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Bomb

How Britain's Expert Was Blinded

A girl-we will call her Ambulance Driver X, for she refuses to divulge her name has told me the full story of the bomb that blinded Air Commodore Patrick Huskinson, Britain's bomb expert, in the great "reprisal" raid on London, writes Rhona Churchill in the "Daily Mail."

She found him groping' through the smoke und flames in his flat, his eyes seared with pain-and worrying not about the injuries he had received, but about the safety of his papers. His first words were to his wife, who was trying to help him:. "I'm all right, dear. Save those papers."

His next thought was: "See that they tell Lord Beaver- brook," who is his chief as Minister of Aircraft Production.

Ambulance Driver X, curly haired and attractive, Ilves in a flat across the road. Before the war she danced for a living. Now she lives to save lives.

On the algit that, Hlüler unleashed his mass killers over London she was off duty, sitting quietly reading and listening to the crash of bombs ant anti-aircraft fire.

Room Rocked

DUNKIRK "POEM" IS PROSE

John Laureate, has written a book on Masefield, the Poet

the evacuation from Dunkirk.

Live

Crab

In King's Motor Car

Two minutes before the King and Queen entered their car to drive to Plymouth railway station after a day's tour of the city recently, a man excitedly elbowed his way through the cheering crowds with a live crab for the King.

"Where are they? Mr Cload's sent it," he gasped.

May 28, 1941.

By Ernie Bushmiller:

WORLD PREMEER

TOMORROW

SLUGGO'S REVENGE

BESTARRING:

SLUGGO

WRITTEN BY:-

SLUGGO

ALSO

SLUGGO'S GIRL

FRIEND NANCY.

·AND A BIG CAST DIRECTED BY

SLUGGO

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Former H.K. Resident's

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Work In Blitzed Town

Chevalier

Mrs Gladys Hazell of Hongkong, who has for some time past been driving an ambulanco at Home, writes the following letter from an important southeast town in England:.

We had our worse time of all, on Sunday, and it was quite the worst raid ever. They were un- fortunate, for they dropped a lot of heavy stuff after incen- diaries, and so much of the heavy stuff scored direct hits on shelters. We left here (17 miles)

Turns Down

away) and drove in convoy to Paris Offer

FORD HANDIWORK-Henry Ford, laft, motor magnate, greets Major General H. H. Arnold, deputy Chief of Staff, after General Arnold flow from Washington to inspect aircraft works at Dear. born, Mich., plant. Mr. Ford will be 78 in July.

Cash For Film Trade Is New Official Idea

1 THE Government will not allow Hollywood to monopolise the film business during this war as it did, during the list, when the world's film business moved from Britain to America,

That is the secret behind a private conference recently called by the President of the Board of Trade, and attended by repre. sentatives of: The Cinemas, the British film producers, two film trade unions...

to set up a commission to organ-plan, which aims not only at pro- The Government are planning The producers will welcome the ise the film trade and keep it viding financial backing, but estab under direct Government super-production shall not be crippled by

Capital Waiting

As part of the new plan, a money pool is to be formed, with Govern-

ishing machinery

ensure that

the calling-up of personnel and other war-time .dimcultles,

Donations To Causes

ment backing, to make cash avail- ducers, so that British film-making terday by the War Fund inaugurated by able to approved British film pro- A total of $1,070,041.43 was reached yes- shall not be hampered by lack of the S. C. 31. Post, Lid, with the following

the distributing post just inside the city, and this was a night- Maurice Chevalier, according mare drive one felt terribly to news sent from Paris to New conspicuous on a lonely road in York, has refused to appear in the bright moonlight, in convoy.

