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A TOUGHIE! AND ME WITH TEN BUCKS!
BROKE!
SO SORRY!
School for 2 Minutes
More than 200 Romford, Resem, pirts, nupils, at the County High School, . are attending school-for two minutes a week! The time is spelt collect- ing from individual pigern holes zehool-work left there by teachers, and leaving in baskets the previous week's work. The teleme has been (FT- ranged so that the work may go on while air-raid precautions are being carried out at the school. Above, studying the week's schedule of lessons.
MUZZLING
THE NAZI
SPIES
Gramophone Record
Hid A Message
INGENIOUS
methods
by
which valuable information could be conveyed to the enemy will have little chance of auc- ceeding now. for Mr. Horc- Belisha, the War Secretary, has made a new order to combat tspionage.
in
This alms at the interception of vital messages writin code or invisible nk or concealed in ordinary articles of, com-
morec.
is known that the common- place and apparently harmless ser- vlcc of
advertentents, newe, photography and literature might be adapted to the use of espionage.
Familiar goods and commodities can also be employed to carry hidden messages.
A Hitler Speech During the lost war, it was dis-
that personal paragraphs. closed could serve a sinister purpose; that by means of a code, words could change their meaning, and the movements of inon and ships could be detailed in a contribution to the correspondance column.
A gramophona record. was foundi recently to be so manipulated that, beginning with a speech by Hitler,
The previous week's work being left by pupils for correction by their tenchers,
Jamming
Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
December 4, 1939.
By Walt
Disney
WALT
Work of Bombers Starts on the Ground
R. A. F.
PILOTS WAIT
FOR WAR TO "START"?
WHEN QUEEN MARY HAD
HER CIGARETTE
How the daughter of a Socialist Minister once admitted privately that the must vivid memory of Iter first visit to Windsor Castle was to see Queen Mary emoke a cigaretie is related in a book publish recently. "In an age when many women smoke in public," writes the authoress, "the Labour Minister's daughter was startled by the anomaly, as it seemed to her, of Queen Mary smoking.
"Yet in an age when fewer women smoked who were not "fast" it remed quite natural that Queen Alexandra should smelte. Indeed, she rnce overcame the scruples of a Bishop, and Induced him to smoke a cigarette with her on board the Victeria and Albert."
The story in trid In The Lady of Marlborough Reuse," Jonatha^ Cape, Gs, by Miss Kathleen Woodward, who traces with zynvalletle un- derstanding a life of Queen Mary which incorporates the historie back- ground of her Majesty's experleners as Princess, Queen and Queen
Mother.
AMERICA SHIPS
By RONALD WALKER
FRANCE. STANDING on an obser- vation post amid the dismal rotting relics of the last war, I watched to-day R.A.F. bomber pilots keeping in practice for this war which has not yet started.
From this hill the country rolled away in small
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0.30: New Mayfair Orchestra and Rose Eampton (Contralto)..
"Virginia"-Silcction (Weller and By Erich Porges
Tunbridge); "Funny Face"-Selec Radio Programme Broadcast by ion (Gershwin); Swans (Kramer).. ZBW on a Frequency of 845 ke's....Rose Bampion; "Lucky Girl" and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. Selection (Charis and Meyer); Light,| and 8-11 p.. on 0.52 m.c's. per My Light (from Ginjali-Song- recond.
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'Gitanjal Colour'd Toys (from H.K.T.
Soag-offerings)........Rose Bampion; 12.15 pm. Short Service of Inter-"Love Lles Selection; "Five
O'Clock Girl"Selceton (Ruby), 10.0 An hour of Dance Buslo. 11.0 Close down.
cersion.
12.30 Dance Musta by Ambrose' and His Orchestra.
10 Local Time Signal and Wca- ther Report,
1.03 Variety with Charlie Runz, Frank Crumit, Harold Ramsay, and Doris Palmer,
1.30 Reuter and Rugby Prers, Wep- sther Forecast and Announcements.
Іл Schubert-Quartot
1.45
Kolisch Quartet. 2.15 Close down.
6.0 "For the Children." Nursery Rhymes--Medley.....?
and straggling vaucys into the mist of driving rain. Minor, Op. 25, Every inch of the land is pitted and scarred from the shells of 1914-18, and scat- tered with steel helmets, water-bottles, tangled bar bed-wire and occasional rifles red with rust from which the wooden stock has
WARNS OF MINES crumbled away.
The
GERMAN FUTILITY
Representations Ignored By Stalin
slernation in Berlin,
Amsterdam, Dec. 2. Germany mude strong, secret re- presentations to Moscow before the Red Army marched into Finland. Yew Century Quartelle with Orchesalin's refusal to reply caused con- tra; Teddy Bears' Picate (braten). ....Frank Biffo and His Barn
Furious quarrels are reported to uintette: Studio Story by Aunt Susan; Little Drummer Boy (No.). ve broken out among Hitler's Ilou-.. closi), Gracie Fields (Vocal) with tenants and General van Brau- rch; Good-Night, Little Skipperitsch, regarded as a "yes" man, is Fox-Trat..
and aid to have altacked von Ribbentrop its Orchestra.
