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City Girls Now Work As Lumber Jacks
Citu piria are now working as lumber jacks in England's backwoods. They belong to the new Forestry Section of the Women's Land Army. Hers are Evelyn Andraws, wh10 worked in a Liverpool store, and Betty Stephenson, who exchanged the scissors and overall of a hairdresser at St. Anne's, Lancashire, for the khaki and axe of the "forcsteress,”
Nazis hunt Priests for Work
BRATISLAVA (Slovakia). HITLER, who has so far re- frained from declaring open war on Roman Catholles in Germany, has now done so in Poland. Distribution of the. Pope's En- cyclical denouncing Nazi and Communist dictatorship has been made a capital offence by the Nazi authorities in German orcupled Poland.
Alice Fletcher, 17-year-old typist, and Oliva Cheney, aged 18, hairdresser from Leeds, are two of the youngest in the camp. They love the life, and Olive likes. best of all the sing-song round the hut fre at night after the day's work ta done. They are paid 288, a week by the Timber Control Board, and out of this pay 14s. a toeck for their koop.
SWING DEMONSTRATION IS UNIQUE FOR H.K.
FIFTEEN THOUSAND miles of travel which was inter- rupted by the outbreak of war in Europe has brought to Hong kong two of the most outstanding show personalities this Colony has witnessed.
They are Fredric and Sandra
The bishop's palace ut Lodz has been raided several times by Gesta-Hurinell, now appearing nightly po oficials on the pretext that they in the Grill Room of the Hong- were looking for copies of the En kong Hotel. cyclical.
The two arlistes opened their The bishop, M. Tomczak, was ar-Hongkong senson on Saturday night rested last month, it was learned: in-an-etmosphere which; after-their After spending some weeks in pri- first number, was distinctly cordial
and appreciative. son ho has now been released, but is still under house arrest.
now
"Swing lathe rage everywhere w" said Sandra in an Interview. All their numbers have a Swing background.
Their numbers-during this week Waltz in Spring- they are giving the Jesuit pricats of Lodz time, the Broadway Rhythm and a have been arrested, and are being Bracket of Swing Dances are some- pressed into Polish labour squads,thing entirely new for Hongkong. which are belag formed, some for others in the work lu Germany, Polish Corridor, where they are expected to tidy up things" for the Baltle German sellers. A Polish pastor and Falzman is faced with the death sentence, nl- though the only charge against hin $0 far as hin flock can tearn is
oyally
Poland." The authorities argue that since Poland is accupied by the Germann Army all Polish patriots are gulity of high treuson against Germany.
to
Factory Prison
The Waltz In Springtime is n waltz at a spectacular tempo and the Bracket of Swing Dances consists of ure breath- three numbers which taking in their rendition,
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lose conceivably the spectacular rhythm which makes them to delight- ful to watch.
4 m/s D/P Nazi
Patrons of the Hongkong Hotel leave no doubt regarding the pepular- Just as in the pogrom of Romanity the Hartnells have already..at- Catholics in Vienna Iast winter the tained at the Gripps. On Saturday young Nazi extremists are being and Sunday nights the crowds. ap given full liberty of action la Poland. plauded to an extent that is some- These have taken over some of the what unusual for Hongkong. textile factories of Lodz ns prisons
mainly
prisoners,
The appreciation was well-merited, and only echoes what have already for religious What happens Inside these fac-been received by two top-liners in tories, which once contributed to some of the leading social rendezvous thic Industrial wealth of Poland, is in London. not known. But no prisoners who
have
beon driven into their cob- Iorsics
bled courtyards in Gesto...
have so far come out
At Biala, near Lodz, the local vicar and the rest of his parishioners, all peasants, were driven at the point of the bayonet Into the vicarage. The building was then locked and sur- rounded by about twenty Nazis, who threw hand grenades through the windows until all inside were dead.
PROLONGING
Prior to visiting the Far East,
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Grosvenor House, the Mayfair and
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Japanese Has Code-Book
Fined $20 To-day In Kowloon Court
"I foined on the spur of the mo«- ment,” said Sadie Baxter, Who was a dressmaker in Blackpool, "I certainly don't regret it after working in a study room making lovely gowns for other people' to wear."
