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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1938.

NOTES FOUND IN DOG'S COLLAR To-day's Novelty

Frontier Tug-of-War With

CULPRIT PULLED

INTO HOLLAND

By NOEL MONKS AACHEN (German-Dutch-

Belgian Frontier),

Hitler has mobilised his Nazi Storm Troopers on the western front-to stop cur- rency smuggling across the German-Dutch border.

He has lined the frontier with troopers, doubled the regular frontier police.

Thousands of pounds are being spent to stop the flow of big for- tunes out of Germany and to ind the smuggling which is cm- barrassing the German Treasury by causing a shortage of marks.

Inaw bls men everywhere on the German side of the border in a tour from Oldenzaal down to Anchen.

ARRESTED ON THEIR OWN DOORSTEPS

Hiflor's drive has ended the ten- porary prosperity of small Dutch villages on the border where smuggling und become a profitable rocket.

Many Dutch villagers have been arrested almost un their own door- steps recently and charged with emuggling. Some have been set). tenced to terms of imprisonment up to three years.

The Dutch Government, surprised to find their own people engaged in i smuggling. have asked the German authorities to 'deal leniently with

enught. Dutchmen they have

During my tour I was told of a dozen ways in which marks were smuggled out. I watched zealots black-conted guards, fred by their Instructions, "Don't let a mark leave

country" searching cars and trains.

Motorists, tired of protesting. watched silently while German on- clals

stripped off tyres and Inner tubes in the hunt for contraband money.

A popular story-among the Dutch tells of a tug-of-war between Dutch official and a Storm Trooper over a Dutchman who had come cycling to the frontier from Gronau (Germany),

The Dutchman felt from his cycle on to the side of the pavement at

Losser, which is German ferriory.

ALSATIAN HAD 5,000 MARKS IN COLLAR

According to Gladys Swarth out, American singer who met the Duke and Duchess of Wind sor aboard the Conte di Savol. -they Journeyed from Cenos lo. Cannes, the. Windsors are deeply in love and the Duke is much healthier looking than Her- formerly. Miss Swarthout is at left, in the picture above. man Rogers is the fall man in rear.

Smuggler

Sparrow's nest, made of price-sheets, with four young, was found by a bookmaker recently in his car at Romford Stadium.

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Never absent in 42 years, except for holidays, the record of Miss M. Copeland. L.N.E.R. laundry manageress at York, who has drst retired.

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Alarmed girls climbed on to stools when a steal ran into a Southampton post office and bit a man before being caught.

Prize of £20 to buy the win- ner of the English basket-carry- ing championship a new overcoat, and watch bas sent by Charlie Chaplin,

zuit, been

Sixteen men repainting the training shilp Exmouth. at Grays, Essex, downed Brushes following a dispute over one man's pay.

E RADIO BROADCAST

"Playing the Game", A B. B. C. Recording GRIEG VIOLIN SONATA Radio Programme Broadcast by Z. B. W. on a Frequency of 145 k.e's. and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. and 8-11 p.m.

on 8.52 m.c's. per second.

İ.K.T. (KA). 0.00 An Hour of Dance Muslo and Variety.

Slow Fox Trut-Marta Magdalena; Paso Doble-Trinia.....Manolo Bel and His Muchachos with vocal chorus in Spunish; Accordion Band-Kilien On The Keys (Contrey); Dainty De- George butante (Scott-Wood)

Scott-Wood and His Accordion Band; Fox-Trots The Old Oaken Bucket: There's Something In The Wind.

