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Edgar Wallace Suspect
A BAN on British popular novels, which normally have a big circulation in Germany, ig foreshadowed in The "Essener Zeitung." Goering's mouthpiece.
"Even, in Edgar Wallace books and in those of John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir)
Flax Is
British propaganda is laserted in such a subtle way that it poisons the minds of Ger-
mans," the paper declares,
An end must be put to British anti-German propa- ganda by means of apparently harmless novels,"
Ulster's
Weapon
"Secret
Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January 17, 1940.
By Walt Disney
YOU WIN, UNCA DONALD!
Daily Working Parties for Front Lines
B.E.F. MACHINE-GUN
UNITS
By DOUGLAS WILLIAMS "Daily Telegraph" War Correspondent
WITH THE BRITISH.
ARMY IN FRANCE. Since the adoption of the Bren gun as an infantry arm, machine-gun battalions are com paratively scarce in the British Army, but I found one to-day snugly ensconced in billets be-
been digging.
FLAX is Ulster's "sceret weapon" in the economic bind the positions they have war on Germany,
CURSES
flax
IN FRANCE
FATHER WON'T LET
HIM HAVE A MASK
A BOY living at Eastwood, Renfrewshire, is sent back from school every day because he hasn't got a gas mask. His father, a conscientious objector, won't let him have one..
Renfrewshire Education Committee discussed the boy-and when a member asked how many at the meeting had brought
their gas masks there was silence.
Every day a woriting party goes forward to complete the strong points under construction which, in the will occupy with their guns. event of emergency, the battalion SPOTLIGHT NAME
ON
She has decided to increase The acreage devoted to growing from 20,000 to 50,000 by next Spring.
The mens, most of them Londoners, More important still, she is to live in one of the best billets I have
manufactures for home consumption, the British positions. A large park and to concentrate on exports to holds a number of pavillons, and in countries such us the United States; these Company officers! sleeping STRANGE FOODS FÓR
quarters, sergeants mess, canteen and officers'
been in- have stalled.
KEEP THEM suspend, as far as possible, her linen seen here in two months of visiting
AWAKE
and Canada.
Her oversean linen market is the second most Important ilem in the of the United “Stone walls do not a prison trade of the whole
Kingdom with the Unlled States. make
During the last 11 years it has averageil about £2,750,000 a year.
Nor iron bara a cage
SO wrole Colonel Lovelace, and Exoter agrees heartily within Exeter, which is normally a short-
term jail.
his sentiments.
Their shouting and foul language have made sleep impossible during
the night.
The residents have had enough. They say that their nerves are un must be edge, and thot something done about it
They have decided to petition, the prison authorities.
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Legal Time Signal and Wea-
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1.03 Musical Comedy Selections.! 1.30 Reater, rugby press, weather| forecast, announcements.
1.45
Gracie Fields and Arthur Askey
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2.15 Close Down.
0.00 Robinson Cleaver at the Or-) gan-Medley (Ca c'est Paris; Har- Lights: Mussed Bands of the Guards; Bao-Hou; Little old Lady of Poverty Sircet; Red, White and Blue); Musical Sweethearts (Polly; Dinah; Nola: Dainty. Miss; Miss Annabelle Lee, Somebody stole my Cal).
6.13 Light Symphony Orchestra.- JAMES SHERIFF, 40-years-Homage Murch (Haydn Wood), Con-
Waltz-Joyouanest car dealer, told Cardiff cert
(Haydn Bankruptcy Court to-day that Mod), Mon Heve (Waldteufel), Bal
Masque (Fletcher). he and a friend had been held 0.30 Closing stock quotations. captive by gunmen in a London.
0.32 Harold Williams (Baritone) flat and robbed of £1,800, which and the London Palladium Orchestra. they had paid for a secret pow--The Merry-Go-Round. When the der to turn water into wine and Harvest's In, Harold Williams; Bells petrol.
