NANCY
MAYOR NANCY-- WE'VE BEEN SENT TO INFORM YOU
THAT YOUR TERM
OF OFFICE IS UP!
CHILDREN FROM H.K.
WOMAN SAID SHE WAS MOTHER
"IT is very difficult for the Chinese Protectorate to bring such
10 cakes Hght and I am going to impose a sentence of imprisonment which will deter others from following this woman's example."
Thus commented Mr.: J. Fletcher- Cooke,
Singapore Third Police Magistrate, realencing Thong Wal Lin, a 42-year-old Cantonese woman, imprisonment to two months' simple
for bringing two Chinese girls, Cheng Chol, aged 24 years, and Chan Hing, nged 8, Into the Colony by fraudulent and deceitful means.
Accused, the prosecution alleged, representeil. herself as the natural [ mother of the children both in Hong- kung and in Singapore,
The offences were alleged to have: been committed on Jan. 12 and Mar
30 this year.
Accused pleaded guilty to the charges.
Mr. R. W. I, Band, who prosecuted,
IT ONEY
LASTS TWO WEEKS
Y' KNOW!
OH, DEAR---
I FORGOT
MAYO!
ALL
ABOUT
IT!
Thursday,
WELL-YA BETTER CLEAN UP ALL YER LAST-MINUTE
BUSINESS BEFORE FIVE O'CLOCK!
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
November 16, 1939.
By Ernie Bushmiller
1.
I JUST WANT TO MAKE ONE MORE' APPOINTMENT BEFORE,
I LEAVE OFFICE!
MAYOR NANCY --- I NOW APPOINT YOU GOVERNOR!
-ERNIE BUSHMILLER
OCT-6
Goebbels Orders 9 a.m. DAWN SCHEME
Sillence-or Jail
COPENHAGEN,
GOEBBELS is now punisha- ing with imprisonment, those who talk, or otherwise disturb the reception," of his radio propaganda.
Je fus issued a decrce under which the slightest disturbance during the reading of news bul- letins will be heavily punished,
Recently, six young Germans in Berlin safe, celebrating a birthday, made Jöķes, disturbing would-be steners. They were arrested and put on trial.
The Judge, sentencing them to long terms of imprisonment. "You ninde it Impossiblo fer other guests to hear most Important political
news,
which it is evity German's duly to listen."
Police Took
Bride Away
said that in Hongkong accused in- MRS. MILDRED ELIZABETH
formed, the authorities that she was
their
POLLOCK, 40-years-old the natural mother of the children.nurse, of Newshoven, Liverpool, When she arrived at Singapore she was giving a reception at her again represented herself
home an hour after her mar- natural mother,
"I had to tell the authorities in ringe when polleo knocked at Hongkong that I was the natural the door. They had come to mother of the girls or else I would arrest her, not have been able to bring them out here," she added.
"I knew it was wrong to tell a le but I brought the girls out here to join their parents."
Mr. Band stated that in spite of police inquiries the girls had not
been traced.
"This woman has come to Singa pore very frequently in the past 13, months bringing shildren with her continued Mr. Band. "The children, he continued, "were mostly boys and were not related to accused.
"I ask that a serious view be taken of this case," concluded Mr. Band.
Refuting Mr. Band's allegation that
Mr. E, Sidgreaves, prosecuting at Liverpool Police Court said that on being told she would be arrested, Mes. Pollock replied: " am giving dinner to-night. Cannot it be left over until the morning?"
Questioned regarding the charge using on instrument for an illegal
ALL THE YEAR ROUND
Sunset -After Midnight
MR.
R. NORMAN NASH, a Cardiff motor engineer, has proposed to the Home Secretary a new daylight saving plan under which dawn is at 9 a.m. through- out the year.
"READ YOUR NEWSPAPERS"
PARIS.
"Read your newspapers" is the advice given to Frenchmen to-night by M. Girandoux, France's Commissar-General of
Information.
"That is the best way of verifying news reports given on the radio," he added,
Polish Prince Weds In U.S.
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to
AUTOGIROS IN WAR Protection Of Convoys
FOR the first time the autogiro, direct-lift, flying machine is being used in a great war.
Reports do not indicate that it was used by either side in Po- land, but a number of autogiros are employed behind the lines by the French forces for communi- catlona, liaison and staff trans- port.
This, he says, would ensure the fullest use of the hours of daylight, both. for work and re- creation, and would make a bigį
MISS Peggy Schulze, daughter of The plan involves putting the clock
Invented by a Spaniard and de- Mrs. Anthony Biddle, jun., wife saving in artificial lighting. forward in each of the first åvel of the American Ambassador
veloped in Great Britain, the autogiro Poland, has been married to Prince has been used in perce-time Army months of the year, like this:
50 minutes
Alexander Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen in exercises in this country. 25 minutes the Paris Town Hall. 50 minutes 50 minutes 60 minutes
Jan. 1 Feb. 1 March 1 April 1 May 1 There would be no change in June and July. Then. In the last five months of the year, the clock would be put back like this:
August 1 September 1 October 1
November
December 1
20 minutes 40 minutes 50 minutes 50 minutes 25 minutes
The effect in the middle of Novem- operation in November last year-ber would be that the sun would not she said: "It is not true." She made set until about 6 pm, instead of
statement.
soon after 4 p.m.
Mts. Pollock was remanded,
she was not related to the children whom she admitted bringing to Singa- pore, accused sald they were in some way related to her.
ON SHORTEST DAY
Sunset on the shortest day would be about Ave o'clock instead of be- fore 4 pm,
On the longest day, with dawa
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The present war may adaptation to convoy protection.
Prince Hohenlohe Tagelangen served in the Polish Army during the
The current issue of "The Aero-i German invasion, and, is now adjutant to the military attache at the Polish plane" contains an account and dia- groms relating to a proposed auto- giro "mother ship," a specially de- Mr. William Bullitt and M. Lukasic- signed craft with a small flight deck, Embassy in Washington,
wicz, American and Polish Ambassti; } from, which autogiros could take off dors in Paris, were witnesses, and and alight on in the course of their' the Polish Promler, General Sikorsky, routine watch for enemy submarinas. uttended.
The vessel would be a very small specialised aircraft-carrier.
at 9 a.m., there would be no sunset-the sun would go down around 12.15 next morning.
The scheme had been recommend- ed to the Home Office by the National Industrial Development Council of
Wales..
In the last war observation balloon ships were employed, and several warships carried observation. bal- loons, which did highly important work.
Autogiros long ago were used ex- perimentally in ascending from a Mr. Nash
2 sald recently: The platforma or cruiser, and there fden occurred to me one beautiful appears to be no reason why war- summer morning,
chips, especially those which are "I was out of dopts when_dawn already equipped with A platform broke, and I thought of all Cardiff for catapulting aeroplanes Into the being asleep, and these hours of air, should not use autogiros, light being wasted." --A-Home-Omee ometal-sald: We-The..dircet-ft-lyps...can ascend have had a great number of sugges- from and light upen a platform no tions about daylight saving. Soine of bigger than itself, and should not them are most valuable and are be- be difficult to contrive the simple. ing closely examined."
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