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DONALD DUCK

NOPE! YA STILL HAVEN'T EVEN HIT

THE TARGET!

.Cor. 1940

2-10

Tuesday,

HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH

March 26,

1940.

By Walt Disney

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SHE'S ON HER WAY TO AUSTRALIA

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THIS PHOTOGRAPH, hitherto unpublished in Hongkong, shows the 35,000-ton Maure- tania, successor of the "Grand Old Lady of the Atlantic" which did such yeoman service transporting troops in the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

so on.

ARNOLD DOLMETSCH is dead-but his work will His family will continue to hold the annual music festivals at Haslemere in Surrey, which have become famous all over the world.

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Told Detective: "I Was 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 pollee court when the wife, Elsie Gardiens, Tollerton, of Westwick Lincoln, was summoned for alding Sapper Tollerion to conceal himself, The Trap Door That

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

Eventually, he sald, Detective-Ser- geant Needham asked Mrs. Tollerton

If she would let him search the house. She agreed, but requested him to wait while she dressed the baby. She then admitted him.

The detective searched the rooms, but found no clue. He tried to get 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. She Kept Him

To Get Well

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

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.

he came home, so she kept him there. When he got better she wanted him to give himself up but he would not do so.

The chairman said that as Mrs. Tollcrion did not seem to realise the seriousness of the offence, the would be dealt with leniently,

She was bound over for 12 months and ordered to pay 10s. 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 in the water.

He crawled twenty feet to tum the safety switch controlling the depth- charge apparatu

UTAN

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

don't

know the man's name. He was a seaman,

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

"He was picked up almost immedi-

ately. It thrilled us to see him going!

along the deck. We knew what his and quick thinking bravery

meant.'

We were swimming, it was cold, then we heard

THE NEXT

DANCE NUMBER

will be "Fraklin D. Roosevelt joncs," and we

LAUGHED

with Richard Tauber (Tenor).-Dai Masque, Light Symphony Orchestra;

Pitt, who is nineteen, and Hves in Indian Love Call, Richard Tauber (Tenor) with Grand Symphony Or chestra: Mon Reve, Light Symphony Pretoria-rond, Eastrigen, Dumfries- Orchestra: O Rose Marie, I Love You, shire, was swept overboard by n Richard Tauber (Tenor) with Grand wave, and foundered in the sea for

Orchestra: Symphony

Babylonian twenty-five minutes before he was Nights, In The Sudan, Alfred Van plcked up. 12.30 Musical Comedy Selections.

Eight men in the Grenville were 12.47 Gershwin-Rhapsody in Blue. Dam and His Gaumont State Orch.;

Somewhere A Voice Is Calling, killed when she was mined or wr- --Boston Orchestra conducted by Arthur Fielder with J. M. Sanroma Richard Tauber (Tenor) with Orch; pedoed, and seventy-three are miss-slipping under the waves men swies-

Parade of the Imps, George Grchrock-ing. Ferrari and His Orchestra.

cession.

at the Plano.

1.0 Local Time Signal and Weather Report.

9.16 London Bolay-News 8um-

1.03 Harry Roy and His Orchestra London Relay-"Cards on the in Dance, Music.

1.18 Itale da Costa at the Piano,

Romance,

Table"

A Sketch...

Died On Duty

---In 1914-18

As the destroyer Grenville was! ming in the sea heard her radio stil working. An announcer's voice said suavely.. "The next dance number Koostyclt wiil bo Franklin D. Jones."

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

"Our captain Wast swimming around in the sea, hollering Roll out the barrel' at the top of his volce. The whole thing was like a crazy dream.

0.20 0.45 Bizet The Fair Maid of Perik- 1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, Wea-Suite Sir Thomas Beecham con- ther Forecast and Announcements..

