1940-03-08 — Page 9

Friday.

HONGKONG' TELEGRAPH

By Ernie

Ernie

I'M NOT

NANCY

WE WANT OUR

MONEY BACK--- THE MOVIES AREN'T

CLEAR!

AT "ALL SURPRISED-~-

WHAT'S : THE

MATTER

MOVIE,

ANYHOW?

YEAH---

IT'S SO

DIM YA

CAN HARDLY SEE IT!

WITH

THIS

KEEPING AN EYE ON

FOOD SUPPLIES:

Thanks to the vigilance of Britain's Navy, convoya

of merchant ships are arriving with regularity in British ports. This view of a convoy in the Atlantic was taken from a cruiser accompanying the ships.

One of the men whose job it is to see food ships from all over the world reach our shores in

safety.

Gretna Green Smith Is Dead

MR. DAVID R. MACINTOSH,

March 8, 1940.

Bushmiller

YOU FORGOT TO TAKE OFF YOUR

SUN-GLASSES WHEN YOU CAM

IN FROM THE BEACH!

The Men Who Volunteer for Finland

Workmen,

All

To

Soldiers

Eager Fight

Dutch Dutch Coal For Italy

Four Colliers Loading

At Amsterdam

They said the four ships which will

probably be the first ready to leave for Italy are the Amsterday (8,673

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" AMSTERDAM, March 7 (UP).— The Italian Coal Delegation at Rot- terdam to-day tdid

"United thr Prees"

by telephone that the loading VOLUNTEERS for Finland are rush-of cont ships is continuing, but the ing the recruiting office in Smith Square, delegation has no knowledge of the reported intention to send some of Westminster.'

them to Antwerp to load non-contra- band cargo. Men of all classes and ages, workmen, professional men, ex-Army officers, clerks, men in reserved occupations, are there, all eager to fight for freedom.

Twenty-nine-year-old Edward Chalmers, of Glasgow, who has worked in the United States and Canada and is now employed in a Lon-Itailan ship, which was stopped by don hotel, hopes to be off with British contraband control while the first draft. Until the out-carrying German coal from Rotter, break of war he was serving in dam to Italy, has been released as it a merchant ship, but early last was found that she salled before the embargo order came into effect but September he was paid off and was delayed later by engine trouble. had to seek a job ashore. Ho Wanted To

Could Speak

18 Tongues

PEOPLE who called on the 70-year-old hermit of Skirmett were rarely encouraged

to stay and chat.

All the people in the neighbouring village of Hambledon, Bucks, knew the Hermit, Ernest George Terry, by sight, but very few of them knew that, if he had chosen to be chatty, he could have spoken to them in eighteen languages.

Sailors 1 **disguise" an

10 look-out for enemy ships or planes. A con- stant, watch Is essential, but It is a cold Job at this time of

Year.

Vitamin Injections Cure Flu

INJECTIONS of vitamins A and D are being used to treat influenza.

A short time ago he looked in at the window of a house not far from his hut and said that he felt ill.

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His neighbours welcomed lum to their fireside.

Died On Road

Malnutrition and exposure hud

taken too great an effect on him.

His condition was so serious that an ambulance was called,

He died in it.

In his pocka police found £50 In £1 notes.

In the hut were piles of share

certificates and dividend warrants.

Be In It Quickly

tons), Glanfranco (8,181 tons) Nita (8,813 tons) and Tinn-Primo (4,853 tons).

Italian Ship Released

LONDON, Mar. 7 (Reuter)-One

It is emphasised here that cargoes seized from eight of the ships on Wednesday night will be detained until the end of the war. Then if the cargues are of Italian or neutral ownership, they will be delivered.

"I want to be in this war one way or another," he said, "and this might as good a way as any. I am 29,

The ships themselves are to be re- and it may be some time before I am leased as soon as possible. called up in the ordinary way. I can't be bothered to wait for that.

"When I heard of the volunteer

scheme from Finland I thought this might be the quickest way of getting into uniform, so I came down to see

If they would have me.

"After all, one might as well fight in Finland as in France. It seems to me it's all for the same cause, any- how.

"I mel a great many Finns when

PROSPECTS FOR FIRST EXTRA

(Continued from Page 8.)

I was in Canada. I have worked on lumber camps will them. They are hind Albiry in the Blue Mountains nice people and very pleasant to work Plate, and with Mr. D. Binck in the with. I think Flaland is having a saddle the combination is worth $5 very raw deal and I hope this volun- each way,

teer buttallon can do something to: It Busylight does not act the goat help...

in the back strelch, the chestnut. by Black Adder may be trusted with a spare Ave dollar bull

"I do not know how soon we shall

be sent to Finland, but I hope to go with the first draft.”

There was a library, too, of far-For Him It Began ous, works and some editions that may prove to be valuable.

Many Secrets

With A Holiday

mare

fo

a place. Personally, I do not like the name of the sire.

ALL OUT STAKES

Alexander Mackay, tall, 43-year-old Boolat Bay's Prospects

Queensland farmer, who came over

It was nine years ago that he to England on holiday before the war, arrived at Skirmett. His hermitage was another who signed up one! was an Army hut which he erected afternoon. He served throughout the on land purchased many years before by his father.

Appear Rosy

last war with the New Zealand BOOLAT Bay owned by Mr. S. W. Lee has been knocking His ratige as a linguist and the fact Mounted Rifles, was wounded at

Gallipoli.

at the door for a long while, and that he was a man of means were

two of his secrets. only

Immediately on the outbreak of the his prospects of coming home Here are some of the others- present war he tried to enlist in the first in the penultimate event, He had been a soldier of fortune. British Army In England. He was the All Out Stakes, for “C” class Once he commanded a Chinese not accepted, so he thought he would China ponies are rosy. Dr. W. N. Leak, of Wins-battalion in guerilla warfare. The join the Australius contingent when It will be recalled that the pony ford, Cheshire, writes in the sinn Mounted Police. "British Medical Journal" that from experience he is convinced that an injection early in the disease will usually abort it.

