1940-06-01 — Page 5

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

DONALD

I SEE A KIND, GENTLE,OLD

MAN WITH A LONG GRAY BEARD, GIVING YOU FREE BOARD AND

LODGING!

18 THAT

ALL2

DUCK

YES, THAT'S ALL! GIMME MY FIVE

DOLLARS!

$5.00!! FAK ROBBE

World Nichts Reserved.

June 1, 1940.

By Walt Disney

****

GUILTY!!

SIX MONTHS!

WALT USIENI

Yard Get Orders to Act SCREEN STAR'S Against Enemy Posters

AUSTRIAN

GIRL SENT

TO GAOL

ADVERTISING NAZI

RADIO IN BRITAIN

Scotland Yard are preparing vigorous action to stop

a campaign organised by Hitler's Fifth Column in Britain

MARIE Henschling, an Aus-to get more listeners for Nazi propaganda broadcasts. trian girl who liked the com- pany of Service men, has gone to prison for two months.

Marle, who is 22, was charged at Woking with

Falling, as an enemy allen, to report absence from her regis- tered address:

Travelling

five

than inore miter without a permit;

Making false statements of name and nationality at a Lon- don hotel and a Hastings board- ing-house.

It was stated that Henschling left Mayford Lodge, near Woking, where she had been employed as a mald, on March 15,

Posed as Swiss

She stayed at Paddington hotel and sald she was Swiss.

She associated with an Army office: and played cards with other officers Then she went to Hastings, still describing herself as Swiss, and gave a false passport number.

She corresponded and, kept com- pany with an Air Force sergeant and a staff-sergeant in the Canadian

Henschling came to this country last year. In October she was ex- empted from internment.

*She admitted having been convicted In January for having travelled out a permit.

One of the methods is to plaster hoardings and walls with "stickybacks" with slogans such as "Hear the real news behind the British news." These labels give the times and wavelengths of the Nazi broadcasts.

Hundreds of these "sticky" backs" have been pasted up during the night in many parts of Lon- don, and particularly in the Tot- tenham, N., district.

Sir Philip Gume, the Commissioner'

of Metropolitan Police, has circulated

a memorandum to all superintendents calling attention to this Nuzl propa-

Can't Wear Decoration

A YORKSHIRE rector (Can-

janda campaign and giving instri-ion J. St. Leger Blakeney, of tions for its suppression.

Wombwell) is the proud posses-

All people caught using thesel sor of one of the most covetedi "stickybacks," the Commissioner has decorations awarded by the Boy;

Lo be arrested, and ordered, are charged under Section 64 of the Scouts Association-yet he is Metropolitan Police Act, which prehl-i disinclined to wear it, because it bits the posting of any bill without is in the form of a swastika. the consent of the occupier of the premises.

When the offender is brought be- fore u magistrate the police are to: ask for a remand to consider bring Ing a more serious charge under the Defence Regulations.

He realises that if he went about with a swastika pinned on his broast it might lead to a misapprehension.j

The rector Intends, at the first op- pertunity, to get the decoration-the Thanks Badge for signal Scouts service to the movement by non- Scouts changed for a modern edf- tion of the same decoration, which is a fluer-de-lis.

"Unsolfish Work"

JOINS THE

Prosident Getulio Vargas of Brazil groote some of the officers of the Brazilian army, during recent manoeuvres President Vargas is considered a near Rio de Janeiro.

"good neighbour," friendly to U.S.

NKAMBULE AWAITS FATE IN A CELL K.C.'s PLEA Elephants To

Die-They

A TWO-WORD cablegram,

List For Anderson. The Special Branch of Scotland with-Yard have also submitted to Sir John Anderson, the Home Secretary, a long

Canon Blakeney earned it when he flashed from London across list of people engaged in anti-British who will propaganda

be liable to as vicar of Macclesfeld for "whole- prosecution when the amended De-hearted and unselfish work behind Africa to Swaziland, told Chief

assed by the scenes" at arc

Farthing Award

Raised To £2,500

fence Regulations Parilament.

the Scouts World Fakisandhla Nkambule that be Eat Too Much Jamboree at Birkenhead in 1929. must still wait a few days for Any person possessing the Scouts the news which means life or Thanks Badge is entitled to the Scouts' salute and to call on Scouts death to him.