Immediately my ambulance at the former. French capital be post rived, two of us were sent off to a cause the Nazi authorities would vision.

in the heart of the clty, and not allow him to devote part of from there we had our orders for his takings to charities in Uning the last war, and Hollywood pro- Britain lost the lead in films dur- various, Incidents. It was the first time we have actually been driving occupied France, as he had duction has grown to be one of the ping around us, some uncomfortably said to have contracted with the while heavy HE bombs were drop-stipulated this, though he greatest trades in the world. close, and I am very glad in a way head of the Casino de Paris, for robody knows how one wire Henri Varna, to star there. xe act, and I didn't let myself down. hard as we could when the stuff was thank goodness. We just drove to It commemorates an epic of

Chevalier lately returned, British history in a new way for

dropping around us and hoped for the from entertaining French troops Soon there came a blinding flash Poet Laureate in prosc. Pre- the King was expecting a crab

best, and the best happened so that interned in neutral Switzerland,

that. Driving

riving with masonry fall- vious Poets holding this tional office have done it in from Mr Cload: It was put in the place besides

the crashing of the royal car.

bombs, some very near, as verse-"The Charge of the

Two hours before Mr Charles Ares from incendiaries though they Cload, sixty-six-year-old ship's do give some light at times is by no chandler, had been presented to the

means easy, especially at speed, the Virginia However, as 1 sald the best happened. King and Queen af House Settlement. F social

Long Raid where bombed-out families find re- fuge,

As he shook hands with the Queen, Lady Astor who was with the royal party had asked, "What fresh crab, Mr Cload?"

"They Shall Have One"

·She was told: "They shall have one. The ship's out now and should be in before their Majesties

and a roar that rocked her room.

"That was t close one," she thought. She put down her book and went outside to help.

"There were flames coming from the flats across the road," she told me, simply. "A great Are was raging beside them.

deckled

ckled to go inside to see what I could do.

Light Brigade," for instance.

na-

It is called Nine Days' Wonder and will be published shortly.

Mr H. L. Hail, director of William Heinemann,

Lid., the publishers, said: "It is written as only Masefield eould write it-quietly told, without "I tried to get in the front way, Dugwagging; just as a British hero but failed. So I ran round to the really is. Only the facts are there back and found my way up the it contains no fletion at all. tradesmen's steps. The smoke was

so thick I could get no higher than

third

the

door.

I

40,000 Words

groped my way About 40,000 words is Mr Hall's ulong the passage to the nearest estimate of its length little less flat. It was on fire.

than the average novel.

Originally the book was planned

"I could dimly see three people;

through the

the smoke and dust. One with photographs, but Mr Hall is

was

son.

a man. Air Commodore Huskin-doubtful if these will be included.

He was saying to his wife.

Save those papers,

worry about me."

denr. Don't

"He kept repeating those words in level tones-so level that it was not till the dust cleared a bit that I

realised he was badly injured:

"I'll Get You Out'

"His chest and face were terribly cut about: He was bleeding badly.

I said, "Here, come along. I'll get you out of here.'

FORGED

PASSPORT CHARGE

was thord you and debris all over to Marseilles, now his home, Inquiries were made. Yes,

leave."

A

club

about a

well

The all clear did not go until 4.30 a.m., so it was a very long raid, as It si

finance us it has been for some years

past.

Josephine Baker, that dusky A sum of £500,000 is mentioned dancer who some time ago flew from as a start, but this is likely to be lead in operetta at the Opera House, Lisbon to Marseilles, there to play increased to meet requirements. has been refused Nazi permission to ster In a Paris revue.

Playing Happily

even more popular in Paris

Mistinguett, whose legs made legs they were before, Is in Unoccupied France, where is not stated.

than

there before midnight. It was only started at 8.30 p.m. and we got when it becare likely to get out of hand, more than the town's people could deal with, that we were called. All the morning up to 12.30 p.m.

Sacha Guitry, on the other hand, used to be we were doing mortuary work. We and his wife-who Jean struck a very bad patch at one time, Genevieve St

are playing und as no men were available, three happily at the Elysee, which he has of we women had to do it alone, but leased, announcing that he will siny for the occasional help of one passing in Paris. special constable. However, it is almost forgotten now.

I firmly believe

something is sent to us to help us forget all the horrors, for before the war, as you know, it I saw an accident, or anything-un- pleasant at all, it would be with me atantly dreaming of it at night too, them are married to Frenchmen. for days and days. I should be con- dancing in Paris

About ten English girls are still revues, Most of so this really surprises me.

Big Meal

For many years, every member of the Royal Family who has visited Plymouth has receiveil from Mr Cload the gift of freshly caught crab. The King and Queen went on to Lady Astor's house for tea, and Mr Clead went down to the quay and anxiously looked out to sen. His boat came in. The biggest crab was selected and a man sent hot foot to find the King and Queen and presenti It.

