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.DIS SISSY GET-UP?
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TO WEAR
DIS?
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BUT:
I KNOW I'M
A SAP FOR
B. W. O. F. Moroccans Would
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BOMBER FUND SUPPORT
The following are subscriptions received to date for credit of the British War Or- ganisation Fund, Hongkong Branch:
Previously acknowledged, 2100 he1 $098,134,34.
Anonymous, 20: A. Whittaker (month- ty), 5; A. C. Wilcox monthly), $25; S. WP. Perry (monthly), $25; Edgar Davidson (monthly), 30; the Analysts, Government Laboratory, $77; J. Finnle, 830; the Portuguese Haff of Hongkong and Shanghat Bank (meathly), 40; Some Members of the European Staff of Messr Butterfield and Bwire-Apri, $57: 13. Flerechend fmonthly), $10; C. Austin (monthly), $10; W. Hewilt (monthly), $10: Bertin (monthly), $500 W. J. Knight
Any
Foreign
By Joseph L. Ravotto
DOIN' IT!
May 6, 1941;
By Ernie Bushmiller
SARAY
Resist Over
Invader
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
MARRAKECH, French Morocco, May 4 (UP).-French Moroccans will fight
p. Valentine (monthly), 20: 6. E any foreign force which “dares set foot upon our territory."
monthly), 3102 Taikoo Club Bowls hatch. 120; A. N..B. Exercise Fay, $4.30; Quarry Bay Work Party, $5,50; the Prison Sta -April, $103.30: W. P. C.. 10: the start of the Unton Insurance Society of Canton Ltd-April, $78.09; Mrs Wong #10: Sale of Postal Labels, $3.20; Sale of Knitting Bags per Mrs Dunbar, $1350; Mr and Mrs C. Tavadia (monthly). $10; G. C. Worrall (monthly), foo; A. McAlpine (monthly), 110; R. D. Gillespie (monthly), $25; Pay. Sub-Lt. W. H. L. Dowley (monthly). 82, G. I. Cautherley (monthly), 20 LM Wylie monthly), $25; 11. F. L. Haymes monthly), G. Lyon-Mackenzie (monthly), $100; Misa K. M. Anderson (monthly), 850; M. Beralin & Co. (month- 1y), $25; Mr and Mrs C. G. Alabaster
El Hadi Thami El
Galoui, his eyes flashing fire as he spoke, told me that when I interviewed him.
Not many people have heard of El Galoui before, but it is a name to conjure with in the vast western reaches of Morocco, from the hot coast of the Atlantic across the wilderness of the Atlas Mountains to the sands of the Sahara. El Galouí is the pasha of the Marrakech region, and probably the Moroccan leader best known in Europe.
He attached no strings to his statement that Moroccans would fight invasion from any quarter. He said that regardless of the attitude of the Vichy government, Moroccans would defend their homeland "with or without French aid."
The gaunt, tall Moroccan re-ision, his eyes flashed, and he said
in French:
(monthly), 50: E. Wakeham (monthly), ceived me in his palace in this $200; E. Joffe (monthly), $10; 8. A. Ken!
walled capital, (monthly), 110: Mr and Mrs C. M. Itali 800-year-old
(monthly), 30; E,
W. Pudney (May) $25;
Juin Moodia (May) $30; B. M. Behene which for generations than can (monthly), $10; Anonymous, $50; Mrs F.
Denton (monthly), 10; J. Hari be remembered has been the
Some of the Chinese
Davis Staff of Mears Holts Wharf April, $43.57. gateway to the south and the Total $700,018.03.
The Royal Alfred Aged Merchant pleasure city of Western Islam. Seomen's Institution recently wrote It is to this elty that the fierce und to the Hon. Secretary of the British primitive berber tribesmen of the War Organisation Fund, Hongkong, white-crowned Atlas Mountains come acknowledging a donation of £750. to trade with the Nomads of the Sahura and the wandering shepherds Bomber Fund
A total of $1,870,075.50 was reached yea terday by the War Fund Inaugurated by the S. C. M. Post, Ltd, with the follow ine donations:
Police Recreation Club-Dottle of
Witisky
Major C. R. Boxer (monthly
tions
Mr R. S. Harrison (monthly dora.
tion)
"H. G. 1 monthly donation)
Miss C. S. Pierce (monly dona
tion}
Pur Prybro Board, Craigengower v.
