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Never Heard Of Hitler

Tuesday..

HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH

October 31, 1939.

New Army Will Get Through with High Honour

Soldiers Want Germans Now Face Men of

Cigarettes

BRITISH Tommies in Franco want English cigarettes, They do not like the French brands.

If you are sending them to

relations, address the parcel to the last address you were given

and it will find its way through

the Army post office.

If you have no rolations in France, but wish to send ciga- rettes to the troops, address parcels to the Overseas League, Sr. Jamos's-street, S.W., or to the British Red Cross Socioty and Order of St. John, 14. Grosvanor-crescent, S.W.

Gestapo Victims

In Rhine

Amsterdam.

Bone-Hard Purpose

ALL THE OLD SPIRIT IS

THERE-AND A NEW ONE

By A Correspondent attached to the Forces

SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE.

And thousand scenes enacted then are to be seen daily again now: a despatch rider-more in evidence than ever-who rushes about and rarely ceases to regret the "paved" sttects; the officer's servant who is always on the look-out to "scrounge" what he can for his staff officer; the patre who lores no opportunity to make friends with the troops.

had

It just as if the clock

A FRENCH officer was discussing the war with me, We had just visited the British Field Force. He summed stopped for 21 years and had now

been restartel.

As then, so now. "Pain"-"eufs" bon"-"troy -coffee-or-yo

up the situation thus: "So far the enemy have encountered flesh only (in the East), but now they will come up against and "encore" still make up the bone."

And here, in these new Con- temptibles, behind all the banter and songs and jokes that were there 25 years ago, is something new, that "bone"--the bone-hard fixity of purpose which prompted my French officer's remark.

In 1914 the British Tommy fell

EVIDENCE is reaching here of a he was against a mighty military ruthless purge of young dissent-1 machine, a war of soldler ngainst ing soldiers and men and women soldler. conscientious objectors In Western Germany, raund Dusseldorf

To-day, even the rawest of the Reports brought by couriers and new Army feels that we are out to travellers over the frontier suggest that the trouble was started by the quell something sinister-comething Austrian troops and wounded soldiers which, unless crushed, definitely and irrevocably, will spell misery and from the Eastern front.

all the things most farewell treasured in life.

Wounded Austrians complain that they had been promined that they humes, not Western Germany, which would be allowed to return to their the Certapo suggested us a precaution, Himmler's Gestapo swooped and

arrests.

Harlington (Middlesex). HENRY TILLYER, aged 74, who is Kind that he knows nothing about Filter or the erlais, was sitting in an old casy chair outside his shuck.made a large number

"Why should 1 want to know any- thing about such things?" he asked me. "They only worry people, and don't hold with worrying-

"I'd not had heard of this man Hitler if two coppers hadn't come along the other day and said: 'Henry, you've got to have a gas maak."

They took me along to the village and I had to try une on, but I left it there."

Cats Keep Him Company "And you are nut worrying?” "No, I've got my old-age pension and my three cats to keep me com- pany, and I never see the newspapers. Why should I? I don't want to know anything about this man Hitler who ever he is."

Two cats sidled up to him,

"No," he said, "I don't believe in worrying. There are Kood walks about here and my shoek keeps out the rain pretty well and no one comes along, in bother me."

KING'S NEXT CHANGE IT'S THE HOTTEST THING THAT EVER HIT THE ICE!

WALTER WANGER

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Ann Sheridan

The Season's Gayest Picture

WINTER CARNIVAL

RICHARD CARLSON

HELEN PARRISH - » ROBERT. ARMSTRONG VIRGINIA SILNORE

Dirented by, CUBBLES, NIESNEN Boised the UNITED ARTISTS

It is now an established fact that a number of male bodies with bullet wounds in the neck, have been re covered from the Rhine in Holland.

Car Stopped Bargees report seeing bodies of men and women floating in the Rhine.

This story was told by a respon sible business man, the subject of a neutral country.

"I was motering through Dusseldor! last Monday night when my car was stopped by a number of armed Storm- guards who said it would be com- mandeered.

