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HEY!-- WHAT'S

Tuesday, HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

IT'S

DIS SISSY YOUR GET-UP?

7?

SURE, NANCY

CLEANING OUTFIT!

DOLINA HAVE TO WEAR

DIS?

YES IT'LL KEEP THE DUST

OFF YOU'!

O.K.--- BUT^/ I KNOW I'M

A SAP FOR.:

DOIN: IT!

May 6, 1941.

By Ernie Bushmiller

MAR-17

B. W. O. F. Moroccans Would Resist Over 7,000

Subscribers

BOMBER FUND SUPPORT

The following are subscriptions received to date for credit of the British War Dr yanisation Fund, Hongkong Branch:

Previously acknowledged. #100 and $092,634.34.

Anonymous, $25; A. Whittaker (month- ly), $5: A. C. Wilcox (monthly), $25; 8. Edgar 1. P. Perry (monthly) $5; Davidson (monthly), $50; the Analysis. Government Laboratory, $77; 1. Finnle, 150; the Portuguese Sin of longkong and Shanghai Bank (monthly), $50; Bome Members of the European Staff of Messra Butterfield and Swire-April, $57; 11. Herschend monthly). $10: C. Austin

Any Foreign Invader

By Joseph L. Ravotto

(United Press Staff Correspondent)

MARRAKECH, French Morocco, May 4 (UP).—French Moroccans will fight imonthly), $10: W. Hewitt (monthly) $10 any foreign force which "dares set foot upon our territory." El Hadi Thami El Bertin (mondly) 500 Galoui, his eyes flashing fire as he spoke, told me that when I interviewed him.

D. J. Valentine (monthly), $20 O, E. roonthly), $15; Talkoo Club Bowls Match,

120; A. N. S. Exercise Pay, $4.50; Quarry Day Work Party, $5.50; the Prison Staff

or the Union Insurance Society of Canton

Not many people have heard of El Galoul before, but it is a name to conjure with in the

Jews Now Recruited

Further recruiting of Pales- tinians in five categorics of the British Army of the Middle East has just been announced.

Besides Palestinian companies of the Buffs, recruits were sought for the Engineers, the Royal Corps of Signals, the R.A.S.C. and the Pioneer Corps, With the second company of Royal Engineers and the fifth Jewish In- fantry company now being formed, Colours approaches 7,500 of the total of 10,000 Palestinians, according to Mr Shertok head of the political department of the Jewish Agency, Ho pointed out that this exceeds the number who served in the Jewish regiment during the last war.

FAMOUS ARCHITECT JOINS REITH'S EXPERTS

MR. T. 8 TAFT

THE `Scotsman who was

invited to replan Moscow has joined the team of experts that Lord Rolth, Minister for Works ́and' Buildings, is getting together,

He has appointed Mr. T. 8. Talt, the famous architect-- probably one of the most highly paid in the world-to be his Director of Standardisation.

This is an important and Intelligent appointment, for Mr. Tait is at once one of our moal brilliant,modern architecla and one who has shown how standard units.can used to artistic

advantage.

*HQ

Ho planned the Empire Exhibi- tion

at Glasgow on unit lines, with: result that the buildings were assembled in days instead of months.

tho

He was the architect of Scol- land's Government buildings on the Calton Hill, acknowledged one of the finest buildings of this period, and he planned & in n restrained modern style.

Star of 'Merry Widow'

Thought Himself Poor

April, $103.39: W. P. C. $10: the Stan vast western reaches of Morocco, from the hot coast of the Atlantic across the wilderness of the the number of Jews serving with the The Merry Widow" musical comedy, died recently aged seventy-

Atlas Mountains to the sands of the Sahara. El Galoui is the pusha of the Marrakech region, and probably the Moroccan lender best known in Europe.

Ltd.-April. 370.93; Mrs Wang $10: Sale of

Postal Labels, $5.20: Sale of entitlag Bags

per Mrs Dunbar, $13.50; Mr and Mrs D.

