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NANCY

HERE, HERE, CHILDREN ---

NO BATHING SUITS

ALLOWED IN

THE LOBBY!

WHY

NOT?

WE'RE PAYIN' OUR WAY HERE, AIN'T WE?

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

I'M SORRY, BUT YOU'LL EITHER HAVE

TO GET DRESSED

OR GO INTO THE WATER!

March 6, 1940.

By Ernie Bushmiller

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THE ARRIVAL OF THE ANZACS IN EGYPT

ANZACS lined up in serried rows on the deck of one of the luxury Iners which brought them to Suez from Australia and New Zealand. They were welcomed there by Capt. Anthony Eden, who flew from Eng- Jand with a mesmge for the men from His Majesty the King- Donci.

Mrs. Nazi must hand over old

for new

HOUSEWIVES who go shop- ping in Germany will now have to leave home almost as heavily Laden as they return. New re- gulations deeree that people buying new goods must hand the shopkeeper packing material or empties or castoffs. Other- wise they will not be served.

This was made compulsory some time ago for gramophone recorda Now typewriter ribbons cannot be had without surrendering the spools.

cannot

old

ba

Wines or liqueurs obtained without supplying empty bottles, which must even be corked.

If

a man has a permit to buy a new overcont he cannot get it with- I the out giving up the old one. overcoat is stolen or lost there is no way of getting another.

Father's Pants

Workmen who require new les cannot get them until they can pro- duce proof that the old files they surrender have been resharpened at least three or four times.

Special regulations provide for the role of extra recls of thread to women who con prove they want to cut down father's pants to make Willy a new pair." Statistics just published in Berlin reveal the real reason for Germany's sugar rationing. Although the sugar harvest in 1939 was quantitatively

MR. ANTHONY EDEN addressing New Zealand troops on the deck of one of the ships of the huge canvoy of luxury liners which brought the Anzacs to Egypt.-Domei.

Inside. Germany

Work-Shy Men Gaoled: Ban On Defiant Wives Is Lifted

•

It was pointed out in court that in political, events of recent years has TRUANCY from work by

by reason. It goes on to say: men and women, employees is war-time no working hours must be been the small part played in them disturbing German Industrial lost. leaders.

"In Germany itself the bellet in a German victory is the most important thing in achieving victory. There are, however, people in Germany whose attitude is based solely on reasoning. "They are not able to cherish this not far from Berlin, has sentenced try have openly defied these decrees, belief, because they cannot fool the several workers to six months' im-When their husbands come home on living bower (Lebenskraft) of the cave, the women promptly leave German tinilon. They are not neces- sarlly opponents of the Government. work. prisonment for this kind of truancy.

And so it may be concluded that So general has this practice become reasoning is not sufficient in Judging forced to grant a general permission reasoning."

STATE control of labour decrces The men desert their jobs and seek solace from war worries in neigh-the duty of work and offences against bouring pubile-houses.

It must be penalised,

A court at Neuruppin, a small town Soldiers' wives employed in indus-

good 2.4 million tons against 2.1 NEWFOUNDLAND that the Ministry of Labour has been conditions which are beyond mere

million tons in 1938-the quality was so miserable that, as the comment m the figure states, "the sugar beet, harvest in parts was of such exccp- tionally bad quality that it scarcely! seemed worth gathering."

VOLUNTEERS

CONGRESS PARTY exchange of views with the British

LEADER RESIGNS

NEW DELHI, Mar, 5 (Router) Dr. Mohamed Alam, Deputy Leader of the Congress Party in the Punjab Legislative Assembly, has resigned.

He said yesterday that it was the duty of every Moslem to rally under one banner and consolidate the post- tion of the Moxlein community,

to married women to slay home from work when their soldier husbands are on leave.

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Paris

Communists Rounded Up

LONDON, Mar. 5 (Reuter)-In the House of Commons to-day, Mr.' Anthony Eden onld that following an

WHEN war broke out German wert: reileved

PARIS, Mar. 5 (Reuter).-Twenty- of university students Government

been arrested Government, the

one persons have Newfoundland recently called for from compulsory labour service.

following the discovery by the Police volunteers. They called for 1,300

It is now decreed that from April 1 of numerous bundles of Cominunist men for service with the Royal students will again be compelled to pamphlets and multigraphed coples

serve in the Labour Corps before they of the banned newspaper, "Hu

manite," in underground railway. begin their university studies,

carriages in Paris.

The arrested include 16 employees "DAS SCHWANZE KORPS," in a of the underground railway and the the most enthusiastic response, Mr. leading article on "Politica and Ren- former editor of "Humanite," who is Eden sale.

Kon," says the surprising thing about alleged to have acted as leader.

Artillery...

"

The men will, be trained in the United Kingdom and will be posted as soon as possible.

A call for recruits had met with

The General

Tells the Fuhrer: Don't Talk Nonsense

HITLER talks of Blitz- kriegs and secret weapons, We'll gas you out, and freeze you out, says his pro- paganda. But the generals reply.

"Don't talk non- sense."

I have just read in two issues of the Deutsches Adelsblatt, Berlin "class" weekly, a sane, reasoned view of the war by their military expert. General Mezsch.

While those hysterical organs of the Nazi Party are feeding the, people on the most scatter-brained?

