THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 11, 1941.
MUTT AND JEFF
· JULIUS, MUTT DOESN'T
KNOW THAT YOU ARE
STAYING HERE! IN FACT,
HE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW
I HAVE A TWIN BROTHER!Į SURE,
WILL YOU EXCUSE ME
WHILE I SHAVE?
JEFF!
JEFF WHY DID YOU
SHAVE?
OH, THE GIRLS CLAIM THE BRISTLES HURT THEIR SCHOOLGIRL
COMPLEXIONS!
GOSH, JEFF LOOKS FUNNY; WITH HIS BRUSH: SHAVED OFF!
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GOT A
MATCH?
JULIUS
WHAT THE --
By BUD FISHER
FOR THE LOVE OF
MIKE! AM I'
GOING NUTS?
Fishan
"Tail-End Charlie"
Runs Into Bad Weather
By An Air Gunner
had engulfed Us and rain beat down on the turret. Then our troubles began,
"We'll take her up out of this," I heard the pilot say, through the intercommunicating telephone. Up we climbed through thrashing rain which suddenly turned into hail. Then I heard 'whack! whack! whack!" I knew what that was-- ice flying off the airscrew and rat- fling down on the fuselage,
On the wings leading edges, the de-icers were working-expand- ing, deflating, like slow-breathing"
could form thick and heavy.
“A SLICE OF CAKE,” said my pilot. I knew what he meant. This time we were not off to Ber-
1 or Milan, or any of these far-flung places, sections lungs, dispersing the ice, before it of which have been flung even farther. We were to make a quick, sudden smash at Hitler's invasion bases, and be back in bed by three,
No trouble at all, so long as it being full moon old Tail-End Charlie kept a good look-out behind. Only the watchful tail gunner, alone and alert in his little glazed house far out on the great bomber's tail can see and deal with trouble when it comes streaking out of the sky in the shape of a Heinkel or a Messerschmidt.
The night was so bright, with a
We had not covered more than huge golden moon climbing up, two thirds of the way when we that I turned my turret from side salled slap into cloud. At first it! to side, looking for some of our was only dim haze and wisps of squadron. It is astonishing how pale vapour, with cumulus stand- empty the sky may look when it g like show-ruffed mountains is in fact full of aircraft, which about us.
have taken off trum the same place Then suddenly fremember at regular intervals and are cirel-Tail-End Charlie" travels back ing ground the same target. From wards, like a prawn, so that most - beginning to end perhaps one of the things he sees are stale news
hardly catches a glimpse of an-to the rest of the crew) we plungedį other.
into absolute darkness. The clouds
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HORIZONTAL
1 Fruit seed
4 Conductor's
stick.
⚫ A lever
12 Mountain
range in Asia Minor
13 Eaten away
14 Confederate
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15 Cigar-shaped explosive
projectile
17 To heat
: excessively
19 Italian river
20 To assist
21 Spanish moneyj
23 Donials.
27 Positive pole
29 To interpret.
30 Babylonian ;
delty
31 6lang: crony
32, Prize
34 Corpulent
35 French
*conjunction
36, Employs
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10 Breathes
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apparatus
51 100,000 rupees
52 To supply
with fuel
54 Fish eggs 55 To request
66 Serious 57 Music: as written
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VERTICAL
1 Cavity
2 Artificial
language
3 Light sun-
shade
4 Part of
"to be"
5 Warmth G Also
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
POLISHMCONVEY
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wind
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24 To expunge 25: Contract 26 Cloys 26: Freedom. from con
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MANTRZBARIR #]] 34 Strainars
Jole/ITARAS 136 Prepor
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DIANZETAZQALDİ RNOSTIARL/LID 1. To quench
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ALZONARDAEZER. 146 Brain BRIONEBEZDCE!
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Something flickered, close to us.
Were we Over the target, with 'Flak' coming up already. It flic- kered again and again, "I don't like that lightning" I heard some- one say, in front.
From the barrels of my four guns. little sparks began to shoot back-
Then a strange thing happened,
wards, with a thin, dry crackling noise. Lightning shimmered in front and behind us, and thunder bellowed all around.
We suddenly
Our flying became very 'bumpy'. rose or fell at in- credible speeds. I lurched about my turret, holding on tightly, won- dering if the next bump would K.O. me on the roof. All the time those little flickering sparke shot out of my guns. I felt that some- thing was going to happen, and I wished above all that they would stop.
Enormous Bump
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The rain, flicking off from the "WANT A DIVORCE"{ "TEXAS TRAIL”
tail-'planes, carried blue flames away with it, little blue flames of electricity, "flick! flick!" blowing behind us. There came one en- ormous bump when we must have dropped 500 feet, then a pause. Then a purple flash filled the whole of my turret and there was 3 deafening report. I found myself completely blind. The aircraft rocked crazily. Not a sound came from those in front.
"Hello, Captain! Hello, Captain!" I called.
Nobody answered,
"Hello, Captain."
At last his voice came back to
me, bringing me but little com- fort.
"The 'plane has been struck by lightning" he said. Have your parachute ready."
"Ice Cake"
I took one glance at the cold sea, gleaming below, opened the turret doors, and reached for my para-
chute....
Well, we got back all right, and without having to jump. The lightning blast had done no harm to our "kite;" but if ever "Met" matters go wrong with me again, I only hope I have as steady captain and as stout an aircraft to bear me.
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"It was 'cake' we had, all right -ice cake, with lightning to fol- low.
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("Tail-End Charlie" is the nick- name for an air gunner who lives in the turret at the tail of a heavy bomber.)
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