"One sut beside me and directed me to a large square building which seemed to be a barracks. The gains opened and a number of bodies were armed guard. carried out by soidlers escorted by on

"The bodies were piled in the back sent of my car and I was then directed to a point outside the elty where the bodles were unloaded."

LETTERS

The Editor,

Taxation

Hongkong Telegraph.

the

Sir-No one has mentioned hugs accumulation of deposits and interest on same held, by public utilities such as the electric and gas companies and the telephone com- pany.

H. P. L.

Gandhi To See

The Viceroy

(Reuter)

tel

It is inpossible to encounter this new Army without a feeling of pride and confidence that they will nequit themselves with honour. They lack nothing of the fighting spirit of those earlier "Contemptibles."

The troops give one a feeling supreme confidence that they will worthily maintain the traditions of at great host of them who liej sleeping on foreign coll-the who died for the very cause we have

rone to defend,

men

Older In A Night The Army seem to have grown

" right. Youth was the: older in most striking feature of a month ago. Now they seem to have attained full manhood: partly due to the return of the Reservists, many of whom saw service in other theatres of war, realization on the part of the new perhaps also accounted for by the Army of the vital issues war.

of this

A few days ago a commentator as ** described the British Army skeleton which is being rapidly jetolhed with flesh," The British Beld

force is a very substantial "skeleton.")

NAVY "DISGUISED

of

AS WATER"

THE troops are ever mindful ibe wonderful protection afforded by the Navy during those long years of the last war. On the way Franco every- one was conscious of this and the supreme confidence in which the Navy are held.

Typical of the feeling. Ex- pressed Cockney fashion, was this conversation on the way over to France,

Sald one Tomaty:

"Ek. chum, where is all this blinking Navy we heard about? And the response was: “Why, chum, they're all around you disguised a water-you're as safa hero as Vie blinking old Serpentine."

wus, perhaps, not quite so manifest in the earliest days of the last war. "Pack Up Your Troubles" swings to a variation:-

"What's the use of Co-cr-ing?

ite never was much good." So pack up your troubles in your

old kit-bag,

And smile, smile, smile."

But the smilte veils a different reaction on the part of the troops compared with 1014.

average soldier's vocabulary.

And he usually gets what he wants, It is astonishing how with a little few English, a little Hindustani,, a signs, and a laugh-the troops suc- cers in getting what they want.

so many Naturally, with

troops is not rathered together, humour incking.

This morning 1 found a bunch of troops giving a young Frenchman al lesson in English. Just as I arrived" there were roars of laughter,

The young Frenchman had just the help of the indicated, with dletlanary, that he taught English in the local school.

Thrilling Football

The only "English" I could extract from him was: "Me English a very

tie spleak.“

No doubt some of the newly arrived troops, with their freshly Required "mastery" of the language. would have voted the young French- man's knowledge of English, "no

bon."

The spirit of the troops is excellent. You'll go on hearing that phrase, no The matter how long the war lasts.

most cer- pest-war historian will tainly inve as the central theme of his record.

Thanks to that spirit, the troops of their "off can make fullest use

watched quite # duty" periods. I thrilling football match between the sergeants mess and the other ranks of a well-known corps.

Save for n Bren gun on an AA. mounting to remind us of war, it might have been played on Aldershot sports ground.

the

Brides Take Gas Masks: War-Time Wedding Ruse

It is a skeleton, too, animated by THE marriage rush, which started with the news of the German

the good-humoured spirit of 1914

Same Old Songs

The same old songs are being sung but behind the banter and the] blarney is a grin delermination that

P. C. Padgham Can Now Go On The Dole

Alfred Padgham, former open gelt champton, who is now a policeman on night duty at Bromley, recently obtained an unemployment card in order to conform with police regular

invasion of Poland, still continues.

J. ULLMANN

There are queues at the Lon. In a different tax, and as the young don Registrars' offices of couplea bride waved her husband goodbye a kiss and called a little timidly. waiting to get their "notices" of rom her taxi window she blew him Those who had ob- "You won't forget to pick me up this marriage. tained them queued up for the evening, will you?" marriage ceremony,

Al Caxton Hall prospective brides and bridegrooms sat in rows in the passage, and slood when all the seats were taken.

