Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
November 7, 1940.
DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN
TO YOU!
USE
WATSON'S
DOUE REDISTILLED
BAERUM
THE CELEBRATED HAIR TONIC
A few drops sprinkled on the head and managed in ench morning stimulate the rools of the hair, cleanse the scalp and promote healthy growth.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. (EST. 1841) Wholesale, Retail & Manufacturing Chemist.
JUST ARRIVED NEW
"H. M. V.
BD 820
BD 830
BD 820
"
Pinocchio-Selection. Where or When.
Oh, Johnny,
RECORDINGS
Reginald Foort (Organ). '
Pat Kirkwood.
I've got no Strings. Pat Kirkwood, Three Cheers for anything.
BD 828 It's a lovely day to-morrow.
Careless.
B 9030
B 9031
Rosita. Webster Booth.
When you wish upon a Star. A kiss in the Dark (Herbert), Indian Summer.
B 0032 Someday (Victor Herbert).
Thine. Alone (Victor Herbert).
Mala Junta-Tango.-
La Tablada-Tango,
10.5
J.O.2
Tango Chinols.
J.0.4
Al Bowlly.
Webster Booth,
Allan Jones.
Argentin Orchestru.
Chagrin D'amour-Tango.
Elegante Papiruse-Tango, Malinconia-Tango.
SPITFIRE PATROL
waited.
"AND what," I said ing of darts, their chess; and that I was silently calling down post, whence the ground de
all the. luck at my disposal on fences are controlled. warily to the squa- From a long distance came the pilots who were about to London waited. We waited. GONE dron commander, the sound of a civilian siren, take the air..
"should one particularly howling the warning. Then "And what happens now?" 1 Back for Tea avoid-if anything-in ́ ́ “Guns,” commented ono pilot writing about the Royal absently. Air Force?"
ARE THE HORSE AND CARRIAGE And Goos with them are the old-fashioned methods of wax ing the carriage,'
Have you boon using the samo auto wax for years amply through force of habit?..
Don't use a horse and carriage
aulo wont.
It is no longer necessary to work all day, to wear yourself out ...
to RUB and RUB, in order to attain a waterproof"", weather resisting wax finish for your car.
Try WHIZ LONDON COACH WAX for longer lasting beauty for your automobile and loss work for you. Your waxing troublas. like the horse and buggy, will be
Gone
Bold Here HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE
DEATH
Stubbs Rd.
the beam of anti-aircraft guns. asked.
The telephone rang again. "Stand by," said the squadron All commander, said, He kept the receiver to his ear, and squinted out of the windows at the weather,
"Yes" to the instrument he all right." And to the pilots
Eventually we returned to the "Oh, I stand by the phone mess, and, on our heels, the until the last minute," said the squadron came swooping down squadron commander. "Then to home' and 'ten. the time comes to scramble, and It had been a quiet patrol, when they see me get into my for onco. Not a bandit-18 plane, they all get off."
they call the Germans-hadi been' encountered.
Out of some technical talk,
domestic
the comments by
He did not hesitate. "All that film stuff. that drip," he
"All except me,” said a Cann- "about heroics."
dian, with a great affectation of roguishness. "The doctor made round the ten table, and some "Bird-man stuff?”
me promise that I positively Mundron commander, there "That sort of drip,"
wouldn't. fly. to-day."
floated a passionate protest by Again the telephone. "Patrol the pilot who had wanted to agreed.
show his badge to the photo- Papers were dropped. Chairs at 15,000 feet over Blank?
grapher. We were talking in the mess creaked. The door slammed Right!" The
squadron com- of the fighter squadron whose open in a gale of wind from the mander stood up. guest. I was, and, if I may be field. The room emptied of the
"Good-bye" he cried, and before, for his goggles had given men who were to fly. allowed one spot of drip, I felt
my age.
The men reminded me
OR
"Get out to your 'planes."
