THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 13, 1940.
The Sun Attacks CONSCRIPTION OF
HERE
Strong, warm sunshine is pleasant to the body but it is hard on the eyes. The brilliant light causes eye-strain which, in turn, brings headaches and ageing lines. The hot, dust- laden, atmosphere encourages microbes, and dries up the natural moisture-round the eyes. causing ocular. congestion and leading to all kinds of eye- troubles.
Optrex eye lotion stops all this. Its regular use prevents strain, removes dust and germs, streng- thens the eye muscles and keeps
your eyes happy and healthy. Optrex is recommended by Doctors and Opticians all over. the world.
Optrex
BRAND
Distributed by:
EYE LOTION
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. WHOLESALE DEPT."
In the
TEL. 31261
HONG KONG HOTEL
DINNER DANCE
With Nick Korin & His Swing Band, NIGHTLY 9 PM. TILL 1 A.M.
TEA DANCE
SUNDAYS 5 TILL 7.
THE HONGKONG, & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.
PEREFERERELSER
REGAL
ZONOPHONE
LATEST DANCE RECORDS
MR3201-My Heart Belongs to Daddy
MR3074-T'aint whatcha-do- MR3217-El Rancho Grande.. MR3142-Kiss Me Goodnight
SOON! M.P. BROADCAST
EVERYONE SAYS M.P.
"BEFORE LONG we shall all be conscripted in this country-conscripted to work,” Mr. J. C. Wedg wood (Soc., Newcastle-under-Lyme) told the House of Commons in a speech in which he accused M.P.s of play-acting.
FOR DOG
LISTENERS
The B.B.C. recently pre- unique pro- announced as
1
"Our wealth will be conscripted for the duration sented a of the war and we shall become servants of the gramme. State," he added. Is there a member who would "Calling All Dogs" which not welcome this as the alternative to losing the was intended apparently
war?"
on
Mr. Wedgwood was speaking the second reading of the Colonial Development and Wel- fare Bill.
A pre-war Minister had made a pre-war speech on a pre-war Bill, and every speaker who had succeeded him seemed to partake of that sort of play- acting.
"We must use our colonies as
as an experiment to find out precisely what broad-
STRAWBERRIES COST casting means to dogs.
15S. EACH
British listeners were re- quested to have their dogs listen in too, and to report
Strawberries were sold at 15s. their reactions.
each yesterday.
were the
fruit!
•
What came over was a broad- Four punnets, each containing cast by trained dogs from a ken- places whence we could. con-six strawberries, realised £18 7s.nel at Worplesdon, run by, a Mr. and Mrs. Robert Montgomery, tinue to get food and munitions-Even although they small arms, shells and even aero-first consignment of the
The programme called for the planes," he said.
marketed at Evesham, Worces-Montgomerys to put their dogs "We have
got to use every tershire, the price sounds a bit through a set of paces and com- possible means of resisting an expensive.
mands considered generally fami- infernal singo,
They were sold in a good cause, llar to most well-behaved British
As an "Only our back doors will be however it was an auction held dogs.
audience: paiti- open to the world, and the on behalf of the local hospital. cipating stunt, "Calling All Dogs" only part of the world. we can And the strawberries: didn't proved a yelping success.. count on to supply us is our have it 'all their own way.
"Rats!" snapped Mr. Montgom→ colonies, whose Interests are A giant bundle of asparagus ery to his studio ratters, and ear-
cooked terriers dashed excitedly All the produce was given free to the chase in countless homes of by local growers.
England. “Lie - down;” “Find it,”
.:
ours and who will make the realised as much as £2:15s. ・・ same sacrifices as we are pre- pared to make. "Let us call on those services The total amount: realised for "Jump over the pokar" went more and sacrifices, not merely in la-the hospital by the auction of commands. Rattling food pans bour but in. capital as well." fruit and asparagus was £72. and garbage cans, the Mont- gomerys for a memorable 15 minutes had every listening dog in England in a dither. When a Mont- gomery Dalmatian greedily chew- led up a dog biscuit before
microphone, dog-owners reported widespread mouth watering. When Montgomery fox terriers,
· Peter
Girl's Leg In Cellars
-Court Story
the
and Jock, got to growling, hackles rose the length and breadth of Pritain, When Tippler, a tough
jobedient canine listener In Albion
spoke up for him.
WHEN A MAN was accused of the murder of a Corgi; refused to speak", every girl, aged twenty, it was alleged that long after the police had searched his home and found nothing to incriminate him, he gave himself up.
Joe-Loss's Orch.
The police then found the girl's These he made up into parcels, Joe Loss's Orch. right leg in the coal cellar. some of which were found on the "Why the prisoner. brought it outskirts of Leeds on June 10 and Joe Loss's Orch. back to the house the prosecution 11.
is not in a position. to say," Mr. Sergeant Major
G. R. Paling, prosecuting stated Accordeon Band. at Leeds,
'STRANGLED IN STRUGGLE Accordéon Band. Wilfred Lowe, "twenty-eight, railwayman, of Dent-street, South Joe Loss's Orch. Accommodation-road. Leeds,
MR3215-Letter From Home MR3187-I'll Remember MR3218-Somewhere at Sea.... MR3139 And That Started It!.
THE ANDERSON MUSIC
St. George's Bldg.
PREMIER VISITOR
HELD
A man in the uniform of a Bri-
One portion of the body was tish officer: sought an interview wrapped in a case on which the with the Prime Minister at Down- word "Lowe!! was written and ing-street- yesterday.
last June Lowe went to the A policeman asked him his police headquarters and identibusiness and then called a collea- fled the case.
gue:
It was then that Lowe's home Police. consulted War Office au- pleaded not guilty to the mur-was searched: The girl's right thorities and later: the man was Joe Loss's Orch. der of Ethel Wraithmell, of Leeds, leg, Mr. Paling said, was not in taken to Cannon row Police Sta- tion and detained for observation. Joe-Loss's Orch. on June last year. He was sent the coal cellar then.
CO., LTD: Tel. 21322
CO.
CHEE HING
HING CO.
WHOLESALERS AND RETAILERS.
16, Connaught Rd., C. 2nd Floor, Tel. 27360.
Agents for
SAMARINDA DYAK COAL
Good for Household; Steaming, Bunkers and Factories Purposes.
Apply to
MR. PONG WING TONG,
Manager.
for trial at Leeds Assizes.
Mr. Paling alleged that Lowe had confessed in a written state- ment that he had strangled the girl in a struggle and that he afterwards cut up her body.
LOOSE TALK WARNING
Police have wide powers to deal with loose talk, it was stated at when Folkestone Police Court mention was made of a morse message tapped on an hotel. har counter..
Two ex-R.AF men, Peter Ro- berts, twenty-five, of Leicester, and Peter Laurence Wagstaffe a Canadian;..... were charged with: "communicating certain informas tion purporting to be informa- tion in respect of signals to air craft which might be directly or indirectly useful to the enemy."
Chief Inspector W. Holländs said: the police did not wish to press the charge, but wanted to emphasise that they had, wide powers to deal with looso talk. Detective Bates said when man asked what the message tap- ped
on the counter was, Wagstaffe said: "That is the code we receive on the beam when labout to land."
$2
Dismissing the case, the chair- man said he hoped this would be a lesson, to the men of the danger| föf 'tallfing in a loose way.""
Walter Connolly, portraying the title role in "The Great Victor Herbert," "auditions fourteen-year-old: Búsanna Foster during production of one of his operattas. Mary Martin, sing.... Ing star In her own right,-foans against the piano and tistens... The film is to be presented by Paramount to-day at the Queen's and ~Alhambra· Theatren" -