The list includes many Fascists, Communists, and members of pacifist Mr. Justice Hallett, in the King's organisations.

for aid if either he or she should For eighteen months he, has been Bench Division recently, assessed

be in any personal danger or dif- under sentence of death for procur damages at £2,500 and gave judgy-Societies relating-to-a-roturn-of-feuliy.

ing a witch doctor to poison one of ment for that amount, with costs, at

The emblem differs from the Nazi his seven wives, his brother and his the retrial-of-the-libel-action-by-the the society for 1930.

The society were awarded one swastika (or hagenkreutz) in that it brother's wife at a ceremonial feast. and Scottish Co-operative English and

Investment

ment farthing damages, but the Court of has a left-hand and not a right-hand Society, Mortgage and

Ltd., against Odhams Press, Appeal ordered a new trial, limited crook, but the distinétion is not sui- tion.

obvious for helently

the rector,

The feast was prepared by the Ltd., and Dully Herold (1920) Ltd. to the question of damages, on the

under docter who is also have never been challenged witch In respect of an article in the "Dally ground that, as Lord Justice Siesser Herald" on December 23, 1937, head-stated, a farthing was an impossible when wearing this swastika," he says, sentence of death-to exercise ovil ed "False Prof Return Charge sum, and that there had been mis-"but I should not like there to be spirits which had caused the chief

to be tormented by dreams,

Nkambule Against Society," and referring to a direction by Mr. Justice. Humphreys any misunderstanding. I prefer a summons by the Registrar of Friend- on this point.

new emblem."

BEHIND THE HEADLINES by JOHN BLUNT

ND the general public, too,

"ANPave put forward many

This

practical suggestions." phrase came over the radio from the B. B. C. on Thursday night. It was part of a talk given by an observer on the preparations being made in England against an attempted invasion by the Germans. A few sentences earlier, the speaker had indicat- ed how public bodies bad offered the whole of the resources to the

Government, and instanced the Royal Automobillo Association which had placed at the dia- posal of the country all of their tolephone booths, which are to be found on almost every rond throughout the British Isles.. All to the good. It was also stated that workmen were busily. engaged in taking down church and park railings, and gates, and that even old cannon were being taken from the Tower of London to bo smelted down for the Iron. How does Hongkong compare?

Scrap Iron Exported FIRST of all, Lango shipmonts

of scrap from are still being exported from this Colony, and during recent months scrap

brass, copper, aluminium and other metals have also boon shipped away. Surely in such 'n national emergency as the

prosent, Government would “ba" thoroughly justised in stopping

the sale of any material which is urgently required at Home. It can be assumed that Britain will buy all Bho сал BC- cure, and the transportation could be arranged. I have been given to understand that thou- sands of tons of scrap iron have been sold to foreign buyero dur- ing the last year, and while this may have been in order some time ago, it is clearly absurd to permit it to-day:

Chinese Volunteers I was extremely gratifying to

read the remarks of His Ex- cellency the Gonoital Officer Commanding, at last Thursday's meeting of the Legislative Coun- cil. It is to be hoped however, that the Key Post and other Groups will be sloved and slovod again. It is also pertinent to uggest that there are many Bri- tish-born Chinese In the Colony (beyond those already serving) who could be of very great value in the defence of the Colony.. Now is the time to form and raise such unite, and I hope to ace that that good old maxim "Do It Now"-has been followed.

Rumour-Mongers

TN spite of all the advice which IN

has been given, rumour- are still rifo. It is anangers sonwhat: alghificant that-they- usually begin in the morning, and one does wonder whether some of the tales which aro circulated are not intended to Influence various trading activi tids, one way or the other. Don't spread rumours. Ridicule them:

Choral Group "CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA”

was most creditably "put over," and it is to be hoped that those responsible will move for- mard to further success. The enjoyment derived served to re- mind one that Hongkong is so very backward in the matter of music. We exist on the canned variety, which I supposɑ is 80 much easier to produce.

Enemy Subjects

DO YOU NEED TO DIET ?

IF SO,

USE ONLY

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FATHER

B.E.F. AGAIN

WITH THE B.E.F. MARY MAGUIRE'S father (you must know Mary, Irish-Australian film-star-songster) is a soldier in France. "Just felt he had to have another slap at the Jerries”—ns so many 1914-8 soldiers do.

..

Mary earns a film star's salary, and is also the wife of Eton-schooled Captain Robert Gordor-Canning, 10th Hussars.

Dad gets 2s. a day. He is happy to be busy as an officer's batman.

Mike_Maguire is a burly_sapper with close-cropped hair turning grey,

She Has 12.

blue eyes and a somewhat damaged Children-

car.

Ilis pals are proud of that ear, for it is a badge, conarming him as former welter-weight boxing champion of Australla.

