By BUD FISHER
-AND I SAID
D
I KNEW IT
AND HUNG UP!
THE CHINA MAİL, JUNE 3, 1941 MUTT AND JEFF
I'M EXPECTING AN IMPORTANT LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE CALL TODAY AND I CAN'T AFFORD
TO MISS IT!
THERE SHE RINGS AGAIN!
I WISH SHE WOULDN'T INTERRUPT
ME!
RING-G
RING
JEFE WHO WAS AT DUNNO! THAT ON THE
PHONE?
KID ME!
Fisher
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Crete Struggle Might Have Been Different If--
COMMENTING ON CRETE before the U.S. AND
of the
EIRE GET
evacuation, the announcement "Gothenburg Handelstidning” said that the "British have no longer any prospects of driv- TOGETHER ing the Germans from Crete. It is only a question of time when the last British soldier must choose between death and surrender.
"The fight to the last man, from the war.
If the British had not
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
America and Ireland will move to closer under- standing on a new basis of the British standpoint, will be well been forced to depend on distant friendship, with Eire ac- for reinforcements, the ceptance of the Roosevelt
must be supposed, struggle, it would have had another resuit: offer of half a million dol- Will the German offensive con-Jars worth of American time without respite as Some and Aisne last year after, food to feed thousands of
defended as it holds up the enemy i bases and gives the British breathing, space. It certainly causes the Ger- mans great material and human losses but it puts the brave British to a hard test.
"Now it can be said that if the British tosc the fight it is be- cause they did not understand the importance of holding the flying bases.
In Better Position
have "The Germans in Crete
toughest met the hardest and opposition since the beginning of
Dunkirk?
un the
"The British find themselves, for the continuation of the opera- tions in the eastern Mediterran- better position ean, in a much than the Axis powers. Much cun
attitude, but depend on Vichy's ofter President Roosevelt's speech, Petain should show himself more
than heretofore", reserved Reuter.
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23 Small part
27 To raise with
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2 Nobleman
3 Hostility
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6 Sped
To entertain
7 Slumbered
8 Learned
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
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refugees.
Minister Robert Brennan con- veyed the decision to Mr. Sumner
Welles.
due to
This action, following quickly on the heels of the Dublin bomb- ing, is viewed with particular significance
reports that American Clippers may use the route to Foynes, in Ireland, in- stead of as present via Lisbon.
Another factor is the import- ance of bases in Eire in the event of American entry into the war. International News Service.
INTRIGUES BY AXIS
"The British never called them Pro selves protectors of Islam. tection is for the Muslims them- selves.
"The British do, however, call themselves friends of Islam and they are determined to save Iraq from the and other countries
the Axla calamity of rule by
Sir George Powers," declared
of the Cunningham, Governor North-West Frontier Province, in a statement which was widely distributed in settled and tribal districts of the province.
in- in
The statement added that for many years Germany and Italy have tried to increase their fluence in Islamic countries the Middle East, with the object not of securing a free and united Arab state but of becoming over- the false lords and tyrants in guise of protectors of Islam. Reuter.
SHANGHAI DISPUTE
ENDED
the
(RPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"") The long dispute between management of the Commercial Press in Shanghai and its em- ployees came to an end yesterday when the company announced can that all dismissed workers now receive their extra dismissal about six pay, amounting to months. International News Ser- vice.
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