1940-09-30 — Page 15

NANCY

HELLO!--- EDITOR OF THE PAPER HIDHAVE A STORY FOR YOU ---

MY BOYFRIEND HAS INVENTED

RAIN-MAKING MACHINE --

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

HA HA HA-

THATS A GOOD ONE MY GARDEN NEEDS A

SPRINKLING. WHY DON'T YOU.

TURN IT ON 3

September 30, 1940.

By Ernie Bushmiller

BOOM

AVC-16

Officer Pays £125 Breach_of_Promise_Damages DANCE HOSTESS SUES "FASCINATED

ORIENTALE

STARTING TO-MORROW

* BIG, SPECIAL THEATRICAL EVENT FIVE SUPER PRODUCTIONS" THAT MADE HISTORY -YOU'LL ENJOY SEEING THEM AGAIN. TUESDAY ONE DAY ONLY

What Was t Strange Lure

Draculat

DRACULA

FOR WEDNESDAY, ONE. DAY ONLY A THRILLING STORY THAT SHOOK TWO NATIONS I

GARY COOPER GEORGE RAI

COLONEL WHO MARRIED OTHER GIRL SOULS at SEA

FRENCH helmets carried by two members of the Badfield Speark mobile hospital unit on their arrival in London.

Evacuees Don't Have

To Pay

Rent Homes

HOUSEHOLDERS who have been ordered to leave

FASCINATED by a dance hostess at a West End night club, fifty- four-year-old Lieut.-Colonel Humphrey Pellew Forster Mills asked her out to dine, and at their second meeting asked her to marry him. The girl, daughter of a Chinese-born father and an English mother, eventually said yes.

In the High Court, just ten months later, Colonel Mills was ordered to pay her £126 damages for breach of promise.

The girl is Miss Kathleen Lee, of Ivor-court, Gloucester-place. W. Her counsel, Mr. R. F. Levy,; K.C., unfolded the month-by- month story of their whirlwind romance and its sudden collapse.

In a taxicab for one.

It was last October that they met, Through a beather office of Volonel | Mulle, Mi Levy.

Mina Lee was twenty-four and an explot Her father was onguay Chinese and became a naturalised Briton

He was a tutor at Nanking. University. Her mother was Eng- Heh, and Miss Lee was rated ati 4 ht

In Use summer of 1938 she taverne ! a dance hostess at the Florblo Club, W.. und eurned about £5 a week

Colonel Mills was over dity and was clearly attracted by Miss Lee. He asked her to see him again. At the serond meeting he asked | rey to renee engaged, at le

sisted un patting a ring on han finger to wear while she was making up ,her antud

They net often, ne telephoned to! Te almunt every day, and he winste Franky letters genking of his love fun

"We age well and truly engaged,”!

wrote "And very nige, Ton Day Was Fixed

It was in December that he astro dured be: In his fellow-officers, in

British evacuation areas will not have to pay rent for clading the general offer cannand-

their locked-up homes.

Nor will they have to pay rates, water, gas, electricity or telephone charges while they are

away.

A Government order to this effect

JAPANESE OUTRAGE

has been loued. It aise affords relter Motor-Boat Attacks

to business people.

Ten Cargo Junks

The marriage was arranged for || February 3

He informed en

THESE TOWERS WILL GO

THE two great towers of the

Crystal Palace, at Sydenham S.E., all that was left of the fam- ous Are in 1936, are to be de- molished, so that the iron may be used for war purposes,

The trustees have placed a con- tract for the work to be put in hand immediately.

The towers, 284 feet high, were bullt to carry water tanks which would give sufficient pressure to operate the fountains in the paluce and grounds.

Visitors who climbed thom, either by 400 steps or by the lift, had a magnificent vicio of London and of as far afield as Epsom Downs and Windsor,

Betty (aged) Helps To Get

15

Two German Airmen

FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD BETTY BROWN, daughter

In another letter of a farmer in South-East England, helped to arrest the

i that sher Wit "clean. sweet and

fainty" she was lovely and ailored her, and he realised what it would mean to the married to her.

Colonel Mills told her that his in-

pilot and gunner of a German plane that had crashed near her home.

"I was in my riding clothes, come was about £90 month, and and was just going to put on my he promised to open banking account for her with 150, and make boots for a morning ride," said monthly dress allowance of Betty, a tall, well-built "Scots girl, "when suddenly mother shouted: "There's IL German plane down over there."

£13.

