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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1038.

GERMAN ACTION MAY HAVE WIDE REPERCUSSIONS

to

YES, MRIDITOR, YOUR CAITIDONIST 15 LATE AGAIN, WHY NOT LET ME DO THE CARTOON FOR A

CHANGE. HE'S ALWAYS TRIVING T

MAKE

ME

LOOK? SMALL-↑

"Thanie's

Will, “THE RUSSIAN

CRISIS SEEMS TO BE THE BIG

TOPIC~

THE NEW GERMAN CRISIS WILL BE THE

BIG LEAD, TO-MORROW'

соб

STAMBA

HULLO!

WHAS SAT? ANOTHER BIG

CRISIS IN FRAMES. "

THE FOREIGN BDITOR SENT ME UP WITH THIS NEW ITALIAN

CRISIS, SIR.

THERE'S

A NEW

TURN IN THE SPANISH

CRISIS

CALL IT A DAY

BIG BELGIAN CRISIS JUST OVER THE WIRL,

GI.

NO GOOG

18 CRISES

•TOU LATE!

EDITOR

Strube in the Daily Express

Must We Build Bigger Warships?

S the day of the bigger approach- battleship ing?

From Tokyo come persis- that the tent reports Japanese navy is laying down battleships of 40,000 tons.

over

rendy mentioned could at a pinch contribute eight ships. The

By Commander Americans, on the other hand,

Russell Grenfell

could probably send the whole of their fifteen battleships. The British force in European waters would serve also, as in the last war, to cover the United States against possible naval aggression from the eastward.

would be over a thousand miles

That argument is not based on apart.

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THE "VERY IDEA"

JUST AN OLD-TIME PIRATE,

THAT'S US!

By Cap'n Eddie Kelly, Kidd

OUR rent has just been raised by $20 a month so to-day we have decided to write about pirates.

When we were a pirate, hav- ing served our timo with the electric light and gas companies, we were the soul of courtesy.

For a start, we never pirated women or young girls-using the word "pirate" in the literal sense, of course.

We soon found that this knightly courtesy didn't pay. The cringing malo passengers used to pass their valuables over to their wives.

Wo had an idea one day when wo were sitting by the campfire in our lair nt Blas Bay with our gany stand- ing to attention in the background.

"To the boats!" we cried. We used to cry something fleree in those days

A funny thing happened to us a few moments ago. A chap came in and said he was the shroff from the Hongkong Hotel. We know he was lying because the shroff from the Hongkong Hotel gave up com

状

ing to see us months ago,

*

Eh? Oh. pirates! Yes, of

course,

We Brat slanted out on a life of crime when we vero deported from our home to a nearby school. We became the head of our class in no time. Here we want to pay tri- bute to the studious chap with the long legs and glasses who sat next to us in the class-room, We ran neck and neck for top marks, when he went and died of chicken-pox, And we Immediately fell back to bottom of the class,

* That chap is still mooning around the office, with bundle of chits in his hands. It's touching, really, the way these people want to press their attentions on we famous people.

*

*

the

Don't get impatient. We're coming back to the pirate part any,

minute.

Having been expelled from school with honours the choice of a career

was our first thought. Whether

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work in Ice House Strcel, become a banker, a dispensing chemist, a land- lord or a compradore, that was the question.

We decided to combine the lot, and become, a pirate.

Our most celebrated exploit was the holding up of the Empress of Russia in 1836,

Sho wasn't a bad sort of an Em- press as Royalty goes, but the Em- peror got to hear about it and there was a dickens of a row.

warm.

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*

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were talking about

We weren't we?

WC

pirates,

All right! All right! There was

Use Empress, with its terrified pas- sengers cowering in their cabins, while smoke drified lazily from its funnels into the frosty morning air. (That's not a bad bit)

the

selves.

Hitler, by all accounts, has struck another blow for German

The British and American prestige and power in Central In Washington the House

fleets together would, in fact, be Europe. According des-of Representatives has just

Numbers they hold amply strong enough. But have Roosevelt's new 000 tons.

from which they patches he has completely broken passed the resistance of Austria to Nazi£110,000,000 bill. for new can more than compensate for they bases

size, in view of the fact that a could operate effectively against influence, and in one series of naval construction.

battleship can only fire at one the Japanese navy?

The recently completed base swift manoeuvres, backed by a THE principal naval Powers, opponent at a time.

