THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 11, 1940.
MUTT AND JEFF
MUTT TOLD ME IN ORDER TO BE A SUCCESSFUL HOUSE-TO-HOUSE CANVASSER YOU MUST KIND OF EDGE YOUR WAY IN THE MINUTE
THE LADY OPENS THE
DOOR!
LADY, CAN T INTEREST YOU? IN-- - OUCH!
MUTT, I'M GONNA
QUIT! I CAN'T. STAND THIS KIND
OF A JOB!
WHY? WHAT'S THE
MATTER?
EVERYTIME I'D STICK MY HEAD IN A DOOR THE LADY WOULD
SLAM IT SHUT LON MY BEAN!!
You.POOR BOOB! A SALESMAN DON'T STICK HIS HEAD IN THE DOOR! HE PUTS.
HI3 FOOT IN!
Page
By BUD FISHER
"YEH, I KNOW, BUT
I WASN'T TAKIN ANY CHANCES! I HAD ON
MY NEW SHOES!
10,39
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PROBLEM OF WINTER
TRAFFIC
winter.
PICKED UP SECRET
IS IGNORED
BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT WALKING ALONG Bruton-place, Bond Street,
The Minister of Transport (Col. London, W., Mr. S. Smith, motor-car salesman, saw J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon) has a folded piece of paper lying in the roadway. Casual- 'set up a special committee of traffic experts to solve the pro-ly he picked it up. He discovered that it contained blems of transport during the the copy of a telegram addressed to the Admiralty, On this committee, who have Whitehall, giving particulars of the movements of a already met, are representatives cargo ship from South Africa, including date of de- of the Ministries of Home Se- curity, Health and Labour, and parture for Britain. traffic chiefs from Scotland Yard and many local authorities.
Their object is to re-arrange traffic facilities in the light of new conditions that will be created by air raids and earlier hours of darkness and to create emer- gency machinery which may be put into operation at a moment's notice in any part of London.
Many Proposals
No final decisions have yet been reached, but the committee are considering many proposals daily.
Already London Transport have a pool of 600 buses for emergen- cies, which can be switched about 'where and when required.
: One suggestion being consider- ed by the committee is that this fleet should be increased by some of the many hundreds of coaches and charabancs which have been lying idle since war began.
Another idea under review is closer cooperation between all the
main-line railways and London Transport Board with the possibi- lity of inter-availability of tickets. between them all,
It is likely that pre-war Green Line coach services will be fully restored by double-decked buses as many coaches are still being used by the Government on am- bulance service.
It is certain, too, that peak hours of travelling will change with the conditions; the various services will cooperate with business pre- for new rush
mises to prepare hours.
The question of speeding up trains now limited to 15 miles an hour during Alerts has also been considered.
This is unlikely to be changed, because increased speeds would means increased "flashing" from electric trains and steam trains would have to increase the size of their fires which might make thém, visible by flames from their smoke stacks.
OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD
་
Mr. Smith, who is employed in Bruton Place, immediately tele- phoned the Admiralty telling them of his important find.
He was told someone would collect the document at once.
- That was at 11 a.m. The telegram is atlit unclaimed.
“I Am Amazed”
But the Admiralty will be glad to, learn that--unlike the original owner of the telegram - Mr. Smith is keeping it safely under lock and key.
Mr. Smith is a busy man, and has no intention of wasting his time running after -the Ad miralty.
But he does believe that the public should be told of the lax attitude of their servants in Whitehall.
Mr. Smith said: --
"I am amazed and disgusted to think that the Admiralty could not spare
one of their many messengers to collect the copy of this, telegram. "The Government slogan is, 'Careless talk costs lives. They should change 'talk' to 'of- ficials!"
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crustaceans
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glucose..
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fruit
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delly
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goddeia
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particle
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platform
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containers
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humorist
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sheep
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