THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 17, 1941. Bringing Up Father......
I'VE GOT A DATE AT DINTY'S TONIGHT-| GUECS I HAD
·BETTER SNEAK OUT-'CAUSE IF I ASK MAGGIE SHE MAY COME OUT OF THẤT KIND SPELL OF HERS - AN' START
RIGHT-
BY GOLLY-IT'S SO QUIET IN THE HOUSE NOWADAYS-IT'S HARD TO SNEAK OUT-BUT
I'M DOIN' OK. SO
FAR-
I SAY- MRJIGGS-
I SAY-
OF COURSE - THAT FAT-HEAD WOULD CATCH ME SNEAK- IN' OUT-HE'S CATCH- IN LID TO ME-
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By George MacManus
MRS JIGGS TOLD. ME TO REMIND YOU THAT YOU HAVE A DATE WITH DINTY MOORE TONIGHT-
SAY
THAT
AGIN-
WILL
YOU?
Cope, 1940, Kong Pranvers kyndicwor, Inc.. World righus cosneved
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FRIENDLY GESTURE TO CHINA
"China regards the Burma road as one of her life-lines and looks on the re-opening of the road as another gesture of Sino- British friendship.”
This
made in statement was Rangoon yesterday by General Wu Te-chen, Chinese Mister for Oversons Affairs
He added: "I wish to point out
MORE U.S. NAVY TRANSFERS
IN THE OFFING?
COL. FRANK KNOX, Secretary for the Navy, declared in Washington yesterday that he would object to any clause being inserted in the "Lease And Lend Bill" to prevent trans- that keeping the road open will fer of any part of the United States Navy.
Col. Knox made this statement before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of next-door neighbours the security Representatives.
help bring victory for China and
peace East.
and stability to
the Far
"Because Burma and China are
and peace of Burma are impurtant to China, while China's develop-
great ¡¡
deal to
ment means Burma."
Economic Base
General Wu disclosed that they had succeeded in establishing a strong economic base in the north- west and south-west provinces for developing the natural sources of that rich region.
He hoped the Yunnan-Burma railway would soon be completed in order to develop potential trade between China and Burma. Reuter.
re-
Two gunboats for the Nanking regime were launched yesterday at Klungnan Dockyard in Shang- hai, says Reuter.
He gave as reason for his ob- jection that he
could foresee conditions under which the navy could be transferred on very advantageous terms.
In the course of his evidence, Col. Knox said that the essence of the President's plan was that the United States should become virtually the sole purchasing and distributing
for war agency materials produced in the United States.
There would thus be constituted one great funnel through which all such material would flow.
"We shall then be in a position. to apportion these munitiona among ourselves and other demo- cracies whose defence is import- ant to us."
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HORIZONTAL
1 Dread
4 Toward
6 To cool
suddenly
11 To stumbla
13 Pertaining.
to the Muses
15 Note :..scale.
of
16 White of an
Cgg
18 Roman goda
19 Brother, of
Odin
21 Stripe.
22 Party
24: Saucy
28 Joust
28 Dry
29 To ascend
31 Taillesa
-amphibian -
33 Concerning
34 Hub öl
wheel
30.Neat
38 Japanese
mbnes
40 Mature
42 Species of
45 French coin
47. Italian <colu
49 To hind
50 Land „Imeasure
03 Slang...
detective
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54 To exist
55 Greek letter
50 Ghost.
39 Symbol for
calcium
61 Staler
* Musical dramas 05 Vapour
60 Japanese
measure
67 Peruvian
tuber
VERTICAL
1 Near the stern
2 Relinquishment
of a right
3 Spanish article
4 To narrate
5 Heavenly
.body's path
6 Seat of King
Arthur's court
7 Tilling
implement
8 Caravansaries,
↑ Chinese
measure
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climbing
12 Symbol for tantalum
14 Daughter of one's aunt
17. Single thing 20 Eire
23 Exists 24 Colloquial:
father
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Russian ruler 27 Edible root 30 Iniquity 33 Filth
33 Outer akin
(var.)
37 To seize 30 Intended.
39 Happens
41 Scandinavian. explorer.
43 South-Ameri-
can creeping plant
44 Compass point
48 City in Chaldea
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Italian.family
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British Assets
Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Secre- tary of the
Treasury, declaring himself in favour of the Lease-
told his and-Lend Bill,
press conference yesterday that, to the best of his knowledge, the Chur- had no assets chill Government available for American purchases apart from the U.S.$1,775,000,000 which he reported to Congress on Wednesday.
He explained that although the assets did not include the values of Canadian or other Empire investments in the United States, these additional resources were not available for London.
Declining to offer any estimate of the value of these assets, Mr. Morgenthau said: "The British Empire is a family und it has the same problems as a human family. Because some members of a family have assets, it does
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