THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 19, 1941
MUTT AND JEFF
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TTA
OUCH! HEY!
SOME PEOPLE JUST DON'T HAVE ANY MANNERS!
THE BIG BOOB KICKED ME IN
THER SHINS!
Library, Suplerin Count
TEN MINUTES LATER
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Bv BUD FISHER
BEG PARDON, MA'M, DID WE ESTEP ON YOUR FEET BEFORE?
You CERTAINLY DID!
O.K., MUTT!
OUR SEATS
ARE IN
HERE!
BRITAIN'S "PANZER" MILITARY
DIVISIONS
CODE FOR WOMEN
Now that members
of
The British Armoured naissance machine. Arrangements the A.T.S. and the W.A.- Divisions have been re-naissance.
have been made for distant recon- organised. They now form
a
comparably superior to the Ital-
A.F. are to be given full Both in gun power and armour Army and Air Force most powerful instru-our armoured divisions are in- status, a code of regula- ment of war and are cap- formations, while it is confid- tions is being worked out able of meeting any cor-ently asserted that the British and will be presented to responding formation of divisions are at least as powerful the enemy with
instruments as any of the Ger- Parliament shortly. prospect of success.
every
man Panzer divisions so far pul into the field.
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Changes have been made in the
The German Panzer divisions types of fighting vehicles with a each include about 300 to 400 view to producing the hardest tanks of various designs and sizes, hilter ever known in our
but there appears to be no finality army organisation.
about The
their
organisation. The component parts, too, are well balanced.
Nazis are understood to show decided preference for heavier These self-contained units in- rather than lighter tanks. They clude, in addition to the latest have already substituted the design of tank, mobile artillery, motor-cycle for the light tank for anti-aircraft and anti-tank units, reconnaissance purposes. field squadrons of Royal Engin- eers lorry-borne infantry and administrative and
units.
maintenance WANT WHITE-OUT ON
Cruiser Tank's Uses
The cruiser tank is the stand- ard fighting vehicle. It has a speed and fire power which, apart from its normal employment, make it useful as a close-recon-
THE BLACK-OUT
The new status was announced to the House of Commons by the War Minister, Capt. Margesson, and the Under-Secretary for Air, Capt. Balfour.
Regulations being prepared by the War Office and the Air Min- istry will define which sections of the Army Act will be appli- cable to women. Such questions as saluting between men and women in uniform, right of re- signation, welfare services and punishments will be decided.
Freeing Men's Services
they
An appeal to motorists to put have been so valuable in freeing Both the A,T.S. and W.A.A.F. white paint on blacked-out por-
men for other duties that tions of direction indicators is made by the Royal Society for, are to be greatly the Prevention of Accidents.
White paint makes the indica- tors more visible in daylight.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Sharp
5 Epic poem
To append
12. Discord.
14 Author of
"The Raven": 15 Lock of hair
10 Underground
prison
10 Line of -
*Junction
20 French. colní
21 Pronoun
22 Exclantation
of satisfaction
24 Narrow
- opening ""
28 To obstruct
28 To observe
30. Son of Lot
32 Weasel-like
mammal
35 Epochs. 27 Heavenly
bodyA! 39.Torecline! 1:40 Variety of Ath coffee
742 Ox of Célober
44 Preposition
*47 Descendant -
of the ancient
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❘ 53 Unit of
electrical capacity
50 Cowardly
69 Part
60 'Australian
-¡bird.
61 Religious song
63 Title of respect
64 Lukewarm
65 Mound
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VERTICAL
& Church council
9 Simian
1 Deed
10 Unhappy
destiny
.2 Vehicle
3 Desserts
4 Quantities
of medicino
5 What did
you say?
6 Seed covering
7 Burden
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
ODD
ONROM
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HIIHALARILEOPA
11 To refuse
13 Sacred song
17 U. S. naval
station
19 Lows, as a cow
22 Ancient alloy
23 Chlef male ·
· Agure of a ..play.
25 Residence of
chieftain
27. Wire measure 20 Every N 31 Seat of justice 83-Island-of-the Cyclades, Range of?" Be knowledge
38 Utter
38 Cover of a building 41 To stop 43. Aaldo :** 44 To hang 48′ Gama fish' 49 God of war :50 Prefix: half
52 To cut 40%
54 Wings 55 To' take out 67.Mongrel
Job Freux: three
fa European, flah
I numbers.
increased in
To-day there are 35,000 mem- bers of the A.T.S. and nearly double that number are needed. Women are also becoming increas- ingly necessary to the R.A.F. in a wide range of duties.
It is felt that full status will make the Services even more at- tractive to women,
Women On Education
Capt. Margesson made it clear that A.T.S. women will be em- ployed only on work for which they have a special aptitude, in- cluding duties at searchlight and gun stations. There was a parti- cular need for women of good education.
"The service will remain a women's service," he said, "under the general direction of women. The disciplinary code of the Army will be applied to it only in so far as the wider responsibilities now envisaged necessitate."
Existing members were en- rolled on the understanding that they would be subject on active service to military law and any penalties that might be prescrib-
not, ed. They were
therefore, being subjected to conditions in- consistent with the terms on which they enrolled.
the
Similar assurances about W.A.A.F.s were made by Capt Balfour.
JUST HIS CUP
O' TEA
A free cup of tea which she served led to the marriage of Eleanor Farrington, YM.C.A. ¡mobile canteen voluntary worker, of The Grange, Wellesbourne, Warwick,
Czechoslovakian Lance-Corporal Vitezslav Glaser.
to
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