Saturday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH OF May 25, 1940.
DONALD
15 THIS
NIGHTY GO
TO THE
YES, WHAT
THE
MOVIES, UNCA DONALD ?.
DUCK
WE JUST WONDERED IF Y' HAVE
TIME TO TELLY.. US HOW TO
MAKE A SNARET
OH! WELL, SURE Y BEND
BRANCH DOWN***
AND WHEN THE BRANCH: SPRINGS BACK) Y GOT IT I NOW, GET UP TO BED
AND GO RIGHT TO SLEEP!
B.B.C. ORGANIST'S
SOS TO MISSING
"When
You Come Home, Dear
As the strains of "When You Como Home, Dear," played by Sandy Macpherson, the popular B.B.C, organist, came over the radio, an anti-niriraft gunner "Somewhere in England" played that its message would be heard by his missing daughter.
And at home his wife sat by the telephone, waiting...
"GHOST" LAID
DR. PICKTHILI, owner of Dixcart Hotel, on the island of Sarl, died 60 years ago.
But ever since there has been something strange about a room on the second floor. Several times at- tempts were made to "lay the ghost."
Last week the present decided the owner
roorn needed decorating. The paper was torn off the walls. A secret cupboard was re- vealed containing 24 bottles of fine old port.
CAN'T GO BACK TO NORWAY
TWENTY-THREE men are sleeping overtime at a London hotel,
Since their daughter left home some time ago neither of them has stopped worrying.
All efforts to trace her "failed. And then, as a last resort, the dis- tracted father, Gunner Nolan-Phil-
wrote to Sandy Macpherson. lips,
For Sandy's most popular pro- gramme now is that in which he by
plays tunes specially THE HAND!
men an active service to link with their folks at home.
And so thousands of listeners last night heard Sandy say that he was playing a tune specially for "Pat."-
"Now, Pat," he said, "If you should be listening to this programme, your father has asked me to say that he reallses he was too severe, and is very sorry about everything.
"Even if you do not want your parents to know where you are, do, please, write or 'phone to your mother to let her know you are all right ond lighten her burden, of
Cry worry.
"Will you do this, Pat?" Sandy
"Please do it for me."
canwhile, 10-years-old Elizabeth Siilbeck, who lives at Clapton, E., is walling for her father's next leave from the Army.
For when Private Sidibeck came home a week ago he found his wife in tears, Elizabeth missing. He spent all his leave looking for her in vain. _And_all_the_time. Elizabeth... was safe-working to "do her bit."
Recognised
When her father joined-up sho began to worry. Her mother's Army They are Norwegians, cap-allowance amounted is only 39s, od, tains and gunners of whalers which had to feed end clothe Ave which have been combing the girls-Barbara (4 years) Mary (7); Dolly (11); Marjorie (14%), and Antarctic for three months.
Elizabeth (10).
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So Elizabeth decided to run away: During these three months there have been only about two hours of and find work.
Within a few hours she had got a darkness in the 24-and bearly as
waltress at a Victorla- little sleep for the men.
Now they job are making up for lost time. And street, W., cate at 10s. a week. the Germans will not get their valuable catches.
"Normally, we would go back to Norway," said blond Captain Haraid Henriksen, 30-year-old gunner, who has shot 100 whales this season.
Then one day Elizabeth's new employer recognised her new waitress as the missing girl.
She communicated with Mrs. Skil- beck, told her what a good waitress Elizabeth was.
And the outcome of it all is: Mrs. Skilbeck has got her daughter back; "But because of the war we are Elizabeth has silll got her job; her stuck here for the moment. I am the parents are reconciled to the fact only unmarried man of the lot; my that she is old enough to earn her father and mother live at Toensberg own living.
near Oslo. None of us has heard a word from our people since we left Capetown in the middle of March, and we have not seen them for six months.
"Men with wives and families in Oslo have no idea what has happened
to their homes. We want to go back
but so far it has been impossible.
You
93-Foot Whale
BARONET BECOMES POSTMAN
A NAZI ACT
Picture radlond from London show Norwegian steamship Burgos Ikin off Eng iamo alter she had struck
* mina, while
travelling with British roni
v0.7. Crowded tire-boat in fore- ground, All Rol Crow Wrzo saved.
