1941-05-26 — Page 23

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 26, 1941.

By Ernie Bushmiller

NANCY

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SCENE GRABBER!

YEAH HE WANTS TO PLAY EVERY

SCENE HIMSELF!

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WELL--- HE CAN'T DO THIS NEXT SCENE ALONE. THE SCRIPT CALLS FOR HIM TO BE PLAYING CARDS WITH ANOTHER MAN?

HEY, SLUGGO!..... GET YOURSELF A PARTNER FOR THAT

POKER SCENE!

MOVIE SET

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SCHUSCHNIGG IS

IN BAVARIA

Still In German Custody

Kurt Schuschnigg, last Chancellor of independent Austria, who has been a prisoner of the Nazis since just, before the Anschluss was proclaimed on March 13, 1938, has been moved to Bavaria, according to Vienna information.

There, in an undisclosed vil-

lage, the former Chancellor, lives with his wife, still in the

tody of the Germans, it ins heen disclosed by Baldur von

Refugees

Schirach. Nazi Statthalter Swarm Into

(Governor) of ammesed Austria.

For more than a year after his imprisonment, Herr Schuschnigk was under guard in the Metropole Hotel in Vienna, headquarters of the

Gestopo. German secret police.

Portugal

There had been subsequent reports, Three thousand, five hundred however, that he had been moved persons. representing virtually elsewhere in Germany.

Married By Proxy

He married the former Countess Vera Fugger yon Babenhausen in ceremony he could not even attend,

June 3, 1938. Herr Schuschnigg, then the first ex-Chancellor of a Nazi-absorbed

overy European nationality, are now in Portugal seeking pas- sage to the United States and South

their chances of getting there, any America but

time soon are slim.

country, already had disappeared Since the war in Yugoslavia tror his Belvedere Palace and his an even greater flood was ex- brother. Dr Arthur Schuschnige, acted as his proxy. Not even the peeted by the bride, it was believed, knew then tion and Consulate. where her husband was being held.

This Cinema Is Showing "Smellies'

99

"Smellies"-films put over

American Loga-

The American Export Line has at- tempted to get additional ships to boost its present maximum capacity of 900 passenger a month but that fell through.

The Red Cross, collaborating with1 the State Department at Washington I repatriating hundreds of destitute Americans in France, still has 200 fof them concentrated at. Sintra, near

Lisbon.

American Exodus

with odour accompaniment in If United States relations with the the auditorium-have long been Axis become much more strained it In expected that an exodus of Amert-

jokingly expected as the next fems will begin from Germany and development in the cinema. Now Italy, adding to the number there. they are a fact.

There were some 18,000 Americans in Italy lust year, of whom

For several weeks they have been regularly in operation at the Vogue Theatre, Detroit, U.S.A.

A coffee pot is seen boiling over, and the fragrance of burnt coffee' assails the nostrils of the audience.. The "Sea Hawk" is about to sail, to the aroma of ozone and tarred rope, ¦

And so on.

Personal Touch

For "Boom Town," odours went |

principal character.

2,000 have gone home.

only

Lofoten

Volunteers On Parade

and Claudette

distinctive; were Clark Gable reeked of tabacco, ami

warships, J1

ON COAST-British troops proparing for possible. Nazi Invasion attempt are in training some. where on British coast, in above picture. Exercises, in which they move to take battle positions, are for seashora fighting.

Indian

Troops England Are

Now In Popular

Of all the forces from oversea now stationed in Britain one of the most interesting, certainly one of the happiest, is the Indian contingent which served with the B.E.F. in France and is patiently waiting to strike another blow for the King-Emperor, writes a correspondent of "The Times."

Meanwhile, its members are making the most of their stay in England. They

like the country and, because of their fine bearing and gay smile, they themselves are welcomed wherever they go, as 1 found during a visit to their present headquarters in the West Coun- try.

