Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July 4, 1941.
NANCY
TODAY'S HAZE ORDER--*. You CAN'T ~JOIN OUR CLUB UNTIL YOU CALL A COP A
BIG PIECE OF
CHEESE /
I BET SHE WON'T GO THROUGH WITH.
TODAY'S HAZE!
I THINK. YOU'RE A BIG
PIECE OF
CHEESE!
THIS IS ROTTERDAM-Devastation as far as one can see is the fate of the Dutch city of Rotterdam. This was an area of shops and homes before the Nazis staged their "levelling-off" raids, a year ago. Picture was smuggled out of accupied Netherlands by a refugee.
Fewer Americans Are Now Living Abroad
Dr Alexis Carrel Detained By Vichy
By Ernie Bushmiller
WOW!
MAY-IS
I'M BEING
HAZED
So
DON'T
GET MAD
U. S. Air Corps Has "Warning System"
WASHINGTON, July 2 (UP). → An "aircraft warning "ystem" was inaugurated on June 15 by the Army Air Corps. along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, with civilian volunteers as "spotters" of "enemy war-planes" and charting their flights for counter-attack by American ships.
The system will be extended In other areas shortly.
Director Frank Bane of the Office of Emergency Manage- ment's Division of Stale
and Local Co-operation called on officials of 45 State Defence Councils in the east and west const areas to enroll volunteers. ; They, will receive training na i "spotters"
and
For health
strength
(UB)
U.B.STOUT
Waste Paper W. R. LOXLEY & CO., (China) LTD.
Appeal By Evacuate
strategically-inrated) Mrs G. F. Steele-Perkins, who olervation posts and for jobs is now living at Wahroonga, kas Sier centres, where non-carential
information from "spotters" will be become president of the newly- discarded, and at information ventres. formed Wahroonga branch of where the fights of "enemy forma-the Waste Paper Appeal, states tions" will be charied.
the "Sydney Sun."
a
Bane has issued the Arst of
She left Hongkong for Aus- series of warning syslem" booklets which said that all volumicers will be tralia with her daughters, Mary subject to investigation and con- and Susan, when women and firmation by military authorities." children were compulsorily
evacuated,
Mira Steele-Perkins is the wife of Wing-Commander A. II. S. Steele-
"It is the responsibility of the Local Defence Council to see that all persons referred are loyal American ritizens, as work which will be done at Alter stations and information centres will form a basis for opera-Perkins, of the Fleet Air Arm, whose work in A.R.P. began in England as NEW YORK, May 18-Dr Alexisions of the air force,” it said.
long ago as 1932 and who is Director Carrel, 07, Rockefeller Institute scientist, is being detained in occupied
Women Needed
of Air Raid Precautions, Hongkang, His handbooks on all branches of France "so that country can have the
Observation posts necessarily this subject are the ones in use to- nt-advantage of his knowledge in mat- ters of child nutrition, James Wood
would be manned 21 hours a day day, and are put out by the Home Johnson sald
and approximately 12 or 16 obser- Office, to which he is attached, com-
tire Sun." Johnson.
of the American
versal en-would be required fines
At her home in Hongkong, Mrs. at each stallon, the booklet said. Volunteers Ambulance Corps, wiro
The "inside work at Biller and Steele-Perkins was chairman of the semi- February
accompanied Dr. Carrel to Europe observation stations is of a type "for Women's AIL. Unios, which was
1, said the scientist
a which women parently knew he might not be given adapted," it said.
particularly run on similar lines to the Sydney It is "not desir-National Emergency Services, ant a pass to leave the country when he able to have a general registration of functioned +2 recruiting, offen entered it April 7 to see his sick wife citizens," for this work. It added, where herangements were made for in Brittany
suggesting that persons qualided as training A.R.P, workers telephone And teletype operators, radio technicians, tabulators, typists,
WASHINGTON, July 2 (UP).——The United States' tempt to get American citizens out of danger zones in Europe and Asia was revealed to have reduced the number living abroad by about 10 per cent, or 30,000 in 1940.
The figures upply to persons with permanent
or permanent residences abroad. Tourists are not included ligures.
in the 338,-
During 1940 the number living abroad declined from 609 to 307,88.1. All countries except Latin-America showed marked declines.
Comparative Figures:
Mexico and Central America
South America ..
West Indies und Bermuda
Canada and Newfoundland
Europe
Asin
. Africa
16,502
Jan. 1, 1940 Jan. 1, 1941
17,787
23.881
12.605
181,773
63.295
24,769 13,407 164,977 50,901
5:056 5,056.
4,944
4,944
Meet "SHANGHAI RUBY!”
Meet the bold beauty who melts
Jon ("Hurricane") Hall's heart with
a
glance and sets fists smashing,
guns flashing in the tropic night.
