1941-05-03 — Page 4

SHOWING

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KING S

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Christopher Morley's

Sensational Best-Seller!— GINGER ROGERS

-os America's White-Collar Girl—

Kitty Foyle

DENNIS MORGAN

JAMES CRAIG ◊ Eduardo Clannelli, Ernest Q Cossart, Gladys Cooper

Directed by Sam Wood

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The Natural History Of A Woman

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"QUAIL QUEST"

"JENNIE'

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JEFFREY LYNN

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 3, 1941

ONE OF GREATEST FEATS OF ARMS IN BRITISH HISTORY

GENERAL SIR Thomas Blamey, Deputy INVADED Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, who com-

manded British troops in Greece, has reported BY SHEEP

that the Empire forces before the German at- tack numbered some 55,000 or 56,000, de- clared the Australian Army Minister, Mr. mountain sheep Paul Spender, in Melbourne yesterday.

Mr. Spender added that General Blamey's) generalship was unquestionably one of the areatest feats of arms in British history.

Meanwhile New Zealand losses

in Greece were announced yester - day by the Prime Minister, Mr. Peter Fraser, in Wellington, as between 100 and 200 killed, be- tween 500 and 600 wounded and | 800 missing.

We are in good heart," was the New Zealand message of the Commander-in-Chief. Major -

General Freyberg. V.C., to Mr Fraser.

Mr. Fraser said that except for stragglers the New Zealand diy,-

TRAFFIC IN

STOLEN ARMY

PROPERTY

Trafficking in

stolen

Herdwicks nimbie have been reported to a Gov- ernment department be- cause of their misdeeds.

Thousands of these little uni- mals have been brought down from their fells and mountains in the north of England to graze on pastures near the towns before they find their way to the nation's dinner table.

The sheep are so agile, how- ever, that allotment holders near Barrow-in-Furness, on the edge of the Lake District, are protest- ing that hedges and fences cannot keep them from their crops.

"Herdwicks can leap and climb like goats." Alderman Bram Longstaffe told a reporter, "and a number of allotment holders have protested to our advice

on had been kept intact, carry-Army equipment is re-bureau that crops have been con-

ing out u very difficult role.

Magnificent Stand

of The high opinion New Zealanders' qualities was fully justified.

the

whole Dominion,

garded as a very serious office, an Army officer told the Old Street Magistrate.

sumed by the woolly invaders.

"Fences and hedges are appar- enlly no barrier to these active Ettle chaps, and they can eat up crops like a plague of incusts.

"We have even had them re- ported as entering one of our parks and cleaning up the flo wer beds.

Before the Court was Harold Mr. Fraser has cabled General Taylor (19), described as a but- coverer, of Shorter-court, Freyberg that the information has ton

"This is a problem that may greatly relieved and inspired the S epney, who was charged with be applicable to other parts of the

because possessing a service respirator and country,

thousands of haversack issued for the use of a Herdwicks have been bought up. apparently by a syndicate, and louned to farmers over a wide Magistrate (Mr. F. O.jarea of the north for pas'uring." Langley) said that any person found to be in unlawful possess- sion of Army properly was liable to a $20 fine or six months' im- prisonment, and could be ordered to pay treble the value of the pro. perty,

He added the Government's | soldier. Kratitude and congratulations fer a truly magnifeent stand

The in the face of overwhelming. odds. Reuter.

THIEF AIDED THE HUN

Too Much Trafficking

BIG ADVANCES IN HOME ISSUES

Interest on the London Stock Exchange yesterday shifted to Taylor stu'ed that he was a

home rails. which advanced fire-fighting volunteer, and bought¦ strongly on good demand at. the respirator for 3s. 6d. from "a tributed to unification talk. chap he did not know." The Gilt-edged paused after fur- celtoid on his own mask wasther early gains and closed un- changed to a shade lower. Indus- tria's recorded small scattered Detective Bui'ey said that there¦ra'ns but o`ls tended easier. Dia-

firm side a London house dur- was a lot of this trafficking going monds were

and Koffirs. ing an air raid, people

apart from local buying of non- producers, were cu'el. Foreign

Because thieves stole a broken. civil defence car from out-

1111,

severely injured had to Taylor was remanded on suffer half an hour longer! for two weeks. before they could be given

medical aid.

Though they must have known from the label stuck on the w pdm screen that the car was used(for emergency work,

thidves the drove it away and wrecked it.

The car, which was standing in Lloyds Square, King's Cross, be longed to Mr. C. Troke, assistant Officer for to Finsbury Medical Civil Defence. He had to walk to bombed homes.

"It was lucky there were not a large number of casualties, or the delay might have cost do. zens of lives," he told a repor

"As it was, thirty people had to endure terrible suffor- ing longer than they need have

ter.

done.

"There was a civil defence label on the windscreen of the car. This was born off when the car was found, wrecked, a quarter of a mile away.

"The car is a total loss serious matter when we need all the cars. we can get for civil defence."

FRITZ KREISLER WORSE

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA-MAIL"

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Fritz Kreisler, the vialist, who is suffering from injuries-received in a New York, street accident, has suffered a relapse and is semi- conscious. A hospital' t'bulletin says his condition is "not adgood."

International News Service,

bail, issues were idle. Wall Street was

firmer. Reuter.

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