1940-08-26 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 26, 1940.

MUTT AND JEFF

MUTT, THERE'S

THAT FELLER, BILL, WE MET

AT THE PARTY!

I THOUGHT {HE WENT HOME

LONG AGO!

WHAT'S THE MATTER, BILL?

I CAME HOME AND I SAW A MAN KISSING MY WIFE

SO I CLOSED THE DOOR EASY AND BEAT IT -.

HALF HOUR LATER I WENT BACK UP AGAIN I OPENED THE DOOREASYAND THERE WAS THAT MAN STILL KISSING

MY. WIFE!

SO I CLOSED THE DOOR EASY 'AGAIN AND CAME DOWN-

WHY DIDN'T YOU. WALK RIGHT INTO

THE ROOM?

By BUD FISHER WHAT? AND HAVE MY WIFE CATCH ME COMING

HOME AT THIS

HOUR?

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Sergeant William David Gordon Watkins who was re- cently awarded the Distin- guished Flying Medal. Sor.

geant Watkins was the ob- server and bomb almer in an aircraft which carried out an attack on a large convoy of enemy transport one night in' May. Five runs were

made over

the target, at heights between 1,000 and fifteen hundred feet in the face of anti-aircraft fire and continu-

ous searchlight activity. Ser- geant Watkins displayed great coolness and determination throughout the operation. (Copyright, Fox),

STUNNED, FLEW

BACK TO FIGHT QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

AN .A.F. PILOT officer was stunned by a bullet while attacking an enemy aircraft over France. While he was unconscious his 'plane dived 5,000ft., but he suddenly recovered his senses, lifted his 'plane up, and returned to the attack.

Later the same day he was shot down in an- other fight, but landed safely near Dunkirk. He was Pilot Officer Ernest Cecil Wakeham whose name was in the list of officers awarded the D.F.C.

The D.F.C. was also awarded, to Acting Flight-Lieutenant Mi- chael Nicholson Crossley, leader of two, 'squadrons of fighters carrying out an offensive patroi in the Le Treport area.

Despite his forty-nine years, he joined up again last April and was re-commissioned as pilot officer in the R.A.F. Volun. teer Reserve.

He has now received a bar to He sighted seventeen Heinke his D.F.C. for skill, determina- 111's, and displayed outstanding tion and brillant piloting in the initiative and courage, as a resul, face of enemy attacks. of which seven enemy bompers, FLEW AT 200 FEET were destroyed. Crossley himsel Flight-Lieutenant Robert Batt destroyed two.

was the pilot, and Sergeants Ed- This officer had his first com-ward Nevill and Alan Spencer, bat in May this year, when he the observer and air gunner of an succeeded in destroying a Mes-aircraft which successfully carried serschmidt 109. He has dis-out a single aircraft reconnais- played great skill and leadership, sance. and since the middle of May!

destroyed seven enemy

has

aircraft.

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Throughout the whole opera- tion the aircraft was flown at a height of less than 200 feet, and enemy troops concentrations were located and subsequently. attacked.

49, STILL A PILOT When Louis Arbon Strange re- tired from R.A.F. in 1921 after eight years of flying, he held the fully completed the mission in Flight-Lieutenant Batt success- M.C. (1915), D.F.C. (1918), D.S.Ospite of intense anti-aircraft fire (1919); two mentions in dispat-which severely damaged his air ches, and the rank of wing com.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Court officer

G Utter

disorder

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tion

13 Lithe

14 Land

mensure

15 Cotton

dress-goods

17 Butterfly 18 To drinkk

20 Bulbous

plant

21 Centre

22 Injury 24 Body of

water.

25 Trigonomet-

rical' ratio 26 To blow

28 Chooses

30 Desserts.

32 Hindu

woman's garment

3 Buddhist

temple

entrances

33 To demolish

37 Gaelic

38 Assistance

40 Confined..

42 Female ruff

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measures

15 Séotch for

"no"

46 Printer's

measure

47 To accumu.

late

49 Parent

30 Zoophyte skeletons

52 Perch-like

fish

54 Commerce 35 Old English

gold coins

VERTICAL

1 To fall

noisily

2 Lasso

3 Latin con-

Junction

4 To outfit

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10 To preserve.

12 South-

African'

'antelopes

13 Small

bottles

18 Merriment

10 To suggest

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gun. Sergeant, Nevill by skilful handling of his, gun beat off an

attack by three Messerschmidts.THE G-MEN It is believed he destroyed one..

Flight-Lieutenant Batt has been awarded the D.F.C., and Sergeant Nevill and Sergeant, Spencer the D.F.M.

The D.F.C. has also been awarded to Flying-Officer Henry Ferriss and Flight-Lieutenant Ronald Derek Wight..

ANOTHER HOAX?

THE WARNING". IN. THE "CENTRAL CHINA DAILY NEWS," ・ WANG CHING-WEI'S | MOUTHPIECE, THAT. IF · JA- PAN WANTS THE COOPERA- TION OF THE, NANKING: RE- GIME, ‚"SHE MUST ACCEPT CHINA'S DEMANDS FOR EQUALITY" WAS INTERPRET-

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THE T MEN thrilled you with their courage!

NOW YOU'LL CHEER The unknown, heroes of Foreign Service),

ED BY THE "TA KUNG PAO"] KAY IN AN EDITORIAL TO-DAY AS ANOTHER HOAX OF THE; |ARCH TRAITOR.

It is already too late for Wang and his henchmen to awake to the impossibility of cooperating with Japan, the journal says.

Japan is not the kind country to spend

of a

millions

of

dollars on a bunch of riftraffs-in Nanking to talk about "equality"

and "freedom."

"

The Wang-Japan negotiations

in Nanking for the conclusion of]

the

allegiance to a treaty to regulate

a govern- ment

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27 Beverage

20 Head organ

31 Slow-moving mollusks

33 Quivering

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38. Coating of

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