Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 27, 1940.
By Walt Disney
SYEAH, WE'RE
TEACH
DONALD DUCK
TRYINTO
HIM TO RETRIEVE A STICK WHEN WE
THROW IT BUT HE'S TOO DUMBI
DUMB NOTHIN"!
Y JUST DON'T. KNOW HOW TO TRAIN
HIMI
NOW, Y' GOT
IT STRAIGHT
BOLIVAR SE THROW
YOU GO
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MAGAZINE
FUNNY SIDE UP
"Batter fot him go
So I
By Abner Dean
. nobody'd bollove you anyhow!"
Simply but vividly, a British fighter pilot describes what lies behind the official phrase, "But the pilot is safe”,
OUR
UR squadron of fighters was flying cast when three enemy aircraft were seen fly ing west, in the clouds over- -head. I told-our-lender that I would climb with my flight above the clouds and Investi- gate.
As I did this, twelve Messer- schmitt 109 fighters emerged.
Still climbing, I made for the sun, turned, and gave the order for my flight to break up and attack.
In a moment, our battle began our six Hurricanes against the enemy's twelve.
The eighteen aircraft chased round and round, in and out of the cloud. I chose my first opponent. Ho seemed to be dreaming and I quickly got on to his tail and gave him a short burst which damaged him.
I flow in closer and gave him a second dose. It was enough. He dived, out of control. I followed him down to 6,000 feet. There I circled för a minute or two and watched
him dive vertically into the calm sen.
I opened my hood for "u breath of fresh air and looked about the sky. There was no sign of either the enemy or my own flight. I was alone,
CLIMBED back into the
cloud, which was thin and mistry. Three Messerschmitts, flying in line astern, crossed in front of me so close that I could see the black crosses on their winge and fuselage.
I oponed fire on number three in the formation. We went round and round in decreasing circles as I fired.
I was lucky again. Pieces of his wings flew off. Black smoke came from his plane.
He dived, and I fired one home burst at him, directly rom astern.
BALED
OUT
I twisted and turned, but they were too accurate. I could hear the thud of their bullets.
Pieces of my aircraft seem-. ed to be flying off In all direc- tions: my engine was damag- ed.
Then came cold stinging In my left foot. One of the Jerry bullets had found its mark.
I was about to dive to the sea and make my escape, low down, when the control cloumn became useless in my hand. Black smoke poured into the cockpit and I could'
not see.
I knew that the time had come for me to deport,
Everything after this was per- fectly calm. I was at about 10,000 feet, but some miles out to sea. I opened the hood.
lifted my sent, undid my strap and
The wind become my ally. A hand-actually the slip-stream catching under my helmet seemed to lift me out of the cockpit.
It was a pleasant sensation. I was in mid-air-floating down so peacefully in the cool breeze that I had to remind myself to pull my ripcord and open my parachute.
When the first jerk was over 1 swung like a pendulum. This was not so pleasant, but I soon settled down, and I was able to enjoy a full view of the world below-the beach, some miles away, with soldiers the long lines of villas.
THERE was no sensation of speed but the ripples on the water became bigger, the soldiers on the beach came nearer.
I had one minute of anxiety. As I a floated down one of the Messer- schmitta appeared. The pilot cir- cled round me, and I was just a Bittle alarmed. Would he shoot?
Well he didn't. He behaved quite well. He opened his hood, waved to me and then dived to- wards the sea and made off towards Franco,
The wind was still friendly. I was carrying me in towards the beach. I took out my cigarettes and lit one with my lighter with. out any difficulty,
Ages "scented to pass. I throw away the cigarette as I came nearer and nearer to the coast. I could hear the raiders passed sirens- and, passing over the houses on the sen-front, I could see the people looking up at me.
I had descended to about 1,000 feet. I began to sway a little and I could hear my parachute flapping. For the first time since the enemy pilot circled around me I became
We were doing a pheno renal speed-then my am- munitha gave but, just as the ohar two Mosserschmittaanxious. Vakackół me.