Bigger Than 1914

An official at the Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury says that the marriage rush was even greater than at the outbreak of the last war. Parted After Wedding There were few flowers or bou- At this office prospective brides quets, Paddington reported only one and bridegrooms get a licence for £2 Bouquet and added that this bride which enables them to be married: the same day if they wish, subject! was a foreign girl.

to the necessary 15 days residence qualification.

Gas masks hung over every-shoul der or were dangled in cardboard boxes in the hand.

The Faculty Offer is inundated by requests by post, in addition to hav- oring queues of young men and women!

sitting on the steps.

So as not to disappoint anyone the

Young men wore lounge suits and the girls just everyday frocks suits for the most part.

WARDHA. Ort. 30 Mahalına Gandhi and Rajendra i tions. Prasad, President at the National

A young dancer came straight from! "Every policemen, even if he is u Congress, are leaving for New Delhi to-narrow and will be received by millionaire in private life, must have a rehearsal in a aim wool frock, her often intends keeping open each day At the Vicar-General's Office, an- 1 Kefchler. the Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow, on the his, unemployment card," he told head tied up in a gay coloured hand-till the rush is over.

reporter. "And here is mine. following day.

Another bride and her groom part other Church of England licence! the shall have it framed after the war Ar. Jinnah, President of

11 before ed on the register ofice steps, each office in the same building, there was

to go back to their occupation, each a similar rush. Moslem League, is also meeting the unless I have to use

then."

Viceroy on Wednesday..

I understood that the meeting

of the Viceroy, Gandhi, Prasad and

Jinnah will take the form of a jointEL BAILE AMMA W Master and dark Maho discussion.

United Provinces Disapproval LUCKNOW, Oct. 30 (Router) The Comers Ministry of the United Provinces has resigned following the adoption of the resolution by the Legislative Assembly by 127 against two, expressing disopproval of the Viceroy's declaration.

Rosignation Accepted

votes

NEW DELHI, Oct. 30 (Reuter). The resignation of the Congress Ministry of Madras has been sccept-

ed.

The Governor of Madras is issuing

a proclamation appointing an Ad-

visory Board consisting of three Bri- tish members, of the Indlan

Civil

Service to carry on the work of government.

Physical Training

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Members of the Kowloon Cricket Club are reminded that the first of u serles of physical training classes to be conlucted by Mr. McEwen, Gov- ernment P. T. Expert, will be held in. the clubhouse to-night at 9 p.m.

It is hoped that this innovation will prove to be one of the most successful

of features

the club's winter activities.

The offices of the French Consulate will be closed to the general publie to-morrow, "All Saints Day."

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Cricket Comments

(By "R. Abbit") (Continued from Page 6.)

King (22) chiefly to thank. Parsons

who went on second change had the good figures of 0-0-30-0. The Club also relied mostly on a few indivi- duais, as, after they had lost three

wickets cheaply, J. E. Potler (47) and E. J. R. Mitchell (35) became

associated in a stand which really won the match for the Club. Bishop and Parsons later got into double figures, while 27 extras were a great help towards the 4 wickets victory. ANOTHER C. S. WIN THE match between I.R.C. 2nd XI and Civil Service has been described, I understand, by another hand, but I cannot resist congratulating the CS.C.C. It

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THE NAVY BEATEN

THE Navy gallantly continue to muster up T eloven though there are so few to choose from, and they cannot reach a very high standard. But a game of cricket is a game of cricket, anyway, and it may be there will be better Umes in store for them.

On Saturday last they could not than 4 against the manage more Recreio second eleven, which is not too weak this year! Indeed, if my memory serves, me there are two or three former members of the first eleven playing. They only won by and their four wickets, however, total was considerably improved by 33 not out by J. A. Soares going in number ten. But they will be a team to be reckoned with when it comes to a question of League games,

FUTURE CRICKET

FOR the next month or so it is to be expected that games will be rather scratch, affairs owing to the various camps and training. It it is to be hoped how- ever that it will keep going somehow and that by the end of the year, the have their strongest Clubs may

teams turning out regularly..