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NANCY

HELLO!-- I JUST MOVED AROUND HERE!

OH, THAT'S FINE-- I'LL BE RIGHT OUT!---

WAIT THERE!

HM---NOW THERE

GOES THE BELL

AT THE BACK DOOR!

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

SAY!...I JUST TOLD YOU TO

HELLO WAIT FOR ME

AROUND BY THE

FRONT DOOR

February 17, 1941.

By Ernie Bushmiller

WHAT A STRANGE CHILD HE

IS!

C. Imqenöhts Cigars

O.K... I'LL GO THERE!

MINISTRY TRICKS TRADERS

MINISTRY of Food "agent provocateurs"-officials sent out with false ration cards to lure traders into breaking the law--- were recently the subject of a sharp protest in the Commons.

A recent court was at Wis- bech, Cambridgeshire, revealed that, under the authority of the Food Ministry, persons are sent out with instructions which are almed at tricking shopkeepers. into breaches of the rationing regulations,

Mr R. C. Morrison, M.P., raised the matter in Parliament.

He called attention to the Wished cuse and demanded that the Minister of Food abandon this objectionable practice.

Young Woman Decoy

In the case elled, a young woman, acting on instructions contained in unsigned Ministry circular, Wisbech.

visited several shops in

She presented the traders

with n

ration card which bure a fictitious name and address

she

In one case, It is alleged, waited outside the shop until the manager had gone, leaving to charge un inexperienced assistant aged 13. The magistrates who tried one of the cases which followed this young woman's activities imposed only a small fine and expressed their dis- approval of the course taken.

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Man's Story of Valuable Secret-

LEWIS CHARLES LEWIS, D.Sc., who said he was technical adviser at the Monmouth County Hall, Newport, was at Bow Street Police Court, London, recently remanded for a medical re- port-on a charge of being drunk and disorderly in Downing Street.

Police-Constable Bartlett said! that Lewis approached 10 Down-' ing Street and demanded to see! the Prime Minister. He said-

"I have got £5,000,000 to give him and a secret process for cars running aeroplanes and without petrol."

No money

Was

He became argumentative and had Les be restrained. found on him. His speech was slur- red and he smelt of whisky.

Lewis told the Magistrate that an M.P. hnd made the appointment for him to see the Prime Minister. lle was met at Paddington by his own chauffeur

to Downing and driven Street.

FASCISTS

IN MANX CAMP

---M. P's Question

An aggressive Fascist minority, self-appointed to all: posts of responsibility, domi- nates Italian internees at the Palace camp, Isle of Man, holds It was no exaggeration to say that parades and uses Italian bugle be was giving the Prime Minister calls, according to Mr G. Russell

Petrol-less Planes

£5,000,000. lie

hed, he stated,

salved the problem of running acro-Strauss, M..

planes and cars without petrol. The

He asked Mr Herbert. Mor- secret was worth £50,000,000, but he **did not want a penny for it. He had rison, Minister of Home Security, refused an offer of £2,000,000 from in the House of Commons recent- a business firm. He was known to

Liannen Swaffer, Montague Norman,ly about one of the men in the cump, Signor Cosomati whose Grenfell, and others.

cartoons have Lewis sald that he had never been anti-Mussolini drunk in his life. The police officer been republished in the England possibly thought he was drunk be- cause he was very hoarse through a Ul.

"I am going to sue these people for locking me up," he added.

press.

of

one

such Because

cartoon, Cusonati was beaten up by two Fascists. He could not identify his

The case was put back for a short altuekers, but two internees who in-. lime on Lewis saying that he made slighted the assault were sentenced

a request for certain persons to bej to 21 days in the cells. called in vain. sergeant subse-

quently told the Court that Lewis told f

him that he wanted Hannen Swaffer, Emmanuel

M.P.. Shinwell,

George Hall, M.P.

d

Held Automatically

Signor Cosomati, married to an Witness tele- Englishwommn, a painter and writer, phoned to the members of Parlla-pud a fervent anti-Fascist, was in- ment but was unsuccessful.

NEW CITY

EVERY SIX MONTHS

terned automatically as he had not been resident for the requisite 20 years.

was

Before being interned he drew a pulitical cartoon, which was accepted

Sunday

This by n

paper. published after his Internment,

Orthe evening-of-November-Ltwa. men came to him in the camp corri- dor and set on him.

"The whole regime of the camp is open to criticism," went on Mr Strauss.

I am

MR WALTER ELLIOT, for- "I have a report on it from a reliable

Internce recently released. mer Minister of Health, broad-sending this report to the Minister of casting recently, spoke of what Home Security. Britain had done for her people. "When we distrust ourselves," he said, "look back on some of the things that actually did happen.

3,000 in Camp

"There are about 3,000 Internees in

the comp. The bulk are small shop- keepers and walters of no political resentment against bellef save n

"In the 20 years of peace that Britain for interning them. There Britain helped to win for the are a few vigorous anti-Fascists--but world with the victory of 1918 there is a far stronger Fascist group, we more than halved the death-which virtually runs the camp.

The camp is nominally under rate from consumption in this British control, but in practice, it is country. We halved the mater-largely

self-governing: and 1110

nal mortality, halved the death- Fuscist element is in control. rate for small babies.

"As to the homes for heroes, we hnd still in 1939 terrible blots on the face of our cities, yet we had moved a million people out of the slums.

In 20 Years

"Parades are held; two roll-calls are held daily; and to these and, to: meals internees are summoned by bugle. The buglers are paid out of the funds of the canteen of a British internment camp," said Mr Strauss, "and they use the military bugle calls current in the Italian army.

Use Italian War Cry "From the beginning of our his-

"The porades conclude with the try to 1918 we had produced eight

nexi 20 (Fascist) camp leader shouting the the million houses. In

built four million.

Italian war-cry: 'A Nol ('Rally to years we

"And the pace was quickening. us,' literally, 'To us), which is echoed In the four years before 1939 we by the bulk of the internees. The bullt nimost exactly thousand anti-Fascists, who remain slient, are

threatened. houses per working day.

"We had built the equivalent of

"Anti-Fascists should not be in-

all Glasgow, plus all Birmingham, terned at all: we are pressing now plus all Shemeld, plus all Leeds--Infor ench six months, ir great new elty.

"What we did in that 20 years we can better in 20 years ahend."

Allotments In Hyde Park

THE British public is to be allowed to dig its own alfbi- ment in the exhibition ground of Hyde Park.

Westminster City Council will manage the scheme and is let

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. ting the land in five-rod plots at

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REMITTED TO LONDON £98,389.19.6d.

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year.

the immediate creation "f separate camps for Fascists and anti- Fascists, who may soon be released." Mr Morrison stated in the House that the, segregation of Fascists had had to await the provision of accom- which would modation, available.

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