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| OH, MISTER-- WERE
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HAVE YOU GOT A DOG YOU
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NO--- BUT I HAVE A COUPLE OF LIONS
THAT NEED
A BATH!
Wednesday,
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August 28, 1940.
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SHANGHAI
AND
INDIAN TROOPS AT PRAYER
En
The impressive meene in Fnglish camp as Indian troops were al prayer.
They had come Jack with
the BEF, from Dunkirk,
Left: Some of the men on a parade of Fanpection
HERE IS THE AIR ARMADA FROM THE COLONIES
SINGAPORE
(0) STVINCENT
FALKLAND
BRITISH GUIAN
CEYLON
BOY EXPLAINS JOB TO KING
London, July 11 Fifteen-year-old Lesile Fixa started a new Job in the morning si a famous armament factory, and three hours later he wa showing the King how revolver bullets
made during His Majesty' visit to the factory Everyone thought he did very well.
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Q BAHAMAS
"And in the thunder of their wings. I heard an Empire speak,"
MALAYA
HONGKONG 'figures prominently in this artist's impression of the vanguard of the Colonial air armada which the patriotism and}}, generosity of Colonial citizens and Colonial governments has placed at the disposal of Britain. The War Fund Inaugurated by the "South China Morning Post" and "Hongkong Telegraph" now stands at over $1,800,000.
Reserved Age Is
Hundreds Of
Woodworkers' Choice: Arms Jobs or Army
Pay Rise for W. R. Police
LONDON'S war reserve police are to receive more pay and an additional allowance for efficient service.
The pay increase ta from £3 = wreck 10 £3 41. Proficiency pay is to be an additional Ga Both will come into effect as from Monday last, June 24.
Mer who
considered capable of efficiently carrying out 21 the duties of a full-time police ofeer will get the pro- Aciency pay.
Up For Thousands
Owners of Small
Shops are Now Exempt at 30
By IAN MACKAY
CHANGES in the list of reserved occupations affecting hundreds of thousands of workers have been announced by the Ministry of Labour and National Service.
The most significant change refers to CARPENTERS, CABINET MAKERS and JOINERS between the ages of 25 and 30, who are given the choice of being called up for military service or transferring themselves to the aircraft production industry before August 1.
WANTS UNION
The main object of this latest amendment to the schedule is to transfer key
men from
non-
A proposal to President Roosevelt, essential work to the war Mr. Churchill and Marshal Petaini factories in accordance with the that the Governments of their three countries should sign a "declaration general scheme of man-power of interdependence" has been made mobilisation already announced by "Mr Clarence Strelt, one of by Mr. Bevin
America's best-known foreign corres-
At present carpenters. cabinet-podents, whose book, "Union Now," makers and joiners are reserved at created great interest last year.
In it he suggested a federation of the age of 25. From August I the reservation nge will be 30. But if the democracles. meanwhile the men between these Revealing his new proposal, Mr. ages transfer to aircraft or munitim Streit said that it was in the line with work they will remain reserved. the offer of union made by the
British Government to France, Will Be Called
Up As Tradesmen
A new and up-to-date reserved occupation schedule will be issued in a few days, I am informed, and it
will contain a new
generally that the SMALL SHOP- KEEPER will be reserved at 30 or 35.
Among the black-cnated workera classification of whose reserved ages have been rais trudes in which men, although need from 25 to 30 are:
RAILWAY CLERKS, longer reserved, will only be called
IL.B.C. STAFF to the Colours as tradesmen.
For instance, though the reserved) age for a man in a particular trade! may be raised from 25 to 30, or frum 21 to 25, his kill is needed by the Services he will only be called up
to work at his trade.
More than 120,000 men in DISTRIBUTIVE
JUSTICES CLERKS, TEMPORARY CIVIL SERVANTS, VOLUNTARY HOSPITAL STAFFS, TEACHERS (including university professors or lecturers). Farm Workers Get the Chance To Transfer
and AGRICUL The changes in the reserved ages TURAL industries are added to the of farm workers were summarised in reserved schedule, but on the other the News Chronicle yesterday. The hand 30,000 black-coated workers, intention is not to make men affected mainly TEACHERS and LOCAL eligible for the fighting forces, but to GOVERNMENT OFFICERS are re-give them a chance to transfer to moved from it.
more essential sections of agriculturei
In the distributive trades about in the next six weeks.
100,000 men, mainly on the A number of professions appear on
MANAGEMENT side, will be re- the schedule for the first time, in served either at 30 (food) or 35 cluding UNIVERSITY STAFFS, cer (other than food) as it is regarded tain classes of LIBRARIANS and essential that they should main-whole-time members of OBSERVER tain the supplies of the civil popula-CORPS who listen for enemy aero-
planes. These are reserved at 30,
tion.
A manager la regarded in the Finally, a number of COAL SUR- schedule as a working owner or prin- FACE WORKERS are reserved at cipal of a business, which means '30,
JULIANA SIMPLE
LIVES LIFE
THE simple life Princess Juliana leads at the Seignory Club, Quebec, Canada, is astonishing Canadians
Insisting that she must try to live which had been richly decorated for like less privileged refugee subjects her should be occupied by the nurse, of her country, she is sharing a small Even for dinner. Juliana dresses bedroom in the club with her two with the simplicity of a Dutch house- children, Beatrix, aged two, and wife. Her child, Beatrix, mingles Irene, aged nine months.
freely with Canadian children at the Refusing a private sitting room, she club. dines in publle side by side with her But when Princess Juliana sits In children's nurse and her attendants, the garden writing long letters to ¡Baron and. Baroness Devos and Prince Bernhard, or when she roomis
Baraness Roelle.
the countryside, she is watched by When the Princess arrived the two Dutch detectives and two husky club's ten roamed rulle was placed Canedion Mounties.
al her disposal, but she told the The other day in the garden a man manager: "We don't want all this walked up to Juliana and addressed Give us four rooms only "any other in German. Julians was silent. room for her self and two children. and said sharply: "No German may Juliana then picked a small bed-Then the Mouniles sprang forward
She insisted that a huge, bedroom be spoken here.”
LAND GIRLS WANT JOBS
London, July 6. Government schemes for providing labour for the land are being ham- pered by the reluctance of farmers in notify their needs, and urgent appeals to farmers to inform labour exchanges of the extra personnel they require to get maximum pro- durtion
bring
made by
the Minister of agriculture
the Minister of Labour Recently there was a call for a further 5,000 eruits to the Women's Land and 4,000 have already come for- ward, but at present there is a sur- plus of volunteers,
are
and
Army
N.Y.K. SHIPS CHANGE
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