THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 21, 1940
MUTT AND JEFF
AIN'T THAT NICE? MRS. MUTT PUT MY GOLF CLUBS BACK OF THE RADIATOR ALL WINTER! NOW
LOOK!
THAT'S A FRIED NIBLICK- IT'S AS CROOKED AS AN EEL WITH THE COLIC!
AND THIS BROILED DRIVER LOOKS LIKE A FINE
· BANANA STALK--
Page 5 By BUD FISHER
THATS GOOD GOLF!
YOUR CLUBS BEHIND THE RADIATOR ALL WINTER .AND YOU BEHIND.IT
ALL SUMMER!
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"PROUD TO HAVE ROBBERIES LEADER LIKE MR. DANGEROUS
CHURCHILL"
NOW TOO
Crime in the Metropoli- tan police area, as well as in the Home Counties, has reached what is believed to be a new low-level record. Burglars and thieves of all!
raiders, pick-pockets, and most criminals under other headings are having one of their most inactive periods known to the most experienced officers at Scotland Yard.
MR. H. B. LEES-SMITH (Labour) who follow ed Mr. Churchill in the House of Commons yester- day, said the decisions announced by the Prime Min-types, smash-and-grab ister that we shall exercise the full strength of our blockade and that we shall afford the United States full facilities for acquiring bases "represent also the decisions of the united nation."
Mr. Leslie Hore-Belisha paid a tribute to Mr. Churchill for the speech and added: "We may well be proud to have a leader of that stamp at this time.
We
our
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Two Reasons
main one is that with the increas- ed war activity and the frequency
Two reasons are advanced, The
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"We are heartened by the, to develop to the fullest degree Patrols at night the criminal knowledge that in one important the almost unlimitable resources without being challenged.
knows that he cannot move far respect the fortunes of war have
Ano been decisively turning in
of men and material in Africa if he attempts to bolt he is liable. favour.
and India.
to be fired at. "We have learned that our "The Secretaries for the
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large number of pre-war crimin- raise us to hope that within a mea-greater land armies
als mended their ways with the than
the outbreak of war surable time
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playing their part usefully, in Mr. Hore Belisha referred to Capt. L. F. Plugge (Cons) com- some form of national service.
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land."
Sooner Or Later
Earl Winterton': (Cons)" said:1:"the ether at the world. "Sooner or later we shall have'Reuter..
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Country house burglaries, which; before the ivar averaged 16 a week, are now the exception rather than the rule.
Activities of smash-and-grab raiders have also been consider- Jably curtailed.
ARMING. INDIA'S SHIPPING
It was learned in Simla yester- day that progress is being made in arming Indian registered mer- chant shipping, with defensive guns and fitting them with de- gaussing apparatus.
The Royal Indian Navy is pro- viding skeleton' gun crews supple- mented by the ship's companies.- Reuter.
BRITAIN GIVES AN APOLOGY TO SWITZERLAND
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