THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 9, 1940.
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In the
HONG RONG HOTEL
DINNER DANCE
With Nick Korin & His Swing Band NIGHTLY 9 P.M. TILL 1 A.M...
TEA DANCE
SUNDAYS 5 TILL 7.
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PRISONERS ESCAPING into Khartoum from the Italian lines reveal a state of disorder in the Abyssinian border posts.
A British Sudanese soldier from Kassala was a warder at the town jail when the Italians entered. He borrowed a convict's suit, locked himself in the prison and shouted "Viva Mussolini!" as the Fascist troops arrived.
They immediately released the man, who has found his way to Khartoum with news that the Italians have suffered heavily in men and supplies on that front.
40 Drink – Die
At least forty Italians, drinking} from a trough after a skirmish on the outskirts of Kassala; were killed in one murderous burst- from a machine-gun manned the last Sudanese to leave,
FIGHTER
PILOTS JUMP
WIFE'S BODY IN CAR
A Los Angeles hus- band murdered his wife w
with an axe and then had a fortnight's whoopee driving. about Califomia with her body in a trunk in his car
He spent his even- ings roistering at country pubs and en- tertaining the cus- tomers with jokes.
Then a man became suspicious about the trunk, opened it and found the murdered woman 'inside.
This was the story told by the police,
FOR IT when Ralph Griggs
Two pilots from a famous. Bri- by tish fighter squadron which has been playing havoc amongst Goer- ling's bombers, saved their lives **by quick jumps following even
quicker thoughts.
The grain situation is pecially critical among the Ital lan outposts, who have been The first, one of the squadron's pushing down Into isolated two holders of the DF.C., was villages on both sides of the approaching to make a landing in border to corner crops under a badly shot-up aircraft when he threats at cut-throat priços, realised that he was on fire.
Only 500 feet from the ground Coupled with these interior dishe scrambled quickly from the turbances, the Italians have such cockpit as the flames were begin- a shortage of petrol and warning to envelop it. His parachute material that their opposition to opened just in time. He hit the our bombers is diminishing. It is ground rather heavily and in- estimated we have already des-fured his shoulder. He is now be- troyed 33 per cent. of their airing treated in hospital and is re- fleet, and reprisals are getting covering from his injuries, which
fewer and fewer.
Green Films
was charged with mur- der by the Los Angeles police.
LORD JOICEY
SHOT
Lord Joicey, 60-years- include scorched hands and face. old Durham milllionaire
The other pilot, had an.even] narrower shave. He was coming coal owner, was found down in an aircraft that had been shot dead on the lawn of Khartoum's open-air cinemas damaged in a desperate air fight, are showing films in faint, green and was to preserve the black-out. '
fire.
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in danger of catching his home, Ford Castle, Lions, baboons, leopards, and "I didn't realise it was actually Berwick-on-Tweed. cheetahs in the famous zoo have on fire," he said, "until I had An hour before he had left the been shot. by Game Warden landed. Then I jumped out of the castle carrying a gun. He had Major Barker, lest, wounded in cockpit and ran like a stag. I was then just returned from - duty air raids, they should break away about 50 yards away when the with his company of the Home - into the town. But no raids have tank.exploded." come, and Khartoum is as peace- ful as an English pre-war village.
KILUNG STREET RAID SEQUEL
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GOLD A LUXURY IN MANCHUKUO
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Under
the new decree
the
Guard.
Servants, hearing shots, thought Lord Joicey was potting at rab- bits. But when he did not return for an appointment in his home a butler made search.
Lord Joicey succeeded to the title in 1938. He was the second baron of a picturesque family, whose coat of arms, bespeaks the industry they lead.
