1947-12-25 — Page 5

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TO-DAY

QUEEN'S

5

SHOWS

TO-DAY

EXTRA PERFORMANCE AT 11.30 A.M.

Wishing Att Our Patrons And Friends A MERRY CHRISTMAS

From the land of joy and romance to

the "laughing place" of your heart!

MISHRUTED AF

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SONG

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TECHNI COLOR

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with

MUTH WARRICK LUOTLE WATSON - HATITE MCDANIA JAMES BASKETT = LBANA PATTEN • EQUST ERISCOLL

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Pletüre al

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GARY COOPER

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1947.

CHINA'S SECRET POLICE

Shanghai Seizure In Broad Daylight Weakness In New Constitution

Shanghai, Dec. 24.

In Shanghai a couple of weeks ago a well dressed youth walking along the famed Bund was stopped in broad daylight by a couple of un- identified men, hustled into an automobile un- der protest and driven away. Nothing has been hurd from, snatched him since.

His kidnappers, everyone pears to ogrer, were government secret servicemen,

of

out of p crowd en Broadway in midday,

In the little Xiangst ຕງ.

town (Chungshan an old woman, mother of the not:rious Tai Li, long head of China's Secret Service who met his death two years ago in

The incident was one of the boldest strokes of these under ground agents in recent months.ng air crash, aske It is as though an American were

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"The pick of the pictures/*

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M&M's PRIZE PICTURE IN TECHNICOLOR

The Yearling

GREGORY

JAHE

PECK-WYMAN

A CLARENCE

BROWN

PRODUCTION

no

Gift To Hospital

London. Dec. 23. An anonymous gift of £5,000 in memory of Mr. A. Simpson Smith, who lost his life werving the Royal Army Medicat Corps in North Africa in 1942, has been re- ceived by the London Uni- versity to establish a lec- tureship at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, where Mr. Smith Was former surgeon-Reuter.

plaintively. Stassen

Accuses Democrats

"When will my son come home,'

The old lady has been spared the shock of knowing he longer lives. Generals, former Associates, regularly write her o letter in ble name to tell her he la busy with important business In the capital.

Washington. Dec. 23.

Truman Signs Money Bill

Washington, Dec. 23. President Truman

signed here today the United States appropria- tion bill providing $522,- 000,000 emergency aid to France, Italy and Aus- tria.

The measure, passed in the clos- ing hours of the special ression of Congress last Friday, also ap propriates $18,000,000 for China rellef,

The only important modification In the plans for stop-gan aid bas been caused by the $57,000,000- cut in the original request of Pre-

These two incidents-unimpor- Harold E. Stassen. President Truman, upon which Con- and taken alone-are reasons denial candidate, today accus- grass Insisted. why the Chinese public regarded the Administration of de- Decisions on where the pro-

with

cerned.

apathy tomorrow's pro- clamation of a new Chinese con- liberately withholding pertinentrom is to be further "shay-

ed" will not be made without con- į stitution.

information regarding opera- Arst 21 Though its

articles tlons of "Government insiders" sultation with the countries con- guarantee in categorical terms in commodity markets.

The post-UNRRA relief pra freedom and rights of the indi-

The Republican Presidential gramme has provided shipments vidual, the Shanghai kidnapping sepirant issued П statement to Italy and Austria through De- -multiplied hundred times throughout the nation-and the which said, "The continued de-cember and aid offelais hore nre

now concentrating legend of Tai Li's secret police lay of the Administration shipment.-Reuter. offer little assurance that any reporting operations of insiders thing will be changed After in the commodity market dur Christmas Day.

ing 1947 is inexcusable. The Doctor Hau Shih, noted educa-issuance of voluminous reporta tor and former Ambassador lo

.in

on

January

"PEOPLE'S" CONGRESS

Duesseldorf. Dec. 23.

iri and other left-wing repre- sentatives meeting in Dues- seldorf today decided to sum- man

the United States, told the Asso-by the Administration of nor- clated Press that China will have mal grairi trading on October Two hundred Ruhr Commun- no real democracy as long as the 31, 1947 and October 31, 1946 secret police system continues, a and the withholding of precise hangover of the Kuomintang's information requested for weeks early adoption of the Soviet is obviously for the purpose of

"people's congress" for Russinn one Party form of

confusion and distraction." The British zone of the province government-Associattd Press,

Stussen said the people will of Nerth Rhine Westphalia in demand, specific answers and Duesseldorf on Jun 27 "to "will not be focleg by showers} fight against the attempts to of irrevelant statistics.”—Unit-} form a Western German state.”

-Reuter, ed Press.

Congress

CLAUDE JARMAN, JR. as "JODY" Warning

CLEM BEVANS · MARGARET WYCHERIY FORKEST TUCKER

NEXT CHANGE "THE BEGINNING OR THE END"

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IT'S THE MUSICAL SWEETHEART'

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BETTY

GRABLE

ROBERT

YOUNG

ADGLINE

MENJOU

Sweet Rosie O'Grady

Technicolor,

"With

REGINALD 'GARDINEE VIRGINIA GREY PFEL KRZAN

Washington, Dec. 23. Chairman Charles A. Eaten. of the House Foreign Affairy Committee. today expressed dunbt that Congress will au- therise President Truman's full $17,000,000,000 European covery programme.

re-

He thought the President hyn visked too much in his requiest to cover the first 15 months of

he four-year programme.

-fle favours that Congress) should adopt the "general ob „jectives" of the plan, but on a

vear-to-year basis.

Rep. Eaton ruid: "I think the President is adopting well-known and consistently practised American principle of asking for more than you can get"United Press.

London Railways Xmas Activity

London, Dec. 23. London's main line station was bury today coping with Femecoming troops and other Christmus traffic,

About 20,000 soldiers, sailors and airmen were arriving by or dinary and 15 special furlough irals.

Special forces leave trains from Lancashire, Cheshire and 'North Wales are being run on all LMS Enes and 11 arrived at Euston and Saint Pancras today. At Waterloo 28 troop specials are expected during the day and tomorrow. Reuter.

Budapest, Dec. 23. Hungary has negotiated a cul- tural pact with Poland, it was karned hero today.

A delegation will visit Budapest on January 20 to algn on Poland's behalf.Reuter.

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A GAL IN CALICO

OH, BUT I DO

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JACK CARSON

JANIS PAIGE MARTHA VICKERS

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DONALD WOODS and

CARMEN

CAVALLARO

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Errol FLYNN. * Olivin DeHAVILLAND in "THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON"

"JANE"

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TAYLOR ·

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