Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July 14, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
NOW --- NO MORE
WINDOW- GAZING
WHILE I GO
TO THE
REFERENCE
ROOM/
-KRNIE
NANCY
IF YOU'D KEEP YOUR MINDS ON YOUR WORK AS 1 DO, YOU WOULDN'T EVEN.
NOTICE THE HEAT!
AND YOU SLUGGO-
WHAT'S SO ATTRACTIVE
OUT THAT
WINDOW ?
New Super Plane
500
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TEA. U. KOSE ORMAN (SLNÁ Parveć
Transport Developed
KANSAS CITY, July 2 (UP),--Transcontinental and Wes- fern Air, Inc., announces that it has developed a 57-passenger transport plane capable of 350 miles an hour top speed.
The air line said the plane, largest land transport yet pro- jected for construction, had been under secret development for two years by Howard Hughes, 'round-the-world flier, und Jack Frye, TWA president, at the Lockheed aircraft plant in Bur-
bank, Calif.
German Reprisal
In Athens
Sequel To Swastika
Frye said TWA has ordered 10 of the planes, the first of which is scheduled for delivery next spring.
The plane, eusily convertible into a troop transport, would be powered by four 2,500-horsepower Wright engines, carry 04 persons, including crew of seven, have a range of more than 4,000 miles, supercharged cabin and engines permitting operation up
30,000 feet with low altitude com fort, and at 47% percent of power would cruise at 203 miles an hour, bringing Los Angeles within 014 hours of New York.
Frye said that fleet of 40 such planes, marshalled for emergency
Theft In City ATHENS, June 1.---German military authorities imposed a 10 p.m. curfew on Athens to day following theft of a Ger-military service could transport 10,- man military flag from atop 12,000 to the Canal Zone in 30 hours, 000 troops to Alaska in 36 hours, the Acropolis. An official 7,500 to Hawaii In 48 hours, or could order said that if the thieves fly a round trip between Boston, were caught they would be Massachusetts, and Bristol, England, sentenced to death.
in 24 hours,
An order from the military commander stated:
reserve.
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FOR DEFENSE-Uncle. Sam's now M-3, 28-ton tank, ready for service after complotion at Chrysler plant. Dotrait. This is one of two pilot models built before all tooling for mass production was completed. It has 75-mm, cannon, 37-mm. anti-tank gun and two „30 calibor machine guns.
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Women Claim ·
Present System Proves Food Three Women
Still Plentiful in Britain
could carry 10 tons
Equipped as cargo planes they net load each and 40 of them could transport 10,- "As a result of the following 000,000 pounds of cargo to the Canal established facts, traffic and eir-Zone in 48 hours. culation in Athens and Piraeus mail and express loads, it was said, With normal pight passengers and shall be limited to 10 p.m. the new planes would be able to fi
"First: On the night of May 30-31 from Los Angeles to New York non- the Gemian military flag flying on atop with a five-hour fuel supply the Acropolia was stolen. Invest-left in
The food position in England, while inconvenient in some ways, is by no gations are being held. The guilty and
The cabin supercharger would be means serious, writes a correspondent in "Sydney Daily Telegraph.” their accomplices will be sen- tenced to death,
xin functioning immediately upon That's the only conclusion one can draw from the frankly half-hearted system of take-off, providing sta jevel pressure Second: The press and public up to 10,000
feet, and atmosphere rationing. It is not so serious that the old system of distribution through the pro- opinion or all
classes still express conditions of from 8,000 to 12,000 fit-making middleman has to be interfered with. sympathy for the British, who have foot levels at altitudes between 25,- been driven out of Continental 000 and 30,000 feet. TWA's Boeing
In my first few days in Lon- would In Crete, i-treat- ment in violation of International tratoliner now starts its super- don I had an impression that from canteen eaters, the result of law of Gennan prisoners of war not charger at 8,000 feet and has a nor- there was an unfair discrimina- which would be to make the task of
the middle-class housewife more dif only were condoned but discussed
tion in the food regulations.ficult. with appreciation.
