THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 12, 1940.
ALLIED OIL SUPPLIES SUFFICIENT
London, To-day. According to the current number of the oil industry's journal "Petroleum Press Service" the position of the Allies in respect of oil tank- ers is evidently highly satis- factory.
This Journal says: "At the beginning of the war the British Empire and France possessed a combined tanker tonnage of 3,580,000 tons, excluding vessels in Government hands, which for a further may have accounted 500,000 tons. The carrying capacity of this fleet of tankers was between and 6 million tons of oil and on a con- rounc servative assumption of six
trips yearly these vessels would br sufficient for the transport of wel over 30 million tons per year against a normal consumption for the two countries of less than 20 million tons annually.
The carrying capacity of the Allie tanker fleet has, of course, been re- duced by some losses since war be- new gan. But, on the other hand, tanker construction has been greatly Allied fleet has accelerated and the been augmented by the chartering of neutral ships.
In this connection it may be point- ed out that Norway and Holland pos- sess a tanker tonnage of 2,117,000 and 557,000 gross tons, only a small part of which is required for their own trade.
There can thus be no doubt about the adequacy of Allied oil supplies dur- Ing the first six months of war. When it. is also recalled that considerable stocks of oll were accumulated in Bri- tain and France before the war began, It will be apparent that there is no their 'oll supp!les reason to suppose will fall short of their future require- 'ments.2
NAZI PROPAGANDA FALSITY German propaganda has recently at- tempted to imply that the position of is the Allies with regard to tankers becoming serious. It has been alleg- ed, for instance, that a tenth of the British tanker fleet has been sunk: Even if this were true, the facts cited above show that the Allied position would be far from serious.
The figure given by the Germans, stated to however, is authoritatively
be a gross exaggeration, which bears no resemblance to the truth.
Observers in London regard this as yet another example of the German propaganda device of concealing home anxieties by falsely imputing the same anxieties to the Allies.--British Wire- less.
LONELY WIFE-ev
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SATURDAY AFTERNOONS
You'll be home for· lunch, won't you, Bob?
Ok, sorry, but I forgot to tell you I'm going out with some of the boys this afternoon
He's aways out, Scottie.
•Even when he's home ha hardly talks, I know I've been run-down and dull-looking, but I don't deserve to be treated,
like this!
MARY DECIDED TO TEACH BOB A LESSON ·
Dear Bob;
don't
9 know you
want me any more, so I'm going home where 9° gam wanted.
See that Scoffe gets hit food all right. Mary
MARY GOT HOME
BEFORE BOB AND BURNED THE NOTE, `THEN SHE WENT TO SEE HER DOCTOR-
neme
"Ser
right
AT HER MOTHERS HOME
You're a very foolish girl 1 You've let yourself get tired out and nervy.
"You look about fifty, How can you expect Bob to be interested.
Now you go back home and saz a
doctor!
...and, Doctor, I even wake tired
From what you tell me, Mrs. Norton, your trouble is Night Starvation. You see
even at night you go on using up.
energy in heartbeats, breathing and
other automatic actions. In your case,
this has also led to an excess of acid waste products in the blood.
All this causes you to wake tired, feel and look nin-down and
• "nervy. Recent tests have proved that Horlicks is what
people need for that ........
IMPORTANCE OF EXPORTS
LONDON, TO-DAY.
IM-
THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE STRESSED THE PORTANCE OF MAINTAINING THE EXPORT TRADE IN AN ADDRESS BIRMING- YESTERDAY TO THE
HAM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, WHICH WAS THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF MEETINGS HE IS AD- DRESSING IN INDUSTRIAL CEN~ TRES.
Sir Andrew Duncan said he realiz- ed the overwhelming importance of expansion of Britain's export tra in a long war and the government was ready to accept the challenge to the nation's, organizing power... It was to the executive committee of the recently constituted Export Coun- cil, which included export representa- tives from various Governments con- cerned with economic matters, that the Government looked in the ques- tion of organizing: for export.
The Minister stated there had been a gratifying response to the proposal to establish export groups in Indivi- duel Industries British Wireless.
SO - HORLICKS EVERY NIGHT
AND
A WONDERFUL CHANGE CAME OVER MARY
SIX WEEKS LATER,
Darling, I'm proud of you. You're so bright and gay, so full of life!
THINKE
BOB LOVES, ME AGAIN. THANK GOODNESS FOR HORLICKS
Do you feel worn out, depressed and nervy!________
Take
Do you even wake tired?
HORLICKS
Guard Against
NIGHT STARVATION
Then-yollywi 'sleep sound!
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