She Grows Her Own Her Marmalade

The contingent, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel R. W. W. Hills, is self-contained and consists almost entirely of pack transport companies which had to abandon their animals in France but have now been re-equipped with mules and ponies, and, in the ease of one company, with motor transport. Units are either hard at their training-and that, means a 12-hour day--or are working directly with formations on the beaches.

Their turbans and lithe: figures have become a familiar Because, 21 years ago, Peggy sight in the countryside of

Devon and Cornwall, as Bridlington had previously been in Derby- shire and Scotland. Nearly all the men are Moslems from the Punjab with years of service on the North-West Frontier hind them.

then ปี

further; special ones going with each With brilliant sunshine brigh-] Loader. The perfumes of Hedy Lamarr wegian flags waving in the wind term

tening land and sen, and Nor-schoolgirl, was puzzled by the "seedless orange, her family are now making maṛmun- from steel-grey Spencer Tracy had a whift of pine large contingent of the Lofoten lade from oranges they have

yolunteers, who recently arrived grown themselves.

This is how it happened. Peggy, now a nurse in a Lon-

needles.

with volatile compounds, crushed and

The invention of a Swiss chemist in Britain to join the Norwegian "smellies" concist of cartridges filled Navy, paraded for the first time sent round in the cinema's ventilating recently before their command-don hospital, asked her father system..-

ing officer. It was a solemn to explain the difference be- and unforgettable moment. tween a "seedless" orange and

A captain took the salute, and any other kind of orange.

Skilful operation has produced five different smells in 90 seconds.

With Emotion

Emotional scenes, rather than swift

action, are most suitable,

Mr Loader told her that the termn

other fruit, must orange, like any

in a short but stirring addresseedless" was a misnomer; that an welcomed the men.

Evening Classes

they'

be-

The splendid opportunity of Im- planting a sense of citizenship that should bear fruit when the contin gent returns home is not being lost. The men are very keen on evening educational classes; many of thei are beginning to speak English, duct they eagerly accept opportunities to study various

various aspects of muni- elpal government.

An audience poll disclosed that 60 They had, he said, by their pre-contain seeds or it would never de- per cent, of the customers approved, sence here proved that the will to velop, but 20 per cent. thought the effect) resist and the faith in the Allied vlc-

To prove his point he gave Peggy Their loyally has a child-like sim- not strong enough.

tory was as strong in Norway as it some pips from a "seedless" orange (pilcity about it. They are fighting, General nim trade opinion, how-Is in Britain.

and she planted them in their green-they will tell you, for the King- ever, is that good films are not tu The captain also conveyed a mess be sulfed at.

sage of congratulations and good! wishes to the Lofoten men telegraph- ed from Crown Prince Olaf..

house.

Emperor, and that is a great honour. 22 Trees

Their joy and pride were unbounded when the King visited their camp in Soon there were 22 tiny orange the North. STUDENT'S CHOICE

A staff officer then read out the trees growing in the greenhouse and

The whole contingent a deeply grateful for the welcome they have Students in American public schools formalliles of service, and, with about 15 years later some of them are swinging away from French, bured heads, the sailors repeated the began to bear fruit. choosing Spanish for their foreign | promise of loyalty to

Mr Loader told a reporter recent-received in this country and, in their their King, 1 "It would take most fruit trees own words, do not wish to return language course. German is drop country, and flag, ending with the about 15 years to bear fruit if they in return.

home until they have done something ping off fast. Three more registered words: "God save the King and the were grown from seed. Normally, for Greek than took it last year.

Gives To Charity our trees, 11. bigh and ft. across. produce 50 or 60 oranges a year. On being told that they owed their The oranges we grow are quite safe passage to France to the Royal as big as the normal Jaffa orange,Navy, they immediately subscribed but are not as sweet, because they £50 to naval charities; since their lack suelent sunshine."

arrival in

in England they have given nearly £100 towards raid distress in Long the relief of air unfo

Fatherland,”

Canadian National Registration Facts

Seeks Ban On

N. Y. Times

The adjutant general of the United

Colonel Hills is not only

a law

hie meu but very much their philosopher and friend, and ho Five-sevenths of the 7,862,920 Canadians over 10 who

proud of them. They bore them were counted in national, registration last August were born in

selves splendidly under fire and the Incalculable influence of divo-bomb- Canada, it was revealed in registration statistics tabled in the states Army was asked by the Rev. They may be strengthened by Dominion House of Commons by War Services Minister Gor-Edward Lodge Curran, president of further detachments of the Indien diner.

only 1,190 Chinese women, reflect- | the International Catholte Truth Army before long; the days of pack Ing the effect of Immigration Society, to place the "New York transport are not nearly over, barriers against admission of Times" Chinese women.