P.O.C. per Bill Bagley ......
Miss 1. Warbrick
Kowloon Cily "Lap Sap"
"Odd Centa"
$ 50"
+30
$ 29 *
14
P. a. C. Blanicy Dart Experts
11.10 100
40
R. A. Bergeants Mess, Bit Davis,
15,00
Mr Allan Ditia
second donation)
10
Bowls Match, KCC,
Volunteer
Sergeant ****
33
100
400
Mr C. Holt (second doration).... Prof. and Mrs R. Rubertson (third
The Han. Treasurer of the SPCA acknowledges with thanks the under- mentioned donation:
"Blotto" and "Toba" $10. •
of the grazing land nearby.
The ashu expressed admiration for the United States, and said that des- pite his remoteness from America le lind followed the Congressional de- bate on the Lease-Lend Bill with the greatest interest. die sold that he
from the expected much States.
United
True Friendship "It is not at the moment of af- fluence that one really knows his friends," said the pasha. "It is at when the moment of adversity one's very existence la threatened dis- that one's true friends are covered."
He made it plain that he is a friend of France. He wants to see Morocco being French
who
DIVORCE RECIPE
Over 7,000 Jews Now Recruited
Further recruiting of Pales- tinians in five categories of the British Army of the Middle East has just been announced.
Besides Palestinian companies of the Buffs, recruits were sought for the Engineers, the Royal Corps of Signals, the R.A.S.C. and the Pioneer Corps. With the second company of Royal Engineers and the Afth Jewish in- fantry company now being formed, the number of Jews serving with the Colours approaches 7,500 of the total to
FAMOUS ARCHITECT JOINS REITH'S EXPERTS
MR. T. 8 TAFT
THE Scotsman who was
invited. to replan Moscow has joined the team of experts that Lord Belth, Minister for Works, and Buildings, is getting together.
He has appointed Mr. T. 8. Talt, the famous architect probably one of the most highly pald in the world-to be his Director of Standardisation, p
This 15 an important and Intelligent appointment, for Mr. Thit is at once one of our most brilliant modern architects and one who has shown how standard- unita can be used to artistic
advantage.
Ho planned the Empire Exlibi- tion at Glasgow on unit lines, with the result that the buildings were assembled in days Instead, or months,
He was the architect of Beot- land's Government buildings on the Calton HB, neknowledged one · of the finest buildings of this perlod, and he planned it in n restrained modern style.
Star of 'Merry Widow'
Thought
Himself Poor
JOE COYNE, the Robert Taylor of his day, made famous by The Merry Widow" musical comedy, died recently aged seventy- three, in a nursing home at Virginia Water, Surrey, where he had
of 10,000 Palestinians, been a patient'since 1939.
Mr Shertok head of the department of the Jewish Agency.
pointed out that this exceeds the number who served in the Jewish regiment during the last war,
Mr Shertok recalled that Jewish
then were enlisted in
In several secruits countries, but now they are only being recruited in Palestine. More than half the Palestinian volunteers are on active service in all parts of Afrien. The remainder are either on garrison duties in Palestine or train- ing
"We would light anyone
JUDGE Joseph Sabath, of dared set foot on our' territory: I personally will lead my men to Chicago, hearing his 52,679th battle if African soll is violated. | divorce trial on his 71st, birth- We would resist even if we had to
day, said that "in-laws, tin-can resort to stleks and stones."
nicals,
and working wives crackerbox flats," were the car- dinal causes of unhappy mar- riage.
Bus Girls Ruin City's Traffic
"I've sat in divorce courts in Lon- dan, Paris, Munich, Rome, Prague and Vienna, and the causes of divorce are the some the world over,"
Wallace Beery Wins Case Alleged Wrongful Arrest
Wallace Beery, film actor, has won a suit brought against him by Allan Whitney for £200,000 damages for wrongful arrest.
Fifteen years ago Whitney, now 28, was a candidate for adoption by Beery.
Whitney was seen loitering near Boery's mansion.
