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Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 31, 1940.

By

Walt Disney

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Copr. 1940, Will Disney Penlationt

Pharbored bring Procura Syndicum,

MOST OF HOLLAND'S

LOST

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NAZIS

London, May 6.

THE greater part of the Dutch.oil supplies have been set on

fire or destroyed by other means. Flames and vast palls of 'black smoke are rising from the

oil

tanks at Rotterdam, SMOKEY

Amsterdam and Flushing.

In some cases the Dutch REJOINS

have turned on the pipes

normally used for feeding WARSHIP ships with fuel so that the oil is gushing into the rivers and canals.

It is ironical that many of the tanks have been set on fire

'A PERSIAN cat is to be: brought all the way from the Falkland Isles to take the place of Skeuse, the Exeter's famous

by German bombs, the Nazi cat, which has just died,

bombairers thus depriving He is Smokey, who was so badly their country of the precious, oil deafened by gunfire during the which is one of their greatest battle of the River Pinte that he had needs. In addition, the Dutch be left ashore when the warship have also set fire to the Batavian Shell refineries, laboratories and. archives at Amsterdam,

of

More than £30,000,000 Dutch gold snatched out of the: Netherlands Bank and shipped across the Chamel has reached Britain.

sailed for England.

He was born at sea and had never seen anyone but sailors until he was taken ashore in the Falk- lands. One day he walked out of 1156 new home and never came back.

The police were informed.

It was not until a week later that But another £28,000,000 worth of he turned up again, two miles from

the hene he had left. bullion has fallen Into Nazi hands. Robbed By Last.

Moment Bombardment This £20,000,000 was transferred from the Netherlands Bank to what was considered another place of safely. Heavy" bombardment at the last moment prevented the shipment

of the bullion. of this part

Months before the invasion Hol-i hand had shipped some £117,000,000 worth of gold out of the country, most of it to the United States.

According to one estimate, there was about three months oll supply in Holland at the time of the in- vasion, totalling some 330,000 tons. Less Than 100,000 Tons

Will Fall to Nazis

Of this it is estimated that prob- ably rather less than 100,000 tons will fall to the Nazis.

But Germany will secure much other valuable loot. Holland held considerable stocks of vegetable oils, whale oll and runrgarine.

One morning Smokey walked into the hospital where the wounded men of the Exeter lay recovering from their injuries.

He jumped on the bed of one of the inen, curled himself up, and went to sleep..

For a week Smokey had been searching for the men who had first befriended him. The hospital staff, Jad seen him waiting outside the gates. When a altor came along- tre followed him inside.

Although the

THE MUSIC LESSON!

Scottish piper the

crowd when he demonstrated the bagpipes to French Dom- rades

Adolf The ..

Viking

DR. ROBERT LEY, leader of the German labour Front, writing in Angrif, says:—

"The Polish campaign put the Fuchrer in the ranks of the greatest sol- diers of all times. His buld Viking thrust into Scandi- navia raised him above the heads of all the great sol- diers of the world.”

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OIL SUPPLIES Prophesies Capture Of

West Front Hero Frank Is Neutral

By O. D. GALLAGHER NEUTRAL UNITED STATES has a hero on the Western Front. He is the son of an American-Irish jockey-a famous jockey-and the only American citizen to come under shell fire in No-man's Land.

STOCK MARKET

End of War

Narvik

Stockholm, May 30.

WHEN soldiering in Italy in, the In the taking of Narvik the Allles last war young Sheffield man met much less resistance on land predicted to his then sceptical pals than the air. Under the cover of a the end of the war-correctly. violent barrage' from British wor- Since then-Arthur Ward Briggs, of ships, the Allles entered the town. Frestson-road, Manor, Shefeld, hos from two sides. During

the opera earned a reputation as a seer, and has tions German bombers kept up a predicted marriages, assassinations ceaseless attack, but several machinea and big world events,

were brought down.

Mr. Briggs, now a full-time ARP,

worker still uses his gift of prophecy

Encouraged By Rajah

importanco as it has restored com-

The capture has had considerable

"When I was a boy an Indian munications between the Allies and rajah told me that some day I would Sweden. The whole of north Norway discover my latent talent for predic-1 is now protected by the Narvik front tion," he said.

which can be made a base for opera-

"Now I forecast that this war will tlons towards the south, end by February, 1941, and this will also see the end of the Nazi regime.

