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Friday,
HONGKONG TELE GRAPH
February 2, 1940.
By Walt
Disney
HELLO, BOYS! IT LOOKS LIKE RAIN, SO
SHUT THE WINDOWS!
JUST A GAG FOR A FREE CALL, CHUMP! THERE'S NO ACCIDENT!
OH.
YEAH?
DRUGS
GENTLE," BUT HE
KILLED RIVAL
ACQUITTED
CHARLES HOWELLS, aged-
52. of Merthyr. Glamorgan, was a "gentle, quiet and inoffensive"
HULD.
He killed his ledger. Bertie Win ter Lewis, with a coal hammer,
A jury al Canorgan Assizes
found hin not guilty of murder, but gulity of manslaughter "under great provocation" and inade a strong' re- commendation to merEM.
Mr. Justice Hawke sentenced him
to three years' penali servitude.
"1 entirely agree with the verdict," he said, "but, at roure, you took a man's life."
The Triangle
Mrs. Howells left the court, sobbing never forgive and saying "I can
myself. He worshipped the ground I walked un."
The story of husband, write and
lodger was told in court.
Until Lewis went to live with the Howells they lived a nononi, luappy life, but then quarrels began.
After
went
to
one of these Mrs. Howells another room, Lewis followed! her and ten minutes inter Howells went in.
"I caught Lewk with his round my wife," said Howells. "v! was kissing her."
Goodbye Kiss
His wife was heard to say, "You! spier, You creeping rat, You can divorce me in the morning it you!
like."
Later Lewis said to him:
You are only At for the farmyard. You may as well know, first as last. we have been as man and wife for ! a long time."
After Howells killed Lewis, he Hissed his wife good-bye, telephoned the pollen, and gave himself up.
OF MURDER
Escaped Nazis
Germans
MRS. CHAMBERLAIN
I
PLANTS A TREE
Once there was a shortage of walnut wood for rifle butts In England,
So it's now an old custom to plant walnut trees on military grounds.
The photograph shows Mrs. Neville Chamber- lain, wife of the Premier, planting one at Alder- shot.
Before the end of this year something lika five million rifle butts will be required by England.
Stole
Caught Czech's Food
ONE of four men who escaped from a prisoners-of-war camp in England was a Czech. And he had been "sent to
Juliana's Honeymoon Coventry" by the 250 Germans in the camp.
Hotel. Is Now
Hospital
G. B. Shaw Coloured-
5 Guineas
IF a man with a clay pipe is worth a guinea, what is Mr. Bernard Shaw worth?
"Five guineas," sakl Deputy Judge Hanublen, who put and onsvered this poser at Westminster County Court,
Mr. L. Leigh, professional photo- grapher, of Cleve-rond. West Hamp- stead, N.W., had sued Mr. Henry! Stead, comers denler, of the Strand, for £10 18, the value of nine photo- graphic sildes looned and not re- turned.
A enloured slitte of Mr. Shaw and one of an old man with a clay pipe were among those missing.
It was submitted that the slides were over-valued,
a
Mr. Leigh: It yas the frat time!
bad tried olour film. and as I did not think
would have anej then chance of! hooting Mr. Ber- ward Shaw
Judge Hamblen; must not put
You
't that way, you!
10
Stead said.
did not know
the value put on
the slide of Mr. Shaw.
This was revested in.court when The other prisoners in the camp-
Judge Humblent the man was remanded to await an he was the only Czech there--refused
Perhaps it is cor escort.
to speak to him.
reet to say, thaihe is priceless? The police said it appeared that he For the first two days they even Judgment was given for Mr. Leigh AMSTERDAM-Among-hotels-of had been impressed into service by took his food from him, saving for £5.5, for the slide of Mr. Shaw, the Polish holiday resorts of Zalto-the Nars after the conquest of his Czech did not require anything to and £1 is. each for the other eight pane and Krynice commandeered country.
missing slides, with costs.
A hospitals for German soldiers one owned by Jan Klepura, the Polish singer, where Princess Juliana and Prince Bernford spent part of their honeymoon.
財
col,
A Czacho-Slovakian refugee girl acted as the man's interpréter.
Through her be suid he was worki ing on a German ship when it was have been recaptured. They had got captured.
He wanted to go to France to fight) in the Czech' Legion for the Allies.
The three other men who escaped
more than 30 miles from the camp.
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ARGENTINE WORRIED Cost Of Keeping Interned Nazis
BUENOS AIRES.-Concern- ed over how to collect from Germany the $25,000 monthly maintenance of the Admiral Graf Spee's interned Argentine officials sought to help the seamen find employ- ment ashore.
crew,
Ometals in the Ministry of Interior said they hoped to complete within
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WOMEN'S ARMY IS IN FRANCE
GIRL ALL THE
TROOPS SALUTE
By RICHARD MCMILLAN
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE. THERE is a flutter of excitement in the ranks, and even among the generals, of the British Expeditionary Force he cause-part of Britain's women's army has at last come "up the line."
