NANCY
MY MIND IS MADE UP-- I'M GOIN' RIGHT OVER AN TELL MR. JOLLYBEAN
DAT I'VE DECIDED TO LET
HIM ADOPT ME!
BOY!... WILL I HAVE:
FUN ON DAT SWELL ESTATE!
Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
April 30, 1940.
By Ernie Bushmiller"
SHORTS-
&
Jel. 28151.
SLACKS
SEVING 1,000
KING
TAKES FOR
BRIDE
GIRLS ASK DATES"
Disappointed In
Men
of Devon.
SOMEWHERE IN DEVON, ONE THOUSAND eligible young women have come to the conclusion that it's a not-so- glorious Devon.
"Where's the romance?" they demand plain- tively. "What's the matter with the young men -are they dùmb?"
Because of the apparent scarcity of suitable boy friends this contingent of spinsters finds life; dull these days.
ARTIE SIIA W, the famous swing band leader and his film star bride, Lann Turner. The two met Home time ago while working on M.G.M. lot,
A
PRINCESS LEAVES FORTUNE TO DUKE OF KENT
PRINCESS LOUISE, great-aunt of the King, who was buried at Windsor, was one of the wealthiest members of the Royal Family. The bulk of her fortune will go to the Duke of Kent.
They are on the staff of a big in- surance company, and were evacuat-
ed to a South Devon town nearly four months ago.
A 19-year-old malcontent said: "Dates with boy friends are almost unknown.
"We spend our spare time knitting furlously for the Services, throwini; orcasional 'hen* parties, and dancing with each other in our hotels.
Weather Talks
"Most of us have forgotten the
thrill of being taken out for Jevening."
the
Stella Thompson is blonde and frank. She said, "Even if the local lads were attractive, there are too few to go round."
Brunettes Cecile Jordon and Yvonne Roberts agreed.
CHURCHILL'S £1,000 SPY GAME
MR. CHURCHILL has invited seamen all over the world---and you if you think you can do it-to hunt out German warships and give news of enemy mines.
Here is a price-list of what the Admiralty is prepared
to pay for accurate information about the Nazis' war at
sea:
Warships captured
or sunk as a direct result of the in- formation, up to... Movements of enemy war vessels accu- rately reported, up
to
Position of moored..
or floating German mines, up to .....
£1.000
Mine washed ashore and recovered, up to
Specially interesting (e.g., magnetic) mine, up to..
£1
ឆ.
Floats, mine-sinkers,
mine fragments,
£50
etc., if examina- tion of them yields
new knowledge, up to
£5
*£6
The rewards will be paid to anybody except Service personnel, whose official duty it is to report enemy activi- ties. The amounts will be assessed by the Admiralty according to the value of the information received.,
Raced Train
Dying Man
To
HERE is a thrilling story about two war heroes serving on the Home Front.
They are Special Constables Harvey and Egland, of Exeter. Their resourcefulness and pluck were revealed recently.
They were out on patrol.
Harvey, in private life a journal-
People who had crossed a bridge lat, modestly told the story to the over the Southern Railway main Exeter coroner recently. line reported having heard moans.
In returning a verdict that Sea- mark died from his injuries, the commended Harvey and
Huddied on Line Hurvey ran to the bridge, shone corner Egland. And 20-year-old Betty Scolt added his torch over the parapet, picked with much scorn, "The only thing out in its rays a mar huddled on they can talk about is weather."
the track. danced with some of the thou- He and Eglond sprinted off along sand. There was one man to about the wadin pulted out of Exeter Cen-
that led to the metals. were over 40, and married. Only tral; they heard it gather speed, 20 women-and most of the men A four were local residents.
Silghtly hopeful pole-A big firm of underwear specialists has just
town. Manpower: 100,-
Part_of_the_valuable collection of and provision for the Kensington transferred its head office staff to the. jewellery, not worn for yours, wil go Palace stall.
to the Duchess of Kent. There are
also substantial bequests to charities
∙KIST
HIMS
CANNED
FRUITS and VEGETABLES
Insist on Sunkist.
Solo Distributors W. R. LOXLEY
· CO. (CHINA) LTD,
Relics of Queen Victoria will be distributed among members of the
Royal Family, including the King and Quecti.
U.S.N. OFFICER DUE
Chungking, Apr. 20.
on
draw closer.
Down on the truck they ran until their lungs seemed ready to burst.
With seconds to spare they reached the mun, held him between--them; pressed
the close against
bridge wall.
Commended
The train swept past them.
SKIPPER STAYED
IN LINEN- COTTON
DRILL,
ROBE'NE
and TWILL
WHITE
and NAVY
ONLY . .
SLACKS
FROM
$100
SHORTS'
FROM
LADIES' SALON
$5.75
LANE CRAWFORD'S 55:52
The House of Quality & Service
'But surely, just a
Never neglect a scratch-however small. The moment the skin is broken a path for germs is opened.
Use Dettol at once. It is a weapon against infection. Yet for all its high germicidal efficiency, it is
scratch.. Dontaining,, non-poison-
ous, even pleasant to smell.
