Official Notice 'A curncyMan received the following notice regarding a marriage that was to take place:—"This Is to give you netis that 1 Miss Jemima Bearly is comin' to your church on Saturday afternoon ext to undergo the operation of matrimony at your hands. Please be prompt, the text-t hired by the hour.
Not for the Pool Aw Aberdonian entered a post-otice in Gli gow and asked for a sixpenny postal order.
"Trying the football coupons?" asked the clerk.
"You mind your own reply. "I's too bad if I can't my wife without you interfering.
Some London Crisis Stories Twas travelling on top of a trolleybus along Fulham Palace-road. In the recreation ground which adjoins the cemetery scores of men were digging trenches, "Pessimists!" said the conductor. "They're enlarging the cemetery!"
Although so many children ried at the sight of the gas masks, one little girl of a parish gave us much enjoyment as she was Atted, "Oh, Mummy," she said, "now you simply Jcan't wash my face, and, if I keep it on, my face won't get dirty enough to be washed." fal meant domination of that city. The aeroplane and the tank may be very effective weapons, but it is the man with the bayonet Who alone can give the invading army that Gogree of occupancy which amounts to effective control. "Consequently the Japanese threat to pursue Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek to the very limits of China may be Accepted as a piece of political rhetoric. In a Very short while the Japanese armies will be Joperatingin country in which there are no rally veys, and while motor roads have been and tre being constructed, they will not be sufficient to provide all the communication that the advance of large forces westwards would necessitate, The conclusion appears to be Justified. that in the comparatively near Kuture Japanese progress in. pursuit of the Chinese forces will be very much slower, that the tempo at which Japan has been endeavouring to bring China to her knees {will be considerably reduced. That is_ one the main points in China's favour. Once {if was accepted, as it most certainly was by the Chinese, that Hankow and Canton would fall into Japanese hands, the only real ques {{jon was whether the Chinese would be able \{o maintain their forces intact and prolong the struggle under conditions in, which the {line factor is of paramount importance, The Chinese apparently believe that the time is Spproaching when this will be the case, and the war of attrition will be more suc-{cessfully prosecuted in the middle and west China than it was in the coastal provinces which the invaders obtained so much penefib from the existing means munication. So long as they do believe that there will in all probability be no very great growth in the peace sentiment which Japan-Se observers claim to perceive, but which does not seem so apparent to those of other nationalities.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.