DONALD DUCK
Saturday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
April 13, 1940.
By Walt Disney
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GEE, THEY'RE
ALL GONE!
WHAT'LL WE TELL
UNCA DONALD?
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Cope, 1910, Wali Daney Productions:
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FOREIGN HUMOUR NAZI
Here are some of the cartoons
that are helping other peoples
to laugh off the war.
Hurry up, old boy, I don't want to lose my prisoner. Where to ha? ---
I'm standing on his shoulders.
"Marianne," Paris.
You wouldn't be a Finn by any chance?
He-would-like-to-trap-another. transport animal.
---"Schwarze Korps," Berlin.
FRICK
Oh dear, now my leave is over I've got to go back to that meful inactivity.
-" Marianne," Parla.
HERE'S APPLES, YOUR
UNCA
DONALDI
'THANKS, BOYS JUST PUT 'EM
ON THE TABLE!
BARBARISM
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IN 'Dear Husband
WARSAW: MASS EXECUTIONS
Gestapo Terrorism
Terrorism Is Driving Hundreds of People
-'l'Œuvre," Paris.
ON THE POLISH
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FRONTIER. their parents or the measures of per- cecution carried out against the Poles Through the streets of and the Jews. Warsaw; the ancient Polish capital, wander crowds stric- ken by a sad malady.
Warsaw's crowds to-day have nothing in common with the gay pre war populace. It is hard now 10 find a single person who is not In mourning.
Rove The Streets
Insane
Thanks to the arin-bands, the Gestapo can easily recognise these unfortunate people and round them up for forced labour in clearing the city of debris.
in most cases, however, the maniacə A scheme for creating a Ghetto in are men possessed by a mad thirst Warsaw was dropped. To secure the for vengeance. There is no room in abandonment of this project the the hospitals for people, and they rove the streets as pay a sum of 2,000,000 zlotys, or these unhappyJewish community in Warsaw had to
about £45,000, to vagabonds
the German are seeking overy opportunity authorities.
money.
And Good
Father' Was-
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Hermann
Hermann Baranowskl
Lagerhowmasant Kat. SachionbaztER
Augufte BarisOINTS, DADAMIN Charlotte Hoppe, as Bermeot Pat Werper Hoppt, sé-timentuakām
For Sindichubuaychup bites wie stuuden,
Nazi Hell Camp Commandant
to avenge themselves, and dozens of The Germans suggested that the "After a long and serious illness, Baranowski the name. "Bloody Her- Many women have lost the hus German officers and men have, been community should pay a further sumy dear husband and our good manr. bunds, fathers or brothers. Many killed by them.
to liberate the Jews from the neces- father, S.S. Over-Leader Hermann Pastor Nlemoeller and many other children are orphened. Many men, The real attacks on the Germanosity of wearing the arm-band of Buranowski, .
orominent Germans have been his berett of their families and crazed by are, however, organised by countless David. The Jewish community was
prisoners. sorrow, have lost their reason. One terrorist groups, men burning with however, unable to
THIS is part of a death notice (re-) find this ad-produced above), which appeared inports that Baranowski died alter
The "Voclkischer Beobachter" re- Eces lunatles everywhere in this un-indignation ut the ravishing of their had decided to put by some- Beobachter," happy city.
the Nazi Party paper, "Yoelkischer lung illness. country. The German authorities are Thev According to a rough estimate, 20
waging a
nerce
campaign against thing for future contingencies; for the per cent. of the children of Warsaw these guerillos.
Germans have things still more ter are now insane as the result of the
Since, in the majority of cases, the rible in store for the Jews. German bombardment, the loss
German officers and men are killed by students and young intellectuals, it is against these that the campaign is directed.
FILM STAR'S BED
IS PARK BENCH
NEW YORK-BLONDE stari of the silent screen, with a prince for a husband, a fortune of £700,000 and a luxurious Hollywood home, Mae Murray to-day is penniless.
Sobbing, her looks gone, she told a Los Angeles Judge that she to sleep three had been driven
New York nights on a seat in Central Park among the down and outs.
She told this story in the sult she is bringing against her former husband, Prince David Mdivani, for £200 a month so that she can keep a home for their thirteen-year-old son, Koran David.
