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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
NANCY
HELLO, NANCY--- IS YOUR AUNT FRITZI HOME ?
NO, MRS. BROWSER--
SHE'S OUT
OH, WOULD YOU COME OVER AND RUN SOME
ERRANDS FOR
ME, NANCY ?
December 14, 1939.
By Ernie Bushmiller
I'M SORRY, BUT I'M NOT HOME
EITHER, MRS.
BROWSER!
Short-sighted Old Lady:
"Have you ever tried giving
your baby Dill Water
NOW it
ILLER
SWASTIK AND SIEGFRIED
"It is goot, it is goot, again we sink the Ark Royal, the Hood, the Repulse and the Rodney."
"Ach, Siegfried, the, 'swinedog British must have three of each."
XMAS
If You Know Someone Somewhere In France-
YOU'LL SOON BE ABLE TO SEND TELEGRAMS
NAZI TO R.A.F.:
'I SALUTE YOU'
By NOEL MONKS
Daily Mail Special Correspondent with the R.A.F.
Somewhere in France.
A GERMAN pilot sat down to dinner as an honoured guest in the officers' mess of an R.A.F. squadron last night. He had been shot down by one of our Hurricane fighters, but because of the courage he had shown dur-
For most
By O. D. GALLAGHER Daily Express War Reporter With the B.E.F. in France.
HERE is the most plea sant piece of news I've dug up in the seven days I have been with the Army-there are going to be telegrams for the Tommies.
As they say in the B.E.F., "the service is about to be laid on."
The colonel who is the Assistant Director of Postal Services (the big shot of the Post Office out here), has just come back from a conference at the G.P.O. in London.
There they talked about telegrams, and inspected the plans which are soldiers nearer home.
to bring front-line
ing the action he was invited to chair till his knuckles showed white dine with the men he had fought.he suid:
Please forgive me. Your kind- He shook hands with all hisness has overwhelmed me. houts. They toasted him, and of my 31 years I have been taught he toasted them. Then in the to dislike the Engilsh.
"For these last five years I have Sald the colonel to me recently
rate for middle of the meal he buried his
been made to hate them. Only "we" are fixing a Bat face in his arms and sobbed yesterday when I took off on this them. I'm afraid it can't be as cheap aloud.
laat night of mine I was told that as the ninepenny inland telegrams if the English captured me I should back home, but it won't cost much be starved and tortured.
The pilot who had shot him down led him from the dining room into the lounge. Іл art embarrassed continued with silence the others their meal.
"Your Kindness"
Ten minutes later the captured air- mon returned to his place at the table and, gripping the back of his
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"Instead you have broken me with your kindness. For the rest of my life I will be glad I met you. Gentlemen, I salute you.".
As one man the RAF. pilots leapt to their feet and acknowledged the salute. The Nazi. had given the Ger- man military salute, not the out- stretched urm of the Nazi Party.
And this is why our fighter squadron asked the Nazi pilot to dine.
Crew's Parachute Leap
Our Hurricane had been pouring bullets into the Nazi Dornier wher smoke started to pour from It. Two members of the crew leapt from it and fell earthwards. by parachute, The Dornier was wobbling badly.
more. At home they are all reyed up for the new service."
So is the colonel, a tall man full of nervous energy. He wears rimless Blasses, and I should say he is about
as efficient as can be.
Enthusiastic
And enthusiastic about his job. Bit of a psychologist, too-"If the troops feel that they are not in close touch with their homes, they are apt to think everything has gone wrong, They need news from home quickly." Telegrams will take from one to day. days probably one Fairly soon, you will see official announcements about this Tommy- Telegram Service, but I can give you a detail or two now.
Livo
The Hurricane-pilot-swooped low. They will have to be..addressed in over the enemy and peered into the the same way as ordinary letters to cockpit. He saw the pilot slumped men in the B.E.F. Yes, I know the long one and cost over the controls and concluded he address may be was dead. But he wasn't, though his money. The Post Office thought of machine was almost out of control. that too, and maybe the address will
Then the Nazl pilot did an amaz-go free. ingly herole thing. He got up from:
the controls and climbed into the They will be handed in at post In Britain, and gunner's cockpit in the nose of the offices anywhere machine.
will be telegraphed immediately to
to
the
In a a second he had trained the gun Army P.O. headquarters in France. on the R.A.F. Hurricane ahead, and! From there they will go while the Dornier flew along on its front, or wherever it is, by normal own he let loose a stream of bullets delivery. at the Hurricane, which, however, was soon manoeuvred out of range.
The Nazl was still at the gun when the machine crashed. Ife was unhurt. To-day he is a prisoner of war with a new outlook on life and the English.
OUR GUIDE TO THE CINEMAS
All this was planned in the first place for hundreds of Tommies who Many nre are prospective fathers. worried, and want prompt news about the new arrival to whom they will one day show their medals.
Nows From Mary So-twenty-four-year-old Mary, of Noel-street, Nottingham, you'll be able to telegraph him the news. It will be working in plenty of time for you..
"Blondie" (King's): Homely ester-) Lainment with an appeal to all types of In ense you don't know Mary,.... family audiences. The characters are Her boy husband sat behind me at taken from the famous daily comic
strip. Penny Singleton takes the title. Gracie Fields' concert, and cried a role with Arthur Lake as her Irrepres- bit when Gracle sang the song abouf the little boy who wanted his daddy able young husband.
back for Christmas.
"Brondway Musketeera" (Majestie)
A divorce melodrama which overcomes boredom by violence. Strip-tease dan- cor reform and rich man's wife deserts home and child for a rotter. With John Litel, Janet Chapman, fargaret Lind- May, Ann Sheridan and Marle Wilson.
When To-morms Comtes" (Queen's) Itetorn screening of a particularly ap-| pealing and entertaining m. Excel- fent performances by Charles Heyer,, Irene Dunne and Barbara O'Neill,
BRITISH WAR FUNDS Committee Asks to See All Advertisements
The Entertainment Committee of the British War Organisation Fund, funder the Chairmanship of Mrs, Hobbs, C/o Itoyal Naval Hospital, Wanchat, la organising various events for the purpose of: collecting money in aid of the fund.
Advertisements, posters or tickets to the effect that proceeds of certain entertainments, bazaars, etc., will be donated, portly or fully, to the fund. | Abould· kindly be submitted in the first instance to the office of the Hon. Secretary, Government House.
The Committee for the Fund is deeply appreciative of all such kind and generous efforts and sincerely, trust that entertaintient";organisa=; tions will conform to these require
This is going to be a two-way service. To and from the BEF. and, as the offelal announcement will tell you later, it is for urgent messages only.
No decision has been made yet about giving men a day or two leave to go home to deal with domestic crises
babies and things. Tommy's French comrades get a day's leave for such happenings.
The Allles add an hour to the war midnight when the to-morrow French go into winter-time with us. Good old Entente Cordiale.
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