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March 19, 1940.

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£400,000 British Film Programme Starts

CINEMA-GOERS FOur Big Pictures

PAY AN-

ENJOYMENT

TAX

CIGARETTES

FOR THE

TROOPS

DATRONS of the State cinema, Sydenham, SE. are paying

a voluntary "enjoyment tax" of one penny every time they go to the pictures.

The proceeds-averaging £25 a week-aro being used to send cigaretics and comforts Lo the troops in France.

every ahiliing

raised through the "enjoyment tax," the

management of the cinema con- tributes a penny.

"We are sending about 100 cigarettes week

A

to every Holdier whose name is handed in,” said the manager.

Will Be Made

This Summer

By A FILM CORRESPONDENT

A BRITISH film-making programme which may cost between £400,000 and £500,000 was announced recently by David Rose, managing director of Paramount in this country, who has returned recently from America.

Four important films are to be produced this summer for world-distribution, and Mr. Rose says his company will not stint money in pursuit of the best possible results. Ono rather disconcerting feature in Paramount's new plans is that Charles Laughton, much publicised some time ago as the prospective wonderful butler, will not now be in the screen version of Barrie's "The Admirable Crichton."

FAMOUS SOLDIER FALLS 50 FEET TO HIS DEATH

LONDON, Mar. 18 (Reuter).-Lieut. General Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston, aged 76, was killed instantaneously when he fell to-day from a 50-foot turret at has house at West Kilbride.

He was in the habit of climbing, this turret for exercise and to see the Firth of Clyde.

Son of Li, Col. Gould Hunter- weston, he was the 26th Laird of Hunterston. Educated at Wellington College, Royal Military Academy,

TAKE and the Staff College, he the army (R. E) in 1884. 1992, Bt. in. fle was promoted "Captain Major in 1895, 11. Lt. Colonel in 1900, Bt. Colonel in 1906, Colonel General

Raid Effects Compared

R.A.F. Exploits More Important

Staff in 1008, Brig. General in 1914,1 LONDON, Mar. 18 (Reuter).The Major-General for distinguished ser- recent activities of the R.A.F. com- vice in the field in 1914, temp. Licul. pare very favourably with those of General In 1915 and Lieut. Generale German equivalent, says the

In 1910.

Brilliant Carcor

"Manchester Guardian."

With regard to the death

Instead, Cary Grant, who wants very much to play the part, will have it if his other comunitments allow. Madeleine Carroll will probably be in this,

It is hoped to bring Laurence Oli- vier back from America to be the Lancelot of an adventure romance based on the story of the Knights of that case Round Table. In the Vivien Leigh is likely to play Guine- A Now Mr. Deeds

vere:

In a third picture, called "What Ho!" which is about a young Ameri- can of British ancestry (a kind of Mr. Deeds, explains Mr. Rose), Bob 14. pe, the British-born Hollywood stor, is mentioned for the central part..

A

fourth picture around the career

WALT DISNEY?

HOLLAND GUARDS HER FRONTIERS

If Holland wants to maintain her neutrality sho must keep a strong guard on her many frontiers in order to forestall any Blitzkrieg,

Her fortifications, which, togather with the well-known' water defences, proteer the country, are manned day and night.

Note the Photo shows a cleverly camouflaged and hidden command post in the dunes.

soldier on top.-Domei.

Clark Gable Has Pay Raised

To £1,000 A Week By Studio

By PAUL HOLT

LUCKIEST MAN in the

of Barney Barnalo may have Anton world is Clark Gable, Gilm Walbrook as Barney-which suggests star. either the glamourising of him or the unglamourising of the good-looking Mr. Walbrook.

In California, where the sun

Mr. Rose is being followed to Eng-s shining, his boss, Louis Burt land by his wife and baby. His is Mayer, sent for him and told the first baby to be given a permit to him that he was tearing up-his- travel here from America in war-old contract, worth £800 a week,

of a Ume.

He served in the Miranzai Expedi- civilian, and the slight damage done tion in 1891, Waziristan in 1894 (com-to a warship in Saturday's rald on manding Bengal Sappers and Miners Scapa Flow, the paper says that the on Sir W. Lockhart's staff), Dongola German claims are as fantastle us

In 1800 ns ustunl. Expeditionary Force Special Olleer on Kitchener's Stait,

bases.

That raid did little to compare with and through the Boer War. He was the R.A.F. raits of the German naval

the operations round present at Colesberg, the actions nt Dekiel's Drift and Klip Drift Relief of Kimber- ley, and other famous actions.

He passed through the Boer Army and cut the rallway north of Bloem- rolling much fontein (capturing stuck and preventing Joubert rein- forcing Bloemfontein) and comniand- dave other cavalry raids during the

advance to Pretoria.

The Germans have not yet found! It possible to launch any alr action comparable to the R.A.F. attacks on Wilhelmshaven and Brunsbuttc), when several direct tits were made an a pocket battleship from height of several hundred feet.

mentioning

After

Allies And U.S. Planes

R.A.FMr.

