THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 25, 1940
· MUTT: AND JEFF-
WONT JEFF BE SURPRISED WHEN HE FINDS OUT I'M GONNA BE A BULLFIGHTER AND WIN
THE HEARTS OF PRETTY SENORITAS!
SAY MUTT, I JUST SAW THE FUNNIEST THING!" A MEXICAN
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MEXICAN:
A MEXICAN
WAS!
By BUD FISHER
OH DEAH! LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY!
Biggest Raid
Raid Yet Made On Berlin
EVACUATION
Reports from all sources show that Mon-
night's
ADVISORY the biggest raid by the R.A.F. on Berlin was
COMMITTEE
and one of the most successful
yet carried out against the German capital.
More 'planes than ever before were sent over. Some squadrons were visiting Berlin
In connection with the recent for the first time; others were on their fourth'
appointment by. His Excellency
the Officer Administering the Gov- journey.
ernment of an Evacuation Advis-
- ory Committee the following pro-
committee is announced;—
Everything went like clock
cedure to be adopted by the work. The Commanding Officer of
1. The committee will consider one British air-base reports:
"My aircraft went out at regu- applications for exemption from lar intervals. They came back evacuation-from women and child-just as regularly, like well-or- ren who have not already been ganised trains." granted exemption, and applica-
Five power stations in Berlin
pilot reports:→→→
of
"We must have hit the gagi works fair and square. Our bombs started another fine fires and then a fire in the mid- dle of the target started a gigan- tic explosion."
The B.M.W. aero-engine plant
tions on behalf of women or child-all came in for a steady hammer-was also attacked, many bombs, ren who desire to return to the ing. One pilot alone started five being dropped and many fires be- Colony. It is emphasised that large fires which were clearlying started. permission to return will be visible 80 miles away. Bombs granted only in entirely excep burst all over the power-stations tional cases. Appeals on medical grounds or on grounds of indi-and flames shot high into the air. One pilot was guided in by a vidual hardship will not generally great fire and piled his bombs in
on top of the inferno.
be considered.
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2. Applications should be
Another attacked a gas-works made in the first place in writing, and saw his bombs burst among a full statement of the grounds on the buildings.
which the application is made be-
consider such application in pri-
More pilots subsequently
at-
The Siemens cable works were Iset on fre.
American and Swedish corres-
pondents says that the alarm was sounded in Berlin shortly before midnight and lasted just under four hours.
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Berlin officially puts casualties at 11 killed and 14 injured.
Sight-seeing is not encouraged.
The Berlin police have issued
a new warning, saying that peo<
FOR TWO
ple who look at the damage HE LOVED
done by the
R.A.F. will
be
The foreign press, too, is not allowed to see what' was done the correspondents did not even get a "Goebbels-conducted tour!"
Reuter.
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Dorothy Lamour. Bob Hope ROAD TO SINGAPORE
HORIZONTAL
1 Prank
8 Converses
11 In abun-
#dance
12 Excursion
14 Part of
"to be"
15 To incite to
anger
17 Teutonic delty 38 Favourite 20 Hirelings
21 Female ruff
22 Silkworm
24. English
Driver
25 Biblical
weed
20 To swing loosely
28 To with
stand
30 Happy
31 Existed
32 Alleviation
33 Church seat
38 Furnaco :- :^!
39 To petition
41 wife of
Geraint
#2 Insane
43 Prickly bush
43. T6 sink.
40 Paid notice
47 Vehicle for
hauling
49 Note of scale
50 Sea-nymph
52 African
'antelopes
54 Makes
7 melody
55 The people
VERTICAL
1 Photograph-
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2 Mulberry
3 Hawallan
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4 Sea-engles
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6 To bestow
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reformer
8 Devoured
9 Note. of scale
10 Scoffs.
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mouth wide 13 To welcome
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slightly
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sheep.
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53 Negative
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