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Wednesday,

HONGKONG-TELEGRAPH

July 31, 1940.

NANCY

DEAR MISS” RITZ--- "YOUR NIECE IS

GETTING ON MY

NERVES ---PLEASE

COME HOME AND TAKE HER OFF OUR HANDS..

I'LL RUN OUT AND GET SOME. STAMPS AND SEND THIS

SPECIAL DELIVERY!

OH, HONEY COULD YOU LET ME HAVE 13 CENTS. PLEASE?

OH, MR. SPUTTER --- YOUR WIFE WENT OUT, BUT IF YOU'RE BROKE YOU CAN HAVE WHAT'S IN MY PIGGY BANK!

By Ernie Bushmiller

Britain

Wants More Girls for Land

SIX thousand members of the Women's Land Army are now at work, helping to stock Britain's larder, and the demand for more already outstripping the Is supply.

No trained land girl need now be out of a job. Sir Reginald Dorman- Smith, Minister of Agriculture, sald Farmers are finding them useful and want as many as the W.L.A. provkle.

can

Str Reginald estimates That farmers need another 100,000 workers to make good their labour shortage, the most pressing and difficult problem created by the placing of agriculture on a basis

War

In addition to the efforts of the Women's Land Army and arrange= ments for schoolboys to help with the great harvest expected this summer, the Ministry is negotiating with the War Office for the release from the Army of farm workers in low

medien grades.

Likely To Get Worso

The Government hopes, also, to be in a position to Increuse the induce- ment in troops to lend a hand on the agricultural. front.

Further. n clause is now being Inserted in all Government building contracta requiring contractors 10 obtain their labour through employ ment exchanges, and the Ministry of

Labour is instructing the exchanges! to fill these requirements as far as possible from Industrial rather than agricultural unemployed.

"Frankly." Kald Bir Reghald. "the present shortage of experi- enced' arricultural Inbour. is likely to grow worse rather than better. Far greater use will have to be made of substitute labour and we shall certainly have to face up to a situation likely to

Frow even

more difficult as the war goes off. "To some extent the leakage of Jabour niny be stopped it, as a result of the amending Wages Act which has Just. been approved by Parlia- inent, wage rates are brought into claser conformity with those in other industries.

Ploughing Feat

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. No 3453

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Printed forms used by Naxi Fifth Column in Uruguay. Top, donation for winter relief. Bottom, receipt for dues in German Labour 'Front, taken from workman at Rio Negro electric project. Top sfogan reads: "No one in the world will help us unless we help ourselves."

Nephew Cited in Divorce

TRIPLETS

14lb. 4oz.

TRIPLETS, two girls and a "The Government recognised this boy, weighing together 14lb. to be the stinportant problem of 4oz. were born at Queen Char- all in. the agricultural labour field lotte's Hospital, London, to and we are continuing to give it our twenty-six-year-old Mrs. Wini- clusest attention."

fred Davies, of Amberley-road, N.W.

Sir Reginald paid tribute to formers and farm workers for their "magningen?" nehlevement in adding 2,000,000 acres to Britain's arable land-despite one of the worst ploughing winters in memory-and without reducing livestock, except to an almost negligible extent.

The

of the ploughing-up success

A PETITIONER. in the Divorce Court cited his nephew as respondent,

co-

le was Mr. Robert Edward Quick, of Wharf-row, Docks, Port Talbot, South Wales, and the petition was undefended.

Mr. Justice Bucknill granted him a decree niat on the ground of adultery by the wife, Mrs. Mary Margaret quick, and ordered the nephew. Albert Ashby, to pay the costs.

Mr. and Mrs, Quick were mar- ried in 1931. They lived together in Aberavon and Mir. Quick's case,' was that his nephew frequently came to their house.

Mother and babies are doing well. In June, 1939, Mrs. Quick left her The boy and one of the girls husband, and he found she and weighed 41b. 9oz. cach at birth. Ashby had stayed together as man The other girl weighed 5lb. 2oz. and wife in London.

Mr. Qulek was given the custody Mr. Davies, who is twenty-four, is out of work. He and his wife have of the two children. one other child.

campaign d already added more "We shall send Mrs. Davies and to the nation's capacity to grow its the triplets to a convalescent home, own food than was done in the whole and the babies will remain under our care for some months," said an

of the last wor.

Over-Age Warships

Sale To Britain Advocated In America

New York, July 30,

The sale to Britain of at least 60

HISTORIAN DIES

ofcint of the hospital. which is Mr. H. A. L. Fisher, warden of New applying for the King's bounty on College, Oxford, and eminent histo- the parents' behalf,

rlan, who was injured by a lorry while on his way to preside over a London Conselentious Objectors' Ap-

Damages For Widow peal Tribunal has died.

And Infant

He was aged seventy-five and had fractures of skull and armi.

WORLD'S END

(Continued from Page 3).

they've both lived happily ever after."

He stumped out his cigarette and brought the dat of his hand down on the table, "You've sold me the Idea, except for the widow. I think I'll go to Bojador myself."

