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February 17, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
WHAT A STRANGE CHILD HE
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CImenohl's Cigars
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MINISTRY TRICKS TRADERS
MINISTRY of Food "agent provocateurs"-officials sent out with false ration cards to lure traders into breaking the law- were recently the subject of a sharp protest in the Commons.
A recent court was at Wis- bech, Cambridgeshire, revealed thnt, under the authority of the Food Ministry, persons are sent out with instructions which are aimed at tricking shopkeepers into breaches of the rationing regulations.
Mr R. C. Morrison, MJ, raised the malter in Parliament.
He called attention, to the Wisbech case and demanded that the Minister of Food abandon this objectionable practice.
Young Woman Decoy
In the case clled, a young woman,
- acting on Instructions contained fri an unsigned Ministry eircular. visited several shops in Wisbech. She presented the traders with ration card which bore a fictitious name and address,
In one case, is alleged, she waited outside the shop until the manager had gone, leaving in charge an inexperienced assistant aged 18.
The magistrates who tried one of the cases which followed this young woman's activities imposed only. શ all fine and expressed their dis- approval of the course taken.
HOMEWARD FLIGHT—Flight of training planes, homoward bound, roars over tower of administration building at Randolph Field, Toxas. Field is called "West Point of the Air." About 350 planes go aloft each day.
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DOWNING STREET INCIDENT
Man's Story of Valuable Secret
LEWIS CHARLES LEWIS, D.Sc., who said he was technical adviser at the Monmouth County Hall, Newport, was at Bow Street Police Court, London, recently remanded for a medical re- port on a charge of being drunk and disorderly in Downing Street,
Police-Constable Bartlett said that Lewis approached 10 Down- ing Street, and demanded to see the Prime Minister. He said-
"I have got £5,000,000 to give him and a secret process for running aeroplanes and cars without petrol.”
He became argumentutive and had to be restrained. No money was found on him. His speech was slur- red and he smell of whisky.
FASCISTS IN MANX
CAMP
-M. P.'s Question
Lewis told the Magistrate that an M.P. had made the appointment for him to see the Prime Minister. He An aggressive Fasciat was met at Paddington by his own minority, self-appointed to all chauffeur and driveu to owning posts of responsibility, domi. nates Italian internees at the - Palace camp, Isle of Man, holds
Street..
Petrol-less Planes
It was no exaggeration to say that parades and uses Italian bugle
stated,
calls, according to Mr G. Russell
he was giving the Prime Minister £5,000,000. He had,
ero Strauss, M.P. solved the problem of running aero- planes and curs without petrol. The
He asked Mr Herbert Mor- sceret was worth £50,000,000, but he did not want a penny for it. He had rison, Minister of Home Security, refused an offer of £2,000,000 from in the House of Commons recent- a business Arm. He was known 10
Grenfell, and others.
Huimen Swaffer, Montague Norman,ly about one of the men in the camp, Signor Cosomati whose Lewis sold that he had never been anti-Mussolini cartoons bave drank in his life. The police officer been republished in the England possibly thought he was drunk be-
press. cause he was very hoarse through a rold.
*I am going to sue these people for locking me up," he added.
The case was put back for a short time on Lewis saying that he made a request for certain persons to be called in vain. A sergeant cubse-
him that he wanted Hannen Swaffer, Emmanuci Shinwell, M.P., and George Hall, M.P. Witness tele- phoned to the members of Parlia- inent but was unsuccessful,
NEW CITY
EVERY SIX MONTHS
MR WALTER ELLIOT, for mer Minister of Health, broad- casting recently, spoke of what Britain had done for her people. "When we distrust ourselves," he said, "look back on some of the things that actually did happen.
ot Because
such one
cartoon, Cusomati was beaten up by two Fasciais. He could not entity his attackers, but two internees who in- stigated the assault were sentenced to 21 days in the cells.
Held Automatically.
Signor Cosomati, married to an Englishwoman, a painter and writer, and a fervent anti-Fascist, was in- terned automatically as he had not been realdent for the requisite 20 years.
Before being interned he drew. n political-cartoon,-which-was accepted. by a Sunday paper. This was published after his internment.
On the evening of November 1 two men came to him in the camp corri- dor and set on him.
The whole regline of the camp is open to criticism," went on Mr Strauss. "I have a internce recently released.
report on it from a reliable 1 om sending this report to the Minister of Home Security.
3,000 In Camp
"There are about 3,000 internees in
the camp. The bulk are small shop- keepers and walters of no political belief save. a resentment against Britain for interning them. There are a few vigorous anti-Fascists--but there is a far stronger Fascist group, which virtually runs the camp.
"In the 20 years of peace that Britain helped to win for the world with the victory of 1918 we more than halved the death rate from consumption in this country. We halved the mater-largely nal mortality, halved the death-Fascist element is in control. rate for small babies.
"As to the homes for heroes, we had still in 1959 terrible blots on the face of our cities, yet we had moved a million people out of the slums.
In 20 Years
"From the beginning of our his- tory to 1918 we had produced eight million houses. In the next 20 years we built four million.
"And the pace was quickening.
"The camp is nominally under British control, but in practice, it is self-governing: and the
"Parades are held; two roll-calis are held daily; and to these and to meals Internees are summoned by buglo. The buglers are paid out of the funds of the canteen of a British Internment comp," sald Mr Strauss, "and they use the military bugle calls current in the Italian army.
Use Italian War Cry "The parades conclude with the (Fascist) comp leader shouting the Italian war-ery: A Nol (Rally to us,' literally, To us'), which is echoed
In the four years before 1939 we by the bulk of the internees. The bulit almost exactly thousand anti-Fascists, who remain silent, are houses per working day.
1
"We had built the equivalent of
threatened.
"Anti-Fascists should not be In
tlio immediate creation of separate camps for Fascists. and anti- Fascists, who may soon be released."
all Glasgow, plus all Birmingham, lerned at all: we are pressing now plus all Shemeld, plus all Leeds-Infor each six months, a great new elly.
"What we did in that 20 years we can better in 20 years ahead."
Allotments In
Hyde Park
Mr Morrison stated in the House that the segregation of Fascists had had to await the provision of accom. modation, which would soon be available...
PHILIPPINES TO TRAIN VOLUNTEERS
Plans to recruit and train some
THE British public is to be allowed to dig its own allot- ment in the exhibition ground of Hyde Park..
Westminster City Council will manage the schemo and is let-mande.
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD.ting the land in five-rod plots at
COLLECTED TO DATE
$1,582,012.30
REMITTED TO LONDON
£98,389.19.6d.
200,000 men throughout the Philip- pines with a view to organising thêm :into nuxiliary units of the Islands' national defence system are belog
a maximum rent of 6s. 6d. and Preston to "dig for victory," and
| year. ·
are supported by the local muthorl- Expert gardeners will show the tles.. public on two demonstration. plots Boys ar Pronton were first in thò | how the ideal allotment should be field. They won a prize at Southport show. Southport took up the chal-
run.
Youth Digs For Victory | lengo_and_the corporation has pre- Children have formed their own sented land to be cultivated by boys Allotments Asscelations at Southport and girls.
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