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"EUROPE'S LUNG".
BREATHES DE LUXE AIR
CARLO
MONTE
MOVES WEST
By Henry Buckley
LISBON.
Toneysuckle fills
HE fragrant perfume
the night air in the gardens of Estoril Casino. It is not a pretty building as seen from outside. It was designed and built by two Frenchmen, Jourde and Paul Roynes, and the French do not like clean, straight lines,'
But inside you forget that the outside is all corners, for the restaurant, with its spacious dance floor, is plea- sant and airy, and it has the biggest plate glass windows I ever saw anywhere.
From them you can look out
over
the moon-lit Bay of Casenes and see the Atlantic rollers pound the beach and see the twinkling lights of the pilot ship in the background.
"Europe's lung" they call this little corner of the Con- tinent, where life all goes on with some pretence of nor- mality, where you can have all the petrol you want and sugar is not rationed, and whisky cheaper than at home. Lisbon to-day is the cross- roads of Europe, and Estoril, Just fifteen miles away, houses the elite of the travellers who come and go.
E party of men in
Tdinner dress sitting over in one corner of the
casino restaurant are oil men. They have been having a con- ference in the Hotel Palacio down near the station for the last few days.
If you know what they had decided on you might have an inkling of how the war will go, for so much depends on this liquid gold. The grey-haired oil king at the head of the table is rated as one of the six richest men in Britain.
The group of heavily built, solid Swiss citizens at a table nearby, who have obviously dined heartily, have come to Lisbon from Switzerland to shop for their nation: There is no more-individual buying. the Swiss Government pur- chases and distributes the goods when it can get them.
These aro some of the smartest Swiss business brains, and their job is a heavy one. They must find sellers, pay in gold, get per- mission for the goods to pass the British control-if they are articles not available in Portugal-and then they must use endless ingenuity to trans- port the merchandise across a Spain whose rolling stock was ruined by the civil war, and then over the disorganised railway system of unoccupied France to the frontier, and into Switzerland by motor truck.
A
TALL Frenchman and a short, stocky, rough-looking Dutchman
watch the dancers as if there were no more important thing in the world to do.' The Frenchman arrived in Paris from the Baltic fifty years ago, a penniless youth, and to- day he is reputed to be worth well over £5,000,000. He is a refugee; off to New York,
The Dutchman is one of the best-known gold dealers in Europe. He talks in terms of gold bricks-a brick weighs 400ozs. and sells at about £8 an ounce to-day, so I am told. If you were to ask him how much gold you would need to send from Zurich to New York to pay a debt there in Argen- line paper pesos, he would gaze up at the ceiling for a few minutes and then he would tell you exactly how many bricks you would need and what transport, insurance, loss of interest during trans port, would cost you. Com- pared with his French col- league he is a man of modest means: he is worth about one million sterling.
NEXT door to the res-
taurant is the gamb- Jing hall where you have the choire of losing your money at roulette, French Bank, or
if you are ready to gamble real money-at baccairnt. A lackey bars the way to the baccarat table; you must give your name there and some in- dication of being a person 'of substance.
...
The keen-faced woman with glasses who sits at the far end of the table is famillar figure there and at most casinos in Europe. The wife of a mil- lionaire Balkans bankers, her face changes not at all whet- her she wins or loses two or three hundred pounds at a sitting.
arc
The roulette tables more democratic. You can play as little as two escudos fifty-sevenpence.
And if you put it in the middle of n square and the numbor comes up you will get back thirty- five times sevenpence, which makes just £1 0s. 5d. that rarely happens.
But
A Central European coti- ple, man and wife, both with paper and penell, are playing very enrefully. They do not look ricli, possibly they hope to make some money to help them on their way,
has drawn an elaborate churt. They bet only on the red colour. two shillings at a time, and back their Investment if a red number wins instead of a black
I hone they win. But people rare- ly do when they need the money.
The distinguished figure in even- ing dress accompanied by two charming young Portuguese Wo- men is D well-known German writer and one of these clover young people sent hither and thither by Herr von Ribbentrop. And
it may be my mistake, but it does look to me as if the tall, in- telligent-looking Englishruan play- Ing at table number one is really paying for more attention to the movements of the visitor from Ber-
in than he is to his game. He is going to lose an awful lot of money unless the German goes soon, I en afroidi.
