1940-03-19 — Page 19

March 19, 1940.

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

NANCY

By Ernie Bushmiller

News from the Empire

SMUTS FACES NEW

'HERTZOG

Cupid

Cuts

The

Revenue

CAPETOWN,

ROMANCE made a slashing cut in South Africa's revenue last year, it was revealed in a report by the Revenue Commissioners to-day.

Of the seven bachelors who last

Incomes year paid tax on

of

£20,000 upward, only and is still unmarried.

The report shows that the

Union's marrying Income little over £500 a year.

in

#!

A

Sarawak EX-CROWN PRINCE IS

ASTONISHED

ATHENS.

MR. ANTHONY BROOKE who was deprived by his uncle, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, White Rafah of Sara-

FRONT'

Boers Hold Up War Law

CAPETOWN.

GENERAL SMUTS, facing for the first time a coalition of Opposition parties, was accused in South Africa's House of Assembly to-night of showing a Stalin-like "contempt of Dema- cratic procedure."

Dr. Malan, leader of the Boer Republican group, now, by the party's pact, first lieutenant to General ("Peace-with-Germany") Hertzog, was attacking the Government's Indemnity Bill, which is designed to validate war-time emergeuey regulations already effective.

Moving an amendment to the Bill,

Dr. Matun declared that "In view of the reprehensible neglect of the Gov- ernment to call Parliament carller, this House refuses to grant leave Introduce the Bill, and expressca dis- approval of the actions of the Gov- ernment under cover of the war; of In cold-blooded attack upon the free- dom of the people; of a gross misuse of public institutions for party and its; and of neglect to. economic protect the

terests of the people."

The Prime Minister, he said, had unduly delayed seeking partlamen- tary sanction for emergency war ex- penditure.

General Smutas vied with Stalln Democratic pro- in contempt of cedure, but Stalin at least openly whercos democracy, opposed General Smuts pretended to be ita protector.

"Senate Ignored" Parliament was composed of the

wak, of his title of Crown Prince, House of Assembly and the Senate, learned of his uncle's action when helyet now, after five months, Generni arrived at Athens,

Smuts was going to seek authority from the Senate for a declaration of

"I am astonished at the decision, war.

Wig tuiten No other Government - save which, for some reason, during my absence from Sarawak," Stalin's had neglected to obtain the he-sald

nanetion of their people.

"I have always served the interests of the State to the best of my ability, and I am prepared to serve thuse interests again if it is decided that my services can be of any use.

Mr. L. Blackwell, Government member for Kensington, Transvaal, asked whether Dr. Malan realised that on a solemn resolution, reaffirm- on increased ed on Saturday with majority by the House, South Afticu,

"I do not wish to dispute the rightly or wrongly, was at war with rajah's right to take this action, al-Germany. though I am surprised that he has suddenly seen fl to describe my five years' service in such brief and un- flattering terms,"

his pro-

Sir Charles Brooke, in clamation depriving Mr. Brooke his title, declared: "It

appears

This was the only country where such attempts to make it difficult

for the Government to prosecute

the war were permitted.

In carrying out the war policy of

of the people of the Union, General

to Smuts had shown his political op-

which forbearance ponents

us that our nephew is not yet fitted

to exercise the responsibilities of this would not have shown him. high position."

The debate was adjourned.

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FATHER COUGHLIN.

CANADA:

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-FEB-12

|AUSTRALIAN MINISTER IN FRANON

Mr. J. V. Fairbairn Inspects an t-aircraft gun emplacements dus-

ring his tour of the British positions in France. Mr. Fairbairn has now returned to Australia,

NEWS FROM AMERICA

Radio

NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA

Australia Tired Of Mumbling Minnie' Censor

This is how l'Ocuvre, Paris

dally, seca the "Mumbling Min- nie" of France.

"Anastasie," edit

Frenchmen Iter.

MELBOURNE.

AUSTRALIA'S Premier, Mr. R. G. Menzies, to-night promised a complete over- haul of the censorship machinery—“Mumbl- ing Minnie," Australians call it-following the muddle over Monday's news of the Anzac landing at Suez,

He gave this pledge after a meeting of the War Cabinot discussed the Dominion-wide burst of anger and ridiculo..