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The Great Famine
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Has Begun
UROPE'S Great Famine,. forecast for this winter, has already begun, Tho Nazl Press is boasting of it openly.
"The standard of living of the Dutch people," says the Deutsche Volkswirt, "must be lowered if the conquered country is to supply Ger- many with food."""
The food supplies in the Danish storehouses have been exported to says the Voelkischer Germany Beobachter.
All Dutch supplies will be placed at the service of the German people," says the Frankfurter Zel-
in occupied France," says the Nazi controlled Radio Luxemburg, "the har
vest is being supervised by German
.by.
W. N. EWER
Again bear the Nazis boasting of what ey are doing to the Danca. rela of butter a week-more than she "Denmark is sending us 45,000 bar- used to send to England," cried the
Saarbrucken radio,
"Deliveries of ers and butter and livestock from Denmark are exception- ally big. Indeed, there are too many piga being sent, says the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.
Before the invasion, Denmark was m debt to Germany. That has been wiped out, and a big German debt to Denmark (which Germany has not the least intention of paying) has taken its place.
For the rest, payment has been made in Clerman promissory notca. Already there are many million pounds' worth of this useless paper in Denmark.
And now the unhappy Danish Govern- ment has been ordered. In effect, to make the Danish people pay them of
The Danish Government is to issue a special credit in Danish krone to cover these Reichscreditkassetcheine.
Tho
result of that fusver mind the techni calities of it for the moment) is going to be a serious indation of the Danian currency.
Prices will rise. The unhappy Dana will pay more for everything. And this extra amount he pays will in fact be payment for all that the Germans have
"Ten thousand head of Denmark' breeding cattle are to be sent to Ger- many," ways the Transocean Agency. ALL FOR GERMANY stolen, "All agricultural produce and all Food for Germany. Food for the Gèr- "oodstuffs are being requisitioned," says German people from grumbling, from mans. Increased rations to keep the the German oficial news agency.
asking what they are gaining from these military victories,
organisations.
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The Nazis boast that food in Germany 's now plentiful. Rations are being increased in the Reich-and correspond- ingly reduced
tho
conquered countries.
Steadily and systematically the work of plunder is going on.
The Germans are to be fed. If that means that Dutch and Belgians and French, Danca and Norwegiana and Poles, starve why should Germany 'worry?"Woe to the conquered!"
HUN'S HAND
WOE
The purpose of those aweeping.in. vasions was double Partly Strategic Partly it was sheer plunder. › It has given the Reich, as Hitler him- self boasted in the Reichstag, control ... of 70,000,000 people who can be active in the economic scheme."
The plan is, being, carried out ruth. lessly. The conquered countries are being told that they must reorganisa their whole economic life for the bene ft of the conquerors,
Franco is warned that she is "over Industrialised "; that she must shut down her industries, aot her workers to grow more food-for German consump tion.
Holland is told that she must change her whole system of cattle farming.
"The meat from the slaughter of cattle which becomes necessary,” adds the Nazi Commissar-General, will bo taken over by the Reichu
Food for Germans, Privation, or even starvation for the Dutch
They must alaughter theiront-and Germans will eat the meat
As it is with Holland, so it is with hapless Denmark
THE
Food to tide them over the coming winter...
After that, it may get difficult. You cannot slaughter cattle twice.
Food-for the time being-for Ger many. What of Denimark?
A third of her livestock has already gone to Germany, according to Amazi en reports to President Roosevelt.
Half her pigs and poultry are to be slaughtered. There is a deficiency already of one-third in normal bread- stuffs and fodder grain.
The agricultural altuation. BLYK Another reliable report, "is becoming catastrophic.“
With cruel insolence, the German propaganda pretends to the world that Denmark is being benefitted
Her export trade is increasing. that not splendid for her?
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It might be if these big compulsory exports to the Reich were being paid Tor. But, for the most part, they are not paid for except in paper.
This is not export trade. It is just plunder.
How is it done?
in exchange to Denmark. It must send Something, of course, the Relch sends
would break down, and there would be coal and oil, or the whole machinery no plunder.
It sends, in goods, the minimuuri në- cessary to keep the wheels turning for Gennan prent.
