1940-08-14 — Page 7

NANCY.

YA MEAN YA MADE ALL. THAT MONEY

IN THE TAXI.

BUSINESS!!

YEP!

AND WITH

THAT THING FOR A CAB!

YEP!

BZZ**

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 14, 1940.

By Ernie Bushmiller

Bzzz

TAKI

"TAXI

TAXI

TRAINS

FRANCE IS

IN CHAOS

NOW

St. Jean De Luz, France.

UNEMPLOYMENT, rebuilding, food distribution, and the curbing of speculation and discontent are some of the problems which face the Petain Government to-day,

They are now drawing up a plan

for the gradual repatriation of re

fugees and the setting-up of, or Polish Officer

economic and financial control to meet with the army of unemployed no longer required in Armaments factories.

They are also considering the re- building of devastated areas several times greater than those cl the Great War.

To

solve

Defends Wife

Won't Take A

TAXI

German's Word Three words to the WHOLE NATION

- Magistrate

"I REFUSE to take the word nard Campion, K.C., the Tower of any German," said Mr. Ber-

Bridge magistrate.

le fined a German Jewish refu- neo 45 for being absent from his residence at Croydon ni 12.40 u.m.

It was stated that at the time the refugee had a motor-cycle, and Mr. Camplon asked, "How would this man react If parachute troops were

Accused; I would not do anything: against this country.

A POLISH naval officer suc-landed in this country?" cessfully defended his wife, a twenty-five-year-old brunetic, the food dificulties, who was unable to speak a word caused by the displacement of re- of English, when she appeared fugees to South-Western France, the Government have temporarily stop-at Dunfermline charged with! ped all passenger train traffle south two offences under the Allens! of n line drawn from Bordeaux to Order.

Sete, on the Mediterranean,

Mr. Caubion: You are a German subfeci and I refuse to take the word of any German. How am I to know you would not work against this country, once the Ger- mann got here? A motor-cycle would be of great use to lavaders. The man suld he had told the motor-cycle.

Answering Mr. Campion. Detec tive-Inspector Leech said he could

They ure appointing n general It was alleged that she failed to commisanry of supplies, who will furnish particulars to the Registro- work in collaboration with the War, tion Officer in Dunfermline, stayed National Defence, and Agricultural in an hotel there, and entered and not tell how the man would react Ministries.

remained in a protected pren with-[if invaders landed, The cost of living has risen here. Juut written permission. Some articles ure 200 per cent. more --apples at is. per 1b, and pears and peaches nt 13. d. are two and three

imes dearer than a month ago.

Mr. Campion: I know. That is why they should all be locked up. The husband explained that he did

It is purely a matter for the Ilome was living in not know his wife

Offles to decide, not for me. hotels. He had now been able to

Inspector Leach said that the ac- settle her in Scotland, "Nobody cured's ense would soon be recon- warned us about this being a proidered by the tribunal. |tected area, he concluded.

The Fiscal said the husband had

not time to attend to certain du Woman Dies At 102

tall like this. His wife did not know English.

THAILAND GULF LIGHTS

Lights In the Gulf of Thailand have been extinguished in the follow- ing positions: Latitude 12.38 North,| Longitude 100,52 East, Light Goh Tun 'Taw; and Latitude 0.20 North, The wife came to Britalu after fly- Longitude 100,04 East, Light Goting from The Hague, and went direct ΥΠΟ,

to Dunfermline,

The Sheriff, addressing the hus- to mariners issued by the longkong band, told him to tell his wife she Harbour Qice yesterday.

Thad been admonished,

This was announced in a warning!

A Barrow-in-Furness centenarian, Miss Elizabeth Kinnish, died at her home, aged 102.

She received royal congratulations on her 102th birthday a few days ago She was born at Walney Island, Barrow.

JO IT!

HERBERT MORRISON

Britain's Latest Slogan-These three words invented by Mr. Her- bert Morrison, Minister of Supply, are to appear on posters all over England,

Heroism In Soldier Shot

The Air

London, Aug 13,

Headmaster

A SOLDIER who mistook

R.A.F. awards announced to-day him in the dim light for a parn- include a Bar to the D.F.C. for Actingchutist fired at the headmaster Fight-Lieut.

of a North Country school dur. Adrian Hope Boyd, who. by

# Jarge number

mog The headmaster, who was wear- of German planes. He himself shoting a dressing gown and pyjamas, own or damaged ut least 12 planes. left his boys in an air raid shelter A Bar to the D.F.C. bas been and went to the back door of the warded to Acting Flight-Lieut. Roy premises to find out if the all-cicar lon, who led patrols with conspicu Gilbert Dutton, bon at Hutton, Cey-signal had been received.

Two soldiers came along and one ous success and personally destroyed raised his rifle., shouting. "Turn ot least 12 enemy aircraft-Reuter.

out the guard."

Thinking it wiser

not to argue, the headmaster slammed the door and made for the air raid shelter.

He had just got round a corner when a bullet hit some wooden steps.

his tight to destroy

his Ane leadership, enabled ing the air raids.

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verts into a bed complete with maitress as "the world's won- der" and yourself_as_"n_grand_ woman."

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"They say you've done everything here with your own hands like any workman, Ah, and I like ye for it "

She departs invoking God's blessing on you, and you feel that she, anyhow, doesn't be- lieve the nine-husbands-and-a- spy story. Or that if she does it doesn't matter.

So you lug a few more stones out of the wilderness, feeling as you do so that you know now how the Pyramids were built, and you set them along cach side of a path made with sand from the seashore, so it is full of shells. It's all the "gravel" we know in these parts.

But Connemara is full of stones, as Cromwell knew when he drove the people here crying "to Connaught or to Hell!" What he didn't know was that people can live among stones- stones as old as God-and love it.

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