"We are satisfied," he said, "that some people have behaved with a high degree of stupidity, causing the Press unnecessary in- convenience and preventing the public from getting reasonable satisfaction."

It is the heavy-handed operation of the censorship at 12,000 mile range-in London -which has particularly exasperated the Press.

NAZIS FEAR 'MAGIC ́ OF WORDS'

NEW YORK.

TUERE is A lesson for the world, the New York Herald- Tribune finds to-day, in Britain's tolerance of extrenie opposition in her wartime camp.

Commenting on the Fascist at- tempts to wreek Mr. Churchill's Atanchester meeting on Saturday. the newspaper kayn:

The British, because they be leve

eve in the power of words, are not afraid of them.

"The Nazis do not respect words. They are terrified of the maglo properties they themselves have assigned to them."-leuter.

omen

400 W Priest Want To

Marry

To Be Gagged Laws By Mail

NEW YORK,

THEY'VE got Little Hitler-Fritz Kuhn, of the German-American Bund-they've got Little Stalin-Earl Browder. leader of the US. Com. munist Party and now they're after the hybrid produced by the mixture of both ideologies.

WILL

Father Charles Coughlin, once just a Roman Catholic priest, has been built up into a menace by radio companies anxious to provide a Sunday sop for-their-listeners..

STAY ON JOB

TORONTO.

"

They built him up until he had 4,000,000 listeners every week.

Now he has grown too big for thent to throw down.

Him

THEN a certain Army dis

W

Monday's muddle in London allow- ed the B.B.C. Empire broadcast to announce the arrival of the troops at Suez four hours before on announce- Iment of their landing "somewhere in the Middle East," was released by the Department of Information here.

The Sydney Sun expresses this ex- asperation in a leader which says: The fumbling hand of Mumbling Minnie has renched out and caught Australia in its grip.

"Minnic has created siluation which would have been incredibly farclen if it were not so Incredibly {tragle.

POLICE GUARD WOOL

SPECIAL police guards were post- ed on the docks at Launceston, Tas- {monia, to-day, after Bre was dis- covered in a cargo of 8,000 hales of wool awaiting shipment to Britain.

Sabotage is suspected, and detec- tives are checking up on the records of all Germans in the Island.

Deaths in the heat-wave which has scared Eastern Australla for the last few days to-night total forty- ninė.

Bush fires are threatening three New Soutli Wales towns-Binalong. Bowning and Barlido. Scores of. homesteads and sheep station have been devastated.

CHANGE IN DALLOT

with

CANBERRA—There is nothing the present patch rider arrives home radically wrong from France on leave in the Australian system of voting, but it is next few days he will be proving just a little disillusioning to

constituencies. handed 400 offers of marriage. those who sollelt the votes of the The situation which has caused For the moment the offers--nently

tied up in a parcel-are in the safe the Government to bring in legisla- keeping of Mr. A. C. Boucher, Lion to change the system is this:

and matchmaker of

The Australian cicctor has an eye ex-mayor Twickenham.

to the quickest way of getting his Mr. Boucher undertook to find a wife voting job done. So, when he sets a the soldier by the time he ar-long list of candidates for the Senate- which is elected under a compllented rived home. hand the lot over," Mr. Boucher pulse is to vote for the names at the shall meet him when he lands and preferential system-his natural im-

top of the lat Buld.

The names on the ballot paper be- "The young fellow seems an admir

able type for a husband. He willing in alphabetical order, those be- ginning with A have been liable to be 22 during his leave.

"I

for

fe explained to me that he has turn out victorious, while 5% and W's might just lost his mother and misses her and others low on the list, who badly leaved no cal prestige,

but gave up the sea to become found themselves out in the cold. professional footballer before the anti-This may be Mr. Boucher's last ven-

anti-

More temporal than spiritual in his doctrines, Coughlin is Roosevelt, anti-Democracy, Jewish and in the eyes of many anti-Christian.

Afraid of muking him

martyr,

the Roman Catholic Church have not interfered with him.

