Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 2, 1940.
NANCY
I THINK
YOU'RE MAKING
A BIG MISTAKE!
MY MIND'S MADE UP!--- I'M
GOIN' IN AN' TELL MR.
JOLLYBEAN DAT I
DECIDED NOT TO
MOVE IN WID HIM!
I'D LIKE TO SEE MR. JOLLYBEAN?
AWAY, YOU RUFFIAN!
By Ernie Bushmiller
OH, NANCY... I'VE CHANGED
MY MIND---
I'M GONNA MOVE IN TOMORROW, JUST
SO I CAN FIRE DIS GUY!
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BOMBED BY NAZI RAIDERS
MOLDE, the Norwegian city south of Stavanger, which was heavily bombed by Nazi vaiders this week.
I WAS WRONG ABOUT HITLER
-UNITY MITFORD'S FATHER LORD REDESDALE, FATHER OF UNITY MIT FORD, HAS CHANGED HIS MIND ABOUT HITLER. HE SAID THAT THE WAR HAS TAUGHT HIM THAT HE WAS WRONG. ·
In a statement issued from his home at High Wycombe (Bucks), he said:
"My only crime, if it be a crime, so far as I know, is that 1 was one of many thousands in this country who thought that our best interests would be served by a friendly understanding with Germany. In this, though now proved to be wrong, I was; at any rate, in good company.
"But all that was' before the days when ghlalpa and fishing smacks
Arms King Victim of Iron Guard Vengeance GAOLED BECAUSE HE MARRIED IN SECRET
The General And The Cigarettes
By T. E. A. HEALY
THIS story Concerns a French General and it pycket of
clgarettes.
I had shared a night in an advance post with some of France's most gallant troops. It was the kind of night about which the communiques say "Nothing of importance.'___
Cars
Yet these troops had stood guard | all night, eyes and
and trigger fingern aleri. For weeks) they had repulsed every attempt; of the Germans to penetrate the French lines. Now they were due) for a rest.
descended. And though the
Mme. LIVIA AUSSCIINITT
ROMANCE
CAUSED
RIOTS
Wedding kept
secret to
save bloodshed
RUMANIAN STEEL king Max Ausschnitt, greatest] armaments power in the Balkans, whose sentence of six
I marched down the mountain years' imprisonment for fraud and infringement of slopes with them in the morning. We saw a German run for cover as currency regulations was revealed recently, is victim of Woops inced after alm, the under the vengeance of the pro-Nazi Iron Guard-because he growth was so thick that the man married the most beautiful woman in Bucharest. ・・・ could have hidden there for weeks! without discovery.
The story begins six years ago when Ausschnitt, then-forty- six, saw beautiful Livia Pordean and her father, vice-president deploying fanwise In front, and at of the Rumanian Senate, on the Paris-Bucharest express._Livia, the rear, just to make sure there twenty-two years old, was on her way home from a French would be no funny business from an enemy patrol.
So on we went, with the escort
were being bombed, and merchant THESE WOMEN General Shook Hands
has
seamen were being machine-gunned while swimming or clingling to rafts! or in open boats; and there is many
man in thin country who changed his mind on this matter since the days when the Prime Minister flew to Munich,"
"'Suspicion"
In his statement, he also discussed the refusal of the Government to al- low him-to-take-his-daughter;- Miss Unity Mitford, to his Scottish home at Inch Kenneth, Argyllshire, which is in a protected area.
"It is a decision arrived at," he said, "by those responsible for the safety of our country after due con- sideration, and it would be highly Improper for me to question it. What
I
de resent, however, is the undoubted undercurrent of suspicion and resent- ment created by publicity to which, however inaccurate its statement may be, there is no right of reply.
Not A Fascist
1
have
!
ARE PERM
KNITTERS'
LATEST product of the war is the Perm Knliter.
A Perm kniiter, in case you have not met one, is a woman who knits while her hair is being waved.
Women hairdressers' saloons nt Lowestoft are full of them.
"I could not pretend that I ever rendered this country any signal service. But I am sallafled "in "my own consience that my military, re- Instead of idly gossiping away the cord is not one of which I have any hours while their hair cooles," the reason to be ashamed, and certainly customers help to knit socks or to-day my only desire is to see the scarves. earliest possible victory for the Allies. "One other matter which I and very wounding is that I am constantly described as a "Fascist." I am not, garments where previous customers) never have been, and am not likely have left off.
to become a Fascist"
War Record
The wool is provided for them at the saloons and they carry on with
Already a substantiul number of)
has been provided for comforts Lord Redesdale served in the South Lowestoft men serving in mine- African War, when he was danger- ously wounded, and was mentioned sweepers or drifter patrols.
in despatches in the last war.
"Customers have adopted the iden Miss Unity Mitford underwent an rendily," one hairdresser said operation at Oxford after her return
from Germany early in January, and "In fact, in all the town, I have was to have gone to recuperate at heard of only three women who the home Lord Redesdale recently refused to add a few siltches to a bought at Inch Kenneth.
garment when invited to do so."
TROOPS AT FRONT MAY HAVE GIRL On The
THE R.B.C. has decided to
Radio
There are to be announcing changes: make the troops feel more at on the home front, too.
home when they listen-in.
In addition to a team of speakers for the Forces, there will be a team Announcerg presenting thor news readers and another for
more voices.
When we got down mountains, who did we see famous French General.
from the but
He had come a long way just to say "Hello" and to congratulate the tired troops-there were not more than twenty of them-who had kept the. French territory shered from Nazi boots.
It was grand to see the ease and
WOMEN SPIES SET FREE
AUSTRALIA has made a ges- ture-to-Germany,-hoping to
finishing school.
