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JONALD DUCK

GOOD DAY, MADAM!

·WOULD YOU LIKE TO BUY A--?

Friday.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

NO!

BUT, MADAM!

Mystery 'British' Radio Pirate Attacks Britain

HE'S WAITING FOR THE NAZIS

An Australian soldier practising with a machine-gun before leaving

for active service.

NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA FOR THE RESERVISTS

THE-SOUTHERN CROSS.

The

STOP THE WAR TIRADE

A NEW mystery radio station, announcing itself as the New British Broad- casting Station, is on the air.

The programme opened with Loth Lomond, played slowly on Ja piano. In thin, deliberatel tones the English announcer then said:

New

"You are listening to the British Broadcasting Station, whi You will hear transmitting four times night. We address our- selves to every Britisher who loves his country, no matter what party he belongs to."

Then he started with a bitter anti-British and "stop the war" tirade. Again and again came

phrases familiar to Brilons who listen to German broadests.

Here

are some of them:-

"They speak of splitting Germany fragments and making those Into Nazis toe the line. They do not realise that a strong nation wil? never give up its idea of unity once It is established in the hearts of the people

Powerful Transmitter

"Humiliation and even defeat at the hands of a foreign Power can only increase the unity of a political party. Why are we fighting? Be- cause Germany's new economic and financial system cuts

across the principles of international capital- ism and threatens the destruction of international Jewry."

Radio experts said they doubted if the broadcast could have been made with a portable mobile transmitter of the type necessarily used by a pirate broadcaster.

and retained the Javelin throw with antis-more likely that it was

effort of 100ft. 8in.

P. Endes won the 440 yards cham-i CANBERRA. late Sir Charlen Kingsford plonship In 45.4sec. This time ban Smith's famous plane, the Southern been bettered only once in a State Creak, which wua reported to be fall-title race, although it is 1,5mce, out- Ing to ploces in a shed at bluscot, alde the Austrailan record. through lack of cure, will not be houn- A great battle in the 120 yards hur- ed in the National War Museum at dies championship resulted in F. E. Canberra,

It was explained officially un Mon day that the War Memorial Board of Management could not accept exhibits other than relics of the last war.

The Director of Civil Aviation denied that the Southern Croas, in which the late Sir Charles Kingsford Smith made several famous record flights, was ly- lag neglected, on reported at Canberra.

Popplewell taking an inches victory from his golfer club mate, S. G. Sten- ner, last year's winner.

S. H. Suban won the 800 yards by 30 yards in 2min. noe, lowering T. Gleeson's 1939 recors by 6.4ace, KIMBER V. NeGUS

MELBOURNE. AL. Kimber (0.13%) of Sydney, Mr. Corbett explained the Govern caused a surprise by stopping Wyn. ment had purchased the 'plang, Intend-Nexus (1924) in the eighth round of Ing to place it in a memorial hangar 12-round antch, at the Melbourne housing relics showing the progress of Stadium on Saturday night. He is the Australian aviation, but, because of the neat to score a knockout over Negus. war, and the fact that such a building

Kliber, who arrived only to-day, would coat several thousand pounds, lived up to his reputation of having a the project had been portpianod.

good left hand, but did not use if as often or as solidly Rungo had against Negus. However, when it BUNDABERG. landed it and plenty of enap, while The City Council has agreed to a his right, particularly in the inst fou motion urging the Federal Government rounds, carried more pep thon ЛАНУ to have the Communist Party declared suspected.

COMMUNIST PARTY

an legal organisation.

A motion

brought forward at that

request of the Ealonne Shire Council,

which recently made a similar decision, we carried on the casting vole by the Mayar (Alderman .F. Dune). SLIGHT EARTHQUAKE

MELBOURNE.

Soveral Melbourne suburba experi enced a light earth tremor at Am. to-day. The tremor wAS accompanied

"Roll Sang Out Barrel" As Ship Sank

by trembling noise which awoke WHILE thele ship was turning

many people. In one or two instances

powerful foreign! given from a transmitter using an unauthorised wavelength. The strength and steadiness of reception could not have been achieved by a small iransmitting unit.

April 1940.

By Walt Disney

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HERE IS THE NAZIS NEW AIRCRAFT CARRIER

An artist's impressión of the Graf Zeppelin, the first'aircraft carrier of the Nazi Navy, nearing completion 41 Kick

Risked Death at 15,000-ft. for A Thrill

Canadian

SO

Said: "It was

grand

TROUSSEAUX

RATIONED BY NAZIS

By WILLI FRISCHAUER УРЕСІЛЬЕ .ration cards for trousseaux and "bottom drawers" are now being issued to Germany. Before: a bride-to-be is given card a registrar must confirm officially that the banns for her marriage have been put up.

Brides who make their own trousseau can obtain threads and needles, to the value of Bd. In ex- cess of their normal ration.