The Norwegians are elated at the

Hitler being shot by his own sol-capture and say it is the first im- diers. The Allies will be victori-portant blow delivered to the Ger- mans in the district who must now us "Bolshevism in Russia will be in either fight to a finish in the post- ished within seven years, and there tons on the northern shore. of Rom- will be a liberal trend in polities, buks Fjord, between Nygaard Unfortunately I see a-slump after Bjornfjell, or cross the frontier into

be im this war. The future generation will, mediately interned.

Sweden, where they will however have a belter time.

No Bombing

Oh that oc-

and

Swedish offelals declare that the "It will come as a comfort to peo capture of Narvik itself is only of ple when I predict that there wit be rited importance as the final Issue the hallway no bombing in England as we ex-will be decided along

and immediate areas on both sides of pected."

Only once has Mr. Briggs forefold Rombaks Fjord as far as Bjornfjel the result of a big race. casion he named Windsor Lod! A German High Command 'com-

It won months before

the 1934 munique states that fighting around

Narvik Derby,

The continues unabated. News of his prediction spread, and German troops have taken up moun- Mr. Briggs had many letters from tain positions around the city and people who promised to back it. are being reinforced. Alpina troops "But after the race I had a letter advancing to the north have taken from a woman whose husband had Fauske, east of Bodoe-United Press. won more than £1,000. She told me

Gorman Ship On Fire Hongkong Stock Exchange Officialfit had spailed him completely. I the Derby on Spion Kep in 1820, | Summary lisued Yesterday says: vowed I should never again predlet, and I never Frank senior, who has been living

the result of a race, Ivestment deals were recorded in in Paris for thirty-two years the Government 4% Loan at $103 and

have." owns-o cafe), got a letter recently-HK-Banks at $1,350-and-Unions-at the Western Front, $453 and $455. Dock Rights again It came from written by Frank Junior's com-

full changed hands at $4. the manding ofleer and tells

Buyers tale of America's non-fighting hero

“HR Bunk# $1350 in the West

Trams $16 Electrics $50

Frank O'Neill is his name, the same as his father's, which is why they are known as Frank senhor and ***** { Frank Junior. Frank senfor won |

Changed Mind Too Late

"Dear Mr. O'Neill-I just want to

young Frank in my section. proud I am of having a fellow like

AFTER pouring paraffle over her Exeter patients clothing and setting herself, on fire, were not wearing their walforms a woman told a doctor at Hull In-drop you a few lines to say how he found them straight away, Since then he has never left thermary that she had intended taking hospital premises.

Ribbentrop Owes 9d.

For A Box Of Tees On Belfast Course

BELFAST.

An fats of all kinds are the com- noditics of which Germany is shortest, this will be of temporary: Importance, but it will be largely IF the Germans invaded the offset by the fact that thousands of British Isles there would be a eattle have been drowned by the golf professional who would like floods

For the cattle which remain it will a personal interview with Herr be impossible to import fodder, and von Ribbentrop. He is Mr. W. it is clear that Holland will no. Clarke, of Scrabo Club, Co. longer be able to export vast quan- Down.

titles of dairy produce. -

As far as the metals are concerned When Hitler's Foreign Minister was before the war with there were unofficial stacks of prob-golting here ably 2,000 or 3,000 tons of tin in Lord Londonderry, he was short of Holland: If-this-hos- not-been--re-tees and short of change. He asked moved it would be sufficient to last for ud, box of tees and said he Germany for a long period.

Both Ware Important

Sources of Leakage

would get the change.

He walked to the tee, drove off, and on finishing the round, went off without paying.

As a golfer, if Ribbentrop fluffed Both Belghurn and Holland have his first drive at any tee, he did not been. Important sources of materials count that siroke.

In 1814 one, J. von Ribbentrop, which leaked through the blockade, for the contraband control was never of the Wilhemstrasse, Berlin, bought am-a pair of shoes from Shear Miller, an It la com- 100 per cent. effective.

"That debi isi that in many cases Ottawa shoemaker.

nion knowled by Belgium have still on my books," said Mr. Miller)

goods

been up the Rhine. These methods the other day, of evading the blockade will no longer be possible

Possession of Luxemburg is also ACCUSED OF

of importance in the economie war,

because of her famous iron ininer CONSPIRING

At present they are within reach of

Allied artillery, but if German troops WITH DEAD P.C.

manage to advance a few miles into

France it might become possible, to The statement that thousands of work the mines in safety.

TOOK HER COW

TO NIGHT CLUB

pounds' worth of stolen properly had been found in the dat of a war re- serve constable, now dead, was mode at Bow Street police court when a mari and woman were charged with

conspiring to receive.

her life.

Then she smilingly added: "I -have-changed-my-mind now... I want to live, so I am sure to die." She.dled-eleven hours later.

