1940-03-19 — Page 9

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 19, 1940.

NANCY

By Ernie

Bushmiller

News from the Empire

SMUTS

FACES

NEW

HERTZOG FRONT'

Cupid

Cuts

The

Revenue

CAPETOWN.

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

of

Of the seven bachelors who fast

incomes year paid tax on

£20,000 upward, enly one is all unmarried.

The report shows that the Union's marrying Income in Nitto over £500 a year.

Sarawak

21

EX-CROWN PRINCE IS

ASTONISHED

ATHENS,

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 Demo- cratic procedure."

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

Moving an amendment to the Bill,

Dr. Malan declared that "In view of

the reprehensible neglect of the Gov- ernment to enl Parlament earlier, this House refuses to grant leave to introduce the Bill, and expresses dis- Gov- the japproval of the actions of

ernment under cover of the wor; of cold-blooded attack upon the free- dom of the people; of a gross misuse of public institutions for party and political purposes; and of neglect to promote and protect the economic interests of the propie.".

The Prime Minister, he said, had unduly delayed sceking parliamen tary sunction for emergency war ex- penditure.

General Smut vied with Stalin

in evntemnt of Democratic pro- cedure, but Stelin at least openly tiemoc pey whercas opposed General Smuls pretended to be its protector.

MR. ANTHONY BROOKE who

"Senato Ignored" was deprived by his uncle, Sir Charles!

Parliament was composed of the Vyner Brooke, While Rajah of Sara- wak, of his title of Crown Prince, House of Assembly and the Senate, learned of his uncle's action when he jyet now, after five months, General Smuts was going to seek authority arrived at Athens.

From the Senate for a declaration of

"I am astonished at the decision, war which, for some reason, was taken No olher Government save during my absence from Sarawak." Stalin's-hat neglected to obtain the he said.

sanction of their people.

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

Government Mr. L. Blackwell, member for Kensington; Transvaal, asked whether Dr. Malan realised that on a solemn resolution, reafirm- ed

Increased Saturday with majority by the House, South Africa,

on

"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 it to describe my five years service in such brief and un- flattering terms,"

pro-

This was the only country where such attempts to make it "dimcult

for the Government to prosecute the war were permitted.

In carrying out the war policy of Brooke of the people of the Union, General

Sir Charles Brooke, in his clamation depriving Mr.

his title, declared: "It appears to Smuts had shown his political op- us that our nephew is not yet fitted ponents

forbearance which they

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

The debate was adjourned.

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FATHER COUGHLIN,

CANADA:

*FCD-12

AUSTRALIAN MINISTER IN FRANCE

Mr. J. V. Fairbairn Inspects an t-aircraft gun emplacements du- ring his tour of the British positions in France, Mr. Fairbairn has now returned lo Australia.

NEWS FROM AMERICA

Radio To Be By Mail

CABINET WILL

NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA

Australia Tired Of Mumbling Minnie' Censor

This is how l'Oeuvre, Paris daily, scea the Mumbling Min- nir of France, "Anastasie," Frenchmen call Hier.

MELBOURNE,

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

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

"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 │nounce the arrival of the troops at

OF WORDS'

NEW YORK. THERE is a lesson for the world, the New York Herald- Tribune finds to-day, in Britain's tolerance of extreme opposition in her warilme camp.

Commenting on the Fascist at. tempts to wreck Mr. Churchill's Manchester meeting on Saturday, the newspaper says:

"The

British, because they be lieve in the power of words, are not afraid of them.

"The Nazis do not respect words. They are terrified of the magle properties they themselves have assigned to them."—Reuter,

***

omen

400 W Priest Want To

Gagged Laws

NEW YORK.

THEY'VE got Little Hitler-Fritz Kuhn, of the German-American Bund-they've got Little Stalin-Earl Browder. leader of the U.S. Com-

Marry

Him

TXTHEN a certain Army dis-

Monday's muddle in London allow-, ed the D.D.C. Empire broadcast, to

Suez four hours before an announco- 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 BOYS: "The fumbling hand of Mumbling Minnic hun reached out and caught Australia In its grip, ***

"Minnie has created a situation which would have been incredibly fureleul if it were not so 'Incredibly tragle.

POLICE GUARD' WOOL

SPECIAL police guards were post- ed on the docks at Launceston, Tos- munia, to-day, after fire was dis- covered in a cargo of 3,000 hales of wool awaiting shipment to Britain.

Sabotage is suspected, and 'detec- {tives' ure checking up on the records

of all Germans in the island.

Deaths in the heat-wave which has scared Eastern Australia for the last few days-to-night, total forly- nine.

