1938-08-19 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELE

Well-known Novelist Writes 'Naughty-Naughty' Book

A LOVE STRIKE TO STOP WAR!

When the next world war broke out, in Nineteen- Forty-Something, French aeroplanes bombarded White- hall and the Government moved to Blackpool.

If you can believe that, please get ready to believe an even greater whopper.

The women of Britain stopped the war-by refusing to have anything to do with their husbands and sweethearts. They locked themselves up in Edinburgh Castle and other strongholds, and declared a love strike.

It was a grand success, says Mr. them was saved by his own sweet- Eric Linklater, the Scottish novelist,heart turned traitress.

reinting with gusto and great free-

dom of language these epoch-

THE WOMEN WON

making events. And it is safe to The women sent an ultimatum to assume that his novel, "The Im- the Government:

pregnable Women" (Cape, 7s. Gd.). "We hereby declare our flrm in- will be successful, too,

tention to abstain as far as possible It is the naughtiest novel of the from any contact with men, and wo renounce, repudiate, and year

the utterly up to now, and one of

abandon all marital relations, extra- cleverent,

marital relations of a like or com- Imagine the situation. Lady parable nature, and casual intimacy Lysistrata Scrymgeour, the wife of until such time as pence has been Britain's greatest soldier, is leader re-established." of the love strike,

"Only be resolute," she tells her followers, "and the future is ours,

our

happiness secure. For a little while give up the joy of love and you will make love safe for ever."

DEFIANT WIVES

She exhorts the women to make

themselves as attractive as they can,!

The Government decided to sform the women's strongholds. mashles With hockey-stick and the women drove off the Essex ltc-

giment and the Borderers.

The Prime Minister was for shell- ing the Castle but the War Minister, whose wife was inside, naturally objected. Besides, the troops would refuse to Arc.

The love strike spread to every to wear their prettiest clothes, to be country in Europe, except Bulgaria glamorous, alluring, irresistible. And where, apparently women did not Imatter much. And os in Aristo-

then:

"Draw back and make your denint.) planes' uproarious comedy thou- Be strong and refuse your love, Telsands of years ago, the women won. your husbands and your sweethearts that they must choose between love;

and war."

IŁ W S.

So, too. spoke Lyubstrata is a play Gold May Go

by Aristophanes, 2,350 years

ugo.

Then, too, the women, declaring a

love strike, brought the Greek boys

out of the trenches.

to Charity

What wI happen to the gold of

Intergovernmental refugee committee, meeting in Evian, France, elected Myron C. Taylor, former chairman of United States Steel, per- manent presklent. Mr. Taylor is head of the American delegation to the meeting, considering relief and disposition of German refurces. This W. W. Radio-photo from London shows Mr. Taylor addressing the meeting,

No Stops Please

Mr. Printer

) WANTS

TO IT

APH (

TO PUT A .

Mr. A. P. Herbert wants to put a stop to the full stop in Parliamentary paper headlines.

E RADIO BROADCAST

B.B.C. Recording of "Love

Needs a Waltz”

"THE MAGIC FLUTE” ACT 1

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W, on a Frequency of 848 k.e's. and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. 9.52 m.c's. per and 8-11 p.m. en second.

H.K.T. (AK).

12.00-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service of Intercession from St. John's Cathe dral.

12.30 Elale Randolph in Musical Comedy and other Selections.

Fancy Our Meeting (From "That's good girl'); Now That I've Found You (From "That's a good girl').... ack Buchanan and Elsie Randolph; (Ivor Careless Rupture-Selection Novello): Intro-Why is there ever May: The Man- goodbye?; Music in chuko; Love made the song; Finnle Orchestre Raymonde conducted (Vocalists: Webster Parselles); Mr.

by G. Walter

Booth

Angela and

Whittington: Intro:-Bow

Bells

Music: Help a Inre dog: Oceans of time; The sun is round the corner: What a pleasant surprise; I'm simply more. wild about horses: Weep no my Baby: Who do you think you

of Time.....*

.Jnck arq; Occans Buchanan and Elsie Randolph with Carroll Gibbons and John W. Green at the Planos accompanied by Their Boy Friends; Slaughter On Tenth Avenue (From On Your Toes').... Paul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra,

1,00 Time and Weather.

1.03 Marck Weber's Orchestra. "The Flower Of HawallSelec

lion (Abraham): Intro:-White Flower of the Islands: A. Paradise beside the sca; Beautiful Pearl of the South Sean; My Golden Enby: My little boy: Fantasia On Melodies of Johann Strauss (Weber); Roses From

Sweet Song" rom The South-Waltz (J. Sirnuss).

(Descriptive Ballad).

Characters taken by:-Mary Jer- rold, Hubert Harben, Lawrence An- derson and Company; Soloist:

Catherine Stewart (Contralto) with Orchestra,

Rugby Press,

1.30 Reuter and Weather and Announcements,

1.40 Mozart Piano Concerto in

B Major, RV. 450.