In Hitler's presence.-Reuter.
Brian
Harry Roy and
Lawrance
Orchestra.
at The Garrick Theatre, Southport).
6.47 Four Popular Dance Number
Rouse Britain's Suspicion.
London, Dec. 3. The attitude of the German Gov- Soviet Invasion of mment to the that the uneasiness over the Soviet "Musloat xpansion la the north is so great (Piano) that the Nazis are suggesting that Britain and Germany should join in :he fight against it.
Naval Singers.
7.0 Sea Shanties by The Royal Finland is obscure, but it is reported
7.10
Studio-Another Cocktall" by Erich Forges. (From Jimmy's Kitchen).
0.33 Harry Roy's Stage Show. A handful of R.A.F. officers WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (UP).—The Navy Depart- and nimmen stood on the hill. (Recorded the actual performance ment's hydrographic office has inaugurated a supplemen-Collars turned up, stamping their feet, rather impolite about tal system of "special warnings" to American shipping the rain, they went about the hot very exciting business of as a result of the war in Europe.
directing the practice bombing The navy said the specialį.
operations. warnings are issued as necessity warrants and supplemen primary duty of ship officers to collect and disseminate informa- tion in the interest of safe navi- gation.
the READY FOR
U-BOATS
Since the start of the European How Seamen
war on Sept. 1, 1welye bulletins have been-radioed-to- American-ships-ut sen by the hydrographie office.
The first, issued on that day, re-i ported that the German government ad announced start of military operations off Danalg bay and warned ships using the harbour that "movement in and out involves dan- ger of destruction."
on
man
Have
-Been-Prepared-
merged
Hitting The Target
7.30 London Relay-The News. 8.0 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcementa
In London, however, observers 8.03 An hour of Variety with maintain that Herr von Ribbentrop "Hutch," "Ionalds under no llusion that Germany Josephine Baker, Gourley and Ray Noble and It Or- had made great sacrifices for Soviet
friendship. chestra.
the German 9.05 Studio Comments on Recent
casiness is unreal, and regard it as a 9.23 London Relay-News Su-munocuvre to get a peace favourable
to Garmany-Reuter Bulletin.
The radio operator zat at his table in the middle of a miniature lake. Twe old boxes served for a seat and hir rubber-booted feet
were sub- Airmen hurried about lay- ing cut ground signals. Bembers Eveals. come singly from n nearby nero- drome to aim their bombs at the mary. target In the middle of this deserted and shell-rutted land.
By A NAVAL CORRESPONDENT
One of the chief lessons to be learned from the repulse of the Ger From our hill we could see the British tiny black shape drop from beneath submarine attack on shipping after two months of war is the machine as it aw straight and that to take all possible precautions stently
forget. We stood Ther Lime is to win half the silent, counting the reconds. in peace
came the crunching, hollow sound of the explosion.
Lights No Longer Certain baltic.
The
Admirally had announced the laying cautions B.B.C. Foreign
Talks
It ended with something quite dif-Source Not Yet Traced
ferent.
Like smugglers, spies are expart
tions Luciory.
(By A Badlo Correspondent)
waters."
Warned Against Zigzagging
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following day, American In the summer of 1837 Merchant
One pilot who had dropped twe vessels were warned that the British Navy Defence Courses, embodying government had announced that cer- detailed guidance on methods of bombs very necurately came nyin
and waggle hit fain lights and other navigation nids
United Kingdommbating or evading submarine at- overhead to wave consts of the might be discontinued without fur-ports wet instituted at all the chief wings before disappearing in the ralr
of the United Kingdom. Large clouds for home." ther notice.
numbers of Merchant Service officers
day travelling rapidly These attended them, to their great profit through this piece of France which Other warnings followed.
that the British' when war came. It was to such pre- is now occupied by the R.A.F., it F Included a report
these that Bir. Churchill cuvious that the service has not beer in the Straits of Dover, was evidently deferring when he ex-| Idle even if it has not had to flight of mines the Firth of Forth and Helgoland pressed his gratitude to previous the war in the manner that was ex-
of Admiralty In a recent ported. Bight; that the French Government Boards had extinguished navigation lights in speech.
People in England who talk glibly French territorial waters; that the
1918 Standards And Now of the war in the air have always govenment lod mined en-
At a later date gunnery courses foiled to realise that the aeroplane | C2040-Songs of England, Songs, of Wales....Light Opera Company. Danish trances to Kongedyb, the Hollaen-
for merchant seamen were instituted, fies on the ground. It can go into derdyb and Drogden.
on the third and sundry merchant vessels had the air and operate successfully only The office advised
is behind it En elaborate at concealment.
