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December 1, 1939.
DUCK
By Walt Disney
DONALD
C'MON, BUB, MOVE YOUR
PACKAGES-- I WANTA
SPOTLIGHT
ON
SIT DOWN!
OKAY-F OKAY!
MUMBLE-A DOGGONE
OLD CRANK!
Berlin
Gets Too Hot For Nazi
Leaders
GERMANY HITLER MAY REMOVE
HITLER LINES
UP HIS LINE
Har Her requested newspaper! correspondents of neutral countries to make a tour of the Western Front, including the Siegfried Line, because, he said, according to the Berlin cor-; respondent of the Amsterdam "Tele- graaf," quoted by Reuter, he wanted. 'to save unnecessary bloodshed.
The tour was to have been made so that the newspaper correspondents could "inform the world on the real state of this modern line of forlifen- tions."
A high German officer, who accom- ponled the correspondenis, told the "Telegraaf" correspondent that Hitler had ordered the tour to be made at:
once.
The Fuchrer, he said, knew how strong the line was because he hlin- self had planned part of the fortißca- tturs. Hitler, he added, knew better than anyone else Uist an attempt to break through the line would result iD hopeless bloodshed. Moreover, ho was convinced that the strategie result would be negative to the
etemy.
According to the German officer, rumours of defects in the Siegfried Iine were incorrect.
Front Line for Nobles
Proof is accumulating that the Kreatest care, is being taken that aristocrats, monarchists, and all pos
Nnz! alble future enemies of the regime shall be placed in the front tine where the danger is greatest.
of four deaths on active service recorded in the "Voelkischer Ben- bachter," three are those of sons of noble families.
They are Karl Friedrich von Mal- und tzan Freiherr zu Wartenberg.
Gustav Penzin,
Freiherr von Wagner-Wehrborn, and Gustav Adolf Graf
der Schulenburg-Alten- hnusen, a relative of the Ambassador in Moscow.
von
-U-boat -"Knights"
German
The "Illustrierter Beobachter" pub- Ushes highly Imaginative drawings, with a description of the "Knightly" conduct of German U-boat comman- ders, under the headline, "We Cleanse the Seas of Pirates."
Hitler, the Destroyer
A posteard photograph of Hitler, published in Berlin by Heinrich Hofmann, Hitler's personal photo- grapher and publisher, and issued with Hiller's express approval, con- tains the following quotation of Ilitler's own words:
"The National Socialist movement
is therefore not the preserver of the
CAPITAL TO VIENNA
HONGKONG'S SMILING G.O.C.
BUDAPEST.-Hitler is seriously con- sidering moving his capital to Vienna. Preparations for establishing the German Government there have already been or- dered.
Berlin is getting too hot for the Nazi leaders.
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ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.c.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles) First Talk of a Series On: (Soprano). Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4 in G (Elgar), B.B.C. The Beauty of England" Symphony Orchestra. The Flory Queen, Three Dances (Purcell). Jne- Programme Broadcast by Z. B. W. quca String Orchestra. La Capri- on a Frequency of 845 k.c's, and on cleuse (Elgar, Op. 17), Brownisiaw Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. and Huberman (Violin) with Siegfried 9-11.15 p.m. on 0.52 m.c's. per second. Schultze at the Piano, Speak Musici
H. K. T.
(Elgar), Peter Dawson (Beas-Bari- 12.15 p.m. Short Service of Inter-tone): Queen Mary's Song (Elgar), Like To The Damask Rose (Elgor), ression.
Light Symphony Orchestra.
10.00 Studio"Tho Beauty of England"-1. The first of a series of 12.40 Cinema Organ Selections talks by the Very Rev. The Dean of Parade Of Parades Selection, Soll-Hongkong.
10,25 Bonga by Denols Noble (Baritone) Passing By (Purcell), The Dolly Daydream.
Gentle Malden (arr, Somervell), Just 1.00 Local Time Signal und Wea-Me An' Mary (Parr-Murray). ther Report.
10.35 Chopin-Concerto No. 2 In |- 1.03 Excerpts from Gilbert and F Minor, Op. 21. Alfred Cortot | Sullivan's "The Mikado,"
(Piano) with Orchestra conducted by 1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, John Barbirolli,
13.30 Songs by Leslie Hutchinson
at the Plano,
tude, Caravan, Lily Of Laguna, Little
R.A.F. pamphlets, dropped on the streets of the city, have proved that it is within easy bombing range if German Weather Forecast and aids on London demand a reprisal.
Vienna is 350 miles further from English airlicks. Its citizens rely on British senti- ment to ensure their comparative Immunity from bombardment.
STT ONGHOLD
All Austrians believe that the British would be reluctant to bomb the secret stronghold of Austria's freedom.
