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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

November 28, 1939.

Desperate Plan To Get Foreign Exchange UEENS & ALHAMBRA

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R. A. F. Man's Note To Bride

"I am O.K. Don't worry about me," postcard front a Germun prison 'camp by a British airman to his London bride, whom he married elght weeks ago.

Tis message has been sent on a

the bride was Three weeks ago noted that her husband, Observer- sergeant Fripp, had been officially posted as missing. The airplane in which he had been making a recon- brought naissance flight had been down in Germany.

ALSO MUSICAL "RUBINOFF & HIS VIOLIN" been taken prisoner.

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After the official news come German radlo report that a number of Sergeant Fripp's comrades hadj Mrs.. Gamble, of Streatham-hill, S.W.. a sister-in-law of Mrs. Fripp, sak:

"When Sergeant Fripp weni to France his wife went. lo Dorset to stay with his parents.

"She was heartbroken when she received the message that he was sing. Now he has sent the ad- camp where he is dress of the Interned, and we are all writing tel

"In the German report of the fight In which his airplane was brought down, a Cerman airman paid tribute: to the courage and skill of the British pilot."

BRITAIN'S CHANCE

London, Nov. 27.

CASH

Germany is preparing to FIRST WAR sell old masters cheap, in an

CHRISTMAS

110W can merry Christmas be ensured for tho thounds of children who have been evacuat-

ed?

Omcials in Government depart- menta and voluntary service organisations, billeting officers and the people in whose houses the children are Hlving are thinking ⠀

OVET.

effort to obtain foreign cur-

rency. The sale is to be

effected with the proviso that the paintings may be bought back at a 20 per cent. increase "after the German victory."

This scheme, says a despatch. from the German frontler, was ⠀worked out at a meeting of curators of great German museums held recently in Berlin. The old masters will be offered "at very reasonable prices" to "This might take the form of anneutral countries. entertainment in the schoolroom

The most popular suggestion, Is that of the communal enter- tainment,

Ono

or the village hall" was what

of who knows the feeling many areas. Said "Here a Father Christmas and a Christmas tree will come into the scene,

"Then it is not unlikely that some of the born and Firis from the towns will be invited to the parties which people will be giving for their own children.

Such an operation would not be dlmcult to conceal from the German people, since the canvases linve already been placed in bomb-proof nholters..

Among the works to be sold, it stated are the Raphael "Madonna"

from Dresden and Mantegna's

"Virgin and Child" which hung in the Kaiser Friedich Muscurs in Berlin.

Other messages from the frontier

"All this depends, of course, on the good feeling existing is the areas and of this spirit there issue that a great mass of documents has lately been removed from the plenty, as reports slow."

Reich Chancellory In torrles, and parents to Arrangement for

were driven off to an unknown visit the children are dependent

destination. transport possibilities, The rallway companies are working out their plans for this.

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Women Wanted

As Cooks

Training For Work

In Canteens

It is expected that there will 800n be a considerable demand for cooks in institutions and canteens, and in order to enable unemployed women who already have some knowledge of cooking to qualify for such posts the Central Committee on Women's

The Financial Times in a special article headed "Great Britain's On portunity in South America", argues that Britain's contraband control of both imports and exports presents Training and Employment has grout chance for Britain to recapture opened its two London centres, the South American markets, whence the Maida Vale Centre, 97A. they have largely been

Elgin Avenue, W.9, and the recent years by the German

Grosvenor Cookery Centre, 120, pensation system.

Grosvenor Road, S.W.1.

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The paper continues, "As Latin America is probably Germany's chief market, this is another example that.

Coal Ration

The Lord Mayor of Berlin an nounces that during this month house- holders and small businesses will be! permitted one-seventh of the amount of coal and other fuel that they pur- chased from their coal merchants in the same period last year.

What They Read

Same len of the kind of news set before the German reader to the ex- clusion of all other in provided by on analysis of a slagle copy of the Berlin "B Z am Mittag. Headlines in the paper, Included the following:

Paris defends itself against idiotic London manoeuvres." "Ridiculous story about the battle- ship Gnelsenau,”

" England threatened by In- flation?"

"Blockade a Boomerang for the British Empire.”

"Complaints of the French Popu lation never Cease."

"Democracies completely dis- organised."

"Honourable Frenchmen Flung into Gaol.

"U.S. A. Capitalists Wish to make a fine Desi out of the War."

Poots For Poland

been

A touch of grim humour has been Women between the age of 18 and added by Dr. Goebbels to the German countries with military exigencies 40 who have lost their employment devastations in Western Poland.

Imembers of the Reich wreek their economie policies. The owing to the war are eligible; they pulation of lyric poets and opportunity for Britalo to recapture must be British subjects. Those who Chamber of Literature," has the South American market is there- have previously undergone a course sent on a tour of the conquered pro- fore presented, but as business now- of training from Government funds days is essentially reciprocal, it is and married women whose husbands vinces by the Propaganda Minister. hoped that our export drive will bejare in work are ineligible. The They were, it is stated, "remarkably weeks. Women warmly welcomed" on arriving in accompanied by an effort to purchase courses will last six Targe quantities- of-the-raw-products will be specially trained in catering Poznan,

Harbour Congestion- formerly

and the production of cheap und taken by Germany."

The sweeping of the The paper

says the supply of nourishing meals under war-time foreign exchange for Argentine and condition for large numbers. Appli- merchant fleet from the seas, except Uruguay will be immeasurably in-cation forms can be obtained from the Baltic, has resulted in a violent the depression. In the ports st. Hamburg creased by the British Government's any employment exchange in

and Bremen. recent large purchases of meat and London area, wheat from the River Platte coun- try-United Press.

LATE NEWS

SUPPER DANCE

German

At Bremen huge stocks of goods are lying in sheds because the Nazis are unable to forward them to the foreign importers who ordered then. A similar situation prevails in Under the auspices of the Hong-Hamburg, where long-distance ship-1 kong Chinese Women's Club, aping under the German flog is at a charity supper dunce and cabaret, in complete standstill.

aid of Chinese refugee relief and British local emergency funds, will

Juto Shortage

Germans have been forbidden to be held at the Peninsula Hotel on use jute bags to protect their houses

December 14 from 0 pan. to 2 a.m.

against air roids, according to mes- For non-dancers there will be mal-Roges from the frontier. Jongst and bridge, Tables can be Only paper bags are authorised for reserved at the Hongkong and Pen- sand bagging purposes, supplies for insta Hotels.

Jute being Insufficient.

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