Club with

Posley and Their Onyx

Riley

Vocal Chorus by Mike

Boy Kills Boy In Anyteksteps-No Words-Now

Gun Duel

Two ten-year-old boys who quar= relled, decided to settle their

dispute in a way that has become almost a craze in Hungary-by tlucl.

is

Everything Alm Rhythm); Sky Ligh Honeyinoon

yecal

(im Everything is Rhythin')..... Harry Roy and His Orchestra with Firs! Vocal Refrain: Waltz-The Quarrel: Slow Fox-Trot-Good-Night Angel... -Maxwell Stewart's Ball- room Melady; Fox-Trol-Meet Thin Boys; Sammy Saxophone.....Scott Wagi and

lis. Six Swingers with Vocal Chorus; Plano Charlie Kunz Piano Medley No. D. 17; Intro: Sun-

in day

the Park; My heaven in the Paul Varga and Alexander Mart-pines; Good-night Angel; Love yar each got a pistol while his par- walked in: So little time: Says my ents were out of the way. Then the heart....Charlie Kunz, with Rhythm boys met in a quiet spot in Buda- Accomp.; Fox-Trois-Sump'n Bout Rhythm; I'm Satisfied..Duke Elling- They stood back to back; then ton and His Orchestra

with Vocal ench"walked tem pares, turned, -and-

Chorus by Ivy Anderson:

Woltz fired.

When You're Only Seventeen (from Tulip Time); Tango Fox-Trot-- Sorrento By The Sea........ New May- fair Dance Orchestra with Vocal Refrain: Fox-Trot-Pogan Love Song: Come Barit, Sweet Papa.... Bob Crosby and His Orchestra.

Closing Local Stock Quata-

pest.

Paul Varga dropped dead.

£358,000 Sweep Winner Selling Ice-Cream Again EMILIO SCALA, BORED BY RICHES, FINDS HAPPINESS

Emilio Scala, Italian cafe proprietor, who won £358,-

7.00

:

¡tions.

Tenth

7.02 Musical Comedy Selectlows. "On Your Toer-Selection; In- tro: There's a Small Hotel; I'm Glad to be Unhappy; Quiet Night (Vocal); It's Got to be Love (Vocal); On Your Toes: The licar! Is Quicker Than the Eye (Vocal); Slaughter on Avenue. Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans with Jack Whiting "Careless Rapture" (Novello); Why Is There Ever Good- Byc ...Olive Gillbert (Contralto) ace. by the Drury Lane Theatre Or- chestra conducted by Charles Pren- tice; Studio Scene (A bit of Opera) Ivor Novello, Dorothy Dickson Olive Gilbert ace. by the Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra cond. by Charles Prentice; Music In May... Dorothy Dickson (Soprano) ace, by the Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra; A mafter which came before the Love Made The

Son

Sybli

Indians In London Are Divided Into Two Camps

London community lu

and

Divine

000 in the Irish Sweepstake on the Grand National in 1931, is back where he began-selling ice-cream.

Behind a counter which opens on to the stalls in London County Council, and was Crawley ont- Erie-Starling ace, by A bundle of notes tumbled from North End Road, Fulham, you can see him serving cor-sald to have divided the whole Indian the Drury Land Theatre Orchestra;

Into twa "Helen" Offenbach): his hat into the gutter. A silm young nets and wafers to the children, juggling with rainbow-camps, was mentioned at London Couple....Friedel Schuster

(So- Storm Trooper and 趄 fat Dutch

pruno) with Orchestra (Sung in official made a bound for the man coloured drinks, and serving at the tables in his new Sessions.

German). and the money. The Dutchman

The trial began of two Indians,}

7.30 Lucienne Boyer (Soprano) heaved his countryman into Holland, green and cream ice-cream parlour.

Udham Singh. 37, a carpenter, and and Orchestra Mascotte.

Ballroom Memories-Woltz Pol- Mool Chand, 42, an Indian Civil Ser

They were charged with de-pourri (arr. Carl Robrecht)....Or- manding £50 with menaces.

chestra Mascotte: Solitude (Laurent it was stated that Singh appeared and Curcel): Viens Denser Quand

Meme (Jamblan in the film called "The Drum."

Lucienne Boyer with

adroitly kicking the wad of notes to the other side of the road.

At Glanerbrug (Germany) I heard about an Alsatian dog which was unleashed and sent bounding into Holland. A storm-trooper tackled the dog, found a roll of 5,000 marks In its collar.

cd.

HELPED HIS RELATIVES

and Delchestra; Mr. Lawrence Vine, prosecuting. Marie Holing). Waltz (Jos. Strauss

said that in July Mr. Sayad Fazal arr.