Negotiations Still Proceeding

and giving him a new one at £1.000 A WEEK FOR THE NEXT SEVEN YEARS. That means £381.000 Gable's bunk,

31

Mr.

He gets this reward for consistent service with a twisted smile and a sense of humour, coupled with know. Hedge of how to be masculine in all

clrcumstances on the screen,

the

free-lancea.

His salary goes up while the salary of every other fim star in Hollywood WASHINGTON, Mar. 18 (Reuter) goes down. other

U.S. Henry Morgenthau,

The big money - carners of the attacks on Borkum (mine-laying and Secretary of the Treasury, deni diserten for the past two years have sen-plane bases), Helgoland (on

Claudette reports that negotiations between the been Ile was mentioned in despatches, concentration of warships when

Anglo-French Purchasing Board and Colbert earned £75,000 last year, with seven clasps.lt on a cruiser given

a medal

was made),

Colman, the Amertens aeroplane manufacturers Fredric March, Ronald awarded the D.S.O. and made Brevet "Manchester Guardian" says that the had been suspended.

Churles Boyer have earned £60,000 Licut. Colonel,

Nazi raid on Scapa Flow chiefly con- He declared that negotiations were a year and more, going to the highest He was a General Staff Officersisted of dropping bombs on open Eastern Command from 1904 to 1908, moorland, and, with the exception of still proceeding as for as he knew bidder. They have made Mr. Gable and that they would not be affected and the other big contract stars look Chief General Staff Officer Scottish seven Naval casualties, with very

by the forthcoming Congressional like penny-a-liners. Command 1908-11, Assistant Director little other result.

enquiry into foreign purchases of Ofee, of Military Treining, War

aircraft.

GIVE ME THE CHILDREN!

Great War Record During the European War, he com- manded the 11th Infantry Brigade of the 4th Division in France and He August 1914. Flanders from commanded the 29th Division at the landing at Cape Helles, Dardanelles, on April 25, 1915, for ad temporary which he was promoted Lleut, General in May of the same year to command 8th Army Corps at LONDON, Mar. 18 (Reuter).-In Dardanelles and subsequently in the House of Commons to-day, Mr.

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Hitler Starts To Educate” Polish Kiddies

But the day war broke out the The reports are also discounted by salaries of the big free-lances were cut in half. Where they earned the British Purchasing Commission. £30,000 for one film, their price is

Neverthelss some observers feel that the forthcoming investigation and now £10,000 at the outside,

It is Mr. Gable's turn to smile, the

reported uncertainty over the exact types the Allies will be able to buy in the contracts may affect the speed in which the Allies can secure

the planes.

France till the conclusion of hostilities, 2. A. Butler was asked for informa- RECONCILIATION

Mentioned la despatches ten times, tion regarding the number of Polish

he was created a .C.B. In 1915, re- children who were removed from celved the British and Victory medals various parts of Poland under Ger

was awarded the man control. and clasp, and

Belgian and French Croix de Guerre. Mr. Butler replied that exact figures

He was M.P.

for North were difficult to secure in the present į (U). Ayrshire and then for Buteshire and circumstances. N. Ayrshire, 1010-95.

A memorial service for the late Dr. Tea! Yuan-pel, President of the Academia Sinica who died here on

IN RUMANIA Comment By The "Timos"

CAN YOU PROVE YOU'RE MY BROTHER?

—and the soldier did

A four-engined British flying boat of the Royal Air Force circlos aver the freighter below, giving protection against oncmy planes or subs. Convoys of the Coastal Command have flown more than 5,000,000 miles since the war began.

Doctor and Nurses To Pay £500 To Father Of Poisoned Boy

DAMAGES totalling £500, of which a doctor is to pay £450 and a hospital sister and a nurse £25 cach, were awarded at Leicester Assizes to the father of a 13-year-

old boy who died in Leicester General Hospital after being given insecticide.

The children were, however, being Included among the Polish popula- LONDON, Mar. 18 (Reuter).-The Lion which are being systematically reconciliation between the Rumanian deported from their homes by the Government and the members of the

Iron Guard was the subject of coni- WHEN. Mrs. Flay, of London- H.K. MEMORIAL German Government.