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CORONER WAS A CYNIC ON MARRIAGES
MR. INGLEBY ODDIE, famous London coroner for twenty-seven years, does not want to retire. To- morrow he sits for the last time. It is his seventieth birthday. Yesterday he discussed with me the notable cases he has investigated, and the effect they have had on him.
"I am very sorry indeed that I have to go," he said. "I have reached the age limit and so I must. But my three predecessors retired at the ages of eighty, seventy- nine and seventy-five. I had hoped, now that I am well again, to be allowed to carry on at least until the end
WATCHMAN of the war.
NEGLECTS
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HIS DUTY
Court Sequel To Robbery
The robbery of an explosives magazine at Shouson Hill on March 10 had a sequel at Central Magistracy this morning, when Tam Hing, 23. watchman, was charged before Mr. Sheldon with neglect of duly by being asleep at his post on that night. Tam admitted the charge, and gave as an excuse that the door of his hut had been closed by the wind, and he could not help going to sleep.
Will Lose Job
"I shall miss my work exceed
ingly. What am I going to do? Well, I shall read about the war, presume, and hope for the best.
"I do not intend to write my memoirs until the war is over. If it lusts a long time and I'm dead, well it just can't be helped.
"Has my job made me a cynic about marrlage? No, it is not. Aly work often shows mankind up in a bad light, but also li often ahows much unsuspected goodness, much sympathy' and kindliness. And often it gives me a chance to do some public good, which is very heartening.
"It has never affected my sense of humour, and certainly has not made me depressed.
Ho Know Mr. P. J. Sherwood, storekeeper for the China Construction Company,
"Quite frankly, I love my job. I suid Tam would be dismissed from his do not look forward to the farewell position.
Sat. Eat
Estall sald Tam was employed party to-morrow. I shall hate say- Watchman t
the explosivesing goodbye.
at Shouson HIL The "The two most interesting cases magazine was intact when he went In my life were those of Vera Page on duty at 7 p.m. on March 10, but and of Norn Upchurch. Both werd when he woke up, be found the
murder cases. magazine had been forced open, and the locks missing. The missing ex- plosives amounted to $182.
who the
"In the Vera Page murder, the murderer was never discovered, In "Tam had no business to be asleep the ease of Nora Upchurch I was nt all as there was one man doing always perfectly certain
another day duty, and
watchman murderer was. After a year or two I doing night duty," said Sgt. Estall he murdered another woman.
"The huts are ten yards from magazine,"
Mr. Sheldon You have lost your Job. I think that is sumcient punish- ment,
Defendunt was cautioned.
the
Crews Rescued
From Two
he been convicted at the Upchurch trial that second woman would never have lost her life.
German Pastor For Brighton
A German pastor who be came the victim of - Nazł persecution because hls father was a Jew is to be come curate at Preston Church Brighton.
He is Pastor W. Oelsner. who WIS pastor of a Lutheran church in Berlin.
Trouble arose with; the Nazis because of his parent- age, although the pastor himself is married, to n German countess. She could have remained.in Germany, but preferred to leave with her husband, and they came to England with 10. marks cách.
'Pastor Oclsner will be ordained by the Bishop of Chichester, Dr. G. K. A. Bell, at Preston Old Church.
K. R. A. AGITATION FOR A CABLE OFFICE FAILS
The K.R.A. agitation for the establishment of a branch office of Messrs. Cable & Wireless Ltd. in Kowloon has met with failure-at least for the time being. A
VIOLATIONS BY
NAZI PLANES
BRUSSELS, Mar. 12 (Reuter)
The scheme will be left Ira
· abeyance until the end of the war,” said. Mir. E. Rickwood, Manager of Cable and Wireless, when a Tele- Eraph representative saw him this morning in connection with the agitation.
"This decision was forced upon us
"For one thing, the censors want to 打骂
The Belgian Ambassador to Berlin has been instructed to make any reason of the abnormal wartime energetic protest at the night of conditions," Mr. Rickwood-suld German planes over Belgian territory keep the cable traille together
much as possible and the opening of new office in Kowloon would not be helpful in this regard.
d-day.
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Two foreign planes, it is reported, over Liege at nild-day and were fred on by A.A. batteries. They were also pursited by fighters.
Two hours later more planes flew over Llege and were fired at.
