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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..

! 1

By Ernie Bushmiller

fo.K., NANCY--

SEVEN BELLS

SHARP. TOMORROW MORNIN'.

AM

BOOM

BOOM

(alled Teslave Bynesia, Sue,

REQUISITIONING OF BRITAIN'S THE VOICE OF

BRITISH SHIPPNG

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

In the course of negotiations, antequate strength and in a position stated, the Chamber of Shipping and or full competitive

emelency Is

TREATMENT OF ALIENS

Explanation Given To 'House of Lords

FREE FRANCE ·

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

"The brilliant successes he scored in Poland with his fighting motors give him every encouragement to push ahead on these lines. Now, we must realise that the Maginot sys- LONDON, Aug. 6 (Reuter).tem, however much reinforced with The means of doing this virtually

SLUGGO'S FIFE + DRUM

CORPS

FINANCING THE WAR

Wonderful Savings Effort At Home

LONDON, Aug. 6 (Reuter).— In the House of Commong to- day, Sir Kingsley Wood, Chan- the second reading of the Finance Bill, said that before further taxation was imposed adequate time should be given.

The

the Chancellor emphasised vital importance of all sections of the community saving to the utmost and devoting those savings to the State.

the Liverpool Steamship Owners' recognized no less strongly by theche question of internment of infantry and artillery, can be pierced. cellor of the Exchequer, moving

was

exist uiready,

Association called attention to the Government to-day. dificultles with which the British "They, therefore, keep this ques-aliens in Great Britain shipping industry will find liself con- tlou constantly in mind one which fronted at the end of the war in re-will be necessary to ask Parliament ralaed in the House of Lords to-Technique and industry are able placing vessels lost through marine to deal in due course." war risks or rendered obsolete by age.

They also expressed their appre- hension regarding enhanced competi- tions from foreign shipping.

£4.800,000 In Loans

The document discloses that lang totalling £4,800,000 have been op proved towards the cost of building new vessels and under the British Shipping Assistance Bill about 100 new cargo vessels will rank for grants Involving a frat payment of

£320,000.

Government's Conclusions The memorandum continues: "The Government felt bound to take the view that rates of hire to be paid

The Shipping Minister, Mr. Ronald for the use of requisitioned vessels during the war should be based upon Cross, interviewed to-night, said that a proper allowance for running ex-apart from ships being used as armed

hospital penses, proper provisions for current merchantmen.

ships or lepreciation and a reasonable return transports, the Ministry had already for capital. They were unable to requisitioned nine-tenths of the total agree that it would be proper to in-number of liners belonging to esta- clude in these rates the cost which bulshed lines. would fall on the community during the

war. any allowance towards making good past arrears of deprecia- Ilon (apart from allowance for carry- ing depreciation) or towards build- ing up provision for replacement in future.

day.

་

to build tanks which, if used in masses as they should be, could sur- Replying to criticisms, the Duke mount both our glivo and our de Devonshire pointed out that the passive detences, decision to Intern all aliens was made at a time of extreme difficulty and gravity, and therefore in some husle

The defender who tries to resist on the spot with forces of the old type in foredoomed to disaster. Mas- sive counter-attack by air and land squadron against enemy forces more Although he regretted the de- or tens dislocated by their passage elsion, he believed that at the time through the obstacles is the essential and in the circumstances, it was resource

of the rundern defen- inevitable, but the moment of our sive greatest dineulty had passed.

More Liberal Policy

"In the present conflet, as in all others before it, inertia means de- font. But mechanical power on land, at sea and in the air would enable The donger of invasion was post- poned but the Expeditionary Force us to purry the possible attacks of Germany, to seize Biting grounds had been re-equipped, our strength and bases around her, to expel her had been very greatly increased and " from the areas she has subjected, to he hoped that it would be possible blockade her, to bombard her and policy towards "these unhappy all sides into her body.

Al

"On

no pccount must the French people to the illusion that the

yield RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 6 (Reu "At the same time, the Govern-teri-According to advice received bring about a stendy improvement in present military immobility its the the German conditions in internment camps and character of the war now in pro- nent recognise that their predecessors by local exporters,

freighter Koenigsberg, of 6,466 tons, to secure releases of those involving gress. The opposite is true. The in office in 1938 had found

notor gives to

to modern means of necessary to formulate a number of which left Belem, Brazil on May 27 no danger to the country.

destruction such power, speed and proposals for according financial has arrived safely at a German port.

The Government was fully aware range that the present confilet will The Koenigsberg was one of the assistance to British shipping.

"The progress of legisintion was several German ships that skipped of the unfortunate position of many be marked sooner or later by move- unhappy internces and ments; surprises, invasions and pur- Interrupted by the outbreak of war, out of Brazilian waters earlier this of these but the necessity of maintaining the year in an attempt to run the British everything possible was being and suits whose scale and rapidity will would be done to improve their lot. infinitely exceed those of the most British Mercantile

in blockade.

NAZI SHIP RUNS from now on to pursue a more liberal anally to plunge our weapons from

BLOCKADE people."

Assistanco Desirable

Marine

UNION

BREWERY

友

UB

啤

SHANGHAI

LIMITED

The

Home Secretary hoped to

Money Rolls In

In the first 36 weeks of the savings campaign, more than £330,000,000 had one into certificates and defence bonds and had increased the savings bank deposits.

Sir Kingsley added that in that £300,000,000 war loan, period a

£132.000,000 national war bonds and £13,000,000 in Ions free of interest, to a total of £750,000,000 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.

shaltering events of the past. Many signs already foreshadow the un leashing of new forees

"Let us make no Mietiko The

conflict now begun may well be the most widespread, the most complex the most violent of all that have The obscure ravaged the earth 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 each Karumes nation will danlly reap according to

the deeds of its arms."

Beer Refreshing

W. R. LOXLEY

& Co. (China), Ltd.

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

General de Gaulle is To-diny energetically rallying Frenchmen around him to continue the fight for freedom. Already French worships which arrived in British ports before -the-signing- of-the-France-German

mistice, are being manned and prepared for sen entirely by French officers nucl men under Admiral Muselier, who was appointed to this post by General de Gaulle some time ago. Land forces are being mobilised and when the day comes for n 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 fe 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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