Costa were awarded in the damages from Leicester Corporation, It is clear, ho said, that this process ment in the "Times" to-day.

road, Calne, Wills, opened her

Dr. A. W. Abramson, resident medical SERVICE

was being carried out with brutality The news seems to have been re-door the smiling soldier on the same proportion. which wa

The insecticide, it had been meer at the hospital, Sister Jessie could

with colved in Germany as an indication associate

Lewis, and Nurse Eileen Mary Brad- German activity in Poland.

of an approaching change in the doorstep said: "Hello, sis."

stated, was in a tin which had held, managers of the hospital staff. Rumanian foreign policy. This is

labelled Mrs. Floy, suspicious of a hoax. been

"Liquorice Mr. Justice Oliver, earlier in the

bearing, found

Wor 10 CDBO not justified by the facts, says the said nothing. "Don't you know me?" | Powder." "Times.**

Bald the soldier, "I'm your brother Although the Iron Guard before Harry, Harry Trowbridge. I

"Labelling of the tin as liquorice against Leicester Corporation. Joined

Mr. Justice Oliver sold that the powder, and pulting it in the medicine the war was certainly in close touch up in Canada, and here I am.”

to cach other. There had with the Nazis, there was indication

unloyal Still Mrs, Flay did not belleve him. cupboard, was a dangerous thing," sister and the nurse had been most

been negligence on their part. that clemency now extended wat Her brother Harry had gone to aid Mr. Justice Oliver.

Like Loaded Bomb nothing more then an internal ap- Conado in 1923, but she had not

The judge said he had reached the COPENHAGEN, Mar. 18 (UP)-peasement, members were only par-seen him since.

"It was like a loaded bomb, which conclusion that Dr. Abramson fell Wu Te-chen, Sir Robert Kolowall, The Helsingfors Correspondent of doned as individuals, and there may "Can you prove you are Harry?" some day would go oft and Infure short of the standard of care required

of him. Mr. Yoh Kung-chao, Bir. Bung Hen- the "Politken" reports that 40,000, be nothing more to it than the ending she asked--and not until the soldier someone.

The action was brought by William "I hope it will not affect his post- chang, Mr. Chang I-ling, Mr. Wang wounded soldiers are still in hospitals of a feud, strengthening national had produced his pay card was he

unity. in various parts of Finland.

allowed Into, the house. Yun-wu and Pro Hsu T-shan.

Hibbit, the father, who claimed tion," he added.

March 8, will be held at the Univer FINLAND'S ARMY

sity of

of Hongkong on March 24 simultaneously with services in other

parts of China.

The committee for the service will include Gen. Hsu Chung-chih, Gen.

OF WOUNDED

SPECIAL TO THE "TELKORAPH”

BLACK-OUT OFFENCES

Chinese Motorists In Trouble

A number of Chinese car and lorry owners were summoned before Mr. Sheldon at Central Magistracy this morning for breach of the Black- out Regulations on March 5 by fall- ing to have their parking lights or headlights properly obscured.

Mr. F. Ziminern appeared for Mrs. S. M. 1o. and pleaded guilty to the duo offence. He said the offence was to carelessness on his client's part, and was not a deliberate act. Tho side lights of the car were shaded, and he asked for a nominal penalty to be imposed.

Trame Inspector Clarke said the parking lights were not covered in any way, and the headlights were covered with some blueish colour paper instead of cloth. The lights were far too bright,

the

Request Refused

At this stage, Inspector Saunders said the Director of Air Raid Pre- cautions, Wing Comdr. Steelc- Perkins, would like to address the Court on the question of penalty, and seriousness of the cffence. This was refused by Mr. Sheldon, who could see no reason for granting the request on a point of law, as Inspector Clarke was pre- sent as complainant, and defendant was also represented.

snid he

After pointing out that he was not prepared to impose a nominal fine for this type of offence, defendant was fined $25.

Five other lorry owners were fined $25 each, and three car owners $30 ench. The driver a United De- livery lorry was fined $10. He was carrying soldiers in the lorry during the blackout, and lifted up the blue covers fitted to the headlights as he could not see the way.

ASSASSINATION SEQUEL

LONDON, Mar. 18 (Reuter).—Lord Zetland, making his first appearance in the House of Lords this afternoon after the Caxton Hall shooting affair, said that it had been brought to his notice that apprehensions had arisen In varlous quarters lest. this tragedy be permitted to effect the judgment of His Majesty's Government upon affairs-in-India.

He was indeed sorry that any such apprehensions should have arisen, but since they had found expression, he was glad of the early opportunity of stating in publle what he had already said more than once in pri vate that the act of an isolated fanatic could not conceivably have the small- cst influence upon the judgment of His Majesty's Government, one way or the other, upon affairs in India. (Cheers).

NO COOLIES FOR WESTERN FRONT

LONDON, Mar. 18 (Reuter)-In the House of Commons to-day, Mr. R. A Butler, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, stated that there was no truth in the reports circulated in North China that Chinese coolles were being secretly recruited in northern China and taken to France to dig trenches on the Western Front. Asked what steps had been taken to counteract this "Japanese propa- gando," Mr. Butler replied that the attention of the Japanese authorities In North China was already drawn to the untruthfulness of the reports.

ANGLO-SPANISH

TRADE PACT

MADRID, Mar. 18 (Router)—An Anglo-Spanish trade agreement has been signed.

According to a statement issued by the Spanish Foreign Office the agreement, which comes into force immediately, will allow Spain to ac quire raw materials in determined quantities not only in the United

Spain has also signed a trade agreement with Swlizerland.

Kingdom but the whole sterling area.

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