Buildings in Vienna which are suitable for as German Government Offices are being evacuated.
use
Schoenbrunn Palace, where the Emperors of Austria lived and where Napoleon once stayed, is being prepared as a home for Hitler.
Every precaution is being enforced to keep these preparations secret from the Austrians for the present. Only Germans are employed on the work at Schoenbrunn.
Maj. Gen. AE. Grasett is known ан Hongkong's "smiling G.O.C." Typical photo zraphat-left was taken ear- ller this week.~~ Ming Yuen.
FOR WIDOW
SON
OF
PIT
VICTIM
TWELVE hours after her husband--one of 35 vic- countries of the past, but their tims-lost his life in an explosion of fire damp at the liquidator in favour of the Reich of Valleyfield Colliery, near Dunfermline, 25-year-old Mrs.
Jean Ewing gave birth to a son.
the future."
A Washing "Triumph"
The father, Duncan Ewing my way back through gas and) The rationing of soap and washing (27), had remained at horric wreckage. powders, and of coal and other fuel,;
wo strict that the slightest relaxuj several nights, expecting the the pump. I was too weak to nerist "On my way I saw men lying near tion of the complicated rules for event. On the day before the them, but shouted to them to get to obtaining a piece of crude washing explosion Mrs. Ewing persuaded the pump, where there was a draught soap is heralded by the Freas as "him to go to work.
of fresh air. great Improvement" in the lot of the
"About 10 were able to do so, and German housewife.
Thirty-three men were killed this unved their lives." The latest "triumph" of this kind outright. Two others died after Messages of sympathy with the is the announcement Bint 500 Tamirescue, one on the way to haspl-bereaved families were sent by the mes-1 1-191b-of washing powder tal and another after admission, King, the Prime Minister and Mr
be allowed per month are lo
This last victim Thomas Kerr, Geoffrey Lloyd, Secretary for Mines. mothers of children between two and
noleurned shortly before he died thui elight years of age. Hitherto no extra soap was allowed for children one of his sons was among the killed. Kerr, though bridly injured, d over two years of age, so that the clothes of children at the "grubbiest crawled through the fumes to tele- age" could be cleaned only at the phune a warning to the surface.
At once Mr. Aitchison the colliery: cost of the parents' own soap ration.j
Profiteers
ere, according to the mabager, and Mr. T. C. Reid, manager German OMetal News Agency, busy of Fife Coal Company the owners,
led a reszta party down the pit.
No Respirators
to
аге
in Germany. Some dealers stated to have exploited the restric tlons on the sale of soup and have been "severely punished.".
Doom or Despair
A double page of photographs ofj defenceless Jews in Poland appears
The rescuers had to proceed with- out respirators or protection of any
PATRIOTS INTERNED Vienna is being hastily "cleaned up" against the Geerings' arrival. The haul of Austrian patriots included Herr Barr-Barrenfels, former Vice-Chancellor of Aus- tria.
Barrenfels pays the penalty of his life's work for Austria by being sent to work as a labourer on the Siegfried Line.
A system of denunciation has been started in Vienna to help the German
police. This applies for a
start, to the food problem; any citizen who dengunces some one else for hoarding food is given the food as a reward,
The Gestapo are also searching truins. Food parcels to Austria from nbroad are opened on the border.
BLAMING OTHERS
This food senreity is being used by
the Nazis a slir up feeling, among the Austrians, nat only against the belligerents but against neighbouring neutral Powers.
Posters have been plastered up in Vienna showing a huge German sol- dier eating a tiny roll of bread.
Next lo-him stands a small peasant
in Hungarian national costume eating a great silee of white bread covered "How long t with pieces of ha we tolerate this?" runs the slogan underneath.
Na she can now walk through Vienna with a ruckksèk ár káréýing a large parcel wilkout being stopped In the street and searched.
HIS MASTER'S VOICE
A PROGRAMME OF GOOD CHEER
FOR YOUR XMAS PARTIES
zori agiinst gas, but they were able C2876-Paul Jones
to recover several, bodies.
Official rescue brigades descended C2877-Excuse Mo" Bance
Polka Medley. wearing respiratora shartly after-
In the "Illustrierter Beobachter." wards.
The majority are 70 to 80 years old.
Dr. William Reld, son of the gene- They are described as "Hyenas of ral manager went down with the the battlefield," and the caption Arst rescue party. states that these tottering old men
C2888 The Riddle Soeno
The German Commissionaire. Cials Top Liners, of Variety
...New Maytalt Dance Orch.
.New Mayfair Dance Orch.
Leslie Heusen & Fred Emicy.
