MUTT AND JEFF
~ THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 7, 1988.
By BUD FISHER
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AND DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE MUCH TALLER THAN THE AVERAGE MAN?,
YES, YOUR HONOR!
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THE
PLENTY OF EVIDENCE
for his death.”
Furthermore, I
"Me? Say, what is this? Frank and I are buddies. Why, we've been on that run together for five years."
THE train made an hour's stop at "Not a bit of it.
Westhaven, which gave Art strongly suspect you are responsible Carlton plenty of time to relieve Frank Jumel in the mail car and get himself established. Art was talking to Assistant Station Master Enos Hilmouth on the Westhaven plat- form when the express came to a stop. The mail car door was open a crack and he inserted his fingers and slid it the rest of the way and peered in- side.
"Wait a minute," he called to Enos Hilmouth, "there something wrong here." He vaulted up to the car floor and approached the figure of Frank
wall-desk.
Jumel where it sprawled ncross the
Frank was dead, a bullet hole in his temple, a service revolver on the floor at his feet. Beneath his hand was a paper with writing on it.
"That's the point. Five years is " long time to be cooped up in a mail car with one man day in and day out. You're apt to become pretty familiar with the other fellow's habits. You're apt to get on each other's
nerves."
"What are you getting at?"
"Just this: Jumel was killed with a service pistol, presumably his own. It would have been an easy matter for you to substitute yours for his, after shooting him. They are iden- tical:"
"Copper, you're going off half-cock- ed. Why would I want to kill Frank?"
"I have been planning this for a Tong time. During the short run be- were always getting into arguments, "Because you hated him. You two tween Fairfield and Westhaven I am always quarreling, heckling each alone, which gave me the chance : I other. 'Maybe this time you got ex- wanted. Please tell my wife it was cited and shot him by accident. Jumel an accident.. 1)
Inspector Peter Barnes of the state police barracks at Westhaven got down to the station in time to find out all he wanted to know before the train was due to pull out.
"Sam Taylor, Frank's helper on the run," Art Carlton explained, "gets off
BY CARLTON JAMES
at Fairfield, which is his home. From used to tell Art Carlton about your Fairfield to Westhaven Frank is alone, arguments when Carlton relieved him I take over at Westhaven. The mail at Westhaven. You didn't know that, isn't so very heavy from here on, so did you?"
I handle the job myself."
"No. So what??!
Inspector Barnes wrote all these. things down in a notebook, then went over the mail car thoroughly. Later ning to kill Jumel for some time. I "My guess is that you've been plan- he drove to Fairfield and looked Sam Taylor. Sam was in bed asleep ing. They were yours. You've been found some samples of his handwrit- when Peter arrived.
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@^"I'll wake him," his wife offered, but Peter shook his head. "Not yet. I want to look around first. Has he a desk?"
practicing trying to imitate Frank Jumel's handwriting for months."
Taylor's eyes flicked to his wife's face, then came back to Inspector Bar-
nes.
Sometimes I have to make
Mrs. Taylor sensed that something was wrong. She tried to question-Peter "Sure. but Peter only told her he couldn't ex- out Frank's reports. When we have plain for a while. He wasn't too reas- a light run we let each other have suring in his manner, because he a day off and do the other's work. didn't want what he was convinced would follow to be too much of a shock.
"Quck thinking, Taylor, only
I've got more evidence than that. Jumel had presumably written a note, tell-
In a lower drawer of Sam Taylor's ing the world he had committed sui- desk, Inspector Barnes found some, cide. We found it on the desk under papors that interested him. He studi- his hand." ed them, comparing them with a pa- per which he had brought with him. Then he told Mrs. Taylor to waken her husband.
Sam came downstairs wearing gown and slippers, his hair disheveled, looking 'sleepy-eyed.
"So that's it? Frank had been act- ing depressed. I never thought he'd knock himself off though."
"Taylor, you're a smooth one, all right. Jumel didn't commit suicide, You killed him. You wrote that note to make it appear like suicide. I know "What's it all about?" he wanted to because the note was written in ink, know, "Who are you, and what's the and the only pen that was in the idea of waking me up?"
car was wedged into a holder on the desk and hadn't been used for months! Pater, flashed his shield. "Inspector: I found your fountain pen downstairs. Peter Barnes of the state police. I'm having the ink analyzed. Punch Frank Jumel was found murdered in a holo in that one!" T the mail car at Westhaven two hours ago."
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"Murdered? Frank? You're kid- ding."
But there was no point, in expect- ing Sam Taylor to come forward with another excuse. He had collapsed.
(Copyright, 1988.)
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 7, 1938.
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KAIFENG'S FALL DENIED Chinese Claim Attacking Force Driven Out
Gain Day After Desperate Street Fighting
Hankow, To-day.