Intruder Escapes
Our desire to provide the office is grent but we are afraid it will have to wait until the end of the when we shall get on with it at the first opportunity?
war
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BRUSSELS, Mar. 12 (UP)-It is been a German machine. semi-officially unnounced. that a Belgian planes took off immediate squadron of Belgian pursuit planes ly the unknown machine was sighted and intercepted it over Marchien- attacked a foreign plane to-day,
The Intruder is believed to have neufanie. The Intruder escaped.
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LONDON, Mar. 12 (Reuter).--The crew of the British steamer, Gardenia; 3,745 tons, have landed on the east coast from a trawler which rescued them after the Gardenia had been atalities to deal with, and before sunk following an explosion.
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SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHY:
the war 'they were being reduced by more half (I speak about Cen- tral London, of course), thanks to pedestrian crossings and traße lights. I have always been rather hard on of the street fatalities..
the Palladium in London where A Japanese, Chikazo Yoshino, 50, LONDON, Mar. 12 (UP)-The they must have been seen by mady | described as a commercial clerk, re-crew of nine from the Lowestoft the pedestrian, blaming him for most Hongkong residents
Home siding at No, 18 Somerset Road.steam trawler dalifax, 105 tons, were leave. They were featured dancers Kowloon Tong, was charged before landed at Lowestoft to-day by her
"So I think I'd better be careful in C. J Cochrane's well-known Mr. Himsworth at the Kowloon sistership Ipswich which picked them crossing the streets of London on
"Eve in the Paris
court on Monday. It Magistracy this morning with posses-up last right after the Hailfar had my way The Hartnells had just completed sion of a code book without permis- sunt in the North Sea.
would be just my luck to, bo u street accklent on my last day as a coroner."
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a successful tour of the Australian ston from the Governor. capitals and were returning to Lon-
Raturnad U-Boat's Fire
GOVT.'s LIFE decided, instead, to tour the Far East, given him by his firm and that he hold their own sgainst
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don' under contract to appear 'ügain Sergeant E. J. Stewart, of the nt a lending Metropolitan rendezvous Special Branch, stated that he visited LONDON, Mar. 12 (Reuter)-AtAnd with a chuckle this man-who when war broke out.
the defendant's residence at 8.30 am.ian cast const port yesterday, the has looked on so much sorrow, The new drcumstances decided yesterday and questioned the de-crews of two small frawlers arrived sternly
rebuited the guilty and them to abandon plans for an im- fendant, who produced a commercial with their fishing gear gone but with sympathised with the bereaved-went mediate return to London and they code-book. He said that it had lieen proof that their guns can more than back to finish his game of bridge,
U-boat. They will probably remain in Hong- hnd not used it since the declaration
They slalifed a submarine while writes n London correspondent. kong for the rest of this month.
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fabing in the North Sea. Both ships promptly cut away their nets to allow
cases Mr. Na Proof He Had Uked It to-day to make any statement on the
them to manoeuvre better and they Among the notable
the matter.
returned the fire of the U-boat,
Oddle has investigated were Sergeant Stewart agreed that the Statement On Evacuation
With shola falling all round her, assassination of Sir Henry Wilson by LONDON, Mar. 13. (Reuter).-Re-
Sinn Feiners; the inquest of Fahmy plying to a question as to whether or Continuing, he said that there have Police had no proof that Yoshine had
Dutch Victim
Bey, the millionaire Egyptian prince not it was proposed shortly to intro- been a very big scheme of evacuation used the code-book since the declara- the U-boat dived.
shot dead in a famous West End duce a Bill, to prolong the life of in the present war, and a really forge tion of war. Parliament, Earl Stanhope, in the number of big cities had lost a num- Specking in good English, Yoshing
LONDON, Mar. 13 (Reuter) The hotel; the inquiry into the death of House of Lords, said the Government ber of people. No one could possibly told the Court that the code book had latest Dulch victim of German action actress Regine Flory, who shot ber-
Is the 7,000-ton tanker, Orllot. All self in Drury Lane. woll aware of the necessity of say whether
the crew of 42 artanto, aboard, a. considering this matter of no very untungnge these people would been given him by his firm
When he was at the Bar he was "distant date because the life of the If the war went on for some time His Worship fined the defendant British warship, present Parliament came to an end they might realise the attractions of $20 and ordered the code-book to le Some 93,000 tons of Dutch shipping one of the Treasury counsel who the country and stop there, he con- confiscated for the duration of the have now been sunk with 217 seamen conducted the prosecution of the
killed..
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