Bush fres are threatening, three. New South Wales towns-Binalong. Bowning and Barildu. Scores of homesteads and sheep.station have been devastated.

CHANGE IN BALLOT

CANBERRA.--There

IN nothing

W1 patch rider arrives home radically wrong with the present

from France on leave in the Australian system of voting, but it is next few days he will be proving just a little dieillusioning to Votes of the constituencies. handed 400 offers of marriage.those who solicit 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, then to change the system is this!

and matchmaker of The Australian elector has an eye ex-Mayor Twickenham.

to the quickest way of getting his Boucher undertook to find a wife voting job done. So, when he sees n

which is clected under a complicated

munist Party--and now they're after the hybrid Mr. the soldier by the time he ar-long list of candidates for the Senate-

produced by the mixture of both ideologies.

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.

CANADA'S Premier, Mr. Mackenzie King, said to-day that he and his Ministers will not allow electioneering duties to inter- fere with their prosecution of the war.

DELAY IN NEW YORK

Norwegian Linor Refuses To Carry Mail

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

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

for

Sold

rived home. shall meet him when he lands and preferential system-his natural im- hand the lot over," Mr. Boucher pulse is to vote for the names at the

top of the list.

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 able to be 22 during lile leave. "He explained to me that he has turn out victorious, while S's and W's just lost his mother and misses her and others low on the list, who might badly. He had a good naval re- have far greater political prestige, cord, but gave up the sea to become found themselves out in the cold. a professional footballer before the Labour's gains in the 1937 election were explained in no small messure war."

may be Mr. Boucher's last ven- by an Ingenious choice of candidates having names beginning with the first ture in match-making.

More temporal than spiritual in 15 anti- his

doctrines, Coughlin

anti-This Roosevelt, anti-Democracy, Jewish and-in the eyes of many- anti-Christian.

Afraid of making him a martyr, the Roman Catholic Church have not Interfered with him.

Now the Department of Justice are after him, attacking him in the same way they attacked Al Capone, Kuhn und Browder. They are not taking action against him for being a mem- ber of the Christian Front organisa- Even at the risk of losing their tion-which is alleged to have been the present seats, he said, the members of the pledged to overthrow Cabinet would stay "on the job in system of government in America, Ottawa, relying on the Press to get They are taking action against him their message across to the electors."

Dr. Manion, Opposition Conser-alleging that he inade "unlawful use vative lender, is likely to malte a of the American malls" and fled a false statement with the United coast-to-coast speaking tour.

Mitchell States Post Office. A full investiga- Mr. In Ontario, where

|

"I don't like the reputation my hus-letters of the alphabet.

band is getting of being 'the match- makter of Twickenham,'

wile.

Labour gained all the New South

"sald his Wales seats, for example, with a

team all of wliose narnes 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- of bewildered band help him. Otherwise I would tracting the suffrages

and inexperienced

voters, have put my foot down."

Queensland I elected Labour Senators, awkward situation, for he had 30 one of the names beginning with B anad the allier Lwo with C C. The insigni- And this places Mr. Doucher in an more appeals from lonely men.

ficant Social Credit Party in that state

with METALS COLLECTION polled astonishingly well

Team of three candidates all with rumes beginning with A. In Victoria. Nazi Appeal to Signalise Western Australia, and Tammaniu, too, Labour chose men whose names en- Hitler's Birthday

sured their being at the top of the ballot paper.

over

Berlin, Mar. 17. Front page appeals.in the morning newspaper, to-day started a pro- the biggest Hepburn's Liberal Government, by tion is promised "in due course." their censure of the Mackenzie King Radiorator Coughlin replied to-day poganda campaign for war effort, did much to precipitate to this move: Those who alt in the collection of old metal objects the election, the Cabinet are taking seats of the mighty are responsible. held in Germany:

world of a no, active part, in the Federal elec- They want to rid the Oslo, Mar. 18.

tion, but Liberal members will be permitted by Mr. Hepburn to do as they wish.

Boomerang

'troublesome priest.""

soldier

in

The collection will last for two weeks and is expected to yield five thousand tons of copper, bronze, tin. and nickel.

HARDY MARRIED.

Las Vegas, (Mexico), Mar. 6. The well-known film comedian, Oliver Hardy, has married. Virginia Jones, of Beverly Hills, California.

