NANCY
SLUGGO --- DO YOU THINK. I OUGHT TO KEEP UP MY
REDUCING DIET?
DAT'S UP TO YOU, NANCY!
WELL --- DO YOU WANT ME
TO BE FAT OR THIN WHEN I GROW UP?
Monday,
I CAN'T MAKE UP MY MIND EITHER!
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
I'LL HELP YA DECIDE GET ME SOME OF YER AUNT FRITZI'S OLD SHOES!
April 28, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
·O.K.---. TAKE Y CHOICE!
Heel Click
Told Nazi's Identity
'How on escaped Nazi prisoner gave himself away by clicking his heels and bowing his head in the German manner was describ- ed recently, by a Shefeld 'bus conductor, who effected his re- capture.
The conductor is Colin Spittle. Ho was acting as conductor on a "bus going from Gainsborough to Sheffield. On reaching Retford police informed him that three German prisoners had escaped in the north of England, and he was given a description of the
men.
The Passenger
When the bus was 16 miles from Sheffield a young man got on. He was dressed in a sports Jacket and A small grey flannels, and carried
travelling case which was later found 30 contain chocolate.
"He asked for a ticket to Shef field in Buent if unnatural Eng- Halı," said Mr Spittle. "As I gavo him a ticket I heard a sharp click of bis heels and saw a forward movement of his head. My sus picions were aroused, and I told the driver to stop if we saw a police- man
Didn't Have Card
"We came on a sergeant and a constable and stopped. I told them When asked for of my suspicions.
his identification card the passenger replied. 'I have not got one. He was quite self-possessed till he was asked if he was one of the three
he men. Then escaped
appeared startled and was taken into custody."
Importance Of Music Is Stressed
"JAZZ to some people is prob- ably delightful, while to others it more nearly resembles the wailings and contortions of a cat having an operation without an anaesthetic," said Miss Bloxsom. principal of Malacca's Metho- dist Girls' School, speaking, on "Music and the Cardina! Prin- ciples of Education" to
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ABOUT TO LET GO High over Fort Benning, Georgia, member of the 51st Parachute Battalion of the U.S. Army is about to let go in an air march to the ground. Note static line that automatically rips pack cover when the 'chutist is 15 feet from the plane. Line snaps and 'chute billows clear of tail,
Two Nazi Invade
Attempts To
Fail Britain
Persistent reports that the Germans made at least two unsuccessful attempts to invade Britain are declared to be correct in an article written for the North American newspaper Alliance by Boris Nikolayevsky, a Russian publicist and historian, who reached New York recently after living in France for many years.
He confirms information from other sources that French hospitals, including those in Paris, are full of German soldiers suffering-from-terrible-burns. He explains this by stating that the British sowed the Channel with thousands of tanks filled with oll and petrol, anchoring them just below the surface.
Battle Dress Change
Tunic Design
There is to be a change in the Army's battle dress. Though comfortable for ordinary use, the the present blouse dress has a belt Malacca Teachers Association. ut the back which makes the "What enraptures one race may wearer sticky and uncomfortable sound untuneful and monotonous to in summer and in winter the another," continued Miss Bloxcom cold gets in the gap between "Although differing races and nation- alities do not agree on what kind of trousers and blouse. music is important, we can agree on this, that music as a subject, what -ever kind we prefer, has its place In our consideration"
Leaders to-day agreed that music contributed definitely to the aims of
"seven education or the
It is probable that several types of principles" listed by one educator as experimental uniforms will be de- health, command of fundamental (signed, and wearers will report their processes, worthy use of leisure time, opinion of them, with a view to worthy home membership, vocation obtaining the most generally accept-
jed type of uniform. citizenship and ethical character.
cardinal
It is considered that the new dress will be ready for general distribution this summer, and is likely to take the form of a tunle, covering the top of the trousers, fastened at the waist by a bell. The regulation trousers will remain unchanged,
Nazi Pilot Glad To Be In 'Good Old England'
The German pilot of a Junkers 88 bomber shot down with a tors: "We are in good old England at last. It is like coming home,”
The tall, well-built pilot and bomber was shot down by H.M. his crew
of three had their trawler Galvoni. The 353-loh traw~ hands in the air. They had just ler had no damage or casunities. handed over their revolvers to Mr Harry Thain, drainage en- gineer and his friend, Mr Robert Sadler, market gardener, of Somerton.
