THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 25, 1940
HOW NEWS
NEWS WAS
WAS KEPT FROM FRENCH
London, To-day.
AN INDICATION OF HOW NEWS is kept from the French people was given in a broadcast talk yesterday by Miss Monica Stirling, who has been working with the French Radio and has reached London by way of Bordeaux. Since the beginning of the war, she says, she has been working in Paris with the French short-wave station. On the last Sunday, she found a mes- sage asking her to be at the station that night. Many people were there.. The guns were a little louder, but everyone was cheerful and talking about how close to Paris the Germans got in the last war.
When the Director arrived, he ask- ed them to get ready to move, as the Germans were near enough to Paris to make it necessary for another radio station to be got ready in case of need.
They did not. expect to be away long, and she was asked to take only one suit-case. It was then about 2
a.m.
were given a heap of straw to sleep on in an empty hall. The next morn- ing, a full orchestra arrived and, taking no notice of the men and wo- men strewn about the place, burst loudly into "Carmen!"
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They were called on to work at once, and knew that Paris was in danger-although they still had news, They were told nothing. Peo- The exodus started the next morn-ple got very irritable and interrupt- ing. The train was packed with men, ed to ask "Is Paris taken or not?" women, children and dogs, and Miss Stirling saw two Siamese cats, а canary and a squirrel. She sat оп her suitcase in a corridor, scribbling an article in a dirty note-book to fill in the programme if there shortage of news.
Heap Of Straw
was
a
in
There were no rooms available Bordeaux, but she and several others
DIET FOR FINICKY
CHILDREN
It isn't always naughtiness that makes children go off their food. It is more often "Nerviness," tired digestion and the need for the stimulus of a new, palatable easily digested food.
Finicky children respond very readily to Horlicks. They love its flavour, it keeps them regular and provides abundant nourish- ment in a form that the most queasy stomach can take.
Soon you notice a wonderful change. The little body begins to fill out, colour returns to the cheeks, peevishness goes and ap- petite becomes keen. Horlicks gives a child all the energy needed for rapid growth and strenuous play.
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The small newspapers carried speeches by various people, but news of any armistice.
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In her programme, Miss Stirling read extracts from Eve Curie's "Life" of her mother; she is now in London, Miss Stirling was glad to be able to say.
Could Not Visualise It
The next morning, Miss Stirling got an urgent message from the Consulate advising her to leave for England; a boat was going in two hours. She tried to object, saying "I can't, I've got to do this first." She was not being brave or anything like that; she just could not visualise a state In which England and France were even partly separated."
When she got on the boat, she was asked if she had heard of Churchill's offer to France. She read the news and sighed with relief - until she found that the news was a day old.
That sort of thing, she said in con- clusion, has been going on for last fortnight in France.-Reuter,
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DONT DE SILLY! HOW COULD
OVERDRAW THAT
MUCH
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WHEN I
NEVER HAD THAT MUCH IN THE BANK
(Keliased by The Bell Byndicate, Inc.) Popular Pauline Bays she's constantly in a nervous dither what between budgeting her time and her money.
LOCAL SHARES
Following is the list of changes and enquiries in local share quotations to- day:-
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PUBLIC UTILITIES H.K. Tramways $14.15 sa. China Lights (Old) $6 saz H.K. Electrics $56% sa: STORES, &C. Dairy Farms $184 sa.
LAST DAY'S SALES 500 Trams @ $14.15 2,466 Lights (Old) @ $6 150 Dairy Farms @ $18% .100. Electrics @ $563⁄4
MANILA SHARES Atoks Ps. 12 sa. Baguio Gold Ps. .141⁄4 sa. · Consol. Mines Ps. .0017 b. East Mindanao Ps. .06% b. I.X.L. Ps. .23 sa. Ipo Gold Ps. .05 sa. Itogons Ps. .15 b.
Masbates Ps. .06% b.
Mind. Mother Lode. Ps, .08 b. Mine Operation Ps. .05 b. Suyoc Consol. Ps. .09 b.
PATRIOTIC
FRENCHMAN
Smashes Poster Box Angered at the sight of a poster stating that France had ceased mili- tary operations against Germany in a report issued by the International News Service, a patriotic Frenchman smashed the glass cover of the "Shang- hai Zaria" poster box with his cane at
5TH COLUMN IN BRITAIN
"Most Sensational Story of War”
For obvious reasons, noth- ing can be stated concerning the progress of police inquir- ies into the activities of "fifth columnists" in Britain, but far - reaching developments áre expected.
"The story of the British 'Bfth co- lumn', when revealed, will profound- ly shock the western world," says Mr. William Stoneman, correspondent of the Chicago "Daily News."
He prophesies that "a good many persons who have been living in com- parative security are going to be shot speedily," and that "the most sensa~ tional story of the war will be brok- en in the near future."
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"FLYING DOCTOR" CALLED UP
After six years of valuable service to the Northern Territory as its "fly- ing doctor." Dr. Clyde Fenton has been called up for duty with, the Royal Australian Air Force.
Dr. Fenton will begin as an instructor at the Air Force training school at Camden (N.S.W.). He already holds the rank of Flight-lieutenant in the medical section of the Air Force Re- serve, but is forsaking his seniority to become an active filler with the rank of Pilot-Officer. His rate of pay will be 16/ a day.
The Commonwealth Government will employ two men to take his place, a doctor and a pilot.
NAZIS ANGER U.S. CROWD
Threat To Mob Them
DEL RIO (TEXAS).
AN ANGRY CROWD OF 400 THREA- TENED TO MOB THREE PROFESS- ED NAZI AGENTS WHO WERE DIS- TRIBUTING GERMAN PROPAGAN- DA HERE. ·
The agents were forced to leave the city with a police escort. They were warned not to return. Louis Beehler, one of the three, shouted: "There will be hundreds to take our places."
When a member of the American Legion demanded that he should salute the United States flag one of the Nazis said: "That's a dirty rag."
STOCK EXCHANGE “QUIETLY EASIER"
London, To-day. The Stock Exchange was quietly easier yesterday owing to disappoint-
A large crowd gathered quickly on ment at the Petain Government's 'ac- ceptance of the German armistice the scene, but no further incidents terms. Prices mostly eased but gilt- occurred and people started dispers-by the Australian and New Zealand edged showed signs of rallying nearing soon after. the close. Gold-minings encountered
small local sales. steady.-Reuter.
Wall Street
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