NANCY
WHAT'S
THE
MATTER
WITH
THIS
MOVIE,
ANYHOW?
YEAH---
IT'S SO
DIM YA CAN HARDLY SEE IT!
KEEPING AN EYE ON FOOD SUPPLIES
Thanks to the vigilance of Britain's Navy, convoys
of merchant ships are arriving with regularity In British porta, This view of a convoy in the Atlantic was taken from a oraiser accompanying the slips.
One of the men whose job it is to see food ships from all over the world reach our shores in
safety,
Gretna
Green Smith
Is Dead
MR. DAVID R. MACINTOSH, "priest" at Gretna Hall smithy, Gretna Green, who had perform
Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
I'M NOT
By Ernie
WE WANT OUR
MONEY BACK--- THE MOVIES AREN'T
CLEAR!
AT ALL SURPRISED--
March 8, 1940.
Bushmiller
YOU FORGOT TO TAKE OFF YOUR SUN-GLASSES WHEN YOU CAM
IN. FROM THE BEACH !
The Men Who Volunteer for Finland
Workmen, Soldiers All Eager To Fight
FANLING GOLF STARTING TIMES
The following starting times have been arranged by the Royal Hong- kong Golf Club for the week-end:
Saturday
OLD COURSE
2,04 A. V. Grenver, J. 13. Mackie. 201 A. II. Purves, 15. 8. Morrison. 2.12 R. 1. Mnee, 11. M. M. King, 230 . Young, A. N. Other. 2.20 It. Sanger, J. W. Mayhow.
223 Capt. Giles, Lt. Cdr. Melrose.
VOLUNTEERS for Finland are rush-224 N. R. Littlejohn, A. McKellar. ing the recruiting office in Smith Square, Westminster.
Men of all classes and ages, workmen, professional men, ex-Army officers, clerks, men in reserved occupations, are there, all cager to fight for freedom.
Twenty-nine-year-old Edward Chalmers,
Could Speak
18 Tongues
PEOPLE who called on the 70-year-old Į hermit of Skirmett were rarely encouraged
to stay and chat.
All the people in the neighbouring village of Hambledon, Bucks, knew the Hermit, Ernest George Terry, by sight, but very few of them knew that, if he had chosen to be chatty, he could have spoken to them in eighteen languages.
Saltors in "disguise" on the lookout For enemy ships
planes. A con- stant watch is essential, but it is a cold job at this time of
Vitamin
year,
Injections Cure Flu
A short time ago he looked in at the window of a house not far from his hut and said that he felt ill.
Is neighbours welcomed him to their reside.
Died On Road Malnutrition and exposure had taken too great an effect un him.
His condition was so serious that un ambulance was called.
He died in it.
In his pockets police found £50 in £1 notes.
In the lut were piles of shure certiflentes and dividend warrants,
There was a library, too, of fam GusTM works and some editions that may prove to be valuable.
Many Secrets
It was nine years
age
that he arrived at Skirmeit. His hermitage
of Glasgow, who has worked in the United States and Canada and is now employed in a Lon- don hotel, hopes to be off with the first draft. Until the out- break of war he was serving in a merchant ship, but early last September he was paid off and had to seek a job ashore. He Wanted To
Bo In It Quickly
"I want to be in this war one way or another," he said, "and ils might|
be as good a way as any. I am 29, called up in the ordinary way. I can't be bothered to wait for that.
"When I heard of the volunteer scheme from Finland I thought this
and it may be some time before I am
might be the quickest way of getting into uniform, so I came down to see it they would have me.
"After all, one might as well fight | in Finland us in France. It seems to me it's all for the same cause, any- how.
2.40 J. A. D. Morrison, D. 11. lake.
Sunday
OLD COURSE
9.10 A, C. I, Bowker, L. M. S. Lloyd. 0.20 H. Penn, J. R. Callis, 0.21 T. Pearce, E. T. McMullen.
928 9. 1umphreys, d. C. Worrall.
1.32 J. A. D. & K. 9. Morrison, 9.36 M. G. Carruthers, R. C. Gardiner.
140 A, Sommerfelt, E, D. Evans,
WW. C. Shewan, A. B. Purver.
