1941-04-24 — Page 7

J

512

NANCY

OH, SLUGGO-

I'M SO HUNGRY.....}|

WELL- WHENEVER

IT'S

AWFUL..

I'M HUNGRY

BUT I HAVE TO

WHAT

WATCH MY

DIET!

CAN

I. TAKE

DEEP

I

Do?

BREATHS--

Thursday,

SURE... IT'S

IS.

HEALTHY

THAT

AND IT

GOOD

KEEPS YER MIND.OFF

FOOD!

MANY SIGN IMPORTANT MESSAGE

FREE

INDIA AIM

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

I'LL TAKE SLUGGO'S ADVICE!

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); Šir G. Schuster (Lib. Nat.)`and Mr H. Graham-White (Liberal).

the work of India herself.

The signatorics 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 on fundamentals made clear."

Fundamental Objects

It outlines as follows what

mentals In the British altitude:-

|

Central Issuć

We have no desire to minimise the dificulty of the task. The central

issue is, of course, the communal

one.

This Horse Saw Red

A RUNAWAY horse dashed

(3) THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT through the streets of Salisbury] HAS CERTAIN OBLIGATIONS one day recently, dragging a Surely India on her side is bound swaying cart to which the driver

WHICH IT CANNOT RENOUNCE,

to recognise that the British Govern-clung desperately., ment has certain obligations to the,

In and out of traffle the horse raced

Minority Communities and certain) on. After nearly half a mile it definite treaty obligations to the approached a dangerous junction con-

trolled by trafic lights..

Indian States.

Does this mean that

would We support the minorities in holding theup agreement by unreasonable de- signatories regard as the funda-mands? Certainly not. But there

must be reason on both sides.

(1) THE BRITISH PEOPLE ARE IRREVOCABLY RESOLVED TO GIVE INDIA FULL POLITICAL FREEDOM.

An accident seemed inevit able.

Then the lights turned to red. The horse stopped dead.

The driver took hold of the reins

(4) THE BRITISH PEOPLE DESIRE] and the horse jugged meekly back to)

THAT THE ADVANCE TOWARDS] work. INDIAN POLITICAL FREEDOM

SHOULD BE MADE AS RAPIDLY Churchill Surprise

the

AS POSSIBLE. It is hardly possible for British Government to take part in complicated constitutional settle- ment in the midst of war. Miten Gandhi has recognised this. We are clear that the new constitution must he set up immediately after the war.

We feel that Indian leaders who have not recently visited England do not perhaps sufficiently appreci-a 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.

As we see it, the solution of the Indian problem does not merely lie in "reasonableness" by Great Britain. It calls for the most Intense serscl creative effort in Indla itself.

1935 Act

4

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

The British Government has frankly recognised this fact. has agreed to the reopening of the whole constitutional issue, and envisages

Get Together

For Sentry

Mr Winston Churchill recently sent shillings to a young soldier whe "hel tim up" during a visit to the southeast coast.

The soldier was on sentry duty at a protected place when Mr Churchill The Mintsler was challenged and Hether now for the purposes of hum-asked for his pass. He replied that mering out a plan?

had not one, but no doubt the] The Indians problem cannot to-day renfry knew who h2

The rentry agreed that was "very likely," but

Why should not Indians get to- Prime, head of his party.

in the rest of the world,

he

was.

be isolated from what is happening his orders were to let no one by The present titanic struggle is de- without a pass. Sa Mr Church!!! ekding the fate of all of us, of India walled a few moments, until he was no less than Great Britain.

vauched for by the sentry's olßeers. A few days later the sentry re- ceived an oilcial-looking envelope. It contained a 10s note and a letter

The message of the British nation to the Indian nation is: "Join with us in defeating Hillerism. Join with

us thereafter in framing the terms expressing the Prime Minister's ap

of peace and helping to shape the preciation of the soldier's sense of that the drafting of a measure to course of the world."

duty.

頭

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

SNIFFFF-FF

SNIFF-FFF..

AKERY

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

Land Speculation In Londor. 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 day when one suit or one

Warders

English Gaol

Deplore Conditions

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.?.

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

In a report on different Jalls, the Association contends that nt Park- hurst, where "a recent" change In immediate control seems to be having scrne, beneficial effect," prisoners are unlocked. when an alert is sounded, and not more than fourteen ufleers are left in charge of 400 convicts.

Convicts Impertinent "During the unlocking af prison ers from their cells, conditions are almost intolerable.... Missiles are

the

DANCING RECITAL Goncharoff Pupils Impress

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

thrown out of the cells and through ballerinas having been evacuated

· darkness during alerts catcalls to Australia, but it was more and booing are heard. The officers enjoyable, perhaps, because, complain that the general

cur of the convicts is those responsible could devote

The report also

alleges that

greater çure 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 Peggy' Scotcher, who scored a big that unless something was done to success last year in "The Dying stop the rot there might be a wide-Swan," Impressed again yesterday in scale attempt to break away from

"Pocme, lo Fibicha music. Part- prison.

nered by Hugh Goldie, she gava a "Nothing material occurred," alleges delicate the association's statement.

intelligent dance "As ballet lines that was proof of her. result seventeen prisoners succeeded skill as well as a tribute to Mr Gon- in getting away from Feltham last charoft's direction. 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 particulurs of the applicants to Scotland Yard.

"We get an average of 10 a week,1 mostly from Austrian women," Miss Mary Oliver, the joint manager of a West-End Bureau told a reporter.

from

and

or

Pat Pasco rendered an excellent Czardas, and Mrs Ernest To was also good in a Chopin waltz. The tableau finale, "Pos de Cing," to Mischa Levitsky's music, featured Peggy Scotcher, Pat Pasco, Lara Tesar, Ann Mansfield and Hugh Goldle, and was

tood round-off number, the rou- impressive.

and the costumes being quite

Others taking part were Claire van Francoise Evelle, Ghilene Wylick, and Janine Ubaghs, Janet Perry, Irene Zindel, Priscilla Fung, Cecilia Chu, Marlon Shin, Barbara Tam, Patriela Tsang, Greta Lo, Rosemary To and June Summers.-A.C.G.

Danish King Uses Papers For Warmth

King Christian showed his nation how to keep warm through a cold winter when conl is scarce.

According to an Associated Press "We invite full personal histories report, when asked by a woman how each woman-and send the he managed to take dally horseback forms to the police. Some of the rides even in the bitterest cold, the applicants may be spies-and we are Danish Sovereign replied: -taking no risks."

Civilians Teach Cycle Tricks

One hundred and twenty-five Army. and Tank Corps motor cyclicts who

"I put old newspapers Inside the overcont of my uniform. That way

keep warm."

SPARROW FIRES

OWN NEST

A sparrow which carried a lighted

caused a fre In the in the

took part in a reliability irini held cigarette end to its nest 40 feet from in the Midlands recently were told the ground that the object was "not to look branch of a tall pine treg pretty when riding, but to get there" Botanic gardens at Christchurch, The hazards included a muddy New Zealand. The blaze was soon Inne, a water spinshi, a strep foot extinguished-by-the-somewhat as path over trze roots, rough grass and tonished curator of the gardens. It is not known how a bird of the size rocks.

of a sparrow could manage to carry

burning cigarette so far.

Civilian experts waited at each hazard and riders who falled were shown how to take the hazard pro- perly,

THE REGAL TOUCH

OLAF'S PROPERTY

SEIZED

All property belonging to Crown Prince Olaf and Crown Princess

ne speculators hope that, when the time comes for reconstruction in London, they will be able to name their own price for. the land which

An 85-year-old woman living in Martha of Norway has been removed they have snapped up while it re- hat served for all occasions is a Luton almahouse offered a gift of by the Germans from their home at mained useless," the CBS. broad- pone man, Even two ruits and two pound notes for war weapons, Skagum, outside Osia. The articles caster said.

Seagull Eggs And Bacon

F

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- ploted a seaguli census and has made arrangements to have eggs collected and marketed.

Seagull eggs have long been a | favourite food of hardy British fisher- men. The eggs taste like duck

a couple of hats won't get by, and when the savings organiser (aged removed include silver given to the these days.

65) asked her if she could afford it, Crown Prince and Princess by the she replied: "Young man, I shall municipality of Oslo on the occasion

of their wedding. adjust iny affairs accordingly.

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

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

an economy.

"A 12-hat wardrobe for every well-dressed man is suggested by the! erves. "Drawers full of shirts- men's hat industry," Mr Grosner ob-

racks of tles-all are becoming ac- cepted by men in all walks of le

an economy and necessity."

cently that chicken feed would be No "Old School Tie"

The Government announced re-

rationed because of inadequate sup- plles.

IT PAYS TO BE BRITISH

When Briton in San Juan, Poric Rica, was recently served with sujinons for parking hia car too long, the policeman snid, "You're American?" "No. English" repilec motorist, "Ah! i sympathise will Britain, sald the policeman, und promptly tore up the summons.

.

In Australia

"The old school tle has no place in The Austrailon Army," said Mr P, C. ipender, Australian Army Minister, eferring recently to the controversy wver Lieut.-Colonel R. C. Bingham's efter, on the training of new officers. "We look for qualitles of lender- ship and character, I think the ster- ing type of recently-appointed Aus- kullan officers who never had an old chool tle bears mo uut."

Romitted to London; £114,889,19.6d

PEPSODENT

TOOTH PASTE

and POWDER

CONTAIN TRIUM

FOR GREATER CLEANSING POWER

Pepsodent

KATE

PRESIDENT LINER

Sailings

To SAN FRANCISCO AND. LOS ANGELES

Via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama & Alenolulu.

SS "President Pierce"

SS "President Taft"

SS "President Cleveland" *

To NEW YORK and BOSTON

MAY MAY 18 MAY 28

2

Via Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Bombay and Capetown

SS "President Hayes"

SS "Prezident Tyler" SS "President Garfield"

MAYAN MAY 14

MAY 18

TO MANILA

SS "President · Pierce" SS "Preatient Tart" SS "President Cleveland"

APR. 20

MAY MAY

To NEW YORK and BOSTON Via San Francisco, Los Angeles and Panama

5$ 'President Johnson"

SS "Prendent. Fillmore” SS "President - Taylor"

MAY

MAY JUNE 19

18

PEPSODENT

• Cargo only,

* AMERICAN ★ ★

PRESIDENT LINES

SASTROUND-WORFIS SERVICESE, FLAME

AGENTS FOR TRANSCONTINENTAL A GENTERS

AIR AND STEVEN KARACHAP

*12: Pedder: Birrat