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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 17, 1940.

'PHONE PLEAS FOR BRITAIN

Remarkable Drive in America

In a remarkable drive to mobilise support for the camalen to help Britain, volunteer, workers for the William Allen White Committee to defend America by aiding the Allles will ring up every private telephone number in New York City.

Business numbers will be omitted, but in New York's five. boroughs there are 735,488 residential telephone numbers, which, it is pointed out, la, more than all the business and home tele- phones in Norway, Finland, Eire, Greece, Portugal, Bulgaria, Jugoslavia and Lithuania combined.

In each case the caller will speak to the woman of the house

if there is one-and try to en list her sympathies for the com- mittee's work. A chart will be compiled showing whether the people called are in favour of the committee's objectives, against them, or merely neutral.

Those who are sympathetic will

the

the

meatures

PANAMA

HIGHWAY READY

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 be called upon whenever the need arises to write letters to the Presi-(UP). Definite announcement dent.

Senators, Hepresentatives und by the Panama Government that members of

Administration, the trans- Isthmian highway, urging support for recommended by the committee, connecting Panama City, on the on the which is now trying to arouse public Pacific, with Colon, opinion in favour of sending Britain Atlantic, would be completed in 25 American "fying fortresses.* the immediate future has been Calls will be made by a team of received with much public en- If one person made these calls and thusiasm, according to a report took two minutes for each, it would of the Commerce Department take him nearly 30 years to complete from Panama, the task, assuming that he worked eight hours a day on every day of

1,410 women.

the week.

It is estimated that

Secret U.S. Planes

NEW types of American air- craft will soon be flying with the R.A.F.

The names of three of them are still n secret, but they in clude fighters made by the Curtis Company.

The office of the American Com- mercial Attache at Panama City said it is understood that work on about 26 miles of Ute highway yet un- finished will be rushed by working three shifts, devel

development which

will further improve the couraging employment

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DISPOSSESSED BY HITLER-Homeless folk are becoming generally soon on London stroots as ... Hitler's airmen continue raids on Britain's capital city. Those abavo wero dispossessed by bombs, but they are attempting to salvago belongings from their homes.

DAMAGES Young Girl May Send Mother To Her Death AWARDED

A GIRL of 22 may doom her mother to the electric chair in New York. This is the latest development in the fantastic story of "Murder Incorporated”—The Brooklyn "cash and "bury' syndicate which is now believed to have been responsible for 64 murders.

TO GIRL

-Police Sued

A 15-year-old domestle scr.

Two leaders of the gang, "Buggsy" Goldstein and "Pitts-vant who successfully claimed burgh Phil" Strauss, were sentenced to death recently for the damages for false imprisonment; murder of a man known as "Puggy" Freinstein.

The girl is Mrs. Sylvin

Local commercial- interests were reported to foresee many advantages the Republle as the result of the completion of this highway, includ-Weiner who married Benjamin

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from four police officers, had her claim increased from £50 to £80 by Judge Capron at Dudley

ng ucceleration of freight movement ("Chippy") Weiner when she ANTI-NAZI County Court recently.

"rom the Atlantic nie doeks to Panama City, expansion by the of the now isolated areas of the trucking business, and development

.ntertor.

three Cotton Raid

Even after these machines have been put into service, they will not be men- tioned by name in official bul letins until it is believed that the onemy knows about them and their capabilities.

Plan Hopes

·

Mr. Churchill's promise to re- examine the question of air-raid But two American machines that insurance, for property has been

was 16. Her husband is now in Sing Sing Prison, serving a term for robbery.

Her mother,

Mrs. Rose Pantlel,

a stolid widow of 40, known as "the Red Rose of Williamsburg," is under arrest, charged as an accomplice to

·Rubin" ("The Mock") Shapiro. Mr.

her husband in Sing Sing she re-

RIOTS IN NORWAY.

He described the methods adopted by the police officers in investigating the disappearance of a handbag as "highly impro- per and dangerous to the course of justice.

The fact that the girl was an in- fant gave him power to increase her medest claim.

Fetched From Bed

the murder of a gangster-known as · Scenes' of great disorder fol- O'Dwyer, New York's District At-lowed demonstrations by atu- torney, believes that she knows the dents against the Germana in secrets of ten other gang murders. Norway recently, and as a result

Visit To Husband

Vern Turner, of klobert Street, the authorities have dissolved The 'daughter was detained as a the Norwegian Students' As-in churge of the Sedgley (Statford- Lower Gornal, sued Inspector Felton, material witness, but after a visit to socation, saya Beromunstershire) Police Section, P.Cs Williams will soon be officially mentioned are especially well received in Lan-fured to talk. To, convince her tit (Switzerland) radio.

