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like him and a smart guy like you stringin' along together.".

OF

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AND MEN

"He ain't no cuckoo," protested George, sloshing his face. "He's dumb, but he ain't orazy. Him and me was born in Auburn, and we grew up together. He ain't got sense enough to look after himself."

"He's a nice fella," conceded Slim. "A guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it's just the other way round."

Later, while eating in the chuck house, George heaped a plate high with "grub" to hold aside for the tardy Lennie. Sizing up Slim as a man who could and would keep a confidence, he began to recount to the mule skinner the trouble he and Lennie had had at their last job in Weed; how Lerinie, seeing a girl in

a red velvet dress, had given way

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The

Japan to stop hongkong Telegraph.

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transport

of war supplies

to Generalis-

simo Chiang

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Monday, July 22, 1940.

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I'M LENNIE

"Gcorgo says guys like us is the loneliest guys in the world."

to his innocent impulse to stroke any Carlson. "He's all stiff with rheu- found a chovel in a corner, and-led smooth surface and had taken hold mintism. Why don't you shoot him?" the dog out. of the dress.

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Condy protested, temporized, tried to change the subject. But Carlson

The old, crippled man continued The girl had screamed. Lennie in relentlessly pursued his point. The in lie motionless on his back, scarcely a panic had held on to her tighter, aged animel was alling and useless, seeming to breathe, wondering what and by the time George could pry "no good to anybody, includin' his would happen when he was no in him loose a posse was being formed self." It would be an act of mercy longer any "good to himself" And for to "get" them. That was the price to do away with him. And while when, after what seemed an eternity, he paid for taking care of Lennie. the others kept no impartial silence, the shot sounded from outside, Candy Candy continued to plead: he had rolled over and faced the wall, alone. sures. But a

The huge fellow joined them be- raised the creature from a pup; it with his bitter thoughts. curious

fore George could finish the story, had been the best sheep dog he had and extended his scrubbed hands ever seen; and (though this he left. It was nearly bedtime "when' Slim sage Como's like a child to its mother.

unspoken) it was the only friend he went out to the barn to put tar on from "Domel,"

had. Finally, in almost tearful de- the

mea-

mes-

"I did like you told me, George." spair, he turned appealingly to Slim. A mule's split hoof. Lennie was still semi-That's good. Now ent your sup-

there, fondling ble, brown and white per."

"Carl's right," sald Slim gently. pup. Slim was working with... 'his "That dog ain't no good to himself. Lennle filled his mouth and beam- I wish somebody'd shoot me if I get usual silent concentration when Mae, jed happily. "He's brown and white,

bored beyond 'endurance by ber bus- father-in- *** band's neglect and her George Just like I wanted."

law's harsh antagonism, entered the b. rn. She paused as she saw Slim,

Kai shek through French Indo China. official Japanese news agency. Ambassador The French agreed. They The

in London, it says, con- Japan to send Japanese inspec- ferred with Mr. R. A. Butler, Under Secretary for Foreign tors to see that France kept her

Affairs on Friday. The subject agreement. To this the French

of their conversation was out-e nightly horseshoe pitching con- Government also agreed.

standing problems Britain and Japan.

Britain was asked to reach an arrangement with the Japanese

between

After spper, little by lile, the soclut life of the ranch lock shape. A number of the hands went out to the open space near the barn for

test.:

In the bunkhouse a youth sat in one of the windows that opened out on the warm summer night, strum- The Japanese have obtained mine a guitar and slaging an old ballad In melodious western sing- in Tientsin regarding the vexed important concessions from both song. subject of the Chinese silver in Britain and-France. In-return-Other ranch-hands loitered around

the British Concession. Britain, we have gained nothing but loss after the Concession had been of face in China. blockaded for over six months, agreed. Then Britain was asked to close the Burma Read and the

The moral is obvious. The history of all Western diplomacy during the last ten years has Hongkong border. To this, too, been a history of concession of she agreed,

principle to the threat of force, It has been given out that the followed by further demands and independently carried out British further concessions. We know and French concessions might what was the result of that put an end to the dangerous vicious circle in Europe.

When the

the bunkhouse porch, or lay in their bunks reading thriller magazines. George and Slim sat facing each other over ricketty card table, sit- ing on boxes, still talking about Lennie who sprawled on the barn floor with his brown and white pup.

Candy limped in, followed by his

venerable, aliing, nearly blind old dog. Carlson, one of the ranchers, approached him.

Synopsis

are

"Hey, Lenale," said Slim, ignor- ing her. "Better quit pettin'

that pup for fo-night. It ain't good for him. Put him back with his mother and go on over to the bunkhouse."

George Milton, wandering ranch worker in California, is guardian and travelling com- panton to Lennie Small, who is huge and powerful but has the mind of a child. They

kept

Lennie obeyed with alority, · Cur- · on the move because Lennie har ley was in the bunkhouse, looking a strange comption to "pet soft Kor his wife as usual, when Lennie thing"uch as a

¡arrived. Finding no sign of May. mouse, a bird, or a girl's velvet dreza.' 'It is an and precious litle information about Innocent habit but conducive to her, he inquired as to Slim's where- trouble because Lennie cannot-abouts.