"Begged, Pleaded"
of
"I begged and pleaded with Adivani to help me with the boy, but without success." She declared that Prince David was living in luxury.
A Simple
Man He Died
A Hero
The stamping out of the aristocrats and intellectuals in Poland is assun ing greater and greater/proportions.
Wave Of Arrests
But his death is being connected with reports,
the Hermann Baranowski was, in fact, "Schwarze Korps," of attempts at
published in one of Hitler's most sadistic henchmutiny, in Sachsenhausen.
The proposed introduction of labour | men-commander of the notorious conscription and the Jewish reserve Sachsenhausen concentration camp. at Lublin will, in fact, cost Warsaw Jewry further considerable sums,
Cheap Labour
The Germans regard
Several SS. guards and the com- mander were injured.
He has just died at the age of 55. Baranowski used to send his pri- The obituary notice bears the sigma-soners to "dark cells" at the slightest tures of his family: Auguste Baranow- breach of discipline. Warsawski, Charlotte Hoppe and Paul Werner
Almost every day some were hang- und, Indeed, the whole of Poland Hoppe, a head leader of the stormed from trees by their
arms and as nothing more than a great re- troops.
mercilessly flogged.. Sachsenhausen is Hitler's most The death-rate among them was servoir of cheap labour.
dreaded concentration camp: It earned higher than at any other chemin.
The wave of arresta is at present
With indescribable cruelty, they spreading among professors, teachers, writers and artists. Very often are constantly seeking new ways of Polish intellectuals are arrested with making it Impossible, for the people of Warsaw to continue their exist- out any cause.
Sometimes the German at horities ence, accuse them of having shown For the first few months after the sympathy with filegal organisations. entry of the German troops it was Sometimes they are merely charged prices, to buy food from the peasants. still possible, by paying very high with having refused to collaborate with the Germans.
The Berlin Government thus aims at completely annihilating this see- tion of the Polish population so as to deprive the people of intellectual Icadership.
to
of new
Bookie Wrote To Man's Boss-£250
For Libel
· "BOOKMAKERS must not think;-because-it~is "difficult-to-recover- their commissions in a court of law, they are entitled to bring pressure on clients by exposing them to their employers," Mr. Justice Tucker sald in the King's Bench Division.
But In January a series decrees created famine in the capital. In the first place the peasants were
Warsaw supply
with forbidden food. They were forced to sell their produce at artificially low prices to the German authorities, while a Barbarian methods are employed to
system of rationing was introduced his end.
The German authorities have, for in the Follsh capital.
Secondly, a decree published to- instance, begun to destroy Warsaw's
archives. Priceless wards the end of January dishonourdon, S.W., £250 libel damages and ilbraries and volumes taken from the public library/cd banknotes of 100 and 500 zloty, costs against Mr. Joseph Alexander,
bookmaker,
E.C. Aldgate,
These notes, of which great num-
He nwarded Mr. Leslie Abraham- son, of Baytree-road, Brixton, Lon-
of
difficult to speak with restraint of
his conduct in writing the letter containing a most serious charge.
"I think Mr. Alexander is fortu- nate that the case was not, tried be-
of Warsaw and from the University equal to £2 s. and £11 59. libraries are used as fuel for heating-bers had been issued, were without Mr. Abrahamson, a cilent of Mr. fore a jury," the Judge added, "I NOT until the end of the in- stoves.
Alexander At the same time, the archives of notice dretored valueless and people Alexander in 1938, complained that hardly like to think what damages quest in the little Glamorgan
wrote to his em In English Jury would have awarded of possessed of small savings found Mr.
ployers. firm of produce brokers, in a case of this kind." Saying she was worth £700,000 in mining village of Cwmavon did historical research societies and themselves penniless. 1020, Mne added: "I walked out of the full truth become known the University faculties of history and Without work and without money in Mincing-lane, E.C. a letter describ my marriage bankrupt.
philology are being destroyed.
the people of Warsaw are in a state ing him as A horrible fraud and a Priceless Heritage
of wretchedness difficult to conceive, bad egz."
Mr. Alexander, who conducted his Walls Will Crumble A cold wave of a severity which defence in person, pleaded justifica- It has not known for nearly a centon.
