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NANCY

I'LL TAKE MY LITTLE FAN ALONG TO THE MOVIES IN CASE IT

GETS WARM!

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH:

September 5, 1941,

By

Ernie Bushmiller

EXTRA FLAVOR FOR A FRACTION

OF A PENNY

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Danger to South America A CENTURY Prize Offer

Of German Colonists

Although appreciations vary as to the strength and danger of the "fifth column" in South America, there is unanimity among investigators regarding the changed political attitude of German colonists. All neutral accounts agree, and the "Christian Science Monitor's" correspondent's observations concur, that the younger generation, boys and girls normally destined to be satisfactory New World citizens, have come under the spell of racial propaganda since Hitler dominated the European continent.

Glamour Girl Killed

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OF COOK'S For Marine

Travel Agency's 'Record

Of Growth

The first excursion organized by

Invention

Thomas Cook was a cheap railway The Council of the Royal So- trip from Leicester to Loughhorough clety of Arts is offering a and back on July 5, 1841. It was an prize under the Thomas Gray good alien- Memorial Trust, the objects of artful device to secure dance at a temperance meeting at Loughborough; for Thomas Cook, which are "the advancement of then aged 32, was

the Science of Navigation and teetotaller

and secretary of the the Scientifle and Educational South Midland Temperance Associa world-famous travel agency

tent

Argent An

interests of the British Mer cantile. Marine":---- which

tlon. So began the world-wide and

las attained its centenary.

"Success Story"

Thomas Cook's rise was in the best tradition of the Victorian "success story." Born

the village

In

ex-

Take the case of that strip of southern lakeland between Chile and Argentina. Since the first settlers three-quarters of a century ago, the German-speaking population, the majority on the Chilean side, has increased to nearly 200,000. The conduct of these coloniats, especially young men and women of the fourth and fifth generations, Intimates that a victorious Germany would convert them into a serious problem both for the states of which they are technical citizens and for Pan-American stateamanship

Eleanor (Cookie) Young, 23, concerned with continental security.

first of the society Glamour Investigatora have not found among the colonists since the war. Girls, and Nicholas Embiricos,

"Afth column" has the secret airports and arms Insist that the depots, so often alleged, but for evil. None cares to commit him family, were killed when his bren exaggerated as a current power 32, member of a Greek shipping they have met with the obself as to what might happen if the Fairchild monoplane got lost in noxious Nazi-style comportment war "the wrong way" in of young Germans wherever Europe, Bombastic young Nazis claim a fog and crashed into the break-cursions for the next year or two. they have travelled, by train, they have "friends" ready to take ers off Carpenter's Bench, Metu- omnibus

over" at the appropriate ime. lake and river or

The presence of German colonists nuck, Rhode Island. steamer. But a few years ago in Southern Chile has been of im- these youths would have gone mediate value to German merchant- A guest at the Newport home of Robert R. Young, out of their way, in conversa- ment and, probably, raiders. A Eleanor's father,

yacht, and its crew were arrested in Embiricos tried to fly blind to Roose

chairman of the Alleghany Corp., tion and conduct, to emphasise Talcahuano by the naval authori- veit Feld, Long Island, although his their New World citizenship. ties on a charge of supplying Gør-

owner turned out to be a member ments. According to eye witnesses, man ships on the high seas. The Plane lacked the necessary instru- and candidate for Deputy of the the ship circled the bench several

Vanguard, Popular

of times at an altitude of 100 feet before

it hit the water, potential military value. They form National Socialist Party.

Local traders secretly supplied the Miss Young, who preceded Gloria the majority in the Boy and Gl

as the Scout troops. They are niso to the German vessel Portland which slin- Baker and Brenda Frazier

out of Talcahuano port last photographic favourite ped

of society fore in the local rifle practice clubs, month and has not since been heard editors, made her debut at Newport which are usually Government sub- of. The presence of German sur- in 1936. Later she eloped with one The real native, whom you face raiders off the Chilean const has Robert O. Bacon. She was divorced challenge on the subject in the town been alleged.

from him in 1930, or village, is surprised at the ques- tlon. For him it is just Don Federi-

Scout Activities

Another palpable development is the utilisation by young Germans of national organisations of actual and

sidised.

co or Don Carlos at his favourite sport.

ht

Last month it was discovered San Carlos de Bariloche that the Ar

Λέπιν kentine Army actually lent trucks and miscellaneous equipment for two companies of Boy Scouts who turned out to be all German-speak- Ing. Maj. Napulcon A. Irusta, who

Kind

Free French Flier, Condemned To Death, Gains Freedom

now been told.

withholding the prize or of award-

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A Prize of £50 will be awarded to any person who may bring to their notice an inven- tion, publication, diagram, etc., which in the opinion of the of judges is considered to be an Melbourne, Derbyshire, In @_tiny | advancement in the science or cottage that still stands, he started work at the age of 10 as a gardener's practice of navigation, proposed boy. Later he learned the trade of or invehted by himself in the wood-turning from an uncle and set period January 1, 1936, to De- up in business for himself at Market cember 31, 1941. Harborough.. The idea for that first

