NANCY
„Y' CAN'T FOOL ME*** YOU'RE ALL SLICKED UP FOR THAT NEW GIRL, DAPHNE /
YEP!
YOU
SAID IT!
Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July 8, 1940,
By Ernie Bushmiller
I SUPPOSE ALL THIS HAIR COMBING
SHOULD WORRY ME BUT IT
DOESN'T--
MAY-22
NOT MUCH!
SUN KIST
Fruits
and
Vegetables
ARE NOW PROCURABLE IN HONGKONG In the cans with the Red Label
INSIST ON SUNKIST
SOLE DISTRIBUTORS
W. R. LOXLEY & Co., (China) Ltd.
Britain Divided Into 800 Emergency Food
Areas: All Fully
Stocked
BRITAIN has been divided into 800 food areas-independent and self-support- ing little States-which in emergency could feed their populations without any help from outside
Each of the areas has one main and one "buffer" depot of food, with sufficient supplies of essentials to feed the people for several weeks.
Foodstuffs already in store include butter, margarine, cheese, sugar, flour and a number of
|staple commodities.
Warships' 5-Day Fight
To Thwart Scuttler
By A Naval Correspondent
THE Royal Canadian Navy, fighting alongside the Royal Navy, has just performed a most remarkable exploit.
The R.C.N. destroyer Assiniborne (formerly the R.N. Kem- penfelt) was recently patrolling in the Caribbean, 'in company with a British warship, when they sighted the German steamer Hannover (5,000 tons), a brand-new ship owned by the North German Lloyd.
On realising she had been do-i tectel, the German vessel get
herself on fire and was appar-Robert
ently blazing furiously when our ships came up with her.
While the larger warship took the prize in low, the Assiniboine' runj alongside with all her fire hoses pumping water into the German merchantman,
Five Days' Fight
Montgomery Joining Up
London.
The depots are being drawn from and replenished now and are being used as part of the food distribution scheme.
Revolution In
Food System
The plan was described by the Minister of Food, Lord Woolion, re-
cently as "like dividing a ship into watertight compartments."
He added that the scheme is 0 revolution in our system of food dispersal,
accumulation of food stocks at ports There was now no wholesale or a few mixed centres which could
be, attacked and destroyed by enemy.
the
"In the event of an emergency," he said, "no long journeys will be necessary to secure adequate food distribution. It will be possible to keep the roads for the conveyance of troops and other, military opera- tlonis,"
Bacon Supplies
Cut: Bread Prico
Lord Woolton emphasised that the ROBERT MONTGOMERY scheme had not been imposed on
The weather was bad, which made 36-year-old screen actor, has been worked out by the Ministry in traders by the Government. It had the fire-fighting work of the Cana-dropped a film he came to Eng-association with the trade and had dian destroyer very difficult, yet she land to make, for Paris to join been welcomed by the traders them- stuck to it night and day.
This fantastic convoy was five days the American Field Service as
en route from the count of Dominica, an ambulance driver. By the end of that me the flames
were subdu and
Reasons
selves.
Lord Woolton also announced that! from June 10the date of the re- he gives: "My cousin duction in the bacon and ham ration and the German prizeserved in the same organisation in the disabled
unsteerable,
-catering establishments and Insti- was!
Inst war before lutions would brought safely to ancho
to anchor in Kingston,
be authorised to Americs came in."
purchase Jamaica, without the ald of tugs.
only 50
per cent. of the Montgomery present authorised quantities, and the The whole operation was a fine
came to England feat of scomanalilp, and in his report
maximum quantity of unrationed the captain of the British warship
to make two films. Lacon
or ham "A Busman's
which retailers are Days a warm tribute to his Canadian)
authorized to obtain would also be colicague..
Holiday,"
with reduced to 50 per cent, -Constance-Cum-On the
mings, 18 finished.
just recalled had increased the price of "The other, the 1lb. loaf from 2d, to 214d, and Had a Comrade?" the question had been raised of in- he said yesterday, creasing the 4ib. loaf from Bd, to fd., "has been post- but the Ministry were waiting for an ропе d inden-investigation of costings. In order to nitely
see whether the rise was justified. Metro-Goldwyn- Minyer 14 giving him leave of ab-
Railmen Support War Effort
Only three out of 000 delegnies, voted against a resolution approving] the action of the Labour Party in entering the Government at_a_con- ference in Blackpool, of the Rallway Clerks' Association,
The resolution also pledged the Association
ta
ASOCI
Robert
sence, although
Montromery his contract with
them has several going from make them
On the question of bread prices, he that the London Joint Price
Soldiers
New Chief of Staff at No. 10
General Sir John Dill, newly-appointed Chief of the Imperial General Staff, arriving at 10, Downing Street, recently.
