THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 12, 1940.
MUTT AND JEFF
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A SHE DID,
SHE DIED OF "
A BROKEN RIK
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SHE DIED OF
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A SHE DIED SHE DID, SHE DID SHE DIED
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By BUD FISHER
I DON'T KNOW WHAT 'HAPPENED TO THE SOAP!
I CAN'T FIND IT!
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COLOGNE GETS FIFTH OF NOVEMBER SHOW
British raids on North-West Germany on Saturday night/ Sunday morning, in- cluded an attack on the oil depot at Frank- furt, where the first
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section of bombers was over the target for an hour and a half. .At Cologne, which. was also heavily raid- ed, with arms fac- tories as the target, some high explosive was hit with a result "like a Fifth of November show."- Reuter.
HITLER SETTING
STAGE FOR AN QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
OFFENSIVE
HITLER IS A PRISONER of his own sys- tem and cannot live indefinitely on his pre- sent achievements, wrote the military corres- pondent of the "Spectator" yesterday.
Northern Europe has 10 to 11 weeks of good campaigning weather left and every- thing suggests that Hitler is setting the stage for an offensive on the most favourable con- ditions.
STEALING BY FINDING CHARGE
this
Preparations for
attack may be seen in the concentration of barges and ships in the countries occupied by the Germans and in the reports of long-range guns being set up on the French side of the Channel.
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The King-Hall newsletter warns Arrested by a Chinese detective lits readers against relying too when trying to dispose of a sur-much on the enormous amount of veying instrument at a pawn shop 'planes and other war material on Saturday, Tam Ki-sum, 21, to be shipped from America hawker, was charged before Atr. the next few months. ¡Q. A. A. Macfadyen at Kowloon
The layman, says the newslet- this morning with larceny by find-ter, does not appreciate the tre- ing of an Abeny Level.
mendous preliminary work re- Accused was bound over. ¡quired before a modern weapon A woman sleeping on the pave-
The instrument, property of of war can be made. In the ment outside No. 45, Gough Leigh and Orange was left on design of the light-tank, for in- Street, had. her two-and-a-half-board a Yaumati ferry launch on stance, 2,400 drawings must be year-old baby boy kidnapped Saturday by a surveying party made, and the mechanics cannot during last night. The police Accused admitted that he picked be semi-skilled workers put real have been informed.
it up on the ferry.
mechanics.
BABY BOY STOLEN
OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD
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HORIZONTAL
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crowd
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slair
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12 Fear
13 To eat away
14 Sorrow
15 Bank
.employee
17 Experiences
47 Imitation
49 Small
fragments
53 Dawn
goddess
57 Illumined;
58 Malice
60 Large
61 However.
pleasure in 502 Cloya
19 Beverages :-
21 Note of scale
22 Anything
very puz-
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right
27 Small
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To yield
34 Molten lava
35 Sun
30 Skill
37 Parent
30 Established
measures
41 Penpoint
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nate
43 Brazilian
coiri
44 Female deer.
(pl.)
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to be
63 Girl's name
VERTICAL
1 Carpet
2 To be
obliged to
3 Babylonian
delty
4 To stagger
5 Uncon-
trolled
6 Therefore
7 Holland
commune
8 To remove
forcibly
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16 Negligent
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33 Bitter vetch
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41 Negative
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54 Japanese
sosh
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66. Former
Türkish
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One important contribution would be the over-age U.S. Des- troyers which General Pershing has suggested be sent to Britain immediately. Just as Nelson said he could not have too many fri- gates, so, to-day, we cannot have too many destroyers.-Reuter,
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was charged before Mr. G. T. [Lawry this morning with stealing Ja suitcase, containing a gold neck-chain, a gold bangle, a gold ring and a piece of jade, from Leung Lin-kwan, 19, spinster, on Friday.
Detective Sergeant T. Cashman said that both lived in the same house. On Friday, complainant reported the loss and following enquiries, defendant admitted theft. The articles were found inside the kitchen on the pre- mises.
Sentence of one month's hard labour was imposed..
KEEP THEATRES
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Urging at a "Theatre in War- time" lunch in London that the theatres, music-halls and cinemas should be kept open Mr. George Robey said:
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