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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 25, 1941

MUTT AND JEFF

AST

WEEK WE LEFT JEFF

WITH HIS

WHISKERS SHAVED OFF

WORKING

AS JANE,

A MAID

AT THE

HOME OF

THE VANDERPANS

NOT MY FAULT, MA'AM!

By BUD FISHER

I'VE ONLY BEEN HERE

A WEEK!

JANE!

JUST LOOK AT

\NE!

COMING,

MRS. VANDERPAN!

THE DUST ON THAT PIANO!,

WELL, WHAT

I'M LOOKIN'!

IS IT DOING

THERE?

IT'S JUST LAYING THERE, MA'AM!

DO YOU KNOW THAT DUST HAS BEEN ON THAT PIANO FOR AT

LEAST SIX WEEKS!

THAT'S

+

"

GAVE UP ALL-

EVEN LIFE

A FORTY-TWO YEAR

BUILDER WHOSE AMBITION

TO BECOME AN RAF

PHOT

WAS THWARTED BY HIS AGE

GERMAN FLYING

ACE ESCAPES TO PERU

BARON FRANZ VON WERRA, cocky

BUT WHOSE ENTHUSIASM TO Nazi flying ace, who escaped from a Cana-

FLY FOR HIS COUNTRY LED)

ĐIM TO LEAVE A SUCCESSFUL, dian internment camp and was captured in BUSINESS TO FERRY PLANES,¦ New York, has jumped his bail of US$10,000

BEEN KILLED ON and is believed to have escaped to Peru.

HAS NOW

GOVERNMENT SERVICE

He was Mr Lethe Artha Pla bpot Hadley way

The U.S. Attorney-General, Mr. Jackson,

Warum revealing the flight, termed his action as

flagrant abuse of neutral hospitality."

Hall. London, N, who when wi- broke out tried to join the RAF as a pilot, but was refused a com

Mon

For many years he held a civi ho pilot's ticket. His flying ex Ferner War extensive, and suon heard of the An Transport Auxilary

he

He immediately.

issued antleren. But he foundi

Americans cut

to all US unigration autheitres iously antagonistie tu fake steps to forestall the pose all his countrymen. rability of any repetition of the affan in the future.

Suffering from frostbite, his ear- and hands bandaged. Baron von Werra, whare escaped terminen;

to hum and

Final Dog-Fight

Von Werra, who claims to have! shot down ten Allied planes, did not expret to survive his final

Cate 16,000 feet over England

A year ago he was accepted as a 3 Canada's terren net by jump dog-night, which was with a Hurn-

+

Any pilot He gave up successful bur mess, lett li raunly beln, and became a ft officer

og fram a train and criesig to

shot down America. Warn England in Septembre

After making cheeky psetam that the Gertuan invasady of Bog- land would take nest about a font-

eagerly grabbed stations ne all' night he

the

His work was to fly new płaties or the Ministry of Annialt Pra duction to RAF

gurts of Britain, and he canne to day's newspapers love 1.

His brother great desire

What be read did not entirely encourage hom

heum

sand "Leshe's He was it

ui colise, officials, ANİTEL life was German Cumulate

posted a bead t procure his Tant on changes of entering the enu- try legally

to fly. and he was thrilled with the job of ferrying planes to the R. A. F."*

OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD

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HORIZONTAL

1 Group of

tents

5 To allow

- 8 Small bunch

12 Cry of the

Bacchanals

13 Yellow bugle

14 Prefix:

against

15 Husk.

16: Dignified

18. Border

10 Paid notice

20 Brief..

21 Poetic: over ·

23 Printers'

measures

25. Pair

27 French river

=

35 Direct descent

porpoise

56 Fresh-water

37 Sunken fence

58 Heraldic

device

59 Stream

60 God of war

61. Belgian river

VERTICAL

1 Chinese wax

2 Eager

3 Snake-killing Ichneumon

4 River in N.

Carolina

5 Peruvian capital

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

AVA

[AİGİRİA HERE

COMPLIANT ANT [O. P│[EN] RO ERA ELIS ASIDE

20 Juwel WAY

33 Brought forth

35 To' decline

37 Profound

38 Short jacket

40 Tatter

41 Rowing

Implement

42 Split pulse

44. Tilled-land

48 While

50 To urge

53 To evidence

A lu FAT FEE, EA START HIS PAT

AR P 09 E

ERIN THEI IZABETH AMI NEFESAU CID

LOBS TAG HAS

7 Dervish's cap

To clean oneself Preposition

10 To move

11 Ancient Scot-

tish tribesman 17 Worm

22 Fish eggs

24 Roman

emperor

25 Acted

26 To employ

28 Mental image

20 Concerning. 30-S'éals

31 Man's name 12 Lower limb 34. Above, S

30 Conclusion 30 Wor'hless 41 Lout

43 Scotch askew 44 Moslem prince 45 Hindu princess

46 Dyc plant

47 Numbered disc Heavenly body

- Paker stake

52 Horned

ruminant

34 To devour

เป็

Us

WIS

Just before I crashed," he sand, " het down the Hurricane Both '

falling together strated When I opened

my eyes } lying on the ground twenty-five feet from the bung plane, numb I can't explain how Turvived

audi

"They took me to a prison camp Fugland. One day, with the of compattions, I tunnelled After SIX cut under the bat ECHT days liberly I was reaptured Then they sent 114 to a prize Cap H Scotland Agam made. plans to be away

"One day. whale taking twenty-minute stroll in the p

on yard, my companions stated i a fight.

During the confusion I put out- side the barrier and hid in some bushes. I made my way to the Irish Sea coast, and was trying to get to Ireland when I was nabbed again.

"I was then shipped to Canada with other German girmen, Word got round on the train bringing us from Halifax that we were be- ing taken to the Hudson Bay!

area.

The Word “Go”!

"There were twenty-five of us in the coach and three guards. Three of my companions agreed to The watch the three guards. moment one of them looked in an- other direction the one watching him was to shout 'Go.'

"When the signal came 1 pushed myself through the window headi first and landed on a snow bank.

"Then I began hitch-hiking to- wards the border."

After his arrest in New York. von Werra turned down the ser- vices of a Jewish attorney who made him an offer for fun,

the United According to law, States Government may not re- turn an escaped prisoner to Cana- da. Ho would have been de- 'ported to Germany, or kept in the United States until the war ended.

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