Wednesday,
NANCY
IF WE'RE GOING TO BE PIRATES 'WE OUGHTA LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT
THEM
IT SAYS PIRATES ALWAYS HAD A BLACK FLAG WITH A SKULL AND CROSS
BONES ON
IT!
I'LL MAKE
ONE!
HOW 15 DIS, + NANCY?
WAIT..
IT SAYS THE PIRATE FLAG IS CALLED
THE JOLLY ROGER"
HMM.. GUESS I'LL HAVE TO MAKE
A NEW
FLAG
IS HE JOLLY ENOUGH
NOW?
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July 30, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
UB.BEER
LIGHT. DARK
Australians. Are Fully Equipped
General's Tribute To
Local Communities
"THE A.L.F. in Malaya has all the necessary_equipment to deal with any enemy, particu- larly in the type of country in which the fighting would take place," declared the General Officer Commanding the A.L.F. in Malaya, Major-Gen. Gordon Bennett, in an interview with "Australian Associated Press."
"When the A.I.F. left Austra- | lin it was a well-trained body, but since the men have been here they have knuckled down
under trying conditions, and they are even better trained." he said.
"The men realize, from the Aus- Irailan viewpoint, as well as tho Empire vlowpoint, that Singapore sccupies the most Important strategio position next to the Suez Canal.
"If Singapore goes, then the enemy holds a barrier between Australia and the rest of the world and Aus- tralia would not be able to send assistance to the mother country, and Britain could not help us. The A.LF, has not only man-power but also the material to prevent this,”
Big Manoeuvres
Since the A.L.F, has been in Malaya
it has undergone several big man-
- ocuvres, capable tank-hunting squads have been organized, and the
men are now able efficiently to find their way with a compasa In the densest jungle,
A.I.F. nuits interchange Meers with British regiments, and there is a fine spirit of co-operation be tween the British and Australian troops, sald Maj-Gen. Bennett.
po. Ik by United Fosiere Erudiende. Imo.
WERNIG JUNMILLER JUNE-10
NON-INTERVENTIONISTS—Congressional_non-interventionists who differ with President Roosevelt. Seated, from left: Senators Robert A. Taft, Gerald P. Nyo, Henrik Ship- stead and Representative James F. O'Connor, of Montana. Standing: Sonators William 1. Bulow, Raymond E. Willis, Robert R. Reynolds and Robert M. La Follette.
Shipping Losses In Battle Of The Atlantic Can Be Faced
These are the figures to remember if you want to know how the Battle of the Atlantic is going.
Since the war began, Britain has obtained control of more than 10,- 000,000 tons of extra shipping-by capture from the enemy, from her Allies, by purchase, or by her own new building.
Five Tunnel Way Out Of Kansas Gaol
Five dangerous, long-term convicts escaped recently from Kansas State Penitentiary in what was described as the most ["amazing and ingenious" break in the history of the peniten- tlary.
The men made their escape by digging a 30-foot tunnel be- hind the wall of a shaft in the prison coal mine. They tunnelied into a concrete sewer pipe and after crawling 175 feet through the pipe they broke out of it and dug up 10 feet to freedom.
The warden said the men had worked on their. elaborate escape scheme for probably a year.
The state highway patrol and county
officers throughout north- castern Kansas and surrounding states worked with meagre clues In their search for the men, The prisoners, who made their break dur-
ing
the night, had a start of at least
an hour or perhaps two or three.
The men fled in a 1037 Chevrolet coach which belonged to a guard in the mine.
All of the men were in the prison for capital crimes and all had been there for more than nine years.
D'Oyly Carte Is Alive, Kicking
Famous Opera Company LONDON. The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, long associated with e best Gilbert and Sullivan inter- West End for the Brst time since pretations, has returned to London's 1933, with a rousing performance of "The Gondoliers" before an audience in which steel helmets for out-num- bered the silk toppers.
It was the first night of four weeks of Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera at the old Savoy Theatre which Richard D'Oyly built especially for the famous opera leam in 1881.
The opening was another Indica-
The United States has more ing on a campaign in the Middle Owing to the progress in industrial thun 7,000,000 tons of shipping Bures of British shipping losses to dwarf the records of the last war East, is itself refutation of the technique America is in a position in her existing merchant fleet published by Germany-double those both in magnitude and in speed. And Britain can certainly launch 1.- recorded by the Admiralty, Bat it she has begun her expansion pro- 000,000 tons of new shipping a la now realised that Germany's gramme from a much higher level of year from her own yards. The claims cannot be taken too seriously. output than in 1914; her output al- United States launched almost
New Building
ready approached 500,000 gross tons 4,000,000 tons of new ships in
Let us examine the replacement in 1940.
U.S. Navy's Part. the last year of the last war side at greater length. In view of It is pleasing to note how popular and she can easily pass that the need for strengthening the Navy And while America's output of and because of the large volume or merchant ships is gathering speed, natives, particularly the. children./igure in the later stages of this. repair work on band. Brltan's own she has a substantial merchant fleet tion of the determination of the This is a most important bond in the Nazis sank just under 5,000,000 new merchant tonnage much in ex-estimated at 1,150 ships of more than in keeping with-the-D'Oyly-Carle In the first year and a half of war, shipyards may not be able to produce of her own. This has recently been theatrical world to carry on and was these times, when outside forces al- "tempt to influence the civil populifons-of--British,~ Allied and--other cess of one million gross tons per 7,000,000 gross tons. Even losses at tradition of giving life to some of
tion, says the Associated Press cor-pping. The total to the end of annum. respondent.
