1940-04-16 — Page 15

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 16, 1940.

By

Walt Disney

DONALD DUCK

DOGGONE SUCH A

JOB!

DEPOT

PHOQIE! WHAT D' THEY

THINK THIS IS, A

DAY NURSERY?

PRAGILE

KEEP ONL

Oppr. 1940, Wali Daney Production

| Works Puchin Bagelerd

FRAGILE

KEEP RIGHT'

SIDE UP

HANDLE WITH CARE!

MOROCCANS GET READY FOR THE NAZIS

FRANCE is taking the opportunity provided. by the stale- mate on the Western Front to perfect all her defences, so that even if the Germans should miraculously break through the Maginot Line, they will find formidable defences everywhere throughout the country. Photograph shows Moroccan troops digging trenches somewhere in France-French Official War Photograph.

"Ladies

only." airplane line

K.L.M. air line is starting a new Ladies Only air liner service between Europe and Australia. And 50 per cent. of the first bookings have been sold to British women passengers.

Imperial Airways, with Government restrictions, a limited amount of aircraft, and no replacements, could offer these women passengers only bookings with delays of as long as a month.

The Dutch K.L.M, company has been one of the most enter- prising of the neutrals in profiting by the British Government's stranglehold on civil aviation progress in war-time.

routes

Ladies Only air liners will over almost identical -Britain's own Empire services.

Only Twelve

run

to

Each of the planes will take only twelve passengers. The first six sents in the first one, due to leave In a few days, have been booked by English-

woinen.

Their

air liners leave

from

FRAGILE

F

dr BOIS SIHL

FRESH WHITE-BUTTON

MUSHROOMS

$225

per lb.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

ARK ROYAL: ADMIRAL 8

LOST

Weeks

HIS CROCKERY Wed, Seeks

THE Ark Royal-our £3,000,000 aircraft carrier you "sank" by radio twice nightly—is on her way again. I went down to see her during her "wash and brush up" at a British port after a five months' cruise. And fine and dandy she looked, with not even a scratch from that 1,000lb. bomb you thought had sent her to the bottom of the sea.

As a matter of fact it was a pretty close shave. The bomb dropped only five yards from the Ark Royal's bows. But all it I did was to break some of the Admiral's crockery. And since then the ship has steamed many thousand miles and, with her alreraft, has reconnaitred 5,000,000 square miles of ocean from the northern Atlantic down to Rio and Capetown.

•Her

She has been responsible for the capture of one valuable German merchant ship and the scuttling of two more. 'planes have attacked several U-boats and others have been frightened into crash dives with unknown results.

So much for the facts, Dr. Goebbels which I am sure you will be glad to pass on.

RUSSIAN OIL FOR THE NAZIS

GERMANY is desperately short of oil and because of the Allied blockade must bring in her supplies by railway. This- photograph gives some idea of the congestion that results- Domei

Why Fat Men Are Best Long-Distance Pilots

FAT men make the best pilots for long-distance re- Naples, which is the terminus. But connaissance patrols because they diet themselves to suit the passengers will be met in Paris their physical conditions and are better able to stand cold by the captain and crew of the and strain. machine in which they are to fly.

From Paris to Naples they will be

escorted and entertained on their by the aircraft train Journey officer.

sixteen The destinations of the

have already Englishwoman who booked are: eleven to India, three lo Burma, two to Australia.

Because war restrictions have held

This, while not held to be a general rule, is indicated by careful tests made by the R.A.F, medical services.

Airmen's diet is closely watched. All get a proportion of vitamins A and D (mostly given in tasteless capsule form).

To measure and assess reactions to. certain flying stresses and conditions members of the Research staff have allowed them- selves to be deliberately "blacked out."

Stress Time Limit

"No hard-and-fast rule is laid down up the delivery of new flyingt-boats, of the number of hours the pilot is Imperial Airways North

Atlantic expected to have flown before he passenger service, due to begin this shows signs of flying stress or year, is currelled.

neurosis.

any

But each member of the flying per-

IT REQUIRES SOME PLUCK

"I am too scared to fight. I admit it frankly. That is my main objection to Joining the Army." James McCarthy, plum- ber, of Bonner-road, Bethnal Green, told the London Conselen- Hous Objecters' Tribunal cently.

rc-

Judge Hargreaves said they ad- mired his frankness but had no power to exempt him because he was afraid to Belit.

