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NANCY

Wednesday,

FAVORITE BENCH | A. LAW AGAINST

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

BOY..

LET'S

LOOK -- OUR

HEY-- AIN'T THERE

THIS

GO

HUH OH

SPRING

OVER

IS TAKEN!

TRAMPS SLEEPIN'

SURE!

FEVER

TOD'

HAS

PARK

ON PARK: BENCHES ?

GOT ME!

AND

REST!

These are rare Emperor penguins, only members of the species in the United States. They, were brought to New York by the Byrd expedition, which recently return- ed from the Antarctic. The penguins are so big thint at a distance they are often mistiken for human beings.

THEY FOUND HIM

TOO LATE

They found him, his arms flung protectively round two children. The children were not his own, for Thomas Arthur Benn married only a few months ago. He always loved children, and hoped that soon he would have at least one of his own.

Ho wns à Liverpool police

constable, and when A boy

shouted to him, "There's a house Coloured Mice

on fire!" he hurried to the place.

Five people were trapped inside.

He sent for the fire brigade then pushed his way into the smoko-alled ball.

From Britain

Fancy mice in a wonderful

Ilo found righteen-year-old variety of colours are being Maria Campbell already overcome bred in England for export by smoke, so he picked her up, carried her to the window and [oversens. Black, white, choco- dropped her into the arms of the late, blue, or-in-broken-colours, people below.

they can be trained to do all sorts of interesting things.

The staircase was aiready blazing, but Benn took a chance and ran up The father James Campbell, had also collapsed. The constable, cough- ing and choking dropped him also to safety.

Too Latel

He searched blindly for the others and found them at last-the mother) and

Afteen, and Annie, aged nine,

Strange as it may seem, ladies all over the world have especi- ally taken to this hobby. They

with experiment

particular

two children-Patrick, aged shades and combinations of colours that take their fancy, Then a great gust of acrid smoke billowed up. the stairs and into the and even in wartime they can stlaing room.

obtain their basic breeding.

the clang of a firebell.

Faintly down the street sounded stocks, together with valuable Constable Benn put hia arms advice on colour heredity, from round the children.. and that is how the firemen, found them ve the English livestock organisa-

minutes later.

Just, four minutes too late.

tions.

Breeding experiments have also been carried out with birds, and the

Canadian Pacific. Lion Head Goldfinches which were

Man's New Post

recently shipped to South Africa have aroused great interest

there.

Rabbit Breeding

has

No improvement is needed, however, Assigned recently to a new post in itsh Nightingale, specimens of which to that charming songster, the Eng- connection with Admiralty work in have lately been sent to the United Montreal was R. Robert Liddell, States. superintendent engineer of Canadian Pacific Steamships Ltd, in Vancou- ver for the past 11 years..

In the last few years there Formerly a chief engineer with the been an enormous illip in rabult Canadian Pacifle's Atlantic ships, Mr breeding, and the English have Liddell was on the Empress of Ire-evolved very fine strains of the lond when sho was lost after a Angora, noted for its wool, and the collision with a tanker in the St Chinchilla Rex, Havana Rex Lawrence more than 25 years ago. Ermine Rex, these being fur-bearing During his term in Vancouver, he animals. They have a much denser made several trips to China to fur than the natural varieties, and superintend winter overhaul opera- one recent shipment alone consisted tions of the Kowloon Docks in Hong- | of 2,000 hend fór a fur farm in kong.

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June 18, 1941.

By Ernie Bushmiller

HEY, YOU !. E

GET OFF THAT

BENCH:

Addis Ababa Simmering

Down To A Moody Calm

ADDIS ABABA is simmering down to a moody calm. The white women and children are now perfectly safe, under British military control, and mary of them sit about the lounges of this hotel-furtively listening to Rome radio-or besiege the British security officers, with pleas, protests or complaints, thus wrote a "Daily Ex- press" reporter soon after the, recapture.

They are talkative and self-assured as they rub shoulders with British soldiers in the streets and cafes. General Cun- ningham, in printed posters plastered round the town, has pro- mised safety to those who behave well, Italians are swarming into the capital,

I saw Abyssinians kneel with tear-stained faces to kiss thei Ethiopian flag at a ceremony here.

Axis "art"

In their sacred national buildings, in the centre of the town, I found that Fascists had decorated the walls with flamboyant "New Axis" art- bounding women warriors and young athletes hurling airwards.

wan

one

In the throne room of the King of Kings blue shields of three-ply wood had been hung. Each com- memorated a Fascist victory in the

of Ethiopia. Some conquest had

In a stacked them neatly comer-faces to the wall,” The last printed copies of "Corriere del Impero,"

printed at the end of March, speake of more English towns being "Coventrated" by the Air Force

The editorial "pep" talk says; "Consider as light the burdens you ones are enduring, and the bigger you are going to endure to-morrow."

ow." Well-lighted, Addis Ababa itself has been remodelled, expanded and largely rebuilt. But it still straggles crazily through the eucalyptus groves.

Nazi

famous First-rate roads wind between mud huts and lofty stone buildings.

