DONALD
OH-OH!
A TOUGHIE! AND ME WITH
TEN BUCKS!
DUCK
BROKE
SO SORRY!
At School for 2 Minutes
More than 200 Romford, Essex, girls, pupils, at the County High School, are attending school-for two mitutes a week! The time is spent collect- ing from individual pigeon hules school-work left there by teachers, "aud leaving in baskets the previous week's work. The scheme has been ar- ranged so that the work may go on while air-raid precautions are being carried out at the school, Above, studying the week's schedule of lessons,
MUZZLING THE NAZI SPIES
Gramophone Record
Hid A Message
INGENIOUS
methods
by
which valuable information could be conveyed to the enemy will have little chance of suc ceeding now. for Mr. Hore- Belisha, the War Secretary, has madea.new_order_to_combat
espionage.
"This alms at the interception of vital messages written in code or invisible ink or 'concealed" in ordinary articles of com-
merce.
of nuws,
It is known tant the ronimon- place and apparently harmless ser- Vico
advertisements, photography and literature might be adapted to the use of espionage,
Familiar goods and commodities can also be employed to carry hickleni messages.
A Hitler Spacch During the last war, It was dis- closed
personal paragraphs| that could serve a sinister purpose; that: by menns of a code, words could change their meaning, and the movements of men and ships could be detalled in a contribution to the correspondence column.
A gramophone record was found recently to be so manipulated that, beginning with a speech by Hitler,
The previous week's work being left by pupils for correction by their tenchers.
Jamming B.B.C. Foreign Talks
It ended with something quite dit-Source Not Yet Traced
ferent.
Liko smugglers, spies are expert!
ut concealment.
tions factory.
dom.!
(By A Radio Correspondent)
|lished.
•
broad-
Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
T
December 4, 1939.
By Walt Disney
Work of Bombers Starts
on the Ground
R. A. F.
PILOTS
WAIT
FOR WAR TO "START"
WHEN QUEEN MARY HAD
HER
CIGARETTE
·
How the daughter of a Socialist Minister once admitted privately that the most vivid memory of her first visit to Windsor Castle was to seo Queen Mary smoke a cigarette is related in a book publish recently. "In an age when many women smoke in public," writes the authoress, "the Labour Minister's daughter was startled by the anomaly, as it seemed to her, of Queen Mary smoking.
"Yet in an are when fewer women anoked who were not 'fast' It seemed quite natural that Queen Alexandra should smoke. Indeed, she once overcame the scruples of a Bishop, and indured him to smoke a cigarette with her on, board the Victoria and Albert."
The story is teld in "The Lady of Marlborough House," Jonathas Cape, da, by Miss Kathleen Woedward, who traces with sympathetle un- derstanding a life of Queen Mary which Incorporates the historie back- an Princes, Queen and Queen troud of her Majesty's experiences Mother,
AMERICA WARNS SHIPS
OF
MINES
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (UP).—The Navy Depart ment's hydrographic office has inaugurated a supplemen- tal system of "special warnings" to American shipping as a result of the war, in Europe.
The navy anid the special warnings are issued as necessity warrants and supplement the primary duty of ship officers to collect and disseminate informa- tion in the interest of safe navi- gation.
READY FOR
U-BOATS
By RONALD WALKER
FRANCE. STANDING on an obser- vation post amid the dismal rotting relics of the last war, I watched to-day R.A.F. bomber pilots keeping in practice for this war which has not yet started.
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0.30 New Mayfair Orchestra s Rose Bampion (Contralto), By Erich Porges
"Virginia"--Selection (Waller - ni Tunbridge); "Funny Face"-Sele Radio Programme Broadcast by tion (Gershwin); Swans (Kramer) ZBW on a Frequency of 845 k.en.....Rose Bampton: "Lucky Girl and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. Selection (Charig and Meyer); Ligh nud 8-11 p.m. on 0.52 m.c's. per My Light (from Gitanjall Song second.
offerings); When Bring to Yo H.K.T.
Colour'd Toys (from Gitanjali" Song-offerings)....Rosa Bampto 12.15 pan. Short Service of Inter- "Love Lies" Selection: "F
cession.
12.30 Dance Musto by Ambrose and
His Orchestra
1.0 Local Time Signal and Wea- ther Report.
1,03 Varlely with Charlie Kune, Frank Crumit, Harold Ramsay, and Doris Palmer,
1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, Wen- ther Forecast and Announcements,
1.45
O'Clock Girl"--Selection - (Ruby);) 10.0 An hour of Dance Dusle. 11.0 Close down..
GERMAN FUTILITY
Schubert Quartet In A Representations Ignored
Kolisch Quartet. 2.15 Close down.
..
