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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 13, 1941.

GERMANS TRY TO PUT A BOLD FRONT

ON IT

NO LIFT CADGING

"Thumbing" lifts has been banned in a north-

west. R.A.F. camp.

AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT that Ger- many is prepared to face a winter campaign in Russia without fear of insurmountable dif. ficulties, is published by the Berlin correspon-officer in charge asking that the dents of all Swedish newspapers.

A few business men who pass the camp every day wrote to the

men 'should be stopped from hitch- hiking.

They said the practice of "cade- ing lifts" 'is undignified to the uniform. One, going into details, claimed that many of the airmen ever been and can afford to go by

were "better off than they have

In the two months remaining before the heavy snow the main part of the campaign will be concluded, the statement declared. Napoleon's campaign is no criterion because Napoleon neglected his rear communications while the Germans have carefully organised has told the men to stop asking these.

CLOTHES PROBLEM SOLVED

(By SHEILAH GRAHAM)

You just cannot afford to lose your handkerchief these days be- cause if you do you must surren- der one of your precious coupons to buy another. And as the ration

The statement recalls that the Germans in the last war showed ability to withstand the Russian winter.

Seeking to refute the Russian c'aims of counter-offensives Ger-

bus."

Now the commanding officer

for lifts by signaling with their thumbs. But he has not said they cannot, accept a lift if invited.-

The men, however," are... In- dignant at the complaints. Oŋe told the "Daily Mirror" they were "saying some hard things about Joy-riding motorists" who never think of offering lifts. Buses are usually filled by the

man military circles state Gomel] time they reach the camp. is still in German hands.

At week-ends hundreds of the airmen promenade on the foot- The front now runs 70 kilome-path hopeful that they will be

even offered a spare sent in a car,

With few exceptions motorists- pull up.

tres east of Smolensk and further beyond Gomel.

Successes "Shortly”

Russian counter-attacks, these

not

is only sixty-six for twelve military circles claim, have months, and when you realise that | disturbed the German progress a man's suit consumes twenty-six or halted the encirclement of Len- coupons, a woman's long coat fif-ingrad. teen, and every pair of silk stock- ings two-well, you just cannot afford to lose your handkerchief.

Nows of great successes Is promised shortly on the Lenin- grad and other fronts, which, the Berlin correspondent of the Stockholm "Tidningen" suggests, include Klev.

* All

BARRACK SHOTS: TWO R.E.S DEAD

Soldiers in Gibraltar Barracks. Aldershot, were awakened by the How to be well dressed on sixty-

sound of two shots fired in quick six coupons a year is a big pro-

succession. They found thai blem facing men and women, par-

Lance-Corporal Joshua N. Cohen ticularly women in England,

and Corporal Harold B. Tolley, things considered, they are not do- Meanwhile well-informed quar-both of the Royal Engineers, were ing too badly. To begin with, ters in Berlin believe that Admir-dead in the room. evening dress as an institution has al Horthy's visit to Hitler's head- It is believed that at about 2.30 fallen beneath the coupon

axe. quarters is connected with a Ger- a.m. Cohen got out of bed, pick- Men wear uniforms or day suits. man demand for increasing sup-ed up a rifle and shot Tolley, who Women in the services rarely port of Hungarian troops and was asleep in his bed, and then bother to change from their khaki material on the eastern front in turned the rifle on himself. or light or dark blue uniforms, return for a satisfactory settle- Both men were Londoners. Tol- which are the same as the army.ment of Hungary's territorial as-ley was married and his home is navy and Royal Air Force male pirations.-Reuter.

at Penge. counter-parts, except for a skirt

in ileu of trousers.

The rest of the feminine po- pulation wear simple day dresses for evening, with a few diehards carrying on with the traditional evening or dinngr gowns. Unused evening dresses are being ripped up and trans- formed into panties, slips and blouses.

Hats are not rationed, but only one woman in five wears a hat anyway. That is why they are not rationed. The few girls here "who put anything on their heads usually settle for a turban or twist of material to keep their locks tidy. The hats worn are small and tilted over one eye, like those current a couple of seasons ago in the United States.

on

There is a tremendous run. nop-rationed linen and silk sheets, which women are buying by the dozen, not for sleeping on but for living in. They make fine Sum- mer dresses. So do curtains.

The funniest coudon wangle.' is the Scottish kilt. West End" tail- ors recently were surprised by the enormous demand for kilts, parti- cularly from men more than six feet tall.

In

most cases a plain kilt is ordered, and a kilt for a tall man takes three and one-half yards. So does a man's suit: The suit devours twenty-six coupons. the kilt only eight:-After the kilt is delivered, it is taken to another tailor, who makes a suit from it, at a saving of eighteen coupons.

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