NANCY.
WELL--I GUESS WE'LL HAVE TO CLOSE OUR DANCING SCHOOL*** WE CAN'T SEEM TO GET ANY PUPILS!
YEAH--- BUT IT'S
A SHAME DAT WE CAN'T USE OUR
TALENT SOMEHOW!
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Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SPANISH DANCE TEAM WANTED
GUNNER IN PANTS FIGHTS NAZI BOMBER
Left His Sick Bed Look Through
To Defend Ship
NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD CHARLES GOLDEN,
of Rotherhithe, leapt from his sickbed in the motor- ship Rosedene when he heard firing.
A few seconds later-wearing
only his underclothes-be was
at his Lewis gun exchanging
shots with a Nazi bomber..
It was bitterly cold, but Golden forgot his influenza and stuck to his gun till the raider went off.
Twelve bomb were dropped, some very close. No damage was done to the ship but nearly every breakable article broke.
The caplain, who fired at the plane with a ride, and the second mate, were alightly wounded in the legs by ricocelting bullets.
Near The Coast
The story was told when the Roadène (100 tons), of Sunderland, reached an East Coast port.
The vessel was attacked on the milea off the previous night, two
Heinkel
coast-apparently
bomber.
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When the bombá dropped the small ship was almost lifted out of the water, and the
thought she crew would sink
Captain J. Armstrong, of Par. Cornwall, sald, that the plane power- dived and dropped the first bomb within eight yards of the vessel.
"I was in the wheelhouse," he said, "and grabbed my rifle and be- gan taking shots at the plune as it Turned to dive again.
Spattered Deck
"The plane circled over the port side and returned, her machine-guns sending streams of bullets which spattered the deck.
"I felt a stinging pain in my right leg as a ricchetting bullet passed through one side of my trousers and out of the
Caller.. "Then the second mate, Thomas H. Wilson,
similarly hit. "When the plane
WIER
dived the second time it was met with a steady burst of fire from our Lewis gun and was amazed to see the 10-year-old gunner standing calmly behind his gun, wearing only his underclothes,
"It was bitterly cold and bullets were striking all parts of the ship, but he did not seem to heed them.
"He was a very plucky boy.
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"I could see the tracers hitting the
Nazi and expected it to retire from
the fight sooner than 11 dk.
A FEW minutes after she had divorced Herbert Marshall, Miss Edna Best, the film and stape slar, was married again at Las Vegas, Nevada. Her third 1215- band is Nat Wolf, her Hollywood agent.
"The rame judge granted the divorce and performes-the-weed- ding ceremony.
Miss Best accused Mr. Mar- shall of desertion in 1934. They were married in 1928.
COMMUNAL RIOTS
Eleven Killed In New Disturbances
The Telegrap
50 YEARS AGO
April 22, 1090, The Mercury, (Captain Balfour, which Was inspected by Admiral Sir Edmund Commerell on the previous day, lett Spithead at daybreak on the 19th fast. to replace the Cardella on the China Sta- Don. Palvled white and with a change of rig, the yards on the foreinnat havlig uren removed, she presented A very pretty appearance. The commissioned irial to which alte was subjected befora starting, gave very satisfactory results, a speed of 10 knóta having been replace with a mean borso power of 4,000. At her contractor's trial the engines da. veloped 7,900 harkes and an average apeed of ill knots was obtained; but on this Occasion he was two feet lighter in the water, special stokers and coil were em ployed, and the steam blant was used. The crew of the Mercury, consists of 278 | ofteern ant men, and she carries I 8 in. and four thick Bring guns, so that the is both a swifter and a more powerfully anned vessel than the cruiser which she aucecels. Owing to wont of time it was necessary to piùg about 200 tubes in ber -condensers before sailing.
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ERNIZ
April 22; 1940:
By Ernie Bushmiller
I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT'S 50 FUNNY!
WON D.S.M. FOR FACING DEATH WITH SPANNER
Chief Petty Officer Baldwin receiving his medal from the King "at Portsmouth on December 19.
