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CITY DUMP

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

"I'm not going! I'd rather not have a good time than have to get this dressing business over with!"

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Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

March 14, 1941.

Manchester Uncowed By

Blitz

The

In spite of a "real bashing" sustained through heavy Ger- nan air raids on the city, Manchester is uncowed and defiant. A letter received by a leading British trading house in Hongkong from a Manchester firm states that, although the raids have al- tered the face and contour of the old city, the only altera- tion to its spirit is to make it even more determined, than' ever to make an end of Hitler and all that he stands for.

The following excerpts from the letter, which we are pri- vileged to publish,, may prove to be of some interest to local commercial circles who have relations with Manchester firms and to the public gener- ally. They show the rc- markable spirit of the British people in a time of difficulty aud danger, and also reveal how trade, the life-blood of the nation, is being carried

on.

Keep Flag Flying "Speaking from a purely commercial angle," says the letter, "we are, under obvious- ly difficult and awkward eir- cumstances, doing our best to carry on and keep the lag not flying, and ashamed of our efforts in this -direction-in-fact-we-are rather proud of ourselves, but

we

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are

are not overlooking the fact that we have received tre- mendous help from overseas friends who, appreciating the position, have looked with a blind eye at what under nor- mal circumstances they would have acclaimed with horror as being gross misdemeanoura on our part although, in the main, we are surprised our- selves that we have not had to take as many liberties as we visualised that might be

necessary.

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"Manchester as whole. and we in particular, have al- ways prided ourselves not only upon the standard of goods but upon the prompt- ness of our deliveries, and it is in regard to the latter that we have experienced most dif- ficulty.

Thanks To Navy "Thanks to the Navy, we are getting good supplies of cotton and, whilst it is, no secret that bits and pieces of these have been destroyed by enemy action, there has been no shortage. At the same time, however, a terrific strain has been placed on Lanenshire machinery to fulfil those vast supplies of Home and Colonial Government require- ments which must necessarily have priority even over ex- port; and, whilst export comes n good second, manufacturers have in many cases found it dimcult to keep up to time. with some of our orders, but they have really made some noble efforts and, taking it all In all, they have, under ex- ceptionally difficult circum- stances, done extraordinarily well.

"From tho overseas buyer's point of view, one of the chief bugbears has been the matter of delivery and longth of time that it has taken for the gooda

to arrive but with the tremendous strain placed upon shipping generally and on cer- tain parts in particular, we are surprised list the authori- ties have been able to uphold such a service as exists to-day.

Real Blitz

"During the last few months we have had several visitations from our nocturnal enemy, but it was not until the two nights of Sunday and Munday, December 22 and 23, that we had what is now known as a rea

real "Blitz:"

Even to and those who had experience in the last war, this new kind of warfare has really to be seen in order to be believed, because it'defles de- cription, by any other than an artist.

Sehat damage was done, and

damage at that, cannot be denied: but, as usual, the brunt fell upon the civilian and commer- cial community, and it is indeed sad to see the wanton destruction of famous landmarks that have no bearing on the national war effort and which, under no stretch of the imagination, can be called miltary objectives.

"To those of you who know Manchester it really hurts to think of the Royal Exchange, Corn Ex- ante, Cathedral, Free Trade Hall change, (home, of the Holle Concerts); to name but a few of the bulldings, destroyed.

Considering the intensity and the ferocity of the attack, the damage, bad enough though it is, greatly less than might have 19 been expected; but, what really is important,-the-damago-to-tho-war- effort is practically nit, and as long ng this remains the case, we, of the civilian army, can and will take it.

tenor of "Naturally, the whole our lives is temporarily changed because, as we have mentionat, this war is so different from the last inosmuch as, except for the Middle East, it is the civilian and not the soldier who is in the front tine.

Marvellous Spirit

To most of us home life in a thing of the past, because nearly every member of our staff is giv- ing, according to their age and hness, nearly all their spare time to voluntary national service.

"The

The one thing which we want Impress

upon such good friends as yourselves far away in Hong- kong is the fact that the spirit of this country is marvellous in fact, as always, the best of this country has

and is only being seen been when up against adversity.

