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NANCY

I FEEL MEAN TODAY A REG'LAR CHIP-ON-THE-SHOULDER

MOOD!

I FEEL SWELL

TODAY --- I

COULDN'T BE MAD

AT NOBODY NOT EVEN

OXIE!

HI, OXIE

OL' PAL!

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

SO YOU KNOCKED THE CHIP OFF MY SHOULDER, EH ?--

O.K. - FLL

FIGHT YA!-

BUT I...

August 19, 1941.)

By Ernie Bushmiller

I'LL GIVE YA TIME FOR TRAINING.. THE FIGHT WILL BE NEXT WEEK!

!?!? U.B.BEER

LIGHT DARK

JUN!

N.E.I. Trade Position Exchange At American "Hostages" In

With Japan Clarified

LONDON, Aug. 18 (Reuter),-Quoting a statement receiv ed from an official source, the Batavia Radio denies a "Domei" statement that new trade talks between Japan and the Nether- lands East Indies have been opened and that resumption of normal trade relations was expected within a week,

The announcer said that Japait was continually endeavouring.to dispel the impression created by the Democracies' action in freezing Japanese assets when Japan occupied Indo-China.

The Netherlands Enst Incles, according to an official source, con- sidered the occupation of Indo-Chinn by Japan as a direct threat to the N.E.L. and it ques without saying that all exports which would constitute aid to Japan's wor economy would

WEEK-END BLITZ ON SYRACUSE

Mole And Sidings

not be in the interests of the WA Blaze Of Flames

and will, therefore, not take place.

Aussies' Big

Overseas

CAIRO, Aug. 18 (Reuter).-— Considerable damage is believed to have been done to shipping | at Syracuse by the Fleet Air Arm raid on Saturday night when fires it up the whole harbour, necording to an R.A.F.

Air Force communique.

The communique states: "Air-

MELBOURNE, Aug. 18 (Reuter). craft of the Fleet Air Arm car- -Twenty-three Australian Air Force ried out a successful attack, squadrons will be serving abroad by

the middle of next year, announced on the harbour of Syracuse dur-

A Glance Japan Evoke Protest

BELLING

TT. London

T.T. Shanghai

T.T. Singapore 7. Japan

India

T.T. U.S.A TT. Manila,

Demand London

.1/2% .1/2

.435

.524

1021

13.

024%

2410

49%

T.T. Batavia

40%

T.T. Hangkok

.148

T.T. Saigon

.100

T.T. France

T.T. Switzerland

T.T. Australia

1/0

BUYING

4 n/a L/C London

4 m/s D/P London

4 n/a L/C U.S.A.

1/314 1/3

254

.84%

tin/s France

30 d/s India

.100

U.S. Cross rate in London 4.021⁄2 U.S. Cross rate in N.Y.

Latest Goering Reports

Minister for Air Mr K. McEwen to- ing the night of August 16-17. Said To Have Lost Both

day

Bombs were dropped from a

Legs In R.A.F. Raid

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

Special to the "Telegraph"

TOKYO, Aug. 18 (UP).The Foreign Office to-day pro- tested against the insinuation made by the United States De- partment of State last Saturday that one hundred Americans who are at present unable to leave Japan are being held as "hostages."

No Explanation WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (UP)-At the midday press conference to-day, Mr Cordell Hull, Secretary of State anid that Japan has thus far given no satisfactory explanation of her refusal to allow American citizens to leave the country,

Grew See Toyoda

·SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" TOKYO, Aug.

18 (UP).—The Counseller of the United States Em- bassy. Mr Eugene Dooman, held a | lengthy conference with the Japanese Vice Foreign Minister, Mr Eiji Amau to-day prior to the conference be tween Ambassador Joseph Grew and Foreign Minister Admiral Toyoda and he returned to the Foreign Office while Mr Grew was apparently still conferring with Admiral Toyoda two hours after the conference started nt 4

p.m.

The significance or the subject of the talks have not been disclosed but obviously they were questions of the atmost importance.

Japanese Ban WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (UP).- The Secretary of State, Mr Cordell Hull to-day declined to discuss the new dopanese order barring all foreigners from leaving Japan with-" out special permission. Mr. Hull Implled that he might comment aer on the lengthy conference be tween Ambasander Grew and the Japanese Foreign Minister; however, he explained that so far he had not heard from Mr Grew,

U.S.

Navy One Down to H.K.

(Continued from Page

allowing seven Maple Leaf runs to cross the plate on five hits and three bungles. Tomashevsky's pro- digious homer driving in Wäller featured the brilliant Canadian rally in this inning.

