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NANCY

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--OH---ER--I. WAS OVER TO THE CARNIVAL TRYIN' TO MAKE A MAN LAUGH AND WIN $50.

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

A FINE WAY TO SPEND YOUR TIME-

I'LL SEE YOU IN THE MORNING, YOUNG LADY.

June 24, 1940.

By Ernie Bushmiller

TWO-WORD

CABLE

'HANGS'

Witchcraft FISHERMEN VOLUNTEER FOR DANGER

Murderer Has To Die

A MESSENGER аг- rived at the whitewalled prison of Mankaiana, in Swaziland, South Africa, with a cable from London.

Fakisandhla Nkambule, sab-! ordinate chief of Swaziland, : waiting in the cell in which he had waited for nineteen months, was told what the cable said.

Just two words: Appeal dismissed. To Chief Fakisandhla they meant three words: YOU MUST DIE

A few hours before, In. Downing- street room In the Landon Fakiann- dhin did not know, Lord Thankerton had spoken seventeen words:-

This appeal will be dismissed for reasons which will be given in the judgment now being prepared,

The judgment of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council- highest tribunal in the Empire.

Medicine Man At Feast Fakisandhla wolts no longer to know his fate. The death sentence passed on him by a Swaziland court In October 1938 is confirmed.

He was sentenced for procuring the deaths of one of his wives, a brother, and that brother's wHe.

It was alleged that he procured "medicine man" to poison the three people at u ceremonial feust: because he suspected them of hav- Ing killed his mother and daughter.

Fakisandhla denied procuring the murders, and said all he asked for was the performance of the cere- mony of luzego, to cure him of bad dreams.

This ceremony consisted of the making of a speciul rope and the placing of it by night across the graves of the people whose spirits were believed to be causing the dreams.

In March last year he was granted

leave to special

appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and the appeal was heard last month.

Now Fakisundhla has only one last chance of escaping being honged- a plea for mercy to the High Com- missioner for South Africa.

Hermit's Isle For Refugees

Daily Express Staff Reporter.

POOLE (Dorset). BROWNSEA ISLAND, in Poole Harbour, for years the höme of wealthy Mrs. Christie, an eccentric widow, is to be-i come a haven for refugees from Holland and Belgium: This beautiful wooded retreat with its ancient castle will be the British equivalent of America's Ellis Island for allens. Hundreds will be shipped there direct from the Conuneni, to be sorted out and sent to

varlous parts of England.

For Ave days Poold Corporation

has been transporting marquees and i

• supplies to Brownsea In motor- boats Ministry of Health and Home Office offelals from London will follow...

They will examine the creden- tials of refugees and arrange for their dispersal on the mainland. The marquees have been pitched

in wooded glades on the island.

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EUROPA, where these pictures once the pleasure garden of a popular East Coast resort. It is now the depot for 2,000 fishermen who have volunteered for naval patrol work.

After an intensive course of training. in

H.M.S. taken, was 10cro

SEW FOR

VICTORY

wear duties the recruits will be drafted to anti- submarine trailers, minesweepers and armed drifters.

Below you see the boller-firing department, schere recruits learn the rhythmical actions of stoking-coal being represented by pebbler.

"Left: Picking up tips on sewing while the depot tailor alters a pair of trousers. Encouragement is provided by the very-much-adapted slogan on the wall, Above: Recruits listen attentively chilo, the points of the compass are explained.

WOOLTON GOES AMONG POOR FOR FOOD FACTS

LORD WOOLTON, Food Minister, has visited the poorer districts of Liverpool Visitors Word Banned to find out from talks with traders and consumers how the food schemes are working. For years Mrs. Christle has refused

"After several weeks in office," he said, "I thought it would be a good idea to leave the birds on her lands to be killed. Now Ministry of Food headquarters and get to close quarters with the problem.

"I now feel much better Informed than before."

to allow any of the animals or the

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MAKE ME LAUGH AND I'LL PAY YOU $50

A MAN

Major Got Fat, Shot Himself

LEICESTER.

MAJOR JOHN ELLIS VIC- CARS, D.S.O., fifty-eight years old, shot himself because he was putting on weight, it was unid at an inquest In Leicester re- cently.

His brother sald he was troubled because this meant he had to give He hnd to up hunting and tennis. give up hunting and tennls. He had no other worries.

Major Vicents was a director of Patons and Baldwins, the knitting wool manufacturers. He was High | Sheriff of Leicestershire in Corona- tion year.

His first wife was killed in a hunt- ing field accident in 1929. Major and Mrs. Viccars and the Duke of Gloucester were out with the Quorn when, in taking a fence, her hunter jumped too high, and she struck her head against the branch of tree.

Queen Of The Night

Among Hongkong's farcinat- ing flora, none is more in- teresting to grow than the night blooming cerus, "Quven of the Night, the peculiarity of which is that the flower blooms only at night and each bloom lives but a few hours. In these pictures we see an ex- collent example of the Queen of the Night, grown by Mits Rita Cole and her mother, who are seen with their admirable specimens of this flower in the lower picture,

2-WORD TALK

NEW YORK-James Sardella, of New York, mounted a soap box in

Lord Woolton has also been into the kitchen, of his home in Liverpool to get information Mrs. Christie, who keeps art trea- about sugar from his housekeeper. sures in the castle and herself "I found that we were not using our full ration," he said, "It was in excess of our needs Columbus Circle (New York's Mar

ble Arch) and began a speech prala- lives in a whitewashed cottage, Is because we were not taking it in ten or coffee. We were using saccharine and saving the sugaring Adolf Hitler. After the first co-operating in the arrangements.

"Hell Hiller." Sardelis was rushed Until now she had always banned for preserving fruit, & visitors. Those who dared to ven- "My business," he added, "is to see that we have something in the cupboard for dark days. by a crowd of 200 people.

Polleo had to take him under their ture to the island in boots were The important thing to consider, is not how much of any particular article there is in the coun-

protection-not because he spoke his inumadlately turned away by her try at the moment, but how much there will be in the event of a series of disastrous circum, ut torve him from the wrath

for the crowd She rarely comes to the mainland.. stances,

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London, June 23. The first selected parties of chil- dren to be evacuated to the Domi- Infans will leave within three weeks, Mr. Shakespeare, Chairman of the Children's Overseas Reception Board, announced during a broadcast to- day. He added that if possible an and carlier start would be made, thereafter there would be a steady stream of departures.

Declaring that the Dominion gov- crnments had stated their readiness to welcome immediately 20,000 chil- dren, Mr. Shakespearo said the scheme must be limited to the num- bers the Dominions were able to receive, though he was assured that the Agure of 20,000 might be re- garded as a beginning.

Shipping capacity was a further miting factor, and it was dangerous and stupid to talk.bly about send- Ing hundreds of thousands of chil- dren overseas in a few weeks. Reuter.

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