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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Court

April 16, 1940.

By Walt Disney

Leary

DONALD DUCK

DOGGONE SUCH A

DEPOT

PHOOIE! WHAT D THEY THINK THIS IS; A

DAY NURSERY?

JOB!

FRESH WHITE-BUTTON

MUSHROOMS

FRAGILE

KEEP TUOH

Cope, 1940, Wali Diney

World Kiahre Beweve

FRAGILE

'KEEP RIGHT SIDE UP

HANDLE WITH

CARE!

MOROCCANS GET READY FOR THE NAZIS

FRANCE is taking the opportunity provided by the stale mato 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. Photagraph 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.

run Ladies Only air liners will

routes to almost identical over Britain's own Empire services,

Only Twolve

Each of the planes will take only twelve passengers. The first six seats in the first one, due to leave in a few

days, have been booked by English- Women,

FRAGILE

KEEP RIGHT

$225

per ib.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

ARK ROYAL: ADMIRAL 8 Weeks LOST HIS

י;ויי,

CROCKERY Wed, Seeks

Divorce

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 did was to break some of the Admiral's crockery. And since then the ship has steamed, many thousand miles and, with hor aircraft, has reconnoitred 5,000,000 square miles of ocean from the northern Atlantic down to Rio and Capetown.

She has been responsible for the capture of one valuable Her Germau 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 Lam sure you will be glad to pass on.

'Fairly Clover'

RUSSIAN OIL FOR THE NAZIS

GERMANY is desperately short of oll, and because of the Allied blocknde must bring in her supplies by railway. This photograph gives some idea of the congestion that results- Domci

Why Fat Men Are Best IT REQUIRES

Long-Distance Pilots

FAT men make the best pilots for long-distance re- Their air liners leave from connaissance patrols because they dict themselves to suit the passengers will be met in Paris their physical conditions and are better able to stand cold

of the and strain.

Naples, which is the terminus. Bui

crew

by the captain and machine in which they are to

This, while not held to be a general rule, is indicated From Paris to Naples they will be 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."

escorted and entertained on theiri by the afrerafij train Journey offleers. The destinations of the sixteen have already Englishwomen who booked are: eleven to India, three to Burma, two to Australia.

Because war restrictions have held

Stross Time Limit

No hard-and-fust rule is inid down) up the delivery of new flying-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 cancelled.

any

neurosis. Instead of the huge G class flying-

But each member of the flying per- boats, the Golden Hind, Golden Fleece, Golden Horn and othersonnel of every station is watched by which in June this year should have the medical officer of the unit, who in begun to carry as many is thirty some cases is himself a qualined pi-

SOME PLUCK

"I am too scared to fight. I admit it frankly, That is main objection to joining the Army." James McCarthy, plum- ber, of Bonner-road, Bethnal Green, told the London Conscien- lious. Objecters! Tribunal cently.

rc-

Judge Hargreaves sald they ad- mired bis frankness but had no power to exempt him because he was afraid to Aght.

He Took Best Siegfried

Line

Photographs

Adolph

YOU might tell Lieut. Adolph Francke, who did the "sinking," that the officers and men of the Ark Royal think he is a fairly clever pilot.

He dived from about 4,000rt, let go the bomb at about 1,000ft., and as I said-missed by five yards. So don't be too hard on him for making a fool of you.

IT SHOWS WHAT

-Court Told

FOUR days before she was' found' intrangled in her fat, a wife nged

only

THEY THINK nineteen, marbled an eisht weeks,

A MESWADE DE FAITH AND HOTE

THE NITISH PEOPLE

WE HOPE AND WISH THE TRIUMPH OF ALLIES

"GOOD, FAVE THE FING"

"CANY"

AROCNTIND EGO S

3948 CONUNDA SE

This leaflet was found stuck on a box of rugs unloaded at London Docks.

It was sent by a reader, who said, "It shows what the max abroad is thinking."

divorco from her husband, ́aged twenty, so that she could marry ah- other, went to

to the

theatre with a former lover.

The lover gave evidence at New castle, when the husband, Michael Bunks, steel worker; of Herbert- street, Newcastle, was remanded for week accused of murdering

a

Eleanor Banks, his wild

his wife, by strangling

Ther.

Although were married only

nt Christmas," said Mir, · Maurice Crump, prosecuiing, the Banks's marriage was not happy. Only the night before her death there was a scene In their home.

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

Hand Over Mouth

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

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

Song War Is Spreading

A

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

I am sure of my facts, for the ofßeers and men of the Ark Royal re- A LOT of fighting in the war 50 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" carly in the war, the neutral observation post of the gether. It was the only me he had “An interesting day," they called it. U.S. It appears that the boys behind seen her since her marriage.

