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"I'm Afraid!

P.M.

"Are people always afraid to get married? I never felt so alone in my. life. Why can't I stay for a while Just as I am? I don't want to get married .. I'm afraid??

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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 4, 1940.

NAZI UNRESTRICTED SINKING CAMPAIGN:

BRITISH LOSSES

DURING THE WEEK ending November SUSAN

25, enemy action accounted for 19 British

ships, totalling 75,000 tons, and three Allied THANKS ́vessels, tofalling nearly 12,500 tons. These

figures are above the weekly average but not

half of those in the worst week.

It is fully recognised in Britain that the shipping problem is serious, and both Mr. Greenwood and Mr. Cross have dealt with the matter frankly in the past few days.

The Germans are putting into story behind the repeated R.A.F. service their new submarines, and raids on Lorient, which again on now have the whole of the French

Monday night had a dose coast to use for bases...

of Bri- tish, bombs..

British experts are hard at work | devising ways of meeting the pro- blem, while a steady stream of new warships is going into ser- vice.

HITLER

Susan Jennifer Jones, aged eight months, would if she could only talk thank Hitler for

two magnificent front teeth;

When a bomb dropped in the back garden of her home Susan. Jennifer Jones"","remained· an... perturbed.

But Mrs. Jones naturally won. dered where that one" had gone, and went into the road around.... after the "All"clear""" "to-look

On her return Susan Jennifer had disappeared. She had crawl-

find the bomb her mother had not spotted..

And while this is going on, the United States is selling us ship-

Her mother found her in the Some of the new U-boats, too, ping already in service and build-garden triumphantly gnawing, a never even get to sea. That is theng new ships for us.

bomb fragment. Results of the gnawing operations were the two Mr. Roland Cross, Minister new teeth. of shipping, announced in the. House of Commons late yes.

WORSE THAN BOMBS

...

for the

TO BEAT SIRENS

And her father, Owen Jones, a West Country actor, is proudly terday afternoon that orders displaying a bit of bomb which, have been placed with U.8. firms he swears, bears. the imprint

construction of 60 of a good hearty baby's bite. carge-ships, while vessels at- } ready afloat have been, and will continue to be, bought, Britain, meanwhile, is making Air raid shelter users the best use of the tonnage she this winter. - particular- has, and is doing without non- essentials to make more space for ly children

will be in shipments of munitions and other far greater danger of con- war materials. Reuter. tracting influenza, pleu- Orders For Sixty risy or pneumonia than of being hit by a bomb..

New Ships

The British Government has That is the opinion of Scun- placed orders with United States thorpe (Lincolnshire), doctors, shipbuilders for the construction who have been advising poo-of 60 cargo ships. ple not to use their outside

Indoors, on the ground. .and -near an Inner

under the stairs.

Housewives want

their hus-

Friday to Thursday so that they bands pay day changed from

can get all their week-end shop- ping done without inter.erence from the air-raid sirens.

Nearly every Saturday after.... noon and evening Brighton wo- men have had their shopping interrupted by sirens, and the warnings have often lasted until after the normal closing times, There have been cases of Brigh-

chelters during the winter, but A Government spokesman in ton families going without their to take the risk of staying the Commons yesterday gave an week-end joints because the but- floor assurance that in addition service-chers shops have not reopened wall--orable vessels continue to be pur-when the All-clear has sounded..........

chased through the Maritime One woman told a reporter, They have strongly advised all | Commission.-Reuter.

"If my husband is still paid on bronchial patients not to seek

Friday evenings I cannot do any refuge out of doors.

of my week-end shopping, unt 1 Saturday, when the shops are packed and everybody, is my g

COMPENSATION FOR RAID VICTIMS ja

All Feel The Same

Practically all the doctors. the town have expressed the same opinion,

Last winter many Anderson shelters were found to be damp and although some people have since taken them up, and

put them on the surface (with the local authority supplying thou- sands of tons of earth or sand, to cover them) the doctors are still dissa.sed with the shelters,

Scunthorpe Corporation tried

to persuade the Minister of Home Security to line all: shet- ters with concrete, and sent an estimate of the cost obtaini ad through tendera. It worked out at £3, 6s, a shelter. The Minister (turned' the' project down on account of the cost. There are just over, 10,000 An.. derson shelters in Scunthorpe.

"Must Take A Risk”

is:

Scounthorpe controller's reply. to the town's medical men "In-war-time everyone, must take a risk. The Government have provided the shelters and it is. up to the individual householder to decide whether he will risk influenza or a bomb. He or she should remember that a doctor can curea clfill, ̈

Generally," added Kalderman Kennedy, there is time, afta, the siren has sounded, to take children from beds and get them useď ̈ ̈ chunge o temperature, Inside the house. Then, if they are, well wrapped up, and the shelter is warm there should be little risk. 4.

"Making shɩliers; habitable should not, be beyond the ingenu- ity of the average householder. If he is in too great, a difficulty, with it, then he should ask for help from this lachi, authority

The Eyptian Government is compensating the victims of Fas- cist bembing raids from Italian funds held in Erypt.. Reuter.

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