1940-09-09 — Page 15

Monday,

HONGKONG : TELEGRAPH

September 9, 1940.

By Ernie Bushmiller

HERE'S A WHOLE. BOX OF THEM---

NANCY

YOU CAN'T FOOL ME!--- YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH [MY AUNT FRITZI!

AW--DATS RIDICULOUS! YOU'RE D'ONLY GOIL I LOVE,

NANCY!

HAVE YA GOT A LI'L SNAPSHOT OF YERSELF DAT I KIN CARRY WIT!

ME ?

Volunteer Fined For 'Raid' Talk

BIRMINGHAM police court was twice cleared during a case in which a Birmingham ball- room manager was summoned on

SURE!

TAKE YOUR

PICK!

I'LL

TAKE

DIS

ONE!

راد

JEEVES ISN'T THERE TO HELP HIM

P. G. WODEHOUSE IS PRISONER

HIS LE TOUQUET

IN

three charges under the Defence 62d. Fare Cost

Regulations.

He is Horace James, who was fined 15, with 12k. Od. cost for "co/FET" municating its a section of the public information fulsely purporting to bre Issued for a purpose connected with the the Defence of the Realm o securing of public safety"

Jumen, who was asastant district

Delence Volunteers at the time, went mta the Hippodrome, Birmingham, and asked Mr Batchelor. the manager,

organiser of the

if any of the attendants cuitt handle

Drifte.

"We want men who can bundle to go on the root to-night," he Fifes

old "I have received intortnation that there is to be a raid A reter etice was also made to parachutists

James had Stipendiary sald been over-zenious and imbued with

The

self-importance

Sapper's Life

Shot by Guard

lost his life.

Supper George Samuel Peace (22), i

HOME

P. G. WODEHOUSE, the novelist, famous as creator of Jeeves, the butler, is a prisoner, with his wife, in their own villa near Le Touquet. The Germans, who overtook them during the occupation of Northern France, will not allow Wodehouse to stir from the house.

They allow Mrs. Wodehouse to go down to Le Touquet market to buy food. The railway fare from Petersfield, But Mrs. Wodehouse must not go anywhere else—not even across the fields to Etaples

11 to Lies in Hampshire is 640. was for this small sum that a soldier when Le Touquet market has no food. And they have no Jeeves.

When night comes the British, green-clad German soldiers who all do is to try to get something to eat. You, your friends, and their mulds So her villa and are accorded line up in the various meat queues.

"You probably ge' nothing. Then of the Royal Engineers, who lived at planes drone overhead and often agreed Jo, ja-Ireland neutral." Scunthorpe, Lines, got trut at Lins bomb Le Touquet airport. Then eirality, with only one rule: Mrs. stations, and produced a ticket which Wodehouse listens and wonders Lemberg must not speak to any Bri-you try for macaront or some other was not valid for the journey.

if any of the young-men-about-ish or French ma When challenged by the ticket town whom he guyed with so talk to women collector he ran through the barrier into the goods yard.

Almond Heard, on guard, heard running. and fil at his

fre Pence WITH (Pence's) through the back of the neck.

The coroner (Mr R S 1. Bowker, There is no blame

As Jatnes left Use court the c Riving the verdict, "Justifiable homi-

mander of a platoon of the Birming humm L.I.V. Announceri that

ekar,

nice!

war

much humour before the are sitting at the controls.

Berlin Wooster, for instant e 1x in the panewoods is the e ling ever of England left along! the coast

There is also si neutral corner at La

Lei- it belongs to Mrs the attached to Heard, for had he not Touquet

thred he would have failed in his tree, at itishworn by birth.

She flushed her fire passport at the duty"

platoon was having a subscription to pay the line.

But she may kind of penta-and how sick we all are of macaront-and maybe end up by getting a lunch composed of a little macaron!, tomato sauce, rome potatoes.

All this learned from a neutral traveller who has come to Lisbon after being in Le Touquet for some ismae wrlies correspondent.

A Briton's Day

I asked Mrs Merela G Symondson, who is also in Lisbon, on the way to iLondon from Paris, how the average Briton now spends the day in Paris. She said "Well, the Best thing they

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"There may be some odds and ends of tinned stuff to be had, but it i very expensive and few people have mich

money.

certal

some

that "After having made

food you are going to have somehow for breakfast there just black coffee; never had any milk for weeks-you go over to the American Consulate office.

"People Alt andly around the benches. Mony of them are destitule. "One very wealthy British woman got as far as Fontainebleau in her car with some jewels and valuables. But she got in a car Jum and, in the confusion, lust her ear with the luggage, and finally limped wearily back to Paris.

"She reached the elty after a five- day walk, sleeping where she could- on the road, in barns, and one night in the yard of a mason who makes tuinbatones."

Tom Farr's Brothers Gain O.B.E.

TWO married brothers of Tommy Furr, British heavy. weight boxing champion, have been awarded the O.B.E. bravery in a South of England factory explosion,

for

When the explosion rocked the foundry in which John Henry Farr

William and

Douglas Farr were working, John carried an injured workmate to safety while pieces of roofing and other wreckage fell about han.

Then, together with Douglas, he went back into the foundry in pitch darkness.

They cleared 1,000lb. of molten metal from the furnaces, and were largely instrumental in saving the works from being set on are.

As a result, the plant was restored to production days sooner than would have been the case.

They Were Welsh Miners They are natives of Tonypondy, Wales..

Job Churchill, Tommy Forr'a adviser throughout his career, and un old friend of the family, said: "It Is just what we would all have.ex- pected of John and Douglas.

"They used to work in the pits, but left here about 2 years ago to take up other work.

"Douglas once fought at the Royal Albert Hall on the same night that Tommy met Bob Olin, the American, but neither he nor John went in for boxing seriously."

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Every effort must be made to achieve a maximum output of New. Zealand produce and a general speed- log up in all walks of life in order to assist the Homeland, he said.

Mr. Jones, the New Zealand Minia- ter of Defence, stated that Nev Zealand was taking her full share in the Empiro training scheme.

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