C. Tavadia monthly), $10; . C. Worrell (monthly), $50: A. Me.Alpina (monthly). $10: 11. D. Gillespie (monthly), 123; Sub-Lt. W. . L. Hawley (monthly),

He attached no strings to his statement that Moroccans 1

: would fight invasion from any quarter. He said that regardless

d. H. Cautherley (inonthly), $30: Mof the altitude of the Vichy.government, Moroccans would defend

Wylte (monthly): $23; M. Fue their homeland "with or without French aid."

(monthly). $10; G. Lyon-Mackenzie

Imonthly), $100; 1 K. M. Anderson

monally, $50; M. Berala & Co. (month-

ly), $25; Mr and Mrs C. G. Alabaster

The gaunt, tall Moroccan re-sion, his eyes flashed, and he said

monthly), $50: E. Wakeham (monthly), ceived me in his palace in this

$200; E. Joffe (monthly), $10; 8. A. Kent

(monthly), 110: Mr and tra C. M. Hati 800-year-old

walled capital,

monthly), 30; E. W. Pudney (May) which for generations than can John Moodle (May) $20. B. Mcheno Imonthly), $10; Anonymous, $50; Mrs

M. Deacon (monthly), $10: J., V. art, be remembered has been the Davis (monthly). #iè; Some of the Chinese

Staff of Menara Holis Wharf April, 443.97 Kateway to the south and the

Total $700,010.05.

The Royal Alfred Aged Merchant pleasure city of Western Islam. Seamen's Institution recently wrote It is to this city that the fierce and to the Hon. Secretary of the British primitive berber tribesmen of the War Organisation Fund, Hongkong, white-crowned Atlas Mountains conię acknowledging a donation of £750, to trade with the Nomads of the Sahara and the wandering shepherds

Bomber Fund

A total of $1,870,070.50 was reached yes. terday by the War Fund inaugurated by

of the grazing lund nearby.

The jashn expressed 'admiration for

the S. C. M. Post. Lid, with the follow-the United States, and said that des-

ing donation, Pollen Hecreation Club Bottle of

Whisky

monthly dens-

$ 50

Major C. R. Inxer (monthly

tion,

Mr R. S. Harrison (monthly dona

tion)

1. G. K." monthly donation).

Miss C. S. Pierce (monthly dona

tion)

Per Prybro Board, Cralgengower v.

P.O.C. per D Bagley

P. O. C. Stanley Dirt Experts

Miss I. Warbrick

30

8.8 20

10

11.10 IDO

13.00

Kowloon City "Lap Gap"

40

1. A. Sergeants Mic, Mt Davis,

"Odd Centa"

Me Allan Ditta (seconil donation) Bowls Match, R.CC. v Volunteer

Sergeants

10

13

Mr C. Hatt (second donation) Prof. and Mrs H. Robertson (third

donation)

100

400

8. P. C. Ahr

pite his remoteness from America he bad followed the Congressional de- bate on the Lease-Lend Bill with the greatest interest, He said that he the United from expected much Statex,

True Friendship

"It is not at the moment of al-

fluence that one really knows his friends," said the pasha.. "Its at the moment of adversity when one's very existence is threatened dis- that one's true friends are covered."

He made it plain that he is a friend of France. He wants to see Morocco

The Hon, Treasurer of the S.P.C.A. being French, acknowledges with than the under- mentioned donation!"

"Blotto" and "Ilobo". $10.

Inspector S. C. Saunders, Acting Sub-Inspector C. T. Byron and Ser- geants J. G. Whiteroft and McKenzle are now in the Colony having re- turned from leave in Australia.

THINKS:

7 O'CLOCK AND

ANOTHER

BEASTLY

DAY

AHEAD

AT THE DOCTORS

YOUR TROUBLE IS NIGHT STARVATION.YOU SEE,WHILE YOU SLEEP YOUR HEART, LUNGS AND OTHER AUTOMATIC PROCESSES. CONTINUE USING UP ENERGY, IN YOUR CASE ALSO THIS HAS LED! TO AN EXCESS OF ACID WASTE

PRODUCTS IN THE BLOOD,

RECENT TESTS HAVE PROVED

THAT HORLICKS

AT GEDTIME IS A

WHAT YOU NEED.

The United States," he said, “can and must help preserve our civilish- tions, our ways of living. We can help in many ways to restore France to her former position, but ald must come from the United States."

