GNANCY
HELLO, NANCY":
I HEAR
YOU HAVE AN ELECTRIC
FAN!
YES,
JANIE --AND
IT'S A PEACHY ONE!
I'LL
BET IT'S NOT AS
GOOD
A5
MINE!
Wednesday,
OH, IS THAT SO ?--
HOLD THE WIRE .A SECOND--
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
I'LL SHOW
HER
September 3, 1941,
By Ernie Bushmiller
YOU SHOULD SEE IT BLOWING THE
CURTAINS OUT THE
WINDOW!
"We're lucky-our mother gives us Castoria-the laxative made especially for us children.”
U.S. Officials
Greece Face
Report Famine
One of the most difficult jobs to confront Italy since the start of the war will be the feeding of that part of Greece which is now occupied by Italian troops, ac- cording to American consular officials from Athens who have arrived in Rome to entrain for Lisbon with American consular officer in Italy, Greece, the arriving of- ficials said, is on the verge of starvation, according to a Rome message to the "New York Herald-Tribune.”
Mussolini, in his address on June 10, commemorating the first anniversary of Italy's participation in the war, warned his com- patriots that Italy's food problem, then already a minor irritation If not in a critical situation, would be intensified by the need to help feed conquered Grecce.
"We will try to allevinte, as money as between conquerors and far as possible," Mussolini said, conquered, they bought what they "the misery inflicted on
the could not ent and sent it home, Greek people by rulers bound to London, remembering that Greece is entering into the vital Mediterranean space of Italy.”
Difficult Situation
Alleviation of the misery of the
Before the American consular of- Nelais left they could buy neither,
Here and there in the streets, from time to time, they said, they could see people collapsing from hunger, or from lack of resistance to other allinents.
News from Athens now is in the hands of two governmental agencles, German and Italian. Under con Stripped By Germans duct of governmental propaganda To-day, according to the Ameri-agencles, a small group of American can consular officials, Greece is as newspaper correspondents from Ger- stripped of food as If a horde of many has been taken on a twenty- locusts had worked across It inch four hour tour of Athens, by inch.
Italy has undertaken the job of
Greeks, according to the American policing a people which aiready is Married 42 Years,
consular officials, will be quite a job. hungry and which, according to the
So long as the sea lones were open, American officials, has gone in for
sabotage in
big way.
Then Parted
UFS
TREES HIDE BERLIN-Troos have been planted atop conspicuous Berlin buildings, to hide them from British airman, Lincoln MacVoagh, U. S. Ministor to Greece, reparted on arrival in New York with wife and daughter Margaret.
JAPANESE CONSUL
BLASTS NAZIS
"We're not going to pull Germany's chestnuts out of the
Greece got whent for bread, and Italy is not alone in the policing Ten years before he died, aged 02, somtimes even a little canned meat, fob. Units of the German arme Mr Henry Felers, of Sussex Place, from Australia,
forces have remained there, and to-Regents Park, N.W. and his wife, During the British Expeditionary Force's stay in Greece the food day, the American officials believe, Mra Isabel Sara Peters, "came to the fire," Ichiro Kawasaki, recently-appointed Japanese consul at
there is about one German to each conclusion that after 42 years of which arrived was not only ample three Italians in supervisory fune-married lite they could no longer Vancouver, commented on the Far Eastern situation during an for that force, but helped to supply tions. At Athens the Itailans tako bear the alght of one another, and interview recently.
agreed never to sco each other again."
"We are riot committed too "They separated in 1929, Mr Peters agreeing to allow his wife £850 a deeply to the Axis and are not year, later reduced to £704.
vassals of Germany," he added.
a civilian population which had sent care of the traffic. practically all ils available man power
Into the army to fight the Tobacco And Olives Gone Italians.
After the Germans arrived, oc- Greece used to export tobacco as cording to the American officials, one of its main crops. To-day, it is The court held that this was an the Nazis ote heartily, being healthy reported here, persons have to stand enforceable agreement, and that Mr soldiers. And remembering their in line for hours to obtain four or Peters executors were entitled to a folks back home, and being plenti- five cigarettes. Olives and olive oil deduction from his surtax assess fully supplied with what passed for were normally exported from Greece, ment.
Hariram's
Queen's Road (No. 37)
Branch
is
Shutting down
$200,000
WORTH OF QUALITY GOODS.
At Merciless Prices
War or no War you will never see such Values again!
NOTE: Hariram's Headquarters, Remain At 51, Nathan Road, Kowloon.
can ever have any trouble," he de-: clared.
the British people.. Like them, we "We have much in common with
are a seafaring nation and depend on world trade. We are not like the Germans, they are ruthless and un- couth."
Mr Kawasaki, who spent four years in the Japanese Embassy in London and a year and
a half in
Mr Kawasaki said he had wit- Prague, before the Austrian Ansch- nessed the infiltration of Germans luss, declared the Germans were Into China, and they employed ruth- difficult people to get along with, but less methods. the British were compromising. Ho hoped for a renewal of trade re- lations between Japan, Great Britain and Canada.
The Japanese hod a particulor Uking for the British people, he sald although there were some pro-Ger- mans in the country. However, he added, that Great Britain-and-tho United States had driven Japan over to the side of the Germanis,
Axis Bad Thing
Being linked with the Axis was n bad thing, in the opinion of Mr Kawasaki.
"Great Britain and Japan are
so far apart that I don't think they!
FROM FIJI TO JOIN R. A. F
The first men to travel to Eng- fand from Fiji-under the over- sens recruiting scheme to join the R.A.F. have just arrived in England.
The party consisted of threc men. Two were Scotsmen from Stirling who had gone out to Fiji some years before the war and held appointments In the Civil Service there. One came home to join up soon after the outbreak of war, but found thatį ho was in a reserved occupation and had to return to his post. Now at his second attempt he has been successful.
As the two Scotsmen were on the point of sailing from Fiji for Van- couver they were joined by a native-| born Fijian; I. Dovi Komaisavol, who, like the others, wishes to become a fighter pilot. Komalsaval traces his descent from the former kings of Fil. Travel was no new experience for him, for he had studied for three years at Wanganui College, Now Zemand.
Raised to Four
The party was raised to four by the wife of one of the Scotsmen., They reached Vancouver without in- cident by liner, and received a great welcome from the Canadians. On their way across the continent they they were surprised at the great numbers of men of the Imperial Alr training under the Empire. Air Training Scheme. Leaving the Scotsman's wife in Ottawa to come on by liner, the three mon: anlled from an Eastern Canadian port by troopship for England.✨-
MISTAKES SOME MOTHERS MAKE THAT SHOULDN'T BE REPEATED!
Many moth ers, with tho best of loving intentions force on their children the same laxa-
tive they themselves use. They are not -aware that forting a child to take a medicine can upset his whole nervous system. And that harsh "adult" laxatives, even in small doses, can be much too Irritating for child's tender system. A child needs a special laxative-one ho will take willingly and that'e Bafo and mlid.
The SAFE laxativo for children
It's a comfort for motliers to know there is a safe laxative, Castoria, made especially and only for chil-
dren. It contains no harsh "adult" drugs. Castoria in mild and gen- tie, you couldn't ask for a safer, more effective laxativo. Children love Castorla's wonderful tanto. It's one laxative you never have to force a child to take. Always uno Castoria for your children, from babybood to 11 years. Give it at the first sign of a cold, an upact stomach or constipation. Get a bottle today.
CASTORIA
Where there are children, Castorials
needed. Economi
cal. 12 doses or morein eachbottle.
CASTORIA
The SAFE laxative, for children
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