DETTOL
TRADE MARKÄY
THE MODERN ANTISEPTIC
Agents: Imperial Chemical Industries (China) Ltd., Hong Kong
at the
ALONE Parisian Grill
WHEN the 1,502-ton Glasgow steamer Longships broke her back
But on a rock the crew put off in the
Capt. D. 'MacLannan stayed
Capt. Bradford Bartlett of the the man, Leonard Duart Senmark, a ship's boats and stood by for nearly Some of the people to whom be- U.S.S. Tutulla is scheduled to leave 59-year-old garage proprietor, was four hours
left quests were originally
have Chungking
Tuesday for the already dying. already died. King George V. would United States, via Hongkong, to take fall from the bridge had fatallyboard alone, until a lifeboat arrived. have inherited among other things up his new post there-United Press. injured him. one of the Princess's own paintings.
Ignorant of War
Kensington Palace is a “gence and favour" residence which the King can give to any one he pleases, but It was the Princess'n hope that the Duke of Kent and his family would live there after her death,
She died at the age of ninely-one without knowing that, for the second time in her fe, Britain was at war with Germany. It was agreed that the news should be kept from her.
She never saw her pas mask. identity, card or ration coupons.
Princess Louise, who was the oldest surviving child of Queen Victoria, lived so frugally in her ninety-eight-roomed residence at Kensington Paluce that
most people regarded her us a com- paratively poor woman.
Her residence was run by a hand- ful of servants. Many rooms had not been used for years. The study of her husband, the Duke of Argyll. who died in 1014, was wrapped · In dust sheets: the dining-rooms and ja sumber of ground-floor aute-rooms
have long been locked up.
After her ninetieth birthday the Princess lived unstairs in an atmosphero of Victorian austerity:
No Lift
There was no lift in her wing of the palace: coal for the open fires in the bedrooms wan carried up by hond. An old-fashioned kitchen range heated the bare corridor out- side the room in which she spent | the last weeks of her life.
Carpets, curtains and furniture dated from the beginning of the century.
Princess Louise, had, an income of £8.000 a year from the Civil List.
Ittle more than half this.
ENGLAND
HOLLAND
BELGIUM
NEW LIKE OF [FORTIFICATIONS
JUST COMPLETED
PANGANET LINE
FRANCE
FRANCE and Germany continue to fortify their fron- tiers. This map shows the latest phases of, this activity.
Work on the continuation of the Maginot Line along the Franco-Belgian frontier has now been completed.
Germany, it is learned, has started work on a defence line just south of the frontier with Denmark. A second "Siegfried Line" is being built, also, behind the present one along the frontier with France.
OPEN VERDICT ON
"UNCLE ERIC
An open vordiet, was returned at Her total housekeeping expenses at the inquest recently on
Mr. Eric Kensington Palace amounted to
Fogg, 37-year-old music director of
In addition, the inherited a large the BBC's Empire Service. sum of money from Queen Victorin
and benefited under the will of her Mr. Fogg "Uncle Erie"-who fell
husband, who left
quarter of a million pounds.
more than nin trónt of n Tube train at Waterloo
was to have been married recently.
DER
MARK
"GERMANS BUILDING
FORTIFICATIONS
SIEGFRIED LINE
GERMANY
SECOND SIEGFRIED UNDER CONSTRUCTION
ADVICE TO NURSING MOTHERS
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For that reason, doctors throughout China recommend Horlicka. They have proved that Horlicks stimulates the "appetite, promotes
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On
The story was told, when the crew
of twenty-seven landed at a South
port.
Coast
After the lifeboat had taken them ashore, they had transferred at once to another ship,
After surviving an attack by Ger- maa planes on Sunday, the trawler Dromio, of Hull, came in
Good Food Fine Wines DINNER & DANCE MUSIC by
The Blue Danube Trio
with the Italian steamer Valentino,TO-MORROW
in the North Sea.
Another trawler, the Colonło, look her in tow, but after ve hours' towing she sank.
Bombs All Round
Her crew of 18 landed at a North- East part last night.
One of them sald that last Sun- day, when the trawler was returning to Juli from the fishing grounds, Nazi zaplanes dropped hombs round the ship and also used machine-guas.
all
Damaged by an explosion, believed to have been caused by à mine off the North-East Coast, the 4,134-ton Glasgow steamer Gryfevale was tow- ed into a North-East port recently.
STOCK MARKET REPORT
Hongkong Stock Exchange (Official Summary issued yesterday says:
Business reported was not of vast proportions, and prices are not loo robust, but the spread was over a voriegated selection.
Buyers H.. Banka 31,500 Bank of E. Ain $74 Union MA, $420 Providents #4% Landa 1301 Realties $4.40
Telephones (or $2855 Telephones (New) B10 Lane Crawfords (805 Wm Powell $1 Entertainments $7.10
Bellers
Providenis $4.40 Firetries 32 Telephone, (Old) 20 Telephones (Now) #1039
Balon Dncks Cum. Rte. $21 Hotels $4 Lands $38
Chinese Eater $183 Trams $115
China Lights (Old) $7.00 Electrics $0.80
Telephones (Old) $20.00
INTO THE SKIES
AT
THE
Opon till 1a.m.
KING'S
... FOR LOVE AND GLORY!
20,000 MEN A YEAR
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PRESTON
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