NANCY
WHAT?..
NANCY IS
GOING TO
HAVE A PARTY HERE?
Tuesday
NOW BE CALM, DEAR- | OH, MR. SPUTTER---
I TOLD HER, YOU WOULDN'T MIND --- SO
PLEASE BE NICE
ABOUT IT/
I MAILED out all
MY PARTY INVITATIONS
TODAY---
: THIRTY OF 'EM!
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
HEM, 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 X 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 McJunct Burnbull, son of a Birmingham factory director,
He 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 grundmother.
A.R.P. By Lion Menace
Alarmed
HARROW ARP. 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 260lb. lion-18-months-old Rota-who idles his days jumping through an old car tyro in his cage,
Ita owner, Mr. George Thom-
Hon, won Ruto in a bet.
Mr.
in
Thomson wagered a friend that an exhibition by his firm Manchester would be a' record. A lion cub wus his friend's The exhibition. topped wager. all records. So Mr. Thomson got his lion:
He had a cage built in his garden, and Rota moved in.
Within a fow weeks Finger resi- denta were taking sides. Some went to the police with a petition demand- ing Rotu's destruction.
Fear Of Escapo
or
They were told that as long as the unlinal was no disorerly, palsy, insanitary, nothing could be done. -Mr-Thomson - proved-that-Rota-was
the ideal on.
the
SAFE DEPOSIT IN CHALK PIT
A BRIGHTON building society have rented a chalk pit on the South Downs for the hullding of a safe deposit.
The pit has been let by Brighton Waterworks Committee for £35 a year, for two years.
REICHSTAG FIRE HERO
Announces_His_ War Aims
Later, just before
the war. anti-Kota-ltes protested that Rota
M. DMITROV, the Bulgarian would roar horribly, might even cs- 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, bulit by the same! latest to publish his war aims. people.
They are brief enough in them- Forming the pro-Rota faction were selves ("To end the bourgeols wor the complete schoolboy population of by working-class uprising"), but in Harrow, besides all their parents and accord with the present habit M. friends. Every Sunday Mr. Thomson Dmitrov takes 12 columns of his displayed his pet, on an average, to newspaper to say it. 50 families from all over Middlesex,
Dmitrov's superb insolence when a Mr. Thomson was so tried of the lone figure set on trial for his life by continual criticism that when
war Hiller carned him admiration. To- was declared be 'phoned a veterinary
day, as secretary of the Communist surgeon and asked him to shoot Rota. International, his pleading in which. The man called and said it would be he excuses Hitler for responsibility a shame to kill such a fine animal.
for the war is mere impudence which will only create astonishment.
"Tame As Kitten"
Then A.RP. Warden Mr. G. A. Bendell visited Mr. Tharrison. He
Charging U.S.A.
Thus Dmitrov accuses the Allies of pointed out the danger of having a forcing war on Germany when Ger- lion in the distrlet If there were to many refused to make war on Russia. be a rak. Why, the lion's roaring | He charges the United States with alone would terrify all! Mr. Thom- son then tried to have the animals the struggle to consolidate her strategic defences. And he quotes evacuated, but found that
all the as an example of Russia's respect for animal homes in the country were small nations her handing over to full.
Lithuania the province of Vilnu,
<
So Mr. Bendell wrote to the Home which she seized from Poland.
Office last week.
Mr. Thomson said: "To say that
Rota is a public menace is ridiculous. Rota is as tame as a kitten."
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U.S. Parley In Shanghai
Admiral Hart Meets Ambassador Johnson
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
SHANGHAI Nov. 20 (UP)-Ad- miral Hort and Mr. Clarence Gauss, American Consul General, to-day met the United States Ambassador, Mr. Nelson T. Johnson, upon his arrival aboard the President Coolidge.
They escorted him to the US.S. Augusta where à conference is being held to-night because Admiral Hart and Mr. Gauss are leaving soon for Manila.
Mr. Johnson is going to Pelping in the near future.
Reduced Activity On Saar Front
PARIS, 20 (Reuter)-A communi- que issued to-day states that there was reduced activity on the Front..
There were a few patrola and some Lartillery, fire.