Across The Mendow, The Phantoinį Melody, London Palladium Orchestra; In An Old Fashioned Town, If I Harold Wil- Hums: These Foolish Things Selection, London Palladium Orchestra,
Drills and exercises go on all day The German occupation has adjoining grass plats, where so denuded Western Poland that N.C.O.'s and newly-joined officers, even the commonest articles without distinction of rank, receive cannot be bought in the shops, instruction from
specially-trained Nazi humorists, with nothing to sergeant-majors in the handling of the Vickers
guns with whten the laugh about on the home front, battalion is equipped,
make merry over, the plight of Prisoners in the city's jail are A warning that trouble which had
Neatly-Made Beds telling householder: fri adjoint developed in a number of prisonsi
Discipline and good spirits are roads all about their grievurwest "will become serious as time go busy work so happily together, and gleefully how a peasant near Cracow alike excellent. Chicery smiles and The "Koelnischer Zeilung tells on was given by Mr. W. J. Brown, long experience in different parts of tried to enlist general secretary of the Civil Ser- the Empire has init the regiment soldier in buying some leather to re- Colum-road, Cardiff, had abili- Might Come To You,
the help of a Nazi
Sheriff, whose address was given vice Clerical Association.
Speaking for the Prison Officers together in cordial conradeship be- pair his wife's shoes. The print ties of £434 and assets of £16. Assõelation, he said inekdents at tween officers and men. Exeter were not exaggerated as was visited beds were
In the sleeping quarters
Lunuble the soldier in the street and,
to speak German, presented said that about eight years ago he In his preliminary statement he bis plea in writing neatly made up!
7.00 Dance Music by Maurice Win- claimed by the Home Olue.
was usked by friend, Mr. Garcia, nick and Ills Orchestra with Young "Some two months ago," he added, with straw mattrem feel inside a "I warned the prison authorities that palilasse bought locally, I was told. newspaper quotes this pathetic who was wine merchant and gar- and Forsythe on Two-Planos-Did Leaders of the jail uproar are men trouble was going to develop in for only 1s. id. The wouden Boor full of grammatical errors, in age proprietor, to investigate a pro-Remember?, A Star Fell Out Of which the writer declared his nd- cess to turn water Into cheap wine Heaven, Maurice Winnick; Rumbas transferred to Exeter from Wands number of prisons.
scrupulously miration for the German "liberatora" and petrol.
On Toast (La worth since the outbreak of the war,
Cucuracha; Mama The trouble is that
walls the Home clean and the
duly white-and ended with the request, "So will washed,
Inez: The Carioca: Siboney), Arthur The process, carried out by means Young and Reginald Forsythe; You, Accustomed to certain privileges Omtee has tried to enter for prison)
In the canteen Joen beer of excel-you please go with me to a shop.and of a secret powder was known.only A Pretty Girl is Like A Melody -applicable in-long-term-prisons, they reform-by-worsening-the-conditions
object to the Mick of these facilities of the prison officers"
help me buy some leather to mend to a Doctor Martinez. Tent quality was obtainable in un- my wife's shoes," usually large bottles
Maurice Winnick; More Rumbas On at about 4d.. while cigarettes, chocolate, biscuits) "Of course," adds the report, "the
Trial Run
Toast (Tony's Wife; Side walks of and other delicacies were being sold German soldier quickly
Cuba; Green eyes; When Yuba plays sent the! at cost price.
Sheriff naked for a demonstration the Rumka on the Tura), Arthur pensant packing, but he got huge en- and at the doctor's request got a Young and Reginald Foresythe; Some Hot tea was available every day joyment out of the letter, it was petral tin and filled it with water. in the momlag and afternoon, and written, no doubt, by sly Jew, who
Other Time. On Treasure Island, The doctor then gave him a slip Take My Itart, Maurice Winnick. at night hot dogs in crisp rolls could get anney but of the peasant for of paper to get a powder from be purchased. Business was brisk. | doing it.”
chemist. He did so and Upped the 7.30 London Relay-The News. and dally takings of £20 to 28 Punch and Propaganda
powder into the tin.
