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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 26, 1940.

DONALD

DUCK

By Walt

Disney

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SHE'S ON HER WAY TO AUSTRALIA

THIS PHOTOGRAPH, hitherto unpublished in Hongkong, shows the 35,000-ton Maure- tania, successor of the "Grand Old Lady of the Atlantic" which did such yeoman service transporting troops in the 1914-18 war, as she left England for her maiden voyage across the Atlantic.

The new Mauretania is now en route to Australia, where she will be utilised for con- veying Australian and New Zealand troops. the famous Anzacs-to the Middle East.

PIANO WAS POISON TO THIS MUSICIAN

ARNOLD DOLMETSCH is dead-but his work will go on.

His family will continue to hold the annual music festivals at Haslemere in Surrey, which have become famous all over the world.

said.

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SANDERS

10,000

KIMBERLEY.

IN one of the small hotels of Kimberley to-day, I talked with Ex-Sergeant Britiz, real-life "Sanders of the River," and learned from him for ten years he ruled alone over 10,000 natives in Caprivi-Zipvel, the tongue of once German South-West Africa which stretches for nearly 200 miles from the Okavanga River to the Zambesi.

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Not Going To Give My Husband Away-You Wouldn't

Deserter She Hid For Two Months Was Found in False Roof

FOR over two months police searched for a deserter from the Royal Engineers. Several times they visited his house. Each time his wife said he was not there and she did not know where he was. Then he was discovered hiding in the false roof of his home.

To the detective who found him the wife said: "I was not going to give my.hus- band away-you wouldn't."

The story was told at Lincoln police court when the wife, Elsie Tollerton, of Westwick Gardens, Lincoln, was summoned for alding Sapper Tollerton to conceal liimself, The Trap Door That

Would Not Open Police vihits to the Tollertons' home were described by Mr. L. C. Rysdale (prosecuting).

wait

Leave Saved Him Twice

NORMAN PARSONS' father) went down in the Titanic in 1912.

But Norman Parsons still wanted to follow the sca

He joined the R.N.V.R. He was posted to the minesweeper Aragonite, She struck a mine and

Bank.

Eventually, he said, Detective-Ser- geant Needham asked Mrs. Tollerton If she would let him search the house, She agreed, but requested him to

while she dressed the baby. She he came home, so she kept him there. then admitted him.

When he got better she wanted him to The detective searched the rooms,ive himself up but he would not but found no clue. He tried to get do so. into the false roof, but could not; someone was standing on the trap- door.

When he did climb to the false roof he found Sapper Tollerton hiding be- hind a beam in the eaves, Sha Kept Him

To Get Well

Mrs. Tollerton told the magistrates that her husband was not well when

The chairman said that as Mrs. Tollerton did not seem to realise the

But he was on leave.

Then he was posted to the mine- layer Sphinx, Bho foundered after being damaged by enemy air attack. Again Lieutenant Parsons leave.

was on

His home is in Wuton Road, Southampton.

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She was bound over for 12 months and ordered to pay 103 costs. [Sapper Tollerton had previously been before the Court and handed over to a military escort]

Leg Broken, Crawled To Save Messmates

A MAN with a broken leg dragged himself along the deck of the sinking destroyer Grenville and saved the lives of many of her crew struggling to the water.

He crawled twenty feet to turn the ---- safety switch controlling the depth- charge apparatus.

Able Seaman W. Pitt, one of the destroyer's 118 survivors, said: "The charges might have exploded. They would have killed many of us,

"I don't know the man's name. He was a scamnan

"After he had turned on the safety switch he slid over the side into the water.

"He was picked up almost iminedi-į ately it thrilled us to see him going.

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along the deck. We knew what his and quick thinking, bravery Pitt, who is nineteen, and lives in Pretoria-road, Eastrigns, Dumfrict shire, was swept overboard by a wave, and foundered in the sea for! "But I did it, and made him walk, twenty-five minutes before he was, Elght men in the Grenville werej Brittz is spending a few days in under escort, back to the post. He picked up. the diamond city-his home town was jailed, but reinstated as heir to killed when she was mined or tor-

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After that he is to take over an

Mrs. Brittz, sald: "Our food administrative post in the Native Affairs Department-the Union Gov-mostly tinned and clothing had to ernment's reward for his ten years be ordered in six-monthly consign- ments. They were brought by rail "It was in 1029 that I set off, with from Bulawayo to Livingstone, and my wife and three children, from then carried by native canoes 10 police headquarters in Windhoek," he miles up river." said.

