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DONALD DUCK

DOGGONE! EVERY BENCH IN THE PLACE

IS TAKEN!

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R.A.F. DID SINK KONIGSBERG Tuis picture has just

been received from Sweden. It shows amoke rising from the sinking Nazi cruiser Königsberg in Bergen Harbour, Norway. A British bomber crew had found their target and "sünk velanöflier German

warship.

It's in the Nows

HOT SPOT

ADEN. Gibraltar of the East,

is creeping into the news. We shall hear more of it as the Eastern war develops.

A hot place, this Rock that dominatea the India Occan entrance to the Red Sea. Su hot that normally they never keep a parson there for more than a year, or the soldier, made of sterner stuff, for more than two.

And this is almost the hottest time of the year. The sun-beats down by day on the extinct vol- cano that is Aden, and at night

· the Rock gives off ita store of hent ∙in blasta that are felt even out al

Вел

The average shade temperature of the year is 87 degress—a humid. turkish-bath kind of heat To sun temperature nobody has ever tried to investigate.

It's one of the driest spots on earth, too, as well as one of the thirstiest. It rains on only a few days of the year, and then genreely enough to lay the dut

Not a pleasant place at all. At ́the, best of times, the liner pas senger rarely goes ashore' there. If his does, it is to return with his lungs full of dui, and a thirst nothing can quencli.

Aden was acquired" by Bri tain just over a century ago, alter

■ row with a local chléstain.

It is not comparable with „Gibraltar as a novel bsaa, but it pokes.. ita nose. into the sea in much the same way, And, riding nearly 3,000 feet high in places, it would be very dificult to capture: either from land or sen.

A musli, insignificant sittle pro-. montary--only five miles by three. Not much bigger than that rocky Cornwall eminence. known as King Arthur's Challe.

... But you have only to look at tils' map to realize its strategio Importance. Ia ta, one of the *** pulse "points" of the Empire's arterial highways—and Musolini, “cutting through Bomaliland verošať, the water, fu) wondering • NOW. whather, he cannot stab at it.

OH-OH!

VACANT ONE!

BERLIN

By A Special Correspondent

Thursday,

C'MON...WE GOTTA BEAT

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WET PAIN

WALT DISNEY

IS FULL OF ARMS WORKS

NO capital city in Europe TARGETS

is so highly indus

trialised or contains 90 many military targets in the heart of the city itself 'as Berlin.

Its magnificent airport, Tempelhof, unlike any of the other big nerodromes of Europe, is only a short dis- tance from the centre of the city.

business

For air travelling people,

and tourists from countries, was u very much appreciated advantane to con nected by car or coach within a few minutes with the principal hotels.

Hut in war-time this to natural A danger for tone of thousands of inhabitants of the crowded districts, Kreuzberg. Tempelhor, startender. and Neukolln 111 the Inciditate neighbourhood.

Big Centre

For Tempelhot is now, of course, military aerodroms of vital impor- tance.

Apart from this, Berlin bas always been, and it in, the biggest armTIE production centre in Germany, comparable onit with the fuhr district.

Berlin was, and atili in, the strong- hoto of German metallurgical pro- duction in which already in peaco- time at least 300.000 workers were engaged. Many more. It is certain,. ard working there now.

The

Elekristnets Allgemeine Gesellschaft, world-wide known AS A.C. for example, gas plants scat- sered all over Greater Berlin

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The accumulatore factory Overschorneweide. in the east, 19 Burrounded by a middle cinas rezi- dential quarter. In the middle of dense populated inner-town latric are other blants, such as those the Brunnenstrasse N.E. and the Moabit NW

The huge Bietnean works form a SOCIAL LOwn Siemensstadt, netWEEN Charlottenburg and Spandau which Include thousands of workers' and engineers' dwellings,

Old Arsenal Town Bpanda. which also belongs to Greater Berlin, the old late arsenal town of the Rosch, includ- -trio-even-n-run-¡oundry-and-piantal- for every possible manufacturing of other arms. It is moreover closely linked with the second big military Bir base of the capital, Stanken.

