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Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 30, 1940.

DONALD DUCK

Wah Chaney Productione

Chain Letters Defeat Wife Would CANADIANS MAY

Nazi News Suppression

NAZI interlopers are having a distinctly uncomfortable time : in Norway and Denmark. They face in both countries a total lack of appreciation of the blessings of German profection.

This is made abundantly clear by reports reaching New York from many sources.

Among the blessings in question are rigid censorship, even of the telephones, and the arrival of more and more Gestapo men.

Then there is food and fuel rationing, while taxes are at a crushing level and education is hindered by tho seizure of schools for barracks.

Oil Stocks Plundered

Oil stocks, raw materials and food- stuffs are being plundered, and in- dustry, hitherto fourishing, stagnates. There is in Norway an unlimited supply of new paper money, presumably made in Germany (with a soaring cost of living as a corol Jury).

Isle Of Dogs Preferred To Mayfair

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More London Firemen Go For Seaside Rest

A second party of London auxillary firemen, numbering 40 --this timo from the City, West End and. East End stations— has gone to Bournemouth and is doing duty with the Bourne- Inouti A.F.S, to secure a break from the strenuous work they Itave been doing in London..

In exchange, 40 Bournemouth Women telephone operators of the auxiliary firemen are in the Bournemouth A.F.S. have also volun- capital working with their Lon-tered to join the parties. One mar- don colleagues and gaining valu-to a London AFS.

ried woman has offered her house woman tele- able experience.

phonist, and is willing to go to Lon- port

When London firemen were enter-don in her place. been tained by the Mayor of Bournemouth

A HUSBAND'S right to pay Florida and another in Texas is Instead of being converted into his wife's alimony by cheque being arranged for the training a troop transport, the liner Queen was challenged at Clerkenwell of Canadian flying cadets when Elizabeth will be used as a home County Court recently.

snow slows down aviation activi- for British refugee children, it ty in the Dominion.

is reported. Mrs Vera Dorothy Lilian Arrangements aro being made Dilleigh, of Robert Adam-street, through the Mayor of New York If the plan is adopted the liner W.C., sued her husband, Leslie Mr La Guardia. Dallas, Texas, and would be moved from New York to a

Jacksonville, Florida, tiave already Canadian port or a less busy George Dilleigh, for £12 12s, due offered facilities,

along the American coast, lo her.

A Norwegian Air Corps, formed of Several hundred men. have pilots who eluded the vigilance of the working on t the interior, for the past it was stated that the resort's ex- TIN FINDS IN EGYPT The defence was that the money Gestapo and escaped from Norway, two weeks.

ample of exchanging fremen was

Tin deposits have been found near had been tendered by cheque, that is now in training in Toronto. The Queen Elizabeth; bullt for likely to be followed by other towns. Kosseir, on the Red Sea coast, ne- Mrs Dilleigh's solicitors had insisted swelled by Norwegian volunteers in 2,400 passengers, has fourteen decks,

Had To Draw Lots

cording to Dr Hassan Saddik ́Boy, on payment by cash within three Canada and the United States, then cinema, theatre, electric lifts, hot days, and, when I was not pald, numbers are expected to reach 900, and cold water in every cabin, swim-to London that lots have had to bejance.

Local firemen are so eager to go Egyptian Under-Secretary for Fin- Experts estimate that the brought the action.

By the spring it is hoped to help in ring pools, gymnasiums, sun decks, drawn to select from the volunteers yick! will be 15,000 tons of pure tin

and winter gardens.

the number required.

annually.

"Vexatious"

It was pleaded that the action was

Miss Ellen Wilkinson, the new Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Home Security, "frivolous and vexatious and an speaking to the National Coun-abuse of the uses of the court."

Denmark in particular-bas also to face ruin of the world's most highly-cil of Women in London recently developed agricultural system.

With the Prem entirely under the thumb of Goebbels's propaganda machine, chain letters are a favourite method of disseminating news and anti-Nazi feeling:

German troops are described as bewildered and shocked at the lack of friendliness shown by their "racial kinfolk,"

Norwegians and Danes alike refuse to be seen in public places where Germans are present. Whenever a Nazi enters a restaurant, natives ostentalously leave.

Outside Convention Asked for directions, a Scandina vian's usual reply is: "I'm sorry, but the Hague Convention does not require me to direct the invader."

German bands, playing carefully learned Scandinavian folk-songs, per- form in empty parks.

on shelter problems, said:-

"Either," said Mr Cluford, the husband's solleltor, "the wife is being spiteful, or her solicitors are trying "We have forge houses in May-j

to emulate the example set by MesATS Dodson and For" (the solicitors in fair-whole strings of them, in fact-Pickwick Papers")." but you cannot persuade people to

to from the Isle of Dogs to live in Mr W. J. Shaw, for the wife, said Eaton Square. I said to one woman this was frankly a case of an eye with a large family who had been for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," bombed out of her home, 'Look The husband and his solicitors had we can provide you with a flat put the wife to every possible trou- here,

ble. Well, Miss, whatever would I do in Eaton Square, and she replied, with a flat in Eaton Square. Where do you thinic I should do shopping?""

Unreasonable

He (Mr Shaw) had intimated that my he would give a receipt only for payment in cash at his office. ́ His be asked to pay Other points made by Miss Wilkin-client should not con were; -Peuple withi Anderson postage on the receipt. shelters must use them or surrender cheque was not legal tender. At the Judge Earenrey found that a them; 2,000,000 people are having 10 same time. an ordinary business mat sleep outside their own homes; strong would have accepted it.. Ho must, partitioning walls in shelters Increase safety and the problem of sanitation therefore, regard the raising of the

action as unreasonable. is being solved very rapidly, the The £12 12s, which had been paid numbered bunk system seems to be into court would be paid out to the Spying for Britain is widespread a good method of dispersing people wife, and there would be no costs for Details of new fortifications, every and getting them into smaller and either party. troop movement and location of new more ordered groups; the question of "Plaint rightly said," added the airports always find their way to deep shelters is now under active judge, "that she could not be re-

quired to pay postare on the receipt.".

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