After being interviewed at Cax- The real burden of rationing falls ton Hall, Westminster, by a on the housewife. woman official, I had obtained
Europe. Events
their disposal.
10-
mal celling of 20,000 feet.
h
Blew Selves Up To Save Comrades
also have to be demanded
an identification card and ration her family: 1/- worth of meat for an
book.
French Wit On Food Scarcity
As Husband
Sergeant As
Edward Blair Linquist, also known as Edward O'Brien, 36, soldier, was committed for trial on two charges of bigamy in the Central Police Court, Sydney, recently, for having al-^ legedly gone through a form of marriage with three women who sat together in the court.
Poles In Nazi Guise
Attack
Police alleged Linguist had mar- ried Phyllis Marizies Blackmore on Jan, 20, 1920, and while still married to her had gone through a form of marriage with Constance Loretta Fogarty, at Woollahra, on Aug. 28. 1935. On Sept. 27, 1040, they alleged, he had gone through a form of marriage with Joyce Elizabeth- Wilson at Cowra,
Sellers Detective-sergeant·
sald Linguist hnd admitted marrying Mrs Blackmore, whom he had thought was-a-war_widow. Later, Linguist claimed to have found her husband
Pro-British Sympathy Third: In spite of orders to the
Actually this is what the house- contrary, sympathy has been
wife is allowed for each member of peatedly expressed with British. pri- soners of war (presents of flowers,
adult and 6d worth per child per WHILE two New Zealand officers
Guerilla Warfare fruits and cigarettes have been given
There-are-52-coupons for meat,week; eight ounces-of-fat, which may them. Such manifestations are be stood on a bridge in Greece holding
Against German's ing tolerated by Greek pollee, who up advancing Germans with their and 26 each for bacon and ham, be divided as follows, four ounces of butter, cooking fut and butter, two ounces. of cooking fat,
VICHY, May 30-Frenchmen are have not reneted with the means at revolvers, a New Zealand sergeant sugar,
Bands of Polish youths, dis- was still alive, and alleged Mr wo ounces
of margarine; eight wielding their sharp wit against food placed two bared wires together margarine. and blow the bridge, the officers, and
But I soon found I could go into ounces of sugar, two ounces of lea, restrictions, which is about all they guised as German police and Blackmore had committed bigamy in
marrying him. any cafe or hotel ant order a meal one ounce of
are allowed to attack in their pre- S.S. men, "Fourth: The
cheese.
are carrying on Mrs Phyillia Marizies Linquist. WA3 the people of himself to smithereens. Athens behave in general toward This story of Horatian valour is without reference to coupons.
Eggs, which cost 2/0 a dozen, will sent circumstances.
guerilla warfare against the who gave her maiden name as Wirth. Geaman armed forces is unfriendly. told in a letter from a New Zealand
soon be
Satiric politien weekly sheets, once Nazis. rationed. Poultry isn't ra- More If You Pay
said she had married Blackmore in "Fifth: Profieering in Athens hus artilleryman who describes the deed
is bread.
the pace-setters for humour, have
1012, and he had been reported miss- surpassed every limit and competent as the grandest thing he ever heard afford it could dine out three or four housewife is virtually at the mercy marching on in the daily press,
Clearly, the household which could toned, nor
For unrationed commodities the disappeared, but their cartoonists go Three such bands are known ing, belleved killed, as a soldier al authorities have falled to take neces-of
times a week and use its week's sup of her butcher and baker.
to be operating over a wide the Great War in 1917. She had not sary measures to prevent same.
It was described to him by the solely of coupons for
seen Blackmore since 1913. She had the remaining
Typical is a cartoon of an artist area of Western Poland. "Sixth: Almost every commodity survivor of n acetion of engineers,
The only place where butter is showing a friend a painting he has Is sold in Athens to German soldiers
three meals at home.
