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Fellowship

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Monday, 1 HONGKONG TELEGRAPH Vlis May.

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SQUARE DEAL FOR

DOCKERS

MR Ernest Bevin's bold scheme for securing a quicker

Peroxide Blondes

It looks as if the war is go- ing to cause #1 blondes.

shortage of Peroxide is getting scarce, anys

United Press dispatch from Hollywood,

A

Red fingernails also are likely to disappear. The goo that makes them red is being used to make high explosives. Per-

Max Factor,, Jr., who glide the Hollywood lilies, said that on a woman's face to make it almost every chemical that goes

beautiful is indispensable to men bent on killing each other.

Chemical Shortage

manent-wave solutions that turn round of ships in port is make curly hair contain sodium something more than a neces-and potassium, which the U.S. Government is commandeering sary step to counter Hitler's for gun powder. threat of an intensified · sub- marine campaign against British shipping; it is also a great measure of reform which will give the dockers a square deal. For over twenty years the evil, of casual labour at the docks has stood condemned, and the abolition of the system has been demanded by the organised workers. The registration of -dock-workers-was-a-step-in-the- right direction, but the obvious next step of a guaranteed week seemed hard to take.

Now Mr Bevin has gone even farther. Faced with the vital fact that the maintenance of an adequate food supply depends to a very large extent on securing a much accelerated turn-round of ships, he has produced a scheme which will achieve this purpose

"All the big cosmetic houses have attempted to lay in sup- plies of as many things as they can," he said. "It won't be long before we, and our cus- tomers, will feel the chemical shortage."

Bromine and chlorine, used in lipstick, make poison gas. The colours themselves are being commandeered by the defence forces to paint tanks,

A huge area in the suburbs of Manila, near the Pasay River, was devastated on the afternoon of May 3 by a fire which swept out of control in a steady wind, engulfing the wooden houses of the Filipinos at the rate of one a minute for several hours and, rendering. more than 6,000 persons homeless. About 40 blocks, wherein were over 1,000 homes, were destroyed. Fortunately, the death toll was low, only three or four persons being killed, but several people were injured. These pictures just received, show the conflagration at its height, and the shambles that was seen the morning after the catastrophe. (Photos by Airport Studio,.. Manila, through Sun Ying Ming).

DISILLUSIONED NAZI

The flight of Rudolf Hess.to

Finger and toe nail polishes Scotland was the outstanding consist primarily of nitro-cel- event of last week, but that does lulose, a gooey mixture needed not do justice to its importance. in high explosives.

"SCRUTINEER" writes on the

Flight of RUDOLF HESS

Many Ger- man exiles of course, have said same thing,

Mr Factor said blondes who It is so startling that one finds y depend on peroxide will become it difficult to understand it, for brunettes, unless the war ends nothing similar could possibly the soon, while those women who

carry the same

of Hess, who hold

testi- If we but their smooth skins will be using syn- sought a parallel, in imagination, honest credit vanishing cream for their happen in England.

though mony, thetic glycerine without ever it would be for Ernest Bevin to liable, could

and re- not knowing it.

fly to Berlin and announce his conviction as that urrival by saying he was re- the highest office volted by what he had been do- and knew the Nazi ing and that his conscience system from A to

Steam For Waves

and France," Mr Factor snið,

Nazi Spy Ring Discovered

Hitler for his courage, common sense, physical vigour and deep loyally to the National Socialist cause, should. abandon his country. If it provokes the German Into thinking. as it must, then Nazism is doomed, for. It

is now discredited.

'The importance of Hess is clearly Brought out in the following extract from the "Niedersnechsische Tages- zeitung" of Jan, 18, 1941:

"There is now law or executive He was on intimate terms with order-It is quite immaterial from everyone of the lenders, knew their which Ministry it might come characters and was aware of every and which subject it might act. That experience, starting In concern-which has not Arst National Socialism, has high hopes and A firm faith in pussed through the office of the De-

ard puty of the Fuehrer. disillusionment and disappointment. world knows of such on office of ended in examined there. No country in the He revolts against it but he does not control which has the special duty le see in it that the basic principles of the National Socialist Party are reflected in each law and

order passed by the State, and that they are couched in a language so as not to disturb the natural feeling of the people.

been

and put dock workers on higher level than they have ever

"Face powder's base is tale, been in peace-time, The Minis- ter of Transport is to become the which come from mines in Italy employer of all the registered "The supply in this country is dock workers in Liverpool (in-nearing exhaustion.

