NANCY
AND I NOW TAKE
POSSESSION OF DIS MIGHTY
ISLAND IN D' NAME OF
CAPTAIN SLUGGO
D' PIRATE!
Friday,
WIT ALL ITS MIGHTY RIVERS AND FORESTS-MINE TO HOLD FOREVER!
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
ANYBODY GOT ANY OBJECTIONS?
By Ernie
WELL-- YOU CAN HAVE THE ISLAND SLUGGO!
August 1, 1941:
Bushmiller
BUT I'LL HAVE TO BRING THE FOREST HOME BY SIX O'CLOCK!
HOME MIZ.
Refreshing!
Barrage Of Truth Given Out Concrete Merchant Ships
In 25 Foreign Languages
European language broadcasts from Britain have now been organised on a scale unforeseen before the war, and in the B.B,C, foreign programmes a barrage of truth to counter lying enemy propaganda is now sent out on the air to Europe in 25 foreign languages.
The popularity of the bulletin
of
is rapidly increasing in the Ger- man-occupied countries Europe, for, despite Nazi efforts to suppress listening to Britain by every means in their power, from heavy penalties for thosej enught to attempted jamming, evidence is accumulating show- ing that a greater number of people are daily tuning in to British foreign broadcasts.
it
Local Nazi officers have made virtually compulsory for their own and subject peoples to listen to the official Nazi voice throughout Europe; but they have created a positive urge among their enslaved subjects to hear the forbidden volee—that Britain.
of
in
From a nucleus of broadcasts three languages, French, German and Itallen, when foreign broadensts
started with Mr Chamberlain's eve of Munich speech on September 27,; 1938, the service has steadily growni to meel the needs of Europeans.
News Services
News services in Polish, Czech, Rumanian, Serbo-Croat, Greek, Spanish and Portuguese were, firmly established after the first month of war and soon services in Turkish, Bulgarian, Swedish, Finnish, Danigli, Norwegins, Dutch, and Albanian were added.
News bulletins broadenst dally in German numbered eight and French six at the end of 1940, 'with one or more bulletins in other languages.
Prompt and accurate news ranks first in the service, although these bulletins are interspersed
with topte-
al talks, naguzine programmes, dra- matic dialogues, sketches, special music reeltais and popular songs to meet needs of individual countries. News editors with extensive know-
edge experience of the respective
of geographical conditions, and
Countries, shape-the-nows bulletins in consultation with expert trans-) lators and announcers, for nearly al of whom ench language is their mother tongue.
A lively morning and evening magazine half-bour in French has created slogans, many set to music, wileht are being repented through- out France.
"March of Freedom"
Forces disliking the Nazis are dra- mallenlly brought together in Ger many by a "March of Freedom". Lenture, while the voices of Ring:
_NEW_UNIFORMS U. S, Army nurses henceforth will wear. snappy now uniform at loft, as contrasted with present one, at right. Now uniform is of two-tone blue design of covert cloth. Old capo was olive drab.
Bank's Plan
To Help
The Small Borrower
Haakon and the Norwegian Crown Specially designed to aid Singapore's clerical classeș, a Prince have
a number of times thrill-scheme will shortly be introduced for the first time in Singa- ed Norsemen listening to the Nor pore by the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, under wegian service.
A special Dutel feature "Radio which clerks, may borrow from a minimum of $50 to a limit Oranje supplements the D.B.C's. of $400, returnable by monthly instalments. Dutch service and the voices of
Queen Wilhelmina
The bank's plan follows generallyį
and Princess the suggestion made by Mr G. H.
Juliana have helped to encourage Kist at a recent Singapore Rotary Raid Victims'
staunch Dutch freemen.
Club dinner that a scheme should be
The special Czech perlod serves instituted whereby employees need- as a link between Czech forces here and their resisting brothers at home. in financial assistance may go to a bank for small loans at a compara-
Inquest
Press Wants Admission
May Soon Be Constructed
PHILADELPHIA, June 21.-Concrete tankers and merchant ship as strong and light as steel were envisaged by engineers to-day after a test of a new type vacuum dried concrete containing à special variety of steel re- inforcement.
Two "plunks" of the material
12 feet long and 21% inches thick
"got the works" in a stecl-jawed DONATIONS TO
strength testing machine at the University of Pennsylvania, a load of 5,890 pounds bent thei centre of one 5 inches out of
CAUSES
line before the concrete began to Bomber Fund Up
crack.
com-
The Bomber Fund "gimit therinometer“ Inventor Kurl
Biliner und rose by over two thousand dollars yes. several of the university engineersterday as a number of splendid donations were received during the day. The Kian enlculated this imposed
Gwan.Company (China) Lid, sent $1,000; pressive stress within the tissue of the tenth donation ($100) came froni the square inch.
concrete of 12,500 pounds
"ex-Dydand": a fifth donation was re- ceived from Mr and Mrs E. A, Pritchard jet 3300; while the members of the ZDW broadcasting team in French. seni a
A second plunk of slightly differ-second donation of $450. There were also ent construction withstood a com- pressive stress of 15,000 pounds and was bent cight inches to spring back to within one and a half inches of Its original line when pressure was released.
