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SHOWING TO-DAY
PATROL IN QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA At 2.30, 5.15, 7.8 & 9.30
LIKELY LINE OF US. NAVAL ALLIED ADVANCE
THE LIKELY LINE of advance of the Bri- -tish and Free French Forces in Syria is the most natural one along the coast road through Saida or Beirut, it was stated in Cairo yesterday.
It is known the French have some blocks on the road but it is uncertain whether these are real military obstacles or merely traffic control blocks such as were well known to those travelling in France in wartime.
The French in Syria were deprived of many of their wea- pons by the Armistice Commis- sion but it is known they havej some tanks and armoured .cors.
Important thing, however, is not armaments but the reaction of the population and of the French troops,
We Shall Have Them
CARIBBEAN
[SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL")
The U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, revealed yesterday that the United States has an agreement for a daily
plane naval warship and aero- patrol in the French islands of Mar- tinique and Guadeloupe.
The U.S. Navy also has an ob- server stationed at Martinique, he added.
Replying to શ letter from Senator Mead, of New York, urging United States acquisition of French possessions in the General de Gaulle's proclama-western hemisphere, Mr. Hull tion says: "Offices, N.C.O.'s said the State Department was soldiers, sailors and airmen of "giving full and careful consider- the Levant, now Is the hour to ation" to problems presented by retume the fight for the libera- French possessions in the western tion of France.
hemisphere.-International News
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General Service.
The advance has been followed i
have appointed by the issue of a number of Catroux representative and Com- proclamations, namely one frommander-in-Chief of French forces General de Gaulle to the French in the Levant, You are to forces in the Levant, another from obey his orders. General Wavell to the French
This time forces and two from General them' and France shall win the Catroux to the troops and people' war. A bientot (So-long)." of the Levant, respectively.
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A new daily programme
Thailand listeners, Rangoon for which began on Saturday evening, has envoked considerable inter- est in Thailand,
The programme was inaugur- ated by a message from Premier Usaw, followed by Sir
Joseph
Maung Gyi, ex-Acting Governor of Burma and at present President of the Senate, states a Reuter message from Rangoon,
"Thailanders felt themselves spiritually drawn closer to Burma when for the first time Burma sent greetings across the ether," it was stated in Bangkok.
"Both Premier Usaw's and Sir Joseph Maung Gyi's message,em- phasise the racial, cultural specially religious affinities, deeply impressed listeners, recall- ing the latter's former association with Chieng Mai where he resid- ed for 10 years.”—Rcuter.
and
and
NEW PORT AT ANGOLA
IT
WAS ANNOUNCED IN LISBON YESTERDAY THAT A NEW PORT WHICH IS TO BE CONSTRUCTED AT LUANDA, CAPITAL OF ANGOLA, WILL BE ONE OF THE FINEST ALONG THE WHOLE AFRICAN COAST.
The port will be built by Anglo- Dutch Engineering and Oil Warks, Ltd.
yards
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feet, draught-Reuter.
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Daphne Du Maurier's Gripping Novel;
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君麗孟“THE GOLDEN HOAX"
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