By Stalin
From this hill the country rolled away in small hilis and straggling valleys into the mist of driving rain. Minor, Op. 29. Every inch of the land is
Amsterdam, Dec. 2. pitted and scarred from the
Germany, made strong, secret ro 0.0 "For the Children." shells of 1914-18, and scat-
Nursery Rhymes--Medley.....The presentations to Moscow before th Red Army marched into Finland tered with steel helmets, New Century Quartette with Orches-'alin's refusal to reply caused con
sternation in Bera. water bottles, tangled barra; Teddy Bears' Picnic (Bratton).
Frank Bito and His Brass
reported Furious quarrels are bed-wire and occasional Quintette; Studio Story by Aunt
Susan; Little Drummer Boy (No 1. nve broken out among Hitler's lieu rifles red with rust from Pelost). Gracie Fields (Vocal) with tenants and General von Brau "yes" man l which the wooden stock has Orch; Good-Night, Little Skipper chitsch, regarded as
Fox-Trot....Brian Lawranco and sald to have attacked von Ribbentros crumbled away.
His Orchestra.
in Hitler's prosence-Reuter:.
A handful of R.A.F. officers
and airmen stood on the hill. Collars turned up, stamping their feet, rather impolite about the rain, they went about the not very exciting business of directing the practice bombing operations.
Hitting The Target
The radio operator sat at his table in the middle of a miniature lake. Two old boxes served for a seal and his rubber-booted feet were sub-
Since the start of the European How Seamen Havered. Airmen hurried about Jay-
war on Sept. 1, twelve bulletins have been radioed to American ships at
sen by the bydrographic office.
Been Prepared
6.32 Harry Koy's Stage Show. Harry.. Roy and His Orchestra.
(Recorded at the actual performance
...
Rouso Britain's Suspicion
London, Dec. 3..-
at The Garrick Theatre, Southport). The attitude of the German Gov 0.47 Four Popular Dance Numbers, ernment to the Soviet Invasion "O 7.0 Sea Shanties The Royal Finland is obscure, but It is reported that the uneasiness over the Sovie "Musicalxpansion in the north, is son grès
Naval Singers.
7.10 Studio-Another
(From Jimmy's Kitchen).
Cocktall" by Erich Forgen. (Piano) that the Nazis ore suggesting the Beliain and Germany, should join h the fight against it.
7.30 London Relay-The News 8.0 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.
In London, however, observer 8.03 An hour of Varlely with maintain that Harr von Ribbentrop Josephine Baker, Hatch," Ronalds under no illusion that Germany Gourley and Hay Noble and His Or- had made great sacrifices for Sovie
friendship. 0.05 Studio Comments on Recent
chestra.
ing out, ground signals. Bombers Events came singly from a nearby nero- 9.15 London Relay-News Sum- drome to nim their bombs at the mary. target in the middle of this deserted and shell-rutted land.
The first, Issued on that day, re-
By A NAVAL CORRESPONDENT ported that the German government
One of the chief lessons to be had announced start of military learned from the repulse of the Ger- From our hill we could see the
off Danzig bay and operations
British tiny black shape drop from beneath nan submarine attack on warned ships using the harbour that shipping after two months of war is the machine as it few straight and "movement in and out involves dan- that to take all possible precautions steady over the target. We stood Then win half the silent. counting the seconds. ger of destruction."
In peace time is to
came the crunching, hollow sound of the explosion.
on
Lights No Longer Cortain I boltic. The following day, American in the summer of 1937 Merchant
One pliot who had dropped two vessels were warned that the British Navy Defence Courses, embodying
of bombs very accurately came flying inethods government had announced that cer- detailed guidance on
and waggle his tain lights and other navigation aids combating or evading submarine at-overhend to wave
coasts of the United Kingdom luck, were instituted at all the chief wings before disappearing in the rain might be discontinued without fur-ports of the United Kingdom Large clouds for home. ther notice.
tumbora of Merchant Service officers
After a day travelling rapidly There attended them, to their great profit through this piece of France which! warnings followed. included a report that the British when war came. It was to such pre- is now occupied by the B.A.F. It is Admiralty had announced the laying cautions as these that Mr. Churchill obvious that the service has not been of mines
in the Straits of Dover, was evidently deferring when he ex-idle even if it has not had to fight the Firth of Forth and Heligoland pressed his gratitude to previous the war in the manner that was ex-
of Admiralty in a recent perted, Bight; that the French Government Boards had extinguished navigation Ilebts in speech. French territorial waters that the govenment had mired en- trances to Kongedyb, the Hollaen- derdyb and Drogden.
Danish
waters."
