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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

THERE HE IS AGAIN!

WHAT

A SCENE GRABBER!

"Queen's Messengers" Are Food Convoys For Blitz Sufferers

The Queen recently inspected in the courtyard of Buckingham Palace the first two convoys of a fleet of vehicles which will take provisions to bombed areas. Eight vehicles of these "flying squads" which she inspected were her personal gift, and the other ten were given by the British War Relief Society of America.

The Queen acceded to the sug- gestion of Lord Woolton, Minis- ter of Food, that the convoys should be called "The Queen's Messengers."

"It is a great pleasure to me to inaugurate the mission. of good will which this service of) food convoys represents," her: Majesty said. "They will serve,

I trust, as a symbol of that fellowship which unites all of us who share a common danger Lo-day.

Britain's Children Learn Country Life

By WILLIAM R. DOWNS.

· United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, May 26 (UP).—"Dead End" kids from the city to-day are learning to milk cows, and beribboned, little girls from

to think that they Bristol, London and Manchester are finding out from whence "um glad should be called The Queen's Mes-eggs come. sengers' and that they should forth on their various ways bearing

my name..

Instant Relief

10

Mr Harold Ramsbotham, President of the Board of Eduen- tion, said that the 600,000 school children removed from city danger areas to "barnyard" evacuee schools in the country "It is my hope that they will have now have greater practical education facilities than they ever ar double value-they will not only i had before. provide what is sorely needed, but.

of i

and

chiklren

They Plump For Nephew Of Churchill

May 27, 1941.

By Ernie Bushmiller

AH-- HE CAN'T STEAL THIS SCENE FROM ME!!

HEY! SIT DOWN

SLUGGO!

War Brings Economic Changes To Europe

By MERRIMAN SMITH

In addition to new develop- ments abroad for sidestepping | shortages of essential materials, there have been reports of several inventions of military importance.

Mr Roosevelt Revising His Momentous Speech

European Inspector

To Pay

WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuter).-In the light of rapidly- changing conditions abroad, President Roosevelt is revising the speech which he will deliver to-morrow, said the President's Private Secretary, Mr Stephen Early, at White House to-day.

When President Roosovelt's address was originally schedul- ed a fortnight ago, Mr Early warned reporters not to build it up as extremely important. To- day, however, he said: "I can tell you that the President will be engaged through the day Into the night and most of to-morrow in revising his speech in the light of the rapidly-changing conditions abrond. Don't ask me to go into detalls be- 'cause I cannot. You will get them when you get the speech."

When

reporter informed Mr Early that the German Foreign Office was not commenting on Admiral Council has been ordered to

A European inspector of the Urban Itarder's convoy Interview,

pay Mr compensation to two Early declared: "I have got an iden fruits which ho wrongfully seized.

hawkers for that Berlin to-day is trying to do anything it can to becloud the Presi-Slicidon, K.C., at Central Magistracy The order was made by Mr II. G. dent's speech and anticipate that there will be something for you tion to this effect by Yip Piu and this morning following an applien- gentlemen between noon and Tues-Chi Yin, who claimed that 125 cnt- day night."

Mr Early added that he would not valued at $21 and

ties of be surprisest if reporters were query-

than

of

pay

Compensation To Hawkers

pears and 100 mangoes,

$12.50 respec-

United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 26.-Italian housewives return emptying him about other Berlin dis-tively, had been seized from them tin cans much like other nationals leave empty bottles for the

patches before Mr Roosevelt talks, by Sanitary Inspector E A. Chater. milkman; Japanese shipbuilders have abandoned steel in favour

Consulted On Speech

Inspector Chater admitted the of wood; new auto tyres are disappearing in Europe. These and President Roosevelt is devoting more volved. In ordering the Inspector to

NEW YORK, May 26 (Reuter).-

seizure but said that only 20 catties olher commercial and industrial quirks were reported recently

pears and 75 mangoes were in time to the preparation of to-morrow by the Commerce Department as evidence of economic changes speech he could recall, Mr Early told which in his opinion was the value

night's "reside talk"

compensation of $10.50, resulting from the war.

reporters.

of the goods

seized, to each of the Among those whom Mr Roosevelt applicnats. Mr Sheldon said: In this consulted on drafting the speech was case the two men, Yip, Piu and Mr Robert Sherwood, the playwright, Chi Yim, were in possession of cer- who assisted with

Iain pears other important

and mangoes. These | pronouncements.

fruits were in a buskei or in a stali.. The address which will be broad-| No Charge Brought cast Internationally will be tranz- The peara and Inted into probably at least six seized by Inspector Chater, but no languages.