Here is what happened, in the the piano have done almost as much

officer commanding

words of the

work Capt. A, J. Power: "We were in the machine-guns. North Sea when three Dornier flying-

boats appeared, Dyin

Dying

high

well away and

tho

behind boys

When the war broke out soldiers

Aio

"The Beer Barrel Polka" and "South

of the Border."

out of the range of the ship's found there weren't any new martial guns. Aircraft were sent up at once songs, so they had to march off to from the carrier and went into action the front singing dance tunes lice against uie Dorniers. One was shot down and the others made away.

"The German machine landed on. When these wore out they had to the sea and is position was commu-turn to the old favourites of the last 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 come. 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 Hugo Bomb

Coming At Us'

"HE started from about 4,000ft. and pulled out at perhaps

1,000rt.

I saw a bomb Icave him: it was the biggest one I have seen. 1 caw it falling and from the bridge my impression was that it was not going to hit us. I landed in the sea about 15ft, from the ship's side. But had it hit us it would not have sunk us.

"The bows lifted up a little; wa 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 all right but he shouldn't jump to con- clusions.

But perhaps, Dr. Goebbels, your pilots couldn't be blamed for think- ing that the Ark Royal had been sunk. For when they returned later she was not with the rest of the Fleet. She wasn't at the bottom of the sen though. She was just doing other duties. Which just goes to show how careful you should be be-

you rush into radio! Anyway, your "Where Is the Ark nouncements brightened up life. on Both the pilot and his observer have just received from the ship quite a lot. The crew used

tionally brilliant exploit."

a

ON his first reconnaissance flight beyond the Siegfried Line,

fore

23-year-old sergeant-pilot has secured the most valuable photo- Royal? Ask your Mr: Churchill" an graphs the R.A.F. has yet taken.

passengers on Transatlantle trips, a lot. He has to watch unceasingly for British G.H.Q. in France official congratulations on an "excop-to listen and roar back. ''Kere.".

number of elderly Empire aying the Arst symptoms of flying stress. boats, specially strengthened, wil There is no bnn on alcohol or run only mali and freight services.

Dine at the

smoking in moderation.

Parisian Grill

Fine Wines

Good Food

DINNER & DANCE MUSIC

by

The Blue Danuba Trio

Opon till 1 a.m.

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

And this is the story of his scouting] exploit.

The photographs show hundreds of mites of rond bare of any traffic and The pilot took his maching to hundreds of miles of railway with 15,000 feet in a cloudlear sky and fol-out any trains moving. Germany's lowed the line of the German dewar front, seen through these views, fences.

is completely immobilised.

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

enemy territory.

For two-and-a-ball hours the

ROOSEVELT READY

Washington, Apr. 15.

plane cruised over Germany, and the In a Fan-American Day address British niemen pictured the camou flaged airfields behind the Siegfried 10-day, President Roosevelt, sald that the American republier must be pre-

Line,

Torpedoes Within'- -

200 Yards

As a matter of fact I don't mind telling you now that the Ark Royal had another close shave in October, That was when two torpedoes paused within about 200 yards of her. But

the U-boat was sunk by n screen of destroyers.

It may amuse you to know that the ship has a scrapbook containing the

e cuttings of your clairns, and photo- graphs of Lieut; Francke. Capf Power showed it to me and other newspaper men when we visited the carrier.

In

"Someone sent me an article from German paper giving a graphic re The crew was over one aerodromo pared to meet force with force if construction in pletures of the 'alak- for 20 minutes while the electrically-their system of peaceful relations ing

ng," he said. "He thought I might operated camera took a strip of ple- were challengod.—United Press.

like to use it for a Christmas card,"

and

"Back

Mrs. Jane Annie Calder, Banka's sister, sald her brother arrived at her house on the Bunday afternoon and asked for a cigarette. 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 nover breathe again. I have done

irt."" her Banks, alleged Mrs. Calder, added:

war, ilke Tipperary," "Pack Up" have been married eight weeks, to and I have never slept through her Your Troubles Blighty," which were soon given such keeping waking me and asking about a divorce. I have never had a good dinner until to-day:"

modern twists as?—

"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 as "I'm sending you to the "Stegfried Line" and "Han up your Washing on the Siegfried Line."

the washing will be very dirty before It can be hung on the Siegfried Lino." Scorning

the compositiona of America as "decadent" and "Jewish," the Germans have been caught short The Germans denounced the of new war songs. Gorman sailors Siegfried Line BOTICS A "bad came forward with a chant, "When tasto" in broadcasts to America. We Sail Towards England," but "Boldiers who fight," declared the somebody spotted it as a rehash of German announcer, "do not bragin 1014 number.

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