FOUND FATHER (NEARLY BLIND) AFTER 16 YEARS
Canadian PRIVATE SAMUEL HAILEY, the soldier who has not seen his English family for sixteen years, found his father recently.
But his father could not ace him. He is almost blind.
"I could only see Euro's face by putting my own six inches from his," he snit.
"Then I
recognized his
curls.
When he was a baby they were a snow-white mass."
Mr. Miltthew
Halley ("Nobby" to
his friends), of Liventa-street, Soho, was overjoyed to be with his son The reunion was made possi- again. ble by the London "Dally Herald."
Private Hailey, has spent all his since he came to England in
trying to find his relatives.
I took him to Somerset House and
his birthplace. traced
Last night I had the satisfaction of sceing him celebrating with his of father, his brother, Matthew, Hendon, N.W., and his sister, Mrs., Mary Sweeney, of Camden Town, N.W.
Sumuel has been given extra leave unil Saturday to get to know his family again.
Another sister, Mrs. Annie Curtain,
is too dangerously in Chelsea
Hospital to be told the news.
WE BUY
Friday,
THEY RISK THEIR
LIVES ON SHORE
accurately, un- Komantically, as the Renter- ing Safe of Mines Squdd, there men of the Royal Navy risk their lives almost daily on shore,
Above, you see them rolling a mine to a spot where it can be blown up. On the right, they are taking of the base-plate of a mine, and below) cutting the siblich wires on the base-plate.
HONGKONG TELEGRAM
May 17, 1940.
German Girl Saved From Nazi Clutches
Cura
GESTAPO ROBBED CHEST BY PIMPERNEL
BOYS OF 17
RAID BRITAIN
GOERING is sending
7,000 U.S. boys to fly over the British Death Of A PLANES
coast.
So many of his raiders have been shot down that he is not
BRITAIN'S order of war-sending his experienced pllots planes from the United States is now to face British fighters. estimated to amount to between
7,000 and 10,000,
This number, with accessories, will
Training
The youth of the flyers pleked up
niniost exhaust the £200,000,000 from the sea recently has impressed which, it is stated, Britain is to spend the British authorities.
on sertplanes in the United States.
Some of the machines may be
Some of them are boys of 17. Flights to Britain are now, appar
flown over, but most will be sent ently, to be regarded as "training ready for assembling, and will be episodes."
within a week of their arrival
flylnir
"Some of you boys will enter the bombing service, and with steely All the armuments of the planes nerves breaks through the strong de-
in this country.
are being fitted in England, as Bri-fence to drop your terrible load on enemy, Goering told dying tish guns are preferred to American the
Dupils in his Berlin speech laz ones,
"Old At Twenty"
Mr. Louis Johnson, United States! Wednesday. Assistant Secretary for War, says the capacity of the country'e aircraft in- dustry is now estimated at more than 17,800 machines a year.
Australia To Spend £25,000,000 In Air
Australia is to spend £25,000,000| In the next two and a half years on, plone construction and maintenance -as-her-part of the Empire sir scheme.
The new Australian Minister of Supply Sir Frederick Stewart, an- nounced that In Sydney, Now South
Few of the pilots he is sending over have had experience of the Spanish and Polish wars. They have Joined the air force since the out- break of the present wor
Men over 20 in the prison camps in Britain are regarded as "elderly."
SWIM AMONG SHARKS
BIMINI (Bahamas). Paul Chotteau, the French long- Wales.
distance swimmer, left here at 8.7 "Britain will supply a large num- this morning in an attempt to swim ber of barbers," Sir Frederick said, the 71 miles across the Florida Strait "end millions are being spent on to West Palm Beach. workshops to maintain 3,000 planes.
He is being escorted by two men "More than 1,000 large planes are in rowing boats to ward oft sharks. to be kept in operation"United The boats are also carrylog a supply
of liquid food. Press,
The Madonna Girl
is on the
dole
"THE Madonna Girl"—Britain's best-known artists' model -Is on the doldrat
For the first time for nearly ten years, the Royal Academy, which opened on May 8, opened without the face of the Madonna Girl-Marguerito Salle.
While artists were carrying their paintings-into-Burlington House for considoration by the Hanging Committee, Marguerite anid:
I
"When the war broke out, my commissions vanished. became a full-time A.R.P. worker, but that came to an end when the authorities out down the paid staff.
If the Academy doesn't bring back my modelling carcer
to normal, I'll have to say good-bye to Chelsea and start
over, aynin ay tur office worker after ten-years---
Misa Salle has sent a painting of her own to the Academy. For years sho hat nursed an ambition to achieve fame as an artist..
Polish Noble
Shot Im Market
THE Polish Ministry of Informa- tion gives the following details of the execution of Ceunt Micezy- Blaw Chpalowski, brother of 2 former Polista Ambassador France.
The Marriage Has
Been Arranged...
Thrice She
Said "No," And Then-
99
By POP WRIGHT MR. J. D. HOWES, sturdy young technical engineer and sportsman, of Black- heath, S.E, has just been rovealed to me as the hero of an adventure in Germany which would rival a chapter of the "Scarlet Pimpernel."