Now the Department of Justice are CANADA'S Premier, Mr. Mackenzie King, said to-day that after him, attacking him in the same and Browder. They are not taking he and his Ministers will not allow electioneering duties to inter-way they attacked Al Capone, Kuhn action against him for being a mem- fere with their prosecution of the war.

Even at the risk of losing their ber of the Christian Front organisa

the present seats, he said, the members of the tion-which is alleged to have been Cabinet would stay "on the job in pledged to overthrow Ottawa, relying on the Press to get system of government in Amerien.

They are taking action against him their message across to the electors."

Dr. Manion, Opposition Concer-alleging that he made "unlawful use vative leader, is likely to make al of the American malls" and filed a faise statement with the United coast-to-coast speaking tour.

Mr. Mitchell States Post Office. A full investiga- In Ontario, where their censure of the Mackenzie King war effort, did much to precipitate

DELAY IN NEW YORK

To Carry Mail

Oslo, Mar, 18...

war."

wark

Labour's gains in the 1937 election were explained in no small measure by an ingenious choice of candidates having names beginning with the firel

ture in match-making.

don't like the reputation my hus-letters of the alphabet. band is getting of being the match- maker of Twickenham," said his wife.

Labour gained all the New South cascati, for example, with a all of whose names began with

"I was moved by this young man's A, which gave them the strategic loss of his mother and let my hus-position on the ballot paper, thus at- band help him. Otherwise I would tracting the suffrages of bewildered

and inexperienced voters, have put my foot down." awkward situation, for he had 30 And this places Mr. Boucher in an more uppeals from lonely men. METALS COLLECTION Nazi Appeal to Signalise Hitler's Birthday

Berlin, Mar. 17. Front page appeals in the morning

pro newspaper to-day started a paganda campaign for the biggest collection of old metal objects held in Germany:

ever

Norwegian Liner Refuses Hepburn's Liberal Government, by tion is promised "in due course."

Radioralor Coughlin replied to-day the election, the Cabinet are taking to this move: "Those who sit in the

The collection will last for two world of a no active part in the Federal olce-seats of the mighty are responsible.

weeks and is expected to yield five The Nurge-America Line has pro- tlon, but Liberal members will be They want to rid the

thousand tons of copper, bronze, tin tested to the United States against the permitted by Mr. Hepburn to do as troublesome priest."

and nickel.. halting of the crack passenger boat they wish.

Housewives who are generous will oldest

certificates, which will give receive Bergensfjord by New York Customs

AMERICA'S Meers, reportedly because she re-

New York home. Captain Richard objects after the war, fused to carry mall. The Line's office reports that the vessel was released Hepburn's Joining with the Ontario World War I. died in his bed at his them preference in buying metal

The newspapers' comment. Drew, in supporting Dr. Manion's

Field Marshal 945 Tino Rossi (Vocal) and the /10-day and is leaving New York with Conservative Leader, Colonel George Peters, who enlisted at the age of

proposal for a National Government. seventy, was ninety-two, and i apryfact that the collection has been de

It is reported that he has realisedjoldster until the last. that his censure motion may prove

Signal and

9.62 Concert Waltzes. 9.15 London Helay-The News. 9.30 London Relay-"Cards on the Table."

13.30 Turner Layton and Duke Ellington and his orchestra,

1.00 Local Weather. Report.

Time

1.03, Tohalkowsky-Capriccio, Ita- Orchestra Raymonde. ilan, Op: $5.

Boston Promenade Orchestra con- ducted by Arthur Fiedler.

passengers.

200

The Bergenstjord was stopped on the blockada l'a few occasions by 10.13 Dance Mule.

authorities at Kirkwall for removal Fox-Trols I Can't Give You Any-of mail, which thus not only risked 1.20 Two Songs by Theodore Cha-thing But Love My Last Year's Gal, the steamer by having to pass

....Harry Roy and His Orchestra, Hapino (Basi),

11.00 Close Down,

1.30 Router and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast

ments,

and Announce-

1.45 Variety with The Mila Brn- thers, Clapham and Dwyer, and the

Ballyhooligans,

2.16 Close Down..

A MISSING DRUMMER

Drummer R. W. McCormick, of the

mall would refuse

lowed to pass the blockade.---Unlled |

Boomerang There is little likelihood

of Mr.

soldier in

on the

He died from the effects of a frac-creed-boy clear to the euchrer"

a political boomerang, threatening tured hip,

a fallimited Press. received during

to throw him from office by allenat-while dancing two weeks ago. ing the affections both of the Pro-. vincial and the Federal Liberal organisations.

