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FRITZ FELD Directed by HENRY KINO Associate Producer Raymond Gilh Screen Play by Harry Tugend Story by John Balderston Based upon

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August 20, 1940.

ITALIANS FEEL SCOURGE

Bosses Take Orders

In

Arms

Arms Drive FROM PAGE ONE

TYPISTS, clerks, cashiers, directors and auditors at hundreds of munition factories are giving unpaid voluntary labour at week-ends.

. Some of them are putting on overalls and operat- ing automatic machines; others are sweeping out workshops, collecting scrap metal. Thousands of these people, many of whom on week-days are "bosses," are now "unpaid" labourers.

Take the case of Mr. N. G. Lancaster, Finance Director of one of the biggest munition firms in Bir- mingham. "For the last four Sundays I have been doing hard labour in the factory. We are doing any kind of manual labour that our workmen ask us to do.'

STANDARD SIZE IN TORPEDOES

THE United States navy's old torpedo factory at Alexandria, Virginin, just across the Polo- mue from Washington, has been reopened after being closed for 17 years.

Dogs Attack,

Kill Child

A young mother's fear that to her bad luck would come baby daughter was realised when was the child, aged two years, mauled and killed by dogs.

Little Patricia Simms was playing with her three-year-old sister and a (cousin aged eight in # feld near Charleville, Co. Cork, when iltree Re-equipped with modern machin-dags greyhound and two terriers) "KING of the LUMBERJACKS"ry, it is already in production turn-bounded towards them, us though ing out torpedo parts.

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A modern method of assembly is now being Introduced and pro- duction is expected to equni that of the other main torpedo factory in the United States, at Newport, Rhode

Island.

to join in the fun.

But the dogs sprang on Patricia and bit her so severely that she died within an hour.

The game the children were play- ing was "Hare and Hounds."

The mother, twenty-three-year-old Mrs. Annie Sinins, of Brindley-road, The Alexandria factory is not making an effort to achieve maxi-Paddington, W., who was on a visit mum production just yet. Because to her parents, had some grounds for torpedo of modern design is such her fear. On previous visits to Tre- Jund Patricia had been taken ill and

an intricate affair, highly-skilled men fallen into the fire, nearly dring the from other branches of engineering from burns. have to undergo a

Training special

Putricin's father.

Min. Charles course before they can be employed Simms, sald "As she left I think my on this work. Building up a shop force is not being rushed. The right wife felt something terrible might

happen." men are being engaged as they are found and as the inchines for them are ready.

Mrs. Simms had to take her chil-| dren to Ireland because she sold her horne in London when her husband "Americans only" is the rule-no foined the Army. Mi Column activities are being

risked. At present about 400

are being employed, a number which City Feeds

will be doubled shortly.

The factory, known simply as Shop 7000 Pigs on

70, is

is in reality a branch of the

Naval Gun Factory at Washington. Kitchen Waste Eis equipment is brand new and the latest in design. It is all motor- driven. There is not a foot of belting. in the place.

PORTSMOUTH'S kitchen waste is going to feed one of the As each torpedo is finished it is largest piggerles in the country. wheeled out of a doorway on to u It is run at Warnford, near Win- dock extending into the Potomac chester, by Mr. R. P. Chester, a river. There it is loaded on to a retired business man, who keeps for Navy barge and taken to the proving between 7,000 and 1,000 plgs range 90 miles downstream at Piney bacon.

team of sailors put it Point, where Through Its paces before stowing it aboard a storage rack.

The Alexandria torpedo factory

was

He is installing a special plant on! his piggery, to. boil the waste.

capabilities. RA.F. superiority is regarded as the direct result of bitter; training and better stomach for war.

Italian pic strategy has not been clear except insofar as it la directed towards making the Mediterrancad Into an Italian lake by bombing action against shipping and inter- ference with British blockade

measures.

In Libya, where the tallan strength is estimated at about 530 aircraft, the pilots appear to be waiting for cooler weather.

Must Conserve Petrol

It is believed that in Italy there are about 1,500 aircraft available for action in the Middle East. The fact that the Italian air force has not bucked up the thrust into Somaliland more than might have been expected is belleved to be due to the urgent necessity for conserving petrol.

Italy also has had to carry out punitive air action against sections of the Abyssinian populace on the verge: of revolt, particularly in the region of Lake Tana. It is not surprising if, Inved with altculties in getting further supplies, Italy's effort in this theatre of war were to cease AЯ suddenly as it began.

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THE SAINT TAKES OVER " In the matter of spare parts alone, Italy seems to have been particularly George Sanders & Wendy Barric! improvicent whereas Britain hun profited from long experience to make the force as self-suficient as possible.

Addis Ababa Raided LONDON, Aug. 10(Reuter).----

Messages from Catro state that a raid on an aerodrome and other military objectives at Addis Ababa, capital of carried out by Abyssinia, was Blenheim bombers,

The Italians were apparently taken bombers cn- by surprise as our countered no fighter opposition.

To reach their objectives the bom bers had to fly 400 miles across very mountainous country.

EVACUATION OF SOMALILAND.

FROM PAGE ONE

from British battleships, which have the means of longer range than Italian mountain artillery which is being used in Somaliland, for the purpose of blowing up the Italian advance and to permil the embarko- tion of the British retreating troops. Successful Evacuation LONDON, Aug. 10 (Reuter)-It is olticlally announced that Somaliland has been evacuated successfully.

