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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 3, 1940.

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COLONY'S

BIGGEST

CABARET SHOW

AN ALMOST continuous revue of cabaret numbers is promised by the Manage- ment of the Hongkong Hotel for, next Saturday night, when patrons of the Gripps will say farewell to two of the most popular stars to have visited the Colony. this season and will, at the same time, welcome back an old favourite team.

Fredric and Sandra Hartnell,

WHAT'S

QUEEN'S: "The

ON

Day the

Llookdes Wept." ALHAMDRÁ: "The Secret of

a Treasure Island." ORIENTAL: "Fire Over Eng-

land."

KING'S "Music in ray Heart.” "Hawaiian MAJESTIC:

Nights."

who have shown Hongkong the a good deal of ingenuity with his real meaning of Swing, are clos- usual artistic ideas to make the stag- ing their season at the Gripps in ing possible in such limited space. order to fulfil an engagement

Rehearsals are proceeding space, with the Oriental Theatre, and and the cast Includes Sunny Hole, will make their last appearance Games Whitham, Bery Fair, J. Cinude Burgess, Sheilah Mackinley on Saturday night.

Roberts, San Pringle, Auguste Hoff- meister, Olive Green, Androw Lanky, droll Dave Harvey, accom- panied by the Dyer Sisters, arrive Mackinlay, Anne Dowbiggin, Gelston from Manila on Friday and will ap- Gilmore, Peggy Chubb and Amedee pear in conjunction with the Hart- de Boyzson. Once again the AD.C's the production is in aid of the British

War Organisation Fund.

nella for D Gripps.

second season nt

They need Grippa patrons.

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introduction to

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M.G.M. is annoyed with the On Saturday night each team will National Broadcasting Com- present four acts, making a total ofpany of America. eight numbers of a calibre that is well up to leading metropolitan standard.

the biggest one of cabaret sighis winessed in Hong- konk.

It will ba

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THE Hongkong Amateur Dra- matic Club, now in its 96th year, will present Lesley Storm's light comedy "Tony Draws a Horde" at the China Fleet Club to- morrow night.

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The radio company announc ed it would give £1,000 to the Finnish Red Cross if Garbo appeared in one of their pro- grammes.

Garbo's studio (M.G.M.) refused, pointing out that Garbo recently gave £1,000 to the Finnish Relief Fund.

Anyway, she has turned down offers of £4,000 to appear on the American radio.

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In the selection of this play the A. D. C, has been gulded by ever in- creasing requests from the public for "something to really laugh at!" With SPEAKING of money, RKO- that in mind the Committee could Radio spent more than any scarcely have made a returned to the other Hollywood studio in 1939 many people recently Colony, who saw the play in London, buying the film rights of books will readily testify. "Tony Draws and plays. They wrote out Horse," according to last advices re- ceived, is still running at the Comedy cheques amounting to £11,- Theatre and by this time must have 000. exceeded 300 performances,

The theme perhaps, gives modern parents something to think about; inasmuch as it deals with the pro- blem as to whether a child should be allowed to express his natural gifts freely, and deplet life and things as he sees them, or whether those gifta should be curbed by convention,

Tony, aged eight years, has a natural

gift for drawing but, to the ventional I mind at any rate, his regard for biological exactitude causes come -embarrassment.-His-parents-each- hold opposite views regarding his up- bringing and Tony is the unconscious

lot of troublef cause of

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On this occasion the China Fleet

Club Theatre's stage will be taxed to Its utmost as the play requires three sets. These have been designed by

Which reminds me that the highest price ever paid for the film rights of anything was the £400,000 that M.G.M. paid for "Ben Hur."

At the box office it took £2,250,000, including nearly £1,000,000 from foreign cine- mas.

"GONE With the Wind" is due soon now-which reminds me that a skit on the search for that picture's star is about to be made.

It's called "Kiss the Boys

Mr. W. A. Cornell, who has combined Good-bye," and has been one of

Broadway's most recent and successful plays..

