NANCY
Y! SAY SLUGGO HAS, A NEW GIRL
FRIEND
mu
YEP HERE'S A
HM--- SHE'S « VERY PRETTY!
PHOTO OF
HER---
Friday,
SHE LOOKS LIKE AWFUL.
TOUGH COMPETITION!
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 14, 1940.
By Ernie Bushmiller.
YES IT LOOKS PRETTY. HOPELESS--- BUT I.
HATE TO GIVE UP
WITHOUT
TRYING-
TATEL WIN, HIM BACK
SOMEHOW--- NO GIRL CAN MAKE
A DUMMY OUT
OF MEX
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Two New Moves on the Home Front
Checking the
Black-Out
Food Ration Watch To Be
Racketeers
Tightened
Up
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TWO new moves on the Home Front are announced. There is to be a tighten-
ing up of rationing and a stricter watch for lights in the black-out.
Officials of the Ministry of Food are launching a campaign to stamp out rution- ing abuses. While the Ministry is satisfied that in general the regulations are ob- served, there are shopkeepers and housewives who still evade them.
ARABS AND JEWS, laying aside their political enmity. have volunteered to`serve toget her in the same contingents of the B.E.F. Here we see one contingent of these volunteers boarding a train en route for active service.
MAGIC OF DALMATIA
(Continued from Page 5)
same limestone, to which the has
given a pale nige like China tes.
And with clumps of purple flowered
U.S. Plan Swap Sea Routes
eaper (it is the unexpanded bud we MR. JOSEPH KENNEDY, the
use in cuper sauce) growing out of the wall around his head, the patron saint of Dubrovnik still stares froin
his niche over the blue and silver
of the Adriatic.
A learned book on Dalmails. by way, declares that this Sveti the Vlaho (or St, Binise) is also patron,
where?-of, Bradford. saint-guess One can hardly doubt where Sveti It Vinho feels more at home.
BA * *
South of Dubrovnik the coast grows rlcher still. The olive or- chards and cypresses climb higher an the mountain, and even on the hot-
United States Ambassador, is bringing to London a plan to "swap" some shipping routes with Britain,
lo
d
There are tradesmen wito let customers have more than their fair share. There are others who charge more than the fixed price.
More and Marc
Prosecutions
Figures shme that month by month (Ow Monistry's, enforcement stall of! 1.700 inspectors is becoming more Fastive. Fun October to February
there were
prosecutions, in March the estimated total vas about) 200; the pures for April and May! was very much greater
After a conference with Mr. Cordell
Hull, he told Reuter's Washington i
the correspondent that
scheme would put idle United States ton-
work
work again. involve routes far from the war zone from which British ships were already being removed to carry war material elsewhere. Mr. Kennedy sald possibilities for In- creased United States timber ex- ports in Britala were also 'Involved In the scheme.
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Practically, all the prosecutions have been against traders Convie- tions were Meured in nearly every East
Local food communitiees have been told to tighten the regulations, and; tu ulilise the services of the army of pus actors to the full.
Criticism has been raised" states
Ministry, "of
the so-called Gap methods of food enturces tent officials, The methods are those usually employed in investigat- ing infringements of the law where there is a passibility of collusion on the part
of the public.
"They are designed in the interests of law-abiding citizens, an over- whehning majorly who otherwise would be penalised:"
People who believe they have been overcharged or treated unfairly should inform their local food ofrer. Lights-are-Worst
In-the-West-End.
The better black-out drive will be
EVERY DAY the Queen plays her important part on the Home Front in the fight against the Nazis. Here she is shown aftending Christies famous auction rooms in London, where articles were sold on behalf of the Lord Mayor's Fund for the Red Cross and St. John Ambulance,
Leopold Has
Pro-Nazi
noticed first by Londoners. Pulke in 13
some areas are already calling on offenders and orderng them to un- prove their black-out arrangements within 24 hours.
Hundreds of houses and fots, especially in Kensington and May- fair, where the stuckness is said to be worst, have already been visited.
Springcleaning is blamed by many people. They explain that they take down curtains in bedroom or slf-
Advisers
PARIS THEORY
From VICTOR SCHIFF
PARIS.
KING LEOPOLD has returned to his palace in Brussels, according to a report from the Belgian frontier.
ting room and switch on the lights for a few seconds at night before they realise there is no screça. spring curtains in lighter shades, bitterness felt against Leopold by Belgians. Some housewivca, buying new Second thoughts have not tempered the forget they are not so effective.
Light in an uncurtained room can be teen five miles away by planes. 10,000 feet up.]
Blind Men Make Nets For
Camouflage
TO-DAY 120 men who were blinded by the Germans in the
test day a small evening wind rustles much of it into a Yugoslav navallast war are wielding shuttles
down and cools the pension visitors mase. ****
at their dinner under the vines.
There are exquisite villages, Mini,
*
in their homes or in-workshops to make netting for camouflage purposes.
in Paris.
Belgian Socialist sources are alleging that since the invasion began his chief concern was to save his Crown.
Leopold, I was told, has been un- der three main influences.