General Mezsch tries to nonsense, break these dangerous illusions.

Germany cannot expect an easy victory, he says. The war will be long. Big chorts and heavy sacrifices will be needed

There

There are no new weapons. Cari

dividing Britain and he France. The enemy cannot be de- moralised.

Even if the whole of France is occupied Britain will still fight alone. And London does not lose its hend

And watch America. She might come in America is Anglo-Saxon by race and thought. America is the black spot on the horizon.

In only one respect does General Mersch agree with the Nazi hysterin scribes,

No. 1. Her

In his conclusion- Britain is Enemy strength is on the sea, in ber vital 51 hold on Britain's sealines. Get

ports, then you have the Llon by the throat.

SPOTLETS:

PENULTIMATE chapter in the Goebbels' creed on the dark machinations of the British In- telligence Service.

The trial is prepared--of-Georg Elscr and Otto Strasser, alleged] Munich bomb-plotters.

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Peace M.P. Shot With Butler In Own Kitchen

NEWTYLE (Angus).

SIR CHARLES CAYZER, forty-four-year-old baronet M.P. for Chester who, with-his-butler, was found dying in a kitchen pantry at Kinpurnie Castle, Angus, was to have gone to London for treatment by a specialist. Assassina- "Documents"

He had been under doctor's British Press and

2 following prove how the British writers engineered it, how orders Elser and Strasser "got orders" from breakdown a few months ago.

From the offices of the Volkischer Beobachter comes a pamphlet of "sensational disclosures" on the plot. Espionage!! tion!!! is the title.

Murder!

nervous

London.

Both Is H. G. Now Chleffy blamed

Benjamin ("Bomb Berlin") Wells!

and his Charles

Wexham had wounds in the hend,

butler

shot

for peace.

"}

am

Sir last

officer," L réserve Charles sald. "I was in the wer, and I am prepared to go out and do my bit in this war; but I would in the same way us hundreds of thousands of my fellow-country- men like to know exactly that for which we are fighting.

"I

A month after war was declared POSTSCRIPT to the whoop Sir Charles appented in Parliament that in certain against the B.I.S. Seyid Rustan Haidar, Iraq Finance Minister, strot in his office by a sacked official on January 18, is their "latest victim."

master..

am sorry to say," he added, quarters of this country to-day there is a sort of Estate workers ut Kinpurnie attitude that we must fight on, we Castle believe that Wexham last must smash Germany, and we must his life in an attempt to save his overwhelm her and not consider any

proposals she makes.

with the "We have no quarrel

It may be that They were more like friends than Cermon people.

one dictatorship, Chorus of the entire German Press: Rustan Haidar was the friend of employer and servant, ane sald, and we shall destroy Germany. Therefore be paid to Bri-when Wexham saw the gun in Sir but shall we not set up another in Charles' hand, his first impulse would its place? If this war goes on I do tain with his life.

not believe that freedom or justice have been to protect him.

will come out of it. I believe that a pantry

bellaf

On The Home Front

Key-Men To Be Retained

15,000 Reservists Released

LONDON, Mar. 5 (Reuter)---Both

They

found in were facing the castle gun-room. Sir horrors and miseries beyond Charles was lying on the floor near will come out of it.

"I appeal to the Prime Minister to the door. Near him was a double- barrelled gun. The butler was hud- try to take this opportunity to secure for Europe that peace which alone dled up in a corner of the room.

When war broke out Sir Charles can save our common European clvl- offered his services to the War Of Hisation," fice. He was with the 19th Hussars He was given a In the last war. commission in the Army, but had to resign soon afterwards because of his health.

Last Speech Drama

STOCK MARKET REPORT

Hongkong Stock Exchange Omefal

The market is a trifle easier. There

SIR CHARLES CAYZER'S Summary Issued yesterday says: here and in France, steps are being last speech in Parliament was is no rush of selling, though buyers taken to see that industry does not an appeal for peace when the have temporarily gained the upper hand, and are basing their enquiries suffer from the fact that key-men are war had lasted a month.. In the fighting forces.,,

on lower levels.

Dayors

on

"It is a terrible thought," he said, great nations, who "that our two are so akin ns those of us who have met Germans know-I was a prisoner in Germany in the last war-should be driven on to this awful mutuni destruction.

The British Army has released 15,000 reservists for three months, engaged and the calling-up of men on work of national Importance will be postponed.

French 'Measures

The speech was made on October In France, new labour decrees are designed to leave at their work men 3 after the stormlest war scene in who cannot be replaced caally. Farm Parliament. Mr. Lloyd George be labourers too will stay their leved that Germany was about to make peace proposals, and urged farme,

Women and children will be drafted Mr. Chamberlain to accept them as to farms where there are not sufficient a basis of discussion.

Mr. Dulf Cooper complained. that volunteers. Other

occupations in France where Mr. Lloyd George's words would women can take over men's work are carry abroad the suggestion of sur-

render. now being Hated.

Wher the House empfied after Hero in Britain, the expansion of industry is reducing the number of these exchanges, Sir Charles Cayzer, unemployed. The February figure a shy and nervous speaker, took Mr. Is down by 600,000 over the figure Lloyd George's side, protesting that the speech had been misrepresented. for a year ago.

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