"But Bojador's mine." "You take everything west of Main

Street and I'll take what's cast. I'll meet

the you under coconut palm in front of the post- office. If there's a lion around look for me up the tree. But you know I believe your technique is wrong. Bojndor's getting away from you. Ever think of sneaking up on it from the west?"

"Sounds Interesting," she said, BEFORE the coffee and apfet- kuchen came they were old friends. "Show cards are my brend and butter," he said, “but I really know a lot about advertising-training and experience both and I can make a bluff at four different

Get me manual trades.

third- class dance ord

orchestra that's bad enough and 1 can take the plano. My name is Dave. I'm unmarried. I hate spinach and I don't lan- just get red and blister. Now you know the worst."

DIARY OF A BRITISH NURSE

(Continued from Page 4)

they started again. We've been very busy. When A convoy comes in everybody comes on duty, whatever' hour of the day or night, and we work until they are all fixed up and in bed. Then the staff on duty, carry on and the rest of us go back to bed. Night duty is dimeelt here because. the black out is not 100 per cent., so we have to go groping about the wards with a small hand torch,

The boys are really marvellous, Never complain. Always cheerful, Always say: "Well it might have been worse.** We don't mind how hard we work or what we have to put up with. We've had a few Ger- mans to look after and they were good patients too.

cm-

The most touching thing I have seen was one of our Tommies. A batch was getting ready for barkation to England. All our boys had had a parcel from home or n little

from someone. present razor, shaving soop, cigarettes, some- German, and There was one thing. of course he had no present. So one of our boys quietly slipped out and bought him something. I'm pretty hardened. But it brought tears to my eyes. I couldn't help it.

She returned confidence for con- ndence. "My name is Sue. I love

June 17. Well at last I am on a to cook and to sell kitchen gadgets British ship heading for Old Eng- though I'm pretty sure somewhere

land. What a four days we've had the family tree there must have

Bombing, bombing all the time. It's been a gypsy. I can run a type-

amazing how you get used to it.

Gol writer and I've gol ideas about

separated from F. for the first time shorthond. My unbition is to

since we came over. She was on feuch rope-spinning to a rajah and

day

duty, I was on night. At 4.30 I enn swim o mille in thirty-eight minutes,"

He said, "You get the job." They met again in St. Paul. in Bitte there was another reunion her nerve when, and she showed

as they climbed a bit of hill, e almost went over the sleep side. At Salt Lake city, in so many un- ushamed words, he proposed mar- riage. She was weakening when she remembered Uncle Whit's ad- vice lo travellers

loud and in n voice said, "No." After that she took the first train for Stockford.

But he followed her there and carried her off to the nearest marrying minister. The next day they found the bungalow.

"Oh, Dave, look!"

she was put on a train for St. Nazaire. This is our last evacuation I keep on thinking about F. and wondering if she is all right.

I left with the last lot at 7.30 p.m. only about 10 miles to St. Nazaire, the port where we were to get a ship, but it was 10 o'clock when we arrived. About 130 uf us sisters were put on a tender with 500 troops. In the darkness the Lender crept about trying to find a slip. Sudden- ly a destroyer loomed ahead. The officer shouted that he had 500 men: could they take them on board? The

theme "Yes."

hen he called: A blank

answer came

"And I've got. silence followed that

Then after a few tomonterment

thad

You

We've got no

follow me. better accommodation for women."

So the tender followed the de- stroyer for a while until we came

He stopped the rented car and whistled. They were out past the outskirts of the city at the far end of a sparsely built-up-suburb.-The-alongside a liner and we were all bungalow lay in the middle of green lawn, as white_and_charming as a new-lald egg. But Sue saw it not as an ex

but as a smaller and

more beautiful Taj Mahai; and once she had so seen it, Bajador dropped out of her cosmos like a star which explodes and is gone forever,

"All that front yard, Dave, and the little picket fence and the green shutters and that old oak tree by the side window!"

"And

the river, Sue. Look at the river." He pointed to its sii- very spread not two furlongs from the back door.

"And those eucalyptus trees, And there are flower beds. Oh, Dave, isn't that a For Rent sign on the house?"

THEY got out. The bungalow was For Rent-Furnished." For Sale on Reasonable Terms:

"Do like it, Dave? Do you

you like it?"

say "Swell, Sue, What wangle a couple of temporary Jobs in Stockford and treat ourselves to a stationary honeymoon."

twe

Mrs. Clarice Campbell Prior of 1010-18, and the English Universities She sniffed the April buds and

1920-22 he was a British de-

said,

Mr.. Fisher was president of the

• Board of Education 1018-22. He was Damages of: £1,248 were awarded Liberal M.P. for Hallam, Sheffield,

"Sunday afternoon in the Blackweir, Cardiff, in the King's 1018-20.

Garden of Exten." Bencli Divison for the death of her

Hands in pockets, head cocked on husband, George Charles Prior, aged legate to the League of Nations As-

Dave meditatively sur- one side, sembly. In 1935 he became a B.B.C. veyed the Inyout. "A nut friend of of the United States' 162-over-age

thirty, a steel erector.

