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CLANG

CLANG

German Exile Blames Nazis

"People Do Not Want This War"

IT DON'T MAKE MUCH DIFFERENCE,

BROTHER, LETO

FLIP FOR IT!

September 11, 1939.

By Walt Disney

WALT DISNEY

130 JAPANESE Newspapermen

PLANES LOST

Destroyed By Floods

In Tientsin

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH“ CHUNGKING, Sept. 10 (UP) NICE, Sept. 10 (Reuter).-Chinese reports here claim that 130 Heinrich Mann, the German Japanese planes and three months' novelist, whose books were supply of petrol were lost during the banned some years ago by the Tientsin floods. Nazis, and who is an exile from Germany, stated in an interview |to-day:

"I am certain the German people do not want this war. They have Įbeen dragged hato it by Hitler.

Detained

Chinese Hold American And Australian

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH

CHUNGKING, Sept. 10 (UP), It is understood that the! Chinese military authorities are temporarily holding Juck Bel den, American newspaperman am-formerly of "United Press," and also W.L. ("Buzz") Farmer, an Aus-

tralian newsman.

The reports said my 20 Japanese planes ercaped destruction.

Large amounts of Japanese munitions and supplies tost.

were

The two are being held in custody at Klan, the provisional capital of Kiungsi province.

neither pos-

It is reported that

"By freeing themselves they will

The Consul General for Panama join those countries who want peace. and Mrs. J. Rivera Reyes left Hong-

"Ever since Bitter came into power | kong yesterday by the President sessed military passports entitling he has been preparing for

Pierce for Japan. They will take the them to visit the war areas. Heinrich Mann came to the French President Collidge in Yokohama for Riviera in 1933 #15 1171 exile from San Francisco, and thence will pro-

Mr. Farmer, who was in Hongkong recently, was formerly attached

to

Germany He is the brother of seed to Panama, vin Mexico and the Chungking Government's Pro-

Thomas Mann, who won the Nobel Central America,

Prize for Bterature.

He married a German girl in Nice-ve

un Saturday.

MY BOY IS JUST 19

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dent on a woman in the house. It's Hazines, mostly.

Michael found himself in a nice pickle a month ago when both the maid and I were down with flu, and he had to get his own meals and see to things a bit. He was willing enough, he did want to have things nice so that I shouldn't worry, unid he looked after me like an angel.

But I didn't care for anything he cooked, I must say. Even the "nice cups of tea" he brought me; half the time he must have made them when the water wasn't boiling.

If the Army teaches him to have sense about these ordinary things, it will have done his wife a good turn when she comes along. *-

I heard my neighbour this morning talking over this Conscripton Bill, and she was all against it. "I didn't bring up my boy to be a soldier, and be torn to bits by high explosive," she was saying.

Well, neither did I bring up Michael for that sort of thing. But

I didn't bring him up, either, to have scarlet fever, which he got at 14..or for his appendix nearly to kill him, which happened last year. These!

are the bit of luck, or fate, call it what you like, that sit in the rou

wait for you.

So this business of compulsory servicc-well, if he'd been born 10 years earlier it wouldn't have come his way. But he happened to born in 1020. So there you are.

A GOOD MIXER

נן

DON'T know what effect it's all supposed to have on the dictators. If it keeps them a bit quieter by showing them we're in earnest about defending our country, all right. That's for the politicians to think out. I'm trying to see it from the point of view of a mother who wants her son to turn out n good man and a good mixer.

I'm not looking at the soldiering side | of It. I'm looking at the training side of I-training for life, not death. And by that reckoning, I'm for it.

So long as they don't start Michael Jon the goose-step.

SUCCESSES BY GUERILLAS

CHUNGKING, Sept. 10 (UP),— Chinese reports state that Chinese guerillas attacked and completely destroyed the Minfeng paper mill at flashing on August 22,

The mill is said to be valued at seven million yuan and was owned Jointly by the Japanese and Nanking "puppets".

The reports claim the mill was entirely destroyed by fire.

Japan Multiplies War Risk Rates

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