1940-09-25 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 25, 1940

· MUTT: AND JEFF-

WONT JEFF BE SURPRISED WHEN HE FINDS OUT I'M GONNA BE A BULLFIGHTER AND WIN

THE HEARTS OF PRETTY SENORITAS!

SAY MUTT, I JUST SAW THE FUNNIEST THING!" A MEXICAN

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MEXICAN:

A MEXICAN

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By BUD FISHER

OH DEAH! LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY!

Biggest Raid

Raid Yet Made On Berlin

EVACUATION

Reports from all sources show that Mon-

night's

ADVISORY the biggest raid by the R.A.F. on Berlin was

COMMITTEE

and one of the most successful

yet carried out against the German capital.

More 'planes than ever before were sent over. Some squadrons were visiting Berlin

In connection with the recent for the first time; others were on their fourth'

appointment by. His Excellency

the Officer Administering the Gov- journey.

ernment of an Evacuation Advis-

- ory Committee the following pro-

committee is announced;—

Everything went like clock

cedure to be adopted by the work. The Commanding Officer of

1. The committee will consider one British air-base reports:

"My aircraft went out at regu- applications for exemption from lar intervals. They came back evacuation-from women and child-just as regularly, like well-or- ren who have not already been ganised trains." granted exemption, and applica-

Five power stations in Berlin

pilot reports:→→→

of

"We must have hit the gagi works fair and square. Our bombs started another fine fires and then a fire in the mid- dle of the target started a gigan- tic explosion."

The B.M.W. aero-engine plant

tions on behalf of women or child-all came in for a steady hammer-was also attacked, many bombs, ren who desire to return to the ing. One pilot alone started five being dropped and many fires be- Colony. It is emphasised that large fires which were clearlying started. permission to return will be visible 80 miles away. Bombs granted only in entirely excep burst all over the power-stations tional cases. Appeals on medical grounds or on grounds of indi-and flames shot high into the air. One pilot was guided in by a vidual hardship will not generally great fire and piled his bombs in

on top of the inferno.

be considered.

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2. Applications should be

Another attacked a gas-works made in the first place in writing, and saw his bombs burst among a full statement of the grounds on the buildings.

which the application is made be-

consider such application in pri-

More pilots subsequently

at-

The Siemens cable works were Iset on fre.

American and Swedish corres-

pondents says that the alarm was sounded in Berlin shortly before midnight and lasted just under four hours.

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Berlin officially puts casualties at 11 killed and 14 injured.

Sight-seeing is not encouraged.

The Berlin police have issued

a new warning, saying that peo<

FOR TWO

ple who look at the damage HE LOVED

done by the

R.A.F. will

be

The foreign press, too, is not allowed to see what' was done the correspondents did not even get a "Goebbels-conducted tour!"

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punished -- "because this shows mistrust of official German re- ports that no military objects were touched."

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11 In abun-

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12 Excursion

14 Part of

"to be"

15 To incite to

anger

17 Teutonic delty 38 Favourite 20 Hirelings

21 Female ruff

22 Silkworm

24. English

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25 Biblical

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stand

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32 Alleviation

33 Church seat

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sheep.

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