Entries which have already been excursion came to him

during

a walk

considered by the judges in the la atiend

years 1030-40

arc not cligible for cessful was the venture that he was of 15 miles into Leicester a temperance gathering. So SUC-

further consideration unless they kept busy peranging similar

have since been materially modified. The Council reserves the right of

conducted a party of 350 on a tour to Launching out farther, In 1840 Scotland. For the Great Exhibition of 1051 he carried 165,000 visitors to London from all parts of the British

rangements for thousands of visitors to the Parts Exhibition and so opental

In 1855 Thomas Cook made

the way for his first Continental tour-a grand circular tour that in cluded Brussels, Cologne, the Rhine, Competitors must forward their Heidelberg. Strasbourg, and Paris, proofs of claim, between October 1 During the early sixties his Con- and December 31, 1941, to the tinental activities extended rapidly. Secretary, Royal Society of Arts, In 1885, as he was to write later John Adam Street, Adelphi, London through many dimculties, I I got myW.C.2. Brat party to Rome and Naples, and

1940 Prize for several years our way was In 1940 the Council offered a through brigand-infested districts, similar prize. Twenty-four entries when military escoris protected us." were submitted, and the full prize The drst round-the-world tour was of £50 was awarded to Mr H. C. made in 1872 by. Thomas Cook him Walker, of Chean, Surrey, for a de- self with nine companions. It vice known as the "Portable Valve aroused such interest that The Times Lifeboat Equipment,"

self-con- commissioned him to send a series tained radio auto-transmitter, de- of dispatches describing its progress: signed for the purpose of saving life]

at .sco.

The adventure of a Free French fier captured in Abys- vistied the Scouts camp on Ulmasinia, sentenced to death by-an-Italian-court-martial, and kept Esperanza Island, in Lake Naline).

received a surprise,

in a cell for six months until the British captured Dessie, has Flag "Lost" German military music was, Only

One of many French officers who talk to was the prison chaplain, who played. The boys had service rifles left Syria after the capitulation, he spoke French. and practised throwing heavy wooden joued the De Gaulle forces and flew balls which were obvious substitutes with the R.A.F. over Abys. for band grenades. The Argentine sinia.

•

When his plane was shot down by an Italian chaser he was the only survivor of three who were machine- gunned after baling out.

Governor's Insults

hurried transfer came to Dessle

Isics.

a

Three Generations

AK-

com

of the judges, no suitable invention ing a smaller prize if, in the opinion is submitted, and in the event of more than one such improvement being approved, the Council reserves the right of dividing the amount cretion. into two or more prizes at ita dis-

rights in respect of any invention to The Council does not claim any which a prize may be awarded.

were

Three generations of the Cook In the Colony of Hongkong, in- family have been associated with the cluding the island, Kowloon

and growth of the business. The founder New Territories, during the week ended on Saturday, there were 1982, in his cality-fourth year, cava

In his eighty-fourth year, leav- altogether 113 trame accidents as the ing the direction

of affairs in the result of which four persons hands of his son, John Mason Cook, killed and 23 persons were injured. whose sons in their turn, after Johri Mason Cook's death in 1899, con tinued in control til 1924. In 1924 The prison governor invariably in-

private limited company was Ang over headquarters was flown at

sulted him, calling him "Dirty pig" half

mast. This means "lost" in the

or "Traitor," and ordering him to formed to administer the travel busi- language of Hitler organisations.

salute him in the Fascist manner. ness, with a separate limited Similar exploitation of national or-

His treatment became worse un-pany to control the banking business. canisations and equipment

The Italian military authorities

To-day the firm's normal activities from souther Chile. Both the told him he could not be treated as two days before British troops en- are perforce much curtalled by the Buenos Aires and Santiago Govern- a prisoner of war and sent him to lered Addis Ababa.

war, though continuing so far as pos- menis, however, are alive to the Addis Ababa criminal prison to face In Dessie prison, although condi-sible both at home and among over- dangers of the introduction of Ger-

were worse stili, ho made sca

dc. branches. Nevertheless, era charge of "military rebellion" un- tionn man technique and propagandn Inder the Armistice Convention with friends with a native "rebel" who partment of Thomas Cook and Son these

to tell British officers of the is exceedingly busy, having been of settlement. They Italy. arens have been especially watchful of the

enchman's pligh

officially After sentence days passed with- ..._educational establishments. More in- out

from execution. During

Then, one morning, not the gaoler sion of letter with the transmis-

private spectors have appeared to test local months in a cell he was allowed two but a British officer opened the cell dividu

to and from enemy coun- Instruction.

hours' walk daily in the prison door. Walking out to liberty the tries and enemy-occupied ter Ready To "Take Over"

French flier saw, now captive, his; The beginning of the present wor courtyard. Food consisted of ma- Central authorities, although recuroni, with a little meat from time accusers at the court-martial which confronted the firm with the formid- able task of repatriating large num- cognising psychological changes to ilme. The only person he could had sentenced him to death.

bers of oversea tourists stranded in Great Britain, besides withdrawing British tourists from the Continent.

comes

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