AUSTRIA, where rationing is more severe than in most parts of greater Germany, now has "black markets" for foodstuffs.

The broadcast ended with the very the quick playing of "God. Save King An

official of the B.B.C. said: | This is the first time this new sta- tion has cropped up. Its first trans- mission we heard indifferently, but we shall go on listening to it to see what these broadcasters are up to.

"At present it is impossible to! establish where it is coming from." | ****-

M.P.

Fantastic prices are being pald for poultry seld without ration cards-£5 for a large goose and C1 5s; for a chicken are typical.

says that most

M.P.s are career hunters

MR. ANDREW MCLAREN, Socialist M.P. for Burslem, told a meeting of the London Scots Self- Government Committee that the majority of people who entered Parliament were career hunters. "What a fine thing it would be," he said, "if you went home quietly one night and told your wife 'I am a Cabinet Minister.'

turtle and they were silding crockery falling from shelves was re-down her hull, with the aid of a "When the Socialist Party first got knotted rope, to reach a lifeboat, renmen of the London tanker British Triumph (8,501 tons) sang "Roll Out

ported. TAIROA SAILORS

MELBOURNE. News of the release of the Altmarck, the Barrel." cuptives was received on Monday with "It was the third officer who gol joy by relatives of several Rydney and the song going," said one of the 21

Mrs. Katherine O'Brien, of Bruns. Survivors landed at Grimsby.

The British Triumph was damaged wiek, received the following message. from her son, who was a member of by

Monday an explosion late on

Melbourne men.

the Tairon crew: "Arrived in Eng-night. In two hours she capsized.

land, safe. Pal"

church at a

RUMANIA TO SEND OIL TO JAPAN

Twenty-one other men, including Evans, of Bouth Melbourne, the captain, were landed at another wedding which they knew nothing other exports, The "special product"

about to realise that

up

there"

By ANDRE MAUROIS

BROKE JAIL, LEARNED SECRET

Then went back ·

GLASGOW.

ROBERT BERRY GILLES- ¡PIE, hunted for seventeen days jafler breaking from Perth Pri-· Ison, gave.in, and said: "I have found out what I escaped, to discover,"

He added: "I am quite satis- fied., I am now willing to go back."

He spoke these words to his bro- ther, to whose house at Strathaven, Lanarkshire, he had gone, exhausted and bearded.

With his brother, an hour later he walked Into Strathaven Police Station.

The brather unld afterwards: "The sergeant in charge, who knew Bertle, said: "This is not Bertie."

"Apparently he didn't know him In his tattered - condition. Ho, ther looked at his photograph, compared

it, and decided to accept him as the escoped prisoner."

The brother's wife'sild that Bertle was engaged to a girl before he was arrested,

She sold: "He had been, vory worried because they had not enough money to set up a home, and, I think, that was the cause of him getting into trouble," A

Robert Gillespie, aged twenty- three, WHA serving an- eighteen

"THESE YOUNG PILOTS THAT THE DOMINI-months sentence for housebreaking.

ONS ARE SENDING US,” SAID THE COMMANDER

OF THE SCHOOL "SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE,"

"ARE SPLENDID FRIGHTENING.

BUT SOMETIMES A LITTLE

"The other day I sent one up-to do his height test. We forbade him to go above 10,000ft. without oxygen. The weather was marvellous-bright sunshine and a sky as blue as any sky of Italy.

"When he got up our young. Canadian. was na intoxicated with the purity of it all as a lark or a spring poet; so he went on climbing...12,000ft.

Eagle Hits Plane,

Sets It On Fire

Flying at 6,000ft, an eagle hit one of the propellers of an Australian air Australia. The plane caught fire, liner on its way, to Adelaide, South

Manoeuvring to keep the flames from the cabin, Captain, N. Croucher brought his machine down in a pud- 15,000. And then, doubt-dock seven minutes later.

Eleven passengera and the crew of less, his head failed him and he dived flat out.

three were uninjured.

"Pilots are advised to straighten

up when they reach a certain height,

but when descent is so rapid the ARCHBISHOP'S COMMITTEE DECIDED-

needle logs behind the altitude and this young mon got nearly to the ground at full speed.

"When I saw this meteor approach- Ing, my knees sugget a little and 1 said to myself, Poor little devil. That's that. But that was not that.

Without Mishap

"Our Canadian landed with a shocking in of trembling stays and melal, but without mishap. Once

SPIRITUALISM IS

Says The

TRUE (Psychic News".

"THE Church of England, by nine votes to three, has de- reassured. I naturally lost my tem- cided that Spiritualism is true," says the "Paychic News," "The per, had him brought in, and said: uine were all the influential members of the Archbishop of Can- That was all merely stupid,... terbury's Committee on spiri- Hundreds of clergymen are now What good did it do? Now you've tualism." The three, who are pressing the Primate to publish the get an appalling headache, described as unimportant and report, which has been held back for over a year, for the reasons, as dx- Sorry, sir, he said, but I haven't unknown, merely reserved their plained some weeks ago by his chap-

opinion...

a headache."

