THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 11, 1940. MUTT AND JEFF
MUTT TOLD ME IN ORDER TO BE A SUCCESSFUL HOUSE-TO-HOUSE CANVASSER YOU MUST KIND OF EDGE YOUR WAY IN THE MINUTE
THE LADY OPENS THE
DOOR!
LADY CAN I INTEREST YOU IN--QUCH!
WHY?
MUTT, I'M GONNA | WHAT'S THE QUIT! I CAN'T MATTER? STAND THIS KIND
OF A JOB!
EVERY TIME I'D STICK MY HEAD IN'A DOOR THE LADY WOULD SLAM IT SHUT: FON MY BEAN!.
YOU POOR BOOBL A SALESMAN DON'T STICK HIS HEAD IN THE DOOR! HE PUTS.
HIS FOOT ING
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By BUD FISHER
YEH, I KNOW, BUT:
I WASN'T TAKIN ANY | CHANCES, I HAD ON.
MY NEW SHOES!
NURSE DEFIED BOMBS TO SAVE 112--GETS M.B.E.
LOCAL SHARES
The improvement noted yester- day was continued during to- day's short session, which wit- nessed an encouraging turnover. The market closed firm.
BANKS
Hong Kong Bank $1355 b., $1350
sa.
Bank of East Asta $74, b.
to get 112 wounded soldiers out of hospital to safety has been awarded the M.B.E. for "gallant and dis- tinguished service." She is Sister-Nellie Goodwin, native of Staffordshire, a heroine of the Norway DOCKS, WHARVES, GODOWNS, campaign.
Sho was sitting in a Welsh hospital listening. to the radio when, suddenly, she heard the announcer mention her name. Then she heard the first news of
the award.
"I was in charge of, the hospital at Harstad, in Norway, on May 20 when Jerry came over and bombed us. I had 112 patients.
"AS
the bombs fell almest continuously. I, and other mem. :bers of the staff, moved all the wounded into the basement of what was a high school.
"They were all carried out one at a time on stretchers. It was a terrible job, but we just got on with it, and our only casualty was one orderly.
Saved 36 Nazis, Too
"In addition, we had thirty-six German prisoners, all badly wounded, and we moved them with the rest of the patients.
"The staff were simply, marvel- Jous-and so were the boys. As
for myself, it was merely my duty."
strange to hear my own name on Then she added: “It did seem
the radio."
Sister Goodwin, member of the Territorial Army Nursing Service, was assistant matron at the Wo- men's Hospital, Liverpool, before
NECKLACE SNATCHED
Mrs. L. C. Hingston, of No, 203, Wanchai Road, was robbed of a gold necklace yesterday by a snatcher who tore it from her neck in Tin Lok Lane and es- caped in the crowd.
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ONE CHOLERA CASE
One case of cholera (from Kowloon) 45 of tuberculosis, 10 of dysentery and one each of typhoid, measles and chicken-pox were notified yesterday.
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STORES, &C.
Dairy Farms $18% b.
Watsons $10% b., $10%/60 sa.
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Entertainments $7 b..
Constructions (Old) $1.60 b. Vibro Piling $7.70 s.
Marsmans Inv. (HK.) 5/- 2/6.
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15 H.K. Banks @ $1350 700 Hotels @ $31⁄21⁄2
300 Docks (Old) @ $17.95 2,500 Providents @ $5.55 1,500 Realties @ $3.90 400 Trams @ $17.55-
1,000 Trams @ $17
212 Lights (Old) @ $7.35 C.D.
500 Lights (New) @ $7.10 C.D.
1,500 Cements @ $18%
700 Cements @ $18
250 Watsons @ $10
1,000 Watsons @ $10,80
86 Star Ferries @ $59.10.
250 Electrics (Old) @ $40
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