People in England who talk glibly 1918 Standards And Now of the war in the air have always At a later date gunnery courses folled, to realise that the aeroplore for merchant seamen were instituled, flies on the ground. It can go into The office advised on the third and sundry merchant vessels had the air and operate successfully only Is behind it an elaborate Jamming of B.B.C. foreign day of war that the German govern their decks strengthened aft to allow if there Innocent-looking articles can con-language broadcasts en short ment had announced laying of mines) of guns being mounted quickly, if ground organisation. tain messages that might mean the
Ready For Battle loss of a chip, the slaughter of a bal-waves has begun. Interference, across entrances to the Ballie Ben needed. The guns themselves, with were placed in store nt suitable ports
ten weeks the During the past talian, or the destruction of a muni- apparently deliberate, is notice while "respecting foreign territorial plentiful supplies of ammunition, at home and in the British Dominions able on the 49-metre broadcasts
Warned Against Zigzagging overseas. Most of them have now AF. has made itself at home. Its verodromes, depots and stores have The new order supersedes that in German, Polish, Czech and
The US. Maritime Commission, beca mounted which prohibited the export andl
another warning said, had advised Thus when war was declared it did been established and the entire ela- import otherwise than by post, of Hungarian, certain prohibited articles to most! The source has not yet been estab-commanders, of American vessels en not find the British merchant service borate organisation of an air force
as the enemy had is ready to wage the war. neutral countries in 'Euro e.
route to and from European black-so unprepared
Officers and men make jokes about outs to avoid being mistaken for bel- hoped. • It also applies to the carrying and
Hitherto one of the surprises of the ligerent yessels. The commission also. Immediately the news of the sink- lack of real lighting, but their spirit shipping of printed matter to all
Athenia was recovied, has not been spoiled. Almost from destinations outside the United King-war has been the absence of sudio suggested that commanders paint tng of the
jumming in the west and the cleur American flag on the hulls, hatcher very necessary step was taken for the beginning the weather has been reception of most German, French and sundecks of their vessels and the promet institution of system of a difficulty. Now Enemy Countrica and English stations on the air. spotlight the American flag at night, convoy. By Sept. 7, four days after. But the men have good billets A permit is no longer required for Germany Jammed Moscaw
Another warning advised that the outbreak of war, this was nelu and plenty of food. The billets ar
in any casts in German for several years. conveying printed matter to
Germany had laid mines
the ally in force for outward-bound amazingly varied. One I saw yes- vessels, and a couple of days later it terday was in a quined chateau. The British Dominion, Colony or Man- Bir Noel Ashbridge, Chief En- North Sea off the German coart.
cover the, men's mesa wan in the great salon, dated territory or Elre, France or,
its faded and ruined panelling still any country in North or Southgineer of the B.B.C., told me recently The bureau's New York office had been extended to
notified atlooing In-coasting trade. that there was less interference with meanwhile
bravely gut. America.
B.B.C. stations after the outbreak of terests that the War Department has
Convoy Controls Passengers to or from countries
than there had been before. begun mine-Joying phictice off the
control of convey arrangements other than hoca enumerated may The "gentlemen's wave-length agree- Rhode Island coast in Narragansett
la in the hands of specially selected Day and the West Passage. convey "prohibited articles" without ment has been closely observed.
permit, provided they are approved Germany's reasons for keeping to Ships were instructed to pass to leffners at the porta of Assembly.
A reminder is given of the United at the port of arrival or departure
her own legitimate wave-lengths are, the eastward of the easternmost of Many of these are retired naval of presuinably, that the is most anxious the buoys marking the area where ficers who during peace volunteered
undergo instruction In convoy Sale of Work being held to-day and The list of prohibited countries has to make best use of her propaganda, dummy raines have been laid about to
organisation and the routeing of to-morrow at the Women's Internn- tional Club, Gloucester · Building, been altered by the
of weapons and does not want to invite 7 feet down.
trade in war time. Slovakia, Danzig and Poland, which reptisals by starting a jamming cam-
That adequately escorted convoys First Floor, from 11 am, to 0 p.m. The Salvation Army Home for must now be treated as enemy coun-paign. Tho, broadcasting of deliber-
aro-an chfeeliva antidote to U-bout tries, and by: the addition of San ale interference would also occupy AMBULANCE COMMAND attack was established in the last Women and Girls, 3 Embarkment Marino, Monaco, Andora. and Lich-transmitters, which could
Mr. Alfred Morris is in receipt of war, and has been again proved by Road. Kowloon Tong, and the Indus a cable message from London to the the experience of the present month.triol Home for Blind Girls, Pokfulam,
are two
well-known Institutions, and affect that his rosienation as Director Even avalnat rurface attack it has aro of Ambillance and Commissioner of considerable value, since a number those in charge hope that many theso countries without a permit,
Private individuals are not allowed the St. John Ambulance Brigade har of shles, assembled in a convoy oo-friends will rolly to their aid in dis- to send prohibited articles to banned been accepted by the Chanter Generaletins less anaco ataca than when postog of the beautiful articles un- No prohibited matter can now be countries except in special circum-with the sporoval of the Grand Prior read out singly, thus being harder remitingly turned out by the In-
of the Order.. N
itor 'n raider to locate.-
Muugimates of both Home Apprecht 196 posted, carried or shipped to any of stances.:/
in the United Kingdom;
removal
var
tenstein, and the Baltic States, Fin- more effectively. land, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania,
The scope of the order, brendly speaking, embraces all neutral coun- tries. In Eurone, as well as China. Jason and Rusala?.
be used
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