Mont of the biggest arma factories are. It is true in outer district, Hut nearly all surrounded by residential Break - tho Knorr-Bremse. in Lichtenberg, and Bergmann etec trical works in Rosenthal. N.. The Loewe Company also entled Berlin- Kirbruhe Ftroarine Works, In Wittenau. N., and Rear It Cli fametrs p1d tocomotive factory Berlin Tegel.

in the southern part of the city the number of important factoner closely connected with the Denisan WAT

bigcerile even tort Dautecoe Teleton works, in Schorn- enberg, BW, the Lorenz Company, the Daimler works in Mariantelden. and a belt of big factories in Tempelhof, lining the southern and enstern border of the Temprikot

Admits Nazis Might Seize Belgian Food

THE

By W. N. EWER,

Bel-

gium, If their transpori breaks down because of war conditions, will live on the country."

So German authorities have told Mr. John Cudahy, former United States Minister in Brus- sels,

Mr. Cudahy, who is now in London and talked to Press re- presentatives, is apparently an- xious to persuade Americans to send food to Belgian for the rellet of the Belgian population.

Ne "believes" that the German Army would "promise" not to requisition food sent for

that purpos6.

But even he admits that in the event of transport trouble .. freal or staped) the Germani would take all they could und Let the Delgians starve,

It is significant that even now. according to Mr. Cudahy, the

· Belgians are only being allowed 228 grammes of bread a day to one person-way two silces,

It is, though he omitted to my Bo, only two-thirds of what sho German poople gat

The fact is that Delgium. like the other occupied countries, in being deliberately starved in order. to provide, food for the Naxia,*-. 2 For the rest. Mr. Cudahy's inter-

view.consisted" of", warm" "Tributes, to the German Army; and King? Leopold, AR

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RANEE'S 'SLUR'

Nurses are indignant at the slur cast on their pro- fession în reported statements by the Ranee of Sarawak, wife of Sir Charles Brooke, white Rajah of Sarawak, re- garding the evacuation of children to Canada.

"If things are not changed, wish to help the future generation of you Canadians will be getting Britain. the young riff-raff of England and you'll be sorry, let me tell you, she declared, according to the "Toronto Globe."

"Women of England are fak- ing names of relatives in Canada Just so they can get rid of their children," she is further report- ed to have said.

Lady Brooke also spoke of English "society" women who offered to pay the passages of children going to Canada.

"They placed them in charge of nurses," she went on, according to the

paper.

Sister Bowland Jones, of Ching- ford, Essex, an ex-Service nurse of the last war, whose 20-years-old son te now reported-missing, sold

"Nurses are volunteering for this service because they want to look after the children, not because they ure out for a good time.

"It is a work of mercy and they are prepared to face danger and dis- comfort in carrying out their duties."

An Honour

Miss Beatrice Mary Heathcote, of Onslow-gardens, London, S.W., who is going to Canada, sold:

THE RANEE OF ŠARAWAK

"I count it a great honour to be

"So far as I can see, it isn't going chosen. It is a very responsible to be much of a picnic. "The only object of many of the position, and we thall have neither "We're not going with the idea that nurses is to get a man aboard ship the time nor the opportunity for it's a pleasure cruise, but because the and they don't care what happens. social life."

children must be looked after, and to plenty of rotten Miss Eski Helen Ogilvie, who will I'm looking forward

hard work," togener go to New Zealand, said: up

"Nice youngsters youngsters are inxed It's shameful."

and

Strong publle criticism of these remarks has been made in Toronto.

In England, Miss Beatrice Maud Drapper, national organiser for the Guild of Nurses, sald;-

"I think it's a very grave reflection on the nursing profession.

Put Job First

"I'm gure nurses who volunteer for 50 out of this type of service do devotion to their job because they

Child Flung In Air, Dies

A man who flung a three-year- old boy into the air while at play and failed to catch him gave evi- dence at the inquest at Birming- ham on the boy, Donald William White, of Whitehead-road, As- ton, Birmingham.

The mother, Mra Doris White, said that she and her sister went to public-house at night and took the child with them. She heard a bump, and turned round to see the boy on the ground.

Albert Edward Davis, at Victoria- "oad, Aston, said that he pleked up the child and tossed him into the alr Be slipped, missed his balance, and alled to catch, the boy, who fall on is head.

Coroner's Comment Recording a verdict of nooldental desih," the Coroner, Dr W.; LL- Davi- sian,in commented, "Mothers shemid hot take their children, to a public- house su:this hour!!:

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