He Took Best Siegfried Line Photographs

'Fairly Clover'

Adolph

YOU might tell Licut, Adolphi Francke, who did the "sinking," that the officers and men of the Ark Royal think he is a fairly clever pilot. Hu dived from about 4,000ft., let go the bomb at about 1,000ft, and as I sald-missed by five yards. So don't be too hard on him for making a foul of you.

I am sure of my facts, for the

officers and men of the Ark Royal re-

IT SHOWS WHAT

THEY THINK

AMKUWAUK.OF FAITH AND HOPI

THE BRITISH PROPL

WE HOPE AND WISH THE

TRIUMPH OF ALLIES

"GOOD. SAVE THE KINGH

"CANY"

ARGENTINE #GON 2948 CORDOUA NI

This leaflet was found stuck on a box of eggs unloaded at London Docks,

It was sent by a reader, who . said, "I shows what the man

abroad is thinking."

Song War Is Spreading

A LOT of fighting in the war so

Divorce

-Court Told

FOUR days before she was found strangled in her flat, a wife aged nineteen, married only eight weeks, and who had been trying to get a divorce from her husband; "aged twenty, so that she could marry an- other, went to the theatre with former lover.,

The lover gave evidence at New- castle, when the husband, Michael Danks, steel worker, of Herbert- street, Newcastle, was remanded for week necused of murdering Eleanor Banks, his wife, by strangling her.

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Although they were married only at Christmas, said Mr. Maurice Crump, prosecuting, the Banka's marriage was not happy. Only tho night before her death there was a scene. In their home.

The quarrel was described by Grace Graham, fifteen, nister of the dead woman, who told how she spent the night at the flat.

Hand Over Mouth.

She was awakened by her sister Ausping.. "Mother, Mother."

"My brother-in-law was holding his hand over her mouth," said the, girl, and I told him to get off. He sold he would go for the police, and my sister told him to do what he liked. He went out and came back with a policeman."

Norman Harrison, of Heathfield- crescent, Newcastle, said he had been engaged to Mrs. Banks before her marriage. On the Thursday before

member every incident of that day far has been with songs, and from she died they went to the theatre to-

they were "sunk" early in the war. the neutral observation post of the "An interesting they called it. U.S. it appears that the boys behind

Here is what

www

words of the

in

ether. It was the only time he d the the piano have done almost as much seen her since her marriage. officer, work B3 the boys behind the

machine-guns.

Capt. A. J. Power: "We were in the North Sea when three Dornier dying- well away and boats appeared, flying well

ugh out of the range of the ship's guns. Aircraft were sent up at once from the carrier and went into action against the Dorniers. One was shot down and the others made away.

"The German machine landed on the sea and its position was commu- nicated to a destroyer, which raced up and rescued the crew and sank the aircraft.

"Apparently the Dorniers had com- municated with their land base and very soon some · bombers appeared. They had a warm reception from our fellows; but one German more daring than the others, made a power dive on to us.

"Saw Huge Bomb

Coming At Us'

"HE started from about 4,000. and pulled out at perhops 1,000ft. I saw a bomb leave him: it was the I saw biggest one I have seen. It falling and from the bridge my impression was that it was not going to hit us. It landed in the sea about 15ft, from the ship's side. But had it hit us it would not have sunk

UA

"The bows lifted up a little; we were shaken. But all it really did All was to break some crockery. other reports are just nonsense. That fellow Francke was a clever pilot üll right but he shouldn't jump to con- clusions.

But perhaps, Dr. Goebbels, your plluts couldn't be blamed for think- ing that the Ark Royal had been sunk. For when they returned later of the she was got with the rest Flect. She wasn't at the bottom of the sea though. She was just doing other duties.