Boer War found him in the Rhode-his fellow countrymen arrived

Army Captain

in England. He ands now that be will was ridden by the owner to victory have to return to Australia to enlist in the West River Handicap on June "All my friends back in Australia 10, but as Mr. Lee could not steer a

Begiat

Bay was dis He served as an Interpreter of Chl-pre in the Army now, and if I went straight course. nese and Japonese in the Great War back home it would only be to join up, ed the season without scoring a win.

qualined for boring. The stes

stced finish- and held the rank of captain. but it seems to me a dreadful waste It is said that he once held an im-of time and money to travel over

February meeting, candidate succumbed to Tampa portant post for the British Govern-12,000 miles to volunteer and then ment in the For East.

to have to come back to Europe again Bay by a short head for the first whole of his time in the hut.

At Sidrett he spent nearly the to fight. The fighting is here; I want prize in the Curragh Handleap and to be in it, and this seems to me the the same margin separated him and Sometimes he would take long simplest way to do it. walks. On the raro occasions when

Later injections are helpful, he says, but in no way specific. At Work In Four Days

he came to London he would walk to From The Tropies. During the 1933, epidemie he saw Slough, 14 miles away,, to entch u To Northern Snows a man prostrated with typleal symp train. toms and a temperature of 103 de- A sister of his has been traced at grees, who anid even a mild attack Eastbourne. She has taken charge put him off work for ut least three of his affairs. weeks.

"I gave him on injection at once, and another next day, when he felt

a lot better, though his temperature was 102." adds Dr, Leak.

"Four days later I found him at

No Royal Courts- During War

the

Lee's

National Pride for the first position

in the Soochow Handicap. What was the maller? As the All Out Stakes Is an open event, Boolat Bay is in my estimation a dead certainty, and "The only thing that worries me he should be followed by Rone-Queen about the campaign in Finland is the and Laughing Cr cold. I come from North Queens- Jand, where the climate is tropical, and I am afraid I might not stand up well to weather conditions similar to those I have seen in news- paper. photographs lately.

very

I thought the recent cold spell in London the absolute limit, but I dim

No Royal Courts will be held at afraid it must have been colder than

"priest" at Gretna Hall smithyam and taking no harm. Since Buckingham Palace, this yelor Gretna Green, who had perform

his fish and

MOONIE PONDS. HANDICAP (Second Section)

ROARING Time has cost, the public a good sum of money, and the cold but with due respect to that

that in Finland. However, I have In coming to this decision the trade up, my mind to

ed more than 500'runaway wod. then he always comes to my sur-King-has followed the precedent setį is not going to stop me re

dings, is dead from pleurisy.

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gery on the slightest sign of in- by his father, King George V., in An official of the Finnish Legation astute Jockey Mr. Peter Wei, I fluenza ant asks for an Injection. He uie inst war. No functions, to take said that they have a great many would much prefer to see Mr. has not lost a day's work alnce.". the place of

the Courts were ar- volunteers to choose from, but that Needa in the saddle. Ho has a ranged between 1014-1018, and it is he could not say how many would expected that in this, also, his Ma- be accepted for service in Finland golden gift of patience with

Many volunteers are too old, others live wing on the stinker.

moody.animals, and last year he jesty will follow his father's lead.

Mothers of debutantes are not are of military age" and, " therefore making plans for formal entertain- cennot be accepted and some are handicap for be lost event, the A Roaring Time is well in on the Ing. There will be no official com- obviously not sufficiently robust ing-out dances, while the war lasts, stand up to the severities of a cam-Mobile Fonds. Handica) (second see- and he should be one of the Many girls who 'would have been paign in the Far North, presented this summer will not even "Women, too, have volunteered to favourites Happy Landings is look- ing well, but have not seen. Pum- cone to Londen: Most of them are sorve

drivers," he said.

pernickel after the Ladles Purse. Rising Star, is the pue to follow up. doing war, work at home.

Pacifism With Pastries

Mr. Macintosh, who was 53 years of age, started performing marriages over the anvil in 1938. When Mr. and Mrs, Macintosh bought the hall they revived the old romantic as- mumber of saciations securing genuine old relies and the old mar-

In wrapping up pastries for custo riage register containing the names-

Solomon Felstein Inserted of many English noblemen as well mers, as John Peel the famous huntsman..pacifist propaganda, until n customer

Mr. Macintosh won the Court of complained. Seuston fight last year between him

ля nurses and

ambulanco)

LEFT HER MAID £3,000

MRS. ALICE A. McCHINDLE, of Regent's Park-road, Southamp who died worth £30,722, left £3,000 and all the contents of her bedroom to her mald, Annie Elvish.

Felstein, a 21-year-old baker, of and his rival "priest," Mr. Stepney Green, London, E., mentioned salt George Mackie, of the old, black-this as evidence of his pacifist idents smith shop In Greina Museum who when he appeared before the South- sought to stop Mr. David Macintosh Eastern Conscientious "Objectorston, and his wife from using the words Tribunal. He was registered na-a "blackanlib's "shop" as description conscientious objector on condition of their premiaga.

that he remains in his present work.

"We were almost like sisters," Miss Elvish:anid: '1, whs in Mrs. McCrindle's employment for 37 years.

Roosevelt's Son Divorced

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 7. (Reuter). Mrs. Betsy Cuabing Roosevelt has divorce from James pbtained Roosevelt, President Roosevelt' chiest son,

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