Friday,
DONALD DUCK
YEAH WE'RE TRYIN' TO
TEACH
HIM TO RETRIEVE A STICK WHEN WE
THROW IT BUT HE'S TOO DUMBI
DUMB, NOTHING!
Y JUST DON'T. KNOW HOW TO TRAIN
HIM!
NOW, "Y" GOT
IT STRAIGHT, BOLIVARG I THROW IT YOU GO GET IT!
Our 10, Wil Dasry Production 11-19
Walk Rides Reversed
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 27, 1940.
By Walt Disney
MAGAZINE
FUNNY SIDE UP
By Abner Doan
"Botter lot him go.
SO I
Cope, 1848 by Dužině Prelims Renčania,"
nobody'd believe you anyhow!"
Simply but vividly, a British fighter pilot describes what lies behind the official phrase, “But the pilot is safe.”
OUR squadron of fighters
was flying east when three enemy aircraft were seen fly="" ing west, in the clouds over- head. I told our leader that I would climb with my flight above the clouds and investi- gatė.
As I did this, twelve Messer- schmitt 109 Aghters 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. He seemed to be dreaming and I quickly got on to his tail and gave him a short burst which damaged him.
I flew 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. for a minute or two and watched the him dive vortically into cairn soa.
I opened my hood for a breath of fresh air and looked about the sky. There was no sign of either the enemy or my own flight. I was alone. I 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 crokses on `their wings and fuselage.
I opened fire number three in the formation. We went round and round in decreasing circles ne. I fired.
on
I was lucky again. Pieces of hlawings flow off. Black smoke came from his plane.
Ho divod, and I fired one more burst at him, directly from astom....
We were doing a pheno- menal spoed then my aFE- munition gave out, just as the other two Messerschmitts Attacked mo.
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 a 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 depart.
Everything after this wos per- fectly calm, I was at about 10,000 feet, but some miles out to sea. I ifted my seat, undid my strap and opened the hood.
The wind became 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 neacefully in the cool breeze that 1 had to remind myself to pull my ripcord and open my parachute:
When the first jerk was over I 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, same miles away, with soldiers the long lines of villas.
THERE was no sensation of speed but the ripples on the waler became bigger, the soldiers on the beach came nearer.
I had one minute of anxiety. As I floated down one of the Messer- schmitts appeared. The pilot cir- cled round me, and I was just, n little alarmed, Would he shoot?
Well he didn't. He behaved quite well. He opened his hand, waved to me and then dived to- wards the sea and made off towards France.
The wind was still friendly. It was carrying me in towards the beach. I took out my cigarettes and it one with my lighter with- out any difficulty.
threw Agca seemed to pass. I away ihn eigárette ás I came nearer and nearer to the const..I could hear the raltlers passed sirens- and, passing over the houses on the seo-front, I could see the people: looking up at me.
I had deseended to about 1,000 I could hear my parachute flapping. feet. I began to away a little and For the first time since the enemy pilot brcled around me I became anxious.
Well the journey ended in n cucumber frame-after I had push-
PAGE
The Great Famine
Has
UROPE'S Great Famine, forecast for this winter, has already begun. The Nazi Press is boasting of
It openly.
"The standard of living of the Dutch people," Bays 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 Germany, says the Voclkischer Beobachter.
"All
Dutch supplies will De placed
at the service of the German people," says the Frankfurter Zel
Jung.
'In occupied France,” says tho Nazi-
controlled Radio Luxemburg, "the har
vest is being supervised by German organisations.*
All agricultural produco and all *oodstuffs are being requisitioned," says die German official news agency.
The Nazis boast that food in Germany 's now plentiful. Rations are being increased in the Relch-and correspond. ingly reduced in the conquered countries.
Etendity and systematically the work of plunder is going on.
The Germans are to be fett. If that means that Dutch and Belgians and French, Dies and Norwegians and Poles, starve-why should Germany worry? "Woo to the conquered! "
HUN'S HAND
Begun
-by-
W. N. EWER
Again hear the Nazis boasting of what they are doing to the Danca.
rels of butter a week-more than she Denmark is sending us 45,000 bar-
Saarbrucken radio. used to send to England,” cries the
"Deliveries of eggs and bulter and vestock from Denmark are exception- ally big. Indeed, there are too many piga being sent," says the Deutsche Allgemeine Zellung.
"Ten thousand head of Denmark's
breeding cattle are to be sent to Cer 'many," says the Transocean Agency.
ALL FOR GERMANY
Food for Germany. Food for the Ger mana. Increased intions to keep the German people from grumbling, from asking what they are gaining from these military victorica,
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 Denmark?
A third of her, livestock has already gono Germany, according to Ameri can reports to President Roosevelt
Half her pigs and poultry are to be slaughtered. There is deficiency already of one-third in normal bread- stuffs and fodder grain.