Played by Elly Ney (Plana) and Chamber Orchestra directed by Dr. W. van Hoogstraten.

2.15

Close Down).

The

6.00 An Hour Of Dance Music.

Saved Fox-Trots Rhythm World; Is It

Is It True What They Say

Johnny Dixis?

Johnson About and His Orchestra with vocal refrain; Could the same tacties succeed tv-|

Orchestra-According To The Moon- day Mr. Linklater says they could, the Lutine?

light (From George White's 'Scan- Hunkadola (From George "The love-strike spread with

dals'); amazing rupidity. Prominent The Dutch company who have been

White's 'Scandals')....Harry Rosen- buildings had been seized and working with the huge dredger Kari

thai and His Orchestru; Fox-Trals garrisoned. Countless women had mata since carly June have a licence

"Full stops," he says, "may seem small points to you-they Rainbow On The Hilver (From the declared a strike in their

for own from Lloyd's to search Jiomes,

estinated £1,250,000 which lies 40ft. are, in fact, small points. But his Majesty's printers, in the Film); On A Little Bamboo Bridge.. below the shifting sand of the sea-printing of Parliamentary papers, are now almost the only ine Mayfair Hotel, London "Such tactics were, Gl course, bed.

people to maintain this barbarous practice, responsible for many breaches of It was Lloyd's who in 1790 insured

Unlied scandal the

States cost Britain, the peace. For a few days it was the bullion and specie which were

through the accidental omission of a easy to distinguish a girl with whom being sent from Britain in the Lutine some navvy or plasterer, ininer or to help the bankers of Hamburg and

comme, about £100,000. private soldier was deeply love to pay British troops then fighting in for she would have a black eye or the Netherlands. suchlike mark to prove it.”

When the ship went

the

with the

loss of 300 on board raid out

Have

"We must remove

from public life.

this

HIS QUESTIONS He is to ask the Secretary to the Treasury:

the

Billy Bissett and His Orchestra at with vocal refrain by Billy Bissett and Pat Hyde; All Alone In Vienna; Ev'ry- thing You Lo....Billy Bissett and His Orchestra at the Mayfair Hotel, London with vocal refrain by Billy Bissett; Waltzes-Rehearsing Lullaby; Raisins And Almonds.... vocal refrain: Fox-Trotz There Isn't My Love (From Any Limit Te

This'll This'll make you whistle'); Make You Whistle (From the Film) ..Jack Hylton's Orchestra with vocal refrain: Tangos San Fernando: Punto Arena. Heinz Huppertz Troubadour; Fox-Trot I'd Like To and His Orchestra: Tango-Lonely Of Samoa (From '52nd See Samoa Street')....Mantovani and His Or chestra

stra with vocal chorus: Fox-Trots Smoke Dreams: There's That Look In Your Eyes Again (From 'Head over Heels')....Peter Yorke and His Orchestra with vocal refrain.

6.54

MILLION DOLLAR SLIP There is also on record the case of redundant comma which cost the SAVED SWEETHEART

"Whether his attention has been United States more than a million Phil Green And His Rhythm with drawn to the large number of un-dollars in revenue. The mistake There was plenty of street-aghting. £900,000 in issurance, but the Dutch necessary full stops at the end of occurred in the printing of a tariff In Dundee the Black Watch, coming Government claimed salvage rights.

headings in Government publica- bill free list, which as issued read

his home on leave, were scratched, bit- These were later handed by the King

tions; whether he is aware that

"fruit, trees, &c." ten, and finally driven off with a of Holland to George IV, who in turn Majesty's printer is now the only The London Transport Board pre-...J Bre-hose.

the rights over to Lloyd's.

important printer who maintains yoked some controversy when they Solicitors had to do their own Actual papers and transaellons of this practice; and whether he will changed the name of St. James's marketing for food, and to cook it, the firms who paid the insurance were

instruct his Majesty's printer, in l'ark to St. James Park, without any Officers pushed perambulators. Men destroyed in the fire at Lloyd's in

the interests of economy and good apostrophe. But it saved the Board of all classes grew bad-tempered as 1837, and since the firma concerned printing, to abandon it,"

n large sum in sign-posting costs. the celibacy strike wore on. One have themselves long gone out of Mr. Herbert has been campaigning noble lord thrashed his wife, his business, no other records are avail-for years against the redundant full three grown-up daughters, and most able.

stop the end of headings. of his domestic staff with a rattan It is therefore considered probable There have, of course, been in

that after the salvage company have stances where the omission of Meanwhile there

the deserters taken their percentage on any gold punctuation

cost from the women's ranks. They were recovered, Lloyd's will hand over the Treasury a good deal more than thot would dressed court-martialled. Men

as balance coming to them to various threepenny-bit Mr. Herbert women got into Edinburgh Castle charities and marine' organisations in like to save us. and were arrested as spies. One of which they are interested.

cane.

were

ALL HOLLAND LUTINE GOLD

Lloyd's Demand It- Lodged in Safe

(From HERBERT ANTCLIFE)

at

mark

has

A treaty between this country and

FETES

makers who are camping in the island, and people from the hotels gathered on the shore.