The squadron commander re- was gone,
By F. G. H. Salusbury
He was slightly more sinister in appearance than he had been
him two lovely black eyes,
"These fles are appalling!" he said, spreading honey on his
vividly of others in whose com- mained at the telephone. "Tell I watched the squadron com- bread. "It's fantastic where pany the last war was fought 'em to get into their "planes," mander climb into his plane. they come from."
he said to another officer, "but All the propellers swung "Ah, yes," said the intelli- by my generation.
The squadron. I was visiting
not to start off."
Then "Hullo
through a haze into thunderous gence officer, "you're haunted by they're invisibility. Then, with a roar, flies, aren't you?"
"Haunted my foot! It's no plane after plane followed, him,
is on the doorstep of London what? Righto." and, since the "blitz" began, it The propellers of the fighters charging off the ground into the laughing matter." the pilot pro-
were flicking round. The gun- teeth of the wind.
tested and he really seemed a has had very little leisure be- ners, manning the A.A. defences Soon they were lost in the little nervous-"they're. infec-
tween dawn and dusk,
Action!
'Good-Bye!"
of the station, were looking up, clouds. Then they emerged, as tious things, flies are. They're
white as gulls in the sunlight; damned dangerous things!" and, as we watched, the scream And that, I take leave to sug- of the station siren warned us gest, is as good an example 28 If I had not been warned of enemy aircraft.
you will find of ability to pre- St., Kowloon, Maria Hyndman, While one will be at "thirty-
We hopped on a lorry and serve one's sense of proportion meaning against drip, I would say that years.minutes available," Funeral will pass the Monument that all pilots must be within nut only was I thrilled, but also bumped across to the command in war time. and Manila papers please copy).thirty minutes of the aerodrome
GONSALVES.-On November 7, 1940, at her residence, 25 Homuntin
Gonsalves,
Mario Mein Orchestra.
Argentin Orchestra.
t 5.30 p.m.
S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.
York Bldg.
EXTRA!
Tel. 20527.
Chater Road.
EXTRA!
LATEST BRITISH NEWSREELS JUST RECEIVED BY AIR! SEE THE MOST SPECTACULAR pictures oF THE WAR ! SQUADRON OF NAZI BOMBERS SHOT DOWN WHILST
ATTACKING DOVER HARBOUR!
BRITAIN'S BIG GUNS IN ACTION! CONVOYS AND MERCHANT SHIPS REPELLING RAIDERS-! INVESTITURES AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE BY THE KING ! ITALIAN PRISONERS FROM 3 SUBMARINES AFTER DESTRUCTION BY NAVY IN MEDITERRANEAN! THE KING AND QUEEN VISITING A NEW FACTORY ! MORE CANADIAN REINFORCEMENTS ARRIVING IN
ENGLAND !
+
ALSO SCENES SHOWING SIR ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR, G. BERNARD SHAW, GAS DRILL ON BATTLESHIP, TACTICAL MANOEUVRES ETC. ETC. ·
❤
THURSDAY FRIDAY * SATURDAY. AT THE KING'S
together with "HIS GIRL FRIDAY”
50
aged
(Macao, Shanghal
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
Thursday, Nov. 7, 1940.
Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 28015
THE prenx "special to the Telegraph
and accessible by telephone, another will be at "fifteen minutes available," and another at "readiness."
THE GERMANS AND AIR LOSSES
Readiness means that the squadron must be off the ground within three minutes, if neces-. sary: and a call may go out at any time bringing all the squa
No of
planes
GERMAN LOSSES
175-
Height of column British statement of German losses Shaded portion German admission of losses
is used by the Tiongkong Telegraph to drons to readiness simultaneous- Indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuniy cations Ordinances is received in Buch newE AS bears the Indication ilongkong on the date of publication by
the United Press Associations, who r serve sul rights and forble republication, either wholly or in part without previous
arrangement.
THE EVACUATION
BOMBSHELL
י.
It was my privilege to see the system in action, but, before that, we had lunch, and, before lunch, some photographs were taken.