Dickerill, Disorders were greatest'in Oslo. to tell what she knows may be the

The association was dissolved; says only way to save her mother's in the radio station, because the students

O'Dwyer Mr. said:

defled the ban on processions and which contributed hoy sufren There's a girl who for love of a public meetings have confiscated all

mun.in Sing Sing is going to

Hend

the money belonging to the associationed." her mother to the electric chalr,"

The murders which the District tion.

They have threatened that if there Attorney hopes to solve as a result

cashire.

the Buffalo and the Boston,

The Buffalo is one of the latest United States single-seater Bighters.

Some mills in the Roylon district Snub-Nosed Fighter

mall pool to recently formed n Designed for the United States Navy, it is.

which ench could draw if they nub-nosed vicloused damage. looking machine, easy to handle, but detalls of its performance have not tien refused to consider these contri- But the Inland Revenue authori- yet been disclosed.

The Boston Is a bember. It will butions as part of the expenses of be the first aircraft with a tricycle the business, and demanded that they underent riage to go into service with should be included in profits for tax

purposes.

the RAF

to her and

by

The Germans

of Mrs. Pantic's arrest were can-are uny further demonstrations they milted in a gang war which followed will close Oslo University and other on attempt by n group led by colleges and schools. "Knockout" Harry This altitude stopped further con:

Halperin 10 Instead of a wheel at the tail tributions, with the result that the

"muscle in" on territory

run by

two main landing wheels in the

industry now hopes that Mr. ney Boys." Rubin Shapiro, a loan _macolies of the motors.

At rest it is permanently in the Churchill's re-exumiliation with cover-shark,-was-marked for murder-bc- take-off position, so that it needs this point.

has one at the nose, apart from the pool is too small to be effective. The another group, known as the "Lar Servant Leaves

only

short run to become pirborne. Both the Buffalo and the Eeston are believed to be better than any- thing of similar type bolonging to the Nazis.

A

Cripps' Son Is C.O.

Island "King" Sued In U. S.

War Office.

Edna His wife, Mrs

cause the Larney gang suspected that he was financing Halperm's mob and supplying them with guns and Cars.

Nazis Send

Propaganda To Cabinet

NAZI propaganda is still being distributed In England by members of the former British Union of Fascists.

£1,000

Sewing Machine Legacy

Mra. Jane Elizabeth Champion, of 24, Donald-road, Willesden, NW und formerly of Fifth-avenue, Queen's Park, W.10, described in her will (July 14, 1918) as a "domestle," who died on April 28 last, left £1,103 is. ld. (net personally £1,093 10s, 2d.).

and Plant and War Reserve Constable

She complained that after a woman had missed a bag containing £22 she was fetched cut of bed nt her em- the police station and severely quen soyer's house at midnight, taken to

P.C.'s "Inexperience”

lost.

The judge held that the girl was

Normal police investigation would taken to the station against her will.

have shown there was no ground fer the conclusion that the bag had been

He believed that the sole desire of the officers was to

out their carry duty. That they did so iniproperty was due in the case of the constabler

to inexperience and over hasty con- clusions, and in the case of the In- spector to an undue acceptance and reliance upon conclusions and theories of his subordinates.

Bird Of Paradise Grows Long Tail

A suit for divorce has been filed in New York against Mr Harold Fortington, former "King

She left five War Savings Certif-

SYDNEY, Austraila, Nov. 24 (UP). cf Jethou," the island paradise

cates to "my devoted parent" Henry bird of paradise in New Guinea A. Barton, and her sewing machine has outdone the dog that grew a tail Conscientious Objectors' in the Channel Isles, and since

"to be used in memory of me," to co long that the dog was wagged by Tribunal, at Oxford, recently re- the war Director-General of;

her friend Minnis Pepper, "house the latter. The bird, nine Inches in gistered John Stafford Cripps, Progress and Statisties at the

mother, residing at White Oak School, length, has grown a tall three feet Swanley, Kent."

long the son of Sir. Stafford Cripps,

The whole of her goods and effects Winifred British Ambassador in Moscow. Fortington, a daughter of Sir Emest

It has been named the "McNicoll's she let to May Barton, of Graves-ribbon-talled bird of paradice," after to do work of nationul im- Jardine, the Nottingham lace ma- These people, who have man- the shelter she has given my late ton of New Guinea, who has vent a speel- end, as some little recompense lor Sir William McNicoll, administrator portance.

chine magnate, inosking for 500

men to the Museum here. He will bo required to do agri-dolats (£100) weekly alimony and aged to elude the police net, have and me." cultural or horticultural work or 10,000 dollars (£2,000) lawyers been sending anonymous notes to Cabinet Ministers, writers of market gardening for two days a fees. week,

newspaper articles and public Cripps submitted that war lving in comparative poverty Int

She says in her petition that she is men.

case. In nearly every

the! was irreconcilable

the New York with her daughter.

