THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 12, 1940.
MUTT AND JEFF
MY DEAR FELLOWS, MUST YOU STAND AROUND DOING NOTHING?
CAN'T YOU INTEREST YOURSELVES IN.
SOMETHING?
IN' WHAT?
HERE! AS A PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY LET ME SHOW.You SOMETHING INTERESTING!
IN THIS PACKAGE I HAVE: A VERY FINE SPECIMEN OF A DISSECTED "
FROG!! I'LL SHOW
'IT TO' -YOU!
FROG? LOOKS LIKE A HAM SANDWICH TO ME!
Page. By BUD FISHER
NOW THAT'S STRANGE!
I THOUGHT I ATE
MY LUNCH!
RAID SIREN THEIR
LOVE SONG
For most people an air raid shelter is a reminder of war, but
to Mr. and Mrs, Stanley Ellis, of Portsea Hall, Edgware Road, Lon- .don, W., an air raid shelter is an
emblem of romance.
Mr. Stanley Ellis, whose home Was in Brokesley Street, Bow, went "down West" to see a bit of
life.
RABBIT SKINS HELPING
The rabbit is helping Britain, to pay for the war,
Sir Cecil Weir, of the Board of Trade, said that, before the war, the U.S.A depended to a lage ex- tent upon French and Belgian rab- bit skins. In June, Britain in creased its exports of rabbit skins to the USA, by thirty-eight times in one month. In July it increased its exports by twenty- seven times...
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While in an hotel at Marble Arch a warning was sounded and guests were directed to the hotel's air raid shelter:
There Mr. Ellis met his wife-W., but they had no sooner finish- to-be. It was love at first sighted the reception at the bride-
house than the groom's
sirens They got talking.
again sounded.
They spent their wedding night in the cellars underneath the house.
Three weeks later .he pro- posed to her-in the same air raid shelter. With the roar of guns ringing in her ears she ac- cepted,
They were married at the Great Synagogue, Duke's Place, London,
"And now." sald Mr. Ells ""we're spending most of our honeymoon in air raid shelters, "Still, we're not complaining. As a matter of fact, when peace comes I think I shall have an air raid shelter built in the garden as a LEARN DANCING IN 6 HOURS reminder of how we came to
gether."
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£1,111 1s. 11d. A MINUTE
It took one minute for a bar. rister to tell a judge in the King's Bench Division that a case had been settled on the terms that there should be judgment for the plaintiff for £1,111 1s." 11d,
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NEGLECT OF RAID VICTIMS
London should be ashamed of the way it is treating some of its refugee citizens, writes a reporter.
When German bombs drove them from their shattered homes, their spirit remained firm. Now, bungling officialdom is achieving more than ever Hitler could, and the people who held their heads high before the terror of the skies are becoming dispirited and dis- contented,
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This is a vital matter which the Government dare not afford to neglect.
In an East End school I saw the under which pitiable conditions some of these homeless people are living (writes a special pondent).
corres-
It was mid-afternoon, but old women and little children lay fast asleep on camp beds, trying to make up the sleep which is denied them when this building is fully occupied at night.
Jumbled Together
A varying population of between 250 men, women and 150 and billets are found for them.
there until children are housed
Some of them had been there
close on a fortnight, and despair- ingly they said that they seemed no nearer a home of their own than when they arrived.
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In the school playground is am- ple lavatory accommodation, but when shell splinters and bombs are falling no one dare use it. A single indoor lavatory has. to serve nearly 200 people,
Fish And Chips Diet
One family which has lived in this place for nearly a fortnight told me that in that time there,had been four hot meals, this descrip- tion applying to hot soup on three occasions, fish and chips on the other,
For the rest, the meals had varied between bread and jam and and corned beef,
One man of sixty-five had many days' stubble on his chin. His razor.is beneath the, ruins, of, his house and he has no money to buy, another...
I've been to all the assistance; committees I know. about, but none of them is prepared to give me half a dollar," he said. "I'm rather particular, too.
"Two roller towels are supposed to serve for all the people here. I couldn't stand that and my sona went without cigarettes to buy.one for the wife and me."
“Keep Them Away”
An
This is no isolated case, L.C.C. official who visits the pre- mises said things were almost the same at several other centres of the same kind.
"If my wife and children were: homeless," he said, "I would do anything to keep them away from such conditions as there.pla
"It just seems as though the au- thorities were taken by surprise
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