Edward Small preson
"SOUTH OF
Martha Raye Divorced
From Dave Rose HOLLYWOOD, May 20-Martha Raye singing comedienne of the movies, obtained a Anal decree of dikorce Monday from Dave Rose, composer and musical arranger, and announced that the and Neal Lang, Florld hotel inan, will marry Sunday.
PAGO PAGO
VICTOR HE
MCLAGLEN HALL FARMER
Blympe Bradna - Gene Lockhart Douglas Dumbile Screenplay by George Bruce Directed by Alfred E. Gragn
Released thru United Artists -
A THOUSAND THRILLS....... White men drarilting native war cannot ... tun-bronzed naives bauling for precious pearis, .. beautiful, native women dancing the sinuous mes.
pect of the Luru, dance of love
stenographers, chauffeurs and drafts- mtn were particularly needest.
She and her husband started ARP. in Hongkong in 1938, and In a recent letter, Wing-Com- mander
Steele-Perkins stated
that his workers now · Included 4000 Chinese air raid wardens,
Chinese Adept
"In view of the fact that volun- feers to be trained for this inside work may be enlisted for full-time
From 1932 to 1938, Wing-Com- operation in the event of an emer- rency," it said, "the War Department mander Steele-Perkins was Deputy
that women Director of A.R.P; in England. particularly requests
A.R.P. from relected for this trainlog and opera- next
Chinese learning
have Hon be healthy and alert, preferably charts and diagrams
proved about 25 years of age, and compara-wonderfully successful students, and tively tree-of-family obligations.”—--¡huve passed-exupu.-with-a-higher percentage of marks then Europeans.
STARTS TO-DAY at the LEË THEATRE
Four Commands
Arm Steele-Perkins, who has had wide experience in lectur- "The Alr Corps Q. has
ing, thinks Australian lectures In divided coastal regions into four
A.R.P. are ino lang and too dull. "Interceptor commands," compris-
and says that Australian methods ing the northeast area with head-
are backward. She has offered quarters at Mitchel Field. N.Y.:
to help in giving talks if her the northwest area with Spokane, services are required. Wash: headquarters: southeast
During her
her husband's with headquarters at Tampa- with the Navy, Mrs Steele-Perkins, Fla., and southwest with Riverside, who was born in China, lived in Calif., headquarters,
many years
many countries, Including Egypt, The booklet said that State Defence India and Canada, Councils would be supplied "large scale maps breaking down the area
In
to be c
Keen Gardener She is a keen gardener and has observation posts are made gardens in all parts of the
"Marked in each region will be a world. In Ching her gardens were circle one scule mile in diameter, mostly of the pot-plant and window- intlicating the area in which an ox type, but in Egypt, with the aid of camel-loads of Nile mud, she had observation post must be established,"
it continued, "It should be located a Dourishing garden in the desert." on the highest spot possible and have branch of the wastepaper campaign, As president of the Wahroonga an unobstructed air view of approxi- mately eight miles in all direc-irs Steele-Perkins is making un ap- tions.
peal to schoolchildren to save old books and uxumination "The prime prerequisite is that it exercise be within 15 seconds of a telephone papers, as well as all scrap paper,
bus tickets, &e, available for use 24-hours a day."
Bane and that uniforms would not be provided for .observers at the beginning of the programme, but that they would be identified by arm bands. They will serve without pay..
WOMAN SAVED BY GLAND FROM DEAD MAN
nnel
A woman patient suffering from Addison's Disease (anæmin weakness) was fast approaching a crisis.
As an example to helpers, she has used both sides of her letter paper in sending out her appeal,
Naval Losses In The War
LONDON, May 17-The Royal Navy hon lost 11,203 .offeers and men killed and missing since the war be- the Admiralty announced fitn,
yesterday.
of the number 4,260 were sted u killed in action and 0,944 missing.
The doctors were puzzled as to the presumably dead. next step.
Another 3,352 have been wounded,
A 52-year-old man had died just while 513 were taken prisoners and previously. He had been of the same at died of natural causes. blood group on the woman.
It was decided to try the experi- ment of grafting into her left adrenal eland of the dead man.
The operation was performed.
Six days later, the woman left the hospital declaring herself "absolutely well."
To-day, after 15 inonths, the wo- man is Ilving a normol life.
The success of this experiment in
month,
The sinking by submarine of the cruiser Bonaventure Jast while escorting a convoy, cost the lives of 130 officers, seamen marines, it was uncounced,
and
Famous R.A.F. Pilot Reported Killed
LONDON, May 12-Fit-Lt. L. P.
an Alexandria hospital is reported in Rowley, Royal Air Force pilot who
the "British Medical Journal."
The functional results are excel-new British officials to Munich in the lent," it is inled.
1933 crisis, was listed to-day as [Adrenal glands are two organs on presumed to have been killed in the upper end of each kidney; they action. The six-foot-four-inch flyer, produce adrenaline, which, among who once appeared in United States other things, Increases output of movies, previously had been reported sugar, into the blood stream.]
missing.
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