French:

"We would fight anyone who dared set foot on our territory.

I personally will lead my men to baille if African soil is violated. We would resist even If we had to resort to sticks and stones."

Bus Girls Ruin City's Traffic

WOMEN conductresses who. start work late or not at all and go home at blackout time. leaving their buses stranded, are causing traffic chaos in Bristol.

Major E. J. Chapple, managing director of the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co, blamed the women in replying to complaints of irregular services in the city.

We have the buses and we have the drivers," he said, "but what are we to do when probably 70 out of our 500 condustresses up in the morning

do not turn

-No-Scruples-

DIVORCE RECIPE

Mr Shertok recalled that Jewish secruits were then enlisted in several countries, but now they Bro only being recruited in Palestine. More than half the Palestinian volunteers

Africa. The remainder are either on

JUDGE Joseph, Sabath, of are on active service in all parts of Chicago,, hearing his 52,679th gorrison duties in Palestine or train- | divorce trial on his 71st, birth-Ing.

day, said that "in-laws, tin-can meals,

wives working

and crackerbox flats,” were the car- dinal causes of unhappy mar- riage.

"I've sat in divorce courts in Lon- don, Paris, Munich, Reme, Prague aud Vienna, and the causes of divorce are the same the world over."

Wallace Beery Wins Case

Alleged Wrongful Arrest

Sunday Not What

It Used To Be now 28, was

JUDGE Isaacs recently freed 66 residents of Wilmington, De- laware, charged with violation of ancient Sunday observance laws on the grounds that Sunday newspapers, drug stores, neigh bourhood stores, restaurants and automobile drives are modern necessities..

"The Lord's Day must be preserved but the stream of life to-day differs vastly from when these laws were enactest," he said.

Wallace Beery, film actor, has won a suit brought against him by Allan Whitney for £200,000 damages for wrongful arrest.

Fifteen years ago Whitney, a candidate for adoption by Beery.

Whitney was seen loitering near Beery's mansion.'

Noah Beery, Wallace's brother, summoned the police, who arresteti Whitney

Оп а vagrancy charge. They released him later.

Whitney, sald Wallace Beery, had ordered his arrest because grudge, dating from the time Beery had taken him into his home, then

ordered him out.

of n

Adopted Daughters daughters, Coral Ann, now 9, and Wallace Beery, 52, hus adopted two Phyllis Ann, 18 months.

bly

When Beery and his wife amico- The State Attorney-General had Major Chapple complained that the launched wholesale prosecutions be

arranged a divorce in May, 1939. women pick the most attractive cause the Legislature refused to after 14 years' marriage, they de sounding jobs offered them at employ-bring the Sabbatis observance laws cided to share the custody of Coral ment exchanges.

up to date.

"If in a few days they don't like More than 500 persons, including When I asked him what Morocco's it, they have no scruples about pack-newsboys, milkmen and bus drivers reaction would be in case of Invaing up and going to a different job. were indicted.

ASSISTANT LOSES HIS GRIP...

YET ONLY JUST BACK FROM LEAVE!

VINOTICE THE

TURNOVER FROM} JACKSON'S DEPT} IS DROPPING OFF. CAN YOU UNDERSTAND WHY?

AND SO EVERY NIGHT HORLICKS

HE DOESN'T APPEAR TO BE TOO FIT THESE DAYS. ALTHOUGH HE IS

ONLY BACK FROM LEAVE FIVE MONTHS,C) I'LL TACKLE

HIM

TWO MONTHS LATER

WHAT'S THE MATTER) IT'S NOT THAT SIR-THE`

CLIMATE MUST BE WITH YOU JACKSON? IS THE RESPONSI-& GETTING ME DONN, BILITY TOO MUCH I SEEM TO LACK ALL FOR YOU? ENERGY - 1 EVEN

WAKE TIRED - (93JAHAM] THINK I'LL SEE

A DOCTOR

YOUNG JACKSON'S A DIFFERENT MAN THESE DAYS. HES GETTING ON WELL WITH THE DEALERS AND I'VE DECIDED TO SEND HIM

TO IPOH AS

BRANCH MANAGER.

EXCELLENT! I'M GLAD TO HEAR IT.

