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WAR of the WILDCATS

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John WAYNE · Martin SCOIT

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"OUR NEXT ATTRACTION :: "THUNDER MOUNTAIN"

"Trust you to leave everything till the last minuto."

STALIN'S

London Express Service

GOLD WAR MENACE

IS A GREATER

from

THEN ⇓ £500,000 cargo of Russian Fold was landed in Glasgow the freighter Sam- donard, the crew were told they were handling caviare for the Russian Embassy in London.

Stacked in Siberia today is 11 times - more gold, than in the Bank of When a £260,000

Eng- land. stack of Moscow bullion was

The icy transferred from Soviet to

wastes are prov- American planes, " re-

ing richer than porter was bluntly warned:

and the Rand. "Mention it in the news.

the Kremlin has papers-and we'll have you

wealth enough thrown off the airport."

Amid intensive

secrecy,

a rich flow of Moscow gold is moving around the world, transferring into dollars in New York banks, paying big bills for machinery and raw materials. The total cannot be assessed, yet nre al- Russian gold unles ready shaking the finances of the world. In one day the Paris Bourse, so put on the much gold was market that the price of the metal fell 10 percent.

on

On the same day sudden large-scale gold sales occur red in Amsterdam, Brussels, Madrid and other centres. Nearly 20 tons or £6,000,- 000 worth were dumpet on the market in Zurich alone.

BE

Between Wars

to finance sub- versive activity anywhere on the globe.

BY

IR.W.

mollen from the extinct val police, its own legislative or

canner,

are

Panisation, it own aircraft and military defence. These in turn 1le within u greater defence The principal link with the outside world is a direct telephone line-to the Krevoliu.

Over this wide terrain, 10, 000

zone. mining settlements working on a 24-hour rota un- der electric lights in the Arctic night, summer and winter, Al- together. there are 70 Kreat reldbeids,

souttercr loosely tell, the stories of Iron Curials along the Kolyma River, each refugees--including representing probably a bigger strike than the Klondike.

we

Though few ever return to

eyewness

escapees who crossed the bleak, ualnbalted undra, cluded the pursuing police dogs and cracy. ed the Bearing Stralts-slowly resolve into a close mesh of facts.

SO; ONE

One Survivor

For fteen years the very these phenomenal existence of deposits has been a Soviet tap "Very Loon

Ahalf sceret. overtake the Rand mines and thus take the world's first place

Su ay

sai:1 gold probeers. Serebrovsky, lend

So- of the

NE survivor, now a professor - viet Gold Trust, In an unwary of Yale University, fells prewar Announcement before of endless slove gangs from the the curtain closed. In 1835, penal camps digging of ground moreover, the U.S.S.N. State thawed by steam, pounding the Bank abruptly discontinued is frozen parilctes of earth to Trenk them up of 100,000 prisoners in one camp win died in six years. Gradually the fantastic pleture emerges-the nightmare rumble of open cast excavators, the fev- continued ered digging (which all through the war), the felons toiling behind barbed wire in the glaring arc-lamps.

PHELPS-ORION

enormous London,

Concession

Leng

mountain

Twenty-five years ago all this region was so scantily explored that

1,000-mile chain, high and log as the Rockles, was actually mapped miles oft true, Twenty years ago, when the first slave

Sitting On The Fence

By

Nathaniel

on

"To strengthen abdominal muscles," writes a yoga ex- peri, sit erect, hands knees. With hip movement to the right, start a rotary or churning movement of the whole abdominal region, drawing the abdomen up below the ribs and squeez-

the Intestines ing

against the spine, You can do this anywhere, in buses or trains.

to

The scene is a first-class rail- way corripartment. In one cor ner a atout man is trying read a newspaper. Opposlie in thin, Intense man crunting as ho rotates his abdomen.

ILAT the devil are

you doing, sir?

Churning my

stomach, sir.

Is your stomach full of mlik, sir?

No, sir.

Then what are you churn- ing it for, sir?

To cxcrciae it, sir.

Yogd.

Gubbins

ww boots, and Doreen's growin cut of everythink.

Well, so long, Mabel. I'm of

Now.

So lonit. George. Wich was there to look after you.

Me, too. I don't think,

U.S. commentary

O

K. I get that. There are two And they run

baterien.

once between the wickets 10 core one run. Don't they have to hit the ball cornewliere to score?

112

Yes,

Then why am' they hittin"

They don't want to get out. Do they always get out when they hit it?

to

Not always, Oli, Braun, Listen

the cheers. Cheers for what?

