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HOW DO, YOUNG MAN ---

I'M THE OWNER OF

THE CAR THAT

STRUCK YOU ---

Tuesday,

*** AND I WANT TO DO SOMETHING FOR YOU TO REPAY YOU

FOR---

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

AW --- DAT'S A

O.K., MISTER-

JUST FORGET AB "..

April 16, 1940.

By Ernie Bushmiller.

I'M HIS MANAGER ---

NOW WHAT WERE

YOU SAYING?

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"COOL and FULL of PEP"

SAY THOSE WHO SUMMER IN MASCULINIZED UNDERWEAR.

by

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Careless Gossip May Have Sealed Fate of the Sultan Star

The Enemy Inside Britain Nazi Ears Wide Open for Secrets WORLD'S

Revealed in Casual Chatter

THE ENEMY inside Britain is on the alert with wide-open cars for secrets revealed in careless gossip. The Government has warned the nation of the dangers of what might be serious leakages of vital information.

Here, Alfred W. Ewing, son of Sir Alfred Ewing, famous chief of Room 40 0.B. (the Admir- alty's secrot deciphering department in the last war), tells how a chance remark can change the whole course of a war.

By ALFRED W. EWING

THOUSANDS of loyal British men and women are doing their best to help Germany win the war.

They are not deliberate traitors. They are the care- less talkers, the gossipers who prattle in public of official secrets. They talk openly because they think there is no danger in this country.

But the most dangerous of all Nazi armas is right here in Britain. It is the "Fifth Column" of Nazi sympathisers, of secret agents, of paid and unpaid helpers of Germany and Russia.

What Gossip Cost Germany

If you think a few careless words do not matter, and that too much fuss is being made of the anti-gossip campaign organised by the Government, just consider these tremendous events of the last war:

A casual word led to the discovery of a gigantic plat which brought

America into the war.

Indiscretion by one or two Germans cont them the battleship Blucher in

1015. One instance of carelessness with confidential papers put German code books into our possession and enabled us to decipher messages of the German Government and High Command Diroughout the war. EVERY ONE OF US MUST PUT A BRIDLE ON HIS TONGUE AND ~PADLOCK-HIS-LIPS. EVERY-TITTLE-OF-NEWS-ABOUT--MEN, TROOPS, FACTORIES, SHIPS, TIMES OF SAILING, UNITS. PRICES, TYPES OF EQUIPMENT... IS VALUABLE TO THE ENEMY.

A Scot Who 'Kept Mum

My father, a shrewd Scot, well knew the importance of keeping a secret.

He even kept the nature of his work secret from me, his son,

Not until 1928, seven years after the Armistice, was it publicly revealed that he was the man in charge of Room 40 O.B.

Not by so much as a hint did he tell me what he was doing at the Admiralty. While I was on active service he once wrote to me:

"I can't tell you anything about my work just now. When the war

is over there will be much to tell. Meanwhile, one can at least feel that

it is useful in a quiet way."

It has been suggested that the alaking of the Sultan Siar the other day was the direct result of careless chatter by members of the publle who had inside information.

At Plymouth last week Lady Astor said:

"Suppose that through some carelessness the Germans had got to know the exact time that the Exeter was coming. 'I'have heard from people, some distance from Plymouth, who knew two days before that the Exeter

was coming. I think it is criminal."

Thousands Stormed Doors To

Hear His Brother: Then-

HE

INVENTED THE THEATRE QUEUE

SEVENTYSEVEN-YEAR-OLD Mr. Charles Ingle- 'brother of the great Albert Chevalier and the man who invented the theatre queue and composed the music-hal} star's songs--has died at his home at Pinner, Middlesex.

It was criminal. Just how criminal and dangerous may be judged by Mr. Ingle, whose real name was August Chevalier,

the experience of my father.

He was in charge of the secret deciphering department at the Adralr-wrote the music of "My Old Dutch" and "Knocked 'Em alty. His main work was the decoding of wireless messages. His greatest in the Old Kent Road." helpers were the Germans and the German 'agents who could not keep their mouths shut.

For example, there was the sinking of the Blucher.

TALK FICKED UP IN GERMANY BY BRITISH SECRET AGENTS GAVE THE FIRST HINT THAT THE GERMAN FLEET WAS ABOUT TO MOVE.

