JEWELRY
OF DISTINCTION
A gift of jewelry is n
If forever! These are Just a few of our worth-
while Christmas nugSC- liona.
Large center dia- mond dinner ring with ten amatier side diamonds, hand- Romely mounted in white gold.
Brilliant diamond mo unied' wrist containing walch,
Rixty genuine din- monds in while or natural zold.
Natural gold wrist watchi
of smart
modern design, com-
plete with nitractive,
harmonizing
bracelet.
Sixteen diamond wrist watch In shart square-de- rigned ease of white or natural colour
gold.
Fully guaran-
teed.
JEWELLERY SECTION-2ND FLR.
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`Saturday and Sunday
December 23rd and 24th Extension till 2 a.m.
Music by
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NON-DINERS $2
Reservations Booked
December 22, 1939,
LACK OF PETROL PARALYSES NAZIS
DUTCH-GERMAN FRONTIER-Germany is paralysed by lack of petrol. The shortage grows more serious daily, ut experts liave told Hitler that unless supplies aro quickly found defeat will be inevitablo and swift if war begins on a large scale,
This triurmation was given my to-day by a utulra) oil official intimately associated with Germany. He tank just returned from a visit there where he had Interviews with leaders of all the defence forces, says a Correspondent,
Ho showed me figures which prove that Germany's hure mechanised army is almost immobilised by rationing scheme. Large numbers of bombers are gro'indril,
"When the campaign really starts," sald my Informant, "Ger- many will be without petrol in two months,”
The mechanised army is using four times as much fuel as wha calculated, and, owing to setion of the British Navy, the submarine Geet is using (wien as much as was counted on,
Thle of humanitarians the reason for our immunity
from large scale air attacks on cities.
No supplies from the Polish ollfields can be expected for at least twelve months, owing to ile destruction by retreating Polis troops. No great help can be expected from Russia.
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Even with the Allies playing a waiting game, Germany Is using twice as mutek petrol as in peacetime and is receiving only one-third of her usual supplies.
British Ports Censorship
(By A Correspondent)
A CHANNEL PORT. THERE have been bitter by travellers complaints about the seizure at British
FREUD
TRICKED
NAZI
Kept £22,000
PROFESSOR
world-famous
Sigmund Freud, founder of psycho- analysis-whom the Nazis gloated over as
"broken, bankrupt Jew" when he sought refuge in Endand au- list year-tricked, them of a fortune. It is announced that he had left
£22,850.
ports of newspapers and books by
Customs thorities.
The strangest fact of all is that the seized literature is sent to the Chief Censor at Liverpool, of all pisees.
The story was told ine by Dr. Jean Martin Freud, one of his sons, says n "Daily Mail" Reporter.
They thought they had got all my Mr. II. N. Robertson, of Wrotham, father's fortune," he said, but they Kent,
the "Times", describes what were wrong. They stole about half happened as he crossed the Channel of it. to France and returned.
**Family Secret"
"But the other half-my father On the return voyage Customs managed to keep that out of their officials discovered in lils suiteuse "oncluiches; he was too clever, ordinary 7s. 6d. English novel, pub- lished in London and purchased there. some weeks ago. This contreband "I cannot tell you exactly how te was eagerly seized upon, to be orden. It is a family secret. But one did it or where the money was hid- worded, I was informed, to the Chief Censor, at Liverpool, of whom any day, perhaps, I may tell it, and it
will make an interesting story." inquiries might be inade."
I understand that Freud spent his, last days writing senthint exposure his
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Don't let unpleasant laxatives
cause tears and tantrums.-
Use this Child's Laxativo -
When your youngster is out-of- Borta obviously in need of a thorough intestinal cleansing-and stili" fights" taking a laxative, don't set it down as stubbornness. Maybe you are guilty-- of thoughtlessness. For when a child objects to such medicine, there's often good cause. The taste may be offensive, or the action barsh and unpleasant.
So is it ever fair, or even kind, to force such remedies on your youngster, lus taxing an upset condition stili further?
Fortunately, there's no need to re- sort to such measures. You can get a real child's laxative-"Califomia Syrup of Figs" —' Califig 'thor- oughly pleasant both in taste and
·PLEASANT, MILD IN ACTION nction. Youngsters really like it.
In flavour, California Syrup of Figs "deliciousas pure fruit syrup. Aul, because of its gentle vegetable ingredients, mild and agreeable in effect. Doctors recommend it. And in thousands of homes where it is used, "Californis Syrup of figa "has proved an equally suitable laxative for others in the fully young or old, especially for women with whom it is impor tant to avoid the shock of stronger, harsher Inga
"California Syrup of Figs" ia sok by chemisia and stores everywhere. Be sure lo emphasize the name *California and look for 'Califig'on the package.
