NANCY
WHAT?-- NANCY IS GOING TO HAVE A PARTY HERE?
Tuesday
-NOW BE CALM,-DEAR-OH. MR. SPUTTER-~- 1 TOLD HER YOU! WOULDN'T MIND SO
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ABOUT IT!
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TODAY--- THIRTY OF EM?
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
HEH, HEH --- YOU MUST HAVE GONE BROKE BUYING ALL THOSE STAMPS!
November 21, 1939.
By Ernie Bushmiller
OH NO--
I GOT THEM ALL OUT OF HERE!
WHAT ON EARTH HAPPENED?
HE JUST KEELED OVER!
Baby 'Evacuated' 6,000 Miles-Across Atlantic
TRAVELLING alone across the Atlantic, unperturbed by wartime dangers of the sea, is a 16-months-old baby,. James McJanet Barnbull, son of a Birmingham factory director.
Ho is being "evacuated" to a safe area-6,000 miles away to Vancouver.
On arrival in Canadian port the child will be met by his grandmother, Mrs. James Turnbull, who has never seen her grandchild, and who has travelled the 3,000 miles across Canada with toys and baby comforts to greet him.
When the parents of the child saw him off on his lone- ly journey from a British port they were assured that the child would be specially cared for and delivered safely into the hands of his grandmother.
A.R.P. Alarmed By Lion Menace
HARROW A.R.P. WARDENS, MR. G. A. BENDELL, OF WESTWAY, PINNER, HAS WRITTEN TO THE HOME OFFICE ASKING THEM TO REMOVE "A MENACE TO PUBLIC SAFETY" IN THE BACK GARDEN OF A HOUSE IN CUCKOO HILL-ROAD, PINNER.
► The menace is a 2601b. lion-18-months-old Rota-who idles his days jumping through an old car tyre in his cage.
Its owner, Mr. George Thom- son, won Rato in a bet. Mr. Thomson wagered a friend that sin exhibition by his firm in! Manchester would be a record. A lion cub was his friend's wager. The exhibition topped fill records. So Mr. Thomson got his lion.· ́
SAFE DEPOSIT, IN
CHALK PIT
A BRIGHTON building society have rented a chalk pit on the South Downs for the building of a safe deposit,EOS
The bit has been let by Brighton
year, for two years."
Ile had a cage built in his garden, Waterworks Committee for £35 a and Rotu moved. In.
Within a few weeks Pinner res dents were taking sides. Some went to the police with a petition demand- ing Rota's destruction.
Fear Of Escape
They were told that as long as the animal was no disorerly, noisy, or. susanitary, nothing could be done. Mr. Thomson proved that Rota was The Ideal lion.
the
REICHSTAG FIRE HERO
Announces His.
War Aims
Later. Just before the war, the anti-Rala-ites protested that Rota would roar horribly, might even es-
M. DMITROV, the Bulgarian cape in an air raid. Mr. Thomson Communist who was the centre argued that the cage was as strong of the Reichstag fire trial, is the as any at the Zoo, built by the same latest to publish hia war aims. people.
Forming the pro-Rota faction were They are brief enough in them- complete schoolboy population of selves ("To end the bourgeois war Harrow, besides all their parents and by working-class uprising"), but in friends Every Sunday Mr. Thomson accord with the present habit M. displayed his pet, on an average, to Dmitrov takes 12 columns of his 50 families from all over Middlesex, newspaper to say it.
Mr. Thomson was so tried of the Dmitrov's superb insolence when a continual criticism that when
Wartune figure set on trial for his life by was declared he 'phoned a veterinary Hitler carned him admiration. To- surgeon and asked him to shoot Rota. day, as secretary of the Communist The man called and said it would be International, his pleading in which g shame to kill such a fine animal.
he excuses Hitler for responsibility for the war is mere impudence which will only create astonishment,
Charging U.S.A.
"Tamo As Kitten”
Then A.R.P. Warden Mr. G. A. Bendell visited Mr.. Thomson. He pointed out the danger of having a
Thus Dmitrov accuses the Allies of
Hon in district if there were to forcing war on Germany when Ger- be a raid, Why, the lion's roaring: alone would terrify all! Mr. Thom-may refused to make war on Russia.
son then tried, to have the animal He charges the United States with evacuated, but found that all the using the struggle to consolidate, her animal, homes [n. the country were strategic defences. And he quotes foll
as an example of. Russia's respect for So Mr. Bendell wrote to the Home small nations her handing over to Office last week.
Lithuania, the province of Vilna, which she seized from Poland.
Mr. Thomson, sak: “To say that Rola is a public mennee is ridiculous, Rota is us tame as a kitten."
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By WEBB MILLER
United Press War Correspondent with the British Army
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE. THOUSANDS OF BRITISH TROOPS-HOW MANY THOUSANDS IS SECRET-TO-DAY OCCUPY VITAL SECTIONS OF THE VAST FRENCH LINE OF FORTIFICATIONS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE CHANNEL AND SWITZERLAND.
I entered at various points the extreme Front Line positions occupied for the mo- ment by British troops.. At intervals of a few hundred yards I saw massive steel and concrete forts of a defensive strength such as existed at only a few points during the last war around Verdun.
A number of points occupied by the British consisted of mammoth pillboxes con- structed of concrete and of a strength never approached during the last war. With recollections of what happened at Verdun it was difficult to conceive this line of fortificationseing pass-or ed by any army, no matter what the weight of its artil- lery.
The Optimist
At various points in the front positions British soldiers were digging more defensive positions and gun emplace- ments. Within a few yards of these warlike activities, French peasants continued to harvest their sugar beets and lato forage crops, while the "British strung broad belts of barbed wire through their fields.