When the boat arrived from the Karimata, bringing the workpeople

2

seer of

Terschelling, July 30. the stern that the sunken treasure

orginally valued at £1,250,000 was

All Holland is to-night in

a state of excitement over

stored

the finding of the first bar indication of success,

of the Lutine's gold.

A shout from an excited member of Karimala's crew at 2.15 was the first

EXTRA GIN

the work carried the bar of

THE

QUEEN BECOMES

'ISABEL'

Paris.

Children were asked by

from the night shift home, the over the newspaper Paris-Soir to gold through the streets of the village, write what they knew about holding it night so that all could see. King George and Queen to mark their

He was followed by a procession of scores of natives and visitors, who cheered as

ing a victory.

Elizabeth

as though they were celebral three-day visit to France.

These were their answers to some 57" and is approximately 8in. long of the questions:-

What is the King's name? and 24in. wide. It weighs 6416,

The bar bears the marks "2-FBB-

Lloyd's have given instructions that Answers included Stanislas, George It should be sent direct to London, but I., Philippe VI., Guizot III. the local authorities question whether What is the Queen's name? they have the right to do this. And

decision is arrived at.

Jail Lodging Pleases Youth

r

Some said Marie Antoinette, others so it is being held in a safe until a Charlotte, Isabel and Marie.

How many children have they?

Most were correct here with two. Several said "Six boys and six girl," and one child wrote, "Two girls Alizabete and Marguerite." Where

docs the King live? It is the only topic of conver-

Most replied London, Two tried The crew all rushed to see the scoop

Son Rafael, Cal. to be more precise with "At the sation. In the streets extra at which the man was pointing. A young man drove up to the Palace of Bukincam," and "At the editions of the newspapers have There, gleaming in the Bloodlights, police station here in a taxi cab. Palace of Buttengelle. Six queased been on sale; even hawkers de- was a bar of gold-the first longible paid his fare and then asked the wildly with Brussels, Berlin, Holland, scribe their wares.ns "good as dredging work.

weeks intensive polico lo lock him up for a night's Lourdes, Rouen and Calais.

lodging as he was broke. He was What is England? the Lutine gold."

fruits of seven

He Sows And Finally

Reaps

"Altown very important for the the Arctic

French" laland in "An seas of the north," "A big British

The Karimata immediately sounded accommodated and the following Six speelmen answers: "A coun- Here in Terschelling itself the her siren. The echo was taken up by morning went on his way thankful. try wliere there are many ships," local brass band serenaded the the small steamers and tugs in the hotel in whose safe the find rests. harbour of Terschelling and the air Buried for 130 years, it was a bar was rent by scores of shrill whistles. of gold weighing 120 ounces und

The men of the Karimata were worth about

fmmediately" served wih af evtrå about £840, and had been found

In storn of the Lutine the

ration of zin, and cheered them--|- famous treasure ship,wrecked in 1790

selves hoarse. The ship then went Scoops of the world' largest the --by dredger, Karimata.

Excitement roso to fever-pitch as reports come that the scoops were nearing the Lutine's stem, for it is in

Pacific island," und "An Island," "A

like a boo

boot" formed Why

are the British our friends? North Brooksville, Me. Most replied "Because they fought said: again over the 10-yards: sireich | While sowing oals in 1910, Brooks with us in 1914." One boy where the gold was found and Wi Grindle lost i grokhuation ring he "The English were once our biggest Recently enemies." Now; it wo were weak Harted dredging, mesin,na had worn since 1880. People gathered in little groups to while working in the same field, he they would not be interested in us. talk and cheer, and many holiday-turned up the long missing ring. But they feel that we are strong."

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tions.

Closing Local Stock Quota-

0.56 B. B. C. Recording-"Love Needs A Wall","

A Radio Operetta---Book and Lyrics by James Dyrenforth Music by K. Leslie-Smith.

8.00 Local Time Signal. Weather Report and Announcements.

5.93 Songs by

8.03

(B48]), Bash

Paul Robeson

Blue Prelude (Bishop); Swing Along (Cook); Sleepy River (From 'Song of Freedom'); Song Of Free- dom (From the Film).

8.15 Landon Relay "Famous F'usses'.

Woman A-Wheel'.

A survey of the controversy over the lady cyclist. Compiled by Herbert Faricon Produced by M. H. Allen.

8.45 Light Opera A Country (Rubens, Ross and Monckion); Intro:Coo; Under the Deodar; Two little Chicks; Excerpts, Finale Act 1: The Rajah of Bhong; Peace, Peace; Try Again,

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