1941-02-13 — Page 7

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 13, 1941.

By Ernie Bushmiller

NANCY

HELLO, FRITZI! DID NANCY LIKE THAT

TOY I SENT

HER?

OH, SHE JUST LOVED IT. MRS. DOBB!

IN

FACT

I THINK IT'S *HER FAVORITE

A

GIFT ...

I'LL BET SHE EVEN HAS IT UP IN BED

·WITH HER!

I ̈ ́

GOODNESS FORGET WHICH GIFT WAS HERSI GOT SO MANY THINGS!

BETTER PLAY SAFE--

IN CASE SHE COMES

UR!

Brighten Your Home

WITH THESE

ARTISTIC LIGHTS

Nazis Grew Rich On Stolen Stamps

NEVER failing when it is a question of raising much-needed money, the Nazis have succeeded in making many milllons out of postage stamps found in occupied countries,

The racket began in. Poland. The Germans confiscated all available Polish postage stamps, surcharged half with German text, and sent the rest to Berlin to be sold.

The news of the confiscation

sent the prices of the stamps! BERLIN ADMIRES

soaring, with the result that the stock was sold for six times its nominal value.

Thus, instend of making 6,000,000 marks (roughly the value of the stamps 'confiscated) the German authorities made at least 30,000,000.

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In Norway the Quisling Govern- ment prohibited the use of stamps having portraits of the royal familly, The whole stock of such stampa was conveyed to Germany, where it will shortly be sold.

Soldiers Take Part News of the racket soon reached Nazi soldiers stationed in Belgium, France, and Denmark: They took part in the game.

Raiding post offices and stamp shops and using,German money, they bought up all the unused alumps they could; sent them to Germany and had them sold at a good

profit.

But the business developed on such a large scale that the authorities put a complete stop to all stamp Healing. They preferred soldiers in occupied territory to use their Get- man money to buy "useful merchan- dise" unobtainable in Germany.

BRITAIN'S AIR INTELLIGENCE

Germans admire the efficiency: or the British intelligence Her- vices, according to a Berlin cor- rospondent of the Swedish news- paper "Allehands."

R.A.F. pilots, he writes, know the exnet position of every target, even. those newly built and having pro- tective colouring.

far-

A serrelly-erected munition tory hidden in a forest in West Ger-] many was bombed three hours after production began,

admiration in Ber- British

There

is great in for during exploits by pilots, even though these have ຄ. touch of the foolhardy about them.

One example elted is that of a plane which recently challenged the anti-aircraft Runs by Dying over Berlin with all its lights on.

Pa Petersen To Pay £800

Tennis. Star To Wed father of the former heavyweight

Ballet Dancer

Dr Patrick D. B. Spence, the South

African tennis international, now surgeon in the R.A.F., announced recently his engagement to twenty two-year-old Joyce Valerie Robson, former dancer with the Vic Wells ballet.

Mr John Thomas ("Pa") Pelersen,

champion, was ordered to pay £800 damages fit Swansea Assizes recently. He was sued by Mr William Henry Morgan, a Barry coal contractor, who complained that while at a bus stop

POLES IN SCOTLAND-Patrolling beach on, the castorn coast of Scotland are Polish soldiers who are now serving with the British.

Fascist In Ministry

Had Aerodrome Plans

Surprise that people in sympathy with the British Union of

Johnnie Is The Star Turn

|War Children Ái “Models"

CHILDREN evacuated from Britain were the mannequins at a new kind of dress show in New York.

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The "models" wore clothes made by American volunteers for children who are still "under fire" in Britain, and the audience in the club rooms of the English-speaking Union in- cluded many women who had paid a fee to see. the clothes they helped to make.

celebrate

The show was held to the conclusion of the volunteers' liet full year of work, during which they. and inade 440,000 Harments. The models shown were their latest com- pleted shipment.

