1940-04-24 — Page 19

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

B.E.F. PIPERS GIVE ARRIVALS &

KILTS A SWAN SONG

SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE.

THIS morning we were present at one of the death. agonies of the kilt. The pipes and drums of a battalion of the Caineron Highlanders

played in à market place,

after which four drummers PLANNED TO

danced a reel.

All wore the kilt-ns did their officers, who looked on-but for how long will they be allowed to wear it? Strictly speaking, it

is banned.

Have we seen the l with the B.EF, for the last time this cold and nippy day, or will high authority re- lent on such ceremonial occasion?

There was a large and thrilled crowd of civilians round the square, They started visibly at the first blast of the eldritch music to which the English have become hardened, and which reflects so well the lovable dourness of their Scottish neighbours, i

Then, as the pipes und drums murched and counter-marched and the music swelled and screamed, the eyes of the French began to glitter and their hands to clench.

You might say that they sniffed the battle from afar, and murmured, "Ha hu" among the pipes.

The pipe major, a magnificent figure, and as rugged as any rock which a Scot ever rolled down on an unsuspecting Sassenach, hud then in his hands.

Even the major showed a gleam of politely interested savagery.

The music ended on a note re- miniscent-to a Sassenach-of that

toy known as a dying pig. We were approaching the climax.

Four drummers who had put on their dancing slippers took the cen- tre of the square. The crowd formed

' closer circle,

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DIE-SLEPT

If you had twenty minutes to live, what would you do?

Charles William Airey, a Afty-five- year-old smallholder, of Maricaford, Suffolk, deliberately gave the last twenty mluutes of his life to having

u nap.

Airey awoke in the early morning twenty minutes before he had plan- ned his death. So he went to sleep again. Then he got up, walked into the garden and shot himself."

At the Inquest It was disclosed that he was heard by hla son lo remark, upon waking up al a.m. on Monday and looking at the clock: " can have another twenly minutes."

Airey, It was stated, had been depressed for two years, since the death of his wife,

Verdict: Suicide while the balance of his mind was disturbed.

DEPARTURES

Keep

Why They On Raiding The Shetlands

EVERYONE has been asking why the Germans have been paying such devoted attention to the Shetlaud Islands,

Since war began they have carried out 12 air raids

there.

It can now be revealed that the island harbours are being used for R.A.F. flying boats engageil on North Atlantic U-boat patrol. The runged, thinly populated, The R.A.F. is Anding the Shetlands

The pipers resumed their challenge mountainous Islands make apparent increasingly useful. Since war broke

to all men who are not Scots, and bombers, but the

ly poor targets for the German out, flying-boats on U-bout patrol presence of the work have discovered that fewer and fewer U-boats fre showing: themselves on the surface within the normal range of any R.A.F. aero- plane.

the dancers, hands held high, scam-R.A.F. patrols makes it worth while pered back and forth and twirled in to cover 1,200 miles of the North Sea. a formal cestasy of national aban- dotment.

They huoched, too, ነፍ

dancers - will, and the French qui-

Their Starting Point The flying-boat patrols using the

April 24, 1940.

Forced Wife Of Shot Man To Kill Him

NEW YORK,

A WILD-EYED man burst into a lonely farmhouse near Washington Village, Pennsylvania, shot the owner and then, forcing his gun into the hands of the murdered man's wife, said: "Shoot me dead or I'll kill you."

Forced to murder the man who had killed her husband, the woman pulled the trigger. The man. gave a crazed laugh and fell dead.

Here are two "in and ★ out pictures of Germany. Above is a German from Sevlet-occupied Poland driv ing a cart Inden with his household possessions across the frontier Into the German- occupied territory. Repatri- ated under the Rasso-German Agreement, he 1s already wisely giving the Nazi salute. The picture below, however, For telis a different story. these German prisoners are marching off under guard to a prison camp somewhere in France" until the war is over.

The woman, Mrs. Caldwell, was herself wounded when she tried to protect her husband.

Watching the tragedy were her two children, Harold, aged five, and Lloyd, aged six, and a fifteen-year-old farm- hand.

Caldwell

7 Miles Through Snow With these three, Mrs. battled seven miles through snow- drifts to the nearest house and sabbed hér story.

When police and doctors reached the house they found Mrs. Caldwell weak from loss of blood.

She told them that her husband and the murderer, Glenn Plaits, who had once worked on the farm, had! a feud.

To murder Caldwell and force his wife to become his murderess was Platts's idea of the perfect revenge.

Torpedoed Him, Paid For Broken

Spectacles

The captain of the German shilp Edmund Hugo Stinnes IV., recently kunk by the submarine Trint, will be buying himself a new pair spectacles at the expense of the sub- marine's crew.

of

First-Class Stoker James Bromilow, of Balton, now on leave, said that the German captain went when aboard the submarine he shook hands with the crew, and they made n ent- lection for, the replacement of his glasses, which had been broken.

