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DONALD DUCK

GIMME THAT THIS IS

MUSEUM, NOT AND

TROUBLE AND,

OUT YUH GOJ

ANY

POWDER HORN

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

What Happened To Johnstone of "Layton and

DODO BIRD

Johnstone'

"God Knows I Endured Enough To Marry Him"

NEWSMEN GO UNDERGROUND

A party of American and oiker foreign

Journalists

photographed

underground in the Magiuni line, which they visited recently-French:

official Photograph.

AIR WOULD BOOMERANG

BLITZKRIEG

BE

NAZI

IF Germany were to launch ajseater fighters with tricycle landing blitz air attack which slowed up gear and 1000 h.p. Allison engine Britain's warplane production, set behind the pilot, who sits over

an extension shaft turning the three-1 the R.A.F. would still be able to bladed propcilor in front of him. draw on U.S.A. production us well as from the Dominions.

Any German blitz would result

in a counter-attack._and_the_Ger=

mans, at the moment, have no reserve production source,

New York.

THE Englishwoman whose marriage

to negro singer Clarence John- stone startled London five years ago sat in her one-room home in New York and told me she was happy.

Gozing adoringly at his blonde. blue-eyed wife as she told of her love for him, sat the dusky husband who In Layton and Johnstone sing- Ing partnership won wealth in British variety years ago.

Now Johnstone, who went bank- rupt before leaving England, is a poor man, and his wife Raymonde, whom the British violluist, Albert) Sandler, divorced in 1934, shar-

ing his poverty in a little room on the fringe of Harlem, grim negro district of New York.

I knorked at the door of a dlogy rooming house and came fuer to face woman whom coloured with the nelglibours call the "beautiful blonde lady.

She sat in a blue silk wrap on a hig double bed in a room furnished with a dressing table and n large gramophone.

Her Lost Daughter

COBBELS'

SYLT- SCAPA BALANCE SHEET

The German Preas issued the following balance-sheet on the Scapa Flow and Sylt raida:--

Scapa Flow (Credit) One British battle- ship "as good as destroyed"

Two battleships

ously

damaged

One cruiser seriously

damaged

May 1, 1940. By Walt Disney

DODO

BIRD

WALT

DISNEY

CONTINUED from page six

Oslo

MANILA

MUSK MELONS

(1-3 LBS. EACH)

50€

PER LB.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. Tel. 28151

Was Betrayed

Within

Plotters

Her

Nazi By

Gates

ren the people stared. Thousands of When I hurried into the telegraph stood watching and listening on tho young men stood watching this oc-building I had hopes. There were pavements below. I looked closely, cupation parade. Not one hand or still no German troops guarding the but as far as I could see they were volco was raised. We could discern door. But immediately I knew I aimple curious and somewhat enter- tained. As on the previous night, no sign of resentment upon any face was, too late. about us.

This was the most in-

after the occupation of the city, the The first hint came when a woman cafes were filled in almost normal comprehensible thing among all the Incomprehensible things of this fun-employee who always addressed me fashion, and a large number of young tastle 24 hours.

in perfect English spoke to me in men were lolling in them as if no. German and, tried to refuse the such thing as a regular Norwegian Somehow it seemed as if curiosity was the strongest sentiment in the message on the around that I had army were ready to offer resistance throng of Osloans who watched the special telegraph card. But her to the invader only 50 miles north

des of the capital. my dea No olher emotion chief had already accepted Germans come in. was betrayed in the countless faces Patch at one o'clock. Finally she

ty accepted it reluctantly, together with of young people clustered round Ger- we scanned anxiously.

dollara" worth of Norwegian man soidlers on guard. Some of indignant people we met or saw that 4

Oras crowns which had to be paid in them chatted pleasantly, with the were foreigners.

advance. Then she told me in Ger- stunned

Ger= | soldiers, some stared of their rifles wegians of Oslo seemed beyond recovery. All acted curious-man that I must see Fraulein Haugend machine-gunt and asked ques

the next morning, or no more mes- tions about them. Many young girls like children suddenly given. chance to see a parade of strange sages would be accepted. Of course, razed admiringly at the men bz field- eventures out of prehistoric times my own and all other despatches for grey uniforms.

