THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 28,· 1940.
MUTT AND JEFF
SIR, I'D LIKE TO SHOW YOU SOMETHING, IL INVENTED WHICH YOU COULD SELL IN THE STORE - WOULD YOU CARE TO SEE IT?
WHAT
IS IT?
9-14
I CALL IT, THE WONDER WASHER.
T INVENTED IT MYSELF IN MY M SPARE TIME!
IT LOOKS LIKE- A WASHBOARD
TO ME!
IT IS, BUT IT'S.
DIFFERENT!· WASH-DAYS IN THE FUTURE WILL BE DAYS OF PLEASURE INSTEAD OF TOIL!
NO LONGER NEED OUR. WOMEN BREAK THEIR BACKS BENDING OVER A WASHBOARD LIKE- THIS, RUBBING!
Page 5 By BUD FISHER
NOW THE WASHBOARD DOES THE RUBBING!"
Treasury Calls In Canadian Shares
A LARGE GROUP of Canadian securities run- ing into many millions sterling have been trans- erred to the Treasury by Orders made under the Defence Regulations in London yesterday.
AUSTIN ROAD
ROBBERIES QUEENS & ALHAMBRA
Mrs. Bruce, residing on the first floor of No. 180, Austin Road, has reported that between 2 a.m. and 9 a.m. yesterday, a thief entered her flat and stole a watch valued at $15, from her bedroom. Mrs. Cassels, of the same address, re- ports that during the same per-
value of $145 were stolen from her room.
Two Orders affect Grand Trunk Perpetual 4 period, money and jewellery to the ent. Consolidated debenture stock, a sterling issue, If which there is about £24,500,000 outstanding and n which interest is guaranteed by the Government If Canada, while a third Order deals with some 60 ssues of Canadian railways and Canadian com- anies, payable solely or optionally in Canadian dol-
ars.
These securities have been vest-part of the money involved will
in the Treasury with a view to be transferred to war bonds. beir realisation in Canada in uch a manner that sales in Cana- Jan markets will be orderly and ubject to careful regulation in gard both to amount and time.
The securities were vested in the Treasury on Saturday and first payments on them will be
Defence Bond Issue
Mr. Hammond, of No. 128, Aus- tin Road, informed the Police last night that clothing and money, to the value of $150, had been stolen from his residence.
SOLICITOR ADMITTED
At the Supreme Court this morning, Mr. Kan Yuet-keung, son of Mr. Kan Tong-po, manager of In order to facilitate arrange- the Bank of East Asia, was ad- ments for subscription of this mitted as a solicitor and provic? money the Bank of England will by the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl accept subscriptions for National MacGeorgor, on the application of War Bonds of £100 or any larger the Attorney General, The Hon.. sum in multiples of one penny, Mr. C. G., Alabaster. and the Post Office: will accept Mr. Kan Yuet-keung was subscriptions of £25 and upwards' educated at the Diocesan Boys Owners of securities affected are
(subject to a maximum of School and obtained his B. A. de- sked to deliver them forthwith £1,000).
gree at the Hong Kong University the Bank of England. Poyment For Defence Bonds subscription On graduation, he went to Eng- ill be made in sterling in Lon-must be for £5 or multiples on after delivery is completed. thereof and no person may at any
made on Nov. 25.
land and was articled to Messrs. Gibson and Weldon and passed time hold Defence Bonds exceed his law examinations. there. He
is hoped that a substantialing £1,000,-Router.
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OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD
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HORIZONTAL
1-Regulation:
4. Nutriment
8 Room in a
harem
11 Wing ****
2 Jason's ship
13. To allot
15* Answer.
17 To bow
10:European
20, Number
DE Male -- awan
22 Garland a
23 Body of Jand
surrounded bywater:
25, Beetle
Loaned
AT Fish caga
Faint
20 Body, of-
Rwater.
30 Exclamation.
of sorrow
31 Postpone
ment
33 Mulberry
35 Crów*B-ery
38-Narrativo
wu poems,
37 Contorted 38'Malo deer 40 Marsh 41 ́Observes Globa 49.Negligent #1 Top
45 Japanese.
measure
40 Assistance
47 To blend
50 Short jacket
52. Ardor
54:Vast age 55 Historical
· period
50 Point of
time
57 Earth
VERTICAL
1 Malay
gibbon
2 Beverage
3 To weave in-
to a network
4 Card game
5. Worthless
: leaving
6 King of
Bashan
7 Giver 8 Strange
SATURDAY'S SOLUTION
Dlololala
ED
WAN
BLACŹNIR/
лIRS AVE
FİCRO
HE
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54
57
34
48. 49
9 To act
10 Foreign
14 To prepare
for publica- tion
10 To be
obliged to 18-Siberian river
21 Intricate
22 Meadow
33 War god 24 Kind of bean 25 God of the
underworld
20 Sheltered
28 Moisture
29 Pigpen
31 Tatter
22 Man's name
33 Part of
A to be
-34-The Jily
35 Vehicle
37 Splits
30 Painful
80 Hackneyed
40 Became dull
31 Iniquity
43 Chinese
Gnicaturo
44 How t
48 Literary
scraps
47 Tangle
Card Game
49. Conclusion
61 Either
13 Noto of scale)
returned to Hong Kong in March.
KENYA PATROL IN SKIRMISH
One of our patrols was attack- ed by superior enemy forces near the Ethiopian border, 70 miles east of Lake Rudolf, said a com- munique issued in Nairobi yester- day.
The patrol withdrew succses- fully without loss from their post, inflicting casualties on the enemy. -Reuter.
CONSPIRACY CHARGE
Leung Choi, 32, Kwan Fai, 19, and Ko Choi, 34, were charged before Mr. K. M. A. Barnett this morning, with conspiracy to steal telephone cable from Pokfulam, the property of the Military Au- thorities..
Defendants were remanded for 48 hours for further enquiries.
VOLUNTEER TRAINING
It is announced that, on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, units of H.K.V.D.C. detailed to parade will do so in spite of the Black-out. Nos. 2 and 6. Conipanies, and and Training Cadre will, however, not parade on either of these. nights.
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