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HORIZONTAL

1-To present in brief |42-Grassy meadow

4-Small meure-llké

animal

8-Female deer

11-An age

12-Pronoun

13-Exist

14-A month (abbr)

15-Implement for

holding a veseni

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HORIZONTAL. (Cont);

43-Masculino name 40-Pickled 40–Author of Tha

Raven"

50-Prefix Indicating the beginning of an Apoch

161-Pronoun

17-Furbearing animal 52-Prefix. Before

19.8ite of Royal Bo-

tanical Gardens,

London

20-Farm animal

21-More peaceful

24-Equitable

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37-Wanderer

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(pl.).

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4-Pour out

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B-Low tide

7-Arm

B-Pointad weapon

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VERTICAL (Cont.)

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28-To this degree 26-9ets of players 31-Not in any wise 32-The faces of a

pedestal

33-A condiment 34-Spartan bondmen

35-Grass | 20-A degrés (abbr)

39-Electrical unit of

length for diameter of wire. 40-Rumanian coln' 43-Large monkey 44-Title of a gentlemen

(Portugal)

45-Garden Implement

40-Taste

47-An sig

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INDECENT LITERATURE YESTERDAYS SOLUTION

Canton, Yesterday,

In consequence of the receipt of circular letter from the Canton Kuomintang Committee requesting the prohibition of Indecent news items and literature detrimental to public morals, the Municipality, has Issued a notification to the public banning the mention of obscene" Items in the newspapers.

"The"". Bureaux of Public safety, Bancational, and Sociale Reforms Lava also been duly notiɓed to operate this matter ca

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