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WHAT'S THAT

7-5

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

DONALD DUCK

THING,

UNCA DONALD?

IT'S A HIVEL SMITH'S BEES ARE SWARMING

AND I'M GOIN'

OUT AN CATCH EM!

IF YOU'RE HUNTIN' FOR MY BEES, SON, I'M WARNIN, YUH --STAY AWAY!

G'WAN! SWA

SMITH'S

I KNOW THE LAW!

AND FREE HONEY

IS WORTH--1

Wind) Harken Beepot

THE

ONG TO WHO CATCHES 'EMI

THE BRAVE NEW FRONT

JOHN PUDNEY, cent vistas where "you don't know there's a war on," to the who has just returned firm thresholds which have from a visit to North- murmured "it won't happen

here." Eastern England, here I have seen this Britain, in describes the courage that North-Eastern

and common sense

with which ordinary

men and women have

faced their frequent air-raid alarms.

"HE

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❝TTE'S late." The night porter glanced at the hotel clock. "Not like Jerry. He hasn't missed lately."

Familiar words, this war and last; but the setting has ahifted. This is the North- East of England, the evening bracing and opalescent, the in- dustrial skyline almost audi- bly pulsing In its industrial dream, the business men's hotel weighty with the heavi- ly dined.

"Keeps me on my feet, the mind you," continued night porter. "The customers don't seem to want to go to bed. It saves them being dis- turbed."

So this is the new Britain, land wherein the first child- ren, the first old people, the first married couple have Been killed by bombs, wherein the first shattered houses have shocked the orderly streets, and the first windowless rows have been left empty, but for salvage squads and policemen at the barrier.

This is the Britain in which we will love and fight. This will come; with all its cour- age, its agony, its comrade- ship, its fury to the compla-

corner,

HONBY

FOR SALE

NAZIS RENEW ATTACKS AFTER MIDDAY EYEWITNESS

where the bombs have been falling this week. It must be an example to the rest of us, awaiting action,

Outside the hotel where the guests "sat up." the balloons had risen over night working factories, foundries, shipyards and wharves.

In the narrow blind, streets of working-class houses a few men stood on corners. There was a confused murmur of voices in the dark.

"Who are you, anyway, mate? Hadn't we better look at cach other's identity cards?"

On this front, you see, even the ordinary uninformed folk are cautious. Satisfied that the stranger is identifiable the men reveal to me that they are the husbands of women who, with their chiklren, are already in the shelters. It is their voices that we can hear coming up the concrete steps.

After Wednesday night when I sat with mine in the cellar and felt the earth and the house rocking over us, I said never again--all of did. And to-night, you won't find a woman

in this street

TRIALS OF AN EVACUEE

1940b

MELBOURNE CUP

MANFRED

WIND BAG

PARLAP

CARBINE

AUSSIE BOY

AMONIUS

AJAX

YOUNG IDEA

GLOAMING

NIGHT MARCH

us

FIRST EVACUEE: Look Malsie! They've avon evacuated

From Happy Valley.

(The Melbourne Cup is run at the Annual Race Meeting in Hongkong on Derby Day),

who has not gone down be. low."

Owners of flooded, neglected shelters, shelterless people, and despisers of public shel- ters, lake note of this solid common-sense steel worker's words.

It's town of abundant (though not always com- pleted) public shelters. They stand generally in the centre- of working-class streets.

Till the Wednesday to which everyone refers, when a num- ber of people were killed in

ASK ME

ANOTHER

1. (a) Who was the Inst King of England to claim to be also King of France?

(b) What town in France was last actually in English hands, and in whose reign was it lost?

2. "A fellow of infinite Jest, of most excellent

What fancy." Shakepearean character Kays this, and of whom?

3. Five countries are known to their own inhabitants Da (a) Hellas (b) Nippan, (c) Island, (d) Muang Thal. (e) Misr, Un- der what names are they known to 2297

4. (a) Which of the following held the office of Poet Laureate: Shakespeare, Milton, Вугов, Shelley, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Browning, Kipling. Bridges?

(b) Who was our first oficial Laureate?

(c) Who holds the office at pre- scht?

5. Which of these are metals: Strontium, Solatium, Sodium ¡Tonorarium, Viaticum, Vanadium Uranium, Vasculum?

6: Knights of the Order of the Garter wear a "garter bluc" ribbon. Of which of our "orders of chivalry," are the respective ribbons (s) crimson, (b) shy blue, (c) green? .

7. What are the functions of Trinity House, and from whom did it receive is charter?

8. Que poet comunemorated the death of another in an ude, "Adonais," Can you name the two poets?

9. The British Empfte Games were last held at Sydney In 1938.

ut famous athletes triumphed in (a) the 160 yards, (b) the quarter-mile, (c) the high jump?.

10, (a) What did Humply- Dumpty mean when he said.

There's glory for you"?

(b) What was the sum witch he Insisted should be worked out "on paper"?