Her infant son Wis awarded governor for four years. destroyers is urged by the Committee £500.

In 1015 he served on the Govern- mine always claimed he'd be per to Defend America in a

a six-column

fectly happy if he could get the Mr. Prior received fatal injuries in ment Committee investigating Ger- advertisement which appears in lead- January, 1939, while working on an man atrocities, and in January, 1939, right boat, the right pie nn. Add under the heading "Between Us and Agriculture in Whitehall.

American newspapers to-day air-raid shelter at the Ministry of signed an appeal to all peoples, and right dog all at the same time. Add "above all to leaders and people in) and I'll bet 1 can stick this out for Hitler Standa the British Fleets employers, Dorman Long and Com-"supreme effort to lay the spectre of Judgment, was entered against hla the great German Reich," for a

three months anyhow."

"Sure, Dave?". war."

"Certain. But we'll only rent" from month to month so when we feel lika it we can resume the march to Bojader. Let's locate the agent to-night."

The Committee urges

to write their Congressmen saying

that they want the United States to pany, Ltd., the contractors..

give material ald to Britain, which

"still stands as the fortress of free- dom, stopping international gangsters from ranching the lost across the Atlantic."-Reuter Buletin...

U.S. Plano Production.

Washington, July 36.

300 Cheer-up Girls

THREE hundred young and pretty girls and thirty or forty Mr. William S. Knudsen, in a business men with motor-cars are wanted to cheer up soldier radio address to-day, predicted that patients at Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield. American plane production would Mr. W. Milligan, secretary of Wakefield Council of Social jump from the present rate of 000 planes a month to approximately Services, sald:--

the right girl to that combination

taken aboard. Sull we weren't put of the wood. They were bombing every ship they could find, but we didn't get hit. It took us two days to cross. And were we glad to ser England!

June 19. First thing I did when I got to London was to go to head- quarters. I found out there that F. was safe and I was never so glad to see anyone in my life. She told me that two bombs had dropped one at each end of the ship they were on, while it was waiting in the harbour, but nobody got a scratch. The 'planes pursued them, too, after they were at sea but nobody was hurt. She's lucky to be alive. Her chief warry is whether the will ever see her trunk again as she has only the clothes she stands up in. We've both still got our tin hats, though; and to them. we've got quite attached We feel a lot safer with them on.

We go on ten days leave now, When we report for duty I wonder where we shall be sent. I don't mind where it is, because the Army looks after us so well, and I wouldn't have missed the experience of doing active service for anything.

Desert Gallantry

Decorations For Officers Of Middle East

London, July 30. Gallantry in desert fighting is re-

They moved in the next morn-cognised by the fmmediate award by Ing.

"For a total of $57.80 Dave bought two cars; after three days of work with borrowed tools he had those prehistoric nonaters purring like kittens and eating out of his hand. Now," he said, "we can hunt our Jobs in style."."

General Wavell, Commanding the Middle East, of a bar to the Military Cross, three Military Crosses and two Miltary Medals to officers and non- commissioned officers of the Royal Armoured Corps (Hussars),

Lieut. Delme Seymour-Evans, M-C1, receives

bar for bold leadership of a cruiser squadron which was large- $1,300 in the autumn. He said that "We and that many of the soldiers it will cheer them up and help them

ly responsible for the capture of a the present motor production was in hospital do not apply for admis- to get better.

later action be advanced fort. In 2,200 a month.-United Pres),

alon cards for visitors because their "In addition to the girls we should HARBOUR OFFICE HOLIDAY under enemy are straight at the relatives and friends live too for be glad if anybody with a ĉar who

guns, with the result that 13 enemy ...nway.

bas to travel would all his spare. As Monday, August 5 has been de- tanks and all four guns were destroy- "We want bright and cheery seats with convalescent soldiers. clared a pubile holiday, the Harboured and the Infantry laid down their

**In thila way no more petrol Master announces that the Harbour arms. girls who will visit the soldiers would be used and the lads would Department office will be closed ex

Other recipients ara Crosses to several times a week during thoroughly enjoy the outing.

cept as follows: Entry and Clearance and/Lieut. Corrie Halliday, 2nd/ day or evering to bring books A doctor or business man who office will be open from 10 am to 12 Lieut. Robin Oates and 2nd. Lieut. and magazines and tell them all

Gope, and has to make car journeys could casily noon and the Junk Office will be open Warren about the latest flims. --

Bowyer snd pick up one or two of the patients from 11 am to 12 noon, the der Sergeant Thomas "We are sure that if the boys know and leave them in the car as he cantile Marine Office will be open

Arthur James Tober- Corporal someona is taking an interest in them made his calls.”....

from 10 am to 12 noon,

Reuter,

U.S. Float Movements

Honolulu, July 30, Ten vessels of the United States Best returned yesterday, headed by the flagship Pennsylvania. It will be recalled that two columns of the flest left Honolulu. on July 14 for sea operations and it was reported on July 23 that additional units had left for manoeuvres-Reuter

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