By Walt Disney
MUSICAL
GIRL
Commissions Only If They Make Good
HUNDREDS OF young men called up for service who go into the Navy are to be given the chance of getting commissions for the duration of the war.
men.
TRAINING
TURKEY'S
GIRLHOOD
FOR
WAR
TURKEY is talking no chances
and Turkish women aro preparing to do their bit with -the -menz Here-- are... (come. secondary schoolgirls being
shown how to handle a rifle by a soldier.
Nazis Tune In To London
BRANDS
DELICIOUS
ORANGE
LOKAVALADE
90c. per 1 lb. jar
3 jars for $2.55
The Marmalade, with the REAL Orange flavour.
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
GREAT SPY HUNT IN THAMES SHIPS Stowaway TEETOTAL SCOTS
"Tips' C.I.D. DRINK CIDER...
THE discovery of a German atowaway. in a ship started 2 great hunt for Nazi agents at all Thames docks recently.
Special Branch men of Scot- land Yard boarded every neutrai ship entering or leaving the river and investigated the credentials of everyone aboard.
The search was ordered because London police three days previously arrested a German hiding in the hold of a Dutch steamer lying at a. Thames. dock.
He was taken secretly to Connan- row police station, where he explain- ed to detectives that he was a refugee from Germany and had stowed away at Amsterdam.
Two Englishmen Caught The Yard men belleved his story, and he may be released after further Inquiries,
He gave them valuable information about the case with which he reached this country from Holland.
A SCOTS soldier who be came fighting drunk: Somerset elder was fined 78. Gd, at Yeovil
The chairman of the court warned Scotsmen of the strength of cider in the West Country.
James
The soldier, O'Hare, aged 25, was stated to have become so drunk that a policeman and two soldiers had to tako him to the police atation...
An Army officer said in court: "Up in Scotland cider is a drink you can have if you are a feetotaler."
£2,000 Went "Flop"
One-Night Revue
The need for a closer watch on Thames traffic was also emphasised by the arrest of two En Alshmen who were sent to Brixton Prison under PLAYGOERS ··· in ··· evening the Emergency Powers Regulations. dress arriving at the Playhouse They were caught trying to obtain Theatre, W., recently to see the “Let's Mix It” reyue, were told
information from Government ser- vants.
a German who was
PARIS Secret reports Te Their arrest coincided with the de- that it had come off after the ceived from Germany by the tention of
touch with them and was preparing refunded.
in first night. Their money. was Social Democratic party in Paris, to leave Britain. He has now been shortly to be published here, in- interned.
Backstage, their eyes suspici clude a series of letters indicat-A local order, issued by the Fladously bright, their jaws act, the ing that foreign broadcasts are officer for the area, that no pleasure revue's cast held a meeting, pre-
owned, bonis steamers or privately widely listened to in spite of the will be allowed on the Thames be-sided over by an Equity official. auvage penalty imposed by the low London-Bridge-during-daylight A cheque for £126 was to be Nazis.
without a special permit, was con-divided between them.
ne Nazis put the crime of laten-frmed by the Admiralty. ing to foreign stations on a par with at of a soitier gulity of self-inflicted wounds, and sentences of five years' mprisonment have been passed on .isteners betrayed to the police. Some parents do not dare to turn on London, Paris or Strasbourg until children have gone to bed.
that they
strike
Dad, 90,
Is Heir
Altogether, they learnt, about £2,000 had gone with this "musical cocktail” finco,
First Venturo
Some of this money was put into the show-by Miss Joan Byford, "actor Roy Byford's daughter,
It was her first venture in theatri- cal management, and she has taken JOHN Mulhall, a 90-years- and for two years after the war."
over the
for "the duration
A telegram from Bognor, express-
The English news bulletins are Listeners' first choice. A letter from Westphalia states people as relatively unblassed and old cowboy, who left his wife are convincing. Listeners who are Susan, now, 87, and their babying her sorrow and apologies, was ed regularly with iles by their own girl 60 years ago, was declared read to the cast as they sadly packed stations are impressed when anyone his daughter's part-heir in a adinits losses and any lack of success New York court.