Time signal, weather report, announcements, They went for a drive in Sheriff's car, and in the country the tank was
8.03 Plans Bolos-Prelude In G drained and the contents of the tin Minor, Op. 33, No. 5 (Rachmaninoff). poured in.
| Mischa Levitzki; Prelude In B Flat
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FI450-Cliopsticks.
All God's Chillue Got Rhythm.
F1393-Hurry Home.
Between A Kiss mad A Sigh.
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In the Mudie of A Dream.
FI554—We'll Meet Agali.
Your's for A Sang.
(No Vocal)
Waltz.
Q.S. AT. Q.5.
F1534—Wish Me Good Luck As You Wave Me Unodbye. (5.
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·Cuban Lady.
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A test of turning water into wine was also carried out in the presence and to the satisfaction of Mr. García. Borrowed £600
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The regiment possesses an
Topical Punch and Judy shows for usually fine football team, which re- the troops and the Hitler Youth have cently delealed the 'loral French made their appearance on the pro learn by the remarkable score of 10paganda front. A week-end broad- konts to 2, while the afteers have!
cost performance Introduced an on- "the car fired as usual, and we con-
"au my amazement," said Sherift, el Poshinelle (Hach-SOUTH CHINA MORNING discovered an abandoned golf course familiar puppet-"the He-bird, who tinued on where, despite overgrown fairway greeches as loud as Mr. Churchill" could not be true, and asked for un-2 In E Minor, Op. 27-Eugene Or- our journey. I felt this 8.15 Rachmaninoff Symphony No. and uncut. greens, they are able to!
Punch, a heavy-footed other demonstration. Fet a good game on Saturday after-humorist, announced that Germany
mandy and the Minneapolis Sym- BAS had a new weapon which the Allies became fully convinced that water
result of the second test Iphony Orchestro. In one hall, formerly
9.03 Studio Comments on Recent a cabaret, could not use.
could be turned Into pelrol."
Events. decorated with large wall paintings
0.15 London Relay-News Sum-
0.30 An Hour of the Latest Dance Music-There's Something Wrong With The Weather, Billy Cotton; In As I was leaving a staff car drove nearer home may be expected from!
The doctor, Sheriff continued, Grows Old, Victor Svester; Lady, The Middle Of A Dream, Love Never un and my escorting officer hurried two other marionettes who made wanted £2,000 for the formula, but play Your Mandolin, Havana Novelty off to meet it. "Probably someone their debut in the same performance, eventually it was agreed that Garcia else hoping to pinch our billet," he These were Mr. Grumbler and Aun- should find £1,200, and he provide Orchestra; I Never Knew Henven mittered as he went of. "I always, feud without a ration card.
tip Scrounger, a lady who tries to get £600.
Could Speak, There's Danger In The thought it was too good to last."
He borrowed the money from a Waltz, Victor Silvester; The Daughter Citric Acid and Salt Beverage firm of solicitors, and accompanied of Mademukselle From Armentieres, by Garcia, he went to a fist in Pnd-Harry Roy: Boom, I Get Along With- Campaignlag in all elkenes la gyi- dington with the money in dollar out You Very Well, Jay Wilbur, Beer Barrel Polka, Hurry Roy; Roses Are Blooming In Loveland, The Organ, Bafore discursing the formula the The Dance Band and Me: Tears From special food and delnic being prepared doctor said he wanted the money. My Inkwell, You Grow Sweeter As HATE Quiet on the Western Front" for the troops. Among these ste It was handed to him and he gave The Years do By, Jay Wilbur; Sum- (King'): Uncensored version of Erl-hj Pemmican sausage, based on the another demonstration-woshing" the
imer evening | Maria Remarquo's „famous book:
print off one dollar bill and. making remembered but you Forgot, Max- og in Santa Cruz, The Moon When experiences of Polar explorers; thefin was shown in Hongkong
A drink prepared largely from it into one, for 500, dollars, several yenin ago, certalu scenes werej
well Stewart's cliric acid and
Ballroom Melody; cooking salt--"an Then the door suddenly opened Merry and Bright, Keep Young!, cut by the censor. Following declara excellent specifle against sunstroke and two men with revolvers walked Grorite Boulanger: F. D. R. Jones, tion of Second World War, Universal
and fatigue"; restored scones, re-edited and modern-
Whale-meat as good as beet";
"We were comered," spid Sheriff, bona. led entire Blin. Low Ayres given a
Stairway To The Stars, Carroll Gib- pavicularly brilliant performance
Cheese-powder, which is mixed, and we offered no resistance. We 10.30 Selections Pout Baummer.