On the eve of the outbreak of war he entered Germany without a visa, tricked the Nazis by his per- feel German accent and rescued a German girl from a concentration camp. She is now living in freedom in Switzerland.
For many years Mr. Howes had spent his holidays in Germany. Ho became friendly with a family who lived in the Heidelberg district.
The father, since dend, was a rich business man and part-owner of an anti-Hitler newspaper.
Mr. Howes as usual visited Ger many in Easter last year. He found that his friends had vanished from their home.
They included Lotto Rhacme aged twenty-four, who was rur rled to young Corman soldier.. People who knew the family were unwilling to talk to Mr. Howes sbout the disappearance .of the family. But he discovered that they had been sent to concentration i camps.
Gestapo Agents Gestapo agents had found that they had transferred money And the jewels to Switzerland against Hitler laws.
Mr.Howes spent his holiday_in tracing Lotta. He found that she had been taken to a camp in the mountains near the Swiss frontier. He was permitted to visit her for quarter of an hour. She was herded In the camp with women of all ages. Lotta was in a state of misery and despair. She implored Mr. Howes to visit her again and to take her poison with which she could end her life. He Mr. Howes went to Holland. THREE times Pilot Offi-nd friends at Rollerdam whom he
into
They hia confidence, cer Norman ("Tiny") Wil-look
armnged with the captain of a coal liams proposed to Miss boat plying to Essen to take him as Helen Trevelyan, actress and authoress. And three times he was rejected.
But after the third rejection she relented, and put a notice in a newspaper saying a marriage had been arranged between them.
a deck hand.
He dressed in dirty overalls. At Essen he left the boat, bought new clothes and posed ns German
student on holiday.
He
engaged a fast car and crossed Germany without arousing suspicion anywhere.
"Mr. Howes rented rooms at a vil Inge within an easy car ride of the camp.
And so on April 13, "their lucky During the subsequent week at day they were married at St different towns he bought a wamon's Marin-in-the-Fields by the Rev. Patjat, dress and shoes, a supply of McCormick,
and a small bottle of Both Hated Maniago
He also made a survey of mountainous country between Seven years ago Miss Trevelyas, the who is the daughter of the late W Germany and Switzerland.
for Trevelyan Thompson, M.P.
Saturday came. He drove the car road among woods a mile Middlesbrough for 10 years, wrote an into a article in a newspaper saying how she from the camp, which he then ap hated marriage. Her husband-to-be prouched on foot.
He Saw Her then living in South Africa, wrote! promptly saying he heartily agreed. At last he saw Letta. She saw
For seven years they corresponded, frequently exchanging congratula-him. He gave her a signal which she
understood. tions that they had escaped the She wandered unobserved towards matrimonial snare,
the woods. Then she ran to the spot Several
weeks ago he came to England to join the RAF. and all where Mr. Howes was waiting.
They
·Lotta quickly changed into the hat and clothing which Mr. Howes had brought in the car.
to
at
his
took place The executiora Kosciany in western Poland, a town of seme 10,000 inhabitants, large numbers of whorn were compelled to witness "German justlee" being done to one of their countrymen,
The Count kreit in the market square, said a prayer, and after mak- Ing the sign of the Cross in the direc tion of the crowd shoutal, "Long live Poland, France and England," before falling under the bullets of the firing squad.
M. Madalinski, another Pole of andent lineage, dled equally brave- ly. Tearing his shirt open he shouted to his executioners, "Alm well at the heart. No Madalinski over died Ike a dog. Long live Poland pa
executed Other Icading Poles within the last fortnight are:-M. Fenrych, from Puliszkl; Count W. -Koscisisici, from Senna: M. Mallejei, from Kowanty; Father K. Smorowski, from Wronczyn; and M. Taczakowall.
landowner from Wilczyn.
U.S. EXPANSION BILL ATTACKED
Tokyo, May 10.
A Japanese naval spokesman, Ad- miral Kanazawa, attacked the Ameri- can naval exparision bill, declaring It was intended for offence. Japan would act accordingly, he warned. The East Indies quesilon. had been closet diplomatically, he said, by
tron
Britain, France,
assurances
America and the Netherlands that they would maintain the afatiza que,
United Press.
STOCK MARKET REPORT
Hongkonit Stock Exchange Ometal
Summary issued yesterday says:
There is nothing to report,
Buyers HK, Govt. 4% Loan 102
Sellers H.K, Fire Ins. $175
Docks Nta, sai Electries $667% Telephones (Old) 827
Holes
HK Bankas SKUU Union Ins, $405
Providents $€/4.05' Humphreya $8
reached the
car.
discretion could not years of prevent him from proposing to the woman to whom he had expounded the folly of married life.
He decided that within the next They would have been married hour or two the roads leading to the before, but the bride has had Ger- Swiss frontier would be watched for
Now the wedding will the runaway. So he drove man measles.
hun- take place during 24 hours' leave dred miles into Germany to a village granted to the bridegroom.
station. railway.
