Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July
1940.
NANCY
NOW, WHAT'S
YOUR PROBLEM,
YOUNG MAN?
I'M IN LOVE WITH A GIRL-- BUT SHE NEVER GIVES ME
A TUMBLEY?
HOW CAN I MAKE A HIT WITH HER ?
DAT'S EASY--- NEXT TIME
YA SEE HER, GIVE HER-
A BIG KISS --- SHE'LL ADMIRE YER NOIVE!
By Ernie Bushmiller
DNOIVE OF SOME "PEOPLE!
ASMACK
WWE GIVE ADVICE
14
WE ARE USING TOO MANY LUXURIES
1940 Trade Deficit May
INVASION
HITS
Be Over £700,000,000 THEATRES
By EDWARD C. GAYLER
Six Shows To Close
SALES of British products overseas, despite the war, are now running at their best level since 1930. Exports'in April] were £48,300,000, or over £13,000,000 higher than in April 1939. SIX West End shows will At the same time, dislocation caused by the German invasion have closed down and two first in Scandinavia had little effect on our imports, which were the nights have been indefinitely highest for the war at nearly £110,000,000.
Imports of all kinds are vital to our war effort, but go are exports. We have ruined German overseas trade by our blockade, but we have not yet captured all their markets.
Our export trade must be miners have left the coalfields and
sought work elsewhere. speeded up still more.
These men must be attracted back the meantime there On current figures, I estimate again, but in our exports for 1940 at £550,were sill at the date of the last re- turn some 30,000 unemployed miners. 000,000, and our imports at The majority of these were in the £1,250,000,000. This leaves us South Wales areas. They must be with an adverse visible balance put to work at once. of trade of £706,000,000,
Part of this huge gap-the GERMANS
largest in our commercial bis-)
tory-will be bridged by "invi-
sible" exports, such as banking ABANDON
and shipping services, and in-
come from overseas investments, CONCERTS
but this type of export will be substantially curtailed by the
war.
Home consumption of every- thing but the barest necessities must be sacrificed for the ex- port trade. The restriction on colton and linen consumption is not enough. There must be re-l strictions on other classes of luxury goods.
Replacement
THE German Philhar- monic Orchestra was booked to give a concert in Belgrade recently. The concert was not held. The 120 German musicians left to return to Berlin. No one was on the station to see them off.
postponed.
Most of the other theatres are
carrying on, hoping for the best."
Business has dropped by more than 30 per cent since the invasion of Belgium and Holland.
Three shows that closed recently were: "Lights Up!" Savoy: "Abra- ham Lincoln," Westminster; "Without the Prince." Whilchall.
Later, "Come Out to Play," Pooenix (going on tour): "Beyond Compere," Duchess; and "The Beggar's Opera," Haymarket, will close.
May Be Revived
"The Corn is Green," Piccadilly, has announced its last three weeks, but may be revived later.
"French For Love," Criterion, has been badly hit and is being withdrawn soon.
also
Two important productions post- poned are A. J. Cronin's first play, announced at the "Jupiter Laughs," Lyric, and the revival of "Dear Octopus" with Marie Tempest.
Diana Morgan, young authoress of "A House In the Square." suld the tleclsion to take off her play at the St. Martin's had been altered because business had picked up suddenly.
The tour was called off at the THE URBAN COUNCIL suggestion of the Jugoslav Govern ment. The Belgrade Foreign Ofce Government Approval Of
rent for the German Minister, Von
One of the best ways in which Herren, and advised him to send his we can bridge the gap between musicians back. If concerts were our imports and exports is at once given, he was told, there were bound
By-Law Amendments
At to-morrow's fortnightly meeting
to push our export drive into coun- to be demonstrations against Ger- of the Urban Council the agenda tries which Germany has had to many,
will include consideration of the abandon. German exports In 1938,
Von Herren has stronghly pro- following: the last completo year for which figures are available, totalled £430,- tested against the pro-Ally attitude
trade of the Belgrade Press.
000,000. Four-fifths of this
der reciprocal trade treaties for food and raw materials.
monstrations.
Letter from Government signifying the approval of the Legislative
COMMISSAR-Marshal Som- yon Konstantinovich Timo. shonko, 45, succeeding Klo- menti Yoroshilov as Russian war commissor. Voroshilov has been demoted to minor post with Saviot. Timoshenko lad Finnish and Polish Invasions.
