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DONALD DUCK
February 7, 1941,
By Walt Disney
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NEWS IN PICTURES
BUILDINGS are nover what they appear to be when Mr. Lonsdale Hands has finished with them. Mr. Hands, once an industrial designer. Is now Britain's No. 1 camouflage expert. He is seen experimenting with light and slidde on a
model factory.
M. PADEREWSKI, the famous plantst and former Folish President, with friends on his arrival in Spain. After being detained by Spanish police, he was released to continue his journey to the United States
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Apology To
Climate
When our gallant English weather
Keeps the bombing plane at bay, Aren't you sorry altogether
eatures 5yrabiale.
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For the things you used to say? Fog, we cursed with cough and weeping, Ice we called "the plumber's mate,' Dear old pals, who now are heaping
Coals of fire upon our pate. Come each kindly gale, and hurry:
Let our climate play its part... Merry fog, that clears our worry,
And the frost that warms the heart.
L. B. W.
WE SEE THE JOKE
A Londoner going home the other night found a bomb dropped by a Ger man airman lying unex- ploded in his flat.
He promptly carried it
out.
A policeman found him staggering down the street with it in his arms -it was so heavy that he had dropped it once--and with that sense of the due dignity of things possess- ed by policemen of all na- tions, arrested him.
A bureaucratic minded magistrate, before whom he was brought, fined the man £100 for his bravery with the alternative that If he did not pay the fine he could go to prison for three months.
The man very properly refuses to pay the fine. And it is not likely that he will go to prison for the sentence has provoked a national outery,
But whether he goes or not, he has at least given the world.some idea of what Londoners think of 'bombs.
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Now do not want to under-e imate the air Blitzkrieg. It has been a very horrible and terrify- ing experience. But it has been far from being un- endurable and the way in which Londoners, have beaten its terror by ad- justing their lives to it, has been among the out- standing episodes of hero- ism in world history.
The first week of it was the warst of all. All the worst of the damago seemed to have. been done in that week. The bombs tore very great gaps in famous streets of the City and the West End. They seared and scared the suburbs and the death roll was heavy, although only a tiny fraction of what we had prepared för. Since that first week Lon- don has not had one night completely free from the bom→ bers. Let in that time" ́a tremendous transformation hng taken place. The raids no longer seem like the crack of doom, and the nightly, casually list in the London area has shrunk to a size that would really not put any seri- ous pressure. on the ordinary
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weather, but the Italians are very inferior. Against our Hurricanes and Spitfires they stand no earthly chance. Recently, 80 of them tried a very spectacular daylight dash on London and were simply shot out of the skles. They could not drop a single bomb on England. The Germans were never as bad as that. Obviously the Germans them- selves do not rate the Italians very high and I fear the Ita- lians will soon get tired of being used as practice targets for the R.A.F.
We shall miss them when they stop coming. They do no harm and they make an air raid quite an agreeable. entertainment.
We are all hoping that one day we shall have among our visitors. Count Clano and Mussolini's two famous air- men sony who bombed de fenceless Abyssinians with such heroism. But perhaps they are content to rest on their Ethiopian laurels. Some-. how we fear they will fight. shy of crossing the Channel.
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JOHN GORDON tion at the moment.
casually department of any one of our great hospitais.
The lesson we have learned is this. If you take the cle- mentary precaution of taking reasonable shelter, bombs do not harm you.
At first Londoners could not sleep. That is the greatest ordeal of a night nir raid un- til you beconic used to it. Now most of them sleep the night through comfortably in shelters-many even in their beds-in spite of the noise of our guns, which is
far more -inlonso-and-a-fur-more-alarm- ing sound than either the drone of a bombar or the whine of a falling bomb.
In the first days of air raid- ing, the whole population took shelter immediately the alarm sounded. Now in daylight. women continue their shop- ping and men go on with their work unperturbed. Transport is running almost normally. The civil defence arrange- ments arc so efficient that". there has been no extensive failure of any public service. Our food, our letters und to us newspapers come
our
just as they have always done. Husbands go to work as usunt and come home again at night, if not always with the same comfort and ease,
at least with nearly the Hпme regu- lurity..
All this must be a great blow to Hitler and Goering. They do not try now quite so hard as they used to. Their bombers still come regularly, but most days and nights the effort is not what it was. There is a perceptible slacken- ing.
Why that should be so we have not yet decided, but we ure rapidly coming to the opinion that there are pro- bably two reasons for it:
(1) Hitler is giving us up as a hopeless job and turning his strength to the near Enst to retrieve his waning fortunes.
The Nazi Air Force has had such a hammering that It cannot stand the pacol.
There are indications that the second reason may prove to be the real one. Ono pretty sure algn' to that the Nazis are now bringing Itali- ans to help them..
The Nazis have been good airmen;; courageous and per- tinacious even in the worst
Altogether we are taking a very bright view of our posi- Our air blows nt Germany grow harder every day while Hiller's blows at us wenken. The new head of the Air Force, Air Marshal Portal-Portal of the Bombers-has certain- ly kicked up a dust in his short time as Supreme Com- mander.
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The great rald on Munich, and the spoiling of Hitler's Beer cellar sprech, has been our greatest joke since the war began. It made the whole nation
with laughter, and when the British laugh in a war, they are far more dangerous than when they are grim. We have reached the laughing stage--|
anxious after many
now
months,
Hitler promised his nation that the Battle of Britain would be over before the winter began. It was his one true prophecy. The Battle of Britain although not ended is practically over. But the end has not been quite what Hitler planned.
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One thing concerning the bomb damage strikes every visitor to London. It is the way in which German airmon, obviously acting under orders, have made a dead set at churches, convents and Royal Palaces. So many of them have been hit that the Blitz- kricg has almost taken on the appearance of an anti-God crusade.
That of course no more wins a war than the slaughter of helpless little children and their mothers in suburban streets far from any military objectives. Actually it may be the deciding factor in the extent of the final punishment awniting Hitler. For it has roused the temper of every Briton to a height that it can never before have reached in our history. There will be no forgiving and forgatting this time.
BOMB OFFER FOR BERCHTESGADEN
HALDERMAN Jullus, a book publisher of Girard, Kansas, has written
to Mr Winston Churchill:
"I offer to pay the cost of n half-ton bomb, plus petrol, if you assign a compétent pilot to drop it on the Chlef Butcher's Berch tesgaden habitat, the scene of Hitler's conspiracies ́ ́against civilization."
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HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
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$28,000
in 1941 to meet, the increasing needs of sick and destitule children in Hong Kong
The number of children assisted last year was 5,100,
.
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c/o Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co.,
P. & O. Buliding,
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