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*Nancy KELLY

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*Hugh HERBERT

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*Roland YOUNG

os AMOS... Black sheep of the | Bullertons,,a (ailure in finance

2.aasuccess in happiness!

Private Affairs

TO-MORROW

A Columbia

with

Montagu Love G.P. Huntley, Jr.

Dick Purcell Jonathan Hale Mary Forbes

Loretta YOUNG

•

Ray

MILLAND

Picture "THE DOCTOR TAKES A WIFE”

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Andy

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Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

"TELEGRAPH“ SATURDAY FEATURE

erbert iggs -kollum-

even erd thla wun its a.ode (taini ode recrly its noo):—

tripel tripe! bee-ootitel tripe

its a luvly site is a plite, ov tripo. if ud a parnd it wud sune be gorn (the sline ter yu wiv vineger on) dreemst dreemal av luviy fick seems

(its orlways in secson and ripe) Ime or ova diever wen 1 toe

giverin

-:

wackin grate pilteful ov tripg

cor stuff me full ov plekel unyuna jest imajin it a luvly feed ov lushus tripe marsel waved orl of and stee- min and a nise pint ov nurishin stout

torkin pbart marsel waves corblime i ad prilly ruff nite in the littel ole marzel cafly there woo a bloke wot ad a kilt on and smellin like a kemists shop and oje alf thort a wos wun oy the middel-secks rejment.

(really of boy-ftoightful lot

of

twipe this chappey higgs wolter in the balley paypal what--) corlavaduck!

December 14, 1940,

Used False Name To Join A.F.S.

Because he had just come out of prison and could not get work in his own name, Jolin Austin Shorter, aged 35, of Chorlton-on-Medlock, Man- chester, borrowed another' Identity card.

man'

He used this men's name to join the A.F.S., but later gave up the ser- [vice to do Important Government work for which he wag pold £3 a week.

At Manchester, he was fined £10 for leaving the service and usinit an- other man's name,

The Men Who Chattered Themselves To Death

By Sidney Horler

(Continued from Page 11.) TERM on Akce a ruled THE DIMINUTIVE WARDEN, now

turkey-cock, at lost found his voice.

"Am I mud? Are you mad? Or is the whole blinkin' world mad? That's what I want ter know?" he

ened to be the scene of his doom, ho walked out into the night. His one out him a idea was to find a person who could

did not know how distant this was, but he presumed that his captors had brought him several miles away from Rutland Gate.

und torkin abart the middel-secks rejment wot abart the littel ole rorl scots band consert up the littel ole demanded.

He found himself in what looked kee inrst saidy nite. corlovaducic

Still shaking with the tremendous like a country lane. He had two wot a nife yu orter seen captin sessil relief he felt, Tiger took him by the chalces-10 turn either left or right, chuckin Is munny abart ilke

blinkita shoulder. scotchman wiv no blinkin arms and

"You

and I are all right, old man," and he decided on the latter, The lane widened as he walked up it, me and cle alf was verry bissy he replied, "but I can't say anything drinkin uyver peoples heers but i mus about the rest of the world. Still and now, in the near distance, he

could see a road Buy the littel ole captin knows ow if it's any satisfaction to you to instant he saw something else; a In that crossing ter git munny fer the fittel, ole bom-know it, your coming in just now

Saved

-heavy my te-and possibly your

cor touring mer fun

drawn up beneath some trees on the left-hand side of jown." wich remines the Ime a bit wur-: "Oh! Like that, was it?"

the lane. Here was p bit of lucki Apart reed abart ole alf becos e got a bit from his gaping expression, the Air crossed towards the car; he

Perhaps he could get a lift. As he could ecksited and swallered' is blink Raid Warden might merely have re-hear the engine gently ticking over. chinge Insted ov his blinkin beer ceived nothing more surprising than wich makes us abart firty sents short a telegram from a pre-war football Si ddenly he ducked, and then, this week (so far)-corlumme wat pool informing him that he had won he crept up to the car, quietly opened maintaining his crouching position, a blow i fink ile take ole alf darn the a prize of small denomination. war tacksayshun oras beens ive erd they gits munny outer enybuddy

replied Standish flow, Warden," the rear door and not inside. The if you're two men in front, one wearing ever in London, you might look me R.A.F. uniform, and the other in annuvver bit ov sad noos cor stone up. My name is Standish-S-t-a-n- khaki, were so closely engaged in me sideways i sees in the pipers ns d-i-s-h-and I live at 101. Chapel conversation dat they appeared un- ow argyro castro as fallen-i mus say Street, Mayfair." He caught the aware of what was happening. But Ime very sprised becos she wos a nise other's hond and gave it a hearty dish caught the neck of each and not for long. Reaching aver, Stan- grip.

olesome sorter gal

"You're a stout

werd

well well (two oles in the grand) "Good-bye, old son, I must be banged their heads together with —its a long wurm wot aint got no popping and leaving the empty such terrific force that both were turnin 'as the saying goes

garage, which had so closely threat-mentally stunned. When they turn- ed startled faces towards him, two anushing blows, coming so quickly on cach other that they were prac- tically simultaneous, completed the lab. The sight was offensive, so, picking up a rug which he found in the back of the car, he flung it over them.

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SERGEANT STANDING BY, a stupetled expression on his bucolle face. Tiger addressed the two latest TO-MORROW arrivals at the Ashtead-Barton police able was not large, but the place slation. The accommodation avait-

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like

"This will have to do for you to- night," he said, "to-morrow we'll And belter Accommodation. of course, yu'll end up at the Tower-- you've heard about the Tower, 1 sup- pose? It's where we shoot vermin you in wartime. But as I'm already late for supper, 1

I will leave "You with two ̈reflections. The first one is that you cun overdo ellciency. You Germans have had many lessons on that score, and before this war Is over you're going to have many more. Efficiency up to a point is excellent, but if you overdo it, you're putting too big strain on the en- gine. What you two should have done to-night was to have cleared off immediately you had set off the time-fuse. That would have con- tented the ordinary person, but no, you just had to wall to see the re- sult. And in waiting-well, you're here instead of being in London plotting

some further dirty work. second reflection is that you really should have taken to heart all the posters the Ministry of Informa-' tion has put up in

The

'Careless talk seen them, no doubLondon. You've may cost lives! Well, you've cer- tainly talked carelessly to-night, and I'm willing to bet you a hundred pounds against all Geering's medals that but I'll leave you, to think out the rest. Good-night and unpleasant. dreams!"

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