Jamming of B.B.C. foreign day of war that the German govern- their decks strengthened aft to allow if there
mounted quickly it, ground organization. Innocent-looking articles can con-
shortment had announced inging of mires, of guns being tain messages that might mean the language broadcasts on
Ready For Battle loss of a ship, the slaughter of a bat-waves has begun. Interference, across entrances to the Baltic Sea, needed. The guns themselves, with were placed in store at suitable ports)
During the past ten weeks the talion, or the destruction of a muni- apparently deliberate, is notice while "respecting foreign territorial plenuful supplies of ammunition, at home and in the British Dominiona, able on the 49-metre broadcasts
overseas. Most of them have now AF. has made itself at home. Ils aerodromes, depots and stores have enother warning sald, had, advised Thus when war was declared It did been established and the entire cla- The source has not yet been estab-commanders of American vessels en not find the British merchant service dorate organisation of an air force
route to and from European black- so unprepared as the enemy had is ready to wage the war. lished.
Officers and men make jokes about cuts to avoid being mistaken for bel- hoped. It also applies to the carrying and
to all Hitherto one of the surprises of the ligerent vesrels. The commission also Immediately the news of the sink- Incle of real fighting, but their spirit abipping of printed matter
Athenia was recevied, has not been spoiled. Almost from. destinations outside the United King-war has been the absence of radio suggested that commanders painting of the
jamming in the west and the clear American flag on the hulls, hatches every necessary step was taken for the beginning the weather has been reception of most German, French)
and sundocks of their vessels and the prompt institution of system of a dimeulty. New Enemy Countries and English stations on the
Another A permit is no longer required for Germany jammed Moscow broad-spotilaht the American flag at night.convoy. By Sept. 7, four days after. But the men have good billets that the outbreak of war, this was aclu- and nlenty of food. The billets are warning advised Germany had faid mines in the inlly In force for outward-bound amazingly varied. One I saw yes- conveying printed matter to any casts in German for several years.
vessels, and a couple of days later it terday was in a ruined chateau. The British Dominion, Colony or Man-! Sir Noel Ashbridge, Chief En-North Sea off the German coast.
bureau's New York offico had been extended to cover the men's mess was in the great salon, dated territory or Eire, France or
Its faded and ruined panelling still any country in North or South Sincer of the B.B.C., told me recently
that there was less interferenes with meanwhile notified shipping in coasting trade.
bravely gilt B.B.C. stations after the outbreak of forests that the War Department has Passengers to or from countries war than there had been before. begun mine-laying practice off the other than those enumerated may The "gentlemen's wave-length agree-Rhode Island coast in Narraganselt"
Bov and the West Passage. convey prohibited articles" without ment" has been closely observed.
Germany's reasons for keeping to Ships were Instructed to pass to a permit, provided they are approved! at the nort of arrival or departure her own legitimate wave-lengths are, the eastward of the easternmest of in the United Kingdom.
undergo Instruction in convey to maka best use of her propaganda, dummy mines have been laid about
organisation and the routeing of to-morrow at the Women's Interna-
tional Club, Gloucester
Ru'lding. been allered by the removal of weapons and does not want to invite 7 feel down,
trade in war time. Slovakia, Danzla and Poland, which reprisals by starting a jamming cam-
That adequately escorted convoys First Floor, from 11 am to 0 p.m. The Salvation Army Homs for must now be treated as enemy coun-paign. The broadcasting of deliber-
G'ch. Embarkment tries, and by the addition of Santo interference would also occupy AMBULANCE COMMAND are an effective antidote to U-boat
eltack was established in the Inst Women and Marino, Monaco, Andora. and Lich-transmitters which could be used
Mr. Alfred Morris is in receipt of vor. ard has been again proved by Rond. Kowloon Tong, and the Indus- tenstein, and the Baltic States. Fin-more effectively.
a cable message from London to the the experience of the present month.triol Home ter Blind Girls, Pokfulam. land, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
effect that his resimation as Director Even aninst rurface attack it has are two well-known Institutions, and that mwny The scope
of the order, breadly
of Ambulance and Commissioner of considerable value: since a number those in charge hope
to their aid in d'a- speaking. embraces all neutral roun these countries without a permit. tries in Europe, as well as Chine., Private individuals are not allowed the St. John Ambulance Briande has of ships atrembled in a convoy oc- friends will rally Jaran and Ruskio.
to send prolibited articles to bahnert been accepted by the Chanter General envy less mace at sea than when poging of the beautiful articles, un- No prohibited matter can now be countries, except in special cireum- with the annroval of the Grand Prior read out singly, thus being harder, rem'ttingly tumed out by the in-
mates of both Ilames. for a raider to locate," of the Order. posted, carried or shipped to any, of stances.
dom.
America.
The
Convoy Controls control of convey, arrangements| is in the hands of specially selected}
at the ports of assembly. offers
Many of these are retired naval of
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