2.40 G, Thomeraon. J. Linaker. 003 J. L. C. Pearce, D. 1. Bosanquet, .9.50 . F. Sommers, D. D. Forbes. 10.00 A. N. & Q. A. A. Macfadyen. 10.08 A. V. Greater, F. C. Norris. 10.04 D. Lyon, H. Piercy,
G. V. Grimthe. 10.30 J. AL. Pearson, J. W. Mayhew. 10.12 ft. J. K.
10.20 A. Mabb. L. Goldman. 1024 R. P. Marris, W. J. Richards. 10.28 C. C. Black. E. G. Price, 1032 It, W. Dulley, E. Davidson. 10.30 L. R. Andrews, Comdr. liute,
40 Redman, M. 9. Danner. 1044 J. B. Harrison, S. L. Lloyd. 10.40 J., Mackle. E. A. Redmond. 10. P. F. Annis, W. J. Kelly.
1. J. D. Lowe, I IL A Mills.
11.00 J. W. Clague, 11, M. Howland, 11.04 Col. Simpson, W/Cdr. Steele Perkins. 11.08 Major Mackenzie, J. C. Taylor. 11.2 E, W. Wedlock, A. G. James.
NEW COURSE 024 Milas Cuthbertson, J. G. Jenson. 0.32 . Carter, Capt. Thurzby. 10.00 Br. MacLeod, S. II. Dodwell. 10.04 Mrs. Lyon, Mrs. Piercy. 10.12 Surk. Car. Cleave. Surg. Cdr.
Nicholson, 10.20 . A. Pearce, F. D, Hunter,
1112 Mrs. Wedlock, Mrs. James.
PROSPECTS FOR FIRST EXTRA
"I met a great many Finns when I was in Canada. I have worked on lumber camps with them. They are nice people and very pleasant to work. with. I think Finland is having a very raw deal nud I hope this volun-hind
(Continued from Fage 8.)
Albay in the Blue Mountains
Leer battalion can do something to Plate, and with Mr. D. Black in the help,
"I do not know how soon we shall
be sent to Finland, but I hope to col with the first draft." For-Him-It-Began-
With A Holiday
Alexander Mackay, tall, 43-year-old | Queensland farmer, who came over to England on holiday before the war;] was another who signed up one
was an Army hut which he erected afternoon. He served throughout the on land purchased many years before last by his father.
His range as a linguist and the fact INJECTIONS of vitamins that he was a man of means were A and D are being used toy two of his secrets. treat influenza.
Dr. W. N. Leak, of Wins- ford, Cheshire, writes in the "British Medical Journal" that from experience he is convinced that an injection early in the disease will usually abort it.
Later injections are helpful, he says, but in no way specific.
Here are some of the others
war with the New Zealand Gallipoli. Mounted Rides, was wounded at
saddle the combination is worth $5. each way.
In
mare
If Busylight does not net the goat the back stretch, the chestnut by Blick Adder may be trusted with....a_spare-Ave.doliar_bill.¦. for a plane. Personally, I do not like the name of the sire.
ALL OUT STAKES Boolat Bay's Prospects Appear Rosy
BOOLAT Bay owned by Mr. S. Immediately on the outbreak of the W. Lee has been knocking present war he tried to enlist in the! at the door for a long while, and He had been a soldier of fortune. British Army In England. He was his prospects of coming home Once he commanded a Chinese not accepted, so he thought he would battalion in guerilla warfare. The Join the Australian contingent when first in the penultimate event, Boer War found him in the Rhode-his fellow countrymen arrived In the All Out Stakes, for "C" class stan Mounted Police.
England. He finds now that he will China ponies are rosy, have to return to Australia to enlist. It will be recalled that the pony
"All my friends back in Australia
all was ridden by the owner, to victory He served as an interpreter of Chi-pre in the Army now, and if I went in the West River Handicap on June and held the rank of captain. nese and Japanese in the Great War back home it would only be to join up. 10, but as Mr. Lee could not steer a but it seems to me a dreadful waste straight course, Boolat Bay was dis- of time and money to travel 12,000 miles to volunteer and then ed the season without scuring a win. ver qualified for boring. The siced finish- to have to come back to Europe again
the
February meeting
Army Captain
It is said that he once held un im- portant post for the British Govern- ment in the Far East.
