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DONALD DUCK

COME, COME, GENTLEMEN --THERE'S NOTHIN' TO

ARGUE ABOUT HERE!

Wale Borres fa do maa

Son Killed ---Her Secret

ON the corner of a street in Berlin stood an elderly grey- Her eyes were

haired woman. red with tears.

From her porket she took a rel from the colonel of the regiment in which her son was a private

It bore the words: "Fallen on the Field of Honour.“

This Is the story told by a Danki Journalist in a report recelerd te Copenhagen.

"She sobbed out that stie riens a widow nnd they had bad saleh lipps times together," he addesi.

ALONE

Saturday.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

I SAW THE WHOLE THING!

OH, YEAH? WELL, WHOSE

FAULT WAS IT?

Ded by King Zenuers Sinuficzir, Ene

December 16, 1939.

By Walt Disney

3-7-

WHY, IT WAS YOUR-ER-- HIS-ER--A-

--MINE!

Nazi Chief Quietens Prague With Massacre Of Patriots

CZECHS STRIPPED AND SHOT:

X-Ray Was Used In Boer

War Hospital

THE first X-ray apparatus to

used in Tag

1 field military resta in Oxford hospital now Museoni of the History Science.

of

the curator, Dr. R. T. Gunther, looks on this addition to his treasures

"She was not allowed to wear any mourning for him, nor tell anyuas of as one of outstanding importance. his death, so that she could get no comfort from anyone.

"This appears to me to be one of the biggest cruelties of the war that the poor mother could share her grief with no one."

The writer adds that the German people "are in a trance."

They "A lat must happen before awake and realise that the war is now really beginning. It will be a terrible awakening, to such an extent are they taken in by the propaganda that there will be ho war."

few years before

The Silent Soldier

ALEXANDER Zourensky, who lives at Stoneyburn. West officials Lothian, presented with a problem when he re- ported for military service re- contly.

To all questions and ordars he returned a strong silence. Then someone looked at the name, and guessed. Ho could not speak English.

Zourensky, who was born in Stancyburn, of Lithuanian pз- rents in 1917, was taken to Lithuania when six weeks old, Ho returned just before the outbreak of war, accompanied by his 20-years-old bride.

First used in the South African War, the apparatus. crude though it now secins, did much teful work.

It was only a that wer that Rontgen announced hist discovery of the X-ray, and in 1890 tain friends by showing them an undergraduate at Magdalen, who bones in their hands.

Captain Spencer Churchill took his beenme Captain E. G. Spencer Chur-apparatus with him when he went on chill, required an X-ray tube and active service in South screen with which he used to enter- 1000,

Africa

the

By SYDNEY MORREL, Hally Express Staff Renerler

BUDAPEST, Nov. 25.

Twa Czech policemen who during

FIRST details reached Budapest to-night of the Nazi massacre among the Czechs last week-end.

Cerny and Frannwind. It began after a peaceful de- monstration in honour of one of the demonstration and drawn then their fellow students who was revolvers and fired on the Grem Arrested on Independence Day were also so as n warning to fire Jon October 28, and "died sud-other Czech police,

ULTIMATUM denly" in prison after torture!

by the Gestapo, who tried to ex-

All

When the news of the thunlimite through the Proleterate

In Delting at Zdice, near Pileen.

tract from him the names of spread those who had organised the In-clashes occurred in many town dependence Day demonstration. that Friday night the Cestano ela

His parents were ordered to fetch that a German soldier was shot the urn containing bts ushes.

through his haversack. The goldier, students who took part in the de- was unhurt. but 350 Cuccha were monstration were arrested at 2 aun.arented in the town as hustorgun. last Fridny, Gestapo squads ruided The Gestapo gave them an ulti-

the the students' homes; pulled them in mattun, to name Pulprit. The their pyjamas from their beds, ultimatum expired 013 Saturday wrecked the homes, tore up the books morning and the culprit was no and bedding.

Praque

Czech 3.000

At 11 am, the 350 were marched alone

the patriots were arrested. Twenty-nine into prison courtyard, were taken out that night, compelled Gestapo chlet repented his demanel answer came thirty-five to strip naked, stood up against a When no

were picked wall and shot,

They included some of the lead-stripped naked, handcuffed, stood ing members of the university: | against a wall and shot. Their 300 Dra. Matousek, J. Kilma. Adamec, comrades alood to attention.

The H. Koula, Skorovsky, Safranek,

responsible for massacre was Karl Hermann Frank, the secret police chiel in Bohemia and Moravia.

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He picked the Czech Independence Day as his chance to strike. His version of the demonstrations was so exaggerated that it drove itler

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Hitler is said to have 'summoned Frantisek Chvalkovsky, Czech repre- sentative in Berlin, and shouted: "If оле more demonstration like this takes pince, T-shall-have-all.the Ger mans evacuated from Prague and I shall destroy the whole town with bombs."

Chvalkovsky iminediately got into touch with Czech President Hacha, to whom Hitlor made а simlar threat last March before Hucha would ree to the German in- vasion of Czecho-Slovakia.

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