The youths secure their uniforms last lived with Linquist as man and "Poor devils, they had a hell of I found that the more I was will- plentiful is in an officers' mess at an just completed. ut prices considerably higher than
by attacking German police posts wife in 1934. There Air Force a time," he said. "As they
station. That is sensible,
"Do you mean to tell me," the und their funds by raiding post children by the marriage. those at which they are
and
Two Children part of the policy of keeping friend asks, eyeing a rich display of offices. to last away, they had to blow up the ing to pay-the more expensive the Greeks.
menu--so the food improved, bridges and so on.
was offered hors pilots in the pink of condition.
food on the canvas, "that you can do
Constance Loretta Fogarty said she Eleven Poles were arrested recent- "German authorities have tried so
Time and
At my hotel they were nearly d'oeuvres, a choice of sole, turbet, orally, must not be obscured by float- again.
Night-fighter pilots vision, especiall that from memory?"
ly and accused of belonging to the knew Linguist as Edward Patrick. to behave to the Greek people trapped,
oast lamb, with three
O'Brien, and had gone through, e On the same order is the one about uerillas. properly in every respect. In case "At one position they were cut off vegetables, peach melba, and coffee gles, which you and I know to be tell us again about the indigestion orfor ing brown spots or transparent wig- the young children saying: "Grandpa
"Bandits"
form of marriage with him in 1935. orders issued by the German armed by tanica but they hacked their way for 15/-. forces are not obeyed they will re-
The Nazl paper, "Krakauer Zei-She had last seen him in November. out and incidentally helped some
you used to have five years ago." juctantly
One apply very
not supposed to have fish signs of liverishness.
Wine Plentiful ··
tung," has reported that seven Ger- 1040. There were two children, one severe sane- Australians to escape by throwing
Walters' insistence on food tickets
two-years and the other four tlons.
and meat at
man military objectives" were at- one meal. Hors landmines and anything that would d'oeuvres, which give you herrings,
Which brings me to the fact that comes in for its share of "panning," tacked on one night.
marriage. old, "Signed: COMMANDANT."
Joyce Bilzabeth, Wilson sald she explode at the Germans,"
characteristic cartoon was One anchovies, and sardines, are a way of beer, wine, and whisky are stili ob- A
tainable without restriction.
It is also stated that the German had met Linquist at Cowra where he which showed
conductor going police are a getting round this.
mechanised units lo
was in camp with the A.L.F., and had To show me how easily food regu- Beer has declined in quality. Bre-through a stalled train and saying,
gond "through a form of murrloge
sold
Clothes Rationing New Racket In
duced
T
were
Produces Britain
Clothes rationing, introduced in Britain recently, has pro- now racket. Operating in air-raid shelters, the racketeers are purchasing coupons from poor people at a maximum price of 24, éach.
These coupons -are resold to fashionable women's clothing stores at a high price. When clients of these shops hesitate to make a 'pur- chase because of the number of cou- Pons
the required,
management makes the sale by producing the nd- ditional
coupons..
This is one of the rackets with which the Board of Trade President
"We Will Build
London
were
twc
year:
lations could be broken, newspaper wers have had their supplies of "Gentlemen, present your meat tle
pursue 211
admission is evi- with him, and lived with him as inan
(a rare delicacy), and sweets.
bilized.
ones which aro made A high staff officer in one of the French humour.
Tois
and wife.
The
both in-
men took me to a restaurant, where curen's restricted and have thloned kets. The engineer fins just hit a dence of the increasing guerilla war we had hors d'oeuvres, steak, and down the quality of their product. cow." omelette garnished with onion, butter | And, alas, some breweries have been Food restrictions are not the only fare in Nazi-occupled Feland.