Quite by chance, writes an Ex- change Telegraph correspondent, r found him in the cafe of a French village, and in his slow French. Aus tralian drawl he talked.

"Dandy being back," said Sapper Maguire. Enjoying every minute.

"My Hotel"

Wants More

MRS. ESTHER HUNTING has so many children-no, she's not like the old woman who lived in the shoe-she does know what to do! She is mother of twelve and would like even more.

"But they must be twins," she told #Australia? Now let me sec. Way the Daily Mirror at her home la back in my boxing days I fought | Victoria-road, Oulton Broad, near Nicol Simpson, and-well, the names Lowestoft. "And they must be born would be familiar to men of that

on November 28," You wouldn't know generation. [bem.

"Afterwards, I went in for hotel keeping in Melbourne and Brisbane, When the English cricketers went to Brisbane for the Test they used to stay at my hotel...

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Five of Mrs. Hunting's children were born

the same date, November 28. Two more children in the family would only mean an extra large cako a year to her and a couple more birthday sifia. One more baby would make..her "Thirteen's น family thirteen. lucky," she said. "That's why I'd

I took Mary to Hollywood when she was only sixteen and she got her first contract. Then she came to England to make a pleture with Gracie Fields. My other daughter like twins." her stage name le Jean Shannon-is in reportery at Eastbourne cow

Mrs. Hunting is only forty-two," Mother and I have been living She had Ker"first baby when she was In Devonshire-place, London. She eighteen. DUBLIN. pays ten guineas a week for the

Her husband a blacksmith, earns BECAUSE their fodder Just before the war I was at the

apartment.

£3 3s, a week. costing too much money, two villa Esterel, Cannes, when they of the three elephants in Duwrote and told me to return to Lon- ~blin Zoo-are-to-be-shot. don about a film contract..

The cost of keeping them has

"Sitting Around". at which guests drink a special po- doubled since the war, and is now 16. a day. During last month hay

"With the outbreak of war all con- alone cost £50.

Every day each elephant cats tracts became null and vold, and I 12lbs. of barley, 12lbs. of bread, found myself sitting around in Lon-

don, and 10lbs. of bran mash. Every night they eat more than 1ewt. of hay each.

suspected certain

Mr. C. L. Flood, Zoo superinten- persons in his community of caus-

"At our meeting next ing the deaths of his mother and dent, said:

her daughter, and hired the witch Saturday we shall have to decide to doctor to tie a "ghost rope" across kill two of them. They will be their grave, so that when it broke Dingrie, twenty-seven years old, und the murderer would die.

Parle, who is younger."

For three days; acting as the Judi- clal Committee of the Privy Council highest tribunal in the Empire three of its greatest legal experts, have headed by Lord Thankerton, discussed the question of the chief's gullt or innocence.

In Ton Days

They will decide within a week or ten days whether he is to live or die. His case has been pleaded by Mr. Horace Douglas, K.C., and 0 member

Black-Out Duster Kills Baby

PLYMOUTH.

of both the English and South Afri- IT was black-out time at can Bars, Mr. S. N. Bernstein.

said

Sir Terence O'Connor, K.C., Solici-Plymouth and the mother of tor-General, who represented the twelve-month-old David Ingram, King at the condemned chief's appeal, sleeping in his cot in Vicarage- yesterday that the court in gardens, St. Budeaux, tied a dus-

not have come to ter round an electric light. Swaziland could any other conclusion than that crime, · Mrs, Ingram went out for a low that the witch doctor was only the minutes. When she returned her Instrument by which it was carried baby was dead, suffocated.

The duster had caught fire and had Sir Terence had spent some time dropped on a settee. Then the seller studying the procedure of the Afrienn had begun mouldering and it was courts. He found it was substantially the smoke from the settee that had the same as our own.

out.

At the close of the hearing a mes sago, "Judgment reserved," was sent to the Paramount Chief of Swaziland, who then despatched his emissary to Nkambule in his prison cell.

killed the baby. So it was aald in evidence at the inquest and a verdict of "Accidental death" was recorded.

POLICE CLUB DINNER

"I got the feeling of wanting once more to be a soldier. I came over last time and was wounded In 1016. So I went down to the recruiting office off Whitehall and asked if they wanted motor drivers for France.

They said "Yes," and I got In. tried to become an Interpreter or a driver, but instead they made me a corporal.

I

Ono Big Party

I used to say I'd have only one! she said, "But one is as much trouble as twelve, and matters"are" simplified by five of them having birthdays on the same day.

