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NANCY

TSK, TSK -** WHY IS MR. SPUTTER ALWAYS SO GROUCHY IN THE MORNING T

THE MINUTE THAT OLD ALARM CLOCK GOES OFF, HE GETS MEAN --- HE JUST HATES THE SOUND OF IT!

Wednesday,

THEN WHY

DOES HE

USE

IT?

WELL, SOMETHING

HAS TO

WAKE HIM UP!

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

REMEMBER. IT'S FOR

A GOOD CAUSE, SLUGGO!

August 7, 1940,

By Ernie Bushmiller

O.K., NANCY--| SEVEN BELLS

SHARP, TOMORROW MORNIN'

AM

BOOM BOOM

tw.

The 20, 144, PS THEMAK eshta powere

REQUISITIONING OF BRITAIN'S THE VOICE OF

BRITISH SHIPPNG.

LONDON, Aug, 6 (Router),~A memorandum issued to- night contains the Government view on the financial representa tions made recently by British shipowners,

In the course of negotiations, adequate strength and in a position, 15 full, competitive efficiency stated, the Chamber of Shipping and of the Liverpool Stearnship Owners'

recognised no less strongly by the to the Government to-day. Association called atleation difficulties will which the British shipping industry will and itself con- fronted at the end of the war in re

vessels lost through marine placing war risks or rendered obsolete by age.

"They also expressed their appre- tions from foreign shipping.

They, therefore, keep this ques tion constantly in mind one which will be necessary to ask Parlament to deal in due course."

£4,800,000 In Loans

TREATMENT OF ALIENS

Explanation Given To

FREE FRANCE

SJ

(Continued from Pape' 4.) lines, everything shows that he is working at this task.

"The brilliant successes he scored in Poland with his fighting molora give him every encouragement to House Of Lords

push ahend on these lines. Now, we must realise that the Maginot sya- LONDON, Aug. G (Reuter).tem; however much reinforced with The question of internment of infantry and artillery, can be pierced. The meung of doing this virtually exist already. aliens in Great Britain was

day, raised in the House of Lords to-

"Technique and industry are able to build tanks which, if used in masses as they should be, could, sur- and our Replying to criticisms. the Duke mount both our active The document discloses that loans of Devonshire painted out that the passive defences, totalling £4,800,000 have been decision to infern all allens was

"The

SLUGGO'S FIFE + DRUM

CORPS

-CAVID

MUSHMILAKKU

FINANCING THE WAR Wonderful Savings Effort At Home

LONDON, Aug. 6 (Reuter),- In the House of Commons to- day, Sir Kingsley Wood, Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, moving

tho the second reading of Finance Bill,' said that, before further taxation was imposed adequate time should be given. The Chancellor emphasised the vital importance of all sections of the devoting those savings to the State. Money Rolls in

hension regarding enhanced compeli- proved towards the cost of building made at a time of extreme dißleulty one defender who tries to resist community saving to the utmost and

new vessels and under the British

hasie.

Shipping Assistance Bill about 100 and gravity, and therefore in some

will rank for cargo vessels new grants involving a first payment of £320,000.

Government's Conclusions The memorandum continues: "The - Guvernment felt bound to take the vlew that rates of hire to be paid for the use of requisitioned vessels during the war should be based upon a proper allowance for running ex- penses, proper provisions for current part from ships being used as armed greatest difcully had passed.

depreciation and a reasonable return for capital. They were unable to agree that it would be proper to in clude in these rates the cost which would fall on the community during the war. any allowance towards making good past arrears of depreen-

ships

OT

The Shipping Minister, Mr. Ronald Cross, interviewed to-night, said that merchantmen, hospital transports, the Ministry had already requisitionet nine-tenths of the total number of liners belonging to esta- blished lines.

tion (apart from allowance for curry-NAZI SHIP RUNS

Ing depreclation) or towards build-

Init up provision for replacement in future.

Assistanco Desirable

it

BLOCKADE

Although he regretted the de cision, he believed that at the time and in the circumstances inevitable, but the moment of

More Liberal Policy

It

Wus our

defen-

the spot with forces of the old type Is foredoomed to disaster. Mas- sive counter-attack by air and land squadron against enemy forces more or less dislocated by their passuge through the obstacles is the essential

modern resource of the sive

"In the present conflet, as in all others before It, inertia means de- feat. But mechanical power on land, The danger of invasion was post at sea and in the air would enable us to parry the possible attacks of poned but the Expeditionary Force Germany, to seize fighting grounds had been re-equipped, our strength and bases around her, to expel ber had been very greatly increased and

to bombard her and he hoped that it would be posible from the areas she has subjectcci,

her. blockade from now on to pursue a more liberal mally to plunge our weapons from policy towards "these unhappy all sides into her body. people,"

"On no account must the French people yield to the lilusion that the immobility Rts the character

The opposite is true. The Kruss.

modern

means of motor gives to destruction such power, speed and range that the present conflict will inents, surprises, invasions and pur- be marked sooner or later by move-

infinitely exceed those of the most suits whose scale and rapidity will

to

In the first 36 weeks of the savings £330,006,000 campaign, more than had gone into certlicaten and defence bonds and had increased the anvings bank deposits.

Sir Kingsley added that in that period a £300,000,000 var loan, £132.000,000 national war bonds and £13,000,000 In loans free of interest, to a total of £758,000,000 or £2,000- 000 a week since last November, had been received,

He expected to bring the purchase tax into operation in two months time.

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shattering events of the past. Many aigns already foreshadow the to The Home Secretary hoped RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 6 (Rou-

leashing of new forces "AL the Hartie time, the Govern-ter)--According to advice received | bring about a stendy Improvement in present the war now in pro-

Cerman conditions in internment camps and to secure releases of those involving inent recognise that their predecessors by local exporters, the

freighter Koenigsberg, of 8,160 tons, office in 1939 had found

no danger to the country; German port. necessary to formulate a number of which left Belem, Brazil on May 27

Ananelal has arrived safely at

The Government was fully aware proposals for, according

The Koenigsberg was one of the assistance to British shipping.

and "The progress of legislation was several German ships that skipped of the unfortunate position of many Interrupted by the outbreak of war, out of Brazilian waters earlier this of these unhappy interners but the necessity of maintaining the year in an attempt to run the British everything possible was being and

in blockade. Brifish Mercantile

Marine

UNION

4

BREWERY

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UB

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SHANGHAI

LIMITED

would be done to improve their lot.

Beer Refreshing

W. R. LOXLEY

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The "Let us make no mistake. conflict now begun may well be the most widespread, the most complex the most violent of all that inve Favaged the earth ・・・ The obscure harmony of things has endowed this revolution with a military instrument

the army

of machines-in true proportion with its colossal dimen- sions. The new order will come out of the crucible of battle and ench nation will finally reap according to the dreds of its arms."

•

Yet Gamelin, Petain and the French military leaders ignored his reasoning and blindly, ob- stinately clung to her outmoded ideas.

Gaulle is To-day. General de

rallying Frenchmen energetically around him to continue the fight for freedom. Already French warships which arrived in British ports before the signing of the France-German mistice, are being monned and prepared for sea entirely by French officers and men un

under Admiral Museller, who was appointed to this post by General de Gaulle some time go. Land forces are being mobilised and when the day comes for a general offensive, de Gaulle's men will play their part.

There Is Indeed a large and grow- ing nucleus of Frenchmen who, re- cognising that life in France under the Germans is no life at all, have thrown themselves wholeheartedly In the work instigated by de Gaulle, to continue the fight from Britain's shores more will be heard of this able man.

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