Ausschnitt introduced himself, and by the time the train reached Bucha- rest had fallen in love. He was already engaged to be married (ac-
to report it
was
to
а
cording's daughter) but he wired}
breaking that romance.
The wedding of Mux Ausschnitt and Livia Pordean was fixed for Boxing Day 1934; hundreds of wed- ding invitations were sent out.
But Ausschnitt was of Jewish "origin. The Iron Guard, Jew "haters,
friendliness between the General obtain the release of Australian seized the opportunity of attacking: and the humblest private. After women who are interned in Ger- him.
all, each one of
for equal,
each Frenchman.
He shook hands with every one of them, and you could see they loved him despite all the silver stars that were on his sleeve.
that!
them was an many.
Porunca Vremiti, the extreme nu- was one
Seven German women-including tignalist newspaper, started the active Nazi agents-have been freed
an editoriul compalgn with from custody in Australia and told
said:- that they can go home to Germany. This was revealed officially re- cently in Melbourne, says Reuter, by As I rode back to headquarters Sir Henry Gullett, Minister for Ex- with the General I told him that heternal Affairs hind seemed just like a father among} his family.
Three Farthings
Closely Watchod
Mr. J. S. Duncan, a Commonwealth official in London, declined to make He smiled: "I am never happier any official comment, but sold that than when I can be close to my there were about an equivalent num- "Every day I get ber of Australian women in Ger- boys," he said. up carly so that I can be,
among many. them when they start their tasks. He thought there was no fear that "After all, that is not strange. the German women who had been They are my family. I have four freed would be able to take back sons serving France-threa are anything of importance to Germany. officers and one is a non-commis- as no doubt they had been very stoned officer. They're all as you closely watched.
Somewhere in France, just
say; like these boys."
I offered the General a cigarette. They were American elgarettes and expensive, but the General declined. "No," he said. "Have one of mine. I always smoke these. I like them best."
the
And he offered me crumpled cigarette packet. They were elgaretten the 'privates smoke. They cost three furthings a packet.
BATTLE FLEET FOR D.E.I.
AMSTERDAM, Thursday. BY 1046 Holland's Indian empire will be defended by a battle fleet totalling some 150,000 tons of modern warships.
back
Kindly Voice In Black-Out
DARLINGTON (Durham) girls, tempted to misbehave in the streets during the black-out, find a restrain- ing hand placed on their shoulders and hear a word or two of friendly advice.
"Don't be silly. Don't lose your head. Behinve, or EO home. I'll walk with you If you like," says a motherly válce.
And usually the girls accept the advice.
voice The restraining hand and belong to one of a squad of twenty
"I would be a disgrace to the Rumanian nation if this marriage were allowed to take place. Do not let this red-haired, freckled this bandit, this robber-baron, highwayman be allowed to buy A Rumanian malden with life - pollen gains."
Street Row
The result was public demonstra- tions in the street in front of M. Pordean's house in Cluj whenever Max Ausschnitt visited his flancee.
Livia Pordean disappeared from home. So did Max Ausschnitt,
Iron Guard men were on the look- suspecting that the wedding
But quietly. Max Ausschnitt and his fiancee gave them the slip.
out for would be held
Оде
One afternova In January 1935, car stopped in front of the
Roman residence of
Cathollo bishop Dr. Pacha, in Timisoara.
From it stepped Livia and her, Fance, who had A opied the Roman Catholic faith some weeks before.
Their Wedding
In the bishop's private chapel "the robber baron" and his bride were married.
By the time the Iron Guard found out about the wedding, the newly married couple were on their way!
the United to Paris, London and States on a long honeymoon,
At that time the Iron Guard, aj banned
could not organisation, Darlington women, mostly wives openly do harm to the Ausschnitts.
They had to wait six years for and mothers, who nightly patrol
their vengeance. They have now the less-frequented streeta back lanes of the town trying to made their peace with Carol, and keep orderliness. The police co- Max Ausschnit has gone to impri-
sonment and disgrace.
Forces programmes-there will general programme announcements. This polated statement designed to be a special team of them—are This will mean introducing ten to be much mora informal.
And the B.B.C. chiefs are consider The London ing appointing a woman to chat to Lionel Gamlin. the soldiers.
There will be four regular news But they have not made up their readers in London, selected from minds yet.
Frank Phillips, Alnd Howland, Joseph At present Miss Elizabeth Cowell, MacLeod, Alvar Lidell and Patric brunette talker of television days, is Curwen, the actor. the only
woman announcer on the Stuart Hibberd is going to Bristol, staff.
where, for the time being, he will be Last month it was stated that when heard once more announcing a wide her contract inpser it will most pro- variety of programmes, ranging from: bably be renewed.
symphony concerts to light variety.
the declaration made by the Dutch Minister in Tokyo that
operate, tearn will Include Holland does not intend that anyone elso shall protect her East Indian circles in The Hague. possessions was issued by, official To Protect Girls
and
We do not interfere with anyone so In addition Holland will have a Wearing white armlets, on which long as they are not misbehaving. number of other warships usually are the initials D.M.W; (Durham When so many strange men are employed in home or West Indian Moral Welfare), they patrol in pairs about there is a danger of young girls losing their heads. The patrols are waters, which in an emergency would from about 7 pm, to 10 p.m. be available in the Enst
Miss M. E. Spooner, superintendent chiefly older and married women. The Dutch Press adds that the of St. Agnes líome, Darlington, who Some have daughters of their own." naval base at Sourabaya will be im- lender of the patrols, says: "The The patrols are enthusiasts in the proved no that it will in effect become object is to try to help and protect work and have done remarkably well. à second. Singapore.
any girls who may be in difficulties. |--Sent by M. J. D. Darlington,
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