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NANCY

! JUST BECAUSE CAPHNE SINGS ON THE RADIO

SLUGGO THINKS SHE'S WONDERFUL!

WITH A LITTLE PRACTICE, I'LL BET I'D BE JUST AS GOOD AS

HER/

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Wednesday.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

july 17, 1940.

By Ernie Bushmiller

JUNE!

CRNIE BUSHMILLET

"ONLY SCROUNGERS” LEFT FOR P.A.C.

MR. FREDERICK JOHN WELLMAN, a Brighton | magistrate, and member of the Public Assistance Com- inittee, has resigned from the Relief Committee of which he had been chairman for the past 15 years.

Some months ago he protested at "Only the scroungers, racing touts, the appointment of Councillor Bibetting men, hawkers, and rag and I cannot Chipchen, propaganda secretary of bone dealers will be left.

waste my time on, that sort of PRISON."

the local Labour Party, to the com- mitter, on the ground that he was Ineligible, having once been in re- ceipt of relief.

PRESENTATION MADE

Hiy objection was overruled.

Mr. C. J. Tucchi was the recipient Recently Mr. Chinchen was ap-f a token of esteem from his collec- pointed to al vacancy on the Relief in the Public Works Department Committee, and

Wellmann Monday, A gathering was held promptly resigned.

Mr.

"More than half the people with whom the P.A.C. have to deal, the nged poor, will soon be taken over by the State," he said.

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BACK

KING'S BIRTHDAY

Reply to Colony's Message. Received

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To

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Find Her Child

AFTER escaping from Oslo when the Germans occu- pied the city, a young English mother returned and faced the Nazis alone-to rescue her child.

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Administering the Government cabled Hongkong's con- The story of her search for gratulations last month on the ocea-her child was told in a message ston of the official celebration of the from Charlottenberg, on birthday of HM the King, and the Swedish frontier. following reply has been received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated June 13:

I have the honour to inform you In the officer of the Department, that your telegram No. 321 of the presided over by Mr. C. W. E. Blshop, 10th of June has been laid before Chief Constructional Engineer, to His Majesty the King who destres mark Mr. Tacell's retirement, at the that an expression of his sincere contained age of 60, from his post of Inspector thanks for the message of Works.

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where she was able to buy a man's machine.

She had not gune for when the fugitive crowds came under machine- gun fire from enemy 'planes,

Continuing her journey in a convoy of lorries that became sopa- rated, she crossed Into Sweden, but once having arrived, she bought another bicycle (again 12 It's machine), and rode back into Nor- way in search of her child, Exhausted, the rested the night at a farm, and then, hearing news of her child, set out on foot for An Isolated mining village,

On the way she got hold of a small stedge, with the idea of transporting her child into the valley, for she was now too tired to carry It.

At last she found her baby, and finally got a lift in a car.

Now she is resting in sufety at a Charlottenberg hotel.

Wife Must Wear Red Flannel, Said A Husband

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