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arvest of

H

The hops that flavour Whitbread's beer are grown on Whithread's own farm in Kent. Every Summer four thousand happy pickers coine down

to

Paddock Wood Farm; grand. fathers and grandmothers, parents, children and babies, work and sing all day in the sunshine, stripping the Laden bines of their pungent blossoms.

flavour

Here in the garden of England they harvest the best of the English vin- tage, specially grown from the ground to the topmost cluster, to yield that very special Whitbread's favour.

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 26, 1941.

HAW-HAW'S FATHER DIES

MR. MICHAEL JOYCE, father of "Lord How-How," William Joyce, the Nazi Broad- caster, has died broken-hearted at his home in Underhill Road, East Dulwich.

tor.

He never forgave his son for being a trai-

Shortly before his death he was chopping wood in his garden.

Death was due to heart disease, and the Camberwell coroner (Dr. W. H. Whitehouse) has decided that an inquest will be unneces-

sary.

in

Mr. Joyce was recently bumb- ed out of his former home another district.

It was a bitter blow to Michael Joyce when his son was revealed i

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Write, Call or Phone

say

He refused to for publication, but

anything privately,

he said: "He may have been iny son, but he is no more. 1 disown tal. I have not heard of him since he went to Germany about a year before war broke out."

REFUGEES

CAPITALISING THEIR FURS

When it was suggest he should Chinchilla fur in Lon- listen to the German wireless don is almost as rare as to identify the voice conclusively as that of his son, he replied, "No. I couldn't bear it."

Son's Latest

On the day that his father's

death was announced it was re- vealed that Lord Haw-Haw had added to his works by writing a hook about Britain,

"Twilight Over England" is its

title: it is 80,000 words long.

The book has not yet been ex- posed for sale in Germany,

There is only one copy in the English-speaking work, and it was taken to the United States from

Berlin.

HE'S BILLETED ON HIS WIFE

mess

an

onion

but 1 was

ONE POUND STERLING

John Rose, describ- ed as a commercial traveller, of Stanley Park Road, Carshal- ton, Surrey, stood on his doorsteps and fired a Colt revolver at a German 'plane dur- ing an air raid.

He was fined £1 for the shot and £10

for being in pos-

session

of firearms.

The pistol was con- fiscated.

BELGIAN

shown a chinchilla cape, PATRIOT

a lovely thing that cost originally about £6,000 in London, writes Corisande.

It was for sale but not at that! price, or anything approaching it.

EXECUTED

The "Nouveau Journal,"

The owner, I was told, would a newspaper started by probably think herself lucky, the Germans in Brussels,

she got £750.

of

The furrier, showing a collection announces that a patriot of furs, worth about £10,000, ex-in Ghent has been sen- plained that the only capital many refugees from Belgium and tenced to death for sabot- ccupied France was represented age against the German by their furs,

Army, and that the sen- tence has been carried out.

"They are now." he said, "try

g to capitalise these."

We went through a row of fur wraps each one perfect in its way. on a rail

Up to now the Germans, anxious

Among them was a £2,000 Rus- to avoid freding the flames of stan sable stole.

Belgian hatred towards them, have Someone may pick it up for refrained from giving great pub- £150, or even less.

lely to executions of Belgians There A sable cape may bring the for nut-German activity. Lowner a couple of hundred though have been

Corporal Charles Curtis figures. is billeted on his wife, may felch £75, His

is ten doors

away.

Service men receive a bigger ration allowance than civilians s0

every day you will see Corporal Curtis turning into the mess for his meals.

His wife receives a billeting

allowance of 58, a week.

When Corporal Curtis--he's in returned the Royal Engineers from France he was sent to a university town,

Later he was transferred to his home town. That was a pleasant surprise.

Then he learned he was billeted

In his own home. He was stug- gered.

This is what the Corporal has to say about it:-

"It is fine while it lasts, but you never know what minute

I will be shifted again, "I'm preparing the garden for the spring sowing."

This is what his wife says:--

"I suppose I am the luckiest woman in the country.

"The old man's round the corner

:

110 cases of sabotage its orignal value ran lo four or telephone-lines in Belgium be-

A £750

1940, and January, beadtail coat tween May, or £100 if the 1941, and The Germans merely

that stated owner is lucky.

hostages had been They now Some firms have no objection to taken in cunsequence. showing these furs to their eus-seem to think that they will frigh- tomers on the off chance of af- ten the Belgians into obedience by publishing the sentences which fecting a sale.

There is always commission, they inflict, which is valuable these hard times, The Belgian whose execution is

skinner

even if it does not amount to the now announced was same as profits on the sale of a namer Cours-Remy. lle was new garment of the same type.

BOYS IN GUN BATTLE

Police

squads

charged with damaging installa- tions belonging to the German Army and cutting and removing telephone lines. He carried out three extremely daring plans and on two occasions was fired at by German sentries while engaged on his destructive errand. The third time he was arrested. Plucky actions of this kind are not un-

Belgium. common in

The Ger- man Press itself has stated that a

£

was assaulted by three civilians.

from German soldier on guard in three towns used tear-gas hotel in the Grand Place at Ypres and "Tommy" guns in a As the guilty parties could not be four-hour gun-battle at found, a heavy fine was inflicted а barricaded bungalow on the town.

three Belgians were arrested by near Echo Lake, New the German police because their Jersey, the other day.

A fortnight later

а

names Atted some initials in Yet they failed to dislodge the single hat found on the spot. The German con- and at home at the same time, sogang, whose trail of theft and trol reported this example of Nazi

newspapers under hold-ups they had been following police logic with EL wealth of for three days, until the fugitives' detail. ammunition had run out.

to speak."

BALBO WAS MURDERED

An extraordinary war document

Then out staggered the gang, unarmed and holding their hands above their heads two slight, frail schoolboys, both rather un- |dersized for their 14 years.

Armed-to-the-teeth .policemen who thought they had been shoot-

is published in Egypt to-day. ing it out with a gang of the Dil-

It is a charge sheet issued by linger class, took into custody the Italian Gestapo against an Master William Hunter and Master Italian soldier, Nicola Russo, who Emmett Jones.

was convalescing in Italy last Held Up Stores

year on his return from Tobruk.

The charge declares that Russo

sengers:---

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BLONDE

BEAUTY ROAMS FOREST

Police and forest rangers near

correspondenty,

The boys had started their WOS heard to say to fellow pas-"crime-wave” on Friday. Since Las Vegas, New Mexico (cables a

then they had stolen 14 motor-cars "Daily Mirror” "Marshal Balbo was flying over (including a fireman's car and are looking for a "wild blonde Tobruk when twenty-seven Ack-police car), five rifles, three shot-beauty" who has been ack guns from the garrison open-guns, five hunting knives, a bayo-roaming the forest trails clad only ed up on him. He deserved his net, a hatchet, and 600 rounds of in an animal skin. death anyway. The Fascist radio ammunition.

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and Press have been telling the They had held up stores and people that Fascist commanders robbed them of tinned food,

paganda was used to hide Balbo's Knowing thai the police were errors." "

tracking them down, they decided This is the first strong evidence to fight it out, and barricaded the scen that Balbo was deli- building. When the triple posse berately shot down. The docu-arrived the boys shouted, "Come ment was found in Libya."

and get us! We aren't yellow!"

reported

Several motorists, touring the lonely roads say they have seen a young, shapely girl armed with a club who fled at their approach.

One driver managed to get close enougli to speak to her. She cried to him: "Why don't you go away and let me live my life as I want to?" Then she fled into the dense underbrush.