Dr Theodore Crane, professor of architectural
at Yale engineering University and one of those watching the test, pointed out that concrete structures ordinarily are designed to permit compressive stresses of 850 to 900 pounds square inch. Even allowing a safety factor of 50 per cent, on the new concrete, he said, It would have a strength eight to 10 times that of ordinary concrete.
For Bomb Shelters
Billner, who has used the vacuum- dried material in building floors of a number of government buildings, also has demonstrated its use bi speedy construction of bomb shelters, Since the concrete forms can be removed 15 minutes after
the material is poured, the inventor, sald I would be possible to build ship hulls rapidly, a 10,000-ton tanker being constructed of concrete in four weeks as contrasted Lo several months using steel.
Illegal
Medical
Practices
Mr_Calwell (Lab., Vic.) alleged in
|
an encouraging number of monthly donations; bringing the total of the Fund és $2,441,957.04. Members of 2.B.W. Broadcasts in
French 2nd donation) clan Gwan Company, "Ex-Bydand" (teath donation)
(Chn)
Lid
at Skyhigh"
'Dice Game at Ekt Mr and Mrs E, A, Pritchard "tafik
donationi...
"X. D. O. Shrapnel Box"
Mir Thomas Sue, Canton Un mentory of the fate tr Inn S. Fortes! Anonymous
$450 100
1,000
23.10
300
Bomber Fund were nisu received yester
The following monthly donations to the day:
Mr E. A. R, Newton
Mrs G, M. Sinclair
Mr F. Duckworth
Mis J. Grani
Mr J. C. Jones
Mr W. Hewitt
fra M. S. Fortescue
"W. P. C."....
CHILD PROTECTION
10
10
20
The Hongkong Society for the Protec- Hon of Children wounces the followingt donailuna collected during July, 1941:
The Rotary Club of Hongkong, $200; Mr D. L. Chcliran (Life Memberslip). $100 Mr and Mrs G. I. Angus, 523; Anonymous "HBUH. 815: Rev. and Mrs 11. I. contribution for Leung Man)-$4; Duna- Wells, 5; Police Magistrate, Kowloon tons already acknowledged through the South China Morning Post, 85. Total $349,
Further donations will be gladly ne cepted by the Hon, Treasurer, Mr A. McKellar, c... e/o Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co., P. & O. Building.
ST. VINCENT. DE PAUL.
The Society of St Vincent de Pau acknowledge receipt of the following donation in memory of the late Mr E. L. Iterario:
Mra J. C. Guterres, $2.
The S. C. M. Post has received tie following donation to the Society of St Vincent de Paul in memory of the late Mrs E. L. do Horario: F. D. da Silva, $2.
S. 1. C. A.
The S. C. M. Post has received
the
the House of Representatives at following donation to the Society for the Canberra that 5 to 10 per cent. of doctors in Australia were engaging
in criminal abortion:
"These men were partly educated
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals:
Cartwright, $2.
SALVATION ARMY
Tiju Salvation Army Headquarters
at the expense of the State, and they gratefully acknowledge receipt of "Bewi
are expected to use their healing of ice Campaign” tickets from the
Mr A. C. Jeffrays: Messrs Kishinchand
cuellaram; many Anonymous,
powers for the sake of the com- following
unity," he said. "Instead, they are prostituting their knowledge and abili
and becoming enemies of the
of
TEACHERS' SALARIES
The Director of Medical Servicen grate- Of 5,000 abortion cases treated fully acknowledgen receipt of $300 from annually in Melbourne hospitals, Mr Hongkong Rett Swastika Society for Calwell said, more than 2,000 were dying lie salaries of leathers at Tai
Itang, and Ngau self-induced or resulted from illegal Camps. operations.
Claims by doctors that therapeutic abortions were procured for the sake
Кок Tau
Squatters
FOOD KITCHENS
The S. C. M. Post has received
Fund:
tlie
of health were disproved by the fnet following donation to the Food Kitchens that 35 per cent. of the patients were O. C.. $3, single women.
DONATIONS WAITING
Donations for the following Organisa-
Belgian needs are served by a special tively low rate of interest. programme in French and Flemish
alternate days.
The scheme which the bank pro- The
majority of the services are poses to launch requires briefly the carried by short wave transmitiers dehloe to provide two quarantors Mr Osbert Peake, Parliamen-death-rate associated with illegal Mr Calvell claimed that the to give clear reception, but where and answer a questionnaire giving conditions
medium reasons for desiring a loan and par-tary Under-Secretary to the operations was from seven to eight tons await collection at the office. of the are suitable, waves are being used to augment theulars of employment.
