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OH, SLUGGO-
I'M SO HUNGRY.....}|
WELL- WHENEVER
IT'S
AWFUL..
I'M HUNGRY
BUT I HAVE TO
WHAT
WATCH MY
DIET!
CAN
I. TAKE
DEEP
I
Do?
BREATHS--
Thursday,
SURE... IT'S
IS.
HEALTHY
THAT
AND IT
GOOD
KEEPS YER MIND.OFF
FOOD!
MANY SIGN IMPORTANT MESSAGE
FREE
INDIA AIM
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
I'LL TAKE SLUGGO'S ADVICE!
OF
PARLIAMENTARIANS
PROMINENT M.P.s of all the leading political parties have signed an import- ant message to the people of India from “friends” in the British House of Commons. The signatories include Mr H. B. Lees-Smith and Mr F. W. Pethick-Lawrence (Labour); Sir E. Cadogan and Sir J. Wardlaw-Milne (Conservatives); Šir G. Schuster (Lib. Nat.)`and Mr H. Graham-White (Liberal).
the work of India herself.
The signatorics are sincerely) replace the Act will be substantially | convinced, they say, that the deadlock which has arisen is "largely the result of a mis- understanding."
The message declares that "the common people on both sides must see that this tragedy is prevented that the misun- derstandings on superficial mat- ters are brushed aside and the agreement on fundamentals made clear."
Fundamental Objects
It outlines as follows what
mentals In the British altitude:-
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Central Issuć
We have no desire to minimise the dificulty of the task. The central
issue is, of course, the communal
one.
This Horse Saw Red
A RUNAWAY horse dashed
(3) THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT through the streets of Salisbury] HAS CERTAIN OBLIGATIONS one day recently, dragging a Surely India on her side is bound swaying cart to which the driver
WHICH IT CANNOT RENOUNCE,
to recognise that the British Govern-clung desperately., ment has certain obligations to the,
In and out of traffle the horse raced
Minority Communities and certain) on. After nearly half a mile it definite treaty obligations to the approached a dangerous junction con-
trolled by trafic lights..
Indian States.
Does this mean that
would We support the minorities in holding theup agreement by unreasonable de- signatories regard as the funda-mands? Certainly not. But there
must be reason on both sides.
(1) THE BRITISH PEOPLE ARE IRREVOCABLY RESOLVED TO GIVE INDIA FULL POLITICAL FREEDOM.
An accident seemed inevit able.
Then the lights turned to red. The horse stopped dead.
The driver took hold of the reins
(4) THE BRITISH PEOPLE DESIRE] and the horse jugged meekly back to)
THAT THE ADVANCE TOWARDS] work. INDIAN POLITICAL FREEDOM
SHOULD BE MADE AS RAPIDLY Churchill Surprise
the
AS POSSIBLE. It is hardly possible for British Government to take part in complicated constitutional settle- ment in the midst of war. Miten Gandhi has recognised this. We are clear that the new constitution must he set up immediately after the war.
We feel that Indian leaders who have not recently visited England do not perhaps sufficiently appreci-a ate how deep is the desire in this country to see India achieve a status equal to that of the other Dominions (2) THE BRITISH WISH TO SEE
INDIA DECIDE HER OWN CON- STITUTION.
As we see it, the solution of the Indian problem does not merely lie in "reasonableness" by Great Britain. It calls for the most Intense serscl creative effort in Indla itself.
1935 Act
4
For whatever reasons, the Act of 1935 seems to have been found un- acceptable in India.
The British Government has frankly recognised this fact. has agreed to the reopening of the whole constitutional issue, and envisages
Get Together
For Sentry
Mr Winston Churchill recently sent shillings to a young soldier whe "hel tim up" during a visit to the southeast coast.