Aosta's House

The Duke of Aosta lived in # sort of monster pagoda that looks like a national art gallery, A fine bronze head of Dante is about the only Italian thing left. Aosta cleaned out everything down to his notepaper.

Mussolini's great new railway terminal alunds forlornly on the edge of a cow paddock. Twenty locomo- tives were shoved into the yards outside by the fleeing Itallans. ---Soldiers-trying-thom-out found. ost of them capable of getting up enough steam to chug down the line to Awash.

Absurd Incidents keep happen- ing in the general confusion.

An Italian sentry

Dying Into Fascist licadquarters at one captured town with news that the British were coming up the road. He found himself staring Into the face of a British colonel who had been in residence there for some days.

Bewildered

came

*1

Even in the triumphai British minrch into the Ethiopien capital an Italian despatch rider from distant post got suddenly entangled In the column. He kept weaving in and out of the British lorries, too bewildered to stop.

Recrossing a hundred miles of this Inst stage of the advance I saw a thousand places where telling | ambush could have been made.

None was made.

As In every advance I have seen in this war, it

was the engineers

who took the dual honours.

The South Africans Sung their; girders across thirty-foot chasms in remarkably short time.

Near Diredawn they perched on 1,000-foot drops to hack new roads nut of clift Inces.

Along the newly made roads now flow an endless stream of lorries that make this the best transported army in the Middle East,

War's Latest- Undies "Cut"

First stockings, now undies, are war's, victims. Production of lingerie is to be severely cut under Britain's concentration of industry plan, So women's un- dics will have to last longer- and darn ite

"When the plan comes into full operation," a leading hostery manu- facturer said, "production will be restricted to two-thirds of the total

the manufactured in

six months: which ended on November 30 last year.

The advance of machinery, and The Initiative of hosiery manufac- turers has brought beautiful: Ungerie within the reach of even small purses.

*

The Government's plan deals much more stringently with the pro- duction of outer wear and fancy: hostery, which is to be cut by 60 per

cent."

So more and more

From 'Cultural Institutions'!

Council Bars B.B.C. Jokes

|

The King Talks To Dockers

"YOU are still going strong. That's what we want, men like you to train young men at the present time," said the Queen.

She was speaking to Alex- ander Williams, who has been employed by a Glasgow firm for 49 years.

The King and Queen were on tour of Clydeside, with merchant skippers, doc- talking kers' leaders, men and women' in the docks and factories,

"We're Trying

Talking with Mr Patrick Ward, president of the Scottish Transport Workers (the Dockers' Union), and, Mr J. C. Maclean, the secretary, the King naked:

"Are you clearing the ships and turning them round quickly?"

"Yes, sir, all our efforts are direct- ed to

to unloading as quickly as possi- ble," said Mr Maclean.

Captains of the Merchant Fleet, who brought their ships to despite U-boats and bombers were port

congratulated by the King and

Queen.

the King's comment on the exploit "A very great achievement," was

Essex, who brought to port a torpe-

of Captain Rice, of Upminster,

do, fired by a U-boat, which landed on the deck of his ship.

Windsors Rebuff Florida Society

The Duke and Duchess of Wind- for soused a sensation in Florida a series of banquets and cocktail society by curtly refusing to attend parties arranged in their honour.

"My country is at war, you know," said the Duke as, gazing at the programme of the parties, ho, struck his penell through all but two of them.

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Civil Aviation In Japan

The Public Morality Council of Britain is collecting evidence with which it can challenge the These two stories illustrate the B.B.C. on its "standards of "gratitude" of Germans towards the humour." R.A.F. men who man speed boats to "Complaint has been made to the rescue airmen shot down at sea:-

Council 1.--Three Nazi airmen were re-alleged humour," states Dio annual concerning broadcasts of

Civil aviation in Japan is to be cently saved after an ordeal in a report of the Council. "Objection Duchess at

On the of the Duke and developed by a new organisation, the from the Bahamas, Japanese Aviation Associaton (Dal rough sea off the East Coast.

was taken not on grounds of mere the leaders of Florida's opulent Nippon Hiko Kyokal) which has ab- of vulgarity or taste but by reason of society issued a long list of festivities sorbed a number of independent or

standard." an apparent acceptance of a lower which they said the couple would al-ganisations.

lend during their four-day stay. The new Association will establish The annual report adds that the The list indiented that the Duke air training schools at universities Council's anti-nudity campaign was and Duchess would be dragged into and colleges and 50, local training brought to a successfut conclusion, a whirl of non-stop eating, drinking schools are to be opened at the rate that it had been imply do nstrated and whoopee among millionaires and of two a year, that the pubile desired that its social climbers.

Boys' organisations member of the IAF rescue party entertainment on the plage should But the Duke ilmited their en-established in every prefecture for poured him out a tot of rum. be "free from the unwholesomeness Taking the rum, the German show-associated with 'strip tease and the

gagements to one lancheon and the encouragement of gliding.

As they stopped ashore one them asked if he were in England,

Told that he was, he spat several times on the quayside and then into the officer's face.

2.-A rescued German airman had hours." It was bitterly cold, and member of Vine

ed his thanks by flinging it into his like, now apply a thing of the

rescuer's face.

'paat."

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