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LABOUR PARTY LAUNCHES NEW PUBLICATION
Entitled "Socialist
Canadian
Trade Fair
Next Year
brochure. which outlines
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1947.
DAB & FLOUNDER
DUMB-BELLS
M/REGISTERED US
THEY'VE
SCORED
ARE
YOU
THIRTEEN, "SUPERSTITIOvi
GOALS ON
US. IM SURE WE'RE GOING
TO LOSE
HE GAVE AWAY HIS FORTUNE
The
case
against
ឆអាម
KESSELRING
731CES in high places in
Britain are raised in de- fence of Field-Marshal Albert Kesselring, the man who, in his Luftwaffe days, shattered Coventry and Rotterdam.
To-day while he waits in his death- cell in Italy, prominent men appeal for leniency.
Lord De L'Isle and Dudley, who won the V.C. fighting Kesselring's men in the Anzio beachhead, asks in Parliament for n discussion there of the death sentence.
Some may gain fame building Bishop Golding-Bird pleads for a better mouse-trap. Another the substitution of the "no less way is
to give away your for life. General Sir Oliver Leese, who terrible punishmen!"-imprisonment money.
fought this convicled war criminal in Iinly, feels very and. He thinks he was a gallant lighter who controlled battle, his men well and fought a chivalrous
Elght months after giving away his $350,000 fortune, Locke, Pittsburgh attorney, has be- Charles A. come a local institution and a no- iional celebrity.
Last July, Locke decided it was "ridiculous" for him to have so much money. So he established, in honour of his mother, the Emma W. Locke Memorial Fund for the Pilisburgh YMCA, the University of Pittsburgh and the Protestant diocese of Pitts- burgh,
The story was carried in news- papers all over the world. The thou- sands of letters, phone calls, dinner Invitations and gifts that followed were to be expected for a while. But Locke says it was only the be- ginning,
Hit With. Waitresses
He is still being overwhelmed with offers to preach in churches, speak before young people's organisations, service groups and visii private
homes.
Recently members of the said shocked Duquesne Club in Pittsburgh were And the elderly attorney
was being mobbed by 10 of the club's waitresses who wanted to squeeze his hand and kiss. him..
"The Guy, in Pittsburgh Who Gave Addresses on his letters range from
Happy Lawyer." Away All His Money." to
"The
As though to underline that!
Applications for space in its "moving to the left" the
Canada's 1948 International Labour Party has launched
Trade Fair must be submitted new magazine designed to bring in
by manufacturers and producers time to reach him before together all socialist, social-July 1, Mr. Kenneth F. Noble, democratic and labour parties Canadian Trade Commissioner the world over.
in Hongkong, announced today, World" in Now ready for distribution is an pointed dantra-distinction to Com-official munist and free enterprise worlds, rules and regulations and describes the new magazine will be published services to be made available in quarterly at first in English, Toronto, where the fair is to be held Legging, praising, romantic and crank Hls letters can be classifted in the French, Czech, and later in numer- from May 31 to June 12, next year, categories. ous uther languages
IIe has been asked to Polish, Spanish and the Scandinave exhibitors who have already the country, finance expeditions to Copies are being sent to prospec. handle law cases in distant parts of vian tongues.
save South Sea savages from the placed a request for this pamphlet, white man, and write books on philo- Actual publishers are the Interna-and others may obtain it by apply-sophy.
ing to the office of the Canadian Labour Party and the actual owners Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Build- Trade Commissioner, Room 131,
ofing, Hongkong, or P.O. Box 120.
tional
Division
of the
including
British
pre nowly-formed Federation Socialist Parties which has instruct-
ed Transport House-Labour Party headquarters-10
distinctly British,
launch
by the
of the
This International Trade Fair will
•
MEAT GNAWING SAVES TEETH
That's the advice of Dr. Charles H. M. Williams of the University of Toronto, who belleves that tearing
the sen-
by JOHN REDFERN
And the testimony? It showed that the caves massacre came after a bomb in a Rome street had killed 32 Germans Italians were bundled off, their hands tied behind their backs. They were shot and part of the caves were blown in so that the bodies could not be recovered by relatives.
And this is what Kesselring himself said about the affair: "The Fuehrer ordered this reprisal and I trans- mitted the order to the 14th Ammy, von Mackensen. then commanded by Colonel-General
"I assume entire responsibility for it and I fail to understand why von Mackensen was sentenced to death, If anyone is to blame in this mailer,
it in 1."
Death by shooting was tence reached by a British military But there was a stel-out, or un court in Venice after a trial of nearly attempt at one. Hitler in a second three months. It was dreary room in an old court building
held in a direction entrusted the Ardentine overlooking the Grand Canal. The clamour from a fish and fruit marke! below was a nuisance at times.
