THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 24, 1941.
MUTT AND JEFF
"COME ON, YOU) SEVEN!
JEFF JUST WALK OUTSIDE AND SEE IF THE SARGE IS AROUND ANYWHERE!
SURE!
SNAKE EYES! I WIN THAT! COME TO PAPÁ!
THIS GAME IS "DARNED NOISY! 'I'LL FEEL BETTER WHEN JEFF GETS BACK!
MUTT, I COULDN'T FIND THE SARGE
BUT I GOT THE GENERAL
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By BUD FISHER
GUARD HOUSE
GENERAL DE GAULLE SETS UP NATIONAL COMMITTEE
GENERAL DE GAULLE, head of the Free French forces, announced yesterday_the formation of a Free French National Com- mittee to act as trustees for France until a constitutionally representative Government is established.
Announcing the committee General de Gaulle said it would be a matter for the Unit- ed States and other nations to decide whether the new Committee would be. recognised in- stead of the Vichy Government.
French delegation of the
national
in. Dealing with the Free
handen Defence Council under the new terest, which would be National Committee. General de back to the national representa - Gaulle said the war had shown tion when that was possible. - the necessity of decentralisation Reuter.
and
its
the modest way had met the same need, recognised by the British Government when they Singa- sent Mr. Duff-Cooper to pore.
Defence Council in
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RED CROSS FUND BENEFITS
IF THE NAZIS REACH THE CAUCASUS
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
The London "Daily Express" and the B.B.C. yesterday stat- ed that British troops will fight beside the Red Army if the Nazis Caucasus. reach the -International News Service.
AMERICANS
JOIN ARMY
General de Gaulle added: **I would like to make clear our posi- Sir Courtauld Thomson. Chair- tion regarding the constitution man of Red Cross sales, yesterday and laws of the French Republic. handed a cheque for £30,000 to That constitution and those laws the Duke of Gloucester's Red have been violated first by the Cross and St. John Fund. In- invader and then every day by cluded in the amount, which com- the accomplices of the invader prises the proceeds of Red Cross
sales, is £700 realised by
fist at the RE- King's gift of wine
Ten thousand U.S. citi- the Red Cross wine sale. With addition of this cheque the Duke zens are now serving in of Gloucester's Red Cross and St. John Fund was increased by £32,- the Canadian Army.
at Vichy.
"THE FREE FRENCH COGNISE NONE OF THOSE VIOLATIONS."
Hence the Free French. he add- ed, were obliged to exercise de facto authority,
tantamount to 926.-British Wireless.
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He added that Americans make up eight per cent of all air crews, pilots, observers arul gun- training under the Com. monwealth Air Training Scheme, while 600 Americans were acting as instructors at training cen- tres.
Mr. Thorson said the strength of Canada's active servic4urmy to-day numbers 30,000 men. Reuter.
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CAPTAIN SIR HERBERT PAUL LATHAM, AGED 36, FORMER M.P. FOR SCARBOROUGH "AND WHITBY, WHO WAS RECENT- LY TRIED BY COURT MAR- TIAL, HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO BE CASHIERED'. 'AND' (M- PRISONED FOR TWO YEARS WITHOUT HARD LABOUR. MAN Capt Latham, who was attach- ed to the 70th Searchlight' Regi- ment of the Royal Artillery, harl been found guilty on 11 charges under the Army, Act, 10 of them alleging disgraceful conduct of an improper kind while on active service and the eleventh attempt- ed suicide.
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