MINE HERO DIES
AT HIS POST
CHIEF PETTY OFFICER CHARLES E. BALDWIN, who was decorated by the King for his part in one of the most dangerous exploits of the war, has been killed by an accident on service.
Sinu pore is not the only colony in the Far East which has hind 1s military con- tribution enhanced. llongkong. It will be peen from the synopsis of the Amy Estates we gave last week, will be called on in the current year for £40,000, as ngainst $23,000 in 1000. The extra amount will be felt on the revenue of the colony, though if the former contribution of 405,000 from the Straits wan at all fair the present aum demanded from Bone- Kong cannot be considered execRSİVE. But it is after all more a case of these Who can pay must pay, Look at Aden, for Instance. That dependency J nothing to pay, and therefore can make no contribution, though it has had thrge sume for forts, Runs and garrison ex praded on it. No one would say that were
He was one of the five members of the Vernon Mine Establish-
ntoned
and windows smashed. It ought not to be defended property, an (Trieste was then in Austria-Ed), It is a necessary coaling sution; but then Singapore and Hongkong should
bo
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furnished out of Imperial funds in a cer- A report in many quarters in Holland tain ratio in a similler way, and their sitown that great westward troop move- contribution not be made just simply, & ments are in progress behind the question of how much they can bo man nes in BelgiuITE, mulcted of. That this is so is shown by the figures we rave inat week. Hong-
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ment, Portsmouth, whose job it was to dismantle German mines washed up on the const.
They faced tremendous risks-and the only weapon with which they fought was spanner.
All five were awarded medals, "In recognition of great courage and daring." for venturing out off the
kong, with a total of all ranks of 2.089 The "Daily Telegraph" correspondent in coast in darkness to render a mine is to pay £40,000 or 113 70, 8d. per head the
eastern Mediterranean stales that sate. per annum: Singapore with 1,500 men in General Sir Ian Hamilton command e AND to pay £100,000 or 60 5n. 46. per head Expeditionary Force, which
of Baldwin's colleagues. Lent.- Why should a soldier cost £52 178 80. more breuiterranean it includes the finest Commander J. G. D. Quvry and in Singapore then fongkong? It is use. 1ess of Lord Knutsford to point out what attalions of the Britials Army who have Lieut.-Commander Roger Lewis re- hot yet fought in this war. General
Australia has done, when a glance at Damades French Colonial Division forms ceived the D.S.O.. Lieut. Aden shows what has not been done part of General Hamilton's command:
Australia, too, has a large trade of her own, and solely her own neither Hongkong, nos Singapore, has in
protect, with
the same ratio. They are metely coaling stations and distributing centres, not the netuni sea neat of trade, as in Australin
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April 22, 1030. The Senior Consul has forwarded, with of yesterday's date, a petition, A note The electric lighting of the main dated the 2011 Instant, signed by 64 rate streets of Hongkong will in all probability payers, convening a special meeting on he completed by October," said Mr. W. May 2 at 930 p.m. for the purpose at H. Wicktime to our representative you reconsidering the whole question
membership of the Shanghal terday, Mr. Wickham is the manager of Council. It will be recalled thatently. the longkang Electric Co.. and wat formerly with Mesars. Johnson and ratepayers, by a large majority, recenlly Philips, the electrical engineers of Lon-rejected the Council's unanimous recom don, who have contracted with the „Com- mendation that the number of Chinese pany to instal the new light hero. "Most members be increased from three to five. of the plant is already in the works at Wanchal, and operations are being pushed
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on. The Company have already been At the Invitation of the Air Ministry, promised by the Government a contract the German Zeppelin, which is now on on "It was a grund fight and I'm
RANGOON, Apr. 21 (Reuter), for ity arc-lizite on the Brocker-Pell experimental flight from Berlin
prince in the main thoroughfares, England, will break her journey at Car certain our gunner hit the plane. If we dkl not bring him down we've-Eleven were killed and 69 Each will be about the size of the lights dington alr station and moor at the huge at the Telegraph Offers. They will pre-monting mast there. The Zeppelin in ex- tiene enough damage to give him a Injured in an outbreak of conf-bably be placed along Queen's Road and nected to reach Cardington on the same the Prava at intervals of 150 yards, and day. She will be the first German airship headache
munal disturbances here.
we Huarantee that people will be able to to lond In England since the war.
they are Gee where
going then. The present gan-lamps do not really fularin-
shewing where the
Golden who was making his Brst trip in the Rosedene-sald: "I was feel the skippers rifle I know i feeling pretty groggy but when
was needed on deck.