REPUBLICANS, seeking a presi-

MINERS FORGO LEAVE

through belligerent waters but, also entalled a big dolay to passengers, although in the last eastward crossing

London, Mar. 18. " One indication of the way the wind dential candidate to oust the popular the vessel spent two hours at Kirk-

A meeting of 10,000 coal miners Brant Riding constituency, where the of their hopes on the sex-appeal of getting there.

who hasNotinghamshire, unanimously agreed vall in addition to a day's detour in is blowing was seen in Ontario's President Roosevelt, are pinning most

The Norge-American Line therefore Provincial Liberal Organisation un-Thomas Dewey, crusading District employed in the Bolsover Colllery, and was thus ing Mr. Mackenzie King's war effort. Jalled most of the city's big-time during the week-end to forgo a large,

Mr. Henry Nixon, Ontario's Proracketeers, gangsters, and vice lords.

Women are beings to be considered park of their holidays in order to Increase British production of cool. 6.00 B.B.C. Recording-"The Mist 2nd Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers, agreed with Britain that the steamer animously passed a resolution prais-Attorney of New York, know appeared before Mr. Macfadyen af

vincial Secretary, who represents the

as much The men agreed to reducing their Riding, and who supported Mr. Hep-In America. They the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday pre

conceded that and admitted that he had been absent

burn's censure measure, in to be sent about polilies na do their husbands, Easter holiday by a half, to forgo part from fils regiment without leave.

a copy of the association's resolution, and it is generally

women wear the pants" in at least of the summer holiday of a week and

nst to work on olternate Saturdays.

In return the colliery company fitty per cent, of America's families, so Dewey has shaltered political prece guarantees no lowering of the basic 8,000,000 Stamps Sold: dent by appointing a woman as, his wage rates during Use war and the manager tall, dynamic men will receive the some amount campaign

holiday savings Eight million stamps were sold in Ruth Anna Simms, who has been from the summer

holiday-British Wireless. day auction at Harmer's, Bond-street, was sixteen, less than eight hours during a three-making political speeches since the fund as if they had taken the full.

of the Years"

Devised and produced by John Music arranged by. Jan Gough. White.

0.29 Closing Local Block Quota- tions:

6,36 Fopular Classics compered from the Bibdio,

7.38 London Relay-The News, 8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements,....

Sub-Inspector Kellett said that defendant had deserted on June 13, 1937, about the time the regiment lėkt for Sudan and was only located on Sunday.

An order was made by Mr. Mac- red into military custody,

8.63. Noel Coward in some of his fadyen for defendant to be transfer-

Musical Plaja,

FINNS FOR AUSTRALIA Sydney, Mar. 16. to settle Finnish immi- -A plan is being considered by the Australian grants in Australia on a large scale Government.

This was disclosed by the Premier, Mr. R. G. Menzies, in a broadcast Reuter Bulletin.

Queensland elected Labour Senators, one of the names beginning with B and the other two with C. The insigni ficant Social Credit Party in that state

all with. team of three candidates polled astonishingly well with a numes beginning with A. In Victoria

Labour chose men whose names en- sured their being at the top of the ballot paper.

Western Australia, and Tasmania, 200,

⠀ HARDY MARRIED -

Loa! Vegas, (Mexico), Mar. 0.

comedian, The well-known tlm Oliver Hardy, has married Virginia Jones, of Beverly Hills, California,

-Reuter,

DOLORES. "DEL RIO

Hollywood, Mar, 13. The film actress Dolaren del Rio,

be separated after alne years of marriage-United Prest and Mr. C. Gibbons are admitted to

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