The capture of Kaifeng by the Japanese is denied in a Chinese military communique which ad- mits, however, that Lanfeng was evacuated. On Sunday evening a small Japanese detachment after causing a breach in the city wall entered
YELLOW RIVER OVERFLOWS
Chengchow, To-day. Swollen by heavy downpours during the last few days, the Yel- low River has run amuck north- west of Lanfeng. Sections of the dam have broken down' and ''a large area nearby has been flood- ed.
The advance of the Japanese, mechanised units is said to have been greatly impeded by the flood. -Central News.
Kaifeng but was forced to retire after desper- HUNDREDS DIE
ate street fighting.
The Japanese are at present attacking Kaifeng in IN CHENGCHOW
two columns, one concentrating on the railway
station and the other heavily shelling the north- BOMBING
western city wall.
Traffic on the Peiping-Hankow back, parallel to the first defence Railway, between Chengchow and line.
Great battles for the possession
Referring to the situation on the 'of the first line of defence are
to
Chengchow, To-day. Chengchow and Loyang were
INSURGENT AIR RAIDS
Madrid, To-day.
Twelve were killed and 29 wound- ed at "Segorbe, which is en route to Teruel, and five were killed and two wounded at Vall de Uxo, on the Mediterranean coast insurgent
air raids-Reuter.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE
R
H.M. THE KING'S BIRTHDAY REVIEW
Hankow is reported normal.
It is notified for information Honan front, the Chinese spokesman be expected in the next few days, heavily...bombed... by Japanese that the following traffic arrange.......
ments will be enforced on the oc- reiterated the assertion of last week On the Japanese side, it is report-planes yesterday.
casion of The King's Birthday
anised units
traffic from 6.80
that the Chinese did not intend toed that the Chinese troops in Invading bombers unloaded Review on June 9th, 1938:— fight a decisive battle on the plains Chengchow have already begun to tons of high explosives in con- 1. All vehicles going to the Re- of Honan, adding that Kaifeng and retreat partly westwards along the gested areas in the heart of view, at Wong Nei Chong will South Honan were suited for the Lunghai Railway and partly south-Chengchow. Rows of houses on procéed clockwise round Happy operations of artillery and mech-wards along the Peiping-Hankow San Ma Road and Fu Shou Street Valley via Wong Nei Chong Road
Railway.
collapsed like a pack of cards and to the entrance gates. Since the Chinese Army do not The Japanese report new sue-many buildings in other parts of 2. Gloucester Road will be clos- possess strong cavalry, artillery and cesses from the centre of this front the city were gutted by fire ed to vehicular mechanised units, they would not several hundred kilometres long, caused by incendiary bombs.
a.m. to 10-am dispute the possession of fixed posi- namely from the sector on the According to a survey, more
Parking of Cars. tions but would protract the war Hwai River. According to these re-than 1,000 non-combatants in wherever possible.
ports, the Japanese already reach-Chengchow have been either kill-vicinity of the Race Course
1. Vehicles will be parked in the ed Fengtai and Chowhsien and ad-ed or injured and thousands of directed by the Police on duty. vanced farther southwest.. Yester-houses levelled to the ground as conditions
wilday afternoon they took the town a result of repeated Japanese entrance is reserved for
2. The stand at the public of Chengyangkwan,
official on the Hwai aerial bombardment recently. River.
cars only. Three Japanese machines took News from the Chinese or neu-part in the Loyang bombing.
3. Morrison Hill parking ground tral sources about the capture of Central News.
(opposite Civil Service Club) and defence of Hankow, is not avail- this town, which is on the line of
Village Road are reserved private cars. able.-Trans-Ocean.
CHOOSING OWN GROUND When topographical favour the Japanese, China avoid the enemy but if we have the opportunity to deal the Japanese a blow, we shall do so.
Since the Japanese have concen- trated a large force in the plains, it is most difficult for the Chinese to attack so we select our own bat- tlefields.
The Japanese will not occupy a single city or village without pay- ing a heavy price.-Reuter.
SITUATION DETAILED
Hankow, To-day. Reviewing the war situation, in a press interview, General Chen Shanghai, To-day. Cheng, revealed that the
Chinese
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Hankow, To-day. The Chinese spokesman officially
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Ventris Road is reserved for public cars.