Now this new clamour-different May 8, when Kesselring was sen- from the noise in the courtroom on tenced. Then he called "Assassin!" Not by bishops, or generals, But by ordinary people.
was booed und
Still, ordinary people have concern with this Kesselring. What Is the case against him?
KEBSELRING........ sympathy
Is a surprise to him.
by WALTER
affair to the S.S, and that look the
operation out of Kesselring's hands, "because between the Army and thef S.S. was an impenetrable barrier.",
For days this question of res ponsibility was thrashed out in the count. Once Kesselring agreed, in his big volce, that the barbarous methods employed were "simply unworthy of any German, and mudy more so of En officer."
الحمر
Jests And Jeers
Some girls are afraid to leave homo for fear the wolf will knockc at the door and they won't be in..
Some people get the iden they are worth a lot of money just because; they have it.
The student demonstrators made Chinese government officials seo red.
What puzzles a lot of people is why science, which can predict an eclipse of the sun years ahead, can- not give us such a simple thing as the winner of a horseraco.
Make-up covers à multitude of skins.
will be sent to China. The Chinese A Japanese ""So Sorry" mission
would have appreciated it more ten years ago. there.
Yes, the evidence was Ho. had passed on the order. But perhaps a little eagerly now he testined ho, had not checked the order before passing it down, Anyway, this business of the 5.S.] relieved his command of any worries.
On the second charge, the prosecu- Lon brought out that in an order dealing with Italian partisans, Kesselring wrote: "I will prolect any commander who exceeds our usual restraint in the choice and the severity of the methods he adopts against partisans."
tho
Advice to men: Beware of women. who stroke your hair-they may ba after your scalp.
Overheard in the bus
"You win,' I said, and stayed in. the ear."
"But why didn't he drive you home?"
ERIC
COOK
"Well, later he really ran out of In Inter order he ordered Hollane petrol and I had to walk after all." to be shot, and partisan leaders to be publicly hanged. усь. Yes,
protested
feld- marshal, but he had to stamp out this detestable disease of partisan activity." At one point more than 100 hostile nets were committed daily by partisans against his soldiers.
But, added remember that every German soldier #eld-marshal, had in. his pay book ten command- ments, one of which forbade the shooting of prisoners and civilians withou: trini.
There
Colonel Seatland, who shook the was evidence from Lleut- world by disclosing that he had served for British Intelligence on the German staff. Then "buts" from sentence.
many more
Kesselring. Finally
And now the "buts". come from uur side.
JUST
MARRIED
*They fit, dear .'...
Choose your Harlem
'It is dangerous to venture there alone'
"The Street." by Ann Petry. (Michael Joseph, 10s. 6d.)
HARLEM has a unity. You
are aware of the com- munity sense as soon as you turn out of Central Park into 7th Avenue.
A childlike gaiety pervades the place'
"The Bed," by Cecil and Margery Gray. (Nicholson and Watson, 12s. 6d.)
JAMES AGATE THIS is an enchanting book con-
ON. BOOKS
"Not a white face "to" be seen, and I am told that the same is true even the policemen tre coloured. of Harlem, to which I was escorted Brown Negrocs, yellow Negroes, by the Negro chauffeur of a famous
who insisted pale Negroes, black Negroes. Gay actor,
that I should Negroes and sad Negroes, Old take the man as a protection. "IL
Negroes wilt white hair and you are with a Negro in Harlem,
spectacles, young Negroes dressed you are, so to speak, his property to kill with their yellow shirts, and the other Negroes respect his lavender cults, patent-leather shoes, property, Honour among thugs, you huge cigars, and carnations in their know, if you venture into Harlem often alone there is no guarantee of what
pre
button-holes. The girls extremely pretty, delicious little will happen to you." creatures with melting eyes and crimped, blue-black hair.
con-
That part of the population which realistic account of what lies beneath Miss Petry'a "The Street" is a He guided the bombing of Coven- does not live out of doors hangs out the sentimentalist's Harlem. One of of windows. It is largely vocal. the characters goes to the chemist lo try, which killed 1,252 persons. The bucks lolling on the doorsteps have a slashed face attended to and
He directed the daylight assault on
chaff Rotterdam in May 1040, and killed mammles exchange window
bucks;
coal-black we read:- Passing 30,000 persona, although the Dutch idences;
piccaninnies play their C-in-C. had ordered "Cease fire." shrill games under everybody's feet. And In doing so he gave new, word
A childlike, innocuous galety
OCT- to the English language.
vades the pince, expressed in terms of rhythm through the radio pouring out of cafes, bars, taxis, beauty- parlours, and houses it would be absurd to call private.
But he came to judgment for other deeds. He was tried on two issues,
1. Was he responsible for the killing, as a reprisal, of 330 Italians in the Ardeating caves, on the outskirts of Rome, on March 23, 19447
2. Did he order his soldiers to
"What was it-a fight?" "Naw. A dame. I beat her. up and she gave me this for a souvenir."
