Tuesday,
HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH
DONALD DUCK
March 26, 1940.
By Walt
Disney
USE ONLY.
NOPE! YA STILL. HAVEN'T EVEN HIT THE TARGET!
World
YEAH, SEND OUT THE BEST PLUMBER
YA GOT!
SHE'S ON HER WAY TO AUSTRALIA
THIS PHOTOGRAPH, hitherto unpublished in Hongkong, shows the 35,000-ton Maure- tania, successor of the "Grand Old Lady of the Atlantic" which did such yeoman service transporting troops in the 1914-18 war, as she left England for her maiden voyage across the Atlantic.
The new Mauretania is now en route to Australia, where she will be utilised for con- veying Australian and New Zealand troops- the famous Anzacs—to the Middle East.
PIANO WAS POISON TO THIS MUSICIAN
go on.
MODERN SANDERS RULED 10,000
the Zambesi.
KIMBERLEY.
IN one of the small hotels of Kimberley to-day, I talked with Ex-Sergeant Brittz, real-life "Sanders of the River," and learned from him for ten years he ruled alone over 10,000 natives in Caprivi-Zipvel, the tongue of orce German South-West Africa which stretches for nearly 200 miles from the Okavanga River to
"But I did it, and made him walk, Brittz is spending a few days in under escort, back to the post. He the diamond city-his home town was Jalled, but reinstated as heir to the chieftancy after he had servad his before going on long leave,
{ sentence." After that ho is to take over en Mrs. Brittz sald: "Our fox- administrative post in the Native Affairs Department-the Union Gov-mostly tinned-and clothing had to crnment's reward for his ten years' be ordered in six-monthly consign- menis. They were brought by rall service.
ARNOLD DOLMETSCH is dead-but his work will His family will continue to hold the annual music police headquarters in Windhock," he miles up river." festivals at Haslemere in Surrey, which have become "After a difficult journey through
"It was in 1929 that I set off, with from Bulawayo to Livingstone, and my wife and three children, from then carried by native canoes 10.
famous all over the world.
said..
stone.
the Caprivi Swamps, I took over my "It will be the best sort of in life was the rescue from nexfeet of station-a few mud-walled, thatched. memorial to him," one of the family sixteenth and sevententh century and huts, on the banks of the upper Zam- said.
earlier musle and the instruments on besi, about 100 miles above Living-
this music was originally Dolmetsch, who died a few days which after his 02nd birthday, did not like played. the world. So he refused to live in He taught his family to make the
instruments as well as play them.] it all his life.
From his workshops at Haslemere
Terror And Delight
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Told Detective: "I Was Not Going To Give My Husband Away-You Wouldn't"
Deserter She Hid For Two Months Was Found in False Roof
FOR over two months police searched for a deserter from the Royal Engineers. Several times they visited his house. Each time his wife said he was not there and she did not know where he was. Then he was discovered hiding in the false roof of his home.
To the detective who found him the wife said: "I was not going to give my hus- band away-you wouldn't.”
The story was told at Lincoln police court when the wife, Elsle Gardens, Tollerton, of Westwick Lincoln, was summoned for alding Sapper Tollerton to conceal himself, The Trap Door That
Would Not Open Police vihits to the Tollcrions' home were described by Mr. L. C. Rysdale (prosceuting).
Leave Saved Him Twice
NORMAN PARSONS" father went down In the Titanie in 1912. But Norman Parsons still wanted to follow the sea,
He joined the R.N.V.R.
He was posted to the minesweeper Eventually, he said, Detective-Ser-Aragonite, She struck a mine and geant Needham asked. Mrs. Tollerton sank.
if she would let him search the house.
Sha agred, but requested him to
walt while she dressed the baby. She he came home, so she kept him there. then admitted him.
When he got better she wanted him to The detective searched the rooms. give himself up but he would not but found no clue. He tried to get do so. into the false roof, but could not; jsomeone was standing on the trap-
doot.
When he did climb to the false roof he found Sapper Tollerton hiding be- hind a beam in the caves. She Kept Him
To Got Wall
Mrs. Tollerton told the magistrates that her husband was not well when
The chairman said that as Mr. Tollerton did not seem to realise the seriousness of the offence, she would. be dealt with leniently.
She was bound over for 12 months and ordered to pay 10s. costs.
[Sapper Tollerton had previously been before the Court and handed over to a military, escort.j
Leg Broken, Crawled
To Save Messmates
A MAN with a broken leg dragged himself along the deck of the sinking destroyer Grenville and saved the lives of many of her crew Mirugeling in the water.
He crawled twenty feet to turn the safety switch controlling the depth- charge apparatus.
Able Seaman W. Pitt, one of the destroyer's 118 survivors, said: "Tho charges might have exploded. They would have killed many of us.
