1940-11-14 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 14, 1940

MUTT AND JEFF

YEH, AND I GOT

A GOOD MIND TO | DO YOU

WRITE YOU OUT.

A TICKET!

KNOW

WHO I AM?:

NO, WHO

I'M A ARE YOU? PALMIST

"TRYIN' T'HAND:

ME? I DON'T

WHAT'RE YOU ▼ YOU DON'T,

EM? WANT

BELIEVE IT!

CHA PALM READ?

YEH!

Page 5 By BUD FISHER

DAVENTRY'S NEW TASK

"SO FAR ALL IS WELL'

the

Carrying out Great Britain's de- termination to fight Gerinany toʻa

A letter full of spirit and cour-

with rugs. Yesterday morning inish, the British Broadcasting age has been received here from was in my bath. when the siren

an old lady of eighty, now living | went-but managed to dress some Corporation aiming its.. strong in England. Despite three or four how, We had three or four in the shortwave beams toward America, air raid alarms daily over her daytime yesterday, besides New-Zealand, India and the South town she carries on as usual, tak- one at 9 p.m.! This morning we ing them as a matter of course, had just begun. service when it Seas, stands to the front on the and saying "so far all is well started: so we had to disperse. It radio dial. With the French broad-She is living in Bromley, a suburb lasted only a short time, and we custing system out of the picture,

were able to return to have the sermon. Just after the B.B.C.. has a new job now. It

service no dinner came another-so we go on, is trying to carry on in the air for the French as well as itselt and a new station on 11.82 mega- cycles has been added.

of London, 16 miles outside the city proper, and un the main road to the coast, that many raiders | pass overhead towards the metro- polis.

The letter follows:-

'Planes Over Every Day

Caught In Cinema

"The weather is glorious, and. the stars at 4.20 a.m., when we came to our beds, were beautiful and made me say "The heavens declare the glory of God."

"The people in the Odeon Cinema on Wednesday night were caught by the siren, and had to stay till 4 am: There are many shelters in the town, so it is not difficult to get under cover, but I would not

Since the signing of the Franco- German armistice, which clamps | "No doubt you wonder how we down on any radio broadcasting in are all getting on here! Very unoccupied French territories, the calmly, and quietly and so far all B.B.C., in addition to regular is well. But we have 'planes over broadcasts of bulletins in. French, us

every day--and sometimes has sent special programmes to three or four times a day! Three French-speaking peoples begging nights last week they came 9 p.m. them to rally to the cause regard and stayed till 4 a.m., one night less of the dictates of the Reich. an hour less. Whenever the siren like to be caught."

Captain Andre Maurois, speak-goes we

"take are ordered to ing from London, has added his cover," several go to the shelters, stay at their own risk in plea to stand by: Talking shortly some after the German blight hit their houses. I go to Mrs.in France, he said:

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"When one is asked to speak of quite safe-downstairs and in the a beloved friend who has been bathroom. A son-in-law under- wounded in combat, one is inclin-stands all about buildings.

BILL BLASTER

ed to be silent. For one is sad. If a raid gets bad and we feel TAKES

Yet, after a little, it is a relief to the 'planes are nearer than we talk. And so, my countrymen, like, we go into the bathroom say to you now, Do not give up hope. The spirit of France'is not dead. Cezanne, Villon.Jeanne d'Arc can never die."

and others remain in the kitchen, THE AIR

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which is very comfortable, with an. Ideal stove. Mrs,occupies a

"Lord" Haw-Haw, Germany's camp-bed and I have a long chair | ex-public entertainer -No, 1, has"]

lost his No. 1 imposition to a new "star"-Bill Blaster, the Crimson Cockney, writes the "Sunday Dis-

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Bill's is a twice-nightly turn. He speaks from the: "Workers Chal- lenge Station"one of four new German efforts at propaganda in English. And he swears.

Haw-Haw has lost his public because he couldn't keep up his original suave and amusing sar- casın. Nowadays he often drops. into tiresome, nervous hysteria, Bill hopes to, recapture your at tention by Rabelaisian abuse of the British leaders.

"Mr. Morrison has been opening his marth," says the Crimson Cockney. “Ee has been miking a grite offensive) "The only boffensive he mikes is against the workin' class."

Factories are going up in smoke. Docks are being 'be-'d up.” And our leaders are "fat breptiles," "fat. lousy" and "dirty skunks" -to say nothing of "rotten scarn- drels.'

R.A.F. 'planes are so rotten that pilots are afraid to go up in the air!

"Why shouldn't we be bosses for a chinge?" he cries..

He wants the "a-Ball-ishon" of many things, including leaders who ratted from the working clarsses."

He is disgusted by the general "incomPETTence.!!

To poor Mr. Morrison he say "You are a hell of a bre

Myptiory you are! You have le

outer the bag.”. “But the "Naasis' are just another kind of capitalist class, "It is only necessary for a few| millian workers to go

on the. streets.

The bloated fools in Downing Street cawn't stop us.

"So, art on the streets while there still is time". Oh, I almost forgot. When you demonstrate in | Downing Street, don't 'mind. the ["coppers." The British "crard" 38 Collection of a won't stand for them using their sticks. The bosses will run like rats.

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balance?

Vh bank.

Sez Bill Blaster, the Crimson Cockney

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