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NANCY

NANCY. I WANT ⠀ YOU TO PATCH UP YOUR QUARREL WITH JANIE!

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·TO LOOK AT HER ANY

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Wednesday.

WELL I INSIST THAT YOU ASK HER IN TO PLAY!!

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JANIE MY AUNT FRITZI

INSISTS THAT. YOU COME IN AND PLAY GAMES WITH

ME

April 2 1941

By Ernie Bushmiller

BUT I

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JAPANESE ARMY TRADE FAILURE

Inent.

Tent

Subsidiary Economy

S. CHINA BLOCKED

Japanese 'Claim

.

No Theatres

EULOGY IN

For Soldiers HOUSE OF LORDS On Sundays

Battle of Matapan

LONDON, Apr. 1 (Reuter),The "Economist” on March 29. SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

LONDON, Apr. 1 (Router). stated that in Japanese-occupied Chinn, the Japanese military

LONDON, Apr. have assumed complete economic control in the past 12 months.

CANTON, April 2 (Domel)-All Should

(Reutor), Congratulations from the British warthne conditions be Government have been sent to To-day they dominate not only the semi-official Japanesefung coast under the control of the traditional Sunday?

Chinese supply bases on the Kwang- allowed to interfere with Britain's the Commander-in-Chief of the dovelopment companies and their 30-odd subsidiary companies, Chiang Kai-shek regime have been but also the manufactured industries and all lines of trade which reduced by the surprise operations spirited debate, decided that the tradi- Italian Fleet.

Mediterranean Flect on the The House of Commons, after a recent brilliant victory over the originally had been reserved for private Japanese interests.

carried out in South China during March, Colonel Sakuma, chief of Dicional Sunday must be upheld. The result is the complete absence, Chins for Japanese private capital Press Section of the Japanese Ex-

The Leader of the House, Lord The debate arose from a Govern-Moyne, sald: "To-day our minds are In these areas not only of Chinese but have disappeared.

peditionary Force to South Chins, {ment' order enabling theatres to filled with the gallantry of the forces also Japanese private economie

declared in a statement,

open

on Sundays. The Govern- engaged off Matapan and the brilliant initiative and investment. The parts:

ment, however, made it clear that no skill of their leadership. This war Complete Japanese military control of China best developed in

At the outset, the Japanese forces political implications were involved has taught us no new lessons to add former has made Occupied China's whole carried out, large-scale blockading and that every member was free to to the courage and brilliancy with times have been in the power of the economy subeldiary to the various operations on Lulchow, Pakhol and vole according to the dictates of his which we have maintained our sea Japanese military over three years. Japanese Army Commands in China other places on the western coast and own Although Japan's economie domina- Proper.

power. These qualities are tradi- effectively destroyed enemy bases for Member after member argued that tonal tion of Occupied China la

The control is serving the Im-foreign tråde. greater

theatres should have the samne free-i

"The battle of Cirenaica, was a than ever, its yield to Japan to lower medlate purposes of assisting Japan's

dom as the B.B.C. and cinemas, and model combination between land, alr than ever. Japan sells less in China fighting forces in fighting the Chinese During the middle of March, the the Home Secretary (Mr Herbert and sea forces and the battle of than before the start of the invasion and of providing them with

Japanese effected a surprise landing Morrison), speaking for the Govern- Matapan sone

hus offered and at the same time, geis less pocket money apart from the war on nameless peninsula cast of Blas ment, declared that both soldiers and example of co-operation between the 0 perfect Chinese supplies than before.

funds raised by the Tokyo Govern-Bay and controlled Important mineral workers needed these facilities. Flect, the Air Arm and the R.A.F.

ores which Chungking considered 'to Except for monthly shipments of

But meanwhile opponents were which was based on the island of Moreover, the control is being used we for redeeming foreign loans, busy in the lobbies rounding up sup-

Crete. At last the training and some 400,000 tons of coal, Chinese to help in transforming Occupied while at the end of the ments the porters and rather to their own sur ciciency of the Fleet has had its supplies are insignificant to Japan's China Proper into another Japanese Japanese forces launched their epera-prise, says "Router's" Lobby Corres-

reward. economy. The official Japanese "deve- Army reservation of the Manchuriantions on Chooyang, Swabue, and pondent, they won. lopment work" in Ching is but and Korean types by excluding

Graf Spee Recalled or other bases for supplies in eastern nuxiliary war activity. The chances subjugating all other Japanese and, Kwangtung, resulting in the seizure theatres to open on Sundays was de- the methods of submarine warfare

On a free vote, the order enabling

"Throughout the war, it has faced of profitable investment in Occupted of course, all western interest,

feated by 144 votes against 136,

which the Germans have applied in what was previously looked upon as a system of indiscriminate murder. The Nazis have profited by the bitter experience of the Grat Spee which with its heavier armament was driven to destruction by the accurate gun- lers of

the Achilles, Afax and Exeter and have since that experience taken care that Nazi and Italian surface ships shall never meet their match in size or arms but shall run away from smaller units to avoid disaster. "The skill of. Admiral Cunning- ham's combined operations has com- pletely defeated this method. Bomb- ing from the alt prevented the Italian junits from profiting from their addi- tlonal speed In flight and enabled our ships to finish their

work.

of vasi, quantities of materials.

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W. R.

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We have become accustomed to such disproportionate casualties be- tween victors, and vanquished as has reminded us of the wars between the Persians

and the Greeks on the classic battle grounds of the Near East. But not even the Battle of Salamis, where the Persian losses were five times es great as those of the Greeks, can provide a precedent for the over- whelming disaster to the Italian Fleet without cost to the victors of a single man or ship." (Cheers),

Battle of Atlantic LONDON, Apr.1(Router)-The- present scale of British shipping tosses is not high enough for Hitler to achieve victory in 1941 as he had pro- mised and he can only win by obtain- Ing mastery of the Atlantic, sald Lieut-Commander Fletcher, Parlia mentary

Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty, speaking in London to-day.

Admiral Cunningham's latest (riumph was only phaso in the great naval battle. The declding phase would be fought in Atlantic. It would be a hard and the tough fight, but we would win.

Clydeside Casualties

area

LONDON, Apr. 1 (Reuter)-Some 1,100 people were killed in. German air raids of March 13 and 14 in the Clydesido

and 1,000 were seriously injured. stated the Home Secretary. (Mr Herbert Morrison) answering questions in the House of Commons to-day.

Gift To Roosevelt CHUNGKING: Apr. 1 (Central News)-Prezident Roosevelt has ac knowledged through Mr Nelson T. Johnson, U.S. Ambassador to China, acceptance with thanks of the Chinese painting of 100 doves by Professor Chang Shu-chi of the National Cen- tral University, which was presented to him in celebration of his inaugura- tion for a Third Term,

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