"I gave the Nazi all I could but what I wanted most was to scare him off so that I could get back to bed."
LETTERS
To The Editor,
The "Hongkong Telegraph." Sir, I am a high school student in
Trouble began yesterday on
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Jolin Glenny the D.B.C., and Able-Seaman. A. Vearncombe the D.S.M.
They had volunteered for the task, and there is not the alightest doubt that they have saved hundreds of
tons and thousands of lives shipping.
British Fleet. Sunk Again!
Nazis Being Fed On Wishful Thinking
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
of
BERLIN, Apr. 21 (UP). German propaganda is still busy
the eve of the celebrations in ate the streets they are only so many The Prince of Wales will arrive at Sinking the entire British Grand honour of the prophet's birthday.ishese lamps will also be admirably pinch, on his return from Africa. (The
Six Stabbed To Death
Troops and Police were called out to restore order after six people had been stabbed to death.
To-day the Police fired on a mob of Hindus and Moslems in the street,
It is learned that one person died from gunshot wound,
4.
Marseilles in the P. and O. finer Rawat-Fleet. Rawalpindi was the firt Brish naval- Apparently though, the Nazis do not feel they should hurry
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suited for concert rooms, etc. as well
For house lighting we shall adapt the casualty in the war-Ed), "alternatingŽ transformer incandescent" mystein now so extensively used in Eng- land. The lamps are sixteen candle and tight candle power, the former for apart zenia and the latter for halls, reading denka. The globen are small and egg- sinned and are themselves in ornament to a room. The advantage they have over gos immense, you don't have to go
Edda.
The Pope has sent Mumollai's daughter about it, because the notorious who to-morrow B FATYRE Nazi news agency, DNB declares Galeazzo Claro, the son of the Minister of Communications, a wedding present of that "the destruction of Britain's a magnilleent gold rosary.
The marriago represents the union of so-called Grand Fleet has begun
Sporadic assaults occurred through-striking matches to turn the light on. the two foremost Fascist familles. Clano. step by step."..
out the day.
JAPANESE NAVAL
attendance at the University of MANOEUVRES IN
Toronto,
mucli
to I would like very establish
with 2 correspondence someone in or near Hongkong for the purpose of exchanging stamps.
Any assistance that you would give
me would be appreciated.
HOBERT CONNELL,
458 Oriole Parkway,
Toronto, Canada,
SOUTH CHINA
the bridegroom's father is known a
but simply turn a tap. It desired the nede istimo (the very faithful) 1 switch can be placed outside the room "ount of his devotion to Mussolini. He is in the corridor, say. so that you just touch 11 and when you enter the spart.
One such step, according to DNB is
the only Minister who retained his post a series of shattering attacks on four
they can't come, thank goodness!
tort
You
Your favourite chair will not be usurped by your neighbour's wife. Your party smile will not con- your woll- washed face. will put on your slippers and you will gnaw your chicken. bone. After dinner you will settle down in your Parker-Knoll and think of all the lotters you should. be writing, and all
the nonsense you might have been talking if your neighbour's wife had not caught cold... That chair has ruined your social carcer-so what?
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ment you find it already lighted. And since Mussolini assumed power. His war, British cruisers and five troopships MILD lack at the economy. The LAN jet is record is an extremely brilliant one and which were attempting to land more burning whether it in required or not he was associated with D'Annunzio in the British expeditionary forces.
even if it is turned down it, is working occupation of Fiume.