A very well-written novel dealing with an American subject exploited by Eugene O'Neil in "All God's Chillun Got Wings." A Negress in this book writes about her son: The above is frankly the point of "You're afraid that if he's shining view of one who, when he visited shoes at eight, he will be cleaning New York just before the war, windows at 13 and running
Américan continent.
an
taining all the best things that have ever been written about bed. All the same I miss the traditional...
"Come let's to bed,
Says Sleepy-head;
Tarry a while, says Slow; Put on the pot,
Says Greedy-gut,
Let's sup before we go,”.
to have seen Johnson
More seriously, I should have liked remark to his servant giving him a death-bed pillow: "Thank you. That will do. all that a pillow can do." And I hereby make these exquisite com- edition: pilers a present for their next
"When lovely Morning lifts her
head,
And laughing flashes
light,
the
- We see her rising from the bed'
Of that old blackguard, Night."
A delightful book in perfect taste.. "Fathers and Children," and "Rudin," by Ivan Turgenev. (Hutchinson, 108. 6d.)
the world is not going to blow itsalf to smithereens it can only be by international understanding and sympathy. Here is cellent translation of two great Rus-- masterpieces. Get hold
Study
them. don't be astonished
an_ex-
it. But be the first of its kind ever sponsor- the editorship for the time being ised by the Canadian Government. If you're over 35 and you want Ita primary purpose is to provide a to save your teeth, throw away your Among features in the first issue and sellers from all
common meeting ground for buyers knife and fork.
parts of the will be a discussion on the prospects world, of the United States having a third | political party, an article
Space rental has been fixed at into ment with your teeth is much American writer Philip Taft on the and this charge, in addition to the bits belore chewing them.
$2.50 (Canadian) per square foot better than cutting it into dainty prospects facing American trade floor space, will include facades, unions in the near future, another booths, and general lighting ready the 35-year milestone, he is in as Once the average adult has passed by J. Marayam, president Indian Socialist Party, on the out-display.
for tho exhibitor to install his much danger of losing teeth from
carry out the killing of Italian found, or thought he found, in Har- clevator at 21 and go on doing that civilians between
lem the best community spirit on the for the rest of his life." June and look for the party in that sub-con-
infections and gum discases
August, 19447 tinent, one discussing "composition storage of the exhibitor's display and
No èxita fee will be made
through decay and accidents, Dr.
And why not, in the name of sian for Williams told the Massachusetts
He may not have been correct. heaven,
If that's of British Labour rebels in the shipping boxes from May 10 to June Dental Society.
all his mental them. Read them, Any sentimentalist can draw you equipment fits him for? Why this And House of Commons," an authoritative 22, 1948. Neither is there to be any
What did the prosecution say? pleturo of a violet summer night sentimental hankering after some scenes represented oro not in the review of the Social-democralle additional charge for a
The only thing most people use
the little streets One sentence of Colonel Halse, who
of Soho, the thing a man isn't fit for? listing movament in
of their front teen for now, he said, led it, crystallises all the mass of Noah's Ark cafes, the fraternity of Sweden and the the Arm's name, and products on is smiling and biting into apples accusation piled over Kesselring's
Half the world's evil comes from the streets. Netherlands, and
display in the Canadian International and that's a mistake. Table manners big bald head as the days passed. an account
people who aspire to do something of Trade Fair catalogue. Each exhibi-
I withdraw the latter half of the Czecho-Slovakia's progress aineo the tor will be given
and soft diet work a lot. of havoc,
And then como novelists like Mr out of their class and This caves massacre is the dirtiest Garald Kerah to tell of the rapine, instead of doing their job in that of Petticoat-lane in every Russian capacity, lost sentence. There is a good deal. end of the war.
three special he added, and a little jaw exercise. plece of work badges and passes at no extra cost. would do a lot of good.
ever committed by violence, murder, which this charm- class and capacity with maximum author, and Turgenev is no excep.. any nation.!!
| ing decor, conecals.
efficiency, The Czech edition
tion, A special staff will be on duty at will appear the trade fair to give information aimultaneously with the
Faglish on customs regulations, rail and
edition,
CROSSWORD SOLUTION Solution of yesterday's puzzic- Across:-1 and 7, Robinsan Crusoe; 8, Oratorio; 9, Scottish; 12, Nerves; 13, Relegate; 18, USSR; 17, Ankle; 19, Toll; 20, 11k; 23, Orate; 24, Napes; 25, Nell
What did the court say? YES!
freight tariffs, marine insurance NANCY Numb but Not Dumb
banking and financial facilities.
is also planned to provide interpre ters and public stenographers for the benefit of. exhibitors and buyers.
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