£11,250,000

£16,060,000

£2,250,000

£3,750,000

£208,300

£106.230

£34,230,550

duy

£80

Two more blg ships seriously damaged. Domago

three to British aerodromes Damage to British

A.A. batteries

Total

Sylt (Debit)

One damaged house roof.. One rille range to be re-

paired

Window panes to be re-

placed

£28

Total

£07

ง

something which had no connection

with real Hfc.

Public Offices Taken Over

NO

the next 24 hours were never sent.

The Germans had closed all wires as

Wherever we went we saw groups *

well as the telephone lines to the 10s. For Bad Coin

outside world,

Next day, Wednesday, was as un-

Of Charles I's Day

But within two hours real life was making itself felt in Oslo. The Ger-believable as the events of April 0 mans had occupied the capital. They had been. German troops now stood While digging a grave in Long simply paraded in, taking it over guard over Parliament, the Univer-Crendon (Bucks) churchyard, Mr. much as Frenchmen or Hallens might sity, the City Hall and other publice George Cannon, the sexton, turned parade into a coloniai village some-buildings. My first shock cane early up a Charles I half-crown. (Reuter).-Sir where in the interior of Africa. Now in the morning as I passed the Stor- Such coins are by no means rare, of they went to work. It was the urgent thing. Two score German soldiers but when Mr. Cannon took his and Southern task of the tiny force of 1,500 men filled the open windows of the third to Oxford Museum they told him until to seize the key places of the nation's door of the Parliament building, all they were glad to have it, and re- been capital. They did it swiftly, without singing lustily, while one pumped warded him with a len shilling note.

Osloans Aloyfully al-'his accordion,

Reason the coin was counterfell.

LONDON, Apr, 30 Herbert James Stanley's 49 Governor of joffice

tom

has

On the mantelpiece, in the place of Rhodesia has been extended honour, was a photograph of a pretty April, 1941. Sir Herbert

schoolgirl-plump, pigtali Governor since 1935. English over ench shoulder. She is Mrs. Johnstone's nine-year-old daughter by her first marriage.

I card By the photograph was bearing the words "Mother dear" -doubtless a love token from her daughter for away in an English school.

"Why have you come to see us?" nsited Mrs. Johnstone, "We left the English world so long ago."

In a torrent of conversation to couple recalled the delights of Eng- land and the Continent in the days when they lived and travelled in - luxury.

Johnstone walked to a plic of old The pilot's cabin is like the records and put one on the grumo- coupe compartment of a car, with phone.

a side-door through which he can escape if the machine burns,

It was Layton and Johnstone ring- Kreatest Song

He has brakes so that after touching one of their Ing the ground he can pull triumphs Whether I'm Happy,

The millions that Britain is spend quickly in a small front-line airfield.

Ing on American warplanes is, up to

Wheth

These machines are suld to have on

I'm Blue. It All Depends Johnstone's wife smiled under- moment, for specialised type 400 m.p.h. under the engine-cowling, standingly at him. whose need has been plainly shown.

the

But there is every indication that Fast as Hurricanes

so far s front-ne fighters and The RAF', can now order, thanks

Aball concerne we

bombers

BTC

From a drawer they took a letter an pasted on cardboard. It was invitation from an equerry of the of Duke of Windsor, then Prince

to Wales,

Johnstone inviting entertala a private party. bomber, (d) Martin attack bomber. Mrs. Johnstone told me how her Amerien four The Curtiss fighter is said to be as husband returned to fast

as the Hurricane (nearly 340 years ago and how she followed. m.p.h.), but it does not look as Love Him" What United States warplanes, though It would be so manoeuvrable. excluding trainers, Is Britain using It is something like the Messersch now? What has she ordered, and mitt 100 in wing design. why? What is she said in favour? It would be a much faster flghier What types are available it sho

with Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. wants to buy them?

to the United States Government, | continue to rely mainly on our own (a) Curtiss P-40 fighter, (b) Lock- products. These are either sightly ahead or on a level with Nazi, de-heed P.38 fighter, (c) Douglas attack signs.

