Scenes illustrative of the precautions taken here yesterday because of the anniversary of the Jamuary 28 incident are shown above. Rain. and wind helped to keep the population off the streets where barricades and patrols. were characteristic. A search is seen in one photograph, while the other shows Chinese constables braving the inclement weather at the foot of Avenue Edward VII.
"It is as though the very lifeblood of both countries now intermingles," the "Observer" declared. "It is no longer necessary," the paper added, "for British opinion to pake known to French opinion the depth of our appreciation of the calm and confident yet alert and active spirit that breathes through France. Even the apparent lack of spectacular tangible evidence of the war on the western frontier is not felt on this side of the Channel to be a reason for an exchange of assurances to each other about the feelings of admiration and gratitude over an achievement greater and more difficult perhaps than achievements in action."
The "Observer" then stressed' that the visiting delegation was headed by M. Yvon Delbos, former Foreign Minister and at present Minister of Education, who knows from bitter experience the nature of the threat now hanging over European civilization:
The paper dealt next with naval questions, and paid a tribute to the Part played by the French navy which had accounted for ten of the 35 or more German submarines sunk in the first four months of the war. French naval units are relentlessly sweeping all enemy mines from the entrances to French ports, while destroyers, sloops and planes carefully search for enemy submarines. The paper stressed that British and French soldiers had come from every part of the globe to the battlefield without suffering a single loss at sea. In this gigantic task of troop transport, the collaboration of the French Navy was most precious.—Havas.
In "The Magnificent Fraud" which opened at the Grand Theatre yesterday, Mr. Akim Tamiroff plays the dual part of Jules LaCrois, famed impersonator, and Don Miguel Esteban Alvarado, President and dictator of San Cristobal dimunitive island-nation in South America. LaCrois is appearing in one of the night-clubs of the capital and renders a perfect impersonation of Napoleon when an explosion rocks the city aid the news soon arrives that the presidential palace has been bombed. Alvarado is seriously wounded and the country is faced with a sad future because Alvarade had arranged for a large loan from the United States for which he was to sign the next day. Sam Barr (Mr. Lloyd Nolan), his aide, on seeing that Alvarado cannot live much longer, consults high officials and the scheme is finally agreed upon, whereby LaCrois, who, incidentally is wanted for murder by the Paris police, should double for Alvarado who dies the same night. The loan is finally arranged and the picture takes an unexpected ending, except for the romantic denouement which is of the usual type. Miss Patricia Morison as Claire Hill, fiancee of the American banker who is making the loan, and Miss Mary Boland of "The Women"- fame most ably support Messrs, Tamiroff and Nolan.
Two excellent shorts and a newsreel round out a programme which should be of interest to any theatre-fan intent on seeing one of the best character actors in the world today.— me
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