Clare Boothe, author of "The Women," wrote it.

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I HEAR via America that there is a great boom in beer and the cinema in Germany Just now, because everything else is either rationed or too expensive.

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NEWS from Australia says that Mickey Rooney and George Formby are about the two biggest favourites down under.

Shirley Temple and Deanna Durban have slipped.

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HOLLYWOOD is a town teeming with beautiful in- genues, marble-chiselled juve- niles, low-priced vintage wines, end half-priced bedroom auites."Groucho Marx, writ- ing in Variety.

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WARSHIPS' BADGES RUMOURS

Until the end of the last war, these badges had no ofetal sanc-. tion; they came into existence more or less haphazardly. When a ship was commissioned, her commander could, if he so desired, have a badge made in the naval dockyard or aboard. There was no Ad- miralty ruling of any kind on the

patter.

But when, during the last war, ships were pouring out from the shipyards, things began to happen. The Naval wits set to work. One of the first humorous badges was that which graced the destroyer

H.MS. Tormentor. The badre showed u large flea! Another war- ship, H.M.S. Vanity, had a badge depleting a beautiful mermaid ad- miring herself in a hand mirror.

But perhaps best-known of all in Naval circles was the badge of HMS.

consisted Onslaught. It solely of a bulrush. The idea puz- zled many Naval men until the Fleet was regaled with the inside story.

.

A very exalted and much gold- braided officer came to inspect the

Ex-Stoker Stubbington

hcs a word for it.

X LEADING

STOKER

E Francia-George Stubbing

ton hurried to his home in Shakespeare road, Ports- mouth, to read a speech by Mr. Churchill.

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from the

When he read what Mr. Chur- chill said about "one-sided neu- trality" he remembered an sion, far dillerent Altmark rescue exploit, when a Scandinavian country put a dif- ferent construction on "neutrality” and saved the lives of British sallers.

Denmark was that country; ex- Leading Stoker Stubbington was one of those sailors His story is the Eple of the E.13.

It was in the night of August 18, 1015, that the British submarine E.13, heading for the

Ballic. grounded near the Danish Island of Saltholm. between Malmo and Copenhagen.

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As the tried unsuccessfully to free their craft, the crew of the subinarine,' under Lieut.-Compuan- der Geoffrey Laylon, wondered daybreak would bring, They coon found out and Dr. Goebbels In his fulminations against the men of HM.S. Cossack will not want to remember what men of the German Navy did on that August morning twenty-four

years ago.

But Francis Stubbington remem- bera He was thirty-three then. Now, at fifly-seven, he is employed In the bulking trade. He told me the story in his little parlour in Portsmouth, the town of ship..

...THE EPIC OF

E.13 IS A STORY GOEBBELS DOES NOT WANT TO REMEMBER

"I heard my shipmôles shout as they were hit. It was hell.

"The Germans were murdering; us. They were like madmen.

"But while the shooting was still going on, one of the Danish shipa steamed right in between us and the German destroyer. They made themselves a screen to save us from the shrapnel and machine- in bullets.

"The Germany didn't dare to "Three Dunish warships-small fire on a neutral ship. So they craft they were-anchored near us.steamed away.

And up came a German destroyer. Danes had some pluck.

Well, that's that, we thought. We took it for granted we should be rescued and interned,

"That was what any reasonable inan would have thought. We were a helpless vessel in neutral waters. "Suddenly ro more German destroyers turned ups. One of them hoisted a signal--and before We had time to rend the opened fire on us.

"He came right in to point- binnk range. We got a taste of his concentrated fire. Pretty soon there were wounded men lying all It was bolling over our deck, hot on account of the Aren the German shells started Inside the submarine.

"Our commander shouted, 'Every man for himself, Get away from there swine."

"So we jumped into the water. "What happened then is still a nightmare to me. The Germans began using shrapnel and machine- guna. They fired at

in the water.

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lowered their boats and rescued us.

"There were just fifteen of 19 left-out of thirty.