Used Over Norway

"I followed my husband because

I love him," she said. "My place

is always with him. God knows I endured enough to marry him." She didn't tell me what I heard

werk

to

the

10-

The RAF aro using Lockheed The Lockheed fighter has twin-inter from neighbours-that during Hudson

alssance engines and a twin fuselage. This is illness she went out to general

reconnaissance monopianes, which, similar in ap too, is reputed to have 400 m.p.h. in pearance to the Lockheed 14 civil hand-according to the United States help to pay doctors' bills.

The colour bar is strict in New air-liner, have specialised military War Department. It could be made

York that Mr. Johnstone and her equipment. They are well powered into a two-seater with a fair amount

kusband cannot enter even with two 1100 h.p. Wright Cyclone of ease, thus enabling more guns to simple cafes outside Harlen

be operated.

'gether, and she cannot bo received with him in most white society. in the divorce action in London Sandler was awarded £2,500 dam- ages against Johnstone, e.ted 29 the The Douglas attack bomber, an corespondent, but the coloured singer their range, which has not been re- Improved DB-7, is said to be capable won his appeal against damages. vealed, is more than adequate with of 375 m.p.h. Before the war France heavy bomb loads.

ordered 100 of the original DB-78,

These machines are mostly being

used by the Coastal Command. They

iro moderately fast, well-armed,

manoeuvrable. They have done well

an attacks in Norway, showing that

It crossed the U.B.A.' last year at average speed of 365 m.p.h, on a elaimed 60 per cent, throttle.

The ILA.F. have ordered, according which were 300 m.ph. machines with to American sources (a) 120 Brew-trleyele undercarriages. ster single-seater naval Oghters; (b)

The Marlin attack bomber is the 250 Consolidated flying boats; (e) 167, of which 215 were ordered by 200 Douglas naval dive-bombers, the French before the war. Those Sido-door for Escape

suppiled to France did 275 m.pl There is an improved version doing The Brewsters (value £2.190,000 335 m.ph. It is a small, twin-en- with spares) are metal mid-wing gined machine capable of carrying monoplanes. Tlicy had engines of half a ton of bombs and a big am- 830 hp, but I hear there is a later munition load.

The

Johnstone's former partner, Turner Layton is still one of the big draws in British variety.

ap-

When Clarence Johnstone peared for his public examination in London after his bankruptcy, it was stated that the joint income of himself and Turner Layton from 1928 to 1930 was £160,000.

In one year they made a profit of £33,000,

When Turner Laylon was told about the news from New York, ho

"This is terrible. I am distressed to hear it.

engine the Wright Cyclone G-200, Finally, it must be stated that if of 1200 h.p. which yields 330 m.p.h. the design of certain United States said, --maybe more.

warplanes rattles the RAF., it Consolidated flying-boats often possible for them to be fitted are well-known. They can patrol with British engines. Present British for 35 hours over 4,000 miles with air engine design is ahead of the sponded since wo spilt the partner- A crew of six. Although slow.1 American types, and shortly still ahip: But I am sorry to hear of his they have their uses over ocean inore advanced designs will be ap-bad luck. I sincerely hope he has

seen the worst of it.”

beats.

The Dougins dive-bombers, again naval types (value, £2,600,000) are two-seaters. These, tou, are not outstandingly fast with their 360

h.p. Pratt and Whitney engines. They would be useful for observation

pearing.

"Johnstone and I have not corre-

DESHABILLETEES

work, and attacks on the German HUNDREDS of girl Civil servants in Bath are to lavo a club in which

naval units and bases.

they can wash, mend, and tron their "andles,”

The RAF. may order 600 Bell In another of the club there will be butlards and daris rooms for P-396. These oro ununial single- Į malo guests, and a committen room for the Civil Service Clerical Association.

any fear of interruption.

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