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MUTT AND JEFF

JEFF WILL

YOU LOAN ME TWO DOLLARS?

I WON'T LOAN IT TO YOU BUT I'LL GIVE IT TO

YOU FOR

KEEPS!

WHAT'S THE IDEA BEING SO GOOD- NATURED?

WELL, YOU'RE MY BEST PAL AND AS YOU KNOW BORROWING AND LOANING MONEY SOMETIMES BREAKS FRIENDSHIP!

SO I FIGURES INSTEAD OF LOANING

YOU THE MONEY I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU AND YOU'LL THINK I'M A PRETTY

NICE GUY!

I THINK YOU'RE GREAT!

FURTHERMORE, ILL NEVER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ASKING YOU FOR IT AND I'LL NEVER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT GETTING IT BACK!

pright, 2006, by 16_Q. Fisher)

• Mach Sig. 1. & then, Orien

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 25, 1989.

By BUD FISHER

NOPE, YOU WON'T!

SO I FIGURE

IT'S BETTER TO GIVE IT TO You

THAN LEND IT TO YOU --AND IT COSTS ME ABOUT THE

SAME!

IN BAGS OF

4 DOZ.

CTS.

25

PER

BAG.

OBTAINABLE AT

WEE

CUBES

NOW AVAILABLE

THEY ARE SAFE, PURE, HARD FROZEN, CRYSTAL- CLEAR AND DO NOT GIVE BEVERAGES AN TASTE".

"OFF

THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD

STORAGE CO., LTD.

PURE FOOD SPECIALISTS.

Just a minute, please

You have a lot of cargo lying idle in the godowns and you are anxious to ship it to Haiphong for inland China.

Will you please bring the problem to us? We know we can offer you service to your satisfaction.

AVA TRADING CO.

Transportation Dept.

Phone: 31433

Cable: "0099" 22, Des Voeux Rd., C., 1st Floor

HONG KONG

Also Offices at

Haiphong, Kunming, Kweiyang, Chungking, Chengtu & Sian, etc.

1.

ENGLAND EXPECTS THIS DAY THAT KULANGSU STAND WILL BE REPEATED

London, To-day. Members of the China sub-committee of the Con- servative foreign affairs committtee met last evening.

They expressed themselves pleased with the firm action taken at Kulangsu, and expressed the hope that similar firm action would be taken in like circumstances elsewhere.

The sub-committee considered the general situation in China, espe- cially the position in regard to the British Concession at Tientsin, in-. terference with navigation on the Yangtse, the landing at Kulangsu and the repeated threats of Ja- panese action at Shanghai.

Members are fully aware of the gravity of the situation, and will continue to watch matters closely and use all their influence on be- half of British interests in China. -Reuter,

BRITISH DELAY IN ATLANTIC AIR SERVICE

London, To-day.

SHARP CLASH IN PALESTINE

London, To-day.

A report from the High Com- missioner for Palestine, received at the Colonial Office yesterday, says heavy casualties were in- flicted on a gang of armed ban- dits located and engaged by air- craft in the area east of Tulkarm on Tuesday.

The bandits were subsequently engaged by converging columns of the 2nd Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment, and a detachment of the First Battalion, Argyll and Suther- land Highlanders.

Eleven bodies of bandits have Departure of the United States been recovered to date, and two flyingboat Yankee Clipper from prisoners taken and twelve rifles, Southampton on the return journey three pistols and 1,410 rounds of via Marseilles and Lisbon to New ammunition captured.

York after inauguration of Pan- Government casualties were American Airways North Atlantic | Major W. G. Beeton killed, one air-mail service, lent special inter-officer and three other ranks est to a statement in the Commons wounded, and one interpreter kill- yesterday afternoon on the plans ed. British Wireless. for commencement of a North At- lantic service by a British operat- ing company.

Captain Balfour, Under-Secre- tary for Air, explained the post- ponement had been necessitated by the desire, in the interests of operational safety and efficiency, to give a 400 hours flight test to the engines, and to carry through cer- tain alterations to the fuelling system found desirable as a result of practical tests.

It was hoped the service would commence in July, British Wire- less.

NEW GOLDFIELD IN AMUR REGION

Moscow, To-day.

dis-

A new gold field has been covered in the Befreja district in a the Amur region, according to

the report here which adds that newly discovered field is one of the richest in the Far Eastern area. The exploitation of the new field

U.S. AMBASSADOR will be begun in course of the pre-

RETICENT

sent year. Trans-Ocean.

hai yesterday, will proceed Chungking on May 31.

to

He was non-committal when in-

Chungking, To-day. terviewed by pressmen regarding

It is learned that the American the Shanghai International Settle- Ambassador to China, Mr. Nelsonment and Kulangausituation. T. Johnson, who arrived in Shang-1 Cevtral News.