THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 1, 1941.
MUTT AND JEFF
MUTT, WHY
ARE FIRE
ENGINES ¡PED?
I'LL BITE! WHY?
'CAUSE TWO AND] -AND THERE ARE
TWELVE INCHES ON A RULER, AND QUEEN ELIZABETH
IS A RULER
TWO MAKES FOUR, AND FOUR TIMES THREE MAKES TWELVE
Urary, Suysente
-AND QUEEN ELIZABETH.
SAILS ON A BOAT, AND A BOAT SAILS
ON THE
SEA
AND THE FINNS FOUGHT THE RUSSIANS, AND THE RUSSIANS ARE RUSHIN' ALL OVER, AND THE RUSSIANS ARE RED →→→
By BUD FISHER
AND THAT'S WHY FIRE ENGINES ARE RED 'CAUSE THEY'RE RUSHIN' ALL OVER!
12-17
·AND THERE ARE FISHES IN THE SEA, AND
FISHES HAVE FINS
HEAVIER PUNISHMENT FOR LOOTERS
It was the duty of a man en- played by a railway company to put out fires during an air raid. Instead, he was SECT to take a pateel of raincoats
The story was told at Maryie. buse Police Court when George James Hanks (28), of Canal-view. | N.W., was charged with stealing from a railway goods depot, rain- couts, shoes and valued at £15.
dress mater.al
"While the bombs fa'l und everybody is taking cover, whole- sale footing goes on upon every railway," said Mr. Harry Ricketts, whe prosecuted.
Making an Example
that rail-
The solicitor added way policemen were nightly tak- -ing risks which they ought not to take to try to stop wholesale loot- ing.
The
Magistrate (Mr. L. R. Dunne) said that the only way to stop these thefts was by way of making an example of those who were caught stealing.
Hanks was given nine months hard labour.
PARK LANE GIRL WIFE'S WISH
A QUIET LIFE with her father and mother is planned by Mrs. Josephine Epstein, seventeen-year- old Park Lane wife, whose action against her hus- band came to a surprise end at Marlborough Street (London) Police Court.
"I realise now how unwise I was to marry my husband against the wishes of my father and mother," Mrs. Epstein told a reporter at Alford House, Park Lane, her parents' home.
"I am going back to a quiet family life, and shall do my best to forget what has happened in the past.
I
"I shall now do all I can to get a divorce from my husband. am glad the Court action against him is over particularly as my mother is ill at the moment."
her
Mrs. Epstein had accused husband, Eduard Epstein, a Rus- sian merchant, of using threats whereby she went in danger her life or some bodily harm.
of
The magistrate, Mr. J. B. Sand- bach, K, C., adjourned the case sine die on an undertaking given by both parties not to molest each other. In doing so he said. "This is an end to a very disagreeable matter. It will save more mud being slung about."
Rich Jew of 75
Mrs. Epstein's counsel, Mr. Du | Cann, said she was more than
OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD
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willing not to have any more do with her husband, and as the undertaking given by Mr. Epstein achieved the object of the prose- proceed any further. The jewel- cution, it was not necessary
from his wife would be restored. Jery he was alleged to have taken
to
In evidence Mrs. Epstein stated she was sixteen, married him be- that she met her husband when
fore a
months Rabbi, and five inter was legally married.
the
he induced her to make the ac- A few days later, she alleged, ouaintance of a captain at Grosvenor Hotel, and misconduct took place.
At her husbane's instigation, she said, she also made the 90- quaintance at The Dorchester of a rich Jew of seventy-five, who gave her between £3,000 and £4,000, and about £1,000 worth of jewellery, bought her an expensive car, took a turn- lohed flat for her and offered her marriage.
She denied he offered to set- tle 100.000 on her if she would marry him.
ASSAULTED HIS WIFE
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a hammer
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5 Pertaining toʻ
53 Lance
the mouth
9 Jack of clubs
12 To plunder
14 Literary
scraps
15 To flow off
gradually.
16 Punishment
18 Former
20 To bite
21 Babylonian
deity
22 Conjunction 24 To fabricate 26 At present- 28-Place. of: con-
cealment
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35 Turkishy-
regiment
37 Thick sisco
39 Swine
40 City, In
Franco
42 Southern
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fuppendage 47 To rest
49 Part of
"ta, be"*
56 Coward
50 Small case
60; Before 61 Lovable·
63 Indian pillar 04 Acts
05 PhUppine
*savage.
2 Music; three
3 Precious stone
4 King of Troy 5 Hypothetical
force
To knock
7 Solar" dise.
8 Russian
Soviet.leader
9 Stang?
companion
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Stated to have entered his wife's home and assaulted her after climbing a drainpipe, William Green, forty-seven, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment at Chester for assault and to a fur- ther month for arrears due under a separation order.
The wife, Mrs. Margaret Green, of Abington Crescent, Saltney, Chester, stated that since the se paration she had locked all the doors of the house.
She heard a noise upstairs and, on going to Investigato, found her husband coming from .a -bedroom
In his stocking fect.
He could only have entered the -house by climbing the drain-
pipe.
Before she could get away from him, she said, he gave her a ter rific blow.
Green, who told the magistrates that he entered the house by the back door, said a detective arrest- ed him while he was being sworn in for the Army at Wrexham,
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