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Wednesday,

NANCY

IF WE'RE GOING TO BE PIRATES WE OUGHTA LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT

THEM

IT SAYS PIRATES ALWAYS HAD A BLACK FLAG WITH A. SKULL AND CROSS BONES ON

IT!

ILL MAKE

ONE!

HOW IS DIS, NANCY?

WAIT.. IT SAYS THE PIRATE FLAG IS CALLED THE

JOLLY ROGER"

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 30, 1941.

By Ernie Bushmiller

HMM-- GUESS I'LL HAVE TO MAKE

IS HE JOLLY ENOUGH

NOW?

A NEW

FLAG!

UB.BEER

LIGHT & DARK

Australians Are Fully Equipped

General's Tribute To

Local Communities

"THE A.L.F. in Malaya has all the necessary equipment to deal with any enemy, particu larly in the type of country in which the fighting would tako place" declared the General Officer. Commanding the A.1.F. in Malaya, Major-Gen. Gordon Bennett, in an interview with "Australian Associated Press."

"When the A.I.F. Jeft Austrn- lia it was a well-trained body. but since the men have been here they have knuckled down under trying conditions, and better trained.' they are even he said.

"The en realize, from the Aus trallan viewpoint, as well as the Empire viewpoint, that Singapore occupies the most important strategio position next Lo the Suez Canal.

"It Singapore goes, then the enemy holds a borrler between Australia and the rest of the world and Aus- tralia

would not be able to send assistance to the mother

country", and Britain could not help us. The A.I.F. has not only man-power but also the material to prevent this."

Big Manoeuvres

Since the A.L.F. has licen in Malaya it has undergone several big man-

oeuvres, capable tank-hunting: squads have been organized, and the men are now able emelently to and their way with a compass in the densest jungle.

ALF. units Interchange officers with British regiments, and there Is a fine spiel of co-operation be tween the British and Australian troops, sald Maj-Gen. Bennett.

with the

It is pleasing to note how popular the ALF hi become natives, particularly the children This is a most important bond in these times, when outside forces at- tempt to influence the civil populu- tion, says the Associated Press cor- respondent.

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Roosevelt,

-ERNIE BUSVINILLERAR — JUNE•10

NON-INTERVENTIONISTS-Congressional non-interventionists who differ with President'

Scated, from left: Senators Robert A. Taft, Gerald P. Nye, Henrik Ship- stead and Representative James F. O'Connor, of Montana. Standing: Senators William 1, Bulow, Raymond E. Willis, Robert R. Reynolds and Robert M. La Folletto.

Shipping

1g Losses In Battle Of

The Atlantic Can Be Faced

These are the figures to remember if you want to know how the Battle of the Atlantic is going..

And

of her own.

Five Tunnel Way Out Of Kansas Gaol

Five dangerous, long-term convicts escaped recently from Kansas State Penitentiary in what was described as the most “amazing and ingenious" break in the history of the peniten- tinry...

The men made their escape by digging a 30-foot tunnel be hind the wall of a shaft in the prison coal mine. They tunnelled | into a concreto sewer pipe and after crawling 175 feet through the pipe they broke out of it and dug up 10 feet to freedom.

The warden said the men had; worked on the elaborate escape) scheme for probably a year,

The state highway patrol and ecunty officers throughout north- enstern Kansas and surrounding states worked with meagre clues_in their search for the men. The prisoners, who made their break dur ing the night, had a start of at least an hour or perhaps two or three,

The men fled in a 1937 Chevrolet coach which belonged to n guard ir the mine.

All of the men were in the prison for capital crimes and all had been there for more than nine years.

D'Oyly Carte Is Alive, Kicking

Since the war began, Britain has obtained control of more than 10,-

Famous Opera Company 000,000 tons of extra shipping-by capture from the enemy, from her

LONDON—The D'Oyly Carte Allies, by purchase, or by her own new building.

Opera Company, long associated with The United States has more ing on a campaign in the Middle Owing to the progress in industrial the best Gilbert and Sullivan Inter- than 7,000,000 tons of shipping East, is itself a refutation of the technique Amerien is in a position pretations, has returned to London's West End for the first time since in her existing merchant- fleet. figures of British shipping losses to dwarf the records of the last war Britain can certainly launch 1, recorded by the Admiralty. But it she has begun her expansion pro

published by Germany-double those both in magnitude and in speed. And 1933, with a rousing performance of

Tile

Gondoliers" before an audience 000,000 tons of new shipping a

now realised that Germany's gramme from a much higher level of in which steel helmets far out-num- year from her own yards. The claims cannot be taken too seriously. output than in 1914; her output al-bered the silk toppers.

