THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 13, 1941.
MUTT AND JEFF·
JUST BECAUSE I SHAVED OFF MY WHISKERS I DON'T SEE WHY I HAVE TO WEAR YOUR
SON'S CLOTHING!
NOW, JEFF HERE'S A FIRM THAT NEEDS A BOY AT FIFTEEN DOLLARS
A WEEK! A JOBS A JOB!
WELL, WHERE'S
THE FARE FOR HIM?
FARE? THE BOY'S
ONLY FIVE YEARS OLD!
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FIVE? MISTER THAT THING'S OLDER THAN FIVE YEARS!
OH NO, HE'S NOT! WHAT
·MAKES YOU THINK SO?
JUST LOOK ATCAN I HELP
THE WRINKLES
IT IF THE
ON HIS PUSS!
BOY WORRIES!
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GHOST TOWN IS READY 700-MILE
FOR THE INVADERS
TREK THEN
INVADERS INTERNED
By A Special Correspondent
THIS PART of the English coast is a country of flat roads, inland waterways, barricaded streets, barbed-wire and pill-boxed beaches, ready for the invaders. Many of the inhabitants have left but those who remain are eager to see the invaders and will be disappointed if Hitler abandons his plans.
To walk about after dark is to be the only hu- man out, with the ring of your shoes as a mocking echo from the thousands of ghosts who inhabit the houses of people who have gone away.
conver-
Number one topic of sation is the invasion, and people have decided that Hitler's armies will come first to the East Anglian coast.
Girls Disappointed
were
warning-the shop girls disappointed a bit when after waiting and watching on the sca front until midnight, they didn't see anything of it.
They had to go home to bed, but many people sat up at open front for the windows on the sea residents, For the older Invasion threat is no novelty. Dur-hours, just waiting. ing the early part of the last war, There is no alarm, though the leaflets about what to do in the air-raid buzzer, as they call the of attempted enemy land-sirens, sounds oftener than in a ings were distributed in some good many coastal towns. places on this part of the coast. The picture palaces are full, the They were put aside and for-pubs, too, and the two dances a gotten.
week always attract more girls At the week-end all keyed. than there are soldiers and sailors up by Mr. Churchill's invasion to partner them.
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47 Siberian
1 Tree of the
olive family
4.Pronoun
6 Earth
goddess
B Chalico
11 Group of "singers
13. Moorish
Set drum
15 Infection
16 Vehicle
718 Competent #10 Brother Last Odin's
20 Navigates 22 Spanish,
article 29-Symbol for
Iron
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Ste deity!
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'force
50 Therefore 80-Nahoor.
sheep
VERTICAL
1 To perform
2. Digging
implement
3 To sharpen
4 Greek letter
5 Leakage
6 Bulbous
perennial
7 Latin con function
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9 Club
10 Beverage 12. Concerning 14- Molten lava 17 Melody 20 Aborigines 21 Ice-boat - 23 Note pf scale 24 Zoophyte
Takeleton 25.To turn
inside-out
27 Binco 29 Vehicle 31 Silkworm 34. Printer's measure
35 Viceroys £34. Eluded
37 Places of
combat. 38'Of a futuro
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Penniless and famished,
a Blackburn soldier walk- ed 700 miles in four weeks after escaping from the Germans. Though now in- in unoccupied terned France, he hopes soon rejoin his family.
to
He is Private George Roberts, of Trinity Street, who was report- ed missing after Dunkirk and later a prisoner in Germany.
He haa
now
written home stating that he has escaped and has teen Interned by the French.
His letter was posted by In American in Gibraltar.
Private Roberts says that In four weeks he and a pal walk- cd 700 miles. They had no money, were half-starved and were lucky to be alive.
"The American Consul is in charge of us out here," he writes, "and they say he is trying to get
us home.'
Private Roberts is thirty-two and has wife and two children. His regret was that he could not send them each a birthday card.
B.W.O.F. DONATIONS
The following is the latest list of subscriptions received to date for credit of the British War Or- ganisation Fund, Hong Kong Branch-Previously Acknowledg- ed £100; $625,348.66; Miss Grace Ezra $15; J. S Dunnett (Month- ly) $20; The American Club (Re- sult from
New a raffle held on Year's Eve) $200; Sale of C.H.S.S. Badge per Mrs, Iranee $1; Sale of C.H.S.S. Badge per Mrs. E. C. Rit- chie $1; Sale of C.H.S.S.
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per Mrs. Colledge $1; Francols d'Hardivilliers $500; G. Fros $10; Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Wyllie $25; Capt. I. J. Lossius
(December) IT'S LEAP YEAR.
$20 D. G. Day (Monthly) $15; A. H. Guinness (Monthly) $20; Wu Lai Tak $152.80; A. M. Kennedy (Monthly) $30; Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Dodwell (3rd Donation) $500; and China New Guinea Mercan- tile Co. $50. Total $626,909.46.
GRANT FOR MEDICAL SUPPLIES
The Board of Administrators of the British Fund for Relief of Distress in China has approved of the grant of H.K. $10,000 for the purchase of medical supplies for the period January to June, 1941, for the Canton International Red Cross Service Corps under the direction of Dr. Wong Man, and a cheque for this amount has been sent to the Foreign Auxiliary. to the National Red Cross Society of China for this purpose,
Goods, valued at $130, were stolen from No. 100, Connaught Road West, between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Saturday.
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