A.F.S. Said 'Shave

That Beard'

SO HE JOINED A. R. P.

Hence the use of this northern WHEN Mr. Frank Sutton, 28-year-old artist, of Clock qui-Shetlands as a starting point can fly outpost of Britain es a starting point House-lane, Ashford, Middlesex, realised that he would Allogether it was a great occas' over the North Sea. Frequently, they dred miles, thereby driving the U/ not be called up by the Army for some time, he decided to

vered with delight at the sound.

sion, electric with victorious emotion.

fur up into the semi-Arctic regions for patrols has given the flying-boat and make regular reconnaissances an additional range of several hun-

provocative and have been able to destroy or aid the boats still further out.

destruction of German submarines.

ANOTHER VICTORY IS CHALKED UP £12

TRIVE PRAT BRS)

The ship's carpenter proudly carved this panel while the Ajax was returning from Montevideo, It adds yet another victory to the scroll of gallant actions fought by British ships of that name.

Gained £5,000,000 In Day

CAIRO. the decision us recently they had SUEZ CANAL bondholders I thought, the court would accept the Egypt are estimated to have gained Crown Council's argument that pay- £5,000,000 in one day recently. ment should be made Egyptian

The price of the bonds sunred when franes.

the Mixed Appeal Court decided that The Suez Canal bond case has been interest on the bands is payable in going on for years. In April, 1938, gold francs, not in the so-called the Mixed Court of First Instance. Egyptian franc.

found that the bond service was pay-

Financial circles were surprised by able on a gólti busts.

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BABY WANTS

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But Mr. Sutton has a golden brown rich full beard and a moustache which tones in with his flowing golden hair,

And when Mr. R. Crimble, captain of Staines Fire Brigade, told him that his application form was Decept ed, Mr. Crimble added: "Of course. you realise you will have to come

THE film ambitions of a girl of 14, who was said to into line with the rest of the men. have been sold as a baby for £12, were revealed at the London Juvenile Court, Shepherd's Bush, W.

"It is reported," said Mr. John Watson, the ¦trate, "that she has a great de-

sire to be a film star.

"She has un artisile and dramatic temperament, a cheery and attractive personality.

"She also has an abnormal men- tality, at times well beyond her age and at other times childish."

"I don't want to be personal and hope you won't take offence, but, of course, you will have to shave off magis-that beard."

Surprised

Admiral Keeps Shop beard should be thought to affect his

For The Navy

Mr. Sulton was surprised that his

emelency as a treman.

But the Chief Officer was adamant To be a fireman, Mr. Suttan must be Engineer-Admiral E. O. Hefford beardless. (retired) has turned amateur junk

"He was quite firm about it, and 1 At the previous hearing a man in dealer in Queen's-road, Hendon. He court said: "I don't know whether I'm sets his shop rent free and his did not quite see the reason for it," her father or not, When she was two volunteer stuff wear overcoats to save Mr. Sutton said. I paid her mother £12 for her."

have obeyed "I would naturally expenses un heating. A foster-parent will be found for

most commands, ris 1 realise that dis- the girl, who appeared on remand as In five days he has made £124cipline is essential in any body of being in need of care, and protec- clear profit for the Comforts for the men, however irksome to the aristic

Navy Fund.

tion.

Childhood sweethearts who grow to become raval artikus are Muriel Angelus and Ronald Colman in Rudyard Kipling's "The Light that Falled, which Paramount presents on Saturday ni bolk, the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres. The story of the artist- adventurer who was equally at home on battlefield or canvas is fold by a sterling cast which also lists Walter Huston, Ida Lupino, Dudley Digres and hundreds of others. William Wellman directed.

temperament.

"But I did demur at losing my beard, which is now recognised as part of Frank Sutton, the artist,

Propaganda

"Eventually, Mr. Crimble told me atly that if I refused to get rid of it, I could not joins the A.F.S. 1 equally Amaly refused to tamper with beard.

my

"It is part of my personality, and it also has a certain propaganda value which cannot be ignored in a profes- sion like mine. So rather than lose it I declined to juln the AFS.

1 applied not very far down tho same road to the A.R.P. headquar ters, and was accepted there Imine- diately.

"Now I patrol with my tin helmet strap under my beard."

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they can't come, thank goodness !

Your favourite chair will not be usurped by your nolghbour's wife.

Your party

smile w

will not con- tort, your welt- washed face. You

will put on your slippers and you will gnaw your chicken bonc.

After dinner

you will settle down

in your Parker-Knoll and think of all the letters you should

be writing, and all

the nonsense you might have been talking if your neighbour's wife had not caught cold... That chair has ruined your social carcer--so what?

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