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NANCY

SLUGGO

15 HEART- BROKEN SINCE HE

LEARNED

THAT HIS TEACHER

HAS A BOY FRIEND!

Hitler's Crash Coach

AMSTERDAM.

HITLER, blamed by the number of war-time railway smashes In Ger- miany, has ordered 2 new crasit- proof railway coach for himself.

He has little confidence in the pre- sent condition of Germany's rolling stack. He also fears sabotage.

The new Hller coach has been put through a series of strenuous testa. Storm troopers were ordered to si In H while it was run into goods train at 50 mp.b. The coach was derailed, the balfers bent, and i one mixt dented in. Bat the incit thankfully escaped with a shaking.

Later the coach was thumpis over 12011. embankment in the Black Forest. This time no one could br found to sit in H. But Hitler will see a film of the crash, and will then decide whether he approves of the desten.

SLUGGA--- WHY DO YOU LOOK. SO UNHAPPY ?-- PERHAPS YOU'RE NOT CONTENTED

HERE

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

IF YOU WANT ME TO 'I'LL

HAVE YOU TRANSFERRED

TO A DIFFERENT CLASS --

By Ernie

January 20, 1940.

Bushmiller

OH --- I'M VERY HAPPY-.. YIPPEE!--- HA HA HA--

TRA LA DE DA

A

R.A.F. SEASIDE TRAINING CENTRE

IS SPORTSMAN'S DELIGHT

Short War Say Churchmen

OPTIMISTIC forecasts about the duration of war were made at a meeting of the Church Assembly" al Central Hall, Westminster.

Lord Hugh Cecil thought it would last not more than The Rev. C. E. a year. Douglas (Southwark con- sidered that "the German rebellion against the law of nations is not likely to Inst long,"

The

the meeting Was shortest in the 20 years' history of the Assembly. It lasted less than 90 minutes. Usually it on for five days.

2001

NAVY SAY THEY WANT Golf, Boxing,

SMALLER SHIPS

The old spirit sili splendidly do. minates the Royal Navy, Ko, alas. do some of the ideas. We are fighting this war with the battle- ships of the last war,

We have eleven 10.000-ton battle. ships. aud tree even kravies battle-ernisers. All but two of the balleshus (Nelson aul Rodney, 1927) were completed in 1916-17 Tr Intest baltle-cruiser (Hom was completed in 1920.

Fire more latileships of the King George V. clas, will be completed next year. They are 35,000 tons and carry ten 14. guns.

The rels are laid for four battle. They wil ships of the Lion clos. be 10,000 for and runt 16in. mans, the heaviest alleat anywhere-1

H

"Here's an H.B. Now

The Hong Kong Brewery

G Distillery, Limited

try"

In the world. These craft will not be completed until 1943. This war will be over long before then.

see no use for such great battle-

Cricket Stars Are There

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The name of the resort must not be mentioned because it is here that the Royal Air Force fast have established

one of the bullding large Initial Training Schools for war pilots and airmen that are under the command of Air Commodore A. C. Critchley, the | Greyhound Racing chief.

New Trench Mortar Is Deadly

It is the presence of the training establishment that has brought win- ter prosperity to this summer resuri. One way and another the RAF. are responsible for an extra £50,000 a month being spent in the town.

Business Is boembɛ. Cafes that ordinarily close down for the whu- ter are doing a roaring trade. The shops are crowded.

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The RAF disapproves of 100

By A Special Correspondent ALTHOUGH in essential prin- ciple the same weapon that was juset so effectively by Our troops in the last war, the mor- tar has been greatly improved by fitting it with sighting and ranging equipment. Generally much publicity, even for the fighting known between 1913-18 as the squadrons in France. trench mortar, this weapon is Hundreds of eager young men who now officially termed "a mortar." [have volunteered as war pilots are There are two types, a 3in. mor- preliminary training before they are being given a strenuous course of

tar, which can throw a 3b. sent to advanced schools where they ¿bomb-a-distance-of-1;500-yards will be taught to fly. To put them through their prees, Air Commodore and a 2in, one using a 216, bomb, Critchley has gathered around him a which has a range of 800 yards.ties such as no other air force com

galaxy of famous sporting personali-

been

Loaded with high explosive, the mand can boast. bombs are very destructive. The Professional boxers have mortar is a variety of light artillery given the rank of sergeant-instruc- for our infantry, each battalion of for, and Britain's three leading which has its mortar detachments.heavy-weights--Tommy Farr, Len, There is one 3lb. mortar detachment Horvey and Eddie Phillips-nre for the headquarters company and a N.C.Os at the school. 2b. mortar platoon for each of the other companies.

At an Army training school in the West to-day I saw infantry being instructed in the use of mortars in jattack. A tactical operation Was carried out in a stretch of country not unlike that to be found in some sectors of the Western Front. The

idea of the exercise was

that ad-

Ja the commissioned ranits are a number of well-known amateur gelem, including John Beck, the British Walker Cup team captain, and L. Q. Crawley. Altogether there are eight golfers among the officers who are rated at scratch or better,

Walter Hammond, England's cric- vancing infantry had been held up, school, and among the other erle- ket captain, is a pilot officer of the approaching a ridge, by un enemy

come 1,200 yards ahead, and the keters on the Instructional staff are mortar detachment had been called Harold Gilligan, Burnett, of Glouces on to neutralise the enemy; in other tershire, and Mitchell, of Middlesex. worda, to wipe out. his positions by In the summer the county ground bombing them. A repld and heavy in to be taken over for cricket. Wal- bombardment was directed upon the ter Hummond is already preparing a enemy by the mortars, which also fixture list, and has so many 'Arst-

ald smoke screen.

Clearing Away Obstacles

The projectile thrown from П rbortor rises to s height of about

class players on while he can call that it has already been decided to challenge the county eleven.

how mortar von do the

pre~

2,000 yards, and then plunge down ather forms of preliminary attack.

showed operations directly upon its objective. This Recent high-angle fire enables an explosive competently the bomb, accurately ranged, to be work for. Which it is designed. dropped into trenches or upon the Before leaving the school I SAW hends of troops sheltering in folds the system of instruction which is of the ground. When it explodes on given la the lecture rooms es impact the bomb has a radius of fiminary to field proelice. This sys destruction of about 100 yards, and tem is a very ingenious one, is thus a formidable weapon against which, by means of cinema troops missed in cover. It is in targets and nodels of country tand- tended for clearing away machine-scapes, the pupil is given to sound gun nests or other enemy obstacles knowledge of the theory of his job to an infantry advance that may that he is uble quickly to acquire the have escaped an artillery barrage or practical side of it.

HIS 121st NOVEL AT 84

in

flirn

SIX typewriters have been "I had half-written my 121st novel worn out in 50 years of author- when they sent me to hospital, ship by Mr. G. B. Burgin, the don't know what its title will be. I novelist.

am still struggling with ".. this uncle of Mr. His present typeweller is a very Lesilo Burgin, the Minister of Supply. old one. It has been described as will be 84. He has just returned to "looking like un adding machina, and

Highgate home from hospital, sounding like in pom-pom." where, after, two years of illness, he geg

This month

underwent a major operation.

A Hotypes every novel three times

"I am glad to be back at work," before if goes to the publisher, so be

he said,hough I cannot work must have ispod 26,000,000 words In nowadays with my usual 'speed, the part 45 yaKURIA

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