1940-07-29 — Page 15

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 29, 1940. By Ernie Bushmiller

NANCY

HELLO, NANCY!**

IS MRS.

SPUTTER

NO, SIR SHE HAS

OUT? TWO LADIES VISITING

HER --- THEY'RE IN

HER SEWING ROOM,

TALKING!

AND I SUPPOSE, AS USUAL, YOU'VE BEEN LISTENING AT THE DOOR ALL DAY, TO HEAR WHAT THEY

WERE SAYING

THAT'S AN INSULT!

O.K. --- I "APOLOGIZE!

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AUSTRALIA

CUPID FINDS WIFE FOR HIMSELF

THE "bachelor marriage broker," of Tottenham, N., has found a bride for himself. He proposed-and was accepted.

He's Arthur Heelaf, aged thirty-four, who travels the district on his bicycle doing his insurance round.

Three months ago he was lonely and miserable,

Others, he thought, must be as unhappy as he was. Night .after night, just sitting in the same chair reading',

Dutch Royalty in England

.

reading.

Near Mr. lccluf's fint at Broad- lane, Tottenham, is a public-house; He went along for a drink, and I noticed a sign: "Hall to let for

dances.

"Hundreds of lonely people." he thought. "All depressed by their own company. Upstairs is a hall doing nothing. We enuild all be there together-laughing, talking. Joking, yes, and even Airling."

DUTCH FLEET WITH US

Mr. Heelal advertised: "Lonely The Dutch Minister of Defence, Licut. Col. Dyxhoorn inspected bachelors, spinsters, widows angl

widowers over twenty-eight-come to our dance,"

WHILE their grandmother, the Queen of Holland, was at About 100 went along. There was Buckingham Palace Princess Jack Barnes, aged fifty, of Green- Juliana's two children were play-ane, Winchmore Hill, and Miss Vera- ing in the gardens of their new Grange, ured forty, of Cedars-road, home in London.

Clapham.

She Was So Shy Only a few people were waiting outside the house in Eaton-square, They were present at four other. S.W.. when the royal refugee chil-dances Then Mr. Barnes phoned to dren came in to play.

ask if they were eligible for the next There were no

guards one as they were married. There one or two policemen were there are a lot of cases like that.

armed

to watch the traille, but a crawling! taxt and a horse and cart were the

vehicles in sight as only Princess Juliana and the twe tile princesses crossed the road to the garden gates of this quiet, almosi į lonely square.

But. about Mr. Heeinf

units of the Dutch Home Floot in a British Harbour,

More Aliens Detained

THOUSANDS of German and Austrian men hitherto exempt from internment have been detained for intern- ment in England.'

Arrests were made in all parts of the country and when Miss Pezzy Smith, of Marl included many who did not come into this country as

ar-

borough-gardens Whetstone, rived at the hall for the first time

she was aly.

She asked Mr. Icelaf if he

would partner her—just till she

began to feel at homic

Already At Home

Neither was lonely any more. Prince Bernard peeped out to

Yesterday afternoon he was sitting moke sure the coast was clear. Hein that cante armeitaly, reading—anti was still in his Dutch Ariny uniform thinking.

Sam Browne, jack boots and spurs and he beckoned. to his wife and children.

-Princess Juliana seemed already at home.

She had borrowed an English prom for Princess Irene-no gos-proof cot for her now, nor even a gas mask In the whole party-and genlly she dropped down the two steps to !

pavement.

the

She wore a net tled with white Tibbon

bon over hed-head. Her dress

was a thin summery checked frock and coales, embroidered with tiny flowers.

Beatrix, the elder Princess, clutched a doll in one arm; the other was streiched up to grasp her tall father's hand,

She had on a smocked frock, like her playmate, Baroness Ruell, with whom she rumped in the gardens.

STOLE TO

refugees.

About 64,000 German and Austrian men and women were placed in Category "C" by the tribunals. This meant they were exempted both from internment and from the special restrictions applicable to enemy aliens, and were given much the same status as "friendly aliens."

STRICKEN

AID

WIFE

A-MAN who pleaded guilty to defrauding a Glasgow business man of £5,071 and said he wanted the money to alleviate the pain of his wife, who had a tumor on the brain, was sent to prison for eighteen months at Edinburgh,,·

He was David Thomson, aged forty-six, of Rutherglen, Glasgow. The frauds took place between May 29, 1935, and March 18 Inst.