TATE BOWLED BY JUDGE
MR. JUSTICE HUMPHREYS who first played cricket In 1876, disagrees on # technical point of the game with Maurice Tate former England and Sussex bowler.
Referring to a statement by Tule, in evidence at Lowes As- sizes, that in the circumstances of the case before him I would not be more dangerous for a boy. to Reld forward of the wicke! than square with the wicket, he yald:-
"With fear and trembling venture to differ from Mr. Mau- rice Tate."
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The boy. 11-year-old John Bar- foot. of Seaford, had his skull fractured by the ball during a school match. An allegation that he was pinced at silly mkl- ол 123 denied by the games
master.
Mr. Justice Humphreys found that the boy was "very consider- ally less than 10 yards from the wickel," and awarded him £750 damages
Sussex agalsi East County Council.
WIDOW IS
AWARDED
£4,725
i
The Commander-in-Chief herself, Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, who holds the rank of Major-General In the AT.S., her aide-de-camp, and her chauffeuse, were the advance guard.
It is the aide-de-comp who hun sel the troops' hearts throbbing because she happens to be extremely pretty, and her uniform goes splendidly with her beauty.
She tries to look very soldierly and farmy-like in her neat chaki uniform. with two pips on her shoulder to in- dicate that she is equivalent to a lieutenant.
Knows The Code
She knows the B.E.F. code="Don't talk about your job with the Army in France"and keeps it.
Dame Gwynne-Vaughan, looking very motherly, despite the red tabs even less co- on her tunic, municative.
whs
It is believed that the first woman jof the ATS, is out to try to find by personal' investigation what part the women's auxiliary force enu carry out with the British troops in France. Upun her report to the War Office will probably depend whether a women's B.E.F. will come out to France.
You want to know the pretty A.T.S. Heutenant's name?
It is Gilian. But more than that cannot be given.
The Houtenant is about 5ft 3in.. has blonde hair, a lovely fresh com- plexion and ilinks that life Is 'wonderful.
She gets saluted, also, by every Tommy who meets her;
'No Bee's Land Between Armies
OF £4,125 dainages awarded to, PARIS-The honey-bee will join Mrs. Gwendoline Mary Rees, at the exodus of men and beasts from Glamorgan Assizes, for Juss of her the region between the Maginot and husband; £1,200 was for loss of ex-Siegfried Hnes behind which the pectation of life.
armies of France and Germany are
The Moselle Department of the
Airs. Rees husband, a Swansea encamped. dentist, was killed when his car was Beekeeper's Federation has decided
In collision with a South Wales! Transport Company bus.
to send their insects and their hives
to safer areas in the interior and
The damages were awarded against ask fellow beekeepers to care for the bus company,
DR3086
a week regulations under which the DB3318 more than 1,000 men would be placed in "restricted zones" far from DB2274 the sen
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them.
PROGRAMME
BY
THE PHILADELPHIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
UNDER
LEOPOLD STOKOWSKY
ON
HIS MASTER'S VOICE RECORDS
Hungarian Rhapsody No, 2
Valse Triste
Oh, Lord must Holy
(Liszt).
(Sibelius), (Caesar Franck).
.(Caesar Franck),
..(Wagner).
Choral Prelude
. (Bach).
Symphony In D minor
ably
Tannhauser. Frelude to Act 111
1.
three,
DB3220 to One omeer said these zones prob- DB3230
would be arranged so the men could and work in groups of two or
DB3254
Even so, the Ministry esti-DB3255
mated $25,000 a month, for which DB7745 to Symphony No. 9 (Chora}) Germany will be
billed.
DB7753
Some officials expressed doubt as to DD1706 to Poem of Ecstasy how collection could be made.
British sources, watching closely the handling of the internment said Great Britain: would be: "better satisfied if these nailors were placed under lock and key.", but that no formal protest was likely as long as they were unable to engage in fur- ther military activities.
"X-Ray Eyes" Boy Found Dead
DB1707
..(Beethoven).
(Scriabin),
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THE HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN The Society asks for
$35,000
In 1940 to meet the increasing needs of sick and destitute children in Hong Kong, against which the Income to date is $12,000 only.
A 18-year-old youth, known on the stage as "Marco, the boy with the X-ray eyes" was found dead at in order to continue its work, the Society Worcester.
His death was discovered two hours before he was due to appear with his father at a local theatre. It was from natural causes.
The boy was Ronald Lindsay, a pupil at Christ Church School,
appeals for the balance of $21,000 before the close of the financial year on 31st October. A copy of the Annual Report for 1939 may be obtained from:
Mr. A. MERELLAB, CA.
c/o Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co.,
P. & O: Building
farmtone, N.W. He wan ̈ shortly air, KWOK CHAN,
to have gone to High Wycombe, c/o The Banque, de L'Indo-Chine, Buckinghamshire, to give an enter
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tainment for his evacuated school-on. Trensurere, *-
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