Portugal's fourteen men team all evacuation

It is reliably stated that Mr Hull's got into the fray and from this angle

'statement

being the champions will be a strong threat The personnel will be mostly low altitude on the central mole

Foreign Office. seriously studied by the Japanese for the title once again this year. -supplied-through the -Empire: *Train-

The keystoning duo of Zinho Gosano Position "Misrepresented"

and George Sousa showed peppery ing Scheme and all will be nying the and railway sidings, starting most modern machines, he said. several fires which finally be-

CAIRO, Aug. 18 (UP)-Acest said that the State Department's and appear to be the foundation of The Japanese Foreign Office pro- form in their first pairing together Many personnel for additional came one intense blaze with cording to wholly unconfirmed announcement regarding the steamer Portugal oral hunt squadrons are already serving with flames rising to 300 feet.

In this year's the RA.F. They will be grouped

reports emanating from British President Coolidge misrepresented International with incoming trainees. ing traineen.

"A number of violent explosions soldiers who reached France the Japanese position inasmuch as it e Minister for Aircraft Produr, accompanied the fire which lit up after escaping from German ind

Indicated that the Americans in tion, Mr J. W. Leckie, after a record the whole of the harbour area. Con-prison comps, Field-Marshal Japan are being held as hostages return light in an Australian-built siderable damage must have been Hermann Goering lost both legs aratly on the fact that Japan did not

during an R.A.F. raid on enemy aerodrome.

The

Beaufort, snid, that the performance done to shipping. demonstrated the striking power of Australia's Orst-line defence,

W. C. Choy Wins

Incendiarica

an

"It is rechiled that other recent "The same formation dropped a roports concerning the alleged vicis number of incendiary bombs on bar-situdes of Goering were never con racks at Cap Passaro. These caused firmed.

n heavy detonation followed by a British officers claimed that they

U.S. Doubles Gamer which was still visible from heard the report that Goering had

when about 70 miles away on their homeward journey,

"Hurricane fighters machine-gun- ned senplanes in the harbour of Syracuse yesterday and destroyed

Cast 2-500 and severely damaged

number of others.

CHESTNUT HILLS, Aug. 18 (UP). In the U.S. National men's Doubles tennis champion- ship-to-day, W.-C. Choy, Chinese Davis Cup player, partnering "Aircraft of the South African Air Gilbert Hall, New York, won Force bombed and machine-gunhed their first round match against Wolcheft and Debarech and obtained Platt Spencer and Normants Drake, both of Brooklyne, Mass., trenches.

by 6-2, 6-3, 6-3,

been wounded from different people in the different places which they traversed,

Baron Hiranuma

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

whereas Japan had based her action

destre any sensational evacuation the procedure which might arouse American pubile, and secondly, that the United States was not willing to guarantee Japanese ships with econo- mically profitable voyages to the United States.

It is understood that the Foreign explaining the Japanese viewpoint in Office will soon issue ů statement

the Coolidge affair,

"Cause Celebre" WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (UP).-— Mr-Hull's-stand-indicated that Japan's action regarding the strand- ed Americans is rapidly developing into a "cause celebre", threatening to flimsy

TOKYO, Aug. 10 (Domel) break down the already the forts buildings and Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, Minister diplomatie relations. on

of State, is continuing to make "ex- "All aircraft returned safely fromtremely satisfactory

progress" 10- these operations."

ward recovery.

AMAH WAS NOT

(THINKS)

"WHY HAVE YOU DRESSED

THE CHILDREN SO EARLY FOR THE PARTY? THEY WILL

TO BLAME

BF HOT AND UNTIDY WHEN THE CAR

COMES ROUND TO FETCH THÈM

"MEM SAID HAVE THEM

READY 3.30, ITS JUST

THAT NOW.

WHATEVER I 00 IS ALWAYS WRONG, PLEASE LET ME GO AT THE END OF THE MONTH

"I WONDER WHY SHE IS· 50, FIRED AND IRRITABLE NOWADAYS. THERE MUST. BE SOMETHING RADICALLY WRONG, I HAD BETTER TAKE HER TO THE

DOCTOR.

AT THE

"I FIND

I AM SO TIRED. NERVOUS

AND IRRITABL NOWADAYS

IN, SICKNESS AND GONVALEUCENCE OR

YOU PERL"

WHEN TIRED ON: LISTLEBA

"I HEAR AMAN IS LEAVING.