At the Hull inquest on the woman Miss Elizabeth Alice Wright, thirty four, of Portobello-street, Hull, the coroner recorded a verdict that she died by her own hand when the balance of her mind was disturbed through ill-health.

▪་

'A Fine Boy!:

"He certainly is a fine boy, and just the other day showed what he do un hud in him by volunteering act which he was not obliged to do stationed for at all. He bea been

the past weeks at an outpost-and when I say outpost I mean outpost. "The other night there was skirmish betwech patrols and four Frank was told men were wounded.

ambulance ready to to get his

rendy He was

in evacuate then. two minutes, but not content with James Willam Wright, the wo-this-Frank-junior-volunteered. man's brother, said their mother drive out in no-man's land to get the died twenty years ago. Alice had four wounded. acted

Aflame Head To Foot

1529

as mother since she

"Now this isn't his job. He could fourteen 10 himself And three have walted safely in his shelter for the stretcher-bearers to fetch them younger skiers.

jin.

Mrs. Alice. Catherine Houlton, a "By volunteering he was Able to hour's suffering-as sister, said she saw Miss Wright walk (save them an into the yard carrying a bottle. A you no doubt know that's plenty." few seconds later she saw her in the Frank junior joined the American

Red Cross Volunteers with garden-flame trom head to foot.

French Army last September.

On the sideboard was found a note which read: "My mind has been out of order for some time. I love you all dearly, but I can't go on being a darned drawback to everybody." ...

SAW- MURDERER

HANGED

Toddler Drowns In Water Butt

the

Two-year-old Thomas Edward Ow- ton, youngest of three children of Mr. Reginald Owton, 'farmer, of Little

Farm, Moorgreen

Westend, near Southampton, was found drowned Thousands of persons witnessed the recently in a butt of rain-water. execution recently of the former The child was playing in the gar police Inspector who murdered the den of his home. Curiosity appar Iraq Finance Minister, Seyyld Rosently caused him to lift the Iron tam Haider, last January.

cover of the water-butt and look in-

He was hanged in one of the main side.

He overbalanced and fell into squares of Bagdad. The body re- mained on the gallows for four hours. Low Inches of water,'

War Office Watches

A

D

Marriage Racket

The accused, both of whom were

LABOUR leaders and Government officials are anxiously watching a New York. sent for trial, were Iris Kadelpisla She took her cow to a party,

Macdonald (20), described as a film now wartime marriage racket. Hundreds of women are marrying sol- But nobody asked it to stay.....artlat, of Sussex Gardena, Padding dlers, or men about to be called up. In order to qualify for a separation

allowance. BEAUTIFUL Mrs. John Hay Whitton, and Oscar Soucek (34), a trans- noy' caused a sensation at Rono port driver; with an address at ligh by taking her pot cow to a night Road, Kilburn. They denied the club.

charge.

A strip-icase dancer fled to the It was alleged that they conspired door and frightened women Jump with Edward. Herbert Pigott Driver, ed on chain as Dotty, Airs. Whil-a war reserve constable, who gassed ney's cow, moped loudly and sniff himself while under romand. Pro- ho ed at the greenla

perty found in Driver's fat, which The management finally persuaded occupied with the woman Macdonald, its eccentrio owner to remove the came from houses in Park Lana and |

Mayfair He had been on daly In Mrs. Whitney is living in Reno, to those areas." pot, a divorce from her wealthy hus- A charge of conspiring to steal was band

withdrawn.

CON"

War Office officials who have to pensation for financial support which have fost through sanction the payment of allowances these war wives

In such cases regard this as exploita- the war. It is simply pin money, tion of the taxpayer.

Most of the women concerned are. Labour leaders fear thas the carning low wages. In some cases growth of a farge slam of working the allowance more than doubles women with "privals Incore" their income.

may force down wages in Indo- In many cases the couples have tries unprotected by trado ulos known each other for a few weeks agreements. PRE

only, and have met for the first time Registrars and social workers-forein billets or service canteen sce a record crop of divorces and The brides are in most cases domes- separations after the wari

tic servants, waitresses, shop, anals- The military allowance is not comitants and low grade clerical workers,

REPORT

Sellers China Lights (Old) $7

Bales _HK_Books $1,350. Unions Ins $453/55 Docks Rts $411⁄2

H.K. Govt. 4% Loan $103

London, May 30. The Air Ministry announces that a German supply ship was set on fro-by-a-British--reconnaissance. machine at Bergen yesterday. The ship was one at 3,000 tons,

Six Messerschmitts tried to cut off-the-Britiair-pilot, but he flew Into a cloud and returned safely to his base-Reuter,

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