THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 31, 1941.
MUTT AND JEFF
MUTT, IT'S A GOOD JOB FOR YOU! EASY WORK, SHORT HOURS
AND BIG PAY!
MUST BE A CATCH IN IT SOMEWHERE BUT I'LL GO!
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SIR, THIS JOB CALLS
FOR A SMART, HONEST, INDUSTRIOUS
AND RELIABLE
MAN!
THE JOB IS YOURS ALL WE REQUIRE IS A LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION!,
WHAT'S
THAT?
A REFERENCE FROM SOMEBODY YOU WORKED FOR BEFORE?
By BUD FISHER ¦
I KNEW THERE WAS A CATCH IN IT! MISTER, THERE AIN'T NO SUCH A GUY!
LED WOMEN, CHILDREN S.S.U. IN FROM BLAZING CHURCH
SHELTER MARSHAL FRANK COSSEY, who lost a leg in the last war, led 500 women and chil- dren to safety from the crypt of a burning church during a night raid on Bristol. Hobbling along, Cossey carried children through the flames. one in the crypt was killed,
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At another church a bomb crashed through the roof and exploded in the crypt where many people were sheltering. It was hours later before some of the shelterers were dug out.
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NORWAY
Every day new stories reach Britain of the spirit of defiance growing among the people living under Nazi domination.
Each little gesture of deflance. to very important in itself, con-
ibutes to
lutal ' formidable and the greater that total is the more German Hoops must be used to hold down these peoples.
The latest device of the Nor
the Tellers wegrans is to serawi S.SU wherever they can The ISSU, sign has been found on the walls of barracks and factories by
One shops and age. Damage to houses,
was scattered the village and several cottages and even written in the show bu antss premises.
ver many districts because few were damaged. of the early vendiaries started, serious Bres, thanks to prompt | wonk of fire parties Thus there
rehable targets for pur were 1143 Cessive Wates of bombers.
She Slept On
Most of the deaths caused by
a direct hit public shelter.
Shelter Hit
In one
kets.
It is explated to the Germans that the letters stand for sking. somming Ute Liv (skiing, swim- ming, outdoor life),
a seven-year-old girl slept through it all, though one
! But the Germans by this time wall of her bedroom fell out.
that their During the night a Junkers 88, are quite well aware crashed in the south of England, jactual significance is "Skiva Skal were, it is thought to have fallen to a UT--(the swine must go).
a, night tighter. on
The conductresses, Mrs. Kath- leen Smart and Mrs Louse Bryan, had just gone off duty when their, depot and the surrounding streep. were bombed.
They spent the night in recue work, and in the morning were on duty again,
Bristol was the main target of the night.
Three members of the crew whoi ibaled out gave themselves up
Search as continuing to a fistin
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"EPISODE WILL BRING U.S. IN"
*1 don't think many people eling to the notion that we aren't in the war, All that is needed writes 11 incendiaries, and now je the 'episode.''
"An ali but one of a number of high] "New York Sun" columnist, explosive bombs, fell on open | episode always comes in tense ground near a South Wales vill. tin.es like thèse."
Hundreds of
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News From France
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Be' ween the two zones France personal communications are permitted through a medium which resembles a rather lengthy broad- French Held postcard.
received casters in London have one of these.
the This
a translation of IS words of the formula in Italies, the details supplied by this correspon- dent in ordinary type:
"British Air Force ... in good health. German air force seriously ill. Would like Hitler
killed and Mussolini prisoner. British Admiralty without netes of
Inhabitants
п
Italian fleet
are in need
of provisions. Doriot is in need
of money.
All Frenchmes !
listen to your...news. Hope.
De Gaulle
works for our salvation."
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In relief
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make
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10 Cicatrix
11 Wildcat
13 Page in an
account book
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mulberry
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26 Spanish hero
27 Fragrant 28 Receptacle 30 Adorned 31 Pronoun 33 Small part 34 Part of leg 30 Conceited.
person.
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Prices 11 Bulk
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sheen.
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Sergeant George Gallon, aged fifty-eight of the Pioneer Corps,
was sentenced at the Old Bailey to three years' penal servitude for conspiring to loot lead from pre- inises from which he was clearing debris.
Twenty-seven other members of the Pioneer Corps accused Gallon--the of conspiring with instigator, Bald the Recorder- were found guilty. Sergeant William Henry Thomas Collier, twenty-nine, was gen- tenced to twelve months' impri- sonment and the other twenty- six to six months' imprisonment,
Averell Thomas Jackson, metal of not guilty merchant, found conspiracy, but guilty of receiv- ing some of the lead, was sen- tenced to fifteen months' impri- sonment. He collapsed and was carried by warders to the cells. He wept bitterly, carrying out, "Oh, my God!"
Four Pioneers, Thomas Blair, forty-two, Norman Parkinson, thirty-six. Daniel Herrick, thirty- nine, and Alec Brown, thirty-
found one, were
not guilty of conspiracy.
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