"Siren Suit"

Fair, blue-eyed Johnnie Ains; worth, aged eighteen months, was the star of the afternoon. Johnnie, whose father was last heard, of ai. Dunkirk, toddled forth, leading the parede, in what young America calls a snowsult, but will change its name to "siren sult" by the time it reaches its destination.

American, Spanish, Russian, Nor-1 wegian and German girls, many of them also refugees, helped to show off the blouses, skirts, jumpers, caps, -hals, sweaters and topcoats that re- presented the work of the volunteers.

Fascists should be employed in the Air Ministry was expressed DONATIONS AND

by Mr Justice Cassels at York Assizes when he sent Thomas

Hubert Beckett, 35-year-old architect, to penal servitude for three

years.

"It has been disclosed," the judge said to Beckett, "that you were not the only individual in Cardiff last January Petersen employed in that Air Ministry struck him on the jaw and, in a

who had such sympathies, but struggle on the ground, bit off part there it is. of his ear.

Morgan was unable to take the eath awing to defective specch They met iess than a fortnight According to doctors his right arm previously, and were to be married was paralysed by the injuries, his -within-another-fortnight.-

speech-affected, and he walked with

Miss Robson's mother,'Mrs M. A.ļa limp. Robson, of Hathersage (North Derby-

Self-Defence Plea shire), sald: "They met at a charity The defence was that Morgan dance in Yorkshire, and within a struck the first blow and that Peter, few days they were planning their sen, who denied biting the car, acted marriage."

in self-defence. Since the war Miss Robson has Mr Justice Lewis suld he was bren at home, keping house for her satisfied that Petersen was violently mother who is head of a building drunk. He did not belleve his firm.

evidence.

Bomb Kills Six At Christening Party

Acknowledgments

of $1,500,699.58 was reached

yesterday by the Wow Fund inaugurated

by the C. M. Post, Ltd., with the fol Jowing donations:

Mr J. A. Fraser, M.C..... Parisian Grill Shell

Six people in one family, celc- Hongkong Signal Company Tombola

three- brating the christening of a

Drives .......................................... The following were received per week-old boy, were killed by a Hongkong War Effort Committee:

on Hongkong Hotel (Domba) (fifth col- bomb in the Sunday night raid

Gloucester Hotel (Tank) (th London,

collection)

collection)

"You were there, and you have ben covicted of making ill use of your position by obtaining a plan which showed the position of certain

The victims were Mr James Holt, nerodromes, and also by drawing up a retired police sergeant, his wife, a list of aerodromes which was des- their married daughter and her hus- cribed by witnesses us being so upe band, Mr and Mrs George Thorning, to-date that some of the places had the baby, and Mr Holt's mother Gloucester ifotel (Musical Box-

Sundries only just been started."

The judge added that it must come as an astonishing fact that informa- tion such as Beckett had been found ulity of obtaining, had been obtah- ed by him so easily.

BADMINTON CHAMPION LOSES FORM

(THINKS)

I SEEM TO BE LOSING

MY PEP-BADMINTON IS A GAME, OF THE

PAST FOR ME.

YOU WILL HAVE TO LEAVE ME OUT OF THE TOURNAMENT OLD MAN.

I'M FINISHED.

NONSENSE- YOU'LL BE ALRIGHT.WHY

NOT SEE A DOCTOR MEANWHILE?

Rescuers found the baby's christen- ing cake on top of the wreckage.

The ralders staricd several fires) early in the night, but after midnight| few planes broke through the outer London barroge.

AT THE DOCTOR'S,

...1 EVEN

WAKE TIRED

YOUR TROUBLE IS NIGHT STARVATION, ́YOU SEE, WHILE YOU SLEEP, YOUR HEART, LUNGS AND OTHER AUTOMATIC PROCESSES CONTINUE USING UP

ENERGY.

Peninsula Hotel (Hangur)-

Water Police Station Canteen 19pit-

fire) (alxt collection)

A LAMP WILL BE A "BRIGHT" & HAPPY THOUGHT... YOU WILL BE DELIGHTED TO OWN ONE FROM OUR SELECTIVE RANGE AT

A LOW COST.

