1940-02-02 — Page 3

DONALD DUCK

QUICK, WHERE'S YOUR *PHONE? BIG ACCIDENT---

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GENTLE, KILLED

Friday,

HONGKONG TELE GRAPH

February 2, 1940.

By Walt Disney

HELLO, BOYS! IT LOOKS LIKE RAIN, SO

SHUT THE WINDOWS!

JUST A GAG FOR. A FREE CALL, CHUMP! THERE'S NO ACCIDENT!

OH,

YEAH?

DRUGS

BUT HE

RIVAL

ACQUITTED · OF MURDER

CHARLES HOWELLS, aged.

52, of Merthyr, Glamorgan, was

a "gentle, quiet and inoffensive"

minn.

He killed his lodger, Bertie Won- 1er Lew, with a cund hammer.

A

Jury S Glamorgan Aspices four hire not guilty of murder, but | uilty of manslaughter "under great ; provocation" and made a strong re- commendation to meres.

Mr. Justice Hawke sentenéed bin

to three years' penni servitude.

"I entirely agree with the verdiel,” he said, "but, of course, you look a man's He"

The Triangle

Mrs. Hywells left the coun), sobbing never forgive

and saying, "I

myself. He worshipped the ground

I walked on."

The story of husband, wife und

Jodger was told in cotel.

Until Lewis went to live with the Howells they Hved a normal, trappy life, but then quarrels began.

After one of these Mrs. Howells went to another rom, Lewis followed her and ten minutes later Howells went in.

arins

"I caught Lewis with his round my wife," said Howells. "Ite was kissing her."

Goodbye Kiss

His wife was heard say, "You! pier,

You creeping rat. You can divorce ine in the morning if you like,"

Later Lewis sald to hinn:

"You are only at for the farmyard. |

may as well know, first as last,

You

we have been as man and wife for a long time."

After Howells killed Lewis, be Klased his wife good-bye, telephoned the pulice, and gave himself up.

MRS. CHAMBERLAIN

PLANTS A TREE

Once there was a shortage of walnut wood for rifle butts in England.

*So it's now an old custom to plant walnut trees on military grounds.

The photograph shows Mrs. Neville Chamber- lain, wife of the Premier, planting one at Alder- shot.

Before the end of this year something like five million rifle butts will be required by England.

Escaped Nazis Stole

Germans

's Food

Caught Czech's

ONE of four men who escaped from a prisoners-of-war camp in England was a Czech. And he had been "gent to

Juliana's Honeymoon Coventry" by the 250 Germans in the camp.

Hotel Is Now

Hospital

camp

This was revealed in court when The other prisoners in the the man was remanded to awalt an he was the only Czech there-refused escort.

to speak to him..

For the first two days they even took his food from him, saying Czech did not require anything 10 ent.

The police said it appeared that he AMSTERDAM.—Among hotels aljhad been impressed into survlec by the Polish holiday resorts of Zako. the Nazis after the conquest of his pane and Kryniche commandeered country.

de hospitals for Geraan voldlers is A Czecho-Slovakian refugee girl one owned by Jan Kiepura, the acted on the man's interpreter. Polish singer, where Princess Juliano and Prince Bernhard spent part of their honeymoon.

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Through her he said he was work- ing on a German ship when it was captured.

He wanted to go to France to fight In the Czech Legion for the Alfies.

"The three other men who escaped have been recaptured, They had got

nore than 30 miles from the camp.

"KUNG HEI FAT CHOY"

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G. B. Shaw Coloured- 5 Guineas

I a man with a clay pipe is) worth a guinea, what is Me.) Bernard Shaw worth?

"Five guineas," said Deputy Judge) Humblen, who put and answered this) poser

at Westminster County Court. Mr. L. Leigh, professionat photo- grapher, of Cleve-road, West Eump- stead, N.W., had sued Mr. Henry Stead, camera dealer, of the Strand, i for £ 18s., the value of the photo- raphie sildes loaned and not re- turned

A coloured slide of Mr. Shaw and one of an old man with a clay pipe! were among those missing.

It was submitted that the slides were over-volucd.

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WOMEN'S ARMY IS IN FRANCE

GIRL ALL THE

TROOPS SALUTE

By RICHARD MCMILLAN

SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE. THERE is a fluiter of excitement in the ranks, and even among the generals, of the British Expeditionary Force be cause-part of Britain's women's army has at last come "up the line."

TATE BOWLED BY JUDGE

MR. JUSTICE HUMPHREYS who first played erlekel in 1876, disagrees on teellent point of the game with Maurier Tale former England and Sussex bowler.

statement by

Referring to a Tate, In evidence at Lewes As- sizes, that in the clrcumstances of the ease before him It woukl not be more dangerous for a bay la field forward of the wicket than square with the wicket, hr said:-

"With fear and trembling 1 venture to differ from Mr. Mau- rice Tate."

The boy, 11-year-old John Bar- font, of Seaford, had his skuli fractured by the ball during a school match. An allegation Mr. Leigh: It

that he was placed at silly mid- was the first time)

on

was

denied by the games hind tried a master, -olour Alm. and As I did not think). fwould have an- 1ther

chance of shooting Mr. Ber- nord Shinw→

Judge Humblen: You must not put

it that way, you know.

