Thursday,
HONGKONG TELE
December 19, 1940,
GIFT Cggestions &
It's fun to give something out of
the ordinary, something the others didn't think of and here are a few suggestive hints.
1. If he's a man of action, give him an action fit coat in suede or capeskin, lined with rayon body and sleeves. It's a gift of gifts for sporters.
2. If you're not sure of the best way to strike his or her fancy, play safe and send a Wing On gift certificate. The recipient presents the certificate
to
any Wing On store in China, chooses the things he or she wants, to the full value of the certificate.
3. Lamps are delightful prosents for the house. The cheery glow of a taste- fully chosen lamp will be a constant reminder of the thoughtful giver. We have a score of interesting new models in stock.
THE WING ON CO., LTD.
AA
1940
The Completo Christmas Store
Our Yuletide
Festivities"
GALA DINNER DANCES & XMAS LUNCHEON
CHRISTMAS EVE
BOXING NICHT
HONGKONG HOTEL
PHONE 30281
-Tues., Dec. 24th Gala Dinner Dance Till 3 a.m. Dinner $8. After dinner cover charge $4.
Thurs., Dec. 26th
Dinner Dance Till 2 a.m. Dinner $7. After dinner cover charge $3.
PENINSULA HOTEL
PHONE 58081
CHRISTMAS NIGHT-Wed., Dec. 25th Gala Dinner Dance T 2 a.m.
Dinner $7. After dinner cover charge $3. REPULSE BAY HOTEL PHONE 27775 DAY Wed., Dec. 25th
Per cover $4.50.
CHRISTMAS
Special Luncheon 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Have you made your reservations ?
AT THESE ESTABLISHMENTS
NEW YEAR'S EVE CARNIVALS TILL 3 A.M. A REMINDER TO BOOK YOUR TABLES NOW
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.
Count the "TELEGRAPHS”
everywhere
UFS
ONCE AMERICAN — British gunners aboard one of the 50,·· destroyers turned over to England by U.. S. sight American' Browning gun for anti-aircraft "uso. Destroyers are now being ⚫rofitted in British ports.
DEFEATISM RIFE
IN GERMANY
A PICTURE of a weary nation in Germany is painted by Richard Boyer, correspondent of the New York newspaper "P.M.,”
many.
HEAD LIBRARIAN SLEEPS WITH
His 500,000 Books
IN the quiet of St James's-square there sila a man who, bombed out of his own home in the suburbs of London, has the harassing job of preserving infact the 500,000 books in the world's most famous subscription library-the London Library.
Mr C. J. Purnell, librarian, has been there for 35 years. He was deputy-librarian when, in the last war, an A.A. siféll crashed into the building-and fell on the ono spot where it could do virtually no damage.
Mr Purnell rose from his desk- and fetched the old shell out of a cupboard when I called on him, writes a London correspon- dent. Meanwhile he went on telling me how, when finally he had to leave his own house, he and his wife came to live in a flat behind the London Library.
Many of the 500,000 books in the ilbrary are irreplaceable. About 150
“Death Or Blindness" Baby Dies
of the rarest have been sent to a safe of five weeks-old Helaine Colan, TWO years ago the parents place. But around the hundreds of thousands which remain-beautiful, of Chicago, were faced with the expensive, rare books the bombs fall problem of choosing between nightly.
her life or her sight.
4
On The Job
Mr Purnell now sleeps on the of 12 doctors, who decided to They left the choice to a jury premises. Two members of his staff
are always on duty in the building. save her life at the risk of her They take it in turns to guard from sight, fire by night the books which they cherish by day.
The library needs all the care they gave it. On two nights a thower of incendiary bombs fell dan- gerously near. One fell on the root of the flat which Mr Purnell and his wife occupy.
a
Every morning the staff gather up the pieces of shrapnel and shell aplinters which have fallen on the roof. Ono freaks splinter dived into bay, bounced on sili, and crashed through a window. It did no dam- age. I was shown the largest missile which has hit the library during this war-a sturdy piece of steel which became 'embedded in the roof.
Bright Idea
A £200,000 X-ray machine-the largest in the world-wan used for an operation on her eyes, which were affected by a growth.
But despite the efforts at special- and sefentists Helaine" went blind. She had lost her first battle,
sis
Support
People from all over the world wrote to the parents supporting the decision of saving her life.
Helen Keller, famous in American ilierary circles in spite of her handil- caps of being bind and deaf, wrote:
The child has every right to a fighting chance.