Mr. Abrahamson said he was now tury has this winter swept over the
"I had a £24,000 contract with an English film company, but I had to break this to stay in America: and nurse my son, who was des perately ill,
"I used up my funds and had to leave my hotel for a bench in the park, taking with me only a little hat- box containing the things I needed for clentiness,
X
Blonde Brunette
Gentlemen Still Prefer
Them Fair
about Jenkin Powell.
Jenkin Powell was 59 and an un- employed collier,
{
He lost his life The Germans are wiping out trying to rescue four schoolboys who priceless herilage-a witness to all contributed to also met their deaths in a deep and that the Foles have
science, literature and civilisation. treacherous pond,
Jenkin Powell.
und
peace.
λ
vious day they had been warned of of the city, where they were shot. labour corps, composed of Jews, who cumulated sediment.
he
SWEDEN DELUGED WITH NAZI PROPA- GANDA THROUGH STOCKHOLM "CELLS"
(Continued from Page 8.)
гевзоп
is simple. The Nazi textbooks passed by Goebbels' do-
In the letter to Mir. Abrahamson's pariment as fit for young German employers Mr. Alexander wrote: consumption meet with the distaste "I think it is my duty to inform of the Swedish pupil. A bridge that you of such bad egg that you looked to be indestructible has dis- have in your employ. It is a horesolved under Nezl persecution of body rible fraud that he had played on me."
and thought.
STILL UNCONVINCED
The coroner (Mr. Edward Howe) The methods of the Middle Ages half-ruined city, which is suffering employed at the War Ministry. recorded verdjete of "Accidental are being used to crush the guerillas from shortage of coul. But soon the Concerning a betting debt,
spoke about who will not leave the Germans in thaw will come, and that will be wrote to Mr. Alexander: "Leave it death" and then he
worse than the Arctic cold.
to me and you will get paid.. The buildings damaged by the rent and food must come first. Have The "I have known him all my life." "I sold & £1,000 chinchilla cont to he said. "He was a man of quiet Christmas Poles killed
Here is an example. Just before
German bombardment have stood against rain no fear." pay for the operation.
But when the spring disposition. He led a simple life, but officer and two soldiers in a cafe of and cold. had reached the highest peak of the suburb of Warsaw known by the sunshine begins to melt the fee, which courage and died a hero."
The four schoolboys were Howard of Wawer. The reprisals were still holds together the walls of many
frightful,
ruined houses, they will crumble. Lewis (eight), Roy Benjamin (seven), That very night, in the suburb of Thus the long tale of disasters bids Alwyn Thomas (live)
Once again the Merion Wawer, the Gestapo killed 120 Poles, fair to continue. Thomus (six).
Their schoolmistress, Miss Ethel including women and children. These people will be searching for corpses the debris, Even to-day.! John, gave evidence that only the pre- their beds and taken to the outskirts despite the employment of scores of "Inexcusabfo"
wretched people were dragged from under
the danger of the pond owing to no-
Social Democracy, represented in As are engaged in clearing away the Here is another tragic story.
Mr. Justice Tucker, giving judg VOTES CAST for two pictures in the United Artists'
Warsaw Exhibition at the Royal Academy show that Gentlemen
Abrahamson's conduct to suggest that ler, believed in the League. Hitler ho was horrible fraud or bad egg." sneered at it. Socint Democracy did still Prefer Blondes.
The normal grave-space of two He might not have paid his debts to its utmost to make disarmament real. cemeteries are already full. "I kept on sirking slowly untli ra group of 40 students, and these the joquare yards is now made to accom" the bookmaker quite as punctually as It was sabotaged by the new tyranny.
modate Ave coffins piled one upon Mr. Alexander would have wished. The Blonde in this case is "Golden maternity nurse to his wife. Direc-could not on ve, he mowy took police surrounded,
the other.