"I'll never forget the bravery of that Danish commander and his crew--nor how kind the Danish people were while We were in- terned."

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That in the story Francis Stub- bington told me in his parlour." The Official History of the last war tells it, too, in different words. This in what the History says:-

"The outrage was

perpetrated cold blood, by men well under the control of their officers, which (the E.13 was] a hopeless wreck on a neutral shore. For a cumula- tion of illegality it would surely be hard to match in the annals of modern warfare,"

Well, that is one way of anying jt. Ex-Leading Stoker Stubbing- ton had just one word for 11.

Murder.

-Crown Copyright.

The badge of H.M.9. Furious

ship; seeing the budge, he asked for He an explanation of its origin.

was told that when she was com-

missioned for service one sailor

Spotting The Rank

SUB-LIEUTENANT or COMMISSIONED

WARRANT OFFICER

The rank of Sub-Licuten- ant, corresponding to Liou- tenant in the Army, was dovised by Earl St. Vincent when First Lord of the Admiralty in 1802 as measure of relief to 'the overcrowded ranks of mid- shipmen.

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It soon died out again. and was not revived until 1861. Proviously, officers of this rank had been termed Master's Matos, or simply Mates in the case of those who did not belong to the navigating branch,

began When the war there were on the active list 320 officers of the rank of Sub - Lioutonant, bosides nearly 200 acting Sub- Lieutenants. The former had all passed their ex- aminations for the rank of Lieutenant, but the latter wara in process of passing them.

In a battleship or cruiser carrying midshipmen, a Sub- Lieutenant rulos over them as President of the Gun- room Mcss, Sub-Licuton- ants also sorvo as junior in watchkooping officors destroyers, submarinos, and other small ships.

Warrant Commissioned Officers wear a stripo cor-

Bernard Hall responding to that of a Sub-

Lieutenant,

asked a shipmate what the word "onslaught" meant. The reply was "a so-and-so rush," and the badge

was conceived there and then.

THE

A Red-Taped Sloth

THEN came two final incidents which officialdom could not ignore. When H.M.S. Hebe wILS commissioned, she sported a badge showing a blonde barald drawing beer. That was Incident No. 1. In- cident No. 2 concerned H.M.S. Whitehall, a vessel about. to be commissioned. The rumour fot round that her badge was to be the Anest ever devised—a large sloth tied up in miles of red tapet Of ficialdom hastily decided that the time had come to call a halt.

No Interference By Japanese

The Portuguese Government has issued an offelal atutement through the neting Portuguese Consul-Gene- ral in Hongkong, Mr. F. P. de V. Soares, repudiating press reports that the Japanese have interfered in Macno affairs.

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GALLANTRY AWARDS

London, Apr. 2, Two 10-year-old girls saw their fathers decorated Many Refugees Leave

by the King at this morning Buckingham Palace Macao, Apr. 1.

when, for the frat time, relatives Finding in Macao no means of live-were admitted to the ceremony of in- flood, many of the Chinese village vestiture. Filty relatives watched 37 refugees arc gradually passing men and one woman receive decora through the Barrier Gate in the

tions. effort to return to their work in the rice fields. Theso

re- country folk cently poured into Macho just before receiving awards in conncellon with the R.A.F. raid on Sylt-British the Japanese occupation of Chung-Wireless, shan.

It is reliably learned, how- ever,

that

The men included two oficers

So the whole question of badges

of the 200 persons a day gineering parties are doing the sur- reviewed. When

trek homeward, who are making the wor

was

the

ended all ships remaining on the Navy List were allowed to keep their badges, provided they were considered suitable. Those that were unsuitable were changed and the design and issue of all badges were regularised.

Nowadays, the badges and details of a ship's wor honours form a composite whole, the honours op- pearing on a scroll below the badge and hours of capital ships appear. Inside a large circular scroll; those of cruisers in a design with five aldes; those of nuxiliary vessela In diamond-shaped outline; and those of destroyers. Inside a shield.