STAMP
Steel Forts Bar Invaders-So Peasants Carry On
BRITISH TROOPS DIG IN ON WESTERN FRONT
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 à 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 fortifications being pass- ed by any army, no matter thing in a modern army travels on 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 becls and late forage crops, while the British strung-broad belts of
barbed wire through their fields,
At one place I saw an optimistle peasant ploughing for next year's crop while the British were digging zig-zag trenches across his field. At another a farmer continued to build his house within a dozen yards 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
fcet walls and roof twelve
thick. Less than a hundred yards in front ran anti-tank obstacles. It wos difficult to imagine a tank, no matter what its size, negotiating this barrier, And through the periscope profecting through the roof of this particular fort i 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 felds. Just in front of his position a culvert was already mined, and could be destroy ed by touching a button.
Zig-Zagged
The communication trenches alg- zagged through the back gardens of peasants, where children played
and women were silti hanging out the washing.
The British N.C.O. In charge of this little garrison pointed out the metal container which held rations for severni weeks in case he and his men were cut off. He proudly point- ed to the supply of ammunition, and seemed confident that he and his men could hold out for weeks.
Straw was strewn on the concrete door as bedding.
By a simple movement he could operate a steel dap, erect the peri- scope, 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 a ent a week ngo." But to-day many had returned and busy markets were in progress in the town squares, doing a big trade with the Tommies.
Ingenious
Even in the comparatively narrow sector we visited on tṁmense amount of human labour has been expended in contriving the most effective and
Again to-day we passed miles of drab, olive-coloured and business- like-looking British columns, 'and at no time during the day did I see n single horse used for Army transport or a single soldier on foot-every-
rubber tyres at thirty to forty miles en hour.
An amazing feature of modern warfare is the way in which troops are concealed. Except for the necessary transport on the roads, and the troops digging defensive works, you can pass through the countryside and never realise that fens ar hundreds of thousands of men are blileted there. Even the steel helmets are' camouflaged.
Journalists in cars are instructed. to proceed at intervals of a few hun-
Saving Bombs From Bombs
Itadium
bombs are proiected from high explosive bombs at New Westminster Hospital.
Fifty feet of steel tubing,. 15 fuches wide. was sunk Into the kravel beneath the hospital during the week-end. When Hned and Anished it will provide a complete "safe-deposit" for the hospital's radium bombs and their contents grammes of radium 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 Trom a similar well al the Royal Cancer Hospital, "where It was deposited at the outbreak of war,
The tube will be the nightly home of the radium bombs and their "ide out" in the event of an air raid.
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quarters, and to make under trees or cover.
their halts
Rim To Rim During to-day's journey we passed through areas which I had known during the last war where not house remained intact, and where the earth, as far as the eye could see, we pitted, rim to rim, with sholl hules. To-day crops were being har- vested there by patient slow-moving pensants,
HOWEVER MELANCHOLY ONE'S THOUGHTS IN SUCH CIRCUM- STANCES, IT IS KIPOSSIBLE 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
Son's A.B.
RONALD HOWARD, 21-year- of film star Leslie old son 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.
now
"Though none had any previous experience of the sea, they were all signed on as A.B.'s and are 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- jented an armistice, is now convinced
that the war with Germany must be fought to a finish, Sir Arnold' has expressed his determination to "do Jila bit."
He announced that he has been passed as medically fit and is joining the R.A.F, for flying duties.
Sir Arnold saw a great deal of fly-
Baghdad in the last year.
Ingenious defences against an in-ing with the R.A.F. while serving in vnder,
five monks have cast off their
sombre black habits and gone out Tombstones Appear Fire Plug "Plugs"
into the world.
They are now chaplains with the British troops "Somewhere France."
in
In Yard
Schools
SAN FRANCISCO-Clorence Re- LORAIN-Tire plugs in front of berling was grently disturbed by the schools here will be painted in the They wear uniform and have taken International situation-ar rather an school colours instead of the tradi the rank of captain.
inferational situation. He awoke to tional red, by order of Service Direc and wo tombstones on his Inwn. Lor Paul Mikus. It was considered a One Was French and the other good way to plug' our schools,” he
"It has taken a war to sweep aside {monastle convention," the Lord Abbot,
Dom Bruno Fehrenbacher, said,
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