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A DRAMATIC picture

of the Nazi moss raid in Dover Harbour. The enemy planes-25 were brought down-- can be acen turning _away...after_releasing. their bombs, all of which milased their objective.

Postal Workers In Raids

the

Taking up the defence of post office workers against the com- plaints of delay in the services and of the closing of post offices during the period of air rakl warnings, Mr T. J. Hodgson. general secretary of the Union of Post Office Workers, said recently that the post office had been faced with a problem of understaffing as well as nir raids. Many post office workers had been called to the Colours, and it would not have been forgotten that on recent occasion King commented on the number of postmen now in the ranks.

Thousands of post office workers had been working 12 hours a day, Sundays Included, for a long time. Apart from the exceptional cases in which men had lost their homes en- tirely there were others who could not get home, night after night, Their duty ended at the time the enemy began. Post office workers were not afraid to do their duty, and more than their duty, but many places, like sorting offices, had glass roofs, with only wire netting protec ton. and the work of increasing the protection took time. Telephonists, holding the vital communications of the country, could be fairly describe

as in the front line. They wero du- ing splendki work. The telegraph service was anowed under, as well It might be.

Mr Hodgson, said that the closing of the pubic counters on the receipt of air raid. warnings was a depart- mental regulation. Post office.wor kers had not asked for preferentipl treatment over the rest of the wot- kers shouldering the burden in these doys.

Morale with Jam On It

BY RITCHIE CALDER

of the variety of foodstuffs from which they derived it in peace-time.

It means that our natural courage E are going to have morale and will to win will not be sapped with Jam on it. For Vita- away through any deficiency in our min B.), which will appear diet. And it is not a dope. in

bread, by our

Government orders, is the "anti-tter vitamin."

Lack of it impairs our will ta resist and our fighting eMeleney. it leads to nervous debility and lethargy.

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"People suffering from even minor degree of dellelency of Vita min B. in their diet." anys Sir John Orr in Feeding the People in War

"have no stomach for

ume fight."

That was true of the troops who capitulated at Kut. After desperate fighting General Townsend's troops were invested at Kuz

WHOLEMEAL

We could get it naturally if we eat wholemeal bread, but about 95 per cent, of the population are hope- ressly addicted to white. And to get

white bread the millers have to re- move the bran and germ of the wheat which are rich in Vitamin

thev

Now they are putting back what took out, but in war-ilme that has its advantages. White flour keeps indefinitely, Wholemeal flour does not. So we can hoard white

dour.

and millers' offal as essential feed-

At first they accomplished great fents of courage, but as the stere Furthermore, we need the bran progressed they became afflicted with beri-bert. due to lack of Vita min B. in their food, and with i came deterioration.

Its progress is described in a say ing in the East:" It in better to walk than to run: it is better to stand than to walk; it is better to lie than o stand; it is better to sleep than so wake: It is better to dle than to

That might be a doctor's diag- nosis of the phases of Vitamin B1 deficiency.

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B.1 PEP

ing stufe for our cattle. In other words, we can have our cake and they can eas it

The Vitamin B.1, which will be added to the flour before it reaches the bakers, is known as aneurin occause it is good for the perves. It is a pure crystalling substance for the manufacture of which a factory has been established,

Concentrated Vitamin B1 in this forin was first produced in America in 1938. The Germans also evolved it, and so did two British blo- chemists Dr. Todd and Bergel..

For four years, scientists under the Similarly, the collapse of the world-famous expert, have been working direction of Professor E C. Dodds, Italians at Caporetto in October, on it. perfecting it so that it could be 1917, was partly a question of bad added to the flour at the mill and sent feeding. Their rations were grossly out, with its mineral playmate. calcium nadequate and 10 Waa their to the bakers mady for the dough-mixer. Vitamin D.1.