Blindness is not the greatest evil-only a physical handicap which Helaine's tanind can jovercome."
One excellent notion Mr Purnell in the first of a series of articles entitled "Victorious Germany has had he has covered the glass
Parents Planned Land of Gloom," which he has written since returning from Ger-skylights over the central stacks of
books with a number of sheet steel Plans were made for Helaine's "At the crest of the wave of German success on June 28, IIt is a clever device to protect stop flicker of life went out.
shelves which were not being used. future. But gradually the Uny arrived in Munich. Instead of celebrating, the people were un-ing skylights. mistakably snd and quiet, and weary of the victory bells which rang from noon and acquired the sound of a funeral dirgo when one looked at the pinched and tired faces of the Germans.
"There were no cheers when
the troops passed by. When I expressed surprise at this, one German impatiently said, 'We celebrated once in 1914."
I found that the Nazis take it for granted that Germany will invade Russia in 1941, and afso that high officials believe that war with the United States is inevitable.
"I found food
new recruits
БО deficient ini
show signs
Chief Petty
Officer And
Tobacco
Frederick Stanley Toms, of
The child for whom millions of
mothers had prayed had lost her Inst
him if he did not feel
Mr Purnell smiled when i asked battle.
好 nbade
harassed under the weight of his newest responsibilities. "It's no good worrying about it," is all he said.
He should know. When a bomb. deinullished a wall hundreds of feet away from his home, a 7b. chunk at brickwork soared over a house and crashed through his roof, He was standing in a bedroom-watch- ing the fun-and it fell within a foot of him.
100 Years Old
German Propaganda In U.S.
Mr Wright Patman, Democra- tic representative for Texas, has asked the Dies Committee which is investigating un-American activities to inquire into the ac- There is plenty of optimism about alleged to be the highest-paid tivities of Carl Byoir, who is the future of the library. Mr Puri
quality and quantity, continues Mr Moor View. Honery, Plymstock, unique. Next year it will be 100 The library which he guards is Boyer, "that army doctors declare retired from the Navy after years old. that weakness until they are bullt up by an exemplary record.
of twenty-two years' service with army diet.
"The most surprising development He was given a chief petty In-Germany-is-the dead-listlessness officer's-pension, and they were which is spreading like a plague and glad to make him a storekeeper Infecting Increasing numbers with in the naval barracks. defcatism.
It the contagion is not halted Germany itself, even in vic
may go the way of France.
tory
"For ten days before leaving Ber- in I sat in bomb-proof shelters. Never have I seen a people with less clan, with more real depression of spirit. It was not fear, but some- thing deeper, which is what gave the mild bombings of Berlin on im- portance out of all proportion to the damage done.
by
nell told me of an old lady who had German propagandist in Ameri- just taken out a life subscription for ca. her grandson, aged 211. And he told
me, too, of the subscriber living in Mr Patman, according to...a Cyprus who wrote in June asking for New York message, says that He bought a £300 car. A
books. His letter arrived in Sep- Byoir, who is a lieutenant- month ago he was driving it tember when the books near his house when two men promptly dispatched! halled him.
were
Greatest Air V.C. Of Last War
colonel in the reserve, received £27,000 in the past 18 months.
Byoir compiled booklets, for the Nazi Government, and shortly after became associated with that Government: Nazi propaganda" came over by every boat, it was alleged.
he
Hired By Nazis
"I know these, are serious charges, but I can substantiate them," con- Linuod Mr Patman. "Dyoir was hired by Germany to distributę Nazi BILLY propaganda.”
What happened then was described Mr. B. M. Stephenson at Plympton Devon) Police Court recently when Frederick Stanley Toms stood in the dock. The two men, he said, were Customs officers, of the special inquiry staff from London. They Fear Winter
They asked Toms If
had any he "Sometimes I would say to them: goods on which the proper duty had "Cheer up, the wat will soon be not been paid, and he said he had. over, and they would reply: 'Oh, no. They found packages containing Navy America and we will have another tobacco and periques (tobacco made terrible winter.'
up like a sausage Then I'd say to them:
and wrapped in Your hessian). papers say you are defeating Britain,*
House Searched which they replied contemptu-
Investigator of the Dies Committee The officers told him they proposed Oh, the papers.
have seized books and papers at the "When I left Germany it was like to search his house and he raised no that the last war produced, now New York offices of the Trans-octan objection. They found more tobacco a director of Canada's great Air The child for whom millions of there,
Force training scheme, has ar- News Service, which was described In a shed fitted up as a tobacco rived In England at the invita-as a German propagorda bureau. Dr. factory were a bench showing signs tion of the Air Ministry.
to
ously leaving a prison. Many Germans called and asked me to perform all services for them when I got out- side. They begged for food, for stamps. One woman said: Take me with you. Ilide ime in your trunk, do anything.
thing.
