By BUD FISHER
THEN HOW DO
NO!
YOU KNOW IT
WAS ME WHO
WAS PUTTING THE KEY IN
THE DOOR?
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FRENCH REACH INTENSIFIED A.R.P.
TIENTSIN AGREEMENT
An agreement re- garding the mainten- ance of peace and or- der in Tientsin, simi- lar to the
recent Anglo-Japanese agreement, has been signed in Tokyo by the French Ambassa- *dor and Mr. Mat- sumiya, acting Japan- ese Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, ac- cording to the Domei agency.-Reuter.
TIENTSIN TRAMWAY SALE RUMOUR
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") The North China Electric Com-
TRAINING IN HK QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
H.K.
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
A SERIES OF AIR RAID precaution exercises are to be carried out in different districts during the coming week, the object being to test the initiative and intelligence of A.R.P. Wardens.
One of these exercises took place on Friday even- ing under the direction of Mr. A. E. Gerondal, De- puty Chief Air Raid Warden, Hong Kong, in the Bay View Division between 6 p.m. and 7.30 p.m.
The results were very satisfac-ceeded to areas in the Divisin and tory and high degree of efficiency on coming across an Air Raid was observed.
Warden showed him a placard on
the
"Personally, I was aggreably which were printed the results of surprised at the initiative and keenness displayed by the Air an imaginary air raid in Raid Wardens during the exer-sector.. cise," commented Wing-Com-
mander A. H. Steele-Perkins, The information was meagre Director of Air Raid Precautions, and the Air Raid Warden had to
in an interview yesterday. use his own initiative to find out Air-rald wardens and other the number-of-premises hit, the personnel in the Bay View Divi-
street in which it fell, etc., etc. sion were ordered to stand-by at
6 p.m. on Friday. Those assign- and if necessary be had to order patrol duty proceeded at the people out of the building if pany of Peiping yesterday denied to an intention to, purchase the Tien once to the sectors under their it had caught "fire."
control while others manned the posts assigned to them.
tsin Tramcar and Electricity Company which is Belgian own- ed. Reports to that effect appear- ed recently in Peiping and Tien- tsin newspapers.-Havas,
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Bombing By Placard The Deputy Chief Air Raid Warden for Hong Kong then pro-
OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD
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HORIZONTAL
1 Important
person
6 Ancient set-
tlement in
Asia Minor
11 Having
rounded
divisions
12 Saves
14 Pronoun
15 Greek letter
17 Faint
18 Box for
equipment
20 Bush
23 Cleaning
implement
24 Uniform
26 Awe-inspir-
ing
20 Japanese
money
29 Connection
31 Large
African
. antelope
33 Branches of
learning
35 Norsa god'
30 Close-filting
ecclesiastical garment
39 Colloquial:
insolenco Land
measure
43 To come in-
to. operallon
45 Actual
40.Ethiopian
titlo
40 Roman
official
50 Acted
51 Wind in-
strument
53 Bristle
55 Compass
point
56 Noxious
atmosphere
50 Coast guard
Vessel
61 Projecting
parts of
buildings
02 Strength of.
a solution
VERTICAL
1 Inducement
2 Siberian
river
3 Colloquial: idle talk
4 South west-
ern Indians
5 River in
Hades
6 Exists
7 Colloquial:
all right
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8 To bite
9 Mohamme-
dan priest 10 Self-assur-
ance
11 To compare 13 Hindu
soldier
16 Greek god
of war
10 Largest state
21 Russian
mountains
22 Buffalo
25 To take care
of
27 Glacial.
deposit
30 Rock
32 Venulated 34 Swift-mov- ing clouds 30 To rebound 37 Country in
northern
* Africa 30 Malayan.
dagger
40 More con celted
41: Senior 44 To choDEO 47 Cleansing agent
49 Pocketbook 62 Worm 54 Siamese coin 57 Pronoun 53 While 60 Symbol for
tellurlum
He then had to hurry to the Western Post and telephone the Report Centre giving al' neces- sary information.
At the conclusion of the exer- cise, Deputy Chief Air Raid Ward- en Gerondal,-accompanied by all Wardens who participated in the excrcise, went to the A.R.P. Head- quarters to compare reports made by the Wardens with those .re-. ceived at the Report Centre.
A conference of Divisional and District officers was also held and the aims, results and lessons of the exercise were discussed and ar- rangements made for such future adjustments, as were deemed de~ sirable.
LEAGUE TO MOVE
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The League is also said to be considering the transfer to Prince- ton of its other non-political de- partments.
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