Government House Reception. The traffic arrangements for the Reception at Government House on the afternoon of June 9th, will be as follows:
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1. OWNER DRIVEN cars will
8 No car will be permitted to park in Government House Garage or grounds.
Although the Chinese deny the withdrew from Lanfeng on June 4 announces that due to the bombing park in KENNEDY ROAD or the," fall of Kaifeng, Japanese reports The Japanese who took · Lanfeng
of Canton and the present conges- LARGE PARK, opposite the Helena say that the triumphant entry of after the Chinese withdrawal were
tion in Hankow, the Chinese Gov- May Institute. The wicket gate in the Japanese into the capital
the column advancing from Kweiteh ernment had decided to evacuate all Government House -grounds near Honan, with its 300,000 inhabi-westward along the Lunghai Rail-Women and children refugees, this park will be open for use. tants, took place yesterday after-way.
wounded soldiers and their families 2. CHAUFFEUR DRIVEN cars noon at 2 o'clock. The town was
Another column from Kweiteh and Government employees to the will park on MURRAY PARADE defended only by weak rearguard which took Ningling and Suihsien interior of China.
GROUND where a special tele- troops of the 51st and 52nd Chinese south of the Railway, reached the
The area between Kaifeng and phone to Government House will . Divisions.
southeast of Kaifeng on June 4.
Chengchow,is flooded as the result be installed. Guests requiring After having blown up the town The Japanese column which of damage to the dykes of the Yel- their cars should give the numbers. gates, the Japanese reports say, a pushed from Pohsien into east He low River, according to Chinese re- of their cars to the Police Officer tank detachment forced its waynan and took Luyi, is engaged by ports and the countryside is said on duty at Government House into the town while the Chinese the Chinese around Hwaiyang, west
to be rendered difficult for military steps. garrison of Kaifeng retreated along of Luyi.
operations.-Reuter. the Lunghai Railway westwards. The Chinese troops besieging the fence works
As they left at a well chosen mo- troops of the Doihara Division, against Chinese attacks.
outside the city ment, the Chinese seem to have northwest of Lanfeng, have been
4. In order to avoid delay suffered no great losses.
withdrawn, General Chen said.
In south Shansi the Chinese have guests arriving by taxi or public The Chinese troops to the south The Japanese have sent about a Chiehsien and Tsishan, and
recaptured Fenglingtu, Puchow, car are requested to pay the fare of the Lunghai Railway were at division to reinforce the Peiping closely besieging Yuncheng.
are as quickly as possible. once, Japanese reports state, or Hankow Railway front.
5. Sedan chairs and rickshas dered to take up the first positions]
The Japanese at Tsingshuiho, will set down their passengers at prepared for the defence of Han-
Tohsien and Hohsien in south Sui- the main entrance to Government kow, beginning, with the front In west Anhwei, the Japanese yuan are descending on Peinkwan, House in Upper Albert Road. northeast at Chengchow, the point troops are massing at Pengpu and Hoku and Potek in north Shansi on
These vehicles will not be allow- of intersection of the Lunghai and Linhwaikwan. After taking Shou- the Yellow River. The purpose of ed inside the grounds of Govern- Peiping-Hankow Railways and run hsien and Fengtai, about 70 kilo- their southward drive is presumab-ment House except in the event of ning in southeasterly direction, viù metres southwest of Pengpu, the ly to cut Chinese communications heavy rain. Hwaiyang and Hofei, to Wuhu on Japanese column from Mongcheng across the Yellow River on the Shan- the Yangtse..
has now reached the vicinity of si-Shensi border. The newly-formed groups of the Chengyangkwan, 20 kilometres west There has been no major opera- Japanese are already moving slow of Shouhsien, where the Chinese tion on the Yangtze River in An- ly to these positions.
are stubbornly resisting their ad- hwei during the last
few days. * Though Japanese marines landed The second Chinese defence line. The Japanese at Hofei in central near Tatung on June 2, they were runs west 120 kilometres further Anhwei are strengthening their de later repulsed-Central Newa.
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of cription policy, yet who would food in a period when supplies dare to say that, in a desperate are threatened with interference. hour, England will not do what The scheme of the Food (De- she had done before and the fence Plans) Department of the moment when the hour will be- Board of Trade is more com- come desperate will remain a plete and more centrally directed matter of opinion.
than the rationing arrange- The Labour Party, responding, ments, which had to be applied tentatively only, to the Prime during the last war. It will Minister's, appeal for common have the great advantage of be- effort, does not hesitate to speak ing ready for use the moment the accursed” word..
the need arises, whereas the Thus Mr. A. V. Alexander, arrangements made during the M.P. "Any question of going in Great War had to be improvised for a whole system of, say, con- piecemeal, so that much confu“ scription or national military ion resulted. The plans of the service, until we have settled department begin with the or- what it is for, and whether it is ganisation of both home-produc- based on a policy of collective ed and imported supplies and go security, will require a good deal on to deal with distributionTM of examination." He declared ording to local needs, the regula- that a change in foreign policy ion of prices, prevention of pro- vital. In other words, he fiteering, and, if necessary,
rat- offered co-operation with a ioning. The plan looks well on string to it. He would even paper; let us hope it will never submit to conscription, subject have practical test.
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