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ITTLE OLD
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ANDY DEVINE HENRY STEPHENSON PAITZ FELD Directed by HENRY KINO Associate Producer Raymond Griff Screen Play by Harry Tugend - Story
by John Balderston Based upon
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
August 19, 1940.
POLISH
PRINCE
SAFE
He Escaped In A Workman's Suit'
PRINCE and Princess Rudzi- will descendants of the former Kings of Poland, arrived at i northern part, in England, re-, fugees for the second time from German invasion.
Prince Radziwill, who was fight- Ing with the Polish Army in France, nd to abandon his army uniform 1 escape.
ile arrived in a stained rain- eoat, striped trousers, such as French working-inen wear, and a jacket of a different pattern.
When he stepped off the stank way among A group of soldiers ) sergeant on the enibarkation staff, not realising his identity, kuid: "Here, no civilians can get off."
It was not for a moment or two that the difficulty was cleared up.
His wife, dressed in ambulance service uniform, wore the ribbon of the Legion of Honour on her dress.
After thinking Prince Radziwill, had been inst, she fourti hian on the
"KING of the LUMBERJACKS" bridge of the ship.
with
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"He and disappeared with some unit which beenme separated from the rest of the force," she said.
"I had been running a war hospi- tad in the south of France.
"When I went aboard the ship I had no iden that my husband also had reached safely UAERAT I WOR taken on the bridge-and there he was.
After escaping from Poland. Princess Radziwili stayed with Sir
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She started awar hospital, but this was recently taken over by the French Government.
"I think we owe our escape to the confusion in France," she said.
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Cars sold for 5/- each as
Channel Islanders left
MORE thàn 50,000 Chunneå 'Iskanders-half the civil. population are now in England, Scotland and Wales. For a week they poured into south coast ports under a Govern- ment scheme for voluntary evacuation."
: There was no panic. The evacuation was orderly and well for 5s.
Several two-seater cars were sold
organised. But they came in all Valuable herds of cattle Were kinds of craft.
The regular Channel steamers were assisted by boats, potato boats and flat Dutch coastal motor-boats.
turned loose to fend for themselves Island, as farmers joined the evacuees. cattle Whisky. normally 9s, a bottle, was little soul of for 5s. Thousands of rats and dogs were destroyed until the
BRITISH commercial firms All the possessions they were veternary surgeons ran out of drugs. are warned to be on their guard allowed to bring away were packed
People shut houses, garages- and against giving vital information in suitcases 26 lbs. of luggage was
shops-and just left them for the the maximum. to the enemy in catalogues, Behind them
bem they left a commer-duration. trade leaflets and publicity mid-eial desolation almost equal to the First news that people had of the hordes proposed voluntary evacuation was terial,
damage. Hitler's material
in it Jersey newspaper last Wednes "Unwittingly, certain firms have have enuses! in France. helped the Nazis by including de- People abandoned expensive day.
For days they had been listening scriptions of Important processes in motor-ears on the quayside. They thel
publications without submit- were used as hotels by other people to the thunder of guns in France and bearing their houses tremble with the ling them to censorship," said Mr. waiting to embark. B. S. Townroe, a director of the A wealthy woman drove up to the tumult of war.
side of a cattle boat in a mahogany- Censorship Division.
"Commercial catalogues are wide-panelled Rolls-Royce. She got out
distributed,
on the spot. It and there is always and auctioned it
£5. Then she elambered the risk that they might be sent out fetched
Iy
of the country in commercial travel down into the hold. Iera bags, or by other means, and "50"reach Berlin
"In one case," said Mr. Townroe, "a manufacturer published an air view of a large building of unusuuti shape. This appeared on the outside cover of the trade catalogue,
"I was obviously ari excellent guide from the air to one of the most important munition areas in this country.
"Another catalogue included full details of apparatus Installed at a new works. This indicated clearly that certain research was being ear- ried on in that factory,
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The town hall at St. Helier was opened at four o'clock next morn- ing to register those who wished to leave. By ten that night 9,000 people had registered.
Jitterbug
Died Dancing.
A young man who was dancing the "literbug" with a girl when she fell and died afterwar ds, gave an exhibition of the dance to the coroner at the inquest.
The girl was Virginia Guidotti, Wickham-road, nged nineteen, of
Heard It Said She Brockley, SF, who died in St. Al-
Had Heard-And
Rumour
phege's Hospital, Greenwich. Vox- dict was Accidental death.
Henry George Cox, of Parkfield- rond, Deptford, said he met the girl ut New Cross Palals de Danse, and they danced several times together. Then they danced the "jitterbug." in
Cost which, he explained, they did "all
Police Him £10 Fine
on public services were taken to: Central and Tsimshatsul Stations yesterday at the request of the Police, In order that their
usefulness to the authorities in the FOR sprending a false rumour,
event of an emergency could be tested.
A large number were tried out by the Police, and the machines were
Sidney Hawking House, 64-year-
old Mansfield Labour Exchange employee, was fined £10 with
classified according to their standard. five guineas costs at Mansfield. The owners were asked to report
with their machines to the Police It was the first case of its kind
kinds of fantastic and funny things."
Mr. Cox then stepped on to the coroner's bench, and locking lis hands, went through various move- ments of the dance,
At one stage he said the girl fell backwards on the floor, and he fell on her.
The Coroner, Dr. W. II. White- house: It is peculiar. It sounds to me vulgar. Tell me exactly what happened.
Mr. Cox gave another demonstra-
should an emergency arise and such under the Emergency Defence Retion and said that after the fall he machines as are required will then gulations. He was charged with un- suggested that the girl should have a be taken over, and due compensa- lawfully making a statement which glass of water and she said she would be all right. She disappeared. He lion paid.
inquired for her in the cloak room
he knew to be false,
It was alleged that House told the and did not see any more of her as
LATE NEWS police be had heard in a broadenst she had apparently gone home.
by "Lord How-Haw" certain in- formation relating to the occupation of schools In Mansfeld.
If this had been true it would have pointed to a serious leakage of Information, but police inquitles showed that House's story of the brondcast could not be true.
Dr. J. D. Laycock, of St. Alphego's Hospital sald death was due to tubercular meningitis.
Air. Fivash, the manager of the Palais de Danse, said the manage- ment did all that they could to slop this dance.
It was stated that Miss Guidotti
House then said, according to the complained on May 3-the day after and the police: "I am sorry, I did not hear the dance of a headache,
It. I overheard some people talking following day the doctor ordered her as they passed my garden, but I do removal to hospital. not know who they were."
He made further statement admiting he had not listened to the German news bulletin the previous night, but saying his wife told him! something about what a Mrs. Robins had said was a matter that ought to be cleared up by the police..
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EVACUEES IN MELBOURNE
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Melbourne, Aug. 17.
Singapore, Aug 18, Another group of Hongkong fami- Mr. Tamotsu Kurose, manager of hes, numbering 407 persons, has or a Japanese trading firm and lecturer The 1,430-ton Portuguese slooprived in Melbourne after an enjoyat Calcutta University, and the Rev. Goncalves Zarco has arrived af able and speedy trip.
Maruyama, a priest of the Buddhist Hongkong from Macao, to proceed to Thanks to advance arrangements Nichiren sect, have been advised to Talkoo Dock for repairs.
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