1940-12-11 — Page 21

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 11, 1940. MUTT AND JEFF

MUTT TOLD ME IN ORDER TO BE A SUCCESSFUL HOUSE-TO-HOUSE CANVASSER YOU MUST KIND OF EDGE :. YOUR WAY IN THE MINUTE

THE LADY OPENS THE DOOR!

O

LADY CAN I INTEREST YOU IN--OUGH!

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WHY?

EVERY TIME I'D

MUTT, I'M GONNA || WHATS THE STICK MY HEAD".

QUIT! I CAN'T. STAND THIS KIND

OF A JOB!

MATTER?

IN A DOOR THE LADY WOULD: ' SLAM IT SHUT ON MY BEAN!:

You PooR BOOB! A SALESMAN DON'T STICK HIS HEAD IN THE DOOR! HE PUTS.

HIS FOOT, IN!

Page

By BUD FISHER

YEH, I KNOW BUT

I WASN'T TAKIN' ANY CHANCES! I HAD ON

MY NEW SHOES!

PROBLEM OF WINTER

TRAFFIC

་

J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon) has

PICKED UP SECRET

IS IGNORED

BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. WALKING ALONG Bruton-place, Bond Street, The Minister of Transport (Col. London, W., Mr. S. Smith, motor-car salesman, saw set up a special committee. of a folded piece of paper lying in the roadway. Casual- traffic experts to solve the pro-ly he picked it up. He discovered that it contained blems of transport during the the copy of a telegram addressed to the Admiralty, Whitehall, giving particulars of the movements of a cargo ship from South Africa, including date of de- parture for Britain.

winter.

On this committee, who have already met, are representatives of the Ministries of Home Ses curity. Health and Labour, and traffic chiefs from Scotland Yard and many local authorities.

Their object is to re-arrange traffic facilities in the light of new conditions that will be created by and earlier hours of darkness and to create emer

air 'raids

gency machinery which may be put into operation at a moment's notice in any part of London.

Many Proposals

No

final decisions have yet been reached, but the committee are considering many proposals daily.

Already London Transport have a pool of 600 buses for emergen cies, which can be switched about where and when required.

One suggestion being consider ed by the committee is that this fleet should be, increased by some of the many hundreds of coaches and charabancs which have been lying idle since war began,

main-line railways and London Transport Board with the possibi- lity of inter-availability of tickets between them all.

It is likely that pre-war Green Line coach services will be fully restored-by double-decked buses- as many.coaches are still being used by the Government on am- bulance service.

It is certain, too, that peak hours of travelling will change with the various services Conditions; the will cooperate with business pre- mises to prepare

for new rush hours.

The question of speeding up trains now limited to 15 miles an hour during Alerts has also been considered.

This is unlikely to be changed, because increased speeds would means increased "flashing" from electric trains and steam trains would have to increase the size of their fires which might make them visible by flames from their

Another idea under review is closer cooperation between all the i smoke stacks,

OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD

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Mr. Smith, who is employed in Bruton Place, immediately tele- phoned the Admiralty telling them of his important find.

He was told someone would collect the document at once,

That was at 11. a.m, telegram is still unclaimed.

"Am Amazed"

The

But the Admiralty will be glad to learn that-unlike the original owner of the telegram Mr. Smith is keeping it safely under lock and key.

Mr. Smith is a busy man, and has no intention of wasting his time running after the Ad- miralty.

But he does believe that the public should be told of the lax attitude of their servants in Whitehall.

Mr. Smith said: -

"I am amazed and disgusted to think that the Admiralty could not spare one of their many messengers to collect the copy of this telegram.

"The Government slogan is, 'Careless talk costs lives." They should change 'talk' to 'of- ficials'!'!

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