ANSWERS

1 George II.; (b) Calais; Queen Mery I. 2, Hamlet, of "poor Toriel" 3 (D) Greece; (b) Japan; (c) Iceland; (d) Siam: (0) Egypt. (a) Wordsworth, Tennyson, Brkies; (b) John Dryden; (c) John Mascheld, 8, Strontium, Bodl. um, Vanadium, Urantuns, 9 (8) Order of the Bath; (b) Order of St. Patrick: (2) Order of the Thistie. 7. The ad- ministration of lighthouses and of pilot services. lienty VIII, 1. In "Adonal"," Shelley commemorates the death, of Keats à (4) C. H. Holmes (b) W. Heberts; (c) E. Thacker, 10 (a). "Thero's a regular knock-clowns argument: for you?. (b). The subtraction of, 1: from 555, to determine the number of “un- Mirthdays” in a year,

the district, folk just "stayed put." To-day the shelter is be- coming the centre of life and a focus for morale in every street.

Here, for instance, is every- body's chair, sensible kitchen chairs and stools and Grand- ma's with a yellow satin cushion-placed ready for the next time. "After the first night we found it was too tir ing to stand."

In one street there is a very vigorous committee of working men's wives which has installed carpets and mats, a table, an oil lamp Alled daily, and daily fresh water in their street shelter which holds 50.

The (unemployed) docker's wife who runs this solid rampart of faith which defies death and des- pair, says, "We watch Rosita every evening. She's that barrage balloon over there, that goes up last. When Rosita goes up all the women in this street bring their children in here. The kids are used to play- ing here on rainy days, so they don't mind. And nobody hears so much when we're all chatting in- side. We teel we've got "cach other."

So speak the women of this new Britain of the front line. The common sense of not making things worse than they are; the neigh-

August 19, 1940.

By Walt Disney

HERE'S YOUR BEES,. MR. SMITH!

WALT

bourliness; their practical humanl-

ly are qualitles which have killed pante.

But how does the morale of the British civilian stand

to the Up reality, the actual bomb blast which follows the threat?

"I'll show you where the missus and I were sitting when it hap- pened," says Mr. Wiliam Spurs, whose house has been a wind blown heng of rubble, a dusty gap in a row of blasted houses, since that Wednesday night.

We climb beneath precarious Invades of destruction round to the back where the cellar steps are. miraculously, intact beneath the rula of the staircase. "We were atting there on the steps, four of us, stening to the noise of the bombs and anti-aircraft: After u time I pulled open this door at the top of the steps and--instead of my awn hall there was open sky through what was left of the upper. floors of this house."

The matter-of-fact story of their crawling out, their rescue of dog, ranury, and the wife's false teeth, soon ended, and the mere import- ant job of salvaging his joinery tools ("my bread and butter") is completed, while we wait. Then over a drink Mr. S. calmly changes lo another subject—a fragment of the Dunkirk epic-telling us how his son got home.

Several of his neighbours killed, his own life saved by a solid stair. case, a week's work lost, compen- sation for his smashed house un- sattled, he raises hin glass with a steady hand and says: "Yes, we've had several alarms since, and we just go quietly into the shelter at my daughter's place."

There are funerals on the North- East Coast; there, are cordoned streets; there are sleepless nights; and long "go-10-it days; there ure applications for child evacua- tion abroad. Grim war has come.

But with war I saw no pante, no refugees, no sauve-qui-peut whis pers shaking the line.

The corrupt stupidity of pollil- cians, the white ties, the racegoers, the red-tape trimmed dollies of the Civil Service, the job-seekers, the dodgers, and all the timid and complacent rout will have to of this the humble people cinulate new wartime Britain if they can. -The-rest-of-us-must-Joyfully-grosp_ their single-heartedness and nelih- bourliness, their loyalty and ef- felency; and we, too, will stay the air-raids.

THEGUN WE ARE GETTING

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The famous Thomson sub-machine gun-famous weapon of American gangsters was used by Nazi parachute troops.

Now Britain is buying them by the thousand. The guns have an accurate are up to 750 yards and can be fired either pisiol-fashion or from tho shoulder,

Nearest approach to the "Tommy Gun" in the last war was the Mondragon au- tomatic rifle, originated in Mexico and was used by

a small extent, Germany to

The "Tommy Gun" really more of a heavy au- tomatic pistol.

is

'It was first of all chosen by the American police for anti-gangster works, though it had been invented during the war by Brigadier-Gen eral J. T. Thompson.

The drums containing tho ammunition are circular and fixed in front of the trigger. guard. They hold twenty to fifty rounds.

The rate of fire, including changing drums, is about

1

300 shots minute, com- pared with the 450 to 500 rounds per minute achieved by heavier guns such as the Vickers.

Weight would probably be between four and five pounds. (Servico riffo weight 8lb. 10 oz.)

As the "Tommy Gun's" barrel is short, its range is short, too, and it is suitable only for close fighting.

Possibly it will replace the bayonet only a bayonet doesn't run out of ammuni- tion. Tho Jerry is known to have a distinct dislike for cold steel with a point on it.

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And there's no bayonet on a:Tommy Gun!!!!