DO YOU FEEL WORN OUT, DEPRESSED, OR

·NERVY? DO YOU EVEN AWAKE TIRED?

DOOTORS AND SCIENTISTS UBE HORLICKS

IN HOSPITAL TESTS

DECENTLY tests were made in a› great A hospital on men and woman who cor. plained of always feeling tired,

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

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

But when Horlicks was given to thes0 people last thing at night, this excess acid waste was completely neutralised. They woke refreshed, with increased energy and vitality

Take HORLICKS

THEN

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Ann.

Six months after the divorce Beery

adopted Phyllis Ann to be a com- panion to Coral Ann.

Wind Carried Him Across

A Spitfire pilot baled out near- ly four miles above the Straits of Dover recently and people standing on the English coast saw him blown towards Nazi- occupied France by a strong wind while his plant cante down on English soil.

One watcher said: "I looked as though he would be carried right across, into the Germans' hands. To stand there, watching, unable to help, was just maddening.

"We saw him through a gap in the clouds as his plane came flam- ing down. He had been in n fight with a German formallon in a snow- storm,"

Boys Wanted Poached Eggs

"Poached eggs on toast, please," ordered thres 11-year- old boys in a cafo at Alton (Hants).

"Eggs, Indeed," said the proprietor. tere do you think we get eggs

Taking five eggs from their pa kets, the boys said: "That's all right, You loast the bread and we'll give you the eggs."

At Allon Juvenile Court # was dis- closed that the boys had stolen the a form. For this and eggs from other offences they were each or- dered six strokes of the birch and placed on probation for year.

£75 GIFT TO HOSPITAL

The Sheretary, at St Thomas's Hospital had pleasant surprise recently when a girl walked into the office and handed over an envelope containing £75 in notes. The "girl refused to leave her name, but Inside the envelope was a note reading. "Would you please accept this money As A Rift to the hospital from a grate fuizpallentro. some yehr kavo,

JOE COYNE, the Robert Taylor of his day, made famous by

three, in a nursing home at Virginia Water, Surrey, where he had been a patient since 1939.

was.

One of the greatest Edwardian, introduced him to London In 1901 in musical comedy stars, he was "The Girl from Up There"-who dis

covered, in 1930, how ill he still acting in 1931, yet he was She arranged for him to be moved to almost unknown to the present the nursing home.

Past Successes generation.

He spent his last years, in almost It was Edna May who recommend- Spartan simplicity, convinced heed him to George Edwardes for the was a poverty-stricken old actor part of Danilo in "The Merry Widow forgotten by his friends. In fact, in 1907. He had returned to New he has died worth £40,000.

York, where he was born; after his His death was due to pneumonia,

in "The Girl from appearance

Up Bu! Until

"The Merry There."

after he was taken the nursing widow" he made London his home. he lived for many years in a home small bedroom at the Carlton Hotel. But he never dined there. He walked musical comedy triumphs.

a small May, Gertie Millar, Lily Elsie, Phyllis alowly, always alone, to restaurant in Piccadilly. His blil Dare, Gladys Cooper, Ethel Levey, was never more than a few shillings. Constance Collier, Gertrude Law- rence. Binnie Hale, and June were all his leading ladles.

Always Looked Poor

He drank nothing but water-the man who, in his heyday, used to joke that he was American by birth, Eng- tish by adoption, and Scotch by absorption.

He even began to economise on hiy shaves.

*ile was not 'down and out,' bút he always looked poor," a friend said, “I often used to wonder ir

the people who passed him in the

street realised what a famous msn it was going along looking so sad. "Sometimes when he passed my office I would go out and ask him how he was

His face would light up with gratification that some one had recognised him. He was just living in the past."

But even if he did not think so he hud friends. It was Edna May-who

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His career became a succession of Edna

Boy Killed In Shelter

A 13-year-old boy was recent- ly killed by the explosion of a light-calibre bomb concealed in an Anderson shelter at the back

of his house.

He was Raymond Patridge, of Harriet Street, Cardiff.

The bomb had been picked up by boys in the street and carried home raid. Unknown to their after parents they hid it in the shelter.

Raymond Patridge was la the shelter when the bomb exploded.

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