THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 4, 1940. MUTT AND JEFF A
THERE, IT'S FINISHED!
NOW I'LL GO TELL. JEFF ABOUT IT!
JEFF I WANNA SHOW YOU MY NEW INVENTION! JUST BY PRESSING A BUTTON I NOW CAN HAVE MY BATH RIGHT IN MY BEDROOM
IF I LIKE!
YEH?
SEE, SIMPLY BY PRESSING THIS BUTTON THE BATH TUB, FILLED WITH WATER, MOVES RIGHT INTO THE BEDROOM!
NOW, WATCH! Jor
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By BUD FISHER.
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DESTROYER IN HARBOUR COLLISION
REPORT OF RED ARMY C.N.A.C. TO HAVE
OUTRAGE
YESTERDAY
IT WAS REVEALED IN CHUNGKING THAT THE PRESENTATIVE
AMERICAN RE- OF THE
A British destroyer was involved in a harbour ac-C.N.A.C. HAS CABLED HIS OF- FICIAL REPORT CONCERNING
cident shortly after 7 p.m. THE TRAGEDY INVOLVING AN yesterday when it ram-AIR LINER ON THE YUNNAN- med a steam-launch off KWEICHOW BORDER TO West Point.
The steam-launch was badly damaged and sank soon after the collision, but the Chinese crew of five were rescued by the de- stroyer's life-boat crews with the aid of searchlights.
N.C.O.S
The non-commissioned officer system is to be in- THE troduced into the Soviet STATE DEPARTMENT IN army immediately; it was WASHINGTON, AFTER COM- PLETING INVESTIGATIONS announced in Moscow PERSONALLY IN CHUNGKING. yesterday.
This is considered the reason that the State Department so far has made no comment on the in- cident.
to
after
The launch left Shamshuipo The report reveals that the Ja- at 6.15 p.m. and was steaming panese aircraft only started off the China Provident, wharf at machine-gun the machine West Point when the accident it had landed. at Changyi airfield, where "Foxy" Kent, pilot of the occurred.
craft, intended to wait for further information on the presence of Ja- panese aircraft nearby.-Reuter.
It is not known whether the damage, 'destroyer suffered any the naval spokesman replying to the "China Mail" this morning: "I cannot give you any informa- tion about it."
PETAIN'S NAME INVIOLATE
PANDIT NEHRU
Object is to strengthen, dis- cipline and increase the authority of junior officers.
Ranks to be introduced are cor-
poral, lance-sergeant, sergeant. senior
sergeant and warrant officers.
The new system is part of the reform policy of Marshal Timoshenko, Commissar for Defence.
After three years service non- commissioned officers may be promoted to commissioned rank
REFUSES TO PLEAD of junior lieutenants.—Reuter.
Pandit Nehru, who was arrest- ed for making an anti-war speech Gandhi's
in furtherance of,,Mr. ADVANCE
at
Persons insulting the head of the French State will be punish- anti-war campaign, refused to ed in future by three months to plead when his trial opened two years imprisonment or a fine Corakhpuri_yesterday on charges of 1,000 to 3,000 francs, according under the Defence of to a Geneva message to the Ger-gulations.
India Re-
man news agency quoted by, The proceedings were adjourn- Reuter this morning.
ed unlli to-day--Reuter
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FROM NANNING
After occupying Nanning and continuing to advance southward the Chinese, forces have reached points north of Yamchow, - -a port in Kwangtung, according to Chinese field despatches from the south Kwangsi front received in Chungking yesterday.
The Chinese forces in the Lung- chow area are said to have oc- cupied Pinigtsiang, with Japanese troops withdrawing towards Cheungnankwan, on the French Indo-China border.
Chinese mobile units, it is claimed, attacked the Japanese forces on Walchow island on Oct., 30.-Reuter.
POLITICAL ASSASSINS RELEASED
Tomeo Sagoya, the young Ja- panese who in 1930, shot and mortally wounded Premier. Hamaguchi, was among 133-good conduct,, prisoners released yes- terday on parole under an am- nesty, granted by the Emperor on the occasion of the commemora- tion of the 2,000th year of the Japanese Empire..
The released men also include Sub-Lt. - Kamamoto, who, parti- elpated in the revolutionary out- break in Tokyo in February, 1936, and two members of the so-called Blood Brotherhood Lea- gue-Reuter.
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