This heraldic symbol takkes in
Brother Succeeds
As a sequel to the early morn- IN LINE WITH THE ANTI- ing raid on Friday by Miss Phyllis LUXURY POLICY THE MAN-three pieces of coal displayed on silver shield between two Harrop, Lady Assistant to S.C.A., CHUKUO GOVERNMENT HAS a two women this morning appeared DECIDED ON THE FUNDA-miners' picks and supported by before Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen MENTAL REVISION AND two pit ponies. at Kowloon Magistracy on charges STRENGTHENING OF THE BAN} of keeping a brothel at No. 276, ON THE USE AND SALE OF TAYLOR'S LONDON OLD TOM & DRY GIN Kilung Street, and of permitting GOLD AND ARTICLES.
for inducing girls under 16 years
Lord Jolcey's father, who died of age to practise prostitution. manufacture, repairing, purchase aged-90 and left £1,519,717, was,
Accused, Lai Luen, 35, widow, and sale of all gold will be totally the son of a colliery engineer.
There is now no direct heir to and Ho Wah, 36, a married wo-[prohibited. The ban includes gold
the title: Lord Joicey's only son, man, were remanded until Wed-plated articles. nesday, bail of $250 each being Also prohibited will be the Mr. James Joicey, was killed at sale. transfer and movement of 21 while riding at Folkestone Another woman, Ho Lai, 38, gold bullion, gold leaf, powder races in 1920. said to be one of the responsible and thread and all articles made keepers, and on $50 bail, failed with these by-products-Havas. to appear. Her ball was estreat-
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FELL INTO AMBUSH
NEW PUPPET
The title passes to Lieut.-Col. the Hon. Hugh Edward Jolcey, D.S.O., Lord Jolcey's brother and Ford Castle. neighbour of Etal Manor, near
Besides the coal interests (in Lambton, Hetton, and Jolcey Col- (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")|lieries ), Lord Joicay was inter- ested in several shipping, com- The new head of the French mercial, and public utility under- A Japanese newspaperman, delegation to the Franco-German takings.
Wics- commission at Kobayashi, was killed and an of-armistice ficer, Kith, was taken prisoner by baden, to replace General Leon Chinese units near Yunki station, Huntzinger, has not yet been ap- about 14 miles north-east of pointed. Yoyang on the Canton-Hankow who has been made War Minis- Railway, on Sept. 5.
General
Huntzinger, BOMBED
THEIR OWN BOMBER
and called on Marshal Petain. T The pair were inspecting con- and called on Marshal Petain. struction work on the railway Havas. when Chinese lying in ambush descended, Kobayashi was killed and Kita was wounded.-Central News.
́PEERESS'S BLACK
WEATHER REPORT
The Royal Observatory
TEXTILE OUTPUT
SLASHED
ports that pressure is highest ONE RAF. SQUADRON `IS over Manchuria and to the north ENJOYING A HEARTY LAUGH. of Japan:
TEAS THE RESULT OF A GER-- OUT OFFENCE
The typhoon continues to mova MAN RAID, ENEMY BOMBERS
AERO slowly northward; It is situated ATTACKED THEIR Lady Stanley of Alderley, of
|DROME, DROPPED, A FEW about 350 miles south of Tokyo.: Ormonde-terrace, N.W., was fined
BOMBB AND WENT OFF... a total of £15 at Marylebone for
Later in the day, the German causing lights to be displayed
radlo "announced that a success- during the black-out. Police.evi-
ful rald had been carried out, and dence was given that she had
||made fantastic, claims, as usual, been previously warned, and the (SPECIAL TO "ONINA MAIL" to the effect that a vast number of magistrate; Mr. Ivan Snell, töld
machines had been destroyed. her that next time she would do The production of textiles in The truth is even more remark- France will be drastically limited blo. then the Germain pro- Lady Stanley pleaded that under a decred passed by the paganda. On the aerodrome was gucats had opened a back door Vichy Government yesterday, the gaunt skeleton of a dismantled which should not have been open-Owing to the practical exhaustion German bomber that our fighters ed. In the front the house the of raw materials only materials had "shot down some time ngo. {curtains were evidently not thidic considered absolutely necessary The rald totally demolished the {enough.*.
{will be manufactured.-Havas, German bomber."
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