MUTT AND JEFF
HERE YOU ARE, SIR. THE FINEST SEASIDE HOTEL YOU CAN FIND!
YES, BUT YOUEEL MY DOCTER ADVISES ME ONLY TO STAY WHERE THE SOUTH WIND BLOG CI
AVELL THEN THE UP, JUST, THE PLACE! "THE SOUTH WIND BLOWS HERE, ALL
THE TIME, SIRĮ
ARE YOU SURE?--IT. [SEEMS TO BE COMING
FROM THE HORTHRIGHT
•NOW!!
ELL, YOU SEE, NOW IT'S ON ITS
BACK!
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By BUD FISHER
FRONT!
BURNS PHILP LINE
Passenger & Freight Service To
AUSTRALIA
Excellent passenger accommodation
of single cabins at no supplement. Bath and Spacious Sports Deck.
First Class Fare to Sydney:
M.V.
"NEPTUNA"
duc Wednesday, 28th September
sailing MID-NIGHT Saturday 1st October
For
SAIGON, MADANG, SALAMAUA, RABAUL
SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE.
with a large number Built-in · Swimming
Single: £47.10.0d.
Passenger & Freight Agents:
Return: £76
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.
P. & O. Bldg.
Telephone 28031
We offer you efficient inland trans-. portation service.
We own a fleet of Dodge Trucks (1938 model) and our first fleet of
10 DODGE TRUCKS
Leaves Hong Kong for Chungking
on September 25, 1938.
Special trial rates will be quoted for this trip.
社運聯國中
CHINA UNITED
TRANSPORTATION CO.
96, Connaught Road, C. Telephone.
BRANCH OFFICE,
CANTON:-170 SHA GEE ROAD. CHUNGKING —26 HBIEN MIAO I SHANGHAI
Hundreds Dead And Missing In Hurricane Disaster In America
BOSTON, (MASS), TO-DAY. THE DEATH ROLL AS RESULT OF THE HURRICANE IN THE NEW ENGLAND STATES IS RISING STEADILY, AND IS NOW PUT AT 250, AND FLOODS ARE THREATENING NEW TRAGEDIES.
-WAR RISK-
FOR SPECIE TO FAR EAST
London, To-day.
A schedule of minimum war risk insurance rates has been is- sued by the Institute of London Underwriters covering specie,
The schedule gives an outward rate for China and Japan of 20/- per cent, and homeward, 40/- per tent.
For the Straits, the Netherlands East Indies, the Philippines and Indo-China, the rate is 15/- out- ward and 80/- homeward-Reu- ter.
BRITAIN WILL NOT GIVE WAY TO NEW HITLER DEMAND
London, To-day.
Reference was made to the in-
A
Over 150 are known to be dead in Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire. and Rhode Island alone..
With hundreds also missing and thousands homeless, and damage running to millions of dollars, Pre- sident Roosevelt has ordered all the Government's agencies to give every assistance in the stricken
area.
SKYSCRAPER SWAYS
Police, Boy Scouts, Red Cross workers and National Guardsmen are engaged in clearing up the aftermath of the storm in brilliant sunshine.
New Yorkers are excitedly dis- cussing the 110 to 120 miles an hour wind which hit the city, and which is reported to have made the top of the Empire State Build- ing, highest structure in the world, sway over four inches.- Reuter.
QUEEN ARRIVES IN LONDON
London, To-day.
The Queen returned to London from Balmoral Castle by the night express and arrived at Buckingham Palace early yesterday morning.— British Wireless.
ment have accepted.
ternational crisis in a speech in "It is, I think, a fact that but Sussex yesterday afternoon by the week, a conflagration would have for the Prime Minister's visit last
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan-already started which would al caster.
most certainly have enveloped all Europe sooner or later.
Lord Winterton urged the neces- sity of keeping cool heads and clear judgment in the terrible perplexities of the present situation.
He said: "The crisis is by no means over. False optimism at the moment would be as dangerous as black pessimism:
two
“Unhappily since then European countries adjacent to Czecho-Slovakia, and a large portion of the German press, have put forward proposals which go far beyond and indeed have nothing to go with the Sudeten German question. "These countries and newspapers ""The Prime Minister is taking should be under no delusion that with him to Germany, proposals there is any foundation for the which in the circumstances, France belief that His Majesty's Govern- and ourselves believe we can ment would in any way favour honestly and honourably make and these proposals."" British Wire- which the Czecho-Slovak Govern-less,