The soldier was on sentry duty at a protected place when Mr Churchill The Mintsler was challenged and Hether now for the purposes of hum-asked for his pass. He replied that mering out a plan?
had not one, but no doubt the] The Indians problem cannot to-day renfry knew who h2
The rentry agreed that was "very likely," but
Why should not Indians get to- Prime, head of his party.
in the rest of the world,
he
was.
be isolated from what is happening his orders were to let no one by The present titanic struggle is de- without a pass. Sa Mr Church!!! ekding the fate of all of us, of India walled a few moments, until he was no less than Great Britain.
vauched for by the sentry's olßeers. A few days later the sentry re- ceived an oilcial-looking envelope. It contained a 10s note and a letter
The message of the British nation to the Indian nation is: "Join with us in defeating Hillerism. Join with
us thereafter in framing the terms expressing the Prime Minister's ap
of peace and helping to shape the preciation of the soldier's sense of that the drafting of a measure to course of the world."
duty.
頭
June
17,
1940,
the
Bomber Fund was commenced .
the first week produced over
$1,000,000.
will you help
to double that figure before
June 17, 1941? $152,000 is
all that is required.
Donations to Date: $1,848,010.93'
April 24, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
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DEFENDING AMERICA—U.S. Army bombers based at Puerto Rico fly over the city of San Juan during manoeuvres. The Caribbean island is now a key military and naval base for defence of the Panama Canal and is being heavily fortified.
Land Speculation In Londor. Assailed
A committee is being set up in London to check land specula tion by brokers buying up bombed sites to resell to municipalities after the war, the Government announced recently in the House _of_Commons.
A broadcast from London said recently that the fire-ruined "city," or financial section, was undergoing the "most hectic land speculation activity in its his- tory."
One-Suit Era
Is No More
Men's Larger Wardrobe
The day when one suit or one
Warders
English Gaol
Deplore Conditions
ALTHOUGH Mr Herbert Morrison, Home Secretary, recently denied statements about Inadequate control of prisoners, the Prison Officers' Association has decided to send to members of Parliament a list of allegations about prison “unrest.?.
The association alleges that shortage of staff, combined with other factors, has made the maintenance of discipline "al- most impossible among convicts und prisoners."
In a report on different Jalls, the Association contends that nt Park- hurst, where "a recent" change In immediate control seems to be having scrne, beneficial effect," prisoners are unlocked. when an alert is sounded, and not more than fourteen ufleers are left in charge of 400 convicts.
Convicts Impertinent "During the unlocking af prison ers from their cells, conditions are almost intolerable.... Missiles are
the
DANCING RECITAL Goncharoff Pupils Impress
The recital at the Helena May Institute yesterday given by pupils of the George Goncharoff School of the Dance was on a smaller scale than previous dia- plays, many of our budding
thrown out of the cells and through ballerinas having been evacuated
· darkness during alerts catcalls to Australia, but it was more and booing are heard. The officers enjoyable, perhaps, because, complain that the general
cur of the convicts is those responsible could devote
The report also
alleges that
greater çure to fewer items and ham, a young remand prisoners in the programme was not cluttered stitution, gongs were formed, and the up with inconsequential tidbits. Prison Commissioners were warned Peggy' Scotcher, who scored a big that unless something was done to success last year in "The Dying stop the rot there might be a wide-Swan," Impressed again yesterday in scale attempt to break away from
"Pocme, lo Fibicha music. Part- prison.
nered by Hugh Goldie, she gava a "Nothing material occurred," alleges delicate the association's statement.
intelligent dance "As ballet lines that was proof of her. result seventeen prisoners succeeded skill as well as a tribute to Mr Gon- in getting away from Feltham last charoft's direction. week." Later a commissioner was sent down to investigate.
Cupid Finds Spy Clues
German women in Britain, trying to dodge internment and the restrictions on aliens, are asking marriage bureaux to find them British-born husbands.
The "Marriage' Mart" do not ar range the weddings-but they send all particulurs of the applicants to Scotland Yard.