At Skimett he spent nearly the whole of his time in the hut,
Sometimes he would take long At Work In Four Days walks. On the rare occasions when he came to London he would wallt to During the 1833 epidemic he saw Slough, 14 miles away, to a mun prostrated with typical symp-train. toms and a temperature of 103 de
catch p
A sister of his has bech traced of
At
N
to fight. The fighting is here; I want Lee's candidate succunibet to Tampa to be in it, and this seems to me the simplest way to do it.
Bay by a short hend for the first prize in the Curragh Handicap
and From The Tropics
To Northern Snows
In
the name margin sepurated him and National Pride for the first position
grees, who said even a mid attack Eastbourne. She has taken charge about the campaign in Finland is the is an open event, Boolat Bay is in put him if work for at least three of his affairs. weeks,
"I gave him an injection at once, and another next day, when he felt
a lot better, though his temperature was 102," adds Dr. Leult.
"Four days later I found him, at
י
No Royal Courts During War
In the Soochow Handicap. What was "The only thing that worries me the matter? As the All Out Stakes
cold. I come from North Queens-my estimation a dead certainty, and land, where the climate is tropical, he should be followed by Rose-Queen and I am afraid I might not stand up and Laughing Girl. very well to
conditions similar to those I have seen in news- paper photographs lately.
weather
"I thought the recent cold spell in London the absolute limit, but I am. afraid it must have been colder than
MOONIE PONDS HANDICAP
(Second Section)
made up my mind to go, and the cold A ROARING Time has cost the public a good sum of money, An official of the Finnish Legation
No Royal Courts will be held at am standing in the snow, celling Buckingham Palace this year. that in Finland, However, I have his fish and taking no harm. Since In coming to then he always comes to my sur-King has followed the precedent set is not going to stop me."
this decidon, the ed more than 500 runaway wedgery on the slightest sign of in- by his father, King George V, in
fluenza and asks for an injection. He te last war. No functions to take said that they have a great many but with due respect to that dings, is dead from pleurisy,
has not lost a day's work since." the place of the Courts were ar-volunteers to choose from, but that astuto jockey Mr. Peter Wel, I ranged between 1914-1918, and it is he could not say how many would would much prefer to see Mr. expected that in this, also, his Ma-be accepted for service in Finland.. Needa in the saddle. He has' a Jeaty will follow his father's lead. Many volunteers are too old, others
Mothers of debutantes
are not are of military age and, therefore golden gift of patience with making plans for formal entertain- cennot be accepted, and some are moody animals, and last year he ing. There will be no official com- obviously not sufficiently robust to hand two wins on the slinker. ing-out dances while the war Insta. stand up to the severities of a cam- Roaring Time is well in on the
Many girls who would have been palen in the Far North.
handfrou for the fast, event, the prezented this summer will not even "Wanen, too, have volunteered to Moonie Ponds Handicap (second sec- coma to London. Most of them are serve by
and nurses
ambulancetion)., and He should be one of the drivers,” he said.
favourites. Happy Landings is look- doing war work at home.
ing well, but I tave not sech Pum- pernickel after the Ladles Purse. Ring Stor is the one lo, follow up,
Pacifism With Pastries
In wrapping up pastries for custo-
Felstein Solomon
inserted mers, pacifist propaganda, until a customer complained.
Mr. Macintosh, who was 53 years of age, started performing marriages over, the anvil in 1938. When Mr. and Mrs. Macintosh bought the hall they revived the old romantic ns- number of Bociations securing a genuino old relics and the old mar- riage register containing the names of many English noblemen us well as John Peel the famous huntsman. Mr. Macintosh won the Court of Session Aght last year between him- Felstein, a 21-year-old balcor, of self and his rival "priest," Mr. Stepney Green, London, E., mentinued George Mackie, of the old, black- this as evidence of his pacifist ideals
MRS. ALICE A. McCRINDLE, of Regent's Park-road, Southamp smith shop in Gretna Museum who when he appeared before the South- sought to stop Mr. David Macintosh Eastern Conscientious: Objectors: on, who died worth £86,722, left £3,000 and all the contents of her
He was registered na a bedroom to her maid, Annie Elvish? and his wife from using the words Tribunal.
"We were almost like sisters," Miss Elvish saldı; “I was in "blackkn{th's shop", as a description conscientious objector on condition E their prendsen.
that he remains in his present work.{Mrs. McCrindle's employment for 37 years."
LEFT HER MAID £3,000
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