At one place I saw an optimistic peasant ploughing for next year's crop while the British were digging zig-zag trenches across hla`feld. At another a farmer continued to bulld his hause within a dozen yords of an anti-aircraft emplacement which was in course of construction.
Difficult
As a typical instance, I entered a huge steel and concrete fort with walls and roof twelve feet thick. Less than a hundred yards in front an anti-tank obstacles. It was diflcult to imagine a tank, no matter what t size, negotiating this barrier. And through the periscope projecting through the roof of this porticular fort could see other forts of equal strength which covered the entire area for thousands of yards.
In front of these positions were strong barriers of barbed wire, "Newly-dug.communication trenches led from the back positions to the strong points.
An obliging British N.C.O. showed us the armament of this particular fort, and how this or that type of gun covered 'certain fields. Just In front of his position a culvert was already mined, and could be destroy- ed by touching a button..
Zig-Zagged
The communication trenchies zig- zagged through the back gardens of peasants, where children played and women were still hanging out the washing.
The British N.C.O. In charge of this little garrison pointed out the metal confùlner which held rallons for several weeks in case he and his Enen were cut off. He proudly, point- The Government's effort to builded to the supply of ammunition, and la new "and better ormy is meeting seemed confident that he and his men
with success, especially in Free China. could hold out for weeks.
Shanghal, Nov, 20.
The better class Chinese, including oMetals and studente, are Bocking to the colours, notably in Szechuan,
What is said to be more amazing is that parents, giving up all Ideas of ancestor worship and the necessity of protecting the line, are placing their only sons at the disposal of the authorities.
As a result, numerous homes throughout Free Chinn to-day proudly display, "honourable family" plates, awarded to all families which have men volunteering for servico. -
Straw was strewn on the concrete
floor as bedding.
By a simple movement he could operate a steel Bop, erect the peri- Iscope, and obtain a clear view of the
entire countryside.
On our way to the front we passed through towns where, as an officer described it, "There was not
cat
a week ago." But to-day many had returned and busy markets were in progress in the town squares, doing
big trade with the Tommies.
Ingenious
Even in the comparatively narrow sector we visited an immense amoun of human labour has been expended in contriving the most effective and
In order to make volunteering at- tractive, frea "schools and child pro- dection bureau have been established. to chre for the families of the ro-ingenious defences against "an" "In-' crusts.-Router.
vader.
Again to-day we passed miles of like-looking British columns, and at drub, olive-coloured and business- no time during the day did I see a single horse used for Army transport
single soldier on foot-every- rubber tyres at thirty to forty miles un hour.
thing in a modern army travels on
An amazing feature of modern warfare is the way in which troops are concealed Except for the necessary transport on the road, and the troops digging defenalve works, you can pass through the countryside and never realise that tens or hundreds of thousands of men are billeted there. Even the steel tremets ure camouflaged.
Saving Bombs From Bombs
Radlum
bomba are protected from high explosive bombs at New Westminster Hospital.
LID
Fifty feet of steel tubing, 18 Inches' whle, was zimk into thà gravel beneath the hospital during week-end. When lined and finished it will provide a complete "gafe-deposit" for the hospital's radlum bombs and their contenta -6 grammes of madium salts valued at between £30,000 and £40,000.
This work has been carried out so that it may be possible to bring back Westminster's six grammes of-radium from a similar well al the Royal Cancer Hospital, where It was deposited at the outbreak of war.
...i The tube will be thenightly home of the radium bombs; and, their "ide out" in the event of an air rald.
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Rim To Rim During to-day's Journey we passed through areas which I had known during the last war where not Л house remained intact, and where the earth, as far as the eye could see, we pitted, rim to rim, with shell hales. To-day crops were being hur- vested there by patient slow-moving peasants.
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HOWEVER MELANCHOLY ONE'S THOUGHTS IN SUCH CIRCUM- STANCES, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO AVOID BEING IMPRESSED BY THE INDOMITABLE TENACITY OF THE FRENCH PEASANT WHO GOES ON PLOUGHING FOR NEXT YEAR'S CROP WITHIN A FEW YARDS OF WAR
'My An
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RONALD HOWARD, 21-year- old son of film star Lealle Howard, was working one day as a reporter on the London "Sunday Chronicle"; the next he was an able-bodied seaman in the Navy.
"A few days after war broke out Ronald and two friends who were at Cambridge University with him de- elded that they would join the, Navy and stick together like the Three Musketeers," said his father.
"Though none had any previous experience of the sou, they were all signed on as A.D.'s and are now. serving in a yacht which was taken. over by the Admiralty."
Urged Armistico But Changed His Mind
LONDON,--Sir Arnold Wilson, 55- year-old M.P. who on Oct. 10 advo- pented an armistice, is now convinced- that the war with Germany must be fought to a finish. Sir Arnold has expressed his determination to "do his bit."
He announced that he has been passed as medically at and is Joining the R.A.F. for flying duties.
Bir Arnold saw a great deal of Ny- ing with the R.A.F. While 'serving in Baghdad in the last year.
sombre black habits and gone out Tombstones Appear Fire Plug "Plugs":
into the world.
They are now chaplains with the Brilish troops
France."
"Somewhere
In
They wear uniform and have taken the rank of captain.
"It has taken a war to sweep aside monastic convention," the Lord Abbot. Dom Bruno Fehrenbacher, said.
In Yard
Schools
SAN FRANCISCO-Clorence He- LORAIN-Fire plugs in front of berling was greatly disturbed by the schools here will be painted in the international situation or rather an school colours instead of the tradi find two tombstones on his lawn, tor Paul Mikus. It was considered a International situation. He awoke to tional red, by order of Service Direc One. was French and the other good way to plug' our schools," he Chinese.
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