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NANCY

THAT WAS A FUNNY DREAM-- I WONDER

WHAT IT

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*-YOU ARE VERY KIND TO ANIMALS

AND ONE WHICH YOU'VE BEEN FEEDING --

DREAM BOOK

Constant Stream Of Defence Inventions

Monday,

--- WILL: SOON REWARD YOU WITH A RETURN IN MONEY!"

WASHINGTON, June 12 (UP),-A flood of inventions and suggestions on military matters is pouring into offices of the Uni.ed States Government. Already about 16,000 have been re- ceived by the National Inventors Council, and they continue to come in at the rate of about 3.000 a year.

Although many of the "inventions" are fantastic and entirely impractical, the Council said that many have been found to be highly useful for defence purposes and have been adopted by the War or Navy Departments.

The National Inventors Coun-¡ cil was created by Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones with the concurrence of President Roose- velt, to aid the military and naval branches of the govern- ment by bringing to their atten- tion all such discoveries and

Paris Dawn

Raid On

Pro-British

ot

mechanisms as appear to have STRONG moves to halt the value to the cause of national spread of the De Gaullist move- defence. The Council is comment have been taken in París. Warrants have been issued against prised of outstanding American

10,200 householders and owners inventors, scientists and busi- business premises for allowing De ness men having experience in Gaullist eriptions to remain on the the development and utilisation wal of their buildings. of inventions.. They work at a salary of one dollar a year.

To ensure that the more important slogans are obliterated, police are making a round of the streets at dawn (says British United Press).

All inventions and suggestions re-j

The De Gaullist movement is celved by the National Inventors known to be particularly strong in Counell must first pass the technical Paris, where the Nazi occupation hos

done nothing to enhance the reputa staff at headquarters. When a sug-tion of the Germans. gestion gets past this initial hurdle,

whole Council.

Gaulle.

THAT'S SILLY!

HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH

HOW CAN AN ANIMAL LEAVE ME MONEY - NOW I KNOW THIS

BOOK IS

GOOFY!

June 16, 1941.

By Ernie Bushmiller

WAIT A

MINUTE!

IT WASN'T AS GOOFY AS I

THOUGHT.!

XNVO

DANES ACCLAIM KING-King Christian, 70, of Denmark is on verge of tears as people choor him as he loaves Amalienborg Castlo, Copenhagon, for daily morning ride. Occasion was first anniversary of occupation of Denmark by Germans.

ENVOY'S ONLY Gibraltar Prepared

SON DEAD

For Any Eventuality

Mr Norton Knatchbull-Hugessen, Travellers from Paris all have the it is referred to the appropriate same story to tell of silent anger on 28, only son of Sir Hughe Knatchbull- technical committee for closer study the part of Parisians against the Ger- Hugessen. British Ambassador to Turkey, who was buried .nt

By Stephen Wall and possible tests. Those suggestions mans, of people who refuse to sit at

the same table, with Germans in Atherstone, Warwickshire, after an

(United Press Staff Correspondent) which get past the second searching restaurants, and of subtle demonstra- inquest in camera at Oxford, died at analysis ultimately come before the ions in favour of Britain and De his home at Woodstock Close, Oxford,

GIBRALTÁR, June 12 (UP),—Britain's mighty rock for as a result, it is believed, of an over-tress guarding the Western Mediterranean is prepared for any dose of sleeping draught.

German attack from Spanish soll which a neutral military expert has said would cost the invaders 150,000 men. citadel failed to excite military authorities, who believe years of preparation and newly-completed. secret defence, devices have made the 1,400-foot peak as nearly impregnable as any natural fortress can be.

When the Councit places its skomp of approval on an invention or sug suggestion which meets the Council's attention for some time for sleep- He had been receiving medical gestion, it is turned over to the Army

approval.

lessness. or Navy, whichever branch of the

Many Inventions which have service is appropriate. It a sugges-

Mr Knatchbull-Hugessen had been tign is decided by the Council to be served to enrich the United States of value for defence purposes; it may were the brain children of citizens senior assistant at the Bodleian be adopted if found superior to sim!- who had little it any direct contact Library, Oxford, since 1939. He was lar devices already in use although with the particular deld covered but on holiday at the time of his death, but he appeared in his usual good the idea embodied in the device may who had ideas and believed firmly in health and spirits the last time he them. Therefore, citizens who in this emergency feel that they have was at the library. Of course, neither the Army nor something helpful to suggest are be- the Navy is under any obligation to ing urged to bring ideas to the atten- put into-use-uny-invention;-device-ortion of the Council.

not be new.

