THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 4, 1937.
RATION CARDS IN WHITEHALL "HUSH-HUSH" DEPARTMENT 40,000,000 To be Circulated Within Few Months LOVE BUG FOOD MINISTRY'S NAVY BUILDING SECRET SCHEMES
BITES THE R.A.F.
NAVY HAD BETTER WATCH OUT!
When the love bug bites the Air Force, then the Navy must watch out.
Within a few hours of Armistice Day, war-time ration cards for every man, woman and child in the British Isles had been printed by the Government.
SPEED UP
Early Orders For 14 Warships
In view of the continued scarcity the of mercantile orders due to
Forty millions of them are stored away in a high cost of construction, the ship- Judging, at least, by events block of Westminster offices-headquarters of the balding industry is eagerl at Weymouth, where, once upon a Food (Defence) Department, "hush-hush" organ-ting the last batch of
time, the bluejackets had the picisation responsible for seeing that the country is/Admiralty contracts under the 1937
of the town's pretty girls.
They will be circulated to loca authorities within a few months
Men of the Home Fleet who have not starved into submission in the event of attack. just returned from North Sea manoeuvres are complaining that they haven't had any love letters for more than a month. Because why?
Because the Royal Air Force has started a nice new camp at Woods- ford, and the handsome young airmen who can toddle into Wey- mouth every day have stolen the hearts of all the local maidens.
MISSING GIRL FRIEND
Four battleships, three cruisers, one aircraft carrier and half a dozen submarines have arrived at Portland. And their 10,000 men have been searching Weymouth for. the girl friend.
They have found her in the arms of the Air Force. Too bad, Jack, just too bad.
FINDING THE CANCER GERM
Professor's Claim
naval programme.
These orders, the vaine of wh will exceed $10,000,000 will be given out in the near future. They include:
after an announcement is made in Four cruisers of the new Fiji the House of Commons about the class, 8,000 tons, to costing secret schemes now being consider-$1,650.000 each;
ed by the Ministry of Food.
Nine destroyers of the Laforey Since Dr. L. Burgin, when Par-class, 8,000 tons, to cost about liamentary Secretary to the Board 21, 650,000 each; - A claim to have isolated virulent of Trade, asked M. P.s for $4,000 Machinery for the fifth cruiser germs in malignant growths in ? to start the Department in of the Fiji class, which is to be animals and to have then infected February, hundreds of questions laid down at Devonport will be with the germs the bodies of have been asked in Parliament manufactured by contract. healthy animals injected with a about the working of the organi It is expected that a new record virus from the growth, has been
for made before the Medical Society of
be speedy building will Representatives of the canning achieved with these sh
All Vienna by Prof.. Gerlach Dr. industry and agricultural interests construction in hand is being Gerlach is Director of the Federal have clamoured for information accelerated. Institute for Combating Epidemic about what is going on inside the and Contagious Diseases in Department, which employs 200 Animals.
He described how he had
es-
sation.
NO PROFITEERING It was working "unomcially" in- tablished the existence of virulent side the Board of Trade for three bodies in malignant tumours. He months before the - announcement
the in the House. said he satisfied himself of absolute accuracy of the through more than 1,000 expèri-
ments on animals.
results
"The trouble with the Navy boys is they are here to-day and gone to-morrow," a Weymouth blonde said. "One must use a bit of com-
Many of his hearers said mon sense over love. We are never certain when we shall see the Prof. Gerlach had made a sailors again. Airmen are a bit valuable contribution to the search
of the cancer bacillus. more reliable than that.
"It takes a lot of doing, to give the sailor the go by
they're such sports. But the Woodsford air- men are just too wonderful.”
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EMPEROR TO SELL HIS HOUSE IN BATH
Running Costs Too High
Main concern of the food -control chiefs is to prevent the
profiteering of 1914-1916.
They will have to deal with much more difficult situation than in the last war Experts have calculated that there are 5,000,000 more people to feed
.
Not an ounce of foodstuffs has been purchased, but the Department has practically "cornered" the home tin in- dustry-necessary if Britain has to live for any time on canned foods.
Plans are being completed for a wishes' gigantic wheat producing
An able seaman from HMS. R& solution said: "The trouble is that girls like a regular fellow. these days. The airmen are here for years probably, but we shall be off out to... Emperor Haile Selassie sea again in a few weeks. It's to sell his house, Fairfield, in the paign. Even the co-operation of mighty tough on us, I know suburbs of Bath, as he finds the distillers and brewers has been but it's all in the game.”
running costs too high."
sought. There will be canned beer for all
JACK CAN DANCEL
"T'm rather glad there aren't enough airmen at the local dance to go round," another bluejacket admitted solemnly.
"If there were, it seems that we wouldn't get a partner at all except in the Paul Jones.
If a purchaser is found the Em- peror will not, as has been sugges- ted, move his family, dependents.
tam
A notable example is that of the submarine depot ship Maidstone, which was to have been completed in the autumn of 1988. The de- livery date has been advanced by six months, and she will be ready for service next May.
OBJECT OF SINGAPORE NAVAL, AIR BASE
"We must make the Singapore Naval and Air Bases and the Island's fortresses even stronger watil we are fully able to resist the Straits Settlements. Sir Shen- [trouble,” declared the Governor of
ton Thomas in an address before. ex-servicemen.
The Governor made a fresh ap- peal for recruits to the Colony's Volunteer Force, which comprises Europeans, Eurasians. Chinese,
Istrong"
and belongings to the Abyssinian will leave for Moji, Kobe, Osaka, teer Air Force he said, was going
The E. & A. Steam Ship "Nankin" Malays and Indians. The Volan Legation in Princes-gate, London,, Yokohama on Sunday, at 4 pan. but will rent a small house in the centre of Bath, near the Pump Room and the railway station.
It is understood that he is sen- ding most of the proceeds of the "There are so many of us, you sales of the valuables and bullion see, that our comrades of the which he brought with him from RAF. come as a novelty, but we'll Abyssinia to help Abyssinian re- win in the end. What can hundreds. fugees in Palestine and British of airmen do against thousands of Somaliland. sailors 2
Said a Weymouth dance MC. "The girls will come back to the Navy in time. When it comes to dancing, bluejacket can circles round any aviator"
A very useful desk calendar has been issued by Messrs. Lane, Craw- ford, for the coming year,
If the Emperor takes a smaller house the majority of his deperi- dents will be boarded out else where or will go to Palestine.
Civil Service Cricket Club is holding its annual Prize-giving and Children's Christmas Tree on-De- mber 27 for members and their
with tea at 3.30 pm and
of prizes and
tmas Tree at 5 pm
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