The bridegroom, las travelled widely in for the Company-but the electrio light Brazil and China. He was formerly must be extinguished outright. There is absolutely no danger from its use; the Journalist and book reviewer. heat given out by a lamp in only from
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MEDIUM
However, even the official German news agency hasn't the gall to sug-
effect precize
of these FULL Kest
shattering atincks".
However, it does go so far as to "has claim that the British navy been forced into open battle".
Land Operations
one tenth to ons" fifteenth that, radiaụng The Australian cricket'' test team from a gas jet, and the light is doubly reached England to-day: SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
as great. We have thren Kapp alternat KWEILIN, Apr. 21 (UP)—Ac- ing dynamos, each capable of supplying
The formation of a corporation for the cording to Chinese military reports, ao aht. They will be driven by com- establishment
Trans-atlantio passenger and freight.airalip service wax big scale Japanese naval manoeuvres pound engines working up to 100 hors are being carried out in the South mos wit an enly two of the dyna-announced in a statement surved to-day in will be in remitar. use the third New York. It was signed by Dr. Eckener, China Sea, covering an area from the, being kept as stand by in case of the famous commander of the Grat Zep- So far as land operations in Nor- Paracel Islands to Hainan Island, the break down. We shall therefore be no- pelin, and Mr. Charles E. Mitchell, pre-
|me| minsity able to supply 1,700 sixteen enne
way are concerned, the DNB contends sident of the National-City Back.
itself by claiming that Narvik is still and the Gulf of Tonkin. Amoy const
die lights, but really our resources will ; The reports add that 85 Japanese be much greater. In England the pont-
held by the Nazis, and adds that a warships from the third
Norwegian woman, and child were and Afth right to of eight candle power. We
sundly 3.500 it Imperial Japanese fleets are parti- raun from experience at home that there
April 23, 1935. Heavy fighting has been renewed in the killed to-day when they refused to cipating in the war gormes, and that are seldom more than half the light o
Gran Chico Valley between Paraguayan take shelter during n bombardment, ing at once, so that we could really the manoeuvres are intended to pay furnish some 6,000 lights with our present have contested for the right of adminis- British have landed troops north and
It is officially admitted and Bolivian troops who, for three YOATE, particular attention to the movement, plant. WASHINGTON. Apr. 21 (Reuter). of British and American naval craft. The cost of our system will be dearer, the war takes. Bath sides claim to have south of Trondheim. !'
tering the jungle tends through which
Flight Of Money
To America
The Federal Reserve Board reveals that European citizens have invested over $1,000,000,000 in the United States under the names of other per- sons for fear that invaders of their countries may size thele wealth,
An owner's nationality is difficult to trace, but officials are of the opin- ion that a large part of the wealth came from Germany and citizens of countries bordering the Reich.
Artillery Action
On West Front
PARIS, Apr. 21 (Router)~-To- day's communique says that there! was artillery action in the neighbour hood of the Dlies.
5 YEARS AGO
than the present mode of Behting, at the , won decisive victories. ouisol, but not much. On a former retime ate we calculated that two cents an hour
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The first of the three new vessels den
that the
On the other hand. It is claimed that German troops have reached
will be about the cost of sixteen candle tined for the Far East OXOTORY Kervice of Lillehamme after a "ledge-hammer lamp as compared with the 14 cent rate the Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen the advance, which is rapidly assuming averaged by the Gas Company..
25 YEARS AGO '
· · April 23, 1016... anti-war riots
Retter's Venice correspondent saw that aro reported at Trieste, jewing to the scarcity al food. The pollen
1.4. Scharnhorst-la nearing completion. at the character of a pursuit of the Art, Ges, "Wener" yards of the Deutache scattering Norwegian defenders.' * Belioma Maschinenbau-Akülengesolis-
chaft Bremen,
The trint trip of the Beharnhorst in, fo
It is also reported that tlie Germans
take pisce in the North Sea is the ey have almost reached Anmot and have of May after which he will be cented Glocvik, 30 iniler cast of taken over by the company.
Lillehamune.
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