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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 6, 1940 Bringing Up Father

CALL UP MY BROTHER DANNY AND TELL HIM AND DADDY, TO MEET US AT THE STATION WHEN WE GET

BACK HOME-HUDS

NOW I HATE TO THINK ABOUT GOING HOME-

HELLO-YES-WHAT? DANNY ISN'T THERE?

"OH-YOLI SAY THE POLICE CAUGHT UP TO HIM - AND. HE IS

IN JAIL 2.

WELL- RUN DOWN TO DUGAL'S' PLACE ANIGIT SOME ONE TO DRAG MAGGIE'S FATHER. HOME-I MUST TALK TO HIM- WHAT? HE'S WITH HIS. SON- ARE. THEY BOTH IN THE SAME OLD CELL P

By George MacManus.

YOUR FATHER AND! BROTHER CAN'T MEET US - WE'LL HAVE

GO TO THE STATION TO SEE THEM, *

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BOMBING DISORGANISES TRAFFIC

Some minor disloca- tion of communica- tions in South London resulted from yester- day morning's air ́at-. tack. Otherwise, says the Air Ministry, dam- age was slight.

During last night's attacks, some bombs. were dropped in Wales, where at

one

point damage was, done to a chapel. No reports of casualties have been received.

-Reuter.

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VICHY ENVOYS

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL")

ARMY LORRY CRASHES QUEENS THEATRE

ON SHEK-O ROAD

TWO PRIVATES of the Royal Scots Irad a miraculous escape from death last evening when a military lorry one of them was driving crashed 90 feet over the edge of the Shek-O road.

The accident occurred at about 6 p.m. about half a mile from the junction of Shek-O and Island roads.

The lorry, an open vehicle, was proceeding towards Shek-O when). it swerved to avoid 'n pedestrian, crashed through a wall at the edge of the road and plunged · 90| feet down. the embankment,

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OF NAZI

The two soldiers miraculous-- ly escaped without Injuries.) The passenger jumped outs the car was

the going over edge but the driver stayed in the vehicle.

Neither suffered any injury

beyond bruises and slight shock.

A repair gang was on the spot

TRANSPORT

CORRESPON.

shortly afterwards and by 9.30}~-STOCKHOLM pim. the lorry had been salvaged, DENTS GIVE FURTHER DE- The lorry somersaulted three TAILS OF THE SINKING OF THE times in the course of its plunge 12,000-TON NAZI TRANSPORT down the bank and was badly MARION BY A BRITISH SUB- damaged.

MARINE IN THE KATTEGAT [ON MONDAY, NIGHT.

MALAYA'S GIFT

Over 3,000 German soldiers were on board, on their way to relieve troops in Norway. They

The Count de St. Quentin, for- The Malaya Patriotic Fund's were escorted by a destroyer and mer French Ambassador in Wash-latest contribution of £20,000 has two armed trawlers. ington, has been appointed Am-been divided between the R.A.F. bassador to Brazil, and M. Jules Benevolent Fund, the Y.M.C.A. Henry, former envoy in Rio de Jand the Dominions forces. The

hitherto Janeiro, becomes Ambassador, to Fund

has collected £220,000.-Reuter.

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At about 10 p.m.; a British submarine appeared and fired} a torpedo, which struck | the Marion, breaking her ingrtwo; She sank almost immediately, The submarine then disappeari

ed:

The darkness made rescue worki difficult and it is believed that no more than 200 to 300 of the 3,000 on board were saved,

Wreckage and bodies drifted up Junto the Swedish coast all day!

yesterday. Reuter.

"TECHNICAL" REASONS

TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS WHICH CAME OUT ALMOST SIMULTANEOUSLY ARE GIVEN BELOW WITHOUT COM. MENT:-

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Rome: Italian medium-wave WALLACE BEERY in "SERGEANT MADDEN"

broadcast stations will stop at 10

[p.m. each night. It is officially stated that this is necessary for technical reasons connected with! the war,

stations

Zurich: Swiss radio will close down at 10 p.m. each! night. The radios, it is stated, help foreign 'planes in finding} their route. Reuter.

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Mr. A. 1. Napoloff, of the Asia- tic. Petroleum Company, has re- ported that while driving car No. 3006 in Taipo Road near the mythological 10 mile stone about 11 p.m. on Tuesday his car went off the em- bankment. No one was injured, AND LAUGHTERI and the car was only slightly Give yoursell up to 1% bawzs of damaged..

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