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NANCY

DIDN'T I TELL YOU TO STOP PUTTING ON THESE SILLY GET-UPS?

OH, HONEY-.. I WANT YOU

TO GIVE NANCY A GOOD TALKING

TO!

1 THINK

IT'S FUN!

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

By Ernie Ernie

WELL- I'LL HAVE

TO DO IT FAST---

I'M CATE FOR

ER,

MIND!

NEVER

MY LODGE. MEETING!

December 7, 1939.

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LONDON.-Advice on sonal and domestic difficulties ACHIEVEMENTS of half a million women caused by war conditions is volunteers in Britain are praised in a report which given here by Citizens' Advisory Bureaus, set up by voluntary describes the evacuation as "the greatest movement of social service bodies. people ever undertaken in this country."

Some 110 of them in the Metro-

thousands of cases,

As chairman of the Women Voluntary Services for pan Poice area have dealt with Civil Defence, the Dowager Marchioness of Reading in her report says that in September over 96,000 volunteersing with the Churity Organisation were enrolled.

This brought the total since June, 1936, to nearly half a million.

Al the London headquarters along 11,000 volunteers in September were, interviewed.

The chairman speaks of the "en- ormous difficulties of the evacuation, adding:

"It should be remembered, how- ever, that in an operation of this nature it is always the difficulties of which most is heard,

"Recent report from the regions show that at this date, approximately two months after the evacuation, al- though a percentage of school child- ren have returned, great numbers of children of school age have been happily absorbed into the receiving

areas.

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The London Council of Social Service, a co-ordinating body work. Soclety, is arranging for the service in Inner London boroughs, and in such outer ones Croydon, Enfield,

Ealing and Wimbledon.

Families have evacuated but were

The central London Bureau is in the crypt at St. Marun in the Fields. Many others are in settlements or in "Saint In London" (Queen's) i Mye-church halls. tery-yarn-produced-in-London- and he chief problems dealt with-are-- based on a story by Leslie Charteris.) At first the law and its representatives in regard to evacuation, rent, hire seem to be held in disrespect, but it and purchase agreements, and delay inter appears that the Saint is working in payment of separation allowances. WRH Scotland Yard and the Govern In Bermondsey, a slum district of ment against a gang of foreign rascals London from which most of the Starring George Saunders and Selly; children have been evacuated, the Grey.

chlet difculty is that of storage of “Wife, Husband and Friend" (Miajes, furniture, tie) Gay and unusual story of a cou- ple of would-be songbirds, the "wife forced to leave their furniture be and "husband" of the title, who go on, hind. As long as it remains, the rent scoring each other through all sorts of is still due. As depositories are full, romantic entanglements. With Loretta the Young, Warner Baxter, Blanka BarHOR,

Bureau is finding additional Casar Romero and George Barbier,

warehouses. "The Warning" (Queen's and Alliam- The work is recognised bra) This is a short National Bervice Ministry of Health as of national-

film which documentary

runs for 86 importance, and the head office is minutes. It surveys the dangers that kept informed of official decisions on monoco Britain from an air attack and current problems. how they may be met by organised pre paredness of civilians to back up the The Bureaus are thus enabled to might of armed forces. A call to ser act as clearing houses for sound vise a riven at the conclusion of the advice and up-to-date information. It film by Sir John Anderson, Minister for has been arranged to keep some of

the Bureaus open on Sunday.

FIRST WARNING England's first air-roid warning (says the report) coincided with the arrival of a number of women and children at an East Anglian part on the morning of the outbreak of war. "Arriving by boat from the London area, they were being moved from the worthouse where they had rested to a fleet of buses on the journey Civil Defence. Inland. The warning came and "the whole operation passed off smoothly."

Running mobile canteens, helping GRIN AND BEAR IT

with hospital supplies and training ambulance, drivers, are among, the tasks carried out by the women volunteers.

In the receiving areas their work begun by co-operation in the billeting survey in February last, and the making of thousands of paillasses and planning of sick bay accommodation. TWO CAME BACK "After official evacuation," says the report, "we received in London many requests to arrange for the evacuation of children under five without their mothers.

"These were all cases of real dis- tress. The arst application came during the air-raid warning on the morning war broke out.

"Since then 195 have been sent out, and two have come back"

Another side of evacuation was the steady emptying of the hospitals, and the return of all the sitting patients to their homes.

In London alone 922 volunteer owner - drivers were registered for-1 evacuation and general transport work.

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Bucharest, Dec. 6, The Cabinet Council has decidied. that Parliament reconvene on Decem- ber 11 for a series of new laws to be Introduced, including the applien- tion of the five-year plan for fridus- try_and, more especially, agriculture, and ateb providing for new freedom for the minorities,-United Press,

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