.Graco Fields Sir Harry Louder, Florence Desmond, Paul Robeson, Hylton's and Itoy Fox Orchs,
are "suspected of shooting at German baye shattered everything in the col-C2901-gonan that have sold a Mition. soldiers." Other photographs show
them being talten off to execution or
n concentration camp.
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He sald:The explosión seemed to
llery.
Canaries which we took down
Adam Ferguson, who has worked
died from Tas,
Because, Until, Lost Chord.
Dorothy Clarke, Webster Booth & Foster Richardson. Réses of Ficardy, Grey Home, etc.
..Light Opera Company.
27 yents in the colliery, said: "After 2010-86bkw of England, Soars of Wales
the explosion every one of the 25
men in my section collapsed. It was C1581--Songs of Scotland, Songs of Ireland.
terrible seeing them lying gaping
for breath, unable to help enus Hasde-bally Bell. After the Ball
other.
David-Anderson, a-pump man, fold!
Mid-Auld Lang Syne
ments.
Announce
1.45 Variety wlib Kitty Masters, Frank Crumit, and Others,
2.15 Close Down.
0.00 Compositions of Debossy. Danses, Leopold Stokowski and Phi- ladelphia Orchestra. Etude XI Four Les Arpeges Composes, Vladimir
Horowitz (Piano). Nuit D'Etoiles,
Helene Ludolph (Soprano). Jardin Sous La Plule, Henno Noizelwitsch (Flano). Petite Sulte, Symphony O1- chestra cond. by Piere Coppola.
6.38 Closing Local Stock Quota- Llons.
0.40 Musical Comedy Belecilons from 11 The Deck," "Bow Bells, "The Blue. Mazurka," and "The De-
scrt Soug"
,1,05 Varlity will Turner Layton, Charlle Kunz, Ken Harvey and Elate and Dorts Waters.
7.30 London Relay-The News, 8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.
6.03 Next week's programmes. 8:08 Dance Musia.
8.15 London Relay "A.R.P. ta Burblèfon" by Mè. Gillie Potier,
8.45 Darice Musfe.
9.05 Stadlo.Comments on Récent Evenin
11.09 London Itclay-In England Now."
11.15 London Relay—“Music Hall" A Varlety Show with George Robey, The Western Brothers, und Others.
12.00 midnight. Close Down.
OUR GUIDE TO
· THE CINEMAS
"Winter
Carnival" (Oriental): A collegiate romantic drama. Plent entertainment starring the "Oomph Ciri." Ann Sheridan. Considerable pre- liminary details dealing with college. newspaper activities coupied with char- actorlantion of elderly newshawk who tries to make good for his son's sako.
"Four Feathers" (King's): The A.E.W. Mason story retold by Alexander Korda in Technichlar. Harry Faversham re- | signe from his regiment as it is leay- ing to foln Kitchener in Egypt, receiven four feathers from friends and swool- heart, redeems his good name by doods of derring-do. Well acted.
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"Society Lawyer" (Queen's) : Melo- drama about a lawyer of distinguished linenge who wanted to practice in the criminal courts and found himself con- .
Immediately by an 9.03 London Relay News Sum-fronted almost
underworld mystery, Starring Wolteri Pidgeon and Virginia Bruce. 0.30 A Programme of English
"Love Finds Andy Hardy" (Minƒestle): Muste. Chaconne (Purcell), Society of Don't miss this delightful production Address Ancient Instruments. Nymphs and which is the best of the Hardy family Shepherds (Purcell),... Elsie Suddaby zorles.-
mary.
WOW! YOUR MOVIE QUEEN GOES HI DE HO!
A NEW THRILL!
SHE SINGS SWEET!!
Twenty millionfans voted Jeanette 1939's QUEEN OF THE SCREEN! And MGM gave herthis capul vating musical to cele? brate her electioni,
Jeanetn
What a talent acest
Old Time Singers, ...Paul Robeson;. Chorus & Orch.
Frank Morgan is a produce
19, QUEEN'S ROAD C.
PHONE 24048,
a reporter: "I was working at one of TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY A⠀
thres pumps which I have to attend
when the explosion occurred.""Iefought KTARINA HOUSE,
MACDONALD
ROBERT Z. LEONARD'S production, af
BROADWAY SERENADE
with LEW AYRES
HUNTER FRANK MORGAN
Screen Play by
Charles Lodorer
SHE'S MODERN!
SWINGS HOTCHA!
(IER MOST, GLORIOUS
triumph!
Jeanette's a regal jitterbugië "The bright star of à Tavish music romance that would have made Ziegfeld jealous),
SHOWING TO-MORROW.
AQIMARY DRAMA
Queen's & Alhambra
HAPPY
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