A rubberį. Christian belief in the Father- The Sunday Dispatch New York senders have used hood of God and the Brother-correspondent says Mr Fortington stamp, with movable type and an hood of man.

has contested the cult.

inking pad. Mr Forlington bought the Isle of He was at one time prospective Jethou from Mr Compton Mackenzie, Labour candidate for Exeter. he novelkst.

with

Contested

GERMANS TRY TO WIN

OVER GUERNSEY ISLANDERS

GERMANS in occupation of Guernsey are trying to win over the islanders to their cause by kid glove methods but over all Is the shadow of the Gestapo, says a "Dally Herald" corres pondent.

made

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"Hell Hitler" and "You dirty Jews" are two favourits phrases. Others

are of a highly obscene nature.

Scotland-yard is G.P.O. detec- Some of the notes have been posted tives are trying to trace the senders, In Southend-on-Sea and others in

South-East London.

Known To Police

British Union of Fascists ceased to

to the

ONE NURSE SAVES 18 BOMBED EXPECTANT MOTHERS

EIGHTEEN expectant London mothers owe their lives to the amazing heroism of 30-year-old Staff Nurse Tegwen Davies. Single-handed, she dragged them from the remains of a bombed pre-natal home in East Anglia.

The bomb wrecked one side of the home one night recently, burying a number of the mothers under piles of bricks and fallen timbers.

"The most diMcult thing" to deal with was the mothers labour. I had to attend several

to hospital, veral of them, on the way

"It was only a fluke that I tries to take them all to. hospital. happened, to be near the spot,” "I got five of them away in a car "As a political organization the said Nurse Davies. "There was and asked the driver to call the hus-

pital ambulances, exist after the arrest of its leader," [no nursing staff at the home--| anida Scotland-yard official. The only a housekeeper. I was out organisation has been broken up,

side. "Active members of the body have been dealt with and others are known light and flung myself fat on the

"saw the bomb fall in the moon

"As a matter of fact, five babler, Dolice.

Including twins, were born shortly Since the arrest of Sir Oswald hen all hell seemed to break after I got the women there.

ground. Mosley many of the rank and Ble loose. There was a terrine gash, and "There were a number of casual- members have kept particularly quiet. There are still some who are bit of brick were flung all around ties, some of them fatal." trying to keep Fascism alive, but when

I picked myself up I could ey do not dare to come out in the open. They are content to send there, hear a number of women screaming

for hel anonymous communications.".

"I clambered over the debris and started to feel around in the dark. MORE NEW ZEALAND [It was simply dreadful.

· BUTTER, AND CHEESE H

mo.

One of a party of eight men who got away from the island in a 20-foot boat told of life in Nazl Guernsey.

"The invaders are so extra courteous," he said, "that they oven step off the pavement to allow women to pass.

There is a penalty of 15 years potatoes and something like chuff, Imprisonment for anyone who speaks and produces chronic Indigestion. slightingly of Gorman soldiers, and "Lots of tinned food has been the singing at 'God Save the King' taken to France." is forbidden.

Publie house stocks of beer are Everyday is to work. Flat rapidly diminishing, and spirits "are] rates of pay are 30s. a week for banned single men and 38s. for married mon,

Guernsey newspapers are bi-lingual);

the women were blackened. with a few extra shillings for each now, and they contain, lesson in New Zealand hopes to send to by the bomb blast and I had the

German

Britain greatly increased supplies of greatest difficulty in finding those The islander said that between 200 butter and cheese in the coming year, who were unconsciousred out with and 1,000 German troops were in sald Mr. W. Jordan, High Commis- "Bix of

them Guernsey, arid many brought their loger for, the Dominion, speaking at a little help, but I had to drag 12 Rationing was getting severe wives and sweethearts.

The National, Trade Union Club,

out

by the armpits when I left. We were each allowed "Discipline in strict," he added. The produes of New Zealand to make matters worse, the nliack twa ounces, of" butter and sixpenny- "A" soldler who interfered with a wool, butter, Chesss and meat was sent most of the mothers into labour, worth of meat'a week.:

| woman schoolteacher was shot after bein- sold, to the British Govern- I placed them down on the pavo- #Broad⠀⠀{ la^ poor,... Ikola made, of court-martial Payson,

ment at an agreed price.

Iment and tried to stop cats and for-

All

child. 1

the wages are paid by the Guernsey State.

Rationing Severe

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