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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!

SO FOGGY--

KOKRAT WAS

I HAD TO SLOW DOWN TO SIXTY!

Page 5 By BUD FISHER

Pop

WAR IS KEEPING US SOBER

We have become a more

HEDGEHOGS WINSTON'S

WANTED

"Hundreds of hedgehogs wanted immediately by British Govern- ment cattle-testing station." This notice appeared recently, but now the explanation is forthcoming.

Since 1927 the Ministry of Agri-

RESCUER DIES

A man who saved Wins-

ful nation during the first year of war. Hitler has not succeeded in driving John Citizen to drink or Jane Citizen to despera-by a newspaper man who launched

a local paper. This was taken up mier to-day-has died in tion.

a large-scale appeal in an effort to far-off Ermelo, Transvaal. This is the conclusion drawn help his country in its need for from investigations carried out by hedgehogs, and the result has been Dr. Harvie Snell, Medical Officer-to say the least-embarrassing. A deluge of hedgehogs descend of Liverpool Prison. Dr. Snell's figures show a remarkable drop

ed from every corner of Britain, messages were re- in the figures for convictions for and S.O.S. drunkenness, approximately 50 per cent.-during the first four months of the war.

sober and a more cheer-culture has used a limited numton Churchill from the ber of hedgehogs at their Pirbright Boer Forces in 1899-and Research Station for experiments in foot and mouth disease.

who could thus claim res- finding himself short of hedgehogs,

Then one of the local suppliers, ponsibility for Mr. Chur- inserted a modest advertisement in chill being Britain's Pre-

"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 in the North

from a wide area of England and Wales.

1914 DIFFERENCE In an attempt to discover the factors contributing to this, Dr. Snell describes them as "both econcmic and social, as well as more particularly psychological."

ceived from Post Office workers about hedgehogs that had lost their way and badly labelled

hedgehogs.

He was Mr. John George Ho-

hill's escape was known to only a few people.

ward, and his part in Mr. Churc-

In December, 1899, Mr. then correspondent Churchill, of the "Morning Post," was in- terned for helping wounded Bri- tish soldiers to escape an ambush.

After one abertive attempt, he escaped by scaling the walls of his prison in Pretoria,

The Ministry appreciates the zeal displayed in the national cause, but has done its best to that they now

In "hobo" fashion he boarded a make quite clear have more than sufficient hedge-train, sleeping peacefully among hogs.

the coal bags.

the present occasion.

Leaving the train at dawn, he hid all day in a wood, quenching his thirst at a stream When "We now indulge less in spec-night fell he continued his trek tacular exhibitions of patrio-along the railway. tism." he says.

He believes, too, that a "more He points out that the last war developed organisation and regi- began with an outburst of en-mentation does not throw the same 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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At last, he saw a glow of light on the horizon. He made for it, hoping to find a friendly Kaffir kraal,

Mr. Churchill was even more was a colliery, fortunate, for it imanaged by Mr. Howard. It was the only place within miles at which he could have found re- fuge.

Mr. Howard sheltered him for three days in the pit. And eveu- tually Britain's future....Premier reached safety in the undignified concealment of bales of wood in a freight train.

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 comply with the ships entering 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 a State ship or warned by the firing of a gun, sound rocket or Very light.

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