1939-12-20 — Page 5

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 20, 1939.

DONALD

DEWEY'S NEW HAT

DUCK

WHAT'S

BOYB?

THE MATTER,

BLEW OVER

THE FENCE,

UNCA DONALDI

PRIVATE!

KEEP OUT!

I'LL GET IT. FOR YA, BOYS, BUT YOU'VE GOT TO EXPECT THESE

LITTLE TROUBLES!

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Australia May Export War Material

NERVE

CENTRE

ALWAYS REMEMBER, "UFE'S NO BED

OF ROSES!*

OF Man Who

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ARMY IN FRANCE Finds Homes

AUSTRALIA is industrially CORPS OF SIGNALS DEALS WITH

prepared to meet war conditions, and both Government and pri- vate factories are being called into action to assist the Allies.

"In 1914 Australia hud to depend on Great Britain for munitions," said Mr. James Hendry, president of the N.S.W. Chamber of Manufactures, "To-day it is most likely that' Aus- tralla will not only help to feed the

Allied armies, but will export muni-

tions.

500 CALLS AN HOUR

By DOUGLAS WILLIAMS,

"Daily Telegraph" War Correspondent WITH THE B.E.F. IN FRANCE

THE switchboard was housed in a cellar. Three soldiers, the Corps of Signals badge on their tunics, worked feverishly without a moment's pause, their voices murmuring an incessant chant as they pushed in or "Now that the call has come, the pulled out plugs completing calls.

Mobilised Industry

manufacturers of Australia will res- pand with nil the resources at their laposal. Australia's safety may well depend on the ability of Australian : industry to supply all the many aut varied requirements of modern me. chanised warface."

Australia now makes almost every- thing necessary for modern warfare from ueroplanes to motor-cars, states the British United Press. For nearly

three years the Government hun been mobilising private Industry, as well as such units as Government railway workshops to supplement Govern- ment munition factories.

The multi-panelled bourd at which they sat was a maze of cords and switches, but they handled it all with the nimble fingers of busy hotel operators. There was no excitement but quick, efficient co-opera- tion.

Through a half-open door leading into another and larger cellar came the clack of teletype machines as the

trained fingers of the||

operators typed out mes- SPOTLIGHT sages in flowing columns

of paper.

Mayfair Witness To the B.E.F.-in the headquarters

Wed Army Officer

I stood in the nerve centre of

of Signals.

Through this centre pass day and Mr. Pauline Dauteny, who gave night all the myriad communications evidence at the Old Bailey in April hall to Viscount Cort, from the of an army the field, from White- when four Maytair men were charged i with stealing £2,500 from her int, Commander-in-Chief in turn to his

ON

For B. E. F.

From PHILIP JORDAN News Chronicle Correspondent with The British Expeditionary.

Force Nov. 21.

FRANCE, FATHER CHRISTMAS has made what may seem a premature appearance in France.

În the red-tabbed person of the Director of Hirings he has turned up at a newly-opened leave port and has Pentod enough houses and buldings to make an adequate rest camp for men going home on leave.

11 will be ready and comfortable

middle of next month to embarkc eni their leave boat.

before the first batch arrive in the

For obvious military reasons it is possible to say where this port is, but it can be said that the men

will not be wasting a great deal of

time on the journey home.

Billets-Better. Than Ever

In spite of his unromantle title the

to

Director of Hirings is the man whom the Army owes thanks for

ullets more comfortable than any army on active service has ever enjoyed before,

He, his handful of officers and 100 men, are responsible for housing the entire expeditionary force, from the GERMANY Commander-in-Chief down is

THE German Free radio last night repeated the charge that the Nazis are selling the nation's art treasures to obtain foreign currency.

the smallest bugler; and almost without exception the whole lot sleep with roofs over their heads.

Ordinary billets cast the Director of one frame for N.C.O. and 70 centimes Hirings three fraues a day for officers. for men. It is not a lot when trans- lated into terms of sterling, but the price is fixed by the French autho- rites, and they consider it adequate. All Experts

This has been denied in Berlin, was married for the second time at from the Quartermaster General to Madonna" had already gone from Corps and Divisional Commanders, but the onnouncer said Raphael's Akershot, recently.

his supply, bases, and lines of com-the Dresden Gallery. Directors of This department of Army life is Her husband is Second-Licutenant munication from the British Army to art institutions all over the Reich one more example of the care which Colin Dennistoun Sword, twenty-the French Army.

had been ordered to bring to Berlins been taken to put round pegs into lists of their most precious treasures. by the Chartered Surveyors Institute. round holes. Its nucleus was selected HITLER SECRECY

This means that every man in a key position was an expert in civil life at the Job which he now does out here.

three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A ceaseless Good of telegrams is J. G. Dennistoun Sword, of Glutten- ham, Robertsbridge, Sussex.

handled by the Corps Signals with Mra, Doubeny oblained a divorce the same frictionless case as though from her first husband, one of the they were parsing through the post Army's tallest officers, this year. office at home. She was granted the custody of their year-old baby.

"Mrs. Daubeny Isaughter of Princess Nicholas Galitzine. She was presented at Court in 1930.

