1940-12-30 — Page 7

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 30, 1940.

DONALD DUCK

By Walt Disney:

起

PROPERTS POLO

SHOE CREAM

11-21

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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 protection.

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 the seizure of schools for barracks,

Oil, Stocks Plundered

Isle Of Dogs Preferred To Mayfair

Oll stocks, raw, materials and food- stuff ore being plundered, and In- dustry, hitherto flourishing, stagnates. There is in Norway an unlimited

Miss Ellen Wilkinson, the new ,supply of now paper. 'presumably made in Germany (witi Parliamentary Secretary to the

Jary)...

money,

Not Take

His Cheque

TRAIN IN U.S. AIRPORTS

The United States Civil Aero-

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More London Firemen Go For Seaside Rest

A second party of London auxilliary firemen, numbering 40 --this time from the City, West End and East End stations- A HUSBAND'S right to pay Florida and another in Texas is Instead of being converted into has gone to Bournemouth and is doing duty with the Bourne his wife's alimony by cheque being arranged for the training a troop transport, the liner Queen mouth 4.FS. to secure a break from the strenuous work they, was challenged at Clerkenwell of Canadian flying cadets when Elizabeth will be used as a home have been doing in London.

snow slows down aviation activi-for British refugee children, it County Court recently.

In exchange, 10 Bournemouth | Women telephone operators of the ty in the Dominion..

is reported.

auxiliary firemen are in the Bournemouth AFS. have also volun- Mra Vera Dorothy Lilian Arrangements ore being made!

capital working with their Lonried woman has offered her house teered to join the parties. One mar- Dilleigh, of Robert Adam-street, through the Mayor of New York

If the plan is adopted the liner don colleagues and gaining valu-to a Loudon W.C.. aued her husband. Leslin Mr La Guardia. Dallas, Texas, and would be moved from New York to "able experience.

AFS. woman tele- phonist, and ts willing to go to Lon- When London firemen were enter- don in her place. tained by the Mayor of Bournemouth

George Dilleigh, for £12 12s, due

to her.

Jacksonville, Florida, have already offered facilities.

A Norwegian Air Corps, formed of pilots who eluded the vigliance of the The defence was that the money Gestapo and escaped from Norway, had been tendered by cheque, that is now in

ow in training in Toronto. Mrs Dillelgi's solicitors had insisted Swelled by Norwegian volunteers in on payment by cash within three Canada and the United States, the days, and, when It was not paid, numbers are expected to reach 000. brought the action..

By the spring it is hoped to help in the air battle of Britain." ·

"Vexatious"

frivolous and vexatious and an

It was pleaded that the action was

n souring cost of living as a coral- Ministry of Home Security,

Dermark in particular has niso 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 agricultural system.

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

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

kinfolk."

on shelter problems, said:-

"Elther," said Mr Clifford, the husband's solicitor, the, wife is being spiteful, or her solicitor are trying emulate the example set by Messrs Dodson and For" (the sollellors in "Pickwick Papers").

"We have large houses in May-10 fair-whole strings of them, in fact but you cannot persuade people to go from the Isle of Dogs to live in

Unreasonable

He (Mr Shaw) had intimated that |- my he would give a receipt only for payment in dash at his office. His

Mr W. J. Shaw, for the wite, naid Enton Square. I said to one woman this was frankly a case of "an eye bombed out of her home, Look out the wife to every possible trou- with a large faintly who had been for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." The husband and his solicitors had here, we can provide you with a date. in Eaton Square, and she replied. Norwegians and Danes ulike refuse "Well, Miss, whatever would I do to be seen in public places where with a dat in Eaton Square. Where Germans are present. Whenever do you think I should do Nazl enters a

restaurant, natives ostentatiously leave.

shopping?" "

Other points made by Miss WUkin- client should not be asked to pay con were: People with

postage on the receipt. Anderson

Judge Earengey found at a shellers must use them or surrender cheque was not legal tender. At the them; 2,000,000 people are having to same time, an ordinary business man sleep outside their own homes; strong would have necopied it. Ho must, partitioning walls in shelters increase therefore, regard the raising of the safely and the problem of sanitation action as unreasonable. is being solved very rapidly; the numbered bunk system seems to be a good method of dispersing people and getting them into smaller and more ordered groups; the question of deep shelters is now under active consideration.

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.

Spying for Britain is widespread, Detalls of new fortifications, every troop movement and location of new airports always find their way to Britain.

The £13 125. which had been paid into court would be paid out to the wife, and there would be no costs for either party.

"Plaintif rightly sald," added the judge, that she could not be re- quired to pay postage on the receipt."

Canadian port or a less busy port along the American const.

Several hundred men have been working on the interior for the past two weeks.

The Queen Elizabeth, built for 2,400 passengers, has fourteen decks, a cinema, theatre, electric lifts, hot and cold water in every cabin, swim- ming pools, gymnasiums, sun decks, and winter gardens.

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