1940-12-31 — Page 3

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

DONALD DUCK

OH-OH! ENGINE'S CONKED OUT, BOYS! HAFTA MAKE A FORCED LANDING!

SPUTTER!

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THERE Y ARE, BOYS...SAFE

AND...!

COUGH!

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A DRAMATIC picture

of the Nazi mask ruid in Dover Harbour. The enemy planes 25 were brought down- enn be

Heen turning -away -after-releasing

their bombs, all

of

which missed their objective,

Postal Workers In Raids

༈ *། །

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 raid 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 air raids. Many post office workers had been called to the Colours, and it would not have been forgotten that on a recent occasion the King commented on the number of postmen now in the ranks.

Thousands of post office workers' hand 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 nat gel 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 places, like sorting offices, had glass, roofs, with only wire netting proter tion, and the work of increasing the profection took time. Telephonists, holding the vital communications of the country, could be fairly described na in the front line. They were du- ing splendid work. The telegraph service was snowed under, as well it might be.

many

Mr Hodgson said that the closing of the public counters on the receipt of air cold warnings was a depart- mental regulation. Post office wor- kers had not asked for preferential treatment over the rest of the wor- „kers shouldering the burden in these

days..

Morale with

Jam On It

BY RITCHIE CALDER

W

E are going to have morale with Jam on it. For Vita- min B.L, which will appear In our bread, by Government orders, is the "anti-jitter vitamin."

Lack of it impairs our will to restat and our fighting eeleney, it leads to nervous debility and lethargy.

"People suffering from even o minor degree of deficiency of Vita min B. in their diet." says Bir John Feeding the People in War-

Ort

"bave no stomach for a That was true of the troops who enpitulated at Kut. After desperate dghting General Townsend's troops were invested at Kut.

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

It means that our natural courage and will to win will not be supped

way through any deficiency in our- let. And it is not a dope. -

WHOLEMEAL

We could get it naturally if we eat whalemical bread, uut about 95 per ent of the population are hope- endy 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

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

At first they accomplished great feats of courage, but as the slege and millers' offal as casential reed- Furthermore, we need the bran progressed they became afflicted with beri-bert, due to lack of Vita- tus or our cattle. In other words, we can have our cake and they can eat it.

ain

B.1 in their food, and with it came deterioration.

The Vitamin B.1, which will be added to the flour before it reaches

Its progress is described in a say- ing in the East: "It is better to walk than to run: it la better to stand the wakers, is known as "ancurin than to walk: It is better to ethan because it is

good

for the nerves. It

to stand; it is better to sleep than 1s a pure crystalline substance for

to wake; it is better to dle than to the manufacture of which a factory

as been established,

live."

B.1 PEP

lins

That might be a doctor's ding- Concentrated Vilamin B.1 in this nosis of the phases of Vitamin B1 form was first produced in America deftelency.

in 1039, The Germans also evolved it, and so did two British bio- chemists Dre. Todd and Bergel.

For four years, selentists under the Similarly, the collapse of the direction of Professor E. 0. Dodds, Italians at Caporetto in October, on it, perfecting it so that it could be world-famous expert, have been working 1017, 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, inadequate. and

WAB their to the bakers ready for the dought-mixer. Vitamin B.1.

ing

to

09

JUST A BIT

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

Only any quafitities are required. to a prescription and it does not mean that wo can swallow Vitamin Maybe they have not disclosed the B. as Popeye, the Sallor, swallows amount because, in terms of a lont his canned spinach and then shout: which looks the same and tastes the

Where's

ramo), it would be so infinitesimal that that tiger? According to reports that is what the housewife would say. Well, welli

have to take your word for it." the Germans have been trying to do But she can rest assured that, under with their troops. They have been strictest superstaton, it will be there to Kiving them

"rest" Vitamin B.1 provide us with a crumb of confidence before they went into battle.

́and a crust of courage. But what this new development Furthermore, all our digestions will be means is that the population will be the better for ti. It will help our hearts guaranteed, through a staple article and prevent at least some of our bead-

aches

of diet, the Vitamin B.I of which If you want to be a' stout-teartec they might be deprived through lack fellow you can B.L

This

SH

Spy's Job Is

HE is a very beautiful blonde, old enough to he 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-hended 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 Nuzi agent.

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

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

among

Another fertile ground for Nazi infriques; bribery and corruption

state ulleials pre

rife. Wastes 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 pald. Yet he only get £7 per week- £360 a year.

General Metaxas, virtual dietalor of Greece, 'lives in a Hat over

ex-King shop. Even

Carol of Runinnia, mosi Ostentatious of monarchs, had to find various ways of supplementing his income, and his sister kept a greengrocer's shop just behind the royal palace.

GIVING

AWAY

Although poli- ticians, are pain- fully able to be assassinated, there are always plenty of candidates for parliament, be- cause of. the wer il gives, and the wire-pull- in that can be tione. After all, on M.P. needs extra in-

SECRETS

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

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

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

There

The Italians are not for behind. WIS an Italian namest Colvano who brought the corpse of his wife to Grecee and asked per- mission to Frect in church in her Incinory,

with

The plous Greeks rendily 'gave permission. Caivano built a mngnl- ficent place, enlled it the Church of St Catherine, and worshipped at the tomb of his wife every day.

Then people began having trouble

their wireless sets. Investiga tions were made and the "church" proved to be nothing less than a fully-equipped short-wave wireless station.

In Bel- grade, Jugo- slavin, 11008

.

come. In Jugoslavia, for instance, an M.P. visiting lils constituency thinks nothing of having to buy a round of drinks for 500 people ni a time, which make rather a hole in his month's salary of £451

All this seems a most fertile ground for Axis intrigues, Dut there is one great stumbling-block. There are many different nation- alities in the Balkans, und each nation is fiercely jealous of the in- dependence. There are Sloys, Czechs, Greeks, Turks, Mace donians, and most of the trouble In the Balkans is because some of these countries have a minority of other races under their dorninotion.

For generations these minorities have been fighting for indepen dence. Any attempt by Nazis or Italian to overrun the Balkons would cause even greater revolts...

That is why Hitler, for all step his templations, dare not directly into the Balkans. lle he knows would step into a nest of

hornets.

JuBy Jane Condon

fitted

FUNNY SIDE UP

Ep. 114 by Vallah Peniusy Esqdizels, b

By Abner Dean

"I can't fire hor... with all tho knows about us sha'd go right next door, and get a jób with the Smiths!"

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