June
1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
BE QUIET,
WOW HELP
EEK
NANCY
*==IF YOU DREAM
OF FRUIT YOU WILL BECOME RICH ---
OH, BOY!
I'LL CONCENTRATE ON THIS BEFORE 1 GO TO BED -- MAYBE I'LL
DREAM
ABOUT
IT!
LATER
GOODNESS -- NANCY IS
HAVING ANOTHER ONE
OF HER DREAMS!
DREAM, BOOKE
MOPPING UP-British South African troops clean up Italian guns and war material captured at Port Moga, Ethiople. Fort was ono of bases used by Italian bombers and raiding patrols.
Britain
Calls For Books In Put Strain Upon Libraries
This war of "conflicting ideas" has forced people to think more deeply, and in so doing they have turned to books not only for relaxation, but also for explanations of current events. Despite paper shortage, transport limitations, Service call-ups, bombed-out premises, and migrations of population, the necessary books have been forthcoming.
The Publishers' Circular shows a serious decline in the out- put of new books in 1940; 10,732 new books, new editions, and new translations appeared, which was 4,181 less than in 1939- a decline of 39 percent.
-
This figure might well prove public has "always meant to rend" alarming in view of still fur-have been borrowed.
The filming of such well-known ther reductions in 1941 were books ns "Pride and Prejudice" by "Jamolca Inn" and bought is not a true picture of "Rebecca" the
it_not_that_the_number of books Jane Austen Daphine du Maurier,
Widely Circulated
Stamp Family Tragedy
NANCY--. A
DREAM CAN'T HURT YOU!
BUT I ATE-
THIS DREAM * BEFORE I WENT TO BED!
British War Prisoners
Turn To Nature Study
Latest news from the prisoners-of-war camp Seven Cat Laufen, Bavaria, shows that morale is excellent and the conditions reasonably good. The prisoners are now being allowed to visit an island in the river outside the
camp.
They tell in letters to friends, in Lisbon how they are making nesting boxes for birds and fixing them in trees on the island.
One officer has sent a request for a trout fishing-rod, Another plea is for flower seeds,
Some minor requests made by the prisoners testify eloquently to the high degree of self-respect they are maintaining in captivity.
German Called As Witness
Camp Theft Charge
To Spend $10,000,000
On Linda
Linda Darnell
Twentieth Century-Fox Films will spend almost $10,000,000 this year on films in which Linda Darnell appears, though Linda, 18 months ago, was a Dallas high school girl who measured finances by her $2 a week allowance.
Figuring that she is one of the best "star properties" any film company lists among its newcomers, the studio has cast hor in six pictures in the last year. In her latest, "Chad Hanna," which is coming to the King's Theatre, Linda is starred with Henry Fonda and Dorothy Lamour.
Although she completed "Brigham Young - Frontiers- man" only a short time ago, Linda went into "The Mark of Zorro and then "Chad Hanna." All of these are high-budget films.
Linda storied the year off with "Star Dust." She will next ploy opposite Tyrone Tower in "Brooklyn Bridge." After that she will bo transformed into a Hawaiian girl for "Song of the Islands" which is also A "big" pleture the studio has planned.
The cost on these productions totals close to $10,000,000.
Linda's rise to Alm famo is me- teorie. In 1037 she made her first) bid for an acting career, but after) a screen test she was considered 100 young and sent home to Dallas,
Texas.
Firmly Entrenched
Two years later, Linda's photo- graphs caught the Interest of studlo, executives and she was recalled. This time it was different. She went into
Elsa Maxwell's "Hotel For Women" and the rest is screen his- lory.
Now firmly established in the Hollywood firmament, . Linda bids fair to become one of the screen's
One inn wrote asiting for button
to be included in the next)
When Maj. Arthur James Bray-finest actresses. kurcal Another wants sock suspenbrook,
46, of the Military Police, ders, whlic several request nall
on remand at Bromley, brushes, A Scots officer, asking for Kent, charged with stealing 100
appeared textbooks, writes that he is studying sovereigns, two typewlters, some sti kinds of subjects from early Scat- jewellery, and 1,040 safety razor tish history to architecture and bindes from innintes of camps for
botany.
enemy allens of which he had been Red Shorts Order
commandant, it was stated that For summer recreation a large other charges would probably bc. consignment of rubber "gym" ahoes brought.
Daylight Saving
Linda Darnell
DONATIONS
TO CAUSES
Bomber Fund Support
A total of $2,160.814.70 was reache yesterday by the War Fund Inaugurated by the S, C, M. Post, Ltd, with the fol lowing donations:
The hearing, was adjourned for a Is being sent from Lisbon. Cation
Colony to Put Clock shorts and stockings will follow. The fortnight, Braybrook's ball
being
Forward One Hour German camp commandants have renewed. ordered that the shorts must be A German Internce, Ernst Karl bright red and the stockings white, Ritter, gave evidence concerning Hongkong Is to have daylight Hongkong Police Force All Con-
Sunday.
tingents and Clerical Staff), May $370.45 with either red or blue stripes. Pre- typewriter said to have been found saving, commencing next
Lance Sergeant 491, Kehar Singh sumably it is considered that khaki at the major's house. Ritter said The effect of regulations which have PC Bace. Sham Singh
equipment is insufficiently dis- that he landed in Scotland Inst June
been approved, is to save one hour PC. 10, Abagat Singh
P.C. D600, Pole Khan a safeguard against at-after escaping fro
from Norway. He in the summer and half an hour in cislet Guard, Mr Lee Kam-chi tempts at escape.
had to surrender his typewriter, winter. In the main, the new Contribution by Sikh Members of Meanwhile the recently started air but did not dispose of it to anyone.
the Hongkong Police Force from their Sikh Temple Funds mail service for prisoners', letters via Mr Lawson Wallon, prosecuting,
Mins Y. AI, Tso Lisbon is
is working most successfully, said that Mr Christmas Humphreys, The Colonial Secretary's Omce, in Roynt Hongkong Golf Club (Pro
Eceds of first ramie) .................................... The large accuratilation here of camp Counsel for Braybrook, Wag "too forwarding a copy of the new re-rec W. ned (in memory of the
anata Mire 11. Bullock) letters en route for Britain is now shaken" to appear. Cross-examina-gulations yesterday afternoon, practically cleared. British Airwaysition was reserved,
nounced that they had already been Mr L. A. Sterling (monthly dona approved by the Governor In Coun- The China Dispensary (V. C. Wong
June 13.
Afr Ngan Shirut-kwan, J.P. Rellance Motors, Lad,
in
much as half
measure is dictated by war needs.
(lon)
plans on trip. The bulle of the Mr J. J. Edmondson, and would be gazetted on Friday, 03 in mail from prisoners is now arriving here by air from Germany, though
sume is still carried overland.
ranks.
this camp:
Killed By Enemy Action
third
Off English Coast
as
It is lutended if possible to bring "Rouletto VICEROY'S FUND
the measure into force on June 10.
Luci FAYS
winter.
<
In the
Film Depicts U.S. Attitude To War
In their latest-release. "Uncle Sam,
FC-
1,000
10
100
50
acknowledged, $2,GOS "Guernseyman" (per 8. C. M. Post), 310; China Products Trading Corporation Ltd, 130; the Overseas Assurance Corporation Ltd, $ New Zealand Thsurance Co. Ltd, 10: Dr E. W. J. Sun, $10; Green Island Cement Co, Ltd, 820; Mr Karsten Larsen, $20:- Mesars Jolin-D. Hutchison & Co, $20. Total to date, $9,750.
STOCK MARKET
REPORT
Hongkong Stock Exchange official summary, issued yesterday is:
Buyers Bank of East Asia $71::. Indo-Chinas (Pref) $80
Little recent news has been re-
The Sikt Members of the Hongkong Police have niso sent $1,000 from their ceived here from the so-called re-
Receipt of news in the Colony of
It is officially stated that this Sikh Temple Funds to the Viceroy's War prisal camp at Posen, which is loent-
the death of Mr James Jokeph ed in an old fortress. Apart from Edmondson on March 7, as a result tiun to the war effort, since it will
measure is designed as a contribu-Effort Fund, New Delhi, India.
SALVATION ARMY The Salvation Army Headquarters officers sent there from Bavaria, the of enemy action off the east coast of
receipt of the and gratefully acknowledge summer majority of the prisoners are of other England, has revealed a tragle coin-
following donations, which have been in the credited to the Annual Appeal for 1941: cidence, his brother, Copt G. S. facilitate military training
Previously Paper Footwear.
of Edmondson, formerly Chief Officer At one time their plight was bad, the s.s. Chang On, having died at especially as regards clothing and Matilda Hospital the same day. Captain of Industry
footwear. A traveller whe visited The late Mr J. J. Edmondson was Posen two months ago reports seeing also very well known in Hongkong, Killed in Raid
British prisoners going out to work having been here for 13 years. He amount of reading done. and "Gone With the Wind" by Mar- Mitchell, has niso stimulated daret
LORD and Lady Stamp, their In the fields with their feet wrapped arst came out in March, 1924,
In newspapers and their clothes in engineer of the Douglas Steam- For rarely do the sales and cir sales and loans, both of the books heir, the Hon. Wilfrid Carlyle tatters. It is probable, however, that ship Co. He remained with the Com-
the Non-Belligerent," which is show- culation of a product bears so filmed and of others by the same Stamp, and three members of adequate supplies of Red Cross cloth-pany until September, 1937 when he
ing to-day at the King's Theatre in little relationship as in the book authors.
pro- the domestic staff were killed in ing and footwear bave since reached resigned and returned to England
with his wife. At that time he was conjunction with the film, "You world.
Librarians everywhere arc
of the Haltan.
Can't Fool Your Wife," the producers ducing figures to prove that the a recent London raid, the only more serious works are being read one to be brought out of the the first few months of confinement Mr Edmondson, who was
What the prisoners suffered during Chef Frning to England, the Inte of the "March of Time" series have born in succeeded very ably in presenting
the sheller alive being an 18-year- is vividly recalled by another infor-1890 at Barrow-in-Furness, obtained graphically on the screen New books issued have reached a by British people. for wider circle of readers than: Heavy Loss In Raids
old maid, who was taken to mant from the Polish town of Thorna berth as Chief Engineer of a north-nctions of United States citizens to- would have been possible in a In addition to the 39 per cent, re
where the camp for British and east coast collier, which was torpe- wards the issue of war and ald to normal year. More people are read-duction in the total number of books hospital.
French soldiers is situated. During doed on March 7,
Britain and other democracies. ing the same books and the demand published last year, the fire caused The body of Lady Stamp was not
the carly winter the ralions were so Mr Edmondson is, survived by his is for more worthwhile writings. by incendiary bombs in the City on recovered from the wreckage until bad that the men sold or exchanged widow, who is residing at South The film is well devised, and the
Those authors, booksellers, and the night of Dec. 29 last, destroyed some time after the others.
various scenes Intelligently edited. A mound of bricks, umber, and personal possessions, watches, books, Shields, England,
Besides shots of vote-taking proce- publishers who maintained that too no less than 6,500,000 books. many books were being published, It would be dimcult.
even under glass is all that remains of the house even clothing to obtain food.
Despite strict Nazi orders for- TRANSFER TO SHANGHAI dure in America, peeps Into Congres- and that quality not quantity count-present conditions, to replace the around which three bombs crushed
bidding the populace any contact Mr A. Crawford, superintendentsional sessions and film interviews ed, now see the fulfilment of their lost stocks, and publishers are, there- almost simultaneously.
people of engineer of Messrs. Butterfield & with typical citizens, there are in- The first fell on the centre of the with the prisoners, the wishes.
fore, urging the Government not to
next near the garage, Thom found means of helping them. Swire at Hongkong, has taken up a teresting glimpses of the Battle of Britain, the war at sea and the life Some categories of books have eut still further their already re-louse, two cars were wrecked, and The prisoners used to march dolly in similar position in Shanghai, and is been hit harder than others. Chi-duced quota of paper and boards.
Hangs from camp to work, and the succeeded by Mr A, D, Bell, who lot the people In the occupied coun- tries. Certain scenes have been dren's books hold first place for A suggestion for reducing the the third on the lawn.
The houso, it is understood, col-people placed pieces, of bread and has just returned from Home leave taken from German flims destined Inrge-scale reduction, though fiction consumption of raw materials by the
the pavements states the Shipping Review, Sharghai. where the men could bend down and
for South America, and confiscated is a runner-up. More serious works book trade is that books should up- lapsed on the shelter in which the bottles of beer on
Shanghai'a roll pick them up as they possed.
of honour has had by the Allied authorities. on sociology, natural science, bio- pear in paper backs (as in France) seven persons were waiting.
added the name of Lleut-Commdr graphy, and philosophy have also, instead of cloth-bound as at present.
The film shows convincingly that suffered.
William Alexander Elliot, formerly of This would be practical for home The new Baron Stamp is Dr Trevor consumption and was
the Asiatic Petroleum Company. He the vast majority of Americans aro the general Charles Stamp, oged 34, the second Libraries Popular
practice in the World
Worlumes
but for of four sons, who is in practice In LUPESCU'S LAST
was killed in action while in the suffering no delusion as to the aims Records show that libraries have export it is essential that
Epsom.
Royal Navy, and the news of his of the Nazis, and are determined to been taxed to their fullest extent should be properly bound, especially Three years ago Lord Stamp was PROPERTY GONE death was received by cable a few give every possible ald to Britain in
days ago.
her fight for the principles of free- during the year. Besides greatly in- as the export of British books is of one of Hitler's guests at the Nurem creased demands for new books meat cultural and economic import-| burg Nazi party conference.
Madame Lupescu's remaining pro-
dom, justice and humanity. Lord Stamp's lie was one long perty In Rumania consisting mainly Mr Will Evans, 63, one of Britain's many "old favourites" which the ance.
cinema chiels, success story. His career began at of houses and land valued at 53,- biggest peace-time the age of 18 as an office boy in the 700,000 lei (about £70,000) has been died at his Epsom home recently. Inland Revenue Department.
confiscated, says a Bucharest di Ho had been seriously I for. six
weeks. patch.
Phantom
Nazis A
Ship Gives Headache
the
New Baron ·
Before be left the Civil Service, Lord Stamp became the Chancellor's chief adviser, and Inventor" of the excess profit scheme.
Then
the directors of Nobel Indus- tries, one of the biggest Industrial organisations in the country, sprang
a surprise on the business world by
Lord Stamp accepted,
"Squeak,' Last of Brave
R. A.F. Trio, is Killed
"Pip,
"The phantom sailed again." Those words were passed inviting this beaurocratic academi from mouth to mouth in Nazi-governed Norway following the clan to run the business, and from lightning raid by a Norwegian warship on part of the Northen onwards was one of the captains
" "Squeak," and "Wilfred” they jestingly called wogian coast. ....
of industry in this country. He For weeks a story has been sweep-i scone of the previous British and created Imperial Chemical Industries, themselves. The trio of R.A.F. pilots shared many an exploit. ing Norway and trickling through Norwegian-raid on
became president of the LMS, the Lofoten president of the Abbey Road Buliding "Pip" died for his country. Then "Wilfred" fell in action. Into Sweden that a phantom des Islands.
Left to carry on the traditions, two weeks, and later was awarded troyer has been dodging round Nor- The Berlin radio admitted that the Society, and chairman of Bay's
of the trio. "Squeak" earned the bar to his decoration.
"I have heard my son talk about coast, playing jokes on Nazi local fish plant had been sat on fire. Wharf Cartage Co. Ltd. į garrisons and outposts, and generally It added:
honour for his "great courage Pip and Wilfred, but I never mat "Flight-Lleut, Dundar's father and determination" and his! them they were Mr Barran and f
sald.
Way's
ling the complacency of Nor-
up-setting
Nazi masters.
As weather conditions did not why's temporary
permit bur bombers to intercept this Now comes the news flint the surraider, hunting for dead herring, IL prise Easter raid first reported via was able to get away.” Stockholm was undertaken by a Nor- wegian warship
command in agro Norwegian ::. Consternation...
Another Victory For Women
*
...
"outstanding leadership."
Now "Squeak," too, has given his Mr Dawson. Both were West Riding life for his country. He was Acting men, and I bellave Mr Darran was Flight-Lieutenant John Charles Dunconnected with a Lea's family."
Licut, Dundas was twice shot down After 70 years of maintaining
das, D.F.C.
before with British
ho was reported One can guess at the consternation strictly stag atmosphere, the Harvard
missing Aged 25, eldest son of Mr and Mrs
A few years
travelled in Nazi officers garrisoned on Clubs has voted by 10 to 1 to let the umong the
Frederick Dundas, of Cawthorne, Franco, and Germany and the There were no British losses, and this part of the Norwegian coast. women folk in.
hear Baresley, he was previously re Darubean countries, and as oil depots, factory and harbour Lately some of them have found One member said privately it was
he flow to Czechoslovakia neatly-folded two-day-old coples of the biggest thing at the Club sinco a
fountain was installed in 1917, to have been killed in action. The
naval authorities,
Cut:
the
tima
ported missing. He is now belleved journaibe the affondono ** Works were de Wereldrandon newspapers, alongsido their sodaHarvard is the last of the "Bagged" 15 Nazis of the Munich agreement,KASUTAD
The first acts of the landing party broukfast BAUROZON, tiore?. Nofcollégo clubs to open its doors to`tho
A Linea
wero to cut telephone,arict, talograph lines; and Jake prisoners the local Norwegian seemed to know.
did they get ·-
How leaders of Quisling's party But the whiaperi went round the first then the Princeton, Columbia, land and of Vacount Halifax, he of the baitles over Kent last year, The harbour which was raided is toastline. "It's our destroyer Sleip- Pennsylvania, Dartmouth and Yale earned the DFC by destroying 15 His machine was in flames, but he
clubg followed suit.
bremy alteraff, dve of them within escaped with alight injuries.. In the same district de Svolvaer, the net. She's here again."-
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