THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 6, 1941.
MUTT AND JEFF
HELLO BOSS! I'M TONY! ARE YOU
I COME FOR DIS A
JOB, YES?
MARRIED?
6.20
OH, SURE!
I'M SORRY TONY.
TONY, HE'S MARRIED!
BUT WE WANT A SINGLE MAN!
SINGLE MAN? YESTERDAY I COME
13brand, Peptone Gourl
NO I'M SORRY!
IT MUST HAVE
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^ BV BUD FISHER
MISTAKE!! MISTAKE! WHAT'S A MATTER FOR YOU?
YOU SAY YOU WANT BEEN A MISTAKE! WHAT I'M GONNA DO?
MARRIED MAN!
1 MARRY JOSEPHINE –
LAST NIGHT!
OPERATOR GETME BLOOM, BLOOM BLDOM AND MCCARTHY - *DIVORCE LAWYERS!.
CAPTURE OF ASSAB DISCLOSURE
CAPTURE OF THE POST OF ASSAB, WHICH PROVED THE
OF THE ITALIAN EAST AFRI- CAN EMPIRE. WAS ACCOM- PLISHED BY INDIAN TROOPS. THE ROYAL NAVY AND THE
LISBON THE CITY OF WHISPERS
(By MARJORIE HIRD)
THE LIGHTS SHINE bright in Lisbon.
There
FINAL NAIL IN THE COFFIN is music and dancing in the cafes; a housewife needs no ration card when she goes out shopping; the siren never shatters our sleep, and the whistle of a bomb R.A.F. BY A WELL-PLANNED is something the Portuguese would not recognise.
But the shadow of war hangs over every man The attack, which was a com- and every woman, in the shape of a great, ugly sus- plete surprise. took place one picion. For the capital of Portugal is a city where morning in June and was pheno-trust has been banished until peace comes to Europe sustaining no casualties.
ATTACK, IT WAS REVEALED YESTERDAY.
menally successful, our
again.
One Italian was killed while My Hungarian host more than 1,000 Italians, with 35 across the table and whipered Germans, were captured.
hasty caution.
leaned, I had had two nights before with
a the "clever fellow." It was
harmless enough talk we had, but there was one serious note.
Large quantities of rifles. "Do you know that man sitting machine-guns and ammunition just behind you?” he asked. were also secured with little damage to the harbour installa
tions.
The town offered litle resis tance, the general attitude being one of resignation and relief that all was over.
It was a little Frenchman,
ก
That came when he warned me to beware of the Hungarian who was now entertaining me, "Mind your step when you're last-war veteran and a hero of with him," he had said. "He' this. Wounded at Dunkirk, he working for both sides in the sec- had been taken prisoner, shot his ret service." German captor and escaped to join cause with England.
"Clever fellow." confined my "One of the best men they
But for the element of surprise host. in the attack, it is considered that have got." Assab might have been a hard I thanked him for his warning, and remembered the conversation nut to crack.
Reuter.
OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD
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1 Man-enting
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3 To sprint
monster
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written
8 Infant
12 To praise
13 Gülded
14 Level
15 Tavern
10 Fable-maker
18 Newt ***.
19 King of
Bashan
20 Let it stand.
21 Hawaiian
puffin
23 Note of scale 24: Large ladle
28 Palm genus
28 To play on
unskillfully
29 Worm
30 Males
32 Noblengan
33.Knock
34 Sound
35 Part of
to be..
30 Hebrew
measure
31. Eop
38 To jab,
40 Súdden loud
nolse
41 Exclamation
43: Four
44 Melody 4:45 Pald : notico
51 Literary
Вегара
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ment of cor
dial relations
55 Poker stake 50 Devoured
57 On the oceani
VERTICAL
1 Mixture
criminal mob
Man's nick-
name
5 Slumber
6 Trial
7 Hustling
8 To exist
9 Hoil
10 To ald
11 Heraldic
device 16 Small
particio
YESTERDAY'6: SOLUTION,
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snake
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forth 31 French
marshal .33 Free
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fluttering. In the air 37-Author or .~'Inferno!! 30 Japanese
measure
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German 41-Greck
goddess 42 Persia 44 School! *45,Girl's"name"
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81: Roman bronzo
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latter.
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*** mother.
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
mistake there now. No them. They are Germans. British, and we can at least be honest with each other.
about
I am
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 be 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; forces as a journalist. He came to buy me 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 me that his fears 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 me quizzcal smile.
"Funny," he mused, "but I don't quite like that journalist. He why may be on the level-but
is he rushing off to every war that happens?”
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We are all suspects "in this nerve war in a neutral Jänd.
Last night the Hungarian who. had been my host cut me dead, and a friend explained::
"He's just tipped me off; that there seems to be something phoney, about you," he grinned.
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