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GREEN HELL

JOHN HOWARD · ALAN HALE

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GEORGE SANDERS

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

September 16, 1940.

SALVAGE CAMPAIGN BEGINS IN BRITAIN

BILLETS-DOUX CAN BE QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRO MADE INTO BULLETS

OLD : LOVE-LETTERS can be turned into cartridge wads, meat bones into explosives, tin cans into tanks. and garden tools into guns, declared Mr. Herbert Morrison, the Minister of Supply.

"And we will do it," he added. As proof, a "Raw Material from Waste" campaign is being launched with the housewives of Britain as its driving force.

To help them deal with refuse

to

the

In the best way an instruction leaflet is being distributed every house. This tells housewives 'not to put in the dustbin clean paper and rags, bones or scrap metal.

Local authorities serving popula- tions of more than 10.000 are to be compelled to collect these Important items of salvage.

Many councils have already done fine work: others have made a very poor job of it.

Burrow And Delve

"I ask people to start now and

New Nazi Trick Revealed In Britain

Gestapo Men Fled To

England As Refugees

GESTAPO agents were found among refugees who arrived in Britain, it was revealed when a White Paper

save their paper and bones and scrap was issued explaining the way German and Austrian metal," Mr. Murtizon said.

"ask

households to overhaul their posses-internees may apply for re-lease.

slons, to turn out their atties; to clean

up their lumber rooms; to burrow

A rather harsh state of affairs waa

inevitably brought

Into the cupboards under the stairs: about by the drastic charge in the internment policy which the o clear out the tool sheds; to delve Government had to enforce in May. into the garages-tu look for all those old gadgets, ornaments and bits and pieces which are of no value to the Individuni but of enormous value in mass to the State.

A

aliens had relatives Military authorities and the Home, friendly

the Germany, that were convinced

Blackmail Office tightening up of the regulations was

By a process of blackmailing threats imperative for sveral repsons.

German invasion ¡dated Into helping

on

their

"That way we shall build up Even a sinoll number of the 27,600 and promises they might be intimi

great reserve of raw materials, ready to be transformed into war materials To-day we spoil ur burn twice As much paper as we put it to be

We must step reused

Trensures are badly wonted."

men

it been

that

"C" (friendly In Chingury

the understanding allens) who turned out to be German rele

relatives tra Germany would be might have

treated well if they did, sympathise, a grave perli.

Another danger WDH

Corporal Got Home For Birthday

been

Enemy aliens due to leave intern- that many ment ramps in Britain for overseas have been impersonated by others who have made the voyage instend.

Apparently there has mysterious form of peraunston by leave Britain people scheduled to which has been powerful enough to Induce other internees to take their pince

Nazis Caught Him (and lost him) Twice

LANCE-CORPORAL JOHN LEE WARNER, of the Queen's Royal Regt., would have spent his 21st birthday as a prisoner of war had he shown less resource.

Instead, he was able to enjoy |

London his coming of-age in with his mother. a Red Cross

Suer escaping from Flanders, this young soldier, who had been reported. "assung, believed killed," bad made his way across France and Spain to Lisbon, whence he flew home,

He was Laken prisoner with alt its (sretion neas Abbeville

They had been cut off from thed Inttalion and

Surrounded

rares tunks

Buried In Hay

We are inken

arre

Wis A

by

CHINESE FESTIVAL

Moon Observance For To-day

principal

tl uf

observances.

50me

The cases have been few, and the! deception would not have bern possi-; ble except for the confusion in the camps about the Identity of internees, So the Home Office, who are to take control of internment camps, intend take a special census of the camp

population.

Complete Check

A detulied register will then be kept.

There will br complete check on everybody, and Du more scope fur impersonation will exist.

Britain is taking a cautious line with Class C (friendly enemy allens) Now interned.

SIT John Anderson, the Hume Sevcetary. la showing

great Care

ntnut possible "Fifth Column"

activities.

fle will keep most of the Clans C. ullens ip Internment Some will hel allowed out.

com-

Even so they will not be able to go into Britain's protected areas,

The aliens whose eases for release Chinest One

the Mogu will be reviewed are those who, as anti Festival, will be celebrated to-day by individuash, suffer hardship by co the Chinese community in Hongkong the under general internment along and placed The festival derives its name from a petry, and those whose special.scd with thousands of French prisoners traditional belief that on the fifteenth

The Hallan internment problem and good many British prisoners day of the eighths monu, which will skill can help Bettain's war effort, be to-day, the moon is at its fullest.

15 also receivng attention. Those wald Leg Warner,

Tu-night, wealthy Chinese will hold

who have been interned are either! French workman)

banquets and entertain their friends

members of the Fascist organsation: there, and persuaded him to let me at home or in restaurants, and it is

or people who have been living here luve his eloties in exchange for 10y learned that many restaurants have less than 20 years,

been fully booked up. The "Ritz" at "I walked over to a buystack and North Point has advertised a special

When the buried myself in the hay

evening, and it is expected that many j prisoners were moved off next day. of those celebrating the festival with I was left behimi

choose this rendezvous as one of thei? "Making for the coast, i broke into places of entertainment. an undecupled house and ate at the food I found there"

uniform

the

moon and

FIRING PRACTICES

WARNING ISSUED TO NAVIGATORS

A feature of the celebration is that parties will be held in the open air,

The following Aring practices aro He reached the coast, and went to so that a full view of the moun can Boulogne and Calats, but could not be clearly obtained. Special Chinese notified for this week:

Light Gun Firing Practice will be get a brent and made up his mind cakes, shaped like

"Yuet Pang", are prepared carried out between 1.30 p.m. and 11 for try

to escape from France by way known

Firing Area for the festival, and thousands of p.m. on September 10. One night, while sleeping in an them have been sold in the past fort-"A" will be affected, empty house, he was found by some night as part of the observance of this Germans and arrested for house-time-honoured occasion. breaking.

of Spain.

Guard's Champagne

"A guard was set over me," he aid, "but I think the fellow was fed up with the job.

He had two bottles of champagne and, knocking the tops off with his bayonet, forced me to drink both boittes.

The cakes are not costly, and thus come within the means of the poorer clases. Many of the shops selling these moon cakes have, In the past week or so, been specially decorated, and a crowd is usually drawn to the display in the show windows and the! attractive iluminations.

a small window, and by posing as a refugee, got bicycle and cycled

1 got helplessly drunk and he did southwards across France.

"At the frontier I told my story, not have to watch me after that,

"I was told later that should be and a Freachtaan pointed the way shot as a spy, but I got away through into Spain."-

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Eire Has 60,000 L.D.V.S Now

-From Stocks In Stores A. R. P. Lessor For Public Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Air

Members of the Eire Local Security. craft Production, will, if necessary, requisition stocks of aluminium goods Force, now upwards of 00,000 strong. have held route marches and drill in wholesale or retail stores.

parades all over the country. Nearly Colonel. Llewellin, Parliamentary half of them, are to be armed and Secretary to the Ministry, sald this uniformed,

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