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RADIO HANOI

ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.c.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles) Recital by Hal Lorenzo

GLOOMY

Intrusion Of Japanese Inspectors

An account of the humillatlon endured by the French In Hanoi

From the Studio

Broadcast by ZBW on n Frequency of 845 k. c.'s, and on Short Wave following the arrival of large num- bers of Japanese military uniformed from 1-2.13 pan, and B-11 p.m. on inspectors, was given by a traveller

19.52 m.c's. per second.

12.15 p.m. Short Service Intercession.

of

on his arrival in Hongkong.

"When I was in Hanoi I saw 50V- 12.30 Vaughan Williams-Sere- |eral Japanese military planes, which; nado to Music.

were coples of American Douglas and

Sir Henry J. Wood conducting the Lockheed aircraft, using the French B.B.C. Orchestra,

12.45 The London Philharmonie Orchestra.

airport. The planes arrive from Canton to carry out reconnaissance fights with the inspectors,” he said,

Siesta (W. Walton), Crown

"I saw the French wince as the Diamonds Overture (Auber).

L.0

Time Signal and Japanese crews swaggered from their Loent Weather Report.

planes about the airport. There aro about 100 of these .bo-called Inspec- 1.03 The Bircel Sluger and the lots in Hanal, as each member of the Orchestra Mascotte

1.30 Router and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and Announce ments.

2,15

ist party was followed by a large staff," he added.

"From what I saw of them the 1,43 A Light French Programme, Japanese were poor pilots. Their

Close down,

planes appeared to be having a great, 6.0 Half an hour of Dance Music. dea; of engine trouble,” he said. 6.40 New Light Symphony Orchestra.

7.03

tlona.

The arrival of the Japanese has Closing local Stock Quota-added to the gloom of the French

population in Indo-China, Some 7.07 Songs by Elisabeth Schumann time after war started dancing was banned at nights in hotels and (Suprane).

"From cabarets, as the authorities declared there was to be no pleasure-making while others in France were at the front.

7.17 Moszkowski-Sulte Foreign Lands.”

The State Opera Orchestru, 7.30 London clay-The News, 8.0 Local Time Signal. Weather Report and Announcements.

8.03 This week's programmes.

"Now, following the collapsa of Franco and the Japanese Intrusion, Hanol is dead. Women are even

8.07 Studio-Jazz Plano Resital stopping using perfume. Champagne by Hal LorENIA.

which used to be only $4.50 (Hong-

the T

8.27 Sydney Gastard at the Organ. jkung) a bottle is now four times this price. All able-bodied civilians are Muslenl Comedy Medley,

training," 8.33 Dance Fusio by Victor 80-in uniform, and in

traveller said. vester and Ills Ballroom Orchestra.

0,0 London Belay-The News and Topical Talk.

0.40 Tio Kentucky Minstrels. 10.0 Light Variety Programme. 10.30 Dance Music by Ambrosa and His Orchestra.

11.0

Close down.

TIENTSIN DEPARTURE

"The French can hardly be ex- pected to oppose the Japanese de-. mands. They have only got a hand- ful of fighter planes and a few old type bombers at Hanoi."

S.C.A. RESUMES DUTY

It is notified that Mr. B. A. C. North resumed duty as Secretary for Chinese Affairs on August 12.

Large Crowd Gathers To OPENS FRIDAY AT THE

Say Farewell

Tlentsin, Aug. 18,

KING'S

The closing of another chapter in GRAND DOUBLE ATTRACTION the long and variegated history of Tientsin was seen to-day when Br- tish troops embarked at dawn on a river steamer for Tangku where they will board Jardine vessel for an unknown destination.

It was still dark when the small force marched smartly up the Bri- tish Bund unheralded by either drums or band. Despite the deep official вестесу surrounding thelr withdrawal a large number of Bel- tons and other nationals including Chinese gathered to bld the troops God speed. The majority of the! spectators were in evening dress.

Although their stay here has been short the British troops have made numerous friends. Some grief stricken sweethearts, did not attempt lo conceal their emotion and sobbed as the men marched away.

Hordes of Japanese photographers including movie cameramen darted about the Bund attempting to work despite the darkness.

A large guard of honour was pro- vided

Volunteer by the British Corps, British Municipal Police and the recently formed force of speciali constables which includes B con- siderable number of prominent Bri- lons, but other foreign troops were not officially represented by uni- formed mea.

1. The departing troops, while sorry to leave Tientsin, which they learn- during their brief stay, cd to like were elated by the hope of seeing some action instead of vegetating in Tientsin, as cine exclted young pri- vate put it. The same could not be sald by the local Britons who ure saddened by the loss of something which amounted to a great Joel in- stitution. They felt ilso that the departure of the troops, small as their number was, broke another slender link with home far away.

As the troops settled down on the steamer a corporal producet à plano accordeon and started playing old time favourites in which the troops and spectators on the jetty joined. Many of the latter mang with tears In their eyes. The steamer cast off at. 6. n. amid thunderous, cheers

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