That toas a maiden over. Siz balls boiled without a score.

IA everybody glad when nothin' happens?

It's not quite that. The bowler has been skilful enough to pre- vent Die batman hitting

air.

Dammit, sir, do you consider score. this the proper place for an ex hibition of foreign mumbo Jumbo?

I've paid for my srat, sir. So have I, sir.

In that case you're entitled to churn your men stomach,

My stomach doesn't need churning, air..

By the size of it I would say it needs churning, kneading, and slapping, sir.

What the How dare you, sir. devil are you doing now?

Drawing my abdomen up be

my ribs and squeezing my intestines against my spine, sir,

low

Great heavens, sir. Doesn't it make you sick, sir? Frequently, sir. In case of accidenta, I shall remove myself to another com partment, sir.

You're just in time, sir.

Front line at home

It is predicted that if an- should other world war break out front-line battles will be televised,

Front-line troops mAy in this yet another cross to bear, particularly as the swifter advance of selence the In war may produce two-way talkie television

Then the busybodies who want to make the dear boya happy with organise tele- vision chats between one of the dear boys in a rest billet behind the line and the plucky ittle woman at home.

They have bought foot- suing annual gold production ball boots in Birmingham. figures. telephones and

Gold was, of course, found in Siberia as long ago 03 1843. tide predictors in

Until the Bolaievists took over futuristic diesel electric after World War I, a Brilleh trains. Rolls jet engines, firm was working the bicycles and Yorkshire wool

along the

was coarse, 500 River. The gold and much clae besides.

however, and involved expen sive mining work driting chipa mailed into the treeless boy

Flullo, Mabel through the old gravels. Some of Nagaevo, not as much

You all right? where to the east, the persist- sherrin's cabin relleved the cat main reels still lay undis- barren shoreline. Today the new

Yea, city of Magadan faces the ecran, right?" with brick wiministration bulid-

covered.

Rouble Rush

ITULLO, George.

I'm all right. Kids all

I thought you raid he didn't want to hit the ball in case he

ot out.

That's because we're playing for time and because he's not really a batsman.

That's what I thought. But what is he?

A bowler

Then what's he batting for? All bowlers have to bat, Do all batsmen have to how!? No. Why?

Because some can't bowl, Then why doca

a man who

It's one of the rules. can't bat have to be a batsmon?

About this playing for me. What happens?

11 we can stay in all day we shan't lose.

Then who wins?

Nobody.

Well that's fine. That's swell. makes the game That's what

so fascinating.

When you've

watched

This

game for 30 years you'll under- stand.

Geeze. Has

this game been going on for 30 years?

That game of cricket has been noing on for ct least ttob turies.

O.K. fella, skip Lt.

007-

You win.

Let's

Hollo, Chumley

In

the question askod Pravda: "Is it true that

language was always of a class Field Marchal - character?" Captain Generalissimo-Lance- Corporal Stalin answer: "No."

As he admits in the same

he don't know article that

about philology, anything might have been better if he had left the matter alone,

For

1 what Britain is probably any other country. You say, the upper, George, classes have

or

truto

11

about true about

That is to

educated,

a language

and

They have spent millions, too, in a New York shopping spree, buying up £1,000,000 worth of petroleum pro- ducts, £25,000,000 worth of

ing: broad apartment blocks Yes, they're all right. industrial machinery, 15,-

and streets of concrete prefab don't art look dirty. 000.000 worth

cabins a metropolla

pronunciation quite distinct from of machine

nt 40,000 Look at your face.

no mutterings the growlings mining techalelans. tools. One firm booked an ŋTUEN came the rouble rush

Or course, I'm dirty. What of the semi-literate peasants. From Magadarı, when adventurous Russians order for 1,500,000 agricul-

350-miles do you think this is? An ollday weaves overland to the canip were given a free tural jeeps.

chance of road Altogether,

Prospecting. Rnd

Gold southernmost goldfields. A single the Washington reveals, ay Trust agreed to pay up

side road, it is known, teads to 30.-

bullion vaults-Stalla's George. much us £200,000,000 has 000 gold roubles (30,000) to the

Knox do now? Avo a nice resi? for every new unmapped de equivalent of the For!

There was an outsize gold depository, locked in the posit,

Not me. I'm goin out with sung The gold roubles could be heart of the mountains, The size used only in the

of this vast gold hoard can per- the boys. Gold Trust's

haps be closely own stores in Siberia, but the

gauged from freedom of the life appealed to Russian gold shipments. thousands of thrill-seekers

spent by Iron Cur- tain countries within

Vast Payments

B

Assessment

of surnames also true It is and place names

case of the to be sarky, You don't ave

Take the classic What are you goin to English namo Cholmondeley, which, for the purpose of foxing the peasantry and making foreigners loos ally, is nounced Chumley.

