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"I'm Afraid!"

"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!"!

OUR TOWN

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Alias the Deacon

MISCHA AUER

DENNIS O'KEEFE Peggy Moren-Guina Williams · Ei Brophy

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The Private Lives of

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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 4, 1940.

UNRESTRICTED SINKING CAMPAIGN:

BRITISH LOSSES

DURING THE WEEK ending November SUSAN

15, enemy action accounted for 19 British

ships, totailing 75,000 tons, and three Allied THANKS vessels, totalling nearly 12,500 tons. These figures are above the weekly average but not

half of those in the worst week.

HITLER

Susan Jennifer., Jones, aged eight months, would if she

two magnificent' front teeth,

It is fully recognised in Britain that the count only talk thank Hitler for shipping problem is serious, and both Mr. Greenwood and Mr. Crass have dealt with the matter frankly in the past few days.

The Germans are putting into ervice their new submarines, and now have the whole of the French. coast to use for bases.

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.

Some of the new U-boats. too, never even get to sea. That is the

WORSE THAN BOMBS

story behind the repeated R.A.F. raids on Lorient, which again on Monday night had a dose of Bri- tish bombs.

!

When a bomb dropped in the. back garden of her home Susan:. Jennifer Jones remained un- perturbed.

But Mrs. Jones naturally won-

"that dered where.

one**

had the road gone, and went into. around. after the "All clear" to look

|. On her return Susan Jennifer had disappeared. She had crawl- ed out of the back door to 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 ping already in service and build-garden triumphantly. gnawing a ing new, ships for us.

bomb fragment, Results of the gnawing operations were the two new teeth.

Mr. Roland Cross, Minister of shipping, announced in the House of Commons late yes- terday afternoon that orders have been placed with U.8, firms tho construction of 60 cargo-ships, while vessels al- ready afloat have been, and will continue to be, bought,

for

Britain, meanwhile, is making

And her father, Owen Jones, a West Country actor, is proudly displaying a bit of bomb which, he swears, bears the imprint «- of a good hearty baby's bite.

TO BEAT

Air raid shelter users the best use of the tonnage she SIRENS

their hus- Housewives want hebands' pay day changed from:

Friday to Thursday so that they can get all their week-end shop- ping done without interference from the air-raid sirens.

this winter particular- has, and is doing without non- essentials to make more space for ly children will be in shipments of munitions and

Reuter.. far greater danger of con- war materials. tracting influenza, pleu- Orders For Sixty risy or pneumonia than of being hit by a bomb.

New Ships

Nearly every Saturday after- -noon and evening Brighton, wo- The British Government has men have had their shopping That is the opinion of Scun.placed orders with United States interrupted by sirens, and the thorpe (Lincolnshire) doctors, shipbuilders for who have been advising peo of 60 cargo ships. ple not to use their outside

the construction warnings have often lasted until-

after the normal closing times. There have been cases of Brigh- shelters 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- "Indoors, on the ground floor assurance that in addition service

and near an Inner

wall or able vessels continue, to be pur- under the stairs.

chased through the Maritime They have strongly advised all Commission. Reuter.

o patients not to seek refuge out of doors.

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All Feel The Same Practically all the doctors the town have expresssu น same opinion,

.in

Last winter many Anderson shelters were found to be damp and although some people have 'nce taken them' up and put them on the surface (with the Iccal authority supplying thou- sands of tons of earth or sand to cover them) the doctors. are still dissatisfied with the shelters.

Scunthorpe Corporation tried to persuade the Minister of Homa Security to line all sholi, tors with concrete, and sen". an estimate of the cost obtain- ed through tenders. It worked out at £3 60. 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 Scounthorpe controller's

A Risk!

reply.

to the town's. "medical mon" "In war-time everyone must take ng risk. The. Government : have provided the shelters and it i up to the individual householde to decide whether he will risk Influenza.or a bomb. He or sh should remember that a doctor”“ con cure archill.

"Generally," added (Alderman Kennedythese is time, dites the siren has sounded. to take children from their beds and, get them used to a change o temperature inside the house. Then, if they are woll wrapped up, and the shelter is warm there should be little Fielt.

“Making, sheless habitable should not be beyond the ingenu- lly of the average housóholder. It he is in too great a difficulty "with it) thên hệ âhould · nsic for :help: from his local--authority?""

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RAID VICTIMS.

The Egyptian Government is compensating the victims of Fas- cist bombing ra'ds from Italian

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chers shops have not reopened when the All-clear has sounded:* One woman told a reporter, "If my husband is still pâld on Friday evenings I cannot do any of my week-end shopping until Saturday, when the shops are

packed and everybody is trying

to beat the sirens.

"If he is paid on Thursday, evenings ins.ead I shall be able to spread my shopping over two days, and if the sirens beat me on Friday I still have all. Satur- day to finish.

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