1939-11-15 — Page 9

Wednesday,

November 15, 1939.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

By Ernie

Bushmiller

NANCY

HERE COMES MY STREET

CLEANING COMMISSIONER /

SAY--WHAT ARE YOU SO

HAPPY ABOUT?

I FOUND NINE CENTS TODAY

I USUALLY FIND SOMETHIN'

EVERY DAY WHEN

I'M SWEEPIN AROUND!

MAYOR

Babies In Danger Spots

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Reg. E. Pay Off

ACTING

MAYOR

-Ernie Dust Maskint

OCT-5

German Leaders who Defy Their Own Money Laws

Have Gas Helmets Now NAZIS ARE

GAS HELMETS for babies under about two-and-a-half years will soon be available all over the United Kingdom,

In the more vulnerable areas, states a Home Office official, they are already being distributed. More are being produced nt the rate of thousands a tiny,

Meanwhile, until supplies are complete, mothers may obtain the small-size civilian respirators made for children from 2-4 years.

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In this case, the face-plece must be lifted on the face by tightening the strap which passes over the top of the head.

The eyeplece will be above the level of the eyes, but that will not matter so long as the face-piece makes contact all round the face.

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The respirators for children of from 2-4 years are made on the same principle as ordinary cívillan respirators, but are lighter.

The

Of

Best The

Story War

DEATH

BY the smuggling abroad of "funk funds totalling nearly

£7,000,000, Goering, Goebbels, i Ribbentrop, Hess, Himmler, Ley and Streicher are liable to, the death penalty.

They made the currency laws themselves, but are unlikely to be brought for trial. Scores of other German subjects have succeeded in passing huge sums into neutral countries.

Martin Procter, an export on Nazi currency laws, here des- eribes the tricks employed by the "Black Money" smugglers.

THE express train to Amster- dam pulls out of Osnabrueck, the last German stop before the Dutch frontier.

Brown-shirted Citstoms ofcials, revolvers on hips and the Party

ment to compartment.

THE MOST peculiar European village in the war is badgens tiepin, go frum compart- Pettige, sitting astride, the border between County Donegal and County Fermanagh.

A Pettigo villager may be either less at night and show as much light

a neutral or a belligerent, for the as they please. village is divided in two by the

border, one

part lying in Northern

Ireland, which, as irt of Britain,

Neutral By Night

Peltigo motorists on the Six Coun-

in at war with Germany, and the lies side must drive with sidelights

other in Eire, which is neutral.

handlights.

"Hell, Fitter! Passkontrolle!" (passport control), 'Zolikontrolfe!" (Custome control). "Finanzkon- rolle!" (finance control.)

These shouts are heard as trunks are opened, passports and bank state- ments examined, wads of money carefully counted.

LIABLE TO SENTENCE

A Recorder

Wonders

MR. E. G. HEMMERDE, K.C., Recorder of Liverpool, asked at theclly Quarter Sessions:

"Is It any use my sentencing people to prison now?

"I want to know because I have been told that prisoners have been indiscriminately re leased.

"I should like to know if the criminal laws of the country are suspended."

DeL-Inspector Sullivan: "T believe they are back to normal now."

*A Home Oficial states that on the outbreak of war, people serving less than three- month sentences were released to relieve prison accommoda- tion.

and bills of lading, to get their money out of the country, The military attache of a

great

The village is divided by a riveristy may drive in comfort with full of travellers for "Black Money-Brown Shirt bigwigs did not first try

or dimmed headlights. Eire motor- spanned by a bridge, one half of which was painted red, white and blue during the celebrations of the coronation of King George, and the other half green, white and orange.

Light And Dark

A man on one side of the bridge is technically at war with Germany, while his neighbour, ten yards away, is an Eire neutral.

Residents on the Six Counties side must darken their windows so that

Put A Stop To

BRONCHIAL

TROUBLE

Blong as fund-tearing coughing bouts keep on troubling you," your chest and fungs are bound to det weaker. So, put a stop to bronchial trouble, cheat weakness, cougba, colds and 'Nu by regularly. taking Ÿops antiseptic, breatheable tablets.

Dissolved in your mouth, u Peps

· releases rich, medicinal essences which mix with your breath and are carried deep into your lungs. Tuus Pepa soon removo Congestion, phlegm, etc., from your bronchial Tuber and mislət your breathing.

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Agents:

Goering's

They strengthen and pro- tect your chest and fùng=

and give lasting rollef,

Take

Tonymer we the concrafts led essences which Peps ocktain, ayrty tabial is wrapped in silver pager. They is packed in sealed glass botif, long with full directioes printed la leading language.

At may medkine dealer,

PEPS

Breatheable Tablets

Biman & Co.. Lad.. Des Voeux Rund,

Hongkong.

Chance To Nere's Luck!

Slim

is

FIELD-MARSHAL GOERING already alarmed at the amount of nient Germany Is eating.

With less meat we shall get thin- ner," he tells them, "and so need jess material for a sult. That is an ad-, vantage."

That should certainly be an ad- vantage for Field-Marshal Goering. Last April his weight was 10 stone. After his holiday in Italy he was said to have dropped 10lbs.

But recent pictures do not suggest that he has lost any more.