Native sons numbered. 2,800,- 500 and native daughters 2,977,-) 610, making tue total 5,874,110.

Italian Officers Executed

and the magazine, "Soviet Russin To-day," on the list of publ!- Japanese-horts numbered 6,600 men endnumps under the jurisdiction entions banned from U.S. Army poste Of the 975,000 others born in the and 3,000 women, British Empiro, 501,710 were men and Canadian-born parents were re of the War Department. $18,980 women. Men who came to ported by 4,100,000 of those born in Father Curran charged the. "Now Cacade from the United States num- the Dominion; 100,240 reported a York Times" with bered 145,510 and women 104,320, Canadian father and British mother of Communistic propaganda" because being "an agency

Italian officers, court-martialled Polarid gave Cantada 133130 men and and 149,530 a Canadian father and accepted a full-page advertisement for inefficiency in the Albanian came women and Russia 130,240, From foreign mother.

Russla. To-day" in a Sun-

paign, Germany and Austria came 103,410

have been executed by firing and from Hungary 30,280

of

A British. fathor and a Canadian doy magazine, section, and with try-squads.This was learned in Athens mother were reported by 923,030 ing "to give an air of respectability Before the withdrawal from, diatas. personis, and 1607140 both to the totalitarian tyranny of over Sente of tire cincers word

of Soviet ments of Italian prisonerkyat se parents wore British Those who Russia. Chiucho-born men in Canada had both parents foreign born were The New

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Conscription For North Ireland To Be Postponed

LONDON, May 25 (Reuter).-The Government's decision concerning the introduction of conscription in Northern Ireland may be postponed for a short time, says "Reuter's" Lobby Cor- respondent.

the Government may decide to re

It was carlier expected, that examine the whole question, Mr Winston Churchill and Mr J.to-day, following his conference with Mr Andrews returned to Belfast

M. Andrews, Prime Minister of Mr Churchill, Northern Ireland, would make simultaneous' announcements

that conscription would be en- forced though it was

known

Marines Leaving

SHANGHAI, May 25 (UP)-The U.S. Navy transport Henderson is

that a final decision had not scheduled to sail for San Francisco

been taken..

via Manila to-day carrying 270 United States Marines, who have Since the matter was raised

finished their China tour. recently in Parliament, considerable opposition has arisen both in North-transferred from North China, and The ship also carries 123 Marines lern Ireland and In Eire,

Cardinal Matory, Archbishop of the Marine Band from Peiping, The Armagh, and the Labour Party's "China Press" stated that the Hen- leader in Northern Ireland have both derson brought 100 Marine replace- made statements opposing the sug-ments to Chim. gestion.

Morcover, Mr Eamon de Valera has Sir Shouson Chow, Chairman of [summoned the Dail meet to- the Chinese Wartime Bonds Com- morrow to hear a statement on the mitice in Hongkong, has sent a reply subject.

to-Generalissimo-Chiang Kai-shek It is known that Northern Ireland who wrote him recently commend Ministers favoured the introductioning his patriotic efforts and urging of conscription, but the decision rests him to do his best to push the sale with the Britsli Government, and in of the N.C.$1,200,000,000 Military political circles there is a feeling that Supply Bonds in the Colony,

June

17,

1940,

the

Bomber Fund was commenced

the first week produced over

$1,000,000

to

will you help

double that

that figure before

June 17, 1941?. $29,000 is

all that is required.

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