1948-01-05 — Page 2

MOSLEY SUCCests to Home" SKLKETARY CHUTER, EDE THAT THE NEW UNIFORM OF HIS SUPPORTERS SHOULD BE LIKE THAT OF THE POLICE, SO THAT IN FUTURE THEY COULD KEEP ORDER AT THEIR MEETINGS

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SCANDAL

"AN IDEAL HUSBAND"

IN COLOUR BY TECHNICOLOR

STARRING

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1948,

PAULETTE

GODDARD

*

MICHAEL

WILDING

PRODUCED & DIRECTED BY ALEXANDER KORDA

IDA LUPINO

TO-MORROW

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GREENSTREET

IN

WILLIAM PRINCE

“PILLOW TO POST ”

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At 2.30, 5.15,

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'She Sings?!

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MARC PLATT ROLAND CULVER JAMES GLEASON LOWARD EVERETT HORION ADELE JERGENS GEORGE MACREADY WILLIAM FRAWLEY

Directed by ALEXANDER HALL

A DON HARTHAN PRODUCTION

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"KITTY ??

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Starring PAULETTE GODDARD RAY MILLAND A Mitchell Leison Production

ALHAMBRANDTHEATRE

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GARY INGRID SARATOGA COOPER BERGMAN TRUNK

with FLORA ROBSON

OPENING TO-MORROW

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WARNERS'

IDA LUPINO

She's a Lady Wolff

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The Fat Man's a how!!

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PILLOW & POST

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OLD LOW'S ALMANACK

(Copyright In All Countries)

Arabs claim armies

JERUSALEM.

PROPHECIES for 1948

MALAY PIRATES ARE ACTIVE

By DAN L. THRAPP

OUT of the hot, still and perfumed East Indian night, while heat lightning played about the forested hills of Malaya and Sumatra on either side of the Malacca Strait, a green and black motor launch, its engines muffled, slid alongside n lumbering sailing junk.

Before the crew of the junk could take alarm, a boarding party of Chinese and Malays, brandish- ing pistols and cullasses, swarmed aboard. They took US$30,165 worth of cash and raw rubber off the Falling. vessel and allowed it to fade emptily Into the still night.

It was on November 12, 1947, and the junk, M.4747, hound for Singapore from Sumatra, was just four miles off the Muar coast when she was boarded. The incident was one of many reported to the Colonial Office in London recently, in- dicating that piracy, for thousands of years the right and special forte of Malay scamon, had again come into its own.

Piracy has spread over many of the dangerous sens of the vast East Indies and up the China const beyond Hongkong, where a Dutch vessel· was stopped recently in the boldest act of piracy on the high sens since Jean Lafitte left the Louisiana const for Yucatan.

two secret

ready

are

The British authorities have organised motor boat patrols to combat piracy in Malay waters, the Colonial Office said.

But coastal shipping among the myriad islands of the Far East cannot be entirely safe from during pirate raids unless the motor bont patrols are con- siderably increased. The pirates, who direct their operations mostly against coastal and fish- ing craft, so far are not or-

HANDS FULL

and smoking, hardly deigning Arab terrorists held it and the On the other side an Arab ple-ganised and acem to operate S the aeroplane which had to glance at us.

British Army under General ket armed with heavy sticks metsingly, with no pirate "chief- brought me from Paris

O'Connor had to lay on a re- me. They were most suspicious.tains" in the Conrad vein. We passed, and nowhere could

Inan who cireled over the const plain

gular siege and storm assault to Some one brought up a of Palestine to land at. Lydda, Iso much as suspect the pre- recapture it.

And

came again I found the same spoke English.

"Are you Jewish?" as the question,

The Marine Police Force, re- thought how prosperous, how sence of an ambush party, all

atmosphere of tension now Industrious, and how quiet and looked so peaceful and con- then

tented..

When I told him I wasn't they all organised since the war, is again penecful this country looked.

The previous night, the police became most friendly and escorted based on Penang, a small island Malacca But only an hour later a told me, there had been shoot- me in a mols through their narrow at the head of the

Strait. It has had its hands Jewish bus driving down this ing as Arabs from their quarter alteys and pointed out to me

full, both on the east and west clandestinely printed poster pro- claiming a holy

"the coasts of Malaya. war against Jews and all those who help Jews."

Cars and lorries were bustling along the smooth British-built macadam rouds, Arab peasants worked skilfully and tilled the fields, while homesteads in the Jewish orange plantations shone cheerfully in the sun..

In the distance I could see big town settlements.

How could there be trouble here, I thought.

And then I landed. "Are you

a Jew?" a British immigration ' officer asked politely. It was a routine question, he apologised.

Sefton Delmer's

NEWSMAP

which he was compelled to ask same road was ambushed and of the city raided Jewish quar- all European passengers. That shot up. A woman was killed. convinced me. I was indeed in the Holy Land, where war is holy and where war is race war, and always has been from the time when the Jebusites fought the Hittites and Amalekites.

From Jerusalem I telephoned a Polish friend of mine in Tei Aviv whom way back in Sep- tember 1939 during the German invasion I had carried out from

$

#

the

Ten cases of piracy, used to des- cribe all cases of robbery on water except on inland waterways, were the The poster, so

Arab who reported from the Malayan cast translated it for me sald, asked for coast during 1947, the Colonial Oce volunteers to go to Syrla and be said. The latest one was on July trained there for the Arab llberation 27.

army.

"We have two secret forces But on the west coast the situn- ready now in the Old City," he said. tion is "much worse." There have "They will go into action when the been 46 cases of piracy or attempted signal is given."

piracy' reported to police during the year. Many took place outside the A British police officer whom three-mile limit. Some occurred in spoke to confirmed that the Arabs, Dutch territorial waters, but were had underground forces ready in the reported after the vessels concerned reached Malayan ports under British control.

Old City.

"Don't think they arc fully equipped yet," he said, "but they are getting arms all the time from Syria, and we can't stop it."

bound ports

The lotter

ters, and the Jews fought back.

CHOOSE RUBBER Now it was quiet, but after dark

During November, three cases of piracy and one attempted case were it will probably start all over ngain.

"Once the show starts in cornest," reported to the police.

occurred on November 1, off Batu he said, "it'll go on until we get out, Laut, when a motor launch painted Ringlet-curied Jews in long black and God help those who take over sea green tried to intercept a govern- couts stood fearful in front of their from *us.

Short of exterminating ment launch bound half-closed stalls waiting for what one side or the other I don't see how

for Tanjong I had to wait two and a half Warsaw with his wife in my was to come.

Tuan, The iron gate to the they'll ever get peace here."

the night. Malacca, during hours-for-n-car to take me into-car to Rumania, thus saving him-Arab-quarter was locked and Jews

The government craft outran. The pirate vessel. Jerusalem from Lydda. "Cars from the gas chamber.

and Arabs Ilving in houses on either can get is the peace of desolation. So the only peace the Holy Land

On November 21. motor craft are afraid to come out here," 1

side of it had been moved by British Au ugly prospect.

for Singapore from Sumatran was told. "They are afraid of

police.

was stopped at sea by a motor being attacked."

The British authorities have de- launch, also painted green like the A blue-coated sergeant stolidly cided to allow the Jewish laganali sea and black like the night. patrolling this No-man's-land with to establish an armed civic guard inagulated rubber worth US$3,402 was.

tommy-gun at the ready showed the Jewish area-and the Arabs a stolen. me windows from which suipere similer armed force in the Arab area. Rubber apparently is the most do- were waiting to shoot and throw

sired booty. During October That seems to hand-grenades.

not only the Siamese bont bound from Slam to first move to the implementation of Penang was said to have been robbed Then he showed me a hole in the certain we will see the same blood four other piracies reported during partition, but the first move to make at $11.000 worth of rubber. The

the Jewish to the Arab quarter. as we have seen on their exit from ten, 20 and 30 miles respectively off passed through.

India.

the Malayan coast.-United Press.

"De-

"My dear friend,” he said, "I want to see you. But you must "By whom?" I asked.

not come to Tel Aviv, it is too pends on whose car it is: by dangerous. There is shooting Arabs if it is a Jewish car, by all the time... Jews if it in an Arab car."

Jerusalem's Old City, which

me

Co-

a

All seemed quiet enough as I went for a walk through In the porches of their houses 1 remembered 'well from those wall through which I could pass from bath on the British exit from here October occurred near Salungar, five.

we drove along the rond,

ent white-robed Arabs chatting autumn days of

W

1938 when

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

TE left Major Rolling listen Standoffish

ing among the rocks, and Sergeant

their dislike of a play in a more direct and virile manner than the critics, They are for ever whining Bulkey scrambling DEAR MR GRAMPOUND, over them. Presently the Ser- that it is not quite clear from your

Miss Slopcorner asks me to say about the theatre being dead, but any uproar of healthy criticism (un- geant came to a sandy space letter whether your request for her less it is favourable) makes them between two rocks, and noticed photograph is personal or official. sull

sulk for weeks. The only excuse n kind of deep cavern in the She wishes to avoid a repetition of for them is that they sit in the stalls, sand, which disappeared under an occurrence last month. She re- and are therefore surrounded by the plied to a request for her picture friends of the management and of a big rock.

from the Mayor of Tretoothpic and the players, who think it bad man- Pengullion, a Mr. Rasper. Thinklag nera to boo, or even to shout ap- It was for too large to have been it was for official use, she wrote on proval too heartily before their AT 2.30, 5.20, dug by children, and as he leaned it, "With all my loving thoughts." bouquets are handed up.

over from his ledge he heard dis- But the Mayor hung it in his dining- p.m. hammering coming from the earth's

tinetly certe sounds of clanking and room.

STUART ERWIN • JOHNNY MITCHELL RUTH DONNELLY. LOUIS ARMSTRONG Directed by VINCENT SHERMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA

SHOWING

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7.20 & 9.20

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M-G-M's

gay, exciting

*Picture of

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Love under tropic/

· staral Latin rhythmna!

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naid But

I awalt your answer.

Your faithfully, - AMY CARBOYS, Secretary.

core. He called to the Major, who soon joined him. "Look," Bulkey, pointing to the hole. the Major had heard the sounds.

In Passing "That's no-message," he said. "It's

mansier In

Lit-tle Bo-Pest

·D

AD-DY, why can't they just

ab-ol-ich the vé-to?

Well, boy, some-bo-dy, would ve-to its ab-pl-it-i-on,

"Might be a washed up white lair DRAMATIC critics, who are paid could veten som

All right, Then some-bo-dy else

That would lead to ev-en that ve-to be-ing ve-to-ed.

Why, dad-dy?

to go to the theatre, and get Bulkey. "That is unlikely," an comfortable seats free, always löse swered the Mojor. "We must get their tempers and their sense of some men together and investigate," humour when the people who have. he continued.

paid for uncomfortable seats express Go to sleep.

We can't go in-to all that now.

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Across

..

4. He comes from a loan work. (8)

Portion of games by the sid

Gätung, (7)

10.. Cont of having tes away from say

foto 15),

11. Carry. (6)

12. Europeau' lancer. (5)

13. Bupport for the nose. (7)

14. Any innocent person has a right to ba, fo 17. Potulant. (8) 18. Btoplight. (3), 19. Hatened. (31 20. A lot Goss this on 13. (7)

Down

I drag fuel (anag.), (4-5)

Buchman could not be ambi dostrous, (3-0)

3. It warning has saved many sea-

farers. (9)

4.

in from the corner. (3) ·

6. In a way the feet upsets tha

SOA. (5)

0, Delayer. (0)

8. When referring to the norvos

you see ale run. (0)

9. Shakespearo refata to second :childhood as this teeth, eyes and

10. More Water-bottle. (a)

than large. (4) 10. The undedged hawk. (4).

5

ESTHER WILLIAMS

trs

TAMINOFF • CHARISSE JOHN ALERT FORTUNIO CARROLL ASTOR BONANOVA

AND INTRODUCING

RICARDO

MONTALBAN

(He's the soreen's new

played a @dangerous"

game).

NANCY

Turnabout

STOP LOOKING OVER

MY SHOULDER

CANT STAND ANYBODY LOOKING OVER MY SHOULDER WHEN IM DOING SOMETHING

By Ernie Bushmiller

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