MEN excavating in the gar- 1.45 Variety with Clapham and ducting the London Philharmonic

Blanio Hale, Ronald Orchestra. Dwyer,

British lines in France found Alone, Binnia Hale Mine

the skeleton of a man several Murgatroyd, and Others-Musle for 10-B.B.C.. Recording-Toor oid den of a house far from the with Organ Accomp; Want To Be

I

10.15. Selections from Gilbert and feet from the surface. Sidney Torch;

rch; Sullivan's "The Gondollers."

skeleton was a Attached to the "It will be the best sort of¡ in life was the rescue from neglect of Snappy-Medley,

10.10 Mozart Symphony in D memorial to him," one of the family sixteenth and sevententh century and Clapham and Dwyer on Photography,

("Parla"). Sir Thomas British Identity disc bearing the

"I was holding to a spar with three marlier music and the Instruments on Clapham and Dwyer: Love, Forever for

tho conducting Adore You, In Your Arms To-night,

London name and unit of a man who was Beechurn was originally Ronald Murgatroyd (Tenor) with Philharmonic Orch.

posted as "missing" in the Inst war. others. We drifted close to the bow Dolmetsch, who died a few days which this music

No one can tell how this soldier of the ship, and saw Sidney Brom Violin and Piano; Lulu's Back In

110 Close down. after his 02nd birthday, did not like played.

of the last war died for his coun- field perched on the porthole. He taught his family to make the Town, In A Little Gipsy Tea Room, the world. So he refused to live in

try. but it is thought that he was instruments Ra well as play them. George Scott-Wood with Instrumental

killed by a shell which caused a it all his life.

From his workshops at Haslemere accomp.

trench to collapse on him as he stood at his post.

said,

•

Terror And Delight

have come harpsichords, virginals, 2.18 Close down.

utes, viols and accorders which are 0.0 An hour of Dance Music.

as lovely to look at as to hear,

Piano Was Poison

.

Mauretania Nears.

Panama Canal

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Find Ono A Week

"He was cock-a-boop. He shouted: How would you like to be up here nice and dry?

When I looked around after

He was an intolerant man, the ter rox and delight of his very big family

7.0 Closing local Stock Quotations. At Haslemere, where they all lived,

7.02 Studio-A talk on The West

The British War Graves Commis- chatting to Sidney I found I was he created his own world-a world

slon will take charge of the skeleton on the spar alone. The others Just Counties. Music of any later ago ho barely Country illustrated by music of the of quiet and beauty, fine craftsman-

7.30 London Relay The News. alip in his workshops and French tolerated. The plano he hated-"the

PANAMA, Mar. 25 (UP)-It is and inter it with the honours due to couldn't keep their grip.

"A boat came along. Some one beastliest instrument the world hus

Identification is grabbed me by the hair and yanked herbs growing in his front garden.

B.0 Local Time Signal, Weather Re- reliably stated that the Mauretania a brave man. Relatives will bo of ever sneered from," he once sald, and

is due to arrive at Christobal to notified as soon as port and Announcements.

me out of the sea. His house was a mixtura

complete. workman's bench. and to many more beside.

8.03 Compositions of Dvorak. night.

"I'm hore Jitterbugging tonight to museum. WOL

It is not unusual for bodies to be It was his own life-long Inability Stavenie Dance No. 18 in A Flat musical

She will pass through the Panama homely cottage: noefent:

found In France even now, twenty-y to forget those three boys who let instruments, new ones being made, a to be idle which caused his death. Major, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Canal on her way to. Australia,

two years after the war ended. On go."

The dance band started. "Pardon tes-table that really groaned, and alle broke a blood-vessel by exerting cond, by Vaclav Tallch; Songs My

A watch valued at $80 was lost by an average more than one a week!

Bald Staman Boyle. "I'm Hittle old man like a Rembrandt selt. Ilmself too soon after a long liners, Mother Taught Me, Op. 15, No. 4,

Kirsten Flagstad (Soprano) with Mrs. R. R. de L. Liesching, of 510 The Is reported to the War Graves Com- me," poriralt barking prejudices at you be and then caught flu.

Two days before the end he was Piano: Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. Peak, in the Happy Valley Racecourse mission, which has a permanent staff giving my brother's girl friend Wils tween mouthfuls

yesterday. Arnold Dolmetsch's self-created job' playing the violin sitting up in bed. 51, Lener-String Quartet.

.

here.

dance."

But he was on leave,

Then he was posted to the mine- layer Sphinx. She foundered after being damaged by enemy air attack. Again Lleutenant Parsons was on leave.

is in His home

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