PROMISE PAPER
But the greater part of the loot is elther not paid for at all, or the Danes are made to pay for it themselves
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It is a device typical of Dr. Schacht Hitler's - Hagncial" schémor. Estimates are not easy. But from all the evidence to bo had there is good reason to believe that the German loot out of Denmark in three months must tot up in, value to 'something like £20,000,000.
.
That is from Denmark alone. The same thing is being done in all the other countries that the Narl army has conquered.
For a time the plunderers aro going to do pretty well out of their conquesta. But only for a time.
Plundered lands soon cease to yleld. Germany may tide hersel over the coming winter this way; but hardly much longer.
Hitler is pinning his hopes on getting peace this year. Germany Is going to live on her conquesta
But what of the people the Nazia are robbing? For them the outlook in famine or something desperately close to it.
The Germans know that; but they do not care. Indeed, they are trying to profit by the very misery of their victima
They are trying to persundo America that this misery will be the result of the British blockade. They are trying to induce American philanthropy to send food for hungry Belgians-more food that can be stolen and fed to Germana.
There will be hunger all over occupied Europe this coming win- ter and spring.
There will be starvation in some parts.
It will be because the German armles and the Nazi Commissars have stolen the food of the people they have overrun,
PRIVATE LIFE OF A PRIVATE:
LITTLE THINGS
Another instalment from the no shrapnool. Gah, yow Jerries! you didn't notice it. Cup o' diary of a journalist who en- Just let me get one amack at char ere; cup o' char there. listed in, the Guards.
yow!"
But now, blimey, you notice the taste of a nice cup o' char. I
I look for a more comfortable B
HD sky twinkles like T spangled skirt a
sport- bit of mud to lean against. Old could do with one now." light. It is ack-ack fire. The Silence says: "It's funny." barrage is up.
"What's funny?"
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"Ah," says the Man from Yorkshire. "And take beds."
"When I first come," says the
The guns sound like blankets "The way you get accustomed being vigorously shaken. All to things. Three months ago Bedfordshire Boy, "I took one round us searching lights shoot most of us would have yelled look at my bed and said, Hell. up, bounce off clouds, and swing blue murder if we were asked Three boards, and a donkey's to and fro, making strange to sit on a wet chair. Now, look breakfast. But now! Well, the patterns.
Something goes past; then glad of the chance..
plop.
"Shrapnel," says the
man
from Leicestor. "I ain't frit o'
ed myself free of a house with my
good food.
And now I come to a pleasant recollection-in spite of my injur-
ed foot and my painful landing.
The people in that seaside town were wonderful. A woman ap- peared with a cup of tea-in one whisky and sođa, second. Then a policeman with n
drank the
whisky and soda ** I remember one amusing incident
as I was lifted into the ambiilance, A little boy of seven came over
to me with cigarettes, and be sild:
Well, the journey, ended in a "Good luck air. When I grow in cucumber frame after I had push-: I'm going to be an airman, too.”
say.
at us-sitting in puddles, and other day I got a different mat- tress. I swiped yours, Charlie.” "It makes you realise the im- "Why, you" says the Lad portance of everyday things," I from the Elephant; and uses
bad words. Old Silence replies: "You're swiped yours, and then right. Take things like air and when I came to lle down on it I couldn't sleep. There was an daylight. I was coming along
extra couple of straws in it, it in the train when a warning went. The blinds were pulled was too soft!"
down.
"Ten miles on, the All Clear sounded, and the blinds went
"It only goes to show," says the Man from Yorkshire.
Sllance, except for the guns. "Sell me half of your bar o' up. I never saw so much de- chocolate," says the Bedford- light taken in a little bit of shire Boy. ordinary daylight, and a fow "No, but I'll give 'ee a bit," breaths of not very fresh air." says the Man from Yorkshire.
"Take tea," said the Lad from the Elephant and Castle. "Why, back in Civvy Street, you drunk so much tea you got so
"No, no, that's all right." "Go on, tok it, lad, tek it." This is the usual procedure with chocolate.
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