Mr. J. J. Cunningham, defending, the cuse as "tragle."

While Princess Irene, the baby, described blinked her blue eyes in the sun, "Thomson had been in business in Princess Jullana read the morning Glasgow," he said, "for many years,

his dif paper. and Prince Bernhard went and traced the beginning

Aculties to a serious liness which back into the mouse.

befell his wife in 1935.

Animal Painter

Woo Cho-pun Exhibition Draws Crowds

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300 Miles To Enlist

Italians Interned

Some weeks ago about 2,000 of Category "C" German and Austrian males were interned, when

sible zone of military operations, extending from the North of Scot- land to the South of England, was cleared of enemy aliens

Woman's Cry from

the

Dock

CRYING, "Oh, my God-my husband and my children, what will they do?" a woman was carried from the dock' at Middle- sex Sessions, when sentenced to six months hard labour for at-i

in- tempting to defrand an surance company by faking a burglary.

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Her counsel, Mr. C. G. Du Cann, described if as the most heartrend | ++++ ing case he had ever bad. "She

should not go to prison: I would soaner go to prison myself," he

said.

al-

Mrs. Mann was accused of tempting in July, 1939, to obtain

guio from

Royal Exchange 2010

the

Assurance Company by falsely re- presenting property had been stolen from her house.

After she

had been broken that her house

into and things stolen, the police found furs neatly wrapped up as if ready to be re- Mr. moved,, but no signs of entry. and Mrs. Mann were subsequently made bankrupt.

Paid Her £130

In November Mrs. Mann und ber sister-in-law visited pawnbrokers at Colchester and offered for pledge a watch and ring reported as stolen.

The insurance company paid Mrs. Mana £130.

Mr. Du Cann appealed to the deputy chairman. Bir Reginald Coventry, K.C., not to send Mrs. Afarn to prison.

Bir Reginaldri bave already In- diealed that I consider this a erry Bad case, and I also feel that Mrs. Mann is not solely to blame. "Mrs. Mann is now maintaining her husband, her children and her self by keeping paying guests," said Mr. Du Cann.

"If she did this thing she must

Subsequently the police were given authority to detain Individuals in Category "C" there was some crison for ability have done it under the temptation of week were many Italians.

100 arrested in Glasgow this the very greatest need, and for others rather than herself. This woman's life is one long self-sacrifice

for doubt.

Manchester and Salford police to her husband and her children."

visited homes and business pre- mises used by Germans and Aus- trians and took away about 100 for Juternment.

Sheffeld

Husband Helpless

Mrs. Mann, in tears, declared her police took into custody husband is helpless without her. 30 Germans and Austrians and handed them over to the military.

Sir Reginald, passing sentence, said the Bench recognised Mrs. Mann had a sick husband and others ought to be in the dock with AMERICAN HEAT WAVE her. Had she made a clean breast New York, July 27 of it when asked to plead it would Temperatures in the cast are have been easier to be merciful. reaching the highest levels for years. The defence was that in September KATHLEEN MCLEOD, who Norfolk reports a temperature of 98 the watch and ring were found in a degrees which is the hottest since lavender bush at the house. Mrs. "She began to suffer from a tumor travelled from Stornoway, in 1875. New York recorded 67 and Mann said that said it was on the operation. She lived in pain I last 300 miles, including a sea pas-tration and drowning is now

beyond the Hebriden, to Glasgow-over Philadelphia 90 degrees. The death suggestion of her sister-in-law, Mrs. In the Middle West from pros- Dorothy Brown, wife of the explain over of the Sudbury, Suffolk, fire brigade, Thomson knew the lilaces was 8age--to enlist in the W.A.A.F., 400, Thunder showers to-day broke that they were offered in pawn.

heart-broken bound to end in her death, but his was

when ahe the heat in the mid-West and avert- Mrs. Brown said she thought the wife did not. He did everything failed to pass a medical examina-ed serious damage to crops.-United Insurance company had treated Mrs. possible to alleviate her suffering, tion.

Prest.

Mann shabbily.

on the brain which was

February.

W.R.EN.S.

