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BECAUSE of the war nobody wants to adopt baby boys. Adop-
tion societics are snowed under with letters mothers who want to find childless couples willing to relieve them of the responsibility of bringing up their baby sons.
"Everyone wants baby girin now," the Rov, W. F. Buttle, chairman of The Adoption Society, Bloomsbury-
BRITISH diplomats in neutral court, W.C., said to Д "Sunday capitals are seriously disturbed by Chronicle" reporter recently. "Up tlio heavy Densorship operating till last September it was just as against foreign. Journalists working easy to get a boy adopted as a girl, In London.
News is flooding out of Berlin Into all neutral countries; and the Press of those countries is almost entirely without news from London.
are
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PROGRAMME
but the crisis changed all that. Unique Defence Bonds
"During the last 12 months wà received "applications for baby boys at the rate of only one a fortnight. Since the war began we have not received one inquiry for a boy,
"People do not want to bring up boys because they may have to serve in future, wars
To Be Issued
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Nov. 21 (Router).—| The Government borrowing pro- gramme was partly disclosed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Buttle said all they could do in the House of Commons to now for baby boys was to get them day when he stated that the date into orphanages,
Neutral correspondents in Berlin
able
to telephone freely to their capitals; and two nights ago, when there were nothing but unconfirmed rumours here that French troops were nearing Saarbruceken, Danish correspondents in that town were offered by the German authorities all
"I an certain the position will had not yet arrived to issue a the telephone facilities they required.
change very shortly," he added. loan on the open market. AMERICANS' THREAT
"During the last war we received
But two securllias to finance the ver in arrived Omelal complaints
many applications frem bereaved London recently that Dutch papers were receiving no telephoned photo-Parents after the first casualty lists war will be available from
were published. gratis from London whereas the line. "When parents lose a son they One will be the new issue of the from Berlin was open and in constant will come forward for boys. Over National Savings certificates at 15 and over again I have seen the shillings as now, but interest is Certain important American Jour-happiness that has come into a war-slightly increased so that a certificate nalists here have already threatened grieved home through the adoption is worth 17 shillings and six pence to go
on strike" unless the diffi- of a baby boy.”
after five years, and 20 shillings and culties which they
six pence after ten. quickly remedied.
encounter
Are
Although the censor's office is re- ceiving much criticism, the blame does not entirely lle in that depart- ment: it Hes largely in the various Government Departments and with the Imperial General StafT, who do not, yet realise that war is no longer amatter merely for professional soldiers or that world opinion may be, as important as army corps.
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to
But that the censor's office needs drastle change of outlook is evidenced by its behaviour towards most innocuous of foreign sven the dispatches,
One neutral journalist who at- descriptive send tempted
Lon- words story of 200
about don during the air raid alarm was cut down to eight words; and was not allowed to mention the time at which the "all-clear" WDS sounded. Yet the B.B.C. was allowed to broad- cast the time to all the world.
Attempts are now being made to remedy this official neglect of neutral opinion whose importance the Nazl authorities fully realise.
PARIS PHONE BAN
The work of British journalists is: also hampered by the closing down of all telephonic communication between London and Paris. That all telephone communication between the British journalists and their French col-1 leagues and allies is stili suspended is frankly Incredible.
NEW WEAPONS
An official French broadcast re- ferred to new weapons being em→ ployed against U-boats,
One of these is a bomb which can' |-be-dropped-from-aircraft..and then! explodes at a pre-arrangal depth, In the same manner as a depth charge.
Al Capone To Open Cabaret
L CAPONE, who leaves the AL
U.S. Federal prison on Ter- minal Island this month, wants to open a cabaret in Miami "and take it easy."
He received friends in his cell lost
them week and told
of his plans when he regains freedom after 7 years.
"I'm through with rackets. I want 10 live quiet," he said.
Capone will be smuggled out of Faol, as hundreds of threats against his life have been made.
LATE NEWS
morrow.
Novel Method
The second security will be of a novel kind. Known as Defence Bonds, they will be purchasable in units of £5.
They will be issued at par to carry
3 per cent, and will be repayable in seven years from the date of pur- chase at a premium of one per cent. if not cashed earller.
Single holdings of these bonds will be limited to £1,000 but a holder may
maximun of also purchase a
savings certificates.
500
The new bonds will be subject to Income Tax not deductible at the
source.
Sterling Firmer
On New York
NEW YORK, Nov. 21 (Reuter).--} The foreign exchange on sterling spot wis Armer lo-day.
There was considerable covering- short, while pressure on futures was noticeable, with discount the widest yet witnessed,
London Stock Exchange SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
LONDON, Nov. 21 (Router),...) After a quiet opening with prices easier trade became brisker owing to investment orders from the pro- vinces.
Consequently, the earlier losse were partially recovered.
Liverpool cotton continues to be Arm on general buying, following yesterday's sharp advance in response to the strength of the Bom- buy market.
Wall Street was irregular.
U.S. Makes Japanese Air Mail
Service On Pacific Possible
Japanese trans-Pacific mall service and the Japanese omelal to Tokyo. seems practically assured. Werd has A way for British trans-Pacific alr came that the United States. Novy service is now belleved to be paved Department has granted permission by the possibility of complete Japan- for a Japanese connection near Guam (ese entry into Pacific flying. The to Tokyo providing practically a six-United States which controls Facific day service from the United States.to fair routes by its ownership of the the Land of the Rising Sun,
essential landing places has heretofore
to
or
Newspapers," photographis and refused to grant any nation per. newsreols in the care of Isamt mission to land on Howall or Alaska. Fellow-convicts have luld bets that Morimura, a Japanese airways official, It was felt that if permission was
aboned granted to England, France he will be "eliminated" within two yaft Newark recently months of leaving prison.
plane for San Francisco. There they Holland it would also have to be G-men to New York say that nat will be transferred to a clipper plane, granted Japan. Anti-Japanese a menace to society Capone is "all At Guam the news matter will be sentiment in the United States stale- washed up."
then shipped by boat to Salpan Port, mated the Pacific route therefore. for a Japanese possession in the Ladrones mil nations. With the resumption of Islands north of Guam. The Ameri- better feelings between Japan and can permission was granted on the the United States the log jam of condition that Japan did not land general progress in irons-Pacide at Guam. From Salpan a Japanese javiation has been cleared for, all flying boat will fly the news matter nations.
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