Mr. Stead said

te did not know

the value put on

he alkie of Mr.

Shaw.

Mr. Justice Humphrey's found that the boy was “very consider- ably less than 10 yards from the wicket," and awarded kim: £750 damages Robust East Sussex County Council.

Judge Hamblen: : Perhaps it is cor- say thathe is priceless? Judgment-was-given-for-Mr. Leigh for £5 5s, for the side of Mr. Show, and £1 1s. each for the other clight Mrs.

missing slides, with costs.

ARGENTINE WORRIED Cost Of Keeping Interned Nazis

BUENOS AIRES.-Concern- jed over how to collect from Germany the $25,000 monthly maintenance of the Admiral Graf Spee's interned crew, Argentine officials sought to help the seamen find employ- ment ashore.

Ometals in the Ministry of Interior said they hoped to complete within

WIDOW IS

AWARDED

£4,725

The Commander-in-Chief herself. Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, who bolds the rank of Major-General in the A.T.S., her alde-de-camp, td her chauffeuse, were the advance i pure,

11 l the aide-de-comp who has set the troops' hearts throbbing because she happens to be extremely pretty, and ber unifom goes splendidly with her beauty,

She tries to look very soldierly und Jarmy-like in her neat ichaki uniform, with two pips on her shoulder to in- dicate that she is equivalent to a lientenant.

Knows The Code

She knows the B.E.F. code--"Don't talk about your Job with the Army in France" and keeps t

Dame Gwynne-Vaughan, looking very motherly, despite the red tabs on her tunic, was even less com municative.

It is believed that the first woman of the A.T.S. is out to try to find by personal investigation what part women's auxiliary force

the

wan

carry out with the British troops In France. Upon her report to the War |Offee will probably depend whether a women's "R.E.F. "will" come out in France.

You winnt to know the pretty ATS. lieutenant's name?

It is Gillan But more than that cannot be given.

The Heutenant is about 5ft 3in., bus blonde hair, a lovely fresh com- plexion and thinks thot Ife Is wonderful.

She gets saluted, alun, by every Tommy who meets her.

'No Bee's Land' Between Armies

OF £4,725 damages awnrtied to PARIS.-The honey-bee will join Gwendoline Mary Rees, all the exodus of men and beasts from Glamorgan Assizes, for loss of her the regløn between the Maginot und husband: £1,200 was for loss of ex-Siegfried lines behind which the

armies of France and Germany are pectation of life.

encamped.

Mrs. Rees' husband, a Swansea

The Moselle Department of the dentist, was killed when his en was Beekeeper's Federation has decided

in collision will Transport Company bus,

Soulh Wales

to send their insects and their hives to safer areas in the interior and The damages were awarded against ask fellow beekeepers to enre for the bus company.

DB3086

A

then

PROGRAMME

BY

THE PHILADELPHIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Ja week regulations under which the DB3318

would be more than 1,000 men placed in restricted zones" for from DB2274 the co

Eta.

DU3226 to One officer said these zones prob- DB3230

would be arranged so the men DB3254 could and work in groups of two or

three, Even 50, the Ministry esti- DB3255

UNDER

LEOPOLD STOKOWSKY

ON

HIS MASTER'S VOICE RECORDS

Hungarian Rhapsody No, 2

Valse Triste

Oh, Lord most Holy

Choral Prelude

9ymphony in D minor

Tannhauser. Prelude to Act 111

mated $25,000 a month, for which DB7745 to Symphony No. D (Choral) Germany will be billed.

D07753

DB1707

(Liszt).

.(Sibelius);

.(Caesar Franck), .(Bach),

(Caesar Franck).

.(Wagner),

.(Beethoven).

.(Scriabin).

Some amelala expressed doubt as to DR1706 to Porm of Ecstasy how collection could be made.

British cources, watching closely the handling of the internment anid

TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY Great Britain, would be "better satisfied if those sailors were placed | MARINA 'HOUSE,

10, QUEEN'S ROAD C. under lock and key," but that no formal protest was likely as long as they were unable to engage in fur- ther military activitica,

"X-Ray Eyes" Boy

Found Dead

THE HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

The Society asks for

$35,000

In 1940 to meet the increasing needs of sick

A 16-year-old youth, known on the and destitute children In Hong Kong, against stage as "Marco, the boy with the which the Income to date is $12,000 only, X-ray eyes," was found dead at In order to continuo its work, the Society Worcester,

appeals for the balance of $23,000 before the death was discovered two close of the financial year on 31st October, hours before he was due to appear A copy of the Annual Report for 1939 may be with his father at a local theatre, obtained from:

It was from natural causen,

THIS

Mr. A. MCKELLAR, C.A. boy was Ronald Lindsay, a c/o Mackinnon Mackenzle & Co., former pupil at Christ Church School,

1.&O. Buliding

Marylebone, N.W. He was shortly Mr. KWOK Chan,

to have gone to High Wycombe, c/o The Banque de L'Indo-Chine, Buckinghamshire, to give un enter. ... Hong Kong. tainment for his evacuated · school- | ¡Ion, Treasurers, matcs.

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