All guns

were embarked, stores were evacuated and the remainder

destroyed.

Enemy losses were particularly heavy.

Western Desert Report CAIRO, Aug. 19 (Router)-A war communique sintes:

"In the Western Desert: Following naval shelling of the dumps in the area north of Fort Capuzzo on August 17, our patrols report seeing for some hours dense columns of smoke a hundred feet high.

"If all farmers will adopt this scheme, and if the saving of all such was

a "baby" of the last war. Its kitchen waste could be made com- in pulsory, Authorised

it would fatten 2,500,000 construction

bacon every year," Mr. "In Kenya: On August 18, a few August 1918 and though the end of pigs for

miles from Bunu, a party of 30 Banda the war followed soon afterwards, Chester sald.

The homes of a thousand peo-(native conscripts) fled zifter exchang- construction continued.

pie yield about fewt, of waste aing shots with a small party of the day, which is more than two tons King's African Refles, -a-week-A-ton-of-lila. swill will "In Palestine, Sudan and Somali-

feed 50 ples for a week."

land: Nothing to report."

cd

The factory was complete by 1920, and began operating us an assembly point for parts manufactured else- where. It continued to operate as an

Mr. Chester runs on his piggery a assembly puint until it was closed

special test laboratory in charge of a own in 1923, when it was trans- biologist. férred to the jurisdletion of the Tests made on the various foods Naval Gun Factory at Washington.

ure proving extremely helpful both In its

revival, the factory in reducing mortality and in fatten- pre unit, making only ing of bacon plgs. self-contained 21-inch torpedoes, which are stand- ard on United States battleships, cruisers, destroyers, rubmarines, tor- pedo airplanes, and even on the latest Hitchspeed motor boats with which the navy are experimenting,

BIRTHDAY PARTY

Mr. Tu Yuet-sen, well known

STOCK MARKETaner and banker in Shanghal,

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REPORT

Hongkong Stock Exchange OMetal Summary issued yesterday says:

The volume of trading still remains on the amoll side.

Buyers 1.K. Banks $1,220 Unions Ins: $362.50 1.K. Fire Ins: $130 Docka (old) $15.25

Providents $3.55

Hotels $3.35 Realties $3.10 Trams $10.10

Youmali Ferries $21,35 Telephones (old) $21.75 Telephonos (new) $8.00 Cements $14.80 Dairy Farme $17.00 Watsons $8,25

Sellera

China Underwriters 10 cts. Lands $31

Realties $3.30 Telephones (old) $22.25

Sales

H.K. Fire Ins: $136

Hotels $3.35

Trama $15.30

Star Ferries $57

Cements $15

Dairy Farms $17.00

Watsons $8.30

H.K. Govt: 4% Loan. $89.30

Expansion Of The Indian Army

LONDON, Aug. 19 (Reuter).The rapid expansion of the Indian Army has necessitated on additional 20,000 to 30,000 military vehicles..

Two Amorienn motor companies, Ford and General Motors, possessing extensive body building plants in India, aro actively assisting the out- put and have considerably -- extended thelrpinnts to deal with orders.

urgent

who came to the Colony when tho Japanese occupied Shanghal, cele- brated hla 63rd. birthday at his Kow joon residence on Sunday.

A large number of friends went to congratulate him, among them being Hom. Sir Shouson Chow, Dr. and Mri, C. T. Wang, Dr. and Mrs. Andrew Lee, Mr. O. K. Yui, Mr. and Mrs. Chien Sing-tse, Mr. and Mrs. Wang

TWO RAIDERS CARRY ON

FROM PAGE ONE

seven days air fighting. 513 Nazi; raiders have ben shot down.

Of these, 377, or 73 per cent, uf the total, were bombers or Aghter bombers.

Tatal Losses, 568 LONDON, Aug. 10 (Reuter).—It is learned that the gure of 513 (given as the number of Nazl planes shot down in the last seven days alr fighting over England) refers to Nazi planes shot down by fighters,

The total German losses in the seven days was 50B,

Londoners Killed LONDON, Aug. 10 (Router), Shao-iai, General and Mrs: Hsu Three civilians were killed and sever. Tsung-tac,

Chan Chak, al seriously Injured when un enemy General Chang Wel-chong, Mr. T. A.plane dropped a bomb on the cast Soong, Dr. John C. H. Wu, Mr. He end of London. Sze-Ying, Mr. and Mrs. Tong Sal- min and a few hundred others,

Admiral

R.A.F. fighters attacked the enemy which la belleved to have been shot down.

LATE NEWS |3 MORE RAIDERS

DOWNED

>FROM PAGE ONE

found to be plastered with Lewis gun bullets,

Two More Destroyed LONDON, Aug. 19 (Reuter).—The Air Ministry has issued the following communique:

"Reports received itptop. G.M.T. show that two more enemy bombers, making four in all, have hitherto been destroyed by RAF. Aghters,

"Engagements were in all cases with single enemy aircraft."

NEW MITCHAM MEMBER

London, Aug. 19.

Sir Malcolm Robertson (Conservat→ tive) was elected unopposed at the Mitcham by-election caused by the death of Sir Richard Meller (Con- Bervative)-Reuter.

Sir

At the general elections. Richard Meller polled 30,230 against a Labour opponent, Mr. P. Winterton,

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