1940-12-24 — Page 23

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All who have seen THE BLUE BIRD agree. it is a picture you will re- member for years to come as the most-beautiful-ever- made ... the most human story ever told.

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 24, 1940.

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Electric Bell Lights

Tinsel Garlands

Fir Wreaths with Cones & Berries

FLOWER BASKETS (mado by Rofugees)

BRING CHILDREN TO

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AT

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2nd FL.

NAZIS HIT TOWER-Cable picture from London shows damage to famous Tower of London hit by Nazi bombs. Group of build- ings was started for William the Conqueror and since has housed many noted Britons as prisoners.

French Counsellor In Washington Resigns

MAURICE GARREAU-DOMBASLE, commercial counsellor of the French Embassy in Washington, has broken with the Vichy government of Petain and resigned his post, refusing to obey orders to return to France.

"The present French Government asked me to return to France, apparently with the intention of appointing one of their friends in my place and-giving me some other function in the home Administration," M. Garreau-Dombaste said, in a prepared statement given out to the press.

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Maurice MAETERLINCKS

THE

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Shirley Temple Spring Byington Nigel Bruce Gale Sondergaard Eddie Collins Sybil Jason Jessie' Ralph Helen Ericson Johnny Russell Laura Hope Crews Russell Hicks Cecilie Loftus Al Shean Gene Reynolds

Directed by Walter Lang Associate Producer Gene Markey Screen May by Ernest Pascal & Additional Dialogue by Walter Bullock

A 20th Century Fox Picture

Darryl F. Zanuck In Charge of Production

Praise!

"I have sent my resignation, pointing out-that I had remain-

ed at my post since the armistice simply because I had never re- ceived a single word from the Vichy Administration' and had been left free to defend here French interests, especially those of our colonles, without any possible

German pressure. I

URUGUAY TRIAL OF NAZIS

Responding to the pressure of added that I would never accept outraged public opinion, the any task under German control. Uruguayan authorities have de- "Of course, I am sorry to sever! cided to proceed with the pro- my ties with a service to which Isecution of eight Nazi agents have devoted most of thy life. who are accused in an 80-page typewritten indictment drawn- up_by_the_Public Prosecutor of conspiring against the Repub- lic's sovereignty.

“Anyway, during my thirteen and one half years as commercial coun- sellor of the French Embassy in the United States, all my efforts have been tending to improve and develop friendly reintions between France and this country. Our reciprocal trade agreements of 1938, for which I had 60 many obstacles to aurmount, was the reward of these efforts,"

Worked With British

All the eight have been ar rested and will be tried by the Supreme Court.

29-Point Accusation

In effect the Uruguayan Govern- ment challenges the right of the Nozis to interfere in the internal affairs of this ond CD-

other South

M. Garreau-Dombasie stressed that since the beginning of the war now, on in Europe he had closely operated with the British on all American countries, for the Indict- economie questions.

ment, besides detailing charges

I shall be always ready to devote against each prisoner, contains a 20-

and

my

my energy my experience to any point accusation against the Nazi liberated part of the French Empire, party itself. He continued, "remaining one of the

This includes the allegation that thousands of French unknown sol the party approved of a military dlers who hope and work for the plan to seize Uruguay and transform freedom of their land. It will be the into a German agricultural colony. best way for me to express to

Julius Dalldorf, known the many American friends my gratitude "Little Fuehrer of Uruguay," is pro- for their kindness and their hos-tected from arrest by diplomatic fm- pitality. I hope to have the oppor munity, having been hurriedly ap- funity to be of help to the cause of pointed Press Attache to the German democracy which I served for 32 Legation shortly before the Con- yours.

gressional investigation started las! M. Garreau-Dombaste served with May. distinction during the first World

War, winning the French War Cross German Bodies Stop

and the British Military Cross. Ho is a Commander of the Legion of Honour.

LYONS EXPLOSION

A German report broadcast from Paris Radio announced recently that

Swedes Fishing

Swedish fishermen have had to abandon herring ashing owing to the Jargo number of bodies of drowned Germans floating off the south coast of the country.

a large fire had broken out in a far- This is diaclosed in a letter from a tary in a suburb of Lyons, in un-relative in Sweden received by a occupied France, where 1,200 workers | Scottish family.

were employed. A terriile explosion It adds that German authorities followed. Police are Investigating, have offered fishermen the equivalent and "a criminal act is considered of 3s. 6d. for each body recovered, possible."

provided the uniform is intact.

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