong Kong Branch:-

M. & Mrs. F. C. Hall $1,000; "Dicers" R. H. G. C, S10; "Christ- mas Gifts $100; Charles Pfister $10; T. C. Fairburn (in memory of Capt. R. Allinson) $10; Capi. I. Lossius November $20; "A friend of Miss Evelyn Gray" $25; Kow- loon Docks Recreation Club for St. Dunstans 9th donation $159; Miss M. Wentworth $20; 5. W. P. Perry (Monthly) $25; Hong Kong Office of the Eagle & Globe steel Co., Ltd, $250: anonymous $20; A. Whittaker (Monthly) $5; The Hong Kong Chinese Relief As- sociation per Mr. Ho Kơm Tong $750: "Lost Bet" $10; “Guernsey- man" $10: The Asia Co. $500; Maurice Barton for St. Dunstans $15 and Fanling Club House Gol- fers Christmas Dinner $117.

Total now $823,042,87.

JUMBLE SALE OF HER HOME

One of Goering's tip-und-run heroes dropped a bomb on the house of Mrs. Taylor, in the West Country.

Instead of being dismayed, she promptly held a jumble sale for the benefit of the. Red Cross Penny-a-week Fund.

From the ruins of her home sha calmly retrieved any still recognis- able belongings. The open-air auction fetched £4 for bomb- solled furniture.

When crowds came to look at the ruins Mrs. Taylor picked the few autumn flowers left in her small garden and sold them as souvenirs,

WEATHER REPORT

The Royal Observatory reports that the anticyclone has moved rapidly eastward leaving bridge of high pressure' between Indo- China and Japan and a relatively low area over Manchurit

The French Ambassader to China, M. Henri Cosme, “arrived from Chungking on Saturday and will sall for Shunghal during the next few days

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