MARSHAL
AIR BISHOP, V.C., D.S.O., M.C., D.F.C, greatest Oghter pilot
Zapp, a leading offelal of this or- gonisation, has been ordered to pro- Ho said that R.A.F. officers dute the books to the committee with brilliant records have been forthwith. drafted to Canada, where they are teaching fighter-pilots-to-be fare, learned in the great battle the latest tactica of aerial war-
of Britain,
of many culting operations, four- teen partly-made periques, a damp- and boner inrated with alcotine, ing "Hitler Is Worried"? "More than once Germans said, closed under the back seat a concealed Another examination of the car dis referring to Hiller's Inst He's worried, you can tell that by tobacco, stem. Toms denied ho had hath tray, empty but for a scrup of loose the way he spoke.”-
"Official Germany is also worried. over carried tobaccò in. It. They predicted that the war would will be retained by the Custome," now been seized, and
Until a few hours before he took be over in three weeks, This, phase said Mr
off Stephenson proved a' boomerang and now the
for his fight to England, Air. officials are explaining that Toms had previously owned. They soon be taking part in the night
The officers also examined
Marshal Bishop was inspecting pilots, observers and air gunners who wil Germany is fighting the world's found that a box which was in the against Germany strongest Empire, necessitating garage showed algas of having been hard struggle.
under its bonnet. carried in a very serious case,
same
"For the first time Gommans began
to
feel that Hitler bas slipped up. Mr Every day of British Ti platné
This car
car
» said
Bomb Cured Paralysed Woman
The expanded Royal Canadian Air Miss Lily Townsend, an un- Force now numbers about. 25,000 of employed milliner, of Randolph ficers and men. Eventually the total
causes more Germans to say: It win enson, "es Toms was taking will be well over 40,000. Some war Gardena, Maida Vale, paralysed
of his position to out of the dockyard without many others will go to Britain.
be used for the defence of Canada; her loft arm last February by a duty"
fall. Now sho has been cured by a bomb, p
never be over. We shall have a lete [ppyins eaded guilty of
rible winter-ne, food, or heat, and bombing every night.".
courirel
Short
Training
Toms said he had
| already been punished by
To help Westminster Hospital, the loss of his job and his ear. Thanks For The Buggy Customs charges, and a further £5 sible later to shorten it more girl's costume when a bomb fell near
But he was fined £225 on the fiself has been short. It may be pos Townsend was pinning
Billy Bishop said: "The training where the was treated, she, sells flags in the streets. Recently, Mias -Ride!
on a summons for being in unlawful will be able to provide the
Bagon a possession of Government stores.
Latest in sit-down strikes (from America, of course): Mra Nollie | ARARA Kaminsky, of Philadelphia, parked WAR OFFICE COLLECTS
4,600 MOTOR-CYCLES
pilots
*They are a grand type of you man, magnificent. They are keen,
and the crows I might say an inex her and threw her violently to the haustible supply of thema.
Hospital, she found on regaining het
Back
again in Westminber
ground.
they are mad on flying-thousands conses that she could move her left
of them, all barsting for a crack at arm. 2
the hospital lite
"Surgoons have come to the com=
herself in her husband's car and would not get out 10l/ho; had promised to pay her £2 10s, a week. She took her six-months-old son In three weeks,” 4,000 solo motorer or any body who represents An official at John along with her, Neighbours cycles, and 000 combination machines him, fed her, resisted attempts to move asked for by the War Office have in the last war. Billy Bishop made clusion that the paralysis was due to the car,
for three days, national defence,
solo and daring exploits. Omcially he is when the bomb burst, the uncom She won. But her husband le ̈ un- Half the number camo from private knowledged to have brought down sclously used her paralysed armados employed, anit 451 fan't sure that owners and the others, from, trade 10 German planes more than was save herself and so cured ligin he'll keep it up..
stocks.
credited to any other pilot.
She stayed there JRRDOREN been supplied and are all at work on name a. byword by his brilliant an adhesion, and "that" in „‚kerəđail: