1949-06-28 — Page 4

SHOWING TO-DAY

KING'S

AIN— CONDITIONED

At 2.30, 5,15,|

7.20 & 9.30

P.M.

BY POPULAR REQUEST – ONE DAY ONLY

A PEASANTS

TRAGEDY

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1949.

LOW'S BLACKPOOL DIARY

MORRISON OPENED THE DEBATE ON THE QUESTION

"DOES BRITAIN BELIEVE IN LABOUR 7" BY

URCING CONFERENCE TO SHOUT"YES!",

OTHERWISE TINKER DELL WOULD SURELY PERISH

Griffiths

Gould

WITH TWO OF CHINA'S MOST FAMOUS STARS PAI YANG and TAO CH’IN Dialogue in 'Mandarin with English. Slide Translations A Yung Hwa Picture

TO-MORROW

THE

ROOSEVELT

1

STORY

The Most Important Picture. of the Century!

Released thru United Artists

BOOKINGS NOW OPEN!

ORIENTAL

Take Any Eastern Tram Car or Happy Valley Bus

·HELD OVER FOR TO-DAY BY PUBLIC REQUEST! LAST 4 TIMES 2.30-5.20-7.30 & 9.30 P.M. THE SEASON'S BEST TECHNICOLOR MUSICAL- COMEDY, PRODUCED IN A LAVISH, SCALE!

LUXURY LINER

George BRENT Jane POWELL, Lauritz MELCHOR Frances GIFFORD Marina KOSMETZ-Xavier CUGATORCH Commencing To-morrow: "WALK A CROOKED MILE”

TO-DAY

ONLY

MAJESTIC

LUNATICKLISH

At 2.30, 5.20,

7.20 & 9.20

SKEPTIC NO 2 SAID THAT THE *BUDGET PROVED CRIPPS 46

TO DE A MERE

SUPERSTITION

"WILL LAWTHER;

· AFFIRMED HIS BELIEF

BUT SKEPTIC NP3 SAID THAT HE WAS TRANSPARENT,

HIMSELF, ANYWAY.

WHEREUPON SKEPTIC NA I REPLIED

THAT THE PROGRAMME SHOWED THE

"UNREAL NATURE OF THE EXECUTIVE

ASBUT IT WAS

WHEN SKEPTICHT 4 SAID THAT ANE SEVAN WAS JUST AN

IDLE FANCY THAT TROUBLE STARTED AND LOW LEFT.

World Copyright. Be arrangement with Keening Standard.

A BRITAIN WITHOUT

BOMBERS

THERE are Britain's

W

bombera 7. That

great fleet of at By.

tacking planes which finish- ed off the war in 1946 has melted away to nothing.

Some people say we can- not afford a bomber force. that we must leave bombing to the Americans. Has such a vital decision, in fact. been made?

-IS LIKE A LION WITHOUT TEETH

Group-Captain

H.S.L. Dundas, DSO, DFC

of that old-

German bombers came within force in 1940, and caused great an ace of destroying our fighter destruction in our cities.

Germany's defeat was in evitable from the moment when our bombing achieved full effec- tivenes

CHAPMAN PINCHER S COLUMN flies out to meet Messerschmitt

„iklaht in the picture abore?

MUNICH, lantern-jawed Willy Messerschmitt, sides

Tstepping between the production lines of his fighter-

plane factory near Munich, it sounded almost like the good old days. It was this factory which, with the Luftwaffo's help, had made his name the most pulse- quickening word over to come over an Allied airman's earphones,

And now, after four years After his release his stream- stagnation, it

was alive with lined mind saiv Germany's grim meaningful, metallic clatter.

housing problem daily In- True, they were not his be tensified by refugees pouring loved warplanes that he watched from the East. He bought a being loaded for despatch. But dozen books on beuse building, they were something the Father- and quietly went to work on the land nevertheless eded des- drawing-board. His basic train- perately-prefabricated houses

for the cellar-dwelling citizens in as an engineer was helpful. But the switch to A world of more than 50 rubbled towns, where a "safe landing" no longer And Messerschmitt mused meant the exelling business of as I waited in his main office getting a jet fighter, three-point in Munich this morning-is un- into an airstrip, but simply part likely to see the Fatherland, or of a tenement stairway, was no himself, in need if drive and in- meagre montal feat. genully can help.

A winnor

.

Moreover. they

I needed only ten minutes to Bombing not only destroys the discover that housing Germans THE house-building system he production of war materials; is much

less Important to hatched up was a winner. smashes communications, · civil Messerschmitt than the personal With thin steel struts and light- administration, morale; it cuts satisfacilèn of making things in weight concrete slabs, ·hes could off an army in the field from a big way. Furthermore, if he throw up homes to procilently. central direction, denies it its had full choice, those things any size and shape. mall, ammunition. Its food, Itz füel, its would still be aeroplanes.

In a future war it will be Americans Unfair of them, and had they been not until

Had there been twice as many when that point is reached, and the that our land talent and better directed there might have forces will be needed.

been a very different ending to the war.

Questions we must face

As part.

in- fashioned Army policy, stead of spending money on bombers we are spending it on a There is quite a considerable Western Union tactical air force.

amount of British

equipment being expended on that rather nebulous force.

Many high authorities hold the view that as a main structure for defence and attack. In the. event of war Britain needs—. We know how many fighter- bombers, medium-bombers and rocket-firing planes were needed

we imagine"

1

A strong air fighter force

Island and our industries.

German bombers drove, our soldiers out of Greece and Creto. German bombers sank ship

WHAT THEN are we, as of the world Powers,

ono

se was unfair and unlawful "Ifor the Americans who away my machinery," he said

In his soft voice.

Long before the war ended, I laid plans to make civil place

for carrying perishable goods,

Wo badly need ke bananas.

with which to protect our to hold an army in position: after stup in the Mediterin doing without a bomber forco? those planes for German re-

A strong bomber force with

which to strike

an enemy where it hurts most-in his vitals. That is the quickest, per- haps the only, way in which to finish off a modern war,

Yet neither Britain nor any of the Commonwealth countries can today put more than a token bomber force into the air,

Our bow and arrow weapons.

WHY CANNOT we afford to build such a force? Because we are spending hundreds of ~P.M.~ ------ |- thousands-of-pounds-from-our-

limited money for national de- fence on weapons which are as out of date for modern war as bows and arrows.

The Marx Bros.

THE Howl-Raiser of 1946!

A NIGHT IN | CASABLANCA"

RELEASE THRU UNITED ARTISTS

Fred MacMURRAY - Madeleine CARROLL

Instead of spending money on bambers, we are spending it on Д Fleet Air

with Arm, fighter bombers, fighter recon naissance planes, torpedo bom- bers, aircraft carriers, all the paraphernalia whleb assumed Importance in a naval war fought among the Pacific istands,

Of what imaginable use cun they be against avast land Power?

The red-hats

are out again

the last war. Do

that the few plants which we and all but starved out Malta. have of this kind now could give the necessary support to hold a mall mixed army against a huge unified one, still leas.tq, ut ft forward??

2

it would be folly to suggest that there is no longer a role in war for a land army and its attendant air support. But the first weapon for winning a war is now a bomber force, and not a senborne, land-tied expodle" tionary force.

Our great peril in 1940

Reduced it

to impotence

THEN CAME the Allies turn.

ono

by

25* any

though pro-fabricated, would be as

as permanent brick-and-mortar oftair.

Messerschmitt waited until the American conquerer-phase had

given way to tober realisa

tion that the quickest way to get the Germans off their backs was to encourage German enterprise. old workraan, and eat them.ut

Then he rounded up 200 of his In his factory.

his first an

in

while three-storey,

10

I think it is time these questions covery and the Americans stili

building put up in the were faced more frankly than forbid me to make them." wo are facing them today

Messerschmitt Is of those strict of Munich, Are we justiflod in leaving phenomenal men thrown up

its sharply canted, red- bombing to another Power, how-the current : civilisation · "whö Uled roof, i

il conforma welt with ever friendly?

combine inventive ability with what remains of old Bavarian Could we not with advantage extraordinary capacity for big- grandtur. Its six flats are each

than a British prefab cut our expenditure on other scale industrial organisats they but more substantial and far

no bigger branches of the Services and Aply termed technocrats, spend the money on equipping can be the means of bringing more elegant. and maintaining an adequate the benefits of science to the flats a month by the autumn,

"We hope to be bomber force?

million as Ford has. Or they Should we not, while our jet British night bombers, after bombers are being developed war,

can be

be the mainspring of a total Messerschmitt. fold me. years of experiment and limited and I have no doubt that they success, developed an effective will prove to be the best in the had Goering's bulk behind hita TRONICALLY, if Messer-

In Nazi days, Mosserchmitt His future s technique,

world-purchase an adequate But this time he lifted himself

schmitt had not been so’big. into 'bly

business by Htle more he could have been building. the stops of his down-at-

American daylight bombers took on the Luftwaffe, and, with their escort fighters, eventually reduced it to im potence.

In the last year of the war, and particularly in the last months, the combined attacks,* night and day, of Lancasters and Fortresses manhed German resistance,

CONSIDER the part played. by bombers in the last war, German bombers smashed the Had our armlès never crossed guts out of one country after the Rhine or the Vistula or the another, allowing the panzers to Po, the war must have come to sweep in and take over.

an end just the same.

number of Suprefortresses?

These could, I am sure, be obtained on easy terms,

than

making

(300

But in fact, and terms would heel-boots-With-the end of the planes for ed

Twar, Messerchmitt's 100-million-

Underlings who

be more acceptable than a situa-mark business disappeared over his MEI63 rocket plano: were tion where the British Empire night. While he was held as a rubbed for the Westroit rocket station. But when the pro- fessor's

caso came before the Government's screening panel,

finds itself without a primary

high-level prisoner his factory weapon of war.

and laboratories were gutted for (London Express Service), reparations.

C.V.R. Thompson Reports The U.S. Scene

NEW YORK. . novelly of TV has worn off. Theatre attendance: Up,

THIS is how TV has anything.

living

affected

the habits of millions of Americans, now its fans.

Family life: Home is more WE ARE ALSO spending popular than at any time since money on an army of the the car arrived. But Jong old pattern. The red-hats and periods of enforced silence have field boots are out again

actually cut down social rela- Europe; once more the blue and llonships. red peuclis are tracing defenes Lines across the map of Flanders: and Luxemburg.

which OF

It was argued that public feeling would be outraged by the em- ployment of

of such a a notorious

name.

This view got lifle support from North Londoners when Messerschmitt was held

for questioning in a St. John's Wood flat. In spite of tumours they are organising a nation- have announced "Candy that that he was living in luxury it wide series of lectures before healthy to eat.” Sweats will there, homing Hampstead crowds

women's groups and

their feelings”..., -in- particu- henceforth contain such things expressed Iarly housewives, to convince as debittered brewers yeast, nothing more vengeful than an Sports attendance: Good at them that stocks are better than soya protein, and

calcium odd,

"Good night, bantering, tractions still draw,

wily." but poor savings banks,

carbonate, so adding tasteless enes aro seriously affected.

vitamins and proteins to every- Messerschmitt missed out be DHOTOGRAPHY: The latest ness men are advised that chocolate creams.

TIREEDOM: New York's bust- thing from lollypops to cause he would havs been useful camera, which sells for os. they can now equip their tole-

only 0.3 bosn

of a big team." "And no team in Britain or the United THE NEW hats States would 3d, comes already loaded with phones with a device

havo stomached a film for eight exposures. After will tip them off whenever

in decorated with a perfect his leadership.. taking all the pictures you send their line is being tapped.

hand

in canasta, the now There was one obvious alter- Radio Hatening: Unaffected in back the camore, and at no

rummy game which is Ameri-native to work for Russia daytime. Almost nil in the extra cost they develop the Aims: QUOW BUSINESS: The censors ca's latest craze.

"I had a really wonderful ovching.

and send back the negatives will not pass the ullo for

Grable's Reading: Book reading down and prints, but not the camera. Betty.

alm PRIVATELY, President Tru-offer from Rusdis," he told me. man is advising Democratic could not have stopped me tak

"What la "Storks Don't Bring Bables Congressmen to come out now

more, the Američans 30 percent in the first six

A throw-away Martha Raye is to be developed in favour of his national health is not much more than 100 miles of ownership 15 per..

CHOPPING: cent. thereafter, A little more Tazor will soon be on the into a top TV **The forces of Britain will newspaper reading, a little less market. It is made of wax balance "Sword in the Desert," Programme. It will

It coated cardboard, As soon as a pro-Israel Aim, Hollywood is passed this year, he says, but I

But Willy willbo campaign "Cable

dynamite of France should aggression

during next year's Congres that his peculiar ability would come.. "And I want to tell you Dears in the first six months, away blade, rizor, and

Arabia," which deals

with the

live on Communist soil. - Buoyed #ional elections: Middle that I myself will fight with but is back to normal after :

East's o

by a firm faith that his Teutonie Marie them. And K.I have to diái that,

"ITY: With stock sales at half Wilson, already getting the PECAUSE of the present neod idea of right must prevail co fighting in battle, I will die fight-Influence on children: Aver-last year's volume, Wall- build-up as Hollywood's top for dollar-pinching, a book that one day ho will be

building Ing in France,"

age children are watching TV street is sending a corps of comedienne, is expected to in- called "How to Live Within olanes again, Spoken like a soldier! But for from three to four hours, salesmen through the country herit. Rita Hayworth's "part of Your Income" has become a young-looking BORILA wonder if ho imagines that next day, which is a godsend to buky - trying ⠀⠀ to induce the little the year" in "Born Yesterday," best-seller. But the publishers feels is a bright future in the Uline the British remnants who mothers but a doubtful blessing man" « to invest

They

of it, took ils lessons to heart so country where once before from do not die with him will be to their physical wall-being. pass out pamphlets at flower TO SATISFY. the American lightly that they are losing 4d, mali beginnings he touched, the allowed to stage another Dun- Cinema, attendance; Down 19 shows, department... store exhi» passion to eat what is good on every copy they sell heights kirk?

to 10 percent even after the bits and union gatherings. And · for them, sweets manufacturers.

---{London Express Service)))

There is a sector on that his foric and fateful battlefeld reserved for British troops, gomery talking on June 5

TO-MORROW: @pon't Trust Your Husband" Listen to Floid-Marshal Mont- monina

THE MOST UP-TO-DATE THEATRE ON THE MAINLAND

': A MING, 'FRON

TIK TAUMATI

FXRNY

JORDAN RD.

KOWLOON

LIBERTY

HELD OVER FOR 1 MORE DAY!!

M SHOWS AT 2,30, 5.15, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

Aght side by side with the forces Conversation: Almost disap- the blade is dulled you throw new planning

magazine reading,

FIGHTER SQUADRON NANCY

LOMOND O'BRIEN ROBERT STACK • ICHIN RODNEY TECHNICOLORA

JOM BARDHEA - HEMIE MILUJETIN BARUL KALJU IZIOM BALED –

COMMENCING TO-MORROW

A HIT AIMED STRAIGHT AT YOUR HEART!:

MORRIS MAXWELL MACRAE BIG PUNCH

HOW DO YOU LIKE

Bound To Be Polito

YOUR NEW

SLUGGO ?

EAT AT JOE'S

SWELLEN

I LOVE TO

WALK ON

STILTS

LATER

SLUGGO KEWHAT HAPPENED

more

all

naxt

By Ernie Bushmiller

I TRIED TO:

PICK UP!

A LADY'S

HANDKERCHIEF,

BOWA

To

nat

Beta

to

1 bad wanted to go.. I

The Red SAK

not belleva

'a

-(London Express Service).

WHITE KING TOILET SOAP for BEAUTY!

WHITE KING

NAN KANG CO:-