New Building United States launched almost

It was the first night of four weeks ready approached 500,000 gross tons. 4,000,000 tons of new ships in

In 1940.

of Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera Let us examine the replacement

U.S. Navy's Part

at the old Savoy Theatre which the last year of the last war side at greater length. In view of

chard D'Oyly built especially for white America's output of the famous opera team in 1881. and she can easily pass that the need for strengthening the Navy and because of the large volume or

The opening was another indica- figure in the later stages of this.repair-work-on-hund Britain's own merchant ships is gathering speed,

In the first year and a half of war, shipyards may not be able to produce she has a substantial merchant-Beet tion-of-the-determination-of-the the Nazis sank Just under 5.000.000 new merchant tonnage much in ex- estimated at 1,150 ships of more than in keeping with the D'Oyly Carte This has recently been theatrical world to carry on and was tons of British, Aliled and other cess of one million gross tons per 7,000,000 gross tons. Even losses at tradition of giving life to some of shipping. The total to the end of num.

a rate higher than those sustained in the best light musical literature over May was a little more than 7,000,000 The Empire does not possess

facilities for the large-scale construc-recent months would therefore scar-written.

cely achieve Germany's aim this The war services have taken many These figures show that the position of merchant ships, though it is

the younger members of the ton is not precarious. But the undoubtedly in a position to make a

chorus but their places were filed threat is a real one, for the Nazis considerably bigger contribution than

by former choristers who had been at sturving Germany's attempt **I would like especially to praise have advantages which the Germans in the last war, when the gross ton-to the work done for the A.I.F. by did not possess in the last war. They nige launched rose from 26,700 in Britain into submission, for lack of exempted from military servier.

There was title indication that British men and women in Malaya. now command the coastline from 1913 to 66,500 in 1917, 230,500 in food, raw materials and munitions, the effects of war had cut into the

will be found by the Fighting Ser- The women run canteens, often do Norway to the Gulf of Biscay, as 1018 and 208.500 in 1919.

of this company ing the cooking for our soldiers, al-well as the shipyards of the con- The United States, on the other vlees-the Admiralty in collaboration high standards though they are not used to this quered countries.

hand, work In their own homes," said

that Navy, now output very rapidly, What

incomparably stronger United States, The bomber has been added to the output is in a position to speed up her with the Air Force. And America's which has toured Canada and he

than in the last war, cannot be en- Major-den. Bennett,

submarine. surface raider and country can accomplish was shown in "Special Anzac clubs have been the minelayer as a weapon of attack the last war when its output of mer-tirely left out of account. established in almost every centre, upon shipping. Moreover, the Bri-chant tonnage rose from

175.200 with the co-operation of the local tish Navy no longer has the support gross tons in 1915 to 284,000 gross residents. At one centre, a specin! of the French Navy. Nor has it the tons in 1010, 821,000 gross tons in market hus been built by the use of the bases in Ireland that 1917, 2,002,200 gross tons in 1918 Chinese, so that the men will not proved so helpful in the last war. and 3,570,800 gross tons in 1019. bo exploited."

Temporary Shortage

The local communities have done much to provide amenities for the A.L.F.

TO-DAY at the KING'S G-MEN ON THE TRAIL OF AMERICA'S TRAITORS!

ENEMY AGENT

Richard CROMWELL Helen VINSON

Robert ARMSTRONG

Jack LaRUE

UNIVERSAL PICTURE

tors.

the

year.

But, as in 1917, the fual answer

Even if Japan should attempt to play Italy's role this year, America would have sufficient units to spare for decisive intervention on the At-- Iantic front.

British losses have been henvy. A further substantial tonnage has been damaged, but a good, deal of this! has since been repaired. All the same, as the figures given above) show, if losses are balanced against gains, the net addition to the ton- nage at Britain's disposal is still well over five million gross tons.

A REMARKABLE articlo in the Swiss newspaper Do Tat, True, Great Britain's importing from its Berlin correspondent, reveals that German workers capacity has not Increased in pro- often go hungry, although food stocks are plentiful and the portion to the gain of tonnage, for a Nazi upper-class is living in comparative luxury,',~- substantial number of vessels have

The mood of the German people, blest workman to the big scule em- of a can only be described as exceedingly ployer, cling to the prophecy.

Enough Food In Reich -But Only For The Rich

been diverted to the fighting Ser- vices, while the average

voyage has increased apprecia

a result of the virtual trade with Continental Euro

Europe,

and

of

Dunera Guard To Be Tried

ORDERS have been issued for the trial by court martial of the cominanding officer of the mill- Lary personnel on board the liner Dunera when it was carry- ing internees to Australia.

to

A regimental sergeant-major and a sergeant are also

be court- mortialled.

Captain

Secretary for Margesson, War, stated in a written Parlia mentary answer that this action was

to be taken as a result of the report of the court of inquiry into the con- of the military personnel during

duct

as irritated, the corespondent says, "Money is concentrated in the not the voyage.

In February Mr Wedgwood (Lab., demanded Rations are unexpectedly shorter very large upper class, which despite

taxation, lends a remarkably plea- Newcastle-under-Lyme) the average speed per vessel has

this summer, which is attributed to sunt life, but, among the mass of the in the House of Commons an official been reduced

by the introduction of the necessity of laying in stocks to

guard aboard the Dunera.. the convoy system. But the tonnage tide over a long period, but, accord-people many faces are sallow with inquiry into allegations against the poorer classes are beginning He alleged that most of the 2,400 at present at Grent Britain's disposal ing to the correspondent, nobody

cloth

on board pcuple is adequate for all essential purposes. knows the reason for this necessity. to look ragged, because the

were friendly The mere fact that Britain, has "Everybody is trusting that the war ration system does not cover the Jewish allens, that they were robed hitherto been able to import all her will end this year, as Hitler pro- barest needs, while the quality of the and were battened down and allow- essential requirements, besides carry- Imised," he adds. "All, from the hum- ersatz materials is deteriorating." ed on deck only on certain occasions,

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