charge was brought against elther Mr Early did not intimate the of these two

and a day after specific nature of the identify what particular phases

address nor the matter ercurred they applied to

of Mr Lowry for international

the developments had fruits which were seized. Mr Lowry prompted Mr Early to warn reporters on enquiry made under Section of against building up the speech. the Public Health Food Ordinance 1935 found that an application was necessary. Inspector Chuler quite frankly says that he does not. dis- pute that these frults were in good condition and were not tainted with disease or whe unwholesome food Inspector Chater also says that when the fruits

Were

seized he thought

Secret Drug Will Reduce Operations

German scientists were reported to be experimenting with a silent aero- pione engine which would enable bombers to approach enemy objec- tives at night without detection. Ber- lin claims were cited, reporting "a certain anfount of success has already A new British drug to arrest been achieved" with the silent mo- bleeding, which is now being tors and that such motors were used tried out, is expected to save in the Polish campaign,

also claimed that several thousands of lives and eliminate ships in operation in the North Sea the necessity for many types of have been successfully equipped with operations. them and that the experiments are being made on

{s

they will do what is not less vital. "I dare say some folk have! they will bring it on the instant and conjured up pictures of school- will bridge the gap between destrue-ing abandoned

both gasoline and The new drug is manufac Diesel engines," the department said.tured tion and swift reorganisation.

and demonstrated in New Locomotive The convoys which I have seen largely left uncared for and run.

tablet form. It is the result of moraing for part only

ning wild," Ramsbotham said.

German engineers also were re- much larger feet, and many of these "i am glad to say, however, that

ported to have developed a new elce long research by a firm of manu- have been provided by the stenerosity such a picture has no relation

tric express locomotive capable of

facturing chemists. of the British War Relief Society of to the actual position."

hauling eight cars at speeds well America.

over 100 miles per hour,

For some monilis now it has been "By coming forward to supple. been a difficult one, but said his de-

He admitted that the task bad)

Britain has urged housewives to Samaritan Hospital for Women in

tested out secretly at the Royal, ment the scale of the venture as It

use sodium blcarbonate in cooking Glasgow, and the result of these tesis was first planned our friends fit the partment had handled satisfactorily

frult to conserve sugar supplies. United States of America have fin- two #reut

migrations of school- | For years sedate persons

German production of metallic con- shortly to be announced to the mensely enlarged its usefulness, and

chlidren within

vents The first whispered solemnly about thetainers has been sharply curtailed medical profession. to those kind people

WACH who

in September 1939, and have

"goings on" of young Esmond commodities now come In glass con- because of military needs. Many second in September 1940. mule our cause their own I would

Successes Besides the 600,000 children at Romilly, nephew of Winston hers. express a very real gratitude.

message which I would en-another 1,000,000 still in potentially) The

rendy in evaruce schools, there are Churchill,

Dr John lewitt, senior surgeon at metal shortage in Japan has the hospital, is to embody the result trust to these

convoys will not be dangerous areas who may have to be one of

in a paper he is preparing. courage is

He first came into the lime, the use of wood instead of to the people of this!

removed to the country, he said. light when he made a hasty exit wonden Japanese ship was reported ed, the hospital Insists on strict service. Cost of a Until this paper has been publish- country, It will rather be one of:

Loss of Facilities

from * fashionable English as being half the cost of a steel ves-secrecy about details of sympathy- and of loving kind-

that school after editing a paper call-set of the same dimensions. ness. It is with that message that education facilities had suffered by ed "Out of Bounds," wish them Godspend as they set out the move through loss of facilities "exposel"

which

Italy, according to the Com- on their pilgrimage to-day.”

the public school merce Department, housewives give for special work in selence, handi-

system.

their

grocer empty tin cans for ench craft and related subjects.

new one when purchasing canned

nevencouragement, for

W.V.S. Crews

talked

to

The Queen afterwards members of the Women's Voluntary! Service who formed the crews.

Within-a-month-18-eonvoyz-were-

ut in service.

A convey includes a water carrier.

Iwo

wn kitchen lorries capable of pro- viding 2,000 meals an hour, two food

Mr Ramsbotham, admitted

the

and steel in building small ships for "near-sea"

"On the other hand they have gained all the stimulus of a new by publishing another environment and new experiences, which he personally hawked around The Introduction of own children the streets of London. to country life has in itself hern:

Be said. courage of the

Then he shocked the "nice people" goods,

magazine

an education for them," He praised the youngsters. "They

are

giving the lie to the tainly hat

store lorries carrying sufficient to the younger generation is 'soft."

