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NANCY

OH, SLUGGO--- I'M SO HUNGRY. BUT I HAVE TO WATCH MY

DIET!

IT'S

AWFUL.. WHAT CAN

· I

DO?

WELL- WHENEVER

I'M HUNGRY

I. TAKE

DEEP

BREATHS--

Thursday,

SURE... IT'S HEALTHY

IS

THAT

AND IT

GOOD

KEEPS YER

MIND OFF

FOOD!

MANY SIGN IMPORTANT MESSAGE

FREE INDIA

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

I'LL TAKE SLUGGO'S ADVICE!

AIM OF

PARLIAMENTARIANS

PROMINENT M.P.s of all the leading political parties have signed an import- ant message to the people of India from "friends" in the British House of Commons. The signatories include Mr H. B. Lees-Smith and Mr F. W. Pethick-Lawrence (Labour) ; Sir E. Cadogan and Sir J. Wardlaw-Milne (Conservatives); Sir G. Schuster (Lib. Nat.) and Mr EI. Graham-White (Liberal).

the work of India herself:

The signatories are sincerely replace the Act will be substantially || convinced, they say. that the deadlock which has arisen is "largely the result of a mis- understanding."

The message declares that "the common people on both sides must see that this tragedy is prevented-that the misun- derstandings on superficial mat- ters are brushed aside and the agreement

fundamentals made clear."

on

Fundamental Objects

It outlines as follows what the

Central Issue

This Horse Saw Red

We have no desire to minimise the difficulty of the task. The central issue is, of course, the communal

A RUNAWAY horse dashed one. (E BRITISH GOVERNMENT through the streets of Salisbury HAS CERTAIN OBLIGATIONS one day recently, dragging a WHICH TF-CANNOT RENOUNCE, Surely India on her stic is bound waying cart to which the driver. to recogulse that the British Govern-elung desperately.

ment has certain obligations to the, In and out of traffe the horse race Minority Communities and certain. Aller nearly half mije delinke treaty obligations 10 the approached a dangerous Junction con- Indian States.

trolled by traffle lights. Does

An this mean that

would

accident seemed Inevit support the

the minorities in holding abte.

Then the lights turned to red, up agreement by unreasonable de-

The horse stopped dent.

We

signatories regard i5 the funda-minnds? Certainly not. But there

mentals in the British attitude-

must be reason on both sides.

(1) THE BRITISH FEOPLE ARE THE BRITISH PEOPLE DESIRE

IRREVOCABLY RESOLVED TO GIVE INDIA FULL POLITICAL FREEDOM.

We feel that Indian lenders who

have not recently visited England do not perhaps sufllelently apprecia ate how deep is the desire in this country to see India achieve a status equal to that of the other Dominions, (2) THE BRITISH WISH TO SEE

INDIA DECIDE HER OWN CON- STITUTION.

The driver took hold of the reins

and the horse jogged micekly back to

'THAT THE ADVANCE TOWARDS work.

INDIAN POLITICAL FREEDOM

SHOULD BE MADE AS RAPIDLY Churchill Surprise

AS POSSIBLE.

For Sentry

It is hardly possible for the British Government to take part in,

complicated constitutional settle-

Mir Winston Churchill recently sent ment in the midst of war. Mr | Gandhi has recognised this. We are ten shillings to a young suklier who clear that the. new constitution etist "held him up" during a visit to the be set up immediately after the war. southeast coast.

Get Together

The soldier was on sentry duty at protected place when Mr Churchill appeared ahead of his party. The As we see it, the solution of the

Why should not Indians get to-Prime Minister was challenged wind Indian problem does not merely legether now for the purposes of ham-asked for his pass. He replied that, in "reasonableness" by Great Britain

It calls for the most Intense and creative effort in India itself:

1935 Act

For whatever reasons, the Act of 1935 seems to have been found, us? - acceptable in India.