Noah Beery, Wallace's brother, summoned the police, who arrested
vagrancy Whitney
on
A
charge.
Sunday Not What WOMEN conductresses who
It Used To Be start work late or not at all and go home at blackout time
JUDGE Isaacs recently freed leaving their buses stranded, are 66 residents of Wilmington, De causing traffic chaos in Bristol.
Major E. J. Chappie, managing laware, charged with violation of director of the Bristof Tramways and ancient Sunday observance laws Carriage Co., blamed the women in on the grounds that Sunday The released him later.
Whiley said Wallace Beery had- replying to
because of 11 complaints of irregular newspapers, drug stores, neigh-ordered ris arrest services in the city.
bourhood stores, restaurants and grudge, dating from the time Beery "We have the buses and we have cutomobile drives are modern had taken him into his home, then
ordered him out. the drivers," he said, "but.what are
necessities. we to do when probably 70 out of do not turn our 500 condustresses up in the morning *
No Scruples
"The Lord's Day must be preserved but the stream of life to-day differs vastly-trom-when-these-laws were enacted," he said.
"The United States," he said, "can
The State Attorney-General had and must help preserve our elvilisa-
Major Chapple complained that the launched wholesale prosecutions be- tlons, our ways of living. We can
women pick the most attractive- tause the Legislature refused to help in many ways to restore France Inspector 5. C. Saunders, Acting to her former position, but ald must sounding jobs offered them at employ-bring the Sabbath observance laws
ment exchanges.
up to date. Sub-Inspector C. T. Byron and Sercome from the United States."
"If in a few days they don't like More than 500 persons, including geants J. G. Whiteroft and McKenzie are now in the Colony having re- When I asked him what Morocco's it, they have no scruples about pack-newsboys, milkmen and bus drivers
were indicted. turned from leave in Australia. reaction would be in case of inva-ing up and going to a different job.
THINKS
7 O'CLOCK AND
ANOTHER
BEASTLY
DAY' AHEAD
AT THE DOCTOR'S
ASSISTANT LOSES HIS GRIP...
YOUR TROUBLE IS NIGHT: STARVATION.YOU SEE WHILE YOU SLEEP YOUR HEART, LUNGS! AND OTHER AUTOMATIC PROCESSES CONTINUE USING UP ENERGY, IN - YOUR CASE ALSO THIS HAS LED TO AN EXCESS OF ACID WASTE
PRODUCTS IN THE BLOOD,
RECENT TESTS HAVE PROVED THAT HORLICKS
AT BEDTIME IS,
WHAT, YOU NEED
YET ONLY JUST BACK FROM LEAVE!
I NOTICE THE TURNOYER FROM, JACKSON'S DEPT. IS DROPPING OFF.CAN YOU UNDERSTAND WHY?
AND SO EVERY NIGHT HORLICKS
HE DOESN'T APPEAR TO BE TOO FIT THESE DAYS ALTHOUGH HE IS
ONLY BACK "FROM LEAVE
FIVE MONTHS. C' FI'LL TACKLE
∙HIM
TWO MONTHS LATER
WHAT'S THE MATTER, WITH YOU JACKSON?
IT'S NOT THAT SIR-THE CLIMATE MUST BE
IS THE RESPONSIÅ GETTING ME DOWN. BILITY TOO MUCH I SEEM TO LACK ALL
ENERGY-1 EVEN FOR YOU ?
WAKE TIRED - /ARDAHAM] THINK I'LL SEE
A DOCTOR
YOUNG JACKSON'S A DIFFERENT MAN THESE DAYS. HES GETING ON WELL WITH THE DEALERS AND I'VE DECIDED TO SEND HIM
TO IPOH AS
BRANCH MANAGER,
EXCELLENT!
I'M GLAD TO HEAR IT.
ROTOZAIC
DO YOU FEEL WORN OUT, DEPRESSED, OR NERVY? DO YOU EVEN AWAKE TIRED?
DOCTORS AND SCIENTISTS USE HORLICKS
IN HOSPITAL TESTS
Adopted Daughters Wallace Beery, 52, has adopted two daughters, Coral Ann, now 9, and Phyllis Ann, 18 months
When Beery and his wife amica- bly arranged a divorce in May, 1039, after 14 years' marriage, they de cided to share the custody of Coral
Six months after the divorce Beory
ponion to Coral Ann. adopted Phyllis Ann to be a com-
Wind Carried Him Across
A Spitfire pilot baled out near- ly four miles above the Straits of Dover recently and people standing on the English coast saw him blown towards Nazi- occupied France by a strong wind while his plane came down on English soil.
One watcher said: "It looked as though he would be carried right across into the Germans hands. To aland there watching, unable to help, was just maddening.
"We saw him through R gap in the clouds as his plane came, fam- ing down. He had been in a fight with a German formation in a know- storm."
Boys Wanted Poached Eggs
W
"Poached eggs on toast,
RECENTLY tests were made in a great please," ordered three 11-year-
on men and women who com plained of always feeling tired:, »
It was found that those people had an excess of acid waste products in their blood during, sleep.
+
This acid waate kept the brain and nerves 'on edge all night oven though the rest of the body was sourid ́ableep.
But when Horlicks was given to these people last thing at night, this excess acid wasto was completely neutralised. They woke refreshed, with increased energy and vitality
Take HORLICKS
THEN YOU WIEL SLEEP SOUNDLY WAKE REFRESHED AND HAVE EXTRAL ENERGY ALL DAY.
old boys in a cafo at Alton (Hants).
"Eggs, indeed," said the proprietor. "Where do you think we get eggs from?"**
Taking five eggs from their poc- kets, the boys said: "That's all right. You toast the bread we'll give
and
you the cage.”.
At Alton Juvenile Court it was dis- closed that the boys had stolen the eggs from a farm. For this and other offences they were, each : or- dered six strokes of the birch and placed on probation for a year.
£75 GIFT
TO
HOSPITAL
The Secretary al a
at St. Thomas's Hospital had a pleasant surprise recently when a girl walked into the office and handed over an envelope containing £76, in holes." The girl. refused to leave her name, but inside the envelope was a note greading, "Would you please hccept this money. "an a gift to the hospital from ano
WOE.
One of the greatest Edwardian Introduced him to London in 1901 in "The Girl from Up Thero"-who dis- musical comedy stars, he was covered, in 1930, how ill ho still acting in 1931, yet he was She arranged for him to be moved to almost unknown to the present the nursing home.
Past Successes generation.
WIS
after
It was Edna May who recommend- He spent his last years in almost Spartan simplicity, convinced heed him to George Edwardes for the poverty-stricken old actor part of Danilo in "The Merry Widow forgotten by his friends. In fact, in 1907. He had returned to Now
York, he has died worth £40,000.
where he_ was born, after his Up appearance in "The Girl from His death was due to pneumonia.
There."
But Until he was taken to the nursing widow" he made London his home.
"The
The Merry home he lived for many years in a
His career became a succession of small bedroom at the Carlton Hotel.
comedy
Edna- triumphs. But he never dined there. He walked musical slowly, always alone, to a small May, Gertie Millar, Lily Elsie, Phyllis restaurant in Piccadilly. His bill Dare, Gladys Cooper, Ethel Levey, was never more than a few chillings. Constance Collier, Gertrude Law. rence, Binnie Hale, and June wero Always Looked Poor all his leading ladies.
He drank nothing but water-the man who, in his heyday, used to joke that he was American by birth, Eng- lish by adoption, and Scotch by absorption.
He even began to economise on his }
Boy Killed In Shelter
shaves was not 'down and out, but A 13-year-old boy was recent
"Ho
́he' always looked poor," a friend } ly killed by the explosion of a Bald. "I often used to wonder light-calibre bomb concealed in
the people who passed him in the
street realised what a famous man an Anderson shelter at the back
I
was going along looking so sad. "Sometimes when he passed my ffice I would go out and ask him office 1 how he was. His face would light up with gratification that some one had bim. He was just living recognised in the past."
But even if he did not think so he had friends. It was Edna Moy-who
13
of his house.
Ho was Raymond Patridge, of Harriet Street, Cardiff.
The bomb had been picked up by boys in the street and carried home their after a rald. Unknown to parents they hid it in the shelter.
Raymond Patridge was In the shelter when the bomb exploded.
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