This necessitated the donning of Mae Wests-a bulgy kind of life-jacket which functions in the event of a pilot, who has baled out, coming down in the
NO bigger bombshell could have been dropped in Hongkong than yesterday's official un-sea. nouncement, that, acting upon instructions from the Secretary the squadron commander, strik- "Oh, sir," one pilot besought of State for the Colonies, the ing an attitude, "but I would so Government has abandoned the like to show my badge! Can't -compulsory-evacuation-scheme.. 1?"
It will mean rejoicing for some
two or three hundred women "No, you can't." who were reluctantly awaiting their turn to be ejected from the Colony; but what of those who and proceeded, in mock distress,
"Oh, sir!" sighed the other,
so readily answered the original to cover the squadron badge on summons and are now in Aus- his flying overall with Mae tralia? For they, it
West's ample charms.
seems,
must perforce remain parted Then they posed, according to from their husbands, the Im-instructions, "all life-like and perial Government refusing to cheerful.". allow the restrictions upon their return to be lifted.
150-
125
100-
75-
50
25
25
0
It was shortly before three
8 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
AUGUST
2
34
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
SEPTEMBER
This is going to create ano'clock that the telephone rang. anomaly capable of producing The squadron commander an-
Have you booked your seats for an outery which will make the swered it, and turned to the men
Someone
at the
Door
?
protests regarding the original with the words "Brought to evacuation sound like half-readiness." hearted whispers.
The text of the official an- nouncement is characteristically necessitics. Outside, I SRW
Ne of
planes
There was a brisk movement towards Mae Westa and other
175
ambiguous, and for the most part leaves unsaid nearly all those things which should have The pilots resumed their been said. For example, why seats, their reading, their flick- precisely has the Imperial
crews running to the machines.
150
Government adopted this sudden volte face? The official com recent tribunais have been honest. Hongkong's British women, both here munique tries to explain it by and those evacuated, have long been observing that the Secretary of Insisting that they are not afraid in State for the Colonies "has been face any dangers so long as they can kept fully informed of the altun- be with their men. Is the abandon- tion". What exactly is this full scheme a concession to this plea? If
ment of the compulsory evacuation Information capable of bringing it is, there is still no reason why the about the abandonment of the evacuated women should not be per- compulsory evacuation? Is It amitted to come bac
changed political situation which Hitherto we have had some sym- has presumably rendered the pathy for the Government which, it Colony safe? If so, it is just as as claimed, has only been acting upon
evacuation; but
of safe for those who are away to instructions in effecting, compulsory.
return, as for those who are still ions countermundination supplied 16the energetic pubile protests have suggest that this information has
Presented by the K.C.C. in aid the BOMBER FUND on 15th, and 17th November at 9.15
Sosts at $3.00; $2.00 and $1.00, bookable at the Club or Massrs. Moutria & Co., Ltd.
p.m.
the new instruc- this scheme are by the Hongkong authorities, then we
here to remain. Or is it because the result of
families still in Hongkong to
are to
reached cars of the Towers in England? If this be the been hopelessly inadequate; otherwise ceusch it still does not offer a satis-we aliould never have had the situa
- those tion where Who evaded evugua- factory answer fo the
BOB originally
to be officially expense of those who can stay, why can't families return? protected at the
In one part of the communique the so faithfully carried out instructions.
Government Government infers that the
might well And the
in mind that In this case It is situation pretty rotten, for it warns that
the
majority which is going to suf- aliould the situation further de fer: an intolerable state of affairs. terlernte no facilities to leave, the We shall expect to see a further re- Colony can be guaranteed. And it is vision of these Homeside instructions this procisely which will not worry In the near future which will permit our women, Ir their argument at the return of our evnouces.
regarding Hongkolenta in
is
125
100-
75-
50-
25-
BRITISH LOSSES
Height of column = German allegation of British losses Shaded portion
British statement of losses in air fighting over Britain
8 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25-26,27 28 29 30 31 142 3 4 5 6 7 0.9 10 11:2.1.1.1.
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER