THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 14, 1941.
MUTT ANd Jeff
SAY, FRIEND, WILL
YOU 'PHONE MÝ
SURE!
DOCTOR FOR ME?
I'M TOO NERVOUS!
TELL HIM MY WIFE IT'S HER APPENDIX! TELL HIM TO COME
OVER!
HELLO, DOCTOR! SORRY TO GET YOU OUT OF BED--
MR DITHER
WANTS YOU TO COME
OVER. HIS WIFE'S APPENDIX -
THE DOC SAID GIVE HER SOME, BICARBONATE AND YOU SHOULD GO BACK TO BED! SHE HASN'TGOT APPENDICITIS!
BUT SHE
HAS I TELL YOU! SHE'S GOT
SHE CAN'T HAVE!
I TOOK YOUR WIFE'S APPENDIX OUT TWO YEARS AGO AND I
APPENDICITIS! NEVER HEARD OF
ANYONE HAVING „TWO APPENDIXES!
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By BUD FISHER
EVER HEAR OF ANYONE HAVING TWO
WIVES?
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I WAS A SPY--IN A PUBLIC LIBRARY
(By A Special Correspondent)
I PLAYED THE PART of an enemy spy at the week-end--just by walking into a reference library. It was at Birmingham's main public library. No one apparently observed me as I went in. There were no questions asked.
Downstairs, in the big technical section, I was alone but for two men and a schoolboy. Under the "aeronautical section I started going through rows and rows of highly technical books on aviation and aerodromes. I picked out three books, then sat reading them at a table.
. The first was called "Aeronati-, tics-Charts," published in 1939. It gave a detailed account, complete with maps and photographs of all¦ the main civil aerodromes in this country, many of them now taken¦ over by the R.A.F.
flares of the R.A.F. lype. and Law photographs which were "R.A.F. official Crown copy. right reserved."
The third book on hydraulic equipment for aircraft was pub- lished in 1938. The point about it
I took notes of the longitude and was its pages of advertisements of famous aerodrome | finns making parts for our bomb-
"latitude of a
outside London,
Maps showed all the roads. rivers and canal, leading to the aerodromes.
hers and fighters.
" saw
Mr. H. M. Cashmore.
head librarian. the city's
He teemed surprised the booka were there. And he immediate ly withdrew them. He told me "I am periodically tu withdraw certain ordered hooks, In addition I have applied to have others withdrawn, but in many cases I have not received sion with all data on wing-tip official permission to do it.
A second book was called "Elec- trical and Wireless Equipment of Aircraft, published in 1940. This book gave scales and photographs of much R.AF equipment now be ing used.
I read a full technical discus.
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bird
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gist'a culture
15 To pose
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finial
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river 33 Rolating plece
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measure
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CLEAN-UP OF VICE
IN SHANGHAI
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
The new joint police force in Shang- har has taken the first step against vice in the western "bad- lands" by raiding 10 opium dens, arresting 70 people and closing distributing opium hongs.
Chinese and Rus- sian chorines caught dancing in the nude in raids on "immoral" theatres were bundled kicking and scream- ing into police vans.
-International News
Service.
INVASION GAVE HIM A BRIDE
When Mussolini invad- ed Greece he presented a British flying officer with| freedom and a wife. It
happened like this.
When Flight-Lieutenant William Weir Campbell, awarded the D.F.C. for sinking two Italian submarines, was forced down itt Greek waters before the Greek war began, he had to be interned.
In Athens he met and fell in love with an English girl, daughter of a leading member of the British colony there,
He became engaged
to her,
but would not marry so long as he was a prisoner. Then came Italy's attack.
Campbell and the crew of his Sunderland flying-boat, were re- leased amid scenes of great en- thusiasm and before he went back on duty over the Mediter- ranean the wedding bells rang.
How's that for romance? Even Hollywood' couldn't excel· this story of how Dead-eye Dick-as Campbell is known because of his bomb-aiming skill-within · Ave months became an air hero and won a bride.
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
The Sunderland crew destroyed their two submarines on succes- sive days. In the second case Campbell alighted on the water and rescued four survivors.
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