THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 16, 1940
News Snack Bar
'HAW-HAW'-AS B.B.C. STARS SEE HIM: 'GOOD,' 'ROTTEN'
London, January 19.
THE B.B.C. DROPPED its dignity yesterday. A dozen of its biggest men sat in seats of honour at Grosvenor House, Park-lane, at a luncheon attended by 700 people, and discussed their radio rival from Zeesen.
It was Foyle's "Lord Haw-Haw" luncheon, the Western Brothers in the chair. This is what our announcers think about Germany's.
Leslie Mitchell (best-dressed man in radio, former television announcer and now British Movietone News commentator): "I should say he's a German who has work- cd over here, probably up North. He wouldn't get a job over here on announcing, or news-reels or anything.”
"I say, comrade, why are we at- tacking Finland?"
"Diving Space.” ("Oeuvre.”)
Name Is
Cleared - Dead
"Le Canard Enchaine"
On Leave From Maginot Line "You haven't anything of the concrete sort. I suppose?"
Listener Sent
To Prison
A Special Court at Trier, Germany, Alvar Lidell (tall, dark-haired As- has sentenced a man to fifteen months' sistant Chief Announcer): "I think
hard labour for continually listening he's effective as an announcer, even If he does rather get your back up.
to foreign radio stations. He must be a foreigner.
The Official German News Agency, "He speaks slowly and deliberately commenting on the fact that at least fighting for time, and mispronounces ten convictions have been announced words noticeably. He says 'Industry for listening to foreign stations, says with the accent on the middle syllable, such "conscienceless weaklings have Yet his announcements in German are received their just punishment for un- perfect."
equivocal treason."
TOO CONDESCENDING Lionel Gamlin (cheerful, chubby personality man of the B.B.C.):
us 'Plane To Speed Up The
"That Zeesen fellow has given some fun, but I think he's a rotten announcer. He's condescending-and that's fatal. You've got to talk with Civic Duty
people, not down to them.”
Frank Phillips (dapper, sandy- moustached, 39-years-old announcer): "I should say he's had quite a lot of radio experience, though I don't like him. He's got good microphone technique, and knows the tricks."
BLACK CAT FOR LUCK
Parks
East Coast life-boatmen picked up a small boat at som, took it in tow. The name showed that it had been washed from a ship that had sunk four days before.
As the boat was drawn up on the shore, out jumped a hungry black cat-the ship's mascot'!
Nazis Broadcast
In Gaelic
A "Gaelic" broadcast from Ham- Air transport will be used in future burg caused great disappointment jn when they visit the city's boarded-out had stayed out of church or had hur- by members of Glasgow Corporation the Island of Lewis. Scores of people children who live in isolated areas. ried home to listen to it in the hope Many of the 2,800 youngsters who that some news would be given of the Slim, dark-haired Mrs. Olga Collett are in charge of foster parents lead 12 Lewis men who are missing from (remember her 24-hours impromptu two or three days' journey by bus and the Rawalpindi were thought to have
happy, healthy lives
in small crofts the Rawalpindi. Several of the crew of A solicitor against whom allegations Royal Command Performance com-
steamer from the city. of professional misconduct had been mentary?): "I'd hate to have him
been rescued by the Deutschland, the made was cleared by the Disciplinary double with me in a commentary."
"pocket battleship" which sank the Committee of the Law Society. But Brian Michie, Freddie Grisewood,
armed merchant cruiser. Many people who had never turned he was not alive to hear his character other radio notables, had their say.
on the radio before on a Sunday evening listened- had been vindicated, for he died while Lupino Lane wanted to "cross Foyle's
in to Hamburg, but the broadcast was the committee were considering their with him"-and 700 people laughed.
in Irish Gaelic, and Highland listeners findings.
could make nothing of it. One crofter who had stayed out of church to hear It was the first time that an apro- the broadcast complained that he could The greeting "Heil Hitler" is now plane had been used for this pur- understand nothing except the word "verboten" in Viennese military hos- pose. By going by air they saved "liar," which was frequently repeated, pitals because it excites the soldiers about eight hours on both the outward and the words "God bless you," at the and sends up their temperatures. and homeward Journeys.
end of the broadcast.
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The solicitor was Thomas John "Heil Hitler" Ban
Samuel, partner in the former firm of Samuel and Jones, of Great Darkgate- street, Aberystwyth,
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Nazi Airman
Dead In Sea
The body of a man in flying kit was washed up by the sea at Sheringham, Norfolk, recently.
It is thought he was a member of the crew of the German Heinkel plane which crashed into the sea at Shering-- ham,
Soon after the plane came down the body of the pilot was recovered.
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The Queen Orders
Servants To
Save All Silver Paper
Servants in all the royal residences are now collecting silver paper-by the Queen's order,
The Queen wants them to save sil- ver paper and tinfoil from cigarette packets, chocolates, milk bottles— every piece they can get.
Collections will go to the Lord Ma- yor's Red Cross and St. John Fund for the war sick and wounded.
The fund now stands at £863,000. The Queen told, the Lord Mayor yea
of the order to collect silver:
given throug
pod which
her Ladies In
They enjoy country life, but the Glasgow Corporation members are not so happy when they have to undertake the arduous journey to visit them.
Bailie D. S. Brown and Bailie Allan established a precedent when Ogg they set out from Renfrew to fly to Machie.
regious stone set in silver
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