"

love you and you are utterly A Japanese motor-boat sunk three

adorable," he wrote. "On February their cargo 3 juks after dumping

going om

to marry you

"No one will be able to remain in occupation of any premises or to live or carry on business in an evacuation area simply because he intends, whet circumstances permit, to return or 10 averboard and rammed resume the business," says the Order. boat on which

a capslerd Whoopee!"

survivors clung, ac-

was

the

two

tructs entered into after the issue off, Lo said that the Japanese themself about my chances of earning The pilot had a revolver, but he sur-

reliefs if it is satisflet that

and

Thes

and saw her off.

Το

All Canada's

Men Will Be Trained

Every able-bodied Canadian

"Thia nailon will be no horde of refugees, untrained, antaught, help- less and impotent, Heeing blindly in the face of the enemy.... "Rifles, machine-guns and anti- alreraft guns are not of much use to novice who does not know one end of a gun from the other.

"This calling-up of 75,000 men is quite a job and it will need read)- ness, willingness, goodwill, tolerance and every help possible from you.

"I rushed out and saw the swastika I was in January tbal things on its side I jumped the fence and ran cording to a report made to the Police changed. The colonel, salid Mr. towards it. I felt very foolish, be- "No sum will be recoverable dur- on Saturday by Lo Chi, a junk fok). Levy, wrote what he called "a diffi- couse my slippers kept coming off, ing the evacuation period under any La stated thoi al a.m. on Friday, cult letter to compose."

but i munaged to stumble on some-is to be trained to defend his contract for hire or hire-purchase of a convoy of 10 boats was near Lin He called himself a poor man, and how.

home. A call has already been uds by a person who in the case of Tin, Chinese Territory, when it was suggested that she could never existi

"Well Behaved"

made for 75,000 men to be train- goods used solely for the purpose of attacked by a Japanese motor-boat. on the £250 or £300 a year which a business, has ceased to carry on inc The cargura of three junks were

"Then some of our workmen, anded in the next three months. all he could hope for when the business in an evacuation area, or in dumped overboard and the junks war was over.

our milkman, Reg Randall, started In a broadcast, the Minister for any other case, has ceased to live 10 were sunk. Ten members two of "am fifty-five, or nearly so," het towards the machine, and I saw Air, Mr. C. G. Power, declared: the area."

the junks were taken aboard

Lo's went on. "and 1 connet deceive my They gave themselves up to the men. Germans walking along. craft. These reliefs do not apply to con!

the Order,

goods overboard, capsized his junk would bore me; my friends would behaved. The pilot, an officer, was boarded his boat, after dumping his You are young and beautiful; my

ways are not yours. Your friends rendered it without any fusa.

"I must say they were awfully well- aboard. A Court has power to modify the with all its crew

drive you crazy in a week. thrown into the water swam back Miss Lee, went on counsel, was tall and good looking, about twenty- a person entitled to possersion of not climbed on the upturned boat, dazed when she got the letter. She five, I should say. He said: 'I am a unoccupied premises has at any but wer

were once more thrown into the met the colonel later at Charing German, I speak English. The other time lived in the area since the sea when the Japanese motor-boat Cross, and he said he had changed was a working-class sort of fellow beginning of the evacuation period, rammed the junk. The Japanese his mind. He put her in a taxicab and said nothing."

Betty's father, Mr. WUHam Brown, then left.

To Some One Else' a native of Lochabers, said: Lo and four others clung to what If the person liable has been was left of their wrecked boat, but

brought them in for a cup of tea and enjoying a substantial benefit from the remainder swam to Ki O Island,that Colonel Mills

It was in Februucy-on the second a cigarette. The pilot said he had

got the premises.or goods.

married. been brought down twice before, in distance of about a mito: Later, Not to Miss Lee, but to some one Poland and France. Power is also given to courts to Le and those with him swam to Chung else. After that parting at the taxi- "He told us he had friends here. restrain execution of orders for re- Chau Island, Chinese Territory, and cab door they did not meet again He spoke warmly about our country. covery of possession of land against were subsequently picked up by the until yesterday. In court.

He looked out of the window and Miss Lee, wearing a navy-blue said, 'Never thought I'd land in old anyone so affected by evacuation that $. Kau Tung which tried to trace

dress with white collar and us, England like this. JUNKS BOARDED ·

stepped into the witness-box. "He seemed thoroughly at case as She said that they met about six he sat in the easy chair while we According to a report made by junk

times after beçoming engaged, and walted for on escort. When they masters to the Police on their return

altogether she received about £75 came he stood up, saluted sinartly Nurse loses 40-lbs. naval trawler, No. 23, seized three lo Hongkong on Friday, a Japanesc

from the colonel.