The Man Who Did Not Salute
Minister Upholds Sacking from A.F.S.
MR. WILLIAM MABANE, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Home Security, has ruled that the dismissal of Mr. John Gibson from the Middlesbrough Auxillary Fire Service because he refused to salute his officers "does not savour of excessive militarism.”
give whole-hearted believe to reality years to run. Swim 1/4-Mile, "It may be possible to overdo the strictly military routine in deal-
support to the war effort.
Mrs. Mont-
Full support for the Government gomery--formerly Elizabeth Bryan was also promised by Mr. W. P. Allen-is leaving her home at the Allen, general secretary at the an- Manor House, Stoke Pogee, Bucks, nual conference of the Associated where she joined her husband in Society of Locomotive Engineers and February, for Eire to return to the Firemen at Southport.
United States.
BABIES GO
WITH MOTHERS
Dodge Nazis
In a letter to Mr. Kingsley Griffith, M.P., Mr. Mabane says:
ing with these civilian units. I quite agree, but on inquiry I don't think this is such a case."
HARD-PRESSED by German If War Should
Come To Our Roads
troops and machine-gunning planes which were attacking a French seaport town, a British officer and 12 men raced to the beach and swam a quarter of a mile to a drifting bont.
to sch.
A call to garages and repále shops
Mr. Mabane points out that un order is in force in the Middlesbrough Auxillary Fire Service, which says that due deference must be shown to the seniority of all officers by a solute on the first meeting of the day, and that Mr. Gibson maintained his re- fusal after being given five days to reconsider his attitude.
Nood For Discipline
Mr. Mabane adds: "The Auxillary
Inside was a Dutchman who had been killed by machine-gun fire. Toto "be prepared" has been issued by Fire Service is a uniformed service hide from planes the soldiers Jay Mr. E. Rootes, president of the So-under officers of distinctive rank and down in the boat while it drifted out iety of Motor Manufacturers and enclency depends to a great ex-
Traders:
tent upon the men possessing a sense The motor was out of action, and "The Commander-in-Chief of the of discipline and carrying out readily for 24 hours the men suffered from Home Forces," he says, "has asited the orders of their officers. cold and hunger, until they were me to warn the motor industry's re- "I understand that in regular fire POLICE recently were rounding up all German and sigffted by a hospital ship carrying pair shops and garages that, in the brigades the firemen salute the chief
wounded. They were taken on board event of hostilities within Great Bri-ofeer and the second officer."
TO INTERNMENT
Austrian women between the ages of 16 and 60 in cate-and reached a South Coast port. gory B under a Home Office Order authorising their in- ternment.
About 3,500 women enemy allens' are affected. Police called for the women in cars and took them to local assembly points. They are to be Interned at Port Erin, the Isle of Men seaside town which has been taken over) by the Government.
Killed Fixing His Radio
tain, their utmost services would be required immediately in the matter of servicing and maintaining on the roads the vehicles of H. M. Forces,
Especially would the motor indus- try's personnel render invaluable and by remaining at their posts so long as there is need for their services in any district.”
a wireless set of his home in Leck- Mr. Stanley Bush was adjusting hamplon Road, Cheltenham, when he immediate cause for alarm.
It is emphasised that there is no number of women allocated to it and received a severe shock whitch Itilled the proprietor will be expected to him instantly.
The women will be allowed to take cater for Diem at so much with them their children under tho
head, Mr. Bush, who was district Inspec- Ordinary age of 18. At one of the London re- allowed to enter Fort Erin unless been married only two months.
citizens will not be tor for an insurance company, had" celving centres there were
nun hey have specific business there, and
babies only a few weeks old, and boys and girls,
to
up
Last week all male
internees will not be permitted to restrictions. ileave. No Barbed Wire Government does not intend round the women enemy allens Germans and Austrians in this class
at Bradford was Mrs. were interned. house the women behind barked Wilhelm Hansen, English wife of the
This new round-up brings the wiru, nor will the owners of board-Rev. Wilhelm Hansen, pastor of the the war began to 10,000.
total of enemy aliens interned inco ing-houses at Port Erin be given German Church Bradford, who was notice to quit their premises as is interned last week. Je took her Germans and Austrians. They enjoy In Category C. there are 62,000 the case in three other internment 13-month-old boy with her. camps now being organised on the
practically as much freedom as a island.
10,000 Infornod Category Beneiny allens are those ever, con bring suspicious cases be-
non-enemy allen. Each boarding-house will have a who have had to comply with special fate the advisory committees.
The police, how
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Buses Camouflaged
London's 5,000 buses have had their flags painted dark grey so that, they will be less conspicious from the air, An offlelal of Landon Transport fold the News Chronicle that no fur- ther camouflaging would be used on 'the busca,'
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