[year-old

nine-

shucked

The nice people were again in 1936, when Esmond went

Motor Tyres

E. G. Holt, leather and rubber ex- pert for the Bureau of Föreign and Domestic Commerce, suld it was vir-

Lually impossible now for a private to Spain to fight Franco, who had'| citizen of European countries to get many appeaser friends

in high new automobile tyres. He said re- London circles then.

ports from abroad told of wholesale stoppage of civilian use of automo- of military require- ments on

Some new tyres are available in

old tyres retrended.

Famous Chase

After that young Esmond dared to and legs fall in love with Jessica Freeman

bread, sugar. margarine and soup to provide meals for 4,500 people, and

Mr Iamsbotham told of three moblie

boy who snuffed out a fire canteens holding with an old pair of trousers and of enough to feed 500 people.

boy scout. his arms The

will convoys ,£80,000,

cost

bites bbber and gasoline slocks. Į

about crushed, lying in the wreckage of his! Mitford, daughter of Lord Redesdale, but motorists are urged to f

TO-MORROW

AT THE

KING'S

IT'S SCREAMLINED!

Treat yourself to the laugh of the year!

BABY SANDY BUTCH and BUDDY

SANDY IS DA LADY

Tom

Han

BROWN GREY Mischu Eugene AUER-PALLETTE

Edger GILBERT KENNEDY

· Original streamstay by Chados Grötven

Deset by CHARLES LAMON? Anechra Praderen BURT KELET 'NEW UNIVERRAL PICTUJÍ

home, directing rescuers

victims in the debris.

method,

the

new

It is known, however, that it has proved valuable in many paises.

Necklace Would Not Come Off

Last autumn when Lily Pons arrived in San Francisco for Lo other and sister of Hitler's friend Unity.

The italian Government has or her opera season, she found There war that famous chuse dered all owners of auto tyres and herself without sufficient jewel- Grin and Bear It

through France and Spain by reln-tubes to report holdings, and has no- The children seem to have made tives in an endeavour to stop the led the publie of the government's lery to dress one of her roles. their motto 'grin and bear it, he re- | marriage.

right to requisition, them for military

Finding Paul Flato, the New use at any time. Transfer of pri-

York jewellers, in town to open to another is forbidden.

la California branch, she ap

pealed to him; and he delivered

her evening performance.

marked.

In 1030 Mr and Mrs Romilly lived

"I believe we shall reap the bene-in London in a furnished bed-sitting-vately owned tyres from one person

at of a better understanding between room, Then they emigrated to the town and country as a result of this United States third class. [great movement of child population. A year ago young Esmond Was Thus we can secure the foundations working in a Miami bar. He and of a greater social unity.

Jessica had ' motored there

"Moreover, many children from dilapidated car.

our

In a

cities

are showing a great liking The other day, in a huge Malton for country

youn lite and may wish to Air Force, training school near continue It.

I constantly get reports Toronto every man was asked to

of improved health and alertness due vote un which pupils would make

to sound sleep, fresh air, good food, the best officers. They selected three and exercise. It is a good life and men. I believe we have not failed," Mr

Hamsbotham said.

The first was an aircraftman named Esmond Romilly.

On Edge

Baby Born

Of Bomb Crater

Ghost Story Stopped During Raid

When George Jenkins, aged seventy-six, gets fastened on to a good ghost story it takes a lot

to shake him off.

George, who is very deaf, lived alone in room behind a Plymouth shop. Every night after black-out curtains had been drawn he would put on his reading spectacles, draw his

A WOMAN was about to have a baby in the maternity wardarmchair up to the oil stove, and

of a Plymouth hospital during a recent raid when heavy bombs crashed on the building. She was flung from her hed. When the dust and smoke had cleared they saw her lying in the debris on the edge of a bomb crater.

Nurses and doctors, some of himself # casually. "Several of them injured, ran

to her. them were injured, but, they just Though bombs were still rain-wouldn't give up,"

ing down and buildings ablaze, had been bombed. It is now being they calmly went on attending evacuated. to the mother.

read thrillers.

Just as he reached a blood- curdling description of a midnight apparition one night recently, a shadow fell across the page. fie started, looked up. Before him were three steel-helmeted men in overalls. "Come out of it, quick," "shouted

It was the third time the hospital

one of the men.

As policemen

carried out

the

George

Wyng puzzled. "Qulek," shouted the men in chorus as they

him outside seconds before the cell-

Ten minutes later the baby was bodies of small chlidren killed out grabbed him by the arms and hustled born--and he

and his mother are right, men and women who lind been now doing well.

