1940-08-27 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 27, 1940

MUTT AND JEFF

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WHAT'S THE TROUBLE, YOUNG MAN?

I DON'T LIKE

MY NAME! I WANNA GO TO THE COURT AND HAVE

IT CHANGED!

7-15

WHAT IS YOUR NAME?

SAMUEL STINKWEED!

By BUD FISHER

SAMUEL STINKWEED? GOSH! I DON'T BLAME YOU FOR

WHAT WOULD

WANTING IT CHANGED!

YOU LIKE YOUR NAME CHANGED To?

BUTCH STINKWEED!

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GERMAN 'PLANES BOMB EIRE

It was officially an-| nounced in Dublin yester- day that a German bomb-| er flew over an area of Campile, Ballynitty, Dan- now and Duncormick, in County Wexford, between 2 and 3 p.m. yesterday.

Bombs were dropped at each of these points.

A

Co-operative

creamery

was wrecked, and three girls killed and one injured by fall- ing masonry.

The Irish charge d'affaires in Berlin has been instructed to make strong protest to the Ger- man Government and claim full reparation. Reuter.

Mr. R. H. Woodman, of the

RECORD WEEK IN AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION

that

Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Aircraft Production, announc- ed yesterday last week was a record week for production of British aircraft, the R.A.F.. being pro- vided with more fight- ers and bombers than ever before in the his- tory of British avia- tion.-Reuter.

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GERMAN 'PLANES DROPPED 150 BOMBS ON THE SCILLY ISLANDS, OFF THE CORNISH COAST, ON SUNDAY AND YES- TERDAY MORNING. IT WAS LEARNED IN LONDON LAST NIGHT. SOME HOUSES WERE SET ON FIRE

Children on a beach were ma- One chine-gunned.

was killed and several were wounded.

A baby was blown out of its mother's arms. —- Reuter.

A girl was killed by a Ger- man machine-gun bullet on the

beach.

About 50 rounds of

machine- gun fire were directed at a hotel which had its windows blown in and the roof damaged.-Reuter.

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Public Works Department, was robbed of a jacket and £20 in Australian money yesterday. "The' The London Stock Exchange, Moved by reports of the ap- jacket was taken from his car, after some heaviness, turned pulling loss of human lives which was parked in Jackson brighter yesterday: Cape buying widespread destruction of Road between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. of Kaffirs was responsible for the perties in the recent Japanese yesterday.

better tendency towards the air raids on Chunkyking, Mr. G. G. Cumming, of the close. Foreign issues were firm, American Red Cross Medical Department, lost a rain-with Japanese bonds an occa-mitted U.S. $10,000 for the re- NATHAN RO KOWLOON DAILYÁT 230-520-720-930 TEL 56856 coat, valued at $45, which was sional point higher. Industrials lief of Chinese refugees. "stolen from his carparked in were irregular: Wall Street was The fund, forwarded to Ma-

Jackson Road yesterday.

dull. Reuter.

OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD

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HORIZONTAL

'1 Plant fluid

4 To hinder

9 To make.

lace

12 European

Bish

13 Nocturnal

mammal

14 River

15 To destroy

gradually

17 Muse of

⚫ poetry

19 Large sword,

20 Ancient.......

alloy.

21 Fresh-water

porpoise

23 Wife of

Socrates

27 Colls

29 To mint.

30 Article

31 Electrified

particle

32 Coating of

sugar

31 To sever

35 Since

30 Garbed

37 Eaten away

39 To ruin

42 Irain

passage 43 Ireland

44 Nim

52 53

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46 To coat with tin and lead

48 Acquitted.

51 Wood of

East-Indian free :

32 To ascend 54-Anger

.55 Fruit drink

58 To instruct

57 To bring

forth

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VERTICAL

6 Rice paste

8 Importance

1 Thus

2 Bustle

3 Periodical.

allowance for past services

4 Thread lead-

ing to the Bolution of a mystery

5 Wing-quill

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9 Hobo

10 Isle

11 Also

10 To break suddenly.

18 To check 20 Soon

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22 Running

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yor K.C. Wu by the American Embassy, will be administered by a committee composed of three Americans, namely Mr. Willys R. Peck, Counsellor of the Embassy, Mr. Tilman Dur- din, correspondent of the "New York Times," and a representa- tive of the mission groups. Central News.

Reuter says the Counsellor of the U.S. Embassy in Chungking yesterday forwarded, the money with a letter expressing Amer- ican sympathy. A foreign com- mittee will assist the Chungking Mayor in distributing relief and in making reports on expendi-

tures.

BURGLAR VISITS DETECTIVE

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW S THE MOUNTIES GET THEIR MAN!

A CHINESE DETECTIVE AT- TACHED ΤΟ THE SPECIAL BRANCH ARRESTED A BURG- THURSDAY LAR AT 3.30 a.m. YESTERDAY IN HIS HOUSE AT NO. 6, FIFE STREET, FIRST FLOOR.

Before Mr. E. Himsworth at Kowloon this morning, the burglar Ta Kau, 17, was sentenced to four break- months hard labour for

ing into the detective's house and an additional-three months' for al breach of the Deportation Ordin- [ance.

NEW PRETENDER [SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"] With the death yesterday of the Duc de Guise, the Count of Paris now becames Pretender to the French Throne, it was stated in 20 To. penetrateVichy yesterday. - Havas.

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substances

25 To hesitate

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Adam

34 Clique 38 Vegetable 38 City in Latvia

40 To unite 41 Greating

45 Antlered -

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46 Beverage

47 Conclusion

40 Felino

49 Period of

time

50 Luir

53 Symbol for

copper

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