The owner, a German, was arrest-wealth and the worries of guarding cars, came to me and said that it Shah, from whom the money was; (Jos, Strauss arr. Hohne)....

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They are watching carrier pigeons, too, since one was found dead in a Reld an the German side of the frontier with 3,000 marks in a roll

on one leg and a Dutch registration

ing on the other.

But I discovered that most of the money is going over skilfully hidden In trains. I caught the 3.3 p.m. International express from Berlin to

Or-

No, Emilio has not lost his money. He is still a wealthy man, and could If he chose live a life of case. But seven yars of idleness have bored him to tears, and he has gone back to the only job he knows-cafe management and ice-cream.

"For seven years we tried to live The 10,000 begging letters he has the life of ease. Then one day my received, the share-pushers and buys, Fred and Joseph, who had been

Dynamiden-Waltz. sharks who have chased him for his going round driving and smashing up

was about time that they did some demanded, applied to the LC.C. for chestra Muscotte; Le Tango Des

a licence to гип an a fortune are now no more than an

employment Filles (Delettre and Bayic): L'Hotel unpleasant dream,

Du Clair De Lune-Valse (Simonot Emilio has found happiness.

"Well, I was as ready as they were agency, but it was refused.

and Gerrard)....Lucienne Scyer Standing 122 his shirtsleeves, to start work. When I started lock-

Mr. Shah, who had a silk mer with Orchestra; Evening Stars—Waltz

....Orchestra superintending yesterday's brew of Ing round for something to do I was chant's business in London, held a (Wood-Bibo-Conrad) ice cream seething in a bright silver offered oil wells, and gold mines, licence for an employment agency in Mascotte.

wint, but the City, and wanted to develop It vat, Emillo told me his story (writes and goodness knows

turned them down and decided to go in the whole London area, for which the a reporter).

ticket sweep

105 worth back to the old business I started he would require an L.C.C. licence. A farcical extravaganza by L. du

came to London in 1890-

Garde Peach, Music by George Bar- £350,000," he said, but I sold three-when

icc-cream.

More than 400 Indians attended

ker. Produced by Charles Brewer; the hearing at the County Hall of Cast: Bertram Dench: Bobble Com- Mr. Shah's applicailon.

The

of it.

the Hook of Holland to see what the quhen came the law case over the!

Germans are doing about it.

CASH HIDDEN IN FAKE

LUMP OF COAL

honest work.

WIFE DELIGHTED sharing

of the money. This insted

delighter at more No one was 13 months and when it was over 1

Emilio's decision than Mrs. Scala, was left with £2,000,

"I never could settle to the life of

"she said. "For these

the

of

8.03 B. B. C. Recording-"Playing

Game".

ber; Billie Bekar; Bruce Anderson;

The prosecution alleged that Singh Lawrence Buskeomb; C. Benior War- and Chand, knowing Mr. Shah want- ren; Ernest Sefton; John Rorke: The ed to obtain the licence, and said B. B. C. Male Chorus and Theatre conducted by Stanford that evidence would be given against Orchestra Robinson.

The train was crowded. I st "What have T done with

Brat-class compartment malves; I have about 50 down in a

Well, I gave some of it to ease," with three prosperous-looking Ger- my

and in spite of past seven years I have, him unless they were paid £50... mans and an English couple.

wealth, done my them. I bought houre One of the Germans told me that furnished it nicely and bought a car. own housework, including the cook- the previous week the customs men That is about the sum total of my ing and washing. But it is good to at Bentheim had found money hidden personal extravagance."

in a false lump of

When we stal in the tender.

Asked what he

was

be back in cafe again."

worth now.

at Bentheim Emillo threw back his head and Storm Troopers and Customs officers roared with laughter. went through the train. Every Ger- "What am 1.worth--do you mean

thoroughly a money or happiness?" searched. Seat cushions were pull-

man

passenger Was

HELPED HIS RELATIVES

ed back, carpets rolled up, one man unscrewed a ventilator. A party of Emilio said he was still wealthy Jews were taken into the station and that the sharks had got little of

This money. waiting room and stripped.