Now that does not mean that the chemist can give us courage accord-

hia

JUST A BIT

∙ing to a prescription and it does not Only Liny quantities aro required. mean that we can swallow Vitamin Maybe they have not disclosed the B. as Popeye, the Bailor, swallows amount because in terms of a lont

canned

spinach and then shout: which looks die same and instes the Where's that tiger? »

xames, it would be so infinitèsimal that According to reports that is what the housewife would say Well, we'll the Germans have been trying to do ave to take your word for it." with their troops. They have been

diving them "beat" Vitamin B.1

But the can rest assured that, under strictess supervalon it will be there to provide us with a crumb of confidence and a crust of courage

before they went into battle.

But what this new development Purthermore, all our digestions will be means is that the population will be the better for it. It will help our hearts guaranteed, through a staple article and prevent at least some of our bond

of diet, the Vitamin B1 of which

achra:

If you want to be a stout-heartec

they might de deprived through lack fellow you can 23.1.'.

This

Spy's Job

HE is a very beautiful

SH

blonde, old enough to be sophisticated, young enough to be glamorous. She haunts the most expensive hotels in Bucharest, talks Rumanian with a slight German accent, and sometimes whispers in quiet corners to bullet-headed Germans.

She looks like a Nazi agent, and acts like one. Her name is Edith von Ohler. And she makes no secret of the fact that she is a Nazi agent,

But Edith is different. She may glean valuable informa- tion as a spy. Far more im-- portant is her job of "giving away" secrets. She does not make eyes at high-powered Rumanian officers. Edith pre- fers cosy little

business chats with editors of leading Ru- manian papers. She offers them articles: Secrets of the Siegfried Line, How Germany Is Winning the

Is

up the central telephone exchange. There is good reason to belleve they installed secret listening-in apparatus, so that every telephone conversation in Belgrade can be overheard by Gestapo agents who have taken over a certain house in the suburbs.

Another fertile ground for. Nazl intelques; bribery and corruption Among state omen's fre rife. Wages are so poor that civil ser vants are expected to make up their pay by some other means. The Commander-in-Chief of Balkan Army is considered highly paid. Yet he only gets £7 per week-£360 a year.

General Metaxas, virtual dictator of Greece, lives in a flat over a shop. Even ex-King Carol Rumanta, nost ostentatious of monarchs, hnd to find various ways of supplementing his income, and his sister kept a greengrocer's shop just beltind the royal palace.

GIVING

AWAY

SECRETS

War, and so on, Good articles, too, and all frco.

Edith von Ohler calls herself a journalist, but she is in fact one of the lenders in De Goebbels' pro- puganda drive into the Balkans.

Not only do the Nazis give away articles and photographs, they buy up whole newspapers to put over their propagandn. German news- papers are on sale at specially re- duced prices.

The allons are not far behind, There

60 Itailan named Colyano who brought the corpse of his wife to Greece and asked per mission to erect a church in her niemory,

The plous Greeks readily gave permisalon. Colvano buil a magni- frent

place, called it the Church of St Catherine, and worshipped at the tomb of his wife every day.

Then people began having trouble with their wireless seta. Investiga- tions were made and the "church" proved to be nothing less than a fully-equipped short-wave wireless Station..

In Bel- Frade, Jugo- slavia, Ger- mans fitted

Although poli- tielans are pain- fully liable to be assassinated, there are always plenty of candidates for parliament, be- rause of the power

it gives, and the wire-puil- ing that can be done.

After all, on M.P. needs extra.in- come, In Juroslavia, for instance, an M.P. visiting his constituency thinks nothing of having to buy a round of drinks for 500 people at a time, which make rather a hole in his month's salary of £451

All this seems 2 most fertile ground for Axis intrigues. But there is one great stumbling-block. There are many different nation- alities in the Balkans, and each nation is fiercely jealous of the In- dependence. There are Slavs,

Greeks, Turks, Mace- and most of the trouble-in-

the Balkans is because some of these countries have a minority of other races under their domination.

For generations these minorities have been fighting for indepen- dence. Any attempt by Nazi or Italion to overrun the Balkans would cause even greater revolts.,

That is why Hitler, for all his temptations, dare not step directly Into the

By Jane

Jane Condon

FUNNY SIDE UP

Cope, 1960 by Entlad Pratura Byadienis, Tai.

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