Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
September 13, 1940.
By Ernie Bushmiller
HUH?
NO NOISE
NANCY
I HAVE A SORT OF A HEADACHE,
TODAY!
AW --- DAT WILL
PASS OFF HEADACHES IS NOTHIN!
IT MUST BE THE HEAT MY AUNT FRITZI HAS A
HEADACHE.
TOOV
STREET CLOSED TO TRAFFICK DETOOR
·JULY-J#
She Plans "Penny Ritz" Chain While They Sheltered During Raid Alarm To Cut Nation's Food Bills Down Chauffeur Drove Off With Jewels, Luggage
A PENNY RITZ, where working-class families can enjoy first-class restaurant privileges, has been opened on the Dalgarno Estate, North Kensington-the first of a
chain with which it is proposed to cover the country.
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in them Mrs. Smith can make "Rich people ena enjoy at ane a lunch or dinner date with Mes, jaurant meal the equivalent Jones in bright, colourful sor- man's meat ration for a week roundings for as little as a penny not to mention the social amenities -the cost of a nourishing, well-and the freedoms from washing flavoured bowl of brend.
Sauja
with
There will be no dry insistence Children pald 4d for meat course and "after" and grown-ups 8d. J people wish they can take the food "home in ext
on scientiße dietary
stir sald.
Alve The only possible way
เว have. everybody their share
ferding reste bully itt
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1 band a delu usus meal To: 8/1, in -- cluding roast pork wit * maikling,, blocks of fals potatoes, cabbage and valsin pudding
"Communal feeding N Three officials from the Ministry of Foot who also sat down to the meal · tiene maruzzo in resential em ecotummy! declared it "excellently cited and rounds tone, and itatuid extend
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THE Matirfylg"
AL tablea nearby were Alice, nation's kitchen bitt shown by
Read, 13, in charge of five younger, brothers und sisters, 84-year-old John Robson, and a night-shift work- er with him two children, whose wife works during the day
Equalising Rations
The main idea
janander
business woman whose job is look ing after a personnel of 20,000 is t equalise food rationing, which ad gun
diser iminate sent tends to
low intume corners
thirds
Self-Supporting
the
"We intend to prove here thur! the scheme is welcome meat self-support i ing and In pen the restaurants in exlates all over the country and ru courage them in
Truts
N
well
teletben lass
"We are enough is the that seek
1:2 swerk to engage a rock at takomt gradually all the voluntany
be replaced
MR. HULL'S STATEMENT
Continued From
Coincident with the return of con- m'enee, the evnevatlen of Hanol has been suspended
Members of the Japanese military usiastra are expected to arrive from Tokyo on Friday with new instruc 10023 1 is believed that negotiations i will be resumed on the basis of these
strap Loo
state
that
the
Prench and F Maft wil Chinese are blowing up the railway
turned unite Lookay
Chaven Anever affect my
throat-their smoothness is
wonderful!
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A £1,200 haul by a chauffeur who, in the first air raid alarm of the war, drove off with luggage, including £860 jewellery, while the owners were taking shelter, formed the subject of a claim in the King's Bench Division.
The chauffeur, it was stated,
had obtained employment from
a Labour Exchange with Gor Cara, Ltd., of Queen's Road, Batterson, from whom claimant. Mrs. Helen Grey, of Sloane Avenue, Kensington, hired a car to evacuate herself
and an in- valid to Torquny.
Mr. Arnold Dirk, for Mrs. Gray. said that on the morning war broke out the chauffeur called with the cor
nie Mr Chamberlain was broadl - sting.
When Siren Sounded
As the passengers were about 1 enter the cor, continued counsel, the The passengers went Kizers bounded. down into a shelter, but the chauffeur ! declined to follow them,
After the "All Clear" he had dis-1 appeared with car and luggage, and| had auf bren seen since.
When giving the order, Mrs. Grey said she wanted a reliable and trust- worthy chauffeur. The chauffeur sent had been convicted three times of theft.
Mrs. Grey, in evidence, said that after the "All Clear" she found a note in the letter-box mying he had gone for his gormeak.
The car was found abandoned at Cirencester nine days inter.
"Hitler as Third Party"
Mr Gordon Alchin, for the arm, argues that the loss arose out of contingency no une had anticipated.
Mr. Justice Humphreys: Perhapa! you ought to join Mr. Hitler as a third: party! (Laughter).
STOCK MARKET REPORT
Hongkong Stock
Exchange Oficial Summary issued yesterday anys
The day was featurelem,
Buyers
H.K. Banks $1,290 Union as $395 H.K. Fire Ina: $150 Providenta $4.15 Humphreys $0.80 Realties $3.45
Star Ferries $69
Telephones (new) $8.75
Bellera
Hoteis $3.60
Lands $30.70
Telephones (old) $24.25 Cements $10.00 Watson $9.10
Bates
Lands $30.75 Trams $15.80 Electrics (old) $37.05 X.D.
Chartered Bank's Dividend
The
Directora
of
the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and Ching have declared an interim dividend for the past half year at the rate of ¦ 10 per cent. per annum, subject to Income Tax.
The Dividend will be payable on October 2.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FURTHER DONATIONS TO S. C. M. POST WAR FUND A total of $1,319,015 43 was reached yesterday by the War Fund inaugurated
Jalest donations are: Further sie of D.K. caricatures #10
Ex-Bydand" further donation) Capt. ). J. Lotus (3rd donationi Mr. C. H. Atkins, England
memory of my beloved Bister. Evelyn Bilas
The judge said that civilised life 5CM Post Ltd. could not go on if one went about assuming that men were dishonest and acted with the mind of a private detective. The car owners had nui falled to take reasonable care in send- Ing the chauffeur out.
Judgment was accordingly enterca
for defendants, with costs.
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