On Monday,

June 17, 1940

THE BOMBER FUND

was started.

Government,

Blitzkrieg

Began In America

WASHINGTON, June 12 (UP).-Lieut. Col. A. R. WI- son, member of the Army

General Staff, has told & Senato S SICKNESS CAUSING DELAY?

that's up

You!

Committee that German blitz- krieg tactics are practical ́ap-; plications of warfare methods Penic load production puta added taught at the Army's General strain on personnel-requires that Staff and Command School, management take unusual precau Fort Leavenworth, Kans., since "Fifth Colunm"the common cold. tions to guard against that "biggent

1932.

Encourage men to drink more water by providing clean, Indivi- dual Purity Paper Cups at each fountain. This is the natural way to drink--and Furity is a natural cup to use. It snuggles into the hund, does not leak, holds just enough water, and is delivered 300 cups and keeps them clean in from a metal dispenser that holds any surroundings.

Combat tactics of the blitz- krieg, he said were planned at Fort. Leavenworth and tested with the army's single mechan- ised brigado at Fort Knox, Ky,, before the. German panzer divi- sions struck down Poland in

1939.

"The co-ordination of air forces and mechanized units was something new in warfore until the German armies invaded Poland," Wilson said. "However, all of those tactica Fort Leavenworth were taught at from 1932 on.

"We were hampered by a lack of planes and lack of medchanised equipment. But the army, in instructions under Gen. Herbert Brees, insisted on such tactics,

"A German panzer division is nothing but a type of organisation which we planned back in the early 30's. To-day we are beginning to

netual equipment."

the

The men

nen who lead the army to- day, Wilson said, are the same men who taught the tactles of the blitzkrieg at Fort Leavenworth,

"We have modified our plans os a result of the European War, but the baste pattern is that, which taught, he cald.

we

Surgeons: To Meet

In Mexico

The Mexican Legation in Shanghai has announced the coming Assembly of the Inter- national College of Surgeons (founded in Geneva) to be held in Mexico City from August 10 to 14, 1941.

The Mexican Government has been requested to extend to foreign gov ernments and medical institutions the Invitation of the International Colle- re to be present at this meeting. Consequently, the Mexican Legation has transmitted this invitation to the National Government of China, at Chungking, and has also addressed several important medical institutions the hope that they may participate in the Assembly.

Reports that the Nazi armies will attempt to conquer the Mental Tests

Like a battleship's quarter- | deck, the fortress is stripped for action. It has long been apparent that Gibraltar must be

He was formerly an undergraduate of Balilot College, and took his B.A.held if Britain is to keep con- degree in 1938.

trol of the approach to North Africa and the Near East, and plans have been completed to defend The Rock against every conceivable form of assault of siege.

On behalf of the people at Home and the British

the South China Morning Post and The Hongkong Telegraph tender grateful thanks to the many firms

individuals and

who have given so generously.

To the members of His Majesty's Forces; The Royal Navy, the Army, the Royal Air Force, the Hongkong Volunteer Defence. Corps, the Hongkong Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve; and to all contingents of the Hongkong Police Force and Police Reserve. The Auxiliary Nursing Service, the Nursing Detachment of the H.K.V.D.C., and to the Hongkong War Effort Committee, Clubs and Associations all of whom have made regular contributions, warm thanks are extended.

Contributions

Las at noon June 14, 1941 $2,190,631.26

&£100

Total repfitted to London

£130,989.19.6d\

On Tuesday, June 17, 1941

THE BOMBER FUND

Commences Its Second Year!

A gigantic network of obstacles- many of them deep secrets-has been completed along the sandy isthmus between the Spanish mainland and The Rock.

