!
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
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"
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-
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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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