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NANCY

OH, BOY! WE'RE HAVING

TURKEY

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GOIN' IN

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DIS YEAR!

WHAT ARE

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HAVING

PIG!

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

OH-- ONE OF THOSE CUTE PIGS WITH AN APPLE IN HIS MOUTH?

ER- YEAH-

PIG AND APPLE!

Ernie

January 8, 1941.

Bushmiller

WELL --- ANYWAY--- IT AIN'T NO LIE?

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ITALIAN FIGHTER'S END-It's a desert graveyard for this Italian fighter plane shot down by British anti-aircraft.gunners, somewhere in North Africa. Plane apparently came down in flames and only skeleton, charred and twisted, 'remains.

Britain's Role In

Future world

Nazi Pilot Knew Isle of Wight

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Britain's Health Standard High

NEW THAI CANAL

SCHEME

THE That Government is contemplating joining the Phang- nya river, which flows into the sca on the west coast of the Penin- sula, and the Tapi river at Surat-Thani, reports the Thai news- paper, "Pramuen Wan.”

The Phang-nya river is situated inland of the Papra Strait, which is approximately 239 miles from Penang, while Surat-thani is on the cast coast, almost on the Isthmus of Kra.

the

The distance between two rivers is sald to be about

20 kilometres, and the policy is to make this a combined stream navigable for small craft which will only have to traverse a dis- tance of from 600 to 800 kilo-] metres.

This would be a highly valuable route, as at present ships travelling froin the Indian Oceán to the 'Gulf of Thailand have to go right round the Malay Peninsula via Singapore.

This appears to be quite a feasible scheme in place of the Kra Istlimus A survey is now being carried out.

selves.

Other Routes

Soviet Army Leader

Lauds R.A.F.

A striking article by Capt. Krainef in the Soviet Army organ, "Red Star," emphasises that the Germans have failed to win mastery of the air.

the

In their first mass attack on There is still another project for Britain, he writes, they failed to seagoing vessels to link the Indian repeat their successes against Occan with the Gulf without having French aerodromes because they to go round the Malay Peninsula, Two routes appear to present them- lacked information of the redis- tribution of British forces; One is to join the Satul river, many field aerodromes and land- which is almost 100 miles from ing grounds had been added to Penang, with the Sal river, which the 300 aerodromes existing be- A prediction that the future Blacksmith's Arms, at the top health standard in the world, accord-sula and has its outlet at Songkhla, had been beautifully done.

"Will you pull up at The

Into the inland sea at Plinth fore the war and the camouflage Britain has apparently the highest lung on the east coast of the Penin- world society will develop in the of the hill? I could do with a ing to Dr Haven Emerson, former a few miles further down. The dis- English-speaking

world was made by Dorothy Thompson re-German pilot to Harold Blow, a ton of Public Health.

drink," coolly said a crashed president of the American Assocla-tance is not too great.

The defensive measures taken by the R.A.F. Command; in fact, in- cently.

The second, proposed route is to fluenced the whole course lorry driver, who

Dr Emerson has made a study of extend the Thachin river at Trang, struggle. was taking Speaking in New York sho sald; him into Newport, 1.0.W.

European health, and said that Bri-which few miles from the Satui, "To-day under a ral of bombs, in

tah had two outstanding safeguards river, to the inland debris

The pilot, a lieutenant, 6ft 2in tall, for remaining isolated from any lung, with the outlet at Songkhla, sea at Phatha- and wreckage amidst the whe hat baled out after the petrol European pestilence. The first was also not of a great distance. These moans of heroes who are dying a soldier's death in children's dresses tank of his machine had been rid the English Channel, and the second two routes have already been sur- and matron's aprons and in the sober died by bullets from a British fighter was the British quarantine system. veyed. garb of business men and the overall plane, was seen near a hedge on the

Typhus was the greatest threat to main road between Calbourne and of workers, a new British democracy Carisbrooke and was given a lift by Dr Emerson, and it would break out! the health in Europe at present, stated How after submaliting to a search "It is the common people who be

most likely in. such countries as asked him how he knew where have like Shakespeare's kings. As he was, and he repiled that he had Poland, Russia and the Balkans. surely as I stand here and talk to often been

Germany was another trouble spot. the island and know to you there will rise in the English-every inch of 1," said Blow. After the last war the tuberculosis speaking world a post to write of also said that he knew Southampton death rate doubled there, and the kingly common people when this well as he used to go there in iners severe working conditions, added to wor is over. Some

new Shaker-before the war. He spoke broken the lack of expert medical care under peare will write the drain of Dun-English. He did not seem worried the Nazi regime, has brought about kirk."

about his fighting days being over." the present low standard of health.

is being born.