WAKE UP YOUR

LIVER BILE

Without Calomel-And You'll Jump Out af Bad Fall of Vim and Vigour. Your Uver should puur out two piola of Basid bile into your bowels daily. If this hila is not flawing freely,a marfood dient tillgent, Is Just seenys in the bowls, Gan bloats w933 your stomach, You got bonstipated, Your whole system in peritoneel and you feelmur,

unk and 16 writ) Jooks

Kinara bowel movement doesn't get at The piume. It takes those fenisa Carter's 1 lver Pitts in get these two pile of Lille Hawlow freely and bruke sun bel “up und up". Harmless, realle, yet amazing in nekle lite flow freety, Ink for the nume Carter's Litle Liver Pills on the red pack age. itefuse anything else.

KING'S

NEXT CHANGE

LAUGH

fone adds thrilis

as the bravest

Bite ma'amsello

in all France!

Pane

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A 20th Century-Yon Pisherm

Nearly 500 calls un hour the witchboard receives, Incoming and outgoing, more than 700 telegrams a¦ day pass over the electrical teletype machines.

And this in a quiet period of preparation and organisation. It needs little Imagination to think to what an extent this traffic would suddenly be swollen in the event of military activity, some sudden move by Illiler or the im- minence of actual fighting opera- tions.

Yet I was assured there would be no hitch, no over flooding, that all! would be taken care of as speedily and as efficiently.

the

HITLER'S movements are not be- ing disclosed following the Munleh explosion.

The two chief lawyers on the staff were found after France had For example, the Fuhrer's flag was

been tooth-combed. Bolli "tre" "ex- flying over the Chancellery in Berlin in French lays, and bath have on Saturday when he was really instudied in England. They are new The additional advantage of having Munich, says a Paris message, "lent to the British Army by the

French authorites.. The Gestapo are sifting statements

When from thousands of informers after thousands of leases the Director of

he

not busy signing their appeal to the public to help rings acts na the president of the track down those responsible for the Claimy Commission. That job keeps bomb. Special inquiries are being him busy, too. made in Monarchist circles. Arrests are also being made nong the Gestapo themselves.

NICE TO LOOK AT

"THE main part of eating is look-

Right To Suc

Any French civilian who thinks he has a claim against the Army ΟΙ against any member of 1, goes to him, and if the two of them cannot

on

the matter.

the

ing at a nicely and daintily prepared opinion

agree, a mixed iribunal gives its dish, the Hamburger Familienblatt claimant is still unsatisfied, he has tells its rationed readers in an article the right to sue the British Army in on "War-time Gastronomy.

a civil court.

Direct Lines To London Lines, telephone and telegraph, stretch direct to London, to bases, to the Corps, to the French

"The nicer the food looks, the Army. Three teletypes alone chat- tastier and more wholesome it is, ter all day long talking direct into jeven if the portions are amali." the office of the Signal Master at the War Office,

THE "INNER FRONT"

Where possible existing French EIGHTY per cent, of menis offered Government lines are utilised; but laut. German restaurants now consists connections lending forward of of Stammessen, kind of hot-pot G.HQ. we string all our own wires containing scraps of incat and veget- and thousands of miles of cable huveables. Inlready been used,

The people call the food shortage The fresh supplies of new drums the fight on the "Inner Front." jof wire that come out every day

from England are absorbed as quick- POLISH PRIMATE

ly as they arrive.

Several sections

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CARDINAL August Hond, the

Motor accidents account for the majority of such claims, with damage to beet crops and fields a close second.

SO I ASKED IF THEY HAD EVER READ THE STORY

Continued from Page 6.)

But my mother always tells me she reads it, and says I miss a lot in

| We,"

So I found varied opinious and Here and there mos! un-

of motor-cycle Primate of Poland, will probably re- reactions. riders, each consisting of 3 men, main in Rome for some time, as the expected interest in the Bible and all carefully selected from

ex- German authorities have refused to religion. And in places where there are leisure and personal comfort, an perienced amateurs of peace-time, give him permission to return to spend their days and nights ridint Poland, according to a Rome report most complete disregard for any- the roads of France.

quoted on the French radio.

thing but the passing show.

Dangerous Work

I have come to certain conclusioris, Cardinal Hond, who is 60, is Arch-Apart from the homes of the regular I almost called them professional-- The despatch rider's work is dif-bishop of Aguleznu and Poznan.

church-goers, I am certain that the Bible is opened more often in Mile End than it is in Mayfair.

Acult and dangerous. Roads in this

Cicero said that to add, a library to

part of France, with their high At suitable locations the latest camber and greasy surfaces, are type of sending and receiving ap- perilous, and, despite urgent orders paratus has been installed, complete a house is to give the houro a sOUÏ. demanding the greatest precaution, with generators, poles and antennno I would say that one book is sum- number Di accidents

involving and all of the other equipment re-elent-if that book is the Bible. broken limbs and minor concussion quired for a high-powered station. have already occurred.

Tall poles stand in farm middens Three or four thousand messages and barns, and stables are filed witli

a day stream in and out of despatch humming dynamos and flashing ridor headquarters, and all are lights. checked, oxarnined for correct ad-

Tucked away.

dress, and delivered within an inconcealed spots a ¡eredibly short space of time.

As a precaution against dam-; age, or perhaps even the com ploto interruption of lines, aven though they may be buried by bomb attacks, a complete sub-i atliste wireless service is already available, all built by Army Bignals and the Royal Engineers.

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in these carefully. technical officer of skilled wireless

and a handful operatorn stand by ready at a mo- ment's notice to throw in switches. that will bring their powerful plant) Into Immediate emergency operation and send a vital beam of instantane- ous connection across France, nerosa the Channel, into the recolving sta tion In England.

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