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NANCY

SNIFF- I WISH I

WASN'T. SO LITTLE!

DON'T BE SILLY. PEE-WEE--

LOTS OF GREAT MENU

IS LITTLE!

MY TEACHER SAYS THAT EVEN NAPOLEON. WAS

LITTLE/

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

OH, HE WAS VERY TINY--- ONLY · ABOUT THIS HIGH !

By

Ernie

NOW WHAT'S

THE

WHAN-H

MATTER BAW

WOW

October 6,

1939.

Bushmiller

I CAN NEVER

BE LIKE

NAPOLEON---

I'M TOO

TALL!

REALLY?-

How

LITTLE

NEW BAGS

Smart for Autumn draisy suada

bagal

Sce those soft pouches, new top-. handles, pleated and tucked types! Calfs grain leathers, too.

SLOWNESS

OF FRENCH

ADVANCE

DUE TO CAUTION AND TOPOGRAPHY

Lessons Taught By

1914 Battles

Many people in these days criticise|paratively new, was the most invit- the slowness of the French advance ing place for a French attack. De-

in the Saar basin and even conclude sides, the French had been in pos- that the French and English do not session of this district from 1910 to seem to be anxious to put up o reni 1835 and knew every foot of it. fight with the Nazis,

They should remember what France had to pay for being too hasty 25 years ago,

1914 BATTLE

Another advantage is that their forces will and it most helpful to have two bigger cltles, Metz and Thionville, in the rear where troops and supplies may be concentrated in the use of trucks and the movement farger inasses. The territory allows of tanks in large numbers while the

The battle that is at present raging In the Saar district is paralleled in Bunny instances to the first battle fought between the German and Vosges mountains prohibit this in the French forces in August, 1914. Then more eastern part of the border line. the German also first withdrew and let the French enter Gernon ferri- Jory between Metz and Seneburg, only to attack them before they were able to organise their positions.

LAND MINES

The slowness' of advance of the French troops la partially caused by the necesally of eliminating all land The battle of Loraine in August, tanks and the infantry go into action. mines by artillery fire before the 1914, ended. In a dister for French who had to retreat as far as consolidato

the It also appears that the French forces Verdun where the Germans were thoroughly after each advance move- positions very stopped, 11 is apparent that French military, lenders have learned

the ment, entrenching themselves strong- a lesson from that experience.

and bringing their runs to carefully chosen places to be sate against counter attacks.

WEAK POINT

y

their

The French Attack ju directed In the last war the French field agains! that polni of the German artillery was superior to the German fortifications which is comparatively Beld artillery, it is an old tradition weak, and the geographical condition with the French, ever since Napoleon of which promisca the greatest won his battles by the superiority of chance of success. They could not this specific weapon, to pay special -risk crossing the Rhine and invading attention to it.

the Stale) of Baden as this part of the German-French frontier may extent on its artillery-ut least in An army, which relies to a great easily be defended, The Rhine the preparatory state of an action- River is broad, and both banks are will necessarily be slower than an flat country, many miles deep. Every army which emphasizes the impor- troop movement would be too con- tance of the infantry, which in turn spicuous to allow a surprise attack. Thus, always been a tradition with the In addition to this the German Frederick of Prussia. In spite of the Gerinan armnles ever since King Siegfried line is in that part of the radical change in weapons and tech- frontier especially strong, belag the nique something of these traditions ftrat section that was bullt. The French also did not try to invade the has survived,

Palatinate, as the defender would here, too, le In un advantageous

SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE

JUES

Nazis in Danzig cheer the arrival of the 13,000-ton German battleship Schleswig-Holstein in the midst of the recent war preparations.

Carnegie Show Of Art Assured

to reach their objective with the should they succeed in reaking smallest possible loss of life. The yet. The dangers entailed in such tons. All of the German, country Siegfried line has not been atormed through the Siegfried line fortißen-

an attempt are first being reduced west of the Rhine river is mountain- on strategic points and extensive use opportunities for trapping to a minimum by gaining footholds ous and offers the defenders good enemy of artillery.

PITTSBURGH, (UP)-This year's attempting to gain

The French strategy is apparently The geography of the country witt Carnegie International Art Extol-

access into the most probably prohibit a speedy ad-tion will go on. Palatinate from behind the Siegfried vance of the invading armies. But line once this line is pierced in the the allied forces may also rely on the Saar district.

fact that time is on their side.