·HUNDREDS OF LAMPS ARE ON DISPLAY, IN EVERY IMAGINABLE SIZE, AND AT ALL PRICES.

Inspection Cordially Invited,

China Emporium,

Ltd.

$1,000

32.76

Jo

tho

PRESIDENT

$3.40

44.50

LINER

37.20

200

500,47

74.00

77.70

the

half share, January) Sports Club (Collected during

selling of fotteries).....

PILISONERS OF WAR The S. C. M. Post has received following donation to the Relief Fund for British Prisoners of WAT

"Hussar," $50,

D. W. O. F.

The S. C. M. Post has received following donation to the Dritish Organisation Fund:

Capt. I. J. Lossiu, (January) $20.

the

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SAILINGS

TO SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES Via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama & Honolulu,

"President Coolidge"

SS "President Pierce"

SS "President Taft" -

FED.

22

MAR.

5

MAN,

10

To NEW YORK and BOSTON

Via Manlia, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Bombay and Capetown

SS "President Grant"

SS "President Jackson"

SS "President Huyea"

MAR. 23 MAR. 23

APB.

20

To NEW YORK and BOSTON

Via San Francisco, Los Angeles and Panama

•SS "President Buchanan"

MAR.

SS "President Johnson"

APIL.

SS "President Fillmore"

MAY

• Cargo only.

TO MANILA

.SS "President Coolidge"

SS "President Pierce" SS "President Taft"

FEB. FEB MAR. 11

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PRESIDENT LINES

"ROUND-WORLD SERVICES"

AGENTS FOR TRANSCONTINENTAL & WESTERN AIR AND UNITED AIR LINES.

12 Pedder Street.

Telephone 28171

AT THE DOCTOR'S TWO WEEKS

IN YOUR CASE. ALSO THIS HAS LED TO AN EXCESS OF ACID WASTE PRODUCTS IN THE BLOOD. RECENT

TESTS HAVE PROVED THAT HORLICKS AT

BEDTIME IS WHAT YOU

NEED.

CLATER.

(THINKS)

THE DOCTOR'S RIGHT THIS HORLICKS IS DOING

ME GOOD

"A MONTH AFTER.

THE CHAMPION

IS BACK

ON HIS OLD

FORM. AGAIN.

YES, SINCE THE DOCTOR PUT

HIM ON

HORLICKS.

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DO YOU FEEL WORN OUT, DEPRESSED, OR NERVY? DO YOU EVEN AWAKE TIRED ?

:

DOOTORS AND SCIENTISTS USE HORLICKS

IN HOSPITAL TESTS

RECENTLY teste were made in a great

hospital on men and women who com plained of always feeling tired.

It was found that these people had an excess of neld waste producta in their blood during sleep.

This acid waste kept the brain and nerves 'on edge' all night even though the rest of the body was sound asleep.

But when Horlicks wäs given to these people last thing at night, this excess neid waste was completely neutralised. They woke. refreshed, with increased energy and vitality.

Take HORLICKS

THEN YOUNWILL SLEEP SOUNDLY- WAKE REFRESHED AND HAVE EXTRA ENERGY ALL DAY-

In

IN PARLEY—Admiral Joan Darlan, Navy Minister Potain's cabinet, who rapra- sented the Vichy government in conferences in Paris regard- ing "collaboration between Franco and Germany.

Fountain Pen Plant] "Mined" For Gold

They are "prospecting" for gold at the L. E. Waterman Compony foun- tain pen plant in Newark, New Jer- sey..

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The company plans to move to E New York, so it has begun a recla mation process to recover,.gold lost In the manufacture of pen points.

Walls and equipment have been scrubbed, 20,000 feet of flooring rip- ped up, and everything from soil beneath the building to water from the workmen's wash basins. Altered. About $20,000 of gold is expected to be "mined,"

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