She's Armed for Danger

reserve

om"

"The bulk of the money," added Mr. Mr. Cunningham, wo

"was used for this. Kathleen a girl of eighteen, living. humanitarian work."

with her widowed mother in the The man from whom the money|Atlantic-swept island of Lewis, The exhibition of works by the was obtained appealed for leniency longed to do some war work. She

EVERY morning a Whitby Floating mines and Nazi murder well-known animal artist, Mr. Woo for Thomson, and was not bitter talked it over with her chum, Jean

bombers hold no terror for Allse Cho-pun, at the Chi. Yung Middle against bin, added Mr. Cunningham. Macrae, and they decided to join the (Yorks) woman, clad in oilskins and

gumboots, takes a six-chamber re- Walker. "The new life has given School has attracted Inrge and ad-

volver from a drawer and loads it. me health," she says, "and despite miring crowds. There were some 00

her They filled in forms of application Finging a leather belt One is a group of tigers now

the dangers I intend to go on. elt over plctures on view, no less than 40 of quired.

"For a time I was afraid we might them belug of tigers, Mr. Woo's fa- hung on the fourth floor of the Yingut that was as far as they got. shoulder, she slips the revolver into

Kathleen's mother threw the forms a holster and packs King Restaurant and the other is a vourite subject.

come across armed Nazis in n-rubber boat. The Good Faith is capable of None of the works shown was for solitary and magnificent beast now on the fire because she thought her munition into a cartridge pouch.

** Then, stepping briskly out of crossing the North Sea, and Nazl anle but it is worth recording that adorning the walls of the Tat Yau daughter too young for war service.

Nelson Cottage, her dwelling perched airme

airmen, who had two recent paintings have been ac-Steamship Company's office.

But, when Kathleen heard that among the maze or ancient cottages might try to get hold of my cruft to had been brought down Scotland was calling for W.A.A.F. high above the harbour, she descends take it to Germany. So you see how recrults, she decided to enlist, and the steep stone

steps of a narrow handy this (her revolver) might be. she kept quiet about it. She set out alley to board

"I learned to shoot years ago with Diesel-engined on her journey to Glasgow letting motor cobble moored to the quay. my brothers-thank goodness!" her mother believe she was going to She is forty-year-old Dora Walker, There is a steel helmet, too, in the visit friends.

Britain's only woman fishing-boat boat.. "But I am afraid that in the skipper. Her craft is the Good exeltement. I forgot to put it on when

..I shell splinters from British warships

says Miss Walker.

C.O. Teachers Get the Sack

teaching.

occasion,"

PARENTS in the Isle of Ely "We seem to be the first school; Dressed in her best clothes, Faith. She worked for a time as a - (Camba) have refused to send authorities to rebel against the C.O.

their sons to Heroward Senior tribunal, which allows exemption to dreams, she believed, about to be

the Belgian Red Cross. opened recruiting office at Glasgow. Boys' Elementary School to be men on condition they carry on with realised, she walked into the newly-nurse in the last war and later with were dropping around us on taught by teachers registered as

Passing her preliminary interview. Parents Vary Annoyed she went before the medical officer conscientious objectors.

These men retain all the benefits She could not be passed. With and there her adventure ended. A written demand for the instant dinissal of two masters caused of their profession under exemption disorganisation in the school-but from combatant service, while col-tears in her eyes she saw her bright- the roasters have received leagues are making heavy sacrifices.est hopes shattered. month's notlee. They will go in June

one

"Naturally, parents have dis- "I am terribly disappointed," she cussed. the matter among them-sald to the Dally Mirror, "I felt so selves and some are annoyed. They sure they would take me. I feel I have demanded that the masters go must do some war work oven though before another team begins. Their mother is against ILLife is dull in outlook affects the boys-and there Stornoway now that all the beyn some disorganisation In the have joined up, and I am not going schools because of it.

back there whatever happens.

Mr. E. J. P. Osborne (Director of Education in Ely) anld:

"There are three schools involved and five masters have been given notice. Two are at the Hereward, two others will leave March Senior: Secondary School at end of term. Inf The Education Committee passed July, and one goes from Outwell a resolution against the employment Elementary Junior School

of 'conchica an teachers,'

"My friend, Jean, is coming to join me if I get a war job, I know something will turn up,

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