1941-06-02 — Page 4

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IT'S A BUSINESS LOVE-DEAL!

And what they did to him

is nobody's business!

ROSALIND

BRIAN

RUSSELL AHERNE

·VIRGINIA BRUCE

Hired Wife

ROBERT

JOHN

BENCHLEY CARROLL

ANAUGH&Richard LANE

Produced and Directed by WILLIAM A. SEITER

Bosed on an Original Stary by George Berk Szpine by RICHAP, CONNELL, GLADYS LEMMAN Associate Producer GLENN TRYON A UNIVERSAL PICTURE

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MIGHTY ADVENTURE ROARS OUT OF THE WEST!

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A love forged in gun- fire and the desert's blazing sun...to rank among the few immor- tal screen romances!

Wesley Ruggles ARIZONAI JEAN ARTHUR WILLIAM HOLDEN:

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WARREN WILLIAM PORTER HALL And A Cost Of Thousands

Based on the Saturday Evening Post serial and novel b. Corunce Budingran Kulland

IM WESLEY RUGGLES - A Columbia Picture

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"MEXICAN SPITFIRE OUT WEST"

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Ablaze with adventure! Bursting with melody! Tender with romance on golden wings of song! The screen's wonderful sweethearts in their finest

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MARY BOLAND • GEORGE ZUCCO

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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 2, 1941.

AMERICAN MINISTER FOILS THREAT TO BRITONS

AN INCIDENT OCCURRED DURING THE REBEL OCCUPATION OF BAGHDAD WHICH SHOWED THE REBELS INTENDED TO USE BRITISH REFUGEES QUARTERED IN THE AMERICAN LEGATION AND THE BRITISH EMBASSY AS HOSTAGES TO ENSURE THE IMMUNITY OF BAGHDAD FROM BOMBING.

Five hundred Britishers who remained in Baghdad after the women and children had been evacuated on April 28 were instructed to seek refuge at the British Embassy or the American Legation.

After the outbreak of VETERAN

hostilities the rebel For-

eign Ministry instructed AIR HERO

the American Minister.

Mr. Paul Knabenshue, to DECORATED

hand over all Iraq sub- jects employed

at the

All-weather Mac, who

HIGH MASS

IN RUINED CATHEDRAL

Within blackened fire- scarred walls which pointed upwards to dull sky, Pontifical High Mass was celebrated by Arch- bishop Amigo, Catholic Bishop of Southwark, in the ruins of his diocesan Cathedral of St. George yesterday, Whit Sunday.

of

the

A Pentecostal gathering parishioners" of Some 700 diocese knelt before a make-shift altar erected on a platform in the centre of the wrecked Nave the left of a temporary. Bishop's throne.

1,

The Cathedral, which was burn-

of the

wreckage, but

of the

sented a desolate spectacle act

the Nazi roid.

Legation as the Legation made the record flight Led out and wrecked during il might be bombed within between Berlin and Lon-recent raid, has been cleared

600 miles must don in 1928 an hour.

The rebels said the British con- in four and a half hours wal's and side chapels still pre- mander at Hebbanșah had senti has been awarded the eloquent testimony to the fury of

'matum that unless the trag my withdrew 2 23

the viny Air Force Cross at the age of Hubbaunyah the British would;

Mass was fully of forty-six.

Choral and a beund Goverment buildings 121

This man of many adventures the organ had also been destroy- Barbad

is ed in the raid, the choir the air The rebels said they

the sen and in threaterine Flight Lieutenant Robert Henry, "helped out" by a little harmon ultimatum Counter that the British earned out tiej Melniosh, a Londoner, of the Re-ium, and responses to the Gloria

and Credo ring

mory cut will threat all British subjects a serve of Air Force Officers,

though the than usual fervour absence of a rost meant also the absence of rehn.

t

Baghdad would Lur bomber wherever they were found.

As all British subjects were at the British Embassy and the American Legation, it was ob viously intended to bomb those buildings.

U.S. Minister's Defiance

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At the height of the crisis refugees were ordered to leave the American Legation as prison- ets of war, in order to avert the bombing of the Legation, but M Knabenshue refused thereby en1- dangering his own lite.

An anti-climax came an hen later when the rebels instructed A Knabenshur to hand ov, tiv refugees for internment as prison- ers of war

Later this instruction was rali- velled

on the ground that thr Traqis must first prepare a suit- able internment camp.

In the end the refugees staved at the Embassy and the Legation.

where they spent a month sleep-

u on inattresses on the floor.

MR. KNABENSHUE'S AR-1

began when His adventurca he was apprenticed to the Mer. chant Service at fourteen. Soon afterwards he won the Bronze Medal of the Royal Humane Society by rescuing a drowning man from sharks.

In 1914 he became a dispatch rider in France, in 1917 he joined the R.F.C. and in 1918 became a lieutenant in the R.A.F.

In 1829 he married Miss Betty Ansell, whom he met on a cross- Channel liner,

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The century-old Cathedral has ever before been the scene Mass in such unusual not to say tragic circunstances but the gra- tifying attendance of the faithful. who number some of the poorest of London's poor, is a happy augury of their determination to raise somehow the £100.000 nged- St ed to rebuild their beloved George's.- Reuter,

She Got Him

Leave To Wed

(By A Special Correspondent) “YOUR GIRL has been writing to me again—I think you'd better go home and marry her.”

That is what the commanding officer told RANGEMENTS WERE VERY twenty-nine year-old Andy Byrne, gunner with EFFICIENT AND HE WAS VERY Wavell's victorious Army in the Western Desert.

POPULAR WITH THE RE- FUGEES. THE DAY THEY WENT TO THE

He

And so Andy has come back through the desert battles. CELLARS. England to marry the girl he had kept it with her photograph, next THINKING THEIR LAST DAY to part from on their wedding, to his heart.

But when Andy came home HAD COME, THEY SANG "FOR eve last July.

At her home at College Road, Greta had to tell him that her HE'S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW."

Epsom, Surrey, his bride-to-be, younger sister, who was to have --REUTER.

twenty-seven-year-old Greta bern chief bridesmaid, had died

the Nolan, unpacked

wedding suddenly. dress over which she had wept last summer when her flance was sent abroad.

71, TO WED BACHELOR, 66

A seventy-one-year-old widowed mother of nineteen children, and a sixty-six-year-old bachelor are to be married.

In The Desert

that

it was Greta who persuaded the Army to grant Andy leave. Three times she wrote a par. sonal letter to his Command- ing Officer, appealing so he could wed on the thirteenth anniversary of his enlistinent. Mr. Marston died eight years ago. He and Mr. Pegg, both house painters,

They are Mrs. Annie Marston, and Mr. William George Pegg, of

Fulham. Hartopp Avenue.

The ring which Andy will place

were workmates, and thirty years on Greta's finger went with him

ago Mr. Pegg, became a lodger in

the Marston's house.

"He was an orphan and hadn't

a soul in the world, so I used to

look after him." Mrs.

Marston

said. "Now he thinks he ought to look after me."..

UNDERGROUND CANTEEN

An underground shelter equip ped with 500 bunks and a can

teen, to be managed by the

Y.M.C.A., has been opened by the Mayor of Lambeth,

w

Fourth Time

"I shall never forget the Army's kindness lo us," Greta, manageroes of a cinema cafe, "Andy told the "Daily Mirror." and I have been sweethearts since childhood.

"He wired me saying he was coming horne, but I shall always remember his voice over the phone saying he had arrived. Three times he had put up the banns. This is the fourth time."...

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