"I don't know the man's nunc. He was a scaman.
"After he had turned on the safely switch he slid over the side into the water.
"He was pleked up almost immedi~| ately,
It thrilled us to see him going along the deck. We knew what his'
thinking bravery and quick meant
Pitt, who is nineteen, and lives in Pretoria-rond, Eastriggs, Dumfries- shire, was swept overboard by a wave, and floundered in the sen for! twenty-five minutes before he was, placed up.
We were swimming, it was cold, then we heard
THE NEXT
DANCE NUMBER
will be "Fraklin D. Roosevelt Jones," and wo
LAUGHED
Eight men in the Grenville were
As the destroyer Grenville was killed when she was mined or tor- pedoed, and seventy-three are miss-slipplag under the waves men swim- ming in the sea beard her radio sull ing.
working. An announcer's voice saldi ARAvely.. The next dance 'number
bo
Roosevelt wit
"Frankiin D. Jones'"
Died On Duty
-
-In 1914-18
Survivor Jimmy Boyle, of Spring- burn, Glasgow, told about it in a Glasgow dance hall. He said: "We MEN excavating in the gar- all heard it, and we laughed and den of a house far from the laughed.
was ewimming British lines in France found our captain the skeleton of a man several around In the sea, hollering Roll out the barrel' at the top of his voice. TO THE POLLS
feet from the surface.
Attached to the skeleton was a The whole thing was like a crazy OTTAWA, Mar. 25 (Reuter) British-kentity disc bearing the dream.
"I was holding to a spar with three Canada goes to the polls to-morrow name and unit of a man who was after what is generally regarded as posted as "missing" in the last war. others. We drifted close to the bow "With no white man for many the dullest and the most placid elec No one can tell how this soldier of the ship, and saw Sidney Brom
of the last war dled for his coun- feld perched on the porthole, miles around, I had to evolve my tion campaign in Canadian history. own system of government.
Week-end blizzards in Quebec and
try, but it is thought that he was and ..severe wealder in killed by a shell which caused a Ontario,
treach to collapse on him as he He was an intolerant man, the
popular vote. Western Canada threaten to curtall
stood at his post, ror and delight of his very big family
French Canada's vote has remained At Haslemere, where they all lived.
questionable despite the Liberala
The British War Graves Commis- chatting to Sidney I found I was be created his own world world
Hippo Quota Crime great provincial victory in Quebec Musio of any later nge he barely
last year.
slon will take charge of the skeleton on the spar alone. The others just of quiet and beauty, fine craftsman- ship in his workshops and French tolerated. The piano he hated the
"My most difficult case was that of
The Liberals have not enumclated and Inter it with the honours due to couldn't keep their grip.
"A boat came along. Some one bcostliest Instrument the world has herbs growing in his front garden.
a very clear cut programme but have a brave ran. Relatives will be a chiol's son who was summoned for
as identification is grabbed me by the hair and yanked His hous
[a' 'mixture of over meeted from." he once sald, and trial charged with killing more than requested a mandate for five years notified as soon
me out of the sea, based on their record. munum, workman's bench. and to many more beside.
the tribe's quota of hippos.
complete.
"I'm here itterbugging tonight to homely
It is not unusual for bodies to bo cottage:
ancient musical It was his own life-long Inability
The Opposition Conservatives havo He stayed in his kraal, refusing been content with attacking the Gov-found in France oven now, twenty-y to forget those three boy who let Instruments, new ones being made, a to be idle which caused his death. tea-lable that really groaned, and a He broke a blood-vessel by exerting obey, the summons
ernment's past performance and are two years after the war ended. On go.
The dance band started. "Pardon little old mun like a Rembrandt self-himself too soon after a long liness, "It needed all my courage to advancing rather vague proposals for an average more than one a week
Bald Scaman Boyle. "T is reported to the War Gravea Com-me" portrait barking prejudices at you be and then caught fu.
walk, with two, police boys, right changes If they win. tween mouthfuls,
into the man's village, and take The Liberals, are still expected to mission, which has a permanent stali giving my brother's girl friend this him from among his triber
bero. have a clear majority of about 50%
"I trained nine fairly intelligat ter-lutes, viols and accorders which are their aid a enforced my rough and have come harpsichords, virginals, natives to act as policemen, and with
Arnold Dolmetsch's self-created job
as lovely to look at as to hear,
•
Piano Was-Poison
Two days before the end ho was pinying the violin aitung up in bed
ready code of justice. ;
Find One A Week
"He was cock-a-hoop. He shouted: 'How would you like to be up here nice and dry?
"When
dance."
I looked around after)
But he was on leave.
Then ho was posted to the mine- being damaged by enemy air aituck. layer Sphlox. She foundered after Again Leutenant Parsons was on teave.
His home
Is In Wilton Road, Southampton.
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