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Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 30, 1940,

DONALD DUCK

By Walt Disney

"Gogy. Ivan, Wah Dianey Probactices

Welt Hiches Maserul..

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Chain Letters Defeat 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 protection.

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

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

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

Isle Of Dogs Preferred To Mayfair

Wife Would CANADIANS MAY Floating

Not Take

His Cheque

TRAIN IN U.S.

AIRPORTS

The United States Civil Aero- nautics Board announces that the use of a municipal airport in

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More London Firemen Go For Seaside Rest

A second party of London auxiliary firomen, numbering 40 --this time from the City, West End and East End stations- has gone to Bournemouth and is doing duty with the Bourne- mouth A.F.S. to secure a break from the strenuous work they, have been doing in London.

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

enow slows down aviation activi- for British refugee children, it In exchange, 40 Bournemouth Women telephone operators of the ty in the Dominion,

is reported.

auxiliary firemen are in the Bournemouth A.FS. have also volun- Mrs Vera Dorothy Lilinn Arrangements are being made

If the plan is adopted the liner don colleagues and gaining valu-to

capital working with their Lon-teered to join the parties. One mar- Dilleigh, of Robert Adam-street, through the Mayor of New York

ried woman has offered her house W.C., aucd her husband, Leslin Mr La Guardia. Dallas, Texas, and would be moved from New York to "lable experience.

London A.F.S. woman tele- phantat, and is willing to go to Lon- George Dilleigh, for £12 128. due onsenville Florida, have already Canadian port or a less busy port

along the American const.

When London firemen were enter- don in her place. A Norwegian Air Corps, formed of Several hundred men havo been lained by the Mayor of Bournemouth | The defence was that the money Gestapo and escaped from Norway, two weeks.

pllots who cluded the vigliance of the working on the interior for the past was stated that the resort's ex- TIN FINDS IN EGYPT

ample of exchanging firemen was had been tendered by cheque, thats

Tin deposits have been found near now in training in Toronto. The Queen Elizabeth, built

likely to be followed by other towns. Kesselr, on the Red Sea coast, ac- Mrs Dilleigh's solicitors luid inshted Swelled by Norwegian volunteers in 2,400 passengers, has fourteen decks,

Had To Draw Lots on payment by cash within three Canada and the United States, then cinema, theatre, electric lifts, hol

cording to Dr Hassan Saddik Bey, days, and, when

Local firemen are so eager to go Egyptlan Under-Secretary for Fin- it was not pald, numbers are expected to reach 000, and cold water in every cabin, swim to Landon that lots have had to be ance. brought the action.

Experts estimate that the By the spring it is hoped to help in ming pools, gymnaslums, sun decks, drawn to select from the volunteers yield will be 15,000 tons of pure tin the air battle of Britain.

and winter gardens. "Vexatious"

the number required.

annually.

to her.

Oil Stocks Plundered

Oll stocks, raw materials and food- sluffs are being plundered, 'and In- dustry, hitherto flourishing, stagnates, There is in Norway an unlimited

Miss Ellen Wilkinson, the new supply of now

paper

money, presumably made in Germany (with Parliamentary Secretary to the a soaring cost of living as a corol- Ministry of Home Security, "frivolous and vexatious lary).

Denmark in particular hos also to speaking to the National Coun-abuse of the uses of the court." face ruin of the world's most highly-cil of Women in London recently developed #gricultural system.

With the. Press entirely under the thumb of Goebbels's propaganda machine, chain letters are a favourite method of disseminating news and anil-Nax! fecllag.

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

Kinfolk."

on shelter problems, said:-

It was plended that, the action was and an

"Elther," said Mr Clifford, the husband's solletior, "the wife is being spiteful, or her solicitors are trying "We have large houses in May-to emulate the example set by Messen Dodson and Fog" (the solicitors in fair-whole strings of them, in fact-rickwick Papers"). but you cannot persuade people to

go 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 here, we can provide you with a flat put the wife to every possible trou- Norwegians and Danes alike refuse "Well, Miss, whatever would I do

in Eaton Square,' and she replied, ble.

· Unreasonable to be seen in public places where with a flat in Eaton Square. Where Germans are present. Whenever a do you think I

He (Mr Shaw) had intimated that should do my Nozi enters a restaurant, natives

he would give a receipt only for ostentatiously leave,

shopping??"

payment in cash at his offee. His Other points made by Miss Wilkin-client should not be asked to pay son were:-People with Anderson postage on the receipt. shelters must use them or surrender cheque was not legal tender. At the Judge Earengey found 1lat D them; 2,000,000 people are having to same time, an ordinary business man sleep outside their own homes;

es; strong would have accepted 1. He must, partitioning walls in shelters increase therefore, regard the raising of the safety and the problem of sanitation action as unreasonable, is being solved very rapidly; the numbered bunk syntem seems to be Spying for Britain in widespread. a good method of dispersing people Detalls of new fortifications, every und getting them into smaller and troop movement and location of new more ordered groups; the question of airports always find their way to deep shelters is now under active

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.

Britain.

consideration.

The 12 12s, which had been paid into court would be paid out to the wife, and there would be no costs for elther party.

"Plaintiff rightly said," added the judge, that she could not be re- quired to puy pestage on the receipt."

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