Which just goes to show how careful you should be be fore you rush into radio! ON his first reconnaissance flight beyond the Stegfried Line, sonnel of every station is watched by

Anyway, your "Where is the Ark which in June this year should have the medical officer of the unit, who in a 23-year-old sergeant-pilot has secured the most valuable photo Royal? Ask your Mr. Churchill" nn- nouncements brightened up to on begun to carry as many as thirty some cases is himself a qualified pi- graphs the R.A.F. has yet taken.

Both the pilot and his observer have just received from the ship quite a lot. The crew used passengers on Transatlanule trips, a lot. He has to watch unceasingly for British G.11.Q. in France official congratulations on an "excepto listen and roar back "Hero," number of elderly Empire flying- the first symptoms of flying stress,

tionally brilliant explolt."

Torpedoes Within boats, specially strengthened, will There is no ban on alcohol or

200-Yardı run only mall and freight services, smoking in moderation.

Instead of the huge G class flying- boots, the Golden Hind, Golden: Fleece, Golden Horn and others

Dine at the

Parisian Grill

Good Food Fine Wines DINNER & DANCE MUSIC

by

The Blue Danube Trio

Open till 1 a.m.

He had, as he told United Press tures showing a squadron of Messer- war correspondent, "beginner's luck," | schmitt fighters on the ground,

And this is the story of his scouting

As a matter of fact I don't mind exploit.

The photographs show hundreds of miles of road bare of any traffic and telling you now that the Ark Royal The pilot took his machine to hundreds of miles of railway with- and another close, shave in October. 15,000 feet in a cloudless sky and fol-out any trains moving. Germany's That was when two torpedoes passed lowed the line of the German dewar front, seen through these views, within about 200 yards of her. But fences.

is completely immobilised.

These were photographed, and then the plane was steered cast into enemy territory.

ROOSEVELT

READY

the U-boat

oat was sunk by a screen of destroyers,

may amuse you to know that the ship has a scrapbook containing the cuttings of your claims and photo- Capt. For two-and-a-half hours

graphs of Lieut. Francke. Power showed it to me and other plane cruised over Germany, and the

In a Pan-American Day address newspaper men when we visited the British airmen pictured the como to-day, President Itoonovelt sold that carrier. flaged airdelds behind the ̧ Siegfried Line.

the

Washington, Apr. 15.

the American republics must be pre-

"Someone sent me an article from

a German paper giving a graphic ro- The crew was over one nerodrome pared to meet force with force if construction in pictures of the sink- for 30 minuter while the electrically their system, of peaceful relations ing," he said. "He thought I might | operated camera took a strip of ple-/were challenged.—United Press,

like to use it for a Christmas card."

When the war broke out soldiers found there weren't any new martial songs, so they had to march oft to the front singing dance tunes like "The Beer Barrel Polka" and "South of the Border."

When these wore out they had to turn to the old favourites of the last war, like "Tipperary," and Your Troubles" Blighty," which were soon given such modern twists as

Mrs. Jane Annie Calder, Banks's slater, said her brother arrived at her house on the Sunday afternoon and asked for elgarcito. Mrs. Calder went on: "He had an awful, look on his face, and I asked him what was the matter, and where Eleanor was. He replied. 'She will never breathe again. I have done her in"

Banks, alleged Mrs, Caller, added: "Pock Up" have been married eight weeks, "Back to and I have never slept through her keeping waking me and asking about a divorce.-I-have never had-a-good- dinnar until to-day."

"Pack up your Goebbels In your old kit bag, and hell, hell, hell... After this first. spell of makeshift the song writers produced such songs os "I'm sending you to the "Siegfried Line" and "Hang up your Washing

on the Siegfried Line."

the washing will be very dirty before i can be hung on the Siegfried Line."

Scorning tho compositiona of America as "decadent" and "Jewish," the Germans have been caught short The Germans denounced the of new. war songs. German sailors Siegfried Llac Bongs SUN "bad came forward with a chant, "When taste" in broadcasts to America. We Sail Towards England," but "Soldiers who fight," declared the somebody spotted: it as a rehash of German announcer, "do not brag) a 1914 number.

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She Had to Fear

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"The Private Lives of

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ELIZABETH ESSEX

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