1940-06-21 — Page 9

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 21, 1940.

By Ernie Bushmiller

NOTHIN' EVER LICKED ME YET!

Jel. 28151.

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Student & Girl Friend Pledged

Men of 60 Are Volunteers

Missing, Feared Dead To Curb THEY WORK

CANOE FOUND ON Soldiers

ROCKS EMPTY Damaged

A YOUNG STUDENT and a girl friend are fenred

to have been drowned in a canoe accident at Weston-

super Mare, Somerset.

It is thought that another young man, and possibly

School

Stage Nudity

STAGE nudity and "impro- priety of speech and gesture" are to be curbed.

Chamberlain and Heensing au-

BEHIND THE B.E.F. LINES

By PHILIP JORDAN

FRANCE.

ANTI FASCISTS from every Europe country- and otherwise-

-Councillor Alloges A pledge to co-operate with the neutral

a child, may have been with them when they vanished.

COMPLAINTS that after Lord in immediate steps to this where tyranny now reigns The missing couple are William Macfarlane, 23-year the military authorities had ent was given by representatives of have come forward in hun- old son of the Rev. A. J. Marfarlane, of Middle Lambrook, ended their occupation of age and other interests et recent

ference at St. James's Palace recent dreds to offer their services to the British cause; and Somerset, and Dorothy Burns, aged 26, of Shaftesbury Frith Manor School, Milly.

The pledge applies equally to Lon-these services have been Hill, Middlesex, damage

don and the provinces. Road, Weston-super-Mare.

accepted. Mora Control They were last seen on the amounting to £1,000 was

In the Labour Corps out The conference also urges that the sands with a home-made canoe. discovered were made at a Miss Burns's brother reported meeting of Hendon Educa-Government should promote legisin here you find large bodies of

tion giving greatly increased powers that she had not returned home. Shortly afterwards a beach in- spector reported the finding of a ennoe and paddles on a ledge of rock t Brean Down, a rocky promontory south of Weston Bay.

Scon By Maid

Firm Wrote To Debtor's Employers

So Judge Strikes Out Summons

tion Committee recently.

Councillor G. H. Hignett said that the damage could only be due to vandalism of a most re- prehensible nature.

given,

of control over places not subject to men to whom the doctrines any form of licence where music, of their own Governments are so abhorrent that they dancing and other entertainments are

Represented at the conference were prefer the hard work and the L.C.C., county councils, boroughs, dullness of an Auxiliary

organisations "One is forced to the conclusion," theatrical and cinema he added, "that there can have been and the Drama League, but repre- Military Pioneer Corps to a Macfarlane, who had been staying no supervision of the men who occu-sentatives of London chorus girls

who began the outery against strip- life of comparative ease in at a Weston hotel since Friday, is

tease and had prepared a case to put the countries which gave

them birth.

No bodies' have been found.

Score Of Cases

"This experience of ours is by no means unique.

A DRAPERY Arm which believed to have been collecting in-pied the building. wrote to a man's employers ask-formation for a book about the dis-

trict. ing about his earnings was

Miss Burns is well known loenliy strongly criticised by Judge G. as an amateur-actress, Kirkhouse Jenkins at Chippen- The man who it is thought may "I can name a score of buildings

also have gone out in the canoe was in the MH area which ham County Court recently.

"In my opinion," he said, "that is seen on the beach will them by suffered a similar fate through van R grossly improper thing for plain-mald from the hotel where Mac-dalism and lack of supervision," he tifs to do and it is still more tm- proper thing for the workman's em- ployers to give that information.

"Plaintiffs have no right to adver- tise to a workman's employers that he is in debt and his employers have no right to broadcast to the plain- tiffs the wages which the defendant

earns.

"That is his business and his busi- ness alone. I shall strike the sum- mony out."

The plaintiffs were Yewdalls Stores, Lid. of Leeds.

farlane was staying.

added,

King And Queen At Theatre

LONDON The King and Queen visited a London theatro recently for the second time since the war began.

They were accompanied by the Princess Royal, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, and Commander Harold Campbell. They saw-"Sliepherd's Fle" at the Princess Theatre.

Although the King asked that the leader of the orchestra should not play the National Anthem, the audience rose and, sang it spontaneously.

The musical director, Mr. John Barelli, was bewildered for a second. 11e thought of the King's request_and-listened to the audience singing. "God Save the King" and then decided to join in.

before the conference on the matter were not allowed to attend.

Mr. Van Damm, of the Windmill the confer- Theatre, who attended

"I

nce, de introduced nudity into shows at the Windmill, but only in artistic tableaux, and there is no ob

jection to this so long as the repre- sentations are artistle and not crude and blatantly sexuol."

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-number of British volunteers to perform their useful, but BD 741 unspectacular, work.

These British volunteers-some of whom quite untruthfully told the re- One of those interned at Brightoncruiting officer that they were not in connection with the round-up of yet 60 years of age-are the unskilled Germans Is the Rev. Willy Oclsner, workers of the B.E.F.; but if it wero not for their energy and hard work curate at Preston Parish Church,

the BEF. would find it impossible to do its job properly.

Mr. Oelangr was pastor of a Lutheran church in Berlin. The Nazis forced him to give up his work,

They make and mend roads; put up colonies of huts; make drains; unload ships; construct docks and do a thou- sund other jobs as well.

To Do Their Bit Most of them are here because they "want to do their bit." Others have supplementary' reasons.

One of the men here joined up be- cause he wanted to be near his son, who is a private in one of the county regiments. Another come out because his four younger brothers are in the Army and he did not see why he should be left out of it.

"At present the work of all these pioneer corps la being supplemented ocal hired French civilian labour, by local but even so there is room for more men from home.

Because these labouring men do jobs of an unspectacular nature their names and wark are not often heard of in Britain, but the truth is that they are just as indispensable in modern "war as fighting men,

One That Got Away When Mrs. Kathleen Bishop, of Oxford Gardens, Denham, was fined 10s. at. Beaconsfeld (Bucks) for showing a light, she sold a small goldfish which she kept in the bath had jumped out and she was looking for it,

LEAVING FOR

THE NORWEGIAN FIASCO

Events: have moved so swiftly during the last few weeks, that this picture taken of British troops leaving for Norway merely illustrates the beginning of a great fiasco, Norway has since capitulated and all British troops with drawn. Here we see some of these very troops who

only a few wochs ago em. barked with the North- Wastern Expeditionary Force for King Haakon'

No, No I don't want to. Song of wise Oleg Sweethearts.

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I'm falling in love with someone, Gypsy Idylle.

Hungarian melodies.

A wandering minstrel I.

The sun whose rays.

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"Mikado."

De Groot Trio. Frank Crumit.

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Allen Jones.

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Vindescus gypsy orch.

Kenny Baker.

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Aloha Oe. Song of the islands etc.

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Pale moon, Gipsy mean. Moonlight and roses. I love the moon. Pagan love song.

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Tangoes....

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