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Walter PIDGEON

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Roddy McDowall

"HOW GREEN WAS

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· THE CHINA-MAIL,-TUE SDAY, MARCH 18, 1947.

SOUTH-WESTERLY GALE

HITS SOUTHERN ENGLAND

Loudon, Mar. 16.

Sweeping over the Atlantic, a south-west gale with gusts of hurricane force struck the south- west and south coasts of England tonight. Trees_were_uprooted, roofs were stripped of slates. and tiles and fences and hoardings flattened as gusts of more than 110 kilometres an hour hit towns and villages.

The dagger from rivers in, noon temperature reached 66 flood futaified as the wind degrbes--the highest for two National Fire whined the swirling waters | months the

formed and below. Windor the Thames Service.

to combat Hitler's Aru raids burst its banks at Dalehel,"

Cin fit! capital, today rescued maroon- ed householders and pumped water from flnnded basements.

Water poured through the breach and my families were sendered homelera.

Still Rising

Th Fiver in two metres above ml at Windsor. where the worst floods incr

In the cast, where flooding 1894, are being experienced.

of filter buds disrupted water) Meanwhile, rapidly laing supply that millions of Lon- floods and threat of further | doners relied un, emergency. torrential rain marked the first | supplies were brought in from day of “Sommer

Time"

outside. The Water Béard ny-; Bantal forlay. -

peated for a great feet of 768 water tankers with capacity of 100.000 gallons, and the Beat; 400 of these are expected to be concentrated tonight,

Houses Collapse

in

While new still cut off Scot- and from England by rond in the north, in the Midlands and South the highest-temperatures for two months, after a night of ames and rain, threw fresh bordship on people suffering front the worst winter of the Ferntary

Acres great stretches of in- undated country men, women

Atel children fled to upper rooms of their homes to escape swirling waters, or evacuated altogether s weath or even whole houses, collapsed.

!

In some places, such as Beddi ford, where waters love sube] Sided, householders spent Sun- ! day morning digging mud from their living rooms.

Twn at the worst fonded areas today were the Thames Valley and the feuland of Nor- folk and the Isle of Bly.

In London, where the after.

HE

AT 2.30, 520,

NEW GOVERNOR Marshall

IN SUDAN

London, Mur 16.

The Government_have_re- rummanded Sir Robert Howe ne quercians to Sir Habert Muddlenton

Governor-

General of the Sadan, it was officially announced tonight.

Says 'No' To Molotov

Moscow, Mar. 16.

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The United States' Sec- tetary of State, General George Marshall, tonight Hiformed the Soviet For-

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April

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Sir Robert

ritici Minister in Abyaninis fro 1942 to 1945-Reuter.

SYDNEY GIRLS

AMAZE THE

in London by U.S. NAVY

Conservatory

The Thames Bourd said today that the river Flands in many places were equal to, or worse than, the great foods of 1929, and the river is still rising.

Sydney, Mar. 17. United States naval officers from Admiral Richard Byrd's Antarctic exprițition saidl are amazel at the way in whi ha Sydney girls have been throw {ing, themselves" at the Ameri

a413.

eign Minister, M. Molo-Marine Flier" (Omits Colombo & Cochin).. Mareli SS Mount Mansfield"" tov that he was unwill-55 Marine Leopard" ing to take part in any conference (H) China

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March

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of written Information out clitna before – Aprit Twitt copies to be furnished

the Chinese Government.

The text of General Morsball'; . jante to M. Molotov says: "I hav

nur letter of March" 11 regavid- ing the matter of excention of the provisions in the Moscow arotoval of December 1915 with

China. When thi

with

}

motion was used by you in the Comeil of Foreign Ministers state that I would be pleased t In the low-lying Pan country

esange

you end Mr. Bevin, while I am in Moscow, a the already critical situation i made worse because tugs and Police explained the rash by declaration setanding China. This barges carrying clays to stop saying that it had been report-1 will do but I do not think it breaches in the banks cannoted that the men carried as much however informal."--Reuter. get under the "bridges.--Reuter.as about $1000 (250) on them.

New York, Mur. 17 In its largest Friday to Fridas gain sine ad Becentbor, the Associated Press composite of 3% wholesale commodity prices con-

destrable for

Conference

to spend in Sydney in about six) days leave.

New York, Mar. 17. United Police and

States'

Tay Texae, Company and sub- shore patrols are en-operating, sidiaries. including there to protect the men from rucku-, Europe, reported a 1946 profit of teers, Unite of the exprolition 571,089,287.080 equal to 86,32 have arrived in Sydney For L chase as compared with $181 pro-}

viously. Assoclâted Press,

tinued it 4 seven week upturn brief visit-Assueluted Press Friday, touching a record high of 182.75 compared with 179.03 - werk ago and 115.27 a year ago.

Associated Press.

CENTRAL

HSASAR

5 SHOWS DAILY

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FLAMES OUT

RANGE WAR

Scrap And Steel Prices Still Boiling

Cleveland, Mar. 17.

MAJESTIC

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The crap and steel pricv sites- to continue to buil Nad tar Magazine Steel, but a “Jorand and supply balance is expected to Z be struck must steel jendarts by midsumme

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