Ann (Aged) Does Bit For The Allied Troops
By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ANN, aged four, is ambitious..
She aims at supplying the whole B.E.F.
with cigarettes.
Then she will see what she can do for the French Army.
Anyway, Ann thinks she will be able to send. a million cigarettes comfortably.
Six Uncles
Alrendy she has sent 1,000 to her six uncles in France.
"And she does it all herself-well, almost. Her mother sort of superintends.
For Ann, it should be explained, is the daugh- ter of Mrs. Jean Rayment, of Kingswood-road. Brixton, S.W.
Fair-haired, snub-nosed, she dances and sings, And these are the talents she uses to collect cigaretten.¦ ·
A.F.S. units in London know her well, for she is the mascot of at least one station.
Wearing her miniature A.F.S. un!- form, she dances and entertains them, and then goes round with the hat.
What she finds in her hat she sends to a tobacco firm.
"Dear Tommy"
With the "smokes" she sends this letter:-
"My dear Tomics and Pierres in France.-
"I am going to slug and dance to buy you clgs. for Christmas Day. bluer can anioke your Then you
away."
"I'm sorry I can't
read that, doctor,
I don't speak the language."
Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Her WAR
NEWS
XCWZ
OPST
WITH
A
SMILE
Scares U.S. Listeners End-Of-World "Stunt"
AMERICANS listening to a offices with telephone calls seeking "I do a foxtrot and can-can programme from a Middle West confirmation of the report. with love and kisses, from Baby Astation, heard the announcer
They were soon put at ease, says officers' meas, but doing my bit with read this 'telegram, addressed to the British United Press.
Jack Benny, the film and radio What the announcer had failed to
"PS-I'm not in camp
the A.FS.
or the
Ann lives near a fire station, and it was the fremen's appreciation of her Impromptu dancing that started the
iden.
Her mother teaches her to sing and dance, for she herself was on tha stage before she was married.
"KULTUR IN NAZI CAMP
From J. SZAPIRÒ Former "Daily Herald" Warsaw
Correspondent
DETAILS have reached me of
how the Nazis treated the 150
star:
mention was that the telegraf was "Your worst fears that the world part of a publicity stunt in connection is to end are confirmed by astro-with the opening of a new exhibit, nomers at the Franklin Insitute to "How the World will End," at the Philadelphia.
Franklin Institute. "These scientists predict that the world will end at 3 p.m. on Monday, A few minutes after it had been April 1. This is no April Fool realised what the effect of the broad- statement,
cast would be, the radio station made "Confirmation can be obtained an announcement explaining from Mr. Wagner Schlesinger, facts. director of the Fels Picnetarium in this city."
Thousands of frantic residents of Philadelphin, believing the telegram
to be authentic, flooded newspaper
3 PRIEST
STUDENTS VANISH
Cracow University professors: THREE bicycles on the top who were imprisoned at a con-of a cliff and two sets of clerical centration camp near Berlin. clothing are the only clues to The facts were given by a man the mystery_of_three students. who has talked with a professor just who have vanished from the released from the comp.
Jesuit Seminary College at Mai- The Polish scholars, all elderly men, shared two halls with a number son Saint Louis, Jersey,
of German Catholics and criminals.
several
A Look Through
The “Telegraph”
50 YEARS AGO
the
May 27, 1500. Major General Barker, our new Com- |mander-in-Chief, arrived bore yesterday “by inG EnglaİY RYBÍZ
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Stanley, when receiving the freedom of the City of London at the Guildhall censurect Engilan journalism which ha sald was the sole obstacle to England East Africa.
taking over and sciting the Congo” and
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Reuter wires-to Singapore that Stanley. the notorlow African butcher of defence- marry MIKS css niggers, in engaged to Dorothy Tennant a lady well known in art circles in London.
They were first missed at the col
In reference to the Report of Governor lege a training school for priests-Des Voeux on the moral condition of They were given old
Hongkong, the Christian Editor of "The Army one evening recently.
Friend", religious rag, chcerfully re- uniforms with large lellers and num They left the college in the after-marks. "The Friend" is not the place in bers on the breasts. Their beards noon to picnic on the cliffs, and when which to publish the loathsome detail and hair were slaven off.
they failed to return search parties utter falsity of the Governor a dictum so which are designed to make manifest the The food consisted of Д thin, were organised.
far as "moral" achievement is concerned tasteless soup, potatoes and bread.
It is believed that the three young and to exposa the guilty partnershiņ Books and newspapers were barred. men changed into shorts and went and sin in that island. One hardly knows existing between the British Government In a pathetic effect to drive off cliff climbing, and that one fell into how to account for dat moral strange lauda- boredom the professors organised the sea, the others losing their lives on, except as a result lectures and poetry recitals during their free time,
It has already been announced that ten professors died while at the
In
obliquity that calls evil good and good a vain rescue bid.
evil" that puts darkness for light "and The men were all French. Their light for darkness. A "Woo" is pro names were Albert Panon, aged 23, nounced on those who thus matalcad Christion Bouteille, aged 27, and other; but, alast how many of those who
are misled fall into the "horrible pit"," Charles de Progoff, aged 25. De This sort of blasphemous twaddlá la Six others died in Cracow within Progoff was on leave from the scarcely calculated to bring local sinners four weeks of being allowed to return French Army. The other two were to the stool of repentance,
In their third year at the seminary.
camp.
home.