Mothers, bables and nurses were back their tears.

on rald duty all night could not keeping of his room caved in, killed in the

A direct hit on the children's

word killed a number of little patients.

Ileavy bomba fell outside women's wards and blew In walis. No one was injured.

Heroic Nurses

two

Lasted Long Many thousands of incendiaries, the followed almost at once by showers

of high explosives, were dropped. The raid lasted several hours. Three, churches were destroyed by

All through the raid nurses' and

doctors worked heroically dressing fire and a second hospital damaged

and operating on injured pallenia,

Bewildered

George looked around, bewildered. į A building was burning. Every-[ where shops and houses

in

were

ruins.

His own shop front had been shqitered.

A heavy bomb had crashed about forty yards away.

"I thought I felt something abake

A cinema crowded with people my chuir," said George "just when

"The nurses were magnificent," was sot alight, but the fire one the fellow in the haunted castle Bald="the medical superintendent, roof was quickly, extinguished. S thoned the dungeon door bang.".

King Thanks N. Zealand Premier

for

man.

thut

mangoes were

return of the

the two applicants were 461 fact the owners of the gonds. If they said they were the owners he was not disputing. The position which arises is that the fruits

CAIRO, May 26 (Reuter).—have been wrongfully seized with no An expression of thanks and legal rights whatsoever; and Inspector deep appreciation for the vices rendered by members of tion.

ser- Chater is cidered to pay compensa- the New Zealand forces and the arrangements made by General

Freyberg, the New Zealand LETTERS

Volunteer Naval Reserve

Hongkong Telegraph.

C-in-C in Greece for the safe con- duct of the King's party from Greece, is conveyed in a personal The Editor,

New Zealand Prime Minister, letter from the King of the Hel leues to Mr Peter Fraser, the

Sir, In these days of stress, when money is so badly needed to buy Mr Fraser returned to Cairo fast planes, ships, tanks and munitions to night after a two-day visit to the turn the tide of war in our favour, New Zealand war wounded in Egypt, why is it that we should support an Mr Fraser spent Saturday night expensive, and some say unreces- aboard a New Zealand hospital ship sary luxury in Hongkong. and also inspected a New Zealand) convalescent depot, speaking to the men on their experiences..

Planes Over Britain

LONDON, May 26 (Reuter) There was some slight

activity by enemy aircraft to-day In the coastal areas, states the Alr Ministry. east coast this afternoon caused some Bombs dropped on a town on the damage and

ค sinull number

casualties.

RARE CHINESE

ART TREASURE

of

I refer to the Hongkong Volunteer Naval Reserve-popularly referred to

as the "Wavy Navy、nteer Defenco

The Hongkong

is

Corps, with the exception of a amall annual camp pay, does not pay the Volunteers anything for their volun- teer duties, which are undertaken in addition to ordinary civilian work, but for some reason not explicable, a considerable financial burden placed on the Colony's finances to cost of the aforesaid defray "Wavy Navy, and it is a moot point. whether the duties of this Naval or dangerous than those of the Volunteer force are any more arduous Volunteer Corps.

the

Certainly it would seem that the rates of pay enjoyed by the "Wavy Navy" lads are infinitely higher, and more easily earned than that of the Royal

Navy

personnel.

The considerable sum of money

h

In $250,000 necklace on loan for rare Chinese art treasure farm on a similar footing, in regard to LONDON, May 25 (Central News).saved by placing the "Wavy Navy"

ed the chief purchase by the British as that of their Volunteer Museum during 1940, accordinit to increase the financial War Effort of brethren would enable the Colony to Arriving back at his hotel at 2 am., Mr Flato found a hastily scribbled tion Fund.

a report of the National Art Collec-this Colony very materially. note in his box, "Lily cannot from your necklace get out"

Perhaps something might be done about it?

D.E.L..

loequer

Attack On Malta

The acquisition was મં lollet box made in the early Han He tried to contact her but her perlod which is considered by British phone had been cut off. As he had experts as the most important early to leave on the dawn plane for Los Chinese lacquer left in the Far East. Angeles. Mr Finto's necklace adorned 1 Miss Pons for the next 16 hours.

bought for £800. Ti purchases of Chinese art Late that evening Andro Koste- treasures continues despite the war. CAIRO, May 26 (Reuter),--Enemy

arrived by air from Hollywood in evidence of the deep favourable planes made n armed with directions from his Impression made by the Chinese Art on Ta Kall aerodrome, Malta, yester- friend, Mr Fiato, on how to unlock Exhibition ot Durlington House, day, several

double clasp.

damaged,

the

London, 1936.

machine-gun attack

enemy planes being

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