WHAT HAS HAPPENED THIS TIME. SHE HAS BEEN 'WYISH US FOR YEARS, MY DEAR, THE CHILDREN SIMPLY LOVE HIR,"

DOCTOR'S AND SO "YOUR TROUBLE IS NIGHT HORLICKS EVERY NIGHT

STARVATION, YOU ARE NOT REPLACING 'DURING. SLEEP THE ENERGY USED UP DURING THE DAY, HORLICKS REBUILDS. STRENGTH AND ENERGY AS MANY SUFFERERS FROM SKCKNESS AND FEVER HAVE FADVED, YOU SHOULD STAR7 TAKING HORLICKS NOW. IT WILL REPLACE ENERGY WHILE YOU'SLEEP AND YOU WILL SOON

FIEL FIT AGAIN."

take

HORLICKS

"I CAN'T STAND OBSTINATE SERVANTS, RUNNING THE HOUSE EXHAUSTS ME.I SIMPLY CAN'T THROW OFF THIS DEPRESSING TIRED FEELING, AND IT's 100 MUCH TO PUT UP WITH AMANS, CONTINUAL CONTRADICTIONS."

SIX WEEKS LATER

FIM SO GLAD WE DIDNT

JOSE THE AMAN, SHE IS SO DEVOTED TO THE CHILDREN

Mr Hull did not cluborate upon the nature of Japan's explanation which he described as unsatisfactory.

I'M EVEN MORE PIEASED TO HAVE YOU BRIGHT

AND HAPPY AGAIN,

NORLICKS HAS DONE

YOU A WORLD OF

GOOD.

IT GUARDS AGAINST NIGHT STARVATION, YOU WILL SLEEP SOUNDLY, WAKE REFRESHED, AND REBUILD YOUR ENERGYZS

-HORLICKS CHANGES LIST.

LESSNESS INTO ENERGY BECAUSE IT $$.100% NOURISHMENT

Do not forget also that during sickn ness your body reede neyrichement teen though normal food. cannot be tolerated During sickness it wit

help maintain your,

strength, and in con

volescence hasten

atcontry, rebuild your wasted tissues. ové gire you new strength

*and vascas."

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Clicking off with a single run in the 1st when Choy Ping-fun sallied Gloucester Bldg., 2nd Flr, Tel. 28935 home on B Chong's bingle to centre, the Chung Hwamen added three more in the 3rd canto after Al Lau was thrown out at first on a bunt.

P. F. Choy sizzled a ner over short, stole second and crashed home on two wild throws. Rookie K: 8. Kwok walked, plitered second and crossed the plate when Bill Chang drove a stinging iriple to deep left: the bustling Chinese backslop tore in with the third run on an error at the plate. flank Chan fanned and Baby Chinn was caught stealing second for the last out in this big Maroon inning. The Leungmen added two, more runs in the next frame and cruised with single markers in the 5th and 7th, to finish off another, win-

ning ball cappers flushed out with !

Welford's

a Inst effort spurt in the last two stanzas, mushing through with two runs in the 0th when Chinese twieler A! Lau weakened in the torrid atmo- sphere to walk four batters. With the Maroon tosser in the well-known hole, two Sapper tallies sailed across the pan.

In the last frame the Engineers sgain put hurler Ai Lau in a tough spot, Tom Fox scored on Mac Shaw's single. Then, with two out, the Sappers Mied the bases, but in the tense setting. Mickey Sarsfield rolled a slow bounder to the pitcher, ending the Josers Inst-embered threat.

HOWING power galore' with the hickory slugger, Min- danno's pennant-holders pound- ed South China þurler Paul Lau for sixteen solld anfeties to take the old ball game 15-7..

Mae McKenzie, taklag over ihe Initial base in the absence of the Injured Henry Ruel, gave a finish- ed display in taking anything and everything that came his way and also came into his own at the plate to lead the champions in their dc- termined swinging attack. lanky McKenzie appears tainly for the first bage spot next season. •

The cer.

A snuppy unassisted double play featured the game in the 5th canto

when

en Tony Muscavage Look Ertilo' Moy's pop fly to Catch Dopey Lo off second.

Dividing their term on the hillock "Tony Muscavage and Ski Powlawałeł set the Caroline Hillmen down with Ove

four.

scattered bingles and fanned

Nelson Ma's snappy Fame at second was the only bright light| In the Chinese loss. The key- stoner made four assists in a starry felding show.and crossed the pan with two South China runs.

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Chung Hwa Baroons `d. Asheville-Tulan

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