Whichever is the accurate view at Singapore is available for the display of German might, has

including Japan, bound them- bent Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg selves by the Washington Treaty it is clear that en increase in the British fleet.

The Americans are even bet- of 1922 not to build battleships size of Japanese battleships will to his will.

of more

tons. have to be countered by one ter off. The Philippines are an than 36,000 There will be no denial of the Britain, France and the United method or the other if a Far usually well provided with possi- is con- ble bases. "Manila harbour, in daring of the German action, States renewed this undertak- Eastern naval conflict

particular, could accommodate though

as strategy it lacking in 1936, but Japan refused sidered a possibility.

to participate.

Some people may regard it as all the fleets in the world and is

It was broad daylight when she finesse. It is reminiscent of a

Now London and Washington beyond the range of possibility. covered by powerful batteries.

The most promising courses of rounded Lyemoon Point, and we can. see to this day the look of terror on victory bought by the massing

if not Paris-are considering Japan, they may say, does in of troops against a thinly-held whether they can be any longer fact command the Western Pa- action for the two fleets would be the face of the captain as we left our ambusi and said. in loud, ringing line-of-enemy-soldiers,-and-liter-bound-by-the-Treaty-limits, cific today. All things consi- either for the American fleet to

dered we are unlikely to be able go to the Philippines-and-the-tones, "WHOA! We were sorry-we-

left our ambush, because when ally by weight crushing the If Japan were to build ships to wrest it from her if we would. British to Singapore; or for the

went back we could never find i defence.

again, It was a nice ambush, too, Austria, never in of over 40,000, tons while we re- What therefore is the good of British fleet to join the Ameri-

we always wore it in the winter, and position to seriously resist

tained the 35,000 tons limit, ship building battleships against a can at the Philippines.

Its fur-lining used to keep our throat threat of German violence since for ship, her new battleships contingency that for geographi- The disadvantage of the form- the Great War, had no alter- would be superior to ours cal and strategical reasons is un- er course is that the two flects native but surrender. Vienna Given competent construction, likely to arise? Adared not call the German move the power of a ship varies with

her size. The bigger the ship the facts or on all the facts. Under the latter course, both a bluff.

the larger or more numerous the

It is true that, in the present fleets would be sharing the same Italy's reaction is not yetguns you can put into her, or the

thicker the armour or the higher state of the world, it is unlikely burden and the combined fleet clear. It may be that this

that Britain could send to the would be so powerful as to be the speed.

The captain said:"""What's Far East a fleet detachment unchallengeable. Singapore and manoeuvre was known to Rome

That being so it is no use build- large enough to challenge the other British and Imperial terri- meaning of this outrage?"

"Oh, you shut up!" we said, in our cven before the Budapest con- ing a ship of 35,000 tons in reply Japanese main fleet in its own tories to the southward would be

covered

effectively from

wild, hot-tempered way. ferences; and it is also possible to one of 40,000 tons. Some chosen ground of operations.

There's mad streak in us that that von Schuschnigg himself thing as large or larger would be

makes us say things like that. Mind The point is how far her own Manila as from further south.

we're The great merit of an Anglo- | you,

sorry for it after- was aware of the German inten-necessary.

ground extends. The smaller tion. It may have been worked Nevertheless, ships of over the British fiect, the further American meeting at Manila wards, but we just can't help our- The passengers lined up on the out by the leaders of the Rome-10,000 tons, or even of 35,000 from her own strictly home area would be the very important

boat deck with their hands up while Berlin axis and the collaboration tons, are very large and very Japan can hope to operate with moral effect that would almost

certainly be produced, partly by we went through their pockets and lof Vienna obtained. There is costly things, so costly that, a out fear of interference.

nation can only afford a few of

that word.) Wo That is why we cannot look the junction of the two ficats reticules. (We bet it's a long time

into one overwhelming force, since you heard significance in the fact that | them.