would not permit him to do it cluding Birkenhead), Manches- "Eastern capital is develop any longer. We would feel, in ter, Preston, Garston, Brom- ing tale deposits right here in borough, Ellesmere Port, Par-California and in another year that case, that the bottom had tington, Widnes, Runcorn and or so all face powders will be fallen out of our system, and that what we were fighting for made of American talc." Weston Point. The dock Mr Factor said that alkalies, was obviously immoral and de- workers of the Clyde area are to used to soften the hair for per-grading. be included in the scheme later.manent waves, is now nearly All the workers thus put in exhausted. An attempt is be- If Bevin, who is in the centre or plot or intrigue against his im- State employment will. be

ing made to replace this processings, felt that way about it, then mediate leader. He quietly with with live steam.

the humble layman, with his faith draws. engaged on a guaranteed weekly

hattered, would go about his job of basis. The guaranteed minimum

Gre-fighting, and such things in a payment will be for eleven turns

inzed condition. His heart would no onger be in a week at the agreed port rates.

it, and the fighting Each turn will consist of four

forces, too, would be infected with doubt about the worthiness of British hours, day or night. There will A vast Nazi spy, ring has been s be extra pay for Saturday discovered in Cubu, and many or-

That is the poultion of Hess. The been made, rests have

says the arst reaction, then, is one of astonish- afternoon and Sunday work. B.B.C. Wages are to be paid on Thura-s and strelegle rude, and because of Hitler's discomfiture, and Arms, plans of Cuban military and ment at the incident, then amusement days. Canteens are to be estab- detailed descriptions of U.S. naval even a certain amount of sympathy

for Ished at all docks' and reserves stations have beer, seized.

Hess. Clearly he is not in the Those arrested include a German sells his country in order to buy a tame category as a Quisling who of food will be available for the army officer, who, the police state, position of importance. Hess steps Ribbentrop in their

has been active in the Caribbean zone lown from being deputy Fuehrer seeing that Hess must have been in for several months. As Mr Bevin said in outlining

He will be tried under the recent into obscurity. It may be said that recent months a half-hearted sup- 10 is seeking safety, knowing that porter of the Nazi regime; but it the scheme, the new conditions enacted Cuban Defence Act.

his life was in danger, but that cannot be doubled that in the long with executory powers within the of employment will give dock

tanger was due to his conviction that run this descritor will have to be National Socialist Party and all I workers security, adequate pay under the stress of war may be em, and apparently

Nazism was a horrible and ovil sys- explained to the German people, who sub-organ the name, of the

Rudolf Hoss he could not even now must be trying to find an the final

gives ment for the job, and the subject to revision when war remain indifferent any longer. answer.

The place to which Adoli ends; but when victory laThe choice of his place, of escape astrologers and physical sickness

phrases about will assurance that their labour is accured, those, measures which is a deep insult to Germany as it is not satisfy the thinking part of the leadership had been taken over by

Calch

Hitler has appointed his former private secretary after the State being used efficiently. The mon have made for efficiency and an compliment to Britain, for it population. Goebbels, In spite of his the National Socialist Movement; will be working for the commprovement in the condition of proves quito clearly that only in crude propaganda methods will must therefore be looked upon as the munity and to win the war, the people must remain part of ind wholesome life which is so con suspicious. They will want to know necess can be gained to the life of Britain would he find that decent merely make such pepple more narrow gateway through which alone Much of what is being done Britain's national life.

spicuously lacking in his own roun why the deputy Fuehrer, chosen by the Gorman people?

workers.

Had he plotted he would have been accused of personal ambition, and whatever his aims the Germans would have felt they were dishonour State laws himsel, and yet all the "Rudolf Hess' does not issue any able. By abdicating in this dramatic orders. Issued by the various Minis- way, he most convincingly shows his ules bear the stamp of his collabora- abhorrence of the policy which is counter-signature. Because of the tion, frequently even his own bound to lead to disaster. His action fact that the Inner political work. -of carries conviction" because of the all the State authorities goes through extent of the sacrifice he has made. His hands, and that, bealdea, the examines the credentials of all the It will have no immediate outward officials whom the Fuehrer wishes to effect. Or the contrary, it might appoint, the National Socialist Party Atimulate Hitler, Goebbels and

i already included in the leadership evil

ot the State, --

courses,

"What the Fuehrer cannot do him- self, Rudolf Hess examines his

tend. As deputy

of the Fucbror

its