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NANCY

NANCY-- YOU'VE BEEN A BAD GIRL-YOU'RE.

NOT GETTING ANY CHRISTMAS GIFTS. THIS

NOW YOU CAN GO UPSTAIRS AND

HAVE A

GOOD

CRY!

YEAR 12

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

BOO HOO

By Ernie Bushmiller

February 10, 1941.

BAW WW

WHAH

BOO HOO

BAW W

WAH--

ROLLING INTO GREECE Grock people watch with Interest and joy as British mechanized 'cclumn'rollt through unnamed Grook town while moving to fighting on front lines.

London To Have Mosque

LONDON is to have a mosque for its Moslem population.

The British Government is to make a gift of the site.

This was announced in the meanwhile contributions towards its House of Commons recently by cost will be invited from every the British Mr G. H. Hall, Under-Secretary Moslem country in

Empire. for the Colonics.

An Islamic cultural centre will be attached to the Mosque.

Jews Defend N.W. Frontier

Girl Kept

CIANIE RUSHMILLER

Chained,

Padlocked to Floor

A. 24-year-old mentally defective woman was "chained like an animal in a cage," the Gateshead magistrates were told re- cently,

The girl's father, Harry Ephraim Bloch (54), said to be the owner of a considerable amount of-property in Gateshead, and her brother-in-law, Chaim Samuel Loplan, a Jewish rabbi, both of Bewick Road, Gateshead, were each fined £20, with four guineas costs, for assaulting her by keeping her imprisoned in- chains for six days.

Mr D. G. Dodds, prosecuting, said the girl had been of un- sound mind for some years and occasions suffered from spasms of considerable violence.

on

"Landlords

perhaps from Should Be

Hanged"

Defendants, complete ignorance, had pre- vented her from receiving proper hospital treatment and had preferred to keep her at home.

Mediaeval Echo "

"It Is an echo from the middle ages, when people with mental dis- orders were kept chained up," said; Mr Dodds.

arc

"Pd have many Birmingham landlords hanged," said the Lord Mayor of Birmingham (Sir Percy Bower) recently.

"Birmingham landlords profiteering so much at the ex- "The idea of buying the chains pense of the homeless that I've seemed to have emanated from Lopt-called a special council meeting A TRIBE of pure Jews, thean, who bought them. Staples were to check their activities."

"The treatment billeting ofcere placed in the bedroom floor and thei Ben-i-Israel, are now on duty i was padlocked to a chain about are giving to come bombed-out along the North-West frontiera yard long.

families is a disgrace to our city." of India ready to repel any at-

"Shelter Lega" tack on the Empire through that back door.

She Escaped

"I am sure the defendants did not realise how callous and cruel the

"Shelter legs," swollen legs pro- treatment was, and that they were Plans for the establishment of the The British Government's decision

actuated more by fear of what she duced by sleeping in air-raid shelters, mosque have been drawn up by a will be widely approved. It is ob

This colony of Jews, who have liv-would do if she was free rather than are a new complaint, says the "Lan- committee of distinguished Moslems,viously tung that London-capital ed in northern India for 500 years, by eruelty."

cet," Journal of the British Medical Including the Egyptian Ambassador.

of a Commonwealth whose Moslem adhere to a code called Nang-i-Pak--|

Association.

"The

appeared soon- complaint citizens actually

thehtans by which every youth is bound outnumber

after the intensified nir war on Lon- Christians should have n Mosque on his honour to conquer his enemies. }

Mr Dodds added that on Noven don began Sitting in deck chairs is among its great religious buildings. A regiment, called the Pathans, has ber 3 the chains were removed and

wooden crossbar cause the

causes The Egyptian Government has been formed, and is now part of the the girl escaped from her locked bed suspected as the likely reason, be-

room and was seen early next morn-pressure of the blood," it says.

The **Lancet" recommends already presented a alte to British British Forces in India. The phy- them amongst the finest fighters in It is unlikely that the Mosque will people in Egypt for the purpose of sique and fanaticism of the men rank ing in the street by n policeman.

the British Army. building a cathedral.

to

Mr Holl told Parliament that it is proposed to devoto funds up £100,000 for the purchase of the sile, After The War

be built until after the war, but

The Prime Minister told us läst year that-for some time to come he had nothing to offer, but "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat"-

HE CAN HOWEVER OFFER US

VICTORY IF WE SUPPLY THE FUNDS.

HELP

YOUR GREATEST FRIEND, WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL

(L.C.F.B.)

Please send your donation

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Supt. Collins said Bloch had ex- remedy that people should leave their pressed fears of publicity of the case chairs and walk about occasionally in as this might interfere with his the night. daughter's matrimonial prospects.

Mr. R. W. Stokos, defending, said it was not a case of deliberate cruel- ty, but one of misguided ideas. In her father's view, the girl could not be restrated when she lost her mental stability.

Owned A Picture Postcard Island

Lord St. Levan, owner of Mount St. Michael, the little island town ship off the Cornish coast which is known by Its pictures and postcards

"No End To

War If

Hitler Died”

"IF HITLER werd to die to- morrow, the war would go on." James Hilton, the novelist, told listeners in à Canadian broad- cast.

"The fires of faith," he con- he world over, has died at his home tinued, "burned low, and the in Marazion, Cornwall, aged eighty-task of the British Empire and its Allies is to defeat the con-

three.

Seven years ago Lord St. Levan spiracy which threatens to put made front page news by marrying them out by force."

the seventy-two-year-old widow

new battle, The war was not the second Earl of Dartrey.

But no anclent tyrant approached, They had first met fifty years be the power to put out all lamps nt "To-day that man Wos fore when he was a young Guards once.

officer and she a pretty debutante. Į possible the unique and terrifying

Society gossip had hinted at a romance but she married the Earl climax to which modern selenile of Dartrey and he went overseas with technique has pushed an age-long the Army.

struggle," added Mr. Hilton,

American bases on British soll in When they marry-half a century later the news did not come out for exchange for destroyers, Mr Hilton several days, by which time the said, was a sign of the "beginning of bride and bridegroom had gone consolidation of a new Empire

faith and purpose," abroad,

Monster Raffle

In aid of the War Fund Inaugurated by the.. "South China Morning Post" and The Hongkong Telegraph”

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