At the next table is a star radio speaker of Columbia Broadcasting you will have heard his quiet, effective voice many a time from various European capitals it you tune Into the American broadcasts regularly, le is going back to see ten munth-old twins who won't re- eugnise the papa who put them in a -boat at Cherbourg five months ago. λ well-known movietone news reel operator is sitting with him.
I used to be a common so
ing that if you sat long enough on the terrace of the Cafe de la Paix on the Place de l'Opern in Paris you would see the whole world go by. That is nearly true to-day
Only of Estoril Casino. those were gladder days.
To-day we are watching the col- lapse of a Europe which will never be the same again, no matter what turn the war takes. It is the at- tmosphere of a roluly autumn day.
One
FUNNY SIDE UP
By Abner Dean
TRACK
'ye, 19 by Called Prature Ejadiente, lar.
"Oh, General, I'm knitting a swea.or for Junior-what size
will he be next month?”
of the things we are fighting for is to be able to
SAY
WHAT
WE THINK
MAN we have a little sanity · ********
on the subject of Mr Ţ H. G. Wella? He went to America to speak his mind about this war. His outlook has not coincided with the more conventional idea of pro- paganda that should be fed to the Americans. Therefore Mr Wells should not have been granted an exit permit.
By this, confession in the House of Cominons we are to use exit permits as a form of censorship. Yet our censor- ship is based on information to the enemy and not expres- sion of opinion.
Mr Wells has given away no great military secrets, no de- tails of defence. He has call- ed a few generals fools, and, under the present struggle for freedom of speech, he is en- titled to do so.
He has been called an agnostic, and simi- larly we claim to fight for freedom of faith, religious or otherwise.
The accusation that he is allen- ating Amerlean' sympathy for our cause la a foolish one. Mr Wells is grently respected in America, and I am rufflclently confident of American sympathy to bellove that it can be left to judge for itself.
In our propaganda to the United States there has been too much of this attitude of "beads for the natives." The American public is an enlightened one, bred on facts. It is not taken in by the fairy picture of heroles that a number of people would wish to give it.
We might do credit to Our friends by presenting thern ali
A woman looks at the war-by
HILDE MARCHANT
grades of opinion and outlook. The Americans are not entirely a race of nitwits.
NOTIJER sweet story about
a dear lady who was gly- ing a party and suddenly an- nounced to her friends, "Now look, Mr So-and-So, an American, is coming up. Let's not talk about. our fears, shall we? It makes such a bad impression,"
Nuts! To all whom it may con- cern-1 am frightened, and have sufficient Tigination to know the damage a bomb on my house would make. Only a nummy would pretend otherwise. Let's tell the Americans we don't like hombs, but we can at least behave well under them.
To support my point, let me tell you of a comment from Mr Ralph Ingersoll, the American proprietor of the news“ paper P.M. "One thing that pleases me here is that I can go anywhere, see anything, say any- thing without being challenged. And believe me, you have nothing to hide from the American public.”
Let us live up to that tribute,
SUGGESTION for shelters comes from a crime_ro- porter friend of mine. Why "not
the murderer's cell at the Old Bailey? He points out that there are a hundred cells in the Old Dalley, pleasantly furnished with stool and chair and mattress, empty, with a strong steel door for protection.
The murderer's cell is slightly more privileged than the rest. It is three times the size, and a man ond wife and children could rest there
quite comfortably. There are large rooms at the end of the cells atted with gas and water.
1 think for those who are not squeamish it would be an excellent iden to spend the night in the condemned cell and come out alive in the morning. Many have come out to die.
BOIND
Evans of the Broke might in- vestigate these cells. By strange feature of the war they are nearly always empty.
WHAT is this little game the friend wanted to send a telegram to her husband and she was told It would tuko long time, but.sha, could pay sixpence extra to send it priority. She paid, and 1 arrived in half an hour.
Post Once is playing? A
Priority is usually reserved for messiges connected with some wartime service. It has now been opened to the public because tele- grams were taking hours. It is sixpence for the privilege of get- ting your telegram-put on the top of the pile.
Speed should be a normal ser- vice of telegrams-not to be paid for at a premium.
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