Germans, he says, now eat more meat than before the war. "50.we enn get out of the habit," is his con- clusion.

or

He is not happy about the food position genernity. That it is on Power's embassy in Berlin said: the whole favourable" was as far as Faked Documents

"I have to attend many official fes-he allowed himself to go in his tivities here. There has not been a speech in Berlin recently. Most thorough of all is the search single time when one or two of the

Less Happy After receiving Brlinin's reply to valuable currency that Is ceaselessly to warm me up with a few cordials, his "peace offer"-the speeding up A house at Teemore, on the Cavan-

being smuggled out of Germany. and then open up in a quiet corner of all supplies to meet the require- Fermanagh border, has one room in action of an

In Germany every financial trans-with

ments of a war of three years a "Tell me, Herr Attache, can't you longer be may be still less happy. Eire, the remainder in Northern Ire-business enterprise is severely regu help me to bring out some money? It is not surprising that he said:

lated by the State, and the smuggling It must be very easy for you with "We want peace, and are ready for When the occupants go to bed they of currency abroad means the death the diplomatic pouch can't we peace. If you want peace you can re neutrol. During the daytime penalty whenever discovered. they are technleally belligerenta.

do a little business together?" " have li, Mr. Chamberlain, Once the best customers of the It is impossible to estimate the "What are the British fighting for? Black Money Trackers were the amount of money in flight from the Fatherland. A leading Dutch banker has said that 500,000,000 marks (about £42,000,000) yearly would be a-fair guess-of-Holland's share alone.

land.

STORK EVACUATES

_not_a_glimmer_of_light_shows_sky-į --The-number-of-babies--born-in

wards.

London dropped sharply last week.j

Yet aeross the bridge Eire neutrals Most expectant mothers had left the ein leave all their windows curtain-elty before war started.

Individual or of

non-Aryan refugees.

To-day, their clients include bankers, Industrialisis, high Gov- cramentofficials, and wealthy. land-owners, all of pure Aryan. stock, who try every deception such as double involees and ledgers, faked export documents

Cardinal Socks

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The best wool-unbeatable for

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Plains and fancies in smart colours and designs, Ask for

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If the managers of the larger banks in Helglum, Holland, or England were to reveal the names of their German clients, Hitler would get a curious ple- Lure of his uallon's business, leaders in the promised German Billennium.

The Black Money trade runs along according to its own rules. There are no letters or introductions, no bills of receipt.

Paper money is often wrapped in thin packages, pressed flat by machinery, then, with an adhesive plaster, is stuck on the 'underside of

To get rid of the Nazi regime. But peace at the price of our Leader is not to be thought of.

"To destroy our Leader is to destroy-the-German nation: Ger- many is Hitler, and Hiller is Ger- many.

"It Germany is attacked we shall protect ourselves to the test. From that moment begins the war that cannot be imagined.

"It rests with you, Mr. Chamber- Jain. If you wish to give the word, shall accept. It-but never another of life or of death, then give it. Versailles.

THIS

sest in a railway carriage. WAR

Car Trick

war

We

LAST WAR

The Alexandru Another method employs a pre Palace, London, Palace-blacked The Crystal pared clothes-hanger, looking exactly "camp" for Ger-

ou!" since No- like the car company's hangers in

mun prisoners

vember 30, 1938, the sleeping compartments. This

during the

by fire-saw the faked hanger is hollowed and stuffed

against with notes.

Kaiser war against Kai- [ism. is to remain Other tricks are

serism through as to conceal the closed during the HM.S." money in sloppy packets of fat sand-war against Hit-Palace, depot of Crystal wiches, or to hide it in the peakedlerism, becauso the Royal Naval cap of a caductor-accomplice.

of the dimculty Division, flog By- Big stims roll into safely on Hit-of blacking outing, lights burn- ler's new motor highways. A typical its large area of Ing, and scorning car-amuggling trick is to spend anglais.

anonymous

wire to the Customs authorities stating that a cor bear-

kñg · n certain number is carrying

illegal money.

the

While that car, on arrival at the frontier, is thoroughly searched by Custome pollee, even to the ripping up of tyres, another car, stuffed with money and valuables comes on the scene, and is given only, a cursory examination.

One of the most ingenletts houses on record was the successful pussing of money and Jewellery between the German and (former) Czech fron- tiera during a winter-time toboggan- ning and snow-balling party.

The valuables, sewn into white cloth containers, formed the kernel of snowballs that were thrown across the border Into Czecho-Slovakia. A few.. balls. even -hit-the. Customs officers, who graciously, accepted the

blackouts.

WHAT, NO BEER!

REPORTING that u mother and five children have packed up and left. their billets, a West Suffolk evacuation officer gives this explanation:

"The kiddies kicked up a raro shindy when they found they were not going to be provided with beer for supper."

apologies of the gay snowballing Windsors' Villa For

party.

NO TOBACCO

FOR WOMEN

Officers Aid

PARIS The French Government is understood to have approved a plan of, the Duchess of Windsor to establish a convalescent home for GERMANY has decreed that not British officers in hor Riviera chateau

more than ten cigarettes or two at Cap d'Antibes was said, will pay cigars may be sold to any one per The Windsors, it

son at the same time in Czeche-nil expenses of equipping the home, Tovakia.

Women-will not be allowed buy any tobacco at all,

The object of the decree, stated, is to prevent hoarding.

and meat costs expected to; amount

to to approximately 15 000,

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