1940-08-31 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 31, 1940 MUTT AND JEFF

'COURSE NOT, STUP! MUTT, IS A FAMILY TREE A TREE THAT A FAMILY TREE-IS-. THE WHOLE FAMILY | WELL, IT'S A LINE

PLANTS?

OF ANCESTORS!

DO YOU COME

FROM A

CERTAINLY I DO! I CAN TRACE MY FAMILY TREE, | ANCESTORS WAY

MUTT?

BACK HUNDREDS OF YEARS ON MY

• FAMILY TREE!

WELL, THERE'S ONLY TWO KINDS

THAT LIVE

IN TREES!

WHAT'S

THAT?

MONKEYS AND BIRDS- AND YOU AIN'T GOT.

NO FEATHERS!

By BUD FISHER

7-19

Hisher

MINERS CONSIDER PIT DEFENCE PLAN

A PLAN TO WITHDRAW 20 per cent. of the miners from the pits and convert them into local defence squads for the protection of the coal mines is under consideration in Miners' Federation circles in South Wales.

FATSHAN

QUESTION SETTLED

Agreement

was

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amicably The plan is based on the pos-used as a base for the main attack reached yesterday in regard

the Fatshan question, following sibility that a number of minerson Britain, or for diversionist

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may soon be rendered unemploy-attacks is acutely felt in Wales, conversations between the Japan-FOR TWO ed by the elimination of France and has caused the Welsh Par-ese and British Consuls-General.

as a market for our coal.

liamentary Party, composed of

The Fatshan will sail for Hong

Other markets, particularly in members of all parties represent-Kong on Monday morning. South America and Portugal, may ing Welsh constituencies, to sub- be found to absorb the increased mit a memorandum to the Gov- output of our pits; but until ernment.

these are found there is a dan-

It was drawn

sub- Mr.

ger that the owners will close committee which included 11, THEIR

down a number of pits-about 20 per cent. it is estimated,

The plan under consideration suggests the alternative of keeping all the pits going and withdraw- ing, say, 20 out of every 100 men in each pit, and forming them into miners' battalions for local defence.

Welsh M.P.'s Plea

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up by a Lloyd George, Mr. Aneurin van, Sir Henry Morris-Jones, Mr. Will John, and Mr. Ness Ed- wards.

B. F.R.D.C. GRANTS

SHOW AIDS WOUNDED

Inspired by the two girls who sold all their toys to raise 6s. 6d. for wounded soldiers, two other;

Staffs, schoolgirls have done their bit.

The Board of Administrators of Wednesbury, Coal mines are specially vul- the B.F.R.D.C. have approved the nerable to sabotage and to dis-following grants:- ablement by parachute troops. (1) For Medical Relief On the other hand, the miner is Centres in North Kwang- particularly suitable for opera-tung and Kiangsi .... HK$10,000. tions against such troops.

(2) For 3 training cen-

They are Vera Allen, of Pier- of cey Street, and Mary Reeves, Richard Williams Road. Both aged Jeleven, they produced and staged their own play to raise another 10s. for the Mayor of Wednes- bury's Comforts Fund.

An additional advantage of the tres for refugees and plan would be that the man, in-dependents of soldiers' stead of dispersing to find other families in Kwangsi HK$10,000.

They charged their audience a employment, would be available! A cheque for $20,000 has ac-halfpenny or a penny for a seat as a ready reserve for work in cording been sent to the Foreign according to what they could the pits as new markets called Auxiliary to the National Red: afford. for more prodvetlen 1

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School was turned into a theatre for an afternoon with an audience! of forty schoolchildren.

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"We had nine players, all whom were wearing paper dresses that we made for them," Vera told a reporter. "We staged two shows which we called, "Who is Auntie?' and "The Mysterious Brownies.'

"The audience were so thrilled with the first show that they all stayed on to see the second one. Our box office took 9s., and my mother made it up to 10s.

"Last night I took the money to the Mayor."

"NOT GENTLE" AT POWDER WORKS

Three employees of the Royal Gunpowder Factory at Waltham Abbey, Essex, were sent to pri- son on a charge of "failing to carry out their work in as gentle and careful a manner as possible." George Arnold, charge hand, was sentenced to three months: David Edward Moore two months and John Bardell one month.

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