I got back soon after 1 p.m. King's Remark

time for lunch, which Was "That's fine," said Lady when she

Astor stantial, and Was I hungry? No arrived. "The King will be pleased. on duty last evening was only toast was told the crab hud breakfast, and supper before I went She told the King: "There's and marmalade, because I had a bout Ilve crab squawking In your car." of indigestion, so I ate one of the

The King laughed. "I hope I biggest meals maximum

have eaten for a don't sit on it," he said.

long

me. Then I went straight to Queen Inspected Service units at the pin., got up, had a bath, and to my Earlier in the day the King and bed and absolutely "died until 6 Royal Naval Barracks and chatted with workers in the duckyard.

A Passport Office clerk who

"I got hold of his right arm and pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey put it over my shoulder, Just as we recently to conspiring to forge a Bre taught to do In ambulance passport was told by Mr Justice classes.

"He came along with me chat- Tucker that the

at a

ting quite normally, though he penalty of two years' imprison- must have been in terrible pain, ment for his offence was "totally He was blind, and he knew he was inadequate.' surrounded by flames, yet he be haved as normally as If we were

He passed that sentence on teaparty.

George William Goddard, aged "When we got out into the court-56, Baldwin-crescent, Camber. yard we paused for a moment. His well, who was also charged with wife was still inside, collecting his having in his posscasion a docu- "He told me who he was. He an-ment so closely representing an phasised: 'It is most important that exit permit as to be calculated Lord Beaverbrook should know to deceive.

papers and other valuables.

about this first thing in the morn Ing. Will you be very kind and dard's telephone him for me?'

"I promised.

Awful Moment

"Then be sald, Will you tell something? Am I going to 'blind?'

Australia Backs The League

"for"

time.

in

sub-

amazement then fell fine and ready

another spell if

necessary. While we had been nway. our town had had Its excitement. A lot of incendiaries had been dropped and fres started, but these were quickly put out and no great damage done. Our house is all right. Fortunately

the incendiaries here were not fol-

Cigarettes

Sir Frederick Stewart, Australian lowed by H.E., which was something Minister for External Affairs, An- to be very thankful for. It must Mr. Justice Tucker refused God-nounced in the House of Representa- have been an odd plane which made

request that hine offences tives recently that the Common-n mistake, probably lost its way. should be taken into consideration, wealth Government had decided to saying he left it to the authorities to pay £34,000 towards the cost of the take whatever steps they thought League of Nations for 1941. proper.

This sum is £8,000 less than the me similarly charged, was

Israel Helsler, aged 34, musician, 1540 contribution.

found not

They are now threatening to allow ; only men to smoke cigarettes. If they do, 1 shall throw up this job, even though I have been on it since the "The Government," said Sir Frede- Munich show in '38. It was one of rick, "considers the League to be the worst things of Sunday's raid Det-Insp. Robert Fabian said that still

performing t useful work when I ran out of cigarettes, especial- can't lie to a man like tint, I looked had been committing the offences for iomce, as well as in financial matters work: there are some smells which! investigations showed that Goddard through the International Labourly during the morning's mortuary at his face. Then I said, 'As far as something like 18 months and that|and regarding the control of the drug one cannot get out of one's nostrils.

“The debris outslite was piled so he had received approximately £258. traffic

"It was an awful moment.

be

gulity and was discharged.

You

I can see, your eyes are still there.

high that I had to ask a man to carry

Commodore Huskinson over It Then

we led him to a police station.

On A Stretcher

"He talked and chayed so coolly

that they did not appreciate how

badly he was hurt A policeman

said to me, 'You're an ambulance

girl. Can't you attend to him?'

doctor.

Oats Made From Pines.

Solve Lack Of Fodder

Finland in seeking to overcome fodder shortages has in.

#1 raid 'No, it was a case for a troduced synthetic oats made from pine trees. The new fod- der, known as "pine oats," was placed on the open market in "Some time later, his face covered Finland last month, according to the Finnish Information cen-

maintain the cattle in a fairly good The method of producing state of nourishment.

with bandages, I saw him placed on tre in New York.

a stretcher and taken to hospital."