'CALIFORNIA SYRUP OF FICS"
NATURES OWN LAXATIVELE
PARLOPHONE
A LIGHT CLASSICAL PROGRAMME by
(Suppe) Vienna State Opera Orch..
... ... Richard Tauber. ..Eileen Joyce. Piago,
FAVOURITES OF THE RADIO E11405-Beautiful Galatea. Overture. R20086-Rose Marie, Indian Love Call E11403-Andante In A. (Schubert) Impromptu in E flat Major. N20204--La Boheme. They Call Me Mimi
Rigolette. Gilda's Aria, E11381-Fock and Peasant.
Overture E11395-Rigolelio
R20012-Pagilard
L'Elisir d'amour. E11369-La Boheme. Selection E11396-Lakme. Bell Song E11408-Allesandro Stradella. Overture
His brief-case, containing eight or of Nazi persecution founded on nine pounds of typewritten docu- personal experiences in Vienna. ments, was overlooked. He complains liant 83-years-old scientist until he
England gave refuge to the bril-E11329-Caprice Espagnole, (Moszkowski) that "not even P. G. Wodehouse or died peacefully in September at his
Novelette No. 2. (Schumann). indeed, the Book itself is exempt
E11397-Myself When Young. (Lehmann)
Pilgrim's Song. (Tchaikowsky). E11343--Firefly. Selecion E11352-La Boheme. Muscitas Waltz
from such blind and pompous folly home at Maresfeld-gardens, Hamp- of inflated functionanes."
stend, N.W.
I watched the arrival here of a Freud made a family will with no Chinunel boat and the Customs ex- To his daughter. Anna, he left his bequests to any eclentlic institutions: amination. I Interviewed a dozen or more of the 20 or
30 passengers, collection of antiques and books on From none could I extract complaints psychology and prycho-analysis, and about the seizure of their books 21, ho bequeathed the royalties on his to his grandchildren after they were papers.
copyrights.
On the other hand, I have heard of the seizure of a forelim student's text- bocks, which were sent to the Chief Censor at Liverpool, who by all ac
SERVICE OF CAROLS
counts must be accumulating a vast Hongkong Union Church
store of modern English ßction."
There have been some
strange
anemalies, The sale of English
On Sunday Night newspapers on the boats leaving here Union Church on Sunday will take Evening Service at the Hongkong has now been stopped, though they the form of A can be bought in French towns.
Christmas musical No official comment could be given will be no address. Soloists include,
service of hymns and carols, There nor any explanation of why piles of Mrs. Doris Blair, Mrs. Helen Lock- literature are being sent to Liverpool. hort. Mrs. But I gather that greater discretion Gaston d'Aquino and
I Moran (cello) Mr. Mr. Sanders,
is now allowed to examiners to pass Mr. Longyear will be at the organ.
height reading of some British subjects.
He Lives On Lightning
Included in the programme are the soles, "O Leave your Sheep", "A Star of the East", "From Heart to Heart", "Cradle Song", "Crown of Roses" Quarletles are, "Sussex Carol", lolly and the Joy", "Nativity" "Cradle Song," "Our Erotier is Born," "How Beautiful upon the Mountains, Irving A. Moon, of San Francisco, and "Peaceful Night; on the cello, has the world's strangest Sunday Job. "Berceuse" and "Caro, Mio Ben"; and Every Sunday morning he walks on the organ, "The Question", and through the city to the grounds "The Answer". where the £10,000,000 Golden Gate Union Church offers a very cordial International Exposition is being held invitation to all who are interested to and has 1,000,000 volls passed altend this service, which will take through his body.
place at 0 p.m.
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Large audiences watch him flames shoot from the lips of his fingers. He holds a stick in his right hand which is burnt to á eindor.
CHRISTMAS · PROGRAMME
A Christmas programme in scrip- tural reading and singing will be
The theme of Irving's show is given by the Bethel Mission in the
"Sermons from Science,"
P.Sirving used to do
Chinese Y.M.C.A., Kowloon, at 7 p.m. every to-night. No charge for admission
day. But it got too much for him. "will be made.
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.Pertile. Tenor. ..Lily Pona..
Vienna State Opera Orch. Lina Pagiusgh!,. .Grand Symphony Orch. .......Lima Fazlulght. Berlin State Opera Orch..
.Elleen Joyce. Piano,
„Oscar Natzke, Bass..
.Phillip Green & Orch. ...Maria Eggerth.
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