You've split an ear-drum then? Sorry, sir, he said again, but I've not split an car-drum

Well, in any case, you've be haved in a ridiculous manner.

I see that now, sir, he said, but it was so grand up there.

"At that moment saluted us as he passed.

a young man

lain, that "further investigation was required," and that "premature pub- report, it is stated, include such dis-to munderstanding."

the majority leation would be liable to give rise

The signatories to

tinguished men ag-

Dr. William Brown, the 'celebrated

psychologist:

Canon H. Ansen; Master of the Tem

ple; and

•

“Timo' is Ripo"

The "Psychle News" adds:

was "The committee

appointed

Dr. W. R. Matthews Dean of St. bbout three years ago after the Rev.

Paul's,

G. Maurice Elliott and Dr. Francis Underhill, then: Dean of Rochester, but now Bishop of Bath and Wells, had interviewed the Archbishop of England to

Investigato Spiritumstel

Canon Laurenen William Grensted of York and pleaded that the time was

Oxford, Examining Chaplain to the ripe for the Church of Archbishop York. "Unauthorised and inaccurate," re-

set up a Soon after, the committee consisting of members, of plies the Primate's chaplain.

"Whatever conclusion the committee the clergy, representatives of science, may have arrived at," says the Bishop law and philosophy, appointing Dr. of Bath and Wells, chairman of the Underhill as

Church of England."

"That's rather a curious case,'" into office there was a very obvious

sald the Commodore. "He's a young attitude of at last we have arrived."

actor who, without ever having been The conceita and contortions of the

up in an aeroplane, had a part in a crentures that formed that

propaganda film, "The Lion Has poor

TOKYO, Government

were

Wings." And he liked the part so nathetic." Mr. McLaren also asserted that A barler agreement has been con much that as soon as the nim was there are more sheep in London than cluded between Japan and Rumania, finished, he took up flying.""

Domel under which, the in the countryside. Onc had only

to look at the people Agency understands, a "special Ru-All of which goes to make excel-committee, "It could not commit the who stared vacantly and stupidly mantan product" will be exchanged fent pilots. outside a fashionable

for Japanese cation plece goods and concerned, adds the agency, is now in great demand in Europe--an ob- vious reference to ell. escaped from the blazing Newcastle The agreement provides that Ru- Arthur Marshall, the 10-year-old tanker Gretefield (10,101 tons) temania shall take Japanese goods up assistant radio operator, who had fore she was sunk by an explosion to a designated percentage of Japan's a 19-year-old farmor, of Brook Farm, Marden, when he was fined recently joined the ship after re-off the North-East coast of Scotland imports of the Rumanian "product." BYDNEY.

The percentage is a secret, but it is A. J. Stubbs (South Sydney) eroated covering from an injury received early yesterday,

Thirteen men are missing, e believed that it will enable Japan to a world's record by walking a mile in when the steamer San Callate was

When crew of the Swedish exceed her previous quots of exports

the Grain. 16,4sce, at the Eperts Ground on blown up in December, was saved. Baturday. He was competing on the

was to Rumonia. The agency adds: Two exciting adventures," the boy steamer Daiaro (9,027 tons) final day of the State track, and. Rek said. "But they don't scare me I'll landed at an Irish port yesterday it "The new agreement is noteworthy champlonships.

was confirmed that the vessel had in, view of Rumania's previous re J. P. Metcalfo was his lat. State be looking for another ship soon." championship. He won

Rowing for their lives in a footbeen torpedoed by a U-boat which fusal to make this product the sub- the running

Fleet of any barter arrangement." broad Jump by clearing 22ft. 104In, deep layer of burning oil 30 men afterwards shelled It.

also learned that her son, George Ken-Į neth John Evans, also a member of the port.

Talcon's crow, was- safe. He W 20

and was making his first voyaga.

STUDES SETS RECORD ... '.

Five men are missing.

Boy's Second Escape

Bench Refused His £1-In Coppers

"PLL go and fetch it," said Augustus Newman John Davies,

El at Hereford police court.

He returned and handed to the magistrates' clerk £1 worth of coppers in two bags. The Bench refused to accept the money. Davies went away again--and this time he returned with two 108. notes.

*Legal tender in coppers is limited to Is.

't

chairman.

Their sole aim, in the words of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, wuz."to arrive at truth."

For over two years, the committee sat with mediums, sometimes with a famous European diplomat who, had championed spiritualian, heard wit- nesses, and examined the evidence.

58 Years Reporter

Herbert Wye, who in 1802 reported the last public speech of the Duko

of Clarence, unele of the King, and. has attended royal ovents in fyʊ. reigna, has just retired after fifty- eight years in London journalian..

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