May was a little more than 7,000,000 The Empire tons.
the ATF.
has become with the
The local communities have done much to provide amenities for the A.I.F.
the
"I would like especially to praise work done for the AIF by British men and women in Malaya, The women run canteens, often do ing the cooking for our soldiers, al- though they are not used to this work in their own homes," said Major-Gen, Bennett.
"Special Anzac clubs have been catablished in almost every centre, with the co-operation of the local residents. At one centre, a special market has been built by Chinese, so that the men will not Le, exploited."
TO-DAY at the KING'S G-MEN ON THE TRAIL OF | AMERICA'S TRAITORS:
ENEMY AGENT
Richard CROMWELL Helen VINSON
Robert ARMSTRONG
Jack LuRUE
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the
will be found by the Fighting Ser-
rate higher than those sustained in the best light musical literature ever does not possess facilities for the large-scale construc-cent months would therefore scar-written.
cely achieve Germany's alm this The war serviçes have taken many These figures show that the position of merchant ships, though it is tion
of the younger members of the year. is not precarious. But the undoubtedly in a position to make a
But, as in 1017, the Anal answer
chorus but their places were alled threat is a real one, for the Nazis considerably bigger contribution than have advantages which the Germans in the last war, when the gross ton-la, Germany's attempt at starving by former choristers who had been did not possess in the last war. They nage launched rose from 20,700 in Britain into submission, for lack of exempted from military service. nawy command the coastline from 1913 to 06,500 in 1017, 230,500 in food, raw materials and munitions, the effects of war had cut into the There was little indication that Norway to the Gulf of Biscay, as 1918 and 298,500 in 1919, well as the shipyards of the con- The United States, on the other with the Air Force. And America's which has toured Canada and the vices the Admiralty in collaboration high standards of this company quered countries.
bund, is in a position to speed up her Navy, now incomparably stronger United States, The bomber has been added to the output
rapidly. What that submarine, the surface raider and country can accomplish was shown in than in the last war, cannot be en- the minelayer as a weapon of attack the last war when its output of mer-tirely left out of account. upon shipping. Moreover, the Bri-chant tonnage rose from 175,200 Even If Japan should attempt to fish Navy no longer has the support gross tons in 1913 to 304,000 gross play Italy's role this year, America of the French Navy, Nor has it the tons in 1910, 821,000 gross tons in would have sufficient units to spare: use of the bases in Ireland that 1014, 2,002,200 gross tons In 1910 for decisive intervention on the At- proved so helpful in the last war. and 3,579,800 gross tons in 1919, lantic front.
Temporary Shortage
British losses have been heavy. A further substantial tonnage has been damaged, but a good deal of this has since been repaired.. All the same, as the @gures given above
Very
Enough Food In
Reich
show, if lotses are balanced against-But Only For The Rich
gains, the net addition to the
nage at Britain's disposal is still well over Ave.
five million gross tons.
A REMARKABLE article in the Swiss newspaper De Tal,
Dunera Guard
To Be Tried
ORDERS have been issued for the trial by court martial of the commanding officer of the mill- tary personnel on board the laer Dunera when it was carry- Ing internees to Australia, A regimental sergeant-major and a sergeant are also
be court-
-to
martialled. Great Britain's importing from its Berlin correspondent, reveals that Gorman workers ying not increased in pro- often go hungry, although food stocks are plentiful and the plain Margesson, Secretary for
portion to the gain of tonnage, for a Nazi upper-class is living in comparative luxury. ' substantial number of vessels have been diverted to the vices, while the average
Ser.
voyage has Increas irritated, the corespondent says.
a result of the virtual cessation of trade with Continental Europe, and
stated in 姐 written Parlia- mentary answer thint this action was to be taken as a result of the report of the court of inquiry into the con- duct of the military personnel during the voyage.
The mood of the German people, blest workman to the big scale em- of a a can only be described as exceedingly ployer, cling to the prophecy.
"Money is concentrated in the not
In February Mr Wedgwood (Lab., very large upper class, which despito Rations are unexpectedly shorter taxation, leads a remarkably, plea- Newcastle-under-Lyme) demanded the average speed per vessel has this summer, which is attributed to sant life, out, omong the mass of the in the Rouse of Commons an official been reduced by the introduction of the necessity of laying in stocks to the convoy system. But the
privation.
guard aboard the Dunera.
disposal ing to
at present at Great Britain' age tide over a long period, but, accord-prople many faces aro sallow with Inquiry into 'allegations against the the correspondent, nobody "The poorer classes are beginning He alleged that most of the 2,400 is adequate for all essential purposes. knows the reason for this necessity to look ragged, because the cloth people on board were friendly The mere fact that Britain has "Everybody is trusting that the war ration system does not cover the Jewish allens, that they were robed hitherto been able to Import all her will end this year, as Hiller pro-barest needs, while the quality of the and were baitened down and allow- -essential:requirements, beildes carry_{mised," he adds, "All, from the hum- ersatz materials is deteriorating." ed on deck only on certain occasions.
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