Home Office, recently received a per cent, and yet neither the C. M. Post: Associacao Portuguesa do many of the services.
deputation from the Institute of Federal Government nor State Gove Journalists, consisting of Mr H.erminents had done anything to slop foulkes (chairman,
this Infanticide. executive committee), Mr Alan Robbins (hon. treasurer). and Mr Stewart Nicholson (general
His employer, wherever willing, Awkward Facts
will be asked to confirm his replies to the questionnaire and to state the Pains taken by the Nazis to coun-jehnencter of the applicant. ter, in their home bulletins, all awk- ward news given by the B.B.C., In- dicate that the authorities fear the audience which hears the British
Genuine Cases Only
By this means the Bank is able to secretary), who, made repre news. But listeners seem determin- uscertain not only whether it has a ed to hear the truth from outside in reasonable chance of obtaining resentations on the exclusion of spite of difficulties and penalties. payment, but whether the loan is the Press from proceedings in In Poland private wireless sets are being requested for a purpose other coroners' courts concerned with lilegal, but British bulletins are han pleasure of luxury.
the presumption of death ́under copled and circulated in feaflet
form.
Tire scheme is intended solely to assist genuine cases of financial em- the defence regulations, 1030, to give news of Polish barrassment caused by an emergency
These
box,"
Danish, Dutch,
Finish, Flemish,
and
Sold Eggs Over Maximum
Grocer Fined £225
Soccorros Mutuos: Lord Mayor's Fund
for the Relief of Air Victims; BW.OF Emergency Hefugee Counell: New Terri-
torlen Relief Association Chungalian, Refugees: D.F.R.D.C.; Blind Girls Home; Food Kitchear Fund: St Vincent de Paul: Salvation Ariny: B.P.C.A.
"A Dispatch From Reuters"
ween the ages of 21 and 50 and tend to the circulation of rumours to another grocer cases of eggs) features El.. G. Robinson as Julius
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GROCERIES, BUTCHERIES, FRUITS, GREENS & SUNDRIES, ETC.
THE
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Keep The Bomber Fund
SOARING.
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Film to be Shown Here "I know of no more effective A Polish "leiter
started
One of the great romances of the way of assisting the enemy to-last 90 years of international Jour Oclober,
over Europe, hnd broad- or a domestle event, such as a birth, presumption proceedings in the High offence," stated the North Lon- "Reuters news service. The story Mr ffoulkes said that the fact tmt day than by this type of naliera has been the creation of refugees ali cast 34,000 names by July, 1040. murringe, illness, or death.
Courts had always been public quite In Czecho-Slovakia anything
Prospective, debtors must satisfy clearly demonstrated that the princi- don Magistrate (Mr Daniel of that gigantic world-wide organi- broadcast from Britain is circulated the bank the money is being bor-pic of open hearing and reporting of Hopkin) when he fined Tandore sation has now been made into one through the country in a few hours, rowed for one of the purposes which
such chines was To-day the B.B.C. broadcasts to it Hats in a pamphlet of rules and
approved by the Blum, a grocer, a total of £225, of the outstanding films of recent It was inevitable that with 20 guineas costs, on three longkong as from August 18.
and it is to be Judicature.
screened in Europe in twenty-five
regulations for loans should be be tend to breed local suspicions,
the Auppression of the facts would pre-Albanian,
summonses for offering for sale.
"A Dispatch
from Iteatera" which
at prices
the Reuter, founder of the organisallon exceeding
has
been vociferously opplauded the scheme they may not
maximum.. Mr Alan Robbins said that the
wherever it has been shown, and Serbo-Croat, Sloveno, Spanish, Swed- borrow a sum exceeding the total of institute's representations were being
It was sald by the presecution that Hongkong, which through Its news- Icelandic, Slovak, Luxemburg the combined salaries of the debtor made largely in the interest of the Blum would have made an 18h,
illlelt popers la familiar patols and Maltose.
and two guarantors and, in any caso: local newspapers, which had a close
will doubtless sum not above $400.
cancern and intimacy with coroners' intended deal.
welcome this magnificent film of an The bank is anxious to know how courts, and to which the regulation Guilty and said that he and offered nung man and his organisation.
defendant pleaded. far employers are prepared to 50- they wore protesting against was
Edna Best pinys the part of Ida operate in this scheme which it con- therefore a matter of great impor- the eggs of 2s, fd, a long hundred Magnus who married Reuter, while below shop prices. He alleged that other personalities in the cast are that total price he was charging in- Fddle Albert, Nigel Bruce, Otto Kru- cluded a consignment of sardinescer, James Stephenson, Albert Bas- Donations:
It was danied by the intended pur-serman, Laudari Hare, and Mon- clinser that he had ordered-ahrdines, | Ingu · Love,
Greek, Italian, French, German,
Norweghould have regular cin and insinuations
Polisit. Portuguese, Roumanian,
CHICKEN PRODIGY
A chicken with four legs has been lenda will save unfortunate ent- fanco. hatched at a poultry farm In Easing-ployees unnecessary financial worry wold Occasionally such freaka are and hardship when they require-a-Mr-Peake promised to submit the recorded, though they rarely, live, loan, and thereby increase their representations to the Home Seerd- states n correspondent,
tary, and Minister of Home Security,
effelaney,
pront of £62 10. as a result of the credit title "Reut. With the famous
The
TYPES OF BOMBERS HITTING HITLER !
The Bristol Blenheim medium bomber..
7.64 Remitted to Lone
2151,939.19.6d.