Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
By
July 23, 1940.
Ernie Bushmiller
NANCY
WHAT ?... MR SPUTTER ISN'T HOME
YET?.
NO--AND IT'S ALMOST THREE O'CLOCK--- LET'S
GO DOWN STAIRS
AND WAIT. FOR HIM!
JUST WAIT TILL
COMES IN!
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Throughout England
IRON rations of food, to be used only in great emergency, have been stored up and down the country in places which the Government hopes to be able to keep secret.
Lord Woolton, Minister of Food, told the House of Lords that, in addi- Uon, other rations for use in "crash" evacuation have been prepared in areas around large and vulnerable centres of population,
His Ministry, he sold. is an enor mour business-turnover £800,000,- 000 a year, staff 23,000, divided into seventeen
1,500 sub- greas and divisions.
- Normal
trading organisations are used in distribute the food tot which the Ministry is sole importer), und the only objections raised by
the trude have been to Alling up end- Jess forms which reveal their stocks! to others. Selentific control of im- ports bus resulted in imparts of food! calorica Inlling by only one per cent.. while imports of food are down twelve per cent.
Secret purchases have 'saved many millions of pounds. Sume deals have been so big that the ocials, many of them heads of businesses in pencetime, will tell their children in years 10
comie the wonderful things They bought without any one Iknowing they were buying for the Government.
INDIA'S HIGH COMMISSIONER
SIR FIROZKHAN NOON, K.C.LE, the High Commissioner of India, at Stocks of food are adequate. They India touse, London. vary. Stocks of Bonie, of the most Important Loodstuffs are sufficient for weeks and weeks of supply If nothing else comes into die country All essential items are covered,
Stock Up Now
He holds that the shops are the
In Britain Pledge Full Loyalty
in
FRENCHMEN working Britain have already responded to the appeal made from Lon- don by General de Gaulle to con. tinue to fight with him.
General de Gaulle, leading French turk expert, who was chief of mill- tary operations under the Reynaud Government, called on Frenchmen everywhere to follow his Irad work and fight beside Britain.
to
A typical response comes from the Michelin Tyre Company works at Stoke-on-Trent, a French concern.
Here the ten French heads of de- partments recently sent a message to General de Gaulle offering their services in any way.
We Will Serve Again "We are all ex-army officers," the works manager, M. J. Domenet sald.
"I was a captain in the
army from 1014 to 1010. We have told General de Gaulle that we will serve again in the field or in any way in which he thinks best,
"We have also offered to turn over our departments to more war work, matting munitions, or parts for air- Planes and tanks for example."
M. Henry Bronnert, French consul in Manchester, sald ́hë had no doubt about the response to Mr. Churchill's and General de Gaulle's appeals. He per cent. increase, but taxation has dicrs now. in British hospitals would thought it unlikely that French sol- raised sugar 40 per cent, within this want to return, but would carry on group. Uncontrolled foods have the fight under the general. risen 40 per cent.
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I visited one of these northern military hospitals to find what the wounded French soldiers thought.
I was told they had heard the news terms in bitter silence. One man, a sergeant, wept openly,
His purpose is to see that food is best store-houses, and be urges shop-sold at prices which the people can keepers to stock up in order to spread Dity. He revealed that he has made of the acceptance of the armistice the supply over, the country.
a personal appeal with success to the trade on behalf of the very poor. He Docks and warehouses near told the trade that, as they kept the docks are the worst store-houses. por alive in the past in spite of their By voluntary arrangements, with poverty. so, during the war, it is the the trade our deeks are to-day obligation of traders to find food at elbarer than they have been for a price which the very poor
afford. long time.
con
The risk of disruption of com-
To a suggestion by Lord Samuel munications is constantly in his hat the Government should have a mind. and he has instructed ench separate Minister of Food Produc- of the seventeen divisional officers on, Lord Woolton replied that food to take complete control without re-production is the real job of the ference to London If there is a break-Minister of Agriculture, and thata down, and to regard Ministry instruc-new department would only dupli- tions merely ns
cate offices. guidance, the neces using the initiative in which they are trained,
Д
To distribule food supplies in preparation for such risks there irave been greater movements of food stocks in the last month than have ever been seen before, He could undertake rationing of half a dozen other commodities at very short notice if it were necessary.
RAILWAY SERVICES Lack of Support Causes Some Withdrawals
Owing to lack of support, the Kow- Joon' Canton Raliway announced Prices of milk, bread, meat and yesterday, that its "Belle" car ког bacon have increased by 8 per cent., vices have been withdrawn as fol- but the rise would have been 30 per tow-Sundays, 8.27
a.m., 9.10 m. cent. had it not been for the Trea- sury subsidy at the rate of £60,000, 000 a year.
and 4.40. p.m.; Public holidays, 8.27 a.m., 0.13 am, and 4.40 p.m.; Wed- nesdays, 1.03
p.m.. and Saturdays,
Sugar, currants, eggs, cheese, con- 1.00 p.m. densed milk, potatoes and butter
form a group for which maximum The cancellation came into effect prlees have been fixed averaging 10 yesterday..
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A young French soldier wounded In Norway told me, "We are as- tonished and bewildered. But the war is not yet over. Nor can I believe the Frettel Army will not continue to night somewhere, any-
where.
"We shall go with our regiment, of course, but we intend to see victory before we return to our homes,"
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