THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 29, 1941.
MUTT AND JEFF
MUTT, I GOT A PART.
FOR YOU TO PLAY
IN A BIG SHOW!
GREAT! HAVE I MUCH TO
SAY?
PRACTICALLY NOTHING!
YOU PLAY THE PART
OF A HUSBAND!
WELL-ER- WILL MY PART GIVE ME A CHANCE TO
OH;
PLEASE MYDEFINITELY!
PUBLIC?
Page 5. By BUD FISHER ·
YOU DIE IN THE BEGINNING OF THE
FIRST ACT!
THEATRICAL AGENT
URGENCY OF AID CHARGE OF
TO BRITAIN
THE COLLAPSE of France had doubled Britain's financial liabilities, declared the Secretary of Treasury, Mr. Henry Morgen- thau, testifying before the Senate Foreign Re- lations Committee on the Lease and Lend Bill in Washington yesterday.
Britain, he said, had taken over all French contracts in the United States, although she no longer had the help of French money to pay for them.
British gold and the dollar assets had been d. pleted by $2,316.000.000 in The first months of the war.
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Mr. Morgenti au told the committee that British pur. chases of war material had virtually stopped in December. inging speedy approval of the Bill he declared it was a neces sity demonstrated by a telephone conversation which he had Monday.
'Plane Order
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"Mr. Knudsen (Director-Gen- eral of the Committee to speed up United States arms produc- tion) called me up, and asked if something could not be done to
permit a British mide for 2,000 planes, which they want but y which they had it been able to place orders"
Alr. Morgenthau added Mr. Kondern told him plenty of capa- city was available for orders they could only be placed. Reuter.
BRITISH SUB. LOST
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An Admiralty communique issued in London yesterday 01- nounces that the British sub- marine Triton is overdue and must be considered lost. Next of kin have been informed. ter.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Poetle
contraction
+ Glacial ridges a Neat
12. Fish Bauce
13 To make a.
shrill sound
14 Teutonic
alphabetic character
15 Boring tool
16 Advantageous
18 Crow-like bird
20 Biblical
country
21 Part of "to be"
22 Owns
23 Indigo dye-
plant 27-Sped
20 Beetle
30 Harsh
31 Symbol for actinium
32 To petition. 33 Colloquial;
to Josh
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35 Form
37 To knock
38 Distant -
39 Persian elt
40 Limb
41 Pronoun
42 Innermost ~~sanctuary
44 Fop
47 Deceit
61 Female deer
52 Greek coin
53 Arabian
seaport 54-High note 54 French
ecclesiastic 50 Smooth
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VERTICAL
1 Former ruler
2 Western state
3 Located in the
woods
4 To begin
5 Number
6 To seem.
7 Tall grasses
8 Principal
9 To regret
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17 To act
19 Printer's
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22 Digging
implement
24 Greek letter
25 Mental image
26 Ancient king
of England
27 To grate
28, Pain
29. Owing
30 Container
32 To grow into
a long slender stalk
33 To silence 36 Land
measure..
37 To dwell 39 Warded off 40 Not wide- spread
41 Interjection 43 Molten lava 44 Unit of force
43 To apportion 46 To bring
forth young 47 Flightless
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49 Protuberance
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ILL-TREATING CONCHIES"
The War Minister, Captain Margesson, has decided that one officer and six N.C.O.'s, against whom allegations of ill-treating conscienti- ous objectors had been made, be tried by court martial.
In announcing the decision in the Com- mons yesterday Cap- tain Margesson said the House would ap- preciate he could not make a further state- ment while the mat- ter was sub judice. Reuter.
Hitler's
Reply To Petain
The Count de Brinon, Vichy Government re- presentative in Paris, has returned to Paris from Germany with Hitler's re- ply to the message sent him by Marshal Petain last month, according to the Swiss radio yesterday.
Marshal Petain's message, which is understood to have concerned the Marshal's conditions for Franco-German cooperation, was transmitted to Hitler by the Vichy Minister of Marine, Ad- miral Darlan, when he visited Paris during Christmas week. Previously there had been crop of unconfirmed reports that Hitler had made far-reaching de- mands, mainly concerning the future of the French Fleet. Reuter.
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