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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 4, 1940.
"MUTT AND JEFF
THERE, ITS FINISHED NOW I'LL GO TELL
JEFF ABOUT IT!
1
JEFF I WANNA" SHOW YOU MYNEW INVENTION! JUST BY PRESSING A BUTTON I NOW. CAN HAVE MY BATH RIGHT IN MY BEDROOM IF I LIKE!
YEH?
SEE, SIMPLY BY PRESSING THIS BUTTON. THE BATH TUB, FILLED WITH WATER; MOVES RIGHT INTO THE BEDROOM!
NOW, WATCH!
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HAMPERS FOR THE GERMANS
A CIRCULAR DISTRIBUTED IN BANGKOK, ADDRESSED TO "ALL GERMANS IN THAI-
LAND," EXPLAINS A SCHEME FOR SENDING "PRESENTATION
† GERMAN CONTROL OF
EUROPEAN FOOD RATIONS QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
A Correspondent in "The Times" analyses the conditions in Europe in relation to the British block-. ade. His conclusions are reinforced by articles on German control in France, Belgium and Holland.
The Correspondent, in. the has been grossly exaggerated; but, HAMPERS (STANDARD AS-course of his review, writes:- it is necessary to distinguish be
tween short-run prospects during SORTMENTS)" TO GERMANY. To-day the producing and con- A BANGKOK FIRM RECEIVES suming unit to which the block-the coming winter and the longer ORDERS AGAINST CASH PAY-ade applies is, with minor modi-run. It the longer run during the MENT IN TICALS FOR DE-fications, the Continent of Europe, next few years, Continental pro- LIVERY FROM SHANGHAI, almost the whole of which is al-duction can reasonably be expect- lied to Germany or occupied or ed to approximate to normal con- sumption. There will be no sur- Three typical standard ham-economically dominated by her. pers include Java coffee, tea, co- Germany is now assured of plus to be wasted or diverted to industries. Careful coa, lard, and powdered egg adequate supplies of iron and munitions yolks. A special hamper, costing bauxite, but her supplies of many planning of consumption and dis- $3.75
tribution will be required, includ- coal, (gold). contains washing other vital materials--oil, and kitchen flake and powder textiles, rubber, and certain ing some adjustment of customary. soap, and toilet, bath, and shav- minerals have not been sub-diets, but unless there is a succes- ing soaps, specifying certain well- stantially increased, while the de- sion of bad crops the total supply mands on them have become much of essential food should be ade- greater. But their most dramatic quate or nearly so. Poverty and, problem which arises concerns autarchy have combined since the the Continent's supplies of food. Is last War to make the Continent It true, as we have been told by almost self-sufficient.
known brands.
LEARN DANCING IN 6 HOURS certain people on both sides of the What has been said relates to
Atlantic, that Europe faces star-more or less, normal conditions, to Rapid easy lessons. Be-vation? For the purposes of this the sort of conditions which might ginners
speciality study the Continent in taken to be expected in 1941 or 1942. The Advanced course. Modern include all European countries position this winter is complicated Ballroom Dancing. Tango,
with the exception of the U.S.S.R., by the fact that the 1940 crop is Tap. Expert Tuitica. Tel. 30933.
Turkey, and the British Isles.
well below normal in most parts of the Continent, due to the TONY'S DANCE STUDIO "Grossly Exaggerated" severe winter and late spring, labour shortages, and some des- Stated baldly, the principal con-truction by fighting, The U.S. clusion is that the danger of gen-Department of Agriculture estim- eral starvation on the Continentates the 1940 wheat crop at
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80 per cent. of normal consump- tion, and while no estimates of are available, it is other crops probable that they are down in something like the same propor- tion Matters would therefore be serious, although not quite des- Iperate, if there were not abnor- [mally. large stocks available to
offset the deficiency.
Hitler's Responsibility
It is possible to conclude with some confidence that at the be- ginning of the war total stocks of grain in Europe were well in excess of a normal year's imports and that they have not yet been substantially reduced. Grain con- sumption could certainly be main- tained at 90 per cent. of normal during 1940-41, while leaving a carry-over to meet a future em- ergency. Stocks, like crops, are not evenly distributed. Most were been accumulated or have now
seized by Germany, Almost all If are now under her control. she does not use them where they be are required the result will local famines.
That is the crux of the matter. The fact that there is enough food produced or stored on the Con- tinent to meet subsistence needs, this winter and in the. future, does not mean that nobody. will. starve. It merely means that. nobody need starve, that deficien- cies in some regions can be offset by surpluses or stocks elsewhere..
the There will be shortages in Low Countries, Poland, Norway, and parts of France. Whether or not they are made good depends upon the decision of the Reich. The legal and moral responsibility. rests with Hitler, Professor Goodhart demonstrated recently, but he may refuse to assume it, as on aid to his anti-British pro- paganda, in the hope of embit- tering Anglo-American relations, or simply because he does not want to use up^ German" reserves for this purpose. If he does adopt this policy, and local famine results, it is important that the world should know, that German. boasts of ample food supplies, while not literally true, are truc enough to enable Germany to sustain the people sho has con- ¡quered.
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