Lack Of Fucl Restrictions on motoring have be- rome still more severe since the pre-
Ile inherits £20,000, a quarter of his daughter's money.
their thinga.
Miss Byford had hurried to Bognor
to be with her co-author, composer, and musical director, Mr. Harold |Brewer, who had been taken to a nursing home there, sulfering from a sult nervous breakdown.
The old man appeared dramatic
u set of reports were received, and the correspondence goes to show ally during the hearing of a
inck o motor fuel is the most about the estate. dangerous gap in German armament. "That's The Girl"
Une
ro
20
"The Bird"
YEARS IN WORLD
OF HER OWN
To be frank," one of the cast correspondent in Branden- burg tells of a butcher at Guben who he had abandoned,
He was not recognised by the wife said "wo gol 'tho' bird' last night.
but he soon **I've never known anything like it. motored eight miles with his wife
WMC proved his identity,
You could hear members of the to visit n sick relative,
WD8
"Yeah, that's the girl I married," audience telling the players to get off denounced and punished by being he said. "It's a pity. I never say my the stage. Sometimes, they inter made to wheel a refuse cart up and daughter again. Sho was only a tot rupted by slow and prolonged clapp- down the streets for an hour with when I left
ing. ៤ his wife. A doctor who had used The Admiralty have now to how to read signals.
"To think she got all that monty
that The trouble was
we were Those who pass the selection board his car
for a brief joy-ride was and then died before me,"
completely unrehearsed." Cries of nearly exhausted the supply at the Admiralty will do this three similarly compelled to spend twol After the court decisión, Mra, Mul-"Here, Here" from the rest of the
wheeling a
cust. of temporary officers from months' training at the establishment days
costermonger's
thall said: known as H.M.S. King Alfred, at barrow. But in the same small place "Keep him away from me. If "The Bnala of the show was only TWICE a day a baronet whose the Volunteer Reserve and Hove. Already nearly 1,000 men of there are 38 Nazi "bigwigs" who don't want to talk to him, anyway, given to us a few hours before the father and grandfather were the supplementary list, and the pre-war Volunteer Reserve have motor unrestrictedly.
I divorced him 68 years ago, two curtain was due to rise. Wo barely "The biggest whale I got this sen Lord Mayors of London, trampa are planning to make a start are now at sea as temporary lieuten-continues pitilessly a Bavarian
gone through the courses there and While the
persecution
of Jew years after he had left me,”
knew the words." son we 93 feet long," said Captain round Welwyn Garden City de with 250 of the naval militia. ants and sub-lieutenants.
port
saya that the Faber, Castell Henriksen. "It was a good season,
mail-a 485.-a-week
How many militiamen get com- Fenel Fish agents to expand its at Nuremberg bas hit call it cold down there,livering
missions will depend mainly on how
engaged Jewish around 60 degrees south, but although postman. we were lad enough of four big Every day he looks for a letter No young man will be able many ships the Navy adds to its trade in North and South America. strength during the war. The first The same correspondent mentions sheepskin coats we considered it addressed to himself from the war to get a temporary commis- 250 will be taken from those who that the Schuckers works at Nurem- mild winter compared with lnst. Ofice, telling him that, his expert
been were called up in the autumn sud berg are doing good trade with "We got plenty of whales, too. The machine-gun knowledge may again sion unless he has.
at the service of the entered as
have already hat some experience Mexico und Brail by way of Italy, flesh is delicious; we ate lots of it on be placed
a rating. But at sea. Ic is on
Ona-Man Tanks the Officers' board ship, cooking it in a variety of country.
after three months' sea ser- The Novy do not expect to
The AR.DIE. factory at Nurem ways just as you would cook beef Emergency Reserve.