"We get an average of 10 a week,1 mostly from Austrian women," Miss Mary Oliver, the joint manager of a West-End Bureau told a reporter.
from
and
or
Pat Pasco rendered an excellent Czardas, and Mrs Ernest To was also good in a Chopin waltz. The tableau finale, "Pos de Cing," to Mischa Levitsky's music, featured Peggy Scotcher, Pat Pasco, Lara Tesar, Ann Mansfield and Hugh Goldle, and was
tood round-off number, the rou- impressive.
and the costumes being quite
Others taking part were Claire van Francoise Evelle, Ghilene Wylick, and Janine Ubaghs, Janet Perry, Irene Zindel, Priscilla Fung, Cecilia Chu, Marlon Shin, Barbara Tam, Patriela Tsang, Greta Lo, Rosemary To and June Summers.-A.C.G.
Danish King Uses Papers For Warmth
King Christian showed his nation how to keep warm through a cold winter when conl is scarce.
According to an Associated Press "We invite full personal histories report, when asked by a woman how each woman-and send the he managed to take dally horseback forms to the police. Some of the rides even in the bitterest cold, the applicants may be spies-and we are Danish Sovereign replied: -taking no risks."
Civilians Teach Cycle Tricks
One hundred and twenty-five Army. and Tank Corps motor cyclicts who
"I put old newspapers Inside the overcont of my uniform. That way
keep warm."
SPARROW FIRES
OWN NEST
A sparrow which carried a lighted
caused a fre In the in the
took part in a reliability irini held cigarette end to its nest 40 feet from in the Midlands recently were told the ground that the object was "not to look branch of a tall pine treg pretty when riding, but to get there" Botanic gardens at Christchurch, The hazards included a muddy New Zealand. The blaze was soon Inne, a water spinshi, a strep foot extinguished-by-the-somewhat as path over trze roots, rough grass and tonished curator of the gardens. It is not known how a bird of the size rocks.
of a sparrow could manage to carry
burning cigarette so far.
Civilian experts waited at each hazard and riders who falled were shown how to take the hazard pro- perly,
THE REGAL TOUCH
OLAF'S PROPERTY
SEIZED
All property belonging to Crown Prince Olaf and Crown Princess
ne speculators hope that, when the time comes for reconstruction in London, they will be able to name their own price for. the land which
An 85-year-old woman living in Martha of Norway has been removed they have snapped up while it re- hat served for all occasions is a Luton almahouse offered a gift of by the Germans from their home at mained useless," the CBS. broad- pone man, Even two ruits and two pound notes for war weapons, Skagum, outside Osia. The articles caster said.
Seagull Eggs And Bacon
F
For Wartime Breakfast
Seagull eggs soon are to be teamed up with breakfast bacon in England.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has just com- ploted a seaguli census and has made arrangements to have eggs collected and marketed.
Seagull eggs have long been a | favourite food of hardy British fisher- men. The eggs taste like duck
a couple of hats won't get by, and when the savings organiser (aged removed include silver given to the these days.
65) asked her if she could afford it, Crown Prince and Princess by the she replied: "Young man, I shall municipality of Oslo on the occasion
of their wedding. adjust iny affairs accordingly.
Who says so? Gerald D. Grosner, Chairman of the Style Committee of the U.S. National: Association of Retail Clothiers and Furnishers.
More and more men, says Mr Grosner, are learning that o ward- robe of three or four or five suits is
an economy.
"A 12-hat wardrobe for every well-dressed man is suggested by the! erves. "Drawers full of shirts- men's hat industry," Mr Grosner ob-
racks of tles-all are becoming ac- cepted by men in all walks of le
an economy and necessity."
cently that chicken feed would be No "Old School Tie"
The Government announced re-
rationed because of inadequate sup- plles.
IT PAYS TO BE BRITISH
When Briton in San Juan, Poric Rica, was recently served with sujinons for parking hia car too long, the policeman snid, "You're American?" "No. English" repilec motorist, "Ah! i sympathise will Britain, sald the policeman, und promptly tore up the summons.
.
In Australia
"The old school tle has no place in The Austrailon Army," said Mr P, C. ipender, Australian Army Minister, eferring recently to the controversy wver Lieut.-Colonel R. C. Bingham's efter, on the training of new officers. "We look for qualitles of lender- ship and character, I think the ster- ing type of recently-appointed Aus- kullan officers who never had an old chool tle bears mo uut."
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