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What happens when a family. Gods killer in its fold? What happens when country kidi ara thrown into the tentment? Haz- ing questions answered by horse-and-buggy doctor of the pavements in the most exciting picture of the year!

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KANE RICHMOND

JUNE GALE

AMANDA DUFF EDWARD NORRIS

HENRY ARMETTA FRANK REICHER

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CHAMP

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CONSTANCE MOORE

WILLIAM TRAWLEY DONALD BRIGGS SAMUEL S. HINDS

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Directed by P BCZEM = have. Prod KURT FELAT

-KAY-KYSER ADOLPHE MENJOU in

"That's Right, You're. Wrong"

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DRAMATIC FIREBRAND...

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KAISER'S ARMY MARCH IN

LET HIM NOT

BOAST.

PARIS. JITLER'S boasts of how he will dominate Enrope he made them to a Nazi Guulalter (dis- triel lenders)~~are told in Havas despatch from the Ger- man frontier.

A

The Gauteller, who attended the Berlin conference last month' when Hitler gave the order to attack Briain, according to lils message, wrote down these sentences spoken by ler:-

"Now I shall conquer France and Britain. After this victory shat drive Russia back beyond the Urals, and then I shall build a German Reich ner and greater than it has ever been in history." Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. Kings 20, XI,

ANOTHER

RAIDER "SCUTTLED"

January 11,

1940.

MEN

KHAKI NOW

By LOUISE MORGAN

SOMEWHERE IN BRITAIN. TO-DAY I have seen, swinging smartly along a coun- try lane, the first “refugee regimént” to march on British scil.

Their colonel bears a name illustrious in British his- Their marching song is "Tipperary." Their corporals have risen fom their own ranks.

tory.

The spectacle of soldiers marching is such a common one now- adays that fewer than half a dozen people must have watched them go by: but I was deeply moved because I felt I was seeing a legend of the future coming to life-the legend of British Army men forged in the fires of persecution

Three hundred passed, and others would have been there had other uniforms arrived in time.

Pride and an almost fanaticnl de- on their were written termination

face,

Messages

For Enemy

Countries

Most of them are in their twenties raw recruits who have everything to learn. But some fought on the German side in the last war, and the exact precision of their bearing wan Jeloquent of the military traditions of

PEOPLE with civilian rein- the Kaiser's Army.

tives living in belligerent coun- them short recently tries may send evidence, given Their before Tribunals in different centres

messages about family affairs. throughout the country, has

This has been arranged bɔ- dramntle corroboration to the Govern-

the International Red ment White Paper. This "regiment" tween

Cross Committee at Geneva and the British, French and Germanz

-BACK TO PORTim

Passage Through

Danish Waters

lent

be the source of some of the most poignant human norralives of the war when its story can finally be

written.

Branded Bodies

censors,

The scheme, which applies also territories occupied by a belligerent |

Is already operating in the Stale, London and Outer London artus.

Arrangements will be made as soon as possible in the provinces.

Messages, to be treated like tele- grams, will be received at Citizens' Advice Bureaux at a charge of 7d.

each.

1 caught smiles of recognition, for The German "pocket battle had made friends with a number of these soldiers on landing stages or ship" Deutschland, it is believed, at the hostels, training centres and is now in a German naval portfarms up and down the country dur- She reached home by passing ng the past twelve months. through Danish waters.

Their khaki uniforms are new and The Deutschland had not been cover bodies branded with the to- reported since, in company with wrer of concentration camps.

enemy warship. she Typical of the story 'they had told sank the British Auxiliary was that of a Marhem arehis

lish. teet, who was a commissioned office cruiser Rawalpindi to the south In the Kaiser's Army, east of Iceland on Nov. 23.

Another

lle inst by chance in London a

She must have left Geman waters British, Army captain who had taiten; over two extatis ago, as the sink shelter in the same shell-hole in No- the Brited 2, Stonegate in the North Man's Land during the Battle of the Allanim, 500 miles from the const of Sammie. Florida, on Oct. 5, Between then arti

Both were seriously wounded and? Oct. 15 the salt a Norwegian strame,could burely crawl. "He was worse the Lorentz W. llansen; and soft than 1. said the refugee, "but he tured the American ship City

Plint, which was subsequently re-ve me a drink before I lost con

We had not seen each leased on entering a Norwegian portiousness.

other stace that moment, but we This is not a very wonderful re-i cord for a ship specially designed Tur recognised each other at once."

and costing commerre destruction

The men are relotring in the fact £3,750,000 to bulld. Undoubtedly

the German authorities had hoped that the British military cutfit is not mt she wound do more havec, but ersatz This is the first time in years the dispositions of the Itoyni Navy many of them have had real wool on their backs and real leather on have prevented this.

their feet

Helped By Darkness

They must be limited to 20 words and can be necepted only if they del

to relatives. with purely family news and are sent Messages can be accepted In Eng-

French or German.