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KNOWN TERRITORY

be to advance to the Rhineland and The next objective would logically the Ruhr district by following the Moselle valley and possibly the Lux-

pusition. The country is hilly and In addition to this there is a basic densely wooded. The volleys run difference in the spirit of the French parallel to the border and offer ideal and German In regard to the valua-

sitions for the German artillery. tion of tho hunnan-life, which is ex-embourg and Belgian boundary line plained by the fact that Germany up Is an overpopulated country walle territory is also well known to the pied and thoroughly studied by them observe with chagrin French and English as it was occu-

after the world wor.

FRENCH ATTACK

to the Eifel mountains. This

The Saar busin, where the hills the French are flat and no dense forests exist, that their population has been de- where the rivers and valleys yun increasing for many decades. the same direction the French troops were marching, where the operations in

The French tactles in their present) Siegfried line fortifications are con apparently influenced by the desire advance of the French forces even

the Soar basin

We do not dara prophesy a fost

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Major General Sir Edmund Ironside, new Inspector General of British Oversea Foroos, who flew to Warsaw to discuss unifica- Lion of Tollsh, French and British troopa in case of war,"

That Is the verdiet of John J. Carnegie Museum here, scene of the annual world-wide art exhibit, sche- duled to open on October ID,

Many of the 250 paintings from European countries nie in transit and some already are in the United States, O'Connor explained. The first ship ment was dispatched August 4 on the steamship Bremen, and consisted of the work of German artists.

O'Connor, emphasized, however, that the museum has made no special citori lo have European entries arrive early this year.

The museum, he said, pays the cost of transporting paintings "from wall to wall." Only a few companies are willing to insure articles with a volue so indefinite as painting. Wor, there- fore, O'Connor explained, would naturally multiply tie risks and cost of slipping works of art.

O'Connor is particularly anxious to avold a repetition of what huppened during the World War. At the out- break of hostilities, the museum

ac

to hold some paintings and had them on their hands for the duration of the wor.

Father And Son Marry Mother

And Daughter

look

REDDING, Cal-Femily_reintion- ships in two marriages which place here are exceedingly dificult to

Agure out.

n

The first couple to apply for mortlago lleonco was Robert Nelson La Plant, 20 and Carillari”Animay. Busse, 17.,

As both were under age, It was necessary that each have someone to give consent to the marriage.

Young La Plant was sponsored by his father, Alfred La Plant, 40,

Miss Busse was accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Alles. Busse, 44, who gave her consent,

When the licence was issued Alfred La Plant and Mrs. Busse announced

Oil Still 85 Years they desired a licence, too,

As a result of the two marriages,

· Old

Just to bogin the calculation of fam- ily relationships, the younger couple SALINA, Pa., (UP)-An 05-year-are man and wife, step-sister and old petroleuns all, rusting in a step-brother;"Mrs. Ailco La Plant is corner of an industrial plant hero step-mother and step-mother-in-law typlates the humble beginning of to young La Plant; the elder La Pennsylvania's billion-dollar all re- Plant finds himself father-in-law and finery in the Western hemisphere, step-father to his son's wife; while the contrivagen was built about 1084 still further relationships can be by Hamuel M. Klor.

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Lighthouse Menace To

Birds

THE greatest danger to birds ns they migrate to and from the shores of Britain is one of the grent enviours of mankind-a lighthouse.

Bleds, although they aro not attracted by light like moths, are bemused and dazzled by a moving, intermittently flashing light.

Mr. John Buxton, writing from Stokholm, Pembrokeshire, · In tha "Times," appeals to the authoritos Trinity House and the Northern Commissioners of Luhthouses to wet dim but stationary lights on all Nighthouses.

Once the birds can see the obsta cle and define It. they will skirt it. This proved by the fact that the Norwegiin ghilouses are poi fatal to birds as the light sky enables them to be seen.

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Six lighthouses are no equipped, at The Royal Society for the Proles and on annust cost of £25 for re- a rough cost of £125 for materials lon of Bird's has endeavoured to check the menace of the lighthouse painting, erection and dismantling to migratory birds. That It is serious during and after the seasons of Is borne out by the fact that the migration. They are: St. Catherine's secretary saw 500 redwings dead at foff the Isle of Wight), The Caskets the foot of the Fair Islo Highthouse. (Channel Islands), South. Bishop The Society's plan is to erect (Pembrokeshire) 8pura Point perches above and below the lantern. (Yorka) Bardsey Island, and the Then birds flying towards the light | Skerries" (Anglesey), * qu and following is circular motion

Only two more: English lighthouses. find something on which to pereli, remain to be equipped with perches

saved thousands and and Orford Neas (Suffolk),

-Dungeness for the Kent coast), "It has thousands of birds," the News other lighthouses ara off the migra

All Chronicle was told recently,

-nnd. rest

tion routes.