"Apart from the trial of noc- turrial bombing we live, no you know, under the threat of invasion, and we ask you to belleve us when we say that, as far as invasion is concerned, the unanimous feeling La "let the... try it, and the sooner the better, and we will show

By Walt Disney

POORWEEK

TIRES GUARANTEED

30,000 MILES!

POCKET CARTOON

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Luftwaffe Trying To Fly Higher

By F. G. H. Salusbury

A STRUGGLE for height

will provide the greatest technical battle between the R.A.F. and the Luftwaffe in 1941.

The Germans are now devot- ing particular attention to fast, extremely high-flying bombers.

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If they can produce machine which can, more or less, meet our fighters on level terins, the year will probably sce a revival-or an attempted revival of day bombing in force.

Chief Attack

It was during the Battle of Britain in the autumn that our fighters drove the German day bomber out of the sky, and compelled Goering to adopt night bombing as his chief attack.

The Germans have always preferred day bombing, if only for the reason that aircraft whose function is to clear the way for invasion must see what they are doing.

The extreme height aimed ut is not ideal for observation or accurate bombing, but it would largely obviate the danger of defending fighters descending on the bombers' backs.

New Tactics

Clouds of enemy fighters would' engage the defenders, while the bombers, flying at a tremendous height, would pro- ceed with the minimum of escort.

The new tactics will, pre-.

these sumably, develop on lines if we let them.

New Zealand Farms

Meet War Programme

Substantial success of the New Zealand Government's war. time farm production programme was described recently by the new Agricultural Minister, James G. Barclay. He said the main feature of the programme was increase in animal products, which involved raising larger crops.

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He asserted that there had triumphantly fuldtled, the Minister been only one notable failure in tons more cheese this

said. The British asked for 15,000 and this crop schedule. The North this already has been produced. Island had been asked to raise Losses of foodstuffs on the way to 20,000 acres of barley, yet only Britain led London to request fur- ther attention to cheese production 5,000 acres, were sown.

instead of butter, yet the butter out- Crops harvested will be ample to pure British asked for an addition

being maintained. feed the larger locks which the The Dominion now possessed, he added. ni 10,000 tohs of bacon a year, and Lambing last Spring was the high- killings for the three months ended est since 1930, and there are 750,000

13,400 tons against more Jambs on the forms than last 9,700 tons the year before. This in- crease was attained without Import- Ing any additional feed, Mr Bar- clay added. Ife revealed that the The key production plan of milk Maoris are helping the farm pro- foods for Great Britain has been gramme by raising new corn crops.

year.

Milk Foods For Britain

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were

Ubrary Supreme Court

HAVE YOU TRIED OUR

AUSTRALIAN CHICKEN & HAM SAUSAGE

Now 800 per lb.

(approx. 1 lb. each).

LANE, CRAWFORD, Ltd.

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The

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presents

C.

SARAH SIMPLE

a comedy by

A.A. MILNE

at the

CHINA FLEET CLUB THEATRE

March 19, 20, 21 and 22 at 9.15 p.m.

Booking' at The Anderson Music Co.

The complete list of prizes in the

Monster Rafle

in aid of the Bomber Fund

will be published in the "South China Morning Post" on Tuesdays and in ** The

Hongkong Telegraph "

Saturdays.

on

OPENS TO-DAY at the

KING'S THEATRE

PRISCILLA

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LANE

GALE

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LANE

PLOLA

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THE WITTY ONE

NOW THEY'RE

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Four Wives

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CLAUDE RAINS

JEFFREY LYNN

EDDIE ALBERT

May Robson · Frank Melfugh Dick Foren⚫ Henry O'Neill

A WARNER BROS.- First National Picture

„Screen May by Julive J, and Philip

Q. Epstein and Mawice Sentine

Directed by

Michael Cuntly

who only known how to make hile

The Character of ` "Mickos Bardol,** us Be Appeared "Faur Dauthiers," is Paritared by

Jolin GARFIELD

Evgassted by the Cook, "Bister AcĻ by fanneyrsio Magle Diy Max Stainas

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