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LOOK SLUGGO ---- ISN'T THAT SILLY NEW GIRL FUNNY LOOKIN' ?

YEAH--

YOU BET!

WHAT. A LAUGH : SHE GIVES ME--- DON'T

SHE YOU?,

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 6, 1940.

By Ernie Bushmiller

YEAH, SHE'S

A SCREAM!

DON'T LAUGH

WELL, I'M JUST CONTROLLIN' MYSELF. I WOULDN'T

SO LOUD

IT HURTS

FEELIN'S, Y'KNOW!

MY EARS!

STOCK MARKET Relations YARD

REPORT

Hongkong Stock Exchange Official} Sunmory issued yesterday says!

Last week's summary stated that a

Severed

somewhat better "feeling abounds in Borlin Report Of Action

the market."

This was rudely shat-

tered by the evacuation bombshell broadcast on the same, Friday, even- ing. So many having to make hur- ried preparations for en "unknown Bank holiday quantity," the Monday's was cancelled.

By Petain Government

Berlin, July 6.

An official notifientiun has been received from Vichy at Anglo- It causes wonder- French diplomatic reintions were ment that the departure of the second severed at a meeting of the Council batch of evacuees was not preceeded of Ministers nt which

forced selling to prealded, by a plethora of raise the wind (to an extent that

WANT TO HURT HER.

ERNIE BUSHMIL

SWOOPS

ANTI-WAR AGITATORS

SPECIAL BRANCH OFFICERS FROM SCOT.

A LOT YOU KNOW

ABOUT PEOPLE'S FEELIN'S!

ON

Trouble OverA.R.P.

In

M. Lebrun LAND YARD, CARRYING OUT A NEW HOME Club

already been done, though not finan-relations was deelded upon owing to

It was stated that severance of OFFICE INSPIRED PLAN TO SMASH ANTI-WAR elally.) There has been a natural the British naval attack at Om PROPAGANDA, SWOOPED ON ALL FASCIST AND COMMUNIST MEETINGS IN LONDON RECENTLY.

part of

United Press.

No London Confirmation

London, July 5. The French Embassy has no con- firmation of breach of diplomatic relations with Britain,

at the und necessitous desire on some holders to secure immediate funds, and the market has stood up to the selling for this necessity re- markably well, though it must admitted that the volume of selling has not been too unwieldy. Leaving

H.K.

which have had a Danks

"We are still carrying on," sald an rise following their recovery officiat.-United Press. London, a comparison of the opening quotations on 20th ult., (last Satur

London, July 5.

The King has approved the up- pointinent of Mr. P. Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zenlond, as a Privy Councillor.-Reuter Bulletin,

dny) and the closing ones of to-day FRASER IN PRIVY COUNCIL. khows a a refreshing power of absorp- flon, coupled with only minor fluc- tuations against holders. It would seem. then a mild dose of confidence injected into the market might lead to an improvement both in prices and turnover. Evidence is not lacking of the existence of bargain hunters lurk- ing on the side lines.

Business Done During the Week

H.K. Banks $1,000, $1,070

Union Insurances 3316, $3121⁄41⁄2 Hotels $3

Lands

$30, $20, $284

Tramways $14, $13.00-

China Lights (Old) $6, $5.00, $5.80

China Lighita (New) $3,05, $3

Electrics (Old) $37, $30

Telephones (Old) $19

Cements $13.10

Dairy Farms $174, 317

Watsons $7.40, $7.80, $7.40

HK, Govt. 4% Loan 100 H.K. Govt. 3% Loun 95 X. Int.

Buyers

Union Insurances $310 Trams $14.10 China Lights (Old) $5.70 China Lights (New) $2.95 Telephones (Old) $19.25 Watsons $7.50

Sales

Hotels $3.10. Lands-$29% Electrics (Old) $30 Dairy Farms $17.20

See the....... New 1940

Buy the favourite....

Buy

Mayfair

SEVERAL members of the com- mitice have resigned from a Mayfair The raids were directed by Sir Philip Came, the Commis-club, founded to enter for local A.R.P. sioner, who remained late at headquarters with several of his senior workers.

70 WED TO 35 IN SECRET

Lancashire Alderman Arnold

officers.

The first raid was made on a Fascist meeting held in Pretoria- avenue, Walthamstow,

The speaker was arrested, taken to the local police station, and charged under the Public Order Act.

Wealthy 70-year-old cotton spinner, Gillett was secretly married at Glen Cairn, Dumfries, recently to his Another Fascist was arrested about housekeeper's 35-year-old niece, Miss Margaret Dorothy Adams,

Alderman Gillett, managing director of the firm of Messrs. J. H. Gillett

has large estates at Crawfordton, and Sons, Crosse Hall Mills, Chorley,

Scotland, and at Lambrick Chorley,

J

Mrs. W. Adams, the bride's mother, said: "Mr. Gillett has known Margaret since she was EL child. They had been engaged for number of years, but apart from my self nobody knew. It was Mr. Gli lett's wish that the engagement and wedding should be kept secret."

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The All Services Canteen Club, Upper Grosvenor-street. from which they have resigned, is lu

Its president is Mrs. Anthony Eden, and the chairman of the Club committee is Mrs. Littlejohn-Cook, wife of a business man connected with shipping.

Lady Read and Brigadler-General Sir Edward Bellingham, chief of the the same time at Ealing Green, the members who have resigned. ocal A.R.P. organisation, are two of where police officers had to rescue They were vice-chairmen of the club. him froin a hostile crowd.