and bowed, then said. Thank you At first she admired him. Later } very much for your cup of ten." of fat in 6 weeks waters off Man Shan on September marry him and settle down as his not you we are Aghting, but Hitler. Hongkong registered junks in Chinese she grew to love him, was ready to "One of our men said to him, It's Lal Yip-chau, master of junk Mr. Justice Singleton: What was He replied quietly. It's not right Mrs. Francis Rudal, a trained muss T4915H, reported that eight sailors it you admired about the defendant? we fight England, but the Fuehrer writer Other remedies bad failed boarded by vessel, scized lils junke Miss Lee: He was an upright and bade us, and we worship the ground io neduce me, but BONCORA kotllcence, and dumped four cannon, two honourable senior officer and gentle

he walks on'1" 40-lba la 6 werks. · Now my soul muskets and a quantity

· patients are reducing the same way " BORKOWANA and beaf powder overboard. The arms

he cannot pay his rent or mortgage the other people but falled. interest immediately.

with phatak, reducing method.

taking off fat the new "g+ntage" \__ "Triple action, triple spoed." Takra Here Honors: Ely.. EAT BIO. MEAIS at explained is BONKORA package. Nie dangerous drug. Don't delays. Get Boxkona to-day. Sole Agents:

W. S. SHERLY & CO.

20-22 Queen's Rd., C.

20.

era valued at $250.

wife.

of

gunman..

hust

"I

The plain, simple facts are that the courage of the peoples of the British Commonwealth, the 'gallan- try of our Air Forces, the power of our Navies, and the steadfast- ness of our soldiers are all that stand between freedom and slavery, between honour and dishonour, be». twreon: civilisation · and barbarism). between the survival of good and the domination of evil, '

"We are fighting alone in the last ditch for all we and the world of free men hold dear."

- “It Is Our Battle”

Colonel J, L. Ralston, Minister for Defence, and recruiting was going on in every district of Canada and units [of non-permanent activé... : Militia (corresponding to the Territorials) Miss Lee left the witness-box, and Interested in the money he gave her strength and additional units would were to be recruited up to full Colonel Mills, grey-haired, grey-from time to time than in him, and Ng Shiu-kwan, master of junk moustached, entered it. A row of in the end he wrote and brake off be formed, T3470H, reported, that he received medal ribbons drew the eye to the the engagement.

He added that the home defence similar treatment from the Japanese. left breast of his tunie,

Asked if that was the real reason units would be trained at night and His arms were worth $185.

He said that his first wife died in he broke off the engagement, Colonel at districts headquarters so that the Together with another junks, 1933 and he had two daughters, one Mills said, "The real reason was men would not be forced to leave T4910H, all three junks were, towed twenty-three, the other twenty-one, complete Incompatibility." He added their jobs, STOOPISANEKOGAR.

* "The battle of Britain has started," by the trawler to Tai, Shun Laland, He admitted that he was fascinated that his marriage had nothing to do where, aller examinaton, they were by Miss Lee.

with breaking off the engagement to ho declared. It is also the battle of

| Canada. released:

Later he thought she was more Miss Lee,

FRANCES DEE HENAY WILLOXON

FOR THURSDAY, ONE DAY ONLY BELOVED STORY THAT HAS ENTHRALLED MILLION

RONALD

the

COLMAN

PRISONER

Robbered Threaded Antlers

ZENDA

MADELEINE CARROLL P DOVELAS FAIRBANKS, Jr. #ELENICK

da lugets of firmtagna

DAVID D..

FOR FRIDAY, ONE DAY ONLY THE FUNNIEST LAUGH RIOT EVER MADE

BROWN AS BOTTS HAS THE TOWN IN KNOTSI

Alexander katte-ontba sua omurivit after sanraking Saturday Traming Pazt zuuderi for year intheta Win. Nuslait Upion Ateristi

JOEE

BROTHWORM

JUNE TRAVIS - QUY KIBBEE

TRACTORS

FOR SATURDAY, ONE DAY ONLY MIGHTY SPECTACULAR MILLION DOLLAR SUPER SHOW!

ROAD BACK

* MATINEES; 20c, 30c,

• EVENINGS: 20%, 30%, 50%. 70c.

AT

THE

NEXT CHANGE KING'S

The West's toughest hombre leaves Chco for dead! Amigos, that was his last mistake

Viva CISCO KID'

A 10th Century-Fas Picture

CESAR ROMERO

Shrilling 'you' ɑnew "as

O. Henry's dashing, odyen?. turesome caballerot

JEAN ROGERS! CHRIS-PIN MARTIN: MINOR WATEON: STANLEY FIELDS'

Also Latest Movietone News Just Received By Clipper

Battle of Britain Continues With Increaïed Fury. Barrage Balloons-Brought Down

R.A.F. Back in England After Extensive Raids on German Armament Factory Visited By Their Royal Highnesses, The

King and Queen

FIFTY AMERICAN DESTROYERS DELIVERED TO BRITISH

COVERNMENT, ETC.

Page 15Page 16