There he parked the car and took near the two tickets to a stallon Swiss frontier.
RED CROSS UNIT BOMBED
Paris, May 18.
Luck was still with them. They Five ambulances belonging to the American Volunteer Ambulance met nobody,
have Western Front
Swiss frontier They crassed the Corps on the been bombed and machine-gunned, near midday on the Sunday.
Mr. Howes returned home by way according to Bernhard Ragner, a member of the carps. Two cars were of France. destroyed.
And in his own words, his first All prominently displayed Ameri-week back at work in a Woolwich One engineers' office was the dullest he ean flags and Red Cross signs. volunteer is missing-Reuter.
had ever known.
Hollywood's Worst
Revealed
Joke
NEW YORK. HOLLYWOOD has
gone crusading. It la making Its "first screen sermon against the easy divorce evil,"
aent husband of Joan Blondell. His he won previous marriage, before
im fame, ended in divorce.
FRANK FAY-Divorced by Bar- bara Stanwyck, who alleged he once tried to throw her into a swimming
Clergymen and social leaders have pool. been asked to give it their blessing. | CONRAD NAOEL-His marriage
Now comes the wry lough.
with a Los Angeles society woman
It was discovered that this great was ended by divorce. uplift film, piquantly entitled, "Exception-Aged. Six Want-a-Divorce, being acted, Producer GEORGE ARTHUR— produced and
directed almost Divorced once. entirely by men and women who Director RALPH have themselves bem. through the Divorced once. divorce courts,
Film officials blushed when it was pointed out how many connected with "I Want a Divorce" had at some time or other been freed by enzy divorce themselves.
And one player, Gloria Dickson, now separated from her husband, says she expects, to get a divorce the anil-divorce picture la
1932012
USESK
Here's the record of some of the others:
MURPHY, —
The story of the anti-divorce | film was written by Adela Rogers 8. John, whose record. Is "three: divorcek. Even the film's
press agent, Jean) Bosquet, has one divorce to his credit. :
without a Among the low divorce. Is nelor Mickey Kuin. Bilokey in aged six,
Detending the cast of his master- piece, Producer Arthur said: "The marital status of the players may Leading Indy JOAN BLONDELL seem peculiar in this picture, but you divorced photographer George Barnes, must admit we have a cart of experi complaining that he "frightened her ence. When they any anything about to death" by the way he drove a car. divorce, they know what they're
Leading man DICK TOWELL, pre-talking about."
TROUBLE
FLU COUGHS ets
you suffer from coughs,
I lung weakening colds of
chille, be sure to tako Pepe.' 'Thesa antiseptic, breatheablo tablets are pleasant to take yet powerful enough to keep trouble off your chest and lungs.
Dissolved in your mouth a Peps, releases rich, medicinal essencon, which mix with your breath and are carried deep into your lungs. Pops thus overcome, infectlõua germs lodged in the larynx, heal cough-torn membranes and quickly Toproertha teman teatud mumeme which Page
soothe the throat. They coulain, every tablet is egypped to allvar pase
provide tho. Ideal remedy Thy are packed in sealed and butthan, Mang with full devetidem printed in sounding Sangat, for bronchitis, etc.
A
1650
Take
PEPS
Breatheable Tablets
Agents: Messrs. Gilman & Co., Ltd., Des Voeux Rd., Hongkong.
$1 TIFFINS
at
Jimmy's
Also A la
China Bldg., Hongkong.
Go Empress
Carte
Hankow Rd., Kowloon,
ONE MANAGEMENT DIRECT to North America and Europe!
EMPRESS LUXURY MAN
Speed across the Pacific by luxurious Empress
liners, then... Victoria... stop over If you wish
, and Vancouver in Canada's Evergreen playground.
NEXT - SAILING FROM - HONGKONG.
SECOND WEEK IN JUNE,
(Omitting Honolulu)
Fast through AIR CONDITIONED trains from ship's side at Vancouver take you through the Majestic Canadian Rockles-Lake Louise, Banf400 miles of travel through Marvelous Mountain Scenery. Niagara Falls and the Great Lakes can be included as optional routes on your coast-to-coast trip. Stop over anywhere you whh.
Then Montreal and Quebec, gay French-speaking cities on the famous St. Lawrence Seaway, and a quick crossing to Europe by one of Canadian Pacific'a Atlantic Beet.
NEXT SAILING TO MANILA. THE FIRST WEEK IN JUNE
For full information consult your travel agent,
Union Building,
Hong Kong.
Telephone 20162.
OF
Canadian Pacific
World's Greatest Travel System
PRESIDENT LINER
Gailings
TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE
Fortnightly
To
SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES via Shanghal, Japan" & "Honolulu ROUND-WORLD SERVICE
To
NEW YORK & BOSTON Via
Manila, Singapore, Panang, Colombo, Bombay,
Port Said, Alexandria, Naples, Genos.
** AMERICAN
PRESIDENT LINES
DNAROUND)-WORLD-SERVIOF"
AGENTS FOR T.W.A, AND UNITED AIR: LINKS