with water to make Dutch cheese; were kept prisoners in the fat for a Pinafore"
from "H.MS. "Full Confesion" (Queen's): Murder and
day and a night, and when we left Guards: Monsieur Beaucaire" Vocn! (Sullivan), Coldstream melodrama. Story of Catholic priest's,
Dried potatoes and cabbage in we immediately went to Scotland Gems (Mesmager), Light Opera Com- elforts to make murderer confess to crime revealed under soal of confer packets the size of half-a-brick.
Yard. When we returned with de inany; "Liine Time" Selection, Organ These last, It is sald, are scarcely tectives the men had gone. The men Solo by Harry Kional, Starring Victer McLagion.
distinguishable from fresh vegetables, In the flat spoke in a foreign langu-Miracle" Selection Sally Ellore and Joseph Callela
"Reckless
(Alhambra) and are just as nourishing. Nong of age.". Hanger Texus, rangOIN. Dob Allan stars as a the dishes is to be compared with the i Answering Mr. Reginald Betts, the rough-riding ranger who avances the artificial foods which were so nomeial Receiver, Sherift wald:. denth of his twin brother. Bix-year old popular with the troops in the last Buddy Cox, andwcomer to the screen, wor proven to be en excellent rider.
OUR GUIDE TO THE CINEMAS
до
dently foreseen by the German com- notes missurial, which issues 1st of
"Blondie" (Oriental): Homoly enter Theatres Short of Costumes tainment with an appeal to all types)
family audientrs. The characters are] taken from the famous daily comie
In.
"We were not exactly prisoners in the fat, but we were told to keep quiet."
The examination นอ closed.
Davidson "The (Humperdinck), London Symphony Orchestra.,
11.00 London Relar-Thillip Baker on "Matters of Moment."
11.15 Close Down
AUXILIARY NURSES
First aid and home nursing ́eerli- ficates obtained by members of the Auxiliary Nurking Service;"in)
The greatest treasures of the Ger- Sheriff undertaking to pay 41 A strip, Penny Bingleton takes the title man theatro are being dissipated by month out of his earnings to his role with Arthur Lake as her irrepress the fimpossibility of abiaining material creditors, he young haban
for staging and dressing; new, plays, j CSrtoon Probation (Binjentic); Every thentre has valuable store Tragic story of prison probationary of costumes, and scenery, bulli up tings whenever a new play is pro- | examinations in October, and Novam- system's part in saving a young girl, during many years of repertory. duced, "We have never had to do bar can now be secured by applica- peralatantly wrongly accused, who final-1: Now the shortage of material is this before, confessed the manager tion at the offer of the accountant of iya nanistaể thu law'n manİNKİ offenders. Excellent performance by
"the real forcing managera to cut up and re- of Berlin's largest theatre in a week- the Medical Department, second floor, Jane, Bryan jó lâding, role,
!model irreplaceable, dresses and set- end broadcast.
Post Office Building.
YOUR FAVORITE IN HIS FIRST GREAT STARRING
ROLE!
RICHARD GREENE
Here I am
a Stranger
RICHARD DIX BRENDA JOYCE
Semantional discivory)
ROLAND YOUNG
GLADYS GEORGE Katharine Aldederu
·Rumenil Glades,
Quarga Zacto, Edward Nerds Hansy, Kolkor!