Reuter, a eng

DOLORES DEL RIO

Hollywood, Mar, 13. The film actress Dolores del Rio, be separated after nine years of and Mr. C. Gibbsins are admitted to on the

Housewives who are generous will AMERICA'S oldest There is little likelihood of Mr. World War I. died in his bed at his receive certificates which will give Hepburn's joining with the Ontario New York home. Captain Richard them preference in buying metal

The newspapers comment, Conservative Leader, Colonel George Peters, who enlisted at the age of objects after the war. Drew. in supporting Dr. Manion's seventy, was ninety-two, and a spry fact that the collection has been desinge.-United Press. proposal for a National Government, oldster until the last.

crted, by Field Marshal Goering as -United Press,

It is reported that he has realised He died from the effects of a frac- that his censure motion may prove tured. hip, received during

TILLES

a political boomerang, threatening while dancing two weeks ago. to throw him from offee by allenat- ing the nflections both of the Pro-

a fall

The Nurge-America Line has pro tested to the United States against the halting of the crack passenger bout Bergensfjord by New York Customs Dioz Concert Waltzes. 8.15 London Kelay-Tho News. officers, reportedly because she re- 9.80 London Helay"Cards on the fused to carry mall. The Line's office reports that the vessel was released Table."

to-day and is leaving New York with 2.45 Tino Iloss! (Vocal) and the 263 passengers.

The Bergeastford was stopped on 1.03 Tchaikowsky-Capriccio Ita-Orchestra Raymonde.

by the blockade It few occasions Han, Up. 45.

10.13 Dance Music.

authorities at Kirkwall for removal Fox-Trois-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

.Harry Roy and His Orchestra. through belligerent waters but also entailed a big delay to passengers, 11.00 Close Down,

although in the last castward crossing the vessel spent two hours at Kirk- retting there.

The Norge American Lloe therefore Drummer R. W. McCormick, of the agreed with Britain that the steamer mail. and was thus 5.00 B.B.C. Recording-The Mist 2nd Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers, would refuse

appeared before Mr. Macfadyen ni lowed to pass the blockade.United of the Years

Devised and produced by John the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday Music arranged by Ian and admitted that he had been absent Gough.

from his regiment without leave. White.

anick that 0.20 Closing Local' Stock Quote

Sub-Inspector Kellett tions,

defendant had deserted on June 19, 1937, about the time the regiment left for Sudan and was only located on Sunday,

Weather Forecast and Announce-

ments,"

1.48. Variety with The Mills Bro

thera

organisations.

Clapham and Dwyer, and the A MISSING DRUMMER | vail In addition to a day's detour in is blowing was seen in Ontario's of their hopes on the sex-appeal of

Bally hooligana

2.15 Close Down.

9.30 Topalar Classics compered from the Studio.

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

8.08. Nool Coward in some of his Musical Plays,

An order was made by Mr. Mac- fadyen for defendant to be transfer- 'red into military custody,

Press

"a birthday present to the Fuchrer" MINERS FORGO LEAVE

vincial and the Federal Liberal REPUBLICANS, seeking a presi- One indication of the way the wind dential candidate to oust the popular President Roosevelt, are planing must

London, Mar. 18. A meeting of 10,000 coal-miners Brant Riding constituency, where the

Attorney of New York, who has employed in the Bolsover Colliery, Provincial Liberat Organisation un Thomas Dewey, crusading District animously passed a resolution prals-failed most of the city's big-time Nottinghamshire, unanimously agreed ing Mr. Mackenzie King's war effort. racketeers, gangsters, and vice lords. during the week-end to forgo a large,

Mr. Henry Nixon, Ontario's Pro-

Women are beings to be considered part of their holidays in order to Increase British production of coal. vincial Secretary, who represents the Riding, and who supported Mr. Hep in America. They know as much The men agreed to reducing their AUSTRALIA burn's censure measure, is to be sent about polities as do their husbands, Easter hoilday by a half, to forgo part conceded that of the summer holiday of a week and a copy of the association's resolution. and It is generally

women "wear the panta" in at least to work on alternate Saturdays. Sydney, Mar. 18,

fifty per cent. of America's families, so In return the colllery company A plan to settle Finnish Immi-

Dewey has shattered political preco guarantees no lowering of the basic grants in Australia on a large: scalo is being considered by the Australian 8,000,000 Stamps Sold dent by appointing a woman us his wage rates during the war and the dynamic men will receive the same amount campaign manager-tall,

holiday savinga Government, not

Eight million stamps were sold In Ruth Anna Simms, who has been from the summer This was disclosed by the Premier,

holiday-British Wirelen. Mr. R. G. Menzies, in a broadcast-less than eight hours during a three-making political speeches' since she fund as if they had taken the full Reuter Bulletin.

day auction at Harmer's, Bond-street. was cixteen.

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