"I have one big party for them, for which I save up with pennies from my housekeeping all the year round, I make two big eskes

"The eldest of those born on November 28 is Daisy. Sho's twenty- one, and her candles, with Frank's who is eighteen, take up the whole. of one cake.

"Phylils, aged seven, and, the twins Maureen and Derek, aged five "I went into the concrete sec-have thair candles on the other. I tion, and then an other asked me give them a little present ouch, too, I would like to be his batman which i generally make mysell-a so I gave up my stripes and that is little what I-am now."

Blue eyes twinkled happily.

"Lick Hiller? Why, that's only a question of how long it will take, The boys all feel the same about it. They are just hugging to get go ing."

Will Be Son-In-Law Of His Best

Friend

or something.

pinafore or

"Of course, I have to start sowing a year ahead to get all the family's prescuts done.

dren

The eldest of Mrs. Hunting's chil- is twenty-four, the youngest three. Her greatest problem is End- ing clothes for all of them."

"Three pounds isn't much to manage on these days," she told me. "But we have to make it do. All my spare time is spent mending and nitering clothes which the children have to hand down from one to an other."

TRICKS BEREAVED

IN almost every news broadcast from London, the tightening-up of restrictions against aliens is announced. There have been almost countless reports to this effect, the latest informing the world that Germans had been ro- internod in Calcutta. Hong- kong's action, so far, as stated

SIR EDWARD RHODES, by a Government spokesman the

Boventy-year-old head of

SCOTLAND Yard has warned other day, has been to detain one

Rylands and Sons, the famous

relatives of men who have died onomy subject! Surely it is

Manchester textile firm, is to

on active service not to give about time this Colony came lato

marry Misa Marguerite Dodd,

money to a trickster who is de- line with the rest of the Empire.

who is in her late thirties, the frauding many bereaved homes. For the sake of all that is based

AWARDS TO POLICE Celebrates Team's Victory

daughter of his lifelong friend. The net is out to catch the In- say de-

In Cricket League upon common-senso, I

Council

Miss Dodd's father, Mr. William dividual who after publication of liberately and solemnly, that to The Shanghal Municipal

recommendations of has approved trust German subjects is an un-

An enjoyable social evening was Dodd, of Oldham, is the head of a casualty lists calls on the relativen the Permanent

Board, Awards wiso policy. Not only those who

Commissioner of held at the Police Recreation Club textile-machinery making business and tells them he represents the unit

belonged. endorsed by the have retained their nationality,

The caller sympathises and e- Police, that twelve Police Distinguish- yesterday when the members cele founded by his father. The engage to which the dead man

the second ment was announced three days after

plains

that his visit is connected with but quite a number who have,

ed Conduct Medals Class II be award- brated their victory in during the last five years or so,

ed to two Chinese Detective Con- division of the Cricket League by a Sir Edward's birthday.

More than half a century ago Ed-the

relative can be the boen granted. British naturalisa-stables, Foreign Sergeant 1. James; dinner at which the Comuniesioner of

Hon. Mr. T. H.

to make their mark in the Lance-made, he declares, a fee is dun fon tective Sub-Inspector J. A. McCahey;

the course of the evening an shire cotton Industry Now Sir Ed-legal-expenses to safeguard Uld in Detective Sergeant R. Eynstone; De

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of mystery and ward is to become his best friend's terests of the dependents.

In one instance the man presented tective Sub-Inspector. M. Moir; amazing display Delective Sergeant D. G. Jones; magle was given by Mr. S. H. Mar- son-in-law.

Miss Dodd is a pianist end vocalist the relatives with a bad cheque for DE "Marvino." Others Foreign Sergeant C. E. A. Cooke: vin, known Foreign Probationary Sergeant G. I who entertained the gathering were and was still carrying on hor studies 2100 and then asked for a cheque Schalo; and the Police Distinguished Ernost Perry, who rendered songs in London until the outbreak of war. for 20 "to meet one of the Tables

Lytham St Annes, Lands Conduct Medal Class 1, to another with guitar, and Sgt. Simpson who Now she is doing duty with the the dead soldier had Incurred in

service." Chiness Dotective Constable."

gave monologues:

..tion papers. Also, certain other three Chinese Police Constables; Detent

allons whom many of the public have good reason to mistrust The apathy shown in this matter does no credit to public opinion, nor to man of standing who are looked upon as Important figure heads Buroly they are not all. "You Mon"?

King, was ward Rhodes and Billy Dodd set out pay as CState, Before any

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