POW
Ex-Kaiser Is Going Back
THE ex-Kaiser, it is re- ported, has concluded an agreement with Hitler un-
der which he will be per- mitted to return to Ger-- many to live on one of his Prussian estates.
The conditions are, that he keeps out of politics Cand never maker an ap
pearance in public.
A detachment of Hit- ler's S.S. bodyguard has been sent to mounta guard of honour at Doorn Castle.
Doorn has 'been' un- touched by the war. Ger- man troops were ordered. in their advance to avoid fighting near the castle.
SHIP SECRETS FOUND IN
"SHOP""
PAINT
66
A BOARD ON WHICH WERE RECORDED MOVE. MENTS AND PARTICULARS OF ARMAMENTS OF CER- TAIN SHIPS WAS FOUND BY POLICE IN A PAINT SHOP. ADJOINING THE CAMBER DOCK, PORTSMOUTH.
The discovery led to the arrest of three painters employ- ed by Portsmouth Electricity Department.
At Portsmouth recently they were remanded for a week in. custody on a charge under the Defence Regulations.
Their names are Robert Ayl-! mer, aged 27, Berkeley-street, Southsea; Maurice Charles Co- wan, aged 37, Tudor-crescent, Costiam; and John Anthony Fleming, aged 42, Torrington- road, North End, Portsmouth.
They were charged with recording description, armament, and movements of ships entering and leaving the Camber.
the
Detective Sergeant Lamport sald
£2,000,000 for work accidents
AN additional £2,000,000 'a'
general to injured workmen year will be paid by industry in under a Bill of which the Home Secretary, Sir John Anderson, moved the second reading in the inno-House of Commons recently.
All ofcers and men of the Jugo- Couneli to the amendment of the the board which was found recorded was conducted on the barter system. slav Air Force were
called up by-laws under the heading "Domestic movements and particulars of cer-
Prevention and This need not deler us, however, recently. An order was also issued Cleanliness
oftain ships which had entered Camber for there is no reason why we should not exchange our manufactures un-banning all meetings and public de- Discase" and sub-heading "Restric- Dock between the outbreak of war
Lions on Sale of Certain Food-stuffs" and now. set forth in Schedule A to the
Cowan sald: "What has been done Public Health
Or- (Sanitation) was done Innocently. We feel we are |dinance, 1935.
Leiter from Government signifying being punished for innocence.
of the Legislative cently, which is very serious when
"We have done something the opproval Council to the amendment of the
it is explained to us." "Food by-laws under the heading. "Fo Shops" set forth to the Pubile
1935, Health (Food)
German Trade
If Sweden is included, £199,500.- 000 of Germany's former export trade: was done with countries with which she is now at war or which she has over-run. Deducting German sales
Letter from comment signifying the boats before the war. We also}
of
It will permit payments of 5%. a week to the wife and 3s. to cach child of a workman whose compen- sation is at present limited by law
to 309, a week.
a number of Govern- ment supporters also, asked for more. Their argument was that workmen's compensation has not kept pare with increased wages in the last quarter of a century.
MAY BE ADVERTISED Modification of Shipping Regulations for Neutrals
Wants Clean Sheet' H.E. the Officer Administering the
Ayliner said: "We kept records of to Italy and Switzerland, two mar-Government has amended the Ships
Socialists, the Legislative kept records of our Are drill and of kets where it is dificult for us to (Names, tonnage and sailing dates) the approval extend our hold, we have left to us Regulations of 1930, published last Council to the amendment of the football. markets which before the war were September, whereby specific mention by-laws under the heading "Restau
am expecting to be called up. worth £196,000,000 a year to Car- of any ship was prohibited.
rants and Eating-houses" set forth to The prohibitive paragraph has the Public Health (Food) Ordinance, and hope to enter the Service with a clean sheet. I give you my word man exporters.
following 1935. to been rescinded and the For instance, German 'exports
of honour I have done nothing know- Application for eating house Ing it to be wrong." No person shall display or publich licence for 48, Males Street, ground for general information any notice, floor. Ngau Tau Kok; correspondence liat or advertisement containing the relative to food factory licence at 8. name I put down there. The board
not stowed away anywhere. names tonnage or salling dates of Stone Nullah Lane, ground floor; nos been in a prominent position and ony British or Allied ships or of any application for mille shop Hcence for all done openly
and innocently.". Chief ltema among German experts neutral ships which are under British 700, Nathan Road, ground floor; and: The clock examined the board, and were: Coal and coke, £38,000,000 or Allled requisition or Government application for milk shop licence for electrical products, £27,000,000; and
£04,000,000 of machinery.
the Americas were £43,000,000; to substituted:
the Balkans, £60,000,000; and, to Turkey, £12,000,000.
