THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 80, 1940. Bringing Up Father
By George MacManus
WELL-HAVE YOU ALL THE GRIPS PACKED? I HAVE TO THINK OF EVERYTHING
I WISH YOU'D LET ME DO
A LITTLE THINKIN' AN' OIT SOMEONE ELSE TO DO THE PACKIN-
WELL I'VE GOT EVERYTHING IN THERE-IFIKN JUST GIT IT CLOSED NOW-;
AH-IT'S LOCKED- OTHERWISE
HAVE TO BUY ANOTHER GRIP-
он- MAGGIE
Capt. 1940, King İnmurm Syndicose, Inc.. World rights arserved
RUMANIANS AND THREE SOVIET COMPOSE DEFENCE
DIFFERENCES
SOLICITORS
THREE SOLICITORS ARE TO
A KOWLOON CASE IN WHICH
ED WITH ARMED ROBBERY,
M. GAFENCU, Rumanian Minister in Moscow, it was reliably reported in Bucharest APPEAR FOR THE DEFENCE IN yesterday, was received by M. Molotov, So-SEVEN PERSONS ARE CHARG viet Foreign Commissar, and given certain OR ASSAULT WITH INTENT assurances concerning Soviet-Rumanian rela- WITH POSSESSION
TO ROB, OR CONSPIRACY, OR
tions.
Meanwhile, further incidents are reported to have occurred on the Rumanian-Soviet frontier.
A Rumanian 'plane is alleged to have been brought down by three Soviet machines off Barlad,
20 miles on the Rumanian side of the border.
Bucharest,
be
General feeling in however, is that there will no further trouble on this fron- tier for the time being.
It is confirmed that all Ru- manian officers and troops ол leave have been recalled and reservists called up.
A report that the Rumanian town of Jasay was occupied by Soviet troops is categorically denied in Bucharest.
Border Movements
POUND
NOTES BAN
A REGULATION WAS! GAZETTED IN CANBERRA YESTERDAY PROHIBITING THE IMPORTATION OF BRI- TISH BANKNOTES INTO. AUS- TRALIA.
Incoming passengers will, how-
Reports that Rumanian troops ever, be permitted to bring in have been withdrawn from the British banknotes not exceeding Soviet border are officially deni-£10 (Sterling).
ed in the Rumanian capital.
A
WITHOUT LICENCE.
OF ARMS
The solicitors are Mr. M.' A. da
Silva, for one accused, Mr. Peter
Sin for two and Mr. C. A. S. Russ for one.
another week by Mr. Q. A. A. Mac- fadyen at Kowloon this morning, is the sequel to the "attempted kidnapping" of Mr. Fung Kim- sung, the owner of the. Tai Ping and Tai Tung Restaurants.
Det-Sgt. N. B. Fraser is in charge of the case for the police.
The case, which was adjourned
SEQUEL TO
"RUSTLING"
IN N.T.
An armed robbery in the Ping|
Shan district recently had a sequel
communique...stafes that Residents...in Australia are before Mr. Q. AA. Macfadyen at while certain auxiliary units, in-given until September 5 to cash Kowloon this morning when four
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Accused,
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GENERAL CATROUX
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HORIZONTAL, 1 Devastation
6 Greek epic
poem
· 11-Terminal;
ornament
12 Masculine
name
14 Finish
15 Russian coin
.17 Greeting
10 Pald notice
[
19 Withdraws
21-Exista
22-Ruminant's
stomach
24 Latin con-
Junction-
25 CaresscE". 27 To weaken 28 Symbol for actinium
20 Ventilates
30. Acquiesced 33 Table-land 34 Japanese money
35 Tennis stroko
37. To, model
30 Symbol for
'Iron.
39 Goddess of
harvests
41 Symbol for
gold
42 Ocean liner-
45 Artificial · ⚫lariguage
40 Nahoor
sheep
40 Lubricateŭ
40 Golf term
50 To Alter
52 Woolly
54 Food-fish 55. Figurative
use of a word
VERTICAL
1 Natives of
India
2 Conjunction
3 Six
4 Made of oak
5 To coagulate
0 Motionicas
7 Body of water
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• Pronoun 9 Sunken fence
10 Cranes on a
ship
11 To be appre-
hensive of
13 Cape
10 Gradually
19 Refreshes by rest 20 Barker 23 Medieval
clubs
.26 Warmth
28 While
20 By 31 Symbol for
sodium.
· 32 Negativo - 133. Climbs upon
38. To scold- 37 Complimen.
tary ticket
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39 Evergreen
trte
40 Painful
43 Labour
44, To dissolve
47. Limb. `49 Soft substance
-51 Diphthong'
53 Negativo.
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NEWS HAS BEEN RECEIVED IN LONDON THAT GENERAL CATROUX, FORMERLY GOV- ERNOR-GENERAL OF FRENCH INDO-CHINA, HAS JOINED GENERAL DE GAULLE,
General Catroux was relieved of} his post in Indo-China by the Vichy Government, because he wished to continue to struggle at the time of the French surrender. He has had considerable mili- Itary experience in the Near East and in Morocco and is one of the most outstanding figures in mo- dern French, colonial history. British Wireless.
PEAK BURGLARY
Miss R. L. Smith, daughter of the Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith, of No. 207, The Peak, has reported that about 2.45 a.m. to-day, some per- son entered her bedroom and stole a gold wrist watch.
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