Polica Prosecutor, Sergean Many Poles are still being ten- the butt of tenced to death for alleged "persecu- from the A.I.F. Speaking from the sald Linguist had deserted tion of Germans in Poland during body of the court, Linquist said he Illegal Meat
services told me that one of Hitler's There is a gaseline shortage to the weeks before the Nazis invaded had been reinstated in This meal of meat and eggs to- | serious miscalculation in his war laugh off if possible. A cartoonist the country, gether was illegal, and could not against Britain had been the amount
ried his best with a drawing in Gentiles in German occupied To- stances and was now a sergeant in
the A.L.F. have been obtained if my friend of food stored in Britain, which, my which a Frenchman meets a couple land are now imprisoned for at- had not known the proprietor. Informant said, would lead to his def banged-up
"Oh, hel The bill came to 30/-a price of feat in the Battle of the Atlantic.
says enviously, "then you did manage Jews in ghettos.
tempting to communicate with the
experience.
think that must be true. If it to and some gast"
Permits wasn't then
In Warsaw the ghetto is cut of we would be in very
Several sentences of three months" entirely from the rest of the city. bad shape, not merely through a
Imprisonment have been passed in possible food shortage but because of
Cracow, where a ghetto had been once a month,
Mall arrives and is distributed recently established.
I have not since been able to ob- tain steak anywhere in London,
Nor will the decision to slaughter 300,000 head of Britain's cattle (be cause of the shortage of feed) bring becfstake any closer.
Because this meat will be made TORONTO, June 4-Dorothy into sausages, which (with the law Thompson concluded her address at providing that not more than 45 per women's victory loan rally here cent, of sausages shall be meat) will Another racket concerns wealthy which, she said, had been written on
with words of the poet, T. §. Ellot, | make about 1,200,000,000 sausages. women who give their servants cast-her dinner
discovered that at any one of 700 run by voluntory
Is already confronted.
off clothing in exchange for cou-visit to Cogramme on a recent communal kitchensd get a Batten
pons.
Food-Stealing Gangs
Food-stealing gangs are still work- ing successfully in London.
They have looted suburban re- tailers shops to antisfy receivors' de- mande for fats, sugar, butter, and donned fruits.
The Tobacco Controller (Mr A. II, Maxwell) has appointed a team of experts to help him solve the cigar- etle famine.
Manufacturers claim that their de- liveries to retailers are according, to schedule, but the cigarette famine is mord: acute.
Moro cigarette smokers have taken to pipes, but many found recently a now notice in shop windows: "No Tobacco,"
Brockington,
by Leonard W. service workers I
special wartime assist-factory meal of plain food. very cheaply-roast beef, polatres, and cabbage or salad for Dd: rhubarb tart, 4d; roll and butter, 2d; and coffee,
ant to the Canadian Prime Minister:
Ill dono and undone, London so fair;
We will build London.
Of
in dark air; now bricks and mortar Beside the Thames bord Queen of island and water, A house for our Lord;
A church for all of us
And work for all of us,
And God's word for all of us
. Unto this last.
Down in the East End I had a meal at a 'cantern. Is consisted of suot dumpling with a suspielen 'of mashed potatoes and cabbare. custard lart, and a cup of tea for Bd..
At nolther cafe nor canteen was 2 asked for ration tickets. Bo, 1 thought, it cut both ways. That, at least, le the official view,
High-priced Extras. answer
Some wonten, unable to obtain The Government's cigarettes, have bought pipes and charges of unfairness in rationing is to tobacco, but have not yet been seen that it couporis were demanded from smoking them in publis.
- restaurant --- and hotel-eaters, they
friends.
LONDON.--Major A. W. Briscow, what would then be demonstrable: South African cricketer who played our inability to make and administer | against Australia, killed in laws.unpopular with business,
action.'
Wha
He was committed for trial.
.... All contacts with the outside worle Special permits are issued for ure maintained by a special Jew traffic entering the ghetto.
Smokers who desire
the best ask for-
50 for $1.45
committee.
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