Out where?

Round to the old estaminei to see Mademoiselle, Cord, what a emaskin type.

Smazhin type?

No. As you were.

✩ ✩

pro-

ETWEEN the wars, Rus- sia was so insolvent that national art treasures were sold to pay for machinery been and tools. Russian trade delegates, for instance, single, year. pledged a cluster of jewels with Irish delegates in New York for $20,000 to Re- their expenses. pay

An army of Intrepid men nud

An American once told the he cently the Fire Government o cover these vast dollar pay- women pushed ever farther into

thought he would be smart that

the the foun announced

ments, Soviet geld shipments

unexplored fog - draped have been run- wanton that lay beyond the re-

DRIEFLY, the seasoned experts

about Engilah nama pronuncia- has been repaid. The to the U.S.A.

She ain't lions when ho irst came here. Chumley for pledge was redeemed with in: second only to those from cesses of prival larch forest. of the US. Federal Reserve ns-

South Africa. Where is all the They stumbled

She's more like your He knew about unexpectedly sess Russia's yearly goldrinius smashin.

Grove-ber for dollars bought with Sta- gold coming from?

Cholmondeley, Far from on molybdenum, copper, zinc, output at £100,000,000 running old Arent Apple.

Grosvenor. South Africa's

and Warricks for lin's. mysterious

stones, silver, bars of being poverty-stricken, the precious

Coll ever closer to

You don't ave

So to insult my Warwick, when he met U.S.S.R. hit the jackpot. Helds of lesser magnitide-and £117,000,000, and Stalin's total bullion.

What are you goin man called Plantagenet he said, Over

six times larger then came the fantastic Kolyma bullion heard at £5,000,000,000, relations. on orca

or 11 times more than the gold there for?

"Howdy, Plunkett. Britain, in the remote find,

When

told Plantagenet Soviets have been shopping Stalin us elmeted

Eggs and chips and the old pronounced as spelt, the Ameri- Stalin's gold output already happening: crept by worl 0: avidly.

decided to call all English- Apparently their redo.

exceeds that of the US..A and vin blanc. mouldi through gold-lined purses have in-

Eskirtis. Oletal Russia tearce-

years it may equal the entire exhaustible reserves. They In the 1,000-mile zone from ly mentions the goldfields except

al Vickers the Sea of Okhotsk to the Are- for enigmalle refereness to the put of all the rest of the spent a million

Occur, the rivers and "Far North Project." Yet they work. At a cibow Stalin al- ready has chough wealth to for heavy mechanical ic

streams are lined with gold. are now believed to abcore one Anance subversive activity any presses, a million in Liver- The frozen soil is seamed with person in every ten of the live where on the globe. pool for coal-mining. tele- veins incredible richness. In to 12 million undergoing forced Kolyma apolls a weapon cap-

able of upetting the precarious Pipe down on that. phone and signaling gear, the gullies of a newly-dis- labour.

covered mountain range is the Embracing the whole Kolymu balanes of world trade. The cold- and around £5,000,000 on tremendous mother loder, solid area, the Far North Project has war, in fact, may be far less

Besides, we can't afford it, which it is.

neclin electric generating plant. and accessible as 7 powed its own police system and steret menacing than the gold war,

In Britain, similarly, the han

northeast thoulder of Siberia, Vague rumours of what was reserves of the Bank of England.

NANCY

Red, White-ör True

JF GROW UP TO BE

HOMELY, WILL

YOU STILL MARRY ME?

SURE

new Edu-

IF JANIE BECAME VERY RICH. WOULD

-YOU GIVE

ME UP?

NOPE

the

Alaska Canada combined. Within five

What's that? A drink?

Not ar it ain't.

can

Wie

men Smith. Then he met one called Smythe and went home defeated.

It's he spine with Mokpo, Loo: ere, George. Don't get south-west of Scout, in Korea. like you was last Christmas Some call it Mookpo, some leave.

Mukpoo, and some Mudd-pou-

George.

Lille

Wilr's

By Emic Bushmiller

BALD SPOTS!

WHAT'S ALL THIS SILLY TALK ?

SHH--

IT'S

NOT

SILLY

I'M GIVING SLUGGO A

LOYALTY

TEST

NGO.

The natives call it Muckpot,.

-(London Express Service)

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