1940-08-05 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST. 5, 1940

MUTT AND JEFF .

TWEET! TWEET!

OH, OH!-AND I AIN'T

GOT A LICENSE ~~ I GOTTA THINK

FAST!

WELL, COME ON! COME-ON! LEMME SEE YOUR LICENSE!

ER-ER- OH--ER- OH, HERE!"

HEY, THIS AIN'T YOUR DRIVING LICENSE! THIS IS A PICTURE

OF YOU IN A

BATHIN' SUIT!

YEH, I

KNOW!.

DON'T I. LOOK THE NUTS?

By BUD FISHER

WANT CHA PICTURE TOOK,

MISTER?

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SECRET SOCIETY BANNED

A "SECRET SOCIETY" WHICHI WAS SET UP TO INVESTIGATE FIFTH COLUMN ACTIVITIES IN MACCLESFIELD, CHESHIRE, HAS BEEN SUPPRESSED BY

THE POLICE.

A former official said that the

FLOOD OF GOLD

MEANS HEADACHE QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRO

FOR U. S. A.

WHAT IS TO happen to the heavy gold reserves society was "just beginning to which France placed in safe keeping in America justify itself when the police before the Nazis took Paris?

stepped in.

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"We could have put our hands Whatever final settlement Hitler makes with on something very quietly," he the Petain Government, he will not be allowed to suid. He denied that members

intended to listen in to private lay his hands upon it.

conversations in order to further

The question, however, remains tually acquire British. Dutch and their anti-Fifth Column activities.to be settled whether America Belgian deposits in payment for

will allow Allied purchases arms, food and raw materials, The organisation has been dis-against the French gold. Legally solved on the instructions of the the position will be difficult if the

OF NO USE

Chief Constable.

French Government is unable tol

This action, it appears, has met with general approval in the town.

issue instruction for its disposal Yet this gold is of no conceiv- lable use to him. He has been ac- in the Allied interest.

cumulating-colossal-amounts--In Uncle Sam, in fact, is finding his own name he has over 19,000,- that to have nearly all the money |000,000 dollars (£5,000,000,000), It had been understood that in the world is not an unmixed not to mention that earmarked on

Over the organised anti-Fifth Columnists blessing.

past few foreign account. Last year he ac- would listen in to conversations, stream has carried to New York dollars (£800,000,000), or three weeks the steady trans-Atlanticquired no less than 3,574,000,000.| and fears were expressed lest gold worth some £500,000,000 times the world's annual produc-! unknown members of the secret from Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris tion. society, should hear parts of con- and London.

versations and drew false con- At first Uncle Sam will just give 'it safe keeping; but he will even- clusions.

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HORIZONTAL

1 High card

4 To breathe

heavily

8 Music:

termination

of a com-

- position

12 Sped

13 Mental

image

14 Wolfhound 15 Worm

10 Voracious

aquatic bird-

10 To evade 20 Comfort

21 To leave

22 Wire

measure

23 To till

27 Seed-remov-

ing machine

29 Craze

30 Thick soup

31 Conjunction

32 Seed-

-container.

33 Sodlum

chloride

34 Pronoun

35 Railway: truck

· 37 To lear

30 Number

39 Girl's nomb’

40 Animal hair

41 Chopping

Implement

42 Mineral salt

44 Absurd

147 To net as

agent for

51 Evergreen

tree

52 South

American

armadillo

53 Large sword

54 Silkworm

55. Storage bin

50 Belgian river..

57 Iniquity

VERTICAL

1 War god

2 Immediate payment

3 Naval officer

4 Digging

implement

5 Confusion

# Sea-nymph

7 Mexienn

dlah

8 Cautious

9 Palm leat

SATURDAY'S SOLUTION

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RUMZLURE

IMAMBIE ONEF

AB TRENOR TRAF S AT RENDERSACHE

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10 Tribe of Israel

11 Insect

'17 Bone

19 Artificial Innguage

22 Insane

24 Land

measure

25 To check

26 To apportion 27 Mongolian desert.

28 Mineral.

29 Enemy' 30 Soft

⚫ substance 32 Spanish

-conqueror 33 Title of

respect

30 Earth

Koddess

37 Ruminants"

stomachs

38 Asters

40 Melloulous

41 Articlo

43 French

article

44 Roman

highway

45 Persian elf

.40 Double

47 Ethiopian

title

48. Finial

49 Colloquial:

companion

60 Born

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A fraction of the total is suf- ficient as "backing" for the U.S. currency. The rest is burled deep in the earth whence it was ori ginally extracted, and the U.S. the Treasury pays interest on dollars borrowed to acquire it! This situation, clearly, is too Jabsurd to last. But our gold pro- vides the cash part of the "cash the and carry" terms on which. U.S. can legally supply us with arms. That's why Uncle Sam, who knows very well that King Gold is another monarch totter- ing on his throne, must for the present go on buying.

What will happen when he has world's finally acquired all the gold?

There are only two possibilities. The first is to effect a redistribu- tion. This would require from Wall Street an unheard of degree of altruism, for in practice it could be achieved only by huge loans to a-probably bankrupt-post-war world.

DRINK WITH LADY CAUSED TROUBLE

A Norwegian seaman accused at the Marylebone Police Court of disobeying the curfew by being jout after midnight was stated by the police to have been having a few drinks with a lady friend,

The

accused told the police | when arrested that it was very warm and he went out for some air. .

He was Yneve Larsen Wolner (23).

The Magistrate, in discharging the accused under the Probation of Offenders, Act, on payment of 10s. 6d. costs, warned him that next time he did it he would go to prison

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