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In the larger vessels the badge Is fixed at the fore-end of the quar- ter deck, Small ships, such as destroyers, can have the badge displayed elsewhere. The des- troyer H.M.S. Boreas, for example, has a badge in front of the badge. It shows a face with the cheeks puffed out and blowing hard, this representing Boreas, or the North Wind.

MAN

Oak for Sturdy

ANY of the present badges are

obvious from the ship's name. That "oft-sunk" nircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, has a badge

shows Noah's Ark which

sur- by П mounted

crown. H.MS. Bruce sports a badge, depleting spider mounted on a St. Andrew's Cross, The badge of HMS. Roc- ket shows the inelent steam en- gine of that name. HMS, Sesame, as most of us will appreciate, has a badge which simply displaya a key.

When H.M.S. Sterling was named, a mistake was made. Her have been Stirling nane should after the Scottish town, when she

have sported would probably

But badge of the town's arms.

the Sterling she remained, and badge designed for her shows the familiar £ sign.

All classical allusions are care- fully followed. The badge of H.M.S. Cyclops shows a single eye on a background of flame, a strik- ing reference to Greek mythology. Polyphemus, the most famous of the Cyclops, wan a one-eyed giant whose single eye was put out with a blazing stake by Odyssoun.

The badgo of HMS. Sturdy shows a British oak, and that of H.M.S. Valiant n fighting cock. Another badge which all Londoners will appreciate is that of H.M.S. Greenwich. It shows an hour glass above a star, to combining Green- wich Mean Time with the work of Uio astronomers, of Greenwich

Observatory.

Badges may not have the long tradition of Amy colours, but they are now so firmly established that anyone who speaks slightingly of them does so at his own perili

D. J. M.

not a fow are being turned back by veying work.

The Japanese garrison is Chunt- the Japanese militia who have set shun have been

reduced to 1,000

up their authority in the area. The Japanese and 2,000 puppet troops. reason being given for their return

Most of them are at Shekki, Hengmi, is that the Japanese are selecting Siulam, Changkapin, Taiwangpu persons for work on the arable land Tongkawan, Heungchow, and Tsin- and those considered undt are t shan.

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being given permission to return.

The Kee Kwan motor buses have The Japanese commander in Kong-

not resumed their hourly service from Macus to Shekki and, in con-

sequence, the journey of the villagers

moon

and Sunwul has been trans- ferred to Chungshan.

Duo to rains during the past ten

the construction of an aero-

is being conducted-on-foot-drome in Tongkawan by the Japan Our Own Correspondent,

Japanosa Garrison

Macao, Apr. 2.

ese hus been delayed,

According to a report, the northern shore of Kamchukian, on the West

A highway connecting Shuntak River west of Shuntak district, was and Chungshan is being prepared by occupied by the Japanese on March

authorities the Japanese

and en-28.-Wah Kiu Yat Fo.

A Variety Programme

BY

PARLOPHONE FAVOURITES

F1014-Somewhere in France with you.....Leslie Hutchinson,

I'll remember,

F1010 Entente Cordiale

Little Boy Bubbles, F1012-Rustle of apring

F1611-Samun

Invitation to the wallx.

Whistler and his dog. F1600 Favourites in Rhythm

F1470-Pretly little Quaker girl

My first goodnight. F1467-Song of India

Nola. F1468-Mood Indigo

Narcissus, F1460-Lost chord

Sullivan Memories. F1511-Wish me good fuck

Goodnight my darling goodnight.

Jack "Trump" Doyle and His Aces of Rhythm.

Robinson Cleaver. Organ. Patricia Rossborough, Piano. Victor Sylvester's Harmony Music.

.Ivor Moreton and Dave Kaye Two Pianos, Bass and Drums. Organ, Dance Band and Me.

Victor Sylvester's Hormony Music.

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Joe Daniels and His Shots. .H. Robinson Cleaver, Organ. ..Organ, Dance Band and Me.

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