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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 16, 1940 MUTT AND JEFF

SAY, ARE YOU THE FELLER WHAT WENT SPEEDIN' BY ME ON.

•THE HIGHWAY?

ME SPEEDIN' IN THAT FOG?-- YOU DON'T THINK,

I'M CRAZY,

DO YOU?

I DON'T KNOW!! THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYIN' TO FIND.

OUT!

WELL, I'M NOT!

I COULD HARDLY SEE! WHY, IT WAS

SO FOGGY--

I HAD TO SLOW DOWN TO SIXTY!

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・WAR IS

KEEPING

US SOBER

HEDGEHOGS CALL TO

WANTED

"Hundreds of hedgehogs wanted immediately by British Govern- ment cattle-testing station." This notice appeared recently, but now We have become a more the explanation is forthcoming. sober and a more cheer-culture has used a limited num ful nation during the first year of war. Hitler has not succeeded in driving John Citizen to drink or

BRITISH

JEWRY

paganda relies for its strength on Realising that anti-semitic pro-

Jane Citizen to despera- by a newspaper man who launched being able to point the finger at |

tion.

This is the

conclusion drawn

from investigations carried out by Dr. Harvie Snell, Medical Officer of Liverpool Prison. Dr. Snell's figures show a remarkable drop in the figures for convictions fur drunkenness, approximately 50 per cent.-during the first four months of the war.

"A definite fall also took place,” says Dr. Snell, "in the incidence of attempted suicide.". He points out that his statistics, though based on Liverpool, cover individuals drawn from a wide arca in the North of England and Wales.

British Jewry is de- Since 1927 the Ministry of Agri-termined to wrest from ber of hedgehogs at their Firbright the hands of the Fascists Research Station for experiments their favourite weapon of in foot and mouth disease. finding himself short of hedgehogs,

Then one of the local suppliers, anti-semitism. inserted a modest advertisement in. a local paper. This was taken up a large-scale appeal in an effort to help his country in its need for hedgehogs, and the result has been to say the least-embarrassing. ed from every corner of Britain, black sheep, but to

A deluge of hedgehogs descend-sible the eventuality of such cases. All communities have their combat pre- and S.O.S. messages were re- ceived from Post Office workers

judice Jewry is attempting a 100 about hedgehogs that had lost per cent. weeding out process. their way and hedgehogs.

badly labelled

The Ministry appreciates the zeal displayed in the national done its best to

cause, but has

make quite clear that they now have more than sufficient hedge- hogs.

"We now indulge less in spec. tacular exhibitions of patrio tism," he says.

individual cases of an unsavoury nature in which Jews are involved, work to eliminate so far as pos- Jews themselves are setting to

This is being combined with a clarion call to all its members to throw their whole weight into the nation's fight for liberty.

This is the basis for a 'cam-, paign, which has been launched among the Jewish communities in London, and will later be extended to other parts of the country.

1914 DIFFERENCE In an attempt to discover the the present occasion. factors contributing to this, Dr. -

"Good citizenship" is the keynote Snell describes them as "both

of the scheme, which has already econcmic and social, as well as

met with remarkable support and more particularly psychological." He believes, too, that a "more response from individuals and in- He points out that the last war developed organisation and regi-dustries where Jewish employers began with an outburst of en-mentation does not throw the same and employees predominate. thusiasm "far different from the strain on the unstable and psycho- quiet determination and resolute neurotic individual that the whel- acceptance which has obtained only voluntary mode of life entails."

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HORIZONTAL

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church

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15 Vision S

10 To annoy 18 Bermudan barracuda

20 Edible seed

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junction

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VERTICAL

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god

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highway

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oz Concevining,

Full recognition of Trade Unions and Trade Union conditions by all Jewish employers and .em- ployees, equitable conditions for tenants and adequate attention to property by all Jewish landlords and abolition of price-cutting are among the aims of the cam- paign which designs to remove

anti-. for excuse any possible semitic propaganda,

ARMY

CONTROL EIRE PORTS

The ports of Dublin, Kings- town and Cork have been placed under military control by the Eire Minister for Defence, Mr. Oscar Traynor. Military' officers have been appointed,

In his order the Minister directs that harbour masters and their staffs at these ports inust act un- der the direction of the military authorities in certain matters.

Shipping agents and shipowners will be required to communicate to the authorities. all information of expectant arrival of ships, their nationality, ports of call and so on, and pilots must ensure that ships entering comply with the directions of the authorities.

The regulations cover the sear- ching of all ships and dock ware houses and the examination of any article carried in the ships or stored in the warehouses,

Merchant vessels approaching controlled ports must heave to at once when hailed or warned by a State ship or warned by the firing of a gun, sound rocket or Very light.

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