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DONALD DUCK

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 19, 1940.

By Walt Disney

YOU FELL

ASLEEP AGAIN,

UNCA DONALDI

DON'T WORRY, BOYS--

IT WON'T HAPPEN -

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1240, Walt Dhaner Frod

MAYFAIR CHATTER CLUBS BECOME

HAVEN FOR ESPIONAGE AGENTS Careless Talkers' Headquarters

CLEAN up the "Chatterclubs." You will find many

in country garrison towns, but you will find most in a

toadstool ring round Mayfair.

If I were a spy (isn't it about time. Here is another side to the story. we gave Fifth Columnists their pro-An ex-officer in a country hotel heard He per name?) I could work profitably a woman speaking too freely, without straying more than half immediately asked her to repeat what mile from the Ritz. Six to ten-thirty she had said, pun. Is Fifth Column time.

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Then he summoned policeman For a capital outlay of £3 I could and, in front of the bar, had her courage. She John

dozen clubs. Membership, charged. That took which used to be a guinea, is now nually 35. for the war period. Officers in uniform are admitted free.

was hig hostess.

Police or intelligence officers should visit the Chatterclubs of Mayfair.

My running expenses—say L1 an An English pub is a healthy place evening.

by

For this 1 could glenn troop movements and dispositions, and drop rumours which would spread, like ripples in a pond before mid- night.

I made a tour recently, conducted

a thoroughly disgusted habitue.

We visited eighteen clubs in the evening, not one more than 200 yards} from the other.

Often we had only twenty yards to walk. In every case, it is only tnie to say, I was digned in and was not allowed to buy drinks.

The clubs vary from several ex- pensively furnished rooms to a single large room with a few chairs. In cach it is the bar which is the centre of attraction.

Their ellentele arc glamorous blondes mannequini, Alm extros and a few ex-debsa sprinkling of often senior officers and a few nonen- tities.

Man "Was Bored"

Here is my report:- Club No. 2A pretty brunette sitting at the nicely decorated bar: "It's

to wander round among; so nice people who don't take the war too seriously, don't you think?".

compared with them.

Bishop's

Son Weds

A Gond*

Girl

VERRIER ELWIN, son of the

bishop of Sierra Leone and

a former chaplain at Merton College, Oxford, was married to a Gond girl, Miss Kosiarunt, at Jubbulporc,

Southern India. They were married according to Cont rites, and are settling down in the Gond country toass Reuter).

Elwin, writer and sochat worker, is founder of the

de-

"Dhemaji Gond Her companion, a mari of about Seva Mandat." an twenty-nine in civilian clothes: "Per- organisation" sonally, I'm bored with it." These voted to the up

Iitin of the. people eat, lunch, dine out. The majority do no war work. They feel Gonds and abor no rationing.

Club 4 was still rather sur- prised that one of its members had been interned. He was popular.

No. 4

igines Inhabiting

lilly tracks of

the central pro- vinces.

In 1920 he who

Club No. B.-A young officer. In Vice-Principal of Mentifiable uniform told his friend Wyelide Hall, Ox- and the whole bar that he had soj ford, and in 1027 much leave and was leaving on a

lain of Mer

certain day for a specified place ton College. abroad.

The secretary also heard it, "Ssh, Dick."

shid

The same year his was appointed Half an hour later, at another examining chap- club. 1

I heard

the same tit-bit of lain to the Bishop information again. The Chatter of Bradford. club set moves on in a widening circle of clubs, the news with them. Club No. 7-The barman,, speak- big: "I'm off to the Army in a month and I'm glad. I hear everything true nud untrue here.

"I'm afraid to discuss the war with my wife because I can't remember

Mr. Verrier Elwin

He left for India that year, and in 1920 became examining chaplain to the Bishop of Bombay.

| Later he retired into lay life, and since 1932 has lived among the aboriginal tribesmen in the Central Provinces.. where he has founded a leper home and settlement for education and research on humanitarian lines.

whether I read it in the pacers or *The Clonds are a tribe of the Deavidlans, heard it ten times in the club. A the original Inhabitants of India. barman can't tell his customers to

stop talking."

Run By A Foraigner

This club was run by a foreigner.) A number of foreigners, artists, decorators, writers, are among its members.

An

Club 11. An officer came in. dearly back from Flanders exelted flock bore down on him. į Here

was good picking at firsthand, but

was either too wise or too tired. He left for his hotel after a whisky and soda.

he

'HAAKON VERY ILL' Exhausted by War From RALPH HEWINS

Stockholm, June 4. KING HAAKON of Nor- way, exhausted by his fight to escape the Germans, is now seriously ill, according to rellable reports renching here to-day.

Clubs 12 to 18. Talk gets mora dangerous as longues loosen. From a Canadian soldier. I learn the dis- position of Canadian troops in Eng- It is believed that the King, land. A woman, a stranger to me, who is 68, is suffering from

just back from France. She has some interesting facts, not dangerous bronchial trouble. It is known that his experiences since the She ends with one tit-bit about the Germans drove north from Oslo R.A.F. I ask how she could possibly to beyond the Arctic Circle have know. She says she just knows. It

taken great toll of his strength.

In themselves.

it were true, she should have been falled for telling me.

Interesting Jig-saw

By the end of the evening I could have sat down and plece together parts of a very interesting fig-saw.

This picture does not concern Lon- don only. In a garrison town recent-

ly

I vialled a club packed with

soldiers, allors and, the Fleet Air

NAZIS USED THIS VILLAGE AS A PRACTICE TARGET

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POMBARDED by German gunners in need of practice, this village on the Western Front shows the devastating effect of modern artillery fire. Pictures are taken from a British Movie tonews film. Above you see several of the many ruined cottages in the main street of the village,

In their wanton bombardnient of the village church, the Nasis succeeded in bringing down this crucifix.

Troops salvaging what remaincil of the contents of a house after it had been wrecked by shëll fire.

A soldier helps his comrade to climb through a shell hole to inspect the damaged interior of a house..

The church, into which several shells fell, scèn through the shattered roof of a neighbouring cottage.

EVERY STREET TO HAVE ADVISER

IT IS the Government's aim to have one responsible Anxiety is felt lest his condition person to --ery street to whom people can go, in times may turn to pneumonia or affect his : heart,

of rumeur er danger, for official news and advice. The Norvegian Legation here have

This roiect was revealed by Mr. Harold Nicolson, nothing to say on the matter at the

Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information, in the 7 of Commons recently.

moment.

QUAKE IN KUNMING

Kunming, June 18. Kunming again experienced

These "annsible people," he said, would got their Informa- anton for excional officers,

nadcasting or other channels of information.

'frst-gir}" I'mel_was_n Gur-earth tremor of considerable force. He had in mind the possibility of a temporary breakdown man-speaking Swiss, governess at 1 o'clock this morning, arousing in wird In the neighbourhood, who told me the populace from their sloep. The she bleycled five miles every single quako insted for about 20 seconds Trovaning to the club,

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commander was forced to crash dive.

The submarine shot under : tho

water. Then the commander, his eye to the periscope, noticed come strange blobs..

xe turned to the navigator to identify them and discovered

that officer was missing.

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