Brigadier-General Bellingham told

speech which was received with boos and cat-calls, was arrested.

At Oakley-avenue, Edgware, a the "Daily Herald" that he was not in abused Mr. Winston Churchill is absent was originally formed as a day Communist who was alleged to have agreement with the policy which had

followed i

in running the club.

and night affair for wardena," he said, but now shuts every night and does not reopen until the morning.

"It is now largely patronised by when I left." soldiers. There were 300 members:

Yard 'Check-Up'

Scotland Yard also sent detectives factory and to all important war-time in cars to every, aircraft and munition industrial centres in the London area recently to "vet" lists of employees

or suspected persons.

All leave has been cancelled at the Yard to deal with these special Inquiries and to have officers ready for any emergency.

Evans Of The

Broke Becomes

Air Gunner

70,000 In Big Rald Test SEVENTY THOUSAND men and women took part in a six-countles test in the North Midland Region recently,

Nottingham was the focal point. Imaginary air raids were included the three-hour operations, and by a system of sealed orders a surprise element was introduced.

in

One industrial centre hind a mock blitzkrieg. Eighty

high-explosive

bombs were supposed to have fallen, causing 323 deaths.

Schoolboys and scouts represented casualties.

An imaginary rald_on_Leicester, by,

“ADMIRAL ̄SIR EDWARD 22 bombers brought re-fighting ald EVANS related his experiences first-aid units were also sent.

from seven outside centres. Forty in Norway when he inspected Ruislip-Northwood A.R.P.

cently.

re-

Council Sacks Stratcher Men

About 100 paid A.R.P. stretcher "If anyone had told me," he said, beaters have been dismissed by Mal- "that as Civil Defence Commis-den and Combe, Surrey, council, sioner for the London, Region caving the area, with its 40,000 should find myself acting as inhabitants, to be covered only by machine-gunner in Norwegian volunteer stretcher beaters. acroplane, hedge hopping, tree hop- Trouble begun on April 1, when the ping and mountain hopping. before council decided to dropping out of the clouds into my vouchers up to 1s. a day for meals in stop granting Norwegian mountain home. I the A.R.P. canteen, should have said they were dream- ing."

The dismissals followed an ultima- tum sent to the council by the Admiral Evans sald when the got to stretcher bearers that unless the meal Dombans, he found ar isolated vouchers were continued they would "Tommy," who asked him if he was no longer perform duties for which English.

they were not engaged.

"What The ***

་

Asked Tommy "When I told him I was Commis- sioner for Civil Defence in London," said the Admiral,. he asked, "What the-are you doing here?"

"We were engaged as stretcher bearers and first-ald attendants," Mr. George Wilkinson, an ex-Service man, said to the "Daily Herald."

"Bui We have no objection to scrubbing floors and cleaning and driving cars."

"To-morrow we are to go to the

"I told him I was on a special Town Hall to collect our pay. If we mission, and he repiled, 'I wish you agree to go without our meal tickets luck,

and clean and scrub floors we can Dealing with actual ar rald re-enrol." damage, Admiral Evans said, "Of all Mr. F. P. Barnsdall, secretary of the bombs 1 saw fail-and the Ger- the delegation, said: "None of mune were machine-gunning people will do this. We have found that in and children indiscriminately-the father boroughs first-aid personnel are people who did as they were told and still receiving meal vouchers." took cover suffered very few

casualties.

50 Bombs To Blow In Door "On one occasion I was sheltering

Major Drank

Too Much

US

in a garage in an air raid and I counted 50 bombs before the door was blown in. Neither my chauffeur, Ave soldiers nor the Garage pro-

Sentence of forfeiture of seniority prietor, who were crouching below of rank and ii. Bevero TC- the window level received a scratch."

primand was promulgated at Chatham Admiral Evans continued: "It (Kent) recently on Major D. Cowie, surprising what little damage is done aged forly, of the Royal Engineers, If people take cover.

tried by a general court-martial on a "A brick wall will keep most charge of conduct to the prejudice of splinters and flying glass away. As good order and military discipline for machine-gunning from the air, while on active service. which went on day after day, I never It was said that he had made him- saw a single casualty,

self unn for duly, by reason of in- “Plenty of houses were blown in, dulgence In alcohol. but the few people buried in the

Major Cowie told the court that debris could have been rescued by after cancellation of a church parade our own services with the greatest because of rain, ho want to the of- possible case

***/ }ficers' › mess for D drink. Before:

The realised it, he had taken too much RETURNING TO COLONY and went to an hotel for the night, Mr, G. Troverton, Private Secretary Next morning he felt ill and sent for

o

to His Excellency the, acting Gover-the medical officer.

nor is expected, trotyrn to the Colony next Tuesday.

Tributes to Major Cowie's charac ter were paid by senior officers.

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A HA'PORTH OF TAR

"Steward, there's tar on my dinner jacket."

* Yestir. Off the rigging, Sir. We told you it was wet, Sir, but you wouldn's take no notice. Up you went like a two-year-old,"

"I sce. And what did I do next 7** "You tang some songs, Sie. Greatly appreciated they was. Some of the cram athed me if you'd be so good as to write out the words."

"Fl have to think about that, Steward. So altogether it was a pretty "matey night ?m...

"There's been nothing like it on the South China Sea, Sir, since the Puster

THE

won the Irish Sweep. All the other girtilerien are confined to their bunks, Sir. They say it was the lobster mayonnaise,“

"Lobster grandmother! Why didn't they stick to gin and Rose's as I dịu ? Thaven't got a hangover."

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