1940-02-12 — Page 13

DONALD

DUCK

WHAT'S THE

DIFFERENCE

BETWEEN

HARD WATER

AND

[DUCK

SOFT WATER, UNCA DONALD?

Monday,

HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH

February 12, 1940.

By Walt

Walt Disney

USE ONLY....

SOMEBODY'S BEEN

KIDDIN' YOU BOYS! THERE'S NO SUCH

THING AS HARD WATER!

Alil WATER IS---

THUD

SOFT/

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500-Mile Mine Barrier To Guard Coast from Scotland to Thames

Ski-Corps and Fight Finns

SAFETY LANE 8 MILES WIDE Stalin Calls Women to Join FOR SHIPPING: TRAPS FOR NAZI

U-BOATS MINEFIELDS GUARDING THE SHORES OF BRITAIN FROM

PLANES AND

INVASION AND PROVIDING A DEFENCE AGAINST SEA ATTACK ON BRITISH AND NEUTRAL SHIPPING ENTERING EAST COAST PORTS ARE BEING MULTIPLIED IN AREA AT LEAST TEN TIMES.

A vast barrier of mines between 30 and 40 miles in depth and 500 miles in length is to be laid off our Eastern coast..

Women Train Guards Now

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ANTWERP. WOMEN are now acilog guards of long-distance passenger trains in Germany.

More than 100 of them are already at work on the Muenster section.

"THEY

They wear an official blue forage cap, but, so far, no other uniform.

Many are wives or daughters of railwaymen - who have been called

the

Throughout Germany cleaning of trains is how done exclusively by wamen.

Party leaders in big cities have been told to see that well-off women do not dress elegantly or expensively.

This is because there has been unfavourable criticism by work. ing-class women, especially since clothes rationing came in.

It will run roughly parallel to the coast, at a dis

tance of about eight miles from the shore, from Kinnaird

Head in Scotland to the Thames Estuary and provide not only safety for British and neutral shipping, but traps

fer German submarines and planes as well..

Scores of thousands of mines will go to the making of this explosive barrier. The mines will be so spaced that by the laws of mathematical probability it should be impossible for a hostile craft to pass through them.

Up to now the shores of Britain have only been protected by three comparatively small minefields-one some 85 miles long and. 20 miles deep off Flamborough Head, another off the Thames Estuary and a third in the Straits of Dover.

Now the Flamborough Head field is to be incorporated into the great new 500-mile belt.

The first section of the belt is being laid from Kinnaird Head to the Tyne, whence it will swallow up the old Flamborough Head- field and then continue through a third dog leg shaped field to. Orford Ness where it will link up with another small existing field which stretches to the Thames Estuary.

Two Traffic

Lanes to Britain

----All- skipping-from-Denmark

SALLY RAND and the Scandinavian countries

IS BANKRUPT

But She Still Has

Her Sex Appeal! SPOKANE, Wash., (UP) Sally Rand, the fan dancer, is bankrupt but she is not "flat,

busted."

She still has her sex appeal

will have to pass to our Eastern ports round the northern end of

the minefield passing the en-

trance to Moray Firth.

Shipping from Holland and Belgium will have to pass round the Thames Estuary. the southern end of the field in

Big Hangars For Seaplanes On

Warships

NE of the German excuses for the "packet-battleship" Admiral Graf Spee being cornered by the British grafer squadron is that she was un- jable to carry out alr reconnaissance It will be some weeks before became her seaplane, which was nor- the whole 500-mile long feldmally slowed on top of its

catapult covering as it does an area of had been damaged by weather. some 15,000 to 20,000 square |

It was one of the fer Gemman em

and will continue making her miles of sea will be fully lethal,ich would appear to be quite living thereby,

She so assured the boys of Kappa but from now onwards all ship Sigma Fraternity at the University ping should keep well away from

of Richmond, Virginiu, who, feeling the areas.

sorry for her because she lind gone!

through the bankruptcy court, asked Colt That Can

her to be their house mother.

The boys tendered their Invitation!

In verse and Miss Rund replied in verze too.

iler reply follows:

vour swell

Be Kept Clear

evertible, and it an excellent justi-

neation for the British Admiralty a polley of Atting big hangars in the latest men-of-war, and even convert- ing one of the older erutar carry them.

