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NANCY

MY MIND IS MADE UP-- I'M GOIN' RIGHT OVER AN TELL MR. JOLLYBEAN

DAT I'VE DECIDED TO LET

HIM ADOPT ME!

BOY!... WILL I HAVE:

FUN ON DAT SWELL ESTATE!

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 30, 1940.

By Ernie Bushmiller"

SHORTS-

&

Jel. 28151.

SLACKS

SEVING 1,000

KING

TAKES FOR

BRIDE

GIRLS ASK DATES"

Disappointed In

Men

of Devon.

SOMEWHERE IN DEVON, ONE THOUSAND eligible young women have come to the conclusion that it's a not-so- glorious Devon.

"Where's the romance?" they demand plain- tively. "What's the matter with the young men -are they dùmb?"

Because of the apparent scarcity of suitable boy friends this contingent of spinsters finds life; dull these days.

ARTIE SIIA W, the famous swing band leader and his film star bride, Lann Turner. The two met Home time ago while working on M.G.M. lot,

A

PRINCESS LEAVES FORTUNE TO DUKE OF KENT

PRINCESS LOUISE, great-aunt of the King, who was buried at Windsor, was one of the wealthiest members of the Royal Family. The bulk of her fortune will go to the Duke of Kent.

They are on the staff of a big in- surance company, and were evacuat-

ed to a South Devon town nearly four months ago.

A 19-year-old malcontent said: "Dates with boy friends are almost unknown.

"We spend our spare time knitting furlously for the Services, throwini; orcasional 'hen* parties, and dancing with each other in our hotels.

Weather Talks

"Most of us have forgotten the

thrill of being taken out for Jevening."

the

Stella Thompson is blonde and frank. She said, "Even if the local lads were attractive, there are too few to go round."

Brunettes Cecile Jordon and Yvonne Roberts agreed.

CHURCHILL'S £1,000 SPY GAME

MR. CHURCHILL has invited seamen all over the world---and you if you think you can do it-to hunt out German warships and give news of enemy mines.

Here is a price-list of what the Admiralty is prepared

to pay for accurate information about the Nazis' war at

sea:

Warships captured

or sunk as a direct result of the in- formation, up to... Movements of enemy war vessels accu- rately reported, up

to

Position of moored..

or floating German mines, up to .....

£1.000

Mine washed ashore and recovered, up to

Specially interesting (e.g., magnetic) mine, up to..

£1

ឆ.

Floats, mine-sinkers,

mine fragments,

£50

etc., if examina- tion of them yields

new knowledge, up to

£5

*£6

The rewards will be paid to anybody except Service personnel, whose official duty it is to report enemy activi- ties. The amounts will be assessed by the Admiralty according to the value of the information received.,

Raced Train

Dying Man

To

HERE is a thrilling story about two war heroes serving on the Home Front.

They are Special Constables Harvey and Egland, of Exeter. Their resourcefulness and pluck were revealed recently.

They were out on patrol.

Harvey, in private life a journal-

People who had crossed a bridge lat, modestly told the story to the over the Southern Railway main Exeter coroner recently. line reported having heard moans.

In returning a verdict that Sea- mark died from his injuries, the commended Harvey and

Huddied on Line Hurvey ran to the bridge, shone corner Egland. And 20-year-old Betty Scolt added his torch over the parapet, picked with much scorn, "The only thing out in its rays a mar huddled on they can talk about is weather."

the track. danced with some of the thou- He and Eglond sprinted off along sand. There was one man to about the wadin pulted out of Exeter Cen-

that led to the metals. were over 40, and married. Only tral; they heard it gather speed, 20 women-and most of the men A four were local residents.

Silghtly hopeful pole-A big firm of underwear specialists has just

town. Manpower: 100,-

Part_of_the_valuable collection of and provision for the Kensington transferred its head office staff to the. jewellery, not worn for yours, wil go Palace stall.

to the Duchess of Kent. There are

also substantial bequests to charities

∙KIST

HIMS

CANNED

FRUITS and VEGETABLES

Insist on Sunkist.

Solo Distributors W. R. LOXLEY

· CO. (CHINA) LTD,

Relics of Queen Victoria will be distributed among members of the

Royal Family, including the King and Quecti.

U.S.N. OFFICER DUE

Chungking, Apr. 20.

on

draw closer.

Down on the truck they ran until their lungs seemed ready to burst.

With seconds to spare they reached the mun, held him between--them; pressed

the close against

bridge wall.

Commended

The train swept past them.

SKIPPER STAYED

IN LINEN- COTTON

DRILL,

ROBE'NE

and TWILL

WHITE

and NAVY

ONLY . .

SLACKS

FROM

$100

SHORTS'

FROM

LADIES' SALON

$5.75

LANE CRAWFORD'S 55:52

The House of Quality & Service

'But surely, just a

Never neglect a scratch-however small. The moment the skin is broken a path for germs is opened.

Use Dettol at once. It is a weapon against infection. Yet for all its high germicidal efficiency, it is

scratch.. Dontaining,, non-poison-

ous, even pleasant to smell.

DETTOL

TRADE MARKÄY

THE MODERN ANTISEPTIC

Agents: Imperial Chemical Industries (China) Ltd., Hong Kong

at the

ALONE Parisian Grill

WHEN the 1,502-ton Glasgow steamer Longships broke her back

But on a rock the crew put off in the

Capt. D. 'MacLannan stayed

Capt. Bradford Bartlett of the the man, Leonard Duart Senmark, a ship's boats and stood by for nearly Some of the people to whom be- U.S.S. Tutulla is scheduled to leave 59-year-old garage proprietor, was four hours

left quests were originally

have Chungking

Tuesday for the already dying. already died. King George V. would United States, via Hongkong, to take fall from the bridge had fatallyboard alone, until a lifeboat arrived. have inherited among other things up his new post there-United Press. injured him. one of the Princess's own paintings.

