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ADVERSARIA

IS THERE NO BOMB in Gilead, that small village east of the Jor- dan that was so popular during Biblical times, The answer is no, the Japanese haven't got there yet.

£ YES, IT IS A SAD, bad world, and nobody knows how it will end up. But people are not nearly as hopeless about it all as they pretend to be. They are still willing to raise children, you notice.

MAYBE YOU WONDER what be-

the Editor, and be accompanied by came of the flapper of the flaming youth era. Well, her son is 'pro- the Writer's Name and Address,bably in the school quartet singing:

“I want a girl, just like the girl that not necessarily for insertion but as married dear old dad...

a guarantee of good faith.

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DEZCoTofition as a JAPAN'S NERVES J220ON EDGEr to

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Old

LAST NIGHT WE TOOK a bath When we got with our soap pellet.

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if for Christmas it was approximate ly the

e size of an Edam cheese. You hang it around your neck with

shower and rope. stand under let the soapsude tickle down your stomach. After about six months the pellet gets small enough for you to get it in your hands. You can then use it for a tub bath without danger of being dragged under. Why it is called a pellet we don't of knowWhen we first heard them,

merely we thought you od celdase Japanese nerves are getting swallowed them with a gulp of edge. The stiffening of water instead of taking a bath, British attitude, marked by Lord

LOVER'S LANE IMPROVE- Halifax's warning that the Gov- ernment is considering appropri- MENTS: Motor car designers are ate action if satisfaction is not experimenting with "one-way" glass, provided by General Ugaki to which provides visibility to the. Britain's demand for restoration driver and passengers but conceals onel the occupants from observation of its rights in China, is factor. The events on the from the outside. Hmmmmmmmm! Soviet-Manchukuo border proving even more worrying, so

on

are

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MUSING THROUGH a medical

much so that the psychological volume, we ran up against the report "The medical profession danger of Japan acting rashly that: purely to convince herself that warned against the bathtub as the her "diplomacy" is not weaken- producer of rheumatic fevers, ́ ́ ́ in- ing cannot be ruled out. Against flammatory lungs and all dymotic that is the safeguard provided by diseases. But, bath on—this was the fact that some high quarters in the 1840's. in Tokyo, are beginning to appre

Mr. CHAMBERLAIN is report- ciate the necessity for facing the facts and letting the Japanese ed to have been wooing the masses pepple get closer to them. Dur- with specially staged newsreel talks And all ing the first months of the war and fishing expeditions. with China the Japanese people the time we thought that Franklin had little, notion of the truth. Delano Roosevelt had this scheme They were told that it was not copyrighted. awar but an incident, that, it

is

de-

would soon be over, that the "TIME" advances the theory that Japanese Army was invincible, auto manufacturers have checked and that the Chinese Government their future headaches on

knowing was powerless, and about to col-clining. petrol resources, lapse at any moment, As a re- that it is possible to operate a car on With the sult they were not prepared for liquid coal or coal dust, what has happened... and were price of coal in the Colony surprised when suddenly called motorists would still retain their upon for a great national effort. "Aspirin." Wiser now, the Japanese author- ities permit more plain speaking.

T.C.G.

Ministers do not strain to hide without reserve, many of them the gravity of the situation, and might be found rather pessimis- the press has become remark- tic, for at least a majority of ably frank. Recently, for instance, them feels that before the affair the "Osaka Mainichi" published is brought to a final conclusion a message from its Shanghai Japan will have to overcome - correspondent in which He Baid mountain of difficulties. frankly that the unity of China It also refers to bungling. under the Chidig regime is measures by Japan" as "wholly bellevably strong the more blows, he receives the more 20 does his regime seem to become The same correspondent added that the capture of Hanków” and Canton would not nece "bring Chinng to his Sometimes even criticism

peaking. rled with plain

aper

responsible for the prevailing conflagration," and suggests that the Government's refusal to deal with the Chiang Government may prove to be a mistake in an other passage the "sa openly states thất Japa min Headquarters hav The mated the Chinese ***** of Tokyo, is even more rema

Japan, if the Govern is recognised to

efore capable

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