Our Chance
We are highly efficient producers of all these items, and they all figure Inrgely in our export trade. While our own industries must have priority) for war purposes of our heavy ma- chinery products, after our last eight) months of expansion to a war basis, we should soon have an exportable surplus. The came applies to 'coal and coke.
Coal:
churter.
126, Wenchol Road, ground floor.
Germany Cannot Last Through Winter
BLOCKADE effects on Ger-reduced by the end of the summer, many are, in some respects, as stocks of grain cannot last beyond
October.
Faced with the additional burden
pro cut off.
Cross
مة
-Fleming said: "There is only one
It
alone
Mr. Greenwood (Soc.,, Wake-
said that minera field) needed this extra £2,000,000. He calculated that a man earning £7 to get the a week, in order waa
maximum compensation permitted by the Bill would need to have twenty-nine children under the oge of Altean-"not possible in Malthusian days," he said.
said: "It is a list of ships entering; the number of guns and paravanes: and other particulars, such as attacks on ships by German aircraft"
'DER TAG-
AUGUST 15
15
"PEACE by August 15," was
The Socialists wanted an all-round increase of one-third. Sir John Anderson preferred to dent with hard cases as a war measure until there is time to introduce a new plan.
The Bill was read a second time
by 175 votes to 135.
Leave Cancelled, So Is Wedding
greater than we had thought Germany's own herds are hit by the promise which Hitler gave Steps have already been taken by probable, it is learned ollicially an epidemic of foot-and-mouth dis- to a large conference of high the Government, to increase our in London:
ease and the usual supplies of vaccine Nazi officials recently, according oversens textilo trades, but it should
to information received by GerBecbuse the bridegroom's Army be remembered that here we are com-
are. Ikely bo bad-08 man circles in Lithuania.
leave was cancelled, a Chislehurst, peting with our own Empire (.g., of feeding the populations of Holland elsewhere on the Continent.
Kent, bride had to cancel her wed- Lack of cotton has reduced Ger- Egypt, India), Our colton Industry and Belgium after a harvest ruined
This date is being widely spread ding arrangements at the last ininute- is now working to the very limit of by snow and, frost, Hitler cannot many's textile output is 40 per cent. among the German people.
recently. ila capacity, and its exportable sur-survive the winter, in the opinion of and many factories have had to be It is reported from Berlin that the
She was Miss Norah M. Halse, plus is limited.
Warfare Economic
In Czecho-Slovakia. Despite economic situation Germany s Conl is one of our biggest potential;
45-minute increase In the work-becoming worse every day and that daughter of Col. FT. Halse, of Elmstead Grange, Chislehurst, an While Germany may be self-sulli-ing day, coal production has ad- the only hope is for a quick alderman of Woolwich Borough exports. In 1923. peak years of our post-war coal production, we ex- clent in bread and potatoes slie can-vanced only by 3 per cent, when 12 successful, end to the war.
Council and, a' forner" member of the | L.C.C.; Shq-was to have married ported no less than £100,000,000 not support these highly-industrializ per cent, was expected. worth of coal. Last year our exported nations, which relied as largely
Mr. Charles W: Deaempont, of St. George's Hill, Weybridge, was £36,800,000.
Miners
Ministry
officials.
closed
Itusala as a larder has disappointed upon Imports...
Hitler. Compared with 1030, only AVID three months it 16 estimated one-third of the acreage has been that from 15 to 200 per cent of sown for the 1040 crop in the Denmark's cattle will be slaughtered U.S.S.R. owing to floods,
Thore are dimeulties in the way of because of feeding-stuffs, shortage: The prospect in the Balkans is coal export expansion now that meny her egg production will be seriously. little better.
KING'S. BIRTHDAY
and
His Majesty the King has approve led of the official celebration of his birthday in 1941 being held on Tits
-day, June 13.
was able to stop the guesta go- ing to the church," said Misa Haise, and I hops for better luck in a fortnight."
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