All buildings between the frontier and The Rock have been demolished,

The Boy Who Had Headaches

Lives To Fight In

Two Wars

VERY nearly 50 years ago a boy, aged nine, had a fall and dislocated his neck. Thereafter he suffered from violent

so any attacking force would be headaches and grew up to manhood, vulnerable to a merciless shelling by as he himself later told his King, not guns concealed in the practically really ill, but a chronic invalid. bomb-proof calcereous rock. There

Then

came 1914, and the young

is nothing to obstruct the view of man hesitated about joining up. In defending gunners,

feared that the guns would bring a Tac

land approach from La Lines, return of those terrible headaches, Spain,

Dut join up he did, in 1916, in the is studded with mines. Any German invaders would also have to Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and negotiate the Spanish defence line by May, 1018, he was Lieut.-Com- built during the Civil War by Germander Geoffrey Heneage Drum- man engineers. While the invaders mond, skipper of ML 234.

the were manoeuvring though Spanish defence, they would be wide, open to abelling.

Canal System

ML.254, you may remember, was the little motor launch that crept into Ostend Harbour alongside the old cruiser HMS, Vindictive which was

The Spanish press asserts that, to be sunk as a block ship across the Gibraltar's chief defence from land harbour mouth. Her job was to take attack is a newly-finished canal sys-off the survivors of the Vindictive's tem isolating the British territory skeleton crew.

1. Before they got into the harbour from the mainland.

Most of the civilian population amid a hall of German fre Drum- persons, mostly mond was wounded very severely in of several thousand women and children, were eva-three places, but not until he had cuated long-ago; and the garrison satisfled himself no one was left alive and remaining civilians are pre-aboard the Vindictive did he back

his

crippled M.L. safely cut. pared for an indefinite slege,

Then

he sank down on the bridge vulnerable Exhausted.

For that he got the VC-they to air attack since it lacks land bass called him "Whittingt/m, V.C.," be- for planes. But the inhabliants can cause his cat eat on his shoulder

There is danger_of repeated bomb- ing, because The Rock

withdraw into the deep catacombs throughout the actions.

and lofly chambers carved from the rock where bombs never could touch them.

ho

When September, 1039, came the Gibraltar has been transformed Lieut.-Commander ined up again into a great subterranean city, with an ablo scamar At 54 he was reckoned too old for a Commission, hospitals, supply shops, food and In bell-bottomed trousers munitions stores protected by hun-swabbed the decks of # noval dreds of feet of extremely hard rock. auxiliary motor patrol vessel in the

Virtually Siege-Proof

Thames Estuary. Many persons belleve that the EPILOGUE On April 3, Able-Sca- enormous supplies of, munitions and

map Geoffrey Hensage Drummond, V.C.. another fall-he slipped food stored away in underground vaults make

on the deck of his ship in 'n Lan Gibralter virtually

don dock and fractured his skull.

lege-prooncements and other de- Ha` died in hospital,

Gun

Vicca

to ward off attack by sea are

At the Inquest at Lewisham, 'the

prepared in equal strength to those coroner returned a verdict of ne on the north face, facing the land eldental death. approach. Anti-aircraft batterics

have been Installed, to drive off at

tacking planes, or keep them at a troops train hard all day, then rolax great height, standa

in 'cafes or attend the novics or Social life in Gibraltar is now theatres at night and strictly curtalled, but the populace Every day 1,000 Spaniards "come keeps calm and cheerful and goes across the frontier to Gibraltar to about its business as usual. The receive food.

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A British "spare-time soldier," who is a cousin of Mr Churchill, is playing a romantic part in the cam- paign against

Italians in Abyssinia.

During the last wor he had a dis- tinguished military carcer, and later became a District Commissioner in the Sudan.

When the present war began ho felt the old urge for uction....

So without any outside prompting, be raised an irregular force from the naked Nuer tribesmen whom he administers.

Uniform they had none, and rides were their only weapons.

Constant Pain

For Recruits Their commander, whose faded

Recruits to the Army are to under-blue eyes cannot disguise an indomit- Intelligence tests. When the able will, had been suffering for medical boards have graded them months from a tropical skin disease physically, psychological experts will which gave him constant pain. test their mental equipment. It is But every moment he could spare pointed out that the great variety of he spent drilling and training his

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demands a method of selection-to-make-

army

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army," marching miles over dit- cult country with it.

scientific good any wastage. In modern war men By sherr personality he compelled have to use their Initiative, and it is discipline among tribesmen who are highly important that armoured and the world's greatest individualists,

The Italians have nicknamed him motorised units, the Royal Artillery and the Royal Engineers should re-byenn" because they never know

where he will turn up next. ceive the best men available.

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