Sir Stuart Knill, third baronet of vice he may be recommend- alexis engineer ogers by this berg is working full-time on the pro- Minnie Harriet Smith.
system, as engineering cannot be duetion of one-man tanks GOD a fall man, white-
said to be destined for ¡many paymaster sub-lieutenants · baj
Hungary and taken in this way, unleas they have the other hand, the Dresden hat fac It took something drastic to make Mrs Smith budge from special qualifications for accountancy.tories are reported as having com-
But some young men whose eye-pletely lost their big trade with the her own world. He must have a good educat is not quite up to the standard Balkans and South America.
She had to go to Birmingham - bustling, the roads were filled wilh (for executive commissions may be
hooting motor-cars. My Hamburg's export trade in dend, Police Court to give evidence against Ilis grandfather, Sir Stuart Knill, tion, so that he can start taken for the paymaster branch but the port of Stettin is said to be two youths accused of striking her
thought was how nice it would be THESE entries appeared in a visitors was Lord Mayor in 1892, and his straight away on the special they show special aptitude.
bury. In February This will be a father, Sir John, in 1909. The pro naval teaching. book seized by the police at
six slips a 'week down with Intent to rob her shop in aniled with goods for Russia, forward-Bristol-road, Birmingham. Rending .club: "Jean Harlow, sent baronet succeeded to the title crammed into him in three
doctor had to alt beads her. -OR TAME THEMed by way of Libau and Memel
The German railways are in an Then she gave her evidence calmly, the family are quite, months, nough," he said to a prças represen
increasingly bad state, and many and the youths went for trial.
And when she got back home she correspondents tell of popular dis the lative,.. was
Donald Duck Signed
h's line, is 54, a
of
OUT into the hurrying, bustling, noisy world -went- Mrs.
She is soventy-six, and it was the first time she had left her
haired, with a gentle, cultured voice.led by his commanding taught in three months. Nor will which are 20 for Bulgaria. On cosy little shop for twenty years.
He lives in a small house with his officer.
wife and daughter Goranu, who is
nearly three.
Paris," "Donald Duck alins 1934. Dracula," "Popeye alios Oliver Oy!" and "Tom Mix." Sidney Barker, proprietor ot Duke's Club, King-street, fined £40 recently for post z'- the sale of drink to non-members. The club was struck off the glater,
Cost To Family
"I estimate that their services "pin erd mayor, sheriff, and alderman
at the family about £40,000.
"Our re.
On one occasion, It was said, those «present included a wealthy land- _owner," unimployed ́· men," cattle Sdroverapibonvioled--thievesmasel
several women.
money, wint in family
roubles ten years ago. Since then I
CRAMMING
'There are thirty-eight subjects he will have to learn in that ime, from how to deal with n man over- board to general knowledge of radio: from how to anchor a ship
va rum antique businesses, held a drawn the dole several times
all at Calgton'an Market, and, oven] hated it, and was glad to get thin, job,
015. Sunday: street sweeping at six (*serhe postinen In Welwyn are a
llings-a-day-in. Chólsca...
"In the prsi reven months 1 haval. Mr. Küll.
to gel back to the -'quiet of my Ilttle shop.
Then she said: "It's not laziness
that keeps mo in. And I've not been
HIL
"The point is that I find all the
sidu... The counter. of my Hitle shop "Well really. I haven't had time to is a world of its own to me. My
A man sued at Clerkenwell County Court complained that while he was soldiering Intrust of German currencies, indicated was asked what she thought about happiness I need about my own dres Palestine he had sent his wife by a rapidly-growing demand for any the world after twenty years. money to pay for the goods arid kind of rane Food problem, every day look about me, she answered. tomers talk to me across it. They she had not done so ver
Mr. Registrar, Friend: That lain domestic matter. Having a wife is like keeping a wild animal-you have to put up WIN THE "PENNAritken,
As for the
brings a battle for the German house-From leaving my shop, every minute bring me all the news wife. The next step will, it appears, was worrying about getting back "I've always been a home-bird. to the general Introduction of com- home as soon as I could. And now Even when I was a girl in my toona munal kitchens for the working. I am back I have no strong wishes I'd rather sit at home then go out,” “
And Mrs Smith: koems to thrive in classes. This is dreaded and is used toʻgo out again.
and-the-world-of-ban-own
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