But the sharpest blow to old friend- Girl," a half-length nude painting by tlons for her pase were given her int
Only a cursory questioning pre-
And every day more victims of Mr. Alexander's visit to Mrship was the German-Soviet Fact Dame Laura Knight; the Brunette is writing; the artist is deaf and dumb. nix men on the bank to drag me out,"
Abrahamson's place of employ and the deliberate betrayal of a Fin- "The Sister." a dork-haired young
Witnesses who, from a raft, refaced a monstrous slaughter. The
ment was inexcusable and it was land with whom Sweden, not with- woman in hospital uniform, by Mr. "In general," said the amelal, men covered the bodies, sold that the pond students began to defend themselves famine, typhus and collapsing houses A. R. Thomson.
out the tacit approval of the German appear to be moved in their choice was over 20ft, deep with slime and by throwing stones. The gave there borne to the cemetery.
Gestapo an excellent prelext for They are getting the most votes in by patriotle or sentimental reasons, weeds at the bottom.
army, had been improving her rela- shooting all 40 of them on the spot. the Royal Academy public ballot to They go in for Oswald Birley's por-
tions since 1938. That seemed to determine the popular favourlies at trait of the King and Anna Zinkej-
Shots From Windows
in Sweden a stab the back for the exhibition.
sen's landscape "Solitude,
civilization. The sinking of her ships is a stab In her own belly.
There has been a dead heat be- "Women like flower paintings." tween them for the past two weeks. Recently the Blondo tool the lead by a dozen or more voles.
GERMAN ARMY 'CHUTIST'S
P. C. Morgan Hopkins said he could frequently happens, a detachment off bodies. fresh victims of the war arment, sold there was nothing in Mr. foreign policy by Herr Rickard Sond-
round his waist he waded in but could not reach Powell,
vestigation in the Lazienki Garden, une day in December. They noticed
STAR FERRY SERVICE
The five-minute service of tho From time to time shots are fired Star Ferry Co. has been extended from windows on to German troops ns follows:
in the street. Woe to the inhabitants From Kowloon, from 0.30 a.m. to of the house whence such a shot is 19 a.m.;
immediately fired. The Gestapo Rough analyɛls of the 400 to 500
From Hongkong, from 9.25 a.m, to throws a cordon round the building voles cast to date shows that "gentle-
10.05 a.m.;
nad puts in death all the adult males men still prefer blondra." for many!
From Kowloon, from 6.10 p.m. to found within. more men than women have voted for The German Army now has several 7.08
p.m.;
The Jews, as is well known, are Dame Laurn's picture,
thousand trained parachutists, and From Hongkong, from 6.15 pm. to subjected to special treatment. Every "Women. have voted solidly for the every one of them has made a mini-7
Jew over 13 years of age is obliged dark-haired Sister," an Academy om-mum of six training jumps, according To cope with the traffic, special to wear a special arm-band showing cial commented.
to the Paris Excelsior,
services for Sunday mornings have she child of David-the emblem of The serene-faced subject of tho The men are formed in sections of also been introduced. They ard: the Jowish race. women's favourite picture to Sister twelve and the entire section has to leaving Hongkong, 2 a.m. and 2.30) Any Jew appearing in the street Fry, who sat for the painter last make its jump within ten seconds of am; leaving Kowloon, 1.30 am. and wout this broraard does so at the year, while she was
as the first man taking off. engaged
risic of three months' imprisonment.
P.m.
2.15 am.
£400,000
Films Will
Be Made at Home
HOLLYWOOD. FOUR Aims, costing £100,000 anch, are to be made this year in British studios by the Paramount Company.
Subjects will be: Durrie's "Admirable Crichton," with Madeleine Carroll as leading lady.
"What fol" a comedy, "Knights of the Round Table," based on Arthurian legend.
So, however many thousand coples
of this or that the tolling secretarial
A life of Barney Barnato, South masses post and stencil, and however,
bigh the rental of that broad amnet African millionaire.
window in the Kungsgatan, the pro- Production starts as soon as Mr. paganda does not come back in real
may one
day David Rose, the combine's London revenue. Germany chief,, arrives in England. He is now scare Sweden by direct menaces into on the way.
concessions-though I fancy that is Three other Hollywood companies improbable. It is far less probable paper and link will convince United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn- that her Mayer and 20th Century-Fox-will the Swedes of the righteousness of make at least twelve British films the Fuchrer's cause or the invincibi-
lity of his country. between them in 1940.
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