Blow

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Nazis Fear Sabotage

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German's Mistake

Krainef slates, to concentrate on the The Germans also failed, Capt bombing at air factories-most of them being bombed once or twice only at the most. The Spitare works at Woolston suffered moat, then the air engine works at Rochester. The whole f

air industry of Britain goes on working.

There had been few attacks against flying schools, except Cranwell, and in ony case most of the flying schools were in Canada. More successful blows were struck at petrol" stores.

Undefeated_

Reports reaching trade union headquarters in Britain point to air mastery did not belong to either The present battles showed that the increasing dificulties in Ger-ide. The British Air Force was unde- many's transport.

feated, and was now actually widen- Germany's railway system was was continuing to rald Berlin. In ing its scope of offensive action and was overtaxed even during the fact, only mans concentration on one years of war preparations.

target, e Britain's Industry, could To-day it cannot cope with give a decisive result. demands.

Locomotives and goods wagons are but the forces of resistance of this declared to be insufficient in number, tinues its industrial and Government

glant city are still great. It con Open wagons are being loaded one ton over normal limit.

Men are being required to work up to 14 hours a day.

Plant and men are showing the effect.

At the close of the first year of war the Germon State Railways admit that goods wagons aro in service only on 100 days out of 300. R.A.F. Has Helped Occupation of other countries has added to the demands on transport

stuffs.

There was much damage in London,

work.

Hongkong Man

In Command

Auxiliary Military Corps

General In one day is the ex- From plain Mister to Major.

of troops and war material and food-perience of a former Hongkong man who is now behind the Brillah air atiseks have helped great clean-up of London's bomb very substantially to Increase

the debris, dimculties by the damage dono to waterways.

Ho is Major-General. L. W. Germany's movement of barges to Amps, who commands the the North Sea coast for the advertised Auxiliary Military Pioneer invasion of Britain swells the trouble. Corps. By a coincidence, the

Hitler is also have extensive trouble commanding officer's

name

in trying to maintain output of war forms the initials of the Corps. material.

British air raids have done so much Hongkong remembers Major-Gen damage that much war work is being cral Amps as s partner of the firm of transferred to

vecupled Czech Logan and Amps, which was respon- territory,

sible for the construction of the new But the newspapers of Prague and bullding of the Hongkong and Shang. Brno carry reports of men condemned hal Banking Corporation. After the to death in some cases and to long buliding was completed, Mie Amps terms of imprisonment in others for (as he then was) reifred. Île paid a removing essential parts of machinery visit to the Colony last year shortly in Czech factories, with serious effect before the A.M.P.8. was formed. on production,

Sabotage Fears

:

The German rulera' fear of sabot- ago is based not only on the known hostility of the occupied countries, but also on experience during the last

"Promoted from just plain Mister

to Major-General in one day, Amps has had an amazing career," a close friend of his told a correspondent.

A constructional engineer, ho WAL lieutenant of the R.E. In the last war, and lost a a foot when wounded Dr. Friedensburg, a German mill-on the Somme. He has never let his tary expert, writing in a monthly disability handicap him, though; la Jourrial Inst January, said:

wonderfully active, and has travelled

war.

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One of the reasons why Germany and worked all over the globe. lost the war in 1819 was the systema- Fought In France

tle sabotage of production by the "Soon after he returned to Britain workers, technicians and engineers in last year he was selected for the post occupied areas of Belgium and he now holds. Under his leadership France.

the A.M.P.C. not only did invaluable

Even apart from deliberate sabot-work erecting fortifications and other oge that may or may not be practised, buildings in France, but also fought Hitler faces all the time the fact that gloriously.

ho is more and more dependent on "When the great withdrawal from hostile people, from whom he can France began, 11,000 of them helped never get any measure of willing co-to dofétid Baulogne. Amps is proud operation.

to bear the name of his corps.”

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