The agricultural another reliable report, catastrophic."
With cruel Insolence, the German propaganda pretends to the world that Denmark is being benefited.
situation, BNSB is becoming
Her export trade is increasing.
The purpose of those sweeping in- nsions was double. Partly it was strategic. Partly it was sheer plunder.
It hus given the Reich, as Hitler him- selt bonsted in the feichslag, "control of 70,000,000 people who can bo active in the economic scheme."
The-plan-is-being-carried out ruth-that.not splendid for her? irstly. The conquered countries are being told that they must reorganise their whole economic life for the bene fit of the conquerois.
France is warned that ale in "over Industrialised "; that she must shut down her industries, set her workers to grow more food-for German consump- tion,
Huiland is told that she must change her whole system of cattle fanning.
"The neat froin the ainughter of cattle which becomes necessary," adds the Nazi Cominesar-Getical, will be taken over by the Reich.”
Food for Germany. Privation, or even starvation for the Dutch.
They must slaughter their cattle-and Germans will eat the meat.
As it is with Holland, so it is with hapless Denmark,
THE
IN
It might be if these big compukory exports to the Reich were being paid for. 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?
Something, of course, the Reich sends in exchange to Denmark. It must send coal and oil, or the whole machinery would break down, and there would be no plunder.
It sends, in goods, the minimum no-
Cerman profit cessary to keep the wheels turning for
PROMISE PAPER.
But the greater part of the loot fa either not paid for at all, or the Danes are made to pay for it themselves.
Before the invasion. Denmark was fa debt to Germany. That has been wiped out, and big German debt to Denmark (which Germany has not tho least intention of paying) has taken its place,
For the rest, payment has been mado In German promissory notes. Already there are many militón pounds' worth of this useless paper in Denmark,
And now the unhappy Danish GovernX- ment has been ordered, in effect, to make the Danish people pay them off.
The Danish Government is to issue a special credit in Danish krone to cover these Reichscreditkassescheine. result of that (never mind the techni calities of it for the moment) is going to be a serious inflation of the Danish Currency.
קסלר
Prices will rise. The unhappy Dano will pay more for everything. And the extra amount he pays will in fact bo payment for all that the Germans have stolen.
It is a device typical of Dr. Schacht, Hitler's financial schemer. Estimates Ke kot easy. But from all the ovidence to be 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 Naal Army has conquered.
For a time the plunderera are going to do pretty well out of their conquesta But only for a time.
Plundered lands soon cenae to yleld, Germany may tide horsejt over the coming winter this way; but hardly much longer.
Her is pinning his hopea on getting peace this year. Germany Is going to live on her conquesta
But what of the people the Nazla 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 victime.
They are trying to pertunde América that this misery will be the result of the British blockade. They Auro trying to induce American philanthropy to send food for hungry Belgians-more food that can be stolen and fed to Germano.
There will be hunger all over occupied Europe this coming win- ter and spring.
There will be slarvation in some paris.
It will be because tile German armies and the Nazl 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 Jerrics! you didn't notice it. Cup o' diary of a journalist who en- Just let me get one smack at char 'ere; cup o' char there. listed in the Guards.
yow!'"
But now, blimey, you notice the I look for a more comfortable could do with one now."
taste of a nice cup o'char. I THE sky twinkles like a
spangled skirt in a sport- bit of mud to lean against., Okl
The Silence says: "It's funny." light. It is ack-ack fire. barrage is up.
"What's funny?"
"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 at us-sitting in puddles, and other day I got a different mat- gind of the chance.
tross. 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..
patterns.
Something goes past; then plop.
"Shrapnel,"
man-say.
says the from Leicester. "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 thai zeaside town were wonderful. A woman, ap-
peared with a cup of tea--in one second. Then a policeman with whisky and soda."
I
Arat
drank the whisky and soda I remember one amusing incident as I was lifted into the ambulance, A little boy of seven came over to me with cigarettes, and he said: "Good luck, sir. When I grow up I'm froing to be an airman, too."
"I swiped yours, and then Old Silenco .roplics: "You're right. Take things like air-and when I came to lie down on it I couldn't sleep. There was on daylight. I was coming along
in the train when a warning extra couple of straws in it, it went. The blinds were pulled was too soft!"
"It only goes to show," says down.
the Man from Yorkshire, "Ten miles on, the All Clear Silonce, except for the guns. sounded, and the blinda went "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 few "No, but I'll give 'co a bit,” bronths of not very fresh air." says the Man from Yorkshire." ...: ""Tako ten,” said" the ́ ́ Lad ́ ́“No, no, that's all right.” from the Elephant and Castle. "Go on, tek it, lad, tok it." "Why, back in Civvy Street, you This is the usual procedure drunks so much ten you got so with chocolate..
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New Year's Resolution
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1940.
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