They Just Could
Not Have Done It
THE German Propaganda Burcau stated recently that during April 986,000 tons of coal was sent overland from Germany to Italy, thus fulfilling the contract between, the two countries. The statement received wide publicity and was given in the British nowspapers.
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The Queen to-day unvells an equestrian statue of the Prince Consort at Windior, the Jubilee Gift of the women and children of the United Kingdom. Tho King of the Belgians and all the mea- bern of the English Royal Family will be present.
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Mr. Norris, MP. hot giyen notice of his intention to call the attention of the House of Commons to the destituie con- dition of veral of the survivars of Balaclava and the Indian Mutiny..
25 YEARS AGO
May 27, 1915. Reuter's correspondent at Beftish Hend- quartern says that the British now have Jost no ground, despite the gas attack in the rerion of Ypres. Italy Joining the Allier has been received with Intenso enthusiasm throughout the whole Army.
Cabinet.
10 YEARS AGO
The "Sunday Express" has investl-kept clear for coal trains, it would The hope appears to be unanimous gated the claim and found that It just still have been impossible to have that Mr. John Redmond will be persusided 10 Join the Cabinet, which will include could not be done.
cleared the arriving trains every sie Edward Carson." "The Times", sutes To send nearly 1,000,000 tons of twenty-two minutes. The claim. is that Mr. Churchill will remain in the coal by raft from Cermany to Italy just an absurdity." during April, 100,000 trucks, each
There are four rallway lines con- carrying ten tons, would be needed.
necting Germany with Italy, Three
/ May 27, 1930. cross. the frontier between the two Fears of in invasion by the "fronade"
the third countries, and
passes troops. under. Generki Chang Fat-kwal, with throught-a-small part of Jugo-Slavia. from the llunan-Hupeh frontier.
Hankow "and Wuchang 28 their objectives. this threatening the rear of the Na- ional troupe fighting in Honan against the Shanel-icuominchun combination, re- sulted in a big military.conference being Wheld this morning by the Nationstat dispatch Commanders, who decided to three Regiments of Nationalist troops to Vnchow in Hunan in anticipation of the "Ironalcio" invation,
The average load of a coal _train_in_500_tons Henco 2,000 engines, would be required to haul the traina
And go trains of coal would have to arrive in Italy overy twenty-four
hojírs during the month-that le, one \rdin every" twenty-two- minutes of
the day and night.
Fell 30 Feet Apologised
Oficinis of Briith raitwaye de FIFTEEN minutes after he had
clare that, unless lie whole of the crashed to what seemed certain The Daily Mail" has made a gift of Italian railway services were com- death, a London office boy was back 410,000 10 Miss Amy Johnson in recogni pletely disorganized to allow' the at his desk as usual.
In the time ya maanda
tion at her feat in fylt sold from Eng- land to Australia. UNDER
coal trains to pus, it would bei He la fifteen-year-old Edmund! utterly Impomible for anything like Finn, of Sangley-road, S.E.§." ^^,
5 YEARS AGO 1,000,000 tons of coal to be handled Edmund crashed throngia a sky-
BERY 27, 1533. Ught, fellzort. on to a banister
"Prince ven Starhembarg., Austria's gigo rails, retounded on to wall, fell chancellor and commander-in-uidafil of another 10ft and rol
rolled down the talmehr, acting under the laws of A dictatorship, runninted to-day that, he doren, staira. „
would dialas all doubtful; elements from
Italian railway could
not possibly handle a coal train overy twenty-two minutes, des clared the prominent Belilah rall
He then wiped his mighty-cut Austria military organisationskneg hand and, after apologizing for the
campalan lalined; particularly crept into the Isalmwehri
"Even though all other traffe was me, walked off as I nothing had against the Fleri intuences which; have suspended during April and the lines happened.
London's Nazi Camp
Is Fake
BUT ACTORS KNOW
"THE 'REAL THING
the
By A Film Correspondent
I FOUND an entire floor at Gaumont-British studios, Shepherds Bush, W., trans- ferred into a Nazi concentration camp recently.
It was the first day of the film, "Gestapo," directed by Carol Reed.
One hundred yards of barbed wire separated the men from the women, among whom was leading lady Mar- giret Lockwood.
U-Boat Kidnap
She plays the part of a girl kid- napped from Britain and taken by U-boat to Germany.
Delail is being supervised by Herr "Wernher Hardt" (as he prefers to be called).
Like several of the men "prison- ers," he has had actual experience of the camps.
"Don't mention my name, please," begged
one of them.
One of the black-uniformed, swns- tika-armieted $.3. guards was carry- ing a German carbine. It bare on its built the name of a Danzig factory and the date 1908.
Used In Last War
It was used by a soldier in the lasti war, and yielded up to the Allies: under the Versailles Treaty,
Now it is a "prop" in a British film, The plot deals with a Czech inven- tor who escapes from the Nazis but is rounded up by their spies abroad. Rex Harrison. Paul von Hernried, James Harcourt Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford are principals.
The cameraman, Otto Konturek, is Czech-born.
P. L. M.
May 27, 1940.
UFS
STREAMLINE Got an ayoful
of Sonja Honio's now figuro, as famed skating star poses at Arrowhead Springs, Cal. She's recuperating from illness suffered on routo from Hawai- ian vacation.
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