Maurice Tate As Witness

Maurice Tate, the former Sussex and, England cricketer, gave evidence at Lewes Assizes recently ha an RC-

tion by a boy whose skull was fine- tured during a school game.

The boy, John Alfred Terence Bar- foot, 11, of Stafford-road, Seaford, sued the East Sussex County Council. It had been alleged that in a garne at Seaford Boys School between the school XI. and 17 Juniors the master

in charge placed Barfoot at silly mid- jon, described by counsel as the most

dangerous place in the fleld. Not For The Front

Barfoot gave evidence that he was That the Deutschland should have:

the deep field and succeeded in getting back in not sur Their personnel is typical of the ward to fciding prising when it is realised that in the thousands of refugees to whom this bad never felded close to the bats- waters around Iceland there are not country has given asylum from Nazi man. "I didn't like Bellug there" represent practically he said. "A ball just missed my head more than four hours of daylight in, terror. They the-is-me-of-year. With every known trade and profession before the accident happened." some luck in the shape of fog there bakers, bankers, lawyers, bucklayers-in-his-evidence Tote gave his is little to prevent a ship creeping musicians, professors, sculptors, co-opinion that it was "suielde" to place

Joiners,

Jewellers, ductors, inexperienced boys within 10 yards along the Norwegian coast without blers.

woodcarvers, foresters, Inbourers and of the wicket. With 15 or 16 boys being observed.

felding it was more dangerous. Meanwhile it is learnt that the others. Gerinan merchant vess, Windhuds, All have been given full exemption 16,012 tons, equipped as a sen raider, under the Allens Tribunals and bear which left Portuguese West Africa the stamp Friendly Alien" on their

uddenly on Nov. 20, has arrived at papers. Santos, Brazil, flying the Japanese Ba. After her arrival the German flag was hobsted and the name "Santos guage, they are being trained under position in which he phet Barfoot,

bows paisted British officers as a unit, fuit inter the boy was not in my danger. Maret on the ship's

FUTURE OF

"I have retreated mang imes when

I have found a bowler has not a very good length." he said.

The master in charge of the game, Mr. G. T. Stevenson, derted that Bar-

At present, due to difficulties of las-foot was in a position which could be

they will join up in the usual way.

Because of the danger of capture

and its inevitable consequences they 'will not be sent to the front line.

SHANGHAI Link With

Shanghai, Jan. 10.

On the eve of his departure from Shanghai, the retiring British Consul- General, Sir Herbert Phillips, made n speech as the guest of honour at a Fathering of the British Chamber of Commerce.

Nurse Cave!!

STATED to be the son of a man who was shot by the Ger- mans as a spy in the last war, (38) "It is not unreasonable to hope Julien Joseph Verbeeck

nt Middlesex Sensions peace can be was that China, If only restored to the Far East, will share sentenced to 12 months' im-

the business prosperity neutrals enjoy at a time when their belligerent neighbours are devoting their productive a large part of capacity to

manufacture of! weapons of war, and by that she will

the

which

prisonment,

Mr. May, who defended him, said: Verbeeck's father Was one of the combination which was in communi- callon with Nurse Cavell. Hts for go for to repair the ravages of the brothers, who fought against last two years," said Sir Herbert. Germans, were killed, and

the was

Sir Robert Calder-Marshall, Chair-left at the age of 13 to supp. hin man of the Chamber of Commerce, mother.

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and Mr. H. G. Woodhead, Chairman "He was brought up with a batred Iributes to Sir Herbert Phillips, after of Germans, which the latter, who is retiring from country,"

the Consular Service, enld that while

and he came to this

Verbeeck was accused with three the outlook in China was still obscure it was noi by any means other men of attempting to steal from without hope. The effects of the a safe in a house from which the European war on Chinh, particularly occupants had been evacuated. on the posillon of British trade in China, had still to make themselves fully felt. He said he was optimistic Smith (32), whom the chairman de- that the general situation in Shang-scribed as the ringleaders, were sen- hai would take a turn for the bolter tenced to two years' hard labour, and rather than worse.

Thomas Nelson (30) to six months.

Sir Herbert declared, "It is with great regret that I leave, when much

James Cardash (35) and

Ernest

till remains to be accomplished and return of the northern district to the when important negotiallons and the control of the Municipal Council disposal of questions vital is the will not much longer be delayed. future of the International Settle-

"I at any rate, An sufficiently ment in Shanghai are In progress. optimistic to till that political"

"You are all aware that the present) negotiallons for a selllement of the conditions here are more likely to improve than ileteriorate always pro- diflcult problem of the Western Divided the various parties concerned trict, which I hope may shortly bear are determined to show goodwill and frult, dira in progress.

have a genuine desire to promote "There is, mareavor, reason to hone international friendship in this great that a solution of the question of the city."-United Press.

described as silly mid-on. In

the

Mr. Justice Humphreys reserved judgment.

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