THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 6, 1941.
MUTT AND JEFF
HELLO BOSS! I'M TONY:
I COME FOR DÍS À
ARE YOU MARRIED?
JOB, YES?
OH, SURE! TONY, HE'S MARRIED!
6:20
I'M SORRY, TONY, BUT WE WANT- A SINGLE MAN!.
SINGLE MAN? YESTERDAY I COME YOU SAY YOU WANT MARRIED MAN!
NO I'M SORRY! IT MUSTHAVE BEEN A MISTAKE!
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AV BUD FISHER
MISTAKE!! MISTAKE!. WHAT'S A MATTER FOR YOU? WHAT I'M GONNA DO? I MARRY JOSEPHINE
LAST NIGHT!
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WAR IDEAS BLOCKED
Many sensible suggestions. designed to merease the efficiency and the eronomy of the national war effort, have been made to Government departouts,
But, because of tedious routine and red tape, They
turned dow 14.
And the prople have put forward
tions.
every
seemg
tuin,
couraged.
LISBON THE CITY QUEEN'S ALHAMBRA
OF WHISPERS
(By MARJORIE HIRD)
THE LIGHTS SHINE bright in Lisbon.
There
have been is music and dancing in the cafes; a housewife needs no ration card when she goes out shopping; the siren
of ideas who never shatters our sleep, and the whistle of a bomb
is something the Portuguese would not recognise.
these suggest
blocked ****
at
become dis- her
Steam-Roller "Died"
down of Cases of this turning ideas are mentioned in the report of Select Committee n National Expenditure issued recently.
But the shadow of war hangs over every man and every woman, in the shape of a great, ugly sus- picion. For the capital of Portugal is a city where trust has been banished until peace comes to Europe again,
My
host Hungarian across the table and whipered hasty caution.
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leaned 1 had had two nights before with
# the "clever fellow." It was
harmless enough talk we had, but there was one serious note.
That came when he warned me to beware of the Hungarian who was now entertaining me. "Mind your step when you're
"Do you know that man sitting just behind you?" he asked.
It
а was little Frenchman,
A
It also quotes a report by the| officer in charge of a road con- last-war veteran and a hero of with him," he had said. "He's of the Royal this. Wounded at Dunkirk, he working for both sides in the sec- in because of had been taken prisoner, shot his ret service."
German captor and escaped to join
struction company
Engineers, called
slow progress by the contractors, cause with England. that a steam-roller
handed over.
my
confined "Clever fellow." to him "more or less disintegrated host. "One of the best men they
have got."
after four days from
decay."
senile
I thanked him for his warning, and remembered the conversation
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criminal mob
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6 Trial
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11 Heraldic
device
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particle
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between mountains
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So there is a rule of thumb for us "belligerents" who live in this neutral country.
It is to mistrust everybody... most of all the friendly neutral who offers his sympathy. Those four square-headed, gut- tural-voiced men dining over
No there now.
mistake about them. They are Germans. I am British, and we can at least be honest with each other.
We exchange stiff bows and sometimes we discuss the weather and the casino.
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The neutrals have less tact-or more cunning.
They, and the men who may bo anything-the expatriate French- men, Norwegians and Dutch - do not keep their conversations on the safe subjects which are all
that the Germans and I ever mention. So the Germans and I mis- trust them all, and they are even suspicuous of each other. There is the American boy who has just joined the De Gaulle He came forces as a journalist.
to buy mo a farewell drink in a pair of trousers he had bought from a Dutchman we both knew.
"I thought you didn't trust him," I suggested, but he told
fears me that his
had been put at rest. The Dutchman was now with the R.A.F. And when I mentioned this in cident to Edmund, another Ameri- can in Lisbon, he gave quizzcal smile.
me
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"Funny," he mused, "but I don't quite like that journalist. He may be on the level-but why is he rushing off to every that happens?”
war
We, are all suspects in this nerve war in a neutral land.
Last night the Hungarian who had been my host cut me dead, and a friend explained:
"He's just tipped me off that there seernis to be something phoney about you," he grinned.
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