Ignorant of War

Kensington Palace is a “gence and favour" residence which the King can give to any one he pleases, but It was the Princess'n hope that the Duke of Kent and his family would live there after her death,

She died at the age of ninely-one without knowing that, for the second time in her fe, Britain was at war with Germany. It was agreed that the news should be kept from her.

She never saw her pas mask. identity, card or ration coupons.

Princess Louise, who was the oldest surviving child of Queen Victoria, lived so frugally in her ninety-eight-roomed residence at Kensington Paluce that

most people regarded her us a com- paratively poor woman.

Her residence was run by a hand- ful of servants. Many rooms had not been used for years. The study of her husband, the Duke of Argyll. who died in 1014, was wrapped · In dust sheets: the dining-rooms and ja sumber of ground-floor aute-rooms

have long been locked up.

After her ninetieth birthday the Princess lived unstairs in an atmosphero of Victorian austerity:

No Lift

There was no lift in her wing of the palace: coal for the open fires in the bedrooms wan carried up by hond. An old-fashioned kitchen range heated the bare corridor out- side the room in which she spent | the last weeks of her life.

Carpets, curtains and furniture dated from the beginning of the century.

Princess Louise, had, an income of £8.000 a year from the Civil List.

Ittle more than half this.

ENGLAND

HOLLAND

BELGIUM

NEW LIKE OF [FORTIFICATIONS

JUST COMPLETED

PANGANET LINE

FRANCE

FRANCE and Germany continue to fortify their fron- tiers. This map shows the latest phases of, this activity.

Work on the continuation of the Maginot Line along the Franco-Belgian frontier has now been completed.

Germany, it is learned, has started work on a defence line just south of the frontier with Denmark. A second "Siegfried Line" is being built, also, behind the present one along the frontier with France.

OPEN VERDICT ON

"UNCLE ERIC

An open vordiet, was returned at Her total housekeeping expenses at the inquest recently on

Mr. Eric Kensington Palace amounted to

Fogg, 37-year-old music director of

In addition, the inherited a large the BBC's Empire Service. sum of money from Queen Victorin

and benefited under the will of her Mr. Fogg "Uncle Erie"-who fell

husband, who left

quarter of a million pounds.

more than nin trónt of n Tube train at Waterloo

was to have been married recently.

DER

MARK

"GERMANS BUILDING

FORTIFICATIONS

SIEGFRIED LINE

GERMANY

SECOND SIEGFRIED UNDER CONSTRUCTION

ADVICE TO NURSING MOTHERS

It is very important, doctors say, not to overtax your system Immediately after the birth of a child. When you are feeding baby yourself, you should take plenty of easily digested nourish- ment.

For that reason, doctors throughout China recommend Horlicka. They have proved that Horlicks stimulates the "appetite, promotes

and sound sleep strengthens the whole system. the Also Horlicks. increases supply of maternal milk and ensures the success of breast feeding, RAND

Get Horlicks to-day from your

store.

On

The story was told, when the crew

of twenty-seven landed at a South

port.

Coast

After the lifeboat had taken them ashore, they had transferred at once to another ship,

After surviving an attack by Ger- maa planes on Sunday, the trawler Dromio, of Hull, came in

Good Food Fine Wines DINNER & DANCE MUSIC by

The Blue Danube Trio

with the Italian steamer Valentino,TO-MORROW

in the North Sea.

Another trawler, the Colonło, look her in tow, but after ve hours' towing she sank.

Bombs All Round

Her crew of 18 landed at a North- East part last night.

One of them sald that last Sun- day, when the trawler was returning to Juli from the fishing grounds, Nazi zaplanes dropped hombs round the ship and also used machine-guas.

all

Damaged by an explosion, believed to have been caused by à mine off the North-East Coast, the 4,134-ton Glasgow steamer Gryfevale was tow- ed into a North-East port recently.

STOCK MARKET REPORT

Hongkong Stock Exchange (Official Summary issued yesterday says:

Business reported was not of vast proportions, and prices are not loo robust, but the spread was over a voriegated selection.

Buyers H.. Banka 31,500 Bank of E. Ain $74 Union MA, $420 Providents #4% Landa 1301 Realties $4.40

Telephones (or $2855 Telephones (New) B10 Lane Crawfords (805 Wm Powell $1 Entertainments $7.10

Bellers

Providenis $4.40 Firetries 32 Telephone, (Old) 20 Telephones (Now) #1039

Balon Dncks Cum. Rte. $21 Hotels $4 Lands $38

Chinese Eater $183 Trams $115

China Lights (Old) $7.00 Electrics $0.80

Telephones (Old) $20.00

INTO THE SKIES

AT

THE

Opon till 1a.m.

KING'S

... FOR LOVE AND GLORY!

20,000 MEN A YEAR

RANDOLPH

PRESTON

SCOTT FOSTER

MARGARET

LINDSAY

Mary Healy Robert Shaw George Ernest Kane Richmond Jane Darwell Maxie Rosenbloom

› Producer Sa! M. Wertzal

A Choon 4 Semak Pay is Lou Dobor and

A Cosmepation Production

30% Conowy-Fon

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