One siy there's a lot of you girls upon an increase of Japanese but even more by the evidence don't know what a reticule is! Italy has not attempted to res- For this reason there is a train Hitler as she did not so school of thought that holdu battleship strength with indif- before the whole world of the It is the name of a small handbag long ago when Germany that battleship size has reached ference, even if we cannot now

mirror in it and a powder puff and threatened to put the Nazis into its effective limit and that the expect to carry out successful complete lentification of the carried by ladies in the 80's in the

thus acting in rouge box, a comb, and nations

TA postage- close accord.

stamp, Handkerchief reeking of scent, (Violin Solo, F. Esdakoff). power in Vienna. The Italians right reply to a foreign ship of operations in, say, the Yellow sims and interests of the two pre-lipstick era, and it had a small

marched to the frontier, then. 40,000 tons is two of about 26,-

To-day the requirements of The presence of American and a penell off a dance programme. Anyway, we're fed up telling jhome defence prevent us sending cruisers at the official opening of you about pirates. Como up and And the significance of the Ger-

let us demonstrate sometime, man display of military strength Jugo-Slavian and Czecho-Slova-jany more than eight capital ships the Singapore base on Monday

to the East. The Japanese,

"Skoal!" (Norwegian for something or the other), the Austrian frontier may kinn leaders will hasten to con- however, have nine capital ships, was a happy omen for this co- not have been directed against|fer with a view to meeting the At the best, therefore, our own von Schuschnigg, but against the possibility of further German force would be inferior. Vaterlandische Front.

val in Central Europe. There is, on the face of it,

As for France and Britain, it patch an inferior force, even one little to be gained by Germany in lifting Austrian Nazia into is obvious that they will not be of no more than five battleships, "OME here, Mick Maloney. ye obtainate spalpeen, and put yor force which,

mollier. And their to the East; a

en str sald an Trish power, except, of course, the particularly pleased.

though standing on the defen-Shure an ye're that contrary that strengthening of the anti-Com-response to what may be inter sive, would by its mere presence if ye hadn't got was ye'd blways be munist bloc. It is probable preted as a challenge in one of in Far Eastern waters act as a awearin' of ut."

deterrent against Jat had fallen Into the bands, of For Reservations please 'phone 27775

that Austria will now swing several ways, and the counter-powerful

lawyers, and was lamenting to sym- into line with those allies who diplomacy of Moscow, will have Japanese aggression.

pathetic friends about the excessive bearing on future develop- Whenever this policy has been bill which he had had to pay.

"Lawyers, did yo any? It's thieves. THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. (have made anti-communism their

resorted to in the past it has common policy. But to say that inents.

Of course, this may be just falled. If forco has to be used they are an' all an' mil. Put wan of thim, lawyers on an uninhabited in- this development has been ac-

of the poor naked complished without shaking po-another move in a game already at all, the greatest mistake that land, an he'd be stickn' his linnda

can be made is not to have sufficl-in the pockets

savages an' robbin' thim litical Europe more deeply than thought out to its conclusion; ent force.

they nivir have had!" mero anti-Sovlet recruit-for it may be designed to distracti

Let us therefore rule out any An Irlah father boasted that ha ment would have done, would be attention of the Mediterranean, idea that Britain should enden-had seven sons, and never raised his unwiat. Until the exact rene-or Spain, or China. Who knows.vour, single-handed, to dominato hand to one of them save in self- tions of the powers can be as-in any event the repercussions the Far Eastern situation. But

A story is told of an Irish Catholic certained it will be impossible will be widely felt, and no-one the British and American navios! to make accurate predictions. yet-dares say what may be their acting together would be a very who was questioning his parish priest

different matter. Britain as al- about the Day of Judgment. But it is not improbable that 'outcome.

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THE

"TELEGRAPHS"

EVERYWHERE-

on

Any

Sen.

expansion and a general uphea-: I have seen it suggested that

great

operation.

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we might advantageously dis- IRISH WIT AND HUMOUR

defence,

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of what

"Father," said Pat, "will you be there 7" "Yes, Patrick." "And will all of us Catholles be there too?" "Yes, Patrick. all of us." "But, father, what about the Orangemen?" "The Orangemen," replied the priest quictly, will also be there."

Will they, bedad" shouted Pat. "Then it's little business will be done the first day, I'm thinkin'."

An Irish padre was trying to get some money to repair a hole on the Foot

of the church, and asked Pal for a contribution.

"Ach; your Rivirence," said Pat. "I'm sorra a penny piece of money I have, but it's pleased an' proud be to give me services."

"But, queried the padre, "what do you mean by giving your services? You are not a mason."

"No," replied Pat, "but next Sun- day it it's rainin' it's meself will be willin' to sit on the hole!"

Dr.