THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 27, 1940
MUTT AND JEFF
BAW! BAH
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WHAT'S THE TROUBLE, YOUNG MAN?
I DON'T LIKE
MY NAME! I WANNA GO TO THE COURT AND HAVE
IT CHANGED!
7-15
WHAT IS YOUR NAME?
SAMUEL STINKWEED!
By BUD FISHER
SAMUEL STINKWEED? GOSH! I DON'T BLAME YOU FOR
WHAT WOULD
WANTING IT CHANGED!
YOU LIKE YOUR NAME CHANGED To?
BUTCH STINKWEED!
F
GERMAN 'PLANES BOMB EIRE
It was officially an-| nounced in Dublin yester- day that a German bomb-| er flew over an area of Campile, Ballynitty, Dan- now and Duncormick, in County Wexford, between 2 and 3 p.m. yesterday.
Bombs were dropped at each of these points.
A
Co-operative
creamery
was wrecked, and three girls killed and one injured by fall- ing masonry.
The Irish charge d'affaires in Berlin has been instructed to make strong protest to the Ger- man Government and claim full reparation. Reuter.
Mr. R. H. Woodman, of the
RECORD WEEK IN AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION
that
Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Aircraft Production, announc- ed yesterday last week was a record week for production of British aircraft, the R.A.F.. being pro- vided with more fight- ers and bombers than ever before in the his- tory of British avia- tion.-Reuter.
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GERMAN 'PLANES DROPPED 150 BOMBS ON THE SCILLY ISLANDS, OFF THE CORNISH COAST, ON SUNDAY AND YES- TERDAY MORNING. IT WAS LEARNED IN LONDON LAST NIGHT. SOME HOUSES WERE SET ON FIRE
Children on a beach were ma- One chine-gunned.
was killed and several were wounded.
A baby was blown out of its mother's arms. —- Reuter.
A girl was killed by a Ger- man machine-gun bullet on the
beach.
About 50 rounds of
machine- gun fire were directed at a hotel which had its windows blown in and the roof damaged.-Reuter.
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Public Works Department, was robbed of a jacket and £20 in Australian money yesterday. "The' The London Stock Exchange, Moved by reports of the ap- jacket was taken from his car, after some heaviness, turned pulling loss of human lives which was parked in Jackson brighter yesterday: Cape buying widespread destruction of Road between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. of Kaffirs was responsible for the perties in the recent Japanese yesterday.
better tendency towards the air raids on Chunkyking, Mr. G. G. Cumming, of the close. Foreign issues were firm, American Red Cross Medical Department, lost a rain-with Japanese bonds an occa-mitted U.S. $10,000 for the re- NATHAN RO KOWLOON DAILYÁT 230-520-720-930 TEL 56856 coat, valued at $45, which was sional point higher. Industrials lief of Chinese refugees. "stolen from his carparked in were irregular: Wall Street was The fund, forwarded to Ma-
Jackson Road yesterday.
dull. Reuter.
OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD
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HORIZONTAL
'1 Plant fluid
4 To hinder
9 To make.
lace
12 European
Bish
13 Nocturnal
mammal
14 River
15 To destroy
gradually
17 Muse of
⚫ poetry
19 Large sword,
20 Ancient.......
alloy.
21 Fresh-water
porpoise
23 Wife of
Socrates
27 Colls
29 To mint.
30 Article
31 Electrified
particle
32 Coating of
sugar
31 To sever
35 Since
30 Garbed
37 Eaten away
39 To ruin
42 Irain
passage 43 Ireland
44 Nim
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46 To coat with tin and lead
48 Acquitted.
51 Wood of
East-Indian free :
32 To ascend 54-Anger
.55 Fruit drink
58 To instruct
57 To bring
forth
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VERTICAL
6 Rice paste
8 Importance
1 Thus
2 Bustle
3 Periodical.
allowance for past services
4 Thread lead-
ing to the Bolution of a mystery
5 Wing-quill
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.
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9 Hobo
10 Isle
11 Also
10 To break suddenly.
18 To check 20 Soon
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poom
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has
yor K.C. Wu by the American Embassy, will be administered by a committee composed of three Americans, namely Mr. Willys R. Peck, Counsellor of the Embassy, Mr. Tilman Dur- din, correspondent of the "New York Times," and a representa- tive of the mission groups. Central News.
Reuter says the Counsellor of the U.S. Embassy in Chungking yesterday forwarded, the money with a letter expressing Amer- ican sympathy. A foreign com- mittee will assist the Chungking Mayor in distributing relief and in making reports on expendi-
tures.
BURGLAR VISITS DETECTIVE
TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW S THE MOUNTIES GET THEIR MAN!
A CHINESE DETECTIVE AT- TACHED ΤΟ THE SPECIAL BRANCH ARRESTED A BURG- THURSDAY LAR AT 3.30 a.m. YESTERDAY IN HIS HOUSE AT NO. 6, FIFE STREET, FIRST FLOOR.
Before Mr. E. Himsworth at Kowloon this morning, the burglar Ta Kau, 17, was sentenced to four break- months hard labour for
ing into the detective's house and an additional-three months' for al breach of the Deportation Ordin- [ance.
NEW PRETENDER [SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"] With the death yesterday of the Duc de Guise, the Count of Paris now becames Pretender to the French Throne, it was stated in 20 To. penetrateVichy yesterday. - Havas.
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substances
25 To hesitate
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Adam
34 Clique 38 Vegetable 38 City in Latvia
40 To unite 41 Greating
45 Antlered -
. ruminant
46 Beverage
47 Conclusion
40 Felino
49 Period of
time
50 Luir
53 Symbol for
copper
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