They

control his vast streng bags

secure a job loading

on a ranch, where they incur the enmity of Curley Jackson, the boss's son who constantly has a chip on his shoulder over the flirtatious tendencies of his pretty wife, Mae. But Siim, the much admired mule skinner, becomes their friend.

"He went out to the barn," said a ranch hand. “Srid he was goin' to put some tar on a split hoof." Curley was off for the barn like on arrow sped from a bow.

"I guess maybe I'd like to see this," sald Carlson, throwing down his band at. cards. Scending excitement and entertainment, the others crowded ♦ through the door after 'm.

Belter let

"Phew, that dog smells! Get him nothin' that smells as bad as old dogs him go, Candy. I'll give you one out of here, Candy. I don't know old and a cripple.

does!"

of my pups to raise up."

But George and Lennie remained In the bunkhouse.

"If there's any fightin', Lennie," George told him for the hundredth Candy, shrinking from Carlson's Silently Candy relinquished the time, "you get out of the way and look, went to his bunk and lay down crude rope leash on which he held stay out." Jon it, pushing the dog underneath to his dog, and lay looking up at the

hide him from his maligner's gaze.

"I don't want no fight, George. celling, moving not a muscle. Carl- I don't want no fight." son quietly took his Luger revolver "Look at him, Candy," pursued out of his weatherbeaten suitcase,

(To be continued)

Gestapo

to Holland

Came to

This is an extract from an many relatives in Holland, who man engineering works had let noj collected and assumed a menacing of a union of dock labourers. When article which appeared in a Java would undoubtedly suffer horribly at grass grow under his feet and had attitude, but the Germans drew their N.S.B. merchants were busy re- paper. In it a Dutchman re- the hands of the Gestapo if they dis- counts what he saw

covered my Identity. Several of my

revolvers and kept the people at exporting goods to Germany, which. ******* distance pacifying them with the as-

in the friends had already been put to

death even before I left amsterdam POCKET CARTOON Some of them were seized by Fifth Columnists and handed over to the German invaders; nearly all of them faced a firing squad.

Netherlands some days after the Germans had become the rulers of the land, several days after the surrender of Holland.

I am one of the comparatively Amongst their worst enemies the few Netherlanders who were Germans counted those merchants successful in escaping the Nazi who had refused to adopt a tran- occupation. I stood among my sigent attitude towards the national fellow countrymen who were hard they were pressed and intimi- conception of Neutrality. However watching in angry silence. I dated, they had repeatedly declined saw the arrival of the Gestapo to allow the transport into Germany in luxurious motor cars driving of goods which had been imported behind the triumphant army.

under guarantee that they were for home consumption only. Other mer- My name appeared on the Hista, chants had been helping the Allies which were found on German officers whenover and wherever they could. who had been captured. Together The Nemes of all these people with countless others of my country appeared on the German Black List men. I was, predestined to bej Two Netherlands Representatives liquidated. And so when I saw the of an English engineering concern Germans parading past with their disappeared without leaving any hateful Goose-step my mind was trace. Instead of hiding, as I did. soon made up, I was most careful they had carried on their daily life not to be seen anywhere near my as usual. home or my office.

Z

"Herr Kommandant, we have

· direct evidence that the inhuman French have been firing on women and children."

surance that the prisoners were only was a contravention of Neutrality being called up for interrogation. regulations, he instructed his men One of the spectators threateningly not to handle the cargo.. said that they would get the in- The men did not wish to assist the farmer in due course. Without any Germans and simply went an strika: further ado he was also pushed into The leader thus acquired the reputa the car: since then nothing has been on of being anti-German," and" he heard of any one of the three.

also disappeared mysteriously, k

One of my business acquaintances,

The Nazi's lust for kun is now

a good friend of the English, bad, being indulged in to the full Ar dane England many a good turn. He soon as they had completed the frat had repeatedly warned the British part of their programme and had Authorities in Holland when NSB German occupation had not

dealt with those who prior to the hesitated (the National Socialist Party) mem- to express their and-German feel- bers had falsified export documents covering German goods which badings, they turned their malicious; at- 500 tention to all who in the future were been camouflaged to make them likely to thwart them or to encourage appear to be of Netherlands origina spirit of revit among the Dutche This method was being practised re- Hundreds of my fellow countrymen gularly by NSB, people in order to disappeared-for, good. evade the British embargo on Ger- mun goods.

Suicides increase by leaps and bounds. Some were fugitives who This man was one of the first vice had succeeded in escaping from a tims of the Gestapo. In the early Concentration Camp, others niin morning he was arrested and thel were Germians who had never been

It so chanced that I was In the ssesse For days on end I had to hide in neighbourhood and watched Agents

****** following day his dead body was every possible place and in the mean of the Gestapo arrest them in their seen to it that they were reported offered to his widow. Omcialy Ital to reconcile themselves to the was said that he had accidentally knew what their fate would be if

Nazi regime. time I made plans for escaping to office in the heart of Amsterdam and Nazi enemies.

Everyone of them safer thores. But even now I dare drive them away in n car. Their

been killed in an air raid, but

they fell into the hands of the Nati

He himself showed the Gestapo not mention my real name as I have competitor who represented a Ger- men the way. A crowd Immediately Another of my friends was leader Turn to Page -7, Sixth ́Column