First
Cermin Baroness
is
a
beautiful German baroness, with whom he used to spend holidays Lavandou and other resorts.
at
LEOPOLD
Surtax Payer
Sued, Offers
The second is his wide-de-camp 10s. A Month
General Raoul Vans Overstraeten.
My Belgian Informants declared
A SURTAX payer, Philip that two days before the surrender, Van Overstraelen returned to Ostend Horace Evans, the May-Phill after a nylig visit to Rome. Hotel Battlesbridge, Essex,”
He had apparently received an sued by the Cleveland Petroleum Italian promise to obtaki Hitler's. with a giant plane tree rowing its From Kotor, at the head of the
guaranice that Leopold would keep Company; Ltd., of Chatfield Road, Buttersen, ut Clerkenwell shade on the bench, ng. well as the bay, the great military road built by Recently St. Dunsinn's accepted a his throne, loveliest: of waterfalls, Robinson's," the Austrians twists up the mountali big contract from the Government for
Stayed With Him
County Court recently, for £81 where a German Crusoe diapenses into what was once Montenegro. netting.
The third influence is ex-Minister 12s. 6d. for petrol supplied, of- the best wine and salami under his Cetinje, the capital, has some recom-
There were not enough men to Deman, chairman of the Socialisti fered to pay ten. shillings a lonely poplars, exquisite valleys, the pense for its lost royal glorics in
month. Zupa valley, and the Konavla valley, being the administrative centre on enable the terms of the contrast to Deman's suspected sympathies with le had famous for the exquisite beauty of which oven Dubrovnik (to Dubrov-be satisfied, so dozens of stand-Nazism were strongly but unsuccess-to converting a house and grounds
Mo-slan's men, engaged on other handl- fully denounced years ago by the women, charm of their embroidered costumes; torists-so I have been told-who crafts, abandoned their normal work veteran Socialist Leader X. Vander into an hotel and petrol station, but
for their learner's and volunteered exquisite towns, Cavtat, with its hill wish to take out capped by the mausoleum designed Licence now have to present them tralaing course.
siness. Said to have re Overdraft of £9.600 by the Yugoslav sculptor Mestrovit, selves, car and all, at Cetinje, after
their
and the exquisite nik's digust) has to depend.
Nela
Party,
the blackout had killed the
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KING'S
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WHY ITALY WENT TO WAR
Rome, June. 13.
This Duke of Aosta, Viceroy of Abyssinio, has: addressed “a pro- clamation to the population in Addis New Superintendent Of Ababa announcing that Italy : hod. entered the war for the triumph of. Dockyard Policem Justice and liberty, Reuter,
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Lieut. Cmdr. S. J, Horswell, who, fin since the outbreak of hostilities, has Establishments, and throughout the the various Training' and New Entry are now being turned out mained with Leopold after his decl
sion to capitulate.
He was now living in three rooms been serving on the staff of Commo Leopold's brother, the Count of on the property, had an overdraft of
Great War served with the Grand Flanders, 1s reported to have had a £0.000, and was paying off rates, dore A. M. Peters, D.&.C. in Fleet and the Dover Patrol. Among leg amputated after being wounded. Schedule A Income-tax and surtax by kong, has been appointed Superinten- the warships in which he has mon
instalments..
dent of Police and Passive Defence are the Hood, Rodney and Green- When Mr. Evans said he was Omeer H.M. Naval Yards, Hongkong, wich DIPLOMAT OUT OF FAVOUR "neaking" the money on which he Kowloon and ottached establishments.
lived off what he should be
A native of the West Country, ******* Mexico City, June 13. for mortgage, Mr. Registrar Erlend 3te will, assume duties on July 1, Lieut. Cmdr. Horswell is the founda: It is stated semi-oficially that the stated: Then kneuk couple of and, incidentally, is the first officer to Society of Hongkong. For the part of the newly-formed West Country German Press Attache, Herr Arthur pounds more to pay these creditors, attain this appointment. Dietrich, way be sleclared persons|a man who la paying:surinx should
two years, ho, has been'. President of won grata and requested to leave, be able to pay for the petrol "sup- Lieut. Cmdr. Horswell has served the RN and ILM. Football Associa
plied him,"
the major, part of hit Navel carrer in Lion Referees Committee.
in which great angels carry souls in the fennome passage of the hairpins, the shape of babing up to heaven; If you get there you are a good tally by the score of yards, Hercegnovi, where you can buy ciriver, and deserve your licence; !! A number of blinded men are mun- past-cards, among the palms and you don't. olennders from exiled Russian And mouth of Kotor there is still listening-posts, more than 100 are acting as telephone switch- Counts, and perhaps see the young the Montenegrin const to explore, King of Yugoslavia and his brothers still magical small cities, Budva, Bar, board operators. and his widowed mother on sum- Ulcinj, less known and a little more. Others are in Government offices, mer holiday from Belgrade. And primitive than the cities of Dalma- und blind shorthand-typiste held res- then. to cap Dalmatia, comes the tia, but less good to look at, before ponable Government appointments. great bay of Kotor, winding into, the Yugoslavia comes to an end on the mountains under Montenegro, and less chill share of Squipnin (other- Hindmasseurs have joined the How beautiful by far for all the docks sagen, bill may be less appropriately "massage corps, employed to old yards and barracks which transform known as: Albanla
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