THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 15, 1941,

MUTT AND JEFF

SELF-SERVICE

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RESTAURANT

WALT ON YOURSELF

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STRANGER, YOU HAVE A FUNNY WAY OF EATING YOUR CHICKEN SANDWICH! DON'T YOU LIKE THE BREAD?

SURE!

Library, Superne. Cent

WELL, THEN INSTEAD OF NIBBLING AT THE CHICKEN WHY DON'T

YOU EAT THE WHOLE SANDWICH?

OH, I COULDN'T! IT DOESN'T

BELONG

TO ME!

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By BUD FISHER

SANDWICHES

Easter Monday Spent As Normal Bank Holiday

ITALY SENDS NEW PROTEST

ALTHOUGH THERE WAS no let up in war pro- duction anywhere and armaments factories belched forth smoke as usual, those workers and Servicemen off duty celebrated Easter Bank Holiday in some-

TO UNITED STATES thing approaching peacetime style yesterday.

Italy delivered new Note yesterday to the United States Government protest- ng against the seizure of Italian ships.

Details of the Note are not published but an Italian official in Washington said it further explained the Italian viewpoint re- gording seizure of the ships.--Reuter.

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London's West End from an early hour was crowded with holiday-makers, many from provincial centres, and theatres and cinemas did a tremen-

dous business.

had to br farbed By 11 am it was impossible to, and hundreds SECUTO it seal LEY the

principal" away, missing the stirring victory cinemas except a handful at Lop' in the Southern Plate of Selimi prices, and queues formed outside; Bassan, a colt now fancied as the awaiting later performances,

Derby winner and trained by the Duchess of

wile Norfolk, young of Britain's prenner Duke Reu-

ter.

Feature of the

the day was large number of Allied soldiers and airmen in the uniforms of Poland, Free France. Czecho slovakia and others on leave Signs Of Spring from their posts in defence areas and seeing the sights

Although transport services London with British girl were unable to provide any ad- friends, many of whom also ditional facilities many Londoners

were able to take advantage were in uniform.

of

of

At Nottingham, the Easter Racej the first Bank Holiday which has Meeting attracted a record crowd, been observed for a whole year by getting out into the nearby country where signs of Spring now abound.

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1 Chess plece

6.To accumulate

1 Colloquial:

to steal

12 Huge men

14 'Babylonian

delty 15 European

mountains

17 Additional 18 Clamour 20 Vegetable

dish

23 Humorist

24 Poetic: k enough

26 Prying tool 28 Symbol for

sodium 27-

20 To safe for

future use

01 To reveal

33 Hindu deity

35 Cupola

30 Excuse

39 Book of

.. fiction

42 French

article

..43 Silkworms

45 Network

46 Philippine

island ward division:

48 Chinese coin 50.To fall

behind

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51 Back of the

neck

53 Pravaricated

53 Hebrew

letter

58 Coronets

50 Neither mas-

culine nor feminine

61 Beast of

burden

02 Scandinavian

literary works

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DAIS

2 You and ine

1 Greek letter

4 Cloth

771casures

5 Asiatic

Country

6 Symbol for

silver

7 Note of scale

8 Dutch weight

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

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TOOLS

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9 Frozen water-

crystals

10 Cord

11 Interprets

13 Bristles

16 Winter vehicle

10 Slip-knot

21 Eager

22 City

England

25 To compose

27 Unverißed

report

30 To turn

Inside out

32 Even

34 Line on which

something rotates

36 Shrub 37 To sell in

small quan- tition

38 Appendage 40 Campingt places

41. Light and fine

44 River 11

France

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were

area near

la London, streets were crowd- ed and places of entertainment

full

The

St. Paul's destroyed by fire some time go in the first raid in which the Germans concentrated on the use lol acendiary bombs, was inspect- the ed by many visitors from country.

49 To require 52 Period of time

54 Unexploded

shell

B7 Part of "to be" 58 Symbol for

samarium .60 Symbol for tantalum .

Animated Crowds

In the suburbs allotment hold- Crs seized the opportunity to do some extra "digging for victory." In many places traditional fairs were held. The preponderance of of uniforms in crowds everywhere was noticeable,

Although the demeanour of peo- ple was possibly more restrained than on an ordinary Bank Holi- day, the crowds were most anim- ated and obviously determined to make the most of the well-earn- returning to ed respite before factories and offices with strength to make good the whole of pro- duction lost in the holiday break.

British Wireless.

JUNK TRAGEDY NEAR NINEPINS

Eight

women

passengers,

including

and children, and the master were drowned on Friday when a junk overturned In a squall about a mile north of the Nine Pin, Islands.

Five members of the crew were rescued by a passing junk and brought to Hong Kong yes- terday.

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