Intercepted wireless messages confirmed the gossip which the agents had reported. By these two monns my father In Room 40 0.B, was able to plot the movements of the German ships.

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Horlicks supplies the hutritive elements which the body requires and enables the exhausted body to rebuild fisolf quickly,

Doctors have proved that Horlicks is not only easily digest ed, but gives your body all the nourishment it needs. You build up strength to realit renewed at- tacks. Soon you get your appetita back and your convalesotnos in'hörtened. Get Horlicks to-day at your store.

Plot Exposed

THREE

ARMY

He used to recall how, when his brother sang "My Old Dutch,”. husbands and wives in the audience would put their arms around one another, so affected were they by the sentiments of the song.

made his first hit Albert Chevalier in 1801, and from 1803 to 1914, with Mr. Ingia as his manager, he covered the whole of the country in six-month tours of one-night shows, giving, re- eltals in cities, towns and villages. Mr. Winston Churchill read the

"Stand In A Line" deciphered messages. Orders were

This is how Mr. Ingle invented the Anshed Immediately to Admiral theatre queue. Great crowds always Jellicoe with the Grand Fleet, to flocked to see Albert Chevaller, and ot Admiral Bealty with the battle- Cardif Mr. Ingle asked the police to cruisers, to Commodore Tyrwhitt get the crowd to stand in a liac" with the light cruisers and destroyers and take their turn. The pollee lined Court recently.

The result was the victory of the them in a three-abreast queue. Dogger Bank!

That was after an experience in! Careless talk brought America into Edinburgh where, in the largest hail, the war on the side of the Allies... about 7,000 people stormed, the doors, in this way.

knocking the police down and smash The German Minister in Mexico lng glass panela, Hats, stockings, had a chat with the Swedish Minis- coats and shirls were torn off in the ter in that country. There was much struggle. talk of high politica and the Swedish Minister was promised a keeps his uncle's name alive on the German order.. But somebody else halls. heard about that...

BIGGEST LINER

THE Cunnard-White Stor liner Queen Elizabeth as she York steamed into New harbour at the end of the strangest maiden voyage any ship has made.

"BIG HOLLYWOOD FORTUNES FOR FILM AUTHORS

OVCT

Film

companies paid £182,000 to authors for screen rights to published novels in '1939, according to a Hollywood studio estimate.

"The Grapes of Wrath" drow €17.300 for its author, John Steinbeck. Two other books, "Escape" and "Tree of Liberty," netted £15,000 and £13,760 res- pectively for their creatora.

Daphne du Maurier's "Rebec- ca" was said to have così £12,- 500 to the studio. So, also, did "All This and Heaven, Too" and "Disputed Passage,"

But none of them can touch the M.G.M. deal for General Low Wallace's "Ben Hur." The stu- dlo bought this story on a deal allowing the copyright owner 50 per cent, of the film's gross Lak- Inges. It brought them nearly

£500,000.

SONS

(

Her Home

Is Saved

IN

A WOMAN carrying a baby walked into Swansea County

She was date, and it was explained to her that an order for possession of her house in 28 days had been made in default.

Possession of the house had been sought by Swansea Corporation on

the ground that the tenant owed £18 ENGINEER'S LECTURE

rent.

Mr. Ingle's son, Albert Chevaller; Another case was being heard Modern Building Methods

This leakage of information led to WOODEN PLANES

further examination of the German Minister's activities. Commip led to supleton and Investigation.

..

A Gorman plot was exposed. Germany was making an offer to Mexico for an alliance againat

when the woman arrived.

"The boys are gone," she told the judge.

"I could pay when they were home.

but now they are in the Army."

ARE ON ORDER Frank Davies said

Turning to the colleitor, Judge

Use of wooden airplades for train-

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By Mr. H. Braga

A lecture was delivered before the University Engineering Society last night on modern methods of building construction, by Mr. 11. Braga, Gen-

that is the case.

Ing and Construction Co. Ltd. The "She should have one chance with lecture was illustrated by a cinema placing of an order for 250 machines

three aim of the erection of a reinforced with a London furniture manufac one son in the Army-with

sons, she is perhaps entitled to three concrete godown for the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., be built chances." Wooden machines

ing in the R.A.F. is suggested by the de'm not going to make an order etal Works Manager of the Engineer-

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