By BUD FISHER
MUTT, STOP KIDDING AROUND! -THE SERGEANTS
WATCHING.US!
DEPT. WORKS SO FAST!
GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS are generally supposed to be "too slow for words." Well, here is one that works too fast for the public.
It is the War Damage Commission for the Mid- land Region, whose offices are in Easy Row, Bir- mingham.
The manager told the "Daily have practically a fool-proof sy- Mirror": "The public work much stem against fraud."
too slowly for us. We are wait- ing to pay out claims for war war damage, but there are hun- dreds who have not filled in their claim forms that we have sent them.
"They seem
scared of the
questions and carefully study the form as though it were in. come tax.
"Afraid To Answer"
People who are homeless get first consideration.
V
CRUISERS LAUNCHED
Was
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
The 6,000-ton-cruiser "Atlanta" launched at the Kearney (N.J.) shipyards, being the first ship to take the water since the Navy took over the yards.
Margaret Mitchell,
"Many of the forms come back be- to us only half completed cause claimants are afraid to an- swer the questions and think we are out to trick them.
"We have back, which wastes much time. It, "Gone with the Wind," perform-
to send the
forms
author of
ceremony.
is the public who are holding used the launching
1 In addition to the "Atlanta,"
up Our examiners are up to date
was
in their examinations of war another cruiser, the "San Juan," launched yesterday. Both damage in their city.
"We keep a careful double' ships are capable of high speed.
International News Service. check on all builders' charges and
OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD
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HORIZONTAL
1 Consumed
4 Mexican coin
8. Epochal
12 Fuel
13 Chain of
rocks
14 Masculine 15 Acorn-bear- ing tree 10 Unutterable
18 To" flash 20 Observéd 21 Japanese measure. 22 To jestle 23 River in
England -
27 The lily 29-To-mend-
30 Stairs over"
tence.
31 Land ...
7. measure
32 To deposit
33 Tip
34 French article,
35 Spanish -cloak
37 To bring
'forth 38 Equality 39 Ox of "Celebea
40 Termination.
41 Exofamation
of astonish- ment
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42 Vertical
timber on
a ship
44 English
navigator
95%
47 Inquisitiveness
51 Uncooked
52 Solar dise
53 Ireland
54 Palm leaf
53 Tableland
10 To remove
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weight
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VERTICAL
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2 South-
African Dutch
3 Glacial
ridges
4 Tidy
5 Poetic:
nightfall 10 Alternate
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forth
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10 Entirely. 11'Sheltered 17 Symbol for
iron 10"Sloth
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25 Spanish
cooking-
vessel
26 Contiguous
27 Tibetan
priest
28 Pérsia 29 Hody .of BD water...
30 Stary
32 Vigour. 33 Scoundrel 38 Negative 37, Whole
30, Lighthouse 40. Ancient
charlot
11 Elther. *** 43 Indo-Chinese Alanguage
44 Unit of
resistance
45 Variety, of
'cabbage 46 Pitcher 47 Rotating piece.
40 Southwest- Fern Indian
40 Law: thingo
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AUSTRALIA'S DESTINY
"We rejoice that the Russians are fighting so magnificently, but Russia cannot hope to defeat the Germans in Germany and bring her to her knees," de- clared Mr. W. M. Hughes, Minister for Navy, in a speech at Melbourne yesterday.
"Australia's destiny depends on her ability to achieve unity." Reuter.
Hitler
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Dog
а
The Berlin correspon- dent of the Madrid news--
sends paper, "Efe," graphic description of Hitler's headquarters about which silence hitherto has been main- tained.
Hitler's headquarters Is no longer in the train which has been seen in newsreels.
"Difficulties of railway com- munications necessitated a change to a group of lorries which were transformed into a kind of auto-
mobile encampment," says the correspondent, adding: "The camp is always pitched near a moun- tain or wood so that Hitler can take solitary walls as he is ac- customed to at Berchtesgaden..
"At
it is present large wood where Hitler can be alone with a dog. A thousand precautions have been taken to keep the altuation secret.
noar.
a
"Mall is sent by air to differ- ent aerodromes and then by car to the camp,
"The Press Chief, Dietrich, has a special mobile office where world news is received so that Hitler is kept informed of cur-
Reuter. rent events.”
SYRIAN TALKS
The Free French Leader in the Near East; General Catroux, has proceeded to Aleppo for con- sultations with leading person- alities concerning Syria's future,
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