The greatest eye specialists in the

fand are now fighting to save Air "pine oats" was developed last Commodore Huckinson's sight. They Autumn by Finnish natural

Like Making Wood Pulp

The weather keeps glorious, but brilliantly starry or moonlight nights are not as appreciated as they used to be. A glorious fog, beautiful blinding rain, or a glorious gale are; what we really appreciate these days !

New Textile

Prophecy

FOOD grown without soil or sunlight and fabrics made with out wool or cotton have been forecast in Chicago by Dr Colin G. Fink, Professor of electro-

sity. The process of manufacture is chemistry of Columbia Univer-

will not know for some time who-scientists after the poor harvest similar to that of making wood pulp, ther he will be permanently blind, of 1940, combined with the pre-except that the boiling process for

Ho is lying in a private ward in a sent import difficulties, created fodder is much longer. The timber, literally take over the work of the London hospital.

Electra-chemistry, he sakl, could. serious shortage of cattle fod-washed and barked, is cut up into sun in producing foodstuffs by pro- der. The oats are said to have fakes by machines fitted with rotat- ducing artificial starches from car- almost the same nutritional ing knives, is mixed, with a soda bon, hydrogen and oxygen. value as natural oats,

and run aft into huge

various placing in soluti

such as

as wood pulp or

A researchers have also de- | rayon, and then drawing the particles!

DEBS IN FILM The American · ex debutante, Current production of "pine ools" Brendo Frazier, whose fame, has a 500 tons dally, and Finland's vast veloped s process, for making sugar together electrically into "mate" or spread far and wide, is taking a part forests are anld to assure unlimited out of sawdust and wood waste, "tuffs," out of which fabric can be in a new Glm by Paramount "A Night supplies for its future manufacture. Already beyond the experimental woven, "a-new-textile industry may at Earl Carroll's Another Ameri The product alone, it is, however, stage, wood sugar" will soon be be born," Dr. Fink declared, can ex-debutante in the cost; a litle pointed out, cannot be recommended manufactured on a large scale in two Tess publicised than Brenda, Is Cobint for a longtime diet. In times of factories, being erected for that pur

famine, however, pino oats would pose.

Wrigh

Such fabrics," he predicted," máy become mora popular”; ihan natural wool be cottona nasad

Luclenne (Parlez-moi d'Amour), Boyer also. remains in the caplial, at her own club; she is "acclaimed the most popular cabaret star here! _now."

donations: Field Company Engineers, 11X. V.D.C. tramo held at Annual "Dempilion" on 15.5.41)

$314 Mr Abba Klian............... 300 Hongkong. Football Club (counter collection) (sixth donation).... Gloucester

Player....

Lounge Gramophone

STOCK MARKET Mr G. P. de Marin (third dann-

REPORT

Hongkong Stock Exchange Oficial; (Summary, issued yesterday, is:

Buyers

IK. Fire Ins. $176 Indo-China (Pre) $80 Docks $14.75 Providents $5 Hotels $2.85 Trams $16.75 tights "O" Lights

$5.70

Lights "N" $1.20 Electrics Ris $11 Macao Electrics $18.70 Entertainments $6.25

Sales

H.K. Govt 3% Loan (1934) 945 Providents $5 Lights."O" $5.75 Electries "O" X. His $22

tlon

Mr L. F. Newman Craigengower Celeket Club (fourili

Mr D. O. Silver (in memory of the

late Mr J. R, Sulter). Mercantile Marts OMee Bamb

felghth donation)

·SALVATION ARMY

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09.35

100

70

1

300

The Salvation Army Headquarters gratefully acknowledge receipt of the following donations which have been credited to the Annual Appeal for 1941: Previously acknowledged, $0,321; Shang. Hal Commercial and Savings Bank, $25; the Staff, National City. Bank of New York. 90: Standard-Vacuum Oil Co, 30: Anonymous, $10; Mr R. Cunningham (per S. C. M. Post), $10; Mrs Ainslie And Family, in memory of the late Mr J. R. Butter (per S. C. l. Post), $5. Total $6,511.

Mr Arthur Menken, the Para- mount newsreel cameraman and war correspondent, has left the Colony for Shanghai.

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