In the last war it took Brillm and U.S.A. minelayers Tour months to lay 20.000 mines in what was known as Thank you boys, for

the Northern Barrage from the Ork- invite, Now that my coffers are empty ness to the Norwegian const

quite.

The advantages of the new barrage Of course, for never been a are many.

Britsh mother.

These hangars are very big in some cases extending half way up the funnel..no that they increase the target offered to the enemy and the wind resistance at high speed. The The American cruisers were formerly fitte

fitted with big hangars on leck, but in the latest types they have been placed below the quarter- lek, berupying the whole of the It will provide for

and after end of the ship, with a lift to neutral shipping an eight-nlle-wide ring the planes up to the catapults afety-first shipping Inne from the which are placed on either side.

But I'd rather be yours than any

other. But I must still my career purmie; North of Scotland to the Thames-a

This system is considered by the

I can't be a mother to you or you. lane which can and will be regularly: British to have many disadvantages, For nothing's changed, it's the old swept against the menace of mines and it has not been adopted.

nude deal,

busted.

dropped by seaplanes.

But it is considerably better than

I've still not my fane and my sex} If the Nazi seaplanes ate o con-keeping the planes on the catapults

appeal.

tinue dropping mines it wil force in all weathers, where they are so And what I'm selling is tried and them to come over this narray stripkely to sustain damage, for with

trusted

of coastal water, where the finger of well-trained crew it is not neces For the public knows I'm not flat their falling victim to ouy, R.A.F.sary to waste more than a matter fighter patrols will be gratly in- of the hangar and on to the catapult. of minutes in getting the plane out creased.

Further, it will have the result of herding all traffle in the forth Sen Into certain well defined fut limited traffic lanes to which the British sca and air fleets will be abf to give a high measure of protectin.

WIZARD

OF

Oz

STARTS WEDNESDAY QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

First news of this rw Eastern mine barrage was discpsed in an Admiralty warning to all shipping

RUSSIANS CLAIM

SECRET WEAPON

RUSSIA 1s a secret wenpor "Which will startle the world," it is claimed in Moscow,

Approaching our shoresnt we pro tion, imparalleled in the history of The weapon is a gun, “an inven- posed to lay these newfelds.

"Passage through thymined area," the manufacture of arinninents." states the Admiralty rtice, "Is dan-

It is now being produced, gerous and vessels, dobeying there will be teed against Finland. instructions will do soit their peril." In 1917-18 the tot number of British mines laid inthe North Sca exceeded 112,000.

approaching the Straits of Dover,

and

Many U-boats came to grlet In minefields during the last war, the

1. Of those the `greatắt number were total number known to have been loid in the southernéxtremity of the destroyed in this way being 44 exclu- Narth Sen, where it narrows on❘sive of boats reported missing.

STALIN, stung by the case with whileh Finland's skling while cape-and-hooded marks. men have whipped his battalions in the snow-covered_battlefields. recently appealed for expert- enced sil-ers—s men or women- to volunteer 'for a ski-corps to Belt In Finland.

afoscow radio, broadcasting the appeal, sald that the volunteers would be trained on the snow stopes of the Carpathians, the

wife

winter-sport playground seized from Polanil.

Ski-ing is to be made part of the training of all Russian con. scripts.

The Finns ski-carps carry short, razor-edged daggers and sub-machine gutis. In the dark- ness of the Arclle winter they are terrifying the dark-clad Rus- slans as they swoop on march- ing columns or bivouacked de- tachments of the invaders.

A Blind Man's Will

who could not write was accepted by Mr. Justice Henn Collins

LONDON. A joint will by a man who could not see and his in the Probate Court on Monday.

The blind man made a cross-his wife guided his hand-and that was accepted as the "signature" of both. Probate was granted.

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FIRING PRACTICE

Light gun ring practice will be carried out between the hours of 10 fum, and 11 p.m. to-day.

Firing Aron 'A' will be affected.

·Light gun Aring practice will also be carried out between the hours of 10 am, and 11 p.m. to-morrow.

Firing Areas A', 'D' and 'E' will be affected.

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