The British Government

has

frankly recognised this fact, has agreed to the reopening of the whole constitutional Issue, and envisages thai the, drafting of a measure to

mering out a plan?

he had not one, but no doubt thej The Indian problem cannot to-day rentry knew whn he was. The be isolated from what is happenlogj sentry agreed that was "very

likely, In the rest of the world.

but his orders were to let no one by

So Mr Churchtf? i The present titanie struggle is de- without a pass. ciding the fate of all of us, of India waited a few moments, until he was

less than Great Britain.

youched for by the sentry's officers. The message of the British nation A few days later the sentry re- to the Indian nation is: "Joln with reived an official-looking envelope. us in defentlig Hitlerism. Join with it contained a 10s note and a letter

ita

us thereafter in framing the terms expressing the Prime Minister's up- of peace and helping to shape the preciation of the soldier's sense of course of the world."

duty,

on

June

17,

1940,

the

Bomber Fund was commenced.

the first week produced over

$1,000,000. will you help

to

double

that figure before

June 17, 1941?. $152,000 is

all that is required.

Donations to Date: $1,848,010.93

April 24, 1941.

By Ernie Bushmiller

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AKER

MAR

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DEFENDING AMERICA-U.S. Army bombers based at Puerto Rico fly over the city of San Juan during manoeuvros. The Caribbean island is now a key military and naval base for defence of the Panama Canal and is boing heavily fortified.

Land Speculation In London Assailed

A committee is being set up in London to check land specula- tion by brokers buying up bombed sites to resell to municipalities after the war, the Government announced recently in the House of Commons.

A broadcast from London · said recently that the fire-ruined "city," or financial section, was undergoing the "most hectic land speculation activity in its his- tory."

One-Suit Era

Is No More

Men's Larger Wardrobe

"The specalators hope that, when the time comes. for reconstruction in London, they will be able to name

The day when one suit or one their own price for the land which they have snapped up while it rehat served for all occasions is mained useless," the C.B.S. broad-gone, men. Even two suits and caster said,

a couple of hats won't get by these days.

Seagull Eggs And Bacon

For Wartime Breakfast

Seagull eggs soon are to be teamed up with breakfast bacon in England.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has just com- pleted a seagull census and has made arrangements to have egg collected and marketed.

Who says so? Gerald D. Grosner, Chairman of the Style Committee of the U.S. National Association of Retail Clothiers and Furnishers.

English Gaol Warders

Conditions Deplore

ALTHOUGH Mr Herbert Morrison, Home Secretary, recently. denied statements about inadequate control of prisoners, the Prison Officers' Association has decided to send to members of Parliament a list of allegations about prison "unrest.” .

Tho nguociation alleges that shortage of staff, combined with other factors, has made the maintenance of discipline "al- most impossible among convicts Fand prisoners."

More and more men, says Mr Grosner, are learning that a ward- robe of three or four or five suits is! w economy,

"A 12-hnt wardrobe for every well-dressed man is suggested by the serves. men's hat industry," Mr Grosner ob- "Drawers full of shirts-- racks of tics-all are becoming ac- Seagull eggs have long been a cepted by men in all walks of life favourite food of hardy British fisher- as an economy and necessity." men. The eggs taste like duck eggs.

The Government, announced re- cently that chicken feed would be rationed because of inadequate sup- nites.

No. "Old School Tie"

In Australia

IT PAYS TO BE

"The old school the has no place in the Australian Army," said Mr P. C. BRITISH

Spender, Australian Army Minister, When a Driton in San Juan, Porto referring recently to the controversy over Lleut-Colonel R. C: Bingham's Rien, was recently served with letter on the training of new offers. summons for parking his car too long, the policeman said, "You're "We look for qualities of leader- American?" "No. English" replied ship and character, i think the ater- motorist, "Ah! I sympathise with ling type of recently-appointed Aus- Britain," sald the policeman, and trullan officers who never had an old promptly tore up the summons. school tle bears me out."

PEPSODENT

TOOTH PASTE

and POWDER

CONTAIN

IRIUM

Remitted to London: £114,889.19.68

FOR GREATER CLEANSING POWIE

milic.

PEPSODENT

Kaathi Powder

In a report on different jails, the associatiori contends that at Park-

DANCING RECITAL

hurst, where "a recent change in Goncharoff Pupils.

Immediate control seems to be having some beneficial effect," prisoners are unlocked when an alert is sounded, and not more than fourteen olleers are left in charge of 400 convicts.

