1941-06-17 — Page 37

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 17, 1941./

MUTT AND JEFF

A ONE-

DOLLAR BILL WRAPPED AROUND SOME

PAPER

OF COURSE, I'M GLAD 10 HAVE YOU HOME, MUTT!

IT MAKES ME VERY HAPPY!

·HM⋅

NEXT MORNING

OH!IT'S GONE! IT'S GONE!

WHAT CHA

OH, DEAR!

LOOKING FOR, MY DIAMOND

M'LOVE?

RING MUST HAVE SLIPPED

OFF MY FINGER! I CAN'T FIND

IT ANYWHERE!

dana, Court

OH, DON'T WORRY ABOUT

IT; MLOVE!

Page 5 Bv BUD FISHER

I CAME ACROSS IT IN MY PANTS POCKET

THIS MORNING!

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Italian General

Capitulates

Labour Problem In U.S.

IMPERIAL FORCES in Southern Abyssinia are driving against one of the two last strongholds of Italian resistance in that country; namely that in the Jimma area.

Columns recently have advanced southward from Negelli and Yavallo, all making for the cross- roads at Soddu.

ever, had been harrying them successfully.

To keep industrial rela- ⚫tions in the United States

on an even keel will tax!

During our advance, various all the wisdom of the Gov- phases of the Battle of the Lakes book place. We were opposed ernment in the coming by four Italian colonial divisions, ed by the Patriots is shown by The measure of success achiev-

months, writes the "Man- which were virtually destroyed the fact that General Pralormo

as fighting units, owing the communicated with chester Guardian.”

the Italian casualties inflicted and through Commander in the Jimma area After years of depression and

large scale desertions.

asking that he try and arrange unemployment, the workers are,

We continued our drive against with us for terms of 1

surrender. now enjoying a sense of power. the Italian positions in the As already reported, he has The cost of living is rising, as Jimma-Bonga area without ston- now surrendered with 2,000 Ita- are profits and, the demands for

ping to clean up the remnants lian troops.-British Wireless, high wages, butter working con- of the Italian forces in the area dilions and union recognition are between Soddu and Lake Abaya. natural.

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two.

There, remnants of the Italian With bitter anti-union feeling

twenty-fourth division, joined General Pralormo with among many employers and a

perhaps by small detachments thousand Ita'ian troops has sur- large section of Congress, there

from the three other divisions, rendered in the Soddu area, says аге immonse possibilities of

had been holding out under the an official communique, trouble, especially if repression

command of General Pralormo. by legislation is attempted. The solution which President It was surrounded on

the east After the Battle of the Lakes.

Roosevelt wishes to apply pre- and north by a Gold Coast Bri- the General, with the remnants of supposes the cooperation of em- gade and on the south and west his ployers and the confidence of the by Patriots.

workers that they have a real wolce in defence organisation and a sense that sacrifices are not unequal. Reuter.

Our forces, having objectives in view, had taking no action against Italians. The Patriots,

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division, took to the hills. where he had been harried by bigger Patriot forces before he finally been was forced to capitulate through these lack of maintainance. how-

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Further north, Imperial forces continued to operate against the main Italian concentration. Patriots are vigorously engaging the enemy force in Jimma but there is no military or political advan- tage in occupying Jimma.

In the Assab arga, we captured the important aerodrome of Mac-~ caca on June 13. British Wire- less.

TRAFFIC SIGNAL

SUMMONS

A summons for failing to obey

a traffic signal against Major E. W. F. de Verr Hunt, Gun Club Hill, was adjourned for three weeks by Mr. H. C. Macnamara at Kowloon this morning.

Major Hunt on leave in Singa- pore, was alleged to have ignored a traffic signal at the junction of Salisbury and Nathan Roads on May 27.

FOOD, NOT FOOTBALL

have

-L.C.C. Parks Committee decided to allocate further ground,

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