"After a difficult journey through

the Caprivi Swamps, I took over my "It will be the best sort of in life was the rescue from neglect of station-a few mud-walled, thutchod memorial to him," one of the family sixteenth and sevententh century and huts, on the banks of the upper Zam- earlier music and the instruments on beal, about 100 miles above Living- wldch this music

was originally stone.

"With no white man for many played.

miles around, I had to evolve my own system of government.

Dolmetsch, who died a few days after his 02nd birthday, did not like the world. So he refused to live in it all his life,

Torror And Delight

He was an intolerant man, the ter-

ror and delight of his very big family. At Haslemere, where they all lived, he, created his own world-n world of quiet and beauty, fine craftsman- ship in fils workshops and French herbs' growing in his front garden.

lle taught his family to make thel Instruments as well as play them. From his workshops at Haslemere "I trained nine fairly intelligent have come harpsichords, virginals, lutes, viols and accorders which are natives to act as policemen, and with

lovely to look at as to hear.

Plano Was Poison

their old I enforced my rough and rendy code of Justice.

Hippo Quota Crimo

Ing.

Died On Duty

--In 1914-18

AS tho' destroyer Grenville · was] ming in the sea heard her radio stil working. An announcer's voice sald havely. "The next dance number will be 'Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones' "

Survivor Jimmy Boyle, of Spring- burn, Glasgow, told about it in a Glasgow dance hall. He said: "We all heard It, and wo laughed and

"Our captain

swimming

MEN excavating in the gar- den of a houso far from the laughed. British lines in France found

CANADIANS GO TO THE POLLS feat from the surface.

#DAL

Krzy

the skeleton of a man several around in the sea, hollering Roll out the barrel" at the top of his volco. was a The whole thing was like Attached to the skeleton OTTAWA, Mar. 25 (Neuter)British identity dise bearing the dream.

"I was holding to a spar with three Canada goes to the polls to-morrow name and unit of a man who was after what is generally regarded as posted as "missing" in the last war. others. We drifted close to the bow the dullest and the most placid elec No one can tell how this soldier of the ship, and saw Sidney Brom tion campaign in Canadian history. of the last war died for his comm-feld perched on the porthole.

try, but it is thought that be was killed by a shell which caused a Irench to collapse on him as he stood at his post.

Week-end blizzards in Quebec and Ontario, and severe weather in popular voic. Western Canada, threaten to curian

brave

"He was cock-a-hoop. Ha shouted: 'How would you like to be up here alco and dry?

after French Canada's vote has remained

"When I looked around Find One A Wook questionable despite the Liberals

The British War Graves Commis chatting to Sidney I found. I was great provincial victory in Quebec Musle of any later age he barely

last year.

sion will take charge of the skeleton on the sper alone. The others Just tolerated. The piano ho hated "the

"My most difficult case was that of

The Liberals have not enunciated and inter ft with the honours due to couldn't keep their grip.

man. Relatives will bo "A boat came along. Some one beastliest instrument the world has chief's son who was summoned for a very clear cut programme but have a

ave years notified as soon as identification is grabbed me by the hair and yanked mixture of ever ancered from," he once said, and trial charged with killing more than requested a mandate for His houso" was a

me out of the sen. vortanand bench wal and

to many more beside.

complete. based on their record. the tribe's quota of hippos. museum,

"I'm here litterbugging tonight to It was his.

It is not unusual for bodies to bo own homely cottage:

The Opposition Conservatives have life-long inability made. being

ajto be idle which caused his death. He stayed in his kerani, 'refusing to been content with attacking the Gov-found in France oven now, twenty-y to forget those three boys who let Instruments, new ones

ernment's past performance and are two years after the war ended. On

60," teh-table that really groaned, and He broke a blood-vessel by exerting obey the summons.

The dance band started. "Pardon Jittle old man like Rembrandt self-himself too soon after a

"It needed all long illness,

my courage to advancing rather vague proposals for an average more than one a week

said Scamon Boyle. "I'm walk, with two police boys, right changes if they win.

la reported to the War Graves Comme," portrait barking prejudices at you be- and then calight flu, tween mouthfuls,

Two days before the end he was into the man's villago, and take The Liberals are still expected to mission, which has a permanent staff giving my brother's girl friend this

have a clear majority of about 50. here. him from among his tribe. Arnold Dolmetsch's self-created job' playing the violin sitting up in bed."

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