Convicts Impertinent "During the unlocking of prison- ers from their cells, conditions are

almost intolerable.... Missalles are

Impress

The recital at the Helena May Institute yesterday given by pupils of the George Goncharof School of the Dance was on smaller scale than previous dis plays, many of our budding

thrown out of the cells and through ballerinas having been evacuated the darkness during alerts catcalls to Australia, but it was more and booing are heard. The officers enjoyable, perhaps, because complain that the general demean- cir of the convicts is impertinent." those responsible 'could devote The report also

alleges

that at Felt-greater care to fewer items and ham, a young remand prisoners' in- the programme was not cluttered stitution, gongs were formed, and the up with inconsequential tidbits.

Prison Commissioners were warned that unless something was done to stop the rot there might be a wide- scale attempt to break away from prison.

Peggy Scotcher, who scored a big success last year In "The Dying Swan," impressed again yesterday in "Foeme, to Fibich's music. Part- nered by Hugh Goldie, she gave a cicliente and intelligent dance on "As ballet lines that was proof of her

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"Nothing material occurred," alleges

the associatlon's statement. result seventeen prisoners succeeded in getting away from Feltham last week. Later a commissioner was sent down to investigate.

Cupid Finds Spy Clues

German women in Britain, trying to dodge internment and the restrictions on aliens, are asking marriage bureaux to find them British-born husbands.

The "Marriage Mart",do not ar range the weddings-but they send all particulars of the applicants to Scotland Yard.

"We get on average of 10 a week, mostly from Austrian women," Miss Mary Oliver, the joint innanger of a West-End Bureau told a reporter.

"We invite fall personal historles from each woman--and send the forms to the police. Some of the applicants may be spies-and we are taking no risks."

Civilians Teach Cycle Tricks

skill as well as a tribute to Mr Gon- charoft's direction.

Pat Pasco rendered. an excellent Czardas, and Mrs Ernest To was niso

good in a Chopin waltz. The tableaL imale, "Pas de Cina, to Mischa Levitsky's music, featured Peggy Scotcher, Pat Pasco, Lara Tesar, Ann Mansfield and Hugh Goldie, and was good round-off number, the rou- tines and the costumes being quite Impressive.

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Others taking part were Claire van and Janine Ubaghs, Wylick,

Francoise Evelle, Ghilene Janet Perry, Irene Zindel, Prisellin Fung. Cecilia Chu, Murlon Shin, Barbara Tam, Patricia Tsang, Greta Lo, Rosemary To and June Summers.-A.C.G..

Danish King Uses Papers For Warmth

King Christion showed his' nation how to keep warm through a cold winter when coul is scarce.

According to an Associated Press. report, when asked by a woman how rides even in the bitterest cold, the he managed to take dally horseback Danish Sovereign replied:

"I put old newspapers Inside the overcoat of my uniform. That way I keep warm."

SPARROW FIRES

OWN NEST

One hundred and twenty-five Army |

A sparrow which carried a lighted and Tank Corps motor cyclists who in the Midlands recently were told the ground caused a fire took part in a reliability irial held cigarette end to its nest 40 feet from In the that the object was not to look branch of a tall pine tree in the preity when riding, but to get there." Bulanie gardens at Christchurch, The hazards Included a muddy New Zealand. The blaze was soon tane, a water splash, a sleep-foot-extinguished by the somewhat ne path over tree rools, rough grass and tonished curator of the gardens. It is not known how a bird of the size rocks.

Civilian experts waited at each of a sparrow could manage to carry hazard and riders who failed were a burning cigarette so far. shown how to lake the hazard pro- perly.

THE REGAL TOUCH

OLAF'S- PROPERTY

SEIZED

All property belonging to Crown Prince Olaf and Crown Princess

An 85-year-old woman living in Martha of Norway has been removed a Luton almshouse offered a gift of by the Germans from their home at two phund notes for war weapons, Skagum, outside Oslo. The articles and when the savings organiser (aged removed include silver given to the 85) asked her if she could afford it, Crown Prince and Princess by the she replied: "Young men, I shall municipality of Oslo on the occasion

of their wedding. adjust my nitairs accordingly."

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