blazing wing on marshland near Great Yarmouth said to his cap-
A few yards away was the rubber boat they had dragged from their machine. For a moment or two they seemed to have a notion of escaping across the cold, gray water of the North Sea-until Thain and Sadler ran across the fields,
The Admiralty announced that the
Pleased to be Here Describing the capture of the bomber's crew, Farmer Frank Starling, who drove up in his tractor with a fire-pump in tow, said: "They all looked jolly. pleased to
to be in 'Good old Eng- Land.' Оць
One had a damaged knee, and another's forehead and scalp were badly singed,
The Nazis made their first in- vasion attempt in August with approximately 1,200 burges, specially constructed of alumini- um. Each carried 50 soldiers, with full equipment...
Sea of Fire
QUEEN'S SPEECH FOUND
An address which Queen Victoria made to the British Parliament in 1890 missed the
of the Alvinston |
When the barges reached the line deadline
of submerged tanks halfway across (Ontario) "Free Press" by 50,
the Channel British 'planes started raining Incendiary bombs. These years, but it has finally reached broke open the tanks and ignited the paper's readers.
the contents, which spread over the water and transformed It Into a sea of fire.
Describing this to a French nurse, one German soldler sald: "We were caught like fish in a frying pan."
The address ran into three columns of "boiler plate," a metal casting ready to publish..
It was consigned to the paper, a manner the weekly, but in some package slipped down into a double wall at the Alvinston railroad freight station and was forgolien,
Second Attempt Nikolayevsky adds that the Ger-
The station was demolished recent mans tried again in September, with the same result. No fewer than 01,-ly and the package discovered. 000 soldiers perlatied in the two at-;
end So Angus MacLean, editor tempts.
publisher for the past 22 years, used a column of the "boiler plate" as a special feature.
There was a wave of mutinies in the German army when the troops learned that a third was being plan-
ned.
The British are reported by Niko- Inyevsky to be extremely well In- formed about everything that happens In Northern France, where the popu
where lation is sympathetic and many agents, largely officer followers of Gen. de Gaulle, have been drop- ped by parachute.
Dame Of Sark's Message
Where Beer Is
Still Free
A man who was visiting Win- chester recently was glad to find that the war had not stopped the | ancient custom of free
brend boer at the most an
cient charitable institution in
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Boy Of Nine Inherits £291,000
Gustavus George Hamilton- Russell, nine-year-old kinsman of the Earl of Harewood, who lost father, mother, and sister in three years, has Inherited £291,- 000 under the will of his father, Lieutenant the Hon. Gustavus Lascelles Hamilton-Russell, who was killed in action in June with the Grenadier Guards.
Lieutenant Hamilton-Russell, who was heir to Viscount Boyne and nephew of Lord Harewood, was thirty-two. While in attendance on the Princess Royal in Westminster Abbey on Coronation Day 1937, he was called to Westminster Hospital, where his four-year-old daughter Charmlan lay dying,
The child had fallen down a 60ft lift shaft at the house of Lord Bearst- ed in Carlton-gardens.
Ten months ister Charmian's mother, who was looking forward to the birth of another child, died sud- denly. She never recovered from the shock of Charmian's death,
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June
17,
1940,
the
Bomber Fund was commenced.
the first week produced over
$1,000,000. will you help
to double that figure before
the country, the medieval hos June 17, 1941? $148,000 is
pital of St Cross, Winchester, where they have been given to
.
A five-word message received in London recently by Richard genuine wayfarers for more than
800 years. Beaumont announced that his mother, Mrs Sibyl Collings Beau-bread is rationed. It was formerly Nowadays the amount of beer and mont Hathaway, Dame of Sark, unlimited but callers, including and his step-father, Robert American tourists, were so numerous Hathaway, were safe.
that it was decided to restrict the
It was the first nows of the Damne total amount served to two gallons of ale and two leaves of bread dally, of Sark since the island was occu-
Privileged visitors to Et Cross are
all that is required.
"But the pilot was smiling and pled by the Germans. handing round cigarettes. He looked. Sark is one of the small islands served with beer in heavily alivered Donations to Date: $1,852,453,26 about forty, spoke excellent English, in the English Channel. The mics-hern goblets, one of which was used
and seemed to know this part of the sage was sent by way of Berlin and by the into King Edward VII when country well,"
New York.
he went thore many years a:D, ........
Remitted to London: £114,889.19.6d