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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 27, 1940

BUNDLES, FROM HEAVEN-The twenty babies em- ployed by Warner Bros, for teenes in "A Child is Born," were in the charge of registered nursen all during, the time

Opens on Sunday at the King's. they were at the studio.

RAIDS ON

COAST

BRITISH THE GERMAN

THOUGH THE British Empire is compelled by

THE "FIVE BOB" CAR

After eleven years of faithful service and Austin Seven' has just been "sold" to a new owner for 5s. This happened in Birming- ham and added a little hilarity to the war-time restricted motor- ing.

Apart from a little external battering and more than a little rust, the car was sound and ran well and, it is claimed, still con- tains pre-war air in the spare tyre. It had. lafn idle and in the open air' for a couple of months and a casual bidder was reward- ed for his impertinence by the re- mark that he could "take it away for five bob." He at once "in- vested" and drove the "horses," home (the licence. had one more day to run.)

Such good luck must indeed. be met with rarely, but an old car always raises the question of safety under modern traffic con- ditions. New cars of course, are as near as possible to perfection .and braking, in roadholding, manoeuvring but an old car is not necessarily unsafe in these respects; a one-year-old can be

vital parts sadly at fault if illtreated others.

and

in its

neglected in

the course of events, for the time being at least, to

In this respect it is illuminat- assume a defensive attitude, it is encouraging to seeing to read in a recent issue of "Autonews" of Los Angeles that the evidences of the offensive spirit, writes a military the general belief that aged cars correspondent.

on the streets and highways are the most prolific cause of accidents, because of their poor condition, exploded by recent has been research by the Connecticut State

of I trust Department Motor Vehicles. The article referred to concludes:

Hitler has talked glibly of invading Britain and Mr. Churchill has invited him to come on. that the enterprises reported yesterday will help the public to understand that the challenge was no vain boast, because reliance on sea power inspired both the challenge and the raids.

CHEERFUL CHUNGKING CARRIES ON

-(SPECIAL' TO "CHINA MAIL").

"Of 500,000 vehicles in use in the of accidents reported involved State last year, only 9 per cent.

though these cars represented 18 cars nine years old or older, al- per cent. of all cars registered. record was. The worst accident

well

I am certain that the incidents that of cars only one year old."

The car for five bob is a good, will give much satisfaction to a number of my correspondents argument, and while it is many whe-years since one first heard of the who have written asking ther, if it is admitted that Hitler "rattling" good car, in some cases

parties in it may be as "argument" might land raiding Britain, we should not take similar worth driving home if the family.

run to а super- action. I am afraid they cannot coffers won't claim that the raids were due to modern, or even just a second- Old cars may be worth their suggestions, unless it is a hand. case of telepathy. But I hope it studying now that the new ones

to realise are so hard to get. will encourage them that our leaders sometimes share their good ideas.

VULNERABLE COAST

We have not been told the ob-, jectives of the raids; obviously

ever, remains that they were suc-:

to

GERMAN BURGLARS

WANT FOOD

It is estimated in Chungking that the Jap- they must have been of a strictly anese dropped an average limited nature. The fact, how- 1 lb of one hundred tons of cessfully carried out, and if the bombs on Chungking dur-Germans desire to prevent their

repetition they will be bound

A curious, feature of life in. ing each of their recent take precautions on a very exten-

the unusually sive scale.and of a wasteful char- Germany now is

high, rale of 'burglaries in the aeter. $4,80 air raids.

The thieves Business-minded residents re-

The length of vulnerable coast-provision stores.

interest in cover scrap metal from the bombs

line is immense. To maintain show generally no dropped and sell them on the mar- ket at a good profit, or scrap iron guards along it would necessit-money, but go for butter, mar- Frankfurt-on- Thus, at fetches a high price on the localate the employment of numbers garine, cheese and similar food-

large stuffs. marnet. One enterprising farmer equivalent to those of a

raided and who had to find twenty dollars to army. Continuous air patrols and Main, a provision store in only foodstuffs were taken. repair the damage done to his mud extreme vigilance will be the only Schillerstrasse was hut, collected one hundred catties safeguard against surprise.

Weather conditions and dark- Again, at Frankfurt, in the Mi- of bomb splinters which he sold

quelstrasse, several private flats- for one hundred and seventy dolness both reduce the value of

patrols, and patrolling aircraft and houses were broken into might at any time meet forces of from which only provision and Meanwhile, a rough survey of superior strength. Extreme vigil-clothing were stolen. Valuables the city shows that the Japanese ance will be irksome and demor were left untouched. Thieves are must at least quadruple their alising to the troops on guard. On also plentiful at railway stations, bombing efforts of the last two our-side it is certain that effecwhere they steal fowls and food- years in order to achieve their pro-ltive naval and air escorts

stuffs front the peasants who fessed aim of making Chung-co-operation would be provided.come.to.town to sell..them.

ing uninhabitable. Reconstruc- for raiding, parties. To the naval tion work in being continued at escorts, at any rate, Germany can full speed throughout the city. produce no answer.

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the people, who appreciate this re- lief even more than the failure of The fact is that the possession Japanese planes to exploit the of the huge const-line may prove period of full; moan for their for Germany somewhat of a bombings owing to heavy low-white elephant; it has given us lying clouds.

the opportunity of taking the in- Enquiries, made in all sections itiative in a species of amphibian of the population fully confirm. the guerrilla-operations. It will not Generalissimo's assertion that the be the only form of guerrilla war- people are determined to carry on fare with which Germany will the war-Havas..

have to deal, but, fortunately, it is a form which Germany cannot counter by a policy of ruthless

ness.

FRANCE GUARANTEES These amphibian enterprises are

· ́WORK,FOR ALL

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

not, of course, the only sign that we retain the offensive spirit: The Navy and R.A.F, .constantly The Vichy Government guar-give us proof of it. And in the antees work to all Frenchmen East troops of Gen. Wavell's.com+ who are unemployed. and who mand are harassing the Italians] are being demobilized, it was an-constantly with effect-in the nounced. The programme. pro-western desert, from the Stidan vides for direct Government An-jand from Kenya. Jancing of reconstruction of fac It is refreshing to feel that our [torics producing railway materi- lcäders as well as our troops ro- als, and of repairs, to railways, tain the offensive spirit and can and such factories us produce recognise opportunities, - even iiland Alhambra Theatres tor farming implements.--Havās,

Ithey are.only of a limited kind,

Wallace Beery in "The Man from Dakota,” which ‹ has its last showing at the Queen'á

day.

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