In The Same Cottage She Lived 100 Years

shake.

POLICE BEHIND SCREEN

8.50 Chorzsea. Tom Costello In Song Memories; Intro:

I've Made Up My Mind to Sall Mr. Shah, who said that he lived Away: The Ship I Love (Scott and And Mrs. Scalu bustled off tojat Perivale, Middlesex, stated that McGlennon) Comrades; At Trinity serve a customer with an leed ink he was going to appeal against the Church I Met My Doom (McGlennon L.C.C. declalon. He did not owe and Gilbert).... Tom Costello and Worked with Emillo, his wife and either of the accused men any money. Chorus with Orchestra. two sons,

are his brother and his

0.00 Eric Contes Compositions. When he was threatened, he hid wife and their son

The Jester At The Wedding; Part and daughter: two policemen hidden behind, o

I-Morch Part II-Valse....Erle His ambition is to open a chain of ice-cream parlours in which he willcreen in his shop,

Contes and Symphony Orchestra; In the witness box, both prisoners Cinderella--A Phantasy

***Eric be able to and employment for his

denied the allegations made against Coates and Symphony Orchestra; them. Singh said that he went to Because I Miss You So.. .Hubert Bee Shah to collect £30, which was Eisdell (Tenor) with Plano; The Fairy Tales Of Ireland.....Esgie owing to him.

Ackland (Contralto) with Orchestra: London Bridge March....New Light Symphony Orchestra conducted by

relatives.

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MINT WORKERS. HURT

Mr. G. G. Raphael, for Chand, said BY MOLTEN METAL

his client held a responsible position with the Indian Government. Three men were badly burned al

"Before this application came Birmingham Mint Ld. when the bot-

before the LC.C.. the whole of the to mdropped out of a casting pot.

Molten copper they were pouring Indian colony in London was divid-

The trial was adjourned. After living more than 100 years was the only musical instrument in into the mould fell in a pit contained, pro-Shah and anti-Shah," he said, In the same cottage, Mrs. Margaret Warkworth Church, and the pulpit, ing water, and there was an explo- Coulter died at her home in Cauller-a three-decker, was equipped with alon. atreet, Warkworth, Northumberland. sandglass to limit the length of The men were J. Cutler, of Kine

She recalled how, after the fall of sermons.

ton Road, Rubery; Pat Burke, Cham- Sebastopol, the vicar of Warkworth

Mrs. Coulter's recipe for life was berlain-gardens, Icknield Street, and rang the church bella so vigorously contentment, plenty of hard work Thomas Wright, of Todbank Road,

The city's plonning commission has Oldbury, that the rope broke.

and plain living. She never went to a cinema and had few faults to Burke, who was standing over tho granted a six months' trial permit for In those days church services and with the modern girl-except pot, received the full force of the the opening and operation permit could only be held in the morning for her lovish use of lipstick and tying metal in his face,

Jeanine beauty parlour. The and afternoon"owing to the absenca

Cutler and Burke were operated will be made permanent if the ven- Her husband, the village shoe-on immediately at Dudley Road Hosture succeeds and the dogs do not make so much noise as to disturb A barrel organ which could play marker, died more than 20 years pital.

very limited number of tunes ago. They had no childern

the public.

of artificial lighting.

only

commetics.

Wright was also detained.

Joseph Lawin.

9.30 London Relay-The News, 9.50 Grieg-Sonata In O Miner. Played by Marjorie Hayward

(Violin) and Una Bourne (Piano),

10.16 Orchestral,

"Mefisto" Waltz No. 1 (Liszt).... Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra,

Beauty Parlour For Dogs

In

Los Angeles.

10.30 London Relay "Detectves Fiction". The fourth of a series of pro- grammes dealing with detectives in fiction whose exploits have made them 'famous; Mr, Fortuno; and "The Case of the Missing Kitten', From The Little House, a story by H. C. Bailey; Adapted and produced by Lealle Stokes.

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